RE: Virtual hosts and PHP downloads: php5 and apache22 on FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE
-Original Message- From: John DeStefano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 June 2006 01:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Virtual hosts and PHP downloads: php5 and apache22 on FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE John, I have the same problem with a new install and asked the same question re php not working. One of the replys that I received was that the latest php port was broken and try the previous version. I haven't had chance to try that yet though. Rob Hi Rob, I'm hearing that too now as well... wish I'd realized it sooner. I wonder whether just reverting to an earlier version of PHP5 will be enough though, or if it will also require an earlier apache version... I guess we'll find out! Thanks, ~John John, PHP4 works fine with Apache22, as I understand it; it is just the latest port of PHP5 that the problem is with. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDE problem?
On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 18:25, Marko Bukovinsky wrote: I have installed freeBSD r 4.7 and i have graphic cart integrated Intel 82815 Graphic Controler(Microsoft Corporation).I can not start X window. Is there any way to right configure xf86config file for this graphic cart? Marko, 4.7 is very old now, you should try a later version either 5.4 or 6.0. What is the exact error your are getting? Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mysterious reboot, suspecting hardware issue
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 04:25, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, Running an Amanda server on a dual P III, with 256 MB ram and dual Symbios SCSI adapter. Part of the hard disk are mounted in RAID with vinum on the first SCSI adapter. The Tandberg tape drive is on the second SCSI adapter. FreeBSD is: FreeBSD amanda.cs.ait.ac.th 4.11-RELEASE-p14 FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p14 #3: Thu Feb 23 14:03:05 ICT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMALL i386 Recently (mid February) it started rebooting around 01:20, that is about 40 minutes after amanda started the nightly dumps of the various servers on my network. It's about time when amanda reaches full speed and the machine may be busy doing some high gzip compress. The first reboot occured while I was running 4.10-RELEASE-p19 so it cannot be related to the version of FreeBSD. That machine has been running like that for about one year without any problem. I set dumpdev=/dev/rda0s1b in /etc/rc.conf, expecting to get a kernel dump in time of the crash, but I got nothing. - did I missed something? - how to prevent the machine from rebooting when it crashes? Other idea? Best regards, Olivier Oliver, There has been problems with the SMP kernel in the past, but it was supposed to be fixed around 5.4. From memory there was a patch for 5.3 which was incorporated in 5.4 and 6.0. I say supposed as there have been reports of random reboots with 5.4 and 6.0 running SMP - see the archives. The usual response is that it is a hardware related, but I am not too sure. In my case it was on a dual redundant power supply etc quad processor machine which ran the diagnostics with no problem for several days. It looks like a load problem to me. I ran out of time trying to fix the machine and had to go down a different route. Hope this helps a little Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: samba 3 and openldap23-server not working
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 02:34, kiew yuen kit wrote: I have updates my cvsup and when i install my samba3 with openldap23-server, i get error that show something like the ldap-2.3 library are mssing and my openldap23-server and openldap23-client are installed before i install my samba3 package through the ports. i even try remove the openldap and reinstall the samba3 so that it will fetch the openldap23-server and openldap23-client and installed up. But still the same i having the same error message complain on the missing ldap-2.3 library Kiew, I am away from base at present and can't get to my notes. I recall having a similar problem, the issue was that there was a ldap library already installed as part of another port which messed up the installation of the openldap server and client. I think the problem was solved by using an earlier version of openldap-server which matched the installed library. Sorry to sound vague. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: automatically starting gnome-2.10
On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 18:12, Hèrvé Simplice van der Eijk wrote: Hallo FreeBSD users I just install gnome-2.10 on my freebsd 5.4 release machine, and it's working, but I want it to start automatically afther rebooting the system. I dont want to start it typen startx each time. please can somebody tell me how can i start gnome2.10 automatically or what is the syntax in /etc/rc.conf. thank you. Hiya, To do this you need to use a display manager to handle logging on. See the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: winmodem driver
On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 11:21, kalin mintchev wrote: hi all... is there a win modem driver in 6.0 that can be used with the build-in modem on ibm thinkpads? thanks... Kalin, Probably not as the Win bit normally stands for windows.. Have you looked in the supported HW list: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/hardware-i386.html Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help
On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 08:54, FuLLBLaST wrote: Dear FreeBSD developers, I've installed FreeBSD on my home computer and i'm having following problems: Hello and welcome 1) When starting up system, after each login i must type startx to enable the desktop environment. This is covered in the handbook. You need to use a display manager to give you graphical logons; see the section on KDM etc on this page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html 2) I've installed KDE, as it's described in your handbook, but when i try to improve screen resolution, there're only 640x480 option. This screen resolution is very poor for my 17-inch TFT display. Please, help me to resolve described problems. Have you tied to set the default resolution as per the handbook? You should have only one resolution listed. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Multiple DNS
Hi, I am looking for some advice. I have a network which is based on a number of servers running FreeBsd 6.0 serving Win XP work stations. (yes I know but..) The network is large enough to use DHCP and DNS for the internal network, I have setup a DHCP server with a Dynamic DNS (Bind 9) on one of the servers. That server is handling the LDAP side of the domain. There appears to be a fair bit of DNS Traffic which leads to a secondary DNS being required to take some of the load as DNS lookup are slow. The question I have is should I just setup a cashing DNS on another server using the primary as a forwarder or even several servers eg the mail server and the secondary LDAP server, or should I setup a proper secondary DNS using my ISP as a forwarder with dynamic updates from the primary. Sorry if this is a bit vague, but I have no experience in this area. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Blocking an individual email address
On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 15:52, James Csoka wrote: I am running a FreeBSD 5.4p10 machine at my office. It functions as our firewall and mailserver. I am running Mailscanner, which invokes sendmail when necessary to process mail. Sendmail is not started by defaultMailscanner invokes individual instances of it when it needs to. Here is my problem. I have an employee at my office that is sending work email to her home email address. I need to find a way to block her email address, whether To, From, Cc, Bcc, or whatever, from passing through my mailserver. I have already added a line to /etc/mail/access (in the format [EMAIL PROTECTED] REJECT), and have run makemap hash /etc/mail/access.db /etc/mail/access. I tested this with my personal email address (external to my network), and it had the effect of blocking any email orginating from my personal email to any address at my work, however it does not prevent me from sending emails to this address from a work address, which is the whole point. Does anyone have any ideas? I could tag the address as spam, but I would rather not. There has to be a way to block anyone from sending to a certain email address, I would think. Any help would be appreciated. -Jim Jim, Just a thought have you tired adding the address to /etc/aliases and sending the mail to a different address or a back hole? Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Interested in selling retail freeBSD sets
On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 11:21, René Luckow - Cortex Systems wrote: Hi We're interested in selling freeBSD along with a range of other OS distributions on our website, which caters the European market. How would we going about obtaining these? Kind regards, René Luckow Technical Sales Consultant Cortex Systems Snoldelev Bygade 59 DK4621 Gadstrup Denmark E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://cortexsystems.dk Rene, FreeBSD is what it says free. Please see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/introduction.html As I understand it, you are free to redistribute it provided that you do not claim to have produced it nor charge for it. You can charge for producing the CDs though. You can obtain the iso images to produce the CDs from the FreeBSD site. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: incorrect logins
On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 04:39, Playnet wrote: Hello FreeBSD, I see many records as Feb 10 21:08:55 sstand sshd[84600]: Failed password for root from 61.218.130.20 port 46356 ssh2 How can i block these IP, who try root as login? Have any soft in ports? In the default setup of SSH, root login is disabled. Check the manual for ssh. As for blocking Ips check hosts_deny and hosts_allow. I would recommend that you block the ssh port at you firewall for stop remote logons via ssh etc. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell 530 RAID 5 Recommendations
On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 02:19, Matt Sullivan wrote: I am considering using FreeBSD 6 on an old Dell Precision Workstation 530 MT. It has Dual Xeon 1.5 GHz CPUs, 4 x Fujitsu AIC-7892A MAJ3182M SCSI HDs, 1 GB RDRAM, Nvidia Elsa Gloria II Pro video, Integrated 3Com NIC, Lynksys Wireless-G USB network adapter, and Integrated Adaptec AIC-7892 SCSI controller. I would like to setup RAID 5. The intended use is in my home network as a personal SOA/J2EE/MySQL development box and family file server. Please review and comment on my assumptions: 1) FreeBSD 6-STABLE has fixed any 5.X SMP issues. There was a problem but this was fixed at 5.4. There are odd reports of problems with older hardware. I have had a problem with an oldish quad Compaq machine which I have not had time to get to the bottom of. 2) I will need an additional RAID controller card. 3) FreeBSD has issues similar to the folks at OpenBSD (my firewall OS) regarding Adaptec - http://www.openbsd.org/i386.html: we do not recommend the Adaptec cards for use. * Adaptec AAC-2622, AAC-364, AAC-3642, 2200S, 2410SA, 2610SA, 2810SA, 21610SA Have a look at the hardware compat list at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/hardware-i386.html this may help with the raid card. I would appreciate some recommendations with a focus on price/performance. Thanks, Matt Matt, One thought I would separate the file server support from a development machine. You may get into speed problems when heavily loaded. For my network I use 2 modest machines with large IDE drives running a HA setup as a file server. They sync to each other via a Gigbyte direct Ethernet connection and if one goes down or if off line for maintenance the other takes over. See http://linux-ha.org/ . Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LDAP authentication problems
On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 13:37, Pavel Duda wrote: Hi, I have problems to get LDAP authentiction working (pam_ldap)and after two days of struggle I'm almost giving up... I've tried few howtos like that one from samba.idealx.org but without success. First I wanted to run Samba PDC on FreeBSD, but I've stuck with pam_ldap authentication. Now I can: - browse LDAP database with ldapsearch or from other machine with LDAP browser - I'm able to use ldapsearch with user account created in this database ie.: 'ldapsearch -D uid=testuser,ou=Users,dc=OHRADNI,dc=NET -W' 'Enter LDAP Password: mypassword' '[will list all entries]' But when I try to use it for authentication it just don't work. For example I can't login with 'ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Because I have loglevel -1 I can see many data in /var/log/debug.log, but I'm not sure what exactly I should look for in this debug output thus I don't know if problem is on LDAP side or something else in my setup. (I've attached gziped part of debug.log) Can somebody help ? Does someone have working setup of LDAP authentication on FreeBSD 6.0 and would be so kind to sent me some quick howto or give an advice ? I used the example on the samba site which is also available in the docs after samaba is installed. The only issues were that it is written for Linux and hence has different file locations and one of the Linux commands does not exist in FreeBSD. It is not a direct problem as it is only used for testing. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Samba vulnerability make problem
