Re: VIA C3 - cant boot CD

2006-09-01 Thread Derek Ragona
Try booting another bootable CD. It sounds like the CD you burned didn't burn properly. You can find bootable images in other OS's at bootdisk.org or FreeDOS.org. -Derek At 08:21 PM 8/31/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have an ML6000 (no floppy) and have downloaded the 4.11 mini-i

Re: Monitor display problem

2006-08-31 Thread Derek Ragona
Sorry about my bad typing, I meant eratta. I would look at http://www.s3graphics.com/ And look for documentation on issues running X -Derek On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Roger Merritt wrote: At 08:38 AM 8/30/2006 -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: I would check the errat on the S3 you are using

Re: Monitor display problem

2006-08-30 Thread Derek Ragona
I would check the errat on the S3 you are using. It sounds like there may be some kernel/system changes you may need to make since your lockups are from going back to text mode from graphics mode. It is likely some conflict this is causing is hardware related. -Derek On Wed, 30 Aug

Re: question about network setup

2006-08-30 Thread Derek Ragona
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Nazar wrote: Alright guys. This is probably the complete newbie question, but I just cant fight a straight answer on google. The questions usually I found, werent answered. Anyways, to the point. I'm behind router. Cable modem -> Router -> pc's. Basic home setup. I set up

Re: localhost = ::1

2006-08-28 Thread Derek Ragona
You are seeing it match the first match. Comment out the IPV6 line and restart bind. -Derek On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, patrick wrote: I upgraded BIND on one of our DNS servers (running FreeBSD 4.x) to version 9, and now all of our other machines that use this server for DNS resolution is

Re: FreeBSD 5.4: 'cp -p' does not behave as documented

2006-08-28 Thread Derek Ragona
You need to run this as root so the permissions and ownership all can be set. -Derek On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Gabriel O'Brien wrote: Hi folks, FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p6 i386 We have a script in our environment that is used to back up our mail logs. In essence it does: cp -p /var/log/ma

Re: driver source compilation question

2006-08-25 Thread Derek Ragona
The simplest thing is to copy a make file from a port, or other driver source directory and edit it for your driver. -Derek At 08:20 PM 8/25/2006, Jim Stapleton wrote: I've found some driver source, it's just got the .c and .h files for the drivers, and no makefile. "make" and "make i

Re: Problems booting HP Proliant DL-320 G4 & 6.1-RELEASE

2006-08-25 Thread Derek Ragona
I would check the BIOS settings, and perhaps turn off any peripherals not used. You may need to try setting the hyperthreading on or off if your CPU supports that. -Derek At 08:14 PM 8/25/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having problems booting my new 320 G4 after successfully install

Re: Too many Xorg modes

2006-08-25 Thread Derek Ragona
Run the xorgconfig interactively in text mode and choose what you want. -Derek At 05:43 PM 8/24/2006, Perry Hutchison wrote: In 6.1, how would I set up xorg.conf to restrict Xorg to a few specific modes? The Xorg.8.log created during xorgcfg shows 24 modelines, but when I cycle throug

Re: "Hostile" vs. "Friendly" instances of Sendmail

2006-08-25 Thread Derek Ragona
Use MailScanner and configure it to use blacklists and to delete not bounce SPAM. -Derek At 02:57 PM 8/25/2006, Brett Glass wrote: A company for whom I do consulting has a FreeBSD mail server. Because they're being deluged with connections from spammers (who have responded to the inc

Re: Suggestions for Recovering from messed up upgrade

2006-08-25 Thread Derek Ragona
If the NIC being disabled is your only problem, check your /etc/rc.conf settings. -Derek At 07:38 AM 8/25/2006, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: When I upgraded from 5.x to 6 I messed things up. The first problem that I had was that I couldn't access localhost in my web browser. I made chang

Re: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA errors

2006-08-25 Thread Derek Ragona
Run diagnostics from Dell and from the hard drive manufacturer. -Derek At 07:32 AM 8/25/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I just installed FreeBSD 6.1 on a new Dell desktop that's going to act as a temporary server while I migrate two older servers (4.10-STABLE) over to all new soft

Re: (no subject)

2006-08-25 Thread Derek Ragona
What that statement means is the network daemons will be running. If you don't have a NIC in the box, they won;t do much. Yes you can run dumb terminals if you want, but make sure if you use a mutliport serial card it is supported. You may also need to enable the gettys to run on those ports

Re: Code beautifiers, anyone?

