Re: Nanobsd and CF geometry

2006-09-18 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 14 September 2006 09:54, Philippe Lang wrote: Hi, I'm trying to flash Nanobsd on a Compact Flash which is not listed in /usr/src/tools/tools/nanobsd/FlashDevice.sub. Does anyone know how to calculate NANO_MEDIASIZE, NANO_HEADS and NANO_SECTS for a specific CF, in my case a

swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj (...)

2006-09-18 Thread Nick Withers
G'day all, Just wondering whether anyone knows any details regarding the swap_pager warnings bug noted on the 6.1-RELEASE Release Engineering to do page (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/todo.html). Specifically, a PR number would be excellent (I'm assuming one exists). I believe that this

Re: Network connectivity between FreeBSD and Linux

2006-09-18 Thread Arindam
In response to Arindam [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [snip] From the FreeBSD box, can you ping the loopback address: 127.0.0.1, if so, can you ping your ip address: 10.0.0.101. If so, can you ping your gateway? Did you set a gateway in /etc/rc.conf? loopback: Yes I can ping it.

Re: php4 no longer has apache module?

2006-09-18 Thread Erik Norgaard
Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 17/09/06 Michael P. Soulier said: So, I upgrade lang/php4. php4-4.4.4 PHP Scripting Language (Apache Module and CLI) And yet, it doesn't seem to contain the apache module. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ pkg_info -L php4-4.4.4 | grep '\.so' [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$

Re: Newbie Experience (As promised)

2006-09-18 Thread Arindam
Dear Very Helpful and Informative FreeBSD List, I installed FreeBSD on Friday Night and tried very hard to get it all working. My initial X problem actually fixed itself (you can imagine my surprise), however, even with that, our computer is useless as a desktop (or anything else) without an

Re: rebooting into single user mode on a remote server

2006-09-18 Thread Bob
On Sunday 17 September 2006 23:51, backyard wrote: modems are relatively cheap. And, if you put it into call-back mode, it becomes one of the most secure methods of doing a remote serial console; plus you have the added advantage of the remote site footing the bill for the call :-) Bob

Re: Crippled FreeBSD! Need help!

2006-09-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-09-16 20:15, Viswas Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have managed to scr** up my FBSD 6.1 installation. This is what happened: I had an installation of BSD with which I was experimenting and managed to get it to work to my taste. Call this installation A. This installation had a lot

Re: Using BSD as filter

2006-09-18 Thread Erik Norgaard
Dave wrote: I am interested in using BSD on a computer between my cable modem and a router which is both wireless and hardwired. Is this something that anyone could advise me of such as: 1) Which bsd software would be best for my purpose. I use packet filter. 2) I am interested in

Is Active Directory integrated file sharing possible on FreeBSD?

2006-09-18 Thread Ashley Moran
Hi people I recently added a pair of extra disks to one of our internal servers (FreeBSD 6.1) to give us a share for our office. Our user authentication is all done by Active Directory Small Business Server 2000. I gave the job of getting Samba running an authenticated share to our

Fwd: top(1) STATE column

2006-09-18 Thread Valerio daelli
They're only documented in the source, as far as I know. A quick grep comes up with around 300 different unique waits and mutexes in the kernel: Try searching this mail from freebsd-questions:

quick question regarding /usr/obj

2006-09-18 Thread Migs
I just did a rebuild recently, and saw in the handbook that i can take out /usr/obj with no problems... and seeing as its taking up 500mb, I do want to trim it out... However, in uname -a it shows FreeBSD shadow.meridiantelekoms.com 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Mon Sep 18 15:35:23

Re: Is Active Directory integrated file sharing possible on FreeBSD?

2006-09-18 Thread James Seward
On 9/18/06, Ashley Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Winbind is [not?] fully functional on FreeBSD so it doesn't work authenticating with windows, ive tried compiling the Solaris version which is supposedly meant to work but I cant get it to compile. I don't know anything about Samba, so I

Re: quick question regarding /usr/obj

2006-09-18 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 05:06:09PM +0800, Migs wrote: I just did a rebuild recently, and saw in the handbook that i can take out /usr/obj with no problems... and seeing as its taking up 500mb, I do want to trim it out... However, in uname -a it shows FreeBSD shadow.meridiantelekoms.com

Re: Newbie Experience (As promised)