On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 20:36, Denny White wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Was trying to setup apsfilter to be able to print to my winbox printer. Got as far as the follwing: === apsfilter-7.2.6_2 depends on executable: smbclient - not found ===Verifying install for smbclient in /usr/ports/net/samba === samba-2.2.12_2 has known vulnerabilities: = samba -- integer overflow vulnerability. Reference: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/portaudit/3b3676be-52e1-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82.html = Please update your ports tree and try again. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/net/samba. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/print/apsfilter. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/print/apsfilter. Script done on Sat Feb 11 20:01:52 2006 I've got portaudit installed the database was just updated several days ago, as well as the ports with portsnap portupgrade. Have checked the last week or so of the cvs mailing list for samba found nothing, so I didn't rerun portsnap portupgrade. Already so many dependencies installed for apsfilter, I hated to update anything else right in the middle of all of this. Tried running the make command with -DIGNORE_VULNERABILITIES but still no dice. Any advice, pointers to reading up on it, help, appreciated. Denny White Denny, Samba3 is in the ports try that instead. Please do not CC me. Already subscribed to mailing list. I suggest you set you reply to the list then. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6 on DVD
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 14:10, Chris wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Duane Whitty wrote: Chris wrote: Anyone have a mirror that supports at least a torrent for 6.0 on DVD? I hate the ISO's with all that damned swithing of the CD's. Better yet, doe anyone know the layout used to create the DVD? Hi, I haven't yet tried this myself but nevertheless thought you might find it interesting. The following article(s) seem to detail how one would go about laying out an installation disk set. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/release-build.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng-packages/article.html It's probably not as straight forward as it sounds but I'm going to give a try for making a dvd for an x86 system. I'll post to the list re this subject heading with my progress. Hope this helps, --Duane Whitty Thank you for the links however, this isn't what I asked. Allow me to re articulate: 1. I would like a link to either where there may be a full blown DVD image of 6.0 or a torrent. 2. If not the above, the layout used to create the DVD image. Now allow me to explain 1 and 2 so there isn't anymore wild answers to questions users seem to think they read. Reason 1: If installing more then just the base OS (allow me to say that one key word, INSTALL) then swapping out the CD's is not something I'm willing to spend 3 hours doing (perhaps that was an embellishment after the fact). Reason 2: If there isn't a DVD image to download (either in whole or torrent) then the layout would allow me to create my own INSTALL DVD with my curent 6.0 roms. There - now that I have taken the time to eplain this, I hope there isn't anymore confusion as to what I'm asking. Best regards, Chris Chris, You do seem to be missing the point. The info you are asking for is on the Freebsd site. See http://www.freebsd.org/where.html FreeBsd does not have a DVD version for download. It is only available as iso's on the site and you can down load these by torrent if you want to. If you want to do something else then read the documentation and work it out - that is primarily how the system works. You can get FreeBsd on DVD is you want to buy it - see the http://www.freebsd.org/where.html for info on the FreeBsd mall at cost or you can find suppliers at cost through say ebay. One other thought if you don't want to spend time swapping the CDs try an FTP install. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help Installing FreeBSD 6.0 with GUI
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 22:24, Alexandre Adao wrote: I am VERY new on FeeBSD and I installed it using the standard option. How can have freeBSD 6.0 runing on GUI? Is there any step by step proceedure? Thanks for any help. --Alex Alex, Welcome Every thing you should need to know is in the handbook. You will need to read the section on installing Xwindows, then chose a Desktop environment (Gnome or KDE). There are some minor issues with nvida video 3d cards but there are nvida drivers for BSD. ATI cards are a bit more of a problem. In both cases search the mailing list archives the info is there. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 6.0 on DVD
On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 13:38, Chris wrote: It would be nice if FBSD offered at least a torrent download of the DVD. If it's out there - where? There is no DVD, only cd ISO's - you can get away with the 1st cd if necessary. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't see second CPU on IBM eServer x346 (FBSD5.4 and 6.0 amd64)
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 07:59, Anto Prijosoesilo wrote: Hi, I'm having a problem installing FreeBSD/amd64 SMP on a couple of IBM x346 servers. Both have dual XEON 3.0GHz EM64T processors but OS seems to only enable one of them. ACPI has to be disabled on both machines for them to boot, otherwise they will hang after probing the keyboard. I'm using the SMP kernel config unedited. Mptable on both machines show that there are 2 CPUs: -- Processors: APIC ID Version State Family Model StepFlags 0 0x14BSP, usable 15 4 1 0x0301 6 0x14AP, usable 15 4 1 0x0301 -- Sysctl hw.ncpu returns 1 on both systems. The one on FreeBSD 5.4 has 6GB or memory and the one on FreeBSD 6.0 has 3GB of memory. I can run tests on the 3GB system and will probably try FreeBSD/i386 on it to see if it can see both CPUs. Has anyone successfully ran FreeBSD/amd64 SMP on these machines? Thanks in advance for any info anyone can provide. Anto. Silly question. Isn't the XEON Intel i386 architecture which runs Freebsd i386 whereas the FreeBSD amd64 is for AMD 64 bit devices.? In which case you should use the Freebsd i386 SMP kernel. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re[2]: what with privileges
On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 21:35, Playnet wrote: Hello Robert, Sunday, January 29, 2006, 11:26:05 PM, you wrote: RS Hmm I think the 1st line says it all. You are not using the correct RS admin user ie one with sufficient privileges. to add the user to ldap. RS This is really a question for the samba mailing list. How subscribe to samba mainling list? Try the samba web site: http://us4.samba.org/samba/ and chose a mirror near you. The link to the mailing lists are under talk samba on the left hand side. You can also search the archives. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Activity?
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 17:12, Daniel A. wrote: During my subscription period on this list, I've recieved seven emails. Is this the correct activity level or have I misconfigured something? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Daniel, Not sure what [EMAIL PROTECTED] is nor how long the period you refer to is, but the mailing list freebsd-questions above has between 1000 to 200 messages a day. Hope this helps. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Proper mail headers
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 17:13, Duane Whitty wrote: Hi everyone, I wanted to check to see if I am using the proper etiquette when filling in my headers, especially when responding to someone's post. Should I just let let my reply go to the person named in Reply-To or should I reply to the list and CC the poster, or is it the other way around? Thanks, --Duane Whitty duane @greenmeadow.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Duane, I don't think that there is a right way to do it. I normally just hit reply to all which normally does to: the original poster and cc's the list. In this case it didn't as you have reply to: set as the mailing list. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Activity?
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 17:29, Robert Slade wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 17:12, Daniel A. wrote: During my subscription period on this list, I've recieved seven emails. Is this the correct activity level or have I misconfigured something? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Daniel, Not sure what [EMAIL PROTECTED] is nor how long the period you refer to is, but the mailing list freebsd-questions above has between 1000 to 200 messages a day. Hope this helps. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] opps that should have been 100 to 200 Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: apache2
On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 20:46, serge wrote: Hi. Frank Bonnet wrote: serge wrote: Hi. Help to adjust please apache-1.3.33 or apache-2 and a file httpd.conf. I change some parameters in this file but I can not start apache. Look please, that I do not so. What it is necessary to make changes in files srm.conf аnd access.conf ? # apachectl start # /usr/local/sbin/apachectl:httpd could not be started. check in /etc/rc.conf if apache_enable is set to YES Now to me it is clear. But when it is started apache2, I set a command to a browser (Konqueror) http://localhost/ that there is a following: *** An error occured while loading http://loaclhost/ Could not connect to host localhost Please prompt something. Serge, Are you sure that httpd is running, does the error log say anything? Try connecting by using the ip rather than the name ie 127.0.0.1. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: serial console for dummies?
On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 08:39, Scott I. Remick wrote: Hello... I'm trying to set up a serial console for watching console error messages while in X, but am having a real hard time getting my head around the concepts of what I need to do (and don't need to). I've seen http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html but I'm not clear about how much of that applies to what I want to do, since it talks about setting it up for a headless system (no keyboard or monitor) and actually instructs you to remove the keyboard. I've also searched the mailing list archives but I've read a lot of conflicting info, much of which for different uses of the serial console than what I want to use it for, and I've now read back so far that I can't even be certain that the suggestions apply to FreeBSD 6.0. Ugh So is there someone who can give me a hand-held walk-through of just what I need to do to make this work? I'm running FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE and live in X (Gnome) all the time. My intention here is to be able to see console messages (Errors) so when something dies (like X locking, which happens sometimes) I have a chance to see what the heck happened. I have an old 486 laptop I intend to use as the dumb terminal, as well as the necessary null modem cable. I just need to know what to configure on my FreeBSD box so that console errors are mirrored to the serial port. Thanks! Scott, I can't help you directly, but have you looked at the error logs? they should give you a clue, especially Xorg.log Another thought is to connect via a network connection and SSH into the machine that will give you a console. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what with privileges
On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 20:06, Playnet wrote: Hello freebsd-questions, I try add machine into domain. If i run smbldap-useradd manually, all ok. But from samba i get errors: Jan 29 22:47:04 sstand net: smbldap_open: cannot access LDAP when not root.. Jan 29 22:47:04 sstand net: [2006/01/29 22:47:04, 0] lib/smbldap.c:smbldap_search_suffix(1246) Jan 29 22:47:04 sstand net: smbldap_search_suffix: Problem during the LDAP search: (unknown) (Time limit exceeded) Jan 29 22:47:04 sstand net: [2006/01/29 22:47:04, 0] passdb/secrets.c:secrets_init(64) Jan 29 22:47:04 sstand net: Failed to open /usr/local/private/secrets.tdb Jan 29 22:47:04 sstand net: [2006/01/29 22:47:04, 0] passdb/machine_sid.c:pdb_generate_sam_sid(163) Jan 29 22:47:04 sstand net: pdb_generate_sam_sid: Failed to store generated machine SID. Jan 29 22:47:05 sstand net: [2006/01/29 22:47:05, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic2(1548) Jan 29 22:47:05 sstand net: PANIC: Could not generate a machine SID Jan 29 22:47:05 sstand net: Jan 29 22:47:05 sstand net: Jan 29 22:47:11 sstand kernel: pid 2648 (net), uid 65534: exited on signal 6 (core dumped) Jan 29 22:47:11 sstand smbd[2643]: [2006/01/29 22:47:11, 0] rpc_server/srv_samr_nt.c:_samr_create_user(2028) Jan 29 22:47:11 sstand smbd[2643]: _samr_create_user: Running the command `/usr/local/sbin/smbldap-useradd -t 240 -w sstand$' gave 134 Jan 29 22:47:15 sstand smbd[2643]: [2006/01/29 22:47:15, 0] lib/util_sock.c:read_data(526) Jan 29 22:47:15 sstand smbd[2643]: read_data: read failure for 4 bytes to client 192.168.26.10. Error = Connection reset by peer Hmm I think the 1st line says it all. You are not using the correct admin user ie one with sufficient privileges. to add the user to ldap. This is really a question for the samba mailing list. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Starting mysql at boot time.
On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 20:32, fbsd_user wrote: I installed the mysql-server port. How do I get it to start at boot time? Is there some how-to for apache/mysql? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The handbook helps have a look at the apache section and 10 seconds with google will give you some examples. BTW try mysql_enable=YES in rc.conf. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to upgrade
On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 21:20, Jose Jesus Ortega wrote: I installed AfterStep from the freeBSD ports but a new version here ftp://ftp.afterstep.org/stable/AfterStep-2.2.0-noimages.tar.bz2 is up but I'm new, how do I upgrade to 2.2.0. thanks. Jose, Short answer is wait until the FreeBsd port is updated unless there is some compelling reason not to. I would also suggest that you don't update unless it is really necessary on the grounds of don't fix it if it is not broken. The main reason for this is that the port collection is specifically for FreeBSD. Some of the ports come with patches to make what is generically a Linux program run under FreeBSD. If you want to try and update it without waiting look at pkg_delete in the manual then follow this instructions for installing the updated tar ball. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: rpm equivalent to 'pkg_add -r'?
