Re: /var is lack of space!!

2005-01-24 Thread John
On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 10:50:38AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > > John writes: > > > This is a good way to find out "where" the storage is being used: > > cd /var ; du -s * | sort -nr | more > > That will give you a list, sorted from most storage to least

Open source or *BSD/Linux compatible mapping software?

2005-01-24 Thread John
ernet connection to function - anywhere I have my laptop, I can do mapping and even fix my position with my GPS. Is there anything like this available for us FreeBSD users? It doesn't have to be open source - I pay for S&T and I'm happy to pay for its equivalent. Thanks! -- John Li

Re: sshd port number ?

2005-01-24 Thread John
orts below 1024, and any hacker out there with a Linux or FreeBSD box can start any service he likes to listen on a port below 1024, or have an application run to open a connection on a port below 1024. I'm sure the writer was aware of this - I just want to make sure that newcomers and lurker

Re: /var is lack of space!!

2005-01-24 Thread John
but there's no place for them to go. So - the question is - were the undelivered messages you deleted valuable, or were they junk mails? -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Partition Size

2005-01-24 Thread John
use it all. Leave it "uncarved" for future filesystems as yet unthoughtof. -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: fragmentation

2005-01-24 Thread John
s filesystems. You may be thinking of "fragmented" as in broken, or fractured. That is not what is meant here. It doesn't mean that anything is wrong with your filesystem, just some statistics on how much those "sub atomic" allocation units are being used. Your f

DDB? Debugging kernel?

2005-01-27 Thread John
on "option DDB," so maybe that still works, even though it's not in the handbook or in the NOTES file... -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: dumping a samba directory

2005-01-28 Thread John
ort/classic > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: DDB? Debugging kernel?

2005-01-28 Thread John
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 07:53:27AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 27 January 2005 at 22:39:05 -0600, John wrote: > > OK, folks - I've looked in the Handbook, and I've looked in > > _The Complete FreeBSD_ and I just get more confused. >

Re: BSD

2005-01-28 Thread John
ct shut down with 4.4-LITE (I think that was the last), it had no non-legal currency, either, so BSDI chose to register BSD as a trademark... You can hail them for doing this, as a way to protect it, or pan them for trying to coopt it - your choice. -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Elegant way to map UID's and GID's on dump/restore?

2005-01-28 Thread John
ds, but if someone knows of a more elegant way to remap these in the dump/restore process, I'd love to know about it. Thanks! -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: having 1.5GB RAM I cannot allocate more than 512MB RAM in 4.10

2005-01-29 Thread John
sh-derivative. It is a built-in for the Bourne- shell family of shells. Now that you bring it up, I'm not sure how you get this functionality from a csh environment - I guess just create a script that is just #/bin/sh ulimit $* or something like that... Did you try doing a "m

Re: having 1.5GB RAM I cannot allocate more than 512MB RAM in 4.10

2005-01-29 Thread John
> Jack > > > > What about "limits"? Ah - there it is - thanks. (blush) -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: I need a cuppa...

2005-01-29 Thread John
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:05:22PM -0800, Tabor Kelly wrote: > Jonathan Chen wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:06:17PM -0600, John wrote: > > > >>OK, I must be dumb as a rock, because this has to have been discussed > >>and documented 16 ways from Sunday, bu

Re: Xorg config failure - help requested

2005-01-29 Thread John
e log file to see if the monitor information is in there, or if not, search the web for an X11 entry for your monitor, or dig up the monitor specs and build it by hand. Other than the monitor part, it is quick and easy. Now I have X.org up and runnning on four different machines - and I'm lovi

Re: I need a cuppa...

2005-01-29 Thread John
BSD - so it looks like I've got myself into a dependency. I figure that I'll just wait a few days, and try the cvsup again, and see if I've gotten lucky. If anyone has a better, more active suggestion, I'm all for it. Being passive is OK, but it's not my cup of tea... --

What is "popt" and why is it giving me grief in "ports"?

