pkgdb -F - fetching INDEX-5.bz2 every time

2005-03-03 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I've got a rather interesting/anoying problem wrt. running pkgdb -F after cvsup-ping my ports-tree: pkgdb fetches INDEX-5.bz2 on every run! (for a sample output see below) Moreover in my /usr/ports I only have INDEX-5 and INDEX.db, but no INDEX file. In addition pkgdb complains about a

Re: portsdb -Uu - Stop.

2005-03-03 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 01:35:28PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: # portsdb -Uu Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..apsfilter-7.2.6 : /usr/ports/print/acroread5 non-existent -- dependency list incomplete === print/apsfilter failed *** Error code 1 1 error

Re: Question about cvsup

2005-03-03 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 10:15:05PM -0500, Madhusudan Singh wrote: Hi I am new to FreeBSD and trying to use CVSup after someone suggested it to me on comp.unix.misc.bsd.freebsd. My supfile : *default tag=. *default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org *default prefix=/usr *default base=/var/db

Re: ipfw not working any more after upgrade to 5.3

2005-03-03 Thread sonoro
On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 01:28:08 +0100 Roberto Nunnari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just upgraded my FreeBSD box to 5.3-RELEASE-p5 from 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 and now I can no longer use ipfw to fwd from one port to another: # ipfw add fwd 192.168.1.5,8180 tcp from any to 192.168.1.5 80 ipfw:

Re: where is autoconf

2005-03-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-03-02 23:15, Stefan Seefeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Someone whose attribution has been trimmed, wrote: Well, I was looking for 'autoconf' in these files but didn't find it. And indeed, even though I have 'autoconf-2.59_2' installed, all I have is 'autoconf259', but

Re: reload rc.conf without rebooting

2005-03-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-03-02 22:33, Ben Munat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does one cause rc.conf to be reread without rebooting? Under linux I would generally do source somefile.conf. But if I do source rc.conf, I'm told that all my settings are not commands. Generally, you don't. For details, see the

Re: Question about cvsup

2005-03-03 Thread Rob
Ewald Jenisch wrote: I usually do it this way: 1) copy /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile to /root 2) Edit /root/ports-supfile so that it points to your preferred CVSup-site; the only thing you need to change is the *default host entry. 3) run cvsup: cvsup -g -L 2

SCSI problem on a IBM xSeries x206

2005-03-03 Thread Marco Pizzi
Hello, I've a problem with a IBM xSeries x206 server. This server is equipped with an Adaptec AIC7901 Ultra320 SCSI RAID card, and the two SCSI disks are configured as RAID1 in the bios card. I've installed FreeBSD 5.3, but the system go on to see the two SCSI disks (sd0 and sd1); not the

Averatec 3200 Laptop Wireless?

2005-03-03 Thread Scorpion
Anyone got an AVERATEC 3200 Series laptop with the built-in wireless working? On Windows it says 802.11g MiniPC Wireless Network Adapter, manufacturer and driver provided by 802.11 Wireless. --- ?!?!?!?!? I can't find the driver for my wireless connection. Please help.

[repost] ip.forwarding with pf

2005-03-03 Thread J.D. Bronson
No one replied to this and I thought it was easy for someone on this list to help me? I am going to run pf and setup FBSD as a router (3 NICs). And I see there are some options: net.inet.ip.fastforwarding or net.inet.ip.forwarding Can someone tell me which is appropriate when FreeBSD 5.4-PRE is

kmail similar

2005-03-03 Thread Vittorio
I've just compiled kde-lite in FreeBSD 5.3 but cannot find kmail, ksirc, knode the likes. What ports packages are they in? Ciao Vittorio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

upgrade using sysinstall not finding BSD version

2005-03-03 Thread Warren
I recently did a sligfht stuff up in my commands and del 3/4 of my .usr/bin dir and when using sysinstall to do a base system re-install (upgrade) when going to any of the FTP servers it refuses to find my BSD version of 5.3-Stable ... any particular reason why this is ? -- Yours Sincerely

Re: kmail similar

2005-03-03 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:31:49 +, Vittorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just compiled kde-lite in FreeBSD 5.3 but cannot find kmail, ksirc, knode the likes. What ports packages are they in? Ciao Vittorio, kmail and knode are in kdepim ksirc is in kdenetwork which other apps do you need?