On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 08:36, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Jan 16, 2006, at 11:17 PM, Gregory Nou wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: As the subject asks, is there an equivalent? I'm trying to install linux apache2 on a FreeBSD box, and would like have rpm do as much as possible as far as getting the dependencies and downloading them ... baring this, is there a better tool to use then rpm? thanks ... Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http:// www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 look at the end of rpm man page, there is a section INSTALL AND UPGRADE OPTIONS. Concerning other tools, the poor experience I have with RH showed me that rpm is a great tool. Maybe you may try yum, which, iirc, is a GUI for rpm. Cheers, -- Gregory Actually yum's a means for updating that's meant to replace the Redhat Network Tool or whatever it was called back in RH9.0 and RHE, which comes as primarily a command line tool I thought. As far as I know is only available for Fedora-a product primarily made for desktop users made by Redhat. -Garrett To clear up a couple of points: YUM is a Redhat tool but is a command line one. It works on all Redhat derived systems not just Fedora. BTW Fedora is not made by Redhat but is sponsored by them - they use it as a test platform. What I don't understand why the OP is installing Linux Apachie2 from rpms when there is a perfectly good port for BSD which handles the dependencies and the different locations of files, scripts etc. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re FreeBSD v 6.0 (boxed cd set)
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 08:19, je killen wrote: On Jan 14, 2006, at 12:01 PM, je killen wrote: On Jan 13, 2006, at 11:27 PM, Robert Slade wrote: On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 01:01, je killen wrote: (On e-Machine with Intel Sempron processor and 256 mb memory). I'm not able to log into x via kdm as root and not able to su to root when in Gnome (or KDE for that matter). It also goes through what seem to be excessive sleep cycles (two lasting at least a minute apiece) during the boot process to establish the system's name. Sounds like it is trying to contact a dhcp server and then timing out. What does messages or your error logs say? They are in /var/logs couldn't find error log here but I gave it a FQDN in rc.conf and that solved the name delays. It refused ssh from my Mac OSX machine (It starts sshd on boot, which also takes a noticeable amount of time) Check your sshd setup, see man sshd, there are some defaults set in the conf file there which are causing the restriction. found it in inetd.conf, just a matter of commenting a few lines; one for ftp (which is on my system, I thought so.) and the other for sshd. I don't use inetd just rc.d. FBSD appears to boot faster that way. No only that it saves looking in more than one place. I have not come across anything that needs inetd. What ftp server is recommended for FreeBSD? (There doesn't seem to be any provided by default install) see above. You should have been asked if you wanted a ftp server during installation. The default is ftp. There are others in the ports though. See the handbook. How do I tell it who it really is? (Is it trying to contact a DNS server and/or /etc/hosts ?) The host name etc is set in /etc/rc.conf. Again you should have set this during installation. You can re run the installation process just type sysinstall. named is on the system but there's no configuration, just resolv.conf for resolver. I also had the machines own IP address set to default router when it should have at least been the http proxy server I use to get on the net. How can I get set up to su to root in a console window? (Or do I have to learn to live with it?) The default allows only members of the wheel group to su to root. Did it. Now I get into the machine from another host on the network and can su to root in console window. If I can't get set up to su to root in a console window, how can I log into an x session as root? You should be able to log on as root and run an x session as root (not recommended). In the kdm login window as soon as it read root as the user name it informed me that root logins aren't allowed. I don't really use KDM as such. Most of the work I do is command line related and I login to the command prompt. If I need the gui I just startx. It sound like KDM has another restriction to stop root logins in its config. Sorry I cannot help more on this. (Does it have to do with security levels, or who is a member of the 'wheel' group? Even Mac OSX only allows sudo -- and it is based on FreeBSD, isn't it?) See above. There could also be an issue with security, it depends how you set it during install. Thanks JK This is definitely the most active list I've subscribed to (203 total e-mail load yesterday when usually 30 -50 per day with 3 other tech related list subscriptions) JK Welcome, From your questions you are new :-), I was some 5 months ago. Most of the answers can be got from the handbook. I've tried to give you some pointers to help, but not too much as you do need to become familiar with the basics. There are a number of resources about, Google helps too. Be prepared for a number of reinstalls :-). you're right. I was just having a spell of laziness. A couple of pointers - try asking one question at a time and use a meaningful subject. That way your problem is likely to standout in the number of messages. I would also suggest that we you get the basic system working, you update it, your CDs are likely to be at 6.0R there has been some updates since. I would suggest that you stay with the 6.0 branch for now. Good luck. Rob Thanks JK No problems. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail filtering at server
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 04:52, Micah wrote: Frank Staals wrote: Hey, I'm running FreeBSD 5-stable and I'm using the system as mailserver, so I set up sendmail using this guide: http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/freebsd/sendmail.html as imap server I'm using imap-uw. Now I would like to do the following: 1) I would like to get all mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] in a seperate directory. Currently I do this by filtering my mail in the mailclient ( Thunderbird ). The directory it uses for this is currently ~/mail/Questions/ so I would like to keep that, how can I do this ? Can I add this to /etc/mail/access ? what would then be the syntax ? I actually switched from IMAP-UW (ironic because I'm a UW student) to Cyrus-IMAP to manage my personal email. Cyrus has a built in filtering language called Sieve which works really well for moving my list and RSS feeds into proper IMAP folders. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html seems to suggest procmail can do this too. 2) I would also like to filter my mail for spam, again: currently I set up thunderbird to do this: the mail marked as spam/junk dissapears into the junk folder: ( ~/mail/junk ) What is the best way to set this up ? can this be done by sendmail itself or should I install an other program from the portstree I actually haven't tackled this one yet. Try looking through http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html with a keyword of spam. HTH, Micah Try spamassassin. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: message appears at prompt
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 18:50, je killen wrote: The following messages are appearing at my terminal on a frequent basis: (Jan 15 09:23:05 e-mach login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv0 Jan 15 09:25:43 e-mach login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv0 preceeding from /var/log/messages) (these are the messages of concern:) Jan 15 09:32:54 e-mach inetd[503]: ssh/tcp: bind: Address already in use Jan 15 09:42:54 e-mach inetd[503]: ssh/tcp: bind: Address already in use Jan 15 09:52:54 e-mach inetd[503]: ssh/tcp: bind: Address already in use The question is: What is going on here? It appears to be a conflict as one process is trying to bind to an address that is being used by another process However, I don't know if that is what 'bind' is in this context. If it doesn't mean DNS BIND then that eliminates that possibility. Please excuse my newbe question but I hope it doesn't mean that someone's script has snuck onto my machine from the network and beyond. These messages are appearing when the proxy/router machine is not even turned on. I would chase this down myself and not use the list but I don't know enough of where to look. The only clue I have is that sshd starts on boot and is also enabled in inetd.conf. Could this be the conflict? Thanks so much JK Hi JK, You have probably got sshd enabled twice, once in rc.conf and once in inetd. What is happening is that the 2nd copy of sshd enabled in inetd is trying to bind to the adresses already in use by the 1st copy enabled in /etc/rc.conf. One of the things is that BSD tends to use is the rc.d route to start apps whereas linux tends to use the inetd route. Note there is no run levels as such in bsd. Once you get used to it it quite simple to pop a script into /usr/local/etc/rc.d and call it from /etc/rc.conf with a something_enable=YES Rob Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XFree86 on FreeBSD 5.4
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 11:21, offbyone wrote: My problem: Running FreeBSD_5.4-RELEASE with XFree86-4.5.0, there is a mis-match: the underlying o.s. and newly installed and upgraded ports expect X.org After portupgrade of an X-supported port, this mis-match shows up as stale dependency(ies) It's a bore repeatedly to point new and upgraded ports to XFree86-libraries-4.5.0, etc. (and there is no XFree86 component that corresponds directly to X.org-TrueType, or is there?) My questions: 0.) How to change the underlying o.s. default expectation to XFree86 AND is this a good idea for the present and future of 5.x? 1.) Is a better solution to bite the bullet, deinstall all XFree86 components and install X.org, since FreeBDS is 5.x? (N.B. I do not want to start a flame over XFree86 vs. X.org. That's a too-old and pointless debate, and I have no inherent reason to prefer one over the other.) Thanks, very much. for more info, suggestions. Jake Jake, I am sorry I do not have an answer. but when I installed 5.4 not long ago it installed Xorg as the default from the iso. Did you update to 5.4 from an earlier version? Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cups at bootup
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 15:00, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
After a complete system and port upgrade, cups does not start at
bootup. During bootup, I see the following line:
Usage: cups {reload|restart|start|status|stop}
The command 'ps ax | grep cups' returns nothing. If I start cups as
root manually ('/usr/local/etc/rc.d/cups.sh start'), the cupsd
scheduler is started successfully and I can print.
Where should I look for the problem during bootup?
Thanks,
Andrew Gould
Check the cups entry in /etc/rc.conf
Rob
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Re: cups at bootup
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 16:03, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:30:01 +
Robert Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 15:00, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
After a complete system and port upgrade, cups does not start at
bootup. During bootup, I see the following line:
Usage: cups {reload|restart|start|status|stop}
The command 'ps ax | grep cups' returns nothing. If I start cups as
root manually ('/usr/local/etc/rc.d/cups.sh start'), the cupsd
scheduler is started successfully and I can print.
Where should I look for the problem during bootup?
Thanks,
Andrew Gould
Check the cups entry in /etc/rc.conf
Rob
Okay, I have 'cupsd_enable=YES' in /etc/rc.conf, and cups starts at
bootup; but in addition to cups: started scheduler, I still get the
message mentioned above.
The cups: started scheduler message appears after Local package
initialization:.
The Usage: cups {reload|restart|start|status|stop} message appears
after Starting usbd. and Starting ddclient., but prior to Local
package initialization:.
'Curiouser and curiouser, said Alice'
Andrew Gould
Andrew,
I think the entry in /etc/rc.conf should be cups_enable=YES rather
than cupsd.
Rob
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Re: Re FreeBSD v 6.0 (boxed cd set)
On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 01:01, je killen wrote: (On e-Machine with Intel Sempron processor and 256 mb memory). I'm not able to log into x via kdm as root and not able to su to root when in Gnome (or KDE for that matter). It also goes through what seem to be excessive sleep cycles (two lasting at least a minute apiece) during the boot process to establish the system's name. Sounds like it is trying to contact a dhcp server and then timing out. What does messages or your error logs say? They are in /var/logs It refused ssh from my Mac OSX machine (It starts sshd on boot, which also takes a noticeable amount of time) Check your sshd setup, see man sshd, there are some defaults set in the conf file there which are causing the restriction. What ftp server is recommended for FreeBSD? (There doesn't seem to be any provided by default install) You should have been asked if you wanted a ftp server during installation. The default is ftp. There are others in the ports though. See the handbook. How do I tell it who it really is? (Is it trying to contact a DNS server and/or /etc/hosts ?) The host name etc is set in /etc/rc.conf. Again you should have set this during installation. You can re run the installation process just type sysinstall. How can I get set up to su to root in a console window? (Or do I have to learn to live with it?) The default allows only members of the wheel group to su to root. If I can't get set up to su to root in a console window, how can I log into an x session as root? You should be able to log on as root and run an x session as root (not recommended). (Does it have to do with security levels, or who is a member of the 'wheel' group? Even Mac OSX only allows sudo -- and it is based on FreeBSD, isn't it?) See above. There could also be an issue with security, it depends how you set it during install. Thanks JK This is definitely the most active list I've subscribed to (203 total e-mail load yesterday when usually 30 -50 per day with 3 other tech related list subscriptions) JK Welcome, From your questions you are new :-), I was some 5 months ago. Most of the answers can be got from the handbook. I've tried to give you some pointers to help, but not too much as you do need to become familiar with the basics. There are a number of resources about, Google helps too. Be prepared for a number of reinstalls :-). A couple of pointers - try asking one question at a time and use a meaningful subject. That way your problem is likely to standout in the number of messages. I would also suggest that we you get the basic system working, you update it, your CDs are likely to be at 6.0R there has been some updates since. I would suggest that you stay with the 6.0 branch for now. Good luck. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Slightly OT, question about nvidia X driver screensaver
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 21:18, Nathan Vidican wrote: Have the nvidia driver installed on my laptop, it's running Linux/amd64... I'm a FreeBSD guy, and relatively new to linux. To be honest, not thrilled at all - but it works, hardware support for this thing under FreeBSD's just not there yet. So platform use aside, the problem should be fairly simple and the same fix on anything using nvidia's driver for x: My screen blanks, there are no settings inside of X, inside the bios/power-management, or in kde, I even went so far as to disable power management entirely... the screen blanks (like power/screen saver) after a period of inactivity, really annoying. I havn't timed it, but figure it's at about 5 minutes. Someone had mentioned in an email on this list before how the nvidia driver gives them the ability to screensave/powersave a while back while talking about something else; I only vaguely remember the thread and havn't been able to find it searching the archives - but was hoping that if someone out there knows how it does it, perhaps someone else may know how to stop it. So anyhow, my question is this: How do I make it stop? I don't want my laptop's screen to turn off - especially so when it's plugged into a/c power, often I'm reading an article and it blanks on me - course I can just move the mouse and things come back, but it is really annoying. Any ideas? Please no RTFM, I'm not a newbie over here - and I've been reading nvidia's documentation up and down and can't find anything on the subject (though I did manage to find a few other cool tweaks). Nathan, According to the Nvidia site the drivers are different. You really should ask your question on the linux list for the distro or even on the x-windows list. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how should I (best practice) set up permissions for rsync ?
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 03:47, user wrote: On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Hi, I want to rsync /usr/home from one machine to another, for purposes of backup. i do: rsync -e rsh -avzrlHpogDtS --delete --delete-excluded --force \ --exclude-from=../$1-exclude [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ . where $1 is server name Yeah ... I know how to do that ... I wasn't asking how to rsync it, I was asking how I could: a) keep remote root logins _disabled_ and b) keep default freebsd permissions on the /usr/home directory and still do the rsync ... in your example, you are remotely logging in as root, which I want to avoid. Any suggestions ? If you don't want to log on as root, then you can run a rsync as each user as say a user cron job. Just a thought Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem in install USB data cabel (based on prolific 2303 chip) for Siemens C72 mobile phone.