2005-01-31 Thread John
el/popt/work/popt-1.7. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/popt/work/popt-1.7. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/popt. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/archivers/rpm. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/java/linux-s

Compiling/installing ports via NFS - any gotcha's? (while building linux_base-8-8.0_6, "/usr/bin/build-locale-archive: cannot lock new archive: Operation not supported")

2005-01-31 Thread John
status 1 *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-8. Any clues for me? -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: how do you mount a sony usb memorie stick (camera)?

2005-02-01 Thread John
. You can also set up /etc/usbd.conf to automatically issue the mount command for you. -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Alright, you jdk14 geeks...

2005-02-01 Thread John
his OK with the license agreement? -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Alright, you jdk14 geeks...

2005-02-01 Thread John
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 04:15:20PM -0800, Joshua Tinnin wrote: > On Tuesday 01 February 2005 03:10 pm, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I finally got around my problems by manually deinstalling and > > reinstalling all the packages that linux_base-8 depended upon. >

Re: Compiling/installing ports via NFS - any gotcha's? (while building linux_base-8-8.0_6, "/usr/bin/build-locale-archive: cannot lock new archive: Operation not supported")

2005-02-02 Thread John
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 01:19:18PM +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 05:15:19PM -0600, John typed: > > I don't have enough storage on my laptop for the entire ports tree > > (surprise, surprise), so I'm trying to "make install" acroread

Re: Unix equivalent of a variant??

2005-02-03 Thread John
every use of it must figure out what the "real" > datat type is. I don't know what your objective is, and certainly don't > pretend to tell you this shouldn't be done, but - just because MS has done > it, does not mean it is a good thing to do in general. Or, just

Re: couldn't start KDE.

2005-02-03 Thread John
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Re: FreeBSD 3.2

2005-02-03 Thread John
__ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.free

Re: FreeBSD 3.2

2005-02-03 Thread John
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 01:59:52PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > John FTP would be great if that is possible, the only thing that > I found was a mirror from TAIWAN, PROVINCE OF CHINA that has 3.2, > I doubt it is in english though, about the only thing that I really > need to get

Re: Freebsd firewall

2005-02-03 Thread John
Pentium I system, but I ended up retiring it before I tracked it down. We may have an issue with FreeBSD 5.3 on older systems. Might I suggest FreeBSD 4-STABLE for this system? -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: running interactive program from shell script

2005-02-03 Thread John
om the FIFO and outputting everything to > # the current TTY. Wait 3 seconds, log in, wait 3 seconds and run > # cat, that reads from the TTY and outputs to the FIFO (that is > # read by telnet). > > telnet -l $USER $HOST $PORT < $FIFO 2>&1 > $TTY & > sleep 3; echo $PASS > $FIFO; sleep 3; > cat > $FIFO < $TTY > > # Clean up (delete FIFO). > rm $FIFO > > # Exit. > exit 0 It can be done with dead-reckoning and so forth, but I find "expect" to be really really great for this sort of thing, and recommend it highly if you have to do automated interactions with telnet or ftp sessions. -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Help!

2005-02-03 Thread John
e unit: 10 > sks:80,11 It means that there was an error in writing the data that the unit was able to take care of. You may still want to shutdown, restart, go into the ADAPTEC bios, and do a surface scan/error map on your drive. Sometimes, though, these things just happen... --

Re: Running top without a shell -- more questions

2005-02-05 Thread John
/') { devnused = strlen(devname); strncat(devname,argv[1],(sizeof devname) - devnused); devptr = devname; } /* again, if this fails, there's nothing to complain to - so why check? */ open(devptr,O_RDONLY); dup(open(devptr,O_WRONLY));

Re: Within X, how can I see console messages?

