Re: Backing up Samba share to USB jump drive?

2007-05-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 06:10:53PM -0700, L Goodwin wrote: Here's another round of dumb questions for ya: Can USB jump drives be used to back-up a Samba share? If so, what do I need to do to prepare the USB drive to accept files? Since I don't really need to compress or encrypt, I was

Machine freezes on modem ring

2007-05-10 Thread Nate Eldredge
Hi all, I have an odd problem with my FreeBSD box. I have an external serial modem connected, and whenever the phone rings, the system freezes momentarily. No mouse movement, etc. To diagnose it, I wrote a program that calls gettimeofday continuously, and when the phone rings there is

Re: WOW! {Or Holy whatever}

2007-05-10 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:21:57PM -0500, Eric Crist wrote: On May 9, 2007, at 8:34 PMMay 9, 2007, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 07:18:52PM -0500, Eric Crist wrote: Gary, Most cards that might come with DVI output instead of the standard VGA output usually include at least

Re: ppp is broken???

2007-05-10 Thread Nagy László Zsolt
The format of the statement to add is ifconfig_=up where is the NIC's FBSD interface name used by PPPoE that you specified in the /etc/ppp/ppp.conf file. ee /etc/rc.conf # add following statements ifconfig_=up I've not needed to do this, ifconfig_tun0=DHCP#

Re: WOW! {Or Holy whatever}

2007-05-10 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:04:57PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Eric Crist wrote: [ ... ] Eric, That's one flavor of DVI; memory serves me correctly there were 2: I-DVI and some other kind (I think the one you have pictured above is I-DVI). I gave my old box to

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downloading the IPMI driver on FreeBSD

2007-05-10 Thread Dhananjaya hiremath
Hello sir, here we installed the FreeBSD 6.2 and we updated and build the system and installed the kernel.Now we want to Download the IPMI driver on FreeBSD, build it, load it, and want to ensure that it runs successfully. For that what we have to do and in which dir we have to do how to

Re: downloading the IPMI driver on FreeBSD

2007-05-10 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
Dhananjaya hiremath wrote: here we installed the FreeBSD 6.2 and we updated and build the system and installed the kernel.Now we want to Download the IPMI driver on FreeBSD, build it, load it, and want to ensure that it runs successfully. Driver is already in base system. Add `device ipmi`

Re: WOW! {Or Holy whatever}

2007-05-10 Thread Robert Huff
Garrett Cooper writes: Anyhow, getting back to the video thing at hand, if Gary was to purchase a card he should purchase an nVidia card. It's the only brand with OpenGL support properly enabled in Linux and FreeBSD. 5000-6000 series would be sufficient. Anyone considering

Re: downloading the IPMI driver on FreeBSD

2007-05-10 Thread Ivan Voras
Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: Dhananjaya hiremath wrote: here we installed the FreeBSD 6.2 and we updated and build the system and installed the kernel.Now we want to Download the IPMI driver on FreeBSD, build it, load it, and want to ensure that it runs successfully. Driver is already in base

Re: starting GDM gets me an xterm, not the Gnome desktop

2007-05-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Middaugh) writes: Hi everyone, I installed 6.2 and chose X-Developer for the distribution. After the install, but still in sysinstall, chose gnome from the packages. When gnome finished installing, I rebooted. I did startx as root and got the xterm, but when I

Re: downloading the IPMI driver on FreeBSD

2007-05-10 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Dhananjaya hiremath wrote: Hello sir, Hello, here we installed the FreeBSD 6.2 and we updated and build the system and installed the kernel.Now we want to Download the IPMI driver on FreeBSD, build it, load it, and want to ensure that it runs successfully. Is this the IPMI you're

Re: Machine freezes on modem ring

2007-05-10 Thread Steve Bertrand
Nate Eldredge wrote: Hi all, I have an odd problem with my FreeBSD box. I have an external serial modem connected, and whenever the phone rings, the system freezes momentarily. No mouse movement, etc. To diagnose it, I wrote a program that calls gettimeofday continuously, and when the

Re: scponly chroot doesn?t work FB6.2

2007-05-10 Thread David Robillard
I can´t seem to make scponly work with a chrooted jail. I´ve read many articles on how FREEBSD´s scripts on making jails really don´t work and a manual mknod of $jail/dev/null must be done, but it still does´t work... I´d appreciate any help You might want to check out the port shells/rssh

