Re: Random crash and/or reboots

2003-09-08 Thread Johannes Lochmann
On Monday 08 September 2003 00:52, Jack L. Stone wrote: Hi, > Nope... plenty cool and switching the entire server eliminates ALL hardware > as being it. It may be a *really* stupid idea, but how about the power at your location? Would it be possible that you have a problem there? That would exp

Re: FreeBSD 4.8 local startup issues

2003-09-08 Thread K Anderson
admin wrote: On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 22:42:24 -0700, K Anderson wrote admin wrote: running: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE okay I am having a strange issue. after the last reboot after my FreeBSD machine became unreachable - and required a power cycle. mostly all processes listed in /usr/local/etc/rc.d did n

Re: FreeBSD 4.8 local startup issues

2003-09-08 Thread admin
On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 22:42:24 -0700, K Anderson wrote > admin wrote: > > running: > > FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE > > > > okay I am having a strange issue. > > > > after the last reboot after my FreeBSD machine became unreachable - and > > required a power cycle. mostly all processes listed in /usr/local/

Re: FreeBSD 4.8 local startup issues

2003-09-08 Thread K Anderson
admin wrote: running: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE okay I am having a strange issue. after the last reboot after my FreeBSD machine became unreachable - and required a power cycle. mostly all processes listed in /usr/local/etc/rc.d did not start. this only happens very rarely and has happens after FreeB

FreeBSD 4.8 local startup issues

2003-09-08 Thread admin
running: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE okay I am having a strange issue. after the last reboot after my FreeBSD machine became unreachable - and required a power cycle. mostly all processes listed in /usr/local/etc/rc.d did not start. this only happens very rarely and has happens after FreeBSD crashed or

Re: User PPP connection problems

2003-09-08 Thread RexFelis
Hello, I am no expert, but I use PPP exclusively to set up a connection to the net. One thing I see different in your configuration than in mine is this: >set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.0 > 0.0.0.0 If you are using PPP and you are doing dynamic IP addressing, I succeed with this,

Re: dail in server

2003-09-08 Thread Viktor Lazlo
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Your Name wrote: > Hi all > > Does freebsd provide dialin server function? > > If yes, please give me hint > > I can't get information in the documentation > > Thank you What documentation were you checking if not the handbook? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/boo

Re: nis security

2003-09-08 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:28:17PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Sep 08), Tillman Hodgson said: > > > > I'm a bit biased, however: I use NIS with Kerberos and think it's the > > > > cats pajamas :-) > > > > > > This sounds exactly like what we are looking for. Can you point us > >

User PPP connection problems

2003-09-08 Thread Mark C. Perreault
Hello, I am also a newbie to FreeBSD, and have also had problems connecting to an ISP. While I can actually make the connection, I cannot yet complete a logon successfully ;(. But I may have some insight as to your problem. Having looked at your ppp.log, it appears that your system is never actu

Re: USB stick

2003-09-08 Thread Michael W. Oliver
+--- On Monday, September 08, 2003 17:12 --- | Todd Stephens proclaimed: | | On Monday 08 September 2003 04:05 am, Christoph Kukulies wrote: | > # mount -t msdos /dev/da0 /mnt | > msdosfs: /dev/da0: Invalid argument | | This is speaking from Linux experience, as I do not have my USB CF card | reade

Re: nis security

2003-09-08 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 08), Tillman Hodgson said: > > > I'm a bit biased, however: I use NIS with Kerberos and think it's the > > > cats pajamas :-) > > > > This sounds exactly like what we are looking for. Can you point us > > to any docs explaining how you do this?? > > The rough instructions

Re: dail in server

2003-09-08 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 08 September 2003 09:08 pm, Your Name wrote: > Hi all > > Does freebsd provide dialin server function? > > If yes, please give me hint > > I can't get information in the documentation > > Thank you Take a look at mgetty, in the ports. Andrew L. Gould

User PPP connection problems

2003-09-08 Thread Tadimeti Keshav
Hi all, I a newbie here. I compiled the kernel with COM3 and COM4 enabled. I tried connecting to the internet but failed. I am pasting the relavant portion of /var/ppp/ppp.log. Please help!! Thanks in advance Keshav Sep 8 22:25:12 ppp[220]: Phase: Using interface: tun0 Sep 8 22:25:12 ppp[

Re: dail in server

2003-09-08 Thread K Anderson
Your Name wrote: Hi all Does freebsd provide dialin server function? If yes, please give me hint I can't get information in the documentation Thank you Hint - Search google. But seriously, I searched google and here's what I found. Dial-in service FreeBSD 3.2 04/03/2000 A. B. Wallace

Problem with boot/loader I can't seem to solve. Anyone ideas?