On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 17:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would send your question in the message as I and I guess most of the recipients of this list don't accept attachments. Nor will the mail archives. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Sparc vs i386 architecture
On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 04:51, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: What machine code exploits currently exist for FreeBSD on the i386 other than the F00F bug, which has already been patched out? I wasn't aware of any. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Bernstein Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 1:53 PM To: Robert Slade; jasonharback Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Sparc vs i386 architecture Hi group, I was just wondering if there's an advantage to running FreeBSD on a SPARC than compared with a regular PC. Obviously the architecture is different (CISC vs RISC). How ever you can purchase a higher powered PC box for less money than it would cost for a SPARC. The main advantage I'm seeing here is for security. It's going to be harder to break into a SPARC running FreeBSD than an Intel/Amd running FreeBSD b/c most machine code exploits will be for the i386 type architecture. Any insights are much appreciated. Michael - Original Message - From: Robert Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: jasonharback [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 2:43 AM Subject: Re: Sparc dual boot problems On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 03:47, jasonharback wrote: Here's the situation The machine is a SUN ULTRA 5 and I have 4 IDE devices. I am new to SUN hardware I know much more about PC's. The first device primary master is the cdrom which Solaris 10 and FreeBSD were successfully installed from. Currently Solaris 10 which is the primary slave is the default boot device. FreeBSD is installed on the primary slave drive. I am used to the FreeBSD install on a PC and during that install it gave time for configuring the boot loader but I can't find it on the recent Sparc FreeBSD edition? During the partition process it says I will have the option to configure the boot loader latter. Right now I can't boot FreeBSD and I have no idea how to configure this machine to make it dual boot? I would like to have Solaris 10 as the primary O/S, FreeBSD as the secondary and Sparc Linux on the third hd. Can you please help? Jason Harback Jason, You don't need to use a boot loader with the U5, just boot to the promt (Stop A). Then just type boot followed by the alias of the slice you want to boot. Rob Ted, Good point. However, in my case I'm using the sparc (its a U10) because it there. I originally got it as I needed to find out about Solaris/Sparc. It was lying in the back of a cupboard so when I started to investigate replacements for a domain based on W2k using FBSD I dusted it off and I'm using it for the BDC. The only thing I really noticed is the disk(s) are slow compared (SUN's IDE) to the PDC which has a fast scsi setup. Given the choice I think I would still go for a good sparc from Ebay over a i386. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Spamcop listed - need help to diagnose why
On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 05:45, David Banning wrote: My server just was listed with Spamcop. Before I exercise my -one time- option to de-list it I need to verify that indeed my server is not sending spam. I have 3 win boxes routing through my FreeBSD box. Also there are a few windows computers in the outside world that send mail through my server via port 26 using their login and password. I know it is possible for viruses to install a stand-alone smtp server on win boxes. That is one suspicion I have. My question; What tool would I use to see if unauthorized mail is being sent via my server? Note that I am running tmda, so that I have around 80 emails per minute being sent out; to request verification on my standard incoming mail, (therefore it is too complicated to just watch -all- mail being sent out, and try and decode legitimate from illegitimate). There is your problem TMDA is most likely the cause. Such programmes are in effect adding to the spam problem. Nearly all spam has a forged from address and all programmes such as TMDA do is send a challenge to an innocent 3rd party. Whist it looks like it reduces your spam all you do is in effect spam someone else. When your e-mail address has been used in a spam run by a spammer and you start getting 10s of these challenge an hour it is quite easy to report 1 my accident. If you look at the Spamcop reporting page you will see a warning about just this situation. I suppose that the real answer is to stop compounding the spam problem and use a combination of spamassassin and block lists. BTW I make it a point never to respond to challenges. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: /dev/eth0 question - prefer reply in next 20mins
A. On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 00:48, Peter Leftwich wrote: ...Well today, I have a question that *is* unixey (yoo-knicks-ee) in nature, but admittedly not having to do with BSD; Here,let me start this way: When I boot my dual-boot PC to Linux Fedora Core 4, instead of FreeBSD *wink* I can no longer connect to the internet via SBC Yahoo DSL as I used to (via PPPoE). If I run the command dmesg | grep -i eth there is no output. My DSL modem has 3 of 4 lights ON, that is, all lights are lit except for the ACTIVITY indicator. I ran the Internet Connection Wizard and re-created profiles if you will, for both eth0 (dialup choice for DNS) and an xDSL listing for SBC that saves your username and password. When I click SBC, and then the [Activate] button, there is no activity on my DSL modem and it TIMES OUT after trying for approximately 2mins. The command ifconfig eth0 plumb or ... eth0 up claims there is no such device. Any ideas? Maybe I need to replace the NIC (3Com Etherlink card that's about 7yrs old)?? Thank you in advance, I truly appreciate it, and have a joyous weekend. Wish I were in Vegas at C.E.S.! As the problem is with FC4 why not ask on their mailing list? Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sparc dual boot problems
On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 03:47, jasonharback wrote: Here's the situation The machine is a SUN ULTRA 5 and I have 4 IDE devices. I am new to SUN hardware I know much more about PC's. The first device primary master is the cdrom which Solaris 10 and FreeBSD were successfully installed from. Currently Solaris 10 which is the primary slave is the default boot device. FreeBSD is installed on the primary slave drive. I am used to the FreeBSD install on a PC and during that install it gave time for configuring the boot loader but I can't find it on the recent Sparc FreeBSD edition? During the partition process it says I will have the option to configure the boot loader latter. Right now I can't boot FreeBSD and I have no idea how to configure this machine to make it dual boot? I would like to have Solaris 10 as the primary O/S, FreeBSD as the secondary and Sparc Linux on the third hd. Can you please help? Jason Harback Jason, You don't need to use a boot loader with the U5, just boot to the promt (Stop A). Then just type boot followed by the alias of the slice you want to boot. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can someone please repost the fix for installing OpenOffice on FreeBSD 6.0
A. On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 14:36, Tim Greening-Jackson wrote: Hello there. I am trying to install Open Office on my new FreeBSD workstation, and have downloaded the appropriate BZ2 file from OpenOffice.org and unzipped it. Now when I ask pkg_add to add it I get the following: tordella# pkg_add OOo_SRC680_m146_FreeBSD60Intel_install_en-GB.tar pkg_add: could not find package openssl-beta-0.9.8a ! I recall exactly this topic being discussed on this list a few weeks ago, but have long-since deleted the solution (IIRC, it involved some way of forcing pkg_add to use a version of openssl other than beta 0.9.8a. Please can someone forward the original reply or otherwise enlighten me. Many thanks. Tim. Tim, Searching the mail archives often helps: Try this: http://freebsd.rambler.ru/bsdmail/freebsd-questions_2005/msg36901.html Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel Compilation...
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 16:15, Crispy Beef wrote: Hi All, Just joined this list. The last time I used FreeBSD was with 4.6-RELEASE, so a while ago now. I have just installed 6.0-RELEASE on my old laptop and have been configuring the system, am onto the kernel at the moment, have followed the traditional method in the FreeBSD handbook. All works fine (make depends) until I do 'make' then I get a compilation error as follows: /usr/src/sys/modules/ata/atapci/../../../dev/ata/ata-chipset.c:617: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault: 11 Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. See URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html for instructions. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules/ata/atapci. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules/ata. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/LAPTOP. Last time I had an error with USB Mass Storage do I disabled it in my config hoping the kernel would compile, am starting to think this is something a bit more serious. Any thoughts? -- Paul Paul, Welcome. If you will take some advise from a 'newbe' I suggest that you use the new method - I have done a kernel compile quite a few times with no problems using it. The only time I had problems with compiling was when I got the config file wrong. I did find that after a failed compile I needed to clear out the old obj libraries before trying again. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: your advice on vinum, RAIDs
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 06:09, Joe Auty wrote: Hello, I've been considering buying another hard drive for my FreeBSD machine, and building a RAID with my current hard drive so that both drives are treated as one. Do any of you have experience in this area? Is this advisable? I'm assuming I'd be looking at creating a RAID-5? Can this be done without reformatting my current drive? Does this setup work well? Do you have any general advice for me? I need to know if there is risk involved here. Thanks in advance! Joe, It depends on what you need to do. If you just want data integrity then you need raid 1 - mirroring and GEOM is your friend. There is a good section in the Handbook on setting a GEOM raid 1 without formatting the original drive. If you are also looking for more drive space, then raid 5 gives a measure of both. In both cases, the warning of backing up the system first applies. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: your advice on vinum, RAIDs
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 15:05, Joe Auty wrote: On Dec 29, 2005, at 4:14 AM, Robert Slade wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 06:09, Joe Auty wrote: Hello, I've been considering buying another hard drive for my FreeBSD machine, and building a RAID with my current hard drive so that both drives are treated as one. Do any of you have experience in this area? Is this advisable? I'm assuming I'd be looking at creating a RAID-5? Can this be done without reformatting my current drive? Does this setup work well? Do you have any general advice for me? I need to know if there is risk involved here. Thanks in advance! Joe, It depends on what you need to do. If you just want data integrity then you need raid 1 - mirroring and GEOM is your friend. There is a good section in the Handbook on setting a GEOM raid 1 without formatting the original drive. If you are also looking for more drive space, then raid 5 gives a measure of both. In both cases, the warning of backing up the system first applies. Hmmm. What I need is more drive space. Should I look at GEOM rather than vinum? Do you know whether the drives would need to be reformatted in order to setup the RAID? I'll definitely heed your advice on backing up the drive first! Joe, I if you are not worried about integrity, I would leave Raid alone. To add more space, just the drive and mount it. I have just added more space on a machine by mounting a new drive as /data and copying the home dirs across then relinking the /home dir to home. Have a look at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-adding.html Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quick Install Question
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 19:18, Gerard Seibert wrote: On Tuesday, December 27, 2005 1:42:54 PM Andrew L. Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Quick Install Question Wrote these words of wisdom: Is the WinXP partition in the same computer that is running FreeBSD? Or is the NTFS partition a shared directory on a separate WinXP computer? (I was not aware that Samba could be used to read NTFS partitions residing on a FreeBSD computer.) The original poster wishes to dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD on the same computer. Andrew Gould * REPLY SEPARATOR * On 10/11/2005 5:29:42 PM, Gerard Replied: Actually, there are three computers. One is running FreeBSD 5.4 and the other two have WinXP Pro installed. I networked all three together. The WinXP systems are using the NTFS format. Samba can read and write to both of the WinXP machines without any problems. I really do not know if this is germane to a dual boot system however. It probably is not since WinXP would not actually be running when FreeBSD was in this type of configuration. Fat32 is really a poor file system when compared to NTFS. It is too bad that he is unable to get a second machine and use FreeBSD on it instead of dual booting. Just my 2¢. Gerhard, Just to clear up a point. In your case, Samba is not writing to NTFS. it is handling the communications between the 2 operating systems using the SMB protocol. The individual OS' handle to filing system input/outputs. The issue with FreeBSD reading and writing to NTFS directly is different. There is a driver that will allow FreeBSD to read NTFS, but because of the complexities of NTFS writing to it is dificult and whilst possible can cause the NTFS partition to become unreadable by XP. For info the best way of setting up dual booting of FreeBSD and XP is to use 3 partitions, 1 for XP using NTFS, 1 for FreeBSD and a 3rd Fat32 partition for data transfer. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: New IDE drive in old PC
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 22:12, Robert Ames wrote: I have an old (very old) ASUS P5 motherboard running FreeBSD 5.4. The boot disk is a 40MB Western Digital WD400 IDE drive jumpered to only use 32MB so it can be booted from since the BIOS in this PC (the latest and greatest) can't deal with anything larger than 32MB. This PC is working well for me and I don't want to upgrade it. However I would like to add a lot of disk space. So my question is, can I go out and buy a new 300 GB (or whatever) IDE disk and attach it to the secondary IDE controller and hope to use all 300 GB? I will still use the old disk for booting and to hold the OS. The new disk will be just for data. If this will just work how do I configure the BIOS so the PC will boot with the large drive installed? Robert, If you had to jumper the boot disk for it to work with the BIOS of the motherboard, then the chances are that you would have to do the same with the 2nd hard drive. ISTR that ASUS produced updated BIOS' for most of their motherboards to get around this. Have a look at their website to see if there is and upgrade. There is also a area on the site for questions such as yours. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSD Question's.
