why do I need sendmail
Hello. Just to confirm: if I use dial-up connection on my laptop and use the ISP's smtp server to send emails, I don't really need sendmail's most functions, so it is safe to set 'sendmail=NO' in rc.conf without loosing local emails like weekly run output, is it? I was told nowadays many spam filters only accept smtp server's email when the smtp server is in the same domain as the sender's email address. So it seems I better not use the sendmail on my laptop to send emails in case they are filtered. Should I? Thank you. _ MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com/cn ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OSX Look and feel
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 23:45:20 -0600 kitsune [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are various themes that can be applied to GTK and QT that will take care of it... and for the WM... just browse around till you find one that has the looks that you like. :) You may also want to take a look at superkaramba. (http://www.kde-look.org) Regards -Pierrick Brossin http://www.swissgeeks.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CVSup
I am giving up installing CVSup. It run for 8 long hours and it still hasn't install a thing. Although when I do: make clean in /usr/ports/net/cvsup/cvsup-withot-gui i get output showing that it is clearning something (not getting message saying it's not installed, skipping. So forget cvsup. locate command won't work so there is no way to know where the precompiled cvsup is. although the hand book says that it's there. anyway, i am going through all this toruble just because I can't install mod_php4. I figure my cvs tree is old but it doesn't seems that way (downloaded the whole thing and unpacked it in ports dir). This is what I get. it's having hard time patching. What does the error message mean and how can I fix it? /usr/bin/tar: gettext-0.12.1/gettext-tools/tests: time stamp May 22 14:35 2003 is 11935751 s in the future /usr/bin/tar: gettext-0.12.1/gettext-tools: time stamp May 22 14:35 2003 is 11935744 s in the future /usr/bin/tar: gettext-0.12.1: time stamp May 22 14:35 2003 is 11935715 s in the future === Patching for gettext-0.12.1 === Applying FreeBSD patches for gettext-0.12.1 1 out of 1 hunks failed--saving rejects to Makefile.in.rej Patch patch-Makefile.in failed to apply cleanly. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gettext. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/bison. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/mod_php4. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/mod_php4. # ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 5.1 PowerPak Installation problem
On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 16:49:36 - Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Module pci/sf failed to register: 17 module_register: module sf/miibus already exists! Module sf/miibus failed to register: 17 ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting ata0: resetting devices .. done ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting ata0: resetting devices .. done ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting ata0: resetting devices .. done ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting ata0: resetting devices .. done /mnt: bad dir ino 2 at offset 0: mangled entry panic: ufs_dirbad: bad dir syncing disks, buffers remaining... 3829 3823 3823 3823 3823 3823 3823 3823 3823 3823 3823 3823 3823 3823 3823 3823 3823 3823 3823 3823 3823 Now we're getting somewhere - this is your problem; but I can help you much. 1. Do a search on questions@ end current@ for WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting 2. If it doesn't return enything usefull post on curent about your problem, including the above and your dmesg. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD Boot up problem
Hi. I need some help. Today, i accidently forgot to eject the freebsd cd from my drive and it ended up booting up to the installation menu. I exited the installation menu without doing anything. WHen i booted up again, all I got was a GRUB message and then my comptuer stopped booting. Is there anyway to fix this? Thanks _ Download ringtones from [1]MSN Mobile Music! References 1. http://g.msn.com/8HMAENSG/2752??PS= ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CVSup
On Saturday 20 December 2003 02:03 am, Toru wrote: I am giving up installing CVSup. It run for 8 long hours and it still hasn't install a thing. Although when I do: So, grab the package from one of the ftp mirrors. Look in something like ftp://ftp10.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/net You will find a pre-built version that you don't have to build all of the auxillary files. FWIW, I built it on a much slower computer than yours in about an hour. make clean in /usr/ports/net/cvsup/cvsup-withot-gui i get output showing that it is clearning something (not getting message saying it's not installed, skipping. So forget cvsup. locate command won't work so there is no way to know where the precompiled cvsup is. although the hand book says that it's there. anyway, i am going through all this toruble just because I can't install mod_php4. I figure my cvs tree is old but it doesn't seems that way (downloaded the whole thing and unpacked it in ports dir). This is what I get. it's having hard time patching. What does the error message mean and how can I fix it? /usr/bin/tar: gettext-0.12.1/gettext-tools/tests: time stamp May 22 14:35 2003 is 11935751 s in the future /usr/bin/tar: gettext-0.12.1/gettext-tools: time stamp May 22 14:35 2003 is 11935744 s in the future Your system date is off. Set the time with date. Get your system squared away and try using cvsup again. You will find it makes using the ports much easier. Kent /usr/bin/tar: gettext-0.12.1: time stamp May 22 14:35 2003 is 11935715 s in the future === Patching for gettext-0.12.1 === Applying FreeBSD patches for gettext-0.12.1 1 out of 1 hunks failed--saving rejects to Makefile.in.rej Patch patch-Makefile.in failed to apply cleanly. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gettext. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/bison. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/mod_php4. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/mod_php4. # ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CVSup
On Saturday 20 December 2003 02:44 am, Toru wrote: I set the date correctly, and I got: === Applying FreeBSD patches for mod_php4-4.3.4_3,1 === mod_php4-4.3.4_3,1 depends on file: /usr/local/sbin/apxs - found === mod_php4-4.3.4_3,1 depends on executable: bison - not found ===Verifying install for bison in /usr/ports/devel/bison === Extracting for bison-1.75_1 Checksum OK for bison-1.75.tar.bz2. === Patching for bison-1.75_1 === bison-1.75_1 depends on executable: gm4 - found === bison-1.75_1 depends on shared library: intl.5 - not found ===Verifying install for intl.5 in /usr/ports/devel/gettext === Extracting for gettext-0.12.1 Checksum OK for gettext-0.12.1.tar.gz. === Patching for gettext-0.12.1 === Applying FreeBSD patches for gettext-0.12.1 1 out of 1 hunks failed--saving rejects to Makefile.in.rej Patch patch-Makefile.in failed to apply cleanly. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gettext. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/bison. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/mod_php4. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/mod_php4. # Why is the patch failing and how can I fix it. I am sure there are bazillion of people installed mod_php4 on 5.1. There has to be a way to install mod_php4 There probably are but I'm not one of them. That still leaves a bazillion of them out there. I have never used it, so I can help with mod_php4. The patch files in /usr/ports/devel/gettext/files are not consistent with the current gettext source code. If you patched them, spaces for a tab, for example, won't match. You need a current cvsup of ports-all. Occasionally, you have to cd in and rm the files and re-cvsup. The Makefile.in.rej will tell you what it didn't like and may give you and idea of what to do. I am guessing, but it should some where in the path of /usr/ports/devel/gettext/work/gettext-0.12.1 Kent - Original Message - From: Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Toru [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 2:21 AM Subject: Re: CVSup On Saturday 20 December 2003 02:03 am, Toru wrote: I am giving up installing CVSup. It run for 8 long hours and it still hasn't install a thing. Although when I do: So, grab the package from one of the ftp mirrors. Look in something like ftp://ftp10.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/net You will find a pre-built version that you don't have to build all of the auxillary files. FWIW, I built it on a much slower computer than yours in about an hour. make clean in /usr/ports/net/cvsup/cvsup-withot-gui i get output showing that it is clearning something (not getting message saying it's not installed, skipping. So forget cvsup. locate command won't work so there is no way to know where the precompiled cvsup is. although the hand book says that it's there. anyway, i am going through all this toruble just because I can't install mod_php4. I figure my cvs tree is old but it doesn't seems that way (downloaded the whole thing and unpacked it in ports dir). This is what I get. it's having hard time patching. What does the error message mean and how can I fix it? /usr/bin/tar: gettext-0.12.1/gettext-tools/tests: time stamp May 22 14:35 2003 is 11935751 s in the future /usr/bin/tar: gettext-0.12.1/gettext-tools: time stamp May 22 14:35 2003 is 11935744 s in the future Your system date is off. Set the time with date. Get your system squared away and try using cvsup again. You will find it makes using the ports much easier. Kent /usr/bin/tar: gettext-0.12.1: time stamp May 22 14:35 2003 is 11935715 s in the future === Patching for gettext-0.12.1 === Applying FreeBSD patches for gettext-0.12.1 1 out of 1 hunks failed--saving rejects to Makefile.in.rej Patch patch-Makefile.in failed to apply cleanly. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gettext. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/bison. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/mod_php4. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/mod_php4. # ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