2003-09-08 Thread Frank Masolijn
L.S. For about a week now I've been trying unsuccesfully to solve the problem below. My machine was installed with 4.8-Release. The problem started after compiling and installing a new kernel to replace kernel.GENERIC What happens is: The system starts. Detects the AH2940 SCSI controller. The c

dail in server

2003-09-08 Thread Your Name
Hi all Does freebsd provide dialin server function? If yes, please give me hint I can't get information in the documentation Thank you -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: FreeBSD install corrupts neighboring partitions

2003-09-08 Thread Jud
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 01:06:52 +0200, Raphaël Marmier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Le Lundi, 8 sep 2003, à 22:01 Europe/Zurich, Jud a écrit : --snip-- Once you've installed FreeBSD, if you can't boot back into Windows, use the Windows tools to restore the familiar Win MBR: for 9x, boot from the emer

Re: Empty AUTH=<> in SMTP from Mutt message causing refused mail

2003-09-08 Thread Matthew Emmerton
> Forgive me if I'm confused here, but... > > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 08:06:31PM -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > > Here's a sample of that, from Mutt. I replaced the company name in > > > the banner with [companyName]. > > > > > > 220 webshielde250.[companyName] WebShielde250/SMTP Ready. > > >

Re: XFree86 Configuration

2003-09-08 Thread David Fleck
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Gavin Hubbard wrote: > In section 5.4.2 it says to run "XFree86 -configure" as root to build the > initial configuration. Unfortunately this command has completely locked up > the system's primary console and I am unable to switch to a virtual terminal > to kill the offending pr

Re: Empty AUTH=<> in SMTP from Mutt message causing refused mail

2003-09-08 Thread Doug Lee
Forgive me if I'm confused here, but... On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 08:06:31PM -0400, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > Here's a sample of that, from Mutt. I replaced the company name in > > the banner with [companyName]. > > > > 220 webshielde250.[companyName] WebShielde250/SMTP Ready. > > EHLO kirk.dlee.

Re: nis security

2003-09-08 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 07:02:06PM -0500, Bruce Pea wrote: > >> Does anyone know a solution for securing NIS, using ssh or encrypted > >> tunnels or anything... I am open to any new idea :) > > > > IPsec can fix the network sniffing problem, though Kerberos can do that > > as well and comes with m

Re: Empty AUTH=<> in SMTP from Mutt message causing refused mail

2003-09-08 Thread Matthew Emmerton
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 02:20:11PM -0500, Gary wrote: > > Here is what I am thinking... 1. You mentioned you can send via other > > MUAs, pine, etc, so I am inclined to think that your SMTP auth is set up > > properly in Sendmail... 2. Given this, I still think it could be a Mutt > > problem.. I

Re: nis security

2003-09-08 Thread Bruce Pea
--On Monday, September 08, 2003 4:10 PM -0600 Tillman Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:59:04PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: I'm building a new network for my company. Right on! I need centralized authentication and looked after LDAP to achieve this. It's a good thi

Re: JAVA and MOZILLA

2003-09-08 Thread Simon Barner
Hi, I am using mozilla 1.4 and Java 1.3.1 quite happily here (both compiled from the ports collection). If you don't want to use the ports but pre-compiled binaries, then you should not mix Linux and FreeBSD binaries and those from different gcc versions. Simon signature.asc Description: Digit

Re: Empty AUTH=<> in SMTP from Mutt message causing refused mail

2003-09-08 Thread Doug Lee
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 02:20:11PM -0500, Gary wrote: > Here is what I am thinking... 1. You mentioned you can send via other > MUAs, pine, etc, so I am inclined to think that your SMTP auth is set up > properly in Sendmail... 2. Given this, I still think it could be a Mutt > problem.. I think you

