Marvel NFE driver in 6 CURRENT

2007-10-07 Thread stan
I'm building a new machine which (I beleive) needs the NFE driver fr the onboard NIC's. It appears that there is a third part (as in not in tree) driver for this chipset, Why is this not in 6.2 CURRENT? Are the issues with it? -- I'm sorry, no one here has any intentions of helping you with an

Drive errors?

2003-11-13 Thread stan
I've got a relativly recent STABLE machine that I', gettng errors like this on: Nov 12 20:00:01 black newsyslog[33912]: logfile turned over due to size>100K Nov 12 20:00:07 black /kernel: ad3s1e: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn 113202879 of 56601408-56601455 (ad3s1 bn 113202879; cn 7046 tn 141 sn 6

Re: Drive errors?

2003-11-13 Thread stan
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:31:29AM +0100, Martin wrote: > Am Fr, den 14.11.2003 schrieb stan um 01:20: > > Nov 12 20:00:07 black /kernel: ad3s1e: UDMA ICRC error writing fsbn > > 113202879 of 56601408-56601455 (ad3s1 bn 113202879; cn 7046 tn 141 sn 6) > > retrying > >

Re: Drive errors?

2003-11-14 Thread stan
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 03:48:14PM +0300, Joseph Begumisa wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, stan wrote: > > > I've got a relativly recent STABLE machine that I', gettng errors like this > > on: > > > > > > Nov 12 20:00:01 black newsyslog[33912]: l

Re: Drive errors?

2003-11-14 Thread stan
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 05:30:29PM +0300, Joseph Begumisa wrote: > > atapci0: port 0xa000-0xa00f at device 7.1 on pci0 > > atapci0: Correcting VIA config for southbridge data corruption bug > > ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 > > ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 > > ad3: 39266MB [79780/16/63] at

Compaq Wireless LAN Multiport W200

2003-11-14 Thread stan
What do I need to do to make a Compaq Wireless LAN Multiport W200 work in an N410C laptop, under STABLE. What do I need to do to make this work? It appears to be detected in dmesg: ugen0: Compaq Computers Compaq WLAN MultiPort W200, rev 1.10/0.00, addr 2 ohci1: mem 0x4010-0x40100fff irq 10

Re: Drive errors?

2003-11-16 Thread stan
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 06:24:11PM -0500, stan wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 05:30:29PM +0300, Joseph Begumisa wrote: > > > atapci0: port 0xa000-0xa00f at device 7.1 on pci0 > > > atapci0: Correcting VIA config for southbridge data corruption bug > > > at

STABLE & CURRENT on same machine?

2003-11-17 Thread stan
I suddenly find myself with a need to use something thta seems to only be supported in 5.1 CURRENT. I've never visited 5.x land before, and I'm a bit warry. I've got a Compaq N410C that's pretty happy in 4 STABLE land, and has a Linux partition. I'm considering blowing away the Linux partition, an

OK, it's time

2003-11-19 Thread stan
It feels like time to start using FreeBSD 5.1 CURRENT. I'm starting to see things that are only supported in it (as oposed to 4 STABLE). So, is it possible (and safe) to upgrade a 4 STABLE machine to 5? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty n

Where do I put options to ports make directives?

2003-12-14 Thread stan
I'm rebuilding a machine that suffred a root disk crash. I can't seem to find the place to put the optiosn I pass to various port's "make install" comands (as defines), so they will be reused, when I use portupgrade to keep them up to date. Where is thsi file? -- "They that would give up essenti

Using FreeBSD as a DHCP server

2003-12-30 Thread stan
I need to use a STABLE machine for a DHCP server. Man -k and looking in /etc/defaults/rc.conf don't seem to point me to the server side of this protocol. Do I need to add a port? If so what's the best one? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither libert

Re: hard drive test

2003-12-31 Thread stan
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 08:17:50PM -0700, David Bear wrote: > i just installed 4.9-rel. after having the system on for about two > hours I got a console message that device ad0 had timed out. then the > system froze. > > after a reboot (power off then on) the systems has been working fine. > >

Fynamic DNS updates with isc-dhcp3 port?

