Compile error with perl 5.8.0

2003-09-03 Thread Oliver . Burkhalter
Hello, I`ve got a problem with the compilation of perl 5.8.0 and till now i couldn`t find a solution to solve my problem. If I run the command "make" after the configuration of perl, I receive the following error: == Making SDBM_Fil

Re: Portupgrade

2003-09-03 Thread Kent Stewart
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 05:15 pm, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 01:56:58AM +0200, Stefan Malte Schumacher wrote: > > Hi > > > > I have just run portupgrade -a for the first time. About 2 hours > > later I realized that portupgrade is not only building the port I > > built myse

Re: remote desktops?!!!

2003-09-03 Thread Anish Mistry
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 10:51 pm, Marc Wiz wrote: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:52:31PM -0600, KroNiC~BSD wrote: > > I would like to use my freebsd and windows desktops remotly. I tried > > TightVNC but found it too slow for me, even on a 10mbps lan with all the > > tricks etc.. such as compr

Re: How do I change the extensions on a slew of files

2003-09-03 Thread Larry Rosenman
--On Wednesday, September 03, 2003 19:38:20 -0700 Mike Hogsett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: from an sh type shell for i in *.inc do z=`echo $i | sed -e "s/inc/htm/g"` mv ${i} ${z} done This won't give expected results for a file named "fooinc.inc". It will become "foohtm.htm". I realize that b

Re: remote desktops?!!!

2003-09-03 Thread Marc Wiz
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:52:31PM -0600, KroNiC~BSD wrote: > I would like to use my freebsd and windows desktops remotly. I tried > TightVNC but found it too slow for me, even on a 10mbps lan with all the > tricks etc.. such as compression. I would think it would be unusable over > a modem. I foun

Re: How do I change the extensions on a slew of files

2003-09-03 Thread Mike Hogsett
> from an sh type shell > for i in *.inc > do > z=`echo $i | sed -e "s/inc/htm/g"` > mv ${i} ${z} > done This won't give expected results for a file named "fooinc.inc". It will become "foohtm.htm". I realize that based on the file names given in the original email this doesn't appear to be an i

Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-09-03 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: "Vincent Poy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ruben de Groot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Joshua Oreman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:21 PM Subject: Re: Ghost for FreeBSD > On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Ruben de Groot wrote: > > > O

RE: How do I change the extensions on a slew of files

2003-09-03 Thread Larry Rosenman
--On Wednesday, September 03, 2003 18:56:15 -0700 Jonas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tested and it works great! Cool. That was off the top of my head using standard system tools. Enjoy. Welcome to FreeBSD and Unix and Unix-Like OS'. Larry Thanks. My pleasure. -- Larry Rosenman

RE: How do I change the extensions on a slew of files

2003-09-03 Thread Charles Howse
> > Hello Know-It-Alls, > > > > If I have a directory with a whole slew of files with the same file > > extension, for example: > > > > 1-1-1.inc > > 1-1-2.inc > > 1-1-3.inc > > etc. > > > > What command can I use to change the file extension - but > keep the file > > name the same - in one swe

Re: How do I change the extensions on a slew of files

2003-09-03 Thread Till Plewe
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 06:25:07PM -0700, Jonas wrote: > > Hello Know-It-Alls, > > If I have a directory with a whole slew of files with the same file > extension, for example: > > 1-1-1.inc > 1-1-2.inc > 1-1-3.inc > etc. > > What command can I use to change the file extension - but keep the fi

RE: How do I change the extensions on a slew of files

2003-09-03 Thread Jonas
> > > > Hello Know-It-Alls, > > > > If I have a directory with a whole slew of files with the same file > > extension, for example: > > > > 1-1-1.inc > > 1-1-2.inc > > 1-1-3.inc > > etc. > > > > What command can I use to change the file extension - but keep the file > > name the same - in one swe

Re: Suggestions to a command line editor

2003-09-03 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 12:05:35PM -0400, Gerard Samuel wrote: > > Thanks to all those that replied. > Im going to take a shot at vim-lite, and see where it leads me. > VIM has the added advantage of being cross-platform. I use it on MacOS X and Windows. Very nice to have the same application o