2006-08-24 Thread Derek Ragona
For C code I use indent http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/indent/beautify.html -Derek At 07:58 AM 8/24/2006, Kyrre Nygård wrote: Hello people, I'm looking for the best ways to create a line of code beautification (reformatting) scripts -- one for C, one for Ruby, one for Bash and o

Re: MailScanner

2006-08-24 Thread Derek Ragona
Depends on what MTA you are using. On my servers I use sendmail as the MTA. In /etc/rc.conf I have these variables set: mta_type="sendmail" mailscanner_enable="YES" I only need MailScanner started at boot from the script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ in addition to starting Sendmail. If you are usi

Re: MailScanner

2006-08-24 Thread Derek Ragona
wrote: Dear all: I have successfull setup mailscanner+spamassassin and now I can deliver mail to my domain by mailscanner filtered. Now I got so many spam? Email message which scaned by mailscanner. How can I configure mailscanner to delete all those spam? On 24/08/2006, at 11:31 AM, Derek

Re: MailScanner

2006-08-23 Thread Derek Ragona
Edit the MailScanner.conf file and set at least high scoring SPAM to bounce. -Derek At 07:57 PM 8/23/2006, rithy4u- CEO wrote: Dear all: I have successfull setup mailscanner+spamassassin and now I can deliver mail to my domain by mailscanner filtered. Now I got so many spam? Email m

Re: new 6.1 install will not boot

2006-08-23 Thread Derek Ragona
You pretty much followed what I had wrote before that when I had a similar problem, I booted the install disk, but exited sysinstall to a shell prompt. I then mounted the root partition, then manually copied over the kernel from the install CD to the root partition. That does copy over the GE

Re: new 6.1 install will not boot

2006-08-23 Thread Derek Ragona
I have seen this happen where the kernel is not copied by sysinstall. I booted the install CD but exited sysinstall to a shell prompt, mounted the root partitiion and manually copied the kernel. You might give that a try. -Derek At 01:48 AM 8/23/2006, Perry Hutchison wrote: > Recom

Re: Installing on IBM Z61t

2006-08-22 Thread Derek Ragona
Yeah I have seen that happen before, like the boot area didn't burn cleanly or the error correction on the drive isn't as good as on other drives. -Derek At 01:06 PM 8/22/2006, Jerry McAllister wrote: Problem solved - partly anyway. It is apparently a marginal CD burn. > You can go

RE: FreeBSD on Dell PE850

2006-08-22 Thread Derek Ragona
his error: "Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf Unable to load a Kernel! / cant load 'kernel' Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. OK" I think it is only a problem with 6.1 because 6.0 installs fine. Thron Derek Ragona <[EMA

Re: FreeBSD on Dell PE850

2006-08-22 Thread Derek Ragona
Opps, I am bad! I guess I always just alt+f through the keys until I see the screen -Derek At 11:12 AM 8/22/2006, John Nielsen wrote: When running sysinstall from the FreeBSD CD the debug screen is at Alt-F2. JN On Tuesday 22 August 2006 12:02, Derek Ragona wrote: > The de

RE: FreeBSD on Dell PE850

2006-08-22 Thread Derek Ragona
. -Derek At 10:57 AM 8/22/2006, unixforums 1 wrote: The debug screen is blank. To verify I had a good download I went to a different mirror site and downloaded the boot-only cd and had the same problems. Thron Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What was on the debug screen? alt+F4 ge

Re: Infinite Loops! Infinite Loops! FREAKING Infinite Loops!!!!

2006-08-22 Thread Derek Ragona
do: ls /var/db/pkg Look for duplicate versions ports. You will need to use: pkg_delete -f [port name] to remove all of these ports that have duplicates, then reinstall that port. Once you have only one version of the ported applications run portmanager to be sure you have them and their depen

RE: FreeBSD on Dell PE850

2006-08-22 Thread Derek Ragona
What was on the debug screen? alt+F4 gets you to that screen. -Derek At 10:36 AM 8/22/2006, unixforums 1 wrote: I am having several problems loading 6.1 on a Dell PE 850 w/an Adaptec 39160 scsi card and a single scsi drive. When I install from the boot only cd, I get the error "Unab

