Re: FBSD-friendly UPS for home needs

2007-08-25 Thread Derek Ragona
interface. Some USB interfaces work, some do not. So I would use a UPS with a seral interface assuming you have a free serial port on the server. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks

Re: Gnome issues

2007-08-24 Thread Derek Ragona
similar experiences? Any ideas how to rectify this? Thanks in advance, Michael Sounds like your drive may be having issues. I would reboot in single user mode and fsck the drive. You may also want to try the drive manufacturer's diagnostic utility. -Derek -- This message has been

Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot

2007-08-24 Thread Derek Ragona
to 6.2. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Dell 2950: 4GB not seen (amd64; works on other 2950:s)

2007-08-24 Thread Derek Ragona
. You should try to be sure all systems you want to compare have the same motherboard and chipset and that these also have the same BIOS version. -Derek PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-Mail: [EMAIL

Re: load script at bootup

2007-08-23 Thread Derek Ragona
@reboot then an interval. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Trying to move /usr

2007-08-21 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:17 PM 8/20/2007, Michael S wrote: I tried changing the /home entry in the fstab to /usr/home, but the result is the same. And when I go to /home or /usr/home, issuing ls, simply gives me the prompt. Does the mount succeed? On the new /usr does home actually mount? -Derek

Re: Trying to move /usr

2007-08-20 Thread Derek Ragona
to be sure the perms were all correct? -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Trying to move /usr

2007-08-20 Thread Derek Ragona
properly for this operation: cd /usr tar -cvf /user/usr.tar . cd /user tar -xvpf ./usr.tar Then you can switch the mount points and all should work. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks

Re: Trying to move /usr

2007-08-20 Thread Derek Ragona
home directory with no problem. You need to adjust not just the /usr and /user but also /usr/home entries in fstab. Before you make any changes, do just a mount command and see where things are mounted. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content

Re: Trying to move /usr

2007-08-20 Thread Derek Ragona
home is really mounted. If it is /usr/home that would explain the trouble you had using your new /usr. -Derek --- Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 06:28 PM 8/20/2007, Michael S wrote: Here's df -k output: Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted

Re: Regular expressions

2007-08-18 Thread Derek Ragona
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Re: curious root find running

2007-08-17 Thread Derek Ragona
3:01AM 0:07.26 find /usr -xdev -type f ( -perm -u+x -or -perm -g+x -or -perm -o+x ) ( -perm -u+s -or -perm -g+s ) -print0 any idea why this is running? is it part of a sanctioned background process? Check your cron jobs. It is likely part of a rebuild of the locate database. -Derek

Re: curious root find running

2007-08-17 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:59 AM 8/17/2007, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Friday 17 August 2007 13:34, Derek Ragona wrote: At 05:19 AM 8/17/2007, brad clawsie wrote: hi while sitting at my computer tonight i noticed a great deal of disk activity. i found that this process was running: $ ps -auxwww 1463 USER

Re: Share folder over internet

2007-08-16 Thread Derek Ragona
be to have static IP's for both offices and a router that has hardware support for VPNs at each office. You can connect the two offices via a VPN connection from router to router. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed

Re: Local domain with Bind

2007-08-15 Thread Derek Ragona
nameserver is: nameserver 192.168.0.2 In fact on this server you should have only that entry, as your server at 192.168.0.2 should forward any other unknown DNS requests upstream to the forwarders. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content

Re: Local domain with Bind

2007-08-15 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:10 AM 8/15/2007, Nicholas Wieland wrote: Il giorno 15/ago/07, alle ore 09:01, Derek Ragona ha scritto: At 06:44 PM 8/14/2007, Nicholas Wieland wrote: This looks like the DNS settings on your other server, chienandalusia (192.168.0.3), is not setup correctly. Check /etc/resolv.conf

Re: Backspace

2007-08-13 Thread Derek Ragona
various UNIX's. You can learn more by just doing a man on these: man terminfo man termcap -Derek 2007/8/13, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 01:31:36PM -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: At 10:54 PM 8/11/2007, d.Z. wrote: Hello, I'm a new user to FreeBSD

