Re: weird httpd processes

2005-06-07 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 01:52:06PM -0400, kalin mintchev wrote: > > > Does your httpd installation serve up any scripted content i.e. using > > perl, PHP, etc. I have seen apache spin out of control due to poorly, > > or incorrectly written scripts. > > ok. yes. the machine has been running fine

Re: weird httpd processes

2005-06-07 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 01:02:06PM -0400, kalin mintchev wrote: > > hi all... > > for the last 4 - 5 days i noticed something weird on one of the freebsd > boxes here. one httpd process -or sometimes 2 or 3 - take up all the cpu. > and it looks like this: > > # top > CPU states: 33.1% user, 0.0

Re: rueba del ratón

2005-06-07 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 01:41:23PM +, Meleagro wrote: > Nathan Kinkade escribió: > > >On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 10:42:05PM +0200, Meleagro Slackware wrote: > > > >>Cómo puedo hacer para poner la rueda del ratón a funcionar. > >>kde me va bien, pero si mir

Re: rueba del ratón

2005-06-06 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 10:42:05PM +0200, Meleagro Slackware wrote: > Cómo puedo hacer para poner la rueda del ratón a funcionar. > kde me va bien, pero si miro en /etc/X11/ no hay ningún fichero. > ¿ donde se encuentra el xorg.conf ? si hago un whereis xorg.confno me > lo encuentra Para hacer fun

Re: strange network behaviour

2005-06-06 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 10:46:33AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > on Friday i set up 4 old celeron boxes as DNS servers for a client. after > about 5 minutes, their ability to reach the network vanishes... they can't > ping their router, and inbound network traffic vanishes. rebooting fixes >

Re: What do this wired dmesg mean ?

2005-06-06 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Sun, Jun 05, 2005 at 09:43:58PM -0800, Supote Lee wrote: > Hi list, > > I have a box for apache webserver and running fine for > years. Today I've just found the kernel message below: > > --- snipped --- > /kernel: ata1-slave: ATA identify retries exceeded > /kernel: ata1-master: ATA identif

Re: KDE apps

2005-06-06 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 09:11:38AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 05:10:05PM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > > On 05 Jun Gary Kline wrote: > > > Anybody know a means of using some of the more nifty KDE > > > tools--say, kdict--without using Gnome or KDE? > > > > Run a wind

Re: where are failed logins logged at

2005-06-03 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 05:42:54PM -0400, fbsd_user wrote: > For SSH, telnet and FTP where are the failed login attempts logged at? Probably at /var/log/auth.log. Take a look at /etc/syslog.conf, you can configure things to your tastes from there. Nathan pgpzFntat5dUR.pgp Description: PGP si

Re: x

2005-06-03 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 04:28:28PM -0500, jose luis wrote: > hola, gracias por su colaboracion, ya he intentado todo lo que podia > mas sin embargo cuando ejecuto startkde aparece esto: > > > xsetroot : unable to open Display ¨ > xset: unable to open Display ¨ > startkde: Starting up... > kspla

Re: ftpchroot

2005-06-03 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 04:25:59PM -0400, Denny Jodeit wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 03:40:46PM -0400, Denny Jodeit wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to restrict an ftp user to a particular directory. I've > > written an ftpchroot file, as follows: > > > > Username /var/spool/ftp/ ./Us

Re: ftpchroot

2005-06-03 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 03:40:46PM -0400, Denny Jodeit wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to restrict an ftp user to a particular directory. I've > written an ftpchroot file, as follows: > > Username /var/spool/ftp/ ./Username/photos > > > After I write the file and restart inetd, I am not able to

Re: can't figure out ssh, read lots of docs...

2005-06-01 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 02:24:07PM -0500, Greg Barniskis wrote: > Steven Friedrich wrote: > >I'm trying to use scp and I get prompted for a password or passphrase for > >each invocation. > > > >I figure I need to figure out how to get ssh to connect without prompting, > >but I just can't get it.

