Re: SCSI Tape Drive Problems

2006-12-20 Thread Mark Kane
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006, at 23:16:45 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: Timeouts and unexpected busfree errors like these are indicative of cabling or termination problems. I don't think DLTs auto-terminate, for example, so try putting an external terminator on the 2nd plug on the back of the unit (or if

Re: undeliverable mail

2006-12-20 Thread Beastie MRA
On Dec 20, 2006 02:00 PM, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Beastie MRA wrote: On Dec 20, 2006 10:31 AM, Bill Vermillion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 09:26 . I'm in a small dim room with doors labeled Dungeon and Forbidden. There is noise, the door marked Dungeon

Acer Aspire WLMi 5102 with AMD Turion 64 X2 system hanging with powerd on 6.2-RC1 and 6.2-PRERELEASE

2006-12-20 Thread Abdullah Al-Marrie
Hello guys, I have problem with my laptop Acer Aspire 5102 WLMi which has AMD Turion™ 64 X2 dual-core TL-50 1.6 GHz with 1.5 GB of ram. I'm running i386 6.2-RC1 upgraded to 6.2-PRELEASE via RELENG6 tag since I don't have more than 4 GB of ram. I have these lines add to my custom generic kernel

FreeBSD fakeraid RAID10 @ Intel ICH7

2006-12-20 Thread Lada 'Ray' Lostak
Hello there, I am having troubles with FreeBSD (6.1) and supermicro server with ICH7R raid controller. I have created RAID10 array from 4 SATA wester digital raptors. After CD boot, I can see 5 HDD's: wd0-2d3 ar0. So, all seems to be fine. fdisk labeling is without any roubles.

Re: undeliverable mail

2006-12-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
Beastie MRA wrote: On Dec 20, 2006 02:00 PM, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Beastie MRA wrote: On Dec 20, 2006 10:31 AM, Bill Vermillion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 09:26 . I'm in a small dim room with doors labeled Dungeon and Forbidden. There is noise,

Re: acrobatviewer

2006-12-20 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Warren Block wrote: Stevan Tiefert wrote: I have installed acrobatviewer-1.1 and diablo-jre-1.5.0.07.01_1. Each time I want to use acrobatviewer, this message appears: $ AcrobatViewer expr: illegal option -- r usage: expr [-e] expression $

small mail server

2006-12-20 Thread Robin Becker
I'm looking for some advice on using one of our existing freebsd 6.x servers as a mail server for a small number (20) of users. Our existing provider gives us 1) pop3/IMAP for reading mail 2) SMTP for sending, but we need to read mail before using smtp; I guess this implies we don't need to

find port install options

2006-12-20 Thread Robin Becker
Is it possible to determine what options were used during port installation. One of the recipes I'm trying to follow calls for perl to be installed with USE_THREADS=yes. pkg_info | grep perl produces perl-5.8.8 Practical Extraction and Report Language but that doesn't tell me how it

Core Dump during 'portmanager'

2006-12-20 Thread Michael Alestock
G'day, I'm having this problem with a broken port that keeps core dumping as I attempt to upgrade my installed ports using portmanager on FreeBSD v4.10-RELEASE-p24 #44. Is this a bug or just a bad port that needs to be uninstalled?? Here's a snippet of the portmanager log before it

Internet Connection Problem - DNS Related?

2006-12-20 Thread linux quest
I am a new user of FreeBSD. I have already installed FreeBSD succesfully. However, I am not able to connect to the Internet. I have read the ppp manual in FreeBSD (by typing man ppp), but I still can't connect to the Internet. This is what happened at my prompt ... abc# ping google.com ping:

Tyan S3950 and amd64 FreeBSD fails on bootup

2006-12-20 Thread Adrian Gschwend
Dear group, I got a problem with a new AMD Opteron box, when I bot FreeBSD 6.1 (amd64) I get this: fBSD/i386 bootstrap revision 1.1 kernel text= data= sym= at-xy not found [regdump] BTX halted I've put a (very bad) screenshot online here:

Re: find port install options

2006-12-20 Thread Robin Becker
Robin Becker wrote: Is it possible to determine what options were used during port installation. One of the recipes I'm trying to follow calls for perl to be installed with USE_THREADS=yes. well I found out that the installed perl doesn't have threads by running a thread sample

Re: undeliverable mail

2006-12-20 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Beastie MRA wrote: On Dec 20, 2006 10:31 AM, Bill Vermillion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 09:26 . I'm in a small dim room with doors labeled Dungeon and Forbidden. There is noise, the door marked Dungeon flies open and Beastie MRA SHOUTS:

Re: radeon hardware acceleration on 6.2-PRERELEASE - does not

2006-12-20 Thread Hanno Krusken
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 02:02:34 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: radeon hardware acceleration on 6.2-PRERELEASE - does not Nothing I do seems to persuade my system to use the hardware acceleration on either of my graphics cards. If someone could point out something I've missed, I would very

Re: ipfw rules

2006-12-20 Thread Jurjen Middendorp
Cool! thanks for the reply + suggestions! I haven't had any trouble with my firewall blocking too much yet (also didn't connect to the internet much yet :), but i'll think about just allowing all out... on the other hand i like the idea of just letting through out that i need (which isn't very

Re: undeliverable mail

2006-12-20 Thread Bill Vermillion
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 23:58 , Men gasped, women fainted, and small children were reduced to tears as Ian Smith confessed to all: On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Beastie MRA wrote: On Dec 20, 2006 10:31 AM, Bill Vermillion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [bunches deleted - wjv] But I doubt we get 260,000

Re: Internet Connection Problem - DNS Related?

2006-12-20 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 03:10, linux quest wrote: I am a new user of FreeBSD. I have already installed FreeBSD succesfully. However, I am not able to connect to the Internet. I have read the ppp manual in FreeBSD (by typing man ppp), but I still can't connect to the Internet. This is

Re: Internet Connection Problem - DNS Related?

2006-12-20 Thread Chad Gross
On 12/20/06, linux quest [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a new user of FreeBSD. I have already installed FreeBSD succesfully. However, I am not able to connect to the Internet. I have read the ppp manual in FreeBSD (by typing man ppp), but I still can't connect to the Internet. This is what

PHP 5 with Apache 1.3 [reprise]

2006-12-20 Thread Ian Smith
Sorry to follow up on my own message, but it's all still true, and I should report having found not a solution but at least a workaround .. On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Ian Smith wrote: On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Thomas Wahyudi wrote: Ian Smith wrote: Hi all, bit of a long saga, and a

Internet Connection Problem - DNS Related?

2006-12-20 Thread Robert Huff
linux quest writes: abc# ping google.com ping: cannot resolve google.com: Host name lookup failure Then, I thought perhaps I haven't configure my DNS. A reasonable guess. So I typed man dns, but

Re: small mail server

2006-12-20 Thread Robin Becker
Dave wrote: Hi, You want to set up a separate mail server from your isp? If that's the case I can do this if you want. I've got this working on a FreeBSD 6.1 box and i quite like it. This would actually give me the excuse i mean motivation to get webmail working on my own box as well. I

Re: small mail server

2006-12-20 Thread Robin Becker
Jeff Palmer wrote: At 06:23 AM 12/20/2006, you wrote: Robin, I've had much success with the following guide. http://www.thekeyboardcowboys.org/help/fbsd_postfix/FreeBSD_Postfix.html It mentions everything you have above, with SMTP AUTH (you don't have to check mail before sending)

1440x900

2006-12-20 Thread Dan Sikorsky
Hey guys, sorry to bug you gain i forgot pc-bsd has xfree86, not really familiar with this one, but i did find xree86config in etc/X11 and added the mode to the line anything else i can try? -- Dan Sikorsky *Systems Admin/GoldMine Admin* RegionalHelpWanted.com,Inc. Cupid.com, Inc.