RE: Slow SSH authentication with ipfw

2003-09-08 Thread Brent Wiese
In my experience, this is almost always a DNS resolving issue. You have the rule for DNS though... Do you have an internal DNS resolver you could set in your resolv.conf? Take the firewall out of the picture? > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

USB controller SiS 5571 chipset

2003-09-08 Thread Todd Stephens
Running 4.8 RELEASE I have a question regarding this hardware. I have googled, found several problems related to it, but no solutions. My dmesg under FreeBSD shows that this is an OHCI chipset, but it absolutely does not work under FreeBSD. I checked my Slackware-Linux dmesg output, and it a

Re: FreeBSD install corrupts neighboring partitions

2003-09-08 Thread Raphaël Marmier
Le Lundi, 8 sep 2003, à 22:01 Europe/Zurich, Jud a écrit : --snip-- Once you've installed FreeBSD, if you can't boot back into Windows, use the Windows tools to restore the familiar Win MBR: for 9x, boot from the emergency floppy and run fdisk /mbr; for more recent versions, boot from CD into con

Re: JAVA and MOZILLA

2003-09-08 Thread David L
On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 01:18 am, you wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 08:04:08PM +1000, David L wrote: > > I have been trying for quite some tiime to get Mozilla a Java Plugin that > > it will actually use. > > I am also trying to get Java working but for Opera. I know from my past > that the jdk1x por

Slow SSH authentication with ipfw

2003-09-08 Thread Lay Tay
Hello, I've configured a FreeBSE v4.8 STABLE system on a HP Vectra machine (Pentium III 850 with 256MB RAM) as a firewall/router. I then have another similar machine setup internally with SSH service started (OpenSSH on a SuSE 8.1 Linux). Everything worked fine except that I noticed ssh conn

freebsd xmailserver and php mail() function

2003-09-08 Thread thomas may
Hi, iam using FreeBSD 4.7 and i want to change my smtp server from sendmail to xmailserver. i have read that the php mail() function supports only an sendmail or qmail smtp server. so what must i do, to change to xmailserver i read about sendmail-wrapper to get an solution, but they dont w

Re: Allowing and disallowing certain FTP commands

2003-09-08 Thread Alin-Adrian Anton
Jared Yelton wrote: I am running FreeBSD 4.4 and ftpd. I have been unsuccessful in trying to determine if there is a way to disallow a given user the ability to run MKD via ftp. I am attempting to allow a user to upload files but prevent the creation of directories. I've looked through ftpd a

Allowing and disallowing certain FTP commands

2003-09-08 Thread Jared Yelton
I am running FreeBSD 4.4 and ftpd. I have been unsuccessful in trying to determine if there is a way to disallow a given user the ability to run MKD via ftp. I am attempting to allow a user to upload files but prevent the creation of directories. I've looked through ftpd and inetd manuals and

Re: nis security

2003-09-08 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:59:04PM +0200, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > I'm building a new network for my company. Right on! > I need centralized authentication and looked after LDAP to achieve this. It's a good thing you're designing this /now/ rather than trying to graft it on later. It's not as

nis security

2003-09-08 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi ! I'm building a new network for my company. I need centralized authentication and looked after LDAP to achieve this. Unfortunately, there are 2 points that make me wonder the good use of it: 1. nss_ldap and pam-ldap need FreeBSD-5.1 and are not f

Re: USB stick

2003-09-08 Thread Todd Stephens
On Monday 08 September 2003 04:05 am, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > # mount -t msdos /dev/da0 /mnt > msdosfs: /dev/da0: Invalid argument This is speaking from Linux experience, as I do not have my USB CF card reader working under FBSD yet, but you probably need to mount a slice and/or partition r

Re: Bind query logging stops after a logrotate.

2003-09-08 Thread Charlie Schluting
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, John Ekins wrote: > Hello Charlie, > > On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 12:04 , Charlie Schluting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: > > > >After a logrotate, it stops logging completely. The permissions are Yes, I meant after a run of newsyslog. > You could use the built in log rotation in Bind.