Re: How do I change the extensions on a slew of files

2003-09-03 Thread Larry Rosenman
--On Wednesday, September 03, 2003 18:25:07 -0700 Jonas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Know-It-Alls, If I have a directory with a whole slew of files with the same file extension, for example: 1-1-1.inc 1-1-2.inc 1-1-3.inc etc. What command can I use to change the file extension - but keep t

How do I change the extensions on a slew of files

2003-09-03 Thread Jonas
Hello Know-It-Alls, If I have a directory with a whole slew of files with the same file extension, for example: 1-1-1.inc 1-1-2.inc 1-1-3.inc etc. What command can I use to change the file extension - but keep the file name the same - in one swell swoop? The equivalent command in Windows would

need help with gmake

2003-09-03 Thread Tak Pui LOU
Hi, I am compiling a program with 4 static libraries. If I compile the program by using gmake with its Makefile, an excutable is made without any errors. However, the excutable exited on signal 6 when I ran it. If I compile the program by running the compilers (f95 and cc) by hand, the excutable c

Re: Sorry: HP Omnibook 4150 hangs on boot > 4.6.2

2003-09-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
I've had problems with a different Omnibook model hanging while probing AGP. The AGP support was added around then, so this might be your problem too. The way I got around it was by loading on an earlier release and updating from source (but not including 'device agp' in my kernel config, natural

Prerelease issue...

2003-09-03 Thread Ben H.
Hello, I just installed the 4.9PreRelease via FTP from: ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ snapshots/i386/4.9-PRERELEASE-20030901-JPSNAP/ It was the only place I could find and access the directory. I installed using the floppies. Now I created a user and can log in but... 1. No

5.1-RELEASE: disklabel/bsdlabel for multi-boot system

2003-09-03 Thread Meow Cat
Hi, Before starting, I should say that I've RTFM'd, looked in the FAQ and the mailing lists, etc. I've seen lots of people complaining about similar problems but no answers. I have an existing partition table, and I'd like FreeBSD to fit into it with as little damage to the existing OSs as

Re: How to Get Public IP From LinkSys Router?

2003-09-03 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003, Micheas Herman wrote: ... >the Xsense routers have no user name so you need -auth='':password to >get it to work. The LinkSys boxes ignore the username so anything will do. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camc

Re: how to run a program as a daemon

2003-09-03 Thread chael
I had the same problem once, but with httpd. I use the restartWrapper - A "very" nice perl script written by Mike McCauley, dunno his website though. Maybe you can google. > David Banning wrote: > > I am running tmda-ofmipd for my smtp server and occasionally > > it dies. I wonder how I could set

Re: How to Get Public IP From LinkSys Router?

2003-09-03 Thread Micheas Herman
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 15:52, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > > > I need to get my public IP address from a LinkSys cable router and > > don't > > > > have any idea where to start. The LinkSys is doing NAT and my FBSD > > box > > > > in on the private network on the inside. What commands and/or ports

Daemon News is back up!

2003-09-03 Thread Linh Pham
The Daemon News server is back up and running again. -- Linh Pham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Webmaster and FreeBSD Geek http://closedsrc.org Apprentice Manager Editor and Writer http://www.daemonnews.org Courage: The things I do fo

Endnote?

2003-09-03 Thread Robert Huff
Timothy Opie writes: > Is there a bibliographic tool for FreeBSD that is highly > compatiable with Endnote? Try: http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/biblio-sw.html (Took about three minutes in Google.) Robert Huff ___

Re: Portupgrade

2003-09-03 Thread Daniel Bye
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 01:56:58AM +0200, Stefan Malte Schumacher wrote: > Hi > > I have just run portupgrade -a for the first time. About 2 hours later I > realized that portupgrade is not only building the port I built myself from > /usr/ports but also the packages which I did install from the C

