Re: New work on installer?
If one were to *not* use the installer to setup a FreeBSD system, (aka, like *old* dos, each step done manually), what are the manual steps involved? Matthew Seaman wrote: On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 01:00:37AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has there been any new work on the installer or planned? If not, I would like to help... What about graphical? There's been plenty of planning and various projects to produce something better, but to the best of my knowledge all such efforts have basically ground to a halt. Probably the one that got closest to actually getting into production was the libh project -- http://www.freebsd.org/projects/libh.html but that seems to have imploded under a too ambitious development plan, and apparently nothing new has been produced by it since 2002. Note that the system installer tends to be quite a sore point around the various FreeBSD lists, with all sorts of claims about the current sysinstall(8) ranging from loud praises to downright hostility, often by people who haven't got the foggiest idea of how to improve things. It's also a topic that regularly gets bikeshedded to death. Cheers, Matthew ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: poptop / pppd
Please use the port mpd instead. Chris Knipe wrote: Lo all, Very arb and weird problem... I've followed all the docs that google could return (they all mostly the same in any case), and yeah... My PPTP server *does* work.. As long as I don't terminate more than one connection at a time to the server *shock horror*. For some reason (and I suspect I know why), ppp insist on only using one device for all the incoming PPTP connections from poptop. Obviously not right, and err, ja.. I need to get this fixed... Very urgently as well. My streamlined ppp.conf: pptp: accept dns allow mode direct disable chap disable mschap disable mschapv2 enable lqr enable pap set device localhost:pptp set dial set dns 192.168.1.1 set ifaddr 192.168.1.1 10.255.255.1-10.255.255.254 255.255.255.255 set log Connect set login set radius /etc/ppp/ppp.radius set server /tmp/loop 0177 set timeout 0 Now, I suspect that it is only using one device (regardless of the number of connections), due to the device (socket) specification. But frankly, if I don't specify it what device to use, it won't even be able to operate a single pptp connection. Any advice is greatly appreciated. I need to get this resolved asap. I didn't send any logs from ppp PPP and the PPTP connections works 100% - even with Radius. The problem is purely that PPP always uses the same device, regardless of the amount of connections (ala tun0). My kernel does have allot of tunX devices, and ifconfig -a lists at least two available. Still, ppp only uses the one. I'm sad to say, but if I can't get this to work, I'm going to have to be forced to scrap my BSD box for a W2K Adv server... *sigh*, at least their RAS server works okish... Thanks, me ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with latest update and network
Please spit out and attach as plain text tht outputs of ifconfig netstat -rn ps ax | grep dh Richard Morse wrote: Hi! I just CVSup'd (last Thursday) and upgraded my system to RELENG_4. I now cannot connect (seemingly) to the network. Whenever I try to ping and outside system, I get ping: sendto: no route to host. I can't ping my router, or even hosts with known IP addresses. I don't see anything odd in `netstat -a` or `ifconfig`, but I'm not the worlds greatest networker, so I'm not sure that I would know what is odd. uname reports the system as 4.9_PRERELEASE. The ethernet card is (I think) and Intel card -- the device is 'ep'. Any suggestions on what I can look at to figure out what is going wrong? Thanks, Ricky Morse ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re:
AMD Duron, Athlon, et al, are all i386 compatible processors [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD- Do AMD Duron processors fall under the AMD64 release category, because on your website it only says that AMD Opteron and Athlon prcoessors are the AMD64 architecture. Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: screen font size
YOu X-Windowing installation is *not* right. Update your XFree86 to the latest available (via packages), not you might need to download and upgrade your FreeBSD 4.5 to 4.8-RELEASE or 4.9-PRERELEASE, this should give much up to date video card drivers, then you run XFree86 -configure and follow instructions (hopefully in your book) from there. C. W. Talbot wrote: Greetings I recently installed FreeBSD 4.5 with desk top KDE using a CD that came with the book, FreeBSD Unleashed, by Michael Urban and Brian Tiemann. Everything seemed to go fine until I executed startx. The desktop environment on my screen seems to be at least four times as big as it should be, displaying only the top left portion of the desktop. The strange part of this problem is that during the install process, program option screens are the correct size and font. Any advice to get me going will be appreciated. C. W. Talbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Frustrated with dial-up? Get high-speed for as low as $29.95/month (depending on the local service providers in your area). https://broadband.msn.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best place to start a misc program at bootup
a shell script ending with .sh with chmod +x in dir /usr/local/etc/rc.d man heir jason dictos wrote: Hello again, So there's /etc/rc, and etc/rc.local, and then there's the fancy rc.conf scripts which stat programs. /etc/rc and /etc/rc.local don't appear to be designated places for starting up misc. programs, so where do we put these misc programs which we want to run at startup? Thanks, -Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Silent boot?
