Re: PLEASE SIR

2005-01-19 Thread Erik Norgaard
Ali Farhan wrote: SIR KINDLY TELL ME HOW CAN I MOUNT CDROM AND FLOPPY IN FREEBSD 5.1 ..OR TELL ME THE SPECIFIC SITE AT WHICH I SEARCH.PLZ SIR.KINDLY REPLY ME AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Take a look in the FreeBSD handbook sections 16.6-8:

Re: NAT/DNS question/recommendation?

2005-01-19 Thread Erik Norgaard
Tom Huppi wrote: I mean one runs NAT, and the other uses it. I've searched various things and have run into subtle refernences which seem related to my problem (like 'gethostbyname' isn't even supposed to consult /etc/hosts), but nothing specific. Yeah, I sort of guessed that, I was thinking that

Re: where did net-snmp go?

2005-01-17 Thread Erik Norgaard
DA Forsyth wrote: Now I have a live server running 5.2.1-R and I need SNMP to monitor it with and it is not in the ports tree in the sense that there are some directories called net-snmp* but they all contain only one file, README.html. How do I install it now? (Yes I did update the ports

Re: FreeBSD/i386 may panic under heavy load on SMP machines

2005-01-17 Thread Erik Norgaard
J.D. Bronson wrote: Topic: FreeBSD/i386 may panic under heavy load on SMP machines Category: core Module: smp Announced: 2005-01-16 Credits:Stephan Uphoff, Xin LI Affects:FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE Corrected: 2005-01-16 08:29:14 UTC ..I just got this today

Re: FreeBSD/i386 may panic under heavy load on SMP machines

2005-01-17 Thread Erik Norgaard
J.D. Bronson wrote: It takes some time before all mirrors are updated. Try again later or try a different mirror. I tried all the mirrors...still no luck. Should I be grabbing these in the manner of my tracking? *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5 In the announcement two methods for obtaining the

Re: Creating a custom package

2005-01-17 Thread Erik Norgaard
Chad Morland wrote: I have recently setup a FreeBSD jumpstart server to install using PXE. I would like to add some additional third-party applications as part of the install. The last page of the FreeBSD jumpstart guide describes how to make a custom package but it looks like it has to be built

Re: IPF firewalling

2005-01-17 Thread Erik Norgaard
Kvesdn Gbor wrote: Anyway, thanks for your ideas, which were very useful for me. I'm using now the catch-all rules as You suggested. You also mentioned, there can be some problems with the ftp server. Could You tell me please, what You meant? Ftp hasn't been running yet, so I can't test it, but

Re: Data Limiting

2005-01-16 Thread Erik Norgaard
Subhro wrote: I need your suggestion about limiting the data that can be transferred by each of the hosts on a LAN. Let me explain my setup. The hosts get internet access from a box running as a gateway (NAT). This box can't be touched as my boss won't allow me to do so. I have decided to run a

Re: IPF firewalling

2005-01-16 Thread Erik Norgaard
Kvesdn Gbor wrote: pass in quick on rl0 proto udp from any to any port = 68 keep state pass in quick proto udp from any to any port = 53 keep state keep frags First I see that you have left out on rl0 in this line. pass in quick on rl0 proto tcp/udp from any to any port = 42 keep state keep frags

Re: IPF firewalling

2005-01-16 Thread Erik Norgaard
Kvesdn Gbor wrote: Thanks for your answer, I've modified my rules as You suggested, but I haven't made groups yet. Thus the new ruleset is: But did you resolve the named problem? # I don't want to filter outgoing packets pass out quick all # The incoming packets for dhcp, dns, ssh, mail, ftp, www

Re: [CLARIFICATION] portupgrade -a

2005-01-15 Thread Erik Norgaard
Daniel S. Haischt wrote: Hello, recently I did update my package tree using the portupgrade command. I was allways in doubt whether my ports will be build with the same WITH_FOO=yes options during an update, as I did built them manually before. After a successfull update of the Gimp, I did notice

Re: NFS file locking

2005-01-15 Thread Erik Norgaard
Bryce Kahle wrote: I've been researching NFS and its file locking capabilities on FreeBSD and I can't seem to find the answer to my question, so I thought I would ask it here. In this document http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-post.h tml#NETWORK-CONFIGURATION-CONT

Re:

2005-01-14 Thread Erik Norgaard
Emon wrote: But now some of the packages were complaining that an older version is installed I had no idea how to upgrade these packages. So in my blind rage I did pkg_add -vf on all packages including mc. Now mc works but I cannot uninstall it or any of the packages. I will show you an example.

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Erik Norgaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The entire point of this extended discussion, for those who have paid attention, is that FreeBSD 4.x, which is admittedly the fastest version available, DOES NOT work with intel's fastest CPUs because it doesnt support the necessary chipsets, AND, that freebsd people would

Re: Thank you!

2005-01-14 Thread Erik Norgaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why doesn't someone just answer the question? When Watson finally admitted publically that 5.x has networking issues it ended the last discussion. Just answer the question. Focusing on one cludge is meaningless - who cares if your network is a little slow, or just

dhcpd for ipv6

2005-01-13 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, kame dhcpd does not support address allocation and isc-dhcpd does not support ipv6 - despite ipv6 being defined in 1996. This makes running an ipv6 based local network cumbersome to manage. Does anyone know of alternatives? I would like to set up a lan with ipv4/6 and an ipv6to4 gateway.

Re: 'cause the ports don't work...

2005-01-12 Thread Erik Norgaard
craig wrote: i've had a good couple of problems installing ports, either because of compilation issues, or because they were just not there. is there something i am missing? You are writing to a community for most of which ports just works, please describe what makes your system specific. What

Re: High levels of breakin attempts

2005-01-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Gene wrote: Over the past few months there have been a remarkably high level of brute force attacks logged by sshd. I was wondering, is there a way that sshd (or some other package) can monitor login attempts and if more than say 5 or 6 attempts are made to login from a particular ip address,

Re: High levels of breakin attempts

2005-01-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Yes Eric, just write a FAQ answer and post it per the following: http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/submitting.html Thanks for volunteering! I'll take a look at it, but on the documentation list there was recently a discussion as to what to do with the FAQ: Merge it into the

FAQ vs Handbook (was: High levels of breakin attempts)

2005-01-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The FAQ and the handbook serve different needs. If the official FAQ is got rid of then someone else will just write one on their website and post it because the need is still there - and the info on theirs could be pretty -wrong-. It's better I think to have an official

Re: freebsd question

2005-01-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Tri wrote: I am currently learning about unix, and my teacher told me about freebsd. He also told me that this program is free, stable, and secure. I am interested in creating my own ftp server using freedsb. However, I don't know how. I've tried to search from google on how to setup a freedsb

Re: NFS File Locking on FBSD 5.3

2005-01-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Gerard Samuel wrote: Gerard Samuel wrote: Whats needed to enable file locking on FBSD 5.3? I already had NFS running, so I added this to the server's rc.conf file - rpc_lockd_enable=YES and rebooted. I just noticed this in the logs - Jan 11 15:23:37 hivemind rpcbind: cannot create socket for udp6

Re: Which OS should we use?

2005-01-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Paul Schmehl wrote: We're getting ready to create some new servers from scratch (format/install). We've been using 4.9 and 4.10 for a while now with no problems. We've got one 5.3 box setup for test purposes. On this list I have seen comments about instability issues in 5.3. These servers

Re: NFS export of evolution

2005-01-10 Thread Erik Norgaard
Robert Marella wrote: Hello I am not sure where this problem should go so I am posting to -questions. I have a SOHO set up with several computers running a mix of FreeBSD 5.3 Release and Stable. I have an NFS server set up so that data can be shared at all of the computers. I would like to have

Re: Blacklisting IPs

2005-01-10 Thread Erik Norgaard
Louis LeBlanc wrote: On 01/10/05 12:20 AM, artware sat at the `puter and typed: My 5.3R system has only been up a little over a week, and I've already had a few breakin attempts -- they show up as Illegal user tests in the /var/log/auth.log... It looks like they're trying common login names

Re: NFS export of evolution

2005-01-10 Thread Erik Norgaard
Robert Marella wrote: On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 10:01 +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: Robert Marella wrote: Hello I am not sure where this problem should go so I am posting to -questions. I have a SOHO set up with several computers running a mix of FreeBSD 5.3 Release and Stable. I have an NFS server

Re: NFS export of evolution

2005-01-10 Thread Erik Norgaard
Andrew L. Gould wrote: I had a hard time sharing NFS directories that were not actual mount points. When I changed the shared directories in /etc/exports to actual mount points (not directories below them) with -alldirs, I was able to mount the specific subdirectories I wanted on the client

Re: I quit

2005-01-09 Thread Erik Norgaard
william gatlin wrote: I have spent at least two weeks of my free time downloading 5.3 and trying to get it to work. After figuring out how to get an ISO image, windows couldn't do it because netscape insisted on modifying the file, I loaded it and got a lot of error code 1 messages that I never

Re: NFS mount issue

2005-01-08 Thread Erik Norgaard
Colin J. Raven wrote: I'm trying to mount my home directory on my office box (5.3-RELEASE) on my home box (5.3-RELEASE) and there is _no_ _way_ I have ever been able to make this work. /etc/exports on the NFS server is configured correctly (other exports to other boxen work fine) my entry

Re: startx problem

2005-01-08 Thread Erik Norgaard
Emon wrote: I am a newbie. I have just Installed FreeBSD 5.3 and I am trying to get X started. But after typing Xorg -configure (I learned this from the Hand-Book) I got the following error X should work out of the box from a standard installation - no need to recompile the kernel. The generic

Re: SMP and NFS

2005-01-06 Thread Erik Norgaard
M wrote: I have a system that is being used as a high performance NFS server FreeBSD nfs2 5.3-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 #1: Tue Jan 4 19:14:40 EST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NFS i386 Two CPUs (tried hyperthreading and not), 4 GB of memory CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM)

dhclient and diskless clients

2005-01-06 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, I am trying to setup diskless clients. The Handbook describes how to define special dhcp-options for swap and other variables, however these are not available, unless I use dhclient (compiling the kernel with option BOOTP only makes the hostname available). If I try to start dhclient, I

Re: dhclient and diskless clients

2005-01-06 Thread Erik Norgaard
Erik Norgaard wrote: If I try to start dhclient, I loose connection to the nfs server and hence my / (nfs mounted read-only) because dhclient resets the interface before getting a new lease, system hangs and I can only reboot. Is there a magic option to solve this? Some extra on dhclient

Re: atheros (ath) wifi driver problem

2005-01-06 Thread Erik Norgaard
Mo Po wrote: Hello, I installed FreeBSD 5.3 today (coming from linux/debian). I need to use the atheros wifi driver (man page ATH(4)), which is included in 5.3. (I have an atheros based PCI card in an athlon xp based system). I get the following error when loading the module ('kldload if_ath'

NFS/diskless: mount/unmount problems

2005-01-05 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, I am trying to setup diskless workstations. I have got to the point where I can boot up the workstations, the nfs_root is mounted correctly read only. I have two problems with NFS: 1) The problem is mounting /var rw. I want to use an nfs mount to let data be persistent and since I don't

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-04 Thread Erik Norgaard
Eric F Crist wrote: Sorry for the double reply, but I forgot to respond to the top half of this email. By including /etc/rc.subr, what exactly do I gain? There are already built-in means to execute a custom firewall script: I would assume that the system would institute my firewall rules at

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-03 Thread Erik Norgaard
Eric F Crist wrote: elif [ $grog_firewall_enable YES or NO ] then echo Syntax error in /etc/rc.conf file. grog_firewall_enable must be YES or NO fi I don't know if you're on 5.x, nor whether you use ipfw, ipfilter or pf - I wrote a replacement for ipfilter as I got dizzy trying to

Compiling perl5.8.5 fails in chroot'ed environment

2005-01-02 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, I am trying to setup a diskless client, so I have created a directory /usr/diskless and installed FreeBSD 5.3 into it. I then unpacked ports.tgz from the release and cvsup'ed yesterday. If I chroot into /usr/diskless and try to compile perl5.8 I get the following error:

Re: Compiling perl5.8.5 fails in chroot'ed environment

2005-01-02 Thread Erik Norgaard
Kris Kennaway wrote: Do you have devfs mounted in the chroot? Nope, ... but it doesn't seem to help either. Maybe I am doing it wrong: mount -t devfs devfs /usr/diskless/dev ? I also tried chroot first, then 'mount -t devfs devfs /dev' - no difference. But I don't see what devfs has got do do

Solved: Compiling perl5.8.5 fails in chroot'ed environment

2005-01-02 Thread Erik Norgaard
Erik Norgaard wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Do you have devfs mounted in the chroot? Nope, ... but it doesn't seem to help either. Hmm. Ok, I tried again: # chroot /usr/diskless # mount -t devfs devfs /dev # su -l # cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8 # make that worked.!? Erik -- Ph

Re: upgrading perl

2004-12-31 Thread Erik Norgaard
Karl Agee wrote: Freebsd 4.11-pre. I am working on learning perl, and have perl 5.00x that is in the base system when I installed 4.10-Release. Since most of the learning materials out there are based on later verisions esp since 5.6.x some of the features arent in this older version. I am

Re: No latin characters :(

2004-12-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
Mário Gamito wrote: I've read the Handbook, applied all i've googled, but i can't get portuguese charactres like á, õ, ç, etc. to work :( Completly knocked out. But what have you done? In my /etc/login.conf I have: da_DK:Danish users:\ :charset=iso-8859-1:\

Re: No latin characters :(

2004-12-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
Erik Norgaard wrote: Mário Gamito wrote: I've read the Handbook, applied all i've googled, but i can't get portuguese charactres like á, õ, ç, etc. to work :( PS: X11 has it's own life, so you may experience that thinks works on the console but not in X or the other way around. For X take a look

Re: No latin characters :(

2004-12-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
Mário Gamito wrote: How do you do this (set the login class) ??? Edit master.passwd, the fields are as follows (see passwd(5)): name User's login name. password User's encrypted password. uid User's id. gid User's login group id.

Re: No latin characters :(

2004-12-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
Mário Gamito wrote: Thank you for your patience. I did what you told me, but i get: login_getclass: unknown class 'pt_PT' Did you create a login class 'pt_PT' in login.conf? pt_PT:Portugeese users:\ :charset=iso-8859-1:\ :lang=pt_PT.ISO8859-1:\ :tc=default: and did you

Re: bash - superuser

2004-12-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
Tom Vilot wrote: Using a shell not contained in the root filesystem can cause problems even when not in single user mode. There are enough examples in the archives. Admittedly, I'm still a bit of a noob, but I can't stand any shell but bash. Is it a big problem just to start bash once you've

Getting back my shell is slow, Eterm/bash

2004-12-19 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, I am running 6.0 and have disabled the witness and other variables mentioned in UPDATING that affects performance. UPDATING also mentions that there are other tunables affecting world, but not which. Now the problem is that every time I exit some console program, less, man, vi or a remote

Re: Getting back my shell is slow, Eterm/bash

2004-12-19 Thread Erik Norgaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed this too, but not only with the console. Just wild guessing: the scheduler needs a long time to wake up processes that have been swapped out. I don't know if this bug has been (completely) fixed yet, 'cause I have no machine that I could upgrade right now.

Re: postfix w/pam

2004-12-17 Thread Erik Norgaard
Curtis Vaughan wrote: Can anyone tell me whether I have to install/build postfix w/pam support (if I want it to use pam). Or can I just do a make install of postfix, as well as of pam_ldap and nss_ldap, edit the appropriate files in /etc/pam.d/ and it should work? I have installed map_ldap and

Re: PXE multiboot FreeBSD and other OSes?

2004-12-14 Thread Erik Norgaard
Kimmo Mustonen wrote: My goal is to be able to multiboot FreeBSD, Linux and some other OSes and different versions using PXE. I don't want to install boot loaders on hard disks because I want to boot several different machines to different OSes every now and then. I don't like the idea of using

Re: Totally lost

2004-12-10 Thread Erik Norgaard
Mário Gamito wrote: Hi, When i install FreeBSD 5.3, libtool, automake and autoconf don't get installed. I upgrade the ports. After that is the total confusion. One program wants libtools version x, another, y ando so on. Some thing to automake and autoconf. How do i solve this mess ? FreeBSD is

Re: Totally lost

2004-12-10 Thread Erik Norgaard
Mário Gamito wrote: Well, actuallly, after i make a port upgrade with cvsup, i go to /usr/ports (there's) a Makefile there, and do a make install. That Makefile enters an endless loop asking for libtool 1.8 (i think this is the version), that it's not in the ports. You most certainly don't want

Re: intermittent ath0

2004-12-09 Thread Erik Norgaard
scott renna wrote: does your card also function when you drop the interface then up it again? I haven't tested so thoroughly. However, I just upgraded to 6.0-CURRENT as of yesterday, recompiled the kernel with options device ath device ath_hal # Atheros HAL device

Re: intermittent ath0

2004-12-09 Thread Erik Norgaard
Tom Connolly wrote: 6.0-CURRENT as of yesterday, recompiled the kernel with options device ath device ath_hal # Atheros HAL device ath_rate_onoe # Onoe rate control for ath driver I use the ath0 driver also and I lose connection to the wireless router

Re:

2004-12-08 Thread Erik Norgaard
Anita Hicklin wrote: I was wondering if I could get instructions on how to uninstall free bsd. It's on my computer and I dont' know how to use it so I was going to just unistall it but I can't seem to figure it out. Operating systems unlike other programs, you don't really uninstall - you

Re: intermittent ath0

2004-12-08 Thread Erik Norgaard
scott renna wrote: I've been running 5.3 for a little bit now using a d-link g520 wireless card(ath0) and using a netgear 802.11b router. I've noticed a problem with intermittancy. My system seems to have issues maintaining steady data flow for long periods of time. I just noticed my system is

Re: Designed for FreeBSD stickers

2004-12-07 Thread Erik Norgaard
Haulmark, Chris wrote: We show our potential clients to our production server rooms whenever they request for it. They always ask what those (freebsd) servers are running because there are no logo stickers. I ended up sticking a white label with black arial font FreeBSD. Is this what FreeBSD

Mozilla breaks atheros?

2004-12-02 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, I have noted a bit wierd problem. I have a laptop, 128MB ram, of which 16MB are used for graphics. I recently bought a 3Com OfficeConnect card (atheros). If I boot up with the card, no problem, nor if I insert the card after boot - all seems to work as it should. But if I start up Mozilla

FBSD 5.3: path not found error in rc.d scripts

2004-11-30 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, I have a freshly installed FreeBSD 5.3, I keep getting an error path: not found when rc-scripts are run, this holds both for the base scripts in /etc/rc.d and installed scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d - also, the cron job which runs save-entropy every 11 minutes sends this error. But I

Solved: Lost MBR/wrong disk geometry

2004-11-28 Thread Erik Norgaard
Erik Norgaard wrote: Jeremy Faulkner wrote: 'fdisk -B' didn't work? Nope :-( I have installed gpart, it complians* dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=512 count=32 fdisk -BI ad0 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0s1 bs=512 count=32 bsdlabel -w -B ad0s1 did the job. I think I shouldn't have specified -w

Lost MBR/wrong disk geometry

2004-11-27 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, It appears that I have screwed my disk (60GB) thoroughly. I had used the sample install.cfg for sysinstall but it has partition=exclusive and not all. I did dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 count=1k as explained in the faq, and the exclusive partioning was gone. I can run sysinstall, slice up

Re: Lost MBR/wrong disk geometry

2004-11-27 Thread Erik Norgaard
Jeremy Faulkner wrote: 'fdisk -B' didn't work? Nope :-( I have installed gpart, it complians* * Warning: partition(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) starts beyond disk end. Partition(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD): invalid primary OK. and then guessed an empty partition table... ? Thanks, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818

Re: sysinstall flakey after PXE booting 5.3 / AMD64

2004-11-26 Thread Erik Norgaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wasn't able to discover much in the holographic console. That console has rm but not ls. It has ifconfig but not netstat. I can cd into /stand but hardly any other directory listed in the PATH variable. Next time I'll try typing xyzzy to see if more commands

Diskgeometry - sysinstall bug?

2004-11-26 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, I have problems making sysinstall behave, interactive or scripted. The disk is 60GB Hitachi Travelstar, on boot the kernel FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE identifies the geometry as: 116280/16/63, but sysinstall refuses these values as insane, and tries to rewrite the disk geometry to 7296/255/63.

Re: Airlink+ wireless card

2004-11-26 Thread Erik Norgaard
stan wrote: I'm visiting myy parents in Atlanta over the holidays, and I discovered there isa Fryes there! I bought a Airlin+ wireless card for my laptop for $9.99 I pluged it into my FreebSD 4,10 machine, and got a message about 32 bit Cardbus not being supported. Seems like I remeber that I

Solved: Diskgeometry - sysinstall bug?

2004-11-26 Thread Erik Norgaard
Erik Norgaard wrote: if (d-bios_cyl 65536 || d-bios_hd 256 || d-bios_sect = 64) { Sanitize_Bios_Geom(d); } It's a bug that sysinstall refuses to accept what you type. I have found that I could create working file system with both geometries editing the above code

Solved: Failure to initialise network infterface after pxeboot

2004-11-25 Thread Erik Norgaard
Error in the memory file system caused the problem. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint:

Building base system with CFLAGS=-static

2004-11-25 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, I am trying to build the base system statically linked to create an installation root file system. I have tried make CFLAGS=-static buildworld, which fails. Building each program separately, in most cases it works with make CFLAGS=-static but some like systinstall, sh, csh and init fails.

Write failure on transfer for FTP install

2004-11-25 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, I am trying to install via FTP, interactive or scripted install gives the same result: Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes) after fetching first chunk - I have tried multiple ftp sites. sysinstall complains about the diskgeometry: WARNING: A geometry of 116280/16/63

Strange problem with pxeboot

2004-11-24 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, Sorry - I have no more descriptive subject because this is really strange: I have set up a server to serve clients booting with pxeboot and fetching kernel and a memory disk root file system with tftp. So far so good. What is strange is this: 1) If the local harddrive (which contains an old

PXEBoot fails in last stage

2004-11-24 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, I have set up a server (dhcp/tftp/ftp, no nfs configured) as a jumpstart server for pxeboot and compiled kernel with -DLOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES. The client machine is a VIA EPIA CL1000 with a 60GB hdd with a FreeBSD 4.9, I want to reinstall to get 5.3. Kernel is compiled with option BOOTP

Solved: PXEBoot fails in last stage

2004-11-24 Thread Erik Norgaard
Erik Norgaard wrote: I have set up a server (dhcp/tftp/ftp, no nfs configured) as a jumpstart server for pxeboot and compiled kernel with -DLOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES. The client machine is a VIA EPIA CL1000 with a 60GB hdd with a FreeBSD 4.9, I want to reinstall to get 5.3. Kernel is compiled

Re: cvsup to 5.3?

2004-11-24 Thread Erik Norgaard
Damien Hull wrote: I'm using 4.10. How much free space do I need to cvsup? I had a lot of space until I installed KDE. /usr is down to 2.3G. If this isn't enough space can I move everything to another drive with more space in /usr? First, you can probably save a lot of disk space cleaning up

Failure to initialise network infterface after pxeboot

2004-11-24 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, - again - sorry to bother you all, but at least I progress :-) I have a VIA C3 Nehemiah (CL1000), 256MB ram, 60GB HDD. CL1000 comes with two ethernet interfaces, both VIA Rhine III 10/100, on my system (from FreeBSD 4.10 dmesg): vr0: VIA VT6105 Rhine III 10/100BaseTX port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem

Re: cvsup to 5.3?

2004-11-24 Thread Erik Norgaard
Damien Hull wrote: Looks like I didn't do a make clean when I installed kde. I know have 3.5G in /usr. Is there an easy way to find out which ports need to have make clean done? I have a script: cleans up ports with a work dir and removes distfiles that no port is refering to. Not perfect - it

PXE boot with TFTP

2004-11-23 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, I am trying to set up a jumpstart server using only dhcp/tftp/ftp to install. My tftp root is /var/tftp where I have created the boot directory containing: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 512 Nov 21 23:37 boot0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 512 Nov 21 23:38 boot1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel

Re: PXE boot with TFTP

2004-11-23 Thread Erik Norgaard
Ruben de Groot wrote: I'm successfully doing the same thing you are trying here. How do you start tftpd? I have it launched from inetd with option -s /var/tftp. Thanks, I had no -s. I inserted -l -s /var/tftp, -l to get log in /var/log/messages Now I get:== pxe_open: gateway ip:

Re: Copyright Issues

2004-11-23 Thread Erik Norgaard
Mick Walker wrote: Now, getting to the point, I was shocked when I went into the toilet facilities in the pub, and found one of those vending machines that sell novelty items of a sexual nature, featuring on the design something that looked remarkably similar to the BSD Daemon. To the best of my

Re: PXE boot with TFTP

2004-11-23 Thread Erik Norgaard
I updated loader.rc to this: == loader.rc = echo Loading Kernel... load boot/kernel/kernel echo Loading memory file system... load -t mfs_root boot/mfsroot set vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/md0c echo Booting... echo \007\007 boot == However, this fails to launch

Solved: PXE boot with TFTP

2004-11-23 Thread Erik Norgaard
I have solved the first boot-stage following the instructions on m0n0wall: http://www.m0n0.ch/wall/hack/#loader Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID:

Can't remove files: Operation not permitted

2004-11-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, I have messed around trying to set up a freebsd diskless, so to populate a root directory i ran (FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT) # cd /usr/src # make buildworld # make DESTDIR=/var/nclt installworld Now the problem is that I can't get rid of /var/nclt again, not even in single user mode. I can't

Re: Can't remove files: Operation not permitted

2004-11-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 21 November 2004 17:33, Christian Hiris wrote: On Sunday 21 November 2004 17:18, Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi, I have messed around trying to set up a freebsd diskless, so to populate a root directory i ran (FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT) # cd

Solved: Can't remove files: Operation not permitted

2004-11-21 Thread Erik Norgaard
Christian Hiris wrote: # chflags -R noschg * Thanks, this solved my problem. I looked at chmod for some strange options - but I overlooked the reference to chflags... Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate:

Re: BIND9 dump file

2004-11-11 Thread Erik Norgaard
Gerard Samuel wrote: Im getting a bunch of these in the logs - Nov 10 10:30:48 gatekeeper named[312]: dumping master file: master/tmp-SLtSQEmBBK: open: permission denied So I figured a filesystem permissions problem. I chowned Thanks for any info that you may provide... Im confused. I've

BIND9 on 4.10: couldn't open pid file: permission denied

2004-11-10 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, I had a working BIND9 running but needed to restart after updating the zone file with the following command: # /usr/local/sbin/named -g -u bind -t /var/named -c /etc/named.conf But this failed: Nov 10 12:23:58.110 starting BIND 9.2.3 -g -u bind -t /var/named -c /etc/named.conf Nov 10

OT: Top posting [ was Re: Hello List ]

2004-11-10 Thread Erik Norgaard
Ben Haysom wrote: What is top posting? Top posting is when you write your reply _above_ what you are replying to. This paragraph was posted _below_ the question I respond to. Among other good practices are: Remove what you are not responding to. Subject should reflect the content of the

Re: BIND9 on 4.10: couldn't open pid file: permission denied

2004-11-10 Thread Erik Norgaard
Nelis Lamprecht wrote: Shouldn't you be using the command named -g bind -u bind -t /var/named ? No, that's bind8. On bind9 '-u bind' sets user _and_ group. -g is foreground to catch the output. Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME

Re: BIND9 on 4.10: couldn't open pid file: permission denied

2004-11-10 Thread Erik Norgaard
Nelis Lamprecht wrote: Oops my bad. The only other explanation I can think of then is that the path for the pid file may be specified incorrectly in your named.conf in relation to your chroot ? I thought that too. First, I had no path specified in named.conf, defaults to /var/run/named.pid -

Re: Hello List

2004-11-10 Thread Erik Norgaard
Ben Haysom wrote: ifconfig_rl0=inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 defaultrouter=192.168.1.1 Are you sure this is right? have you been assigned this ip by your ISP? can you ping default router? Try to let dhclient configure your external interface and see if you get connection out. Maybe

Re: Hello List

2004-11-10 Thread Erik Norgaard
Ben Haysom wrote: default router?? My ISP IP address is 80.229.247.29. OK, you have configured your external interface with a static ip, and from the above line it appears to be wrong. The above ip is? your assigned ip? or default router? or? Most ISP assign ip dynamically. Try running this

Re: Knoppix-like FreeBSD-on-a-CD?

2004-11-10 Thread Erik Norgaard
Paul Hoffman wrote: Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but is there a FreeBSD-on-a-CD project similar to Knoppix for Linux? Yes: FreeBSIE www.freesbie.org, and I think another project called FreeBSD Live or similar. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web:

Problem connecting with ADSL modem [ was Re: Hello List ]

2004-11-10 Thread Erik Norgaard
Ben Haysom wrote: That didn't work. I could ping my external IP 80.227.249.79 but not others. Error messages on first screen of main server saying that IP wasn't valid. Please, I can't see your screen, I can't see what you are trying to do or what you are actually doing, and I can't see the

Re: Problem connecting with ADSL modem [ was Re: Hello List ]

2004-11-10 Thread Erik Norgaard
Ben Haysom wrote: 80.229.247.29 is my static IP and also my default gateway. Subnet Mask : 255.255.255.255 INTERNET | | ISP |default router: ip 80.229.247.79 | | ADSLmodem | | |rl0: 80.229.247.79 (DHCP but static) FBSD |sis0: ip

Solved: BIND9 on 4.10: couldn't open pid file: permission denied

2004-11-10 Thread Erik Norgaard
Erik Norgaard wrote: Mystery deepens...? Problem solved, yet mystery deepens as to why this happened: I first tried to reinstall bind9 to check that some file had not been messed up by installation of something else. Didn't change a thing. Then I moved my old chroot dir and created a new one

NDIS D-LINK DWL-650+

2004-11-08 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, Just before I definitively give up on this crap-card, I just thought I'd give it another try with project evil without succes. Has anyone successfully made DWL-650+ work with NDIS? 2ndly: Since I will probably have to buy something else, can anyone confirm that 3Com OfficeConnect 3crwe154a72

mergemaster fails in single user mode

2004-11-02 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, I just upgraded to -CURRENT (yesterdays). Everything goes well, I reboot into single user mode, mount all partitions and run 'make installworld' To finish the upgrade I run mergemaster still in single user mode, but this fails with the following output: # /usr/sbin/mergemaster tput: no

Re: mergemaster fails in single user mode

2004-11-02 Thread Erik Norgaard
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Hmmm, AFAIK, this shouldn't happen. Do you have a /.profile file? hmm, maybe that explains it, /.profile was missing and created when i ran mergemaster in multiuser mode, so I guess cd failed because my path was empty. (I think I must have deleted it when cleaning up

Re: ports conflict

2004-10-29 Thread Erik Norgaard
Petre Bandac wrote: === Installing for p5-DBD-mysql-2.9004_1 === p5-DBD-mysql-2.9004_1 conflicts with installed package(s): p5-Mysql-modules-1.2219 They install files into the same place. Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1). *** Error code 1 what must I do

VPN questions

2004-10-27 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, I am looking at how to implement VPN but I'm getting confused as to how IPSec, IKE, OpenSSL, FreeSWAN, racoon etc. all fit into the picture. I am looking at two scenarios, and I have two questions. 1) Standard IPSec tunnel: ++ IPSec/VPN ++ LAN---| FW

Re: Sorry

2004-10-27 Thread Erik Norgaard
Jaime Moss wrote: What is the differnce between FreeBSD and Linux? The differences really only matters if you are using one system and want to change, they are mostly neuances in everyday use. You can run all the mentioned mailservers equally well on both FreeBSD and Linux, same configuration

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