Re: FreeBSD 5.1 Installation Problem

2003-09-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Reinhart Steyaert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to install FreeBSD 5.1 but have the following problem: during Just to check: you did read the installation information, including http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/early-adopter.html ? > the installation, you have to choose "Installati

XFree86 Configuration

2003-09-08 Thread Gavin Hubbard
Hello List My Alphaserver DS20 system was running quite well. Unfortunately I've hit a small snag - I'm trying to configure XFree86 as per the instructions in the FreeBSD handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html In section 5.4.2 it says to run "XFree86 -c

Re: linux_base

2003-09-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Scott Ballantyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Scott Ballantyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > If I'm running multi-user (as toor), the build stops when installing > > > glibc. In linux_base, there's actually a coredump, in linux_base-8,

Re: FreeBSD install corrupts neighboring partitions

2003-09-08 Thread Jud
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 11:13:28 +0200, "Raphaël Marmier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Happened to me as well in the past. With Linux as well. I think I > solved it by installing BSD first and then windows, I'm not sure though. > > Raphael > > Le Lundi, 8 sep 2003, à 05:25 Europe/Zurich, Dan Harrison

LPRng doesn't work

2003-09-08 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi all, I`ve setup a 5.1RELEASE box and want to configure my printer. $ pkg_info | grep -i lprng LPRng-3.8.21 LPRngTool-1.3.2 ifhp-3.5.7 $ dmesg | grep lpt lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port I get some output when I lptest > /dev/lpt0. $ grep -v '#' /etc/printcap lp :force_localhost@

Xmail and filters

2003-09-08 Thread Bob Collins
I have just installed xmail 1.16 on a FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE box. I cannot get filters to run against the mail moving through this email system. Has anybody here gotten both to work? In particular, there is a filter script for attachment checking written in perl. I do have perl installed. I also

Revisited: Philips JackRabbit USB Burner Question

2003-09-08 Thread Chris
Allow me to re post this - I used a Philips Jack Rabbit USB CD-R/RW under Winders2k, I popped this bad boy onto my 4.8 box and I am able to mount a store bought CD Rom using the old mount command (mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0c /cdrom). That part of the equation woiks just dandy - the question I have

Re: FreeBSD 5.1 Installation Problem

2003-09-08 Thread mess-mate
IMHO, simply repeat the operation ( selecting the cdrom) mess-mate On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 19:48:18 +0200 "Reinhart Steyaert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Hi, | | I want to install FreeBSD 5.1 but have the following problem: during the | installation, you have to choose "Installation Media." I choo

Re: Bind query logging stops after a logrotate.

2003-09-08 Thread John Ekins
Hello Charlie, On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 12:04 , Charlie Schluting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: > >FBSD 5.1: >Using Bind9.2.2, and I have query logging turned on: > >logging { > channel "querylog" { file "/var/log/query.lo~g"; print-time yes; }; > category queries { querylog; }; >}; > >After a logrotat

Re: Bind query logging stops after a logrotate.

2003-09-08 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:04 PM -0700 9/8/03, Charlie Schluting wrote: FBSD 5.1: Using Bind9.2.2, and I have query logging turned on: logging { channel "querylog" { file "/var/log/query.lo~g"; print-time yes; }; category queries { querylog; }; }; After a logrotate, it stops logging completely. The permissions ar

Re: Empty AUTH=<> in SMTP from Mutt message causing refused mail

2003-09-08 Thread Gary
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 02:05:15PM -0400 or thereabouts, Doug Lee wrote: > These are the lines that look potentially relevant from my .muttrc: > > set edit_hdrs # let me edit the message header when composing Okay, thanks. > > > So I see it as a three-pronged problem: (1) Web

Bind query logging stops after a logrotate.

2003-09-08 Thread Charlie Schluting
FBSD 5.1: Using Bind9.2.2, and I have query logging turned on: logging { channel "querylog" { file "/var/log/query.lo~g"; print-time yes; }; category queries { querylog; }; }; After a logrotate, it stops logging completely. The permissions are correct, and all I have to do to make it start

Re: Empty AUTH=<> in SMTP from Mutt message causing refused mail

2003-09-08 Thread Doug Lee
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:40:39PM -0500, Gary wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 01:08:15PM -0400 or thereabouts, Doug Lee wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:00:31PM -0500, Gary wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:46:46PM -0400 or thereabouts, Doug Lee wrote: > > > > > > MAIL From:<[EMAIL PRO