Sorry: HP Omnibook 4150 hangs on boot > 4.6.2

2003-09-03 Thread
Sorry for the spam, But I wanted to include my machine type: HP Omnibook 4150 In the last email. Again, thanks in advance, Eric ___ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

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2003-09-03 Thread
Hello, I have been wrestling with my laptop for days now, and I'm not sure what to do. I wanted to put 5.1 on it, but booting from the CD failed. The boot halted at at line saying: agp0: mem 0-0x3ff at device 0.0 on pci0 After it was clear that the boot was not going to proceed, I cycle

Portupgrade

2003-09-03 Thread Stefan Malte Schumacher
Hi I have just run portupgrade -a for the first time. About 2 hours later I realized that portupgrade is not only building the port I built myself from /usr/ports but also the packages which I did install from the CD. I do not want to build Mozilla or XFree myself, is there a way I can exclude suc

Endnote?

2003-09-03 Thread Timothy Opie
Is there a bibliographic tool for FreeBSD that is highly compatiable with Endnote? For my own papers I am quite happy with Bibtex, but I have to set up a large catalogue for the University library, which requires it being in Endnote 6 format. So it is either a case of use their computers, or find

Re: How to Get Public IP From LinkSys Router?

2003-09-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
- Original Message - From: "Matthew Emmerton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Drew Tomlinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "FreeBSD Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 3:52 PM Subject: Re: How to Get Public IP From LinkSys Router? > > > > I need to get my public IP addres

process memory peak recording

2003-09-03 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Howdy list, I'm a Sys Admin running FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE servers. During a recent programming/installation project, I found myself wanting to know the peak memory usage of a given command/process. Is there any way to gather this information without recompiling an application with a sleep or wait

Re: Undo MBR

2003-09-03 Thread David Kelly
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 05:13 pm, Paul Murphy wrote: > I have just installed FBSD-CURRENT on a test box. During install I > unwittingly installed a BootMgr entry for the second HDD (it will > just be a data disk, no need to boot from it). > > If I do 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rad2 count=15'

fwe in production? fwe bandwidth?

2003-09-03 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Howdy list, I'm a Sys Admin running FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE servers. During a recent programming/installation project, I found myself wanting to know the peak memory usage of a given command/process. Is there any way to gather this information without recompiling an application with a sleep or wait

Re: How to Get Public IP From LinkSys Router?

2003-09-03 Thread Matthew Emmerton
> > > I need to get my public IP address from a LinkSys cable router and > don't > > > have any idea where to start. The LinkSys is doing NAT and my FBSD > box > > > in on the private network on the inside. What commands and/or ports > are > > > there that would provide the public IP address from

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2003-09-03 Thread Ajit @ FreeBSD
Hi All, I need your help friends. I have cyrus mailbox at my place. It generates following report. I think these are SPAM which are from Info a/c setting in my server. Just want to learn how to get rid of these spams. Thanks a lot for your advice in advance. Hi All, I need your help friends.

Re: Newbie - CD Burning Question

2003-09-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matthew Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > # mkisofs -o image.iso /home/www/directory > # burncd -f /dev/acd0c data image.iso fixate or # mkisofs /home/www/directory | burncd -f /dev/acd0c data - fixate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.f

Re: How to Get Public IP From LinkSys Router?

2003-09-03 Thread merv
Drew, I use a perl script to get mine, see below. It may point you in the right direction. You will need to change this script to use your SMTP server, your email address and the IP address of your router. ~~~ #!/usr/bin/perl # Dynamic DNS, style program. # # Usage : Ask the Router for my Dy

Undo MBR

2003-09-03 Thread Paul Murphy
I have just installed FBSD-CURRENT on a test box. During install I unwittingly installed a BootMgr entry for the second HDD (it will just be a data disk, no need to boot from it). If I do 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rad2 count=15' will this "erase" the BootMgr or will I have to redo Fdisk and etcet

Re: How to Get Public IP From LinkSys Router?

2003-09-03 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003, Drew Tomlinson wrote: ... >> We have set up a server to return this since I got tired of >> poking around to find it. This will return the IP address. >> >> ssh -l sshclient sshclient.celestial.com > >Thanks. I will either go this route or use a suggestion by another get >th

Re: How to Get Public IP From LinkSys Router?