Re: small mail server

2006-12-20 Thread David Newman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/20/06 6:47 AM, Robin Becker wrote: Jeff Palmer wrote: At 06:23 AM 12/20/2006, you wrote: Robin, I've had much success with the following guide. http://www.thekeyboardcowboys.org/help/fbsd_postfix/FreeBSD_Postfix.html It

Re: var out of space

2006-12-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 06:22:45PM -0800, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: Thanks for all help. uname says FreeBSD 4.10-SECURITY Looks like I should do a fresh install. What's a bugger is this server does dns (bind 8) and web hosting (Apache 1.3) for a few hundred domains. I can backup

Re: if_nfe on nVidia chipset

2006-12-20 Thread Shigeaki Tagashira
Palle Girgensohn wrote: --On söndag, december 17, 2006 01.06.24 +0900 Shigeaki Tagashira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the same one. And if_nfe works well on it, in both FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE and 7-CURRENT. Please try to initialize if_nfe using ifconfig command; # ifconfig nfe1 down;

My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-20 Thread Terabyte Pete
7:04 AM, Wednesday, December 20, 2006 In Winblow$, the release bundling of IE was purposely as crippleware, virus, bug delivery system 2 trap people into constantly 'upgrading'. A simple comparisson of Windows 95 side-by-side with the final Windows ME various IE 'upgrades' illustrates how

Re: acrobatviewer

2006-12-20 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Warren Block wrote: [fixing screen wrap problem] java -cp acrobat.jar com.adobe.acrobat.Viewer Exception in thread main java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/apple/mrj/MRJAboutHandler It doesn't fix that, but here's a patch to fix, or at least start to fix, the most

Re: small mail server

2006-12-20 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 02:23, Robin Becker wrote: I'm looking for some advice on using one of our existing freebsd 6.x servers as a mail server for a small number (20) of users. Our existing provider gives us 1) pop3/IMAP for reading mail 2) SMTP for sending, but we need to read mail

Re: find port install options

2006-12-20 Thread N.J. Mann
On Wednesday, 20 December, 2006 at 12:42:09 +, Robin Becker wrote: Robin Becker wrote: [...] thread sample script. But I guess I still need to know if any other options were used during the install. /var/db/ports e.g. cat /var/db/ports/portupgrade/options # This file is

Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-20 Thread Andy Greenwood
On 12/20/06, Terabyte Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 7:04 AM, Wednesday, December 20, 2006 In Winblow$, the release bundling of IE was purposely as crippleware, virus, bug delivery system 2 trap people into constantly 'upgrading'. A simple comparisson of Windows 95 side-by-side with the final

Re: find port install options

2006-12-20 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Robin Becker wrote: Robin Becker wrote: Is it possible to determine what options were used during port installation. One of the recipes I'm trying to follow calls for perl to be installed with USE_THREADS=yes. well I found out that the installed perl doesn't

Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 07:38:30AM -0800, Terabyte Pete wrote: 7:04 AM, Wednesday, December 20, 2006 Goes to show you that not all Epiphanies are about revealing reality. Some are merely false lights leading one down a darkened path. jerry In Winblow$, the release bundling of IE was

Re: find port install options

2006-12-20 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Warren Block wrote: I suppose its safest to assume that I need to reinstall perl, but how easy is it to do that? I think it was installed by default. Easy, as long as you've updated ports with cvsup or portsnap. As root: [corrected by adding make deinstall] cd

replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine

2006-12-20 Thread stas khromoy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hey folks we are working on building a failover server. now everything is going along pretty nicely. (knock on wood) so the question of the day. is there a way to replicate the password files ? i doubt that just copying over /etc/passwd and

Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-20 Thread Bill Moran
If you read the original post, you're probably going to read this as well. I want to ask everyone on this list for a Christmas present. If you can't give me peace on Earth, good will toward men, or a supermodel trophy-wife for Christmas, please give me something that I know each of you are

Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-20 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Dec 20, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Andy Greenwood wrote: On 12/20/06, Terabyte Pete [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 7:04 AM, Wednesday, December 20, 2006 In Winblow$, the release bundling of IE was purposely as crippleware, virus, bug delivery system 2 trap people into constantly 'upgrading'. A

Re: SCSI Tape Drive Problems

2006-12-20 Thread Derek Ragona
You can get ringing on a SCSI device from bad or loose cabling which will generate a lot of SCSI errors. There are limits to cable lengths and you need to be sure you use proper cables for every device (and rated for the SCSI bus speed.) You will do best to pull out any un-necessary

Re: SCSI Tape Drive Problems

2006-12-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 20), Mark Kane said: On Tue, Dec 19, 2006, at 23:16:45 -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: Timeouts and unexpected busfree errors like these are indicative of cabling or termination problems. I don't think DLTs auto-terminate, for example, so try putting an external

Re: replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine

2006-12-20 Thread Bill Moran
In response to stas khromoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hey folks we are working on building a failover server. now everything is going along pretty nicely. (knock on wood) so the question of the day. is there a way to replicate the password files

Re: replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine

2006-12-20 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 07:28, stas khromoy wrote: hey folks we are working on building a failover server. now everything is going along pretty nicely. (knock on wood) so the question of the day. is there a way to replicate the password files ? i doubt that just copying over

nonstandard ports

2006-12-20 Thread Z. Wade Hampton
Hello to all, Not long ago, I ran cvsup successfully. In the example cvs-supfile, the following opening lines exist: # base=/var/db #   This specifies the root where CVSup will store information #   about the collections you have transferred to your system. #   

reposted question

2006-12-20 Thread Z. Wade Hampton
Hello to all, Not long ago, I ran cvsup successfully. In the example cvs-supfile, the following opening lines exist: # base=/var/db #   This specifies the root where CVSup will store information #   about the collections you have transferred to your system. #   

Re: replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine

2006-12-20 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 10:28 am, stas khromoy wrote: i doubt that just copying over /etc/passwd and master.passwd will work . You'd also need to pick up /etc/{s,}pwd.db - the compiled versions of those files. -- Kirk Strauser pgplg6wDlyMbY.pgp Description: PGP signature

managing traffic from localhost with pf

2006-12-20 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
I'm using pf for NAT and redirecting traffic from my home network into a transparent proxy (squid26). I'd also like to send traffic from localhost into the proxy, but everyone I ask thinks it's not possible. Direct http and ftp access is blocked here, the proxy forwards to an external one, so

Re: My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-20 Thread Mario Lobo
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 16:52, Bart Silverstrim wrote: Guess what...that's the price you pay for freedom and flexibility. You have to learn to use it. Don't want to do that? Pay someone to configure an interface with big shiny buttons marked INTERNET BROWSER, EMAIL, WRITE LETTERS.

Re: find port install options

2006-12-20 Thread Robin Becker
N.J. Mann wrote: On Wednesday, 20 December, 2006 at 12:42:09 +, Robin Becker wrote: Robin Becker wrote: [...] thread sample script. But I guess I still need to know if any other options were used during the install. /var/db/ports e.g. cat /var/db/ports/portupgrade/options # This

Re: find port install options

2006-12-20 Thread Robin Becker
Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Warren Block wrote: I suppose its safest to assume that I need to reinstall perl, but how easy is it to do that? I think it was installed by default. Easy, as long as you've updated ports with cvsup or portsnap. As root: [corrected by adding make

Re: replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine

2006-12-20 Thread David Newman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/20/06 9:06 AM, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Wednesday 20 December 2006 10:28 am, stas khromoy wrote: i doubt that just copying over /etc/passwd and master.passwd will work . You'd also need to pick up /etc/{s,}pwd.db - the compiled versions of

