Re: The journalling file system saga

2004-05-13 Thread Christian Laursen
Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perhaps a document would be in order describing/detailing all the details such > as this about soft updates, all in one place. What I know I have mostly > gathered by reading papers and random mailinglist postings about certain > specifics. Is there

Re: Printing to a network printer?

2004-05-13 Thread Murray Taylor
Hear hear... I have actually upped the ante to LPRng which adds multi printer print queues and more network capability all round and also use the related ifhp filter ... Printing just fine at home from the FreeBSD boxen, and via a SAMBA [printer] share, a Win98 box and a Win2K laptop also print O

test

2004-05-13 Thread Jose M Rodriguez
I'm sorry, but my problems seems to be related only with @freebsd.org. - ¿Any other address under @freebsd.org where make this test? - Maybe someone can send me a trace of any recent mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don´t really know what's happend. ___

Portsdb Update Error

2004-05-13 Thread Kevin Greenidge
The thing is I always have the whole "Chinese" ports collection in my refuse file when I do a cvsup among with a bunch of other stuff so I don't know why this error decides to show itself now. Any help would be appreciated. I am using the following: FreeBSD santacruz 4.9-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 4.9

RE: Move a locked file

2004-05-13 Thread Sunil Sunder Raj
Hi, Just check fstat for teh locked file and kill the process which is holding it. Regards SSR From: Michael Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Move a locked file Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 09:09:30 -0700 Hi All: I have a multi-boot 3 unix box I'm toying with. I was

Re: USB not fashion

2004-05-13 Thread Arek Czereszewski
Hendrik Hasenbein wrote: xavier collot wrote: Hi!! I can't use my USB key!! How can I do this? When I write mount /dev/da0 /removable (/removable has been created by me) I have a warning : incorrect super block Thanks for your answer.. Xav le geek OUF Try 'mount -t msdos /dev/da0 /removable'.

Problems running "startx" on FreeBSD 5.2.1

2004-05-13 Thread Sanjay Chadda
Folks, I have a Dell 2400 series desktop with Pentium4 processeor. I am not sure what graphics card I have. I looked at the Dell site and it seems these models have the integrated chipset 82845G on them. So while configuring Xserver, I gave this info for this chipset. I have FreeBSD 5.2.1 installe

Re: Printing to a network printer?

2004-05-13 Thread Christopher Nehren
Gerard Samuel wrote: >Specifically to a Brother MFC3820cn -> >http://solutions.brother.com/mfc3820cn_us/en_us/ >Im currently trying to print to it via CUPS, but Im getting nowhere >fast. Every so often I see someone or more than one someone struggling with CUPS and I have to ask myself "Why?". W

Re: Printing to a network printer?

2004-05-13 Thread Rob
Robert Storey wrote: STEP 2: Creating a Log Directory Create a directory for the CUPS log files: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:# mkdir /var/log/cups Are you sure this is needed? I don't think I have ever done this, though my CUPS installation is happy and running fine. STEP 3: FreeBSD-specific Issue On Fr

PCMCIA to PCI hardware

2004-05-13 Thread sAndri Kok
Hi guys, I'm thinking of running a wireless access point using FreeBSD. Now, the manual (wi(4)) says that I need a prism II or 2.5 chipset, I can get that quite easily, but the PCI version is not. I'm thinking of getting a PCMCIA card with that supported chip and a PCMCIA to PCI card http://cg

Re: Printing to a network printer?

2004-05-13 Thread Robert Storey
On Wed, 12 May 2004 10:19:11 -0400 Gerard Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Specifically to a Brother MFC3820cn -> > http://solutions.brother.com/mfc3820cn_us/en_us/ > Im currently trying to print to it via CUPS, but Im getting nowhere fast. > Has anyone ever attempted to print to this unit via

Re: Perl 5.6 vs Perl 5.8 (install)

2004-05-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:50:14PM -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > Thanks Kris. Does the basic installation of 5.6 have any dependency > modules? No, the perl package is self-contained as far as the FreeBSD packages go. > I hear there is a way with CPAN to port those over to a new > perl insta