Re: Averatec 3200 Laptop Wireless?

2005-03-03 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 04:10:32 -0800 (PST), Scorpion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone got an AVERATEC 3200 Series laptop with the built-in wireless working? I don't have that kind of hardware, but On Windows it says 802.11g MiniPC Wireless Network Adapter I can't find the driver for my

DNS newbie question

2005-03-03 Thread Claudiu Bichir
Where do I have to specify the ip of the dns server ? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: DNS newbie question

2005-03-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
Claudiu Bichir wrote: Where do I have to specify the ip of the dns server ? Add a line like: nameserver 4.2.2.1 ...to /etc/resolv.conf. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Sharing directories with jails

2005-03-03 Thread Chris Hodgins
How dangerous is it to share the ports directory with jails on the system? I am using the jails to give other access to a freebsd system. You can assume they are untrusted (hence the jail ;)). Is it enough just to: ln -s /usr/ports /usr/jail/ajail/usr/ports Thanks Chris

Re: DNS newbie question

2005-03-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-03-03 05:40, Claudiu Bichir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where do I have to specify the ip of the dns server ? In your `/etc/resolv.conf' file. See the manpage of resolv.conf for what is the proper thing to put there. In general, 1 or 2 lines should be enough: search example.net

Re: Renaming root account

2005-03-03 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:22:05 +0100, Wouter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Renaming root is generally a bad idea, what you could do, however, is set a password on(thus enabling) the toor account and set root's shell to /sbin/nologin Sorry for interfering with this discussion. I would like to know

Re: Renaming root account

2005-03-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-03-03 13:53, Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 10:22:05 +0100, Wouter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Renaming root is generally a bad idea, what you could do, however, is set a password on(thus enabling) the toor account and set root's shell to /sbin/nologin Sorry

Cups+Ghostscript invalidfileaccess???

2005-03-03 Thread LR
Hello! I tried to setup my new Brother laser printer to my 5.3 FreeBSD. But I can't printout anything. For example I press the Print test page-Button in the web interface. In the job list the state abort is shown. In /var/log/cups/error_log I found these lines: D [03/Mar/2005:14:28:57 +0100]

Re: restore

2005-03-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
Next, why did you try and mount /dev/ad0s1a and then newfs /dev/ad0s1a That should not work at all. You don't newfs a mounted partition. Gee, I didn't know that. It wasn't clear when I read the handbook or man pages. May give me something new to try-- That is probably your

Re: [repost] ip.forwarding with pf

2005-03-03 Thread Tomas Quintero
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 06:30:52 -0600, J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No one replied to this and I thought it was easy for someone on this list to help me? I am going to run pf and setup FBSD as a router (3 NICs). And I see there are some options: net.inet.ip.fastforwarding or

Re: [repost] ip.forwarding with pf

2005-03-03 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 09:15 AM 03/03/2005, Tomas Quintero wrote: Are you entirely sure you want to do it using PF? Has PF even been fully implemented into the 5.x series? I recently setup an FBSD router with 3 external NICs and 1 internal, using NAT and open ipfw rules for now, until I learn a bit more about ipfw.

Re: [repost] ip.forwarding with pf

2005-03-03 Thread J65nko BSD
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 06:30:52 -0600, J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No one replied to this and I thought it was easy for someone on this list to help me? I am going to run pf and setup FBSD as a router (3 NICs). And I see there are some options: net.inet.ip.fastforwarding or

Re: Averatec 3200 Laptop Wireless?

