Re: OT: what brand of TFT monitor?

2007-07-24 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:57 AM 7/24/2007, Gabor Kovesdan wrote: Hi, it's a bit off here, but I'm sure you can tell me some tips, what brand of TFT monitor to buy? Finally I decided to change this old enormous CRT. Or if you tell which brands to avoid, that's fine fo rme, too. I'm thinking of a 17" or 19" size,

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

2007-07-26 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:56 PM 7/25/2007, Josh Tolbert wrote: Hello, I've got a friend that wants to use a FreeBSD box for a file server. He has a huge pile of drives of different sizes, but he wants them all as one big file system. What's the appropriate tool for this? gstripe doesn't seem like it'd be smart to u

video mode problem booting 6.2 CD

2007-07-25 Thread Derek Ragona
Has anyone had any problem with the booting of 6.2 release CD? I have an older server that is running 5.5 and was going to do a binary upgrade to 6.2. When I try to boot the 6.2 release CD 1, right after the loader message, the video gets funny, I see it trying to do what looks like drawing o

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

2007-07-26 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:01 AM 7/26/2007, Christopher Key wrote: Hello, I'm trying to establish whether I can expect the Adaptec AAR-1220SA or AAR-1430SA SATA cards to work with 6.2. They're not on the list of supported hardware, which does include a lot of the other Adaptec cards. However, the Adaptec cards

Re: still image grabber

2007-07-29 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:14 AM 7/29/2007, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi, is there a port on freebsd that generate still images from movie files? like "image grabber" on windows?? thanks!! TFC You might want to try the vlc media player: /usr/ports/multimedia/vlc I know the windows version does generate still images

Re: relaying mail

2007-08-01 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:19 PM 7/31/2007, Christopher Cowart wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 08:03:50PM +0200, Michael Grant wrote: > In one of my domains, I have the MX record for it set up to my server. > But for one of the users within that domain, their mail needs to be > shuffled off to a different server at g

Re: Samba Install on BSD 5.4

2007-08-10 Thread Derek Ragona
At 04:46 PM 8/10/2007, Dixit, Viraj wrote: Folks, I have downloaded the latest Samba file from samba site. I have unzipped the file and have configured it as requested. Anyone out there installed Samba on Free BSD 5.4. Please indicate any problem that I will encounter and any issues with Samba.

Re: Backspace

2007-08-12 Thread Derek Ragona
At 10:54 PM 8/11/2007, d.Z. wrote: Hello, I'm a new user to FreeBSD and Unix. I used Solaris 10 last week in lab, and found there is a difference between them. When Solaris is installed, press backspace will give you ^H, you'll have to "stty erase ^H" to solve this problem. But with FreeBSD 6.1

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

2007-08-12 Thread Derek Ragona
At 10:57 AM 8/12/2007, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: Hi, This isn't really a FreeBSD question. But I figure most people on this list would know the answer and so I'm asking. I've tried to get the answer out of Google, but I guess I am not asking it the right question and so not getting much hits

Re: Backspace

2007-08-13 Thread Derek Ragona
efine keys and other terminal capabilities. Generally these are different between 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

Re: Local domain with Bind

2007-08-15 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:44 PM 8/14/2007, Nicholas Wieland wrote: Hi *, I have a problem setting up Bind9, and I really don't understand what's wrong with my configuration. luna# uname -a FreeBSD luna.subbacultcha.local 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ o

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 on

Re: Share folder over internet

2007-08-16 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:58 PM 8/16/2007, Laszlo Nagy wrote: Hi All, Here is a problem that I cannot solve. I have two offices with two file servers (FreeBSD 6.1). Clients are accessing files over samba and nfs (on the local server). I would like to share some directory structures between the two offices. Orig

Re: curious root find running

2007-08-17 Thread Derek Ragona
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 PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND root 1463 4.3 0.1 1876 1404 ?? D 3