Re: How to abtain FreeBSD source code

2004-05-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
frank wei wrote: Hi FreeBSD, I'm a software engineer in the networking industry. I'm very intersted in the the implementation of IP routing in FreeBSD. Two questions here: 1. Can I get FreeBSD source code without any charge? 2. If so, how can I get them? Regards, Well, for starters, you *could

Re: Perl 5.6 vs Perl 5.8 (install)

2004-05-13 Thread Forrest Aldrich
Thanks Kris. Does the basic installation of 5.6 have any dependency modules? I hear there is a way with CPAN to port those over to a new perl installation. Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:33:27PM -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote: I have FreeBSD-CURRENT installed and it places

Re: Perl 5.6 vs Perl 5.8 (install)

2004-05-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:33:27PM -0400, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > I have FreeBSD-CURRENT installed and it places Perl-5.6 on the system. > > It's not clear to me whether it's safe to pkg_delete this in favor of > Perl-5.8 (which I want to install). I tried searching the list archive > and didn't

RE: Transfering Files

2004-05-13 Thread Andras Kende
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Hunter Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 9:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Transfering Files I have two computer systems. 1 windows 2k system where I do web development work, specifically php develop

Perl 5.6 vs Perl 5.8 (install)

2004-05-13 Thread Forrest Aldrich
I have FreeBSD-CURRENT installed and it places Perl-5.6 on the system. It's not clear to me whether it's safe to pkg_delete this in favor of Perl-5.8 (which I want to install). I tried searching the list archive and didn't find anything (yet). Anyone accomplish this?

RE: crontab perl script execution

2004-05-13 Thread JJB
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 12:27, JJB wrote: > I have perl script A. which runs 2 other perl scripts B. & C. When A > is run from command line B & C get run. When I put script A in > /etc/corntab I can see that A does in deed get run, but scripts B & > C do not. I looked in /var/log/cron and /var/log/m

How to abtain FreeBSD source code

2004-05-13 Thread frank wei
Hi FreeBSD, I'm a software engineer in the networking industry. I'm very intersted in the the implementation of IP routing in FreeBSD. Two questions here: 1. Can I get FreeBSD source code without any charge? 2. If so, how can I get them? Regards, -

Re: perl pause or wait

2004-05-13 Thread Christopher Nehren
JJB wrote: >I have perl script that issues the newsyslog command followed by 3 >perl scripts that process the new .0 rotated file. > >Problem is the newsyslog rotate has not completed creating the new >.0 and rolling through the other .x files before the first perl >script in trying to open the .0

RE: crontab perl script execution

2004-05-13 Thread JJB
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 12:27, JJB wrote: > I have perl script A. which runs 2 other perl scripts B. & C. When A > is run from command line B & C get run. When I put script A in > /etc/corntab I can see that A does in deed get run, but scripts B & > C do not. I looked in /var/log/cron and /var/log/m

Re: crontab perl script execution

2004-05-13 Thread Kiel Stirling
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 12:27, JJB wrote: > I have perl script A. which runs 2 other perl scripts B. & C. When A > is run from command line B & C get run. When I put script A in > /etc/corntab I can see that A does in deed get run, but scripts B & > C do not. I looked in /var/log/cron and /var/log/me

Re: Transfering Files

2004-05-13 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 13 May 2004 07:11 pm, Bruce Hunter wrote: > I have two computer systems. 1 windows 2k system where I do web > development work, specifically php development. The other system is a > FBSD headless system that I control via ssh, from my windows system. > The FBSD system is my local webser

Re: vinum State Down Help?

2004-05-13 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Quoted text unevenly wrapped. On Thursday, 13 May 2004 at 15:00:22 -0400, Lee Dilkie wrote: > On Thursday, May 13, 2004 2:11 PM, Chris Collins wrote: >> >> I am trying to setup vinum but I am having a config problem I hope >> s

Re: confusing printing error

2004-05-13 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:53 PM -0500 5/13/04, Eric Crist wrote: Hey list, I re-ran the apsfilter setup routine, and now my printer seems to work fine, except I can only print with: # lpr -Paps1 I can't print from Kmail, or anything else, as I get the following error: A print error occurred. Error message received

crontab perl script execution

2004-05-13 Thread JJB
I have perl script A. which runs 2 other perl scripts B. & C. When A is run from command line B & C get run. When I put script A in /etc/corntab I can see that A does in deed get run, but scripts B & C do not. I looked in /var/log/cron and /var/log/messages for error messages but there are none. He

Re: vinum State Down Help?