2003-12-31 Thread stan
I just installed the isc-dhcp3 on a 4.9 STABLE machine that is also the DNS server for my domain. I enable ad-hoc Dynamic DNS updates, and I;m getting error messages about them timing out. I read the dhcpd.conf man page that came with the port, and now I;m _reallY_ confused. Even though this opti

DNS/DHCP redundnacy

2004-01-01 Thread stan
I'm revamping my network infrastructure a bit to increae redundancy. Presently DNS is served by a single FreeBSD, and I've got a dhcp server running on an OpenBSD machine that also serves as my firewall. Where I'm headed is to build a 2nd FreeBSD, and use it and the existing FreebSD as redundant

A sendmail config question

2004-01-01 Thread stan
I'm setting up a FreeBSD machine behind a firewall to recieve mail. Inside teh firewall the machines are in a "fak" domain. The IP address that is on the outside of the firewall is in a vaild DNS block. Looking at the default freebsd.mc config file, I don't see anywhere to tell sedmail to accept m

Re: A sendmail config question

2004-01-01 Thread stan
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:29:56PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 11:09:28AM -0500, stan wrote: > > I'm setting up a FreeBSD machine behind a firewall to recieve mail. Inside > > teh firewall the machines are in a "fak" domain. The IP address

using multiple isc-dhcp servers?

2004-01-01 Thread stan
I have set up the isc-dhcp port on 2 machines. and it is serving addresses, but I notice that whichever machine gives the lease is the only one that records the lease in it's leases file. This seems like a problem. How can I configure this package to avoid this problem? -- "They that would give

ISC dhcpd serve configuration question

2004-01-01 Thread stan
I'm still trying to get ISC dhcp to work in a "redundnat" fashion where I have 2 machines, and they share an address pool. Here's where I am on this. Well I thoguht I had it working for a minute. The executbale is _really_ picky about the syntax od the config file, and I found some help at: h

Re: ISC dhcpd serve configuration question

2004-01-01 Thread stan
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 08:26:00PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Looking at tcpdump it _si_ a bootp packet that it sends, so I'm wondering > > if this line is the problem? > > > > > > deny dynamic boo

Microsoft "Dynamic DNS"

2009-09-19 Thread stan
I have a situation at work, where I need a FreeBSD machine to be in the corporate DNS. We have been bought out, and the new owner says "no static DNS entries". They use some Microsoft technogly where the client machiens register thier names with the corprate DNS. My Windows laptop for instance, m

Re: Microsoft "Dynamic DNS"

2009-09-19 Thread stan
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 04:06:03PM -0400, stan wrote: > I have a situation at work, where I need a FreeBSD machine to be in the > corporate DNS. We have been bought out, and the new owner says "no static > DNS entries". They use some Microsoft technogly where the client machie

DHCP client questions

2009-09-20 Thread stan
We have been bought out, and the new powers that be, are changing things. They have decreed that there shall be no static entries in their DNS servers. They are using $MS DHCP/DNS servers. I have a corporate supported Win XP laptop, which I can plug in at various places in the network. It gets diff

text2html ?

2009-10-09 Thread stan
I had a contractor uppgrade a freebsd machine a while back. Now I am finding things that did not get done corectly. The latest is that I have some other machines that create text files copy them over to this machine, and put them iin the webservers space. Looks like in the past, these files were p

sendmail domain configuration

2009-10-19 Thread stan
I am trying to work around some design issues. Some of out FreeBSD macines must live in a made up domain. As a result from these machines gtes discarded by an sensible mail handling system. I have solved this problem on some Soalris machines that also si`uffer from this same design by settting th

What VM does FreeBSD run well under

2009-10-31 Thread stan
I am planing on rebuilding my laptop shortly. I am going to put Ubuntu 9.10 on as the base OS, and I want to be able to run various versions of FreebSD as guest OS'es under one of the free (EG not VMWare) virtual machine choices. Which of these does FreebSD run well under? -- One of the main cau

Which VM ?