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 r

Re: Regular expressions

2007-08-18 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:04 PM 8/18/2007, Christer Hermansson wrote: Hi. I'm trying to use regular expressions inside a shell script (/bin/sh) on my freebsd box and can't get it to work so I searched the web and found http://regexlib.com/RETester.aspx On this webpage I could test my pattern "^[A-Za-z0-9_-]+$"

Re: Trying to move /usr

2007-08-20 Thread Derek Ragona
At 10:10 AM 8/20/2007, Michael S wrote: Good morning everyone, I am trying to migrate my /usr to a newly installed SCSI drive. Up until yesterday I had /, /var, /usr on a 5 Gig drive and my /home was on another 60 Gig drive, which was fine because it had no GUI and functioned mostly as a server.

Re: Trying to move /usr

2007-08-20 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:37 PM 8/20/2007, Michael S wrote: I reverted to the old /usr. What I had done: Initially I set up the newly installed drive (da2) to have only one partition (da2s1d) which I chose to be /user (note the e). I tarred /usr to a file in /user tar -cf /user/usr.tar /tar and extracted the file t

Re: Trying to move /usr

2007-08-20 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:28 PM 8/20/2007, Michael S wrote: Here's df -k output: Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a50763085046 38197418%/ devfs 110 100%/dev /dev/da0s1e495726 10 456058 0%/tmp /dev/da0s1f

Re: Trying to move /usr

2007-08-20 Thread Derek Ragona
k how 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

Re: Trying to move /usr

2007-08-21 Thread Derek Ragona
Michael <--- Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 06:47 PM 8/20/2007, Michael S wrote: > >Right now things are set up the old way and here's > >what the mount command says: > > > >/dev/da0s1a on / (ufs, local) > >devfs on /dev (devfs, local) &

Re: load script at bootup

2007-08-23 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:48 PM 8/23/2007, Narek Gharibyan wrote: #!/bin/sh Ping -Dc 3600 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx | tail -4 >>/root/stat && date >> /root/stat && echo "===" >> /root/stat I wrote this script for collecting ping statistic (after I email to a group the stat file). 1. how can I run

Re: Gnome issues

2007-08-24 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:46 AM 8/24/2007, Michael S wrote: Good day all, I installed Gnome a few days ago and everything had been fine up until last night. I shutdown the computer using a Gnome menu (and not shutdown -p now) and upon restart one of my drives (the one mapped to /home) wasn't working. After I did g

Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot

2007-08-24 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:49 PM 8/24/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am unable to boot from 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso. I have downloaded it and burned it three times without success. I am currently running Win98SE and FreeBSD 5.4 on a dual boot. I had decided to reformat my hard drives so I rein

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

2007-08-24 Thread Derek Ragona
At 02:48 PM 8/24/2007, Peter Schuller wrote: Hello, I have a Dell 2950 where my 7-CURRENT amd64 FreeBSD does not see all visible memory. It has 4 GB of physical RAM. dmesg on boot includes: usable memory = 4280811520 (4082 MB) avail memory = 4117716992 (3926 MB) Yet summing memories visible i

Re: FBSD-friendly UPS for home needs

2007-08-25 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:15 AM 8/25/2007, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, I am going to get a UPS device for my home freebsd gateway/router and wonder if there is anything that you would recommend? At work I use APC units and there is a dedicated software to manage it (apcupsd). Not sure if that's the case with ot

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-29 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:05 PM 8/29/2007, Peter Pluta wrote: I have a box with 5 ip's pointing to it. Most of the things I run (http, smtp) are virtual or allow me to specify the hostname (postfix) - so I'm wondering what the machines hostname should be? By default it's localhost.localdomain. This has always confu

Re: OT: Workgroup not available. The network name cannot be found. on Windows 2000 Pro SP4

2007-08-30 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:40 PM 8/29/2007, L Goodwin wrote: I apologize for asking this question, but people who know UNIX often know a lot about operating systems in general. I have a client with a Windows 2000 Pro SP4 host. He cycled power without shutting down Windows, and now the Windows network (Network Neighb