2005-02-05 Thread John
o, and I always get one "xconsole <2>" that says "Console log for "[host] twice. I'm using kde 3.3.2 and I don't remember this happening with some previous versions. I wasn't going to bug anyone, as everything works ok, and this is really just a minor annoy

Re: Running top without a shell -- more questions

2005-02-05 Thread John
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 12:00:07AM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > John writes: > > J> I am not seeing what you are seeing. I see a login process hanging > J> around with the regular shells, just like you are describing for top. > > It has occurred to me that all my

Re: Running top without a shell -- more questions

2005-02-05 Thread John
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 05:24:51PM -0600, John wrote: > On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 12:00:07AM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > John writes: > > > > J> I am not seeing what you are seeing. I see a login process hanging > > J> around with the regular shells, jus

Re: wireless usb not recognized

2005-02-06 Thread John
ot the directories for the mountpoints created. OK, folks - it is time to add something to the FAQ or the handbook about USB memory being formatted as FAT! I'll write something if someone will suggest the correct "location". As for the wireless - well, I haven't tried that with

Re: wireless usb not recognized

2005-02-06 Thread John
On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 02:26:53PM -0600, John wrote: > On Sun, Feb 06, 2005 at 12:22:40PM -0800, grinny wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi everybody, > > > > I have an "wireless steno MB112" from Apacer. This

Re: .snap

2005-02-07 Thread John
ans i can delete the directories right :) > > What is a snapshot of a filesystem ? How big is a snapshot for example > of a 8gb hd ? What is the difference between a snapshot and a bacup > image of the hd ? Rather than filling up the archives with it again, I'll sen

Using FreeBSD to migrate Windows XP?

2005-02-08 Thread John
t would be in the .snap directory, but when I did an "ls -la" of /home/.snap while it was running, there was nothing there. I suppose it could remove the snap after it builds the map of what diskblocks to back up, but that could still lead to "fuzzy" backups. -- John Lind [EMAI

Re: Using FreeBSD to migrate Windows XP?

2005-02-08 Thread John
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 02:17:56PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: > John wrote: > > OK - I've finally come to the realization (a little slow, I know) > > that a 5.8Gb disk drive is just not enough to support a desktop > > environment (including JAVA) for both Windows XP an

Re: Using FreeBSD to migrate Windows XP?

2005-02-08 Thread John
S-DOS. Dump cannot work on anthing other than UFS filesystems. Dump actually separately interprets the filesystem structure. Consider, for example, that dump works perfectly well on unmounted filesystems. Dump is DRAMATICALLY different in its operation than tar, cpio, etc. Since tar an

Re: Using FreeBSD to migrate Windows XP?

2005-02-08 Thread John
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 11:23:12AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Dump cannot work on anthing other than UFS filesystems. Dump > > actually separately interprets the filesystem structure. Consider, for > > example, tha

Infrared link for FreeBSD?

2005-02-08 Thread John
Does FreeBSD support the infrared link found in many laptops? I have searched the handbook and release notes, and haven't found any mention of it (at least the way I was searching), so I thought I'd give it one last try here. Thanks! -- John Lind [EMAIL

Re: Using FreeBSD to migrate Windows XP?

2005-02-10 Thread John
On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 09:03:58AM -0600, John wrote: > On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 02:17:56PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: > > John wrote: > > > OK - I've finally come to the realization (a little slow, I know) > > > that a 5.8Gb disk drive is just not enough to sup

Re: I need a cuppa...

2005-02-10 Thread John
On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:53:21PM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:10:00AM -0600, John wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:05:22PM -0800, Tabor Kelly wrote: > > > Jonathan Chen wrote: > > > > On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 09:06:17PM -0600, John

Re: I need a cuppa...

2005-02-10 Thread John
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:46:03PM -0800, Joshua Tinnin wrote: > On Thursday 10 February 2005 09:01 pm, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:53:21PM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:10:00AM -0600, John wrote: >

Re: I need a cuppa...

2005-02-11 Thread John
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 01:10:31AM -0600, John wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:46:03PM -0800, Joshua Tinnin wrote: > > On Thursday 10 February 2005 09:01 pm, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:53:21PM -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote

Firefox, java, plugins - need to go back to the port?