Re: problems with acer aspire

2006-08-22 Thread Derek Ragona
Sounds like your motherboard went bad. You can try flashing the BIOS with a floppy to see if that brings it back. -Derek At 10:10 PM 8/21/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After moving this computer from one location to another it will not operate correctly. I get this on screenIRQ

Re: Installing on IBM Z61t

2006-08-22 Thread Derek Ragona
You can go to bootdisk.org or freedos.org and download an iso image to make a bootable CD. I think you need to first get your system actually booting a CD of any OS, then move on to installing FreeBSD. It may be your BIOS isn't booting the CD or you simply have a CD with a bad boot image. So

Re: Installing on IBM Z61t

2006-08-21 Thread Derek Ragona
I would check that you have the IDE interface enabled that the CD plugs into. Have you tried booting other bootable CD's like a WinXP CD just to see if you get it to boot from CD. -Derek At 05:20 PM 8/21/2006, Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi All, I am trying to set up a notebook compute

Re: Rebuilding Kernel

2006-08-21 Thread Derek Ragona
BEFORE you do: make delete-old-libs be SURE portmanager has everything updated. I had to run portmanager multiple times to get all my ports completely rebuilt. -Derek At 03:28 PM 8/21/2006, beno wrote: Hi; I just barely finished upgrading from 5.3 to 6.1 and all is well, however,

Re: Showstopping FreeBSD 6.1 bug

2006-08-21 Thread Derek Ragona
Was this on a new install or an upgrade? I've seen this problem doing a binary upgrade, but not with a new install. -Derek At 05:05 PM 8/20/2006, Jeff Rollin wrote: Hello all I need to report a serious bug in 6.1-RELEASE. On both AMD64 and x86, sysinstall appears to work correctly b

Re: user level

2006-08-19 Thread Derek Ragona
If DHCP is not working, use an unused static IP on your lan and set the default gateway. You will find more instructions on how to do this in the networking section of the handbook. -Derek At 03:52 PM 8/19/2006, conrad sobol wrote: Dear Sir: I assembled my first computer in March of

Re: Tuning FreeBSD

2006-08-19 Thread Derek Ragona
You can just set the value in /boot/loader.conf such as: kern.maxusers="50" and reboot -Derek At 03:35 PM 8/19/2006, Lisa Casey wrote: Hi Folksm I'm getting these on a FreeBSD 5.3 box: Aug 19 15:46:32 radius sm-mta[12850]: k7JJk1rt012776: SYSERR(UID0): fill_fd: disconnect: cannot op

Re: Two Dell PE1850s keep locking up...

2006-08-19 Thread Derek Ragona
Here are a few things I would try: Update all the firmware in both dells. Then run the dell diagnostics to see if ANYTHING shows up as a problem. Check your disk space and swap, make sure you have enough of both. If it still is causing problems do your best to find a repeatable case to post

Re: Web server requirements

2006-08-19 Thread Derek Ragona
It sounds like you have this older hardware to use, so you can try it and see. It will likely be a bit under powered for the streaming, and may chug under the maximum users. With hardware prices at an all time low, you might want to consider something faster with more capacity, but you can al

Re: SCSI disks spinning down

2006-08-18 Thread Derek Ragona
There is a utility from the manufacturer to set the drives not to spin down. They are spinning down to be quieter and make less heat. -Derek At 01:13 PM 8/18/2006, FreeBSD Questions wrote: I have a server, running FBSD 5.4, that has six SCSI disks in it. It's primarily a fileserver f

Re: Sendmail Access DB Question

2006-08-17 Thread Derek Ragona
It doesn't check for forged headers but matches against the domain in the from. The matching goes from right to left. -Derek At 01:18 PM 8/17/2006, Chris Maness wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: Check the headers it may be from another domain. -Derek At 05:22 PM 8/16

Re: Sendmail Access DB Question

2006-08-17 Thread Derek Ragona
Check the headers it may be from another domain. -Derek At 05:22 PM 8/16/2006, Chris Maness wrote: I have used the access db to allow e-mail's from domains that have been black listed by my black list DNS lists. It works for all the other e-mails / domains that I have listed except f

