Re: My unqualified host name

2008-09-26 Thread perryh
If you look for My unqualified host name unknown; sleeping for retry you will get a lot of possible answers; some suggesting to add your unqualified host name in /etc/hosts. That line is already in /etc/hosts, both with and without a trailing period. I still get the ~3 messages about a minute

Re: sound card and freebsd v7.0

2008-09-26 Thread Michael Powell
jonathan michaels wrote: greetings, freebsd-questions, i recently got a handme-down box, some sort of hp desktop machine ? not sure what it is called, the source was more or less vague about its name/configuration ??? i put in a freebsd v7 cd and these bit fell out, after pluging some

Re: mount_unionfs for jails

2008-09-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Nejc S wrote: | Hello, | | Here is what I am trying to do: | | mount_unionfs -o below /usr/jails/basejail /usr/jail/jail1 | | after I do that I edit /usr/jail/jail1/etc/rc.conf and add the appropriate | entries to the host system rc.conf, but

Re: X server crashes on exit

2008-09-26 Thread Herman Te
Kevin, As the problem only occurs after I exit X the log file isn't very helpful as to what happens after. The last line is (II) Mouse0: SetupAuto: protocol is SysMouse However it seems to be cycling through various resolution modes before starting, but no errors/warnings except for these lines

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2008-09-26 Thread zempel
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gateway NAT settings lost

2008-09-26 Thread Colin Brace
Hi all, I recently ran out of diskspace on the root partition of my FreeBSD 7 box, which serves as a home server/gateway. As a result, when I went to edit my rc.conf file with nano earlier this moth, it couldn't save the changes and the file was written zero-length. Alas, my nightly backup

Re: gateway NAT settings lost

2008-09-26 Thread Mel
On Friday 26 September 2008 11:41:41 Colin Brace wrote: I recently ran out of diskspace on the root partition of my FreeBSD 7 box, which serves as a home server/gateway. As a result, when I went to edit my rc.conf file with nano earlier this moth, it couldn't save the changes and the file was

FreeBSD can not install for Benq S41-HC50 notebook

2008-09-26 Thread ayihu
Benq S41-hc50 notebook Cannot install FreeBSD , but can install Debian Linux 4.0 Installs the FreeBSD 7.0,7.1,8.0 prompt: RAM parity error,likely hardware failure. ps:The memory does not have the question demsg message(for Debian Linux ): Linux version 2.6.18-6-686 (Debian

Re: Virtual machines hosted on FreeBSD 7

2008-09-26 Thread Uwe Laverenz
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:31:19PM -0400, Jeff Wheelhouse wrote: - the free license has some major restrictions about what you can do with it. Sorry, but I have to ask: could you please tell us what restrictions you mean? AFAIK there aren't any restrictions that keep you from using ESXi in

How to select/choose new NIC under FreeBSD?

2008-09-26 Thread VeeJay
Hello there, At my work, I have a Dell PowerEdge2950 running FreeBSD 7.0, Webserver. This server has onboard Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T with 2 ports. But we have faced watchdog timeouts and after googling and getting help on this great forum, we were able to figure out that this is

RE: How to select/choose new NIC under FreeBSD?

2008-09-26 Thread Johan Hendriks
Hello there, At my work, I have a Dell PowerEdge2950 running FreeBSD 7.0, Webserver. This server has onboard Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T with 2 ports. But we have faced watchdog timeouts and after googling and getting help on this great forum, we were able to figure out that this is

Re: How to select/choose new NIC under FreeBSD?

2008-09-26 Thread Ivailo Tanusheff
Hi mate, You should install the hardware, then recompile the kernel, if you already use a customized one. Then you should edit /etc/rc.conf and set there to use the new NIC instead of the old one. The other option is to use sysinstall program to set this, but I preffer the manual interaction.

Re: Iterate through directories and search into files

2008-09-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Steve Bertrand wrote: Hi everyone, I have a list of directories: - a..z and 2003..2008 ...inside of a single directory. Can someone advise what the shortest shell pipeline would be to search for two words (on two separate lines) within all files located only the alpha directories,

Re: Iterate through directories and search into files

2008-09-26 Thread Mel
On Friday 26 September 2008 14:22:27 Steve Bertrand wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: Hi everyone, I have a list of directories: - a..z and 2003..2008 ...inside of a single directory. Can someone advise what the shortest shell pipeline would be to search for two words (on two

Iterate through directories and search into files

2008-09-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi everyone, I have a list of directories: - a..z and 2003..2008 ...inside of a single directory. Can someone advise what the shortest shell pipeline would be to search for two words (on two separate lines) within all files located only the alpha directories, and then print the filename to

RE: How to select/choose new NIC under FreeBSD?