2004-05-13 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 13 May 2004 at 13:10:35 -0500, Chris Collins wrote: > Hello > > I am trying to setup vinum but I am having a config problem I hope sombody > can answer... I cannot get my /usr/ and /var and for some reason my swap is > showing at 18G... What am I doing wrong? > > volume root > plex

Transfering Files

2004-05-13 Thread Bruce Hunter
I have two computer systems. 1 windows 2k system where I do web development work, specifically php development. The other system is a FBSD headless system that I control via ssh, from my windows system. The FBSD system is my local webserver where I do my testing before transfering to another se

Re: Mail Delivery (failure dhesi@email.rahul.net)

2004-05-13 Thread Rahul Dhesi
Hi, this is an automatic reply to let you know that your recent message has reached my mailbox. If a reply is needed, I will send you one soon. If you haven't sent me mail in the recent past, you can look at my standard hints for correspondents at this URL: http://www.rahul.net/dhesi/.vacation

Re: The journalling file system saga

2004-05-13 Thread Peter Schuller
> > Yes, for the reasons mentioned below, and strictly for practical personal > > use because I'd love to be able to share data between FreeBSD and Linux > > ;) > > Right now, FBSD offers the option to mount ext2 if you've compiled that > into the kernel - I'd be happy to see a reiserfs option as w

Re: The journalling file system saga

2004-05-13 Thread Robert Storey
> > Is anyone remotely interested in this? > > Yes, for the reasons mentioned below, and strictly for practical personal use > because I'd love to be able to share data between FreeBSD and Linux ;) Right now, FBSD offers the option to mount ext2 if you've compiled that into the kernel - I'd be

Re: mount_msdosfs anomaly

2004-05-13 Thread Robert Storey
On my system I have several Linux distros installed in the extended partition, and FBSD 5.2 shows slices as high as /dev/ad0s9. I am able to mount all of these with mount_ext2fs. Whether or not it is possible to mount msdos extended partitions, I can't say, since I don't have any installed on my ha

confusing printing error

2004-05-13 Thread Eric Crist
Hey list, I re-ran the apsfilter setup routine, and now my printer seems to work fine, except I can only print with: # lpr -Paps1 I can't print from Kmail, or anything else, as I get the following error: A print error occurred. Error message received from system: /usr/local/bin/lpr -P 'aps

Re: COPTFLAGS (not?) only for compiling the kernel?

2004-05-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 02:01:15AM +0200, platanthera wrote: > Just one last question (slightly getting OT) - are CFLAGS settings on > FreeBSD more critical than on Linux? > http://www.freehackers.org/gentoo/gccflags/flag_gcc3.html recommends > -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer 'for those who don'

Re: COPTFLAGS (not?) only for compiling the kernel?

2004-05-13 Thread platanthera
On Friday 14 May 2004 01:41, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 01:39:34AM +0200, platanthera wrote: > > On Friday 14 May 2004 01:09, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 01:12:41AM +0200, platanthera wrote: > > > > On Friday 14 May 2004 00:48, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > >

Re: COPTFLAGS (not?) only for compiling the kernel?

2004-05-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 01:39:34AM +0200, platanthera wrote: > On Friday 14 May 2004 01:09, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 01:12:41AM +0200, platanthera wrote: > > > On Friday 14 May 2004 00:48, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:29:07PM +0200, platanthera wro

Re: COPTFLAGS (not?) only for compiling the kernel?

2004-05-13 Thread platanthera
On Friday 14 May 2004 01:09, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 01:12:41AM +0200, platanthera wrote: > > On Friday 14 May 2004 00:48, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:29:07PM +0200, platanthera wrote: > > > > [/etc/make.conf] > > > > ... > > > > # To compile just th

Re: The journalling file system saga

2004-05-13 Thread Peter Schuller
> [Problems with softupdates] > > > Yet another problem is that an fsync() no longer guarantees that data is > > on disk, even with write caching disabled on the media. This doesn't > > break things like PostgreSQL provided that the order of writes is > > preserved, but it does break things like MT

Re: COPTFLAGS (not?) only for compiling the kernel?