2009-10-31 Thread stan
I am planing n rebuilding my laptop now that 9.10 is out. I want to be able to run Ubuntu, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and perhaps XP as guest OS'es on this machine. I tried this a month or so ago with VirtualBox, and some of these OS'es did not work under it. I understand that the one Linus is favoring is

Re: What VM does FreeBSD run well under

2009-10-31 Thread stan
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 04:19:21PM +0100, Robert Joosten wrote: > Hi, > > > Which of these does FreebSD run well under? > > It runs okay under virtualbox. > OK, thanks. I tried this a couple of months ago, and had troube witj either OpenBSD, or FrebSD under VirtualBox. Given your commnet, my pro

Help with CUPS reconfiguration

2009-11-05 Thread stan
I am trying to reconfigure a bunch of machine to acomodate new domain names. One of these machines is a fairly old FreeBSD machine (6.3). We have done a search through all the files of these machines looking for references to the old domain name. One of these is in /etc/printcap/ /etc/printcap has

Re: Help with CUPS reconfiguration

2009-11-05 Thread stan
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 02:27:17PM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote: > > Therein lies the issue. I cant connect remotely port 631 on this machine as > > the certificate is no longer valid, as the domain has changed. > > > Normally, a browser will let you proceed if you give it the correct > instructi

7.2-STABLE X mouse & keyboard issues

2009-11-11 Thread stan
I just built a brand new 7.2 STABLE machine, and the xorg package. startx brings up a nice screen, but neither the mouse, nor the keyboard (both USB) function in X. I have not created a /etx/X11/ config file yet. Do I need to do so? If so, what;s the best way? -- A: Because it messes up the orde

USB multi port serial converter?

2009-11-19 Thread stan
an anyoone rcomend a multi-port RS0232 to USB converetr> I need somthing in the range of 6 ports, and full DB25's would be nice. Obvioulsy it needs to playnice with FreebSD (7.2 STABLE). Thanks for any recomendations. -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Wh

FreeBSD 7.2 Release under VirtualBox

2009-11-22 Thread stan
I am trying to install FreebSD under VirtualBox 3.0 on an Ubuntu 9.10 machien. I just installed OpenBSD in the same environment with no issues. However, FreeBSD does not seem to be able to get networking working. I am trying to install from a minimal boot CD, and get the filesets from an ftp serve

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 Release under VirtualBox

2009-11-23 Thread stan
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 12:44:34PM +0300, Boris Samorodov wrote: > stan writes: > > > I am trying to install FreebSD under VirtualBox 3.0 on an Ubuntu 9.10 > > machien. I just installed OpenBSD in the same environment with no issues. > > > > However, FreeBSD d

This is to good to be true

2009-11-24 Thread stan
I have about a dozen FreeBSD boxes serving a dedicated function. Among other things these machines run a local copy of Firefox, which is updated rapidly by a CGI script. These machines were at 6.2 STABLE, and Firefox 1.x. I am upgrading them to 7.2 STABLE, and Firefox 3. Historically memory leaks

Re: replacing faulty disk in a gmirror

2009-11-27 Thread stan
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 05:37:02PM +0100, Vincent Zee wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to replace a faulty disk in a gmirror mirror but > it fails. > > This machine contains two mirrors: mirror0 and mirror1 each > containing two disks of 500 GB. mirror1 is giving me trouble. > > The disk on channel 3

USBserial port convertor

2009-12-16 Thread stan
I need to support 5 RS-232 streams with my FreeBSD 7.2 machine. I just purchased UTS-408A-S1 8 port adapter. When I plug it in, I get the following in dmesg: uhub3: on uhub1 uhub3: single transaction translator uhub3: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered ucom0: on uhub3 ucom1: on uhub3 uhub4:

What port contains libxcb.so.2, and hoow could I figure this out?