2003-09-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
- Original Message - From: "Matthew Emmerton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Drew Tomlinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "FreeBSD Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:39 AM Subject: Re: How to Get Public IP From LinkSys Router? > > I need to get my public IP address f

remote desktops?!!!

2003-09-03 Thread KroNiC~BSD
I would like to use my freebsd and windows desktops remotly. I tried TightVNC but found it too slow for me, even on a 10mbps lan with all the tricks etc.. such as compression. I would think it would be unusable over a modem. I found Rdesktop and it does work nice to talk to my XP machine but the im

Re: How to Get Public IP From LinkSys Router?

2003-09-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
- Original Message - From: "Bill Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 2:09 PM Subject: Re: How to Get Public IP From LinkSys Router? > On Wed, Sep 03, 2003, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > >I need to get my public IP addres

Re: Newbie - CD Burning Question

2003-09-03 Thread Todd Stephens
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 05:20 pm, Tony Pagliocco wrote: > CD Burner is located on /dec/acd0c because it says no such file > or directory is located. > > The command I am using is > > # burncd -f /dec/acd0c data /home/www/directory fixate Are you typing /dev or /dec? It should be /dev. Als

Re: Configuration files after portupgrade horde and imp

2003-09-03 Thread Andrew J Caines
Thierry, > This is a known problem, and unfortunately, I have not yet found a > satisfying solution. Usually, the configuration files of a release n > don't work anymore with release n+1. It's not clear from Heinrich's message, but if this was a major version upgrade, then a pkg-message saying th

Re: Newbie - CD Burning Question

2003-09-03 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 02:20:51PM -0700, Tony Pagliocco wrote: > The command I am using is > > # burncd -f /dec/acd0c data /home/www/directory fixate Should be "dev", not "dec". Is this just a typo in your email, or were you really typing "dec"? If you were, maybe that explains the error. >

Re: Newbie - CD Burning Question

2003-09-03 Thread Kent Stewart
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 02:20 pm, Tony Pagliocco wrote: > I have a cd writer on my FreeBSD 4.4 Machine. > I'm new to FreeBSD and have tried using the burncd command > that is in the documentation. However, I do not think the > CD Burner is located on /dec/acd0c because it says no such file >

Daemon News Web Site

2003-09-03 Thread Linh Pham
(Please note that I'm not subscribed to the mailing list!) As most of you know, the server that hosts Daemon News is down right now. It seems that the server has lost power or got restarted for some reason and it isn't booting back up properly. The administrators of the server have been or are st

Re: RAID1 is DEGRADED, but which disk is faulty?

2003-09-03 Thread Vincent Poy
Is there a tutorial somewhere on how to do RAID1 in FreeBSD with 2 drives with the 2nd drive either same capacity or larger. I know the 2nd drive will only have the same capacity as the first but assuming you were using the FreeBSD Standard Boot Manager and then have /, /var, /usr - is the

Newbie - CD Burning Question

2003-09-03 Thread Tony Pagliocco
I have a cd writer on my FreeBSD 4.4 Machine. I'm new to FreeBSD and have tried using the burncd command that is in the documentation. However, I do not think the CD Burner is located on /dec/acd0c because it says no such file or directory is located. The command I am using is # burncd -f /dec

Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-09-03 Thread Vincent Poy
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 07:58:35AM -0700, Joshua Oreman typed: > > > > > > Ok; what you have done is made a dump on the root mirror device; great! But > > > how do I now tell FreeBSD to use that "restored" partition as /? Edit > > > /etc/fstab to effect

Re: RAID1 is DEGRADED, but which disk is faulty?

