Re: Newbie
First off susbscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Second, there are a number of books out there for complete newbies and even for seasond professionals. I personally recommand AbsoluteBSD by Michael Lucas. Cheers -chris Hi, I am new to this, just wandering if I could get some pointers in right direction into learning this software from basics to gaining intermidiate skills. I am a cisco engineer however want to learn the unix/linux too. any advice you can give me or what will help in learning BSD. Regards Chintan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -cs ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie
Hello Chintan: In addition to Chris' advice I heartily recommend the tutorials at FreeBSD basics: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/ct/15 I also find Greg Lehey's The Complete FreeBSD to be a very good reference book. On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 23:03:14 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a cisco engineer however want to learn the unix/linux too. any advice you can give me or what will help in learning BSD. Regards Chintan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie trouble - Internet problem solved!!!
I now have Internet up and working. Great! One less mass mailing drone on the Inet! :o) Next problem is to learn handling the ports! Ask away... Steve cheers jobse ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: newbie trouble - Internet connection
Well, do an ifconfig -a and post it so that we have some more information. Please post your /etc/rc.conf as well Non of the ISP's I know of support anything other then Windows and Mac OS. But, we should be able to make it work! Michael Clark Nemschoff Chairs Inc mclark at nemschoff dot com CompTIA A+, Network+, Server+, MCP Voice: (920) 457 7726 x294 Fax: (920) 453 6594 -Original Message- From: jobse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 11:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: newbie trouble - Internet connection Hello! Having trouble with getting my internet connection to work under FreeBSD 5.2.1, although it works well under Fedora. Am abel to connect to host(my ISP) and I am getting login/logout prompt with statics about uptime etc. However I cannot get to any Internet site. My ISP havent got a clue they say, they don't provide support for OS:s other than windows -major drag btw. thanks jobse ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: This electronic transmission, including all attachments, is directed in confidence solely to the person(s) to whom it is addressed, or an authorized recipient, and may not otherwise be distributed, copied or disclosed. The contents of the transmission may also be subject to intellectual property rights and all such rights are expressly claimed and are not waived. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately by return electronic transmission and then immediately delete this transmission, including all attachments, without copying, distributing or disclosing same. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie trouble - Internet connection
Hey Jobse, jobse wrote: Hello! Having trouble with getting my internet connection to work under FreeBSD 5.2.1, although it works well under Fedora. Am abel to connect to host(my ISP) and I am getting login/logout prompt with statics about uptime etc. However I cannot get to any Internet site. My ISP havent got a clue they say, they don't provide support for OS:s other than windows -major drag btw. thanks jobse Most ISP's do that, since most users have Windows. Did you turnon any dns servers? if not then that might cause you having issues connecting to other sites. How do you connect to host (your ISP) ? ssh $ip-addr-ISP or a browser pointing to http://$ip-addr-of-ISP. Do you use a Firewall? etc Hth, -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder |[EMAIL PROTECTED] Reporter DSINet|[EMAIL PROTECTED] Projectleader Mostly-Harmless |[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: newbie trouble - Internet connection
Thanks for answering! I'm unable to give you the whole thing 'cause FreeBSD is on the other partion. //ifconfig vr0:flags=...UP,BROADCASTING,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 //some lines Status active plip0:flags=...POINTTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST Mtu 1500 lo0:flags=...UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICASTmtu 16384 //some lines // rc.conf hostname=proxenos.comhem.se ifconfig_vr0=DHCP linux_enable yes mouse... saver usbd rpcbind_enable=yes /jobse ons 2004-06-16 klockan 18.45 skrev Michael Clark: Well, do an ifconfig -a and post it so that we have some more information. Please post your /etc/rc.conf as well Non of the ISP's I know of support anything other then Windows and Mac OS. But, we should be able to make it work! Michael Clark Nemschoff Chairs Inc mclark at nemschoff dot com CompTIA A+, Network+, Server+, MCP Voice: (920) 457 7726 x294 Fax: (920) 453 6594 --Original Message-- From: jobse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 11:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: newbie trouble - Internet connection Hello! Having trouble with getting my internet connection to work under FreeBSD 5.2.1, although it works well under Fedora. Am abel to connect to host(my ISP) and I am getting login/logout prompt with statics about uptime etc. However I cannot get to any Internet site. My ISP havent got a clue they say, they don't provide support for OS:s other than windows -major drag btw. thanks jobse ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: This electronic transmission, including all attachments, is directed in confidence solely to the person(s) to whom it is addressed, or an authorized recipient, and may not otherwise be distributed, copied or disclosed. The contents of the transmission may also be subject to intellectual property rights and all such rights are expressly claimed and are not waived. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately by return electronic transmission and then immediately delete this transmission, including all attachments, without copying, distributing or disclosing same. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie trouble - Internet connection
Hello! Well, I have no DNS installed, no server at all actually and I use mozilla when connecting. The problem is not the browser, right? Perhaps a firewall as you mentioned, or, the file /etc/hosts... hosts.allow? ons 2004-06-16 klockan 19.28 skrev Remko Lodder: Hey Jobse, jobse wrote: Hello! Having trouble with getting my internet connection to work under FreeBSD 5.2.1, although it works well under Fedora. Am abel to connect to host(my ISP) and I am getting login/logout prompt with statics about uptime etc. However I cannot get to any Internet site. My ISP havent got a clue they say, they don't provide support for OS:s other than windows -major drag btw. thanks jobse Most ISP's do that, since most users have Windows. Did you turnon any dns servers? if not then that might cause you having issues connecting to other sites. How do you connect to host (your ISP) ? ssh $ip-addr-ISP or a browser pointing to http://$ip-addr-of-ISP. Do you use a Firewall? etc Hth, ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie trouble - Internet connection
Well, I have no DNS installed, no server at all actually and I use mozilla when connecting. The problem is not the browser, right? Perhaps a firewall as you mentioned, or, the file /etc/hosts... hosts.allow? I may have missed something, but how do you connect to your ISP? Dial-up ppp, PPPoE (DSL), Cable etc? Do you have a gateway device at your location? What is the output of the following: # ping 127.0.0.1 # ping localhost What is the 'default' entry say when you do: # netstat -rn Next, what is the output of the following command?: # cat /etc/resolv.conf Regards, Steve ons 2004-06-16 klockan 19.28 skrev Remko Lodder: Hey Jobse, jobse wrote: Hello! Having trouble with getting my internet connection to work under FreeBSD 5.2.1, although it works well under Fedora. Am abel to connect to host(my ISP) and I am getting login/logout prompt with statics about uptime etc. However I cannot get to any Internet site. My ISP havent got a clue they say, they don't provide support for OS:s other than windows -major drag btw. thanks jobse Most ISP's do that, since most users have Windows. Did you turnon any dns servers? if not then that might cause you having issues connecting to other sites. How do you connect to host (your ISP) ? ssh $ip-addr-ISP or a browser pointing to http://$ip-addr-of-ISP. Do you use a Firewall? etc Hth, ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: newbie trouble - Internet connection
Sounds like you just need to add dns servers to your /etc/resolv.conf Your ISP should be able to give them to you. Entries are just: nameserver 123.123.123.132 ifconfig -a should have displayed your ip address. That will tell you if your dhcp is really working. Michael Clark Nemschoff Chairs Inc mclark at nemschoff dot com CompTIA A+, Network+, Server+, MCP Voice: (920) 457 7726 x294 Fax: (920) 453 6594 -Original Message- From: jobse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 12:45 PM To: Michael Clark; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: newbie trouble - Internet connection Thanks for answering! I'm unable to give you the whole thing 'cause FreeBSD is on the other partion. //ifconfig vr0:flags=...UP,BROADCASTING,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 //some lines Status active plip0:flags=...POINTTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST Mtu 1500 lo0:flags=...UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICASTmtu 16384 //some lines // rc.conf hostname=proxenos.comhem.se ifconfig_vr0=DHCP linux_enable yes mouse... saver usbd rpcbind_enable=yes /jobse ons 2004-06-16 klockan 18.45 skrev Michael Clark: Well, do an ifconfig -a and post it so that we have some more information. Please post your /etc/rc.conf as well Non of the ISP's I know of support anything other then Windows and Mac OS. But, we should be able to make it work! Michael Clark Nemschoff Chairs Inc mclark at nemschoff dot com CompTIA A+, Network+, Server+, MCP Voice: (920) 457 7726 x294 Fax: (920) 453 6594 --Original Message-- From: jobse [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 11:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: newbie trouble - Internet connection Hello! Having trouble with getting my internet connection to work under FreeBSD 5.2.1, although it works well under Fedora. Am abel to connect to host(my ISP) and I am getting login/logout prompt with statics about uptime etc. However I cannot get to any Internet site. My ISP havent got a clue they say, they don't provide support for OS:s other than windows -major drag btw. thanks jobse ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: This electronic transmission, including all attachments, is directed in confidence solely to the person(s) to whom it is addressed, or an authorized recipient, and may not otherwise be distributed, copied or disclosed. The contents of the transmission may also be subject to intellectual property rights and all such rights are expressly claimed and are not waived. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately by return electronic transmission and then immediately delete this transmission, including all attachments, without copying, distributing or disclosing same. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: This electronic transmission, including all attachments, is directed in confidence solely to the person(s) to whom it is addressed, or an authorized recipient, and may not otherwise be distributed, copied or disclosed. The contents of the transmission may also be subject to intellectual property rights and all such rights are expressly claimed and are not waived. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately by return electronic transmission and then immediately delete this transmission, including all attachments, without copying, distributing or disclosing same. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie trouble - Internet connection
Hello Steve! I am connected through Cabel. I don't have resolv.conf, thats for sure. Pinging looked fine. netstat -rn gave (briefly). destination: Gateway: default 213.64.3.1 vr0 213.64.3 ... ... ... 213.64.3.[myIP] 127.0.0.1 lo0 Thanks jobse ons 2004-06-16 klockan 20.18 skrev Steve Bertrand: Well, I have no DNS installed, no server at all actually and I use mozilla when connecting. The problem is not the browser, right? Perhaps a firewall as you mentioned, or, the file /etc/hosts... hosts.allow? I may have missed something, but how do you connect to your ISP? Dial-up ppp, PPPoE (DSL), Cable etc? Do you have a gateway device at your location? What is the output of the following: # ping 127.0.0.1 # ping localhost What is the 'default' entry say when you do: # netstat -rn Next, what is the output of the following command?: # cat /etc/resolv.conf Regards, Steve ons 2004-06-16 klockan 19.28 skrev Remko Lodder: Hey Jobse, jobse wrote: Hello! Having trouble with getting my internet connection to work under FreeBSD 5.2.1, although it works well under Fedora. Am abel to connect to host(my ISP) and I am getting login/logout prompt with statics about uptime etc. However I cannot get to any Internet site. My ISP havent got a clue they say, they don't provide support for OS:s other than windows -major drag btw. thanks jobse Most ISP's do that, since most users have Windows. Did you turnon any dns servers? if not then that might cause you having issues connecting to other sites. How do you connect to host (your ISP) ? ssh $ip-addr-ISP or a browser pointing to http://$ip-addr-of-ISP. Do you use a Firewall? etc Hth, ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie trouble - Internet connection
I am connected through Cabel. I don't have resolv.conf, thats for sure. Pinging looked fine. netstat -rn gave (briefly). destination: Gateway: default 213.64.3.1 vr0 213.64.3 ... ... ... 213.64.3.[myIP] 127.0.0.1 lo0 Good. It appears as though DHCP is working (hence having a default gateway), so as someone else already suggested, call up the ISP, ask them what the DNS servers are and create a new file (/etc/resolv.conf), and add the following lines to it: search isp-domain.com nameserver ip-of-dns-server1 nameserver ip-of dns-server2 save the file and now try to: # ping google.ca and or: # dig google.ca Cheers, Steve Thanks jobse ons 2004-06-16 klockan 20.18 skrev Steve Bertrand: Well, I have no DNS installed, no server at all actually and I use mozilla when connecting. The problem is not the browser, right? Perhaps a firewall as you mentioned, or, the file /etc/hosts... hosts.allow? I may have missed something, but how do you connect to your ISP? Dial-up ppp, PPPoE (DSL), Cable etc? Do you have a gateway device at your location? What is the output of the following: # ping 127.0.0.1 # ping localhost What is the 'default' entry say when you do: # netstat -rn Next, what is the output of the following command?: # cat /etc/resolv.conf Regards, Steve ons 2004-06-16 klockan 19.28 skrev Remko Lodder: Hey Jobse, jobse wrote: Hello! Having trouble with getting my internet connection to work under FreeBSD 5.2.1, although it works well under Fedora. Am abel to connect to host(my ISP) and I am getting login/logout prompt with statics about uptime etc. However I cannot get to any Internet site. My ISP havent got a clue they say, they don't provide support for OS:s other than windows -major drag btw. thanks jobse Most ISP's do that, since most users have Windows. Did you turnon any dns servers? if not then that might cause you having issues connecting to other sites. How do you connect to host (your ISP) ? ssh $ip-addr-ISP or a browser pointing to http://$ip-addr-of-ISP. Do you use a Firewall? etc Hth, ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie trouble - Internet connection