2005-03-03 Thread Xavier Maillard
Scorpion [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone got an AVERATEC 3200 Series laptop with the built-in wireless working? Is it based on the Centrino chips ? If so, you can simply try to play with Intel firmware and install if_pw drivers. -- Xavier Maillard Membre LoLiCA Post-scriptum La Poste Ce

Re: SCSI problem on a IBM xSeries x206

2005-03-03 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 03), Marco Pizzi said: I've a problem with a IBM xSeries x206 server. This server is equipped with an Adaptec AIC7901 Ultra320 SCSI RAID card, and the two SCSI disks are configured as RAID1 in the bios card. I've installed FreeBSD 5.3, but the system go on to see the

Re: Sharing directories with jails

2005-03-03 Thread Ean Kingston
How dangerous is it to share the ports directory with jails on the system? I am using the jails to give other access to a freebsd system. You can assume they are untrusted (hence the jail ;)). Is it enough just to: ln -s /usr/ports /usr/jail/ajail/usr/ports That won't work. The jail

Re: FreeBSD NFS client and Netware 6.5 NFS server]

2005-03-03 Thread Shawn C Lander
To answer your question: An NFS trace on the novell server shows the web server executing GETATTR and READ commands when a file is served after it has been updated. If you 'touch' one of the files, the client executes GETATTR and SETATTR... and then the first time it is served it executes

ndis problem

2005-03-03 Thread Pablo Allietti
hi all me again. i have a problem with ndis in freebsd 5.3 i do sony# cd /usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis/ sony# make clean rm -f /usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis/export_syms if_ndis.ko if_ndis.kld if_ndis.o if_ndis_pci.o if_ndis_pccard.o @ machine symb.tmp tmp.o opt_bdg.h bus_if.h device_if.h

Re: Kernel problems on 5.3.

2005-03-03 Thread David Robillard
Hi Jacob, You should try to CVSup your FreeBSD machines to get the latest code. Read section A.5 of the FreeBSD Handbook. Here's the link: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html I can't say this will fix your current problem, but for sure it can only be good, at

apachectl startssl at boot time ?

2005-03-03 Thread David Larkin
Hi, I can start apache with SSL ok from the command line apachectl startssl I've now put the following into /etc/rc.conf hoping that it will start at boot time. apache_enable=YES apache_flags=startssl This starts Apache on boot time but not with SSL Any ideas where I'm going wrong ? It

Re: apachectl startssl at boot time ?

2005-03-03 Thread Ean Kingston
Hi, I can start apache with SSL ok from the command line apachectl startssl I've now put the following into /etc/rc.conf hoping that it will start at boot time. apache_enable=YES apache_flags=startssl Try apache_flags=-DSSL instead. This starts Apache on boot time but not with SSL

Re: apachectl startssl at boot time ?

2005-03-03 Thread David Larkin
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 11:48:24 -0500 (EST) Ean Kingston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I can start apache with SSL ok from the command line apachectl startssl I've now put the following into /etc/rc.conf hoping that it will start at boot time. apache_enable=YES

Re: ndis problem

2005-03-03 Thread Adam McMaster
On 3 Mar 2005, at 17:19, Pablo Allietti wrote: hi all me again. i have a problem with ndis in freebsd 5.3 i do sony# cd /usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis/ sony# make clean rm -f /usr/src/sys/modules/if_ndis/export_syms if_ndis.ko if_ndis.kld if_ndis.o if_ndis_pci.o if_ndis_pccard.o @ machine symb.tmp

Re: FreeBSD NFS client and Netware 6.5 NFS server]

2005-03-03 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 03), Shawn C Lander said: An NFS trace on the novell server shows the web server executing GETATTR and READ commands when a file is served after it has been updated. If it's doing a GETATTR and a READ, then it should be pulling the right file data, I think. Can you

Re: kmail similar

2005-03-03 Thread Vittorio
Alle 13:11, giovedì 3 marzo 2005, Pietro Cerutti ha scritto: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:31:49 +, Vittorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just compiled kde-lite in FreeBSD 5.3 but cannot find kmail, ksirc, knode the likes. What ports packages are they in? Ciao Vittorio, kmail and knode are

Re: [repost] ip.forwarding with pf

2005-03-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-03-03 10:15, Tomas Quintero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 06:30:52 -0600, J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No one replied to this and I thought it was easy for someone on this list to help me? I am going to run pf and setup FBSD as a router (3 NICs). And I see

Re: Sharing directories with jails

2005-03-03 Thread Chris Hodgins
Ean Kingston wrote: How dangerous is it to share the ports directory with jails on the system? I am using the jails to give other access to a freebsd system. You can assume they are untrusted (hence the jail ;)). Is it enough just to: ln -s /usr/ports /usr/jail/ajail/usr/ports That won't work.