Re: users cannot login anymore

2007-08-30 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:50 AM 8/30/2007, Roberto Nunnari wrote: Hi. This morning I got a problem on one of my FreeBSD servers. In practice: # su - robi su: /bin/csh: Permission denied also, # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/tomcat6 start Starting tomcat60. su: /usr/local/bin/bash: Permission denied # uname -rms FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-30 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:19 PM 8/29/2007, Peter Pluta wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 August 2007 19:05:06 Peter Pluta wrote: >> I have a box with 5 ip's pointing to it. Most of the things I run (http, >> smtp) are virtual or allow me to specify the hostname (postfix) - so I'm >> wondering what

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-30 Thread Derek Ragona
At 04:20 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: I and most of my clients who have hosted web sites have just the one domain name. Does it make sense to use the same domain name that your hosted web site uses for your LAN? Sure does, no reason not to. The only issue may be having unique machine names,

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-30 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:29 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: --- Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 04:20 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: > >I and most of my clients who have hosted web sites > >have just the one domain name. Does it make sense > to > >use the same domain

Re: Configuring FreeBSD 6.2 to use sendmail for sending only

2007-08-30 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:01 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: Chuck, I'd prefer to have the script handle the mailing so I can test the script (with email send) manually, independent of cron. Still looking for specifics on setting this up and a bourne shell script example that sends an email. Thanks! --- Chuck Swig

Re: FreeBSD Hostname Question - Whats The Proper Way

2007-08-30 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:55 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: --- Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 06:29 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: > > >--- Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >wrote: > > > > > At 04:20 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: > > >

Re: Configuring FreeBSD 6.2 to use sendmail for sending only

2007-08-31 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:14 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: --- Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 07:01 PM 8/30/2007, L Goodwin wrote: > >Chuck, I'd prefer to have the script handle the > >mailing so I can test the script (with email send) > >manually, independent o

Re: Meaning of: kill -USR2

2007-08-31 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:24 PM 8/31/2007, White Hat wrote: I have seen 'kill -USR2' used in some scripts; however, I am unable to find out exactly what it is referring to. The man page for 'kill' does not list any 'USR2' flag or signal, unless I am reading it incorrectly. Perhaps, someone can tell me exactly what

Re: bash on login.

2007-09-06 Thread Derek Ragona
At 10:06 AM 9/6/2007, Albert Shih wrote: Hi all I'm using bash for standard shell, what I don't understand is when I'm connect by ssh on my server the bash don't parse .bashrc file. But if in the bash session I type «bash» this time the .bashrc is use. How can I make the .bashrc file is read w

Re: nvidia-driver rebooting machine on X startup

2007-09-06 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:10 PM 9/6/2007, Darren Spruell wrote: Wondering if this is a known issue, or if anyone has suggestions to get it working...? Running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 SMP i386. I installed nvidia-driver-100.14.11 from ports (Sep. 5 snapshot), Linux compatibility enabled. After loading modules 'linux

Re: UserID/Samba issue for wheel group members - newbie poster

2007-09-07 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:05 AM 9/7/2007, Bronte Averay wrote: Hello all, Firstly, apologies if this email appears more than once, just getting used to the protocols. I have an interesting but frustrating issue that I've not been able to diagnose and/or resolve. Scenario: FreeBSD 6.1 Release fileserver (gene

Re: Moving user/group databases

2007-09-07 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:52 PM 9/7/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All of my FreeBSD servers boot from CD, and we are going to be having several temporary employees coming and going over the next 6-12 months. Is it possible to move the user/group databases from their location in /etc (which is read only on my CDs) t

Re: UserID/Samba issue for wheel group members - newbie poster

2007-09-08 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:26 PM 9/7/2007, Bronte Averay wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: At 05:05 AM 9/7/2007, Bronte Averay wrote: Hello all, Firstly, apologies if this email appears more than once, just getting used to the protocols. I have an interesting but frustrating issue that I've not been ab

Re: Problem with logs

2007-09-12 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:14 AM 9/12/2007, Aldisa Admin wrote: Hello All, I am having trouble understanding what is going on and how to solve the problem: For the last few days, I am getting the following messages (some names removed for privacy) in the daily security run output: [hostname].ca login failures:

Re: Domain of Sender does not exist

2007-09-12 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:58 AM 9/12/2007, brad davison wrote: We have SMTP AUTH set up on our mail server. Our mail server accepts mail for several domains. x.com y.com z.com Outgoing messages from [EMAIL PROTECTED], and [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes out fine, but emails going out from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are getting:

{Disarmed} Re: Domain of Sender does not exist

2007-09-12 Thread Derek Ragona
file. If there is something else i can check or put in my sendmail config, i'm all ears. It is configured for SMTP AUTH so its the check_rcpt that is giving up the error. Make sure they are in /etc/mail/local-host-names -Derek From: Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: &q

Re: a small problem with /etc/hosts in FreeBSD 6.2

2007-09-12 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:08 AM 9/12/2007, Pollywog wrote: On Wednesday 12 September 2007 15:47:15 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > in my hosts file, I have a line that looks like this: > > ::1localhost localhost.mydomain.com > > > > Is this line for IPv6 or is there some other reason for its presence?

Re: Cron not working till 28/08/07

2007-09-19 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:36 AM 9/19/2007, DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all !! I had several crontab jobs in order to make backups. All worked fine till the 28-Aug-2007 when it seems to be stopped for some reason, I don't know why. I had a reporting in my mail box (external) also with daily, weekly and monthly reports, but

Re: Hard drive RPM

2007-09-19 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:47 PM 9/19/2007, jekillen wrote: Hello; Is there a utility for measuring the effective RPM of a hard disk? A software tackometer? I have IDE drives, SATA drives, both 7200 and 10,000 RPM, as well as SCSI disks that are supposed to be running at 15k RPM. I noticed that on the hard drive labe

Re: Newbie--new install on Core 2 Duo?

2007-02-12 Thread Derek Ragona
Create a custom kernel with SMP enabled. -Derek At 11:35 AM 2/12/2007, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Ive never installed FreeBSD by myself, its always been installed for me by someone. But im planning on getting a new laptop soon, thinking of the ThinkPad T60, which now has a Intel Core

Re: Onpening and Closing ports

2007-02-12 Thread Derek Ragona
You can change that in sshd_config, but you may also want to use hosts.allow to restrict ssh connections further. -Derek At 01:37 AM 2/11/2007, Dave Carrera wrote: Hi All, Had a little nasty person trying to break my sshd on port 22. I need to change and open a new port for sshd but

Re: BIND slave records not updating

2007-02-13 Thread Derek Ragona
I run multiple FreeBSD versions with Bind and have not had a problem with records being updated. Are you properly setting the new serial numbers in the master record files? -Derek At 09:47 AM 2/13/2007, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I'm not a member of any bind list, so I was hoping to

Re: RAID 10-LUN Question

2007-02-14 Thread Derek Ragona
RAID 10 uses even numbered drive sets, usually in 4's, so 4 drives, 8 drives, 12 drives, etc. Depending on how 24/7 self-managed you want the array, you should plan for at least 2 hot spare drives for fail over. So in your setup you could have one logical array made up of 12 drives, with 2 sp

Re: RAID 10-LUN Question

2007-02-15 Thread Derek Ragona
create the raid groups and kick a separate LUNS for MSSQL purpose. With this hardware config, Do you have any suggestion on getting the best performance and redundancy in place Thanks Dak On 2/14/07, Derek Ragona <<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: RAID 10 uses e

Re: hard disk usage monitoring

2007-02-15 Thread Derek Ragona
You can use bigsister and monitor the remote and local diskusage. -Derek At 01:22 PM 2/15/2007, Peter wrote: I am looking for a tool to allow a windows XP client to monitor the disk usage (basically the % used over time, how much space is left, etc) on a FreeBSD file server. I will ha

Re: diagnosing a reacurring system freeze

2007-02-15 Thread Derek Ragona
First you should provide more information such as the output from your dmesg, whether you have the server running X or just text mode. Describe your lockup, does the system completely freeze, or is it still ping-able? -Derek At 03:25 PM 2/15/2007, Ross Penner wrote: Hi mailing list

Re: diagnosing a reacurring system freeze

2007-02-15 Thread Derek Ragona
Hard to tell if it is your dc0 ethernet adapter or a swap issue. I would try a different ethernet controller and see what happens as that is a cheap experiment. -Derek At 04:30 PM 2/15/2007, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, Derek Ragona wrote: > First you should provide m

Re: ADSL-2 internal modem ?