Re: Opera print issues

2003-09-08 Thread Petre Bandac
my opera (7.11) won't show flash pages, though kgb# pkg_info | grep flash flashpluginwrapper-0.20021113 A wrapper allowing use of linux-flashplugin with native moz linux-flashplugin-5.0r51 The official Macromedia Flash Player for Linux Netscape and linux-flashplugin-6.0r79 The official Macromed

FreeBSD 5.1 Installation Problem

2003-09-08 Thread Reinhart Steyaert
Hi, I want to install FreeBSD 5.1 but have the following problem: during the installation, you have to choose "Installation Media." I choose the first option, 'install from a CD/DVD', but get the message "Cannot find CD/DVD devices..." (or something like that). But I can boot from the CD (it's

RE: 5.1 & WD 80.0GB SE Drive Geometry

2003-09-08 Thread Jim
Had to set the drive detection type in the BIOS to "user" (manual) instead of auto, and make sure the drive itself was set as a single master without slave (e.g. all jumpers removed) as well as specifying LBA directly, but with the drive set up manually in the BIOS, the jumpers yanked, and LBA spec

Re: Empty AUTH=<> in SMTP from Mutt message causing refused mail

2003-09-08 Thread Gary
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 01:08:15PM -0400 or thereabouts, Doug Lee wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:00:31PM -0500, Gary wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:46:46PM -0400 or thereabouts, Doug Lee wrote: > > > > > MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> AUTH=<> > > > > > whereas mail generated from Pine or

Re: JAVA and MOZILLA

2003-09-08 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, David L wrote: > I have been trying for quite some tiime to get Mozilla a Java Plugin that it > will actually use. I have tried the linux-xun-jdk versions 1.3.1 1.4.1 & > 1.4.2 , konqueror web browser uses these succesfully, however I symlink > /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.1/jre

Re: Empty AUTH=<> in SMTP from Mutt message causing refused mail

2003-09-08 Thread Doug Lee
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:00:31PM -0500, Gary wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:46:46PM -0400 or thereabouts, Doug Lee wrote: > > > > MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> AUTH=<> > > > > whereas mail generated from Pine or a Windows mailer looks like > > > > MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > In oth

Re: 802.11g and FreeBSD based access point ...

2003-09-08 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Monday 08 September 2003 09:42 am, Jesse Guardiani wrote: > Matthias Teege wrote: > > "Vledder, Hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I am considering building a 802.11g FreeBSD access point. I've read that > >> I will need a network adapter that supports hostap (access point mode). > >> Does a

[newbie] 4.8-STABLE became unreachable

2003-09-08 Thread admin
well my machine just became unreachable and trying to figure out what to do about it. Its the first time in my history of using freeBSD to experience this. we have kernel firewall enabled and running portsentry as well. we power cycled to clear the situation as we could not log in via the consol

Re: Empty AUTH=<> in SMTP from Mutt message causing refused mail

2003-09-08 Thread Gary
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:46:46PM -0400 or thereabouts, Doug Lee wrote: > > > MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> AUTH=<> > > > whereas mail generated from Pine or a Windows mailer looks like > > > MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > In other words, the "AUTH=<>" only appears in Mutt-generated mail. >

FreeBSD 4.8 local startup issues

2003-09-08 Thread admin
running: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE okay I am having a strange issue. after the last reboot after my FreeBSD machine became unreachable - and required a power cycle. mostly all processes listed in /usr/local/etc/rc.d did not start. this only happens very rarely and has happens after FreeBSD crashed o

Re: linux_base

2003-09-08 Thread Scott Ballantyne
Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Scott Ballantyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If I'm running multi-user (as toor), the build stops when installing > > glibc. In linux_base, there's actually a coredump, in linux_base-8, it > > just stops. This happens even running the GENERIC k

Re: Empty AUTH=<> in SMTP from Mutt message causing refused mail

2003-09-08 Thread Doug Lee
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:37:41AM -0500, Gary wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:25:59PM -0400 or thereabouts, Doug Lee wrote: > > > I have two FreeBSD 4.x systems running sendmail. I'm trying to send > > mail to a site that recently started using the WebShield virus > > > The difference is