Re: kmail similar

2005-03-03 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Where can I find kppp? kdenetwork Ciao Vittorio Ciao! -- Pietro Piter Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beansidhe - SwiSS Death / Thrash Metal www.beansidhe.ch Windows: Where do you want to go today? Linux: Where do you want to go tomorrow? FreeBSD: Are you guys coming or what?

Re: [repost] ip.forwarding with pf

2005-03-03 Thread Chris Hodgins
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-03-03 10:15, Tomas Quintero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 06:30:52 -0600, J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No one replied to this and I thought it was easy for someone on this list to help me? I am going to run pf and setup FBSD as a router (3

Re: Sharing directories with jails

2005-03-03 Thread Anish Mistry
On Thursday 03 March 2005 12:42 pm, Chris Hodgins wrote: Ean Kingston wrote: How dangerous is it to share the ports directory with jails on the system? I am using the jails to give other access to a freebsd system. You can assume they are untrusted (hence the jail ;)). Is it enough

Audio latency

2005-03-03 Thread J.E. Dooper
Hi, My sound works and when I use mplayer or xmms I don't experience any (noticable!) audio latency. In applications like doomlegacy and quakeforge I do. I think this might be the problem: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2004-August/055314.html Though I don't

Re: apachectl startssl at boot time ?

2005-03-03 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 05:58:42PM +, David Larkin wrote: Hi, I can start apache with SSL ok from the command line apachectl startssl I've now put the following into /etc/rc.conf hoping that it will start at boot time. apache_enable=YES apache_flags=startssl This starts

Re: Using META and DEL keys in console

2005-03-03 Thread Alejandro Pulver
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 23:11:18 -0600 (CST) Lars Eighner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Alejandro Pulver wrote: Hello, I have a PS/2 PC-101 keyboard. I would like to use my META (ALT in my keyboard) key instead of ESC in console mode. META works fine in an xterm. I also

Re: Question about cvsup

2005-03-03 Thread Madhusudan Singh
Thanks for a very helpful response. I have another query. As a matter of practice, is it a good idea to upgrade ports immediately after a kernel compile ? I do not expect that the ports depend directly on the kernel (for most changes in kernel), though I could well be wrong (for instance

Re: [repost] ip.forwarding with pf

2005-03-03 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 12:13 PM 03/03/2005, Chris Hodgins wrote: Hmm I found this: http://mailman.twdx.net/pipermail/occaid/2003-October/000250.html Google for freebsd net.inet.ip.fastforwarding. Chris Hey guys...all of this seems really coolbut is it appropriate for one to use 'fast forwarding' when using

Re: [repost] ip.forwarding with pf

2005-03-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-03-03 18:13, Chris Hodgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-03-03 10:15, Tomas Quintero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 06:30:52 -0600, J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No one replied to this and I thought it was easy for someone on this list

Frontpage Extension Question

2005-03-03 Thread Darryl Hoar
Greetings, I have apache-fp installed on my machine. Sometime ago, I setup a website with frontpage extensions. Well my domain name changed and I added another website. on my existing website with FP extensions, what do I need to do since my domainname changed ? Also, how to I add fp

ipfw lost its mind?

