Re: Ifconfig - no aliases?

2003-03-12 Thread Kevin Stevens
> Here are the entries in rc.conf for the card (the first two digits are > xx'd for this email): > > hostname="not-sharing-that-rightnow" > defaultrouter xx.100.110.1" > ifconfig_rl0="inet xx.100.110.160 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast > xx.100.110.255" > > # virtual IP ports > ifconfig_rl0_alias0

Package set removal

2003-03-11 Thread Kevin Stevens
I would like to remove the X11 implementation from my 4.7-STABLE installation, and was wondering if there's a better way to do it than package-by-package. I originally installed it over a base system by using /stand/sysinstall and specifying the additional distribution set. Is there a way to remo

Re: Backup Solution

2003-03-11 Thread Kevin Stevens
> Hi everyone > > I am looking for a centralized backup solution for FreeBSD. It must be > able to backup to harddrive, rather than to a tape drive, and must have > support for FreeBSD/Linux and Windows 2000 clients. > > Does anyone have any suggestions ? /usr/ports/misc/amanda-server /usr/ports

Re: tip and USB-RS232 cable

2003-02-24 Thread Kevin Stevens
> On hostA I recompiled the kernel incuding the following 2 lines: > # USB com devices > device ucom > device uplcom > > Unplugging and plugging back in on hostA the USB end, this is what I get > on the messages file: > > ... hostA /kernel: uplcom0: at uhub0 port 2 (addr 2) discon

Re: Trouble with 5.0-RELEASE boot floppies

2003-02-23 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Sun, 23 Feb 2003, taxman wrote: > On Sunday 23 February 2003 08:07 pm, Daniel Herring wrote: > > Here's the situation: > > Machine: 150MHz Pentium, 16MB ram, 1.5Gig HD > > Well that's not much memory. 5.0 needs much more minimum memory than 4.x > Your best bet is to put more memory in and se

Re: Cvsup Handbook Example

2003-02-21 Thread Kevin Stevens
> On Friday 21 February 2003 22:11, Henrik W Lund wrote: > Just because something is red, has horns and carries a glowy tridant, is > it neciserally evil? :P I don't think so, you've just described a Maserati! KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questi

Re:

2003-02-20 Thread Kevin Stevens
> On Thursday 20 February 2003 22:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> im on a pI 233mhz mmx with 64mb of ram >> what do u recommend me to install GNOME or KDE > > I was running KDE on a 200 mhz computer. Had no problems, everything > went smooth. With that amount of ram I recommend KDE. I'm in a sim

Re: IP-change

2003-02-20 Thread Kevin Stevens
> Most of the times, when you make a DNS change, it may take up 24 hours > to replicate to all other servers. > And during that time is when, you wonder if it's gonna work or not. On > top of that your carrier may not refresh it's list every 6 to 12 hours. > I had to talk to a supervisor to have AT

Re: DWL-650 won't configure under 5.0

2003-02-08 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Kevin Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > According to the wi driver page, the D-Link DWL-650 802.11b card should be > > supported. Using the GENERIC kernel, when I insert the card I get: > > > > cardb

Re: your mail

2003-02-07 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > what are the bbest three languages to learn? > thx for your answer English Mandarin Hindi KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

DWL-650 won't configure under 5.0

2003-02-07 Thread Kevin Stevens
According to the wi driver page, the D-Link DWL-650 802.11b card should be supported. Using the GENERIC kernel, when I insert the card I get: cardbus1: Expecting link target, got 0x0 cardbus1: Resource not specified in CIS: id=10, size=100 cardbus1: Resource not specified in CIS: id=14, size=400

Re: disabling sendmail in 5.0

2003-02-06 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Thursday, Feb 6, 2003, at 19:05 US/Pacific, David Syphers wrote: sendmail_enable="NO" make this NONE Unfortunately, this is only valid in 4-stable. It was deprecated in HEAD September 3, 2002. I was hoping that the sendmail_submit_enable and sendmail_outbound_enable switches (which I thi

Re: samba serving mac and windows

2003-02-04 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Tuesday, Feb 4, 2003, at 23:01 US/Pacific, Jon Reynolds wrote: A windows user can take a document off of the fileserver and edit that file and save it back to the fileserver, no problem. A Mac user can connect to the fileserver and edit the same document but when trying to save back to the fi