Re: Freebsd pxeboot problem

2005-05-24 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 04:52:18PM +, Sunil Sunder Raj wrote: > Hi, > Was trying to install freebsd 5.3 via pxeboot. The Dhcp server leases the > Ip address, the tftp server is located fine and the pxeboot file gets > downloaded at the client end. But this pxeboot is not getting the proper >

Re: FreeBSD or NetBSD on older hardware (MMX)

2005-05-16 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 01:02:42AM +0800, FreeBSD MailingLists wrote: > I fished out an old laptop out of my closet. > It is a Pentium 233 MMX w/ 64MB Ram and 12G HD > I am thinking about setting up a small station for browsing the web. > Which would perform better on such a system? FreeBSD or Net

Re: newsyslog

2005-03-17 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 07:09:06PM +0200, Chris Knipe wrote: > Can anyone perhaps just give me a sample for 'when' in newsyslog.conf to > get rotation to rotate at 00:00 on the 1st of the month? > > I tried '@$M18D0' to no evail... > > -- > Chris. From the syslog manpage:

Re: sshd behaviour

2005-03-17 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 08:04:48PM +0300, Eugene M. Minkovskii wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:00:44AM -0600, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > " > " As another poster mentioned, the problem is likely related to DNS, and I > " have experienced it as well. If you are

Re: sshd behaviour

2005-03-16 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 10:41:09AM +0300, Eugene M. Minkovskii wrote: > Hi. I see strange to me behaviour of sshd. Please tell me is it > bug or feature? > > I use following network configuration: > > ######## > # LAN # -> # gateway # -> # router # > ######

Re: Advice on integrated video on friends system

2005-03-15 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 02:27:29PM -0700, James Earl wrote: > Hi, > > A good friend of mine asked me to setup FreeBSD and GNOME on his home > computer for his family to use. It is an old IBM Aptiva. The usual > stuff works, but of course it has to have integrated video: ATI Rage > Pro Turbo chip

Re: How to identify xterm font

2005-03-10 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 07:31:09AM +, Sergei Gnezdov wrote: > I like the size of the xterm window. It is small and it uses very > easy to read font. Unfortunately, it does not play very well with > emacs. For these reasons I use Gnome terminal. Gnome font is bigger, > thus it takes more spa

Re: keyboard problem on laptop.

2005-03-09 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 05:03:07PM -0800, Dennis Crowley wrote: > Hi yall. > > I've installed FreeBSD on my old Dell Insperion 7500, which I would like > to use as a router (low power) and network analysis tool. > > The problem is that the keyboard driver does not seem to be recognizing > the shi

Re: security advisories and the creating time of my system

2005-03-02 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 06:53:21PM +0100, Stevan Tiefert wrote: > > > Hello Nathan, > > > > > > I need the date/time to decide if I need to download a version from the > > > ftp-server in belief I would not need to patch my system anymore. But you > > > are writing there is a better method to de

Re: security advisories and the creating time of my system

2005-03-02 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 06:25:48PM +0100, Stevan Tiefert wrote: > On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 05:03:35PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: > > > Nathan Kinkade wrote: > > > >>The security advisory give me the

Re: security advisories and the creating time of my system

2005-03-02 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 05:03:35PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: > Nathan Kinkade wrote: > >>The security advisory give me the possibility to patch my system or to > >>download the "patched" FreeBSD via ftp. How can I recognize which creation > >>time the ru

Re: global vimrc file

2005-03-02 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 11:31:56PM +0800, FreeBSD MailingLists wrote: > I have the following ~/.vimrc > > syn on > set incsearch > set ignorecase > set smartcase > set scrolloff=2 > set wildmode=longest,list > > I want to set this up as the default settings for my system. > under linux i think th

Re: security advisories and the creating time of my system

2005-03-02 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 04:29:31PM +0100, Stevan Tiefert wrote: > Hello list, > > in the handbook is described how to handle security advisories. I still > have a question. :-) > > The security advisory give me the possibility to patch my system or to > download the "patched" FreeBSD via ftp. How

Re: What am I doing wrong with MOUNT?