2005-03-03 Thread Paul Schmehl
I maintain a small hobby website running on FreeBSD 4.9 SECURITY. I'm paranoid about security and religious about updates (kernel and ports). Recently, the server began to exhibit odd behavior that looked for all the world like name resolution issues. I had recently updated bind to 9.0.3_1,

Re: [repost] ip.forwarding with pf

2005-03-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-03-03 12:28, J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:13 PM 03/03/2005, Chris Hodgins wrote: Hmm I found this: http://mailman.twdx.net/pipermail/occaid/2003-October/000250.html Google for freebsd net.inet.ip.fastforwarding. Hey guys...all of this seems really coolbut is it

Re: ipfw lost its mind?

2005-03-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
Paul Schmehl wrote: [ ... ] So, I removed rule 1 and created a new one like this: ipfw add 00050 allow ip from {my workstation at work) to any. I then ssh'd to my workstation and attempted to ssh back to the server. No go. Yet ipfw show shows an increased packet count on the counter for

Re: ipfw lost its mind?

2005-03-03 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, March 03, 2005 01:48:16 PM -0500 Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TCP connections are bidirectional, therefore you need to add rules which allow traffic from all back to your workstation, or else use keep-state and check-state to use dynamic rules The firewall script

Re: ndis problem

2005-03-03 Thread Pablo Allietti
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 05:04:00PM +, Adam McMaster wrote: yep adam the problem is that . my ndis cont support USB. now i do a cvsup and download new ndis but now if_ndis no compile. can you help me_ this is the error sony# make Warning: Object directory not changed from original

RE: ipfw lost its mind?

2005-03-03 Thread Subhro
Do you block UDP? I am asking this because, I *used* do a block on all UDP except the DNS port and had exactly the same problem. Regards S. Indian Institute of Information Technology Subhro Sankha Kar Block AQ-13/1, Sector V Salt Lake City PIN 700091 India -Original Message- From:

dumb network question

2005-03-03 Thread J.D. Bronson
Ok. I admit it. I cant figure what I am missing. I have 2 NICs in this machine. NIC 1 is a LAN NIC and static IP. - that I can figure out. NIC 2 needs to be DHCP (from cable modem). and I want the default router to be the DHCP cable modem gateway IP (passed from dhclient). What do I need to setup

Re: dumb network question

2005-03-03 Thread Chad Morland
ifconfig_nic2=DHCP man rc.conf -CM On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 14:05:07 -0600, J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok. I admit it. I cant figure what I am missing. I have 2 NICs in this machine. NIC 1 is a LAN NIC and static IP. - that I can figure out. NIC 2 needs to be DHCP (from cable

Re: dumb network question

2005-03-03 Thread Thomas Foster
hostname=my.hostname.whatever ifconfig_NIC1=inet a.b.c.d netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig_NIC2=DHCP gateway_enable=YES replace NIC1 and NIC2 with the interface names.. and of course.. a.b.c.d with the internal IP address.. be sure theres no gateway defined for the internal interface.. and if you

RE: ipfw lost its mind?

2005-03-03 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, March 04, 2005 01:21:11 AM +0530 Subhro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you block UDP? First question would be - which direction? I allow udp *to* port 53. I allow *ip* outgoing, so any response to a dns request would be answered. I am asking this because, I *used* do a block on all

RE: ipfw lost its mind?

2005-03-03 Thread Subhro
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Schmehl Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 1:51 To: 'FreeBSD questions' Subject: RE: ipfw lost its mind? --On Friday, March 04, 2005 01:21:11 AM +0530 Subhro [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Does 802.11b use a lot of resources?

2005-03-03 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 08:32:55AM -0800, Christopher Kelley wrote: Loren M. Lang wrote: On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:26:45AM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: On Friday 25 February 2005 12:06 am, Christopher Kelley wrote: Have I tried too hard to squeeze usability out of an old computer?

Re: Frontpage Extension Question

2005-03-03 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Darryl Hoar writes: Greetings, I have apache-fp installed on my machine. Sometime ago, I setup a website with frontpage extensions. Well my domain name changed and I added another website. on my existing website with FP extensions, what do I need to do since my domainname changed ?