Re: 200Gig disk shrinks to 124 upon install

2003-02-03 Thread Kevin Stevens
> I casually installed a 200 Gig dis on a 4.3-stable freebsd system. I > quickly followed the directions in > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks- > adding.html section "12.3.2.2 Dedicated". df -g now reports that the > resulting disk is only 124 Gig, so I'm sad and co

Re: Slightly OT, OSX, terminals & key combinations

2003-02-02 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Sunday, Feb 2, 2003, at 12:07 US/Pacific, Rich Fox wrote: Hi, Thanks, I think that found the issue, however... an stty -a returns... [snip] cchars: discard = ^O; dsusp = ^Y; eof [snip] Umm, that's what mine reports, as well, both when I'm local to the Mac and when I'm ssh'ed to the Fr

Re: Slightly OT, OSX, terminals & key combinations

2003-02-02 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Rich Fox wrote: > I use a MacOS X workstation to connect to my FreeBSD box where I use Pine > to compose these emails. > Apparently the Terminal program in MacOS X intercepts ctrl+o combinations > which are used to postpone messages in Pine. Thus, when I use the key > combinat

Re: How to set-up two 'defaultrouter' IPs?

2003-01-29 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > Does that make sense? > > Sure. What you want isn't two default routers, because at any given > time there's only one way you want to route this traffic. What you > really want is to change default router when the outside world sees > one as down.

Re: Filesystem tuning parameters

2003-01-24 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Friday, Jan 24, 2003, at 16:40 US/Pacific, Bill Moran wrote: See /usr/share/doc/papers/diskperf.ascii.gz on your system. This is the authoritative resource as to why those settings are they way they are. ?? Sure that's the correct doc? It involves throughput tests of different disk syst

Filesystem tuning parameters

2003-01-24 Thread Kevin Stevens
I have a confusion about apparent conflicts between the minfree setting and time/space optimization. Per the manpage: minfree - Specify the percentage of space held back from normal users; the minimum free space threshold. The default value used is 8%. This value can be set to zero, however up to

Re: Unfortunate...

2003-01-22 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Bill Nolastname wrote: > It is unfortunate that one of the developers with freebsd.org also supports > companies that hijack web browsers. > > I had respect for freebsd before learning this, now, I do not. > > Too bad. And your question was? KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: pw add?

2003-01-20 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Monday, Jan 20, 2003, at 14:05 US/Pacific, talon wrote: Would someone here be able to tell me how to add a user to a group using the pw command. eg I would like to add myself to the operator group Do I have to hand edit the /etc/group file ? pw usermod Myaccount -G operator KeS To Unsub

5.0 Xircom card failure

2003-01-19 Thread Kevin Stevens
Hello - not sure where to go with this and looking for suggestions: Installed 5.0-RELEASE today on a laptop with my Xircom PS-CE2-10 Ethernet adapter. This adapter is shown in the hardware notes as being supported by the xe driver - Xircom CreditCard 10Base-T ``CreditCard Ethernet Adapter IIps'

Re: entropy

2003-01-14 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Tuesday, Jan 14, 2003, at 22:46 US/Pacific, Wilkinson,Alex wrote: Can someone recommend to me where I can read up on entropy. ie what it is ? Why we have it ? etc etc - aW Entropy is a tendency towards disorder in the universe, exemplified by things LIKE SOME FREAKIN' CLUELESS GIT POSTI

Re: adding some new IPs from a different subnet

2003-01-11 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Saturday, Jan 11, 2003, at 14:15 US/Pacific, Josh Brooks wrote: Ok, I toggled net.link.ether.inet.log_arp_wrong_iface - I set it to zero ... and I am still getting those error messages ... Any thoughts ? Did you change thea 10. alias mask at Lowell suggested? KeS To Unsubscribe: send ma

Re: adding some new IPs from a different subnet

2003-01-10 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Friday, Jan 10, 2003, at 22:13 US/Pacific, Kevin Stevens wrote: What is the best way to make these log errors stop occurring ? I hate to be a pain, but not only do I need to know what to put in rc.conf, but I cannot reboot the system so I need to know what commands will implement it on

Re: adding some new IPs from a different subnet

2003-01-10 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Friday, Jan 10, 2003, at 21:43 US/Pacific, Josh Brooks wrote: And this works great - it works because 10.10.10.1 is also the default router for 192.168.0.0/24. BUT, even though the network works great and that IP and everything else is fine, I am getting my log files full of: /kernel: arpl

Re: solaris firewall?