2003-09-03 Thread jesse reynolds
At 18:26 +0200 3/9/2003, Ruben de Groot wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 10:45:05PM +1000, jesse reynolds typed: Hi > How do you tell which disk has problems in a hardware RAID1 array? ... You can try this: umount /dev/ar0 fsck -f -n /dev/ad4 fsck -f -n /dev/ad6 This way (hopefully) you'll be ab

Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-09-03 Thread Vincent Poy
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Joshua Oreman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 02:27:03PM + or thereabouts, Mark wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: "Joshua Oreman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 4:08

Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-09-03 Thread Vincent Poy
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Mark wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Joshua Oreman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 4:08 PM > Subject: Re: Ghost for FreeBSD > > > > > > cd /mnt/root > > > > /sbin/dump -L -f- /|

Re: How to Get Public IP From LinkSys Router?

2003-09-03 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003, Drew Tomlinson wrote: >I need to get my public IP address from a LinkSys cable router and don't >have any idea where to start. The LinkSys is doing NAT and my FBSD box >in on the private network on the inside. What commands and/or ports are >there that would provide the publ

Re: applications

2003-09-03 Thread Todd Stephens
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 12:01 pm, Doug Love wrote: > A friend recommends your OS over Linux for my home system. > I've taken a 2 day Linux Admin course, and know just about that much. > I don't see a quick answer on your webpages to my questions. > Where can I find > A Database similar

Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-09-03 Thread Vincent Poy
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Joshua Oreman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 01:12:25PM + or thereabouts, Mark wrote: > > - Original Message - > > From: "Vincent Poy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Mike Tancsa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003

Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-09-03 Thread Vincent Poy
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Mark wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Vincent Poy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Mike Tancsa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 2:22 PM > Subject: Re: Ghost for FreeBSD > > > > cd /mnt/root > > /sbin/dump -L -f- /|res

RE: adding freebsd boot to grub

2003-09-03 Thread Desmond Lee
Hey Josh Thanks for your help. I just reinstalled freeBSD 4.8 all over again (I think it's cause some how it got messed up). I then typed in the following at the grub command line. grub> rootnoverify (hd1,0) grub> chainloader +1 grub> boot -or- (this one's better) grub> root (hd1,0,a) grub> kerne

Re: 20TB Storage System

2003-09-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Petri Helenius writes: >You have any insight into the fsck memory consumption? I remember getting >myself saved quite a long time ago by reducing the number of inodes. I have not studied it. I always try to avoid having more than an order of magnitude more inodes

Re: 20TB Storage System

2003-09-03 Thread Petri Helenius
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: I am not sure I would advocate 64k blocks yet. Good to know, I have stuck with 16k so far due to the fact that our database has pagesize of 16k and I found little benefit tuning that. (but it´s completely different application) I tend to stick with 32k block, 4k fragmen

Re: Daemonnews?

2003-09-03 Thread Grzegorz Czaplinski
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 10:23:19AM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > > > Virtually, this is no question for freebsd-questions -- but are there any > > > problems with {daily,ezine,www}.daemonnews.org? [as you see, I love tcsh > > > :-) ] > > > > > > I can't connect to 204.152.186.46 anymore. > > > > In

Re: how to run a program as a daemon

2003-09-03 Thread Mike Hogsett
> You can use /etc/ttys for this (despite the name). Oh my! How clever. That had never occurred to me. I chose the crontab entry method to keep the daemon half of SpamAssassin running. This is more elegant. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list htt

Re: 20TB Storage System

2003-09-03 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Petri Helenius writes: >fsck problem should be gone with less inodes and less blocks since if >I read the code correctly, memory is consumed according to used inodes >and blocks so having like 2 inodes and 64k blocks should allow >you to build 5-20T filesystem a

Problems with dhclient....