rm -r on large dir causing spontaneous reboot w/ 5.1-REL
Greetings, I have a Dell PowerEdge 2650 with one 2.8G Xeon CPU and 2G RAM running 5.1-RELEASE. This machine is a dedicated NFS server. Everything on the system is default: no custom kernel, no custom filesystem options, no tweaking. Earlier today I ran rm -R on a directory containing millions of files in its various subdirectories. Within a minute or so the machine hung, NFS stopped working, and I had a posse of angry computational linguists knocking on my door. I ^Ced to no avail. So I tried opening another ssh session--no luck. I pinged. I nmapped. Nothing. I jumped up and ran to the server room. By the time I got there it was back up (whew!) but it had rebooted itself in the process (d'oh!). The directory, or most of it, was still there. I tried not to think too much about it. I went to the annual holiday party. I had a few adult beverages. I woke up a little while ago with a mysterious and slightly painful bump on my forehead and something scribbled on my dining room table with a green Sharpie*. It seemed as good a time as any to try deleting that directory again. So I did. With identical results. The machine hung for a few minutes and then spontenously rebooted. The total size of the directory is ~100G. It lives on a 1T UFS2+S partition of a 7x200G hardware RAID 5 array, which itself lives in a 16x200G ATA-to-SCSI cabinet. The directory contains millions of tiny files collected by a website harvesting project. Any thoughts as to why this might be happening? :Fuzz -- Jason M. LeonardLinguistic Data Consortium Systems Administrator University of Pennsylvania [EMAIL PROTECTED] 215.573.3959 vx .2175 fx *In all fairness to myself, the surface of my dining room table does resemble markerboard. And Sharpies do resemble dry erase markers. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD as dial up server...
On Saturday 20 December 2003 02:57, Drew Robertson wrote: Hi, I'm working at getting my FreeBSd 4.8 system to act as a dial up RAS server... At the moment, I have almost everything working... yay! My question to anyone that knows... my FreeBSD system is running SAMBA and is part of a workgroup in my home... Is it possible from a dial up client to view the Network using network neighbourhood?? I read somewhere that as the PPP server is a router, network browsing will not work... is this true? That is true. You'd need at least one server at each subnet. But once I did a ugly hack to make it working: I bimapped broadcast addresses along the subnets. As far as I can remember this worked, but it was just for fun, I never used it. Also prividing a WINS at SAMBA and using that on the ppp link was usefull but that was long ago (WinNT WinCE and Samba 1) -Harry Thanks. _ ninemsn Premium transforms your e-mail with colours, photos and animated text. Click here http://ninemsn.com.au/premium/landing.asp ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Re: How to mount FreeBSD from Debian or any Linux possibly
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 09:16:36PM -0500, Peter Leftwich typed: Ruben de Groot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... currently-running X session. That would allow me to use KDE and Konqueror to browse graphically to the directory /mnt/freebsdpartition ... anyone know how? Not needed. try: `mount -t ufs -o ufstype=44bsd,uid=knoppix /dev/hda2 /mnt/freebsdpartition (that is, if your X session is running as user knoppix.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] mount -t ufs -o ufstype=44bsd,uid=knoppix /dev/hda2 /mnt/fbsd mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda2, or too many mounted file systems Aah, silly me. I really should drink some more coffee before answering. The 'uid=' option I suggested is invalid for ufs partitions (I use it normally on smb shares) Ruben, Your suggested command line returned an error and did not work. Is there a hack where I can edit the /etc/mtab or /etc/fstab files in realtime instead? Not that I know of, but maybe you'll get better answers on a knoppix mailing list. good luck, Ruben -- Peter Leftwich President Founder, Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA http://Www.Video2Video.Com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: i am a new comer totally.
Hi ! Jud, you gave me a big help ! Thank you ! From: Jud To: ???,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: i am a new comer totally. Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 22:24:45 -0500 On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 02:59:30 +, ??? wrote: dear freebsd experts: i am a new comer totally. i have duron 800 computer with 256m sdram, cdrom ,fdd 1.44, usb 1.1 cdrom read and write, agp vga 600x800, 8g seagate medalist 8420 ide hard drive already 3g for dos fat32bit and 5g for free bsd which is my young brother taught me. also i have p3-733 cpu with the same configuration as above. i have 4.8,4.9 also 5.1 bsd cdrom version. my question is -1- which version is the best for new comer ? I think 4.9 would suit you well at this point. -2-someone would like to teach me one step by one step ? -3-how many documents or handbook should i or must i read ? The Handbook is online and is an excellent step-by-step guide: URL: DIV http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.htm l After you have read the portions that are relevant to what you want to do, you may wish to ask specific questions on this list. Good luck! I hope you enjoy FreeBSD. Jud ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ [1]MSN References 1. http://g.msn.com/8HMATWTW/2752??PS= ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bad root shell
An error in a pw* script inserted a non-existent shell into the password database, effectively locking out root. I used a fixit disk to correct the problem, using this procedure: 1. mount boot drive to /mnt 2. provide myself with a working mkdb and vi (for chpass): # mkdir /usr/sbin /usr/bin # ln -s /mnt/usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb # ln -s /mnt/usr/bin/vi /usr/bin/vi 3. link pwd.db, spwd.db, group, passwd, master.passwd, ex: # rm /etc/group /etc/spwd.db # for i in `ls /mnt/etc/` ; do ln -s /mnt/etc/$i /etc/$i ; done 4. run mkdb # /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb master.passwd 5. Using chpass to change root's shell from `badshell' to csh # chpass root :s/badshell/\/bin\/csh/ All of this appears to do work without errors: # pw usershow -u root root:*:0:0::0:0:Charlie :/root:/bin/csh However, when I log in as root, I am still locked out with the message: $ su Password: badshell: No such file or directory I am still stupid. I am still locked out. /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd no longer show the badshell. My configuration appears to be deeply broken. Why does my procedure fail? Mark -- Mark McConnell - Portland, OR Technical Imaging Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] 503-546-0517 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 503-257-7591 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Troubleshooting a Freeze
Are there any general or specific tips on how to figure out what is causing FreeBSD to just freeze up? The machine is not at my physical location, and I log in using ssh. I've checked all the logs in /var/log for some kind of clue, but I haven't found anything helpful. The machine has worked fine for over 6 months, until the last few days it freezes up at apparently random times, normally within the first 12 hours of being up. While many ports have been added over the past 6 months, nothing was added on or around the time I started experiencing the problem. I guess I was wondering what some first steps people would take to troubleshoot an unexplained system hang. Some details: FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0: Thu Apr 3 10:53:38 GMT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ (1541.22-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = AuthenticAMD Id = 0x662 Stepping = 2 Features=0x383fbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE, MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE AMD Features=0xc048MP,AMIE,DSP,3DNow! real memory = 536805376 (524224K bytes) avail memory = 517066752 (504948K bytes) open ports: ssh, smtp, imaps, pop3s, 8080 (http), https Thanks, Ryan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: runaway CVSup ?