On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 08:10, Andy Sjostrom wrote: To whom this may concern, H-E-L-P! LOL! I've been online since 1992( the windows 3.1 days for me.) I'm 48 yrs.old. and also a windows XP user. Because of recent issue I have had with Mr. William Gates and his product. about every 6 months I have had to overhaul my windows XP. during the last up grade I was told that my XP product code was invaild, then when is made the repair up grades something in my registory changed, and when that auto updater downloaded the new security patches it somehow downloaded 2969 trojans as well. I have decided to start the search for a new OS. In my case the new OS must be completely 100 percent user friendly. Please bare in mind that 100 percent means NO CODE writting. I'm not a programer...LOL! I run a very small one man company at, http://www.geocities.com/andy_sjostrom/index.html From time to time I also like to rip and burn a CD as well, Publish articles to my yahoo 360 blog. edit a few images from time to to time. surf the net, copy and paste, chat with friends in my favorite yahoo chat room. fold protiens for the [EMAIL PROTECTED] project at stanford U. (I'm on team #40154.) I also have a logitech Clicksmart420 that the new OS must be willing to accept. I've been doing some reading and every thing I have been able to find for OS's boils down to three basic choices. BSD Unix Linux A windows Hybird like ReactOS. There is one other very important thing Because I'm on a fixed income and things with me are very tight money wise the new OS must be free. Is there any thing you can do to help me. Such as point me in the right direction. . DA Consultants George A. Sjostrom II Helping those who can help them selves http://www.geocities.com/andy_sjostrom/index.html Andy, Welcome. I understand your position, and if you will accept some thoughts from someone older than you by 10 years. Very few of the alternatives to Windows have the ability to run on any platform and it is likely that you will run into compatibility problems so you will need to be more aware of the hardware you are using including editing scripts etc. You are probably more used to doing things via a GUI. Whilst BSD does run either gnome or KDE etc, you will still need to do a fair amount via the command line even if it is just to get the GUI working. There is one tip here - read the handbook. The Linux Distributions are in general more suited to running a GUI and some install one as the default. I have not used any of the other versions of BSD (Net and Open) but FreeBSD is more suited to server applications although that is changing and it will run as a desktop machine. I would suggest that you try some to the Linux distributions - you can get or download live CD's which will run without being installed so you can try them before committing to an installation. ISTR that there is a FreeBSD live CD available. You can find out more about the various distributions at: http://distrowatch.com/ BTW, I used to say I'm no programmer but . Let me know if you have any questions. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB mice
On Sat, 2005-12-24 at 10:15, Teilhard Knight wrote: Teilhard Knight wrote: It seems to me that the way FreeBSD is catching up with new hardware leaves you unsatisfied. One has to choose, upon boot, the option to use an USB keyboard by hand, and I have found no way to make a USB mouse to work. The OS broadly supports serial mice and hardly PS/2 mice, both almost out of the market nowadays. Are USB mice supported by FreeBSD? Teilhard. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Currently all three systems which run FreeBSD have USB mice, two of them just plain Logitech optical mouses, the third is a Logitech MX 300, but every other mouse should work when you have enabled moused. Try plugin in the mouse when FreeBSD is up and running, it should detect it automatically It didn't work. Actually I have a little more than a USB mouse, I have a wireless mouse and wireless keyboard which are both controlled by a central unit which plugs into an USB port in the computer. The keyboard works well, with the option of booting with an USB keyboard, but I cannot make the mouse work. Any suggestions? Teilhard. I can confirm what Frank says. I have a number of machines running mainly Freebsd. USB and PS/2 mice work fine on both OS' but I did have problems with a wireless mouse on both. The problem lies with the mouse connection to the wireless hub. Under XP I had to press the connect button on both the hub and mouse after booting to get the mouse to connect to the hub and then re-boot to get XP to recognise the mouse was there. I gave up on the wireless mouse in the end it was to much trouble. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: gtk2-2.2.1-4.i386.rpm not available
On Sun, 2005-12-25 at 02:44, Your Name wrote: Greetings - I was attempting to load a few ports over the past couple of days and kept running into this problem with gtk2-2.2.1-4.i386.rpm. (Running FBSD 5.4) Earlier today, I tried loading the pips-sc60s driver. (/usr/ports/print/pips-sc60s) This driver (if I had been succesful installing it) would have permitted me to use my Epson C60 printer. Installation of the pips-sc60s driver failed. For reasons I don't understand, this port tries to install linuxpluginwrapper, linux-flashplugin6, linux-realplayer... (?) The whole process failed: = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/rpm/. fetch: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/rpm/gtk2-2.2.1-4.i386.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this = port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/rpm and try again. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/linux-gtk2. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/linux-realplayer. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/print/pips-sc60s. Later, I tried installing flashpluinwrapper and linuxpluginwrapper (at different times to see if I could manually get these dependencies resolved, deinstalling the dregs of one before attempting the installation of the other) in an attempt to get RealPlayer running on my system. I received a similar failure message: = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/rpm/. fetch: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/rpm/gtk2-2.2.1-4.i386.rpm: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this = port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/rpm and try again. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/linux-gtk2. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/linux-realplayer. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper. --- My /var/db/pkg area thinks that I have the following installed: gtk-1.2.10_12 gtk-2.6.4_1 So I don't know why those apps seem to need gtk2-2.2.1-4 when 2.6.4.1 is already installed. And I don't understand why these bits of software will not install properly. Suggestions appreciated. -- paz. Paz, As you say gtk 2-2.2 is out of date and has been superseded which is why you can't download it because it is not in the ports. According to: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=pipsstype=allsektion=all Pips in now pips-sc60s-2.5.2_1 which requires gtk-1.2.10_13. Are your ports up to date? try doing a CVSup. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDE - how to?
On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 07:30, Sasa Stupar wrote: --On 21. december 2005 19:43 +0100 Jorn Argelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sasa Stupar wrote: Hi! I have been searching and trying to build a FreeBSD with KDE desktop but I have not luck. The X starts but only the xdm. Is there some nice step by step guide for it? Don't tell me for handbook since I have tried to do it without success. Regards, Open /etc/ttys with your favourite editor and search for this line: ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon xterm off secure Change this into: ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/bin/kdm xterm on secure And voila, KDM will start at boot. Best regards, Jorn OK. KDE is starting on boot but it won't let me to log in as root nor I can't su after I have logged in as normal user. And another thing: I have configure X with xorgcfg -textmode and I have specified my card, monitor, resolution. Hence, after the log into my account I have 640*480 only resolution. I have tried to change in preferencesperipheraldisplay but I have only one choose 640*480. What am I missing here? Sasa, Setting up X-Windows with XDM and KDE is covered in detail in the manual. You really should read it as unlike Windows or some flavors of Linux you will not get far. You could have found the answers to the questions you have asked in the manual, including this. The section is: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html KDE is generic and does not always sit well with FreeBSD which is better run from the command line as it is more suited to server applications which can do without the overhead of the GUI. BTW I have found that the easiest way of setting the screen resolution is to delete the unused settings so hat the scree section only has one in it. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HELLO
On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 10:11, Juber Loharia wrote: Hello I My name is Juber loharia i am looking for SAP 4.7e INSTALLATION PROCEDURE for WINDOWS 2000 Advanced Server on my pc , the document which is listed here for sap installation is for LINUX and i am looking for windows 2000 Advanced Server, i am looking for the ENTIRE DETAIL Procedure for INSTALLATION waiting for your reply Thank you -- Juber Loharia Mob : 9820525975 Juber, This is a mailing list for Freebsd, you should ask on a Windows based list. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to copy MBR??
On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 01:49, Javier Matos wrote: Hi, I will change the hard drive of my computer and I was thinking that maybe it can run if I make partitions in the new hard drive (the same number of partitions using the same device name), copy all the files contained in the old hard drive to the new one and finally copy MBR from old hard drive to the new one... . Can it be a solution to the problem of changing hard drives of my computer or that that I tell is a stupid thing?? Thx Javier, Have a look at man dd. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pkg_add of CVSup errors when looking for dependencies
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 08:05, Jose Borquez wrote: I am attempting to install the cvsup package I downloaded using pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui-16.1h_2.tbz, but I keep getting the following error: Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.4-release/Latest/cvsup-without-gui-16.1h_2.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.4-release/Latest/cvsup-without-gui-16.1h_2.tbz' by URL It looks like the default link that cvsup attempts to look for dependencies is incorrect. How can I specify an alternate link for cvsup to use? Thanks in advance for any help. Jose Jose, To download and install a pkg you use the -r option. If you have already downloaded it the you do not need the -r. The reason you are getting the unable to fetch is probably that you are asking for a specific version which is not available. To download and install the latest version of cvsup just do pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui See the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/packages-using.html Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where is the kernel config menu?
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 10:05, John Cox Christine Armond wrote: I am trying to Install 6.0 following the procedure in the handbook. It says the kernel config menu should appear immediately after booting. I don't see that. For me it goes directly to sysinstall. How do get to the kernel config menu? Thanks. John John, The note on the page says that the kernel config menu has been depreciated (removed) in versions 5.0 and later. The handbook covers multiple versions. Do you have a specific problem ? Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bind9 + ISC-DHCPD + Windows Clients
On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 18:41, Brian E. Conklin wrote: Hello Everyone, I spent the weekend scouring the newsgroups and Googling looking for a howto on setting up Bind9 (in a jail), ISC-DHCPD, and Dynamic DNS updates from Windows clients. Does anyone know of a good HOWTO on this? Thanks! Brian E. Conklin, MCP+I, MCSE Director of Information Services Mason General Hospital Brian Try this: http://www.bsdguides.org/guides/openbsd/networking/dynamic_dns_dhcp.php It works for freebsd but you might have to play with isc-dhcp with 6.0 as it is a bit different. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Issue
On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 09:05, kavitha s wrote: hi I have installed freeBSD in my laptop.But iam unable to ping to the gateway.So icant access through it.Please give me a solution to it as soon as possible. thanku. Kavitha, There are so many things it could be it is difficult to even start to answer your question without more information. Please supply as a start: What make etc is the laptop? What version of FreeBSD? Is your ethernet card recognised? what type is it wired or wireless. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: whereis man pages ?
On Sun, 2005-11-20 at 11:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Bad news at wake up. I needed a man pages as a normal wheel group's user and get no manual entry for I tried to get man page from the root account but same result. No more man page available (even man man). Any idea ? Thanks, Ivan. Have you installed them ? Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: webalizer monitoring apache logs on freebsd6
On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 13:32, Dave wrote: Hello, I'm trying to use webalizer to analyze apache2 web logs and report on traffic on my freebsd6 box. Both apache2 and webalizer are set to scan the combined log type. Webalizer runs via cron and this error is what i get that's it. Any help appreciated. Thanks. Dave. Error: Skipping oversized log record Error: Skipping oversized log record Error: Skipping oversized log record Error: Skipping oversized log record Error: Skipping oversized log record Error: Skipping oversized log record Error: Skipping oversized log record Error: Skipping oversized log record Error: Skipping oversized log record Error: Skipping oversized log record ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dave, This is usually the result of something trying to get into your web server by sending a load of control codes. I believe it is an attempt to exploit a Windows web server weakness. The problem is that the control codes fill up the apache log file and webilizer cannot handle the record. I usually ignore the error. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freebsd for mail servers.