2003-09-03 Thread Christopher W Rueber
I have looked through all the help files that I can find, handbook and such (along with the Complete FreeBSD book).. And I just can't seem to solve this problem: I am setting up high speed internet for a Cable Modem. My cable provider uses a DHCP setup, thus I have to use dhclient. I am running

Re: 20TB Storage System

2003-09-03 Thread Petri Helenius
Geoff Buckingham wrote: - This is a big problem (no pun intended), my smallest requirement is still 5TB... what would you recommend? The smallest file on the storage will be 500MB. If you files are all going this large I imagine you should look carefully at what you do with inodes, block and

Re: how to run a program as a daemon

2003-09-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
David Banning wrote: I am running tmda-ofmipd for my smtp server and occasionally it dies. I wonder how I could set it up to run so that if it dies for some reason, it will start up again. Right now, it starts in my rc.local like so; /usr/local/bin/tmda-ofmipd -R imap://localhost -u tofmipd Look

Re: how to run a program as a daemon

2003-09-03 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:42:59PM -0400 or thereabouts, David Banning wrote: > I am running tmda-ofmipd for my smtp server and occasionally > it dies. I wonder how I could set it up to run so that if it > dies for some reason, it will start up again. Right now, it > starts in my rc.local like so;

Re: adding freebsd boot to grub

2003-09-03 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 12:16:39PM -0700 or thereabouts, Desmond Lee wrote: > Hello > > I was originally running win98 and freebsd4.8 on a box with 2 hard > drives. 1 disk had win98 and the other had freebsd. Everything worked > fine. But I then installed redhat 9.0 on the first disk with win 98.

how to run a program as a daemon

2003-09-03 Thread David Banning
I am running tmda-ofmipd for my smtp server and occasionally it dies. I wonder how I could set it up to run so that if it dies for some reason, it will start up again. Right now, it starts in my rc.local like so; /usr/local/bin/tmda-ofmipd -R imap://localhost -u tofmipd The only way I can think

Re: adding freebsd boot to grub

2003-09-03 Thread mess-mate
On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 12:16:39 -0700 Desmond Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Hello | | I was originally running win98 and freebsd4.8 on a box with 2 hard | drives. 1 disk had win98 and the other had freebsd. Everything worked | fine. But I then installed redhat 9.0 on the first disk with win 98. N

Re: File permissions suddenly change for /dev/null.

2003-09-03 Thread Ed Alley
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Ed Alley wrote: > >> I'm running FreeBSD-4.8. Sometimes the file permissions for /dev/null >> gets mysteriously changed by some unknown process to: >> >>crw--- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Sep 2 11:20 /dev/null On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, David Landgren wrote: >> ..., the moral of the s

adding freebsd boot to grub

2003-09-03 Thread Desmond Lee
Hello I was originally running win98 and freebsd4.8 on a box with 2 hard drives. 1 disk had win98 and the other had freebsd. Everything worked fine. But I then installed redhat 9.0 on the first disk with win 98. Now the Grub only knows how to boot dos and linux, but no freebsd. There is a article

usb mouse : /dev/ums0 not created ...

2003-09-03 Thread Ivan Georgiev
Hello, I am trying to use a USB mouse on 5.1-CURRENT, but the /dev/ums0 is not created by the device ... I followed the instructions in the handbook. Tried with and without ACPI - in either case the ums0 is not created. Please, let me know what to do in order to get it working. Ivan ___

Re: How to Get Public IP From LinkSys Router?

2003-09-03 Thread Matthew Emmerton
> I need to get my public IP address from a LinkSys cable router and don't > have any idea where to start. The LinkSys is doing NAT and my FBSD box > in on the private network on the inside. What commands and/or ports are > there that would provide the public IP address from the command line so >

How to Get Public IP From LinkSys Router?

2003-09-03 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I need to get my public IP address from a LinkSys cable router and don't have any idea where to start. The LinkSys is doing NAT and my FBSD box in on the private network on the inside. What commands and/or ports are there that would provide the public IP address from the command line so I pass th

Re: mplayer quicktime killing me

2003-09-03 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Monah Baki wrote: Hi, I got mplayer and openquicktime running 3 days ago, don't know how I did and I can't seem to replicate the procedure. I'm running 5.1/Windowmaker, and I know I need to install from ports: multimedia/openquicktime multimedia/mplayer www/mplayer-plugin www/mozilla (1.4) Read

Re: Raid Implemntation

2003-09-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
Rathan Varghese wrote: a) implementing disk mirroring in Free BSD server (for both System & Datafiles) This has already been answered. vinum, ccd. b) Is it possible to make any backup NIS server, which will backup the data & will come up when Primary server goes down. Yes, it's possible to prom

Re: How to start gnome?

