Re: ATI Radeon 7000 VE and XFree86

2002-10-19 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anybody using this card? Which XFree86 server should I use for this card? When running xf86config I don't see anything for radeons! I've used it under XFree86-4.2.0* in 16- and 24-bit modes, at several resolutions from 800 to 1600. I haven't bothered

Re: Changing font size of tty

2002-10-21 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 10:47:46AM +0200, Pascal Giannakakis wrote: how do i change the font size of the tty0? vidcontrol(1) You might be able to do it more permanently with /etc/rc.conf; I changed all my ttys with:

Re: Changing font size of tty

2002-10-21 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Simon Dick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why not just add vesa_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf ? Far nicer than hacking a startup file :) Good point. I forget that someone told me about that later. I don't quite agree with your last crack, though, because I think my hack, which was submitted as a

Re: du, find/xargs/sort, and MP3.tar

2002-10-22 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Then I thought I'd get crafty and `tar tvf MP3.DONE0415021909MPT.tar the-tarfile.out` thinking I could later run things through `sort` but I am hung up on how to get similar output that shows the contents of MP3/. tar cf - MP3/ | tar tvf -

Re: X will not start as root - need help

2002-10-23 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Bryan Cassidy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have you even wondered why no one has replied to your question? Have you heard of su? Maybe you should think for a second about your question. I just dont see the point nor do I understand the point in loging into X as root. Sorry, I just don't get it.

Re: Xfree86 Setup problem continued with changes

2002-10-25 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Chip Wiegand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's working now, I did have to set the HorizSync and VertRefresh info manually. Seems I recall reading something about X not needing those anymore after v4.1.0, but maybe not. My /var/log/XFree86.0.log has this line (II) RADEON(0): Ranges: V min: 50 V

Re: Whats the deal?

2002-10-25 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Bryan Cassidy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: here is the output from ipfw show insightbb# ipfw show 01000 307 64003 allow ip from any to any 65535 1 367 deny ip from any to any Sounds like the 'deny ip from any to any' could be the reason why I lose connection. Do you think so? No. I

Re: Install FreeBSD on a Windows XP box

2002-10-25 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Zhihui Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Who said four primary partitions is enough? I suppose that it was the people who came up with the Extended Partition scheme who probably can't understand why so much software still doesn't support the scheme since it's so simple. Linux sorta supports it;

Re: using an extended partition for freebsd

2002-10-17 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Someone slandered FreeBSD thusly: It just needs slices (which are called partitions by Microsloth). Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Some (broken in my opinion) BIOS implementations will refuse or fail to boot from disks that do not have a valid partition table. They are simply

Re: problems mounting extended partitions and fdisk.

2002-10-17 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Nick Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I probably am missing something, but can you please tell me how to get into interactive mode? (I think I did this in the installation process). When used without options, like you're probably using it so far, there is no such mode choice. If you use

Re: New to BSD and have a few questions.

2002-10-17 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Robert Warning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My question is what are common pitfalls a Linux user finds in a BSD world? -- Failure to post questions in traditional e-mail formats. (You jumped that pit quite nicely, thank you.) -- Failure to skim the many resources (other than posting to lists)

Re: X problems, please advise helpless newbie

2002-10-17 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Thanos Tsouanas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i have followed the instructions on the HB and they didnt work, thats why i came up with the insecure method... startx gives similar errors to the ones mentioned in the original msg. any ideas why? You can get better control over what's going on by

Re: backspace and del keys

2002-10-25 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Michael Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I run tput kbs, nothing is displayed. When I run echo 123$(tput kbs)456 I get 12456 apparently because tput kbs puts out some kind of backspace to the shell. I suspect that you need to read your shell's discussions of command line

Re: backspace and del keys

2002-10-25 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: keramida@hades[02:07]/home/keramida$ tput kbs | hd 7f|.| 0001 I'm not sure if that's correct, or a bug. But it certainly won't match your backspace key. At worst,

Re: Install FreeBSD 4.4 into EXTENDED Partition

2002-10-27 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just to be clear; it *can* use extended partitions for disk space. It's just that the BIOS can't boot from them, and therefore the standard FreeBSD installer won't *install* into one. In theory, you can get around this, but not with the standard