Sources vs. ports

2005-03-03 Thread Madhusudan Singh
Hi Since some of the ports I need are broken, I am thinking of installing those parts from source. However, is there a way to let the local ports hierarchy know that a certain package has been installed, albeit by other means ? Thanks. ___

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-03-03 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 03:27:09AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: snip Also one other thing that is important - if you don't get an answer within a week or so, ask again, politely. How do I ask after the second post with no reply? On bended knee? Just keep asking periodically.

Re: Received mail timestamp is off by 7 hours

2005-03-03 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 03:11:19AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Loren M. Lang Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 2:29 AM To: Ian Smith Cc: Loren M. Lang; Pat Maddox; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Received mail timestamp is off by 7 hours

2005-03-03 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:00:15PM -0800, Luke wrote: There's no excuse for a mailserver to not be synced to a NTP source. I'd extend that to apply to any server. Practically all the things a server does are dependent in some way on the correct time. I have three excuses: 1) NTP is

smbclient + tar

2005-03-03 Thread Sherman, Michael (GE Energy)
Hi all. I use smbclient in conjunction with tar /usr/local/bin/smbclient -d0 //$winpc/$share \ $password -Tc $backupdir/$backupfile $windir to back up work from my Windows PC. I noticed that tar skipped files. If anyone used it, how reliable is it? Also if there are any suggestions to backup

IP aliases and forcing outbound IP

2005-03-03 Thread patrick
I have a FreeBSD 4.11 box whose ethernet card has several IP address. inet 10.0.1.254 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 10.0.1.255 inet 10.0.1.111 netmask 0x broadcast 10.0.1.111 Is there a way I can cause outbound connections to certain hosts to be from 10.0.1.111 instead of

Re: tab completion

2005-03-03 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 06:50:55AM +0200, abu khaled wrote: I'm not sure if this helps but you can at least try. login as non-root (user) run this command: chsh -s /bin/tcsh you well be prompted for you non-root password logout and login again as non-root and see if it works you can su

Re: ipfw or pf

2005-03-03 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:57:06PM +0100, Albert Shih wrote: Le 02/03/2005 ? 09:03:23+0100, Stevan Tiefert a ?crit On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Albert Shih wrote: The both packef filters are maintained! pf is ported from OpenBSD and ipfw is from FreeBSD. GreatI can continu to

Re: Sources vs. ports

2005-03-03 Thread Jeff With
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:47:02 -0500, Madhusudan Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi Since some of the ports I need are broken, I am thinking of installing those parts from source. However, is there a way to let the local ports hierarchy know that a certain package has been installed, albeit

Vinum raid5 problems......

2005-03-03 Thread matt virus
Hi all: I have a FBSD 5.2.1 box running vinum. 7 *160gb drives in a raid5 array. The array has been problematic recently, but never anything too serious. Always recoverable by a rebuild or something of that nature. Two days ago, the box froze up. I brought it back online to see that one subdisk

sudo su

2005-03-03 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Hi folks, I have to questions: 1) I can I tell sudo to ask for a password everytime it's invoked? 2) how can it be that, after updating root and toor passwords, sudo asks for the old root password? Thank you! -- Pietro Piter Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beansidhe - SwiSS Death

Re: driver recompiler or translator for evdo and hsdpa

2005-03-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
bob wireless internet evdo wifi hotspot guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lemme start by admitting i am NOT a programmer... and the APPLE OS is the most i know about unix.. that said (go easy on me :o) is it possible to make a translation program that takes drivers and just ports them over to

Re: Using META and DEL keys in console

2005-03-03 Thread Lars Eighner
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Alejandro Pulver wrote: Where is the (complete) list of scancodes and which keys produce them? If there is not, as I think, how can I know what scancode is produced by each key in my keyboard (a program, maybe)? As a practical matter, for the console keyboard I generally work

Are quotas possbile on md filesystems?