I am connected through Cabel. I don't have resolv.conf, thats for sure. Pinging looked fine. Better yet, don't bother calling the ISP. Here are the name server addresses for your ISP: 194.22.190.10 194.22.194.14 Regards, Steve netstat -rn gave (briefly). destination: Gateway: default 213.64.3.1 vr0 213.64.3 ... ... ... 213.64.3.[myIP] 127.0.0.1 lo0 Thanks jobse ons 2004-06-16 klockan 20.18 skrev Steve Bertrand: Well, I have no DNS installed, no server at all actually and I use mozilla when connecting. The problem is not the browser, right? Perhaps a firewall as you mentioned, or, the file /etc/hosts... hosts.allow? I may have missed something, but how do you connect to your ISP? Dial-up ppp, PPPoE (DSL), Cable etc? Do you have a gateway device at your location? What is the output of the following: # ping 127.0.0.1 # ping localhost What is the 'default' entry say when you do: # netstat -rn Next, what is the output of the following command?: # cat /etc/resolv.conf Regards, Steve ons 2004-06-16 klockan 19.28 skrev Remko Lodder: Hey Jobse, jobse wrote: Hello! Having trouble with getting my internet connection to work under FreeBSD 5.2.1, although it works well under Fedora. Am abel to connect to host(my ISP) and I am getting login/logout prompt with statics about uptime etc. However I cannot get to any Internet site. My ISP havent got a clue they say, they don't provide support for OS:s other than windows -major drag btw. thanks jobse Most ISP's do that, since most users have Windows. Did you turnon any dns servers? if not then that might cause you having issues connecting to other sites. How do you connect to host (your ISP) ? ssh $ip-addr-ISP or a browser pointing to http://$ip-addr-of-ISP. Do you use a Firewall? etc Hth, ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie trouble - Internet connection
Thanks Steve! And Michael and Remko! C'ya later. Regards Jobse(www.tintin.kau.se/users/03jobse) ons 2004-06-16 klockan 21.40 skrev Steve Bertrand: I am connected through Cabel. I don't have resolv.conf, thats for sure. Pinging looked fine. Better yet, don't bother calling the ISP. Here are the name server addresses for your ISP: 194.22.190.10 194.22.194.14 Regards, Steve netstat -rn gave (briefly). destination: Gateway: default 213.64.3.1 vr0 213.64.3 ... ... ... 213.64.3.[myIP] 127.0.0.1 lo0 Thanks jobse ons 2004-06-16 klockan 20.18 skrev Steve Bertrand: Well, I have no DNS installed, no server at all actually and I use mozilla when connecting. The problem is not the browser, right? Perhaps a firewall as you mentioned, or, the file /etc/hosts... hosts.allow? I may have missed something, but how do you connect to your ISP? Dial-up ppp, PPPoE (DSL), Cable etc? Do you have a gateway device at your location? What is the output of the following: # ping 127.0.0.1 # ping localhost What is the 'default' entry say when you do: # netstat -rn Next, what is the output of the following command?: # cat /etc/resolv.conf Regards, Steve ons 2004-06-16 klockan 19.28 skrev Remko Lodder: Hey Jobse, jobse wrote: Hello! Having trouble with getting my internet connection to work under FreeBSD 5.2.1, although it works well under Fedora. Am abel to connect to host(my ISP) and I am getting login/logout prompt with statics about uptime etc. However I cannot get to any Internet site. My ISP havent got a clue they say, they don't provide support for OS:s other than windows -major drag btw. thanks jobse Most ISP's do that, since most users have Windows. Did you turnon any dns servers? if not then that might cause you having issues connecting to other sites. How do you connect to host (your ISP) ? ssh $ip-addr-ISP or a browser pointing to http://$ip-addr-of-ISP. Do you use a Firewall? etc Hth, ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Issues (networking w/ FreeBSD)
On Jun 14, 2004, at 05:08, Jon Adams wrote: My network connectivity is ridiculously slow... I had OpenSSH timeout set to the default, 120 secs, and the messages file said the connections (on the same 100MBPs hub mind you) were timing out before authentication (password). I went in and doubled the timeout, and after a long wait (I didnt check the time) I could get a password prompt... at first I thought this was just a SSH problem, but it is the same if I use telnet (or any other network service). I have several devices on my Lan including 2 (eww) Windows XP laptops, and a PS2 and a XP workstation. I have 3 public IPs, (Speakeasy is the ISP) The laptops use a LinkSys 54G Wireless Hub and one public IP (its plugged into a NetGear 4 port hub), I split another IP with the Desktop and PS2, and the FreeBSD box will have its own IP, of course the final port is the uplink. There are absolutly no connectivity problems with the other machines. The FreeBSD box cannot connect to the dns servers (on three different networks) or much of anything else. Here is the really weird part, when I run an NMAP scan from inside the network and one from outside the network, the box is reachable (NMAP can see the ports and determine the OS), but nothing can connect to it (all connections time out). If you can ping devices by ip address, you have basic connectivity. Start with the local interface itself, then devices on the same physical network, then devices on other subnets of the local LAN. Any of these local devices should respond in single-digit milliseconds, with perhaps a drop of the first ping packet. If you get no route to host messages, or other total failure messages, check for correct/consistent subnet masking on all devices involved, or potential firewall blocking (if appropriate to configuration). If you get poor response (high dropped packet percentage, excessive delays), check for port speed/duplex matching problems or bad cabling. Assuming basic connectivity, many application timeout issues in Unix systems result from either forward or reverse name resolution failure. It can be frustrating to resolve, generally hard-coding the host and FQDN entries in the local hosts file and with the hostname utility is a good debugging step. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Issues (networking w/ FreeBSD).. Solved
Thanks for the response, turns out Speakeasy (ISP) had... ahem.. reprovisioned my IP Address when I made some changes to my service.. figured this out by putting rl0 on another IP with the same settings.. its all fixed now.. and the IPFW issue is resolved (thanks to the person who posted the kld) (doh)... Still havent figured out how i was able to NMAP it from outside my net... oh well.. it works now.. Thanks -- Jon Quoting Kevin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Jun 14, 2004, at 05:08, Jon Adams wrote: My network connectivity is ridiculously slow... I had OpenSSH timeout set to the default, 120 secs, and the messages file said the connections (on the same 100MBPs hub mind you) were timing out before authentication (password). I went in and doubled the timeout, and after a long wait (I didnt check the time) I could get a password prompt... at first I thought this was just a SSH problem, but it is the same if I use telnet (or any other network service). I have several devices on my Lan including 2 (eww) Windows XP laptops, and a PS2 and a XP workstation. I have 3 public IPs, (Speakeasy is the ISP) The laptops use a LinkSys 54G Wireless Hub and one public IP (its plugged into a NetGear 4 port hub), I split another IP with the Desktop and PS2, and the FreeBSD box will have its own IP, of course the final port is the uplink. There are absolutly no connectivity problems with the other machines. The FreeBSD box cannot connect to the dns servers (on three different networks) or much of anything else. Here is the really weird part, when I run an NMAP scan from inside the network and one from outside the network, the box is reachable (NMAP can see the ports and determine the OS), but nothing can connect to it (all connections time out). If you can ping devices by ip address, you have basic connectivity. Start with the local interface itself, then devices on the same physical network, then devices on other subnets of the local LAN. Any of these local devices should respond in single-digit milliseconds, with perhaps a drop of the first ping packet. If you get no route to host messages, or other total failure messages, check for correct/consistent subnet masking on all devices involved, or potential firewall blocking (if appropriate to configuration). If you get poor response (high dropped packet percentage, excessive delays), check for port speed/duplex matching problems or bad cabling. Assuming basic connectivity, many application timeout issues in Unix systems result from either forward or reverse name resolution failure. It can be frustrating to resolve, generally hard-coding the host and FQDN entries in the local hosts file and with the hostname utility is a good debugging step. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ipfw (was Re: Newbie Issues (networking w/ FreeBSD))
off the topic, if anybody could point me at how to build ipfw I would appreciate it, i have seen the basic tutorials via google, but have no idea where to get the kernel sources to do the install. You don't need any additional stuff, it all comes with FreeBSD. Either you load the kernelmodule with kldload ipfw or you compile the code into your kernel by adding options IPFIREWALL to your kernel-configuration. Be warned though that IPFW defaults to deny any connection, so either begin with an open type of firewall or load a ruleset, otherwise you'll be cut off the network. It's all in de Handbook (as always), see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/firewalls.html, or /usr/share/doc/en/books/handbook/firewalls.html. GH ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Issues (networking w/ FreeBSD)
--- Jon Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snipped stuff The (main) problem - My network connectivity is ridiculously slow... I had OpenSSH timeout set to the default, 120 secs, and the messages file said the connections (on the same 100MBPs hub mind you) were timing out before authentication (password). I went in and doubled the timeout, and after a long wait (I didnt check the time) I could get a password prompt... at first I thought this was just a SSH problem, but it is the same if I use telnet (or any other network service). I have several devices on my Lan including 2 (eww) Windows XP laptops, and a PS2 and a XP workstation. I have 3 public IPs, (Speakeasy is the ISP) The laptops use a LinkSys 54G Wireless Hub and one public IP (its plugged into a NetGear 4 port hub), I split another IP with the Desktop and PS2, and the FreeBSD box will have its own IP, of course the final port is the uplink. There are absolutly no connectivity problems with the other machines. The FreeBSD box cannot connect to the dns servers (on three different networks) or much of anything else. Considering the only response you have received thus far has been regarding IPFW, I may as well give a ham-handed attempt. My first guess is /etc/rc.conf. Is there a defaultrouter=x.x.x.x line? If you do an ifconfig -a are you getting an IP actually assigned? Perhaps your resolv.conf is not right? Should be similar to: domain nosuchdomainhere.net nameserver 1.2.3.4 where there are two entries for nameserver that jive with the ISP assigned DNS servers. Considering that you are manually setting your rl0, (not using DHCP), perhaps these are missing? Have you tried using rl0=DHCP? Perhaps the chance of finding a problem, is less of a pain then if your ISP changes something on you. Good luck. snipped... I can think of one thing at a time __ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie: 4.9 / 5.2.1 / 4.10 ??
Daniela wrote: On Friday 07 May 2004 16:25, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: 4) Can freebsd use a linux swap space? Yes, anything can be used as swap space, but be sure to determine the correct device file, or else you'll overwrite precious data. If, for example, you have the Linux swap on the second slice on the first IDE drive, the device file would be: /dev/ad0s2 (at least for 4.9, I think for 5.X it's /dev/ad0s2c but I'm not sure). This might help: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+FreeBSD.html It includes a section on sharing swap space. PWR. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie: 4.9 / 5.2.1 / 4.10 ??
cc'ed to questions: let's move it there? Geoffrey Lane wrote: I'm fairly familiar with linux and have been running redhat for a few years now. I'm looking for something I have more control over and isn't bloated with alot of stuff I don't need... BSD is on the top of my list, there are only a few set backs for me to make the switch: 1) should I download and install the new technology releases or use the 4.x branch and what are the differences? First off, before someone else flames in, you are probably going to be told to send this to questions@ instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] However, I read both, and will cc: this over so that anything I say that's dumb will get shot down (hopefully before it causes you grief ;-) ) I have had no issues with the 5.X branch, and it will, sooner or later, be the STABLE branch of development, and 4.X will fade into RAM... For me, the most notable difference is that 5.X does background file system checking in the even of improper shutdown, thus speeding up the boot process. It also has a new boot menu with more options, although I've not had cause to use this much, maybe at all. I won't comment on ufs2; it hasn't been default on my installs, so I am running on ufs (the elder file system). The kernel structure is a little different; 5.x is a very modular thing compared to 4.x. PERL in 5.x is 5.6.1 as opposed to 5.0003 ... there was talk of moving PERL out of the base system; but apparently this hasn't happened yet, as perl is still in /usr/bin instead of /usr/local/bin... Please keep in mind this is me talking, and I'm not official or even Real Knowledgeable (tm)on such matters... 2) How do they differ (new tech/4.9)? Is this the same as #1? Or was #1 asking only about installation. In my experience, installation hasn't changed much at all between 4.x and 5.x 3) Are new technology (eg. 5.2.x) considered the unstable branch? Not exactly, but maybe, sort of. The cutting edge chapter of the handbook (www.freebsd.org/handbook) will give you some insight into this area. It's not exactly that the OS is unstable in 5.X --- there are a few issues still in transition (you mention GEOM?, others report some ACPI issues on some mobos, watchdog timeouts on Intel Gigabit Ether cards (I think...?), problems with ufs2 (only hearsay AFAIAmConcered) --- the real point, at least according to one committer I've talked to, is that 5.X/CURRENT is simply still in development, and it might be possible that someone would, prior to 5.X being deemed STABLE instead of CURRENT, create changes in the codebase that would require everyone to rebuild not only their kernel/userland, but potentially every piece of 3rd party software on a system. Now, I'd consider this fairly unlikely, but it's possible from what he said. In contrast, if anyone committed such a change to the branch after it becomes the STABLE branch (or to 4.X now), he would likely be taken out and flogged, or stapled to the flagpole at Microsoft HQ, or given an extra commit bit or something equally horrifying... 4) Can freebsd use a linux swap space? 5) What is this geometry bug and can it be fixed How? This would at least be dual-boot windows and possibly linux for a little familiarity. So this geometry problem has not allowed me to partition the disk using linux and windows programs afterwards and it sems to have currupted the partition table because there is no visible. I would appreciate someone's reply to these probably stupid questions Thanks for your time Geoff I'm not real familiar with these issues, as I run FBSD dd (alone!) and, as I said, am no expert on disk issues. I'm sorry if you feel I'm wasting your time. There has been a thead or two on the questions list recently about multi-booting, and probably about the Geometry issue as well. I'd certainly recommend browsing the archives at www.freebsd.org/mail ... Good luck, KDK ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie: 4.9 / 5.2.1 / 4.10 ??