2004-05-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 01:12:41AM +0200, platanthera wrote: > On Friday 14 May 2004 00:48, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:29:07PM +0200, platanthera wrote: > > > [/etc/make.conf] > > > ... > > > # To compile just the kernel with special optimizations, you should > > > use # th

Re: perl pause or wait

2004-05-13 Thread Dan Harris
JJB wrote: I have perl script that issues the newsyslog command followed by 3 perl scripts that process the new .0 rotated file. Problem is the newsyslog rotate has not completed creating the new .0 and rolling through the other .x files before the first perl script in trying to open the .0 file f

Re: COPTFLAGS (not?) only for compiling the kernel?

2004-05-13 Thread platanthera
On Friday 14 May 2004 00:48, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:29:07PM +0200, platanthera wrote: > > [/etc/make.conf] > > ... > > # To compile just the kernel with special optimizations, you should > > use # this instead of CFLAGS (which is not applicable to kernel > > builds anyway

Re: 5.2.1R panic on Sun Blade 100

2004-05-13 Thread Richard Cotrina
The panic message : IOMMU fault virtual address 0xc300 panic: pcib: uncorrectable DMA error AFAR 0xad6000 AFSR 0x21ff syncing disk, buffers remaining ... ==

Re: COPTFLAGS (not?) only for compiling the kernel?

2004-05-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:29:07PM +0200, platanthera wrote: > [/etc/make.conf] > ... > # To compile just the kernel with special optimizations, you should use > # this instead of CFLAGS (which is not applicable to kernel builds anyway). > # There is very little to gain by using higher optimization

perl pause or wait

2004-05-13 Thread JJB
I have perl script that issues the newsyslog command followed by 3 perl scripts that process the new .0 rotated file. Problem is the newsyslog rotate has not completed creating the new .0 and rolling through the other .x files before the first perl script in trying to open the .0 file for processi

Re: USB problems

2004-05-13 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Selon andre post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > How does your Wired memory behave during the time of > intensive USB traffic? Well, when scanning for exemple, it starts at "112M Wired" up to "114M Wired"... so I guess this is ok. > If my bet is right, you're suffering from the usb > driver memory leak as

Re: USB problems

2004-05-13 Thread andre post
> After some time (usually around 12 to 24h), the devices > on the USB hub are not accessible anymore and I have to > unplugg then replugg the hub power switch again for the > devices to work. > This does _not_ happen when I unplugg the USB harddrive > (I unplugged it for like > a week and had no p

Re: 5.2.1R panic on Sun Blade 100

2004-05-13 Thread Thomas Moestl
On Thu, 2004/05/13 at 15:59:58 -0500, Richard Cotrina wrote: > Hello : > > My Sun Blade 100 has experienced a "fault virtual address" panic, produced > by a simple remote port scanning (done with nmap 3.5). I cannot reproduce this problem on my machine; can you please post the exact arguments to

Configuring For Internet Access Using Router

2004-05-13 Thread Gerard Seibert
I tried sending the following message yesterday, but I believe it got lost somehow. In any event, it never was relayed by freebsd-questions. So here I go again. I am having a problem getting my system properly configured. I have three computers - 2 are WinXP Pro and one Free BSD. They are connect

Re: The journalling file system saga

2004-05-13 Thread Christian Laursen
Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [Problems with softupdates] > Yet another problem is that an fsync() no longer guarantees that data is on > disk, even with write caching disabled on the media. This doesn't break > things like PostgreSQL provided that the order of writes is preserved,

Re: Do not know how to build a device In Freebsd 5.2.1

2004-05-13 Thread platanthera
On Thursday 13 May 2004 22:28, Abbas Karbassian wrote: > Dear All; > > I have managed to install FreeBsd5.2.1. I have a TV > card which is working under FreeBsd 4X without any > problem. > > I tried to build the bktr device under FreeBsd5.2.1, > and when I used MAKEDEV bktr, I go the message > disp

COPTFLAGS (not?) only for compiling the kernel?