2006-09-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-09-17 12:22, Joel Adamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Very Helpful and Informative FreeBSD List, I installed FreeBSD on Friday Night and tried very hard to get it all working. My initial X problem actually fixed itself (you can imagine my surprise), however, even with that, our

Re: quick question regarding /usr/obj

2006-09-18 Thread Migs
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 05:06:09PM +0800, Migs wrote: I just did a rebuild recently, and saw in the handbook that i can take out /usr/obj with no problems... and seeing as its taking up 500mb, I do want to trim it out... However, in uname -a it shows FreeBSD

6.2-Release schedule

2006-09-18 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: I was just looking over the release schedule for the 6.2 release, a few weeks ago, there was no detailed plan, now it's there including the todo-list, http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/todo.html No critical pending issues, no show stoppers left, no required or desired features.

Re: Freebsd, Suse Linux dual booting

2006-09-18 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 17 Sep Ahmad Arafat Abdullah wrote: For me, booting BSDa and other OS is easier with grub: mine: FreeBSD 6.1 rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 Is this chainloader thing still valid? To my knowledge grub knows about ufs2 nowadays. -- dick -- http://nagual.nl/ -- PGP/GnuPG key:

Re: Suggestions for embedded systems... ?

2006-09-18 Thread Brian J. McGovern
Thanks. The downsides I see are its relatively large size (ATX) and power requirements (full ATX). What I'm looking for is more along the lines of http://www.soekris.com/net4801.htm, only with an RCA video connector. Its small, takes virtually no power, takes car voltages (vs. upconverting back to

FreeBSD as a kiosk system for reading/writing e-mail

2006-09-18 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, Does someone has an idea about this: - login as user 'kiosk' into FreeBSD and getting a desktop in (for example KDE); - launch a graphical MUA (for example Kmail, or a browser) which supports more than one identity, let's say [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and so on, and each

Re: Constant changing ahc0: Transceiver state changing

2006-09-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Sergey Donskikh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have the same error messages on my Mail server and can not login as a root as well. Is anybody has a solution regarding this issue? It's hard to tell from such a minimal description, but I would start by replacing the broken SCSI controller.

Re: wvHTML, glib libiconv

2006-09-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ted Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to install wvHTML. It's dependent on glib, which is dependent on libiconv. I'm on FreeBSD 6.1. It has libiconv installed. But glib says it can't find it: configure: error: *** No iconv() implementation found in C library or libiconv So I'm

Re: how to add flags to ifconfig at boot

2006-09-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Per olof Ljungmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How can I add flags to ifconfig at boot time, i.e. I want it to start with 'ifconfig em0 -tso' ? Add the flag to the ifconfig_em0 line in rc.conf(5). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstdc++_p

2006-09-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Don't top-post, please. Viswas Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 9/11/06, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Viswas Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I get the message /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstdc++_p while building the xfe X11 file manager. A google did not give any ideas.

Re: how to apply a patch set

2006-09-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could somebody tell me what have I done wrong? Actually - what is the difference between the 'pX' and the '#X' after the version? The latter is just the number of times you have rebuilt the kernel. ___

Re: kernel version changes release version. (was Re: How to change kernel version tag?)

2006-09-18 Thread Spencer PriceNash
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 09:33:57PM +0800, Yuan, Jue wrote: /sys/conf/newvers.sh This file will determine the kernel version tag showed at booting time. Don't know if it has anything to do with your problem. HTH :-) On 9/11/06, Spencer PriceNash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 25,

Sun X4200 FreeBSD 6.1 experience??

2006-09-18 Thread ke han
Has anyone experienced FreeBSD 6.1 on a Sun X4200 ? Does everything work? ILOM? RAID-1 ? 2 sets of RAID-1 ?...any feedback would help me make a decision. thanks, ke han ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Suggestions for embedded systems... ?

2006-09-18 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 09:03:20AM -0400, Brian J. McGovern wrote: Thanks. The downsides I see are its relatively large size (ATX) and power requirements (full ATX). What I'm looking for is more along the lines of http://www.soekris.com/net4801.htm, only with an RCA video connector. Its small,

Re: Firefox+Flash+Qemu

2006-09-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 12:30:59PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:22:38 +0100 RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I going to be booting into Windows if I really need flash. Why not try Wine? I haven't checked, but maybe firefox + flash does work under wine... i also keep

Re: Getting a specific value from netstat

2006-09-18 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 17), Paul Hoffman said: Greetings again. If I do a 'netstat -I em0 -b', I get: NameMtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Ibytes Opkts Oerrs Obytes Coll em01500 Link#1 00:0e:0c:67:c8:04 93555198 0 2179562966 114493253 0

Re: Firefox+Flash+Qemu

2006-09-18 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 18 Sep Jerry McAllister wrote: Do you run Qemu on FreeBSD? It says only 'LINUX host only' for User Mode Emulation. So, does that mean I can emulate a full system if I am hosting it under FreeBSD? This is the first time I have run in to Qemu and it looks interesting. Qemu is great. I

Re: Freebsd, Suse Linux dual booting

2006-09-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 04:49:17PM -0700, Dan Bikle wrote: FreeBSD and Linux people, I have a PC which I want to boot as windows, FreeBSD, and Suse 10.1 Linux. Currently, FreeBSD boot0 menu shows both Windows and FreeBSD as boot-able. The FreeBSD boot0 menu does not show the Linux OS

Re: how to add flags to ifconfig at boot

2006-09-18 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 10:04:18AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Per olof Ljungmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How can I add flags to ifconfig at boot time, i.e. I want it to start with 'ifconfig em0 -tso' ? Add the flag to the ifconfig_em0 line in rc.conf(5). Or if one needs to ifconfig

Re: which xorg file??

2006-09-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 05:52:54PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Folks, Which ports file do I build to fill the standard /usr/X11R6/bin file? I have 6.1-RELEASE and having migraines with getting the necessary files. If installing gnome|kde-lite is/may be part

Re: Getting a specific value from netstat

2006-09-18 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 9:42 AM -0500 9/18/06, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 17), Paul Hoffman said: Greetings again. If I do a 'netstat -I em0 -b', I get: NameMtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Ibytes Opkts Oerrs Obytes Coll em01500 Link#1 00:0e:0c:67:c8:04

Dell DRAC 5 cards and 6.1-RELEASE

2006-09-18 Thread Paul Schmehl
Is anyone using the Dell DRAC 5 cards on 6.1-RELEASE? I played with it over the weekend and couldn't seem to get it working. Then, last night, it suddenly started working. (I can access the web admin interface now.) For some reason, I couldn't ping the card at all, even though I used STATIC

Re: freeBSD certified server hardware ?

2006-09-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 12:00:47PM +0800, ke han wrote: Does anyone know if any server manufacturer of high regard is currently certifying for freeBSD 6.1? I know the general answer is check the components on the release notes. I also know there are a few integrators on the community

Re: Firefox+Flash+Qemu

2006-09-18 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
On 18 September 2006, at 09:38, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 12:30:59PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:22:38 +0100 RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I going to be booting into Windows if I really need flash. Why not try Wine? I haven't checked, but

Re: freeBSD certified server hardware ?

2006-09-18 Thread David Robillard
Does anyone know if any server manufacturer of high regard is currently certifying for freeBSD 6.1? I know the general answer is check the components on the release notes. I also know there are a few integrators on the community list (wow, some of their list pricing is much higher than the big

Re: Poutupgrade unsafe

2006-09-18 Thread Robert Marella
On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 01:51:06 -0300 Henry Lenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A nice portupgrade feature would be to grok UPDATING, and present you with any such notes before the upgrade occurs. Mike I fully agree. It's not the best solution to have an UPDATE file that is very large and

linux_base-fc4_9 install problem

2006-09-18 Thread Adrian Vraciu
=== Vulnerability check disabled, database not found === Extracting for linux_base-fc-4_9 === linux_base-fc-4_9 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/rpm2cpio - found error reading header from package /usr/bin/cpio: premature end of archive *** Error code 1 how can i fix that? -- Best regards. Adrian

[OT] Re: how to apply a patch set

2006-09-18 Thread Eric Schuele
On 09/17/2006 17:40, Matthew Seaman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am trying to apply a patch set to FreeBSD 5.5 (this letter 'p' followed by a number, after the version in 'uname -a') - but somehow it did not work. snip The '#N' business after the version number is a counter

Re: Dell DRAC 5 cards and 6.1-RELEASE

2006-09-18 Thread Spencer PriceNash
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 10:29:41AM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: Is anyone using the Dell DRAC 5 cards on 6.1-RELEASE? I played with it over the weekend and couldn't seem to get it working. Then, last night, it suddenly started working. (I can access the web admin interface now.) For some

Re: how to add flags to ifconfig at boot

2006-09-18 Thread Robert Huff
David Kelly writes: Or if one needs to ifconfig earlier in the startup process then put one's script in /etc/start_if.em0 It is my understanding (and experience) this only works when ifconfig_em0= in /etc/rc.conf.

serial console install

2006-09-18 Thread Robin Becker
Hi, my helpful supplier says If you connect to the serial console and then turn on the machine from the power cycler the machine should boot up to a syslinux boot prompt, which will let you fire up the FreeBSD installer. and when this syslinux thing boots up I see the possibility to boot into a

Re: Is Active Directory integrated file sharing possible on FreeBSD?