On Friday 07 May 2004 16:25, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: 4) Can freebsd use a linux swap space? Yes, anything can be used as swap space, but be sure to determine the correct device file, or else you'll overwrite precious data. If, for example, you have the Linux swap on the second slice on the first IDE drive, the device file would be: /dev/ad0s2 (at least for 4.9, I think for 5.X it's /dev/ad0s2c but I'm not sure). Daniela ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie question regarding Virtual Hosts setup
David H. Ingham wrote: Hopefully, a simple question. I have set up a FreeBSD server to develop a web app for a client. my system is: FreeBSD Version 5.2 Apache Version 2.0.47 MySQL Version 4.0.16 MySQLCC Version 0.9.3 PHP Version 4.3.3 Now I am able to create the pages, (using Quanta 3.1.4).but I cannot view them from anywhere except the FreeBSD box. Before I upgraded from FreeBSD 4.9 to 5.2, I could get to the site from my W2K system, using a VirtualHost setting and browsing to http://10.0.0.27:5000/login.php Forgive me for not answering your question directly; I'm going to suggest something else; it's possibly better, and will eliminate a few issues regarding your network setup in general: Why not try name-based virtual hosting? Set up the following in httpd.conf and restart Apache: # # Use name-based virtual hosting. # NameVirtualHost *:80 # VirtualHost example: # Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container. # The first VirtualHost section is used for requests without a known # server name. # VirtualHost * ServerName my.examplesite.net DocumentRoot /path/to/mydocs ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] # whatever else, log files, etc /VirtualHost Then set the hosts files on both server and clients (esp. clients) something like: # Dummy entries for intranet and test sites 10.0.0.27 my.examplesite.net 10.0.0.27 my.otherexample.org Access the sites using the names you've assigned... http://my.examplesite.net/login.php HTH, Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie question regarding Virtual Hosts setup
On May 5, 2004, at 11:54 AM, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: David H. Ingham wrote: Hopefully, a simple question. I have set up a FreeBSD server to develop a web app for a client. my system is: FreeBSD Version 5.2 Apache Version 2.0.47 MySQL Version 4.0.16 MySQLCC Version 0.9.3 PHP Version 4.3.3 In your httpd.conf, set Listen 0.0.0.0:80 I think its defaulting to only listen for localhost. Now I am able to create the pages, (using Quanta 3.1.4).but I cannot view them from anywhere except the FreeBSD box. Before I upgraded from FreeBSD 4.9 to 5.2, I could get to the site from my W2K system, using a VirtualHost setting and browsing to http://10.0.0.27:5000/login.php Forgive me for not answering your question directly; I'm going to suggest something else; it's possibly better, and will eliminate a few issues regarding your network setup in general: Why not try name-based virtual hosting? Set up the following in httpd.conf and restart Apache: # # Use name-based virtual hosting. # NameVirtualHost *:80 # VirtualHost example: # Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container. # The first VirtualHost section is used for requests without a known # server name. # VirtualHost * ServerName my.examplesite.net DocumentRoot /path/to/mydocs ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] # whatever else, log files, etc /VirtualHost Then set the hosts files on both server and clients (esp. clients) something like: # Dummy entries for intranet and test sites 10.0.0.27 my.examplesite.net 10.0.0.27 my.otherexample.org Access the sites using the names you've assigned... http://my.examplesite.net/login.php HTH, Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie question regarding Virtual Hosts setup
mark wrote: On May 5, 2004, at 11:54 AM, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: David H. Ingham wrote: Hopefully, a simple question. I have set up a FreeBSD server to develop a web app for a client. my system is: FreeBSD Version 5.2 Apache Version 2.0.47 MySQL Version 4.0.16 MySQLCC Version 0.9.3 PHP Version 4.3.3 In your httpd.conf, set Listen 0.0.0.0:80 I think its defaulting to only listen for localhost. Worth a shot, I suppose; every Apache I've ever set up defaulted to *:80, though. Trying: 'netstat -anf inet ' should clue him in on that possibility... KDK ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade
* Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-04-22 11:32]: The problem only seems to be with X11. I tried running several commands in console mode that I can normally run from any location and they all worked fine. so far startx seems to be the only thing that won't run like it used This could be for naught, but what does 'xinit' do for you? to. I read something about shells having to be rehashed to update the PATH lines? I run in bash if that makes a difference. If I'm not mistaken, you only need to run rehash with a csh not sh/bash. Besides, you said the machine rebooted. The path should be correct then. Right and right. Rehash is a [t]csh builtin, not present in Bourne shells, and yep, if the machine was rebooted (or the user logged out), then the point is moot. -- Joshua You can't treat the working man this way! One day we'll form a union, and get the fair and equitable treatment we deserve! Then, we'll get corrupt and shiftless, and the Japanese will eat us alive!--Anonymous Simpsons character ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 01:03:16AM -0700, Joshua Lokken wrote: * Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-04-22 11:32]: The problem only seems to be with X11. I tried running several commands in console mode that I can normally run from any location and they all worked fine. so far startx seems to be the only thing that won't run like it used This could be for naught, but what does 'xinit' do for you? to. I read something about shells having to be rehashed to update the PATH lines? I run in bash if that makes a difference. If I'm not mistaken, you only need to run rehash with a csh not sh/bash. Besides, you said the machine rebooted. The path should be correct then. Right and right. Rehash is a [t]csh builtin, not present in Bourne shells, and yep, if the machine was rebooted (or the user logged out), then the point is moot. hash is in bash. There's a slogan in there, somewhere... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade
I would run portversion -v | grep and make sure everything was upgraded to start with. If all the gnome and X11 related stuff appears to be upgraded, it might be hard to track down which build was at fault. I think the gnome upgrade script made a logfile in tmp. I would check to see if there is one there and if so see what happened. Did you have x11 running when you tried the upgrade? Did the machine reboot or simply logout? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 10:16:25AM -0400, Ian Bowers wrote: I'm having trouble upgrading to gnome 2.6. I had gnome 2.4 installed and running just fine. I cvsup'd with the ports-supfile, and ran the gnome_upgrade.sh file. Maybe dumb question: Did you upgrade ruby as instructed in /usr/ports/UPDATING before upgrading Gnome? (I ran into that trap a while ago) Since running cvsup and the upgrade, I can't run startx like I used to. Are your problems only related to X11 - or do you have the problems when running in console-mode too? Try switching virtual terminals with AltCtrlF-key (like AltCtrlF2). First of all this switches you out to a console-terminal leaving X running and thus gives to the ability to track things down further. -ewald ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade
I'll track down that logfile and check it out. I didn't have X11 running at the time, since I figured it might have to upgrade some components that X11 runs on. It rebooted the machine, and when I scrolled up to check out all the startup text, everything looked in order. Hopefully something will jump out in the logfile. From: Lucas Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Ian Bowers' [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 10:44:22 -0400 I would run portversion -v | grep and make sure everything was upgraded to start with. If all the gnome and X11 related stuff appears to be upgraded, it might be hard to track down which build was at fault. I think the gnome upgrade script made a logfile in tmp. I would check to see if there is one there and if so see what happened. Did you have x11 running when you tried the upgrade? Did the machine reboot or simply logout? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Watch LIVE baseball games on your computer with MLB.TV, included with MSN Premium! http://join.msn.com/?page=features/mlbpgmarket=en-us/go/onm00200439ave/direct/01/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade
From: Ewald Jenisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ian Bowers [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:16:14 +0200 On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 10:16:25AM -0400, Ian Bowers wrote: I'm having trouble upgrading to gnome 2.6. I had gnome 2.4 installed and running just fine. I cvsup'd with the ports-supfile, and ran the gnome_upgrade.sh file. Maybe dumb question: Did you upgrade ruby as instructed in /usr/ports/UPDATING before upgrading Gnome? (I ran into that trap a while ago) Like a proper n00b, I didn't even know there was such a directory. I followed the upgrade FAQ at freebsd.org on the assumption that it was a full set of instructions. Thank you very much for this tidbit. I'll upgrade ruby and check out that dir. Since running cvsup and the upgrade, I can't run startx like I used to. Are your problems only related to X11 - or do you have the problems when running in console-mode too? Try switching virtual terminals with AltCtrlF-key (like AltCtrlF2). First of all this switches you out to a console-terminal leaving X running and thus gives to the ability to track things down further. -ewald The problem only seems to be with X11. I tried running several commands in console mode that I can normally run from any location and they all worked fine. so far startx seems to be the only thing that won't run like it used to. I read something about shells having to be rehashed to update the PATH lines? I run in bash if that makes a difference. Thank you very much for your help so far. _ Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee® Security. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade
The problem only seems to be with X11. I tried running several commands in console mode that I can normally run from any location and they all worked fine. so far startx seems to be the only thing that won't run like it used to. I read something about shells having to be rehashed to update the PATH lines? I run in bash if that makes a difference. If I'm not mistaken, you only need to run rehash with a csh not sh/bash. Besides, you said the machine rebooted. The path should be correct then. You could type env and look at your environment variables. Make sure X11 is still in your path. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Question
Hello All, How do I uninstall or disable snmpd. I have spent too many days trying to find this info. pkg_info |grep -i snmp Check which snmpd you have installed. then do pkg_delete $return_information_from_pkg_info_command HTH!, Thank you. Jeff -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org Www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch Community about helping newcomers on the hackerscene ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Question
Hello All, How do I uninstall or disable snmpd. I have spent too many days trying to find this info. Thank you. Jeff ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Places to look for startup items that I know about: 1) rc.conf in your /etc 2) /usr/local/etc/rc.d You may want to check your /var/db/pkg directory to see if you installed anything like that as I don't have it running on my system. If you do find something in /var/db/pkg all you have to do is uninstall it either with pkg_delete or make deinstall (might be make uninstall) from the directory that snmp port was installed from. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie help: domain name servers and (inter)networking.
Lisa wrote: Greetings all, It has been a long time since I worked with any unix, and I had a spare pc laying around that hadn't been on in months, so I decided to toss freebsd onto it. The installation went smoothly and I've got it up and running. My next goal is to get it's internet access working flawlessly. The problem that I'm having is that while it can get access via IP address, it's domain resolutions are not working. The way that I've been setting this up is via tutorials on the net, going into Sysinstall - configure - interfaces - sis0 then hitting yes for it to auto detect everything. All of this comes up really beautifully and happily. The details it discoveres are 100% correct. However, I can not get the little box in Interfaces to hold an 'x' (not sure if that's right or not anyway) and when I exit sysinstall and go back, it has not retained the information. When I do an nslookup from shell, it shows my ip as 0.0.0.0 which is probably part of the problem. It should be showing my internal IP (192.168.1.13); which it does detect in sysinstall Anyway, as you can see from this message, I'm a complete beginner at this. If anyone is willing to take some time and work through it with me, I'd be really super appreciative. The option of re-working the network is nil, as well; there are 6 xp machines so I have to get it talking to the existant network; which is based off a linksys router. Thank you all in advance. Nameserver IP addresses go in the file /etc/resolv.conf. What is the output of ifconfig -a? Also, what does netstat -rn show? Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Newbie help: domain name servers and (inter)networking.
If config -a shows a lot of things hehe. I can't paste it but I'll try to type this out: Sis0: flags=8843Up,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1400 inet6 fe80::2d0:9ff:feec:9126%sis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 192.168.1.13 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ether 00:d0:09:ec:91:26 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX) status: active Plip0: flags-8810POINTOPOINT, SIMPLEX, MULTICAST mtu 1500 Lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 Inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 Inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 The output of netstat -rn shows; Default ; 192.168.1.1 ; UGS ; 0 ; 0 ; sis0 127.0.0.1 ; 127.0.0.1 ; UH ; 1 ; 416; lo0 192.168.1 ; link#1 ; UC ; 0 ; 0 ; sis0 192.168.1.1 ; link#1 ; UHLW ; 1 ; 126 ; sis0 192.168.1.13 ; 127.0.0.1 ; UGHS ; 0 ; 0 ; lo0 I do not currently have a /etc/resolve.conf - is it safe for me to just create that? Thank you for your help so far! -Original Message- From: Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 3:29 PM To: Lisa Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Newbie help: domain name servers and (inter)networking. Lisa wrote: Greetings all, It has been a long time since I worked with any unix, and I had a spare pc laying around that hadn't been on in months, so I decided to toss freebsd onto it. The installation went smoothly and I've got it up and running. My next goal is to get it's internet access working flawlessly. The problem that I'm having is that while it can get access via IP address, it's domain resolutions are not working. The way that I've been setting this up is via tutorials on the net, going into Sysinstall - configure - interfaces - sis0 then hitting yes for it to auto detect everything. All of this comes up really beautifully and happily. The details it discoveres are 100% correct. However, I can not get the little box in Interfaces to hold an 'x' (not sure if that's right or not anyway) and when I exit sysinstall and go back, it has not retained the information. When I do an nslookup from shell, it shows my ip as 0.0.0.0 which is probably part of the problem. It should be showing my internal IP (192.168.1.13); which it does detect in sysinstall Anyway, as you can see from this message, I'm a complete beginner at this. If anyone is willing to take some time and work through it with me, I'd be really super appreciative. The option of re-working the network is nil, as well; there are 6 xp machines so I have to get it talking to the existant network; which is based off a linksys router. Thank you all in advance. Nameserver IP addresses go in the file /etc/resolv.conf. What is the output of ifconfig -a? Also, what does netstat -rn show? Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie help: domain name servers and (inter)networking.