Re: switch languages

2002-10-31 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to switch languages (English, French, Italian) very often within the same document. Is there some way to switch keyboard layouts on FreeBSD quickly and painlessly as can be done on Windows? Quickly and painlessly? Ha Ha. Not until you set things up on your

Re: Clarification of eject question

2002-11-04 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If installed it comes with a manual page, that if read scrupulously it implies that the /dev part of the device name is not required. It implies to me that what it calls a device name HAS no /dev part and that it's not allowed. That matches program

Manual title standards (was: man 1 eject)

2002-11-05 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
DaleCo Help Desk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter, what in the *header* of your eject manpage? Generally, FBSD's own man- pages show up with FreeBSD System Manager's Manual, or FreeBSD General Commands Manual, etc., etc. Changing the subject, those FreeBSD ... Manual strings are the default

Re: bridging the right way?

2002-11-05 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Jonas Sonntag [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: so...is it possible this way, or would it be far smarter to plug a third nic into the fbsd box only for bridging ? thanks for any advice I don't know if it's possible that way; I'm no expert. But I've read that it's foolish to put a public server

Re: simple question

2002-11-06 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello all, The easiest way of going about this is giving you a example. I am in /usr and i want to tar -xzvf ports.tar.gz, but i want to continue working in my shell while this process runs in the background. What would i type to make the output of that command

Re: simple find command

2002-11-06 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Matthew Bettinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a list of files (hundreds) in directory . and need to search through and delete every file that contains the word foo. Assuming that directory means directory tree and that word means string, this might work: find . -type f -print0 | xargs

Re: sendmail without (real) hostname?

2002-11-06 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Ray Kohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any way to get outgoing mail working on a system with a dynamic IP and no DNS entries? Mail is sent as it is but of course no one will relay it. All I really want is the ability to use send-pr so I can send patches without having them mangled

Re: Recovering /etc/passwd (was: REASON #7919 NOT to do things as root!)

2002-11-11 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Dirk-Willem van Gulik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One would almost wish that things like the /etc/rc.conf, named and *mc files where there too :-) One guru who used to post here frequently kept /etc in CVS (and I suppose that he backed that up). To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sysutils/cpuburn lives up to its name

2002-11-11 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Ray Kohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: power. The system just does nothing when I push the power switch. So what needs replaced? The Motherboard? The CPU? Something else? I don't know ACPI/APM, so can't help much. I did read recently a comment that a good motherboard's Power-On Self Test will

Re: Beep question...

2002-11-12 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Chris P [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If anyone knows, I'd appreciate the info! Thanks! Someone already answered your question as it applies to the PC's case speaker so I'll show you how I do beeping with the external speaker(s). The audio/aumix port must be installed and you'll have to locate

Re: spamassassin port ...

2002-11-14 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Where is the spamassassin port these days ? If whereis string locate -i string find /usr/ports/ -iname '*string*' portinstall -n ':[sS][tT][rR][iI][nN][gG]' won't find a port, it can usually be found with grep or an editor in /usr/port/INDEX. To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: Seeking command similar to dd

2002-11-15 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a command similar to dd to analyze a CD that is in the drive? I use the dd bs=2k command on ISO 9660 CDs. I used mkisofs the other day, then burncd (forgot to say fixate on the end of the command line though), and now I cannot mount this CD.

Re: Running out of swap space?????

2002-11-15 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: H. Sorry for following up my own post. I didn't notice your memory size before. 64MB + 128MB is not a lot of total space. I am not surprised No problem. (I didn't even know that was something to be sorry for.) But please reconsider

Re: Running out of swap space?????

2002-11-16 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Sort of true, though real memory is still different from swap and a busy system wth a lot of processes hanging around can use a lot of swap even when it isn't killing real memory. The fact that the system CAN or DOES use a lot of swap doesn't mean

Re: what does open source mean ?

