size suffix w x

2010-06-25 Thread Fbsd1
I have a script I am hacking. The code has a check for a size suffix. I know what m|mb|g|gb|k|kb| and the upper case version of the same letters mean. But the code also has an w|x size options. Is this a valid size type and what does it mean? ___ freeb

Re: pkg_add

2010-06-24 Thread Fbsd1
Glen Barber wrote: On 6/24/10 9:01 PM, zaxis wrote: uname -a FreeBSD mybsd.zsoft.com 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #9: Sat Mar 27 15:06:39 CST 2010 r...@mybsd.zsoft.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL i386 echo $PKG_PATH PKG_PATH: Undefined variable. cat .cshrc |grep -i packag

pkg_add

2010-06-24 Thread Fbsd1
I checked the pkg_add manpage for where does pkg_add look for the named pkg distribution file? It says the env PKG_PATH holds it but env command does not show that variable. Is it /usr/packages or /usr/ports/packages? How can I see the value of PKG_PATH? What is the path of where the pkg distri

Re: * wildcard in.sh script

2010-06-15 Thread Fbsd1
Svein Skogen (Listmail Account) wrote: On 15.06.2010 10:25, Aiza wrote: I have a directory with files in it. The first 3 letters of the file names is the group prefix. I'm trying to write a script to accept the 3 letter of the group followed by a * to mean its a prefix lookup. But when I run it

Re: freebsd-update upgrade

2010-06-09 Thread Fbsd1
Glen Barber wrote: On 6/9/10 9:07 PM, Aiza wrote: The upgrade function requires the -r newrelease flag. The manpage does not state the formate of the newrelease value. Is it just the release number like this 8.0 or is it like this 8.0-RELEASE? 8.0-RELEASE. I believe you can pull 8.0-RELEASE

installworld and sources

2010-06-06 Thread Fbsd1
Compiling a new kernel from source requires /usr/src to be populated, I understand that. The buildworld process for sure needs /usr/src. My question is , is /usr/src also used in the installworld process? Now I have never had to do this type of system RELEASE upgrade before, so I just don't

Re: Alternate method for fetching source

2010-06-04 Thread Fbsd1
Ross Penner wrote: I'm trying to update my system and when I run cvsup, the connection repeatedly has problems (TreeList failed: Network write failure: Connection closed). I'm wondering if anybody can suggest any other method to grab the current source files? Thanks for any ideas It has been m

/var/empty has schg flag turned on. Why?

2010-06-04 Thread Fbsd1
Why does the base RELEASE have schg flag turned for the /var/empty directory? Is that directory really used for anything? Is this a release build problem? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

portsnap refuse

2010-06-04 Thread Fbsd1
The postsnap says adding refuse statements to select the parts of the port tree you have use for will shorten the download process and conserve disk space on your host. That only the port categories not REFUSED will be selected and compressed for download. Well for a test I ran portsnap with o

Re: text editor

2010-06-03 Thread Fbsd1
Walt Pawley wrote: On Sun, 30 May 2010, Fbsd1 wrote: Been using ee and been happy. Now I have need for an editor with block commands. I'd suggest looking into aee. That has what I am looking and so simple. Thanks for your info. ___ fr

FreeBSD-update

2010-06-03 Thread Fbsd1
After running FreeBSD-update fetch and install is there any way to tell it worked without rebooting? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-que

Re: minicom freebsd 8.0

2010-06-02 Thread Fbsd1
akash kumar wrote: Hi, Can some one help me with the steps configuring minicom on freebsd 8.0. I have a serial to usb converter running between my board and host machine. Thanks, Akash. I take it a minicom is a external serial modem for internet access over the phone lines. First off

Re: text editor

2010-05-31 Thread Fbsd1
SNIP alot of text not related to original posted question. Can we get back on subject. I have worked many years with ispf so decided to check out "THE" I installed pkg_add -r the entering "the" on the command line produces something that is far removed from ispf/pdf. manpage and website docume

Re: text editor

2010-05-30 Thread Fbsd1
Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 30 May 2010 11:36:31 +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: Been using ee and been happy. Now I have need for an editor with block commands. Put dd on the first line of sequence number you want to start deleting and dd on the last line of the block and hit enter and the block of lines

text editor

2010-05-29 Thread Fbsd1
Been using ee and been happy. Now I have need for an editor with block commands. Put dd on the first line of sequence number you want to start deleting and dd on the last line of the block and hit enter and the block of lines are deleted. OR Put cc on first line and cc on last line of black to c

Re: jails and one dynamic ip address

2010-05-25 Thread Fbsd1
I get one dynamic ip address from my ISP. This is what I specify on the jail for public network access. When the ip address changes on me I have to manually change the ip address associated with the jail. Is there some method I can code so jail will all ways have public network access? > Hi, >

jails and one dynamic ip address

2010-05-25 Thread Fbsd1
I get one dynamic ip address from my ISP. This is what I specify on the jail for public network access. When the ip address changes on me I have to manually change the ip address associated with the jail. Is there some method I can code so jail will all ways have public network access? __

Re: class.phpmailer.php Warning: date() [function.date]:

2010-05-22 Thread Fbsd1
Nerius Landys wrote: Running Apache-1.3.41_1 PHP5-5.2.12 I did not get this message, which I now get running Apache/2.2.15 (FreeBSD) PHP/5.3.2 Is their way to stop this? Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.

Re: phpmyadmin & apache22

2010-05-22 Thread Fbsd1
Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/05/2010 14:54:20, Fbsd1 wrote: pkg_info -Ix php ap22-php5-5.3.2 PHP Scripting Language Version 5.3.2 php5-bz2-5.2.11 The bz2 shared extension for php php5-ctype-5.2.11 The ctype shared extension for

Re: [#24513755] spam from mpcustomer.com

2010-05-22 Thread Fbsd1
postmaster here is the whois info on mpcustomer.com as you can see there is a phone number to call. Why haven't you called to report this problem? Registration Service Provided By: UK2 Group Contact: hostmas...@westhost.com Visit: http://uk2group.com Domain name: mpcustomer.com Registrant Cont

class.phpmailer.php Warning: date() [function.date]:

2010-05-22 Thread Fbsd1
Running Apache-1.3.41_1 PHP5-5.2.12 I did not get this message, which I now get running Apache/2.2.15 (FreeBSD) PHP/5.3.2 Is their way to stop this? Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or

Re: phpmyadmin & apache22

2010-05-21 Thread Fbsd1
Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/05/2010 12:39:44, Fbsd1 wrote: Tried 'make install' on phpmyadmin port and got not found errors on php5-filter, php5-session, php5-ctype, php5-mysql all of which were all ready installed by pkg_add. Pkg_inf

phpmyadmin & apache22

2010-05-21 Thread Fbsd1
Tried 'make install' on phpmyadmin port and got not found errors on php5-filter, php5-session, php5-ctype, php5-mysql all of which were all ready installed by pkg_add. Pkg_info verifies that they are there. And of course I have compiled php5 with the apache module. I have apache13 & phpmyadmin

Re: how to force end-of-line in man page source

2010-05-12 Thread Fbsd1
Thomas Dickey wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 01:36:20PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: I don't like the way some lines in the man page have the last word in the sentence broken in 2 and hyphenated. Is there some escape code I can put at the end of the line in the source code to suppress this? Yo

how to force end-of-line in man page source

2010-05-10 Thread Fbsd1
I don't like the way some lines in the man page have the last word in the sentence broken in 2 and hyphenated. Is there some escape code I can put at the end of the line in the source code to suppress this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: how to find literal in file and them delete that line

2010-05-09 Thread Fbsd1
b. f. wrote: Alberto Mijares wrote: snip It would make sense if you read the sed(1) and re_format(7) manpages. They may be a pain at first, but they are used often and can make your life a lot easier. There are also a lot of tutorial on the web, with many useful examples, e.g.: http://sed.so

Re: how to find literal in file and them delete that line

2010-05-09 Thread Fbsd1
Sahil Tandon wrote: On Mon, 10 May 2010, Fbsd1 wrote: Alberto Mijares wrote: On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Fbsd1 wrote: I want to search every line in the specified file for a literal and if found then delete that line from the file and save the file all from within a sh type of shell

Re: how to find literal in file and them delete that line

2010-05-09 Thread Fbsd1
Alberto Mijares wrote: On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:08 PM, Fbsd1 wrote: I want to search every line in the specified file for a literal and if found then delete that line from the file and save the file all from within a sh type of shell script. man(1) sed Regards That makes no sense to me

how to find literal in file and them delete that line

2010-05-09 Thread Fbsd1
I want to search every line in the specified file for a literal and if found then delete that line from the file and save the file all from within a sh type of shell script. Does anyone have a example they would share with me? Thanks. ___ freebsd-que

Re: port pkg-plist

2010-05-09 Thread Fbsd1
Yuri Pankov wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 08:32:26AM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: Yuri Pankov wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 08:19:35AM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: Yuri Pankov wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 07:46:09AM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: In a port I am creating I have some files that are not in the /usr

Re: port pkg-plist

2010-05-09 Thread Fbsd1
Yuri Pankov wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 08:19:35AM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: Yuri Pankov wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 07:46:09AM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: In a port I am creating I have some files that are not in the /usr/local directory tree. There in /var/log & /var/db. What is the correct fo

Re: port pkg-plist

2010-05-09 Thread Fbsd1
Yuri Pankov wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 07:46:09AM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: In a port I am creating I have some files that are not in the /usr/local directory tree. There in /var/log & /var/db. What is the correct format of the statement in ports pkg-plist file to have these files deleted

port pkg-plist

2010-05-09 Thread Fbsd1
In a port I am creating I have some files that are not in the /usr/local directory tree. There in /var/log & /var/db. What is the correct format of the statement in ports pkg-plist file to have these files deleted when the port is deleted with pkg_delete command. ___

Re: Addition to BSDstats

2010-05-06 Thread Fbsd1
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Thu, 6 May 2010, Robert Huff wrote: The problem with not including bsdstats in sysinstall or some other means of bringing it to peoples attention is that it gets forgotten and loses its effectiveness. Maybe it could go in the >>> monthly subscription list remin

Re: Accessing file from windows or to windows

2010-05-06 Thread Fbsd1
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I have a file I need in my bsd box, would it be easier, or is it possible, to mount an NTFS share , or should I try to "map" a directory from the windows box. TIA, I have Xp Win7 Win2003 Win2008 Freebsd 6.4 thanx Sounds like all your PCs are on

BSDstats website displaying data incorrectly

2010-05-05 Thread Fbsd1
Why does this page show PCBSD has count of 387 http://www.bsdstats.org/bt/home.html?os= And this page shows PCBSD has count of 1307 http://www.bsdstats.org/bt/home.html?os=PC-BSD Why is this? I would think both should show the same value, or you better add explanation to the web page why the c

Re: Addition to BSDstats

2010-05-04 Thread Fbsd1
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Tue, 4 May 2010, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Don't worry about it, found and fixed that bug ... it had to do with trying to masquarade behind haproxy, so it looked like all systems were coming in from Panama if they were running the newest code ... which means alot of p

Re: Addition to BSDstats

2010-05-04 Thread Fbsd1
Steve Bertrand wrote: Marc, et-al, I wasn't originally going to post this to the list, but I thought that it would be useful to do so in order to try to solicit feedback. There's a suggestion that I have for the server-side of bsdstats. I would find it very useful if the server could track the

Re: How To create msdosfs on HD?

2010-04-30 Thread Fbsd1
Fbsd1 wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:29:35 -0300, Fbsd1 wrote: I know mount_msdosfs command is used to mount a HD formated with fat, but I could not find a FBSD command to create a msdos file system on a hard drive. Native dos fdisk/format is no good because it's not USB aware. Is ther

Re: How To create msdosfs on HD?

2010-04-29 Thread Fbsd1
Adam Vande More wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 6:36 AM, Rod Person wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:29:35 -0300, Fbsd1 wrote: I know mount_msdosfs command is used to mount a HD formated with fat, but I could not find a FBSD command to create a msdos file system on a hard drive. Native dos

Re: How To create msdosfs on HD?

2010-04-29 Thread Fbsd1
Rod Person wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:29:35 -0300, Fbsd1 wrote: I know mount_msdosfs command is used to mount a HD formated with fat, but I could not find a FBSD command to create a msdos file system on a hard drive. Native dos fdisk/format is no good because it's not USB aware. Is

How To create msdosfs on HD?

2010-04-29 Thread Fbsd1
I have an old IDE 3.5 hard drive with FBSD Release 7.0 on it. I want to use it for USB disk space on XP. I bought a 'CD-r king' hard drive to USB cable. It will work with 2.5 & 3.5 IDE drives and sata drives. When I plug the USB end of the cable into a FBSD system I can mount the 3.5 IDE 7.0 HD

ezjail and dmsg -a command

2010-04-25 Thread Fbsd1
I have a directory tree type of ezjail up and running. When in jail console I enter dmesg -a and i get the hosts last boot messages not the jails. Why is this dmesg command issued from within the jail have access to the host world? Something wrong here! _

apache & Perl CGI programs

2010-04-25 Thread Fbsd1
I have Perl and apache installed on my system. Do I have to do anything additional to get apache to run Perl CGI programs? Is putting the perl script in the cgi-bin directory at /usr/local/www/data all it takes to make things work? ___ freebsd-questio

Host firewall and jails

2010-04-17 Thread Fbsd1
Just where do jails fall in reference to the host firewall? Do jails see the inbound packets before the host's firewall does? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, sen

Re: installation problem

2010-04-13 Thread Fbsd1
Александров Иван wrote: Hellow,my name is Ivan,i have installation problem configuration: intel seleron Dual-core e3300 2.5/800/1mb BOX LGA775 BX80571E3300 ASUS P5KPL-AM SE Soket 775/iG31/DDR II/PCI-Ex16/Video/mAXT DDR II 1024Mb PC-6400,800MHz Crucial (Micron) 160Gb Hitachi HDS721016LA386(0A3926

Re: How to make "man" pages

2010-04-12 Thread Fbsd1
For the questions list archives: I wrote an How To Creating a manpage from scratch. You can read it here. http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=4602 Thanks to all the people who replied to my post. Joe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: USB Powered Speakers

2010-04-09 Thread Fbsd1
Antonio Olivares wrote: On 4/8/10, Programmer In Training wrote: I have acquired a pair of Compaq USB /powered/ speakers. On my parents XP machine they don't seem to cause any problems, but when I hook it up to listen on my FreeBSD box I have absolutely nothing but problems with the speakers (e

Re: usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-07 Thread Fbsd1
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 7, 2010, at 4:06 PM, Fbsd1 wrote: Your wrong. I installed the package of postfix and it installed it self into /usr/bin with out any help from me. Unless you or whoever built the package changed $PREFIX: % pkg_info -Lx postfix Information for postfix-2.7.0,1

Re: usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-07 Thread Fbsd1
Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Wednesday 07 April 2010 11:13:13 Fbsd1 wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:24:51 +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: Why are there RELEASE base files in /usr/bin. I thought /usr was to only contain binaries installed from ports or packages. No. The /usr/local subtree

Re: usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-07 Thread Fbsd1
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Fbsd1 writes: But that is not true. The postfix port populates /usr/bin. By default, it does not. You have to enable the "Install into /usr and /etc/postfix" configuration option for it to do so. I don't recommend that anyone do it without a *real

Re: usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-07 Thread Fbsd1
Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:24:51 +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: Why are there RELEASE base files in /usr/bin. I thought /usr was to only contain binaries installed from ports or packages. No. The /usr/local subtree (LOCAL) is for local additions (ports and packages), while things outside

usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-07 Thread Fbsd1
Why are there RELEASE base files in /usr/bin. I thought /usr was to only contain binaries installed from ports or packages. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send a

Re: FreeBSD splash screen - freezes my Dell Inspiron 9400

2010-04-01 Thread Fbsd1
Christoph Kukulies wrote: I'm observing the following with 8.0 Release: Just for fun I installed a FreeBSD splash screen "The Power to Serve" with the abstracted little demon. As long as the vidcontrol screen saver (not X11, I'm not running X11 at present) has not fired the first time, everyt

Re: How to make "man" pages

2010-04-01 Thread Fbsd1
Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/04/2010 09:41:59, Fbsd1 wrote: Getting closer but not there yet. Selected man jail to be my example of macro commands used. Did [gunzip jail.8.gz] and now I have jail.8 file. How to I convert this file to native macro

Re: How to make "man" pages

2010-04-01 Thread Fbsd1
Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 31/03/2010 08:54:25, Fbsd1 wrote: OK i want to write a man page from scratch. So lets say i want to use /usr/share/man/man2/jail.2.gz as my starting sample. How do I convert this .gz file to a plain text file so I can edit

Re: /boot.config

2010-03-31 Thread Fbsd1
krad wrote: On 31 March 2010 04:53, Fbsd1 wrote: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 30), Fbsd1 said: During the boot process I want to change the device used to boot from. From the default 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader to 0:da(0,a)/boot/loader forcing the boot to continue from usb stick

Re: How to make "man" pages

2010-03-31 Thread Fbsd1
On 31/03/2010 04:00:15, Fbsd1 wrote: Where can I find documentation on the procedure to create "man" pages for a port? If you want to write a man page from scratch, probably the best way to get started is to just copy a man page from the base system and edit it to taste. See gr

Re: /boot.config

2010-03-30 Thread Fbsd1
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 30), Fbsd1 said: During the boot process I want to change the device used to boot from. From the default 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader to 0:da(0,a)/boot/loader forcing the boot to continue from usb stick. Here is the problem, the bios have no option to boot

How to make "man" pages

2010-03-30 Thread Fbsd1
Where can I find documentation on the procedure to create "man" pages for a port? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@

/boot.config

2010-03-29 Thread Fbsd1
During the boot process I want to change the device used to boot from. From the default 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader to 0:da(0,a)/boot/loader forcing the boot to continue from usb stick. Here is the problem, the bios have no option to boot from USB device. So thinking let the bios point to first drive t

Re: [ fbsd_questions ] tar(1) vs. msdos_fs: a death_spiral ?

2010-03-05 Thread Fbsd1
spellberg_robert wrote: greetings, all --- i confess that this one has me flummoxed. the short question: does tar(1) spit_up when extracting onto an msdos_fs hard_drive ? [ i tried the mailing_list archives "tar AND msdos", for -questions, -chat, -bugs, -newbies, -performance ] [ other res

Re: Booting MFS from Secondary Partition

2010-03-05 Thread Fbsd1
Martin McCormick wrote: Fbsd1 writes: There is hard coded logic that is stopping you from doing what you want. Looks like you are SOL. Me thinks you are absolutely correct. I was only hoping I was doing something wrong and a slight syntax change would make it work. Thank you and

Re: Booting MFS from Secondary Partition

2010-03-04 Thread Fbsd1
Martin McCormick wrote: I have hit one of these impenetrable walls in which nothing seems to work but I know it should. I have tried several versions of /boot.config to no avail. The idea is exactly the same principle as described in depenguinator which is software that lets one use grub in Linux

Re: Loader.conf mfs statements

2010-03-04 Thread Fbsd1
Daniel Bye wrote: On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 09:48:27PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: Tyring to understand what mfsbsd is doing. In its loader.conf file i see these statements geom_uzip_load="YES" mfs_load="YES" mfs_type="mfs_root" mfs_name-"/mfsroot" tmpfs_laod="

Loader.conf mfs statements

2010-03-04 Thread Fbsd1
Tyring to understand what mfsbsd is doing. In its loader.conf file i see these statements geom_uzip_load="YES" mfs_load="YES" mfs_type="mfs_root" mfs_name-"/mfsroot" tmpfs_laod="YES" vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/mdo Where do I find documentation on the meaning of these statements? ___

Handbook Index

2010-03-01 Thread Fbsd1
I find it very hard to find the subject I am looking for in the handbook. The index only gets me to the general area in the handbook and then I have to (next page) through it looking for what I hope is there. The Index really needs to be expanded to display each and every sub-section of all th

Re: Can't boot off the USB image

2010-02-17 Thread Fbsd1
rocwhite168 wrote: My computers (Dell SX280 PCs or Dell D600 laptop) seem >to refuse to boot off the USB disk with non-Windows images are >written to it (I have also tried OpenSolaris images). >I've tried using dd to write the .img files, or using unetbootin to >write either .img or .iso images,

Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.

2010-02-16 Thread Fbsd1
Christer Solskogen wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Tim Judd wrote: And I agree with this 'Fbsd1' user (I wish 'Fbsd1' would update his MTA with a real name) that since Christer is who uses the product, he should look into it. I'm probably a bit paranoid, bu

Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.

2010-02-15 Thread Fbsd1
Christer Solskogen wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Fbsd1 wrote: http://www.a1poweruser.com/usb.info.htm Why does Websence think your site contains Potentially Unwanted Software? Have no idea what you are talking about. Since your using their software maybe you should be asking

Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.

2010-02-14 Thread Fbsd1
Hello list. I wrote this article on the different ways to install Freebsd on a USB stick. It covers a large range of related subjects dealing with installing Freebsd and the use of an USB stick. It's way to large to post here so the link below will take you to the article. Looking for feedback

FTP using .netrc

2010-02-01 Thread Fbsd1
Goal is to download the install source directory tree so I can use it as an target for local ftp sysinstall. The problem is that the FreeBSD ftp server keeps timing out before everything is downloaded. This is the error message ftp gives me. 421 Service not available, remote server timed out. C

Re: Server compromised Zen-Cart "record company" Exploit

2010-02-01 Thread Fbsd1
Bogdan Webb wrote: try php's safe_mode but it is likely to keep the hackers off, indeed they can get in and snatch some data but they would be kept out of a shell's reach... but sometimes safe_mode is not enough... try considering Suhosin but the addon not the patch... and define the suhosin.exec

8.0 and floppy support

2010-01-27 Thread Fbsd1
When booting release 8.0 i no longer get the fd0 floppy device prob message. This pc has run freebsd 6.4 7.0 7.2 which all supported the floppy drive. Has floppy drive support been dropped in 8.0? I know the floppy drive works because i can boot win98 floppy disk ok. __

Re: "Invalid partition table" after installation (GOOD NEWS!)

2010-01-22 Thread Fbsd1
, Jan 22, 2010 at 08:16:59PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:25:26PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 04:38:22PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: I've tried the "modern BIOS" geometry and the "255 head" geometry. I'v

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-22 Thread Fbsd1
Christoph Kukulies wrote: Here is some more info: The file I copied to the USB stick was ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img Actually, I don't remember how I got the image to the USB stick. I believe I used a free tool from HP from

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-22 Thread Fbsd1
Christoph Kukulies wrote: I don't know why you shout. (?) Not shouting, just making my inserted comments visible within the old post as in different from bottom or top posting. Fbsd1 schrieb: Christoph Kukulies wrote: Fbsd1 schrieb: Christoph Kukulies wrote: I installed FreeBSD 8

Re: "Invalid partition table" after installation

2010-01-22 Thread Fbsd1
John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 06:36:14AM -0600, John wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 08:16:59PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:25:26PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 04:38:22PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: I've tried the &q

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-22 Thread Fbsd1
Christoph Kukulies wrote: Fbsd1 schrieb: Christoph Kukulies wrote: I installed FreeBSD 8.0 on an USB-stick and was able to boot it on my Desktop PC and install 8.0 from it. DO YOU MEAN YOU INSTALLED THE 8.0 ISO ON A USB STICK. BOOTED FROM IT AS INSTALL SOURCE AND INSTALLED 8.0 ON A DESKTOP

Re: "Invalid partition table" after installation

2010-01-22 Thread Fbsd1
John wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:25:26PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 04:38:22PM +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: John wrote: I've tried the "modern BIOS" geometry and the "255 head" geometry. I've ensured that the first slice (boot slice)

Re: pf rules

2010-01-22 Thread Fbsd1
Erik Norgaard wrote: kalin m wrote: tcp_in = "{ www, https }" ftp_in = "{ ftp }" udp = "{ domain, ntp }" ping = "echoreq" set skip on lo scrub in antispoof for eth0 inet block in all pass out all keep state pass proto udp to any port $udp pass inet proto icmp all icmp-type $ping keep state pa

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-21 Thread Fbsd1
Christoph Kukulies wrote: I installed FreeBSD 8.0 on an USB-stick and was able to boot it on my Desktop PC and install 8.0 from it. Now I plugged the same stick into my Dell Inspiron 9400 and the USB stick (2GB) is not even listed in the F12 Bios boot menu. Any clues? -- Christoph

Re: "Invalid partition table" after installation

2010-01-21 Thread Fbsd1
John wrote: I've tried the "modern BIOS" geometry and the "255 head" geometry. I've ensured that the first slice (boot slice) is smaller than 1.5 Gb. I've tried to figure out what the BIOS thinks the geometry is, but it doesn't seem to want to tell me. At least, I can't find it in the BIOS menu

8.0 sysinstall problem with usb stick as source media and usb stick as install target

2010-01-13 Thread Fbsd1
I know the sysinstall pgm is a dinosaur that nobody wants to touch so I give Randi great respect in tackling it adding USB support in 8.0. Using 2 USB sticks. da0 2GB as the bootable install media and da1 4GB target device that freebsd is to be installed on. I have put the disc-1 iso onto a usb

Re: Inserting PC card NIC, system stops

2010-01-10 Thread Fbsd1
Hashimoto wrote: Thanks for your reply, Paul. $ uname -a FreeBSD musca.localdomain 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0 r201741: Fri Jan 8 01:01:18 JST 2010 r...@aries.localdomain:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 $ tail /var/log/messages Jan 9 21:29:12 musca kernel: cbb1: ready never

Re: Boot from FD and DR-DOS prompt comes up while installing FreeBSD?

2010-01-02 Thread Fbsd1
Paul Shi wrote: Dear Everyone, I am working my way t setup a FTP server on FreeBSD however I got stuck at the very first stage - installation of FreeBSD 8.0. I downloaded FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso from FreeBSD.org and burned it with NERO to a DVD-RW disc. After that, I insert the DVD di

Re: I need help on installation

2009-12-30 Thread Fbsd1
Roger Agraviador wrote: I found an old pc that I just reformatted the HDD using G parted, now that I try to boot from a Free BSD CD (7.2 release) the Intel chip gives me an error message that the system boot failed and asks me to insert a system disk which I do not have, how do I go about that be

Re: re-write is this booting info correct?

2009-12-28 Thread Fbsd1
Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:04:57 +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: The Microsoft/Windows fdisk program is used to allocate partitions on the hard drive. This program allocated two types of partitions “primary dos partition” and “extended dos partition”. Just a formal addition: "primar

re-write is this booting info correct?

2009-12-28 Thread Fbsd1
How is this rewrite correct? Users with Microsoft/Windows knowledge of how a hard drive is configured may have a terminology issue with FreeBSD. Microsoft/Windows and FreeBSD use the word partition to mean different (but related) things. The Microsoft/Windows fdisk program is used to alloca

Re: whats in your /etc/security/ files ? (AUDIT subsystem)

2009-12-23 Thread Fbsd1
Mike Tancsa wrote: I am looking at getting more out of the FreeBSD AUDIT system and was wondering if anyone has feedback beyond what is in the handbook or links to other resources on this topic. http://bsdmag.org/ had a nice intro article and http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/h

ipfilter nat redirect udp packets

2009-12-16 Thread Fbsd1
Have this nat rule rdr rl0 0.0.0.0/0 port 6355 -> 10.0.10.3 port 6355 I can see in the log that tcp packets are being redirected but udp packets are not. Can not find any verbiage in man 5 0r 8 ipnat that states rdr rule only matches on tcp packets. I thought tcp/udp packets should be redirected?

is this booting info correct?

2009-12-16 Thread Fbsd1
Users with Microsoft/Windows knowledge of how a hard drive is configured may have a terminology issue with FreeBSD. Microsoft/Windows and FreeBSD use the word partition to mean different (but related) things. FreeBSD and Microsoft/Windows have primary-partitions, but they call them different thin

ipfilter nat redirect udp packets

2009-12-09 Thread Fbsd1
Have this nat rule rdr rl0 0.0.0.0/0 port 6355 -> 10.0.10.3 port 6355 I can see in the log that tcp packets are being redirected but udp packets are not. Can not find any verbiage in man 5 0r 8 ipnat that states rdr rule only matches on tcp packets. I thought tcp/udp packets should be redirect

what ports to open in firewall for bitlord

2009-12-08 Thread Fbsd1
Want to allow the bitlord progran to pass through my firewall. Does anyone know the port numbers it uses for out bound and inbound packets. Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-question

Re: tty problem after upgrade to 8.0

2009-12-04 Thread Fbsd1
Jay Hall wrote: Ladies and Gentlemen, I completed the upgrade to FreeBSD 8.0 this afternoon and have an error plaguing me that I cannot solve. When the system is booted, I am receiving the following error. Dec 5 20:43:30 getty[902]: open /dev/ttyd0: No such file or directory However, when

Re: 8.0 & MYSQL50 denying access to user root no password

2009-11-30 Thread Fbsd1
Tim Judd wrote: On 11/29/09, Fbsd1 wrote: For many releases of Freebsd going back to 4.3 I have all ways used the default mysql user root localhost with no password which has been the default. With 8.0/mysql-server-5.0.86 I am denied access now. The mysql manual still says the normal install

8.0 & MYSQL50 denying access to user root no password

2009-11-29 Thread Fbsd1
For many releases of Freebsd going back to 4.3 I have all ways used the default mysql user root localhost with no password which has been the default. With 8.0/mysql-server-5.0.86 I am denied access now. The mysql manual still says the normal install defaults to allowing access to user root with

8.0 release php5 port not working

2009-11-27 Thread Fbsd1
Have a clean install of 8.0 and trying to do cvs make install of port php5 just to turn on apache module. The php5 make install is complaining that autoconf262, pkg-config and libxml2 as non-existent -- dependency list incomplete. I installed these as packages and they show up in pkg_info. Only

Re: 8.0 release serial mouse not working

2009-11-26 Thread Fbsd1
Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:57:32 +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: From the 8.0 release notes is the following http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/relnotes-detailed.html [amd64, i386] The uart(4) is now the default driver for serial port devices in favor of the sio(4) driver. Note that the

Re: 8.0 release serial mouse not working

2009-11-25 Thread Fbsd1
Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:06:56 +0800, Fbsd1 wrote: I checked /dev and there are no cuaa* or cuad* Confirmed, 8.0-RC1 with GENERIC kernel (my toyaround machine). In 7.2 used the sysinstall/configur/mouse menu and it was the one that crated the moused_port="/dev/

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