Fluxbox crashes when I startx

2007-05-10 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Since Fluxbox has moved from /usr/X11R6 to /usr/local I haven't been able to start it, it just crashes I followed the instruction on how to edit the menu file but it still crashes and I get this line. Has anyone had this problem with Fluxbox? I'm running FreeBSD 6.2 release. FreeFontPath:

Re: WOW! {Or Holy whatever}

2007-05-10 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 22:04 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: Eric Crist wrote: On May 9, 2007, at 8:34 PMMay 9, 2007, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 07:18:52PM -0500, Eric Crist wrote: Gary, Most cards that might come with DVI output instead of the standard VGA output

Re: Fluxbox crashes when I startx

2007-05-10 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 09:21 -0400, E. J. Cerejo wrote: Since Fluxbox has moved from /usr/X11R6 to /usr/local I haven't been able to start it, it just crashes I followed the instruction on how to edit the menu file but it still crashes and I get this line. Has anyone had this problem with

Re: Fluxbox crashes when I startx

2007-05-10 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
E. J. Cerejo wrote: Since Fluxbox has moved from /usr/X11R6 to /usr/local I haven't been able to start it, it just crashes I followed the instruction on how to edit the menu file but it still crashes and I get this line. Has anyone had this problem with Fluxbox? I'm running FreeBSD 6.2

Re: ppp is broken???

2007-05-10 Thread RW
On Thu, 10 May 2007 10:12:00 +0200 Nagy László Zsolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The format of the statement to add is ifconfig_=up where is the NIC's FBSD interface name used by PPPoE that you specified in the /etc/ppp/ppp.conf file. ee /etc/rc.conf # add following

Re: Backing up Samba share to USB jump drive?

2007-05-10 Thread L Goodwin
Thanks, Roland. --- Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 06:10:53PM -0700, L Goodwin wrote: Here's another round of dumb questions for ya: Can USB jump drives be used to back-up a Samba share? If so, what do I need to do to prepare the USB drive to accept

Re: WOW! {Or Holy whatever}

2007-05-10 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 02:57:45PM +0100, Tom Evans wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 22:04 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: [[ ... ]] purchase a card he should purchase an nVidia card. It's the only brand with OpenGL support properly enabled in Linux and FreeBSD. 5000-6000 series would

Re: WOW! {Or Holy whatever}

2007-05-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
Robert Huff wrote: Garrett Cooper writes: Anyhow, getting back to the video thing at hand, if Gary was to purchase a card he should purchase an nVidia card. It's the only brand with OpenGL support properly enabled in Linux and FreeBSD. 5000-6000 series would be sufficient.

Re: ppp is broken???

2007-05-10 Thread Nagy László Zsolt
Are you using the -ddial option? if you start ppp through rc.conf add ppp_mode=ddial Yes, I was originally using it. Bob said that my rc.conf was obsolete, but he did not say why. Laszo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: WOW! {Or Holy whatever}

2007-05-10 Thread Robert Huff
Garrett Cooper writes: A good rule of thumb: Don't buy a video card with more RAM than 1/8 to 1/4 of the system RAM, because the RAM is shared with the system RAM, which means you have less overall system RAM to use for apps. Is that still true? (I haven't been following this

Re: WOW! {Or Holy whatever}

2007-05-10 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 08:49 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: A good rule of thumb: Don't buy a video card with more RAM than 1/8 to 1/4 of the system RAM, because the RAM is shared with the system RAM, which means you have less overall system RAM to use for apps. -Garrett Er? Whilst I agree

jail parameters

2007-05-10 Thread rick
I'm trying to establish a jail on a FBSD 6.1 system and have a question about a couple of the parameters. Under the jail man page there are two flags that I am unclear on, -u username The user name from host environment as whom the command should run. -U username The user name from jailed

Stable many-port SATA controller recommendations

2007-05-10 Thread Peter Schuller
Hello, after spending time and money on several Promise and Sillicon Image based cards that don't work properly, I am still in desperate need of a stable SATA controller. The goal is ONLY to (1) be stable and (2) get as many SATA ports as possible. I don't care about saturating the PCI bus or

Can't get the syntax correct for my tcpdump command

2007-05-10 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I'm about to launch this computer through the roof! This tcpdump is more finicky than feline when it comes to eating. What really bugs me is that just a couple of days ago I was doing this very same thing with no problems. For some reason, however, I just can't resurrect the memory of how

procmail filter for them all?

2007-05-10 Thread Jack Barnett
I have sendmail using procmail as the local deliver and each user has this in their .procmailrc file: LOGFILE=/u1/logs/$USER.procmail.log :0 $HOME/Maildir/ Is there a way to do that globally for all users so that they don't each need their own .procmailrc file?