2006-09-18 Thread Ashley Moran
On 18 Sep 2006, at 10:08, James Seward wrote: In a previous job I've had squid using winbindd to do user authentication against a native-mode Windows Server 2003 domain; I'd say it works pretty well. Due to it being a previous job I can't recall/lookup the exact procedure I went though to do

Re: 6.2-Release schedule

2006-09-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 12:10:25PM +0200, Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi: I was just looking over the release schedule for the 6.2 release, a few weeks ago, there was no detailed plan, now it's there including the todo-list, http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/todo.html No critical

Re: how to make fixed Direct Access device (da) ID

2006-09-18 Thread Robert Marella
On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:05:11 -0700 Jin Guojun [VFFS] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is awkward that dynamically and/or statically attaching SCSI hard drive and USB hard drive to the system will have different da IDs. For example, boot system with a SCSI drive (SCSI = 1), will have a da0 for

Re: freeBSD certified server hardware ?

2006-09-18 Thread Gerard Seibert
David Robillard wrote: [...] What I suggest you do is have one of the sales rep set you up with a test machine. The easiest way to do so is to go at their offices with a FreeBSD install disk and try to boot/install it on the hardware you're interested in. That's what I do with HP, Sun and

Re: Dell DRAC 5 cards and 6.1-RELEASE

2006-09-18 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Monday, September 18, 2006 11:32:44 -0500 Spencer PriceNash [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is my understanding that DRAC configuration is not applied until after a reboot. That makes sense. Thanks. The native card has enough functionality for what I need, but what I'm wondering is if

Re: how to add flags to ifconfig at boot

2006-09-18 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 12:38:30PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: David Kelly writes: Or if one needs to ifconfig earlier in the startup process then put one's script in /etc/start_if.em0 It is my understanding (and experience) this only works when ifconfig_em0= in

Re: which xorg file??

2006-09-18 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 11:20:20AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 05:52:54PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Folks, Which ports file do I build to fill the standard /usr/X11R6/bin file? I have 6.1-RELEASE and having migraines with getting the

Re: quick question regarding /usr/obj

2006-09-18 Thread backyard
--- Migs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erik Trulsson wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 05:06:09PM +0800, Migs wrote: I just did a rebuild recently, and saw in the handbook that i can take out /usr/obj with no problems... and seeing as its taking up 500mb, I do want to trim it out...

Re: Dell DRAC 5 cards and 6.1-RELEASE

2006-09-18 Thread Boris Samorodov
Hi, Paul! On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:29:41 -0500 Paul Schmehl wrote: The native card has enough functionality for what I need, but what I'm wondering is if anyone has managed to get the extra functionality working under linux emulation. If so, how did you install the rpm? Don't have any

Re: rebooting into single user mode on a remote server

2006-09-18 Thread backyard
--- Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 17 September 2006 23:51, backyard wrote: modems are relatively cheap. And, if you put it into call-back mode, it becomes one of the most secure methods of doing a remote serial console; plus you have the added advantage of the remote

Re: which xorg file??

2006-09-18 Thread backyard
--- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 11:20:20AM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 05:52:54PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Folks, Which ports file do I build to fill the standard /usr/X11R6/bin file? I have 6.1-RELEASE

Re: rebooting into single user mode on a remote server

2006-09-18 Thread Rafael Aquino
Hi there... Just to contribute, I also ALWAYS upgrade my systems without single user mode, for remote reasons... ;-) Same instructions: shut down all services, except inetd/ssh, installworld, mergemaster and reboot... I even posted in this list, months ago, a step-by-step to remotely upgrade

Server badwidth consumption

2006-09-18 Thread Steve Davidson
Hello BSDers, I am working for a new company that has a server running SCO (Unix flavor I haven't encountered b4) and I need to measure the traffic flow in and out of this box. Is there a way to do this without a) messing with the SCO box or configuration or b) installing a bridge between the