Re: Backspace

2007-08-12 Thread Derek Ragona
the shells in UNIX environments have startup files to customize the key assignments and in the case of editors even define macros. Hope this helps. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks

Re: Question on the IFS variable (not a FreeBSD question)

2007-08-12 Thread Derek Ragona
such a way of setting variables before, and so I'm curious about it. This is dependent on the shell you use, and how it interprets character sequences looking for escape characters and such. This will differ between shells. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous

Re: Samba Install on BSD 5.4

2007-08-10 Thread Derek Ragona
. Thanks, VJ I have run samba on FreeBSD 5.4 and 5.5 where the samba server worked as a slave to Active Directory on Windows. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers

Re: relaying mail

2007-08-01 Thread Derek Ragona
a general map for the rest of a domain. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: still image grabber

2007-07-29 Thread Derek Ragona
. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Drive concatenation...Which tool to use?

2007-07-26 Thread Derek Ragona
, such as using a smaller drive for swap, then using different drives for: /usr/local /usr/src /var / /etc The choices depend on the drive capacities and what the server will be used for. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner

Re: Adaptec AAR-1220SA / AAR-1430SA

2007-07-26 Thread Derek Ragona
and miss as they have different versions (masks) of the same chips and some will work while most do not. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support

video mode problem booting 6.2 CD

2007-07-25 Thread Derek Ragona
on the screen, but just see some flashing. It looks like some kind of video mode switch the builtin VGA adapter is having trouble with. I was wondering if anyone else had seen this problem and possibly had a work around. -Derek [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been

Re: OT: what brand of TFT monitor?

2007-07-24 Thread Derek Ragona
before you buy for the image quality and viewing angle. Compare warranties too, but ultimately look at the prices. I prefer samsung as they make all their own components, other makers put together units using other manufacturer's components and quality can vary. -Derek -- This message

Re: no /boot/loader - after installation

2007-07-23 Thread Derek Ragona
error? Before you exit sysinstall you can check and see what is on the disks from the emergency shell on vtty4. You can do a mount command and see what and where things are mounted and do an ls on those filesystems. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous

Re: trouble compiling some ports

2007-07-22 Thread Derek Ragona
subdirectory? I had similar problems on one server that had an old ports tree then updated ports. I ended up having to completely delete and re-download the entire ports tree, and manually remove portupgrade and portmanager and reinstall them. -Derek -- This message has been scanned

Re: Swap size

2007-07-19 Thread Derek Ragona
on efficiency of a swap partition vs a swap file. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd

Re: no /boot/loader - after installation

2007-07-19 Thread Derek Ragona
are allowing to write to the boot area. Many BIOS have a setting to not allow this to prevent a virus writing to the boot area. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers

Re: sata: setfeatures settransfermode taskqueue timeout

2007-07-19 Thread Derek Ragona
and dissappear, usually when you acess it for the first time on a given boot, but not always the same drive. Also, I've now started getting a panic after syncing all the drives on shutdown. I'm mystified Steve Post a full dmesg so we can better see your configuration. -Derek -- This message

Re: sata: setfeatures settransfermode taskqueue timeout

2007-07-19 Thread Derek Ragona
My most recent SATA problems were cables too. Not sure why the cables went bad, but the drives would just detach on the old cables. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers

Re: Serial Cable

2007-07-17 Thread Derek Ragona
, Alexandre Try cables to go http://www.cablestogo.com/ They will even make you custom cables, but a stock null modem cable should work fine. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks

Promise RAID / ata problem

2007-07-16 Thread Derek Holden
Greetings, I have a Promise Fasttrak TX4200 running a single mirrored array under 5.5. Everything's been great for nearly a year until a recent reboot. It appears that the two disk mirrored array is coming up as two arrays with a single disk attached: Before: kernel: acd0: CDRW SONY CD-RW