2003-01-09 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Thursday, Jan 9, 2003, at 23:41 US/Pacific, Shawn Henderson wrote: how well of a firwall can be created with Solaris 8 I am playing with a couple different *nix flavors and wanted to test out setting up a Solaris firewall is it possible and how would I do it..any Ideas. Posting to a Solaris

Re: FreeBSD Stability

2003-01-03 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Thursday, Jan 2, 2003, at 17:17 US/Pacific, Mark wrote: What is it that makes people rave about the longest uptime? To me, this is just a list of sites whose admins have neglected to perform the necessary upgrade-maintenances, seemingly for almost three years even. To me, this is just a li

Re: openssl 0.9.6h checksum in ports

2003-01-02 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Hari Bhaskaran wrote: > openssl.org just decided to re-release a release! > It would have been much cleaner to bump up a version > if they fix something! Come on, we are in 2003! Yeah, and they're on 0.9.7. ;) KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsub

Kernel panic questions..

2002-12-23 Thread Kevin Stevens
In the last week I've gotten two kernel panics with reboot while compiling. The log message says: kernel log messages: refused panic: lockmgr: locking against myself Then it politely syncs disks and helpfully reboots. Any help with what a lockmgr is or why it is so unhappy? KeS To Unsubsc

Re: FreeBSD stuff

2002-12-22 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Sunday, Dec 22, 2002, at 22:29 US/Pacific, Morten olson wrote: Hi. Where can i buy some FreeBSD stuff.. like FreeBSD t-shirt http://www.FreeBSD.org/commercial/misc.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: X over ethernet is too much slow...

2002-12-15 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Sunday, Dec 15, 2002, at 21:49 US/Pacific, Raphaël Dingé wrote: I've been using another configuration where I switched from ssh to a complete xdcmp system. Loading of pictures is very faster now, in rt2_demo it is quick, so in normal desktop environment it is quite perfect. I found that inc

Re: Hubs and switches (was: uninformed qstn...)

2002-12-13 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Friday, Dec 13, 2002, at 20:08 US/Pacific, Mike Hogsett wrote: I saw a test a few months ago of several low-end switches, and they were all non-blocking with similar performance. Pretty much a commodity item at this point. On refelection, makes me wonder why I spent $5000 on Cisco 2900

Re: Hubs and switches (was: uninformed qstn...)

2002-12-13 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Friday, Dec 13, 2002, at 19:41 US/Pacific, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I have three switches in my network: a Cisco 2900 (24 ports), a Netgear FS105 (5 ports) and a D-Link DSS-8+ (8 ports), in rapidly decreasing order of cost. I've never had any trouble with any of them. It's possible that t

Re: Gateway + Firewall

2002-12-10 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-09 15:22:20 -0200: > > Well I have this problem with freebsd > > > > I have this network. > > > > Range: 10.10.10.192-207 > > Network: 10.10.10.192/28 > > Netmask: 10.10.10.254 > > Router: 10.10.10.193 That's not the c

Re: IPsec VPN between FreeBSD and WinXP

2002-12-03 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Tuesday, Dec 3, 2002, at 03:31 US/Pacific, RJ45 wrote: I could set up succesfully a IPSec transport mode VPN between WinXP and FreeBSD 4.7 The problem is that it works only if I Start the first connection from WinXP to FreeBSD box, and the vice versa does not work. If The very first IPSec conn

Re: Another hardware question.