Re: utilities for intel SRCZCR RAID adapter

2006-08-15 Thread Derek Ragona
Does storcon work in 5.X? One server I have this RAID adapter in is still in 5.X. I don't see it in the ports. -Derek At 04:26 PM 8/15/2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Tue, 15 Aug 2006, Derek Ragona wrote: Does anyone know if any of the RAID utilities in the ports works wit

utilities for intel SRCZCR RAID adapter

2006-08-15 Thread Derek Ragona
Does anyone know if any of the RAID utilities in the ports works with the Intel SRCZCR RAID adapter? I know intel usually uses either Adaptec or LSI chips usually, but I don't know what chip is used on this adapter or if the utilities will even work on this adapter. Thanks, -Derek

Re: Rebuilding, Got Questions

2006-08-15 Thread Derek Ragona
You should cvsup to update your sources. I believe it is recommended you first update to 5.5, then update again to 6.1. Once you cvsup read the UPDATING file in /usr/src. I would be wary of using the -j4 it has caused some issues, check UPDATING before using that flag. -Derek At 01

Re: Finding out which options you used when compiling a package?

2006-08-15 Thread Derek Ragona
for most ports: make config will bring up the configuration with the last used options selected. -Derek At 01:45 PM 8/15/2006, Chris wrote: Is there anyway to find out which defines you decleared on the make line you used to compile a port or the menu options you used for ports that p

Re: Stupid question about mountpoints and fstab

2006-08-15 Thread Derek Ragona
Well it looks like home is on a second disk, which used 6 GB in overhead making the filesystem. -Derek At 10:41 AM 8/15/2006, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hello people, I have never figured out something like this can be done, but today I see it. We have purchased s co-lo server. They

Re: Horizontal Streaking on Monitor

2006-08-15 Thread Derek Ragona
Sounds like you are getting some noise either from a bad cable or from the motherboard itself. I would try a different cable and if you get the same result, try re-seating the card, or moving to a different slot, if possible. -Derek At 10:33 PM 8/14/2006, Chris wrote: My Video card i

Re: Using putty as a ssh client on FreeBSD

2006-08-10 Thread Derek Ragona
You are trying to automatically login and either the key is bad or missing. You should try creating a new key. -Derek At 10:13 AM 8/9/2006, Josh Paetzel wrote: I'm trying to use putty on my FBSD 6.1-R box to access another FreeBSD box. I can get in fine using the command line ssh cl

Re: Reinstalling Sendmail?

2006-08-10 Thread Derek Ragona
You should check your log file and see why sendmail is exiting. -Derek At 06:33 AM 8/10/2006, Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: I have some problems with Sendmail (ref an older thread I posted): pid 72284 (sendmail), uid 0: exited on signal 11 pid 72505 (sendmail), uid 0: exited on sign

Re: Filtering mail based on header contents

2006-08-09 Thread Derek Ragona
I would recommend you simply monitor your email, checking the SPAM scoring. There are two levels at which you can bounce SPAM in SpamAssasin. You will likely want to set the higher level to bounce after you have chosen what score you want to set for the bouncing. Redirecting to a mailbox wil

Re: Sendmail FreeBSD 5.3 Issue

2006-08-09 Thread Derek Ragona
Make sure you have nsswitch configured correctly, and your hosts file, and the reverse DNS maps setup correctly. -Derek At 09:31 AM 8/9/2006, Derrick Schimcek wrote: I have a machine that I have installed bind and sendmail from the ports collection it is a mail gateway. When I do a ns

Re: Booting more than 4 OSes from a hard disk?

2006-08-08 Thread Derek Ragona
Master boot records are limited to four which is where the limit comes from. It is theoretically possible to have the MBR point to a new disk location where you could have a boot manager that supports unlimited boot partitions. But that requires all the booting is in software and outside the

Re: Thin terminals for FreeBSD

2006-08-07 Thread Derek Ragona
In these days of commodity PC pricing running X-terminals isn't really cost effective. You'd be better off buying 10 - 20 identical PC's loading and configuring one, and then clone the drive for the rest. Using X-terminals will likely cost more per unit, and produce more load on the server, t

Re: Sendmail Question; unable to send mail as normal user

2006-08-07 Thread Derek Ragona
Make sure you have the following files in /etc/mail setup: local-host-names domaintable mailertable These last two need a database file too which is make by: /usr/sbin/makemap hash domaintable < domaintable /usr/sbin/makemap hash mailertable < mailertable -Derek At 12:41 PM 8/7/2006, F

Re: DNS Blacklist Script?