Re: Promise RAID / ata problem

2007-07-16 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:45 AM 7/16/2007, Derek Holden wrote: Greetings, I have a Promise Fasttrak TX4200 running a single mirrored array under 5.5. Everything's been great for nearly a year until a recent reboot. It appears that the two disk mirrored array is coming up as two arrays with a single disk attached

Re: Promise RAID / ata problem

2007-07-16 Thread Derek Holden
Thanks for the responses, On 7/16/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 06:45 AM 7/16/2007, Derek Holden wrote: You didn't say how you created the array, in the Promise BIOS or in software under FreeBSD. If you created the array in the promise BIOS, check the array in the BIOS first

Re: Promise RAID / ata problem

2007-07-16 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:43 AM 7/16/2007, Derek Holden wrote: The array was created on the Promise card. If there is a bad disk, any ideas on why FreeBSD would report two arrays with each disk appearing as READY on one of either of them? kernel: ar0: disk1 READY (mirror) using ad6 at ata3-master kernel: ar1

Re: IBM HDs vanish on warm-boot?

2007-07-16 Thread Derek Ragona
had some utilities for those drives which are now supported by fujitsu. You should run the drive fitness utility. Also there was a utility to set the drive firmware to spin down to make it quieter. You may need to change that setting. -Derek -- This message has been scanned

Re: Can cron e-mail HTML?

2007-07-15 Thread Derek Ragona
processing or log files to the middle of the mail file here # you can even put HTML codes in here echo BR BR $MAILFILE echo$MAILFILE # add the correct HTML footer cat $REPORT_LOG_FOOTER $MAILFILE # send it to yourself $MAIL -s the report name $MAILTO $MAILFILE $RM $MAILFILE -Derek

Re: Can cron e-mail HTML?

2007-07-15 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:02 PM 7/14/2007, Mikhail Teterin wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: = = I'd rather avoid poluting my script with e-mail sending code... = You need to change your script to send the email itself. Thank you, Derek, but -- as I stated already -- I wanted to see, if this can be avoided... Doing so

Re: Installation woes with 6.2 release

2007-07-10 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:47 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote: On 7/9/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 04:20 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote: On 7/9/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:43 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote: I've got a machine with 2GB of RAM, onto which I can install Windows

Re: mergemaster not found

2007-07-09 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:15 PM 7/9/2007, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: I've restart in SUM and when I attempt* to run mergemaster it returns; Where should I run this from? You may need to be sure all your mounts are mounted, not just / try: mount -a -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses

RE: mergemaster not found

2007-07-09 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:35 PM 7/9/2007, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: -Original Message- From: Derek Ragona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 2:26 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mergemaster not found At 01:15 PM 7/9/2007, Jean-Paul Natola wrote

Re: password failure- after mergmaster

2007-07-09 Thread Derek Ragona
sounds like you did an upgrade that went bad. If you did upgrade you can do a restore from your dump, and try again. Or just check or reset the root password in single user. What error are you getting going into multi-user? -Derek ___ freebsd

Re: Installation woes with 6.2 release

2007-07-09 Thread Derek Ragona
luck, but I could be missing something. Clearly you have a disk controller compatibility problem. I do know the Sil chips are terrible, and there is a long history of issues with these chips and FreeBSD! Can you find a regular IDE drive to plug into that motherboard? -Derek

Re: Installation woes with 6.2 release

2007-07-09 Thread Derek Ragona
At 04:20 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote: On 7/9/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:43 PM 7/9/2007, Kurt Buff wrote: I've got a machine with 2GB of RAM, onto which I can install Windows XP with no issues. However, FreeBSD 6.2 Release is giving me fits on this machine. If any

Re: Adding a new command

2007-07-07 Thread Derek Ragona
as well. As previously mentioned added user commands are customarily placed in /usr/local/bin doing so will aid any new sysadmin looking for them. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks

Re: Memory mannagment

2007-06-14 Thread Derek Ragona
hardware level devices. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Upgrade FreeBSD 6.1 to 6.2 - ports upgrade

2007-06-07 Thread Derek Ragona
after you upgrade. -Derek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xserver not starting

