Re: Email problem

2008-04-04 Thread Jonathan Chen
[Please do not remove Cc: freebsd-questions] On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 02:19:32PM +0800, Ruel Luchavez wrote: I'm using the Mozilla Thunderbird, same setting i did to the other users it always complain : An error occurred while trying to send email. The mail server responded: 5.7.1 [EMAIL

Boot menu and USB keyboard

2008-04-04 Thread Gianni Doe
I've got a USB keyboard and I'm unable to select any of the options in the boot loader/beastie menu - escape to the loader prompt, single- user mode etc.. It is the only keyboard attached and it works fine once the system is up. I've done a bit of Googling and tried setting

Re: Email problem

2008-04-04 Thread Mike Clarke
On Friday 04 April 2008, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 01:33:48PM +0800, Ruel Luchavez wrote: Hi.. I am having trouble in my email server I spend many hours but i cant fix it, hopeu can help me guys One of the account i created cant send email in any email address like

Re: wpa_supplicant not starting with /etc/rc.d/netif

2008-04-04 Thread Oleg Dolgov
Hello, I have been following these instructions from the manual: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html#NETWORK-WIRELESS-WPA-WPA-PSK However, in the step that requires me to run /etc/rc.d/netif start, instead of it starting wpa_supplicant, I see only

Re: wpa_supplicant not starting with /etc/rc.d/netif

2008-04-04 Thread Peter Boosten
Oleg Dolgov wrote: ifconfig_ral0=WPA DHCP ifconfig_ral0=DHCP WPA Both worked for me, so that should not be the problem. I've had my deal of issues with that ral driver though. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

RAID contrôleur SATA/IDE

2008-04-04 Thread Olivier GARNIER
Hi, I’m looking for a RAID CARD CONTROLEUR (PCI card would be fine). I wish I could plug in 2 SATA disk (250 Go) and 2 IDE UDMA/133 disk (250 Go) For the first computer, I’ve bought a tiny card with a Sil680 chipset for the IDE disk, but it’s not recognising as a RAID controller. Just as

Re: Network setup

2008-04-04 Thread Christian Walther
Hi Ruel, On 04/04/2008, Ruel Luchavez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm a beginner on this kind of industry I hope you guys will help me because i really want to LEARN..and i cant get any support on my fellows...:D I have a Linksys wireless-g broadband router model WRT54G here and I

Network setup

2008-04-04 Thread Ruel Luchavez
Hi I'm a beginner on this kind of industry I hope you guys will help me because i really want to LEARN..and i cant get any support on my fellows...:D I have a Linksys wireless-g broadband router model WRT54G here and I tried to configure it..but still i could not connect to Internet. I don't

Re: Network setup

2008-04-04 Thread Gerard
On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 17:52:22 +0800 Ruel Luchavez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Linksys wireless-g broadband router model WRT54G here and I tried to configure it..but still i could not connect to Internet. I don't know if I've configured it wrong..could some one help me how to do it step by

Re: How to instal my NIC Card?

2008-04-04 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Friday 04 April 2008 12:51:59 am berlowin wrote: after i have installed freeBSD 5.4, in ifconfig only display fwe0, plip0, and lo0... Why my NIC which is supposed to be em0 is not seen? My Network Adapter is Intel(R) PRO/1000 PM Network Connection thx for your help... I don't know your

Re: trying atausb instead of umass, part 2

2008-04-04 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Thursday 03 April 2008 04:38:27 am Dieter wrote: [ no replies from -drivers, so added -questions ] I looked at http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists and couldn't find a freebsd-drivers list. Perhaps that's why you didn't get any replies?