2005-03-03 Thread Michael R. Wayne
Is it possible to use quotas on file-backed md filesystems on 5.3? I was guessing that a line in fstab like: md /home mfs rw,-F/vnodes/home,nosuid,nodev,noexec,userquota 2 0 would work but it's not. Can I get a working example? /\/\ \/\/ ___

Re: sudo su

2005-03-03 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, March 03, 2005 09:39:01 PM + Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I have to questions: 1) I can I tell sudo to ask for a password everytime it's invoked? Sure. Use visudo to edit /etc/sudoers and set: rootALL = (ALL) ALL wheel ALL = (ALL) ALL If NOPASSWD is

expat portupgrade dies

2005-03-03 Thread Randy Schultz
On a 5.3 system when I try to portupgrade some ports the portupgrade dies on expat: --- Upgrading 'expat-1.95.6_1' to 'expat-1.95.8' (textproc/expat2) --- Building '/usr/ports/textproc/expat2' === Cleaning for libtool-1.3.5_2 === Cleaning for expat-1.95.8 ===

Re: expat portupgrade dies

2005-03-03 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 03 March 2005 01:59 pm, Randy Schultz wrote: On a 5.3 system when I try to portupgrade some ports the portupgrade dies on expat: --- Upgrading 'expat-1.95.6_1' to 'expat-1.95.8' (textproc/expat2) --- Building '/usr/ports/textproc/expat2' === Cleaning for

Re: expat portupgrade dies

2005-03-03 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, March 03, 2005 03:59:00 PM -0600 Randy Schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On a 5.3 system when I try to portupgrade some ports the portupgrade dies on expat: I've tried doing a pkg_delete on the old expat, same effect. Is there a standard way to continue from this fail other than

RELENG_5_3 to RELENG_5 make installworld fails

2005-03-03 Thread Aaron Nichols
Hello World, Just got 5.3-RELEASE installed yesterday on this system and was cvsup'ing to 5-STABLE today. Used the following process, based on /usr/src/UPDATING (as well as the countless times I've done this before), and got the error below during 'installworld'. I did this same update (from

Re: Sharing directories with jails

2005-03-03 Thread Ean Kingston
On Thursday 03 March 2005 12:42 pm, Chris Hodgins wrote: [cut original question and answer] Ok perhaps I should clarify what my intentions are a little more. I am planning on providing a FreeBSD jail for any member of a geek society I am a member of. When I say they are untrusted, I mean

Re: dumb network question

2005-03-03 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 02:10 PM 3/3/2005, Thomas Foster wrote: hostname=my.hostname.whatever ifconfig_NIC1=inet a.b.c.d netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig_NIC2=DHCP gateway_enable=YES replace NIC1 and NIC2 with the interface names.. and of course.. a.b.c.d with the internal IP address.. be sure theres no gateway

Re: RELENG_5_3 to RELENG_5 make installworld fails

2005-03-03 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 03 March 2005 02:21 pm, Aaron Nichols wrote: Hello World, Just got 5.3-RELEASE installed yesterday on this system and was cvsup'ing to 5-STABLE today. Used the following process, based on /usr/src/UPDATING (as well as the countless times I've done this before), and got the

Re: sudo su

2005-03-03 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:56:26 -0600, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure. Use visudo to edit /etc/sudoers and set: rootALL = (ALL) ALL wheel ALL = (ALL) ALL If NOPASSWD is in there, take it out. There isn't any NOPASSWD, but if I give the password the first time, sudo doesn't

Re: sudo su

2005-03-03 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 22:47:09 + Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There isn't any NOPASSWD, but if I give the password the first time, sudo doesn't ask for it anymore in the next 5 min or so... see : man sudoers the timestamp_timeout section I think I really misunderstood the

/boot like linux!

2005-03-03 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Hello, I'm a FreeBSD 5.3 user as well as a Gentoo Linux user. In Gentoo linux, you only have to create 3 partitions: /boot swap / In FreeBSD, you seem to have to create many more: / swap /usr /var /tmp In particular, it seems that /boot MUST be on the same partition as /. This stinks, as now

Re: Sharing directories with jails

2005-03-03 Thread Anish Mistry
On Thursday 03 March 2005 05:23 pm, Ean Kingston wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 12:42 pm, Chris Hodgins wrote: [cut original question and answer] Ok perhaps I should clarify what my intentions are a little more. I am planning on providing a FreeBSD jail for any member of a geek

Re: /boot like linux!