2007-06-07 Thread Derek Ragona
environment ? Please help me with any solution to retrieve the desktop environment.. You can pickup the upgrade process where you left off, just restart portupgrade -a -x 'gstreamer*' -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed

Re: Xorg crashes while loading XFCE4

2007-06-06 Thread Derek Ragona
:82807): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 12 (Cannot allocate memory) Looks like the above is the fatal error. I suspect you rebuilt xfwm4 for shared memory, shmget. You need to add this to your kernel, or rebuild xfwm4 not to use it, if that's possible. -Derek -- This message

Re[2]: Xorg crashes while loading XFCE4

2007-06-06 Thread Derek Ragona
At 02:40 PM 6/6/2007, Gerard wrote: On Wednesday June 06, 2007 at 01:03:21 (PM) Derek Ragona wrote: [snip] Looks like the above is the fatal error. I suspect you rebuilt xfwm4 for shared memory, shmget. You need to add this to your kernel, or rebuild xfwm4 not to use it, if that's

Re[3]: Xorg crashes while loading XFCE4

2007-06-06 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:03 PM 6/6/2007, Gerard wrote: On Wednesday June 06, 2007 at 03:57:00 (PM) Derek Ragona wrote: [snip] Add to your kernel config file: options SYSVSHM #SYSV-style shared memory options SYSVMSG #SYSV-style message queues options

Re: COM1 problems

2007-06-03 Thread Derek Ragona
fixed? thanks for any tips and pointersit's been a while since I've dealt with serial ports. I have a similar setup with no issues. You do need to be sure you have the correct nut driver for your UPS, and the cable tight. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses

Re: Help with Bind config syntax for reverse DNS on subnet

2007-05-31 Thread Derek Ragona
ns.domain.name. 3 IN PTR DHCP-10-0-0-3.domain.name. etc . . . -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support

Re: Nvidia 8800 GTS

2007-05-26 Thread Derek Ragona
. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: raid or not raid

2007-05-24 Thread Derek Ragona
and the dmesg is long gone... thanks. It is likely a hardware raid setup in the hardware BEFORE FreeBSD was installed. In this type of setup the RAID array just looks like a regular hard disk to the OS. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content

Re: nvidia-driver segmentation fault

2007-05-24 Thread Derek Ragona
specific graphics chip. Older chips need a legacy driver you have to install yourself. There is information on the nvidia website. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers

Re: Missing MBR ?

2007-05-13 Thread Derek Ragona
. Check your BIOS settings. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Sendmail mail.local Failure

2007-05-12 Thread Derek Ragona
. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: No SMB/Samba support on Windows Home Editions

2007-04-27 Thread Derek Ragona
that will be used as an excuse for dropping legacy support. No one I know is jumping to vista until service pack one ships. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support

Re: can't add any new users

2007-04-26 Thread Derek Ragona
problem. Any ideas? Charlie You didn't say how you upgraded this server to 6.2, nor from what version. I suspect you have an old or missing library. You might do well on this server to cvsup, buildworld, and install world. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Boot Issue

2007-04-26 Thread Derek Ragona
BIOS that you are ALLOWING the boot sector to be written. If that is OK, try disabling hyperthreading if that is turned on in your BIOS. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Boot Issue

2007-04-26 Thread Derek Ragona
drive? -Derek Jay At 10:49 AM 4/26/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed FreeBSD 6.2 on an HP Proliant G5 server with an E200i Smart Controller installed. The installation was flawless. When I reboot the server after the installation, the boot loader screen is displayed. I

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Boot Issue

2007-04-26 Thread Derek Ragona
sysinstall? How did you partition and slice the hard drive? -Derek Derek, In the server I currently have three 376595-001 drives (146 GB serial SCSI) and three 432146-001 drives (300 GB serial SCSI). These drives are configured as a single drive in a RAID 5 configuration. I did

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Boot Issue

2007-04-26 Thread Derek Ragona
drive? Did you specify the geometry when you ran sysinstall? How did you partition and slice the hard drive? -Derek Derek, In the server I currently have three 376595-001 drives (146 GB serial SCSI) and three 432146-001 drives (300 GB serial SCSI). These drives

Re: first of misc questions....

