Re: Diskless PXEboot crashes at kernel loading.

2007-02-19 Thread Sam Baskinger
Hi all, I can't emphasise enough how useful running a TCPDUMP on the server in question is to find out what subtle thing it is that I missed. Generally speaking a quick-crash like that is a file not being found like the modules directory or something silly like that. If you dump the NFS

Re: ipfw limit src-addr woes

2007-02-19 Thread admin
Andre Santos wrote: On 2/18/07, admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use ipfw's limit clause to limit the number of connections a single IP can have at the same time in a transparent web-proxy environment: 00350 skipto 401 tcp from x.x.x.x/x,y.y.y.y/y,z.z.z.z/z to any dst-port 80

Re: Internet Explorer on FreeBSD

2007-02-19 Thread Apatewna
Peter, Oliver wrote: On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 09:35:30AM +0200, Apatewna wrote: ... There is also www.win4bsd.com, although a commercial application and still at its infancy (v1.1) it works quite well. ... it is only a nicer frontend to qemu, isn't it ? Yes it is and it uses kqemu also.

Duplicate emails on freebsd-questions

2007-02-19 Thread Apatewna
As far as I can tell, the problem with duplicate emails resides on how the list software is setup. I am a member of another list where each email sent out by the list software is stripped of all CCs and ReplyTOs. There is only a ReplyTo address in the form of [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Now, whenever

Re: How to play MPEG2-TS

2007-02-19 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 11:14:26AM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi: How do I play mpeg2 transport stream video? I have tried with vlc, ffplay and mplayer and all dumps. The video shows fine on Windows with mplayer, what libraries or options do I need to set to enable mpeg2-ts on FreeBSD?

Re: Duplicate emails on freebsd-questions

2007-02-19 Thread Frank Staals
Apatewna wrote: As far as I can tell, the problem with duplicate emails resides on how the list software is setup. I am a member of another list where each email sent out by the list software is stripped of all CCs and ReplyTOs. There is only a ReplyTo address in the form of [EMAIL PROTECTED].

Re: Duplicate emails on freebsd-questions

2007-02-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-02-19 11:53, Apatewna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As far as I can tell, the problem with duplicate emails resides on how the list software is setup. No, you are wrong about this. The duplicate emails Greg Lehey was talking about were repeated re-posts of the same message. I am a member

snp(4) and incomplete lines

2007-02-19 Thread Tyler Spivey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've wrote a test program for snp(4), yes - watch exists, but I'm more interested in using it with line oriented apps - and noticed that incomplete lines don't seem to be printed. Here is the code: http://tspivey.freeshell.org/snp.tar.gz Is this a bug

Re: Duplicate emails on freebsd-questions

2007-02-19 Thread Apatewna
Frank Staals wrote: Apatewna wrote: As far as I can tell, the problem with duplicate emails resides on how the list software is setup. I am a member of another list where each email sent out by the list software is stripped of all CCs and ReplyTOs. There is only a ReplyTo address in the form

Re: ipfw limit src-addr woes

2007-02-19 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, admin wrote: Andre Santos wrote: On 2/18/07, admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use ipfw's limit clause to limit the number of connections a single IP can have at the same time in a transparent web-proxy environment: 00350 skipto 401 tcp

How Do I Surf To My Server?

2007-02-19 Thread Drew Jenkins
Hi; I have a production server that I've crashed a few times by working on it directly and making mistakes. As a result, I've finally built a mock server on my home PC on a separate hard drive with nothing but FBSD. I also have a laptop. All are connected by DHCP to a satellite dish. My

Re: Can I Mount A Windoze Drive?

2007-02-19 Thread Drew Jenkins
Here is the dialogue: # mount_ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt/win #mount_ntfs: /mnt No such file or directory Drew - Original Message From: Martin Tournoij [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 3:51:25 PM Subject: Re: Can I Mount A

CUPS printing problem

2007-02-19 Thread AN
My apologies to the list. Originally I sent 2 log files, as separate attachments to a previous email and somehow they got put into the body of the message and were really long. I am sorry for wasting every-ones bandwidth and time. Below is the original message with some pertinent log info.