2007-02-17 Thread Derek Ragona
Use an external and connect it to your server via ethernet. -Derek At 07:30 AM 2/17/2007, Norberto Meijome wrote: Hello everyone :) I'm starting to re-build my home network, and I thought it'd be interesting to run either my ADSL2 link on bridged mode to a FreeBSD box to do all the fi

Re: Permission Denied

2007-02-18 Thread Derek Ragona
You are su'ing to your account. You need to just: su or su root -Derek At 06:44 AM 2/18/2007, Rajen Jani (BT Yahoo! Broadband) wrote: Hello everyone, I have installed FreeBSD clean from start but everytime I try to do something like say run ./configure on my home directory,

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 LA

Re: input/output error on hd

2007-02-22 Thread Derek Ragona
You may have lost the partition table. You can try repartitioning the drive but do NOT do a newfs. You can easily try it in sysinstall. -Derek At 04:19 PM 2/22/2007, Marty Landman wrote: I wrote about this problem before, still working on recovery. After a power outage I lost my prim

Re: cron mystery

2007-02-26 Thread Derek Ragona
Environment variables are set first by the users shell which then is used to exec cron jobs. Basically, always take nothing in the environment for granted. -Derek At 10:19 AM 2/26/2007, Robin Becker wrote: Can anyone think of something that can stop cron working for a particular use

Re: Can't make raid array bootable

2007-02-26 Thread Derek Ragona
Check your BIOS, many system boards are configured to NOT allow writes to the boot area as a way to protect against virus's and malware. -Derek At 10:14 PM 2/25/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've tried transferring my system (6.0) to an Nvidia hardware raid array of two SATA dri

Re: sshd attempting to start twice?

2007-02-26 Thread Derek Ragona
The errors you are getting is indicative that sshd is already running. Try doing: ps -ax|grep named -Derek At 12:30 PM 2/26/2007, Noah wrote: Hi there, any clues why sshd is attempting to start twice? sshd[836]: error: Bind to port 22 on :: failed: Address already in use. sshd[836]

Re: sshd attempting to start twice?

2007-02-26 Thread Derek Ragona
Yup, my bad typo. -Derek At 01:56 PM 2/26/2007, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-02-26 13:06, Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The errors you are getting is indicative that sshd is already running. > Try doing: > > ps -ax|grep named You mean "grep sshd

Re: isc dhcpd startup script error

2007-02-26 Thread Derek Ragona
Check your rc script, you may need to add the full path to chown! -Derek At 02:03 PM 2/26/2007, Sean Murphy wrote: FreeBSD 6.2 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server V3.0.5 ISC DHCP server I installed from ports after cvsuping I run /usr/local/etc/rc.d/isc-dhcpd start chown: not f

Re: named not starting during boot

2007-02-27 Thread Derek Ragona
In the newer versions of bind you need to add to /etc/rc.conf: named_uid="username" you want to run named as. -Derek At 07:24 PM 2/26/2007, Noah Garrett Wallach wrote: Hi there, named is not starting when I reboot a FreeBSD 6.2 server and I cant figure out why. there are no error mes

Re: named not starting during boot

2007-02-27 Thread Derek Ragona
/etc/namedb/named.conf" named_chrootdir="/var/named" cheers, Noah Derek Ragona wrote: In the newer versions of bind you need to add to /etc/rc.conf: named_uid="username" you want to run named as. -Derek At 07:24 PM 2/26/2007, Noah Garrett Wallach wrote: Hi