2005-03-02 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 01:42:40AM -0800, Gerald Lightsey wrote: > Nathan Kinkade said... > > Here is quick rundown on how you could achieve your goal: > > > > 1) Mount the new disk at at /mnt with something like: > > # mount /dev/ad1s1a /mnt > > 2) Copy e

Re: dir ~

2005-03-01 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 04:58:45PM -, Rob wrote: > Hi, > > I typed mv file dir/~ and I now have dir/~ but when I go to that it > takes me to my home which happened to be root, I tried to delete the > directory and it started deleting roots home. Is there a way to delete this > ~ dir? Can

Re: What am I doing wrong with MOUNT?

2005-02-28 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 09:15:23AM -0800, Gerald Lightsey wrote: > My surprise is that every indication I get after I regain control of the > system is that the database tables are being built within the ORIGINAL /var > directory structure rather than the 120gb drive mounted on the /var > mountpoi

Re: moving files from bad sectors

2005-02-16 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 11:57:02AM -0500, Ean Kingston wrote: > > > I have a hard disk that looks like its going out. > > > > So far, there are 6 reported crc errors. However, I have a file that > > I would like to read as much as possible of using tar, but the whole > > job stops like this: > >

Re: Broken shell - I can't login at all

2005-02-15 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 09:56:30AM -0500, epilogue wrote: > On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:57:28 -0800 > Jeff BSD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi- > > I'm in the process of upgrading a 4.6 system to 5.3. When I boot the > > machine it gets to: > > > > Enter full pathname of shell of RETURN for

Re: HELP!! sshd permitting password free logins

2005-02-15 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 11:54:15PM -0600, Gene wrote: > >Also, check to make sure your ssh client is not sending an RSA key for > >authentication. I think that one is enabled by default. If you want to > >force passwords, make sure you aren't using RSA keys. > > > If disable RSA keys in the conf

Re: Disappearing Swap

2005-02-15 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 02:35:18AM +, John wrote: > Hello list > > How can I see what process is eating my swap? vmstat indicates that the swap > is being eaten, but by what? If it all gets eaten, badness occurs. > I'm running freebsd 5.3-release-p5. > > thanks for any input A good start w

Re: WEIRD: telnet

2005-02-15 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 04:13:27PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Colin J. Raven writes: > > > 1. Unless you *must* use telnet for some reason, it's a good idea to > > turn it off. > > Telnet is port 23; this is port 61 (NI-MAIL, whatever that is). Whoever > answers will be whatever program i

Re: How do I set the source address on a multi-homed host?

2005-02-15 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 07:49:05PM +0200, Alin-Adrian Anton wrote: > I really don't see why you use A-class netmask. It's very probable that > a C-class netmask would suffice: They already are using a /24 (class C) network. Take another look at the mask - 0xff00. In any case, the network '

Re: What kind of motherboard?

2005-02-15 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 09:57:30PM -0800, Holtor wrote: > Hello, > > I have a freebsd 4.10 server. Is there anyway I can find out what kind of > motherboard is inside it > without acctually taking it apart? I noticed that other servers running > FreeBSD 5.3 tell me in the > kernel bootup which c

Re: Script Questions

2005-02-11 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 04:24:34PM -0800, Chris Sechiatano wrote: > > Use -print0 (that's a zero at the end of print), and the -0 option of > > xargs. Then the whitespace shouldn't matter. > > > > # cd /storage/users > > # find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 du -sk > > > > That should do i

Re: Can't get anything better than 800x600 resolution

2005-02-11 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 03:56:46PM -0500, RL wrote: > I just got an Nvida PCI GeForce FX card, installed the NVIDIA drivers > correctly (it loads), did an xorgconfig, and made the appropriate > changed in xorg.conf. I have a "DefaultDepth 24" line and under depth > 24 I have Modes "1024 x768" etc.