Re: Empty AUTH=<> in SMTP from Mutt message causing refused mail

2003-09-08 Thread Gary
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:25:59PM -0400 or thereabouts, Doug Lee wrote: > I have two FreeBSD 4.x systems running sendmail. I'm trying to send > mail to a site that recently started using the WebShield virus > The difference is that Mutt-generated messages' SMTP stream contains a > line like >

Problem with initialize the system

2003-09-08 Thread Ricardo Javier Aranibar León
Hi, I have this problem with the system initialize: Local Package initialization:pgsql [warm] loaded DSO libexec/apache/libphp4.so uses plain apache 1.3 API this module might crash under EAPI please recompile it with -DEAPI DSO libexec/apache/mod_auth_pgsql.so uses plain Apach

RE: Not able to finish new 4.8 install on Compaq Alphaserver DS20

2003-09-08 Thread Gavin Hubbard
> -Original Message- > From: Matthew Seaman > That's because the mini-iso doesn't contain any packages. However, > apart from installing some third party packages, you have, in fact, > successfully installed FreeBSD. > > I suggest that you quit out of sysinstall, boot up your system in >

Empty AUTH=<> in SMTP from Mutt message causing refused mail

2003-09-08 Thread Doug Lee
Hard to define this one fully in a subject line... I have two FreeBSD 4.x systems running sendmail. I'm trying to send mail to a site that recently started using the WebShield virus protection system for incoming mail. If I send from Mutt, the mails are refused by the WebShielded site; if I send

Re: Not able to finish new 4.8 install on Compaq Alphaserver DS20

2003-09-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 03:23:55AM +1200, Gavin Hubbard wrote: > The problem I have is that once Sysinstall keeps stopping towards the end of > the installtion with the following message: > > "Unable to get packages/INDEX file from selected media." > > "This may be because the packages collectio

Re: FreeBSD upgrade on production server

2003-09-08 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 05:48:42PM +0200, SUPPORT wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > > > I wish to upgrade my production firewall / mailserver / DNS server from > > 4.3 to 4.8. The simplest way seems to be use of CVSUP. OK, but... > > > > Is it safe ? What should I backup ? There is running well-con

Slow Adaptec Quad-Nic

2003-09-08 Thread Alexandre Biancalana
Hi All, I have a Firewall/Gateway with an Quad-NIC Adaptec ANA6944A, that when I'm doing a big download, the switch port where the machine is connected points that's is down and the following messages appear in /var/log/messages: Sep 8 10:53:41 Krusty /kernel: sf0: watchdog timeout Sep

Re: Help! I need a small(old ?) FreeBSD release

2003-09-08 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:26:49AM -0700, Dorin-Constantin Scutarasu wrote: > Hi, > > I have an old computer (AMD DX2486 @80MHz and 16MB RAM) and I want to install > FreeBSD on an empty 53 MB partition. I couldn't find an old release small enough to > fit. Can you help? The smallest all purpose

Re: Question on CVS Branches

2003-09-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] I had to enter the password for the "cvs login"; the CVS checkout operation did not require a password. How do you enter a password from within a cron job? You don't/can't. That's why you "cvs login" by hand, enter the password. Later, when you

Re: 3c905b-tx not working on fresh install of FreeBSD 5.0

2003-09-08 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 03:58:13PM +0900, Steiger, N. Wilson, (GS-12E)(TRNG) ATG WESTPAC wrote: > To all: > > I have just installed FreeBSD 5.0 on a Pent. 200 MMX w/192 MB RAM and 3-8 GB > HDs (SCSI-using AHA-2940U). My NIC is a 3c905b-tx. The motherboard is set > to non-plug-and-play. While b

Lire PDF Output?