2002-11-17 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: it's a pretty basic question I'm asking but I'd like to learn more about FreeBSD and Unix systems. There are several definitions of open source. Assuming understanding of the word source, I like software for which the source code is available for reading at no cost

Re: Seeking command similar to dd

2002-11-17 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Peter Leftwich [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The weird thing is that right after the burncd session finished, I was able to ls -al the cd (can't remember if it was mountable or not...) For ls to work on it, it must have been both mountable and mounted. Does it sound like not having put fixate on

Re: bash .profile issues

2002-11-20 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
paul beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: well, IIRC, source and . are equivalent: one is easier to type. And one will get you in trouble when you forget and try to use it in sh and ksh (pdksh, at least). (The learning curve of bash has two slopes; one for learning and one for unlearning. In this

Re: Find abandoned packages

2002-11-21 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Liquid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you check out /var/db/pkg it lists what ports are installed essentially. I don't know how to tell whether or not it?s a dependency though, so maybe someone else can answer that. I'd like to know that too come to think of it. Please keep non-ASCII

Re: passwords in /etc/group

2002-11-22 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
What purpose do they serve ? A System Manager can put the users in the appropriate groups for their work. I have never seen them used on any Unix system I have worked on, and I seem to recall from some ancient documentation that they are more trouble than they are worth. (Please put blank

Re: ATAPI magneto-optical device trouble

2002-11-22 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Ruslan Ivachnenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does FreeBSD-4 STABLE support FUJITSU MCE3130AP/0020 ATAPI magneto-optical device? If yes, how should i configure it? It's not listed at http://freebsd.dk/ata/;, but if it follows the ATAPI standards, it's supposed to work with burncd. (There might

Re: Find abandoned packages

2002-11-25 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Roman Neuhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, it's not non-ASCII characters or MSFT products that causes problems. It's fucked up mail clients that send messages that fallaciously claim to be using charset X when they're really in Y. Incidentally, these mail clients

Re: Booting an alternate kernel

2002-11-25 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: These days I have two custom kernel configs. One for my old Pentium 133, and one for the newer Celeron workstation. They both live outside of /usr/src/sys/i386/conf :) In addition to keeping them outside, I name config files like

Re: Ports base?

2002-11-25 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Those were the days. I've just checked out the ports tree, and it's 314 MB! This is probably partially a consequence of the larger file system block size on modern systems, and also of course because of the CVS directories (each of which takes

Re: any advice before I buy a printer for FreeBSD?

2002-11-25 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Kevin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nice color inkjet printer, WITH Postscript. The guy wanted to print lots of PDF. He should consider getting a laser printer if he can live without color or buy a cheapo ink sprayer for that. Laser printers can be got quite cheaply these days, especially

Re: Serious problem installing freebsd into a...

2002-11-25 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: of yesterday, so I think you've unfortunately bought an unsupported motherboard. Try asking your vendor if they will swap it for an alternative model --- I think the Asus P4B533 is supported, and that looks compatible with the rest of your components.

Re: Find abandoned packages

2002-11-25 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It is also true though, that flawed mail clients can push down into the connection to their outgoing SMTP server messages that do not have proper headers to allow the server to parse and convert the 8-bit characters correctly. This is often cause

Re: does FreeBSD have something like OpenBSD's transparent bridge firewall

2002-11-26 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Bsd Neophyte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was reading a bit about this and it seems pretty sweet. Does FreeBSD have anything like this? It's built into ipfw and the kernel. You must use options BRIDGE in the kernel build's config file. You might well use picobsd too and put the bridging

Re: Find abandoned packages

2002-11-26 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Roman Neuhauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 4. You have already shown that you (falsely) think MIME email == HTML email. I surely didn't think that, but HTML was all I mentioned because I did (falsely) think that MIME email was almost always either HTML or complex stuff like MSFT Word

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-09 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Garance A Drosihn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Besides, if you had a nice book with an accurate and detailed info on how to do build such systems, then you wouldn't have to waste any time searching those web sites... :-) You missed the whole point of my message: The very existance of people's

Re: layered file systems ...