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 15:38:03 -0400 Lisa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not currently have a /etc/resolve.conf - is it safe for me to just create that? without a valid /etc/resolv.conf no internet (surfing) is possible (unless you use ip-addresses by heart e.g.) if you want to surf the internet you better fix your /etc/resolv.conf by either adding your ISP's nameservers or running a nameserver yourself ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie questions
On Fri, 9 Apr 2004 11:18:34 +0300 (EEST) Radu MOLNAR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope this is the right place to post this.Sorry if it isn't Just some stupid newbie questions: 1) I have an alias made in my .profile alias vi='/usr/local/bin/vim' but the alias is not made when i log in X. If a log in console or using ssh from a remote host the alias is made but when i log in x it is not. Anybody know why? As shell i use bash. Its definitely the right place to ask questions. I can only comment on the first question. Its more of a question of how your shell is being invoked in your window manager. It sounds as if the window manager is invoking the shell as a non-login shell. You can test this by using xterm -ls and see if your alias settings are being read. This causes the xterm to act as a login shell and bash will act accordingly. Take a look at man page for bash in the section INVOCATION for a complete description of how bash behaves depending on whether or not its a login or non-login shell. There are several different ways to address it. You could simply duplicate your alias settings in a ~/.bashrc file which bash will read when invoked in a non-login shell. I personally don't like having more than one place for any configuration. It would probably be easier to change the way your window manager invokes a shell. I use xterms and blackbox so it was easy to change the menu configuration from xterm to xterm -ls. If you are using a different type of terminal window in XFree86, then look in its documentation for a way to make it behave as a login. If you're using some other terminal type, check its documentation for similar things and change your window manager menus accordingly. HTH, Randy -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie stuck with kernel config (well sysinstall seams to hang)
David Jones wrote: Hello. Im struggling with my first install of FreeBSD (4.9 from CDROM). I can find my way around the kernel config (visual and cli) but when I quit this, the sysinstall menu appears and my keyboard is dead (reset button doesn't work either). I have tried to supply as much relevant information as possible from Windows98 that is currently installed, and put what I see from an ls in cli kernel config mode in [..]. Im looking for some advice to move forward likely problem areas / other debug I can obtain that might help. You *probably* should just skip the kernel configall those drivers are legacy hardware (ISA stuff with jumpers for IRQ, etc...) It could be that skipping it would solve an issue or two, even. I certainly see nothing in your list below that FreeBSD can't handle with the GENERIC kernel ... it could be that fudging with kernel config is breaking GENERIC Hmm, tell us about the CD Im more experienced with redhat, and if I try booting that in text mode it dies as soon as it tries to boot the kernel. That doesn't sound too good. Does removing various hardware components help at all? Thanks for any help at all, Dave Hardware; PentiumIII MMX 500MHz, 128Mb RAM ATAPI CDROM (Secondary slave) Seagate 3GB Generic IDE Disk Type46 (Primary master) NEC Multisync XV15 monitor Standard PCI Graphics adaptor VGA (in AGP slot) IRQ11 [vga0 0 0 .. (I set this with irq sc0 11) Sc0 0 irq11 flags 0x100] Hard disk controllers; Intel82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller IRQ14 Primary IDE Controller (dual fifo) IRQ14 [ata0 0x1f0 irq14] Secondary IDE Controller (dual fifo) IRQ15 [ata1 0x170 irq15] Compaq Standard 101/102-key Keyboard IRQ1 [atkbdc0 0x60 atkbd0 0 irq1 flags 0x1] Standard serial mouse Floppy drive IRQ6 [fdc0 0x3f0 irq6 drq2] Numeric data processor IRQ13 [npx0 0xf0 irq13] Programmable interrupt controller IRQ2 [nothing assigned irq2] CMOS real time clock IRQ8 [nothing assigned irq8] System timer IRQ0 [unset irqs appear as 0] PCI to USB controller IRQ12 [psm0 0 irq12] Additional info; Other drivers assigned irqs; sio0 0x3f8 irq4 sio1 0x2f8 irq3 sio2 0x3e8 irq5 sio3 0x2e8 irq9 ppc0 0 irq7 ed0 0x280 irq10 ie0 0x300 irq10 lnc0 0x280 irq10 sn0 0x300 irq10 number of EISA slots to probe: 10 BIOS; Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1.0A (PnP OS disabled in BIOS). When booting the BTX info looks like this; BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive B: is disk1 BIOS drive C: is disk2 BIOS drive C: is disk3 ---?? That last is a tad unusual ... is the HDD partitioned in two pieces? Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie stuck with kernel config (well sysinstall seams to hang)
Responses inline. I just tried an lsdev at the console and it dies when accessing the disk; cd@ 0xff5c disk@ 0xef68 disk0: BIOS drive A: disk0a: FFS disk0c: FFS disk1: BIOS drive B disk2: BIOS drive C Any ideas? --- Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Jones wrote: snip You *probably* should just skip the kernel configall those drivers are legacy hardware (ISA stuff with jumpers for IRQ, etc...) It could be that skipping it would solve an issue or two, even. I certainly see nothing in your list below that FreeBSD can't handle with the GENERIC kernel ... it could be that fudging with kernel config is breaking GENERIC The install hangs at this point (just before sysinstall screen) Hmm, tell us about the CD The CD or CDROM ;) ? I've just booted a minimal install on vmware so the disk seams ok. I'll have to pull the cdrom out to find anymore about it. Im more experienced with redhat, and if I try booting that in text mode it dies as soon as it tries to boot the kernel. That doesn't sound too good. Does removing various hardware components help at all? There is nothing else to pull out except the floppy drive. Thanks for any help at all, Dave Hardware; PentiumIII MMX 500MHz, 128Mb RAM ATAPI CDROM (Secondary slave) Seagate 3GB Generic IDE Disk Type46 (Primary master) NEC Multisync XV15 monitor Standard PCI Graphics adaptor VGA (in AGP slot) IRQ11 [vga0 0 0 .. (I set this with irq sc0 11) Sc0 0 irq11 flags 0x100] Hard disk controllers; Intel82371AB/EB PCI Bus Master IDE Controller IRQ14 Primary IDE Controller (dual fifo) IRQ14 [ata0 0x1f0 irq14] Secondary IDE Controller (dual fifo) IRQ15 [ata1 0x170 irq15] Compaq Standard 101/102-key Keyboard IRQ1 [atkbdc0 0x60 atkbd0 0 irq1 flags 0x1] Standard serial mouse Floppy drive IRQ6 [fdc0 0x3f0 irq6 drq2] Numeric data processor IRQ13 [npx0 0xf0 irq13] Programmable interrupt controller IRQ2 [nothing assigned irq2] CMOS real time clock IRQ8 [nothing assigned irq8] System timer IRQ0 [unset irqs appear as 0] PCI to USB controller IRQ12 [psm0 0 irq12] Additional info; Other drivers assigned irqs; sio0 0x3f8 irq4 sio1 0x2f8 irq3 sio2 0x3e8 irq5 sio3 0x2e8 irq9 ppc0 0 irq7 ed0 0x280 irq10 ie0 0x300 irq10 lnc0 0x280 irq10 sn0 0x300 irq10 number of EISA slots to probe: 10 BIOS; Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG Award Plug and Play BIOS Extension v1.0A (PnP OS disabled in BIOS). When booting the BTX info looks like this; BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive B: is disk1 BIOS drive C: is disk2 BIOS drive C: is disk3 ---?? That last is a tad unusual ... is the HDD partitioned in two pieces? Not as far as I can see in windows - just 3.2GB FAT32 Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie install goes well until...
reading comprehension...thanks. From: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stewart Yaxley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Newbie install goes well until... Date: 11 Mar 2004 09:30:33 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net ([204.127.202.55]) by mc9-f25.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6824); Thu, 11 Mar 2004 07:02:51 -0800 Received: from be-well.no-ip.com ([66.30.196.44]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id 2004031114303301100lhg80e; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:30:33 + Received: by be-well.no-ip.com (Postfix, from userid 1147)id 47292E; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 09:30:33 -0500 (EST) X-Message-Info: JGTYoYF78jE6xaebE057qYTg9iiVDbeJ References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lines: 28 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Mar 2004 15:02:51.0739 (UTC) FILETIME=[ECBBE2B0:01C40779] Stewart Yaxley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am installing FreeBSD 5.2.1 on an AMD 64 3000+, w/ 512Meg RAM. Booting from CDROM with the Boot CD (pulled from the FTP site as an ISO image, burned in Win XP). All the necessary hardware is detected without errors, I am able to get as far as partioning my drives (setup root, swap, /var, /usr) and choose to install All from the Choose Distribution screen. The installation starts -- but the Boot CD returns an error Unable to find a /dist/cdrom.inf file, and indicates that it is unable to continue with the install. The Mini-install has the /dist/cdrom.inf file, but shortly after install starts I receive a Either this is not a Free-BSD disc, there is a problem with the CDROM driver or something is wrong with the hardware. Please fix this problem (check the console logs on VTY2) and try again. I am unable to access/eject the CD drive once these errors occur (CDROM drive goes dead). My CDROM is a Creative 52x CD5220 (occording to the Bios) and is correctly recognized by the installer. How do I check the console logs on VTY2? (or have I obtained a bad iso set?) According to the Handbook, alt-F2. _ Add photos to your messages with MSN Premium. Get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-capage=byoa/premxAPID=1994DI=1034SU=http://hotmail.com/encaHL=Market_MSNIS_Taglines ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie: no route to host
My lan has dialup through 192.168.0.1 [delliver] which shares using ics on xp. Works fine for my rh9, debian woody, and w98 boxes and used to work fine on this too till I started over again. Try route add default 192.168.0.1 Looks you don't have a default route set, so your packets never get routed outside. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie: no route to host
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 12:53:09PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: Sorry, I have looked around and also am going to d/l http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/ later today so once I run htdig on my local doc site these sorts of things may be easier for me look up. Meantime I reinstalled fbsd 4.8 rel last week and don't know how to fix my internet connection. %ping -c2 freebsd.org PING freebsd.org (216.136.204.21): 56 data bytes ping: sendto: No route to host ping: sendto: No route to host --- freebsd.org ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss % My lan has dialup through 192.168.0.1 [delliver] which shares using ics on xp. Works fine for my rh9, debian woody, and w98 boxes and used to work fine on this too till I started over again. Also, %ifconfig -a ep0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 192.168.0.7 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 inet6 fe80::220:afff:fe4d:24b7%ep0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 ether 00:20:af:4d:24:b7 media: Ethernet 10baseT/UTP lp0: flags=8810POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 faith0: flags=8002BROADCAST,MULTICAST mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST mtu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 ppp0: flags=8010POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST mtu 1500 sl0: flags=c010POINTOPOINT,LINK2,MULTICAST mtu 552 % Thanks in advance. Marty Landman Face 2 Interface Inc 845-679-9387 Do you have a default route? Check out, and post, your systems routing table using the command `netstat -rn`. If you don't have a default route you can add one with something like: # route add default 192.168.0.1 Then add the line: defaultrouter=192.168.0.1 to the file /etc/rc.conf and it will automatically setup the route at boot time. Nathan -- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys D8527E49 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: newbie: no route to host
At 01:01 PM 2/16/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: route add default 192.168.0.1 Looks you don't have a default route set, so your packets never get routed outside. Thanks Jan. That worked and the worst part is that the cmd rings a bell iow I did this before but didn't find it in browsing the prior emails I'd collected. Tell me, now that I've done the route add has it permanently changed one or more of my config files? Could you please direct me to where this is documented so I can read up on it? Marty Landman Face 2 Interface Inc 845-679-9387 This Month's New Quiz --- Past Superbowl Winners Make a Website: http://face2interface.com/Home/Demo.shtml ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie problem building fetchmail from ports
Marty Landman wrote: Any advice on what to do here? # cd ../../mail/fetchmail # make build make install rehash which fetchmail fetchmail-6.2.0.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. Attempting to fetch from http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/. Receiving fetchmail-6.2.0.tar.gz (1089936 bytes): 100% (ETA 00:00) 1089936 bytes transferred in 1050.8 seconds (1.01 kBps) === Extracting for fetchmail-6.2.0 Checksum OK for fetchmail-6.2.0.tar.gz. === Patching for fetchmail-6.2.0 === Applying FreeBSD patches for fetchmail-6.2.0 === fetchmail-6.2.0 depends on executable: gmake - not found ===Verifying install for gmake in /usr/ports/devel/gmake === gmake-3.80 depends on shared library: intl.4 - not found ===Verifying install for intl.4 in /usr/ports/devel/gettext === gettext-0.11.5_1 depends on executable: libtool - found === gettext-0.11.5_1 depends on shared library: iconv.3 - found === gettext-0.11.5_1 depends on shared library: expat.4 - found === Configuring for gettext-0.11.5_1 /bin/rm /usr/ports/devel/gettext/work/gettext-0.11.5/doc/gettext.info* rm: /usr/ports/devel/gettext/work/gettext-0.11.5/doc/gettext.info*: No such file or directory *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gettext. *** Error code 1 Dunno for sure. Obviously we have a problem with make expecting something that's not there. It's possible that: 1. You should just try to install gettext first, and you will get more insight into the issue. 2. You could re-cvsup the ports tree and try again and it would work. 3. You could issue #touch /usr/ports/devel/gettext/work/gettext-0.11.5/doc/gettext.info as root and see what happens next ;-) It's obvious that I'm grasping at straws, but if we wait around a while, somebody smarter will likely pipe up ... Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie problem building fetchmail from ports
On Monday 16 February 2004 11:10 am, Marty Landman wrote: Any advice on what to do here? # cd ../../mail/fetchmail # make build make install rehash which fetchmail fetchmail-6.2.0.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. Attempting to fetch from http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/. Receiving fetchmail-6.2.0.tar.gz (1089936 bytes): 100% (ETA 00:00) 1089936 bytes transferred in 1050.8 seconds (1.01 kBps) === Extracting for fetchmail-6.2.0 Checksum OK for fetchmail-6.2.0.tar.gz. === Patching for fetchmail-6.2.0 === Applying FreeBSD patches for fetchmail-6.2.0 === fetchmail-6.2.0 depends on executable: gmake - not found ===Verifying install for gmake in /usr/ports/devel/gmake === gmake-3.80 depends on shared library: intl.4 - not found ===Verifying install for intl.4 in /usr/ports/devel/gettext === gettext-0.11.5_1 depends on executable: libtool - found === gettext-0.11.5_1 depends on shared library: iconv.3 - found === gettext-0.11.5_1 depends on shared library: expat.4 - found === Configuring for gettext-0.11.5_1 /bin/rm /usr/ports/devel/gettext/work/gettext-0.11.5/doc/gettext.info* rm: /usr/ports/devel/gettext/work/gettext-0.11.5/doc/gettext.info*: No such file or directory *** Error code 1 This is hard because gettext-0.11.5 is so old that it is most likely anything anyone tells you is going to take time. They updated gettext to 12.1 last August. The current version of gettext is 0.13.1 and that is a massive thing to move to. You don't stand a chance of getting 11.5 fixed but some days you might be lucky. The current version of fetchmail is 6.2.5_1 and you will probably have the same problem with suggestions. The interface to the gettext library has changed and you have to update everything that uses it. You may not be able to do it without upgrading to one of the current system releases. I would think that it is obvious that you haven't updated your port tree for some time. A normal solution would be to tell you to cvsup ports-all, rebuild the INDEXs, and try to rebuild. When I did that on an AMD 1600 XP running 5.2-current, the rebuild of most of my ports was 1-2 days. My 2400 running 4.9-stable used about 1/3 less time. Getting current on the ports could be only done with a great deal of thought. You might find 11.5 as a package and install it. That would be a lot faster than bringing your port system to a current configuration. If you do that, move to using portupgrade. It makes updating much easier. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie problem building fetchmail from ports