2007-04-25 Thread Derek Ragona
vi $i;done if you don't want to use a file, you can do in one shell loop too, but again this will change your file modification times: for i in `ls -l| awk '{if ($6 == Apr $7 == 19 || $6 == Mar $7 == 26 ) print $9}'`;do vi $i;done -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses

Re: Samba connection fails

2007-04-24 Thread Derek Ragona
usbd. ... RESULT: Still getting Connection to SERVER failed. Depends on how you are trying to do your authentication. Check your smb.conf. If you are going to authenticat against an existing windows domain or active directory you need to compile windbind in your samba. -Derek

Re: raid controller intel 82801GR/GH

2007-04-24 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:23 PM 4/24/2007, J.C. França wrote: greetings, does anyone know about freebsd 6.2 compatibility with intel controller 82801GR/GH, running RAID 10? Have you tried creating your RAID 10 array first and installing FreeBSD? -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses

Re: Invalid Global DNS name and sendmail

2007-04-23 Thread Derek Ragona
psyche.local. so it is a fully qualified domain name. You can forward all mail in /etc/mail/virtualusertable with a line such as: @psyche.local [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be sure to recompile your virtualusertable.db -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content

Re: Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers

2007-04-23 Thread Derek Ragona
such as bacula. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Monitor and X

2007-04-22 Thread Derek Ragona
Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED] You need to post back with at least the monitor settings you have in your xorg.conf file. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers

Re: Monitor and X

2007-04-22 Thread Derek Ragona
refresh rates at that resolution. Usually at higher resolution, you need to drop the refresh rates. Look for a table in your monitor manual that has the refresh rate AND resolutions too. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner

A slicing question

2007-04-22 Thread Derek Tattersall
suggestions for the _RIGHT_ way to do this so I don't kill the existing scheme? -- Best regards, Derek Tattersall [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Anti Spam

2007-04-20 Thread Derek Ragona
anyone out there have thought on either or both of these? Usability? Reliability? Total Cost of ownership? Integration issues? Any thoughts will be appreciated, If your volume of mail is 5 per day don't use the baracuda. It won't keep up. -Derek -- This message has been scanned

Re: FW: IBM / FreeBSD - Install Update - Seems to be ACPI

2007-04-19 Thread Derek Ragona
. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: random hangs/reboots with Dell servers

2007-04-19 Thread Derek Ragona
board, or RAM as it must be a hardware issue. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Xorg crashing without overt error messages

2007-04-19 Thread Derek Ragona
and reinstalled the nvidia driver it would fire up just fine. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support

Re: Missing all video drivers

2007-04-19 Thread Derek Ragona
Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/ You specify what X drivers/X servers in a separate part of sysinstall. In all likelihood you choose only the generic vga option. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses

Re: IBM / FreeBSD Install problem

2007-04-18 Thread Derek Ragona
services to get it going. Dave Faulkner / Murray Taylor Bytecraft Systems Are you creating an Array before you try the installation? What does the console show for the recognized hardware, and not recognized hardware? You can boot from CD and run dmesg to get this information. -Derek

Re: Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors

2007-04-17 Thread Derek Ragona
, what tools do people use to stress-test disk drives? I've searched ports and done some googling but nothing stands out. Thanks for your help. Use the manufacture's utilities to test the drives. Each manufacturer has bootable test and stress utilities. -Derek -- This message has been

Re: Cant boot fresh install of freebsd 6.2 or dell poweredge 6650

2007-04-12 Thread Derek Ragona
from a different mirror. It is possible your CD is foobar. Be sure you get the correct disk 1 ISO from whatever mirror you use. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers

Re: Question about the /etc/hosts file

2007-04-11 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:54 PM 4/10/2007, RW wrote: On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:52:43 -0500 Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:48 PM 4/10/2007, L33T Networks wrote: What is the second line with 10.20.30.199, and the hostname ends in a period? I've never seen this in a host file previous to FBSD v.6