2006-08-04 Thread Derek Ragona
Your best is to report them to spamcop. I believe there is a plug-in for thunderbird to do that. -Derek At 03:24 PM 8/4/2006, Chris Maness wrote: Does anyone know of a script (or application) to automagically add a host to a dns blacklist? It would be very convenient to blacklist al

Re: 17" or 19"

2006-08-03 Thread Derek Ragona
You need to compare more than just the resolution. Differences in LCD's are digital vs analog, some do both. Digital is preferred if your video will support it. The contrast ratio: 300:1, 500:1, 600:1, 1000:1, etc. More is better in contrast. Last is the update speed in ms. You want fast

Re: FreeBSD crashes on my laptop...

2006-07-29 Thread Derek Ragona
Are the crashes always with X running? ATI support is not good for X. -Derek At 01:15 AM 7/29/2006, Ahmed Parkar wrote: Hello... I am running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE (AMD64) on an Acer Ferrari 3400 laptop... Specs... Mobile AMD athlon 3000+ 128mb ATI radeon 9700... I install it and ever

Re: tar dies on making tape backup

2006-07-26 Thread Derek Ragona
I use the ASCII headers for portability incase I need to restore to another server with a different tar version. -Derek At 06:29 PM 7/25/2006, Jaime wrote: On Jul 25, 2006, at 9:03 AM, Derek Ragona wrote: Using tar with a SDLT I set the blocksize at 1024 and use ASCII headers (-c

Re: FreeBSD 6 Hard Lock no logs

2006-07-25 Thread Derek Ragona
First look for the obvious problems like low disk or swap space. If these are OK, you might need to run a script that logs various things and sift through it. I would suggest writing a shell script that sleeps for say 30 to 60 seconds, then opens a log file and does ps -ax and some other echo

Re: Serious disk problems

2006-07-25 Thread Derek Ragona
I would try moving the disk to another server and doing the fsck there. If you get the same error you can try increasing the memory limits. You could also try booting the live CD and run the fsck. If you do this you may need to us sysctl to raise the memory limits if you get that error.

Re: tar dies on making tape backup

2006-07-25 Thread Derek Ragona
Using tar with a SDLT I set the blocksize at 1024 and use ASCII headers (-c) -Derek At 05:18 PM 7/24/2006, Jaime wrote: I'm attempting to use tar to feed my filesystem(s) to a DLT tape drive. I've done this with FreeBSD 3 through 5 and DAT (DDS-3 and DDS-4) tapes for years. T

Re: Simple DNS Configuration

2006-07-24 Thread Derek Ragona
Check your /etc/nsswitch.conf file. You want the line for hosts to be: dns files Also be sure named is running. While it says it is starting do a: ps -ax|grep name -Derek At 04:53 PM 7/24/2006, David Stanford wrote: On 7/24/06, Matthias Fechner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi David,

Re: Corrupt MBOX

2006-07-23 Thread Derek Ragona
no pop email at all. The only way I have found to fix this is to either use pine and delete the bad message. Pine is better at handling mal-formed headers. Or to use a webmail interface to delete the bad email. -Derek At 12:18 PM 7/22/2006, Gerard Seibert wrote: Derek Ragona wrote

Re: Corrupt MBOX

2006-07-22 Thread Derek Ragona
It may be corrupted by spam. This happens when SPAM has bad headers. This effects all POP clients/servers. -Derek At 11:07 AM 7/22/2006, Gerard Seibert wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: > Install pine and try reading it using pine. > > -Derek That does not correct th

Re: mbox retrieval

2006-07-22 Thread Derek Ragona
Install pine and reading locally using pine, don't delete the messages in pine and you can pick them up remotely. -Derek At 04:06 AM 7/22/2006, Robert Davison wrote: I've received some email and read it using the simple 'mail' command. I use qpopper to pick up the email remotely, but

Re: Corrupt MBOX

2006-07-22 Thread Derek Ragona
Install pine and try reading it using pine. -Derek At 07:43 AM 7/22/2006, Gerard Seibert wrote: For whatever reason, once the size of any MBOX in /var/mail exceeds approximately 30M it becomes corrupt. Qpopper refuses to deliver the mail. Attempting to open the MBOX with pico causes a

Re: traps and interrupts

2006-07-21 Thread Derek Ragona
Traps go along with signal handlers. You should do a man on signal for more information. The interrupts you are referring to are at a device driver level, where a driver interacts directly with the hardware. -Derek At 03:21 PM 7/21/2006, Jamie wrote: I'm going through "Design

Re: tempreture shutting down.