2003-09-08 Thread Fernando Gleiser
I'm trying to use lire generate some PDF reports from logfiles. I followed the instructions given by "make pdf": I did install teTeX, link /usr/local/bin/pdfjadetex to /usr/local/bin/pdftex and bumped pool_size.pdfjadetex to 50 in /usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf But I still can't get

Re: your mail

2003-09-08 Thread Christoph P. Kukulies
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:27:51AM -0400, Brian J. McGovern wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > I inserted an USB stick into a 5.1 FreeBSD box and > > was pleasantly surprised to see it being autodetected: > > > > umass0: UrDisk USB FLASH DISK, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2 > > da0 at umass-sim0 bu

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2003-09-08 Thread Brian J. McGovern
> > > Hi, > > I inserted an USB stick into a 5.1 FreeBSD box and > was pleasantly surprised to see it being autodetected: > > umass0: UrDisk USB FLASH DISK, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2 > da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device > da0: 1.000MB/s

Not able to finish new 4.8 install on Compaq Alphaserver DS20

2003-09-08 Thread Gavin Hubbard
Hello I am new to *BSD and I'm doing a FreeBSD 4.8 installation for the first time. My target system is my Compaq Alpahserver DS20 (dual 500MHz EV6, 2GB RAM, 4x4GB RAID 0+1 and 2x9GB RAID 1 on storage works RA230 controller, CDROM + DDS3 on Symbios UW + ethernet controller, plus some misc I/O opti

Re: JAVA and MOZILLA

2003-09-08 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 08:04:08PM +1000, David L wrote: > I have been trying for quite some tiime to get Mozilla a Java Plugin that it > will actually use. I am also trying to get Java working but for Opera. I know from my past that the jdk1x port worked. So my first guess is that you don't wan

Re: aliasing ethernet cards in FBSD

2003-09-08 Thread Gary
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 03:53:15PM +0100 or thereabouts, Barry Byrne wrote: > > > How would I do this in FBSD, setting up an aliased ether to an Ip address? > > my current rc.conf file currently contains just the address of the > > machine, as such. > > ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.0.100 netmask 25

perl version trouble.

2003-09-08 Thread Matthias Meyser
Hi when I tried to build /usr/ports/databases/mysql323-server on my freshly build 4.9-PRERELEASE box (I think this will also hit 4.8 boxes), make broke in /usr/ports/databases/p5-DBI. This is required by /usr/ports/databases/p5-Mysql which is required by /usr/ports/databases/mysql323-server.

Re: Question on CVS Branches

2003-09-08 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Chuck Swiger wrote: Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: [ ... ] 6-sec% touch ~/.cvspass 7-sec% cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/ncvs login Logging in to :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2401/home/ncvs CVS password: [ Use "anoncvs" for the password. ] 8-sec% cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECT

RE: aliasing ethernet cards in FBSD

2003-09-08 Thread Barry Byrne
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary > Sent: 08 September 2003 15:40 > How would I do this in FBSD, setting up an aliased ether to an Ip address? > > my current rc.conf file currently contains just the address of the > machine, as such.

Re: xdm config files overwritten after upgrading Xfree86-clients from ports

2003-09-08 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:45:03PM +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: However, I just keep a backup copy of the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm directory handy: # cd /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ # rsync -avx --delete xdm/ xdm.bak/ Cheers, Matthew Ok, this would help

Re: 802.11g and FreeBSD based access point ...

2003-09-08 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Matthias Teege wrote: > "Vledder, Hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I am considering building a 802.11g FreeBSD access point. I've read that >> I will need a network adapter that supports hostap (access point mode). >> Does anyone known a brand/model (PCI) that's being supported by FreeBSD ?

aliasing ethernet cards in FBSD

2003-09-08 Thread Gary
Hello all, I have just installed my first FBSD system v4.8, to use as production mail/dns servers. I am currently building this now. I come from a Linux background, and must say, FBSD is very "smooth," fast, and fun to use. I need some help regarding ethernet aliasing. I use djbdns for my DNS

Re: converting internet addresses

2003-09-08 Thread Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
From: "Michal F. Hanula" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 6:13 AM Subject: Re: converting internet addresses >[EMAIL PROTECTED] dnsip this.is.almost.certainly.a.dns.wild.card.kwiki.org >65.214.160.247 Yes, this certainly explains it, LOL... Wonder if "

Re: network port

2003-09-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Brian Henning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am in need of a tool that verifies if a network port is good or bad, is there > a tool for bsd that can do this? It kind of depends what you mean by "good" and "bad." For varying definitions of those terms, you might want sockstat(1), nessus, nmap,