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 02:27:10PM -0800, Toru . wrote: I mistakenly closed my ssh and the process had to stop. It has been running for the last 5 hours. I restarted the process and stopped it again, so that I can copy the output. I don't know how apropriate to do this, but I thought it wold be best if I just show people the message I was getting. It is rather long cut and past, so please forgive me: Thank you for your reply. That's normal, building the modula-3 compiler from scratch takes a long time. Perhaps you really wanted to install the precompiled package instead. Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
your suggestion
Hi Shantoo, No luck with that suggestion, but another one sorted it. mount -t msdos /dev/da0s4 /nountpoint works fine and was able to add the details into /etc/fstab so that the zip can be mounted from the KDE like a CD/DVD. Modifying the /etc/fstsb file also works for the floppy. /dev/da0s4 /mountpoint msdosrw,noauto /dev/fd0 /mountpoint msdosrw,noauto Thanks for the speedy assistance. Charles -Original Message- From: Shantanoo Mahajan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 December 2003 16:31 To: Charles Smyth Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: usb zip +++ Charles Smyth [freebsd] [19-12-03 20:51 -]: | | | Unable to to mount a USB ZIP drive, with any of the mount commands that work | for a floppy. Just keep getting superblock and file errors. | | The drive itself responds to the mount command but won't proceed any | further. | | The ZIP cartridge is formatted as FAT. | | Can't find anything on the BSD site or mailing lists. | | If possible, please let me have a suitable link for this issue, or the | necessary directions. | | | Charles Smyth. # mount_msdos /dev/da0 /mountpoint From dmesg check out at what device USB Zip drive is detected and accordingly change /dev/da0 Shantanoo ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mount iso on filesystem
What am I missing here? I want to mount an iso and make it available... mockbsd# mdconfig -l /dev/vn0 bbc-2.1.iso mockbsd# mount /dev/vn0 /mnt cd9660: /dev/vn0: No such file or directory and there is no vn0 in dev, what am I missing in the Kernel, im running 5.0-Release. Thanks in advance. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: usb zip
Hi, mount -t msdos /dev/da0s4 /nountpoint works fine, thanks, and was able to add the details into /etc/fstab so that the zip can be mounted from the KDE like a CD/DVD. Modifying the /etc/fstsb file also works for the floppy. /dev/da0s4 /mountpoint msdosrw,noauto /dev/fd0 /mountpoint msdosrw,noauto Thanks for the speedy assistance. Charles. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 December 2003 17:47 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: usb zip Hello, I didn't see anyone answer you so I'll try. This is what works for me: First make a directory for the zip. I did: mkdir /mnt/zip (which makes the dir /mnt/zip) Then mount it. I do this by changing to root, then mount -t msdos /dev/da0s4 /mnt/zip then I navigate (command line or graphical) to /mnt/zip and do what needs to be done. I'm not sure if FAT is how my Iomega 250meg usb zip is formated, but I think it is. Give it a try. Art in Memphis 00100111010001110011011101010110111001110110110101101001011000110110 000101110100 In a message dated 12/20/2003 4:54:11 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Message: 5 Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 20:51:34 - From: Charles Smyth [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: usb zip To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Unable to to mount a USB ZIP drive, with any of the mount commands that work for a floppy. Just keep getting superblock and file errors. The drive itself responds to the mount command but won't proceed any further. The ZIP cartridge is formatted as FAT. Can't find anything on the BSD site or mailing lists. If possible, please let me have a suitable link for this issue, or the necessary directions. Charles Smyth. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
problem with pkg_add 'latest' category
Pkg_add uses this default path /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.9-release/Latest/ The 'Latest' directory is an unpublished category and contains all the package versions of the ports collection as an massive list of all 9,600 ports. The names in this list do not match the spelling of the true package names and they look like they are really link files. /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.9-release/ contains all the packages categories and the names in each category are the true spelling of the port names with the version as part of the name, and is really the package version. These also look like link files, but at least the names match the names pointed to by http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html. The FBSD handbook says to use this web page to search the ports collection to find the category and name of the port you want to select for installing, but if you use that name in the pkg_add -rv xxx it is not found. Of course it's not found because pkg_add defaults to 'latest' category which has all different spelling of the names. No wonder people have so much trouble using the package collection when there is no way to find the correct spelling of the name. This is an built in incentive to force users to use the cvsup ports collection and all it's inherent waste of disk space and bandwidth, which the package collection is suppose to correct. Why is the 'latest' category populated with bogus names when the correct names are all ready present in the other categories surrounding it? This is not unique to just one ftp site but to all ftp sites ftp1 - ftp14. The simplest solution is to populate the 'latest' category with the correct spelling of the names, Or better yet get rid of the latest category and change the pkg_add program to default to using /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.9-release/ and change the format of the pkg_add command to pkg_add -r /catorgy/full.port.name. Before I submit bug report, I want to get users comments on this subject in case I have missed something in my research. Thanks Joe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
spamassassin
I've been trying to setup spamassassin on my freebsd box with postfix. I was reading the other thread about spamassassin. What i couldn't figure out, was how it got the mail from the mail system. I looked at spamd but it didn't look like the program. I googled and still couldn't find a good tutorial. If someone knows of a good tutorial and could give me a quick explaination, i'd be greatful. Oh, I am running 5.1-RELEASE. thanx please CC me if you can --- doug reynolds | the maverick | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mount iso on filesystem
I gave up too soon!!! sorry to waste your bandwidth! mockbsd# mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /bbc-2.1.iso -u 4 mockbsd# mount /dev/md4 /mnt mount: /dev/md4 on /mnt: incorrect super block mockbsd# mount -t cd9660 /dev/md4 /mnt mockbsd# cd /mnt mockbsd# ls CREDITS bbc.css docopen.exe mnt TRANS.TBL boot.cataloglnx.img putty archivers cloop.o lnxbbc.htm rawrite autorun.inf dev logo.pngsingularity mockbsd# On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Ron Sweeney wrote: What am I missing here? I want to mount an iso and make it available... mockbsd# mdconfig -l /dev/vn0 bbc-2.1.iso mockbsd# mount /dev/vn0 /mnt cd9660: /dev/vn0: No such file or directory and there is no vn0 in dev, what am I missing in the Kernel, im running 5.0-Release. Thanks in advance. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backup drive bootabel
To deal with a standard MBR, you have to use fdisk(8). Try: # fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr -i da1 This will walk you through the current settings interactively, letting you generate a slice table, change the active slice and rewrite the boot code. Of course, just to confuse you, fdisk(8) will talk all about partitions, but be assured it actually means slices in *BSD speak. (partitions are generated within each slice using disklabel(8) which is a BSD specific thing. slices are generic for practically all OSes that can run on the IA32 architecture from DOS onwards.) OKay Matthew, I am still a little inclear here. do I need to chnage what BIOS thinks. this is the first interactive prompt that I receive when running the fdisk command: so I said no: snip --- # fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr -i da fdisk: cannot open disk /dev/da: No such file or directory typhoon# fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr -i da1 *** Working on device /dev/da1 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=8924 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=8924 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Do you want to change our idea of what BIOS thinks ? [n] --- snip then do I say yes here? -- snip --- Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 143363997 (70001 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 Do you want to change it? [n] --- snip and no to the rest of the partitions/slices prompts? Thanks in advance, Noah the disk is a little bit of a different size with different partition sizes. woudl that Make a difference. what esle can I check here? The disk geometry won't make any difference to the boot block. fdisk(8) will read in the current partition table and give you the opportunity to modify things, but don't do that unless you really do intend to wipe the disk contents. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem with pkg_add 'latest' category
On Saturday 20 December 2003 09:34 am, fbsd_user wrote: Pkg_add uses this default path /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.9-release/Latest/ The 'Latest' directory is an unpublished category and contains all the package versions of the ports collection as an massive list of all 9,600 ports. The names in this list do not match the spelling of the true package names and they look like they are really link files. /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.9-release/ I have long held the belief that this is equivalent to running a release and ignoring security updates or bug fixes. Your comment got me looking at the options. I am not sure what is correct but I think you should be specifying PACKAGESITE and pointing to something like ftp://ftp10.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packages/All You don't have to build the packages but if you don't cvsup ports-all, you don't have the latest environment either and is equivalent to running a release with all of the risks. Kent contains all the packages categories and the names in each category are the true spelling of the port names with the version as part of the name, and is really the package version. These also look like link files, but at least the names match the names pointed to by http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html. The FBSD handbook says to use this web page to search the ports collection to find the category and name of the port you want to select for installing, but if you use that name in the pkg_add -rv xxx it is not found. Of course it's not found because pkg_add defaults to 'latest' category which has all different spelling of the names. No wonder people have so much trouble using the package collection when there is no way to find the correct spelling of the name. This is an built in incentive to force users to use the cvsup ports collection and all it's inherent waste of disk space and bandwidth, which the package collection is suppose to correct. Why is the 'latest' category populated with bogus names when the correct names are all ready present in the other categories surrounding it? This is not unique to just one ftp site but to all ftp sites ftp1 - ftp14. The simplest solution is to populate the 'latest' category with the correct spelling of the names, Or better yet get rid of the latest category and change the pkg_add program to default to using /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4.9-release/ and change the format of the pkg_add command to pkg_add -r /catorgy/full.port.name. Before I submit bug report, I want to get users comments on this subject in case I have missed something in my research. Thanks Joe ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: why do I need sendmail