Re: Can't get the syntax correct for my tcpdump command

2007-05-10 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, I'm about to launch this computer through the roof! This tcpdump is more finicky than feline when it comes to eating. What really bugs me is that just a couple of days ago I was doing this very same thing with no problems. For some reason, however, I just can't

Re: Can't get the syntax correct for my tcpdump command

2007-05-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 10, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Andrew Falanga wrote: I want to capture only the IPv6 UDP traffic from my FreeBSD box to a host I'm trying to mount through NFS. A couple of days ago, I got it, but I had to kill that terminal session abnormally and the commands aren't in my history. So, I have

Re: procmail filter for them all?

2007-05-10 Thread Howard Goldstein
Jack Barnett wrote: I have sendmail using procmail as the local deliver and each user has this in their .procmailrc file: LOGFILE=/u1/logs/$USER.procmail.log :0 $HOME/Maildir/ Is there a way to do that globally for all users so that they don't each need their own .procmailrc file?

Re: Can't get the syntax correct for my tcpdump command

2007-05-10 Thread Andrew Falanga
On 5/10/07, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 10, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Andrew Falanga wrote: I want to capture only the IPv6 UDP traffic from my FreeBSD box to a host I'm trying to mount through NFS. A couple of days ago, I got it, but I had to kill that terminal session abnormally

Re: WOW! {Or Holy whatever}

2007-05-10 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 05:23:17PM +0100, Tom Evans wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 08:49 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: A good rule of thumb: Don't buy a video card with more RAM than 1/8 to 1/4 of the system RAM, because the RAM is shared with the system RAM, which means you have less

Re: .mailrc file

2007-05-10 Thread L Goodwin
--- Olivier Regnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a question for you, it is possible to execute a shell script with .mailrc file ? By example : set sendmail=/root/scripts/test.sh On my FreeBSD that doesn't work at all. Did you verify that test.sh is executable and that it works from the

Re: Fluxbox crashes when I startx

2007-05-10 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Tom Evans wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 09:21 -0400, E. J. Cerejo wrote: Since Fluxbox has moved from /usr/X11R6 to /usr/local I haven't been able to start it, it just crashes I followed the instruction on how to edit the menu file but it still crashes and I get this line. Has anyone had

Re: Stable many-port SATA controller recommendations

2007-05-10 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Peter Schuller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: after spending time and money on several Promise and Sillicon Image based cards that don't work properly, I am still in desperate need of a stable SATA controller. Promise are supposed to be one of the better makes when it comes to documentation and

Re: Stable many-port SATA controller recommendations

2007-05-10 Thread Peter Schuller
Promise are supposed to be one of the better makes when it comes to documentation and open source support, Yes, that was my impression prior to purchasing the two TX4:s. what problems are you seeing? I can easily (dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=$((1024*1024)) count=500) trigger within a few

startup scripts not working

2007-05-10 Thread Ghirai
Hello list, Suddenly, the startup scripts for various applications won't work. I have these in /usr/local/etc/rc.d: apache22, ircservices, postgresql, pure-ftpd, unrealircd When i run any of them without parameters, they give out the parameters. But when i use any of the params, nothing happens.

Re: Qemu Network with two virtual boxes

2007-05-10 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
At Sat, 5 May 2007 08:21:47 +0200 (CEST), P.U.Kruppa wrote: ___ _|_ Real LAN |---| 192.168.10.1 | ---| FreeBSD 6.2 | || || |

Re: cups permission problems

2007-05-10 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
At Thu, 03 May 2007 16:02:39 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: /usr/local/share/cups/templates/header.tmpl - Permission denied i had the same problems a view days ago, problem was a wrong umask when installing cups. there are two options: 1) reinstall cups and make sure your have umask 022 during

Re: startup scripts not working

2007-05-10 Thread Howard Goldstein
Ghirai wrote: Hello list, Suddenly, the startup scripts for various applications won't work. I have these in /usr/local/etc/rc.d: apache22, ircservices, postgresql, pure-ftpd, unrealircd When i run any of them without parameters, they give out the parameters. But when i use any of the params,

Re: startup scripts not working

2007-05-10 Thread Ghirai
Hello Howard, Friday, May 11, 2007, 1:09:01 AM, you wrote: Ghirai wrote: Hello list, Suddenly, the startup scripts for various applications won't work. I have these in /usr/local/etc/rc.d: apache22, ircservices, postgresql, pure-ftpd, unrealircd When i run any of them without