On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 10:05, Carstea Catalin wrote: I want to start a fresh instalation of freebsd 6.0 for my mail server. 1. I want to use many hard-disks on this server with one directory over this disks .I want to use also RAID - software. This directory will contains mailboxes of users. EX.: Postfix - mail server. 2. If it is possible, how i do this? Carstea, Yes it is possible, have a look at the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-vinum.html Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CVSUP Issues FBSD 6.0
Hiya, I'm having a problem with newly installed system. cvsup -g L 2 supfile gives Release not specified for collection default with the supfile (based on standard-supfile) containing: default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org default base=/var/db default prefix=/usr default release=cvs default tag=RELENG_6_0 default delete use-rel-suffix src-all I have tried different mirrors with the same result. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CVSUP Issues FBSD 6.0
On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 14:30, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 2:09 PM + 11/12/05, Robert Slade wrote: Hiya, I'm having a problem with newly installed system. cvsup -g L 2 supfile gives Release not specified for collection default with the supfile (based on standard-supfile) containing: default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org default base=/var/db default prefix=/usr default release=cvs default tag=RELENG_6_0 default delete use-rel-suffix src-all You do not want default as a collection. You want to *set* default values for some variables. To set default values, you need to have an '*' character before the word 'default'. E.g.: *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs *default tag=RELENG_6_0 *default delete use-rel-suffix src-all Note that you do not want to add a '*' before 'src-all', because 'src-all' is the name of a collection that you want to track. Garance, Thanks - it's working. I was staring at it and totally missed the *. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Compile Kernel Question
On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 21:35, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: Greetings All, I am new to FreeBSD but have a lot of Linux experience so I think that the migration should not be too difficult. The reason that I am investigating FreeBSD is because I hear that it performs GREAT under heavy loads and many larger ISP are using it without fail. In my experience, Linux, although a great OS, seems to bog down under heavy loading. I could be wrong though and it could have just been to misconfiguration on my part. Well, I have a base installation of FreeBSD 4.11 which is needed for a particular project but now need to compile the kernel to support QUOTA's. My question is how do I install the sources over the web so that I can compile the kernel to support quotas? The FreeBSD docs tell a little, but mostly assume that you have the sources already on the system to compile which I do not have and need to download them. If some one could please give me a little guidance then I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance, Lonnie Lonnie, It's is the handbook see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html It tell you how to install the source at the beginning. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: BGL
On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 04:58, Ansar Mohammed wrote: I love FreeBSD. I have been using it since 2.x. I have never had any problems with it. Rock Solid. Never a single kernel panic. Then I come across this article in a comparison between Linux and FreeBSD saying that FreeBSD has kernel locking issues. Specifically, a problem nicknamed BGL or Big Giant Lock. It seems that it affects SMP systems under high load. How much do other OSes suffer from this? -Original Message- From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: September 30, 2005 4:46 PM To: Ansar Mohammed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BGL On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 10:09:17PM -0400, Ansar Mohammed wrote: Is the kernel locking issue with FreeBSD 4.x sorted out in 5.x? I can't seem to get a proper answer. Perhaps because the above isn't a proper question? Yes, the BGL was pushed down a lot in FreeBSD 5. It still covers some parts of the kernel (less in 6), so if can be more precise about a specific locking issue then perhaps we can give a more precise answer. Kris Ansar, I have had a mail server running a SMP kernel with Fedora Core 2 I have not seen any Kernel Lockup or random reboots. I am been having problems with a Quad processor machine with both 5.4 and 6 beta so much so that the machine is unusable with the SMP kernel. Hope this helps Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BGL
On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 09:27, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 07:43:51AM +0100, Robert Slade wrote: Ansar, I have had a mail server running a SMP kernel with Fedora Core 2 I have not seen any Kernel Lockup or random reboots. I am been having problems with a Quad processor machine with both 5.4 and 6 beta so much so that the machine is unusable with the SMP kernel. Hope this helps Actually that's pretty unhelpful. You forgot to say what problems you are seeing, so we can't tell whether they're due to bad hardware, a FreeBSD bug or a broken operator :-) Kris Kris, I did report the problem with the SMP kernel on this mailing list. It is not a hardware problem. This issue is random reboots with both 5.4 and 6 beta there is nothing in the logs to indicate what the problem is. Having spent some 36 hrs trying to locate the problem I was forced to give up. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: BGL
On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 15:01, Tamouh H. wrote: Hi Rob, For anyone here to be able to help you with this, we need much more information. For example: Make/Model of the machine: Type of CPUs, Speed: Type of RAM/Size: Type of Controller Card: Type of Hard Drives: Network Card: Applications running: or post a full dmesg.boot If you have compiled a new Kernel, post the modifications you've made to the Kernel. How random are these reboots ? Do they happen after a day ? a week ? Do they always happen at the same time ? I've once encountered random reboots on cPanel servers due to a cron perl script that did not have the proper path specified. The more info you give, the more helpful we can be here. Thanks! Tamouh Tamouth, Thank you for the reply. I did post several mails to the list and did not get any replies. The machine is back in storage at present as I could not afford to spend any more time on it. The details as far as I can remember without getting it out are: Proliant 5000 server fitted with quad Xenon 200Mhz processors and 1Gbyte of memory with a raid controller and 5 9.1 Scsi drives. To try and isolate the problem I removed all the drives and put a spare 9.1 drive in. As far as applications went I was using DHCP and a DNS plus xwindows/kde with vncserver on a small test network consisting of a router and a windows xp pro machine running putty and tightvnc to connect. I tried 5.4 stable 1st. With the standard kernel ie without any changes from the generic it worked fine - running for over 48 hours. Using the SMP kernel ie using the smp config with no other changes, I got random reboots after between 1/2 hr and 6 hrs. I also tried 6.0 beta via cvsup build world mergemaster etc. This gave the same results. I had to stop at that point as I ran out of time. I will have another go when I have time. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: osx-fbsd-winxp
On Sun, 2005-09-18 at 12:36, dick hoogendijk wrote: What is the best way to let the winxp machine communicate with the mac/osx? And what about the fbsd machine. Is there a protocol I can use for all three of them? Dick, You could use VNC one each of the machines to export their desktops. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mail question
On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 00:02, Chris Petrovitch wrote: Alexander Bogdanov wrote: Hello. I'm student from Latvia. I'd like to ask you a question about Postfix mail system under FreeBSD. I have such problem: target is to allow user to change his mail account's password by himself. For example, I set password for his account, and maybe, user doesn't want me to know this password, so he'd like to change it! The question is: HOW? I'm looking forward to hearing from you. I'm in the same situation I used /etc/passwd for people with shell accounts, and /usr/local/etc/userdb (courier-imap) for virtual accounts.. any insight on this would be great! Chris, I can't help directly, but couier-imap does have an addon courier-passd which allows remote changing of passwords. There is an example on the qmailrocks site: http://freebsd.qmailrocks.org/imap.htm Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PL 5000 Random Reboots
On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 09:56, Robert Slade wrote: Hi, I have been having problems with random reboots when using the SMP Kernel on the above Quad processor machine. It occurs with bot 5.4 and 6.0B4. It does not happen with a single processor kernel, well not in the last 12 hours. Searching the mailing list and google has thrown up a number of possible causes: a. there was an issue with the SMP kernel under load in 5.3 but the errata says the fix was incorporated in 5.4; b. there appears to be some problems with with the ACPI with some machines. Unfortunately, the SMP kernel needs ACPI so turning it off is not an option. c. there appears to be an issue with some network cards and USB with interupt 'storms'. The machine has 2 network cards both identified in dmesg as Compaq Netelligent 10/100, athough only one is in use. I am getting tl0: tx underrun -- increasing tx threshold to 512 bytes when using vncserver to run xwindows with KDE which maybe related. It looks like the most likely cause is ACPI, SMP or both, but as ACPI relates to interups, the interup 'storm' issue could be impacting. However I do not know enough about the workings of ACPI etc to be able to judge this. It looks to me that there is a number of things I could do to isolate the problem: 1. try building a kernel without SMP but with ACPI to see what effect that has. Question is is this possible with 6.0B4? 2. if the above gives a problem try changing the network cards for another type. 3. fix the underrun issue but I am not sure how to do that. I would be grateful for any comments ideas on the way forward as the machine is quite slow without the SMP kernel. Thanks Rob I know replying to you own messages is a sign of something or other. I have tried the machine with SMP disabled in the kernel and ACPI only. It has been running for over 22 hours with any problems. Next step - trying a new kernel with SMP enabled. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PL 5000 Random Reboots
Hi, I have been having problems with random reboots when using the SMP Kernel on the above Quad processor machine. It occurs with bot 5.4 and 6.0B4. It does not happen with a single processor kernel, well not in the last 12 hours. Searching the mailing list and google has thrown up a number of possible causes: a. there was an issue with the SMP kernel under load in 5.3 but the errata says the fix was incorporated in 5.4; b. there appears to be some problems with with the ACPI with some machines. Unfortunately, the SMP kernel needs ACPI so turning it off is not an option. c. there appears to be an issue with some network cards and USB with interupt 'storms'. The machine has 2 network cards both identified in dmesg as Compaq Netelligent 10/100, athough only one is in use. I am getting tl0: tx underrun -- increasing tx threshold to 512 bytes when using vncserver to run xwindows with KDE which maybe related. It looks like the most likely cause is ACPI, SMP or both, but as ACPI relates to interups, the interup 'storm' issue could be impacting. However I do not know enough about the workings of ACPI etc to be able to judge this. It looks to me that there is a number of things I could do to isolate the problem: 1. try building a kernel without SMP but with ACPI to see what effect that has. Question is is this possible with 6.0B4? 2. if the above gives a problem try changing the network cards for another type. 3. fix the underrun issue but I am not sure how to do that. I would be grateful for any comments ideas on the way forward as the machine is quite slow without the SMP kernel. Thanks Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Deleting directories
On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 18:21, Rem P Roberti wrote: How does one go about deleting directories and their contents? RMDIR will only delete empty directories. Thanks, Rem Try man rm Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 5.4 sparc64 netboot install?