Re: determine ufs2 %fragmentation on mounted filesystem

2005-02-09 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 09:10:39AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 10:34:33AM -0600, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > > Does anyone know of a way to determine the %fragmentation on a mounted > > UFS2 filesystem? An entry showed up in messages yesterday stating that >

determine ufs2 %fragmentation on mounted filesystem

2005-02-09 Thread Nathan Kinkade
Does anyone know of a way to determine the %fragmentation on a mounted UFS2 filesystem? An entry showed up in messages yesterday stating that /usr has moved from time to space optimization yet the filesystem is only at about 25% of it's capacity. From what I can read it seems that the kernel migh

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

2005-02-04 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 06:13:01PM +0100, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote: > Steven Friedrich wrote: > > >I know I can Control-Alt-F1 to go back to the console, but is there a way > >to see these messages in an xterm or something? > > > > > xconsole > > When xdm starts, xconsole gets started, too, o

Re: loading aout at boot time

2005-01-27 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:42:31AM -0800, Michael J Ruhl wrote: > Howdy, > > I am running FreeBSD 5.2 and need to have aout compatibility. I have > been trying to figure out how to load the aout.ko kernel module at boot > time, but haven't been successful (I don't want to compile it into the > ke

Re: Moving/Removing Filesystems

2005-01-27 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 08:12:55PM -0500, Tom Moyer wrote: > I have a Windows XP installation on the first 20 GB of my harddrive > and I would like to remove it and expand my FreeBSD install to fill > the entire disk. Is there an easy way to do that without formatting > the entire hard drive. I'v

Re: How can I speed up a dd copy?

2005-01-14 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 04:38:14PM -0800, Drumslayer2 wrote: > > Hello > When I am performing a dd between (2) 36 Gig 160 > disks (to duplicate them) it takes about 2.5 hrs. Is > there any way I can speed this up? Is there any better > way I can clone a bootable main disk? > > Thanks > >

Re: can't figure out an one-liner

2005-01-12 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 10:36:30PM +0200, Toomas Aas wrote: > Hello! > > I have a directory structure like this > > /home > /joe > /peter > /bill > ... etc > > I'm trying to move some (but not all) subdirectories of /home to > /newhome, using tar. I'm doing this as root

Re: netstat odd behavior

2005-01-07 Thread Nathan Kinkade
>On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 03:32:47PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > El vie, 07-01-2005 a las 09:06 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > > > > > > Hello; > > > > > > On all installations of FreeBSD I´ve ever done in the past, > > > > > > netstat -an > > > > > > displays LISTE

Re: IPFW and whois lookup

2005-01-07 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 10:23:16AM -0700, V Foulk wrote: > Hello, > > I have recently setup IPFW on a test box, and > found that (for the most part) it was pretty straight > forward. Every rule and service on the box seems to work > great, except for one problem I haven't been able to track

Re: 5.3 - starting a process as a diff user

2005-01-06 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 08:05:41AM -0600, J.D. Bronson wrote: > I have a daemon that I need to start at boot under > /usr/local/etc/rc.d > > and I need it to run as a specific user. > > Currently, from root, I su - {userid} and then launch it > and then log out. > > Can I make this automated in

Re: newsyslog & syslogd on 5.1 release

2005-01-06 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 10:52:59PM +0200, Petre Bandac wrote: > where from is newsyslog being called to rotate the logs ? (from what I > read in the manpages, its only task is to rotate the logs); I can't > find it in /etc/periodic > > thanks, > > petre It's a system cron job. Check /etc/cronta

Re: login problems

2004-12-29 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:43:40PM -0600, Scott Stahl wrote: > I have a strange problem that just started up... > > I have two NICs in a development FreeBSD server I use, one public IP > and one connected to my private network. > > I can SSH into the public IP but not the internal IP. I get the

Re: pkg_add Not Working

2004-12-29 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:29:05AM -0600, Adam wrote: > I'm trying to add packages over my network connection. I can > anonymously FTP into ftp.freebsd.org so I know my FTP connection is > working. In the manual for pkg_add it said that I may have a problem > with FTP firewall but I have none set

Re: Looking for 'ideal' web-server partitions

2004-12-29 Thread Nathan Kinkade
> Kiffin Gish wrote: > > I want to create a web server for a few personal web sites (virtual > named hosts) using Apache, Perl, PHP and MySQL. Maybe later using > mod_perl and > ssl. > > No mail servers or other complicated stuff, just a plain-vanilla web > server for the general public and an ave

Re: migrating from thunderbird to mutt?