2002-12-13 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's kinda what I'm wondering ... is it just that nobody has updated the man page since '94 ... from looking at the sources, ther have been mods to it since then: If you're referring to the manpage date which gets displayed with the manpage, you

Re: Qwest DLS MSN Premium Linksys Router FreeBSD.. Oh my

2005-10-25 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Kris Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm getting off cable (Comcast and 6 megabits) and Good move. Their fine print - Don't forget the finer print. Invisible print might be a better term; good luck even finding it before committing yourself. More below. home phone pac kage ($24.99

How do I build i386 arch on Athlon 64?

2005-07-13 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
I'm back... with more problems, naturally. New CPU motherboard, and now SCSI interface fails, CDRW fails as ATAPI or SCSI, PCI parallel card fails, and too many wanted ports don't work on amd64. I hope an i386 OS will work better and I can work the amd64 problems at my leisure. So how do I

Re: Left/right arrow and backspace translation confusion

2005-07-14 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Doug Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: characters intact instead of clearing them. I have verified that the following are identical on both systems: You didn't mention these (albeit unlikely) things: -- Different console driver (sc vs. vt) in kernel. -- Different keymap (see

Re: How do I build i386 arch on Athlon 64?

2005-07-14 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
I finally found a clue right there in /usr/src/Makefile, where it talks about TARGET_ARCH. But when I used it with i386, it seemed to be compiling for the default gcc (386, I suppose), even when I had CPUTYPE=athlon-xp in /etc/make.conf. This seems to be doing the job (though it's still

Re: How do I build i386 arch on Athlon 64?

2005-07-14 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary W. Swearingen) writes: make TARGET_ARCH=i386 TARGET_CPUTYPE=athlon-xp make-target Well, that built OK, but the resulting kernel panic'd (the same way) with or without the TARGET_CPUTYPE in there: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s4a exec /sbin/init : error 8

Re: Cannot use cvsup

2005-07-14 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Brian John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: su-2.05b# cvsup /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libXaw.so.8 not found, required by cvsup Looks like cvsup port needs this port: /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/libXaw And if I try to re-add cvsup, it says this: su-2.05b# cd /usr/ports/net/cvsup/ su-2.05b#

Re: can't mount floppy

2005-07-16 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Olga Zenkova [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt and get /dev/fd0: No such file or directory Maybe it's write-protectd. I've seen strange things happen with those disks. I didn't get that error when I tried just now, but now I can't unmount the thing.

Re: Change of FQDN

2005-07-18 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Aaron Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hostname=www.mydomain.com Say I have two Ethernet ports and I'd like to be gary.mydomain.com on one and gary2.mydomain.com or gary.mydomain2.com on the other; then what? A computer's domain name is set in several places -- not always the same values.

Re: 1 byte more?

2005-07-20 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Mac Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As I recall, the convention is than UNIX text files should always end with a newline character. I can certainly envision situations where you might not want to have the extra \n, but it makes intuitive sense for it to be there: having the first half of a

Re: nForce3 SMB and Power Management

2005-07-20 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
João Carlos Mendes Luis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Does FreeBSD 5-stable support nForce3 power management? I mean, can I measure fan speeds, power voltage, etc? I did try using nfpm, but it did not work. Well, I can measure those things (nForce 3 250 Gb on Gigabyte

Re: Unable to erase CD-RW discs

2005-07-20 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Mervin McDougall [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the CD-RW disks are blank. However, a peculiar thing happens when I try to blank or erase a CD-RW disk. The server just hangs.When I abort the process using On 5.4, burncd doesn't work well with my burner either. We probably should file PRs about

Re: nForce3 SMB and Power Management

2005-07-22 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
João Carlos Mendes Luis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: gaia::root ~ [647] mbmon -I No ISA-IO HWM available!! InitMBInfo: Unknown error: 0 gaia::root ~ [648] I don't get that with -I (just with -S). It pretends to work OK; just bad data, which might be related to the bogus temp. seen in BIOS

Re: Holtek HT80232 NIC unrecognized on FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-07-23 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
jackqq [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My ethernet adapter's chip is Holtek's HT80232. It seems to be not recognized by the GENERIC kernel or any if_*.ko module. The ed(4) manpage has a diagnostics section and also mentions the setting of flags (one of the hints) that may be needed for some clones.