2008-09-26 Thread Robert Huff
1. How to tell FreeBSD to which NIC to use? 2. Where else I should make changes under /etc folder? In the file /etc/rc.conf edit the line that looks like this now ifconfig_bge0=inet 192.168.1.22 netmask 255.255.255.0 Change bge0 (could be a different name in your config) to the driver = name

Re: Iterate through directories and search into files

2008-09-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Mel wrote: On Friday 26 September 2008 14:22:27 Steve Bertrand wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: Hi everyone, I have a list of directories: - a..z and 2003..2008 ...inside of a single directory. Can someone advise what the shortest shell pipeline would be to search for two words (on two

Re: gateway NAT settings lost

2008-09-26 Thread Colin Brace
Thanks Mel, gateway_enable was what I was missing. I usually use sudo for eding system files, but in this particular instant I was lazy and had set the permissions so I could edit rc.conf without it. :( As I mentioned, I got into this fix because my root partition is full. This is how my

Re: gateway NAT settings lost

2008-09-26 Thread Mel
On Friday 26 September 2008 15:14:21 Colin Brace wrote: Thanks Mel, gateway_enable was what I was missing. You're very welcome. For totals: $ sudo du -hc -depth=1 boot cdrom home lib libexec rescue sbin bin compat dist etc lib proc root 91Mboot 2.0Kcdrom 0Bhome 5.4M

Miro Internet TV

2008-09-26 Thread Mitja
Hi! My system: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p4 #1, KDE 3.5.10 I had a Miro Player from first days when I installed FreeBSD7 (almost one year) and it worked without problem. About two weeks I installed and ran script lockdown and after problems I deinstalled lockdown and detup the system as was before

Re: Postfix, maildir's, and writing filters

2008-09-26 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 08:24 -0400, George Fazio wrote: Da Rock wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 20:53 -0400, George Fazio wrote: Da Rock wrote: Howdy. This may seem simple, but I'm completely green on this: I have a postfix server with a courier-imap client frontend using

Re: installing 7.0-release from .isos: endless mfi status msgs on console

2008-09-26 Thread FreeBSD
Jacob Yocom-Piatt a écrit : am setting up a new fileserver on a poweredge 1950 and installing from the freebsd 7.0-release .isos but can't read anything on the console since the PERC 5/i or 5/e card(s) are dumping status messages to the console non-stop (~1000 lines / minute). What are

RE: How to select/choose new NIC under FreeBSD?

2008-09-26 Thread Gavin Spomer
Gavin Spomer Systems Programmer Brooks Library Central Washington University Johan Hendriks [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/26/08 5:01 AM Hello there, At my work, I have a Dell PowerEdge2950 running FreeBSD 7.0, Webserver. This server has onboard Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T with 2 ports.

FreeBSD 7.0 installation problems.Please help!

2008-09-26 Thread kjk tttytyty
Good morning! I was installing FreeBSD 7.0 i368 using the downloaded from ftp.freebsd.org ISO images.(I've downloaded 3 main CD's without LiveCD and LifeFS) While installing it gives me some errors : Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes) Unable to transfer the GENERIC

Re: dmesg smart error

2008-09-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ghirai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm getting this error in dmesg (7 times): ad2: FAILURE - SMART status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=4ABORTED I'm running FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE, amd64. HD is ad2: 152626MB Seagate ST3160815AS 3.AAD at ata1-master SATA150 Any ideas? Is the disk going to die? For a

facility for mobile DDR RAM

2008-09-26 Thread john seth
Hi friends, I want to know whether there is facility for mobile DDR RAM, so that we can switch of a bank(s) without loosing the data in other bank(s).. Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

OpenGL things crash X in FB7-Stable, nVidia Card

2008-09-26 Thread Kemian Dang
Hi all, I have a FreeBSD 7 Stable box with a nVidia 6150 Go Graphic Card. Everything was OK sometime before, but after a series updated on ports, ( I am not sure about the time, I have not use OpenGL stuff for long time) running a program with OpenGL will cause the X crashed. The only errors

Presenting 'host' command output

2008-09-26 Thread Jos Chrispijn
If I do this on my server1 (BSD 6.4 prerelease) server1# host dekiekendief.nl I get this, which is good: dekiekendief.nl has address 72.36.229.154 dekiekendief.nl mail is handled by 30 mail.dekiekendief.nl. If I do this on my server2 (BSD 7.0 stable) server2# host dekiekendief.nl I get

Re: facility for mobile DDR RAM

2008-09-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 26, 2008, at 6:51 AM, john seth wrote: I want to know whether there is facility for mobile DDR RAM, so that we can switch of a bank(s) without loosing the data in other bank(s).. Swapping RAM without taking down the system is feature or capability of high-end hardware like Sun