2004-05-13 Thread platanthera
[/etc/make.conf] ... # To compile just the kernel with special optimizations, you should use # this instead of CFLAGS (which is not applicable to kernel builds anyway). # There is very little to gain by using higher optimization levels, and doing # so can cause problems. # COPTFLAGS= [whatever] ...

5.2.1R panic on Sun Blade 100

2004-05-13 Thread Richard Cotrina
Hello : My Sun Blade 100 has experienced a "fault virtual address" panic, produced by a simple remote port scanning (done with nmap 3.5). Searching the lists, I've found a similar problem : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-sparc64/2003-August/000576.html according to this, the problem

4.9 buildworld fails

2004-05-13 Thread admin2
Hello all, I have two (nearly) identical systems running REL_ENG_4_9, but one fails to complete a buildworld (error below). The randomly named file is gone when the error occurs, so I can't find out why the strip operation is not permitted. Securelevel is -1 and this fails in single user m

Re: remove users from system

2004-05-13 Thread John Oxley
On Thu 2004-05-13 (11:31), Kent Stewart wrote: > On Thursday 13 May 2004 11:14 am, OLAF STEIN wrote: > > hi everybody, > > > > i recently switched from linux to freebsd, so this question might > > sound a little stupid > > > > the problem > > i removed 2 users from my system by deleting their entri

Re: BUG REPORT ... FreeBSD 5.2.1 NO SHUTDOWN ...

2004-05-13 Thread Remko Lodder
Heya Langun wrote: Hello, Where would I submit this Bug Report to? ... FreeBSD 5.2.1 ... NO SHUTDWON on DELL DIMENSION 4600 PC ... Hello, FreeBSD 5.2.1 does not have the ability to shut down my computer even if I do a "shutdown -p now" ... I just get an "ACPI timed-out" message and power lev

BUG REPORT ... FreeBSD 5.2.1 NO SHUTDOWN ...

2004-05-13 Thread Langun
Hello, Where would I submit this Bug Report to? ... FreeBSD 5.2.1 ... NO SHUTDWON on DELL DIMENSION 4600 PC ... Hello, FreeBSD 5.2.1 does not have the ability to shut down my computer even if I do a "shutdown -p now" ... I just get an "ACPI timed-out" message and power level drops to 'halted',

Re: The journalling file system saga

2004-05-13 Thread Peter Schuller
Hello, > I had to build a storage system this week with a capacity of 1.6TB. > Regrettfully I decided to use Linux with XFS as the thought of waiting > for fsck to complete in the event of a problem makes me wince. I > experimented with FreeBSD, using two 800GB partitions and things like > that, b

No mouse in X, Dell Inspiron 5150

2004-05-13 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hello Family, I have a new triple booted Dell Inspiron 5150 and the mouse works with WindowsXP, Linux, and I can't get it to even be detected with FreeBSD-5.2.1 installed from CD. On my Mandrake-10.0 Linux /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 it has the mouse stanza of:

Do not know how to build a device In Freebsd 5.2.1

2004-05-13 Thread Abbas Karbassian
Dear All; I have managed to install FreeBsd5.2.1. I have a TV card which is working under FreeBsd 4X without any problem. I tried to build the bktr device under FreeBsd5.2.1, and when I used MAKEDEV bktr, I go the message displayed on the screen, saying MAKEDEV is no longer vaild in 5.2.1, could

Re: mount_msdosfs anomaly

2004-05-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Aloha > I first used a win98 boot disk to set slice 1(partition 1) a 5 Gig for > my win98 slice. After installing win98, I used the freebsd 5.2.1 CD to > set up the freebsd slice 2 at 20 Gig. OK. I haven't had time (or a spare machine) to play with 5.xxx yet. > After installing freebsd

Re: TIMEOUT READ_DMA

2004-05-13 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Thu, 13 May 2004 14:25:36 -0400 Forrest Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am building a new system that has SATA drives in it (Silicon Image). > Got this error today, which caused the system to freeze. The > motherboard is SOYO Dragon Platinum. Anyone know what the problem might be?

