Are you using the -ddial option?
if you start ppp through rc.conf add
ppp_mode="ddial"
Yes, I was originally using it. Bob said that my rc.conf was obsolete,
but he did not say why.
Laszo
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The format of the statement to add
is ifconfig_=up where is the NIC's FBSD interface name used
by PPPoE that you specified in the /etc/ppp/ppp.conf file.
ee /etc/rc.conf # add following statements
ifconfig_=up
I've not needed to do this,
ifconfig_tun0="DHCP"
Bob írta:
The method you are using is obsolete.
The following is all you need.
Take special note of rc.conf statements to use.
start of DSL ppp.conf ###
default:
set log Phase tun #use to avoid excessive log sizes
set timeout 0
Bob wrote:
The method you are using is obsolete.
The following is all you need.
Take special note of rc.conf statements to use.
start of DSL ppp.conf ###
default:
set log Phase tun #use to avoid excessive log sizes
set timeout 0
Bob wrote:
Add these statements to the end of your ppp.conf file.
disable iface-alias# Stop adding old IP address as alias when ppp
# redials because line was lost. These old IPs
# showed using ifconfig -a on tun0.
iface clear #
Dhananjaya hiremath WROTE:
Hello sir,
Here we installed the FreeBSD 6.2 release and did the check out operation.Now
we want to di rebuild the system by using
# make buildworld
but it giving error as
make: don't know how to make buildworld. Stop
another thing is that my /usr/src/ dir has onl
*L Goodwin wrote:
>
> Both assume you only have 2 drives and want to mirror the drive
containing FreeBSD. I only want to mirror the data drive da1, and would
appreciate a concise set of steps for doing this right the first time.
1. First of all, you should install the base system on da0 and boot
Did you possibly delete it from /etc/passwd before you did everything else?
Yes.
It's not safe to edit /etc/password directly. If you issue vipw, does
the user still show up? if so, delete him there and /etc/passwd should
be regenerated correctly.
I did not know this. Thank you! I del
L33T Networks wrote:
Using the SSHD server, how can I lock users SSH'ing into a box into their
home directory, without having access to the /usr/home directory as a whole?
You might setup 700 rights for the home directories, then the users
won't see each other's files. Is it what you want?
Ivan Zenzerovic' wrote:
Hello,
when I try to play music with xmms, i get the error: Please chech
that: Your
soundcard is configured. You have the correct output plugin selected. No
other program is blocking the soundcard.
My soundcard is working well, and in the console i see the xmms error:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] írta:
dell 4300s with XP
Reinstalled xp, no sound from integrated sound device.
Do you mean Windows XP? It is a mailing list for FreeBSD. Anyway, it
took about 3 minutes to find this with google:
http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=123410
(Yes, you n
patrick wrote:
Thanks, that worked really well. For those searching the archive for
an easy answer, you just need to do:
make PREFIX=/path/to/where/you/want all install clean
Hmm, what happens if two ports would be in conflict, unless installed
into separate directories? In other words, how the
For reasons having to do with our particular operation, it is our
custom to build many packages from source code no matter the operating
system, so I don't want to install from the ports tree.
Did you know that when you install from the ports tree, it will actually
download the sources, make
Charles Farinella írta:
Hi all,
FreeBSD 6.2:
I built PostgreSQL from source and copied the supplied startup script
to /etc/rc.d/postgresql. The script works as expected.
In /etc/rc.conf I've added the following:
postgresql_enable="YES"
expecting this to automatically start PostgeSQL at bo
Hi,
I need to copy,move and delete files across two machines. They are
located far away from each other. I have other FreeBSD machines and we
were using SSH2 for this kind of task. Under windows, I could not find
the right software. This is an automated task, and it is not
complicated: copy
Did you upgrade your system recently or were compat-v.x packages
removed? Also, how was pulseaudio installed (package, port, etc)?
The pthread lib shouldn't be missing because it is a part of the
system which can be compiled in easily using gcc -lpthread.
messias# uname -a
FreeBSD me
===> Running ldconfig
/compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig -r /compat/linux
ELF binary type "3" not known.
/compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig: 1: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
*** Error code 2
Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/linux-png.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/linux-gtk2.
*** Error code
Postfix is designed to keep a firm separation of MTA and MDA
functionality for security reasons and always wants to receive
incoming mail via the MTA...it will not short-circuit to doing local
delivery the way sendmail can.
So I really need sendmail, not postfix, because I have a different
Jay Chandler írta:
I can't be the first person to ask this, but a Google and a cursory
search of the archives don't lend me much in the way of hints.