Re: Starting a service on boot

2007-03-05 Thread Derek Ragona
rc scripts should accept a few arguments: start stop restart You can usually find one in /usr/local/etc/rc.d to copy from. In most cases you want the service to write the PID to a file in /var/log so only one instance is started. Also be sure you use full pathnames in your scripts, don't assu

Re: RAID5 degraded - system hangs

2007-03-05 Thread Derek Ragona
I'm no expert, but have experienced a few RAID issues. First, RAID 5 will become degraded and will try to rebuild upon a drive failure, once the failed drive is replaces. In Mirrored RAID, RAID 1, or RAID 10, the system will continue to function on the good drive but will alert the administra

Re: awk question

2007-03-06 Thread Derek Ragona
You can loop through them using a shell script: for i in `ls -lt | awk '{if ($8 == 2006) print $9}'`;do rm $i;done -Derek At 06:35 PM 3/5/2007, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, Having found $9 , how do I /bin/rm it (using system()--yes??) in an awk one-liner?

Re: Bind9 question

2007-03-07 Thread Derek Ragona
The base bind is in /usr/sbin, if you installed your own it is in /usr/local/sbin You set the path to bind in /etc/rc.conf named_program="/usr/sbin/named" for the base one. There are other variables you can set for the jail, etc if you want to change those. -Derek At 06:07 AM 3/7/2

Re: reprocess mails in sendmail

2007-03-07 Thread Derek Ragona
Depending on the version of FreeBSD and the version of sendmail in that version will determine how sendmail is started by default. Look in /etc/rc.conf and /etc/defaults/rc.conf for specific settings. Typically sendmail will process queues on its own on a regular interval. No cron job requir

Re: mount_smb shows no files

2007-03-07 Thread Derek Ragona
It is not clear what you are trying to do. Are you mounting Windows shares on a FreeBSD server? Or mounting FreeBSD samba shares onto a Windows XP client? -Derek At 10:35 AM 3/7/2007, Daniel Feenberg wrote: We are starting to use mount_smbfs to mount backup shares on our Windows X

Re: Problem Launching Applications in Gnome

2007-03-08 Thread Derek Ragona
You might want to try rebuilding vim and all dependencies. -Derek At 08:57 PM 3/7/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I haven't been able to figure this out, and am hoping someone has some ideas. I can't seem to find any previous mention of a similar problem, so I hope I'm not missing

Re: Running script from rc.d as local user

2007-03-08 Thread Derek Ragona
You need a first line in your script to choose what shell to run it: #!/usr/local/bin/bash You should add a line: /usr/bin/su [to your username] Then try it at bootup as an rc script. -Derek At 08:24 AM 3/8/2007, Gerard Seibert wrote: I am trying to get gpg-agent to start at boot tim

Re: limitiation on memory allocation

2007-03-09 Thread Derek Ragona
check out your sysctl values. man sysctl for more information. -Derek At 08:32 AM 3/9/2007, Dima Sorkin wrote: Hi. On FreeBSD 6.2 i386 with 2GB of physical memory I can't allocate more than 500Mb for my program. I'm a new to FreeBSD. Is this limitatin is something known, how do I ove

Re: limitiation on memory allocation

2007-03-09 Thread Derek Ragona
3/9/2007, Dima Sorkin wrote: Hi. I've passed over the man page and even over the "man 3" page. What exactly should I look for ? Thank you. Dima. output of 'sysctl -a' is attached. On 3/9/07, Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: check out your sysctl values. man

Re: Epson P2100 parallel port mode

2007-03-09 Thread Derek Ragona
You may be able to change the port setting in your BIOS, most newer BIOS allow this. -Derek At 01:25 PM 3/9/2007, Milan Knizek wrote: Hello list! I have spent some time installing Epson P2100 (aka P2200 in the U.S.) - the USB connection did not work (printer was recognised, but any a