Update and install new packages immediate after installation

2007-02-19 Thread satimis
Hi folks, FreeBSD-6.2-amd64 Just finished installing the captioned OS which is now working. There is no major desktop running on the OS, such as KDE/Gnome/Xfce, as well as some other necessary applications. I'll erase the OS soon to make another installation with new partitions arrangement.

Re: How Do I Surf To My Server?

2007-02-19 Thread Chris
Drew Jenkins wrote: Hi; I have a production server that I've crashed a few times by working on it directly and making mistakes. As a result, I've finally built a mock server on my home PC on a separate hard drive with nothing but FBSD. I also have a laptop. All are connected by DHCP to a

Compiler Flags for SPARC64

2007-02-19 Thread Christian Baer
Hello everybody out there! Please excuse my posting this question again on this list, but the last post on the freebsd-sparc64 didn't help much. There isn't really much traffic on that list. Assuming that gcc when run on sparc64 produces v7 code (for sun4/4c) by default, I went about trying to

Re: How Do I Surf To My Server?

2007-02-19 Thread Drew Jenkins
20- Original Message From: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Drew Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 9:09:16 AM Subject: Re: How Do I Surf To My Server? If however, you browse from within your own home network, all you need is the IP

Re: nfs, mountd, /etc/exports: grant access to several networks

2007-02-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is it possible to allow hosts of different networks to mount an NFS export? Sure. I tried already the following statements in /etc/exports without success: -network net1/mask net2/mask -network net1/mask -network net2/mask Just list them on separate lines,

Re: Operation not permitted when mounting floppy or cdrom

2007-02-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
lysergius2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD 6.2. Recently installed will not permit user mount of floppy disk, cdrom, or usb. Works fine as root. Checked devfs.conf, devfs.rules, fstab, /dev. Nothing seems to make a difference. For ordinary users to be able to mount file systems,

Re: How Do I Surf To My Server?

2007-02-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Drew Jenkins wrote: 20- Original Message From: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Drew Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 9:09:16 AM Subject: Re: How Do I Surf To My Server? If however, you browse from within your own home network, all

xDSL n Dial up connection ??? help

2007-02-19 Thread MoonblueZ
-- --- | ISP 1 | | ISP 2 | -- --- || (DHCP) || (DHCP) || - - Dial up -- | | |

Re: Can I Mount A Windoze Drive?

2007-02-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Drew Jenkins wrote: For some reason, I can no longer mount the Windoze drive! The first time I mounted it, I didn't even change the fstab! I just issued the command: mount_ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt/win and it mounted! I copied off everything I thought I needed. But when I tried to go back in,

Re: How Do I Surf To My Server?

2007-02-19 Thread Robert C Wittig
Drew Jenkins wrote: Hi; I have a production server that I've crashed a few times by working on it directly and making mistakes. As a result, I've finally built a mock server on my home PC on a separate hard drive with nothing but FBSD. I also have a laptop. All are connected by DHCP to a

Re: Internet Explorer on FreeBSD

2007-02-19 Thread Tom Grove
Bill Moran wrote: Kevin Downey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do a bit of web dev stuff so it would be nice to be able to see the page in IE. A website I use for work uses ActiveX. I hate dual booting. What is the best(easiest) way to run ie on freebsd? In addition to everything else

Asking for help on first installation

2007-02-19 Thread Manfred Frey
Hi FreeBSD folks, I'm a UNIX user for some time but now I'm trying to install my first FreeBSD system over the internet. I got along with the HW and pre-installation issues easily, the disk space is allocated, I know what to install. But I can't connect for download. I'd like to ask for your

Re: Internet Explorer on FreeBSD

2007-02-19 Thread Joe Auty
What is the status of getting Xen on FreeBSD? It's a shame that an emulator is required to run Windows on the same architecture. Does Qemu virtualized on x86 hardware? On Feb 19, 2007, at 9:06 AM, Tom Grove wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Kevin Downey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do a bit of web

Re: Asking for help on first installation

2007-02-19 Thread Derek Ragona
In general you will do better to do a new install from a bootable CD. But here is what you need to know: host is whatever you want your server's host name to be. This doesn't really matter as you will be on a private LAN. domain again this doesn't matter as you will be on a private LAN

Re: ipfw limit src-addr woes

2007-02-19 Thread admin
Ian Smith wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, admin wrote: Andre Santos wrote: On 2/18/07, admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use ipfw's limit clause to limit the number of connections a single IP can have at the same time in a transparent web-proxy environment:

Re: ipfw limit src-addr woes

2007-02-19 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, admin wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, admin wrote: Andre Santos wrote: On 2/18/07, admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to use ipfw's limit clause to limit the number of connections a single IP can have at the same time

Re: Can I Mount A Windoze Drive?