2002-12-01 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Sunday, Dec 1, 2002, at 11:29 US/Pacific, Artem Koutchine wrote: Hello again. Well, people said that dual P III 550 with SDRAM is definetely slower than single P 4 3Ghz with DDR RAM. Now, a bit trickier question. Is DUAL P III 1,4Ghz with SDRAM faster than SINGLE P4 3Ghz with hyperthreadin

Re: OS X root passwd

2002-12-01 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Sunday, Dec 1, 2002, at 04:40 US/Pacific, Bernardo M. Brummer wrote: Tried to su without password (just pressing Enter), but systems wants password. Is there a default (preconfigured) root passwd for new Mac OS X machines , or any simple (that can be executed remotely or that this user could

Re: Bewildered: ls/cp/du take ages

2002-11-29 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Friday, Nov 29, 2002, at 09:37 US/Pacific, Marc Schneiders wrote: I have a machine that now shows this behaviour: ls cp du take ages on a directory of 5 MB of (small) files (dir = /etc). And eat the CPU. What is the matter? Shitty RAM? No. I would suspect that the filesystem is corrupt.

Re: DUMP to disk over 2GB

2002-11-25 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Dave [Hawk-Systems] wrote: > ran into the file size limitation of 2GB when doing a L0 dump of the /usr > partition. > > Is there a workaround to the 2GB limit... can you reliably pipe dump to split > or something then reverse the process with restore later? > > Working with

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

2002-11-25 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > But whatever you do, don't buy just any LexMark! There are only a > handful of LexMarks that will work with anything other than Windows. > Some won't even work with all Windows OSs. I just threw out a Lexmark Well, but that's true of all brands. Le

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

2002-11-24 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Sunday, Nov 24, 2002, at 23:08 US/Pacific, Cliff Sarginson wrote: On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 10:19:31PM -0600, David Kelly wrote: On Sunday 24 November 2002 09:45 pm, BSD baby wrote: Any advice before I buy a printer for FreeBSD? I'm finally going to get a printer for my FreeBSD devbox this w

Re: Running a DNS server

2002-11-11 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Monday, Nov 11, 2002, at 20:37 US/Pacific, Terry Cooper wrote: I would like to know if any home users have a DNS server set up. Yes, at least one home user has a DNS server set up. My internet provider (Tellus in Canada) will not allow me to run a server of any type. I have been for the

Re: dns resolution problems

2002-11-11 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Monday, Nov 11, 2002, at 13:04 US/Pacific, Peter Schoenmaker wrote: On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 02:54:57PM -0600, Charles Pelletier wrote: are you absolutely sure your DNS info is correct? need current information: what is your service provider? verio what are the DNS numbers you are current

Re: domain names, named, and all the problems that go with it.

2002-11-11 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Monday, Nov 11, 2002, at 11:02 US/Pacific, Kevin Stevens wrote: I recommend Secondary.com; free for a small number of domains, very reliable. Pick another free server if you are concerned about better redundancy. Then list BTW, some observant soul pointed out that Secondary.com has gone

Re: check mac address

2002-11-11 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Monday, Nov 11, 2002, at 11:33 US/Pacific, adrian kok wrote: Sorry I made you confusion Right now I have mac address but would like to check the ip address of this mac address They are in same LAN Thank you You want 'rarp', but I don't know where it is; maybe someone can help. Grepping

Re: dns resolution problems

2002-11-11 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Monday, Nov 11, 2002, at 11:12 US/Pacific, Peter Schoenmaker wrote: I am having problems resolving hosts with freebsd. Specificly i have problems resolving hosts @ united airlines. These include www.ual.com, www.united.com, www.ua2go.com, www.itn.net. Some of them use different dns servers

Re: domain names, named, and all the problems that go with it.

2002-11-11 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Monday, Nov 11, 2002, at 07:32 US/Pacific, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Quite possible that 'removing myself from root nameserver' is an issue. Your registrar (in this case godaddy.com) must have a record of *some* two nameservers to place in the global system. From your FreeBSD box

Re: Laptops & FreeBSD?