Anyone have a link or an explanation of how to get the Flash plugin
working within Firefox? I've gotten Java up already, but Flash
continues t
You haven't configured it correctly.
I think I did.
To enable postfix startup script please add postfix_enable="YES" in
your rc.conf
If you not need Sendmail anymore, please add in your rc.conf:
sendmail_enable="NO"
sendmail_submit_enable="NO"
sendmail_outbound_enable="NO"
sendmail_msp_qu
Derek Ragona wrote
You need to make sure sendmail is starting and running. Check your
rc.conf and any variables that might need to be set.
Thanks!
In my rc.conf:
sendmail_enable="NO"
However, as I wrote, I was using postfix. I'm not a big guru but I
believe that postfix has its own daemon a
frzburn írta:
Hi!
I have a slow Internet connection at home, and I would like to know if
it is
possible to fetch the STABLE sources from somewhere else (ex.: at work).
What I want is to get the latest sources, like described in the
handbook (
http://www.ca.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books
Create a user as per normal. Then, also add that userid to the wheel
group. (Don't make wheel the user's primary group. Use a regular
group for that. Just add their id in the /etc/group file to wheel.
I prefer to use
pw groupmod -m
I believe that is the official way to do it.
Laszl
[ systat -vmstat 1 ]
Namei Name-cacheDir-cache 4960 prcfr
Looks like processes on this system are forking at a rate of 5000/sec.
Ouch, that's pages freed by exiting processes, not process f
Ouch, that's pages freed by exiting processes, not process forks (gotta
get some sleep). Anyway, if this is persistent, then some processes are
exiting all the time, and they have to get created somehow, so the
scenario is the same...
Yess!
That was it! Thank you so much! :-)
Th
One possibility is that your CPU fan has failed, in which case newer
machines would downclock itself extremely in order to avoid burning
out-- that might be an explanation for why your performance has
decreased so much.
The cpu fan is not failed. This was the first thing I checked before I
Possible hardware problem perhaps? Are you able to run a "burn-in"
test on the machine?
What is that? How can I perform that? (Tomorrow the machine will be
free, I can play with it.)
I can imagine that the processor is overheated and so the frequency was
reduced by the BIOS. But that does not
Laszlo Nagy wrote:
75% user, 24.2% system, 0.0% idle. Despite those stats, I do not see
what is eating up 100% cpu time. I already restarted the computer but
it is the same. This problem started some hours ago. The CPU is hot, I
can feel it on the air stream pouring out the computer case. There
Whats the output of systat -vmstat 1 ?
1 usersLoad 1.20 1.18 1.15 Feb 16 17:54
Mem:KBREALVIRTUAL VN PAGER SWAP PAGER
Tot Share TotShareFree in out in out
Act 133548 13636 43550416200 2
You could try opening a command prompt (cmd/command in run) and running
it, that way it won't close after it exits.
Yeah, I thought of that, unfortunately I get the response that id doesn't recognize the
command! Yet "run" does recognize the command! Go figure!
It must be Win98 Win
Drew Jenkins wrote:
Start menu/Run
cmd
Did you run "cmd.exe"? Really?
Probably your interface uses DHCP.
Yes, DHCP is enabled.
You should type in
/sbin/sysinstall
and then configure your network interface.
Yes, that is what I will do, but first I need the above quest
Drew Jenkins írta:
20Hi;
I'm building a server at home to mimic my live server. The instructions require that I gather the following information:
* IP address
* IP address of default gateway
* Hostname
* DNS server IP address
* Subnet Mask
Now, I think I can use 192.168.0.1 as my IP address, si
B. Cook wrote:
I'm inheriting an older network and I'm trying to update it..
cvsup to 6_2..
Doing a build kernel && install kernel
then reboot and build world && install world && mergemaster -p if needed
then rebuild the kernel and reinstall it..
right?
I couldn't see anything major in UPDA
Christian Walther wrote:
I'm not sure if sending uncompressed audio data over the network is
such a good idea.
Are you sure that esd does not compress the data?
By the way, esd can be used with any audio application. It can emulate a
real soundcard. Example follows.
On the server (where yo
Ne'Bahn írta:
Hi list, how can I add some fonts to the system, for instance: Arial,
Courier New, and so others. I know there are some fonts that cost to
acquire them, but isn't an implementation of these fonts for
the open source arena ???