2003-09-03 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 10:58:51AM -0700 or thereabouts, Ronnie Clark wrote: > I just loaded Gnome 2.2.2 from ports. Does anyone know > the command to put into .xinitrc to run gnome2? I > tried the following: > exec gnome > exec gnome2 > > They do not work. exec gnome-session perhaps? -- Josh _

Re: How to start gnome?

2003-09-03 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 10:58:51AM -0700, Ronnie Clark wrote: > I just loaded Gnome 2.2.2 from ports. Does anyone know > the command to put into .xinitrc to run gnome2? I > tried the following: > exec gnome > exec gnome2 > > They do not work. To run it from the command line, "gdm". To run at boo

Re: Host system type: i386-unknown-freebsd5.1

2003-09-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
Seamus Abshere wrote: When I run ./configure on my machine, I get this: "checking host system type... i386-unknown-freebsd5.1" If the unknown were *known*, what else could this say? That's the vendor part; some of the ports use "portbld", I believe. -- -Chuck _

How to start gnome?

2003-09-03 Thread Ronnie Clark
I just loaded Gnome 2.2.2 from ports. Does anyone know the command to put into .xinitrc to run gnome2? I tried the following: exec gnome exec gnome2 They do not work. Thanks in advance, Ron Clark __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site

Re: applications

2003-09-03 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 11:01 am, Doug Love wrote: > A friend recommends your OS over Linux for my home system. > I've taken a 2 day Linux Admin course, and know just about that much. > I don't see a quick answer on your webpages to my questions. > Where can I find >Fortran > Basic >

postgresql port install problem due to libintl.so.4

2003-09-03 Thread Peter Brezny
Alex, I'm having the same problem you had below. Did you find a fix? I haven't tested it yet, but as a quick fix to get it to build, I created a soft link to /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.5 I installed gettext as suggested, but that didn't fix it. Any suggestions? Thanks Peter Brezny purplecat.

Re: Configuration files after portupgrade horde and imp

2003-09-03 Thread Thierry Thomas
Le Mer 3 sep 03 à 11:48:01 +0200, Heinrich Rebehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrivait : > Hi lists, Hello, > I just upgraded horde and php on our server via portupgrade. > After the upgrade nothing was working anymore, it was impossible to login > to horde anymore. > I noticed that my horde/imp confi

Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster

2003-09-03 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Denis Troshin wrote this message on Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 16:58 +0700: Sorry for all the responses that don't directly answer your question, but you did ask it in a rather tactless way by saying it's a mess w/o understanding the reasoning behind it. > Almost every package I install requires a

Re: .ko files in /boot/kernel

2003-09-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
Malcolm Kay wrote: [ ... ] But; how much memory do you have? Your kernel is about 2Mb smaller than the one I'm using but the difference represents about 0.4% of my total memory which I suspect is almost always incompletely used. Could I ever see [any] effective difference with an "optimised kerne

Re: applications

2003-09-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 12:01:58PM -0400, Doug Love wrote: > A friend recommends your OS over Linux for my home system. > I've taken a 2 day Linux Admin course, and know just about that much. > I don't see a quick answer on your webpages to my questions. > Where can I find >Fortran f77 -

RE: Old proliant memory detection

2003-09-03 Thread Vince Hoffman
> +--- On Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:31, > | Vince Hoffman proclaimed: > | > | Hi all, > | I'm running 4.8-RELEASE on an ancient Dual P.Pro > proliant, and its > | not correctly detecting how much RAM i have, is there a way to tell > | FreeBSD the correct amount? I'm sure i saw somethin

Re: Old proliant memory detection

2003-09-03 Thread Michael W. Oliver
+--- On Wednesday, September 03, 2003 11:31, | Vince Hoffman proclaimed: | | Hi all, | I'm running 4.8-RELEASE on an ancient Dual P.Pro proliant, and its | not correctly detecting how much RAM i have, is there a way to tell | FreeBSD the correct amount? I'm sure i saw something on the list ab