2009-12-29 Thread stan
One of my machines is suddenly complaining that it can't find libxcb.so.2. This is probably an issue related to a recent attempt to update the software on this machine, so I figured I'd just rebuild the port that provides this library, but I can't figure out how to determine which on that would be.

Re: What port contains libxcb.so.2, and hoow could I figure this out?

2009-12-29 Thread stan
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 08:33:41AM -0600, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 8:08 AM, stan wrote: > > > One of my machines is suddenly complaining that it can't find libxcb.so.2. > > This is probably an issue related to a recent attempt to update the &

Help getting wordpress working oon 4.11

2006-01-22 Thread stan
I'm trying to set up wordpress on a fairly current 4.11 machine. I've installed the wordpress port, and the mysql 1.41 port. I've created a mysql database called wordpress, and I can access it from the command line with mysql. I'm able to access the setup instructions from apache on that machine.

Re: Help getting wordpress working oon 4.11

2006-01-22 Thread stan
On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 07:19:18PM +0100, David Raison wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Stan, > > add the following to your httpd.conf > > AddType application/x-httpd-php .php > AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps > > An

Blogin software recoendations

2006-01-24 Thread stan
I would like to set up a internal bloging system at work for people to use as a sort of "daily journal". I want to host this on FreeBSD, preferably by using something that;s in the ports tree. I've installed and got working wordpress, but it doesn't seem to have the ability to allow me to define i

Re: Blogin software recoendations

2006-01-24 Thread stan
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 11:40:18AM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > stan wrote: > >I want to host this on FreeBSD, preferably by using something that;s in the > >ports tree. I've installed and got working wordpress, but it doesn't seem > >to have the ability to allow me

Re: Blogin software recoendations

2006-01-24 Thread stan
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 12:22:00PM -0500, DAve wrote: > stan wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 11:40:18AM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > > >>stan wrote: > >> > >>>I want to host this on FreeBSD, preferably by using something that;s in > >&g

Powerfail/reboot, now inbound ppp not working

2006-02-05 Thread stan
I've got a ppp over ssh tunnel from work, that's initiated from the remote end by a cron task. Friday night we lost power at our house. Most of the machines are on UPS's, so I'm failry certain I got them shutdown normally (it was the middle of the night so I might have messed up). In any case, t

Xorg config problems

2006-03-11 Thread stan
I recycle old P2 class machines for a set of applications at work. I switched to Xorg for these machines a while back, and was pleased to find that I did not have to create a config file for Xorg as it was able to autodetect all the correct stuff. Today, though I ran up on 2 machines that are the

Apache configuration for www/rt34 port?

2006-03-12 Thread stan
I'm trying to implement the www/rt34 port on a machine that I already have wordpress, and a few other things running on. I'm using Apache 1.3 (from ports). I've run the db setup script and set up the .pm files corectly (I think). Then I put the follosing snippet of code in httpd.conf Ser

Twiki setup help, please

2006-03-17 Thread stan
I'm trying to et up twiki to use as an internal "knowledge base" . I want anyone to be able to read anything that is there. I would like to have users have to "login" to create/edit content. I've installed from the ports, and added the appropriate section to Apaches httpd.conf. I've made certain t

Help please getting twiki from ports configured corectly

2006-03-18 Thread stan
I'm trying to get twiki working. I've installed from ports. I put the follwing in /usr/local/etc/apache/ ScriptAlias /twiki/bin/ "/usr/local/www/twiki/bin/" Alias /twiki/ "/usr/local/www/twiki/" Options +ExecCGI SetHandler cgi-script Al

USB drive questions

2004-06-19 Thread stan
I had a vendor give me a USB memory stick as a promotional giveaway yesterday. Kind of amazing theat they have gotten cheap enough for this. In any case, I pluged it into my laptop with STABLE on it (cvsuped last weekend). It recognized the device, and told me it was a generic USB storage deviec.