One thing to note in Matthew's reply: that. However, automatic e-mails from your system -- usually from the periodic(8) scripts -- do require sendmail(8) or equivalent. Two words at the end, or equivalent. You can run Courier, Exim, Mini Sendmail, Nullmailer, Postfix, Qmail, ZMailer, so on and so forth. All have advantages and disadvantages. Personally, I use Postfix, but that is because for my needs it is better. If you have trouble reducing sendmail down to your needs, look at the documentation on the others. One of them might suit you better. Your mileage may vary, so on and so forth. --Eric ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: backup drive bootabel
To deal with a standard MBR, you have to use fdisk(8). Try: # fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr -i da1 This will walk you through the current settings interactively, letting you generate a slice table, change the active slice and rewrite the boot code. Of course, just to confuse you, fdisk(8) will talk all about partitions, but be assured it actually means slices in *BSD speak. (partitions are generated within each slice using disklabel(8) which is a BSD specific thing. slices are generic for practically all OSes that can run on the IA32 architecture from DOS onwards.) Matthew, okay I think I see what fdisk is wanting. I wanted to run it by you before i did anything: here is the prompts I filles out. some prompts do have anything appear there i just hit return for the default value. Do I need to change the active partition back to anything after running the fdisk Program? I still want to boot from /dev/da0 for the time being. I just want /dev/da1 drive ready for booting if /dev/da0 fails. Am I on the proper course here? --- snip --- # fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr -i da1 *** Working on device /dev/da1 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=8924 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=8924 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Do you want to change our idea of what BIOS thinks ? [n] Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 143363997 (70001 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 Do you want to change it? [n] The data for partition 2 is: UNUSED Do you want to change it? [n] The data for partition 3 is: UNUSED Do you want to change it? [n] The data for partition 4 is: UNUSED Do you want to change it? [n] Partition 1 is marked active Do you want to change the active partition? [n] y Supply a decimal value for active partition [1] Are you happy with this choice [n] y Do you want to change the boot code? [n] y We haven't changed the partition table yet. This is your last chance. parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=8924 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=8924 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Information from DOS bootblock is: 1: sysid 165,(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 143363997 (70001 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 2: UNUSED 3: UNUSED 4: UNUSED Should we write new partition table? [n] y --- snip --- Happy Holidays, - noah ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IDE to CF issue
I have been trying to get FreeBSD onto a CF, and had an assortment of issues. I now have a version of FreeBSD 5.X CURRENT that is compiled and configured in the way I want by some people that are doing the same thing I am. They use dd to flush this archive to a cf that is installed as an IDE drive, so I tried to do the same thing. The test system I am using to write this has two hard drives, but not hooked up at the same time. One is 5.1, the other is 4.9 I get the following message with 5.1: dd: /dev/ad2: Input/output error 1+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.003308 secs (0 bytes/sec) So in case it was something odd, I went to the 4.9 and get this: dd: /dev/ad2: Input/output error Next I did tail /var/log/messages Dec 19 14:47:01 wanker /kernel: ad2: hard error reading fsbn 0 (ad2 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0) status=51 error=05 Dec 19 14:47:01 wanker /kernel: ad2: reading primary partition table: error reading fsbn 0 (error repeats several times) Most the posts I have seen with hard error reading fsbn 0 relate to the PIO mode, which is absolutely no help. Anyone have an idea where to start? I don't know if it will help in any way, but it may be a start. Last time I tried to do a clone of one of our mail servers, I got an error very similar. We rectified the problem by putting a proper 80 conductor/40 pin cable to the hard disk, which replaced the standard 40 pin cable. If you indeed have a UDMA capable board, I'd at least give this an option. Steve --Eric ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Boot up problem
Hi. I need some help. Today, i accidently forgot to eject the freebsd cd from my drive and it ended up booting up to the installation menu. I exited the installation menu without doing anything. WHen i booted up again, all I got was a GRUB message and then my comptuer stopped booting. Is there anyway to fix this? Off hand, I would say your grub boot loader is misconfigured. This is a guess since I do not use grub. A quick search found the following sites: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/ http://geodsoft.com/howto/dualboot/grub.htm I would take a look there and see what you find. --Eric ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
compile of ucd-snmpd
im trying to install snmpd on my freebsd machine... it successfully gets through ./configure but fails on the make with the following error scapi.c: In function `sc_encrypt': scapi.c:612: incompatible type for argument 1 of `memset' scapi.c: In function `sc_decrypt': scapi.c:725: incompatible type for argument 1 of `memset' *** Error code 1 Stop in /user3/mrb/ucd-snmp-4.2.6/snmplib. *** Error code 1 this is FBSD 4.9rc1 thanx for any help in advance -- brent ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: why do I need sendmail
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 12:15:49 -0800 Cybertime Hostmaster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing to note in Matthew's reply: that. However, automatic e-mails from your system -- usually from the periodic(8) scripts -- do require sendmail(8) or equivalent. Two words at the end, or equivalent. You can run Courier, Exim, Mini Sendmail, Nullmailer, Postfix, Qmail, ZMailer, so on and so forth. All have advantages and disadvantages. Personally, I use Postfix, but that is because for my needs it is better. If you have trouble reducing sendmail down to your needs, look at the documentation on the others. One of them might suit you better. Your mileage may vary, so on and so forth. FWIW, you can also cause periodic(8) to log to a file instead of sending mail, by adding lines like the following to /etc/periodic.conf: daily_output=/var/log/dialy.log weekly_output=/var/log/weekly.log monthly_output=/var/log/monthly.log Not sure if this eliminates the need for a local mailer, but it's sure to be the first step down that road. I can't think of anything else that sends automated e-mails, offhand, but whatever does can probably be configured to write its output to a file instead, in a similar way. -Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bad root shell
On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 12:44, Mark McConnell wrote: An error in a pw* script inserted a non-existent shell into the password database, effectively locking out root. I used a fixit disk to correct the problem, using this procedure: 1. mount boot drive to /mnt 2. provide myself with a working mkdb and vi (for chpass): # mkdir /usr/sbin /usr/bin # ln -s /mnt/usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb # ln -s /mnt/usr/bin/vi /usr/bin/vi 3. link pwd.db, spwd.db, group, passwd, master.passwd, ex: # rm /etc/group /etc/spwd.db # for i in `ls /mnt/etc/` ; do ln -s /mnt/etc/$i /etc/$i ; done 4. run mkdb # /usr/sbin/pwd_mkdb master.passwd 5. Using chpass to change root's shell from `badshell' to csh # chpass root :s/badshell/\/bin\/csh/ All of this appears to do work without errors: # pw usershow -u root root:*:0:0::0:0:Charlie :/root:/bin/csh However, when I log in as root, I am still locked out with the message: $ su Password: badshell: No such file or directory I am still stupid. I am still locked out. /etc/passwd and /etc/master.passwd no longer show the badshell. My configuration appears to be deeply broken. Why does my procedure fail? Just a thought, does /bin/csh live in /etc/shells? Is csh actually in the /bin directory? Is it executable? Perhaps try using /bin/sh for your shell. Steve Mark -- Mark McConnell - Portland, OR Technical Imaging Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] 503-546-0517 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 503-257-7591 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: spamassassin
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Doug Reynolds wrote: I've been trying to setup spamassassin on my freebsd box with postfix. I was reading the other thread about spamassassin. What i couldn't figure out, was how it got the mail from the mail system. I looked at spamd but it didn't look like the program. I googled and still couldn't find a good tutorial. If someone knows of a good tutorial and could give me a quick explaination, i'd be greatful. Oh, I am running 5.1-RELEASE. thanx Have you looked at ports/mail/spamass-milter? $.02, /Mikko ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mail in a Jail
Hi, I run my web sites from a jail. The time has come that i now need to send an email from one of those sites using the mail() function in php. I would like to know, what files do i need to be able to send mail from the jail using the mail command. The box is using sendmail as its mta, and is running 4.9 release. Thanks. Ian ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sendmail in a jail
Hi, I run my web sites from a jail. The time has come that i now need to send an email from one of those sites using the mail() function in php. I would like to know, what files do i need to be able to send mail from the jail using the mail command. The box is using sendmail as its mta, and is running 4.9 release. Thanks. Ian ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Different versions of ports...