Re: Completely removing a port

2005-07-23 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Matt Juszczak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there anyway I can deinstall the port and say remove all packages that depend on amavisd-new and amavisd-new ONLY (so it wont affect other stuff). I don't know, but I would try pkg_deinstall -Rn (which is non-destructive) and see if the output makes

Re: Syntax for fdisk?

2005-07-23 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Ima Camper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While trying to solve another problem, a suggested fix was to issue the following command: bsdlabel -B da0s1a I'm no expert, but I'll give it a shot. (I'll be using disk for disk, partition for slice (like the rest of the world), and sub-partiton for

Re: nForce3 SMB and Power Management

2005-07-23 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
João Carlos Mendes Luís [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What's your FreeBSD version? At 5-stable, ichsmb attachs only to Intel devices, that means that only chips numered 0x8086 are accepted: FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE i386 arch OS on Athlon64 CPU. I don't know about my chips. There are some other

Re: nForce3 SMB and Power Management

2005-07-24 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
João Carlos Mendes Luís [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: João Carlos Mendes Luís wrote: Indeed, my kernel could find ichsmb. But mbmom still does not work. Are you sure you have no other smb device in your board? I don't see anything else in scanpci or pciconf or /var/run/dmesg which has this

Re: Holtek HT80232 NIC unrecognized on FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-07-24 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
jackqq [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Finally, I rebuilt the kernel with a dynamic loaded ed(4) driver (if_ed.ko), which SUCCESSFULLY recognized my NIC. Good work. There ought to be a web page with little success stories like yours, to incourage more people to look at the source. I sure hope

Re: Reverting Ports 5.4 - 5.3

2005-07-24 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Robert Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As I do not have the expertise to fix this and I would rather have a working system, I would like to role back to 5.3 as this worked. I assume that if I did a CVSup with TAG=5.3 this should get me back to 5.3_stable. I am not convinced though. Is this

Re: Questions on termcap suggestions

2005-07-24 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
I'm sending this through so someone may find it in the future and save themself some effort. Good of you to try to document it; I wish I knew where else it could go. I wonder if there should be a wiki-type knowledge base for things like that. Related: In searching around I've also found a

Re: How to remove bootloader from a slice

2005-07-24 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Tobias Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to remove a bootloader accidentally installed on ad0s3. I tried overwriting it with fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 -3 but that didn't have any effect. And anyway, I'd rather see it gone than replaced with the FreeBSD bootloader. boot0cfg doesn't

Re: Shell scripts, SSH sessions, and for loops, oh my!

2005-07-24 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Damian Gerow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to write a shell script that runs a for loop in an SSH session. Simply, I'm trying to do this: for HOST in `cat hostnames` ; do ssh ${HOST} for PROCESS in 01 02 ; do echo '${PROCESS}' ; done done But because this is run in a

Re: Shell scripts, SSH sessions, and for loops, oh my!

2005-07-25 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Damian Gerow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yeah, but... The current shell still interprets $SHELL, and assigns it whatever local value it has. I don't want that. I want $SHELL to be evaluated by the remote system (the on to which I am establishing the SSH connection). No, the whole object of

Re: Dump/Tape block question

2005-07-25 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How big is each block? I'd like to know about where on the tape I am when I do an 'mt rdhpos' command (but I don't know how to determine the reported block size), and I'd like to be able to calculate how much data was written for each backup based

Re: (no subject)

2005-07-25 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Bölcskei Zoltán [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi!I don't have an internet connection at home so i wanna know if therenbsp;are any places where i can download packages/distfiles with dependencies recursively/together [e.g.: a tarred file or s.g. like that which includes the package and all of

Re: Problem report rejected

2005-07-25 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
jackqq [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [60.26.7.157] [EMAIL PROTECTED]... Deferred: 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [60.26.7.157] ... I'm an ADSL subscriber, and I have dynamic IP addresses, and my ISP I am too, and saw as

Re: burncd - verify burn

2005-07-25 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Brian Henning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would like to know a process to verify that I my cd burner has burned an ISO file correctly with burncd. I know I can take some precautions like checking the md5sum of the iso during a transfer from the Internet. I also read on the Internet that