Re: ipfw and temporary port access

2006-09-18 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any clues if a system like this is a already coded and out there somewhere? Apart from the ipfw reqirement, you have just described authpf, see eg http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=authpfapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+6.1-RELEASEformat=html -- Peter

Re: linux_base-fc4_9 install problem

2006-09-18 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 19:24:46 +0300 Adrian Vraciu wrote: === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found === Extracting for linux_base-fc-4_9 === linux_base-fc-4_9 depends on file: /usr/local/bin/rpm2cpio - found error reading header from package /usr/bin/cpio: premature end of archive

Re: [OT] Re: how to apply a patch set

2006-09-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 09/17/2006 17:40, Matthew Seaman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am trying to apply a patch set to FreeBSD 5.5 (this letter 'p' followed by a number, after the version in 'uname -a') - but somehow it did not work. snip The '#N'

Re: Server badwidth consumption

2006-09-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
Steve Davidson wrote: Hello BSDers, I am working for a new company that has a server running SCO (Unix flavor I haven't encountered b4) and I need to measure the traffic flow in and out of this box. Is there a way to do this without a) messing with the SCO box or configuration or b)

Re: Is Active Directory integrated file sharing possible on FreeBSD?

2006-09-18 Thread Bob Johnson
On 9/18/06, Ashley Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just wanted to sanity check that it is possible. I think he just doesn't want to work on our server because it isn't Linux :) Ashley You might need to make sure AD support got enabled. In the samba3 port at least, it is off by default

Re: NDIS/KLDload

2006-09-18 Thread Alexander Sashurin
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro* Bill Moran wrote: *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro* Joel Adamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear List, I need to get the internet up and running on my new FreeBSD6.1 install.

Re: NDIS/KLDload

2006-09-18 Thread Alexander Sashurin
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro* Jona Joachim wrote: *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro* Bill Moran wrote: Joel Adamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear List, I need to get the internet up and running on my

Re: Dell DRAC 5 cards and 6.1-RELEASE

2006-09-18 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Monday, September 18, 2006 21:50:36 +0400 Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Paul! On Mon, 18 Sep 2006 10:29:41 -0500 Paul Schmehl wrote: The native card has enough functionality for what I need, but what I'm wondering is if anyone has managed to get the extra functionality

FreeBSD as a kiosk system for reading/writing e-mail

2006-09-18 Thread Perry Hutchison
- login as user 'kiosk' into FreeBSD and getting a desktop in (for example KDE); - launch a graphical MUA (for example Kmail, or a browser) which supports more than one identity, let's say [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] and so on, and each user must somehow authenticate itself

Re: 6.2-Release schedule

2006-09-18 Thread Perry Hutchison
I was just looking over the release schedule for the 6.2 release, a few weeks ago, there was no detailed plan, now it's there including the todo-list, http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/todo.html No critical pending issues, no show stoppers left, no required or desired

Re: 6.2-Release schedule

2006-09-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 11:54:27AM -0700, Perry Hutchison wrote: I was just looking over the release schedule for the 6.2 release, a few weeks ago, there was no detailed plan, now it's there including the todo-list, http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/todo.html No critical

Re: [OT] Re: how to apply a patch set

2006-09-18 Thread Eric Schuele
On 09/18/2006 13:31, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 09/17/2006 17:40, Matthew Seaman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am trying to apply a patch set to FreeBSD 5.5 (this letter 'p' followed by a number, after the version in 'uname -a') - but somehow

Re: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstdc++_p

2006-09-18 Thread Viswas Nair
yes I am building from ports. I loaded it as a package and got it to work without any issues. I would like to fix the problem anyway. On 9/18/06, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't top-post, please. Viswas Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 9/11/06, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL

imap-uw question

2006-09-18 Thread doug
Has anyone configure imap-uw to accept plaintext passwords? The options listed in the doumentation do not work. I have tried various combinations of PASSWDTYPE, SSLTYPE, and WITH_SSL_AND_PLAINTEXT with no success. Or is there a better imap/pop daemon to use? Thanks for any help. _ Douglas

Re: Sendmail on FBSD server wont connect to remote user.