On Monday 16 February 2004 01:39 pm, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Marty Landman wrote: Any advice on what to do here? # cd ../../mail/fetchmail # make build make install rehash which fetchmail fetchmail-6.2.0.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. Attempting to fetch from http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/. Receiving fetchmail-6.2.0.tar.gz (1089936 bytes): 100% (ETA 00:00) 1089936 bytes transferred in 1050.8 seconds (1.01 kBps) === Extracting for fetchmail-6.2.0 Checksum OK for fetchmail-6.2.0.tar.gz. === Patching for fetchmail-6.2.0 === Applying FreeBSD patches for fetchmail-6.2.0 === fetchmail-6.2.0 depends on executable: gmake - not found ===Verifying install for gmake in /usr/ports/devel/gmake === gmake-3.80 depends on shared library: intl.4 - not found ===Verifying install for intl.4 in /usr/ports/devel/gettext === gettext-0.11.5_1 depends on executable: libtool - found === gettext-0.11.5_1 depends on shared library: iconv.3 - found === gettext-0.11.5_1 depends on shared library: expat.4 - found === Configuring for gettext-0.11.5_1 /bin/rm /usr/ports/devel/gettext/work/gettext-0.11.5/doc/gettext.info* rm: /usr/ports/devel/gettext/work/gettext-0.11.5/doc/gettext.info*: No such file or directory *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gettext. *** Error code 1 Dunno for sure. Obviously we have a problem with make expecting something that's not there. It's possible that: 1. You should just try to install gettext first, and you will get more insight into the issue. 2. You could re-cvsup the ports tree and try again and it would work. 3. You could issue #touch /usr/ports/devel/gettext/work/gettext-0.11.5/doc/gettext.info as root and see what happens next ;-) It's obvious that I'm grasping at straws, but if we wait around a while, somebody smarter will likely pipe up ... Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. Well, that smarter person is not me; but since the error occurs when the script is trying to remove a file in a ports working directory, my first wild guess would be to do a 'make clean' and then try again. Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie problem building fetchmail from ports
Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any advice on what to do here? # cd ../../mail/fetchmail # make build make install rehash which fetchmail fetchmail-6.2.0.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. Attempting to fetch from http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/. Receiving fetchmail-6.2.0.tar.gz (1089936 bytes): 100% (ETA 00:00) 1089936 bytes transferred in 1050.8 seconds (1.01 kBps) === Extracting for fetchmail-6.2.0 Checksum OK for fetchmail-6.2.0.tar.gz. === Patching for fetchmail-6.2.0 === Applying FreeBSD patches for fetchmail-6.2.0 === fetchmail-6.2.0 depends on executable: gmake - not found ===Verifying install for gmake in /usr/ports/devel/gmake === gmake-3.80 depends on shared library: intl.4 - not found ===Verifying install for intl.4 in /usr/ports/devel/gettext === gettext-0.11.5_1 depends on executable: libtool - found === gettext-0.11.5_1 depends on shared library: iconv.3 - found === gettext-0.11.5_1 depends on shared library: expat.4 - found === Configuring for gettext-0.11.5_1 /bin/rm /usr/ports/devel/gettext/work/gettext-0.11.5/doc/gettext.info* rm: /usr/ports/devel/gettext/work/gettext-0.11.5/doc/gettext.info*: No such file or directory *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gettext. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gmake. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/mail/fetchmail. # Where did you get your ports collection? Did you get the gettext and fetchmail ports from the same place? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area: resume/CV at http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/resume/ username/password public ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie problem building fetchmail from ports
At 03:05 PM 2/16/2004, Kent Stewart wrote: The interface to the gettext library has changed and you have to update everything that uses it. You may not be able to do it without upgrading to one of the current system releases. I would think that it is obvious that you haven't updated your port tree for some time. I just reinstalled with a 4.8 mini-iso that I d/l'd back in the summer iirc. Maybe this helps explain some of the issues I've been plagued with (not including a touch of dandruff, which is more likely due to the cold weather here). This is really just a learning experience for me right now, though use of the word 'just' seems really lame. Point is that it may be wise for me to d/l the latest release level mini-iso and reinstall from that. Eventually I may even learn what I'm doing, though I tend to doubt it. Marty Landman Face 2 Interface Inc 845-679-9387 This Month's New Quiz --- Past Superbowl Winners Make a Website: http://face2interface.com/Home/Demo.shtml ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie problem building fetchmail from ports
At 02:39 PM 2/16/2004, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: 1. You should just try to install gettext first,and you will get more insight into the issue. I did (sorry for not posting that) and the results looked identical. 2. You could re-cvsup the ports tree and try again and it would work. Cool, how do I do that? 3. You could issue #touch /usr/ports/devel/gettext/work/gettext-0.11.5/doc/gettext.info as root and see what happens next ;-) if we wait around a while, somebody smarter will likely pipe up ... Know how you feel Kevin, everybody's smarter than me! Hey btw, this worked! Thanks. Marty Landman Face 2 Interface Inc 845-679-9387 This Month's New Quiz --- Past Superbowl Winners Make a Website: http://face2interface.com/Home/Demo.shtml ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie problem building fetchmail from ports
Marty Landman wrote: At 02:39 PM 2/16/2004, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: 3. You could issue #touch /usr/ports/devel/gettext/work/gettext-0.11.5/doc/gettext.info as root and see what happens next ;-) if we wait around a while, somebody smarter will likely pipe up ... Know how you feel Kevin, everybody's smarter than me! Hey btw, this worked! Thanks. Heh, that's a terrible hack !, but I'm glad you are up and running BTW the somebody smarter weighed in on the age of your ports tree, you oughtta give what he said some serious thought. Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie problem building fetchmail from ports
On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 02:10:11PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
Any advice on what to do here?
=== Configuring for gettext-0.11.5_1
That's an ancient version of gettext -- are you using a copy of the
ports tree you got from the installation CDs? At a guess, you're
running FreeBSD 4.7...
Current version of gettext in ports is gettext-0.13.1 which provides
libintl.so.6 Come to think of it, fetchmail is now at version 6.2.5 in
ports so you must be using an old ports tree. However so long as all
the sources are still available for download, you should be able to
install.
The problem appears to be due to this target in the devel/gettext port
Makefile:
pre-configure:
${RM} ${WRKSRC}/doc/gettext.info*
which was removed with version 1.42 of the port Makefile -- you, I
suspect have version 1.38. You could try just editing the Makefile to
change those lines to:
pre-configure:
-${RM} ${WRKSRC}/doc/gettext.info*
(ie. insert a '-' before the ${RM}) -- that will cause make to ignore
any error code produced by trying to remove some files that weren't
actually there in the first place.
Cheers,
Matthew
PS. If you're tempted to update your whole ports tree to the latest,
you should be aware that there have been some incompatible changes in
the pkg_foo tools which will cause you grief on a 4.7 system. There's
a sysutils/pkg_install port you can install to help things out. Most
things should work OK, but you'ld have to upgrade the system to a
supported version to be sure (ie. 4.9 or 5.2).
--
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Re: newbie problem building fetchmail from ports
On Monday 16 February 2004 12:39 pm, Marty Landman wrote: At 03:05 PM 2/16/2004, Kent Stewart wrote: The interface to the gettext library has changed and you have to update everything that uses it. You may not be able to do it without upgrading to one of the current system releases. I would think that it is obvious that you haven't updated your port tree for some time. I just reinstalled with a 4.8 mini-iso that I d/l'd back in the summer iirc. Maybe this helps explain some of the issues I've been plagued with (not including a touch of dandruff, which is more likely due to the cold weather here). You could try the pkg_add -r feature which will fetch the proper version for your current system. This is really just a learning experience for me right now, though use of the word 'just' seems really lame. Point is that it may be wise for me to d/l the latest release level mini-iso and reinstall from that. Eventually I may even learn what I'm doing, though I tend to doubt it. hehehe - my way of looking at things is that anyone can be an expert at something on a computer. In addition, no matter how good you get, you will still have embarassing holes that will be pointed out to you in a public forum :). You are getting there when you can do something really dumb and laugh at what you did :). Well, if you are going to learn about cvsup, you might as well learn about making your system current at the same time. The current safe tag for cvsup is RELENG_4_9. I follow RELENG_4, which is stable. There are examples you can use once you install cvsup. I happen to like cvsup-without-gui-16.1h, which is 1 of 2 ports that I suggest should be installed as a port. Going from 4.8 to 4.9 with the security patches is not a big deal. If you screw things up, you can always install from the iso. The suggested way of updating is in /usr/src/UPDATING and a chapter in the handbook is also devoted to the subjec. I typically don't talk about the mini-iso. The iso comes with most of the ports you might be interested in as packages. They are out of date as soon as you install them but you have a working system almost immediately. If you cvsup ports-all, build the indexs, and use portupgrade to move to a current port environment, you have a lot more work ahead of you. Getting current on the ports is something I think you should do but one step at a time is a good idea :). Maintaining your system isn't a big deal, you just have to be able to be consistant. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie problem building fetchmail from ports
At 04:04 PM 2/16/2004, Kent Stewart wrote: You could try the pkg_add -r feature which will fetch the proper version for your current system. I did, but couldn't find the port -- guess I'm mixing agp slots and eide's? So I'm make'ing it from the tar.gz already had. hehehe - my way of looking at things is that anyone can be an expert at something on a computer. Wow Kent, you're absolutely right; that's what first attracted me to these critters back in college. In addition, no matter how good you get, you will still have embarassing holes that will be pointed out to you in a public forum :). Yes, there's always that. I typically don't talk about the mini-iso. Hmm, maybe I should finally break down and order the cd set for the latest release - since I don't plan on switching to cable anytime soon and have about run out of favors from neighbors who have it already. Then again :) Marty Landman Face 2 Interface Inc 845-679-9387 This Month's New Quiz --- Past Superbowl Winners Make a Website: http://face2interface.com/Home/Demo.shtml ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Questions Regarding SU Command Running Periodic Updating
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 10:20:12AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Question # 1: When I type 'su' and subsequently type in my password, I am taken to the root. However, certain programs; i.e., 'portupgrade' will not run. If I then subsequently type 'su' I a, presented with a new prompt although no password is requested. I can now run programs like 'portupgrade' without incident. I am unable to find any documentation that states I should be running the 'su' command twice. Can someone explain to me what is happening here? Is this normal. Exactly how many levels are there? I thought that there were only two: the log in level and root level. Is there a third level or is this some sort of fluke. Yes. You're right that there are only the two privilege levels -- root vs ordinary users. What you're seeing is due to a different effect. The first time you su(1) you become root, but your shell environment is not set up the way you expect. Specifically you don't have /usr/local/sbin on your $PATH, so when you type 'portupgrade' at the prompt, the shell can't find the executable. You should be able to type '/usr/local/sbin/portupgrade' and have things work as expected. The second time you type su(1), it takes effect without asking for a password, since the super user can become any other user without giving one. However, changing from root to root normally isn't usually very productive. Usually when you su(1), the shell environment is left the same except for the USER, HOME and SHELL environment variables, which are reset appropriately for the new userid. However, settings in the target login's .cshrc or .profile or .bashrc or whatever will take effect exactly as for starting up any new shell. There are some flags to su(1) to modify that behaviour: '-l' (or just '-') says simulate a full login by the target user, and '-m' does the opposite -- leaving the original environment unmodified. My guess is that the behaviour you are seeing is because either the su(1) command is aliased to add in some other options, or that you have something in root's shell initialization files which is causing the effect. On general principles, I'd recommend you to install and use sudo(8) instead of su(1) -- it has much finer grained access controls, you don't need to give out the root password in order to let people run commands with root privilege and it logs everything done with it. Question # 2: Second, while typing in search terms in Google, I came across this web site - http://andrsn.stanford.edu/FreeBSD/newuser.html You will notice the entry about updating the database for the 'whereis' and 'locate' commands. I have read the manual on 'locate' and tried running the files mentioned manually, but alias all I receive is an error message that the command does not exist. Again, I have no idea what I am doing incorrectly. Any assistance would be appreciated. The database update will happen automatically, overnight, in the wee small hours of Saturday morning. So long as you leave you machine running, that is. You can manually update the 'locate' database by running (as root): # /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate and similarly for whereis: # /etc/periodic/weekly/320.whatis Those should run without errors -- if you still have problems, please feel free to e-mail here again, including the exact output of running those commands. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem full