makeworld problems

2004-07-04 Thread stan
I'm cvsuping and updateing several machines this weekend. One of them is failing in maje buildworld as follows: /usr/src/usr.sbin/ipftest/../../sys/contrib/ipfilter/netinet/ip_fil.h:633: previous declaration of `fr_makefrip' *** Error code 1 I've re cvsup'd, and removed the whole /usr/obj tree,

/usr/share/dict/words

2004-07-11 Thread stan
I'm building a couple of new machines this weekend. Normally I do "install minimum possible", then cvsup and do a make buildworld / make installworld sequence. This time as I was building various ports, I was told that /usr/share/dict/words needed to be installed. This has always been installed

problems getting ssh X11 fowarding

2004-07-15 Thread stan
I've got 2 relativly recent STABLE machines which were originally but WP any X functionailty at all. Now I;m starting to use gkrellm to monitor most of my mahcines with the DISPLAy's all set to a workstation in my office. I sucesfully compiled gkrellm from the ports on these machines, but I'm havi

Repeated lockups with 4.10

2004-07-30 Thread stan
I have 15 or so older PC's, moslty HP Vectra PII's all taking input on one or more of the serial ports and ultimately displaying the results via Apache. We have ben doing this for 3+ years using various version of OpenBSD. A couple of weeks ago, I replaced one of these amchine (which was an older

Re: Repeated lockups with 4.10

2004-07-30 Thread stan
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 07:34:27AM -0700, Steve wrote: > do you have anything in dmesg, logs, any cores, etc .. Unfortunately no. It apears that teh systems are getting some sort of hardware intrupt (serial port?, disk I/O ?), and that they then corupt somthing, and since they are off in an it

Anything similar to the Linux Terminal Server Project?

2004-08-07 Thread stan
I've got a bunch of PC's that I would like to use as diskless X eindows servers. I was wondering if FreeBSD had anything like the Linux Terminal erver Project? I recognize that I should be able to set up something using dhcp, nfs, et all to do this myself, but I don't want to reinvint the wheel,

Problems with local cvsup mirror

2004-12-12 Thread stan
I went to update some machines this weekend, to find that my local cvsup mirror is not getting updated. Here is the log file: CVSup update begins at 2004-12-12 11:17:00 Updating from cvsup11.freebsd.org Connected to cvsup11.freebsd.org Updating collection cvs-all/cvs Append to CVSROOT-ports/comm

Can anyone tell me why my local cvsup mirror is failing?

2004-12-13 Thread stan
I went to update some machines this weekend, to find that my local cvsup mirror is not getting updated. Here is the log file: CVSup update begins at 2004-12-12 11:17:00 Updating from cvsup11.freebsd.org Connected to cvsup11.freebsd.org Updating collection cvs-all/cvs Append to CVSROOT-ports/comm

Starting kdm

2005-01-21 Thread stan
Is kdm still run from /etc/ttys? The reason I aks is that I have a machine that I use gdm on, and I kow it's not run from /etc/ttys anymore. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." --

recomendations for multiport serial cards?

2005-03-08 Thread stan
I need to implement several FreeBSD amchiens that can support multiple input data streams from RS-232 data sources. What multiport comm cards do people recomentd? -- U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote - Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror - New York Times 9/3/1967 _

Strange rwhod problem, one one machine

2005-02-03 Thread stan
I have a bunch of FreeBSD 4.x machines at workk. Today I noticed that one of the was getting lines like this in it's messages file: Feb 3 09:02:02 recdcsal rwhod[84]: whod.pnoc: Permission denied Feb 3 09:02:04 recdcsal rwhod[84]: whod.pdns1: Permission denied Feb 3 09:02:06 recdcsal rwhod[84]:

Re: Strange rwhod problem, one one machine

2005-02-03 Thread stan
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 12:23:19PM -0500, stan wrote: > I have a bunch of FreeBSD 4.x machines at workk. Today I noticed that one > of the was getting lines like this in it's messages file: > > Feb 3 09:02:02 recdcsal rwhod[84]: whod.pnoc: Permission denied > Feb 3 09:02:

Does anyone know how to subscribe to the isc dhcp list?