Re: awk question

2007-04-11 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:43 PM 4/10/2007, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 06:35:33PM -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: At 06:17 PM 4/10/2007, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 06:54:07PM -0700, Rick Olson wrote: I'm assuming you've already taken care of this, but to answer your original question

Re: No CD/DVD devices found after booting from FreeBSD 6.2 CD 1

2007-04-11 Thread Derek Ragona
drive on? what interface is the hard drive using? Which version of FreeBSD are you installing i386 or amd64? -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support

Re: Chroot/jail mechanism in ssh and sftp connections

2007-04-11 Thread Derek Ragona
to remove any symlinks that shouldn't be there. Derek Ragona wrote: At 10:28 AM 4/10/2007, Thiago Esteves de Oliveira wrote: Hello, I want to use the chroot/jail mechanism in user's ssh and sftp connections. I've read some tutorials and possible solutions to jail/chroot the users into their own home

Re: fetchmail checksum mismatch error

2007-04-11 Thread Derek Ragona
! Thank you! -- Zbigniew Szalbot delete the downloaded bad file from /usr/ports/distfiles and then download a good file. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers

Re: default shell behavior with aterm

2007-04-11 Thread Derek Ragona
databases. I don't see an entry for it, and suspect it is using one of the generic definitions. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support

Re: Unable to load a kernel !

2007-04-11 Thread Derek Ragona
: +506 814-0247 Before you exit sysinstall you can check that the kernel has been copied in the emergency shell on alt+f4. You may need to manually copy copy the kernel. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed

Re: Boot failure after installation

2007-04-10 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:14 PM 4/9/2007, L Goodwin wrote: Derek Ragona said: Go into the SCSI BIOS and reset the SCSI to default values. If it still gives the same error on bootup, I would go into the SCSI BIOS and low-level format that first drive, and reinstall FreeBSD. On the reinstall, I would just do

Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard ...

2007-04-10 Thread Derek Ragona
... which of course, is too late to do any diagnosis :( Thx ... This is a limitation of the hardware in the keyboards and the motherboards. The only solution I have found is to use a KVM switch which keeps the keyboard and mouse ports active during bootups. -Derek -- This message has

Re: Chroot/jail mechanism in ssh and sftp connections

2007-04-10 Thread Derek Ragona
one thing to the accounts, which is to change their home directory in /etc/passwd adding an additional dot. For instance if a users home directory is: /home/user You'd need to change it to: /home/./user vsftpd is well documented and relatively easy to get setup and running. -Derek

Re: KVM over IP (Was: Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard) ...

2007-04-10 Thread Derek Ragona
/var/log/console.log and adding a line to /etc/newsyslog.conf to rotate the logs: /var/log/console.log600 5 100 * J -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed

Re: Question about the /etc/hosts file

2007-04-10 Thread Derek Ragona
do it all on one line but it gets too long to easily see and edit. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support

Re: flp floppies

2007-04-10 Thread Derek Ragona
click of mouse). Thanks in advance You need to use rawwrite to write the floppy images to the diskettes. You'd run this in a command window in XP. rawwrite is in the tools folder on FreeBSD disk 1 -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content

Re: disklabel error in 4.11 release

2007-04-10 Thread Derek Ragona
written to? It would appear that this is the case. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd

Re: awk question

2007-04-10 Thread Derek Ragona
) }' -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Boot failure after installation

2007-04-09 Thread Derek Ragona
BIOS's. Go into your SCSI BIOS and make sure it is set to be bootable and has the correct disk set for booting from. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers

Re: lpd refuses to print from a machine with a DHCP assigned IP address...

2007-04-06 Thread Derek Ragona
need a public IP on your server, ask your provider for a static IP instead of a DHCP one. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support

Re: creating device node?

2007-04-06 Thread Derek Ragona
and beyond the /dev entries are created automatically on bootup. If a device isn't being created check your dmesg that the device is found and properly identified. Some devices may need a kernel change or kernel module loaded. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses

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