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 08:16:30AM +1100, richard wrote: Migrating data will be problematic as there's lot of user cr*p and custom built web apps from generations of cowboy programmers, plus about 300 users and a couple of dozen virtual domains. As I'm really only after a stable implementation of a USB external drive (for backup) am I better off trying an upgrade from 4.8 to 4.9? Sounds like you're in a very similar situation to me :P In answer to the question, I would have thought so. If you're just interested in trying out 5.x for the heck of it (there isn't a specific reason for upgrading), you're probably better of installing it on a dev box perhaps - if that's possible. I'm amazed you have that many users but haven't managed to fill up /var yet with it being so small! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lowell Gilbert Sent: Wednesday, 11 February 2004 1:38 AM To: Jez Hancock Cc: Richard Beyer; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem full Jez Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:10:05PM +1100, Richard Beyer wrote: Thanks Jez, Here's my df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 126M 106M 9.4M92%/ /dev/ad0s1f 252M 9.6M 222M 4%/tmp /dev/ad0s1g72G 2.7G64G 4%/usr /dev/ad0s1e 252M51M 181M22%/var procfs4.0K 4.0K 0B 100%/proc It's an 80Gig HDD and I was using the sysinstall | upgrade | all | include ports Seems odd that so much space is taken up by / - perhaps under 5.x more space is required? I really do need to install 5.x at some point ... :P Yes, more space is used in the root filesystem for 5.x. [For several different reasons...] Can you not do a backup of your data and start over with a fresh install of 5.2? You have stacks of room on the hdd spare, so presumably doing this wouldn't be too problematic. That's definitely the way to go if possible; there are a number of advantagious new features that will be difficult to take advantage of otherwise. -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer http://munk.nu/ http://jez.hancock-family.com/ - Another FreeBSD Diary http://ipfwstats.sf.net/- ipfw peruser traffic logging ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem full
I moved all the mail files to /usr/mail and sym-linked it to /var/mail. No problems with space. I've given up on the 5.2 upgrade, now I'm trying a 4.8 - 4.9 upgrade and the first attempt failed with an odd message - Couldn't even extract the bin distribution, consider this upgrade a failure. Anyone else ever seen this? Cheers, Richard -Original Message- From: Jez Hancock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jez Hancock Sent: Wednesday, 11 February 2004 9:53 PM To: richard Cc: FreeBSD Questions List Subject: Re: Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem full On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 08:16:30AM +1100, richard wrote: Migrating data will be problematic as there's lot of user cr*p and custom built web apps from generations of cowboy programmers, plus about 300 users and a couple of dozen virtual domains. As I'm really only after a stable implementation of a USB external drive (for backup) am I better off trying an upgrade from 4.8 to 4.9? Sounds like you're in a very similar situation to me :P In answer to the question, I would have thought so. If you're just interested in trying out 5.x for the heck of it (there isn't a specific reason for upgrading), you're probably better of installing it on a dev box perhaps - if that's possible. I'm amazed you have that many users but haven't managed to fill up /var yet with it being so small! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lowell Gilbert Sent: Wednesday, 11 February 2004 1:38 AM To: Jez Hancock Cc: Richard Beyer; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem full Jez Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:10:05PM +1100, Richard Beyer wrote: Thanks Jez, Here's my df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 126M 106M 9.4M92%/ /dev/ad0s1f 252M 9.6M 222M 4%/tmp /dev/ad0s1g72G 2.7G64G 4%/usr /dev/ad0s1e 252M51M 181M22%/var procfs4.0K 4.0K 0B 100%/proc It's an 80Gig HDD and I was using the sysinstall | upgrade | all | include ports Seems odd that so much space is taken up by / - perhaps under 5.x more space is required? I really do need to install 5.x at some point ... :P Yes, more space is used in the root filesystem for 5.x. [For several different reasons...] Can you not do a backup of your data and start over with a fresh install of 5.2? You have stacks of room on the hdd spare, so presumably doing this wouldn't be too problematic. That's definitely the way to go if possible; there are a number of advantagious new features that will be difficult to take advantage of otherwise. -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer http://munk.nu/ http://jez.hancock-family.com/ - Another FreeBSD Diary http://ipfwstats.sf.net/- ipfw peruser traffic logging ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem full
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 12:36:27PM +1100, Richard Beyer wrote: I tried doing an upgrade from 4.8 to 5.2, and part way through I got a filesystem full error (about 3 in a row actually) as each partion filled up. (No panic - doing it off a mirror). My question is - obviously the CDROM sysinstall isn't going to work for me - what now? Get a bigger hard drive? :P More details might help - how big is the disk drive you're installing to? How big are the partitions created in the install process? What type of installation are you attempting - full/minimal/etc ? The minimal installation takes up very little room - around 3-400MB iirc which should be small enough to fit on any hdd manufactured in the last 5 years or so. -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer http://munk.nu/ http://jez.hancock-family.com/ - Another FreeBSD Diary http://ipfwstats.sf.net/- ipfw peruser traffic logging ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem full
Thanks Jez, Here's my df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 126M 106M 9.4M92%/ /dev/ad0s1f 252M 9.6M 222M 4%/tmp /dev/ad0s1g72G 2.7G64G 4%/usr /dev/ad0s1e 252M51M 181M22%/var procfs4.0K 4.0K 0B 100%/proc It's an 80Gig HDD and I was using the sysinstall | upgrade | all | include ports Cheers, Richard On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Jez Hancock wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 12:36:27PM +1100, Richard Beyer wrote: I tried doing an upgrade from 4.8 to 5.2, and part way through I got a filesystem full error (about 3 in a row actually) as each partion filled up. (No panic - doing it off a mirror). My question is - obviously the CDROM sysinstall isn't going to work for me - what now? Get a bigger hard drive? :P More details might help - how big is the disk drive you're installing to? How big are the partitions created in the install process? What type of installation are you attempting - full/minimal/etc ? The minimal installation takes up very little room - around 3-400MB iirc which should be small enough to fit on any hdd manufactured in the last 5 years or so. -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer http://munk.nu/ http://jez.hancock-family.com/ - Another FreeBSD Diary http://ipfwstats.sf.net/- ipfw peruser traffic logging ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem full
Hi Richard, On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:10:05PM +1100, Richard Beyer wrote: Thanks Jez, Here's my df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 126M 106M 9.4M92%/ /dev/ad0s1f 252M 9.6M 222M 4%/tmp /dev/ad0s1g72G 2.7G64G 4%/usr /dev/ad0s1e 252M51M 181M22%/var procfs4.0K 4.0K 0B 100%/proc It's an 80Gig HDD and I was using the sysinstall | upgrade | all | include ports Seems odd that so much space is taken up by / - perhaps under 5.x more space is required? I really do need to install 5.x at some point ... :P Is there no chance you can perform a standard install from scratch? I had contemplated moving from 4.8 to 5.x, but am seriously putting it off because I imagine *upgrading* from 4.x to 5.x isn't too straight-forward - perhaps others could shed light on whether it's recommended to attempt it or not? Can you not do a backup of your data and start over with a fresh install of 5.2? You have stacks of room on the hdd spare, so presumably doing this wouldn't be too problematic. Cheers, Richard On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Jez Hancock wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 12:36:27PM +1100, Richard Beyer wrote: I tried doing an upgrade from 4.8 to 5.2, and part way through I got a filesystem full error (about 3 in a row actually) as each partion filled up. (No panic - doing it off a mirror). My question is - obviously the CDROM sysinstall isn't going to work for me - what now? Get a bigger hard drive? :P More details might help - how big is the disk drive you're installing to? How big are the partitions created in the install process? What type of installation are you attempting - full/minimal/etc ? The minimal installation takes up very little room - around 3-400MB iirc which should be small enough to fit on any hdd manufactured in the last 5 years or so. -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer http://munk.nu/ http://jez.hancock-family.com/ - Another FreeBSD Diary http://ipfwstats.sf.net/- ipfw peruser traffic logging -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer http://munk.nu/ http://jez.hancock-family.com/ - Another FreeBSD Diary http://ipfwstats.sf.net/- ipfw peruser traffic logging ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem full
On Tuesday 10 February 2004 10:10, Richard Beyer wrote: Thanks Jez, Here's my df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 126M 106M 9.4M92%/ /dev/ad0s1f 252M 9.6M 222M 4%/tmp /dev/ad0s1g72G 2.7G64G 4%/usr /dev/ad0s1e 252M51M 181M22%/var procfs4.0K 4.0K 0B 100%/proc It's an 80Gig HDD and I was using the sysinstall | upgrade | all | include ports I run 5.2.1-REL. Here are some differences: 4.x: kernel and modules reside in /kernel and /modules, there's a /standl around 5.x: kernel and modules reside in /boot/kernel, there's a /rescue replacing the old /stand (sysinstall in /usr/sbin now) So, if you delete old 4.x kernel(s) and modules and nuke /stand if you don't want it anymore you should probably be able to free some space. 5.x also uses somewhat more space in / but the difference isn't that much: Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 253678 54124 17926023%/ most of this is in /boot: %du /boot 18 /boot/defaults 16586 /boot/kernel 1732/boot/modules -- appears that the nvidia module sits here, weird.. 16602 /boot/kernel.old 35816 /boot HTH, Dan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem full
Jez Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:10:05PM +1100, Richard Beyer wrote: Thanks Jez, Here's my df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 126M 106M 9.4M92%/ /dev/ad0s1f 252M 9.6M 222M 4%/tmp /dev/ad0s1g72G 2.7G64G 4%/usr /dev/ad0s1e 252M51M 181M22%/var procfs4.0K 4.0K 0B 100%/proc It's an 80Gig HDD and I was using the sysinstall | upgrade | all | include ports Seems odd that so much space is taken up by / - perhaps under 5.x more space is required? I really do need to install 5.x at some point ... :P Yes, more space is used in the root filesystem for 5.x. [For several different reasons...] Can you not do a backup of your data and start over with a fresh install of 5.2? You have stacks of room on the hdd spare, so presumably doing this wouldn't be too problematic. That's definitely the way to go if possible; there are a number of advantagious new features that will be difficult to take advantage of otherwise. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem full
Migrating data will be problematic as there's lot of user cr*p and custom built web apps from generations of cowboy programmers, plus about 300 users and a couple of dozen virtual domains. As I'm really only after a stable implementation of a USB external drive (for backup) am I better off trying an upgrade from 4.8 to 4.9? Cheers, Richard -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lowell Gilbert Sent: Wednesday, 11 February 2004 1:38 AM To: Jez Hancock Cc: Richard Beyer; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Newbie Upgrading 4.8 - 5.2, filesystem full Jez Hancock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:10:05PM +1100, Richard Beyer wrote: Thanks Jez, Here's my df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 126M 106M 9.4M92%/ /dev/ad0s1f 252M 9.6M 222M 4%/tmp /dev/ad0s1g72G 2.7G64G 4%/usr /dev/ad0s1e 252M51M 181M22%/var procfs4.0K 4.0K 0B 100%/proc It's an 80Gig HDD and I was using the sysinstall | upgrade | all | include ports Seems odd that so much space is taken up by / - perhaps under 5.x more space is required? I really do need to install 5.x at some point ... :P Yes, more space is used in the root filesystem for 5.x. [For several different reasons...] Can you not do a backup of your data and start over with a fresh install of 5.2? You have stacks of room on the hdd spare, so presumably doing this wouldn't be too problematic. That's definitely the way to go if possible; there are a number of advantagious new features that will be difficult to take advantage of otherwise. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie:/usr/ports/distfiles
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 05:21:22PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: I'm up to about 700Mb of files in /usr/ports/distfiles. Other than insurance in case of a re-install, is there a good reason to keep them around? No, you can safely delete anything in /usr/ports/distfiles or remove and recreate the directory. It just means that if you decide to reinstall a port for some reason, the source tarball will be downloaded again to /usr/ports/distfiles - as you know anyway by the sounds of it. :P -- Jez Hancock - System Administrator / PHP Developer http://munk.nu/ http://jez.hancock-family.com/ - Another FreeBSD Diary http://ipfwstats.sf.net/- ipfw peruser traffic logging ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie:/usr/ports/distfiles
I'm up to about 700Mb of files in /usr/ports/distfiles. Other than insurance in case of a re-install, is there a good reason to keep them around? No, you can safely delete anything in /usr/ports/distfiles or remove and recreate the directory. It just means that if you decide to reinstall a port for some reason, the source tarball will be downloaded again to /usr/ports/distfiles - as you know anyway by the sounds of it. If you have installed portupgrade(1), you can use the portsclean(1) command to clean your ports: # portsclean -C # portsclean -D # portsclean -DD # portsclean -L # portsclean -P Look at the '-D' and '-DD' for /usr/ports/distfiles in particular. -- -jg. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie:/usr/ports/distfiles
On Friday 06 February 2004 5:28 pm, Jez Hancock wrote: On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 05:21:22PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: I'm up to about 700Mb of files in /usr/ports/distfiles. Other than insurance in case of a re-install, is there a good reason to keep them around? No, you can safely delete anything in /usr/ports/distfiles or remove and recreate the directory. It just means that if you decide to reinstall a port for some reason, the source tarball will be downloaded again to /usr/ports/distfiles - as you know anyway by the sounds of it. :P Thanks. I suspected I could nuke distfiles, but being a BSD newbie I wanted to check first. Jeff ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie trying to build a new world
config: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MOAK:274: syntax error This means you have an error on line 274 of your kernel configuration file. Since line 274 is options PNPBIOS, I'm guessing that this option is deprecated and/or unavailable in 5.X. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie trying to build a new world