John Wilson wrote: Hi folks, I've recently started playing around with X and various desktop managers. There is one point that seems a little troublesome however... after recently browsing about the installed ports/packages on my system, it appears that different programs require different versions of one particular package. Here is one such instance: glib-1.2.10_10 = up-to-date with port glib-2.2.3 = up-to-date with port Is this going to cause any trouble at some later point? If so, what would be the best way to remove the earlier version and be sure that only the newest version remains? Thank you for your help, John W. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have the same on my system- glib looks to be a C library of utilities, I'm not familar enough with freebsds various package tools to generate a list of forward/backward dependencies on it, but perusing /var/db/pkg/glib-version/+CONTENTS looks like 'pkgconfig' is the only dependency for the earlier version, while Perl, gettext, the iconv library and a few others are dependent on the newer version (unless I'm reading the file deps backwards..). Both packages install in mutually exclusive directories (with versions built into dir names), so it shouldn't be a problem... Scott ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I have a USB device that generates errors at boot start. I don't care to get the device working, but the machine won't boot unless the device is plugged in (yes, I've tried various settings for ACPI, APM, etc, etc - it is a quirk of some sort). Is there a way to tell the USB subsystem to 'ignore' a device on the bus based on id/name/etc.? Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5.2-rc1 Install
Hi, I'm trying to install a 5.2 system and have had a lot of trouble: - The disk images won't boot on my Adaptec 2940UW controller with the latest Firmware. I have to make an image by myself with mkisofs and cdrecord. After this all boots well. - My installation isn't runable, cause the kernel don't find the rootfs - Disk configuration: - ad0 (s1: FreeBSD-4.0) - da0 (s1: FAT32, W98) - da1 (s1: FBSD-5.2) - da2 (s1: FAT32) I install on da1 without any problems. After the reboot all the disks are found by GEOM. However the kernel only finds da0s1a da1 ad0s1a as a rootfs, da1s1a is missing. The disk numeration is the same as during the install. Cause I have no access to ufs2 I'm not able to have a look into it from the running 4.9 system. The disklabel seems to bo o.k.: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ 142646 : disklabel da1s1 # /dev/da1s1c: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 419430404.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 # (Cyl.0 - 261*) b: 1073152 6291456 swap# (Cyl. 391*- 458*) c: 177678270unused0 0 # (Cyl.0 - 1105*) d: 1048576 41943044.2BSD 2048 16384 8 # (Cyl. 261*- 326*) e: 1048576 52428804.2BSD 2048 16384 8 # (Cyl. 326*- 391*) f: 10403219 73646084.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 # (Cyl. 458*- 1105*) super block size 0 Any ideas? Best regards Lars -- Lars Köller E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FreeBSD, was sonst? http://www.de.freebsd.org ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Vinum error Can't initialize drive a: Invalid argument
Citeren Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Computer output wrapped. On Friday, 19 December 2003 at 17:34:20 +0100, Marc Smits wrote: Hello, I am running FreeBSD-4.7-realease and want to create a striped plex from 2 new 80Gb disks. Here's my vinum-description: drive a device /dev/ad2s1e drive b device /dev/ad3s1e volume stripe0 plex org striped 256k sd length 78159m drive a sd length 78159m drive b When I run 'vinum create vinum.conf' The message I get is: 1: drive a device /dev/ad2s1e ** 1 Can't initialize drive a: Invalid argument 2: drive b device /dev/ad3s1e ** 2 Can't initialize drive b: Invalid argument 0 drives: 1 volumes: V stripe0 State: down Plexes: 1 Size: 152GB 1 plexes: P stripe0.p0 S State: faulty Subdisks: 2 Size: 152GB 2 subdisks: S stripe0.p0.s0 State: crashed PO:0 B Size: 76GB S stripe0.p0.s1 State: crashed PO: 256 kB Size: 76GB I used sysinstall to fdisk and label the partitions. How? IIRC sysinstall won't create a Vinum partition for you. You need to use disklabel, as described in the man page. What do need to do diffrent to get vinum to use the partitions? That depends on exactly what you've done, but I think it's what I said above. Greg -- Dear Greg, Thanks a lot for the suggestion. It took me a while to dig through the man page, but I finally got around it. For anyone who's interested (I can imagine more people run in to this), here's the solution: *1* Create a partition using sysinstall's fdisk and disklabel utilities. *2* Use 'disklabel -r ad1' to print that info to a file eg: ttyp5 13:30 #blah# [/rootdisklabel -r ad1 disklabel.ad1 # /dev/ad1c: type: ESDI disk: ad1s1 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 1244 sectors/unit: 2862 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 28620unused0 0 # (Cyl.0 - 1244*) e: 286204.2BSD 2048 1638489 # (Cyl.0 - 1244*) *3* Edit the textfile with above info. change line with the 'e' partition: h: 28620vinum # (Cyl.0 - 1244*) *4* Use 'disklabel -R ad1 /root/disklabel.ad1' to write the new disklabel ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installing XFree86 4.3
Hi when executing XFree86 -xf86config XF86Config.new, two errors displayed: (EE) Unable to locate/open config file: XFConfig.new (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile() Fatal server error: no screens found Where should be XFConfig.new located? regards ignacio león ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
postfix and squirrelmail
Hello, I've been searching for a site that gives instructions for setting up postfix and squirrelmail. So far i've been unsuccessful in finding anything that doesn't involve a database, i want to use ssl encryption and authenticate via the system password file. Does anyone know a site for this? Thanks. Dave. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing XFree86 4.3
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 15:37:46 +0100 Ignacio León [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi when executing XFree86 -xf86config XF86Config.new, two errors displayed: (EE) Unable to locate/open config file: XFConfig.new (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile() Fatal server error: no screens found Where should be XFConfig.new located probably /root -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IDE to CF issue
On Dec 19, 2003, at 5:00 PM, Cybertime Hostmaster wrote: I have been trying to get FreeBSD onto a CF, and had an assortment of issues. [...] Anyone have an idea where to start? Others have been slow to respond so I'll kick in altho its been 9 months since I've done what you are attempting, and then it was 4.8 or 4.7, not 5.1. I wrote my CFs using a USB-to-CF adapter. That might make a difference. disklabel(8) has morphed into bsdlabel(8) with 5.x. The CF was then used as the primary storage device for running FreeBSD on a Soekris NET4501 SBC. There are some CF memory cards which do not support multi block transfers. There is a way around this problem that I think you could find in the mail archives at http://www.soekris.com/. Also pretty sure you'll find more FreeBSD people using CF media there than here. For starters I'd triple check to make sure /dev/ad2 is the correct device for your interface. Just because your friends use ad2 doesn't mean its right for you. IIRC ad8 is a likely candidate. Don't remember this was the name used in 4.x but in 5.x usbdevs(8) should list your CF card if its connected via USB. Also if using usb you need usbd(8) running. Next, /dev/ad2c should be the entire media surface partition. Is my impression that if a BSD label is not on the media most device drivers fake a partition table. The scripts I wrote (which I don't have access to) for a former employer nuked the first 32k or 64k of a CF card with /dev/null then used disklabel to create new paying careful attention to make sure I changed both on-media and in-core labels. Most CF cards have a FAT filesystem and partition table on them to start with. Brief experiments converting my script to work with bsdlabel(8) failed. Wasn't being paid to do 5.x so I didn't pursue it further. Know you are saying that you have a filesystem image that you are trying to lay on a CF card. That works OK as long as all of your CF cards are identical and from the same batch. Two CF cards of same model, size, and manufacturer are not necessarily the same inside. If you can create your own disk/bsd label on the media, then newfs(8) it, then you will be 90% done. We were placing about 40MB of data on 256MB cards. I found it much faster to script disklabel(8) and newfs(8) then tar(1) or restore(8) our content than to block copy filesystem images. The first wrote little more than 40MB, the other had to write 256MB. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