Recovering bsdlabel / disklabel with scan_ffs

2006-12-20 Thread cpghost
This is not a question, just for the archives if someone encountered a similar problem. Perhaps there's an easier way to recover a lost bsdlabel / disklabel though... While trying to rip a DVD with sysutils/vobcopy on 6.2-RC1, the system suddenly froze and could not reboot anymore. Not even the

Re: replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine

2006-12-20 Thread Robin Vley
Kirk Strauser wrote: i doubt that just copying over /etc/passwd and master.passwd will work . You'd also need to pick up /etc/{s,}pwd.db - the compiled versions of those files. I just read in another post that you can compile them using pwd_mkdb, that was news for me. I just want to confirm

Re: FreeBSD fakeraid RAID10 @ Intel ICH7

2006-12-20 Thread Ivan Voras
Lada 'Ray' Lostak wrote: After reboot, BSD don't boot and I can see message Boot error. Nothing more. I have no clue, if this is BIOS or readed MBR/bootsector. ctrl+alt+delete works this time and I can reboot machine. So, there is some boot problem, which I was not abble to

make world for a jail

2006-12-20 Thread Robin Becker
I'm trying to make world for a jail build following the recipe in http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/09/04/jails.html First off I started by updating the src tree. I copied /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile edited the host name then I ran SERVER=`fastest_cvsup -q -c ca,us` cvsup

Re: find port install options

2006-12-20 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wednesday December 20, 2006 at 11:50:10 (AM) Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Warren Block wrote: I suppose its safest to assume that I need to reinstall perl, but how easy is it to do that? I think it was installed by default. Easy, as long as you've updated ports with

Re: replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine

2006-12-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 11:28:27AM -0500, stas khromoy wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hey folks we are working on building a failover server. now everything is going along pretty nicely. (knock on wood) so the question of the day. is there a way to replicate the

Modifying rc.conf postinstall

2006-12-20 Thread Nora Lavelle
I'm new to FreeBSD and am trying to implement a kickstart environment. I have everything working except I want to modify the /etc/rc.conf postinstall. Each time I do after the reboot the rc.conf settings go back to the original settings and the new settings end up at the top with a #REMOVED before

i lost some files

2006-12-20 Thread Jonathan Horne
... but not to worry, my backups are up to date. but what im perplexed about is, my file system graph has never taken a hit to show the amount of data that i think i lost. its nearly flatlined! now, over the past few days, ive had some trouble with some usb devices and system crashes, and my

Re: reposted question

2006-12-20 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
Well, if it were me, I'd simply do: # rm -r /home/ncvs Then I'd change prefix='home/ncvs to prefix=/usr, just so I could cvsup the ports tree if I ever wanted to. But after makeing that change, I'd run: # portsnap fetch extract And know that that next time I wanted to update the ports

Re: managing traffic from localhost with pf

2006-12-20 Thread Fabian Keil
[LoN]Kamikaze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using pf for NAT and redirecting traffic from my home network into a transparent proxy (squid26). I'd also like to send traffic from localhost into the proxy, but everyone I ask thinks it's not possible. Direct http and ftp access is blocked here,

Re: managing traffic from localhost with pf

2006-12-20 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Fabian Keil wrote: [LoN]Kamikaze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using pf for NAT and redirecting traffic from my home network into a transparent proxy (squid26). I'd also like to send traffic from localhost into the proxy, ... So my question is, is it possible? What would I have to do to

Re: .bst files installation

2006-12-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Saifi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: .bst files installation Sent: 19 Dec '06 00:20 Saifi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which package in ports need to be installed in order to have .bst files installed ? The .bst files are

squirrelmail paths issue

2006-12-20 Thread Dave
Hello, I'm trying to configure squirrelmail on a 6.1 box. When i go to the configtest.php page php reports that my data dir path /var/spool/squirrelmail/pref does not exist. I check in the filesystem and it does exist, permissions of 755 and accessible by the apache user. Any suggestions