On Thursday 05 February 2004 03:15 am, Nicolas wrote: Hello. I am a newbie trying to build a new kernel. I have been following the handbook step by step but I still do something wrong. I copied GENERIC and did some changes and called my new kernel MOAK. I put it into /root/kernels and typed: ln -s /root/kernels/MOAK I cvsuped src all and ports all. Then and did: make -j4 buildworld. No problem. Then I rebooted and went into single user mode and typed: make buildkernel KERNCONF=MOAK. Then I get this output: config: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MOAK:274: syntax error Error code 1 stop in /usr/src error code 1 Stop in /usr/src Is there something wrong in MOAK (see attachment)??? Hope that somebody can offer me some help. Many thanks Nicolas Well, it is telling you that it doesn't like the options PNPBIOS. That is an option for 4.x. For right now, I would just comment it out. BTW, booting to single user mode to build the kernel doesn't help. You want to do that when you do the installworld. Part of the reason for booting to single user mode is to test the new kernel and you haven't installed it at this point. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie trying to build a new world
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 13:15, Nicolas wrote: Hello. I am a newbie trying to build a new kernel. I have been following the handbook step by step but I still do something wrong. I copied GENERIC and did some changes and called my new kernel MOAK. I put it into /root/kernels and typed: ln -s /root/kernels/MOAK if that's all you typed then it's incorrect. Try: ln -s /root/kernels/MOAK /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MOAK which basically just creates a shortcut to the original file residing in /root/kernels. I cvsuped src all and ports all. Then and did: make -j4 buildworld. No problem. good. Then I rebooted and went into single user mode and typed: make buildkernel KERNCONF=MOAK. that's fine, though the only time you really should boot into single user mode is when you doing a install world. Doesn't hurt though. Then I get this output: config: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MOAK:274: syntax error Error code 1 stop in /usr/src error code 1 Stop in /usr/src see above. Is there something wrong in MOAK (see attachment)??? Hope that somebody can offer me some help. Many thanks Nicolas you may also want to read /usr/src/UPDATING Regards, -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgp/nelis.key Unix IS user friendly.. It's just selective about who its friends are. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Newbie trying to build a new world
whoops, I misread your error, scratch my message...sorry. On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 13:38, Nelis Lamprecht wrote: On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 13:15, Nicolas wrote: Hello. I am a newbie trying to build a new kernel. I have been following the handbook step by step but I still do something wrong. I copied GENERIC and did some changes and called my new kernel MOAK. I put it into /root/kernels and typed: ln -s /root/kernels/MOAK if that's all you typed then it's incorrect. Try: ln -s /root/kernels/MOAK /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MOAK which basically just creates a shortcut to the original file residing in /root/kernels. I cvsuped src all and ports all. Then and did: make -j4 buildworld. No problem. good. Then I rebooted and went into single user mode and typed: make buildkernel KERNCONF=MOAK. that's fine, though the only time you really should boot into single user mode is when you doing a install world. Doesn't hurt though. Then I get this output: config: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MOAK:274: syntax error Error code 1 stop in /usr/src error code 1 Stop in /usr/src see above. Is there something wrong in MOAK (see attachment)??? Hope that somebody can offer me some help. Many thanks Nicolas you may also want to read /usr/src/UPDATING Regards, -- Nelis Lamprecht PGP: http://www.8ball.co.za/pgp/nelis.key Unix IS user friendly.. It's just selective about who its friends are. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Newbie trying to build a new world
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 12:15:16 +0100 Nicolas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I am a newbie trying to build a new kernel. I have been following the handbook step by step but I still do something wrong. I copied GENERIC and did some changes and called my new kernel MOAK. I put it into /root/kernels and typed: ln -s /root/kernels/MOAK I cvsuped src all and ports all. Then and did: make -j4 buildworld. No problem. Then I rebooted and went into single user mode and typed: make buildkernel KERNCONF=MOAK. No need to build kernel in single user. Then I get this output: config: /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MOAK:274: syntax error Error code 1 stop in /usr/src error code 1 Stop in /usr/src Is there something wrong in MOAK (see attachment)??? A lot. #options FFS #Berkeley Fast Filesystem optionsSOFTUPDATES #Enable FFS soft updates support What type of file system will you be using ? FFS=Berkeley Fast Filesystem it our fs and SOFTUPDATES, UFS_ACL require FFS optionsUFS_ACL #Support for access control lists #options UFS_DIRHASH #Improve performance on big directories I would keep this also. #options PROCFS #Process filesystem (requires PSEUDOFS) #options PSEUDOFS#Pseudo-filesystem framework I think you want also this (or you can load the /boot/kernel/ appropriate .ko) # Debugging for use in -current #options DDB #Enable the kernel debugger #options INVARIANTS #Enable calls of extra sanity checking optionsINVARIANT_SUPPORT #Extra sanity checks of internal structures, required by INVARIANTS Use also INVARIANTS if you want this. # Pseudo devices - the number indicates how many units to allocate. #devicerandom # Entropy device 99.9% you do need random device loop# Network loopback #deviceether # Ethernet support Also this for networking. #devicepty # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc) Probably this. #devicemd # Memory disks If you want MDROOT you probably want this to. # USB support device uhci# UHCI PCI-USB interface device ohci# OHCI PCI-USB interface device usb # USB Bus (required) #deviceudbp# USB Double Bulk Pipe devices #deviceugen# Generic #deviceuhid# Human Interface Devices #deviceukbd# Keyboard #deviceulpt# Printer #deviceumass # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and da #deviceums # Mouse #deviceurio# Diamond Rio 500 MP3 player #deviceuscanner# Scanners # USB Ethernet, requires mii #deviceaue # ADMtek USB ethernet #deviceaxe # ASIX Electronics USB ethernet #devicecue # CATC USB ethernet #devicekue # Kawasaki LSI USB ethernet # FireWire support device firewire# FireWire bus code I have the feeling you want also scbus and da for this, not sure. #Sound device pcm You could load the appropriate .ko for your sound card. options PNPBIOS You don't need PNPBIOS in 5.x, despite the handbook. Hope that somebody can offer me some help. Many thanks Nicolas -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Newbie trying to build a new world
Thank you all for answering. I tried all your solutions and I got one step further. I tried to: ln -s /root/kernels/MOAK /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/MOAK and got the answer that the file exists. I changed settings in MOAK. Then i ran: make installkernel KERNCONF=MOAK and it worked. But then I ran: make buildkernel KERNCONF=MOAK and I got this on my screen (last rows): install -p -m 555 -o root -g wheel kernel /boot/kernel install: /boot/kernel/kernel: Read-only file system Error code 71 Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MOAK Error code 1 stop in /usr/src error code 1 Thank you again Nicolas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie trying to build a new world
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 18:13:50 +0100 Nicolas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello again. Sorry to bother you with this but I really dont know what went wrong this time. Ive done it on my old computer with 4,9 and it went smothe. This is the sequence that I followed: cd /usr/obj rm -Rf * cd /usr/src make buildworld Then: cd /usr/src make buildkernel KERNCONF=MOAK If you didn't reboot or drop to single user, the next step is bad. Then: fsck -p mount -u / mount -a -t ufs swapon -a cd /usr/src make installworld make installkernel KERNCONF=MOAK It is hard following the order in the handbook Nop. First you intallkernel, then you reboot, then from single user installworld. Note that the ultimate reference for all this is /usr/src/UPDATING; if something is told there, follow it. READ IT. Read it again. Follow it. I think it is a bit confusing to read. In my last mail I wrote it in the wrong order. Could be. But perhaps you should take a little pause, drink a coffee, etc. and retry a little later; often one makes the same mistakes again and again when tired; experience speaking ;) Second suggestion - print this and follow it (if it doesn't conflict with UPDATING, I don't know from what to what you are upgrading): cd /usr/obj chflags -R noschg * rm -Rf * cd /usr/src make clean all script /tmp/build_kernel_1 make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC touch /tmp/done_Build_Kernel_G make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC touch /tmp/done_Install_Kernel_G CTRL+D if it breaks until here you have a problem with your sources; cvsup. reboot if everithing seems to be OK: script /tmp/mergemaster_p mergemaster -p CTRL+D script /tmp/build_w cd /usr/src make buildworld touch /tmp/done_Build_World make buildkernel KERNCONF=MOAK touch /tmp/done_Build_Kernel make installkernel KERNCONF=MOAK touch /tmp/done_Install_Kernel CTRL+D reboot in single user fsck -p mount -u / mount -a -t ufs swapon -a if needed (you don't have the BIOS clock on UTC) also : adjkerntz -i script /tmp/install_w make installworld CTRL+D reboot script /tmp/build_w maergemaster CTRL+D Of course, heaven only knows what exactly did you do until now; but with script we can try to figure out what goes wrong. The touch(1) are only to be easy to see where it breaks. If I try again do I have to do it all from the beginning (cvsup src and ports)? No. The hole make ... doesn't change the sources. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie firewall
Vikash Badal - PCS wrote: Greetings, -Original Message- From: Nicolas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 February 2004 12:28 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Newbie firewall SNIP /SNIP Hope that somebody wants to waste some time on my question. Many thanks Nicolas. If you have a look at /etc/rc.firewall, under the [Cc][Ll][Ii][Ee][Nn][Tt]) config, you will see : # set these to your network and netmask and ip net=192.0.2.0 mask=255.255.255.0 ip=192.0.2.1 The firewall rules are based these values. You could try replacing the net= ... with the network address and ip=... with the word me Vikash Hello. Thanks for responding. I have put all the right values in net, mask and ip. It was working yesterday. But then I changed in rc.conf and this morning it did not work. It could be the changes in rc.conf , the change in ip adress or both. I will try to put ip=me. Thanks again. Nicolas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie firewall
Thank you again. Now it works fine. Nicolas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie firewall question
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 07:15:46 +0100 Nicolas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I have just installed 5.2 on my machine and everything works. Now I am trying to configure it and I want to put up a firewall but a everything I read seem to refer to a dial up connection, I have a LAN connection.So my question(s) is: is there a difference between a firewall for a dial up connection and a Lan connection.? And if so what is the difference, where can I read about it and is there any good sites to look at? I have The Complete FreeBSD, the handbook, Absolute FreeBSD.. I would be very grateful for some help or directions where to look. Many Thanks!! Check out ipfw. Should not really matter what the connection is over... unless you specifically want a rule to apply to a device... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie firewall question
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 07:15:46 +0100 Nicolas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I have just installed 5.2 on my machine and everything works. Now I am trying to configure it and I want to put up a firewall but a everything I read seem to refer to a dial up connection, I have a LAN connection.So my question(s) is: is there a difference between a firewall for a dial up connection and a Lan connection.? And if so what is the difference, where can I read about it and is there any good sites to look at? I have The Complete FreeBSD, the handbook, Absolute FreeBSD.. I would be very grateful for some help or directions where to look. Many Thanks!! ___ If what you want is to set up a simple firewall for a standalone computer connected via LAN to an ISP there are a number of informative articles by Dru Lavigne on http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/15 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie firewall question
Nicolas wrote: I have just installed 5.2 on my machine and everything works. Now I am trying to configure it and I want to put up a firewall but a everything I read seem to refer to a dial up connection, I have a LAN connection.So my question(s) is: is there a difference between a firewall for a dial up connection and a Lan connection.? And if so what is the difference, where can I read about it and is there any good sites to look at? I have The Complete FreeBSD, the handbook, Absolute FreeBSD.. I would be very grateful for some help or directions where to look. Hi, Nicolas: I just set up something similar. Not sure what kind of configuration that you're looking for, but here's an article that helped me a lot in setting up my PC. It's an article on setting up a firewall/gateway using PPPoE.. On a side note, setting up PPPoE in FreeBSD was infinately simpler then my old Linux box.. That aside, this as well as the IPFW HOWTO got me all setup and running.. http://www.unixcircle.com/features/freebsd_pppoe.php Good luck! Kurt -- Kurt Claussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access Unix System -- http://sdf.lonestar.org ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie question: Imager module and p5-Imager in /usr/ports/
meimi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have tried to add Perl module Imager using CPAN. However, it failed. Then, I find a p5-Imager port. I think they are the same thing, isn't it? The port includes, but is a bit more than the CPAN module; it also includes solutions to the problems you had installing the module on your own. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie
On Monday 26 January 2004 11:53 pm, Tommy wrote: this is very new to me-- I am now a Mac OS X user and extremely happy with it. I am also tinkering with Linux Red Hat for now. I really would like to know more about FreeBSD. Hardware compatibility and such! Here's a link to the hardware compatibility notes for 4.9, the stable branch: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.9R/hardware.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie Graphic card question
On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 11:23:31 +0100 Gafgo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I am trying to install v 5.2 on my new computer. I have done succesful installations on my old computer where everything worked perfect. My problem now is that I can´t find my graphic card when I am conf Xfree86. I have a Asus (ATI) Radeon 9200 SE. When I try to start X it doesn´t work, even if I try vga generic and other settings. Is it so bad that I have to buy a new card or is there other sollutions?? I have looked at Xfree86.org driver section and my card isn´t mentioned even in their latest release. Hope that someone has an answer that will be cheaper than buying a new card. Many thanks Nicolas http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status6.html#6 Bellow it's my X config; I'm using a Radeon 9000. The thing you are after is: Driver ati in the Device section; or radeon might work. Section ServerLayout Identifier XFree86 Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ EndSection Section Module Load dbe # Load dri Load extmod Load glx Load record Load xtrap Load speedo Load type1 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver keyboard EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/sysmouse # Option Buttons # Option XAxisMapping 4 5 # Option YAxisMapping 8 9 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7 EndSection Section Monitor #DisplaySize 300 230 # mm Identifier Monitor0 VendorName NOK ModelNameNokia 447Za ModeLine [EMAIL PROTECTED] 108.0 1152 1216 1344 1600 864 865 868 900 +hsync +vsync ModeLine [EMAIL PROTECTED] 78.8 1024 1040 1136 1312 768 769 772 800 +hsync +vsync ModeLine [EMAIL PROTECTED] 49.5 800 816 896 1056 600 601 604 625 +hsync +vsync Option DPMS EndSection Section Device ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: i: integer, f: float, bool: True/False, ### string: String, freq: f Hz/kHz/MHz ### [arg]: arg optional #Option NoAccel # [bool] #Option SWcursor # [bool] #Option Dac6Bit # [bool] #Option Dac8Bit # [bool] #Option ForcePCIMode # [bool] #Option CPPIOMode # [bool] #Option CPusecTimeout # i #Option AGPMode # i #Option AGPFastWrite # [bool] #Option AGPSize # i #Option RingSize # i #Option BufferSize# i #Option EnableDepthMoves # [bool] #Option EnablePageFlip# [bool] #Option NoBackBuffer # [bool] #Option PanelOff # [bool] #Option DDCMode # [bool] #Option CloneDisplay # i #Option CloneMode # [str] #Option CloneHSync# [str] #Option CloneVRefresh # [str] #Option UseFBDev # [bool] #Option VideoKey # i Identifier Card0 Driver ati VendorName ATI Technologies Inc BoardName Radeon R250 If [Radeon 9000] BusID PCI:1:0:0 EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 MonitorMonitor0 DefaultDepth24 SubSection Display Depth 1 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 4 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 8 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection Display Depth 24 Modes 1152x864 EndSubSection EndSection -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie question