Re: applications

2003-09-03 Thread Adam McLaurin
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 12:01, Doug Love wrote: > A friend recommends your OS over Linux for my home system. > I've taken a 2 day Linux Admin course, and know just about that much. > I don't see a quick answer on your webpages to my questions. > Where can I find >Fortran > Basic > A Datab

Re: applications

2003-09-03 Thread Jud
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 09:26:30 -0700, "Joshua Oreman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 12:01:58PM -0400 or thereabouts, Doug Love wrote: > > A friend recommends your OS over Linux for my home system. > > I've taken a 2 day Linux Admin course, and know just about that much. > > I don

Re: RAID1 is DEGRADED, but which disk is faulty?

2003-09-03 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 10:45:05PM +1000, jesse reynolds typed: > Hi > > How do you tell which disk has problems in a hardware RAID1 array? My > machine has been up for nearly six months, and only the last three > weeks of messages logs are retained. There is nothing any in the last > three wee

RE: Sendmail is sleepy

2003-09-03 Thread Charles Howse
> Hi Charles, > I have had this problems on both my FreeBSD boxes as well, and never > found a good solution. Ouch! I hate to hear that. Can you confirm my suspicion that this did not occur prior to 4.8-RELEASE-p4? Seems to me that the reason for the p4 patch was something to do with sendmail sec

Re: applications

2003-09-03 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 12:01:58PM -0400 or thereabouts, Doug Love wrote: > A friend recommends your OS over Linux for my home system. > I've taken a 2 day Linux Admin course, and know just about that much. > I don't see a quick answer on your webpages to my questions. > Where can I find >Fortr

Re: Suggestions to a command line editor

2003-09-03 Thread Gerard Samuel
Gerard Samuel wrote: Well I've been using FreeBSD for the past maybe 4 years now. I've been using "ee" (don't laugh) to do all my editing on the command line. Im looking to grow out of "ee" into something else. Naturally, something that can open/edit files. And if possible, I've heard of editors

Re: Ghost for FreeBSD

2003-09-03 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 07:58:35AM -0700, Joshua Oreman typed: > > Ok; what you have done is made a dump on the root mirror device; great! But > > how do I now tell FreeBSD to use that "restored" partition as /? Edit > > /etc/fstab to effect the change for the next boot? I have a nagging > > sus

Re: Sendmail is sleepy

2003-09-03 Thread Adam McLaurin
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 10:32, Charles Howse wrote: > Hi, > When I boot, I get what I assume are timeouts when loading sendmail. > > Sendmail_submit > My unqualified hostname (larry) unknown; sleeping for retry > Unable to qualify my hostname, using short name > > Sendmail-clientmqueue > My unquali

applications

2003-09-03 Thread Doug Love
A friend recommends your OS over Linux for my home system. I've taken a 2 day Linux Admin course, and know just about that much. I don't see a quick answer on your webpages to my questions. Where can I find Fortran Basic A Database similar to Access Spreadsheets Pkzip I hear a l

saving kernel output

2003-09-03 Thread Radko Keves
hi all is another way to save kernel output without dumb terminal or old PC/XT till boot ? i read serialconsole-setup in handbook, but i think way without serial console for example something like dmesg, but if kernel fails i want have saved output too thank and bye -- - Radko Keves _

Question

2003-09-03 Thread Karina Hoshiko XK (DF/TIM)
> Hi my name is Karina! > > Yesterday someone put me in charge of a server (it seems that is a Firewall) with > FreeBSD 4.2-Release version, the first thing I have told to do is to change de IP > address and the defaultrouter, so I edited the next files: > > /etc/hosts > /etc/rc.conf > > And I

Old proliant memory detection

2003-09-03 Thread Vince Hoffman
Hi all, I'm running 4.8-RELEASE on an ancient Dual P.Pro proliant, and its not correctly detecting how much RAM i have, is there a way to tell FreeBSD the correct amount? I'm sure i saw something on the list about this a while back but my googling hasnt come up with anything. :( Thanks

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