2006-07-19 Thread Derek Ragona
That is on your motherboard. You probably have a fan that isn't running right. -Derek At 11:28 AM 7/19/2006, Marwan Sultan wrote: I Finally installed 6.1 on my HP Laptop dv5000 serios. when i restarted for the first time, and During booting, it gives the following error and it shuts d

Re: Windows & FreeBSD

2006-07-19 Thread Derek Ragona
You can run the install from windows. Look for booteasy in the tools directory on the FreeBSD CD. -Derek At 04:22 AM 7/19/2006, horn wrote: Now i have FreeBSD 6.1 on my computer. I want to install windows. Windows is erased FreeBSD boot loader. How it is possible recovery boot loader

Re: fbsd 6 didnot work on laptop

2006-07-19 Thread Derek Ragona
Check your BIOS that you don't have protection of the boot block enabled. If you do, remove that protection and reinstall. Some laptops can get stuck, and you have to pull the battery and AC power then restore the AC power to get them to restart. -Derek At 05:35 PM 7/18/2006, Marwan

Re: radeon option agpmode 4 hangs system

2006-07-18 Thread Derek Ragona
oving agp from kernel didn't work. It still freezes unless I comment out the agpmode 4... Any other tips? Rgrds On 7/18/06, Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do you have the agp kernel module not loaded? In 6.x there are known problems with the agp kernel module whic

Re: radeon option agpmode 4 hangs system

2006-07-17 Thread Derek Ragona
Do you have the agp kernel module not loaded? In 6.x there are known problems with the agp kernel module which is compiled in by default. If you haven't tried removing it, try that. -Derek At 02:15 PM 7/17/2006, Gobbledegeek wrote: After a long search and no solution in sight,

Re: Bind problem

2006-07-11 Thread Derek Ragona
Lisa, Your forward file should be something like this: $TTL3600 @ IN SOA ns.jellico.com. dnsadmin.jellico.com. ( 2003071101 ; serial 3H

Re: chipest real hardware raid for FreeBSD&Windows XP

2006-07-11 Thread Derek Ragona
Rudeness gets you nothing! At 12:38 PM 7/11/2006, Eugeny Kuzakov wrote: On 7/10/06, Derek Ragona <<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Firstly I asked chipest HARDWARE raid MB doesn't has contained hardware raid... Please see <http://linux-ata.org/faq

Re: Bind problem

2006-07-10 Thread Derek Ragona
The installed bind is not in /usr/local/bin that is where the port is installed. You might want to do a: # which bind and set rc.conf to the right value for the program. -Derek At 04:34 PM 7/10/2006, Lisa Casey wrote: - Original Message - From: "Jonathan Chen" <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: chipest real hardware raid for FreeBSD&Windows XP

2006-07-10 Thread Derek Ragona
That is about the cheapest true hardware RAID. You can use lower cost adapters or get a motherboard with built-in RAID. -Derek At 04:12 AM 7/10/2006, Eugeny Kuzakov wrote: Hi guys! Can anybody advice me chipest REAL HARDWARE raid for sata? At the moment I found that chipest is 3ware

Re: DNS beginner question

2006-07-06 Thread Derek Ragona
. Michael On 7/6/06, Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes DNS will work with your port forwarding assuming you have it set up correctly on your router. Are you trying to be the authoritative DNS for your domain? If you are you will still need a secondary DNS. -Derek

Re: DNS beginner question

2006-07-06 Thread Derek Ragona
Yes DNS will work with your port forwarding assuming you have it set up correctly on your router. Are you trying to be the authoritative DNS for your domain? If you are you will still need a secondary DNS. -Derek At 05:56 AM 7/6/2006, Michael S wrote: The "open" ports are simply p

Re: Installation on private network

2006-07-04 Thread Derek Ragona
The simplest way is to take the ISO of the release you want to load and install as an upgrade. You will need to remove or move /usr/src first as an upgrade won't overwrite it if it is found. -Derek At 11:58 AM 7/4/2006, Raymond Owens wrote: I have a freebsd system which is on a priva