2002-11-07 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Thursday, Nov 7, 2002, at 23:35 US/Pacific, Steve (CK) wrote: My first thought was an iBook or TiBook running OS X but the prohibitive cost has me second-guessing that option. Maybe if the new IBM PPC chips were to be introduced before next fall in the iBook I would take this option but th

Re: Domains

2002-11-02 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Saturday, Nov 2, 2002, at 15:49 US/Pacific, Rick Hamell wrote: Well, I had a reply about one of my questions with one link to one site so I'm asking just this "one" question again to the list. I am wanting to buy and host a domain myself with apache on my freebsd box. I would like some reco

Re: Solution to why my 4.7 CD wouldn't boot my machine

2002-11-01 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Steve Holmlund wrote: > I figured out why a 4.7 CD that I had downloaded as an ISO image and burned > wouldn't boot my machine. > > It had to do with the kind of blank CD I was using. I switched from GQ > 700MB/80 minute blank CD (dirt cheap at Fry's in Palo Alto) back to a Max

Re: SSH Delay problems

2002-10-31 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Thursday, Oct 31, 2002, at 21:58 US/Pacific, joe wrote: I apologize for this repeat as I was following this issue on the last a few months ago. I tried to find the thread but was not successfull. There is a significant delay before ssh connects and returns a prompt. I am on a private networ

Re: getting my router to log to my Freebsd box help ?

2002-10-29 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Brent Bailey wrote: > however i cant get 2 or more routers to log to syslog only one will log. > is ther a differrent way to getting syslogd to listen to multiple UDP > packets from differrent routers.. I know it can be done ..but im unsure on > how ?? > any and all help IS

Re: problems w/ trying to telnet to my cisco router by tunneling through ssh

2002-10-26 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Saturday, Oct 26, 2002, at 18:37 US/Pacific, Bsd Neophyte wrote: i was looking at the handbook section on ssh tunneling. to try it out i figured i'd try to connect to my 806. i entered the following command: ssh -2 -N -f -L 5023:localhost:23 (router's ip address) and I received this error

Re: printing from windows xp to lpd without samba

2002-10-25 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > i'm running lpd with -clW switches (windows lpr sends from ports > >1024), and printing from my FreeBSD desktop works just fine: > > Oct 25 11:56:12 ishtar lpd[7336]: freepuppy.bellavista.cz requests recvjob lp > Oct 25 11:56:15 ishta

Re: printing from windows xp to lpd without samba

2002-10-25 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Friday, Oct 25, 2002, at 03:40 US/Pacific, Roman Neuhauser wrote: Does anyone here know how to setup Windows XP to use a remote LPD? If so, what are the steps? (googling for lpd and windows finds about 1k hits for Lunix printing howto which doesn't cover this scenario.) Just go through the

Re: UDMA limited to 33 - resolution

2002-10-23 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Jack L. Stone wrote: > At 11:04 PM 10.23.2002 +0100, lewiz wrote: > >Hi, > > > > Afaik, UDMA100 is only supported if there is just one device on the > >channel. Feel free to shoot me if I am incorrect, which is quite > >possible. Just double-check by asking Google or someth

Re: getting my router to log to my Freebsd box help ?

2002-10-23 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Brent Bailey wrote: > so would it be something like > > syslogd -a 172.16.x.x/24:UDP port number ?? > > if this is so ... > can i do this multiple times ??? > I have multiple routers that i want to log to this FreebSD machine > so would i do the command above on multiple li

Re: Mac can't connect to Internet

2002-10-22 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Walter wrote: > Hi, > >I was wondering what the resolution was to this, as > I (a *nix "newbie") am trying to accomplish a very > similar thing: OS 10.1 via hub to a Pentium running > FBSD 4.6.2 to a cable-modem internet connection. > I can't get past the FBSD box from t

Re: Kernel config problem with scbus

2002-10-17 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 07:26:06PM -0700, Kevin Stevens wrote: > > In the Handbook, it says that if you are compiling for an IDE-only > > system, you can remove the following: > > > > # SCSI peripherals > > device

Re: Bind9 - reverse dns ?

2002-10-16 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Wednesday, Oct 16, 2002, at 01:37 US/Pacific, Nelis Lamprecht wrote: > I've been Googling around trying to find an example to setup reverse > DNS on my server but have had no luck. I've read through the > administrators guide also but there doesn't seem to be any clear info > on setting thi

Re: upgrade to 4.7 over net?