please guide me
hi i have problem.i recently working working with gnome at freebsd 5.0. when i write startx command i occure with this message : couldnot open mixer device /dev/sound/mixer. my sound card is onboard AC97 PLEASE GUIDE ME siavash mahjoob [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: spamassassin
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 09:38:50AM -0500, Doug Reynolds wrote: I've been trying to setup spamassassin on my freebsd box with postfix. I was reading the other thread about spamassassin. What i couldn't figure out, was how it got the mail from the mail system. I looked at spamd but it didn't look like the program. I googled and still couldn't find a good tutorial. If someone knows of a good tutorial and could give me a quick explaination, i'd be greatful. Oh, I am running 5.1-RELEASE. thanx You might look at 'amavisd-new' in the ports tree. It's a good way of running spamassassin with postfix. It has install instructions. - Rob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to Upgrade OpenLDAP
I went to the port directory net/openldap21-client/ to install openldap-client-2.1.23 and could only find a Makefile. Do I just install the server? I didn't see one in my list of ports with the previous openldap-client-2.0.27. Thanks, Bob -- FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p13 0# ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Portupgrade Stale Dependency Issue
Just ran pkgdb -F per prompt from the portversion program and got the following two messages: Stale origin: 'textproc/ruby-rdoc': perhaps moved or obsoleted. - The port 'textproc/ruby-rdoc' was removed on 2003-12-15 because: integrated into ruby18 and ruby16-shim-ruby18 - Hint: ruby-rdoc-0.9.0 is not required by any other package - Hint: checking for overwritten files... - No files installed by ruby-rdoc-0.9.0 have been overwritten by other packages. Deinstall ruby-rdoc-0.9.0 ? [no] Appears as though I'm being told that ruby-rdoc-0.9.0 can be removed, yet the default selection re deinstall is no. Am I missing something? Second: Stale dependency: gnome2-2.4.1 - openldap-client-2.1.23 (net/openldap21-client): openldap-client-2.0.27 (score:76%) ? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [no] I click the default selection no and I'm prompted to input a new dependency. Assuming that I need to install openldap-client-2.1.23, I review the net/openldap21-client port directory and I only find a Makefile. If someone can explain what the program is asking, I may be in a better position to respond appropriately. Thanks very much, Bob -- FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p13 0# ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Fwd: Portupgrade Stale Dependency Issue]
You may disregard this message. It was written much earlier in the day but for some reason is just appearing in the mailing list. I thought the message was withheld and prepared another. Bob Original Message Subject:Portupgrade Stale Dependency Issue Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 12:38:55 -0500 From: Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD-Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just ran pkgdb -F per prompt from the portversion program and got the following two messages: Stale origin: 'textproc/ruby-rdoc': perhaps moved or obsoleted. - The port 'textproc/ruby-rdoc' was removed on 2003-12-15 because: integrated into ruby18 and ruby16-shim-ruby18 - Hint: ruby-rdoc-0.9.0 is not required by any other package - Hint: checking for overwritten files... - No files installed by ruby-rdoc-0.9.0 have been overwritten by other packages. Deinstall ruby-rdoc-0.9.0 ? [no] Appears as though I'm being told that ruby-rdoc-0.9.0 can be removed, yet the default selection re deinstall is no. Am I missing something? Second: Stale dependency: gnome2-2.4.1 - openldap-client-2.1.23 (net/openldap21-client): openldap-client-2.0.27 (score:76%) ? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [no] I click the default selection no and I'm prompted to input a new dependency. Assuming that I need to install openldap-client-2.1.23, I review the net/openldap21-client port directory and I only find a Makefile. If someone can explain what the program is asking, I may be in a better position to respond appropriately. Thanks very much, Bob -- FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p13 0# ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p13 0# ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Fwd: Portupgrade Stale Dependency Issue]
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 18:32:34 -0500 Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just ran pkgdb -F per prompt from the portversion program and got the following two messages: Stale origin: 'textproc/ruby-rdoc': perhaps moved or obsoleted. - The port 'textproc/ruby-rdoc' was removed on 2003-12-15 because: integrated into ruby18 and ruby16-shim-ruby18 - Hint: ruby-rdoc-0.9.0 is not required by any other package - Hint: checking for overwritten files... - No files installed by ruby-rdoc-0.9.0 have been overwritten by other packages. Deinstall ruby-rdoc-0.9.0 ? [no] Appears as though I'm being told that ruby-rdoc-0.9.0 can be removed, yet the default selection re deinstall is no. Am I missing something? As the hint says, you can deintsall it. After you're done with pkgdf -F do a portupgrade -r on ruby18 or ruby16-shim-ruby18, which ever you have. Second: Stale dependency: gnome2-2.4.1 - openldap-client-2.1.23 (net/openldap21-client): openldap-client-2.0.27 (score:76%) ? ([y]es/[n]o/[a]ll) [no] It seems that you had down-graded your open-ldap. You now have installed openladap 2.0.27 on you system, but when you've installed gmnome you had 2.1.13; you can either choose: a) yes (or all) and doing so will point gnome (or all) to depend on openldap-client-2.0.27 or b) no, terminate pkgbd and do a portupgrade on openldap-client to bring it back to 2.1.xx Choose what you need (if you have something that requires 2.0 do a if not do b.) I click the default selection no and I'm prompted to input a new dependency. Assuming that I need to install openldap-client-2.1.23, I review the net/openldap21-client port directory and I only find a Makefile. And ? That make file sets CLIENT_ONLY=yes and includes the ../openldap21-server's Makefile so all is OK. Looking at the places where CLINET_ONLY appears in the Make file tells that You can define to have or not the docs installed and to have WITH_SASL with (Cyrus) SASL2 support. If someone can explain what the program is asking, I may be in a better position to respond appropriately. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