Re: Sendmail Bind FreeBSD 5.3 Issue

2006-07-03 Thread Derek Ragona
It sounds like your server is expecting to be the authoritative server for this domain, but is not. The authoritative server's records always are assumed to be the correct ones. -Derek At 11:30 AM 7/3/2006, Derrick Schimcek wrote: I have a machine that I have installed bind and sen

Fixed my server crashing in X with AGP video

2006-07-01 Thread Derek Ragona
I have a server that ran fine in FreeBSD 5.X but after updating to 6.0 started crashing and rebooting from X. I thought maybe it was some anomaly and hoped 6.1 would fix it. It was still crashing, so I dove in to find why . . . It seems with some RTFM on the nvidia driver notes, I found the a

Re: New install, rebuilding world

2006-06-27 Thread Derek Ragona
Read the Makefile in /usr/src, and UPDATING in /usr/src as well. What you will want to do is track the security branch, and subscribe to the security list to get any reports of issues. If an issue arises, you can choose to cvsup and rebuild, or not. If the issue is not in a subsystem you use

Re: Monitoring Server Health

2006-06-26 Thread Derek Ragona
I use bigsister, which is in the ports. Bigsister trys to use snmp and to be non-invasive. However, any monitoring comes with some overhead. On the good side bigsister is cross-platform and can be used on Windows servers as well as FreeBSD (and other 'NIXs too.)Bigsister can be configure

Re: Need urgent help to get Sendmail running again

2006-06-26 Thread Derek Ragona
You email didn't state if you rebuilt sendmail too, when you rebuilt world. This is an option in /etc/make.conf. The current sendmail is 8.13.7 so you may not have rebuilt sendmail. The logs show that you are not able to authenticate to localhost, but your email didn't state how you have sen

Re: problems running freebsd 6.0+

2006-06-25 Thread Derek Ragona
You should post with your dmesg output and uname -a as well. It would also help if you also included the task list from ps -ax -Derek At 08:16 PM 6/24/2006, Tom Cruickshank wrote: Hello, I'm hoping is the correct mailing list for this, if not, please feel free to direct me to a mo

Re: IBM 440 8CPU + RAID 4LX

2006-06-23 Thread Derek Ragona
You need to give more details on your server hardware and on the version you are trying to install. By default SMP is turned off in the generic kernel in 6.X, which is why booting the live cd is only in single CPU mode. -Derek At 03:03 AM 6/23/2006, Miki Klein - Wisedot Technologies

Re: Serial programming on FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE

2006-06-22 Thread Derek Ragona
flags when you do the open call. -Derek At 02:55 PM 6/22/2006, Andrew Falanga wrote: I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Andy On 6/22/06, Derek Ragona <<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Kermit may be manipulating the uart directly. Unless yo

Re: Serial programming on FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE

2006-06-22 Thread Derek Ragona
arted kermit on both the FreeBSD and Linux machines and was able to send/receive data in either direction. I didn't disable getty before doing that. Second question is, does my code look ok? Am I initializing everythin accordingly? Andy On 6/22/06, Derek Ragona <<mailto:[EMAIL P

Re: Serial programming on FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE

2006-06-22 Thread Derek Ragona
Andy, Did you kill the getty running on the port? Are you getting any errors? -Derek At 10:28 AM 6/22/2006, Andrew Falanga wrote: Hello, I've got a case where I'm writing a simply serial program to send bytes from one system to another over a serial cable. The program works in Linux

Re: Sendmail and high kernel CPU utilisation

2006-06-19 Thread Derek Ragona
Travis, This may be from someone mail bombing your server with large email attachments. However, you should increase the logging by sendmail adding or changing the sendmail option: -O LogLevel=80 Usually this is set in /etc/rc.conf. I find 80 is pretty good for showing a lot of detail. Th

Re: "don't know how to make" libsmutil.a

2006-06-18 Thread Derek Ragona
You may need to cvsup again, as you may have done it before the makefile for sendmail was properly updated. Or, you can download and build sendmail from source. -Derek At 03:10 PM 6/18/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been trying to follow these directions for setting up a secure

Re: pop passwords no longer working after hacker got on my server

2006-06-16 Thread Derek Ragona
You should first verify your pop daemon is running, either from inet or on boot. What errors are you getting? -Derek At 08:36 AM 6/16/2006, Scott Kaplan wrote: After a hacker got on my server pop passwords are no longer working I tried deleting and re-adding popa3d but it didn't help

Re: how to debug a lock-up?