Re: chkrootkit says 'date' is infected

2004-05-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 03:25:44PM -0400, Shaun T. Erickson wrote: > I just installed and ran the chkrootkit port on my 5.2.1-RELEASE-p5 > system. It says my date command is infected. Nothing else, just that. > How can I determine if this is a false positive or if I'm truly hacked? Talk to the c

Re: Cross building ports

2004-05-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 05:36:53PM +0100, Daniel Bye wrote: > Hi all, > > Don't know if what I want to do is possible - but there's no harm in asking, > eh? > > I have a central build server running FreeBSD-5.2.1 amd64, which is happily > building world/kernel for amd64 and i386. In order to kee

chkrootkit says 'date' is infected

2004-05-13 Thread Shaun T. Erickson
I just installed and ran the chkrootkit port on my 5.2.1-RELEASE-p5 system. It says my date command is infected. Nothing else, just that. How can I determine if this is a false positive or if I'm truly hacked? -ste ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Bootable USB Jumpdrive

2004-05-13 Thread Foster, ThomasX
Quick question for anyone that might have any input on the subject.. I am attempting to make my Lexar Jumpdrive 2.0 Pro 256 Mb USB drive bootable.. I attempted just a minimal installation on it from a CD boot, and then installed to /dev/da0 .. set a bootable slice, and swap partition, perfo

RE: vinum State Down Help?

2004-05-13 Thread Lee Dilkie
i don't think you want to vinum a swap partition. you can just create the swap partitions and add them to fstab( or if you run /stand/sysinstall to do the disklabel, it'll populate fstab for you), the OS will nicely share amongst all your swap partitions. and if you only have one drive, why are yo

Re: remove users from system

2004-05-13 Thread Simon Barner
OLAF STEIN wrote: [ pls wrap your lines at column 72-76 (for those reading mail in a text console - thanks ] > i recently switched from linux to freebsd, so this question might sound > a little stupid > > the problem > i removed 2 users from my system by deleting their entries in /etc/passwd

Re: ipfw divert but no packet payload?

2004-05-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
Tom R. no spam wrote: [ ... ] Any suggestions would be very appreciated. (I'm using FreeBSD as Mac OSX 10.2.8, [ ... ] If you actually are using FreeBSD, it would help to know whether you are using IPFW1 or IPFW2, and see the output of 'uname -a'. If you are using MacOS X, I would suggest re-ask

Re: remove users from system

2004-05-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > hi everybody, > > i recently switched from linux to freebsd, so this question might sound > a little stupid > > the problem > i removed 2 users from my system by deleting their entries in /etc/passwd > and /etc/group (they had their own group and where in no other groups) > > the users ar

Re: remove users from system

2004-05-13 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 13 May 2004 11:14 am, OLAF STEIN wrote: > hi everybody, > > i recently switched from linux to freebsd, so this question might > sound a little stupid > > the problem > i removed 2 users from my system by deleting their entries in > /etc/passwd and /etc/group (they had their own group an

Re: remove users from system

2004-05-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
OLAF STEIN wrote: i removed 2 users from my system by deleting their entries in /etc/passwd and /etc/group (they had their own group and where in no other groups) the users are still able to login after i deleted them Run pwd_mkdb. It would be a good idea to use vipw when editting password files

TIMEOUT READ_DMA

2004-05-13 Thread Forrest Aldrich
I am building a new system that has SATA drives in it (Silicon Image). Got this error today, which caused the system to freeze. The motherboard is SOYO Dragon Platinum. Anyone know what the problem might be? ad4: Timeout READ_DMA ... LBA=156301425 _F

wu imap ssl and plain

2004-05-13 Thread synrat
I can't seem to get wu imap to accept plain logins. I built cclient and wu imap with this command. make WITH_SSL_AND_PLAINTEXT=true SSLTYPE=unix install WHen I try to auth to 110 I get -ERR Unknown AUTHORIZATION state command pop banner is not very informative, but imap banner says this * OK [

Help: Configuring PPP.conf after installing ltmdm

2004-05-13 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Hi, I've already installed ltmdm and I have found the following device nodes where added to /dev. cuaia0-cuaia3 and cuala0-cuala3. Question: Are those device where really made during the installation of ltmdm? What will be the proper device that I will tell the ppp.conf to talk to? I have o

remove users from system

2004-05-13 Thread OLAF STEIN
hi everybody, i recently switched from linux to freebsd, so this question might sound a little stupid the problem i removed 2 users from my system by deleting their entries in /etc/passwd and /etc/group (they had their own group and where in no other groups) the users are still able to login af