Free 7 and GNOME

2008-04-04 Thread Aguiar Magalhaes
Hi list, After a reboot (by energy down) the free 7 runs fsck... Even after fsck finish, the gnome is very very very slow. Gnome takes a lot of minutes (at about 10 minutes) to show the menu options and when i click on terminal option (for exemple) it takes at about 10 minutes again to show the

Boot menu and USB keyboard

2008-04-04 Thread Robert Huff
Gianni Doe writes: I've got a USB keyboard and I'm unable to select any of the options in the boot loader/beastie menu - escape to the loader prompt, single- user mode etc.. It is the only keyboard attached and it works fine once the system is up. What version of the OS? I

Re: trying atausb instead of umass, part 2

2008-04-04 Thread Steven Friedrich
I tried to switch from umass to atausb, but I had trouble. I also noticed that atausb is mentioned in the release notes for 6.2, but it's not mentioned in the man page for ata(4) or in the Handbook. Searching the current and usb mailing lists didn't reveal much. I commented out umass and added

Re: Boot menu and USB keyboard

2008-04-04 Thread matti k
On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 10:22:52 +0200 Gianni Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a USB keyboard and I'm unable to select any of the options in the boot loader/beastie menu - escape to the loader prompt, single- user mode etc.. It is the only keyboard attached and it works fine once the system

Re: FreeBSD crashes

2008-04-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
n j wrote: I hope someone can help me. I have started to experience seemingly random crashes causing FreeBSD to shutdown and power off the machine. The only trace I can find as far as the reason for the crash is concerned are the following excerpts from /var/log/messages: Mar 23 11:52:36

Re: Boot menu and USB keyboard

2008-04-04 Thread Gianni Doe
On 04/apr/08, at 14:23, Robert Huff wrote: I've got a USB keyboard and I'm unable to select any of the options in the boot loader/beastie menu - escape to the loader prompt, single- user mode etc.. It is the only keyboard attached and it works fine once the system is up. What version of

Re: trying atausb instead of umass, part 2

2008-04-04 Thread Da Rock
On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 08:16 -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote: On Thursday 03 April 2008 04:38:27 am Dieter wrote: [ no replies from -drivers, so added -questions ] I looked at http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists and couldn't find a freebsd-drivers list. Perhaps that's why

Re: [unsure] Re: Problem starting X as user

2008-04-04 Thread Frank Wißmann
herbert langhans wrote: Also check if you have the /etc/x11/xorg.conf -- root 644. Dont keep another xorg.conf in the /home/user directory so its using the one from /etc/x11 for sure. Dont have ~/.Xresources and ~/.Xmodmap in the home directory. I must admit I have some xmodmap-commands in

Re: Problem starting X as user

2008-04-04 Thread Frank Wißmann
Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Frank Wi?mann wrote: Hope there's somebody out there who can help me with the following problem: When I type startx as root all is coming up as expected, the X-Server and twm as WM. When I stop it, log in as a normal user and do the same there is only

Re: Re: Problem starting X as user

2008-04-04 Thread herbert langhans
Maybe rename /home/frank/.xinitrc to /home/frank/.xinit.rc.backup Then copy /usr/local/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc to /home/frank and rename xinitrc to .xinitrc (and chown it to frank while youre at it). As you have it now and you start as root it currently uses /usr/local/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc.

Re: Email problem

2008-04-04 Thread Pollywog
On Friday 04 April 2008 05:33:48 Ruel Luchavez wrote: Hi.. I am having trouble in my email server I spend many hours but i cant fix it, hopeu can help me guys One of the account i created cant send email in any email address like gmail.com I created it the same settings with my other

Re: How to instal my NIC Card?

2008-04-04 Thread David Kelly
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 08:01:20AM -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote: First, you need to check that the card was detected during boot. as root, do dmesg | grep em0 As root? That is really necessary? In my experience dmesg only works a short time after boot. A day or so later the dmesg buffer

Re: Network setup

2008-04-04 Thread Gerard
On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 12:48:08 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the WRT150N myself; however, the setup is virtually the same. By the way, are you sure that you want to invest the time is using a 'G' protocol router? The 'N' version is readily available, much

Re: need confirmation of documentation problem for times(3)

2008-04-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Viktor Štujber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have been forwarded to this list from a docs bugreport * http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=122359 and I am looking for confirmation of this issue. Transscript: The freebsd manpages for 'clock_t times(struct tms *tp)' say the following:

Re: laptop won't boot w/o ac adapter plugged in

2008-04-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
std [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a newish laptop hp tx1320us with FreeBSD rel. 70 build. If I don't have the power cord plugged in, the system hangs at Entropy harvesting: ethernet point_to_point If tap the power/reset slider on the case, it prints the following: load: 2.40 cmd: dd