Re: FreeBSD upgrade on production server - Solved

2003-09-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Peter Rosa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Of course, I have read the Handbook, but there are very "wide" solution, not > so specific as I tried to find. There is never said e.g. "Backup file > /etc/fstab" or "After installation mergemaster your previously backed > sendmail.cf with the new one to

Re: Binding MAC to IP Statically

2003-09-08 Thread Timur
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 01:29:56PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 12:50:04PM +0500, Timur wrote: > > > What I'd like to is to be able to assign unused IP > > addresses to some 'invalid' MAC address, so that my router responds with > > 'host unreachable' to incoming packets des

Re: FreeBSD upgrade on production server - Solved

2003-09-08 Thread Peter Elsner
Looks like you forgot to run mergemaster. man mergemaster Peter Elsner At 03:48 PM 9/8/2003 +0200, you wrote: Many thanks to everybody. Of course, I have read the Handbook, but there are very "wide" solution, not so specific as I tried to find. There is never said e.g. "Backup file /etc/fstab" o

Re: Does Wine work on FreeBSD 5.1?

2003-09-08 Thread Jonathan Fosburgh
On Sunday 07 September 2003 11:52 am, Adam McLaurin wrote: > On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 12:04, Dan Strick wrote: > > Does Wine work on FreeBSD 5.1? > > > > It works here (well, as well as can be expected). > > I'd recommend using emulators/linux-winetools to configure it. That'll > make life quite a bi

Re: FreeBSD upgrade on production server - Solved

2003-09-08 Thread Peter Rosa
Many thanks to everybody. Of course, I have read the Handbook, but there are very "wide" solution, not so specific as I tried to find. There is never said e.g. "Backup file /etc/fstab" or "After installation mergemaster your previously backed sendmail.cf with the new one to include your old changes

network port

2003-09-08 Thread Brian Henning
Greetings: I am in need of a tool that verifies if a network port is good or bad, is there a tool for bsd that can do this? Thanks, Brian ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Binding MAC to IP Statically

2003-09-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timur) writes: > no, it doesn't.. what it does - establishing static mapping from IP to > MAC address.. Now I'm facing the same problem as original poster - how > can I prevent users from changing their IP address to some other (from > the same subnet)?.. Let's say I have a n

Re: simulating panic(9)

2003-09-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Andrew L. Neporada" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How can I force FreeBSD 4.8 to panic? I just want to be sure that I can > get a core dump/backtrace in this situation. Usually with ddb(4); see the FAQ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/advanced.html#KERNEL-PANIC-TROUBLESHOOT

Re: FreeBSD upgrade on production server

2003-09-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"SUPPORT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wish to upgrade my production firewall / mailserver / DNS server from > 4.3 to 4.8. The simplest way seems to be use of CVSUP. OK, but... Right, so far. > Is it safe ? It's not completely safe. Of course, neither is running a two-and-a-half year-old r

simulating panic(9)

2003-09-08 Thread Andrew L. Neporada
How can I force FreeBSD 4.8 to panic? I just want to be sure that I can get a core dump/backtrace in this situation. Andrew. P.S. Please CC me, I am not subscribed to the list. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http:/

Re: removing swap space...only by reboot? A bug?

2003-09-08 Thread Ceri Davies
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 09:30:49PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: > > Ceri Davies wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 05:28:54PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: > > > >>"man swapon" says: > >> > >>BUGS > >> There is no way to stop paging and swapping on a device. It is > >> therefore > >> not pos

Re: [newbie] 4.8-STABLE became unreachable

2003-09-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am suspecting hardware issues - perhaps the RAM memory board. 512MB single > board. If your suspicion is strong, test this directly. Do a full memory test if you can take the machine offline long enough; if not, do something that is both memory- and cpu-

Re: linux_base

2003-09-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Scott Ballantyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I'm running multi-user (as toor), the build stops when installing > glibc. In linux_base, there's actually a coredump, in linux_base-8, it > just stops. This happens even running the GENERIC kernel (I had > previously thought it was perhaps related

Re: Installing Matlab R13 useing Linux compatibility

2003-09-08 Thread Dan Pelleg
"Robert Stickney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have the student version installed and I am running FreeBSD 5.0 with linux > binary compatibility. I brandelf'ed the Matlab executable and I still get > this error when I run Matlab. > > Matlab: error while loading shared libraries: libut.so: can

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