Re: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive

2007-03-09 Thread Derek Ragona
You will want the swap to some other device such a a regular hard drive. A flash drive can get worn out cells and fail. -Derek At 02:09 PM 3/9/2007, =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Nejc_=A9koberne?= wrote: Hello, I plan to install a FreeBSD 6.2 router/gateway/DHCP server on a EPIA box with 1GB Trans

Re: installing 6.2 from external USB DVD-ROM drive

2007-03-10 Thread Derek Ragona
If your system's BIOS will support booting from that drive, select it as the first boot device. -Derek At 05:41 PM 3/10/2007, Noah wrote: Hi there, is there a way to install FreeBSD from an external USB DVD-ROM drive? I am at a loss of how to do it. Cheers, Noah __

Re: installing 6.2 from external USB DVD-ROM drive

2007-03-10 Thread Derek Ragona
If you boot then exit sysinstall to a prompt, try to mount the external drive. If you can mount it, then rerun sysinstall and choose to install from a mounted file system instead. -Derek At 05:45 PM 3/10/2007, Noah wrote: More details: I am able to boot and get to the installation u

Re: installing 6.2 from external USB DVD-ROM drive

2007-03-10 Thread Derek Ragona
leaving sysinstall. -Derek At 06:19 PM 3/10/2007, Noah wrote: if I attempt to exit sysinstall then it says the only other option is to reboot. Derek Ragona wrote: If you boot then exit sysinstall to a prompt, try to mount the external drive. If you can mount it, then rerun

Re: Anyone use KSH?

2007-03-12 Thread Derek Ragona
Those work fine for me, just add: set -o emacs to your login file(s). I actually have added to my .profile: if [ "$SHELL" = "/usr/local/bin/ksh" ] ; then if [ -f $HOME/.kshrc ] ; then . $HOME/.kshrc fi fi and have the ksh customizations in: .kshrc -Dere

Re: Recover Make ARG's from a ports Install

2007-03-12 Thread Derek Ragona
If you look below the port directory, there is a work directory and in that a directory where the actual files are configured and Make files created named for the port and version. In that directory is a file called: config.log This file at the top has the actual configure line used.

Re: Installing a second hard disk

2007-03-13 Thread Derek Ragona
Check your BIOS and possibly update the BIOS. Also low-level format the disk to ensure there is nothing on the disk causing any issues. -Derek At 12:05 PM 3/13/2007, Aitor San Juan wrote: Hi List, I am trying to install a secondary hard disk in a Intel-based PC with FreeBSD 5.4 Thi

Re: sendmail not working?

2007-03-14 Thread Derek Ragona
You need to make sure sendmail is starting and running. Check your rc.conf and any variables that might need to be set. -Derek At 03:58 PM 3/14/2007, Laszlo Nagy wrote: Hi All, Got a problem with FreeBSD 6.2 (upgraded from 6.1): cron is not sending out e-mails. However, it is run

Re: sendmail not working?

2007-03-14 Thread Derek Ragona
: Derek Ragona wrote You need to make sure sendmail is starting and running. Check your rc.conf and any variables that might need to be set. Thanks! In my rc.conf: sendmail_enable="NO" However, as I wrote, I was using postfix. I'm not a big guru but I believe that postfix has its ow

Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD?

2007-03-15 Thread Derek Ragona
Just download the disk1 iso image then use nero or cdcreator to burn the CD. -Derek At 04:14 AM 3/15/2007, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, I need to build my own ISO-install-CD for FreeBSD 6.2. Is this possible (given an up-to-date /usr/src tree)? If yes, how? Will this process build build

Re: Problem with X11 and S3 Savage video card

2007-03-15 Thread Derek Ragona
If your video is AGP, it is likely an AGP issue. AGP cards can be managed by the driver or by the kernel. You need the correct AGP setting. -Derek At 08:36 AM 3/15/2007, Lubomir Toshev wrote: Hello, I am trying to run X11 on a machine with FreeBSD 6.2 and S3 Savage video card. The

Re: Simple sendmail.cf question

2007-03-18 Thread Derek Ragona
Don't build them there. There are sample .mc files and a make file in /etc/mail. You will find one you can copy for your system, and make whatever customizations you need. There is also one for the submit.mc too. -Derek At 06:01 PM 3/18/2007, Bob Applegate wrote: I'm trying to figu

Re: sendmail name resolution

2007-03-19 Thread Derek Ragona
Sendmail uses the system calls to resolve names. You need to check: /etc/nsswitch.conf In that file check the hosts line, this gives the order for hostname resolution, typically it is files then dns. Then you should check your /etc/hosts file to be sure that localhost is there and correct.

Re: pwd.db too big for / partition

2007-03-19 Thread Derek Ragona
I have moved my root partition on one server. I copied the entire partition to a new partition on a different drive using cpio as I wanted /dev moved too. At the time this was running 4.x. After moving the root partition I rebooted and made sure the new partition was still fine. Then I chan

Re: strange installworld issue

2007-03-20 Thread Derek Ragona
You may have foobar sources, or your awk isn't there. check your awk. If awk is ok, I'd suggest deleteing /usr/src and pulling down fresh sources. If you do this be sure to save your kernel configuration file. -Derek At 10:33 AM 3/20/2007, Jonathan Horne wrote: im trying to insta

Re: How to use vsftpd with wirtual users without LinuxPAM ?

2007-03-21 Thread Derek Ragona
For so few users, you can use regular accounts with the shell set to: /usr/bin/false -Derek At 11:47 AM 3/21/2007, Vincent Bolinard wrote: Hello, I'd like to know how can I set up virtual users without pam_userdb.so (which is not included in OpenPAM). vsftpd needs pam_userdb.so to au

Re: ssh via html

2007-03-22 Thread Derek Ragona
Why don't you put putty on a USB thumb drive and run it from there? -Derek At 08:28 AM 3/22/2007, Koen de Wijs wrote: Hello, I want to login on my freebsd remotely by ssh. I don't want to download putty every time I want to login in my compter from a computer that isn't mine. I woul

Re: how utilize several IP's on one line

2007-03-23 Thread Derek Ragona
You can bring up multiple IP's on the same NIC on the same server if you would like to do that. You simply add lines to /etc/rc.conf to add aliases. ifconfig_dc0_alias1="###.###.###.### netmask 0x The NIC device name should be used in the alias. -Derek At 11:40 AM 3/23/2007, D

Re: FreeBSD 5.4, installation hangs

2007-03-24 Thread Derek Ragona
I think you need more memory for the installer. If you can, try adding more RAM to the system board. -Derek At 06:21 PM 3/23/2007, Moon Shine wrote: Hello! The Problem: installation hangs after the menu. I try to install FreeBSD 5.4 - RELEASE. I use 3 diskettes and CD. Here that I se

Re: Remove FreeBSD Boot Manager

2007-03-24 Thread Derek Ragona
You can boot the windows repair console and use fixmbr command from there. -Derek At 08:06 PM 3/24/2007, Jim Priovolos wrote: How can I remove the FreeBSD boot manager? My disk is full with an NTFS partition or slice and there was only room for 7 meg of anything else. The only thing

Re: Installing on large disk

2007-03-26 Thread Derek Ragona
The 1023 cylinder limit is BIOS limit for booting. If your BIOS is more modern it will support booting from translated cylinder addresses > 1023. The easiest way to tell is to try updating your BIOS, and trying the install. With older hardware I would have to have boot partitions all located

Re: using nut-ups with apc UPS on USB

2007-03-26 Thread Derek Ragona
I use nut-ups on a number of systems both attached to a UPS and some as network slaves. In all my systems I use UPS's that have serial interfaces and USB, but connect them via serial. If you read the docs on nut-ups you will see some drivers do support the USB's. You will need to specify the

Re: sample cds

2007-03-26 Thread Derek Ragona
You can download the ISO images and make all you want. -Derek At 05:25 PM 3/26/2007, stefan broos wrote: I'm organising a linux/opensource day in my school. Is it possible to get some saple freeBSD cds for those who want to try it? Stefan _

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