2007-02-19 Thread Drew Jenkins
- Original Message From: Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Drew Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 9:59:52 AM Subject: Re: Can I Mount A Windoze Drive? Does /mnt truly not exist? `ls -l / | grep mnt`, perhaps? Yep, exists. Here

Re: Asking for help on first installation

2007-02-19 Thread Benjamin Sobotta
Hi FreeBSD folks, I'm a UNIX user for some time but now I'm trying to install my first FreeBSD system over the internet. I got along with the HW and pre-installation issues easily, the disk space is allocated, I know what to install. But I can't connect for download. I'd like to ask for

Re: How Do I Surf To My Server?

2007-02-19 Thread Drew Jenkins
20- Original Message From: Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Drew Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 9:54:28 AM Subject: Re: How Do I Surf To My Server? Will this help? $ ifconfig vr0 snip And on a Windows Laptop: C:\ more

Re: Backup using dump and restore from dvd - restore cd loaded to ram ?drive?

2007-02-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The restore method will then require to boot from a bootable CD. The rescue CD system should load itself into RAM drive, so that I can dismount it and replace it with the CD/DVDs with the backup files. The rescue CD should provide basic commands and

Re: Asking for help on first installation

2007-02-19 Thread Guido Demmenie
On Feb 19, 2007, at 2:48 PM, Manfred Frey wrote: Hi FreeBSD folks, I'm a UNIX user for some time but now I'm trying to install my first FreeBSD system over the internet. I got along with the HW and pre-installation issues easily, the disk space is allocated, I know what to install. But I

Re: Backup using dump and restore from dvd - restore cd loaded to ram ?drive?

2007-02-19 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 19 February 2007 10:29, Oliver Fromme wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The restore method will then require to boot from a bootable CD. The rescue CD system should load itself into RAM drive, so that I can dismount it and replace it with the CD/DVDs with the backup

Re: Can I Mount A Windoze Drive?

2007-02-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 04:50:57AM -0800, Drew Jenkins wrote: Here is the dialogue: # mount_ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt/win #mount_ntfs: /mnt No such file or directory Drew I haven't followed all of this, but do you have a directoty named /mnt/win For my dual booted machine, I create a directory:

Re: Panic and Dump

2007-02-19 Thread Drew Jenkins
- Original Message From: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Drew Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 12:00:54 PM Subject: Re: Panic and Dump The filesystem clearly needs a good fsck. Remember that it can't be mounted read-write to do so; usually you'll want to

Re: Can I Mount A Windoze Drive?

2007-02-19 Thread Drew Jenkins
- Original Message From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Drew Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 12:04:29 PM Subject: Re: Can I Mount A Windoze Drive? Great! What worked here for me was: mkdir -p /mnt/win and then

Re: Update and install new packages immediate after installation

2007-02-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
satimis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please advise after installation completed how to read on CVS on the website to fetch fresh ports and src tree that I need installing further packages and updating the system. Also how to read about its package management and how to startup. I expect first

Re: Duplicate emails on freebsd-questions

2007-02-19 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
[mailed and posted and cc'ed to grog] On Feb 19, 2007, at 4:54 AM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: There is a very good reason why it is customary in this mailing list to copy the sender when replying. We don't accept email messages only from subscribers. This means that some people may post a

Re: Duplicate emails on freebsd-questions

2007-02-19 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jeffrey Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [mailed and posted and cc'ed to grog] On Feb 19, 2007, at 4:54 AM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: There is a very good reason why it is customary in this mailing list to copy the sender when replying. We don't accept email messages only