2005-02-11 Thread John
'm missing a piece of the puzzle. All my hits on google have talked about rebuilding the port after Java is installed. Is that what I have to do? Is there no way to get a java plugin without rebuilding the whole port? Thanks. -- John Lind [

Disappearing Swap

2005-02-13 Thread John
Hello list How can I see what process is eating my swap? vmstat indicates that the swap is being eaten, but by what? If it all gets eaten, badness occurs. I'm running freebsd 5.3-release-p5. thanks for any input -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questi

Re: Firefox, java, plugins - need to go back to the port?

2005-02-15 Thread John
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 08:30:55PM -0600, John wrote: > I installed firefox from the packages, and now that it seems > like I may have Java installed, I'd like to get the two to play > together. > > I see a few different firefox plugins in /usr/ports/www, but no > ja

Re: Firefox, java, plugins - need to go back to the port?

2005-02-15 Thread John
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 07:37:28PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:03:06PM -0600, John wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 08:30:55PM -0600, John wrote: > > > I installed firefox from the packages, and now that it seems > > > like I may have Java

Re: Firefox and java

2005-02-15 Thread John
> ln -s /usr/local/jdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so > /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/ > Hope this helps. BINGO! Geez! That's great - but how the HECK did you know this was the magic key? This shouldn't be so ARCANE!!! I'd have been looking for some

Re: Firefox and java

2005-02-15 Thread John
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 06:36:10PM -0500, Benjamin Dover wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:09:48 -0600, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 06:00:51PM -0500, Benjamin Dover wrote: > > > On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:22:43 -0500, RL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Firefox and java

2005-02-16 Thread John
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 08:37:11AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 06:00:51PM -0500, Benjamin Dover wrote: > > > > ln -s /usr/local/jdk1.4.2/jre/plugin/i386/ns610/libjavaplugin_oji.so > > > /us

Re: Running VMWare over FreeBSD

2005-02-18 Thread John
e someone have experience with it. The company I work for bought VMware (the company) not too long ago. I specifically asked about this capability, and they said that FreeBSD runs fine as a guest operating system, but not a host. Also, the embedded operating system in ESX is a flavor of Linux. -- J

Re: WHAT KIND OF SH*T IS THIS: telnet and ssh

2005-02-18 Thread John
ot;, /* EAI_NONAME */ /usr/src/contrib/bind9/lib/lwres/include/lwres/netdb.h.in:#define EAI_NONAME 8 /* hostname nor servname provided, or not known */ /usr/src/contrib/bind9/lib/lwres/gai_strerror.c:"hostname nor servname provided, or not known",

Re: Partition Magic -like

2005-02-18 Thread John
I hope you find a better way, but at least it can be done in this way. I take it that adding a disk or replacing the disk with a larger one is not an option? -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: Good rentable servers?

2005-02-21 Thread John
domains. I don't know what all services you need, but web and e-mail certainly can work in the virtualized environment. Check it out - see if it is for you - I know that SkyPoint used to offer this when I worked for them (www.skypoint.net).

Re: maxtor one touch usb 2.0 drive

2005-02-25 Thread John
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 00:58:09 -0600, Redmond Militante wrote > hello > > i have a 250 maxtor one touch usb 2/1.1 external hard drive, i'm > trying to get it to work with my rel_end 5.21 box. i have > > device scbus > device da > device pass > device uhci > device ohci > device usb > device umass

Re: I killed my system with grep

2005-02-25 Thread John
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:14:04 +0100, Ramiro Aceves wrote > Hello FreeBSD friends: > > I am running a FreeBSD 5.3 system with 64MB RAM and 150 MB swap. > > Yesterday I entered the command: > > # grep -R something / > > and after a while, my system did not respond. I do not remember the exact > me

Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

2005-02-26 Thread John
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:14:19 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote > Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > > > Do a portupgrade first. Firefox depends on a lot of stuff. > > I don't have the ports on the local machine. I go directly to the > FTP server each time I install something. Shouldn't they all be up >