Re: burncd - verify burn

2005-07-25 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: did you use bs=2048 when dd'ing from /dev/acd0? Sure did. And didn't read too many blocks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Need Help Installing FreeBSD with AMD x86

2005-07-26 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Corey Farwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have all the ISO's burned to a CD, but when I put the boot disk in to install, after I restart, it goes to the normal windows. I've already tried going to the BIOS settings, but nothing there helped me. What do I do now? You can download two

Re: Strange bootloader problem

2005-07-26 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Jaap Boender [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: So now I'm stumped. Does anyone have any advice? I'm running 5.4-STABLE, just cvsupped, built and installed an hour ago. Since you changed your BIOS, I'm suspecting something fishy with the BIOS settings for disk geometry, like not LBA or something, but

Re: hardware monitor

2005-07-26 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: |device ichsmb | | |I get this error messages: | |In file included from /usr/src/sys/dev/ichsmb/ichsmb.c:64: |/usr/src/sys/dev/ichsmb/ichsmb_var.h:44:22: smbus_if.h: No such file or Looks like you forgot to read the ichsmb manpage or the conf/NOTES file

Can someone clarify ipfw's in/out/recv/xmit/via concepts?

2005-07-26 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
I see in another msg that I'm not the only one scratching my head over the ipfw manpage's explanation of in/out/recv/xmit/via concepts. I've spent many hours reading that manpage and working on my rc.firewall (and it seems to work OK, based on the logging), but I can't figure out what it's trying

Re: cat /dev/urandom

2005-07-26 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
I don't use backticks, so this'll have the equivalent $(). The command: cat /dev/urandom is passed to the shell and the shell executes cat and sends the output to the screen without possibility of executing anything (except the magic stuff recognized by your terminal emulator -- I hope it can't

Re: cat /dev/urandom

2005-07-26 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think the backticks (and shell variables) actually send the output to a pipe, not the screen. I don't know why you said either part of that. I didn't imply the latter and AFAIK the former is untrue (unless you ask the shell to send their output to a pipe);

Re: Can someone clarify ipfw's in/out/recv/xmit/via concepts?

2005-07-26 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Is my de0 an ifX or an if*? (exact name or device name) de0 is an ifX. What would be an example of the other? de*? I guess that should have been obvious. I'll try to get the exact name and device name descriptions improved. Does ipno mean an numerical Internet address? (It's not

Re: disabling system boot text

2005-07-26 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Tommy Barus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to disable, change, or hide the text displayed or outputt I trimmed your paragraph to a 70-char width. Anyway, I'm not aware of any way to halt the output to the console. Settings in /etc/syslog.conf might eliminate some of it, but I doubt it'll

Re: KVM switch problem with mouse

2005-07-27 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Ivan Carey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using FreeBSD 5.3 I'm using a MC2050, MC2060 2 port auto kvm switch. My mouse does not work either at the console or in KDE, the keyboard is ok. Is there a command I need to place into the kernel to get the mouse driver to recognise the mouse via

Re: Problems with booting MBR

2005-07-28 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options DumpPass# /dev/ad1s2b noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/ad1s2a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0s1a /usr/local

Re: Grub not working

2005-07-28 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Benjamin Lutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Two guesses: - You can't write to a disks MBR while it's being used. I've seen this myself, but I'm not exactly why this is, or how it can be circumvented (other than booting from another device). Yes. It wasn't always this way. You can make a

Re: Questions

2005-07-28 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Razvan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What version of FreeBSD is indicat for my server ? You should have put that in the Subject line. I'd use 5.4-RELEASE until I encounted serious problems with it, when I'd switch to 5.4-STABLE before retrying and reporting the problems.

Re: Backup kernel - confirmation

2005-07-28 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Bryan Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, you can do that. Also of note is that when FreeBSD compiles a kernel it takes the old kernel and renames it kernel.old. When FreeBSD is booting you can select which kernel to use simpy by entering boot /boot/kernel.old/kernel or boot

Re: Can someone clarify ipfw's in/out/recv/xmit/via concepts?