Please read the documentation for xorg.conf. I'm using
Steve Franks wrote:
I hope. Looks like xorg remaps the arrow keys for it's own uses - how
do I
get command history in an xterm instead of ctrl-key like gibberish. I'd
like to edit, like you do in a vtty with the up-arrow, not just
!!.
I'm sure the answer exists, I just can't format a seach t
messias# portupgrade -a
Stale dependency: gail-1.9.3 <-- gnome2-fifth-toe-2.12.3 -- manually
run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force.
messias# pkgdb -F
---> Checking the package registry database
messias#
I just realized that this is a gnome 2.12 dependency. It should not be
there at
20061014:
AFFECTS: All GTK+2 and GNOME users
AUTHOR: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GNOME has been updated to 2.16. All GTK+2 and GNOME components have
been moved from X11BASE (/usr/X11R6) to LOCALBASE (/usr/local). To
upgrade your GNOME desktop or/and other applications you will need
to use either sy
If you have the "dig" command available on your machine, you can read
its documentation, and play with it. It will make things clear. Look
below: in the first case, there is no A record, but there is a SOA
record. However, the hostname of the SOA is different from the queried
hostname. In t
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is the difference between "No address associated with name"
and "Unknown host":
$ ping accounts.eirtrade.ie
ping: cannot resolve accounts.eirtrade.ie: No address associated with name
and
$ ping accounts.eirtrade.i
ping: cannot resolve accounts.eirtrade.i: Unknown
Graham Bentley írta:
And ... how to remove a package and all the packages
it sucked in ?
All I get from pkg_delete that it isnt even installed when
I know it is because that was the previous command I
just ran !!!
Can you please send us the commands that you have executed?
If you used "pkg
What is this "null" stale origin?
cassiopeia# pkgdb -F
---> Checking the package registry database
Stale origin: '(null)': perhaps moved or obsoleted.
Skip this for now? [yes]
To skip it without asking in future, please list it in HOLD_PKGS.
cassiopeia# portupgrade -a
Stale dependency: docbook-x
Hello,
I have a DHCP server with this config file:
option domain-name "cassiopeia.ronet";
option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.1;
default-lease-time 600;
max-lease-time 7200;
authoritative;
log-facility local7;
ddns-update-style none;
subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.0.0 {
range 192.168.0.
Vizion írta:
My home network is connected by my Linksys Broadband Router model RT31P2 to an
upstream Cable company supplied Motorola SB5100 cable modem.
A single IP address is allocated via DHCP to the Linksys to which my private
network is attached. The IP address is rarely changed.
I need t
Hello,
I installed FreeBSD 6.1 on a wmware virtual computer. Result: moused
works fine with
moused -t auto -p /dev/psm0
If I boot another wmware computer with pxeboot, then moused starts, but
I cannot see the cursor. If I start sysinstall and start configuring the
mouse, then the cursor d
2. syslogd tells that it cannot open the pid file. (Operation not
supported) However, it creates /var/log/syslogd.pid. But that file is
empty. What can be the problem?
After making another diskless distribution, I found out that the
'Operation not supported' error comes out because of calli
I used this article:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/09/30/diskless_clients.html
to create a diskless configuration. Here is my /etc/rc script for the
clients:
#!/bin/sh
PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin; export PATH
boot_ip=`kenv boot.netif.ip`
mount -t nfs 172.16.0.1:
I cannot change owner or change permission for some files.
Is it possible to delete this directory somehow?
# chflags -R noschg /path/to/distribution
then remove
You are a true guru. :-) Thanks!
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I do:
# cd /usr/src
# make buildworld
# make KERNCONF=DISKLESS buildkernel
# mkdir /var/diskless/FreeBSD
# make DESTDIR=/var/diskless/FreeBSD installworld
# make DESTDIR=/var/diskless/FreeBSD distribution
# make DESTDIR=/var/diskless/FreeBSD KERNCONF=DISKLESS installkernel
You have to build/in
but the PR database is busy, I cannot read the details.
What am I doing wrong?
What version are you trying to install? On 5.X you gotta be in
/usr/src/etc, but on 6.X this changed to /usr/src.
Cheers, Erik
I'm using 6.1 RELEASE. I upgraded yesterday with cvsup. It does not work
fr
I was following the handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-diskless.html
I got this:
messias# pwd
/usr/src/etc
messias# make distribution DESTDIR=/usr/local/diskless
cd /usr/src/etc; install -o root -g wheel -m 644 amd.map apmd.conf
auth.conf crontab
I was following the handbook:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-diskless.html
I got this:
messias# pwd
/usr/src/etc
messias# make distribution DESTDIR=/usr/local/diskless
cd /usr/src/etc; install -o root -g wheel -m 644 amd.map apmd.conf
auth.conf crontab csh
g from the diskless machines? Or
do you use TCP/IP based sound servers?