Re: trying atausb instead of umass, part 2

2008-04-04 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Friday 04 April 2008 09:03:33 am Da Rock wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 08:16 -0400, Steven Friedrich wrote: On Thursday 03 April 2008 04:38:27 am Dieter wrote: [ no replies from -drivers, so added -questions ] I looked at http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists and

Problem with lid on Dell D400

2008-04-04 Thread Spil Oss
On a Dell D400 notebook (Pentium-M 1.4GHz, Intel 855GM, ICH4M) running FreeBSD 7.0 #0 Closing the lid switches off the display, opening the lid does not switch the display back on. Very annoying. The machine is fully functional otherwise (accessed via ssh). Noticed this first on a vanilla

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2008-04-04 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2008-04-04 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

Re: Email problem

2008-04-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 13:33:48 +0800, Ruel Luchavez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi.. I am having trouble in my email server I spend many hours but i cant fix it, hopeu can help me guys We can probably help you, but there isn't sufficient information in your description to do that :( One of the

FreeBSD 7.0 compact flash, HP Proliant ML115

2008-04-04 Thread Andrew Cid
Hello everybody, I'm having trouble booting FreeBSD 7.0 on an HP Proliant ML115 server using a compact flash stick. Here is my dmesg: ums0: ServerEngines SE USB Device, class 0/0, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 2 on uhub0 ums0: 8 buttons and Z dir. umass0: vendor 0x55aa UnoPlus CF, class 0/0, rev

Re: Solved partly (was: Problem starting X as user)

2008-04-04 Thread Frank Wißmann
Frank Wißmann wrote: Hi all! Hope there's somebody out there who can help me with the following problem: When I type startx as root all is coming up as expected, the X-Server and twm as WM. When I stop it, log in as a normal user and do the same there is only a grey screen with a mouse-cursor

Remote backups using ssh and dump

2008-04-04 Thread Paul Schmehl
Has anyone done this? I'm presently using rsync over ssh, but I think dump would be better if it will work. I've been reading the man page, but I'm wondering if anyone is doing this successfully and would like to share their cmdline. -- Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information

restore various level dump files

2008-04-04 Thread C Thala
If i have 3 dump(1)-files from a filesystem and restore them via restore -i -f dump-file, how do I layer them together? That is, how do I tell restore that I want to restore a level 0, 1, and 2? Do I run restore -i -f dump-0 and then restore -i -f dump-1 and then restore -i -f dump-2 in that

Re: Solved partly

2008-04-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
Frank Wißmann wrote: Frank Wißmann wrote: Hi all! Hope there's somebody out there who can help me with the following problem: When I type startx as root all is coming up as expected, the X-Server and twm as WM. When I stop it, log in as a normal user and do the same there is only a grey

Re: Remote backups using ssh and dump

2008-04-04 Thread John Almberg
On Apr 4, 2008, at 1:59 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: Has anyone done this? I'm presently using rsync over ssh, but I think dump would be better if it will work. I've been reading the man page, but I'm wondering if anyone is doing this successfully and would like to share their cmdline. I

Re: Remote backups using ssh and dump

2008-04-04 Thread John Webster
We use the following in a script to backup our servers. /bin/ssh -q -o 'BatchMode yes' -l user host '/sbin/dump -h 0 -0uf - /home \ | /usr/bin/gzip --fast' 2 /path/to/logs/host/home_full.dump.log /backups/host_home_full.dump.gz --On April 4, 2008 12:59:27 PM -0500 Paul Schmehl [EMAIL

Re: Solved partly

2008-04-04 Thread Frank Wißmann
Matthew Seaman wrote: Frank Wißmann wrote: Frank Wißmann wrote: Hi all! Hope there's somebody out there who can help me with the following problem: When I type startx as root all is coming up as expected, the X-Server and twm as WM. When I stop it, log in as a normal user and do the same

Re: Problem with lid on Dell D400

2008-04-04 Thread Christian Laursen
Spil Oss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On a Dell D400 notebook (Pentium-M 1.4GHz, Intel 855GM, ICH4M) running FreeBSD 7.0 #0 Closing the lid switches off the display, opening the lid does not switch the display back on. Very annoying. The machine is fully functional otherwise (accessed via