2004-12-20 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 09:48:44PM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > Need some advice here... > > I would like to change my mail client from thunderbird to a text based > client so I can email from anywhere using just ssh (don't like "web > based" clients, too slow). I would like to try mutt being

Re: cannot mount cdrom - not a newbie problem

2004-12-15 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 01:25:39PM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote: > > > yes, the hardware is perfect. You mention in your original post that you feel like somehow the "ata" just went bad in some way or another. Just to isolate this to a FreeBSD software issue have you tried booting to, say, a Knoppi

Re: Reasonable Hyperterminal alternative?

2004-12-13 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 12:05:23PM -0600, Mike Oliveri wrote: > > > Greetings all, > > > > > > I'm seeking a reasonable alternative to WinXP/2000 Hyperterminal as a > > > console application (for serial port access to a no-graphics card box). > > > > > > > Are you looking for something to run unde

Re: Find & Replace string

2004-12-09 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 10:48:06AM -0600, antenneX wrote: > Help on commands/script needed. > > In a website of 1.GB+ with several hundred thousand files, I need to > interrogate all files to replace a single string like "oldone.010" with > "newone.011" > > What's the best way to do this? > > Th

Re: Unable to create the partition. Too big?

2004-11-18 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 10:28:26PM +0100, David E. Meier wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am trying to custom partition my 73GB SCSI hard drive using 5.3. When I > first create the partions using the Auto Default option I get the > following table: > > amrd0s1a /256MB UFS2 Y > amrd0s1b swap

Re: Adding non-kernels to boot-loader

2004-11-11 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:35:26PM -0500, Dan Kilbourne wrote: > Nathan Kinkade extolled: > > > You will probably have better luck using a more flexible boot loader > > like GRUB. How about just putting memtest86 on a floppy or CDROM and > > your techs can boot to the

Re: Adding non-kernels to boot-loader

2004-11-11 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 11:43:02AM -0500, Dan Kilbourne wrote: > Hello, > I am looking for a way to add memtest86 to the FreeBSD bootloader so > that my techs can easily test RAM when needed. From what I > understand, the memtest86 build script makes two objects: > 1) linux-kernel-alike image. > 2

Re: FreeBSD newbye simple question

2004-11-05 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 01:29:07PM +, Vittorio wrote: > Experienced linux debian user, recently I smoothly moved to linux gentoo > (BSD compliant) AND to FreeBSD 5.2.1. > > 1) I want to tailor my freeBSD slice according to my machine (gentoo > experience is helpful!). Now, while i I know how

Re: kernel: Limiting open port RST

2004-11-04 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 01:53:01PM -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: > On Nov 4, 2004, at 1:18 PM, Nathan Kinkade wrote: > >I am getting a tremendous amount of messages on a particular server > >saying something close to: > > > >kernel: Limiting open port RST response

kernel: Limiting open port RST

2004-11-04 Thread Nathan Kinkade
I am getting a tremendous amount of messages on a particular server saying something close to: kernel: Limiting open port RST response from 302 to 200 packets/sec I understand the reasons for the message, but I'm having a hard time tracking down a possible point source. Neither ethereal nor tcpd

Re: Dmesg output confusion/printer problems

2004-10-27 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 08:56:12AM -0700, MrBluez wrote: > Sorry to be impatient but I'm really curious about this stuff. I'm > trying to get my printer (HP LaserJet 4L) to function in Free BSD > 5.2.1. I'm following the handbook's instructions verbatim because I > can't reliably get the printer

Re: init - inittab , how to monitor process like on linux ?