2004-01-02 Thread stan
I'm still not able to get failover working on ISC dhcpd, and it looks like this list is out of answers. The REAME in the work directory of the port mentions a couple of mailing lists dedicated to that project (great anoth mailinglist to subscribe to :-(), but it does not explain how to subscribe t

Re: AMD Processors

2004-01-03 Thread stan
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 07:03:58PM -0800, Mike Maltese wrote: > > For the kernel configuration you can even optimize the compilation for > > such processors (5.x only) : > > > > options CPU_ATHLON_SSE_HACK > > options CPU_ENABLE_SSE > > These are also valid kernel options for 4.x. Where are the

Getting snmp running on a STABLE machine?

2004-01-18 Thread stan
I'm trying to get snmp running on a STABLE machine. I've built and installed teh net-snmpd port, but I can't seem to find where teh example config file was put. Any sugestions? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

portupgrade seesm to be broken

2004-01-18 Thread stan
I just cvsup'd one of may machines, and now I can't seem o get portupgrade to work. Here is what I'm seesing: Script started on Sun Jan 18 15:18:53 2004 black# portupgrade -aRr -l /home/stan/report fwbuilder-1.1.2_20040101cvs: 1.1.2_20040101cvs: Not in due form: '[_][

Re: Getting snmp running on a STABLE machine?

2004-01-18 Thread stan
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 05:42:18PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 12:31:08PM -0500, stan wrote: > > I'm trying to get snmp running on a STABLE machine. I've built and > > installed teh net-snmpd port, but I can't seem to find where teh e

Cricket setup help

2004-01-24 Thread stan
Long agao, and far away I set up mrtg to monitor various aspects of a nrtwork. Twoard the end of this excersise, I remeber being frustrated by some limitations of mrtg. I looked around, ad decided that if I ever needed to do this job again, I'd use cricket. Well, the time has come to setup this on

Internal cvsup server?

2004-01-28 Thread stan
I'm supporting a fair number of FreeBSD machines that live behind a very restrictive corporate firewall. I finally managed to get the powers that be to agree to open up the port for cvsup, but they want to limit it to one IP address. Actually this is probably not a bad solution. My plan is to se

Trying to set up cvsup mirror

2004-01-29 Thread stan
I'm trying to set up a cvsup mirror to use for updating about 50 machines that are internal to our corporate network. Since I have better control over the firewall et all from my home network, I'm building the machine there. I've got it built, and used the cvsup-mirror port to assist me in setting

Can someone explain where the cvsup-mirror port puts it's crontab entry?

2004-01-29 Thread stan
I've just installed this wonderful port, and with some kind help from the list got it working. Thanks to everyone. Now, I've got a "learning" question. This port creates a crontab entry to schedule updates. I looked in /var/cron/tabs, and I don't see it. I can't su to that user as his shell is /n

Is the handbook no longer installed?

2004-01-29 Thread stan
I just discoverd that on a machine I recently rebuilt, I have a dead link to /usr/share/doc/handbook. Is this not installed now? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Fra

rndc-confgen -a goes off forever

2004-01-30 Thread stan
I'm trying to set up bind 9 on a 4.9 STABLE machine. Looking in theprots message file, it says tehat I need to generate a source of random numberes by using rndc-confgen -a. When I type this command, it never returns (It's been linke 10 minutes). and to shos that it's not using any CPU cycles. I a

Using bind9, instead of the default bind8

2004-01-30 Thread stan
What's involed in using bind9, instead of the default bind 8. I have made the port, but it seems that I probably need to somehow delete the existing bind8, right? I see the entry in /etc/defaults/mak.conf that instructs the buld process to not build it, but I already did a make world before findin

Re: rndc-confgen -a goes off forever

2004-01-30 Thread stan
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 03:33:50PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 10:22:14AM -0500, stan wrote: > > I'm trying to set up bind 9 on a 4.9 STABLE machine. > > > > Looking in theprots message file, it says tehat I need to generate a source > >

Re: Using bind9, instead of the default bind8

2004-01-30 Thread stan
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 04:52:12PM -, Edmund Craske wrote: > There's something wrong with the rc.conf stuff for named if you install the bind9 > port over the base bind8 (by doing a make > -DPORT_REPLACES_BASE_BIND9 install clean in dns/bind9) because of differences in > command line argument

Has anyone gotten the bind 9 port to run chrooted?