Re: Remote backups using ssh and dump

2008-04-04 Thread Andrew Cid
Hey, I'm presently using rsync over ssh, but I think dump would be better if it will work. I've been reading the man page, but I'm wondering if anyone is doing this successfully and would like to share their cmdline. Are doing backups to disk? I find rsync combined with hard links to be

Re: Remote backups using ssh and dump

2008-04-04 Thread David Robillard
Has anyone done this? I'm presently using rsync over ssh, but I think dump would be better if it will work. I've been reading the man page, but I'm wondering if anyone is doing this successfully and would like to share their cmdline. Hi Paul, We're not using dump over ssh but I was

Re: Remote backups using ssh and dump

2008-04-04 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Paul Schmehl wrote: Has anyone done this? I'm presently using rsync over ssh, but I think dump would be better if it will work. I've been reading the man page, but I'm wondering if anyone is doing this successfully and would like to share their cmdline. There's an

cfg-update equivalent?

2008-04-04 Thread Andy Christianson
In Gentoo, there is a program called cfg-update that will help to merge new configuration options that come with a new version of software when you do a system update from portage. Does FreeBSD have any equivalent to this that ensures that configuration files work after updating software with

Re: FreeBSD on IBM Blade Servers

2008-04-04 Thread David Robillard
Somebody using FreeBSD IBM Blade hardware in production? Hello Maximillian, I'm not using it myself, but a friend of mine is running FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE on IBM BladeCenter LS20, AMD Opteron 2.4GHz/800 MHz. He says the big problems are getting the BladeCenter's USB console working across reboots

Re: Remote backups using ssh and dump

2008-04-04 Thread Stuart Mackie
Has anyone done this? I'm presently using rsync over ssh, but I think dump would be better if it will work. I've been reading the man page, but I'm wondering if anyone is doing this successfully and would like to share their cmdline. Hi, [ from

Re: Remote backups using ssh and dump

2008-04-04 Thread dex
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone done this? I'm presently using rsync over ssh, but I think dump would be better if it will work. I've been reading the man page, but I'm wondering if anyone is doing this successfully and would like to share

Re: Remote backups using ssh and dump

2008-04-04 Thread Peter Boosten
Paul Schmehl wrote: Has anyone done this? I'm presently using rsync over ssh, but I think dump would be better if it will work. I've been reading the man page, but I'm wondering if anyone is doing this successfully and would like to share their cmdline. I did this once:

How to recover a tape device?

2008-04-04 Thread perikillo
Hi people. I have 1 tape device attached to a FreeBSD 6.2-Release box for bacula, sometimes i lost the connection with the device, doesn't answer me, this happend not to often, but nothing is perfect, my doubt is: Once my console say: Apr 4 12:25:46 bacula kernel: Dump Card State Ends Apr 4

Re: Remote backups using ssh and dump

2008-04-04 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, April 04, 2008 22:21:52 +0200 Peter Boosten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Schmehl wrote: Has anyone done this? Little did I know, when I posted this question, that I would receive such a wealth of information. I'm deeply appreciative of the community's willingness to

Tinydns configuration... works, but no reverse dns

2008-04-04 Thread John Almberg
I am using tinydns on my FreeBSD server. Normal DNS lookups work fine, but I can't get reverse DNS to work. My colocation provider says they have delegated DNS to my name servers. If there is a way to independently verify this, I don't know how to do it, so I am taking their word for it.

need a shell script that can be executed manually or as part of the rc process. How can the script detect WHERE it is being called from to know how to handle various options.

2008-04-04 Thread Rance Hall
I have a sh script im working on that is going to be able to run by the init/rc process. That same script can also be run after the system is started. I need a way to have the sh script detect WHERE in the boot process the server is when it is being executed. for example, once a login prompt

Fwd: Remote backups using ssh and dump

2008-04-04 Thread John Almberg
Little did I know, when I posted this question, that I would receive such a wealth of information. I'm deeply appreciative of the community's willingness to share information and thank each and every one of your for your contributions. Now I have some reading to do. :-) I think

Re: Tinydns configuration... works, but no reverse dns

2008-04-04 Thread John Almberg
freesparky# dig +trace -x 66.111.0.194 That *is* handy. which does bring up the issue of why you refer to ns0 and ns1 in your question and your provider delegates to ns1, ns2, and ns3, the last of which doesn't appear to have an A record anywhere useful. Ah, ha... I gave my provider