2006-09-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Matthew Seaman wrote: Ahmad Arafat Abdullah wrote: - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD Users Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Sendmail on FBSD server wont connect to remote user. Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 10:57:27 -1000 Aloha

Re: imap-uw question

2006-09-18 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 03:16:26PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone configure imap-uw to accept plaintext passwords? The options listed in the doumentation do not work. I have tried various combinations of PASSWDTYPE, SSLTYPE, and WITH_SSL_AND_PLAINTEXT with no success. Or is there

Re: imap-uw question

2006-09-18 Thread Javier Henderson
On Sep 18, 2006, at 3:16 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone configure imap-uw to accept plaintext passwords? The options listed in the doumentation do not work. I have tried various combinations of PASSWDTYPE, SSLTYPE, and WITH_SSL_AND_PLAINTEXT with no success. Or is there a better

Re: spamassassin

2006-09-18 Thread Paul Lathrop
I'd suggest asking the Spamassassin mailing lists... justins wrote: I`ve installed spamassassin rules on my sentmailserver and i am trying to filter my mail in order to pick out some spam. The spamd process is running only it doesn`t add anything to my mail heather so procmail can`t forward

Re: Sendmail on FBSD server wont connect to remote user.

2006-09-18 Thread Gerard Seibert
+On Monday 18 September 2006 15:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your help is very much appreciated.. I've been using Free BSD since 2. (something) but this is the first time I have had to build a mail server. IMHO, you would be better off using Postfix. Setting up sasl/TLS is a breeze compared

spamassassin

2006-09-18 Thread justins
I`ve installed spamassassin rules on my sentmailserver and i am trying to filter my mail in order to pick out some spam. The spamd process is running only it doesn`t add anything to my mail heather so procmail can`t forward it to the caughtspam folder. How do i start spamassassin in order to

Re: rebooting into single user mode on a remote server

2006-09-18 Thread Bob
On Monday 18 September 2006 13:51, backyard wrote: By call-back mode do you mean log into the system via network and have it call your local system for administration No modems like the US Robotics V.Everything can be programmed with a call-back feature. You dial up the modem, it askes

Re: Sendmail on FBSD server wont connect to remote user.

2006-09-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 04:00:49PM -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote: +On Monday 18 September 2006 15:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your help is very much appreciated.. I've been using Free BSD since 2. (something) but this is the first time I have had to build a mail server. IMHO, you would

RE: FreeBSD as a kiosk system for reading/writing e-mail

2006-09-18 Thread Christopher M. Hobbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Why not set up a webmail interface, and lock down your favorite web browser as a kiosk? I've set up several kiosks using firefox and R-kiosk on top of FreeBSD for patrons at a local library. They have access to browse web pages and nothing more.

Re: imap-uw question

2006-09-18 Thread doug
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 03:16:26PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone configure imap-uw to accept plaintext passwords? The options listed in the doumentation do not work. I have tried various combinations of PASSWDTYPE, SSLTYPE, and

Dell PE850 and FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE - Boot Issues

2006-09-18 Thread Jeff Cross
I am trying to run FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge 850 with some booting issues. I have searched the archives and found someone having a problem with the machine booting too fast but my problem is a little different. My machine hangs up after the following line is displayed during boot:

Re: Dell PE850 and FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE - Boot Issues

2006-09-18 Thread Adam Martin
On 2006 Sep 18 , at 16:25, Jeff Cross wrote: I am trying to run FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge 850 with some booting issues. I have searched the archives and found someone having a problem with the machine booting too fast but my problem is a little different. My machine hangs up

Re: Moving to new PC

2006-09-18 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Sunday 17 September 2006 16:04, Jonathan Horne wrote: On Sunday 17 September 2006 12:44, White Hat wrote: --- Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] sounds interesting enough. if you will supply the portmanager command syntax, ill supply the test computer, and post the

Re: Freebsd, Suse Linux dual booting

2006-09-18 Thread Adam Martin
On 2006 Sep 18 , at 06:26, dick hoogendijk wrote: On 17 Sep Ahmad Arafat Abdullah wrote: For me, booting BSDa and other OS is easier with grub: mine: FreeBSD 6.1 rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 Is this chainloader thing still valid? To my knowledge grub knows about ufs2 nowadays.

cvsup between levels, single user issue

2006-09-18 Thread Chris
I was going to attempt an in-place upgrade of a light load server running 5.3 to bring it to 6.1 RELEASE P6 (RELENG_6_1). I read in UPDATING that going between 5.x and 6.x requires single user mode which isn't an option on a remote machine (though I can stop sendmail, bind, popper etc