If all you are wanting to do is hide the boot messages at boot time, the splash boot screen would be an option. look in /boot/defaults Yong Yi wrote: Anyone know whether it'd be possible to cleanly disable printing the kernel boot messages (the bold white text)? Meaning, short of commenting out the code that prints this, is there any way? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Extracting individual Files via tar
you must use the f flag when manipulation files. no f flag equals attempt to access tape drive. Martin McCormick wrote: The command tar ztf /usr/local/src/ports.tar.gz produces a table of contents just like the man page says it should. The man page also says that individual files can be recovered or listed but I haven't gotten that to work at all. if I try: $ tar zt ports/print/pstotext/ /usr/local/src/ports.tar.gz tar (child): /dev/sa0: Cannot open: Permission denied tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file tar: Child returned status 2 tar: ports/print/pstotext: Not found in archive tar: /usr/local/src/ports.tar.gz: Not found in archive tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors In the successful test, tar obviously knew which specification was the archive and was able to uncompress it with the z flag. The file specification I am attempting to recover from the archive throws tar completely off. I looked in the handbook and all the examples I found were the more usual procedure of unpacking whole file systems as in tar zxf somedir/archive.tar.gz I'm not having trouble with that use of tar. Thank you. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anymore help out there? Re: mail never gets sent
You need to configure sendmail to route via your ISP's SMTP gateway. Many IP's are listed in a 'dial up user blacklist', and yahoo, aol, etc will reject your mail otherwise. REF: SmartHost in you sendmail config. webmin is your friend. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/06/2003 01:23:22 PM: What does 'mailq' tell you? ___ Here is the results of mailq - simradusa# mailq | less /var/spool/mqueue (8 requests) -Q-ID- --Size-- -Q-Time- Sender/Recipient--- hA6KKrBZ0040865 Thu Nov 6 12:20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Deferred: Operation timed out with mx4.mail.yahoo.com.) (Deferred: Operation timed out with mx4.mail.yahoo.com.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] hA6K6bBZ0040575 Thu Nov 6 12:06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Deferred: Operation timed out with mail.pioneernet.net.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] hA6IAdBZ003813 38 Thu Nov 6 10:10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Warning: could not send message for past 4 hours) [EMAIL PROTECTED] hA6HF9BZ0036805 Thu Nov 6 09:15 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Deferred: Operation timed out with mx3.eunet.no.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] hA4Gc7wG000649 30 Tue Nov 4 08:38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Deferred: Operation timed out with mx4.mail.yahoo.com.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] hA4GXHwG000641 15 Tue Nov 4 08:33 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Deferred: Operation timed out with mx3.eunet.no.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] hA4FCFdC099301 21 Tue Nov 4 07:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Deferred: Operation timed out with mx4.mail.yahoo.com.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] hA4F8udC099278 13 Tue Nov 4 07:08 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Deferred: Operation timed out with mx3.eunet.no.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Total requests: 8 (END) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Anymore help out there
Set your SmartHost in your sendmail config to relay through your ISP's SMTP relay will fix the problem. Robert Huff wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The timeouts look suspicious. Is your upstream blocking outgoing SMTP connections (perhaps in an attempt to stop spam)? A quick way to check would be to: telnet mx4.mail.yahoo.com smtp No response would mean that someone is blocking you out (either upstream or the receivers). Tried that, it just sits on simradusa# telnet mx4.mail.yahoo.com smtp Trying 216.136.129.5... and never connects. Bingo. Same response here, and I know I'm being blocked. Time to talk to the ISP Robert Huff ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: the -L in dump
It should. To test it after running the dump do a restore -i -f /mnt/backup_drive/ad0backup/main_backup11_03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was working my way through dump and was going over what the -L switch is used for. I guess one would use this when you are dumping a mounted file system correct? Here's what I've been trying to do, dump all of / without dumping /tmp, /proc, /mnt, and /entropy. I've already learned to use the nodump flag with some help from a list member and now I want my dump to run correctly. My commandline is as follows: dump -0 -a -f /mnt/backup_drive/ad0backup/main_backup11_03 -h 0 -L -u / Will a command like this dump the entire file system for me for later restore should a complete meltdown happen? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Running RawIO
If your hard drive is IDE, then /dev/da0 is definately wrong. :)
Try /dev/ad0.
This is presuming of course that rawio doesn't do anything *bad* to your
data.
Rishi Chopra wrote:
I am newbie who just installed RawIO ('cd /usr/ports/benchmarks/rawio',
'make install') but am having trouble running the benchmark.
I run 'pkg_info -L rawio-1.2' to see that the program is installed in
/usr/local/bin/rawio. To run the program, I used:
'/usr/local/bin/rawio -a /dev/da0'
but the only ouput is a list of command-line switches and their definitions.
Am I doing something wrong? My system only has 1 hard drive, and I've tried
using /dev/rasr0 with the same result.
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Re: Using the ATAPI/CAM Driver
Jeff Elkins wrote: No responses on this yet, but I can hope :) Another issue: After changing the permissions on the /dev/pass* devices, following a reboot, they all reverted, rendering k3b useless. I'd appreciate some help... I've enabled the ATAPI/CAM driver in my kernel under freebsd 5.2 - this has given me two devices: /dev/cd0 and /dev/cd1. Thus far, I'm able to burn CDs/DVDs but I am having trouble mounting them (as root). If I issue the command: mount /cdrom or mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /cdrom I get the message: cd9660: /dev/cd0: Device not configured However, if I comment out the /dev/cd devices in fstab and enable the acd devices: /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/acd1 /cdrom1 cd9660 ro,noauto0 0 #/dev/cd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 #/dev/cd1 /cdrom1 cd9660 ro,noauto0 0 I'm able to mount w/o problems. Do I have something misconfigured? Thanks, Jeff Elkins ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] look in /etc/devfs.conf try adding something like: ... # Commonly used by many ports permacd00660 linkacd0cdrom linkacd0rcdrom linkacd0racd0 permacd10660 linkacd1dvd linkacd1rdvd permast00660 linkast0sa0 permnast0 0660 linknast0 nsa0 permpass0 0660 permpass1 0660 permpass2 0660 permpass3 0660 permscanner00660 permugen0 0660 permugen0.0 0660 permugen0.1 0660 permugen0.2 0660 permugen0.3 0660 # Allow a user in the wheel group to query the smb0 device permsmb00660 # Allow members of group operator to cat things to the speaker own speaker root:operator permspeaker 0660 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