Re: Port Install Error

2004-05-13 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Bruce Hunter wrote: I am trying to install 'Portupgrade' using the ports collection What does this mean? and how do I solve the problem Dependency warning: used OpenSSL version contains known vulnerabilities Please update or define either WITH_OPENSSL_BASE or WITH_OPENSSL_PORT Thanks, Bruce Yo

vinum State Down Help?

2004-05-13 Thread Chris Collins
Hello I am trying to setup vinum but I am having a config problem I hope sombody can answer... I cannot get my /usr/ and /var and for some reason my swap is showing at 18G... What am I doing wrong? OUTOUT vinum -> create vinum.conf 1 drives: D YouCrazy State: up Device

Re: Dual Homed IP's

2004-05-13 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Wed, 12 May 2004, Adam Seniuk wrote: > I have 2 mail servers, I would like to give those servers 2 ips so if one card > dies the other will pick it up. > > But I am having a problem since most of the configurations that i have read > up on have 2 different ip blocks. I have one large block that

Re: SNI RM300

2004-05-13 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Thu, 13 May 2004, Arek Czereszewski wrote: > Hi > I have old machine Siemens Nixdorf RM300 > CPU R4400 > And i wont install freebsd on this. It is possible? > Have anyone working freebsd on machine like this? Hi! Should be a MIPS CPU, so FreeBSD will not work on it. HTH Olaf -- Olaf Hoyer

Port Install Error

2004-05-13 Thread Bruce Hunter
I am trying to install 'Portupgrade' using the ports collection What does this mean? and how do I solve the problem [EMAIL PROTECTED] make ===> Vulnerability check disabled ===> Extracting for portupgrade-20040325_1 >> Checksum OK for pkgtools-20040208.tar.bz2. >> Checksum OK for pkgtools-2004020

RE: Cross building ports

2004-05-13 Thread JJB
After installing the port on your build box go ahead and run the make package on the /usr/port/portname directory. The resulting package will be in that directory. Copy it to your other i386 box and pkg_add pgkname and it will work. I have even done it with newer FBSD operation system version on bu

RE: ltmdm: Is it only for Lt Lucent chipset?

2004-05-13 Thread JJB
I have an used the FBSD ltmdm port on a Pctel internal modem. You have to look at what is printed on the modem board chips for word Lucent. If any chips say Lucent give it a try. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Jayson Alvarez Sent: Thursd

USB problems

2004-05-13 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi :) I'm running FreeBSD-5.2.1-p5 and I'm having a problem with USB. Basically, I have 2 USB ports on my box: - on one there's a USB2 harddrive (running in USB1.1 compat mode; I did not compile ehci into the kernel because I was having kernel panic on boot) - on the other, there's an USB hub conn

Re: Creating periodic cron jobs

2004-05-13 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 12:05, platanthera wrote: > On Thursday 13 May 2004 17:51, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > > I am trying to create a quarter-daily cron job on my FreeBSD 5.2.1 as > > follows in /etc/crontab: > > > > 05 0,6,12,18 * * * root periodic quarter-daily > > > > I created

NTPD

2004-05-13 Thread Mike Hogsett
Can someone shed light on the following error? May 13 09:08:47 rr-spamd-0 ntpd[607]: ntpd 4.1.1b-a Wed May 12 13:55:12 PDT 2004 (1) May 13 09:08:47 rr-spamd-0 ntpd[607]: bind() fd 5, family 2, port 123, addr 130.107.1.31 , in_classd=0 flags=1 fails: Can't assign requested address rr-spamd-0# u

Move a locked file

2004-05-13 Thread Michael Alexander
Hi All: I have a multi-boot 3 unix box I'm toying with. I was using the Debian partition as my main work station for a while... till I broke it. I have some e-mails and addresses on that partition I would like to export to the other partitions, perhaps even create a permanent reference file