2004-10-27 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 05:53:24PM +0200, ADNET Ghislain wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 04:45:13 +0200, ADNET Ghislain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >Hi, > > > > The init process can watch daemon and respawn died ones on linux with > >simple configuration. I tried to reproduce this in my FreeBS

Re: Sysinstall FTP from LAN - not working

2004-10-27 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 03:50:47PM -0400, Les Kruszewski wrote: > I am trying to install 5.2.1 from an iMac running OSX with an FTP > server. When I set up the FTP address I use the iMac's IP and enter > the FreeBSD folder location. The iMac has a password and user so > these are entered in the o

Re: how to enable del key under bash?

2004-10-22 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 12:35:36AM +0200, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: > Hi all, > > I am using FreeBSD 4.10, working under bash. I use keymap "german.iso", and > everything works fine, no problems with deadkeys or similar. > > Only thing is, I can't use the "del" key. When I type a string in

Re: WDMA mode won't enable? Old machine...

2004-10-20 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 10:18:18PM +0100, Mark Cullen wrote: > I have a rather old machine acting as a home server. According to dmesg > it has a: > > -- > atapci0: port > 0xffa0-0xffaf,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 7.1 on pci0 > -- > > However, both hard disks attached are run

Re: resolv.conf missing

2004-10-08 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 03:40:40PM -0600, Lance Earl wrote: > I am planning to convert my redhat server (www.dallypost.com) to 5.x > freebsd when 5.x is released as stable. Until then, I am working with > 5.1.2 to get familiar with it. > > I have installed it on a dhcp network with the following:

Re: which files to edit to alter networking information

2004-10-08 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 02:03:59AM -0700, Dino Vliet wrote: > Hi all, > > I installed Freebsd4.10 from the university network > through dhcp. I had to alter some settings but it > worked fine and I can access the internet. I got a > hostname from the network and everytime I start > Freebsd, it sea

Re: Remote terminal sessions lock up and daemons flake out

2004-10-07 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 10:57:56AM -0500, Danny Howard wrote: > Nathan Kinkade wrote: > > >Perhaps you are behind some sort of stateful firewall > >that drops dynamic rules after a certain period of idle time? > > > Nathan, > > Good call! I got ipfw in there jus

Re: Remote terminal sessions lock up and daemons flake out

2004-10-07 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 09:31:26AM -0500, Danny Howard wrote: > This last problem has started to happen only lately. > > I log in from my FreeBSD workstation, on an xterm, via ssh to a remote > machine running 4.9. I often sudo -s. I'm using tcsh. Lately, I leave > the session for a while and

Re: Booting to CD and the handing off to HD

2004-10-05 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 12:27:54PM -0400, Theodore K. Milbaugh wrote: > On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:12:49 -0600, Nathan Kinkade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 09:23:31PM -0700, Cristobal Miguelo wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 08:58:05PM

Re: Booting to CD and the handing off to HD

2004-10-05 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 09:23:31PM -0700, Cristobal Miguelo wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 08:58:05PM -0700, Cristobal Miguelo wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I'm going to be working on a firewall box where I want to boot to > > > CD and run an integrity check on the Hard Drive. If the Hard

netstat 'Ierrs' - meaning and possible causes

2004-10-04 Thread Nathan Kinkade
I have got a particular machine on our network that is seeing a very high rate of 'Ierrs' when viewing network interface stats with: $ netstat -i What possible type of errors comprise 'Ierrs'? Here is an example of the output: Name Mtu Network AddressIpktsIerrs OpktsOerrs Coll

Re: passing origin through nat?