Re: 6.2-Release schedule

2006-09-18 Thread Perry Hutchison
Where would one find the list of problems already fixed -- hence not being tracked -- so as to know whether a given 6.1 problem needs to be pointed out? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?query It looks as if the closest that comes is to produce a list of everything fixed or

Veritas backup software

2006-09-18 Thread Josh Paetzel
Just wondering if anyone has managed to make the Veritas Backup Exec client work on FBSD 6.x using linux emulation. I can get it to run but the server doesn't seem to be able to actually backup anything. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel ___

Re: Moving to new PC

2006-09-18 Thread RW
On Sunday 17 September 2006 14:35, White Hat wrote: I am planning on migrating to a new PC in the near future, perhaps after FBSD 6.2 is released. I was therefore wondering if the following scenario was possible. 1) Tar up the /var/db/pkg directory on old system 2) Untar the collection into

Re: Dell PE850 and FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE - Boot Issues

2006-09-18 Thread Jeff Cross
Adam Martin wrote: On 2006 Sep 18 , at 16:25, Jeff Cross wrote: I am trying to run FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge 850 with some booting issues. I have searched the archives and found someone having a problem with the machine booting too fast but my problem is a little different.

Re: spamassassin

2006-09-18 Thread Bob Johnson
On 9/18/06, justins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I`ve installed spamassassin rules on my sentmailserver and i am trying to filter my mail in order to pick out some spam. The spamd process is running only it doesn`t add anything to my mail heather so procmail can`t forward it to the caughtspam

Re: Moving to new PC

2006-09-18 Thread White Hat
From: Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] the update for today is, that it is still going, but there has been quite a bit of delay while the ports stops on the knobs screen. each time i see one, i hit the 'ok', but this is causing the obvious delays. other than that, so far, no errors or

Re: 6.2-Release schedule

2006-09-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 02:12:03PM -0700, Perry Hutchison wrote: Where would one find the list of problems already fixed -- hence not being tracked -- so as to know whether a given 6.1 problem needs to be pointed out? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?query It looks

Re: Dell PE850 and FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE - Boot Issues

2006-09-18 Thread Adam Martin
On 2006 Sep 18 , at 17:39, Jeff Cross wrote: Adam Martin wrote: On 2006 Sep 18 , at 16:25, Jeff Cross wrote: I am trying to run FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge 850 with some booting issues. I have searched the archives and found someone having a problem with the machine booting

Re: spamassassin

2006-09-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
justins wrote: I`ve installed spamassassin rules on my sentmailserver and i am trying to filter my mail in order to pick out some spam. The spamd process is running only it doesn`t add anything to my mail heather so procmail can`t forward it to the caughtspam folder. How do i start

Re: Dell PE850 and FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE - Boot Issues

2006-09-18 Thread Adam Martin
On 2006 Sep 18 , at 17:54, Adam Martin wrote: On 2006 Sep 18 , at 17:39, Jeff Cross wrote: Adam Martin wrote: On 2006 Sep 18 , at 16:25, Jeff Cross wrote: I am trying to run FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on a Dell PowerEdge 850 with some booting issues. I have searched the archives and found

Re: rebooting into single user mode on a remote server

2006-09-18 Thread backyard
--- Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 18 September 2006 13:51, backyard wrote: By call-back mode do you mean log into the system via network and have it call your local system for administration No modems like the US Robotics V.Everything can be programmed with a

New to FreeBSD/UNIX

2006-09-18 Thread Edward and Nancy Powers
I am new to UNIX, and want to download a basic UNIX system, just to run commands and become familiar with the system. I wish to use this system as a companion piece to a UNIX tutorial which I have on DVD. I do not want to replace Windows at this time. My PC has: Pentium III

Re: New to FreeBSD/UNIX

2006-09-18 Thread Jeff Rollin
On 18/09/06, Edward and Nancy Powers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to UNIX, and want to download a basic UNIX system, just to run commands and become familiar with the system. I wish to use this system as a companion piece to a UNIX tutorial which I have on DVD. I do not want

Re: Veritas backup software

2006-09-18 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Monday 18 September 2006 11:25, Josh Paetzel wrote: Just wondering if anyone has managed to make the Veritas Backup Exec client work on FBSD 6.x using linux emulation. I can get it to run but the server doesn't seem to be able to actually backup anything. i havent used backup exec server

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