2005-07-29 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Dave McCammon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here is a link to a thread that help me to understand the in/out/recv/xmit stuff. Thanks guys. I think I've got most of it now. Incoming packets are those entering the OS kernel implementing the ipfw firewall, but not necessarily those entering the

Re: Using a hard drive without partitions

2005-07-30 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Drive: Dangerously dedicated /dev/da0s1 newfs -O2 -U I think you're using dangerously dedicated wrongly. A DD disk is one which has no standard partition table in the MBR; the disklabel sectors (16) start at sector 0 (or with your

Re: Using a hard drive without partitions

2005-07-30 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But in FreeBSD your disk needs a slice otherwise it's not compatable with fdisk / bsdlabel / growfs... I think. One of the main reasons for using a DD disk is so you don't have to mess with those things; they are of no use on a DD disk (assuming that

Re: bsdlabel question..

2005-07-30 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: pp-p_fstype = FS_BSDFFS; pp-p_fsize = sblock.fs_fsize; pp-p_frag = sblock.fs_frag; pp-p_cpg = sblock.fs_fpg; } The last line is the one that inserts that number.

Re: Using a hard drive without partitions

2005-07-31 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The only danger in not having the slice table is that if you use non BSD tools, such as the ones that come with windows, they will potentially write over things that that you don't want them to. The FreeBSD FAQ mentions more serious dangers. Also,

Re: freebsd 5.4 -R install error

2005-07-31 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
A R [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On install i get this error : Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev! The creation of filesystems will be aborted It looks like it was trying to do something (swapon?) with the swap device, but the devfs system never created a /dev/ad0s1b for it

Re: I´ve some problems with the diskettes

2005-07-31 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
(Badly formatted message omitted) I suspect that you didn't follow the README's instructions and instead tried to put the 2880k boot.flp on a 1440k floppy. You only need the other two images if you have a 1440k drive. IIRC, the big one is for a few special drives and for use on El Torito

Re: Deleted /var/db directory

2005-07-31 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
zlatozar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way to recover my db of all installed ports? How I can reinstall all my ports? Will reinstall helps? I think your ports (eg, /usr/ports/*/*) are still installed and most of your package files (eg, /usr/local/bin/portinstall) are too, but your

Re: what to do? amd64 - i386

2005-07-31 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: cd /usr/ports/www/opera; make -V ONLY_FOR_ARCH Just tried this, but got no response. Maybe it works now. #!/bin/ksh -o posix find /usr/ports -name Makefile | while () ; do read DIR cd ${DIR%Makefile} BBB=$(make -V BROKEN

Re: problem with burncd, hardware or not ?

2005-07-31 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: only wrote -1 of 32768 bytes: Input/output error burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCFLUSH): Input/output error I got something like that on 5.4 (i386 or amd64, I forget) and cured it by using cdrecord from cdrtools port after rebuilding kernel to support it. That might tell you

Re: Question about gcc

2005-08-01 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Kun Niu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems that I should install the as program. Can someone tell me where I can download the tbz ball? An inet search for as? :) Or as.tgz or as.tbz. The devel/bin86 port has a as86 program that _might_ be the same thing.

Re: Migrate primary disk (duplicate)

2005-08-01 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried every combination: fdisk -I ad3 fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr ad3 fdisk -I ad3 fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad3 fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr -I ad3 Assuming that you've got the rest of the file systems configured and populated properly, as I think you said, and you

Re: Migrate primary disk (duplicate)

2005-08-01 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried every combination: fdisk -I ad3 fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr ad3 fdisk -I ad3 fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad3 fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr -I ad3 ... the disk doesn't boot. So fdisk -B ad3 shouldn't work if you don't have a valid partition table which also

Re: Problems with booting MBR

2005-08-01 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From dmesg: ad0: 9541MB WDC WD100BA/16.13M16 [19386/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33 I think you just said that vicbsd root# fdisk /dev/ad0 vicbsd root# bsdlabel /dev/ad0s1 work OK, but that your problem (from a prior msg) is: # fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 ad0 fdisk:

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