2004-10-04 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 03:29:38AM -0500, Anthony Philipp wrote: > Hello, > > When I log in to my computer from a remote location, it still says > that I am coming from my nat box. Is it possible to have my nat box > forward where I am logging in from? I would also like to be able to > forward wher

Re: Booting to CD and the handing off to HD

2004-10-04 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 08:58:05PM -0700, Cristobal Miguelo wrote: > Hello, > > I'm going to be working on a firewall box where I want to boot to CD > and run an integrity check on the Hard Drive. If the Hard Drive checks > out OK, I want the CD to then hand off to the hard drive and boot the > h

Re: When Unix Stops Being Fun

2004-10-04 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 11:46:06PM -0700, Joshua Tinnin wrote: > Well, I can only tell you about my own experience, but perhaps it will > help. I have always been a techie, getting my first computer at the age > of 14 - an Apple IIe. Learned some Basic, some peeks and pokes and even > some asse

Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2004-09-29 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 06:45:49PM -0400, Mike Jeays wrote: > On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 18:17, Nicx wrote: > >Hi Guy's > > > >I have problem with my floppy > > > >always said me : > > > >Can't open /dev/fd0: > > > >No such file or directory > > > >and my floppy disk is core

Re: Ipfw accept rule

2004-09-23 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 01:36:57PM +0545, Bikrant Neupane wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > Well I am not looking for the count rule. > > Actually I have some other situation. I am trying to implement b/w shaping > using ipfw. And i am trying to include mac address based filtering in it as > well

Re: Num lock status on boot

2004-09-22 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 03:05:22PM +0200, Michael Wichmann wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Just a quick question about this little thing, that bugs me from time to > time:) Num-lock ist turned off by default after I boot up FreeBSD > 5.2.1. Is there any way to enable it by default? > > Thanks, >

Re: listing devices

2004-09-22 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 03:42:04PM +0100, arden wrote: > hi all > > I use AIX at work if I want to view devices on my system i use lsdev and > lscfg > > These commands seem not to be there in freebsd > > What do you use to list the devices on you system ? > > Arden > > btw really impressed

Re: ata1-slave: ATA identify retries exceeded

2004-09-17 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 05:55:27PM -0600, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: > Keep getting this error in my dmesg > > ata1-slave: ATA identify retries exceeded > > this is for my cdrom drive and it is not working can someone give me > some hints on how to trouble shoot. The jumpers are set right and i

Re: bandwidthd web access

2004-09-16 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 11:54:40AM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > So, I just installed bandwidthd on FreeBSD 5.3-Beta. I don't have > Apache installed on this system, however, and maybe that's why I can't > access the web page for this from another computer. I was thinking that > it maybe provid

Re: Tracking data transfer?

2004-08-26 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 04:02:24PM +0530, Subhro wrote: > > > Could anyone suggest me a port which will allow me to keep a watch on the > > > net data transfer that had occured through a particular IP that is > > > associated with the NIC of my box? > > > > > > Regards > > > S. > > > > > > Check t

Re: kernel compile

2004-08-25 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 09:11:51AM +0300, Cristi Tauber wrote: > hi all, > I compile a 5.2.1 release's kernel with IPFIREWALL and IPSEC (? > IPSEC_ESP). I compiled the kernel w/o errors i rebooted and everything > works great. I mention that I do not installed any IPSEC software at > t

Re: Re: uname -v shows no difference after buildkernel and installkernel etc

2004-08-25 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 04:40:50PM +1000, August Simonelli wrote: > well, the rebuild has worked fine. i think my symlinking was indeed > messed up. i followed everyone's advice and didn't use a symlink; I > kept my custom config in the same location as GENERIC and just copied > it elsewhere for b

Re: Bash programming, copy only onefile?

2004-08-24 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 12:16:17AM +0200, Joachim Dagerot wrote: > A quiz easy to write, hard to answer? > > In bash, how can I write a command that moves the oldest file in a > directory to a new direction? Here is one possible way, certainly there are many others: # ls -t /path/to/dir | tail -

Re: uname -v shows no difference after buildkernel and installkernel etc

2004-08-24 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 08:32:48AM +1000, August Simonelli wrote: > > > August > > > > What does your symlink look like? So you put the newly built kernel in > > /root/kernels, then did something like?: > > > > # ln -s /root/kernels/mykernel /boot/kernel/kernel > > > I followed the example in