linking kernelasr.o: In function `asr_attach': asr.o(.text+0x21d5): undefined reference to `osrelease' asr.o: In function `asr_ioctl': asr.o(.text+0x37d0): undefined reference to `osrelease' asr.o(.text+0x37da): undefined reference to `osrelease' iir_ctrl.o: In function `iir_ioctl': iir_ctrl.o(.text+0x212): undefined reference to `osrelease' iir_ctrl.o(.text+0x21d): undefined reference to `osrelease' iir_ctrl.o(.text+0x225): more undefined references to `osrelease' followiir_ctrl.o: In function `iir_ioctl': iir_ctrl.o(.text+0x257): undefined reference to `ostype' imgact_elf.o: In function `elf_corehdr': imgact_elf.o(.text+0xfac): undefined reference to `osreldate' kern_mib.o(.data+0x310): undefined reference to `osrelease' kern_mib.o(.data+0x390): undefined reference to `version' kern_mib.o(.data+0x3d0): undefined reference to `ostype' kern_mib.o(.data+0x410): undefined reference to `osreldate' kern_sysctl.o: In function `ogetkerninfo': kern_sysctl.o(.text+0x160c): undefined reference to `ostype' kern_sysctl.o(.text+0x1638): undefined reference to `osrelease' kern_xxx.o: In function `uname': kern_xxx.o(.text+0x1b9): undefined reference to `version' kern_xxx.o(.text+0x1c2): undefined reference to `version' undefined reference to `osrelease'
Hello freebsd-questions, During a make installworld for 4.9 stable, the system froze half-way though the /bin directory (leaving /bin/date with zero bytes). On reboot, among other problems, make installworld was hosed. I reverted to the 4.8 CD install and tried to bring the system back up to date. World completed, but kernel compile bombs on make all with: linking kernel asr.o: In function `asr_attach': asr.o(.text+0x21d5): undefined reference to `osrelease' asr.o: In function `asr_ioctl': asr.o(.text+0x37d0): undefined reference to `osrelease' asr.o(.text+0x37da): undefined reference to `osrelease' iir_ctrl.o: In function `iir_ioctl': iir_ctrl.o(.text+0x212): undefined reference to `osrelease' iir_ctrl.o(.text+0x21d): undefined reference to `osrelease' iir_ctrl.o(.text+0x225): more undefined references to `osrelease' follow iir_ctrl.o: In function `iir_ioctl': iir_ctrl.o(.text+0x257): undefined reference to `ostype' imgact_elf.o: In function `elf_corehdr': imgact_elf.o(.text+0xfac): undefined reference to `osreldate' kern_mib.o(.data+0x310): undefined reference to `osrelease' kern_mib.o(.data+0x390): undefined reference to `version' kern_mib.o(.data+0x3d0): undefined reference to `ostype' kern_mib.o(.data+0x410): undefined reference to `osreldate' kern_sysctl.o: In function `ogetkerninfo': kern_sysctl.o(.text+0x160c): undefined reference to `ostype' kern_sysctl.o(.text+0x1638): undefined reference to `osrelease' kern_xxx.o: In function `uname': kern_xxx.o(.text+0x1b9): undefined reference to `version' kern_xxx.o(.text+0x1c2): undefined reference to `version' kern_xxx.o(.text+0x1cb): undefined reference to `version' machdep.o: In function `cpu_startup': machdep.o(.text+0x140): undefined reference to `version' *** Error code 1 Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks! -- Best regards, bmiller mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: please guide me
i have problem.i recently working working with gnome at freebsd 5.0. when i write startx command i occure with this message : couldnot open mixer device /dev/sound/mixer. my sound card is onboard AC97 Is your sound card recognized by the kernel: To test it, have a look at the output of % dmesg | grep pcm If that yields nothing, you have load the pcm module: # kldload pcm If that didn't work, you will have to tell us more about your chipset. Otherwise, you can now test your mixer device on the command line before trying Gnome again: % mixer prints your current volume settings. Simon signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Troubleshooting a Freeze
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 12:30:22PM -0500, Ryan Sandridge wrote: Are there any general or specific tips on how to figure out what is causing FreeBSD to just freeze up? The machine is not at my physical location, and I log in using ssh. I've checked all the logs in /var/log for some kind of clue, but I haven't found anything helpful. The machine has worked fine for over 6 months, until the last few days it freezes up at apparently random times, normally within the first 12 hours of being up. While many ports have been added over the past 6 months, nothing was added on or around the time I started experiencing the problem. Sounds hardware-ish to me. Thermal cut out? Fans going awol? Power supply going flakey? Try using the sysutils/xmbmon port to monitor fan speed, CPU and motherboard temperature, PSU voltages. (Works well if you hook it into rrdtool or mrtg to produce graphs against time). Get the NOC people to check that the machine is getting an unobstructed flow of cooling air and that filters are not clogged by dust. While they're there make sure there isn't anything printed out to the system console when the system goes down. If that's all OK, try running a few cycles of memtest86 (http://www.memtest86.com) to see if it can turn up any anomalies. Failing finding any memory problems, then try enabling crash dumps by setting eg: dumpdir=/dev/da0s1b in /etc/rc.conf (Nb. requires that your swap partition contains slightly more space than the amount of RAM in you machine). Compile a kernel with debugging symbols. When the machine conks out again, see if you can get a core image. Use gdb to try and get a traceback showing what went wrong. If that doesn't give you any clues as to how you can fix things, submit a PR with the traceback information and anything else pertinent, and see if any of the developers have any suggestions. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html explains all about kernel crash dumps. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: backup drive bootabel
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 12:11:24PM -0800, Noah wrote: okay I think I see what fdisk is wanting. I wanted to run it by you before i did anything: here is the prompts I filles out. some prompts do have anything appear there i just hit return for the default value. Do I need to change the active partition back to anything after running the fdisk Program? I still want to boot from /dev/da0 for the time being. I just want /dev/da1 drive ready for booting if /dev/da0 fails. Am I on the proper course here? Looks OK to me -- you have got backups of anything important on that disk haven't you? This sort of operation has a high risk of trashing the drive contents if you don't get things quite right. Yes, you'll need to set the slice (da1s1) bootable if you want this as an alternate boot device. That shouldn't affect the default auto boot process performed by the boot loader, unless you interrupt the boot process and change the device selection there manually. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
rsync and unattended ssh syncing 2 machines
ive been trying to get rsync to work with unattended SSH and syncing of
file systems
between 2 machines running FBSD 4.9RC. I have rsync installed and i run a
script like
#!/bin/sh
remote=192.168.25.12
fslist=/var/mail /var/db/mysql /usr/local/www/data /user2
for fs in $fslist ;
do
/usr/local/bin/rsync -avz --delete ${remote}:${fs}/ ${fs}/
done
but when i tail the logs of the remote machine i see..
Dec 20 19:23:26 doppleganger sshd[24493]: Failed password for root from
192.168.25.1 port 4476
Anyone have any good luck with doing this ? suggestions ?? any all all
help is greatly appreciated
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Re: rsync and unattended ssh syncing 2 machines
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 07:56:58PM -0500, Brent Bailey wrote:
ive been trying to get rsync to work with unattended SSH and syncing of
file systems
between 2 machines running FBSD 4.9RC. I have rsync installed and i run a
script like
#!/bin/sh
remote=192.168.25.12
fslist=/var/mail /var/db/mysql /usr/local/www/data /user2
for fs in $fslist ;
do
/usr/local/bin/rsync -avz --delete ${remote}:${fs}/ ${fs}/
done
but when i tail the logs of the remote machine i see..