2004-02-03 Thread stan
I'm trying to get the bind 9 port to run chrooted. I've installed the bind9 port with the "overwrite base install" flag, and added the define to /etc/make.conf to prevent building from the base tree. My problem is that when I try to start it I keep running into issues. The latest is that it can't

Where can I find a list of the cvsup tags for ports?

2004-02-04 Thread stan
I want to omit some of the ports from my cvsup run. I've always used the ports-all tag, but these days there a a good many non English language ports that only use space on my disks. I would like to limit the collections. Probably by excluding certain ports subtags, rather than explicitly includin

Re: Where can I find a list of the cvsup tags for ports?

2004-02-04 Thread stan
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 08:48:06AM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Wednesday 04 February 2004 07:42 am, Randy Grafton wrote: > > You can use the refuse file to omit branches. I've attached my > > cvsupfile and my refuse file to give you an idea as to how this > > works. I placed my cvsupfile in /us

Re: Where can I find a list of the cvsup tags for ports?

2004-02-04 Thread stan
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 08:48:06AM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Wednesday 04 February 2004 07:42 am, Randy Grafton wrote: > > You can use the refuse file to omit branches. I've attached my > > cvsupfile and my refuse file to give you an idea as to how this > > works. I placed my cvsupfile in /us

Re: Where can I find a list of the cvsup tags for ports?

2004-02-04 Thread stan
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 09:45:11AM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Wednesday 04 February 2004 09:26 am, stan wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 08:48:06AM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > On Wednesday 04 February 2004 07:42 am, Randy Grafton wrote: > > > > You c

A reverse DNS question

2004-02-05 Thread stan
Can I use dig, or some tool to query an upstream DNS amchine to findout what rnage it is authoratative for in _reverse_ DNS? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin

Re: Where can I find a list of the cvsup tags for ports?

2004-02-05 Thread stan
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 06:36:59PM -0600, Frank Knobbe wrote: > On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 14:31, stan wrote: > > I have a system that I have removed all teh non English language port > > directories, and I run a cvsup _with_ a refuse file for these. Then I did a > > portdb -Uu. Th

Where is the jail directory for linux_base?

2004-02-08 Thread stan
While runing portupgrade this afternoon, I got a message about creating teh null device in linux_base's jail directory. Where is this by default? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Still no handbook

2004-02-08 Thread stan
I'm still trying to get my missing handbook back. I added teh doc cvsup file to teh set I processes with teis weekends cvsup run, on teh machine I want this on. Ran cvsup, make buildowrld, amke buildkernel, make installworld, make isntallkernel, and mergemaster. But, still no handbook. Is he a ma

sendmail confi help

2004-02-11 Thread stan
How can I configure FreeBSD's default sendmail to work like this: If the message is for domain1 or domain2, deliver directly. If not, use a smarthost ? I can amke the smarthost work, but then it wnats to send _all_ mail there. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety

Small FreeBSD Image?

2004-02-15 Thread stan
I'm setting up Nagios, and I want to show the OS that's on a given machine using it's map graphics. Anyone know where I can find a small FreeBSD image? (PNG preferred). -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

How can I install the python "snack" module?

2003-09-23 Thread stan
I'm trying to poart a small python application to FreeBSD from linux (routeplanner if you are curious). It requires a number of python modules, including "snack" I located the tarball for the module, but when I run configure for it I get: $ ./configure loading cache ./config.cache checking for Tcl

Re: How can I install the python "snack" module?