2002-10-15 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Tuesday, Oct 15, 2002, at 23:31 US/Pacific, Iain wrote: > I was just wondering if it is possible to upgrade from 4.6.2 -> 4.7 > via the > net. Is this possible on a running system? Possible but not recommended/supported. > I have read the stuff about upgrading in the release notes but it i

Kernel config problem with scbus

2002-10-15 Thread Kevin Stevens
I'm trying to do "old-style" kernel builds with 4.7 (though I've run into this same issue with earlier releases and other motherboards). In the Handbook, it says that if you are compiling for an IDE-only system, you can remove the following: # SCSI peripherals device scbus #

Re: CDROM boot time fsck

2002-10-11 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > > > /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,auto 0 0 > > > > /dev/acd1c /cdrom1 cd9660 ro,auto 0 0 > > > > > > > > Looking at the man page, the last column indicates the fsck type, and 0

Re: CDROM boot time fsck

2002-10-11 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > I happened to reboot my server last night without a disk in one of the > > cdrom drives. It caused the startup process to halt, dropping me to a > > shell prompt as it tried to fsck the volume. Wasn't happy proceeding > > until I fed the drive

CDROM boot time fsck

2002-10-11 Thread Kevin Stevens
Hello - I happened to reboot my server last night without a disk in one of the cdrom drives. It caused the startup process to halt, dropping me to a shell prompt as it tried to fsck the volume. Wasn't happy proceeding until I fed the drive a disk. In my environment this is A Bad Thing; there m

Re: Athlon XP motherboards that work well with FreeBSD

2002-10-10 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Corey Holcomb-Hockin wrote: > I've been having trouble with my a7a-133. I had trouble with XFree86, > and with a tv card. I'd like to know some motherboards that work well > with FreeBSD? I just upgraded my FreeBSD system from an Abit KT7A-Raid to a MSI K7T266 Pro 2A bo

Re: /etc/cvsup/ports-supfile (fwd)

2002-10-09 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Adam Weinberger wrote: > i'd just move the old checkout.cvs out of the way and restart the cvsup. > > -Adam Thanks, that worked. I thought that file was being built dynamically each night because the timestamp was being updated, so deleting it didn't occur to me. KeS To U

RE: ncsd

2002-10-08 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Eric Six wrote: > Run Bind as a caching only server. Ncsd is a sun program if I am correct.. I > don't ever recall seeing it anywhere else (aix, *bsd). > > Cheers, > Eric Dyslexics untie! It's nscd (name service cache daemon). It provides caching for multiple name service

/etc/cvsup/ports-supfile (fwd)

2002-10-08 Thread Kevin Stevens
I'm running cvsup via cron to update my ports nightly. For the last week or so, the job has been terminating with the message below: Parsing supfile "/etc/cvsup/ports-supfile" ... (lots of reporting here) Edit ports/russian/apache13-modssl/pkg-plist Add delta 1.11 2002.10.05.09.18.43 kris

Thingie #2 - system upgrade methods.

2002-10-04 Thread Kevin Stevens
When there is a point release of -STABLE, there seem to be several methods for doing a binary upgrade, but none seem to fit my preference, and I wanted to post and see if I'm missing something. What I've been doing is downloading the boot floppies for the release, booting from it/them, and select

Thingie #1 - non-package updates

2002-10-04 Thread Kevin Stevens
I generally use port-upgrade to update installed packages, and upgrade -STABLE releases manually. However, this leaves a gap when software that is installed as part of the base system, like bind, has upgrade releases that occur more frequently than the -STABLE releases. What's the common resolut

Re: file of large size

2002-10-02 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, [iso-8859-1] shubha mr wrote: > Hi, > Can anyone suggest me a shell script or a command to > create a large file in BSD(aroung 50 MB).Any junk data > in it is also fine. > > Thanks in advance, > shubha mkfile junk 50M KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: HELP: telnet vs. security

2002-10-01 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Hal Lynch wrote: > I am running 4.4-RELEASE-p26. > > I am trying to telnet out to a CISCO router. It looks as though > my side is trying to set up some kind of kerberos authentication. > See below. How do I prevent this from happening? The router > doesn't have a clue. I

Re: named rejecting all kinds of serials

2002-09-28 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Saturday, Sep 28, 2002, at 04:49 US/Pacific, Janine C.Buorditez wrote: > hi. > > Sep 28 13:22:50 ninja named[87]: master zone "terrabionic.com" (IN) > rejected due to errors (serial 2002092801) > > now, isn't this the valid serial for today? > > i've tried all kinds of dates; past, current

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