Re: Creating periodic cron jobs

2004-05-13 Thread platanthera
On Thursday 13 May 2004 17:51, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > I am trying to create a quarter-daily cron job on my FreeBSD 5.2.1 as > follows in /etc/crontab: > > 05 0,6,12,18 * * * root periodic quarter-daily > > I created the /etc/periodic/quarter-daily directory and placed my scrip

Creating periodic cron jobs

2004-05-13 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I am trying to create a quarter-daily cron job on my FreeBSD 5.2.1 as follows in /etc/crontab: 05 0,6,12,18 * * * root periodic quarter-daily I created the /etc/periodic/quarter-daily directory and placed my script there. After I ran 'crontab -u root /etc/crontab', now I am getti

implementing password policies

2004-05-13 Thread Chris Ochs
We need to implement a password policy that does not allow a user to pick a password that is the same as any of their last 4 passwords. Any ideas on how to do this on freebsd? Would this require a custom PAM module or is there already one out there that can do this? Chris __

Wine 20040505 problem

2004-05-13 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Hmmm, Just compiled Wine 20040505 on FBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE and now I can't use the File->Open command in notepad. Any ideas? -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net __

process management Q

2004-05-13 Thread Obaidi Hassib
Hello, I'd like to post a question concerning process management. My issue is that, I had a background process running that uses a GUI for debugging purposes through-out last night. Going back to the terminal, I noticed that the pc would not startup. Action keys where not responding, and perfor

Help interpreting Kernel (gdb) Debug output

2004-05-13 Thread M_SPAHZgORN
I'm having a kernel crash on a regular basis, but don't know how to interpret the gdb output. Any help would be much, much appreciated as I have a deadline fast approaching to colocate this box. > what version of FreeBSD? Running: FreeBSD 4_9 > what error message comes to the screen

Re: mount_msdosfs anomaly

2004-05-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Jerry McAllister wrote: > >> Aloha > >> > >> I have a 80 gig hard drive that I have sliced up for multiple > >> distros of linux and freebsd. I have win98 on slice 1 and freebsd > >> on slice 2. On slice 10 I have a 2.7 Gig slice formatted as fat32 > >> for data sharing between all distros. >

Re: mount_msdosfs anomaly

2004-05-13 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Jerry McAllister wrote: Aloha I have a 80 gig hard drive that I have sliced up for multiple distros of linux and freebsd. I have win98 on slice 1 and freebsd on slice 2. On slice 10 I have a 2.7 Gig slice formatted as fat32 for data sharing between all distros. When logged into frebsd (5.2.1) i ca

Re: USB not fashion

2004-05-13 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
xavier collot wrote: Hi!! I can't use my USB key!! How can I do this? When I write mount /dev/da0 /removable (/removable has been created by me) I have a warning : incorrect super block Thanks for your answer.. Xav le geek OUF Try 'mount -t msdos /dev/da0 /removable'. Hendrik

Re: mount_msdosfs anomaly

2004-05-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Aloha > > I have a 80 gig hard drive that I have sliced up for multiple distros of linux and > freebsd. I have win98 on slice 1 and freebsd on slice 2. On slice 10 I have a 2.7 > Gig slice formatted as fat32 for data sharing between all distros. > > When logged into frebsd (5.2.1) i can mo

Re: Is it Possible to shrink a FBSD Partition?

2004-05-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hello > > Is there any easy way to shrink a freebsd partition? When I created the > slice (I think it is called) I used the complete drive. In general, no. > I need some space to create another partition and do not wish to reinstall > FBSD. This machine has been up and running for someti

Re: password expiry

2004-05-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 01:22:45PM +0200, Piotr Gnyp wrote: > On Thu, 13 May 2004, Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 12:59:58PM +0200, Piotr Gnyp wrote: > > > I`m trying to set password expiry for users, I`ve changed login.conf to: > > > :minpasswordle

USB not fashion

2004-05-13 Thread xavier collot
Hi!! I can't use my USB key!! How can I do this? When I write mount /dev/da0 /removable (/removable has been created by me) I have a warning : incorrect super block Thanks for your answer.. Xav le geek OUF - Yahoo! Mail : votre e-mail personnel et

Re: Hello

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