Thanks,
Laszlo
Em Ter, 2006-08-08 às 00:18 +0200, Nagy László Zsolt escreveu:
Hello
Here I have several units running FreeBSD 6.1 with diskless
using a big server and several clients (20-30) thin clients...
it is very fa
Sorry for multiple postings.
The first e-mail did not come through for hours becasue I wrote it from
the wrong e-mail address.
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Hello,
I need to setup an environment where some users (10 to 20 employees)
will use terminals to run programs. They need to run a few popular
programs: thunderbird, firefox, adobe acrobat, openoffice and gaim. This
site will be a customer service. We decided to reduce the costs by using
Open
Hello,
I need to setup an environment where some users (10 to 20 employees)
will use terminals to run programs. They need to run a few popular
programs: thunderbird, firefox, adobe acrobat, openoffice and gaim. This
site will be a customer service. We decided to reduce the costs by using
Op
After running
portupgrade -aP
I get this:
** Listing the failed packages (*:skipped / !:failed)
! textproc/linux-expat (linux-expat-1.95.7_1) (install error)
* x11-fonts/linux-fontconfig (linux-fontconfig-2.2.3_4)
* x11/linux-XFree86-libs (linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.99.902_7)
Andrew Robinson írta:
I found that the easiest way to fix this problem is to edit the
Makefile. Comment out the following two lines and it should run.
From:
.if ${BLACKHOLE} != '' && ${BLACKHOLE} != 0
#
# net.inet.tcp.blackh
My system is FreeBSD 6.0. After running
portupgrade -aP
it start upgrading Tcl. After compilation, it starts making tests like
the one below. Each test times out after some minutes. It would take a
day to run all the tests. Why they are failing? How can I disable the
tests? The main problem
First, OpenLDAP isn't easy to set up; but it's worth the trouble.
You should probably move this to the openldap list, or the thunderbird
list, since it really has nothing to do with FreeBSD.
Yes, this is (OFF), see the subject. Unfortunately, the openldap mailing
list is not active. I could har
Nagy László írta:
Hello,
I would like to create an LDAP server, for storing address book
information for Thunderbird. E-mail clients will be connecting
remotely with IMAPS (over the internet). Is there a secure way to do
this? I know that samba can create an LDAP server but it is not
Hello,
I would like to create an LDAP server, for storing address book
information for Thunderbird. E-mail clients will be connecting remotely
with IMAPS (over the internet). Is there a secure way to do this? I know
that samba can create an LDAP server but it is not secure, is it? I also
kn
It seems that dovecot wins the votes - but does it support virtual domains?
I think it does not, but I do not need it. I can use postfix and
mydestination, virtual_maps. This is enough for me.
Any tips on migration?
Yes, it looks easy. I created these namespaces in dovecot.conf:
namespace
Thank you for your responses!
I tried to install cyrus-imapd, courier-imapd and dovecot, in this
order. :-)
Dovecot has my preference. I could install it in a few minutes, and it
was very easy to configure. At least it is easier than courier, for me. :-)
Thanks again.
Laszlo
Hello,
I tried cyrus-imapd, but I'm unsatisfied. Their website was down for a
day. Now it is up, but the pages were not updated after 2003. They had a
majordomo list but it is not functioning. I found another mailing list
but nobody answers. I do not see answer to my question in its
document
Hello,
I tried cyrus-imapd, but I'm unsatisfied. Their website was down for a
day. Now it is up, but the pages were not updated after 2003. They had a
majordomo list but it is not functioning. I found another mailing list
but nobody answers. I do not see answer to my question in its document
Hello,
I'm trying to install sasl2 + cyrus-imapd, using this article:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/10/06/cyrus_imap.html?page=2
I found the article very helpful. I could do everything until the point
where I need to create a user in cyrus. There I have an error message:
#cyradm
There's some directions at
http://www.flatmtn.com/computer/Linux-Imap-UW.html (found by googling
uw imap shared folders) but I'm not sure I follow them. It looks like
it's just setting up another IMAP account that happens to be shared
I use cyrus-imap, and it seems to have fairly strai
Hello,
I would like to share some IMAP folders between users. I'm currently
using postfix and uw-imap. Is this possible? How should I do this? (Hard
links between IMAP files?)