On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 07:08, Aaron Glenn wrote: On 9/8/05, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:48:56PM -0700, Aaron Glenn wrote: If you can point me to a resource I've overlooked, please do so. I would greatly appreciate a hit with the cluestick on this one. You don't need a special bootloader any longer. Just use the standard one. Kris Fair enough, but that isn't mentioned or documented anywhere. Posting to a mailing list is *always* a last resort; and yet I had to because I could find nothing even remotely up to date on the subject. I've continued to use FreeBSD for the past five years because of the documentation. Why isn't the netboot installation method detailed definitively somewhere? Is it simply because no one has updated the previous one, or is there another reason? If it were supported, shouldn't it be listed in the installation notes? aaron.glenn Try this: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/installation-ia64.html reachable from the home page - installation notes _ sparc64 Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem RESOLVED
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 17:26, Robert Slade wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 00:21, Vizion wrote: On Tuesday 30 August 2005 13:31, the author Robert Slade contributed to the dialogue on- Re: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem: On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 21:20, Vizion wrote: On Tuesday 30 August 2005 13:22, the author Robert Slade contributed to the dialogue on- Re: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem: On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 20:10, Vizion wrote: On Tuesday 30 August 2005 12:05, the author Robert Slade contributed to the dialogue on- Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem: Hiya, I've been working on this beasty on and off for some time. It's a Quad processor 1 Gbyte of memory and 5 scsi drives using the 2p raid controller setup as 2 raid arrays + 1 spare. The machine works fine with 5.4 release #0 with the supplied generic kernel. The problem(s) I have been having are: 1. When I recompiled the Kernel with SMP support, I get random reboots. It also fails to boot sometimes failing at the point after waiting for the scsi drives to settle. I get some error codes and Fbsd fails to find the boot device. 2. I CVSuped to 5.4 release #2 and recompiled the Kernel with SMP support. This does to boot at all. It gets as far as the waiting 15s for scsi devices to settle, then (appears to) reset the scsi controller and immediately tries to access the drives (does not wait). I have tried recompiling with scsi_delay set to 3 (30s) with no change. I have checked dmesg and message logs but there is nothing related to the problem(s) there. I have gone back to the 5.4 release #0 single processor kernel for now which is a shame as the machine is slow without the multi processor support. The only thing out of the ordinary I have noted is a tx underunn -- increasing threshold to 512 bytes message which appears related to running kde remotely via vncserver and tinync. Any ideas, I can send conf files etc if needed. Thanks Rob What are your bios setting? My guess is that you have not made the right setting using the siftware and configuration utilities david David, Thanks. The BIOS setting appear ok - OS type is set as UNIX (Small disk geometry) and the machine passes all the diagnostics. Rob I cannot remember - but I have sneaking notion that you need to set it as linux Tried that too :-). I think that the problem is that with 5.4 release #2 it is trying to access that scsi drives immediately then inducing the kernel panic for 15s. Rather than inducing the panic 1st. Rob Did you follow my suggestion and search the HP resources with freebsd and your model. I have had the same problem myself I am pretty certain it was fixed by changes using the Proliant Essrntial Foundation Pack.. but my memory may not be accurate. david David, I did update the system and controller ROMs whne the machine was running windows. I have been on the HP site and as far as I can tell I have the latest. Rob For the record, lucking under SCO Unix is an update to the Raid Controller firmware which fixes the problem. You do need Dos or Windows to create the self booting disks. Only disk 1 is needed for the SMART 2P controller. The update appears to be only listed under SC Unix though. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: duplicate file names in iso - extraction to dos partition for dos install
On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 22:01, andyk wrote: Hi, I searched high and low, to answer my question, now I'm hoping you can help. I want to do an install of 5.4 from a dos partition. as I was extracting the files from the iso/archive to the dos partition, I got a lot of seemingly duplicate names, as dos considers mail and Mail the same. I renamed all the duplicates with a 2 after them, but I wonder what problems I will have when I try to do the install? I plan to buy the cd, but wanted to try out freeBSD before buying. I really appreciate any help - thanks, Andy ___ Andy, Installing from a Dos partition is not an option. As you found out Fbsd and unix in general does recognise file names of different cases as being different files. One point though FreeBSD is that it is Free. Why not use the CD to produce a floppy disk set and use that to do a ftp install or you could copy the CD(s). Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 07:01, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Vizion Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 4:21 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Robert Slade Subject: Re: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem Did you follow my suggestion and search the HP resources with freebsd and your model. I have had the same problem myself I am pretty certain it was fixed by changes using the Proliant Essrntial Foundation Pack.. but my memory may not be accurate. Yeah, what a awful design! You have to load an entire full-blown Windows install just to update the microcode in the SCSI raid controller. I saw they had done this the last time I setup a Compaq server and nearly barfed. You can still firmware update the machines' BIOS with a bootable floppy but that's it. To get anything else, helo Windows! At least you get the satisfaction of scratching it off once you've done the update. Ted -- Thanks Ted David, The HP site does not turn up anything about FreeBSD and the Proliant. However I have found out that the Smart-2 family controllers do have an update. There is a Linux version of the flash utility so I'll try that first. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 00:21, Vizion wrote: On Tuesday 30 August 2005 13:31, the author Robert Slade contributed to the dialogue on- Re: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem: On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 21:20, Vizion wrote: On Tuesday 30 August 2005 13:22, the author Robert Slade contributed to the dialogue on- Re: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem: On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 20:10, Vizion wrote: On Tuesday 30 August 2005 12:05, the author Robert Slade contributed to the dialogue on- Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem: Hiya, I've been working on this beasty on and off for some time. It's a Quad processor 1 Gbyte of memory and 5 scsi drives using the 2p raid controller setup as 2 raid arrays + 1 spare. The machine works fine with 5.4 release #0 with the supplied generic kernel. The problem(s) I have been having are: 1. When I recompiled the Kernel with SMP support, I get random reboots. It also fails to boot sometimes failing at the point after waiting for the scsi drives to settle. I get some error codes and Fbsd fails to find the boot device. 2. I CVSuped to 5.4 release #2 and recompiled the Kernel with SMP support. This does to boot at all. It gets as far as the waiting 15s for scsi devices to settle, then (appears to) reset the scsi controller and immediately tries to access the drives (does not wait). I have tried recompiling with scsi_delay set to 3 (30s) with no change. I have checked dmesg and message logs but there is nothing related to the problem(s) there. I have gone back to the 5.4 release #0 single processor kernel for now which is a shame as the machine is slow without the multi processor support. The only thing out of the ordinary I have noted is a tx underunn -- increasing threshold to 512 bytes message which appears related to running kde remotely via vncserver and tinync. Any ideas, I can send conf files etc if needed. Thanks Rob What are your bios setting? My guess is that you have not made the right setting using the siftware and configuration utilities david David, Thanks. The BIOS setting appear ok - OS type is set as UNIX (Small disk geometry) and the machine passes all the diagnostics. Rob I cannot remember - but I have sneaking notion that you need to set it as linux Tried that too :-). I think that the problem is that with 5.4 release #2 it is trying to access that scsi drives immediately then inducing the kernel panic for 15s. Rather than inducing the panic 1st. Rob Did you follow my suggestion and search the HP resources with freebsd and your model. I have had the same problem myself I am pretty certain it was fixed by changes using the Proliant Essrntial Foundation Pack.. but my memory may not be accurate. david David, I did update the system and controller ROMs whne the machine was running windows. I have been on the HP site and as far as I can tell I have the latest. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem
Hiya, I've been working on this beasty on and off for some time. It's a Quad processor 1 Gbyte of memory and 5 scsi drives using the 2p raid controller setup as 2 raid arrays + 1 spare. The machine works fine with 5.4 release #0 with the supplied generic kernel. The problem(s) I have been having are: 1. When I recompiled the Kernel with SMP support, I get random reboots. It also fails to boot sometimes failing at the point after waiting for the scsi drives to settle. I get some error codes and Fbsd fails to find the boot device. 2. I CVSuped to 5.4 release #2 and recompiled the Kernel with SMP support. This does to boot at all. It gets as far as the waiting 15s for scsi devices to settle, then (appears to) reset the scsi controller and immediately tries to access the drives (does not wait). I have tried recompiling with scsi_delay set to 3 (30s) with no change. I have checked dmesg and message logs but there is nothing related to the problem(s) there. I have gone back to the 5.4 release #0 single processor kernel for now which is a shame as the machine is slow without the multi processor support. The only thing out of the ordinary I have noted is a tx underunn -- increasing threshold to 512 bytes message which appears related to running kde remotely via vncserver and tinync. Any ideas, I can send conf files etc if needed. Thanks Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: compiling kernel
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 22:14, Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, Trying to compile the kernel I found this problem: My PC has not ISA slot and I want to disable it from /sys/i386/conf/MYKERNEL but on /boot/device.hints I found some devices pointing to isa. Can I remove those devices declarations? Because for example my pc doesn't have SCSI but what can I do with ata, fdc, ppc, sio, vga, psm and atkbdc devices? Can I also remove them? Thanks a lot... Efren, See the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html In particular it says to not remove isa support even if you have no isa. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 20:10, Vizion wrote: On Tuesday 30 August 2005 12:05, the author Robert Slade contributed to the dialogue on- Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem: Hiya, I've been working on this beasty on and off for some time. It's a Quad processor 1 Gbyte of memory and 5 scsi drives using the 2p raid controller setup as 2 raid arrays + 1 spare. The machine works fine with 5.4 release #0 with the supplied generic kernel. The problem(s) I have been having are: 1. When I recompiled the Kernel with SMP support, I get random reboots. It also fails to boot sometimes failing at the point after waiting for the scsi drives to settle. I get some error codes and Fbsd fails to find the boot device. 2. I CVSuped to 5.4 release #2 and recompiled the Kernel with SMP support. This does to boot at all. It gets as far as the waiting 15s for scsi devices to settle, then (appears to) reset the scsi controller and immediately tries to access the drives (does not wait). I have tried recompiling with scsi_delay set to 3 (30s) with no change. I have checked dmesg and message logs but there is nothing related to the problem(s) there. I have gone back to the 5.4 release #0 single processor kernel for now which is a shame as the machine is slow without the multi processor support. The only thing out of the ordinary I have noted is a tx underunn -- increasing threshold to 512 bytes message which appears related to running kde remotely via vncserver and tinync. Any ideas, I can send conf files etc if needed. Thanks Rob What are your bios setting? My guess is that you have not made the right setting using the siftware and configuration utilities david David, Thanks. The BIOS setting appear ok - OS type is set as UNIX (Small disk geometry) and the machine passes all the diagnostics. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 21:20, Vizion wrote: On Tuesday 30 August 2005 13:22, the author Robert Slade contributed to the dialogue on- Re: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem: On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 20:10, Vizion wrote: On Tuesday 30 August 2005 12:05, the author Robert Slade contributed to the dialogue on- Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem: Hiya, I've been working on this beasty on and off for some time. It's a Quad processor 1 Gbyte of memory and 5 scsi drives using the 2p raid controller setup as 2 raid arrays + 1 spare. The machine works fine with 5.4 release #0 with the supplied generic kernel. The problem(s) I have been having are: 1. When I recompiled the Kernel with SMP support, I get random reboots. It also fails to boot sometimes failing at the point after waiting for the scsi drives to settle. I get some error codes and Fbsd fails to find the boot device. 2. I CVSuped to 5.4 release #2 and recompiled the Kernel with SMP support. This does to boot at all. It gets as far as the waiting 15s for scsi devices to settle, then (appears to) reset the scsi controller and immediately tries to access the drives (does not wait). I have tried recompiling with scsi_delay set to 3 (30s) with no change. I have checked dmesg and message logs but there is nothing related to the problem(s) there. I have gone back to the 5.4 release #0 single processor kernel for now which is a shame as the machine is slow without the multi processor support. The only thing out of the ordinary I have noted is a tx underunn -- increasing threshold to 512 bytes message which appears related to running kde remotely via vncserver and tinync. Any ideas, I can send conf files etc if needed. Thanks Rob What are your bios setting? My guess is that you have not made the right setting using the siftware and configuration utilities david David, Thanks. The BIOS setting appear ok - OS type is set as UNIX (Small disk geometry) and the machine passes all the diagnostics. Rob I cannot remember - but I have sneaking notion that you need to set it as linux Tried that too :-). I think that the problem is that with 5.4 release #2 it is trying to access that scsi drives immediately then inducing the kernel panic for 15s. Rather than inducing the panic 1st. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dualboot with FBSD boot manager
On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 11:03, dick hoogendijk wrote: On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:34:43 +0200 Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a PC with two hard drives, one (master) dedicated FreeBSD the other (slave) dedicated XP. The XP was preinstalled, and to avoid any confusion, I disconnected the disk while installing FreeBSD. Now, I'd like to configure the FreeBSD boot manager to dual boot. In the menu, I can choose FreeBSD or Disk 1, but choosing the latter does not boot XP. How do I postconfigure the boot manager? Windows, including XP, wants to boot off the C-drive (the first boot device that is). So either you switch your drives OR you setup the BIOS to boot of the SECOND hardrive first. That is not quite true. Windows Xp (NT, 2k) can be on any partion. The boot loader need to be at the start of the C-Drive. There is a previous post regarding the problem at: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=851242+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2005/freebsd-questions/20050807.freebsd-questions Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Active Directory Server
On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 08:43, Norberto Meijome wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone any experience trying to make FreeBSD an Active Directory Server? From my research and experiementation, I am under the impression that it is possible, but I have yet to come up with any articles where it has actual been done fully. it may be not relevant, or simply wrong, but IIRC, e-smith , a linux distrib that was started by mitel, ( http://www.e-smith.com/ ), has Samba *and* winXP sees it as a domain. I can't recall if it's an AD (I *think* it is, as the esmith server runs LDAP, iirc). The trick to let the client see the linux/samba server as an AD server was to disable some kind of encryption / cert related option in the client's registry. I'll see if i get hold of the colleague that worked on this and ask him the details. hope this is of some help. Beto I've been following this tread with some interest as I am looking to replace a small network running W2k server with a BSD centred one. The Samba site - http://us2.samba.org/samba/ has some very useful information including Howtos and examples. There is however, a warning: At this time any appearance that Samba-3 is capable of acting as a domain controller in native ADS mode is limited and experimental in nature. This functionality should not be used until the Samba Team offers formal support for it. At such a time, the documentation will be revised to duly reflect all configuration and management requirements. Samba can act as a NT4-style domain controller in a Windows 2000/XP environment. However, there are certain compromises: * No machine policy files. * No Group Policy Objects. * No synchronously executed Active Directory logon scripts. * Can't use Active Directory management tools to manage users and machines. * Registry changes tattoo the main registry, while with Active Directory they do not leave permanent changes in effect. * Without Active Directory you cannot perform the function of exporting specific applications to specific users or groups. I am currently working on setting up the network, and one of the things that is quite clear is that full ADS functionality is not necessary. My view is that for a small network, roaming profiles, printer and file sharing is all that is really necessary. It looks like Samba has no problem with that. I think that the real problem with answering the original post is that the question is too general. There are a number of different examples dependant on the network requirements on the Samba site which could be taken as a start point. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: version 6 ?