Dec 20 19:23:26 doppleganger sshd[24493]: Failed password for root from
192.168.25.1 port 4476
By default, root login is denied. In /etc/ssh/sshd_config, you would
need to add PermitRootLogin yes.
hth
Gautam
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A utility to verify if an harddisk isworking?
I have a few harddisks, they sit in a vinum RAID-5 array, and I have huge trouble on some of them. Due to lack of vinum support I started to fipple around myself, ending up in a situation where I would like to verify each harddisk to see if it's working. Is there such a utility available? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rsync and unattended ssh between 2 machines
ive been trying to get rsync to work with unattended SSH and syncing of
file systems
between 2 machines running FBSD 4.9RC. I have rsync installed and i run a
script like
#!/bin/sh
remote=192.168.25.12
fslist=/var/mail /var/db/mysql /usr/local/www/data /user2
for fs in $fslist ;
do
/usr/local/bin/rsync -avz --delete ${remote}:${fs}/ ${fs}/
done
but when i tail the logs of the remote machine i see..
Dec 20 19:23:26 doppleganger sshd[24493]: Failed password for root from
192.168.25.1 port 4476
Anyone have any good luck with doing this ? suggestions ?? any all all
help is greatly appreciated
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Re: FreeBSD as dial up server...
Thanks for your help. Would you happen to know if setting up the FreeBSD box as a DNS server would allow network browsing over the PPP link??? I have no idea how to bimap a broadcast address along subnets!!! But that is something I'm gonna have to learn! I only have one subnet, so I'm not sure that'll work in this case. Thanks again. From: Harald Schmalzbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Drew Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FreeBSD as dial up server... Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 12:46:29 +0100 On Saturday 20 December 2003 02:57, Drew Robertson wrote: Hi, I'm working at getting my FreeBSd 4.8 system to act as a dial up RAS server... At the moment, I have almost everything working... yay! My question to anyone that knows... my FreeBSD system is running SAMBA and is part of a workgroup in my home... Is it possible from a dial up client to view the Network using network neighbourhood?? I read somewhere that as the PPP server is a router, network browsing will not work... is this true? That is true. You'd need at least one server at each subnet. But once I did a ugly hack to make it working: I bimapped broadcast addresses along the subnets. As far as I can remember this worked, but it was just for fun, I never used it. Also prividing a WINS at SAMBA and using that on the ppp link was usefull but that was long ago (WinNT WinCE and Samba 1) -Harry Thanks. _ ninemsn Premium transforms your e-mail with colours, photos and animated text. Click here http://ninemsn.com.au/premium/landing.asp ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] attach3 _ Get less junk mail with ninemsn Premium. Click here http://ninemsn.com.au/premium/landing.asp ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Initial install (packages vs. ports)
Just for clarification... The trade off I see with installing from CD vs. doing a minimal install is that when it comes time to upgrade it will cause more issues. By this I mean that if I do a minimal install and then later install from ports it will be more seamless than installing first from packages (like KDE, for example) and then trying to upgrade with ports later. Certainly packages from the CD would be installed quicker than having to build from ports, but at the cost of future upgrades. Is this true, a little off the mark, or way off? Thanks, ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bad root shell
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 09:44:17 -0800, Mark McConnell wrote: An error in a pw* script inserted a non-existent shell into the password database, effectively locking out root. I used a fixit disk to correct the problem, using this procedure: Unless I'm missing something, seems like the long way to do this. Last time I did this to myself, I did the following: 1) Log in as a user who can su to root. 2) Use su -m to su to root without changing your current shell 3) As root, use chpass -s to change your shell to a working one. Of course, this won't work if your only account is root or you don't have anyone else in the wheel group, so maybe it doesn't apply to you. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to Upgrade OpenLDAP
Bob Perry wrote: I went to the port directory net/openldap21-client/ to install openldap-client-2.1.23 and could only find a Makefile. Do I just install the server? I didn't see one in my list of ports with the previous openldap-client-2.0.27. That Makefile references the server port, and defines CLIENT_ONLY=yes Building the client will run the Makefile in server, the overall port, but only with client features. Build server and you should get both, as server depends on client. -- Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD as dial up server...
On Sunday 21 December 2003 03:52, Drew Robertson wrote: Thanks for your help. Would you happen to know if setting up the FreeBSD box as a DNS server would allow network browsing over the PPP link??? No. DNS doesn't help in this situation. But anyhow, DNS is reqired for Samba to act as WINS server which could help. Can't remember exactly if wins itself was enough to enable dial-up browsing. I did the broadcast bimap with ipf (Darren Reeds IPFilter) (like bimap tun0 192.168.1.255/32 - 192.168.0.255/32 for ipnat.conf) -Harry I have no idea how to bimap a broadcast address along subnets!!! But that is something I'm gonna have to learn! I only have one subnet, so I'm not sure that'll work in this case. Thanks again. From: Harald Schmalzbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Drew Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FreeBSD as dial up server... Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 12:46:29 +0100 On Saturday 20 December 2003 02:57, Drew Robertson wrote: Hi, I'm working at getting my FreeBSd 4.8 system to act as a dial up RAS server... At the moment, I have almost everything working... yay! My question to anyone that knows... my FreeBSD system is running SAMBA and is part of a workgroup in my home... Is it possible from a dial up client to view the Network using network neighbourhood?? I read somewhere that as the PPP server is a router, network browsing will not work... is this true? That is true. You'd need at least one server at each subnet. But once I did a ugly hack to make it working: I bimapped broadcast addresses along the subnets. As far as I can remember this worked, but it was just for fun, I never used it. Also prividing a WINS at SAMBA and using that on the ppp link was usefull but that was long ago (WinNT WinCE and Samba 1) -Harry Thanks. _ ninemsn Premium transforms your e-mail with colours, photos and animated text. Click here http://ninemsn.com.au/premium/landing.asp ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] attach3 _ Get less junk mail with ninemsn Premium. Click here http://ninemsn.com.au/premium/landing.asp pgp0.pgp Description: signature
Problems with dual HD's under FreeBSD.
Ok, I admit I've never encountered this issue before, so I'm stumped. Being the cautious type I first installed Freebsd by removing my backup drive and booting that way. That was to prevent myself from acidentily nuking my secondary drive which is my backup/storage drive. Ok, Freebsd install goes great and I'm now ready to add the second HD back in and mount it. One problem. Upon boot it loads the ATA drivers for ata0 and ata1 (primary and secondary IDE controlers) and then it tries to initialize ad0 which it successfully does, but it gets a read error on drive 2 which is ad1. If I run these drives on separate controlers I have zero issues, but when they're together as master/slave, whichever drive is slave refuses to initialize, however the bios sees it fine. I've got it running with the cdrom and drive2 on the secondary IDE and drive1 on the primary IDE. Thing is, they worked fine as master/slave before I reloaded BSD. Interestingly enough, even the boot floppy for installing the OS gives a fit about this. So in short until I unplugged the second drive and switched it from master to single and back to master I didn't have any issues. Since the drives are UFS I can't test this with dos to see if it sees both drives. About all it could test is if it could see the partitions. I admit this isn't really all that bad as the system is working, but I'm worried that having the cdrom connected to the 2nd HD on the same controler will cause it to slow down the 2nd HD. Anyone got any recommendations on how to correct this HD problem? First drive is a 40g WD, second drive is an 80g WD. Both UFS formatted. The 40g drive has the OS on it, the 80g drive is drive2, the backup drive. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