FreeBSD 6.2 Opera 9.2

2007-05-10 Thread Spiros Papadopoulos
Hi all, Trying to log in to http://mail.google.com from Opera 9.2 fails. It seems like the page refreshes itself but in fact it fails to go forward. I don't get any error message at all. Could it be related to encryption or anything else missing from my FreeBSD, which is a fresh install? Had

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Opera 9.2

2007-05-10 Thread lveax
On 5/11/07, Spiros Papadopoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Trying to log in to http://mail.google.com from Opera 9.2 fails. It seems like the page refreshes itself but in fact it fails to go forward. I don't get any error message at all. Could it be related to encryption or anything else

Missing perl module is messing everything up

2007-05-10 Thread David LeCount
Ahoy. Every time I try to upgrade a program that depends on Perl, I get this error: checking for XML::Parser... configure: error: XML::Parser perl module is required for intltool I've tried a portupgrade -fRra to no avail. I'm not sure if I'm missing a package (pkgdb -F doesn't show anything) or

Laptop Hardware Support Question

2007-05-10 Thread Nikhil Bysani
I was just wondering how well 1280 x 800 resolution is supported (xorg/console), and if anyone was getting the Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN card to work in any way. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Missing perl module is messing everything up

2007-05-10 Thread Craig Russell
Try running perl -MCPAN -e shell as root. That should take you to a cpan prompt from there type install XML::Parser If that completes succesfully hit exit and try to install what you were looking for. Hope this helps Craig Russell --- David LeCount [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ahoy. Every time I

Re: WOW! {Or Holy whatever}

2007-05-10 Thread youshi10
On Thu, 10 May 2007, Tom Evans wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 08:49 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: A good rule of thumb: Don't buy a video card with more RAM than 1/8 to 1/4 of the system RAM, because the RAM is shared with the system RAM, which means you have less overall system RAM to use for

Re: Missing perl module is messing everything up

2007-05-10 Thread youshi10
On Thu, 10 May 2007, Craig Russell wrote: Try running perl -MCPAN -e shell as root. That should take you to a cpan prompt from there type install XML::Parser If that completes succesfully hit exit and try to install what you were looking for. Hope this helps Craig Russell --- David LeCount

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Opera 9.2

2007-05-10 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Thursday 10 May 2007 19:09:07 lveax wrote: On 5/11/07, Spiros Papadopoulos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Trying to log in to http://mail.google.com from Opera 9.2 fails. It seems like the page refreshes itself but in fact it fails to go forward. I don't get any error message at

How to recompile the VIM port for GUI

2007-05-10 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, As I'd mentioned before, I upgraded my vim installation using portupgrade. However, when the upgrade completed, I could no longer start vim in the GUI. I get an error saying that GUI stuff wasn't compiled. I asked here at that time and was told to check up with the port maintainer. I've

Problem updating Freebsd ver 6.2

2007-05-10 Thread Simon Castillo
Hi all: I installed Freebsd ver 6.2 couple months ago in a Pentium III computer. I configured samba, gnome and couple other applications. Couple days ago I decided to update the ports. For this I use portmanager -u -l (after updating the port list). After the update, I starting having

Old 4.2 user, with 6.2 newbie questions

2007-05-10 Thread Chuck Grimes
I am in the process of moving from 4.2-RELEASE on an old box to 6.2-RELEASE on a new box (Core 2 Duo, DG965WH mobo, GeForce 7600gs, 1G RAM, 400G sata drive). I need to figure out a couple of userland changes to the default 6.2 installation which took about an hour and went great. I have a shell

Re: Problem updating Freebsd ver 6.2

2007-05-10 Thread WizLayer
On Thursday 10 May 2007 11:24:31 pm Simon Castillo wrote: Hi all: I installed Freebsd ver 6.2 couple months ago in a Pentium III computer. I configured samba, gnome and couple other applications. Couple days ago I decided to update the ports. For this I use portmanager -u -l (after

Re: How to recompile the VIM port for GUI

2007-05-10 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, May 10, 2007, Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, As I'd mentioned before, I upgraded my vim installation using portupgrade. However, when the upgrade completed, I could no longer start vim in the GUI. I get an error saying that GUI stuff wasn't compiled. I asked here at that time and was told

Re: Laptop Hardware Support Question

2007-05-10 Thread WizLayer
On Thursday 10 May 2007 07:03:16 pm Nikhil Bysani wrote: I was just wondering how well 1280 x 800 resolution is supported (xorg/console), and if anyone was getting the Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN card to work in any way. Thanks. For the graphics, find out what graphics chipset your