Re: DHCP Question

2008-04-04 Thread Preston Hagar
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 9:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in the process of moving my phone system DHCP from my Mitel 3300 to a FreeBSD so I can parse the DHCP file. In order to make Mitel's option 125 work correctly, I have to specify some vendor specific options. I believe this is

Strange behavior with zfs

2008-04-04 Thread Fred C
I have a FreeBSD box configured as a nfs server and a Mac with MacOS 10.5 as client. On my FBSD box I have a zfs pool exported as you can seen in the examples bellow. This filesystem is mounted on my Mac with the following command mount_nfs -P ... When I copy some files from the shell

Re: Tinydns configuration... works, but no reverse dns

2008-04-04 Thread Jon Radel
John Almberg wrote: I am using tinydns on my FreeBSD server. Normal DNS lookups work fine, but I can't get reverse DNS to work. My colocation provider says they have delegated DNS to my name servers. If there is a way to independently verify this, I don't know how to do it, so I am taking

Re: Fwd: Remote backups using ssh and dump

2008-04-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 05:00:01PM -0400, John Almberg wrote: Little did I know, when I posted this question, that I would receive such a wealth of information. I'm deeply appreciative of the community's willingness to share information and thank each and every one of your for your

Bootloader not working on Compaq Proliant ML330 G2

2008-04-04 Thread Ján Šebošík
Hi all I`ve tried to install FreeBSD 7 on Compaq Proliant ML330 G2 server, but it won`t boot. FreeBSD boot0 beeps after pressing F1, or F2 (got 2 partitions) key. So i`ve installed grub on another machine, but than it says Error 5 only in Proliant, I don`t even get grub command prompt.

cronjob - email messages sent

2008-04-04 Thread D Hill
I have several cronjob's set up on a server we have under the user root. I need to specify specific email addresses results are sent to. Using documentation from: man 5 crontab I thought I could surround the jobs: ... MAILTO=root,someoneelse @hourly /usr/local/bin/mysqladmin -u

Re: need a shell script that can be executed manually or as part of the rc process. How can the script detect WHERE it is being called from to know how to handle various options.

2008-04-04 Thread Andrew Cid
Hi Rance, I have a sh script im working on that is going to be able to run by the init/rc process. That same script can also be run after the system is started. I need a way to have the sh script detect WHERE in the boot process the server is when it is being executed. You can control

FreeBSD 7, network dies, console shows: nfe0: tx v2 error 0x6004

2008-04-04 Thread Jim Stapleton
I got this on a bootup after a power blink. I had added aio_load=YES and kqemu=YES to my loader.conf beforehand. Removing them + reboot didn't fix the issue. I switched to the nve driver - no luck, but even fewer useful diagnostic error messages I swaped the network cable with a known good, no

openoffice.org-2.4.0_2 hanging

2008-04-04 Thread Volker Glatz
Hi there, I compiled openoffice with WITHOUT_MOZILLA=yes WITH_KDE=yes LOCALIZED_LANG=de WITH_CUPS=yes WITHOUT_GNOMEVFS=yes WITH_TTF_BYTECODE_ENABLED=yes Openoffice is hanging while opening or saving a document. I tried the following posted earlier here in the list: There have been comments

building a distribution server

2008-04-04 Thread Steel City Phantom
i have about 10 production servers that i want to upgrade to bsd 7 and update all their ports in one shot. the problem is the down time. im wrapping up upgrading a 6.3 to 7 and its taken over 7 hours so far. thats way too long for our machines to be down. the biggest slow down is the

Re: Remote backups using ssh and dump

2008-04-04 Thread mike
On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:59:27 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: Has anyone done this? Hi, Yes, we use something like the following #!/bin/sh if [ -z $1 ] ; then echo echo Usage: $0 backup level echoSee 'man dump' for more

Re: building a distribution server

2008-04-04 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 04), Steel City Phantom said: i have about 10 production servers that i want to upgrade to bsd 7 and update all their ports in one shot. the problem is the down time. im wrapping up upgrading a 6.3 to 7 and its taken over 7 hours so far. thats way too long for our