Problems with FreeBSD 4.8 on Compaq Armada M700 laptop

2004-01-12 Thread John
is going well - but the CD-ROM issue is really slowing me down, and the display could sure use those extra colors... Maybe I should try a binary upgrade to 4.9, now that it's out? I don't currently have any reason to think that would help, but I haven't got any other "go for

Updating DNS after DHCP

2004-01-12 Thread John
that they refer to and I didn't pick up any hints there. Can anyone give me a clue? (Yeah - I'm clueless...) Thanks! -- John Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: Problems with FreeBSD 4.8 on Compaq Armada M700 laptop

2004-01-14 Thread John
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 04:25:25PM +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, John wrote: I have an update, additional information... Instead of getting the device ID line, i.e. > Jan 11 17:56:56 pearl /kernel: acd0: CDROM at ata0-slave PIO I get Jan 11 18:09:55 pearl /ker

Re: Updating DNS after DHCP

2004-01-15 Thread John
On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 03:30:08PM +0200, Gilad Rom wrote: > Scott Mitchell wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 01:16:23PM +0100, Ruben de Groot wrote: > > > >>On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 11:09:38PM -0600, John typed: > >> > >>>I see that some Microsoft sy

a sudo question

2004-02-01 Thread John
any other login. I can let him su to www. Should I be using sudo for this or is there another mechanism? thanks -- John - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.reiteration.net/~jfm For PGP public key finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] or see webpage ___ [EMAIL PROTECTE

pop3 and pam

2004-02-06 Thread john
The USER command did not succeed. Mail server responded: Unknown AUTHORIZATION state command ** trying to set up pop3 to work with 5.2 and keep getting the above messages via netscape email (unix or pc) can someone share some help i think its the pam that is causing it i can internal

jailed "system" needs ipv4 access

2004-02-17 Thread John
Hello I made a jail for a domain I host, according to the man page for jail. It runs great and I can ssh and telnet on port 25 into it from the host. What I would like the root user to be able to do inside the jail is to ssh to other boxes and use the ports collection. I have set the following sy

problem starting X with normal user

2004-02-19 Thread John
Hi I install fbsd 5.2 on a imb thinkpad 240x. I have a siliconmoion LynxEM+, and when I start X, I got my system hang. then i do a make install clean under /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 I got some errors because some ports can't install, but i overcome it by installing them as packages. thn when i

snort + trunk + cat6500 + vacls

2003-10-09 Thread John
i'm testing out alternatives for using span ports or inline taps and came across a doc on using vlan acls to capture data and send them to a port for sniffing. From what i under stand the sniffer port needs to be a trunk port. What i don't really understand is how freebsd is going to work with the

want sudo but not sudo su - how

2004-06-12 Thread John
here a way of enforcing this? The reason being that if they do something and the server eg goes titsup, I want to see what was done in the logs. Would be grateful for any assistance the list may have. -- John ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: want sudo but not sudo su - how

2004-06-12 Thread John
o restrict what people can do with sudo it will be > better to explicitly list each binary they can run as root and make > sure there's no way they can modify those binaries. yeah, but too many binaries (or roles too diffuse, tightening up of which would be anot

UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY - fsck

2005-10-29 Thread John
HITACHI SCSI Drives and 128MB RAM. I have very little knowledge of the system, and would appreciate any help in solving this problem. Thanks John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

RE: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY - fsck

2005-10-30 Thread John
>Heure local/Local time: >Sat Oct 29 23:11:05 CEST 2005 Unfortunately, I was not involved with the initial construction and configuration of this system, it just falls to me to get it working again. Looks like it may now be time to do that upgrade. John ___

Re: Which disk is which

2004-08-30 Thread John
gards S. On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:11:43 +0800, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Subhro wrote: Read the handbook buddy, its clearly given there that There is no call for that rudeness. I'm looking at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html