Re: Flooded with emails to root -- URGG

2008-09-26 Thread David Southwell
On Thursday 25 September 2008 09:40:34 Chris Pratt wrote: On Sep 25, 2008, at 9:34 AM, David Southwell wrote: Hi I am running postfix. Am receiving a flood of emails that appear to emanate from Servers who have received spam that has masqueraded [EMAIL PROTECTED] as the email

Re: OpenGL things crash X in FB7-Stable, nVidia Card

2008-09-26 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 04:58:10PM +0100, Kemian Dang wrote: Hi all, I have a FreeBSD 7 Stable box with a nVidia 6150 Go Graphic Card. Everything was OK sometime before, but after a series updated on ports, ( I am not sure about the time, I have not use OpenGL stuff for long time) running

Re: Presenting 'host' command output

2008-09-26 Thread Joseph Olatt
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 06:51:46PM +0200, Jos Chrispijn wrote: If I do this on my server1 (BSD 6.4 prerelease) server1# host dekiekendief.nl I get this, which is good: dekiekendief.nl has address 72.36.229.154 dekiekendief.nl mail is handled by 30 mail.dekiekendief.nl. If I do this

Re: ethernet statistics

2008-09-26 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Gian Paolo Buono wrote: Hi, try systat and :ifstat bye On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Erik Osterholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 04:39:35PM +0200, Vonarburg, David wrote: Hi, I am using Intel PRO/1000PT Server adaptor with freeBSD 7.0. How can I read out

Re: ethernet statistics

2008-09-26 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
- Original Message From: Ricardo Jesus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 10:50:59 PM Subject: Re: ethernet statistics Gian Paolo Buono wrote: Hi, try systat and :ifstat bye On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Erik

Re: using /dev/random

2008-09-26 Thread RW
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:33:34 +0100 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:52:07 -0400 kern.random.sys.seeded is just a flag that gets set to 1 on each reseed. IIRC it's also initialized to 1 so it doesn't actually do anything very useful. Except tell

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 installation problems.Please help!

2008-09-26 Thread Steve Franks
Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes) Unable to transfer the GENERIC distribution from acd0 I'm a bit of a n00b too. There's a whole host of things that have given me that issue - bad cd drive, scratched disk, etc. More importantly, I've seen sysinstall never actually

Re: X server crashes on exit

2008-09-26 Thread Herman Te
In case this helps anybody, I fixed the 2 min startup by adding my machine's hostname to /etc/hosts, and the crash problem is fixed by installing the latest xf86-video-savage port. I wonder why the sysinstall doesnt know how to figure this out when installing and build the prot for me? Well

Re: OpenGL things crash X in FB7-Stable, nVidia Card

2008-09-26 Thread Kemian Dang
Daniel Bye wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 04:58:10PM +0100, Kemian Dang wrote: Hi all, I have a FreeBSD 7 Stable box with a nVidia 6150 Go Graphic Card. Everything was OK sometime before, but after a series updated on ports, ( I am not sure about the time, I have not use OpenGL stuff for long

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 installation problems.Please help!

2008-09-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 01:58:41PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes) Unable to transfer the GENERIC distribution from acd0 I'm a bit of a n00b too. There's a whole host of things that have given me that issue - bad cd drive,

Re: sound card and freebsd v7.0

2008-09-26 Thread jonathan michaels
greetings, bernt, thank you for the help .. On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 08:52:42AM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: jonathan michaels: Sep 26 13:26:46 hostid kernel: pci0: bridge at device 4.3 (no driver attached) Sep 26 13:26:46 hostid kernel: csa0: CS4280/CS4614/CS4622/CS4624/CS4630 mem

Re: ethernet statistics

2008-09-26 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: - Original Message From: Ricardo Jesus [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 10:50:59 PM Subject: Re: ethernet statistics Gian Paolo Buono wrote: Hi, try systat and :ifstat bye On Thu, Sep

7.1-PRELEASE sporadically panicking with fatal trap 12

2008-09-26 Thread John L. Templer
I'm running 7.1-PRERELEASE, with /usr/src and /usr/ports last csup-ed just a few days ago. After being up for about a day or so the system will panic because of a page fault. I'm not completely sure, but it seems that the system is more stable when gdm and gnome are disabled in rc.conf. At

Re: sound card and freebsd v7.0

2008-09-26 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:44:07 +1000 jonathan michaels [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 08:52:42AM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: jonathan michaels: Sep 26 13:26:46 hostid kernel: pci0: bridge at device 4.3 (no driver attached) Sep 26 13:26:46 hostid kernel: