Re: OT: stupid sh scripting question

2007-01-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Downey wrote: On 1/3/07, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 03:07:43PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: This is probably staring me in the face: if [ ! -d foo] then mkdir foo fi gives

Re: FreeBSD Installer vs RedHat Linux Fedora Core Installer?

2007-01-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sunnz wrote: snip On the other hand, the FBSD installer is very Microsoft-ly, the WinXP installer doesn't have any fancy graphics at first boot, where you do the partition/fs-format stuff - it only display a nice Microsoft Ad thing when it

Re: change password without shell access

2006-12-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Perttu Laine wrote: Hello! I'm looking tool for freebsd that allows user to change their password without access to server. If there are any? We're running mail server with nologin account and would like to let users change their password. From

Re: kino 0.9.4 compile failed

2006-12-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi, wonder if anybody has seen this, i just sync my port tree and updrage kino to 0.9.4 by portupgrade, it failed with a report: frame.cc: In member function `bool Frame::CreateEncoder(bool, bool)': frame.cc:1302:

Re: emachines speakers no sound

2006-12-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charles Hickman wrote: I'm having trouble with the speakers it is hook up with my computer. And it said it is not. And it say there is no audio device.Can you help us with the speakers W3107 If you haven't setup sound on your FreeBSD machine,

Re: tor, segmentation fault.

2006-12-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dima wrote: Hello. Does anybody there have experience how to run an ports/security/tor ? I have use FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p13 and tor here always exit with signal 11 and Segmentation fault message. -- dima 7509107*mail,ru 2:550/112 Could

Re: emachines speakers no sound

2006-12-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Garrett Cooper wrote: Charles Hickman wrote: I'm having trouble with the speakers it is hook up with my computer. And it said it is not. And it say there is no audio device.Can you help us with the speakers W3107 If you haven't setup sound

Re: mplayer configuration

2006-12-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: i used to use mplayer without a problem but i just upgraded it and now have problems--it doesnt work. i can play audio files wiht xmms, but if i try to use mplayer i get an error Could not open/initialize audio

Re: No driver for NIC...

2006-12-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 B. Hansmann wrote: Hi, I just got a new mainboard (MSI K9N Platinum) with nvidia nforce 570/MCP55 chipset. It has a dualLAN 1Gbit ethernet adapter which I think is integrated into the southbridge chipset (nforce 570/MCP55). The mainboard

Re: tor, segmentation fault.

2006-12-27 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dima wrote: On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Garrett Cooper wrote: Does anybody there have experience how to run an ports/security/tor ? I have use FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p13 and tor here always exit with signal 11 and Segmentation fault message. Could

Re: Search Replace Issue

2006-12-26 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Garrett Cooper thusly... cat file.html | sed -e s|http://www.domain.com||g ... Not really a need for cat(1), just use input redirection ... sed -e '...' file - Parv I just

Re: Multi Address Broadcast Protocol

2006-12-26 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Martin wrote: I have an idea for a new protocol that will decrease a multimedia servers bandwidth usage. Normally a server, such as a video or audio streamer, sends a packet out to each and every listener. There can be made a protocol that

Re: FF 2.0 hogging the cpu in FreeBSD 6.2-PRELEASE

2006-12-24 Thread Garrett Cooper
Christian Walther wrote: On 23/12/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Firefox is a pig on every platform. Plus, more sites are using javascript for AJAX these days, pushing more and more load onto the client. I agree. It's painfull to see that you browse a website and it

Re: FF 2.0 hogging the cpu in FreeBSD 6.2-PRELEASE

2006-12-24 Thread Garrett Cooper
Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote: On 12/23/06, Christian Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 23/12/06, Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Firefox is a pig on every platform. Plus, more sites are using javascript for AJAX these days, pushing more and more load onto the client. I

Re: uncalled for reboot

2006-12-24 Thread Garrett Cooper
Rico Secada wrote: On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 14:38:43 -0700 Z. Wade Hampton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Bill. I'll keep that in mind. I think I have the problem figured out. *base=/var/db was set in the supfile. After changing it to /usr, the problem went away. You can be 99.9%

Re: Search Replace Issue

2006-12-24 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jack Stone wrote: Appreciate a tip on how to search replace hundreds of *.htm files: From this: lia href=http://www.domain.com/tales/wouf.html To this: lia href=tales/wouf.html In other words, I just want the relative path and remove all the extra: http://www.domain.htm/ portions of the

Re: Search Replace Issue

2006-12-24 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jack Stone wrote: From: Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Josh Paetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED], freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Search Replace Issue Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 02:56:32 -0500 in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Josh Paetzel thusly... On Saturday

Re: X server remote login and sound

2006-12-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
Nagy László Zsolt wrote: Christian Walther wrote: I'm not sure if sending uncompressed audio data over the network is such a good idea. Are you sure that esd does not compress the data? By the way, esd can be used with any audio application. It can emulate a real soundcard. Example follows.

Re: Is there UNIX analog of ftp command pls?

2006-12-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 12:45:35PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 19), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Is there UNIX analog of ftp command pls, i. e. ls | less ? Yes, ls | less is the way to do it. You can add a shell alias to make it easier

Re: freeBSD - Apache php configuration

2006-12-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
Xian wrote: On Friday 22 December 2006 04:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I want to install php with apache in freebsd unix. I installed apache2 and php 5.2.0. But php file not working and also i want to know the method of running. A long time ago I seem to remember having to do

Re: freeBSD network error

2006-12-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
Xian wrote: On Friday 22 December 2006 06:02, freebsd wrote: Hi all I have installed FreeBSD 6.0 unix recently. But I am not able to configure network (internet). I am having leased line with Realtek gigabit ethernet NIC. When I try to configure it is not showing the interface itself on

Non-accessible NFS share via SMB and NFS lag

2006-12-21 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I am having an issue with NFS and SMB on two FreeBSD machines. The particularly strange thing is that this problem didn't occur when I ran Gentoo Linux on PC_2. Setup: 1. PC_1 and PC_2 share with each other via NFS. 2. Both PCs run

Re: acrobatviewer

2006-12-20 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Warren Block wrote: Stevan Tiefert wrote: I have installed acrobatviewer-1.1 and diablo-jre-1.5.0.07.01_1. Each time I want to use acrobatviewer, this message appears: $ AcrobatViewer expr: illegal option -- r usage: expr [-e] expression $

Re: Server Problem

2006-12-19 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Horne wrote: On Monday 18 December 2006 16:51, ossama abdel-haleem wrote: Dear Sir, I have HP Proliant ML 370 G4 server with dual Processors 3.6 intel xeon and HP Smart RAID controller (Config=RAID5) (146GB * 6) + (4 GB Of RAM.) The

Re: acrobatviewer

2006-12-19 Thread Garrett Cooper
Stevan Tiefert wrote: Am Dienstag, 19. Dezember 2006 19:33 schrieb Nathan Vidican: Stevan Tiefert wrote: Am Montag, 18. Dezember 2006 23:54 schrieb Wood, Russell: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stevan

Re: acrobatviewer

2006-12-19 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Dec 19, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Stevan Tiefert wrote: Am Dienstag, 19. Dezember 2006 20:47 schrieb Garrett Cooper: I agree. (probably going to get flamed, but oh well..) Why in the heck do people offer other solutions when things don't work instead of solving the actual problem? env

Re: Printing.

2006-12-19 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Dec 19, 2006, at 1:38 PM, Greg Groth wrote: Is there any consensus on which method I should use to enable printing on my 6.1 desktop? The printer in question is an old HP Deskjet 500. I recall there being issues regarding cups in the not too distant past, and am wondering if I should

Re: var out of space

2006-12-19 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bradley Giesbrecht wrote: Thanks for all help. uname says FreeBSD 4.10-SECURITY Looks like I should do a fresh install. What's a bugger is this server does dns (bind 8) and web hosting (Apache 1.3) for a few hundred domains. I can backup

Re: rm -f doesn't delete symlink

2006-12-18 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeppe Bundsgaard wrote: At 00:06 18-12-2006, you wrote: Jeppe Bundsgaard wrote: At 22:01 17-12-2006, you wrote: Jeppe Bundsgaard wrote: Hi, I am trying to upgrade to FreeBSD 6.1. But when I run installworld it halts when trying to create a

Re: URGENT: 6.1/amd64 server hangs

2006-12-18 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. A server I manage is locking too frequently. The behaviour is very strange: almost nothing works, no daemon is running, keyboard is ignored, but still the machine will answer pings. The real problem is that I'm

Re: Process States Explanation

2006-12-18 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fr0zen wrote: Where can I get a good list of what each process state means? I have searched the manual pages and handbook and have not been able to find answers or explanations for what states such as pfault mean. I know they are linked to the

Re: FreeBSD as VM host OS?

2006-12-18 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill Moran wrote: In response to David Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My question is whether FreeBSD is a suitable _host_ OS for any virtual machine environment, preferably with support for SMP, amd64, and guest OS speed at or close to native hardware

Re: rm -f doesn't delete symlink: Sollution

2006-12-18 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jeppe Bundsgaard wrote: At 09:37 18-12-2006, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeppe Bundsgaard wrote: At 00:06 18-12-2006, you wrote: Jeppe Bundsgaard wrote: At 22:01 17-12-2006, you wrote: Jeppe Bundsgaard wrote: Hi, I am trying to upgrade to FreeBSD 6.1. But

Re: FreeBSD as VM host OS?

2006-12-18 Thread Garrett Cooper
Mario Lobo wrote: On Monday 18 December 2006 18:19, Garrett Cooper wrote: Bill Moran wrote: In response to David Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My question is whether FreeBSD is a suitable _host_ OS for any virtual machine environment, preferably with support for SMP, amd64

Re: install kernel failure

2006-12-18 Thread Garrett Cooper
Sam Jones wrote: I'm trying to build a custom kernel under FreeBSD 6.1. I first tried to follow section 8.3 of the Handbook and did make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL That didn't work, so I tried updating all of the source and did make buildworld and then repeated the previous step. That

Re: install kernel failure

2006-12-18 Thread Garrett Cooper
Garrett Cooper wrote: Sam Jones wrote: I'm trying to build a custom kernel under FreeBSD 6.1. I first tried to follow section 8.3 of the Handbook and did make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL That didn't work, so I tried updating all of the source and did make buildworld and then repeated

Re: install kernel failure

2006-12-18 Thread Garrett Cooper
Garrett Cooper wrote: Sam Jones wrote: I'm trying to build a custom kernel under FreeBSD 6.1. I first tried to follow section 8.3 of the Handbook and did make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL That didn't work, so I tried updating all of the source and did make buildworld and then repeated

Re: FreeBSD as VM host OS?

2006-12-18 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jonathan Horne wrote: On Monday 18 December 2006 09:03, David Newman wrote: This page compares various virtual machines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_virtual_machines Unfortunately it appears very few support FreeBSD as a host OS. I would greatly appreciate advice,

Re: amule in different languages?

2006-12-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Karl Sinn wrote: Hi, I compiled amule2 from the port collection but there is no choice for the languages. How do I add the other languages? Thanks Karl If there aren't localized versions in your particular language (see

Re: How did the /etc/resolv.conf appear?

2006-12-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The automatically installed /etc/resolv.conf contains the next: nameserver 82.207.67.2 nameserver 213.179.244.18 Today I discovered that this servers is not servers of FreeBSD.org or InterNIC, but of my ISP. I

Re: upgrade of portupgrade fails

2006-12-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck Swiger wrote: Michael P. Soulier wrote: [ ... ] So, the logs tell me why. swap_pager_getswapspace(9): failed swap_pager_getswapspace(9): failed swap_pager_getswapspace(2): failed swap_pager_getswapspace(3): failed

Re: Unicode support on FreeBSD

2006-12-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CONSOLE As we know, the console drivers atkbd and sc do not support unicode (in contrast to linux console drivers, for example). So we have to use programs able to translate unicode to a single byte code table. I use my

Re: rm -f doesn't delete symlink

2006-12-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jeppe Bundsgaard wrote: Hi, I am trying to upgrade to FreeBSD 6.1. But when I run installworld it halts when trying to create a symlink: /sys. Just before the error the script tries to delete the old symlink with: rm -f /sys. But this doesn't delete the symlink. No flags are set on /sys.

Re: var out of space

2006-12-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
James Long wrote: Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 23:31:58 -0800 From: Bradley Giesbrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: var out of space To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Hello, I inherited a freebsd

Re: Issues updating Audacious.

2006-12-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
Greg Groth wrote: Beech Rintoul wrote: On Sunday 17 December 2006 07:31, Greg Groth wrote: I'm attempting to update Audacious without much luck. Last time I ran into this issue, I simply had to do a make deinstall / make install, and it worked fine. This time, I'm unable to deinstall the

Re: rm -f doesn't delete symlink

2006-12-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jeppe Bundsgaard wrote: At 22:01 17-12-2006, you wrote: Jeppe Bundsgaard wrote: Hi, I am trying to upgrade to FreeBSD 6.1. But when I run installworld it halts when trying to create a symlink: /sys. Just before the error the script tries to delete the old symlink with: rm -f /sys. But this

Inconsistencies with FreeBSD installation FTP servers

2006-12-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
For some odd reason I can't get FTP/FTP-passive based transactions to work on my new system (bails after the first install floppy completes), and when working with different releases it appears that older releases than 6.1 don't have kernel directories (!). Is this a design choice or are

Re: xorg on a headless, mouseless, keyboardless box

2006-12-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Dec 16, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Lane wrote: Hi, I need to run X ... or in some way gain access to the display output on a remote box that has neither mouse, keyboard, or console. Is this even possible? I've been looking at the handbook:

Unicode support on FreeBSD

2006-12-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Just wondering if and how I would go about getting Unicode support setup on FreeBSD. Any links I could get would be more than appreciated. Finally got fed up with instability on my Gentoo setup, so it's time to move to something

Re: Unicode support on FreeBSD

2006-12-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
think now i can read those file name with no problemo... TFC On 12/15/06, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Just wondering if and how I would go about getting Unicode support setup on FreeBSD. Any links I could get would be more than appreciated. Finally got fed

Re: error trying to compile /usr/src

2006-12-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
Suporte Dsgx wrote: im trying to compile freebsd 4.10 P24 but on the make world gives me this error cd /usr/src/etc; install -o root -g wheel -m 444 amd.map apmd.conf auth.conf crontab csh.cshrc csh.login csh.logout dhclient.conf dm.conf fbtab ftpusers gettytab group hosts hosts.allow

ipf and dealing with inbound RPC services

2006-12-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello once again, Just setup ipf on my freebsd server, and I'm having some issues with RPC services and my firewall rules. I run nfsd and smbd, exporting my directories to a number of clients, and everything works without the firewall

Re: mkxvcd not working due to floating point expression of movie length identification from mplayer

2006-12-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi ... i need to use mkxvcd script to create movies, but it gave me error messages. After some debugging I found out it's because (I guess) that mplayer use floating point expression instead of integer when identifying the

Re: dbus_enable

2006-12-12 Thread Garrett Cooper
eoghan wrote: Hi Im seeing some dbus_enable warnings when booting... saying its not set properly in rc.conf I dont see these warnings in dmesg though. I assume its coming from my option: gnome_enable=YES here is the full contents of my /etc/rc.conf # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Wed

Re: dbus_enable

2006-12-12 Thread Garrett Cooper
eoghan wrote: On 12 Dec 2006, at 20:57, Garrett Cooper wrote: eoghan wrote: Hi Im seeing some dbus_enable warnings when booting... saying its not set properly in rc.conf I dont see these warnings in dmesg though. I assume its coming from my option: gnome_enable=YES here is the full

Re: dbus_enable

2006-12-12 Thread Garrett Cooper
eoghan wrote: On 12 Dec 2006, at 21:34, Garrett Cooper wrote: eoghan wrote: On 12 Dec 2006, at 20:57, Garrett Cooper wrote: eoghan wrote: Hi Im seeing some dbus_enable warnings when booting... saying its not set properly in rc.conf I dont see these warnings in dmesg though. I assume its

Re: List Protocol

2006-12-12 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 12 December 2006 at 19:47:52 -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 12 December 2006 at 16:49:39 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Until then STFU you ungrateful bastards. All you

Re: Resolution on GNOME...

2006-12-12 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric Mesa wrote: Ne'Bahn wrote: FreeBSD 6.1 I can't change resolutions under GNOME, anyone can help me, I've modified xorg.conf almost a million of times but nothing else... ___

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

2006-12-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 lveax wrote: On 11/6/06, David Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 06:48:28AM -0500, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: Thanks everyone for the replay to my post as it did finally occur to me that perhaps this question had been asked on

Re: trying to install jre

2006-12-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Karl Sinn wrote: Hi, Am Montag, 11. Dezember 2006 16:16 schrieb Andrew Pantyukhin: Try this one: /usr/ports/java/diablo-jre15 In the ports collection is only diablo-jre13 which does not install. Error message like: diablo-jre-1.3.1.0_2 is

Re: Major Version Upgrade 4.11 to 5.x

2006-12-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 listvj wrote: Lane wrote: I agree with your advice to build the new server with a clean install, if only to prevent any sendmail issues. But I'm not so sure I understand your assessment that 5.x is worse performing than both 4.x and 6.x. While

Re: What is microsoft-ds port 445?

2006-12-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is microsoft-ds port #445? Elisej Babenko Next time, please google. There are a plethora of documents on this topic. See http://www.petri.co.il/what's_port_445_in_w2k_xp_2003.htm for starters. - -Garrett -BEGIN

Re: Major Version Upgrade - 4.11 to 5.x

2006-12-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chad Gross wrote: First I would address the first question. Only you can really answer whether or not there is a benefit. Is there a specific need (e.g. software/hardware support) for you to upgrade? If not then I would recommend against the

Re: Configuration of Grub?

2006-12-09 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Stanford wrote: ad3 may be (and probably is) correct for you, but this has no relationship with the 'hdx' format that Grub uses. Using 'hd3' in your Grub config would suggest that you have installed FreeBSD on the fourth (counting 0, 1, 2,

Re: Configuration of Grub?

2006-12-09 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Stanford wrote: Incorrect. If you installed the filesystem on ad3s1, it should be: root (hd3,0,a) Thank you, I stand corrected. Not sure what I was thinking there... :) Many people goof up GRUB by accident because it's numbering

Re: Configuration of Grub?

2006-12-09 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Stanford wrote: Good question; not sure about that one, since the BIOS may or may not count the EIDE channels as 0 and 1, and the SATA as 2 and 3. Needless to say, this little numbering scheme with grub has become confusing, esp with the

Re: kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded

2006-12-07 Thread Garrett Cooper
Drew Sanford wrote: Coen Watstaatervoor wrote: Just got a busy machine with the following errors in the messages log: kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 80, please see tuning(7). Default FreeBSD 6.1 / AMP set-up. Thought 6.1 would handle this stuff automaticly just like the mbufs.

Re: SiS SATA controllers that work with FreeBSD

2006-12-06 Thread Garrett Cooper
Garrett Cooper wrote: Hello, Just upgraded my server system from a 1.2 GHz Celeron to a 3.0 GHz and I'm running into an issue with the SATA RAID controller. Every time I have the controller enabled with the drive connected, the system locks up, possibly due to IRQ conflict, etc, but I'm

Re: SiS SATA controllers that work with FreeBSD

2006-12-06 Thread Garrett Cooper
Garrett Cooper wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote: Hello, Just upgraded my server system from a 1.2 GHz Celeron to a 3.0 GHz and I'm running into an issue with the SATA RAID controller. Every time I have the controller enabled with the drive connected, the system locks up, possibly due to IRQ

Re: The Opera browser on FreeBSD

2006-12-06 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jamie Jones wrote: In fact, Flash 9 was announced in June. (See: http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200606/062806Flash9.html;) I've looked at that. The Linux version was only released (in Beta) last month, and also, it doesn't currently work with the linuxplugin

Re: How to use ulpt driver?

2006-12-06 Thread Garrett Cooper
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get USB printer Canon PIXMA iP 2000 and attached it to my computer. The kernel was compiled with: # USB support device uhci# UHCI PCI-USB interface device usb # USB Bus (required) device ugen# Generic

Re: Booting a Freebsd HD on a windows box?

2006-12-05 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jerry McAllister wrote: Well, probably almost. That will be making a dual-boot machine. I have several in dual boot. The only odd thing is doing it by combining two already made disks rather than doing it from scratch. First, you probably want the MS system to be in first disk the system

Re: How can I repartition my drive?

2006-12-05 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 10:33:54AM +0300, Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote: Hello, How can I repartition my drive? I already have the hd dedicated for FreeBSD and 6.2-RC1 is installed. Is there away to make /var ..etc without reinstalling the OS? Well, I don't know

SiS SATA controllers that work with FreeBSD

2006-12-05 Thread Garrett Cooper
Hello, Just upgraded my server system from a 1.2 GHz Celeron to a 3.0 GHz and I'm running into an issue with the SATA RAID controller. Every time I have the controller enabled with the drive connected, the system locks up, possibly due to IRQ conflict, etc, but I'm not 100% sure. Also, I'm

Re: (repost) cannot read windows share

2006-12-04 Thread Garrett Cooper
Lane wrote: On Monday 04 December 2006 19:34, 张韡武 wrote: This is a re-post, I am getting desperate because my work require me to connect to this share and my colleague can mount the share on Debian. I will have to move to install Debian if I wish to go on

Re: (repost) cannot read windows share

2006-12-04 Thread Garrett Cooper
Garrett Cooper wrote: Lane wrote: On Monday 04 December 2006 19:34, 张韡武 wrote: This is a re-post, I am getting desperate because my work require me to connect to this share and my colleague can mount the share on Debian. I will have to move to install Debian if I

Re: Routing Issue?

2006-12-03 Thread Garrett Cooper
Yousef Adnan Raffah wrote: Hello Everyone, I have a FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE box that has two network cards (Dual Homed?). Each card is on a different network, as following (from /etc/rc.conf): ifconfig_fxp0=inet 192.168.20.36 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig_rl0=inet 192.168.210.6 netmask

Re: pkgtools.conf error with portmanager

2006-12-02 Thread Garrett Cooper
RW wrote: On Saturday 02 December 2006 12:54, Gerard Seibert wrote: I know this was reported the other day; however, I have just encountered it myself. Evidently, the last 'portupgrade' update is now causing 'portmanager' to issue this error message: ** Error occured reading

Re: VoIP behind NAT and FreeBSD

2006-12-02 Thread Garrett Cooper
Kurt Dethier wrote: Derrick Edwards wrote: On Saturday 02 December 2006 09:22, Joe Holden wrote: Kurt Dethier wrote: STUN will only work if you have the correct NAT implementation on your gateway. If you are using pf, you get what the STUN RFC calls a symmetric NAT. STUN will not help you in

Re: Best way to upgrade base programs

2006-12-02 Thread Garrett Cooper
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: Can someone offer some guidance as to the best way to upgrade packages that were not installed via the ports system? For instance, openssh. Would 'portinstall sshd' work and the system see the new version or should it be uninstalled some way first? I am running 5.3

Re: pkgtools.conf error with portmanager

2006-12-02 Thread Garrett Cooper
RW wrote: On Saturday 02 December 2006 21:26, Garrett Cooper wrote: RW wrote: My patch file is below. $ cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager/ cat files/patch-no-ruby-support --- libMGPM/src/MGPMrReadConfigure.c.orig Sat Dec 2 17:10:45 2006 +++ libMGPM/src/MGPMrReadConfigure.cSat

Re: Soft Updates Help

2006-12-02 Thread Garrett Cooper
Garrett Cooper wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read up on soft updates and have some questions. The way that I am understanding soft updates purpose is to allow file systems to be mounted dirty after an unclean shutdown of the system. That's

Re: stop a freebsd server from responding to pinging?

2006-12-01 Thread Garrett Cooper
Josh Paetzel wrote: On Thursday 30 November 2006 13:10, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Nov 30, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Wasp King wrote: 1. How do I stop others from port scanning a server? Marcus Ranum suggests using wirecutters on the ethernet cable. If the server is internet-reachable, then it can be

Re: Soft Updates Help

2006-12-01 Thread Garrett Cooper
Bill Moran wrote: Sean Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have read up on soft updates and have some questions. The way that I am understanding soft updates purpose is to allow file systems to be mounted dirty after an unclean shutdown of the system. That's not the purpose. The purpose is

Re: ssh over http

2006-11-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 11:54:27PM -0500, Ansar Mohammed wrote: Hello All, Is there any ssh over http implementation available for freebsd? I guess I would expect that to read http over ssh. Is that what you mean. jerry If you want SSH access from a

Re: Unable to install PEAR

2006-11-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Nov 28, 2006, at 4:34 PM, Roger Merritt wrote: I was getting errors trying to portupgrade PEAR, so I did a pkg_deinstall and then ran portinstall. The following is the last part of what I get: warning: pear/PEAR requires package pear/Archive_Tar (version = 1.3.1) warning: pear/PEAR

Re: Password Security

2006-11-23 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Nov 23, 2006, at 7:57 AM, Gregory Carvalho wrote: You might consider a safe with A/C from Black Box. Expensive, but an option for you. On Tuesday 21 November 2006 19:41, VeeJay wrote: Hi I need to secure my data and server. Any advice will be highly appreciated. I am going to place

Re: upgrade packages

2006-11-18 Thread Garrett Cooper
gahn wrote: hi all: trying to install package freeradius and it is using package openldap-client-2.3.29. but i have problems to get openldap-client-2.3.29 installed: === openldap-client-2.3.29 conflicts with installed package(s): openldap-client-2.2.30 They install files into

Re: deny of x sessions

2006-11-17 Thread Garrett Cooper
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Alain G. Fabry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks, problem is solved. I rebooted in single user mode and then the file could be modified. Make sure that the permissions and flags on the file are set so that next time you want to change it, you can do so from

Re: deny of x sessions

2006-11-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
Alain G. Fabry wrote: Hey, I've just installed KDE 4.5.3 on a FreeBSD 6.1 system. I'm having problem getting an x-window from another PC when I'm connected to that PC via telnet (with ssh -X everything works fine) When I telnet to the other machine and export/setenv my DISPLAY

Re: deny of x sessions

2006-11-16 Thread Garrett Cooper
Alain G. Fabry wrote: With ssh it works, both with -Y and -X, but I need this to work also with regular telnet. Thanks, On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:53:18AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: Alain G. Fabry wrote: Hey, I've just installed KDE 4.5.3 on a FreeBSD 6.1 system. I'm having

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

2006-11-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:56:17PM -0600, Chuck Remes wrote: Also, please recall I said most software and not 100% of software. I am certain there are outliers that don't compile cleanly on OSX, but that hardly proves that OSX is not a good UNIX target. The vast

Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0

2006-11-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jay Gordon wrote: That's the way I would go about it. Jay Gordon Unix Systems Administrator DataPipe Managed Hosting Services - What It Means To Be Sure - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.datapipe.com Tel: 201.792.1918 x2402 | Fax: 201-792-3090 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: It's time to bite the bullet and do a major upgrade from 4.11 to 6.0

2006-11-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
Robert Huff wrote: Jerry McAllister writes: I believe there are also some file system improvements that you will miss if you do not rebuild the file systems at the 6.xxx level. Particularly, 4.x does not have UFS2/MAC which is the wave of the future.

Re: bpf kernel module

2006-11-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vlad GURDIGA wrote: On 12/11/06, Vlad GURDIGA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/11/06, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vlad GURDIGA wrote: Hello, I'm trying to keep very close touch

Re: detach/reattach remote GUI applications?

2006-11-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Luke Dean wrote: On Sun, 12 Nov 2006, Eric Schuele wrote: On 11/12/06 18:37, Luke Dean wrote: I run a headless server and I've become fond of using the screen utility with SSH to allow me to launch a text-based application, detach from it,

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

2006-11-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lonnie Cumberland wrote: Greetings All, I really appreciate all of the feedback and reply posts regaring my inquiry about Darwin and FreeBSD. I am still somewhat confused as I have been looking at FreeBSD which I think is VERY good and have

Re: (SAMBA) issue with filehandles being released under 6.1-RELEASE?

2006-11-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lowell Gilbert wrote: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just wondering if anyone else was experiencing the same issues that I am.. it's related to Samba-3.0.22c and sockets / filehandles. For some odd reason every couple days (~2 days) I

Re: (SAMBA) issue with filehandles being released under 6.1-RELEASE?

2006-11-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill Moran wrote: In response to Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just wondering if anyone else was experiencing the same issues that I am.. it's related to Samba-3.0.22c and sockets / filehandles

Re: Machine won't reboot

2006-11-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
Jay Chandler wrote: On Nov 13, 2006, at 1:53 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote: You forgot to mention what version you're running, but if it's up-to-date 6.2 there's a sysctl for using an alternate reboot method which is necessary on certain machines. Kris Sorry, this is 6.1 PL10. I wasn't aware

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