Re: Which disk is which

2004-08-30 Thread John
Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Hi, John ... As you cc'ed doc@, I'm sending your original mail to them also, so they'll have some background. Comments inline. John Summerfield wrote: I've booted a 5.2.1 miniinstall CD and got to the point where I choose which disk

Re: Which disk is which

2004-08-30 Thread John
Jerry McAllister wrote: I've booted a 5.2.1 miniinstall CD and got to the point where I choose which disk to install onto. My choices are ad0 da0 Great. How do I know which disk is which? OK ad0 would be the first ide drive and da0 would be the first SCSI drive or maybe the first USB drive. T

svn incantation for 9.1-RELEASE

2012-12-02 Thread John
Hello list, At the moment, I get sources via a line like this: svn checkout svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/9.1/ /usr/src Is this sufficient and correct to follow 9.1-RELEASE when it eventually comes out? Right now, building world from that checkout gives 9.1-RC3. thanks -- freebsd at growve

Re: svn incantation for 9.1-RELEASE

2012-12-04 Thread John
On 03/12/2012 07:42, Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 5:16 AM, John wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> At the moment, I get sources via a line like this: >> >> svn checkout svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/9.1/ /usr/src >> > > > That

strange network problem with multiple interfaces

2013-01-05 Thread John
hi, I just installed stock FreeBSD 9.0 on a PowerEdge server with two network cards: bce0 is directly connected to isp's gateway bce1~3 are connected to the inside port of a router configured as 192.168.1.0/24 network with 192.168.1.1 as gateway If the ENTIRE content of /etc/rc.conf is: hostna

Re: Multiple network cards with IP addresses in the same network

2003-01-13 Thread John
e posted this on a diff. thread? :P But I believe the resolution to this issue is the same as the originally posted issue. Hopefully something will come out of it. Thanks, John Addtn'l info: I have a FreeBSD 4.7 Stable #2 (updated yesterday). - Original Message - From: "Bill Moran

Re: Multiple network cards with IP addresses in the same network

2003-01-13 Thread John
efore taking that route, I ask again... Any thoughts or suggestions as to how to get FreeBSD to simply allow for 2 interfaces on the same subnet??? Thanks, John - Original Message - From: "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <

Re: ipfw/natd questions

2003-01-16 Thread John
machine2 (It looks like you're allowing it in your IPFW rules...). Once you can ping.. (or begin to see traffic on the internal interface in the logs for IPFW), you can start troubleshooting the IPFW rules, if necessary. HTH, John To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

IPFW stateful ruleset problems on 4.7 STABLE

2003-01-19 Thread john
re to inform me of the problem? Thanks, ~John ... Some generic rules .. add 6700 skipto 22100 all from 10.10.10.10 to any add 6750 skipto 22100 all from any to 10.10.10.10 ... #ruleset for machine add 22100 check-state #allow in terminal services add 22200 allow tcp from any to 10.10.10.10 3389

Re: floppy install

2003-02-06 Thread John
120 Feb 6 20:00 boot.flp -rw-r--r-- 1 0 wheel 1474560 Feb 6 20:00 fixit.flp -rw-r--r-- 1 0 wheel 1474560 Feb 6 20:00 kern.flp -rw-r--r-- 1 0 wheel 1474560 Feb 6 19:59 mfsroot.flp 226 Transfer complete. Enjoy! John - [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s Original Message - > I can't find

freebsd-5-REL woes

2003-02-08 Thread John
x27;t seem appropiate for 5.0. When, for instance, going into x11amp the only device options come up as default, with no choices. x11amp seems to play but there is no output. xmms freezes whatever the configuration I guess I'm looking for a how-to specific to 5.0. Any pointers/howtos gratefully rec

ucom crash

2002-09-23 Thread john
;ve also been using them to drive the modem and usually they are fine but every now & then 'splat'. Ta John -- -- John HarnettAdhoc Software [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice 0414 501948