2005-03-03 Thread Laurence Sanford
Jesse Guardiani wrote: Hello, I'm a FreeBSD 5.3 user as well as a Gentoo Linux user. In Gentoo linux, you only have to create 3 partitions: /boot swap / In FreeBSD, you seem to have to create many more: / swap /usr /var /tmp In particular, it seems that /boot MUST be on the same partition as /.

Re: RELENG_5_3 to RELENG_5 make installworld fails

2005-03-03 Thread Aaron Nichols
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 14:39:16 -0800, Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You missed a step. Your system clock is off and that makes the installworld try to use touch. Set your system clock and you may have to remake your world but it should install. Kent Infact it was off - can you give me

Re: /boot like linux!

2005-03-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Jesse Guardiani wrote: snip snip Anyway, that worked. The kernel boots now, but it prompts me at the beginning of the rc process for the root device. I give it: ufs:ad1s1d Which is my / partition, and it boots successfully. Is it possible to automate this process so that the loader knows to use

Re: /boot like linux!

2005-03-03 Thread Jesse Guardiani
On Thursday 03 March 2005 5:41 pm, you wrote: Jesse Guardiani wrote: Hello, I'm a FreeBSD 5.3 user as well as a Gentoo Linux user. In Gentoo linux, you only have to create 3 partitions: /boot swap / In FreeBSD, you seem to have to create many more: / swap /usr /var /tmp

ppp + syslog

2005-03-03 Thread J.D. Bronson
how do I get ppp to log to syslog when as the machine boots up...ppp starts and connects before syslogd starts!? I have my ppp and pf config working fine...but I would like to see what happens as it boots to /var/log/ppp.log if I kill ppp and start it manually it does log fine. Thanks! -- J.D.

Re: sudo su

2005-03-03 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, March 03, 2005 10:47:09 PM + Pietro Cerutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There isn't any NOPASSWD, but if I give the password the first time, sudo doesn't ask for it anymore in the next 5 min or so... Answered by another poster - look at the timeout section of the man page. I think

Re: /boot like linux!

2005-03-03 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Jesse Guardiani wrote: snip snip Anyway, that worked. The kernel boots now, but it prompts me at the beginning of the rc process for the root device. I give it: ufs:ad1s1d Which is my / partition, and it boots successfully. Is it possible to automate this process so

Re: Sharing directories with jails

2005-03-03 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Donnerstag, 3. März 2005 17:04 schrieb Ean Kingston: How dangerous is it to share the ports directory with jails on the system? I am using the jails to give other access to a freebsd system. You can assume they are untrusted (hence the jail ;)). Is it enough just to: ln -s

FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE SACK

2005-03-03 Thread Kan Cai
Greetings, I've installed the standard FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE and have realized that the sysctl option for enabling SACK in TCP is not available (net.inet.tcp.do_sack). Additionally, the tcp_sack.c file is not in the /usr/src/sys/netinet so I'm guessing this indicates that I need a patch.

_init and dynamically loaded libraries

2005-03-03 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
I'm having some trouble getting _init() to run when I use dlopen() to load a library. I get this: one.o: In function `_init': /usr/home/jcm/exp/modules/libone/one.c:7: multiple definition of `_init' /usr/lib/crti.o(.init+0x0): first defined here With other signatures, _init() never gets

Re: Documentation Error?

2005-03-03 Thread Loren M. Lang
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 11:19:07AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/confi gtuning-v irtual-hosts.html states that adding a virtual address is done in rc.conf like this: ifconfig_fxp0=inet

Re: /boot like linux!

2005-03-03 Thread Bob Johnson
Jesse Guardiani wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 5:41 pm, [someone] wrote: I'm not sure I understand the problem. If you don't want to create more partitions, then don't. You can make an 80gb (or 300gb, or whatever) drive into two partitions - a swap partition (2gig) and a / partition (78

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