On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 09:42, Glenn Dawson wrote: At 02:10 AM 7/31/2005, Justin Wert wrote: To whom it may concern, im just a little confused, im seeing a many referances to version 6 on your website, but i can't physically find it anywhere. is this a version currently being worked on? or released for certain architectures? some more information would be most helpful. Version six is currently in beta. You can download the iso images from here ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.0/ -Glenn thank you, justin wert [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can also get it by cvsup using the RELENG_6 Tag. Note not all CVS sites have it. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reverting Ports 5.4 - 5.3
Hi, As I have been having problems with 5.4 on my Compaq Pl5000, I would like to go back to 5.3-Stable. Is it possible to roll back the ports via CVSUP to 5.3 by just changing the TAG=. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reverting Ports 5.4 - 5.3
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 10:26, Björn König wrote: Robert Slade wrote: As I have been having problems with 5.4 on my Compaq Pl5000, I would like to go back to 5.3-Stable. Is it possible to roll back the ports via CVSUP to 5.3 by just changing the TAG=. There are not much reasons to use an old version of the ports. Do you have a specific problem? By the way, most likely you mean that you want to go back to 5.3-RELEASE. The operating system whose uname -r shows 5.3-STABLE is one of thousands states between November 2004 and May 2005. Björn Thank you for the reply. My problem is that the machine worked fine with 5.3. The Machine is Qad processor 1 Gb ram with hardware raid with 5 drives set as 2 Raid arrays and 1 spare. I did a CVSup to RELENG_5. I rebuilt world and the kernel. Here the problems started. On booting it could not find any hard drives. It tried to boot the correct drive, but failed. At the mountroot prompt the ? option only lists the CD and FD. As far as I can tell it is a problem with GEOM trying to take over the raid. I can boot using kernel.old. From the 5.4 release notes GEOM is mandatory for 5.4. As I do not have the expertise to fix this and I would rather have a working system, I would like to role back to 5.3 as this worked. I assume that if I did a CVSup with TAG=5.3 this should get me back to 5.3_stable. I am not convinced though. Is this correct? Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: howto export kde from freeBSD 5.4 ?
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 13:30, PK wrote: hi howto allow kde export from freeBSD 5.4 ? I mean to load KDE, for example with X-Win32 http://www.xwin32.com/en/products/ on the windows machine ? kind regards piotr You are probably better off with VNC. Freebsd has a VNC Server in the ports and there are several free vnc clients for windows. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reverting Ports 5.4 - 5.3
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 15:03, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: Robert Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As I do not have the expertise to fix this and I would rather have a working system, I would like to role back to 5.3 as this worked. I assume that if I did a CVSup with TAG=5.3 this should get me back to 5.3_stable. I am not convinced though. Is this correct? AFAIK, the only 5 thing called stable is 5-STABLE = RELENG_5, which, of course, is not stable; for that reason, you might try getting and trying it again -- you might have grabbed it at a bad moment, like between updates. And I'm not aware of a 5.3 tag other than RELENG_5_3 (the latest bug-fix release) and RELENG_5_3_0_RELEASE (the original release). As for the ports, I doubt that you need to do anything, but it sounds from /usr/ports/sysutils/portdowngrade/pkg-descr that there's a way to revert ports as needed. Thanks Gary, I'm now very confused. I CVSuped with TAG=5.3, built world and the Kernel, but got the same problem with the boot disk not found. I'm not sure what to do next. I guess that I could try installing world in case that cures the problem the worst that could happen is that I can't boot the system. I can always reinstall from CD - that is probably quicker than trying to build a RELENG_5_3_0_Release. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what's next? (error after BTX started)
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 12:05, user local wrote: This computer I'm writing from is a Compaq Evo D310m/845 r BU ALL I found enthusiastic articles about FreeBSD, so I decide to download the stuff (FreeBSD5.4RELEASEi386) and I start to load it. Snip But seriously, I noticed that something strange is happening w/ booting even Micro$ on theese boxes, as well on some compaq laptops: the only floppy I manage to boot from was a Partition Image one, and when I installed an Open on a laptop, I discover a hidden partition at the begining of the hard disc. Several Live CDs and other booting CDs stuff, an W2k including, also failed. I have 20 boxes like this, and that's happend not only on a specific one, so it can not be a CD drive problem. Help me, please! just once! Bundy, Al, esq. The hidden partition is most likely the Compaq utilities. You should be using these to setup the machine for installing an OS. On my Compaq Prolient they are called at boot time by pressing F10. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what's next? (error after BTX started)
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 12:05, user local wrote: This computer I'm writing from is a Compaq Evo D310m/845 r BU ALL I found enthusiastic articles about FreeBSD, so I decide to download the stuff (FreeBSD5.4RELEASEi386) and I start to load it. Snip But seriously, I noticed that something strange is happening w/ booting even Micro$ on theese boxes, as well on some compaq laptops: the only floppy I manage to boot from was a Partition Image one, and when I installed an Open on a laptop, I discover a hidden partition at the begining of the hard disc. Several Live CDs and other booting CDs stuff, an W2k including, also failed. I have 20 boxes like this, and that's happend not only on a specific one, so it can not be a CD drive problem. Help me, please! just once! Bundy, Al, esq. The hidden partition is most likely the Compaq utilities. You should be using these to setup the machine for installing an OS. On my Compaq Prolient they are called at boot time by pressing F10. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what's next? (error after BTX started)
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 12:05, user local wrote: This computer I'm writing from is a Compaq Evo D310m/845 r BU ALL I found enthusiastic articles about FreeBSD, so I decide to download the stuff (FreeBSD5.4RELEASEi386) and I start to load it. Snip But seriously, I noticed that something strange is happening w/ booting even Micro$ on theese boxes, as well on some compaq laptops: the only floppy I manage to boot from was a Partition Image one, and when I installed an Open on a laptop, I discover a hidden partition at the begining of the hard disc. Several Live CDs and other booting CDs stuff, an W2k including, also failed. I have 20 boxes like this, and that's happend not only on a specific one, so it can not be a CD drive problem. Help me, please! just once! Bundy, Al, esq. The hidden partition is most likely the Compaq utilities. You should be using these to setup the machine for installing an OS. On my Compaq Prolient they are called at boot time by pressing F10. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what's next? (error after BTX started)
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 12:05, user local wrote: This computer I'm writing from is a Compaq Evo D310m/845 r BU ALL I found enthusiastic articles about FreeBSD, so I decide to download the stuff (FreeBSD5.4RELEASEi386) and I start to load it. Snip But seriously, I noticed that something strange is happening w/ booting even Micro$ on theese boxes, as well on some compaq laptops: the only floppy I manage to boot from was a Partition Image one, and when I installed an Open on a laptop, I discover a hidden partition at the begining of the hard disc. Several Live CDs and other booting CDs stuff, an W2k including, also failed. I have 20 boxes like this, and that's happend not only on a specific one, so it can not be a CD drive problem. Help me, please! just once! Bundy, Al, esq. The hidden partition is most likely the Compaq utilities. You should be using these to setup the machine for installing an OS. On my Compaq Prolient they are called at boot time by pressing F10. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BOOT Failure 5.4
Hi, I'm running FreeBSD on a CompaQ PL5000. I installed 5.3 which worked ok, I then CVSup'd to using RELENG_5 tag. After buildworld and build kernel the system fails to reboot. As far as I can tell, it is trying to load GEOM which fails to find any drives. I end up at a prompt - mountroot using the ? option for a list of valid boot devices only lists the cd and floppy disk. How can I stop GEOM from loading, is there an option in the kernel conf file or do I need to put something in loader.conf? Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: join my freebsd box to windows domain?
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 05:52, perikillo wrote: Hi all. I want to run freebsd 5.4 and join this machine to my windows 2k3 domain, i just want to browse with my freebsd machine the others windows clients and windows clients browse my box, i just want to be another machine on the domain, they are running Windows XP and others 2k. This is my first time i am going to try this, i want to know if is posible and wich software i need or where i can find some information about, i search with google, but all the examples talk about making freebsd domain member or PDC, is the only way...? Them if is posible, i will need samba software? Any information or link are welcome. NOTE: i want to setup this machine and be my backup server on my Redmond domain, this is way im investigate about this, i think that if i want to make one Unix system to be my backup system for window domain system i need to be another client on that domain, im right or wrong??? I have never than this, but i want to give a try. PDC Windows 2k3 Clients running winXP and win 2k. Freebsd 5.3 or 5.4. Thanks in advanced. Perkillo, You can do what you propose. You will need to use Samba. The Samba site is very good with examples. I suggest you start there. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help
On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 10:14, Rommi Alvian (MTHK/EDP) wrote: I am deeply interested with freeBSD. currently, i am a windows expert then i am trying to move into freeBSD. The problem is no one can teach me. i have read xxxguide but it can't help me. does freeBSD support GUI interface? please help step by step.. thanks alvian Alvian, The short answer to your question is yes. The longer answer is several GUIs - your choice. The handbook does give the information you need to set one up. First you will need Xwindows, which will give you the basic GUI structure. Once you have that working then you can use something like KDE or Gnome to give you the desk top. Again the details you need to set this up is in the handbook. There are some pitfalls though. Some Graphics cards have only limited support. Look at the hardware supported list on the FreeBSD site. Have fun. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Change of FQDN
Hiya, Just a quick question, I need to change the domain name of a machine running 5.4. I see that it is set when the machine boots up but I can't find out where is is set. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (no subject)
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 07:22, Emmett Lawson Jr wrote: does it support wireless 802.11g ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emmett, Yes, provided the hardware is supported. From the question, I guess you are new to FreeBSD etc so some tips: Read the documentation on the web site, in this case you could have easily got the answer from the supported hardware list. The handbook is fairly comprehensive too. You are more likely to get an answer if you have tied to help yourself first. Please don't forget the subject. There is a lot of traffic on this list and mails with no subject my get ignored. That said, the people here are quite helpful. Have fun. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't access to gmail (maybe a port problem with ipfw)
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 10:47, Emil Khatib wrote: Hi everybody. I'm trying to access gmail from my FreeBSD box (5.4). I'm usinf IPFW. The question is I can acces if I set ipfw to accept all from any to any, so I know there's a port that should be opened to access the main page of gmail. When the firewall is up (allowing only traffic through ports 21, 80 and above 1024) I can't even acces gmail main page (mozilla simply ignores the address I give it) Thanks in advance for any help ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emil, I don't know gmail, but if it is using https that is port 443 so you may need to open up that too. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DSL setup
On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 18:34, Jake Kim wrote: Thanks for a good point Lowell, How do I know if mine doesn't support PPP? I just thought it would use PPPoE because Windows XP uses PPPoE. Thanks, Jake Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jake Kim writes: I just installed FreeBSD 5.4 and am having problems setting up DSL. I followed the instructions in the handbook, but nothing worked. Do I have to configure something else other than ppp.conf? Let's back up a step first. Does your DSL setup *use* PPP? [Mine doesn't.] Jake, We bottom post here. You need to find out what protocol your ISP uses ie ask them. BTW Widows XP supports more than PPPoE but is realy your modem that does the work. Chances are that your ISP (Pac Bell?) does use PPPoE but I maybe wrong. rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ftp access Q's to ftp.freeBSD mirrors
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 07:53, datora tehnika wrote: Good morning, all ! Thanks for the responses pointers. [ DUH! sorry about sending this out wrong the first time to a1poweruser; misread the headers in the reply-to ] I realize the intitial post was long, but I did clearly indicate that the FTP attempts were numurous using quite a lot of anon vs. anonymous vs. public vs. email addy username/password combo's at several ftp sites. THE QUESTION : if I go to ftp.freebsd.org, and I attempt to login w/ ftp software as an anonymous user, PLEASE : what username am I supposed to use? What password, if any, am I suuposed to use ?? Thanks for the recommendations on which packages to try, but login protocol/settings am I supposed to be using? From a Windoze2K machine ..? If I'm missing that at the site, I'd apprec the URL so I can figure why I'm missing that info and not have to bother you with questions this trivial. Datora Ftp mirrors etc can be found at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html AFAK, logon is anonymous - pwd your e-name address. You can also get the CD's from a number of sources eg ebay. They are quite cheap and may save you some grief. The sellers are not allowed to charge for the Software only for producing the CDs. Another way is to use a download manager there are a number of free ones for W2K. You can leave it running and if the connection is lost, it will restart from where it lost the connection from. Here is an example: http://www.gozilla.com/ Hope this helps Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