2006-06-15 Thread Derek Ragona
using this server for, you may want to add more logging for those services such as mail, web, etc. Run the manufacturer's diagnostics. It sounds like a hardware problem. -Derek At 09:05 AM 6/15/2006, George Donnelly wrote: hi Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: how to debug a lock-up?

2006-06-15 Thread Derek Ragona
First you should cvsup and rebuild everything to the latest release versions so all security fixes are loaded. With everything rebuilt, let it run and see if it still locks up. Did you change any hardware recently? -Derek At 07:17 AM 6/15/2006, George Donnelly wrote: hi two nights

Re: spontaneous reboot

2006-06-15 Thread Derek Ragona
NMI means a non-maskable interupt. So this would be a hardware component generating this. -Derek At 06:33 AM 6/15/2006, D G Teed wrote: Hi, A server spontaneously rebooted last night. I don't see why. The last item in the messages file prior to reboot was: Jun 15 01:40:39 machinen

Re: Making a L440GX+ work (was "Trying to revive a server... AIC-7896 freezes pre-POST completion")

2006-06-14 Thread Derek Ragona
Look for just the DOS flash update. It will be smaller and from intel comes with its own boot image. You will have to run that on a windows PC to make the floppy. -Derek At 05:18 PM 6/14/2006, Garrett Cooper wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: The halt could be anything from bad RAM, or

Re: Making a L440GX+ work (was "Trying to revive a server... AIC-7896 freezes pre-POST completion")

2006-06-14 Thread Derek Ragona
you need, just usually wastes money that faster RAM costs. But speed isn't the only issue with ram, some are ECC or non-ECC, plus the CAS timing can be different. So your RAM while it seems to work,may not be quite right. -Derek At 03:27 PM 6/14/2006, Garrett Cooper wrote:

Re: adding an "old' disk as a new mount point?

2006-06-14 Thread Derek Ragona
You may want to repartition the disk and do a newfs to update the filesystem, and be sure the whole disk is used. -Derek At 04:10 PM 6/14/2006, Jeff D. Hamann wrote: I'm sure this is a very RTFM question, but I'm getting a little lost in the minutae about just exactly what I'm looking

Re: Trying to revive a server... AIC-7896 freezes pre-POST completion

2006-06-14 Thread Derek Ragona
IF you can find the documentation for the motherboard, see if there is a reset jumper. That jumper should reset the BIOS to factory defaults to allow it to get through the post and into setup. Some motherboards actually take you into setup with the jumper moved to reset bad configurations. A

Re: Promotional Info

2006-06-13 Thread Derek Ragona
These are for sale at the FreeBSD mall website: http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/search?id=tewasMtt&mv_pc=6 At 12:07 PM 6/13/2006, Gregory Warner wrote: To whom it may concern, My name is Greg Warner and I work as a tech specialist for a public school district in Arkansas. I am interested

Re: Error in logs

2006-06-13 Thread Derek Ragona
You might want to get the diagnostic utility from the hard drive maker and use that to check the health of the drive. -Derek At 12:00 PM 6/13/2006, pete wright wrote: On 6/13/06, Josh Paetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This morning my kernel.log is full of the following messages (abo

Re: cron job limits

2006-06-13 Thread Derek Ragona
Is your shell different from the account running the cron job? Is there any other jobs that might kill this cron job? Add echo statements to your script and save a log file. Be sure to redirect stderr as well as stdout to the log file. -Derek At 10:34 AM 6/13/2006, Jim Pazarena wro

Re: EM64T chipset and FreeBSD instalation

2006-06-13 Thread Derek Ragona
The EM64T is just the additional 64 bit extensions. Since you are using less than 4 GB of RAM you won't use the 64-bit extensions, I would use the i386 version. Set up the RAID 1 Array first, and make sure it is a single volume. When you do your install you should see 2 drives, one is the 80

Re: Full screen graphics hangs my system

2006-06-11 Thread Derek Ragona
uroli wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: You probably need to do: portupgrade -a Tried that before posting: didn't help. bye & Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebs

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