Re: apache permission problem please help

2004-08-24 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 03:09:04PM -0600, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: > SEE ERROR BELOW > > Was playing with permissions on my home dirs last night and changed > everything to chmod 700 had some problem with users looking at and > copying other users webpages. I have a directory in each users home >

Re: uname -v shows no difference after buildkernel and installkernel etc

2004-08-24 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:20:51PM +1000, August Simonelli wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently did the following: > > installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 from the iso > cvsup'd the source (using tag=RELENG_5_2) > followed section 19 of the handbook > followed section 8 for the kernel rebuild and did a custom ker

Re: Network Routing Problems???

2004-08-23 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 06:38:05PM -0400, Hakim Z. Singhji wrote: > Hello All, > > I am having problems getting a connection to my FreeBSD gateway from my > Mandrake 10 Linux Machine. I am able to ping, traceroute, ssh etc. the > linux box from my freeBSD machine however I am not able to ping the

Re: web-serving does not update a file's atime?

2004-08-17 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 08:35:45AM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > Hello! > > I tried to use stat(1) to see the last time a file was downloaded > through Apache. > > To my surprise, all three dates displayed by stat are long ago, even > though the web-server's log is showing downloads from a just

Re: download speed question

2004-08-15 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 04:44:42AM -0700, ann kok wrote: > Hi all > > Do you think there is different for the download speed > using wget in https and http? > > If yes, ls it big different? > > Thank you I would think that https would generally be slower due to the overhead of encryption. How

Re: Mount point problem

2004-08-15 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 12:39:24AM -0700, Jay O'Brien wrote: > I've changed the mount point for devices; i.e., ad0s1g > was /usr and now I want ad0s1f to mount on boot as /usr. > > I can't seem to get anywhere with disklabel editor in > single-user mode. It errors out; device busy. When I > st

Re: Alternative to "get"? Trying to download a file via HTTP

2004-08-11 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 04:29:11PM -0400, Danny wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 4.9R. My goal is to download an .tar.gz file from > an HTTP site? > > I thought "get" would do that, but it's not installed (unless the > command is not get). > > Any suggestions? > > Thank you, > > ...D Try fetch(1)

Re: How to disable UDMA for HDD?

2004-08-09 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 11:10:40AM +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote: > Hello, > > when I try to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 on my computer with HDD on ata0-master and > CD-ROM on ata0-slave I got five interessting messages during the > boot-process: > > ... > ad0: 4124MB [8938/15/63] at ata0-master UDMA3

Re: kldload won't load

2004-07-12 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 02:29:40PM -0500, Jason Dusek wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday I built the ndis module (ndis.ko) but I can't seem to load it: > > 5 # ls /sys/modules/ndis/ | grep 'ndis' > kern_ndis.o > ndis.kld > ndis.ko > subr_ndis.o > 6 # kldload -v /sys/modules/ndis/ndis.ko > k

Re: add route called from script

2004-07-09 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 12:39:47AM +0200, Christian Hiris wrote: > On Friday 09 July 2004 00:20, Bill Moran wrote: > > "Per olof Ljungmark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I am experimenting with openvpn-2 and so far it looks promosing. As this > > > version of openvpn can assi

Re: disk space question

2004-07-08 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 02:50:03PM -0700, Andrew Musselman wrote: > Hi again-- > > I'm stumped on this problem, and I'm sure lots of people have > encountered the same thing: > > I would like more space in /usr. I've installed another drive and set > it to mount to /mnt. I would like to make Fr

Re: Network configuration

2004-07-08 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 05:10:28PM +0200, Terrence Koeman wrote: > Hi, > > I have been busy setting up a network the last 3 days, but I cannot get it > working. > > Basically I have no clue what has to be setup etc. and if I need bridging or > not. > > The situation is as follows: > >

Re: Devices not being built

2004-07-07 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 08:12:35PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 05:44:02AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > I've built a FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #5 kernel. I have a linksys WMP 11 > wi> reless > > > card. > > > I've configured and built the kernel

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