FTP and cron

2002-11-15 Thread John
get different progress messages, no hash marks, and apparently, no data transferred. The file NAME appears on the remote side, but is 0 length regardless of how long I wait. When I run the scripts from the terminal, it works fine. Can anyone lend any insight or point me in the right direction? Than

Re: FTP and cron

2002-11-15 Thread John
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:41:24AM -0600, John wrote: > I'm having fits running ftp from cron jobs. Shell or "expect" > scripts that execute perfectly from the terminal fail in a seeminly non- > deterministic variety of ways when run from cron. Just for completeness, h

Re: FTP and cron

2002-11-15 Thread John
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:30:59PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 10:39:31AM -0600, John wrote: > > > No, it's not something simple like cron not running expect, or ftp > > being in "non-interactive mode". The prework all runs correctly, &

apache20 going nuts

2006-10-25 Thread John
deas about what I could do about this. Find out what in apache is using the processor so much. TIA, -John last pid: 70289; load averages: 8.38, 7.15, 3.95 up 52+17:42:14 23:12:10 168 processes: 9 running, 159 sleeping CPU states: 98.1% user, 0.0% nice, 1.9% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0

fsck with freebsd-6.1

2006-10-30 Thread John
Hello list Looking at the man page for fsck, I couldn't find an option to tell fsck when it finds an unreadable sector, to mark it as bad so it doesn't get written to another time. If fsck can't do it, is there a program in the system or in ports that can? cheers -- John - [

Re: More questions on sr sync driver, packet filters, and altq

2006-10-31 Thread John
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 03:11:04AM -, John Levine wrote: > I am putting together a FreeBSD router to replace a tired old BSD/OS > one. My external line is a T1, so I got a Wanic 400 on ebay. I have a > /24 that is about half full so I don't do NAT and don't expect to need

using dd to dump an image file to a floppy

2007-04-16 Thread John
he fd0 (floppy drive), and I am logged in as "root". Anyone know what I'm doing wrong? Thanks, John So here's to the role of time, patience, and reflection in our lives. If we believe it is better to build than to destroy, better to live and let live, better to be than

Re: Neverwinter Nights Linux Beta on 4.7-RELEASE?

2003-04-02 Thread John
to have to try too! :) John ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Disk copy -- WAS: Re: Can you copy freebsd from one of my presentmachine and load itto a new

2003-06-06 Thread John
ction? I don't care to spend the half day to a weekend necessary to backup the entire server to the network, reinstall Free on the new drives, and then restore everything.. I'm a lazy admin! :) Can someone point me to doc on the "easy way"? Thoughts? Thanks, John - Origina

cron executes entries twice

2003-07-02 Thread John
ingle process. The system is running 4.8-RC. Any thoughts of where to look and what to look for? Thanks! -John ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

kernel: arplookup error

2003-07-02 Thread John
e helpful here. If there's anything else I can provide, please let me know. Thanks, John ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

RE: kernel: arplookup error

2003-07-02 Thread John
I just checked out netstat, and also checked the arp table, just for fun. There's nothing in either table indicating the annoying IP address. Anything else you can think of would be most helpful. Thanks, John I had a similar problem on one of my machines recently. It turned out that I

Re: cron executes entries twice

2003-07-03 Thread John
At 04:03 AM 7/3/2003, Andrew Boothman wrote: On Thursday 03 July 2003 1:23 am, John wrote: > Hi All, > > For quite some time now my system has been executing all entries in the > crontab twice, instead of the expected once. This happens most obviously > for the periodic scripts, b

AGP support in FreeBSD 5.2.1 (AMD64)

2004-11-26 Thread John
ce agp", but still I can't see that the card was being recognised when I did a dmesg. Can anyone help or offer some sugestion? john Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991

Re: XFree86 server crash.

2004-12-04 Thread john
have not been able to get FreeBSD to mount a foreign file system so I can't use Windows or Linux to send the logs. HOW TO REPEAT THE PROBLEM Try to install FreeBSD on a Presario sr1053wm. Good luck! DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS AS TO HOW TO PROCEED? John .. ..

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