The basic problem is this: we have a company and we have some employees,
doing help desk service. There are "cases
Charles Swiger írta:
On May 25, 2006, at 9:39 AM, Eric wrote:
what MTA are you using? i'm wondering why your server accepted the
email in the first place.
Yes, well, that question implies the right direction for a solution:
you want to reject spam before trying to deliver it, rather than
ac
I've created a .pgpass file in /root (which is read only by
root) containing the password for the pgsql user. A quick
Google on "pgpass" turned up this content from
http://pgsqld.active-venture.com/libpq-files.html:
That link is broken, but here is a good one:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs
Nick Withers írta:
I've created a .pgpass file in /root (which is read only by
root) containing the password for the pgsql user. A quick
Google on "pgpass" turned up this content from
http://pgsqld.active-venture.com/libpq-files.html:
This is a broken link (for me at least).
_
(...)
Th
Hi Laszlo,
No bugs; I think this is normal. Both the BIOS and the OS are only
going to see the blocks the hard drive thinks are useable.
Bad sector information is also stored on the disk, and only the OS can
interpret this information.
Or is it possible that the manufacturer produces the ha
acd0: CDROM at ata0-master PIO4
ad8: 152626MB at ata4-master SATA150
ad10: 152627MB at ata5-master SATA150
Sadly, yes; or buy a bigger second disk. You could do the install on the
smaller disk first, or you could make ad10s1 smaller.
Okay, I did this. But I'm still interested in the
Hi Laszlo,
Well it looks like you've got gm0 up and running. I assume you've
edited /etc/fstab so that it boots cleanly. My first thought is that
you need to zero ad8 to make sure gmirror isn't confused. Try that (dd
if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad8) at least for several blocks. Then reboot and
pos
Laszlo,
You're making gmirror way too difficult. In short, install FreeBSD with
however many partitions you want, then install gmirror and replicate
your disk to the second disk.
The standard howto documents are:
http://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/01/24/freebsd-howto-gmirror-system/
http://www
Laszlo,
You're making gmirror way too difficult. In short, install FreeBSD with
however many partitions you want, then install gmirror and replicate
your disk to the second disk.
The standard howto documents are:
http://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/01/24/freebsd-howto-gmirror-system/
http://www
Jeff Rollin wrote:
could you post the partition layout? (i know you said you used
automatic partitioning but the size of the filesystems varies
depending on the size of the slice.)
Slices screen:
Disk name: ad0
Geometry: 14596 cyls/255 heads/63 sectors = 234484740 sectors (114494 MB)
Offset
Did you do a custom newfs?
No.
What's you partition layout?
First slice is a Windows NTFS, 45GB
Then I have a 35GB slice for FreeBSD (type 165). Inside that slice, I
used automatic partitioning.
What did you install (only the bare base? or also additional
distributions/packages)
I selected
wrote:
|Hi
|
|ipfw flush # deletes all
|ipfw /etc/ipfw.conf # loads all
|
|regards
|Thomas
|
|Nagy László Zsolt wrote:
|>
|> Hi!
|>
|> I'm using my own ip firewall (firewall_type="/etc/ipfw.conf") on my
|> FreeBSD 5.2 system. My problem is, how can I reload
Hi!
I'm using my own ip firewall (firewall_type="/etc/ipfw.conf") on my
FreeBSD 5.2 system. My problem is, how can I reload the whole thing? The
ipfw command is for creating and deleting individual rules. What I would
like to do is to create profiles (different config files) and reload the
wh
Hi gurus!
I have a remote FreeBSD computer (RELEASE 4.7 stable). It is on the
other side of Earth. I can access it only with ssh.
It is really a base system. The ports collection (/usr/ports) is
entirely missing. I'm familiar with installing ports. But I have
no idea how to install the ports c
Hi gurus!
I have a remote FreeBSD computer (RELEASE 4.7 stable). It is on the
other side of Earth. I can access it only with ssh.
It is really a base system. The ports collection (/usr/ports) is
entirely missing. I'm familiar with installing ports. But I have
no idea how to install the ports co
Hi gurus!
I have a remote FreeBSD computer (RELEASE 4.7 stable). It is on the
other side of Earth. I can access it only with ssh.
It is really a base system. The ports collection (/usr/ports) is
entirely missing. I'm familiar with installing ports. But I have
no idea how to install the ports co
Hi All!
I'm totally new to FreeBSD. I used Linux before but I decided to try
FreeBSD. I just downloaded FreeBSD 4.8 from a public ftp site and
installed a brand new system with X and full development tools. I have
some questions.
I read about the differences between Linux and FreeBSD. I li
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