2003-09-24 Thread stan
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 11:37:02PM +0200, Danny Pansters wrote: > On Tuesday 23 September 2003 16:31, stan wrote: > > I'm trying to poart a small python application to FreeBSD from linux > > (routeplanner if you are curious). It requires a number of python > > modules, i

cvsup + portupgrade Now no Gnome login

2003-09-27 Thread stan
I cvsup'd today (main and ports), then did a portupgrade -aRR, and now I can't get loged intot a session using gdm. I've rebooted the machine, and blown awa ~/.g[cn]* in my user home directory. Still no luck. I tried the "Gnome failsafe" session, still no luck. Looks like it doesn't even _try_ to

System hangs on boot with USB mouse pluged in

2003-09-27 Thread stan
As of a fairly recent cvsup, my laptop has developed an anoying "feature" If I leave the USSB mouse pluged in, it hangs hard during the boot procees, requiring me to power cycle it. If I boot it WP the mouse pluged in, and plug it in _after_ the USN detection (at boot) is doen, the it recognizes th

Re: cvsup + portupgrade Now no Gnome login

2003-09-28 Thread stan
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 10:48:44PM -0500, Frank Knobbe wrote: > On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 14:17, stan wrote: > > I cvsup'd today (main and ports), then did a portupgrade -aRR, and now I > > can't get loged intot a session using gdm. > > > > I've rebooted

NFS server and files >2G (STABLE)

2003-09-30 Thread stan
I'm having a bit of a problem using a FeeBSD STABLE machine as an NFS server for an HP-UXa box. I'm able to mount the FreeBSD box, abd see the files, but take a look at this: On teh FreeBSD machine $ ls -l total 11471104 -rw-rw-r-- 1 stan wheel 11743520768 Sep 24 08:34 oracle_dum

Sane-frontends port and Gnome 2?

2003-10-05 Thread stan
I've got a machine that I just cvsup'd and did a portupgrade. A while back, in an effort to get Gnome 2 workign, I had dleted all the Gnome 1 related stuff, and eveyrthign that dpeneded on it. Aparently while doing this I deleted the sane-frontends port. I started to build it today, but I noticed

Re: Sane-frontends port and Gnome 2?

2003-10-05 Thread stan
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 03:23:07PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 15:16, stan wrote: > > I've got a machine that I just cvsup'd and did a portupgrade. A while back, > > in an effort to get Gnome 2 workign, I had dleted all the Gnome 1 related >

Gnome-think

2003-10-05 Thread stan
I can't seem to find this neat little utilty in the ports tree. Is it perhaps included in some bigger port? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin

How can I set up a STABLE machien to compile Gnome apps from source?

2003-10-23 Thread stan
Wonderful as the ports system is, there comes a time in life when I need to compile packages outside that system. Lately I have been totaly unable to nuild anything Gnome related. I keep getting errors about gnomeConf.sh not being found. What do I need to do to set up my achine to allow building

Wireless networking hardware recomendations?

2003-10-26 Thread stan
I've got to set up a wireless network. I plan on using a FreeBSD machine as the access point. It will be the gateway between an existing network, and a new subnet dedicated to various 802.11/B (and later perhaps /G) enabled devices. I'm looking ofr recomendations for hardware on the FreeBSD end. I

Re: Wireless networking hardware recomendations?

2003-10-27 Thread stan
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 09:18:46AM +, Matthew Faircliff wrote: > Hello, > > I use a netgear MA3111 802.11b PCI card. It has a Prism chipset which is supported > by FBSD. > Thanks, Does it work with STABLE? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither l

Wireless (802.11) question

2003-10-27 Thread stan
I'm about to embark on a wireless experiemnt, having never dealt with this technology before. So, I've got a failry basic question. My plan was to put a wireless card in a machine running FreeBSD, and use this machine as a gateway from an existing network to a new subnet that would only exist in t

Re: Wireless (802.11) question

2003-10-27 Thread stan
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 08:42:54PM +, Andrew Humphries wrote: > On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 20:31, stan wrote: > > > I'm about to embark on a wireless experiemnt, having never dealt with this > > technology before. > > > > So, I've got a failry basic questio

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