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 12:37:05AM +0100, Gafgo wrote: Hello there! I am a newbie to FreeBSD but have read a lot of handbooks. I have also installed different versions on my old computer just to practice (incl 4.8, 4.9, 5.0, 5.1). Now I have bought a new computer and wanted to install 4.9 for real. But during boot up this happened: ad0: REAL command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting ata0: resetting devices... and there it hangs. When I tried 5.1 I had no problem. Could it be a hardware problem?? It sounds to me as if your new machine has hardware which is supported under 5.x but not 4.9. That's a very good reason to install 5.2 -- caveats about early adopters notwithstanding, by all accounts 5.2 is turning out nicely. I'd worry about using it for a system that was mission critical to a business (read: financial consequences if it isn't up and running), but for a home system I think it would do very well. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Newbie question
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 12:37:05AM +0100, Gafgo wrote: Hello there! I am a newbie to FreeBSD but have read a lot of handbooks. I have also installed different versions on my old computer just to practice (incl 4.8, 4.9, 5.0, 5.1). Now I have bought a new computer and wanted to install 4.9 for real. But during boot up this happened: ad0: REAL command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting ata0: resetting devices... and there it hangs. When I tried 5.1 I had no problem. Could it be a hardware problem?? It sounds to me as if your new machine has hardware which is supported under 5.x but not 4.9. That's a very good reason to install 5.2 -- caveats about early adopters notwithstanding, by all accounts 5.2 is turning out nicely. I'd worry about using it for a system that was mission critical to a business (read: financial consequences if it isn't up and running), but for a home system I think it would do very well. Cheers, Matthew Thank you both for your help. I´ll go for 5.2. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Related Q: (was) Re: Newbie question
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:59:25AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: It sounds to me as if your new machine has hardware which is supported under 5.x but not 4.9. That's a very good reason to install 5.2 -- caveats about early adopters notwithstanding, by all accounts 5.2 is turning out nicely. I'd worry about using it for a system that was mission critical to a business (read: financial consequences if it isn't up and running), but for a home system I think it would do very well. I'm going toput 5.2 on my new DNS server; but from scratch. SWondering how dificult it is to upgrade from 4.[78] to 5.[latest]. Is the UPGRADING file suffieient? I've heard the 5.X is the cat's meow tia, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Related Q: (was) Re: Newbie question
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 10:23:57AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 08:59:25AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: It sounds to me as if your new machine has hardware which is supported under 5.x but not 4.9. That's a very good reason to install 5.2 -- caveats about early adopters notwithstanding, by all accounts 5.2 is turning out nicely. I'd worry about using it for a system that was mission critical to a business (read: financial consequences if it isn't up and running), but for a home system I think it would do very well. I'm going toput 5.2 on my new DNS server; but from scratch. SWondering how dificult it is to upgrade from 4.[78] to 5.[latest]. Is the UPGRADING file suffieient? I've heard the 5.X is the cat's meow UPGRADING should be sufficient if you are an experienced user. However, you will miss out on the ability to do various things, like create UFS2 filesystems or repartition your drives -- the shared root feature makes quite a difference. I think a wipe and re-install is generally a good idea over a major version bump, but if you can't do that, then update in place is the next best thing. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: newbie question
--On Monday, January 19, 2004 15:24:18 + marlon corleone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: forgive me if ever this is a off topic, how do i create this sample message, i want to change my motd default to this one, thanks :##:# :### :# :#:# :#:#:### :###:## :# :# :# # :# :#:# :#:# :#:#:# :#:# :# :# :# :#:# :#:# :#:# # :# :#:#:# :#:# :# :# :# :#:# :#:### :### :#:#:#:#:### :###:# :# :# :#:#:# :#:# :#:#:#:#:#:# :#:# :# :# :### :# :#:# :#:# :# :#:# :#:# :#:###:### vi /etc/motd edit to your hearts content. LER _ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: newbie question
On Monday 19 January 2004 09:25 am, Larry Rosenman wrote: --On Monday, January 19, 2004 15:24:18 + marlon corleone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: forgive me if ever this is a off topic, how do i create this sample message, i want to change my motd default to this one, thanks :##:# :### :# :#:# :#:#:### :###:## :# :# :# # :# :#:# :#:# :#:#:# :#:# :# :# :# :#:# :#:# :#:# # :# :#:#:# :#:# :# :# :# :#:# :#:### :### :#:#:#:#:### :###:# :# :# :#:#:# :#:# :#:#:#:#:#:# :#:# :# :# :### :# :#:# :#:# :# :#:# :#:# :#:###:### vi /etc/motd edit to your hearts content. LER As /etc/motd may get overwritten during an upgrade, you may want to keep a backup copy somewhere. Best regards, Andrew Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: newbie question
You may also add this to /etc/rc.conf or it will update the version info after every reboot: update_motd=NO -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew L. Gould Sent: lundi 19 janvier 2004 16:36 To: Larry Rosenman; marlon corleone; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: newbie question On Monday 19 January 2004 09:25 am, Larry Rosenman wrote: --On Monday, January 19, 2004 15:24:18 + marlon corleone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: forgive me if ever this is a off topic, how do i create this sample message, i want to change my motd default to this one, thanks :##:# :### :# :#:# :#:#:### :###:## :# :# :# # :# :#:# :#:# :#:#:# :#:# :# :# :# :#:# :#:# :#:# # :# :#:#:# :#:# :# :# :# :#:# :#:### :### :#:#:#:#:### :###:# :# :# :#:#:# :#:# :#:#:#:#:#:# :#:# :# :# :### :# :#:# :#:# :# :#:# :#:# :#:###:### vi /etc/motd edit to your hearts content. LER As /etc/motd may get overwritten during an upgrade, you may want to keep a backup copy somewhere. Best regards, Andrew Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NEWBIE QUESTION
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Donald Turnbull wrote: I'm a newbie to your OS, Does Free BSD have the KDE and Gnome GUI already installed? Do you have plans in making the installation more user friendly in the future? cd /usr/ports make search name=kde cd /usr/ports/x11/kdebase3 make install wait.. Rus -- e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] t: 1-888-327-6330 www.jvds.com - Root on your own box www.vpscolo.com - Your next hosting company ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NEWBIE QUESTION
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:47:08 +, Donald Turnbull wrote: I'm a newbie to your OS, Does Free BSD have the KDE and Gnome GUI already installed? Already installed? No. A large number people want to run FreeBSD on their servers, and having a GUI on a server isn't usually a good or desired thing. Another large number of people want a GUI but don't want KDE or Gnome, so forcing this onto them would also be a disservice. FreeBSD is partially about choice. The same as it promotes OS choice in a world dominated by Windows, it also allows and encourages choice in its components, notably the window manager or (in the case of Gnome and KDE) the desktop environment. Or the use of one altogether, as in the case for servers. HOWEVER... it is insanely easy to install, with one command, via ports. The ports tree is your friend, and perhaps one of FreeBSD's most notable advantages over all other OSes. There are over 10,000 items in the ports tree that are no more than a make clean install away. You can take a vanilla FreeBSD install, install Gnome and have it install all it's bazillion dependencies (and XFree86 and all ITS dependencies) all in one swoop with a single command. Do you have plans in making the installation more user friendly in the future? It really isn't all that bad now. I'm guessing you'd prefer a GUI installer, but there are a number of reasons this would Bad Idea and make more people unhappy than the current system (again, take the case of servers, or the ability of the current installer to work on pretty much anything). The biggest problem people have with the FreeBSD installer is that it is different than what they're used to. Don't condemn it because you haven't learned the (valid) reasons for its differences, and how to make use of it. I've spent most my computing life with Windows, but I can blow through a FreeBSD install within 3-5 mins. Do THAT with Windows. ;-) Welcome to FreeBSD... hope your stay is a long one! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: NEWBIE QUESTION
I'm a newbie to your OS, Does Free BSD have the KDE and Gnome GUI already installed? Do you have plans in making the installation more user friendly in the future? Like any newbie I heartily recommend reading through the handbook under the documentation section of www.freebsd.org . I believe this has a good section on installing X and selecting a window manager. Also read the sections on updating source and buildworld, this will keep your system up to date. There's some good FreeBSD tutorials at http://www.onlamp.com/pub/ct/15 worth working through. Also, as well as ports being your friend I've found the utility portupgrade under /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade highly useful for managing my installed packages. Lastly, this list has always been welcoming when I've asked dumb questions and not full of trolls or people with superiority complexes unlike other open source lists (thanks). Good luck, Phil. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NEWBIE QUESTION
On Thursday 15 January 2004 09:47 am, Donald Turnbull wrote: I'm a newbie to your OS, Does Free BSD have the KDE and Gnome GUI already installed? Do you have plans in making the installation more user friendly in the future? Donald M. Turnbull MCSE, MCDBA KDE and Gnome are on the installation CD. During installation, you can select one of these as your default desktop. The chosen default desktop will then be installed. My **opinions** regarding the installation/configuration process: (Caveat: I am just a user, not a developer.) 1. I think it would be very difficult to make the installation easier without reducing the number of options or the amount of control the user has during installation. For many FreeBSD users, control is more important than ease. Easy Unix is called Mac OSX. I talked my 11 year old nephew through a complete Mac OSX installation, including wireless access with WEP, over the phone. That has to be the epitome of easy. 2. The installation/configuration of FreeBSD is part of a newbie's learning curve. That's not to say it should be looked upon as hazing or a rite of passage; but it requires newbies to become familiar with their hardware and the operating system at a level that non-IS MS Windows users are not accustomed. This new level of familiarity will benefit the newbie down the road, particularly during his/her first emails for help. Embrace the challenge! You will not regret it. 3. I think the installation is difficult, but manageable, if you are familiar with the hardware in your computer and read the available documentation prior to installation. Documentation exists online and in several books available at retail bookstores. (I think it is prudent for anyone/everyone who is installing an operating system to be familiar with their hardware and to read the available documentation.) 4. Don't get overwhelmed by the entire installation process. Plan what you want to do, then focus on one step at a time. Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie ports question
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-12-03 17:46:49 -0500: AFAIK the subject's accurate, best I could do anyway. Hmm, I failed to find your question in the message. -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message.see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie ports question
At 06:56 AM 12/6/2003, Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-12-03 17:46:49 -0500: AFAIK the subject's accurate, best I could do anyway. Hmm, I failed to find your question in the message. Woops, Eudora's been acting funny that way; this isn't the first time. Thanks for following up Roman, turns out I taught myself (finally) how to do makes yesterday and fixed things up. I wonder if my reply re. the email setup instructions running freebsd with sendmail and qpopper experienced the same problem since I never got a reply. Marty Landman Face 2 Interface Inc 845-679-9387 Sign On Required: Web membership software for your site Make a Website: http://face2interface.com/Home/Demo.shtml ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie source question
you can /stand/sysinstall to re-enter the sysinstall menu and install the src that way, or you can use cvsup. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html btw heres a tutorial on cvsup if the handbooks to confusing(it isn't): http://tutorials.snaphat.com -aaron[EMAIL PROTECTED] I installed the 4.8 mini iso w/o the source and would like to now install the source code too. How is this done, and is there a beginner's tutorial on working with gcc (I assume that's the standard compiler?) on fbsd? Marty Landman Face 2 Interface Inc 845-679-9387 Sign On Required: Web membership software for your site Make a Website: http://face2interface.com/Home/Demo.shtml ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) mQILBD+0WTUBEADKcWoPGlW2TUTIe0ls4MiSu009x5KzWuwXUILiZX27GMdB7nk+ NBTL3wqjLqiFCKJfEFod/LCnH3Mx3+2MV+j579D1H9labgiS1iT35nudY3PRkhT8 b0iWdPmEAV8GirE59VxNwFLOXh0EsK8agdPSh4SC7QONo/RPUC2s4fE3RbZQf1Dt d4jD4/mtg8CyaI8Mh7+eQ6mSwkxNTh5HU+3dxVHVdbFex+2P/fg/aU01rGIhopoj dXPIRuz0oMuqxuVOABY+tcamopvd86hjSFcyLN0WH3B/0HQI95iU4+In0FuMbGsC t0OyP99GsYkmdOzRh+jLZyLDEt2vemwrH6ziA16aaewRW+azwu3fvXeuPGIRw9kz h2v53FIec/k2wX54iQl/Eg+G88rcwmjeWwfF8lHmveWEA3P1zvg5BGprUb4L4puX V9GcADbXWW3ueRxz1en7BVgiSbHtfNNzjYS4g5HSktgflolJKcggqtjcII5EqxbH T/OX72+KMOQWofNW5a6IIZddVvChzU8rqH6fUAF5rFvYO0ZKB3R18OFioLSKuIA0 toSSb9Z29liV2q8Ed3DvRK+77vE1sp+H03iI4k95b5amWHQL09wn8FGwsOJrsDt0 vBMPk5OTzEhAKcysxjNK5MRc4tsAbpj6I7VcZUwv+WEkcYV2B6ExOD6thQAGKbQo QWFyb24gTXlsZXMgTGFuZHdlaHIgPGFhcm9uQHNuYXBoYXQuY29tPokCNAQTAQIA HgUCP7RZNQIbAwYLCQgHAwIDFQIDAxYCAQIeAQIXgAAKCRCPcPZyFeyzOL2+D/wM mt+M6wpCE/mGcmTJh6vO83ahvxTJUhfgnzz5zFXcOpw2iIVBCVXWXPDziX6UneHe +k+JhaQQ6hR4wJPZwXocrbeCof6Qf2PEODPqm1k5We8cyrbE36xe2TD8SfC55qiP CvVtoS616adMGHlgHSk2PHO7MvCWr0WYDVFErRXBK5IGPz1q4D1ex2qbEs2Dyusx OqlRO4Yf9k3vYWpp4REuwMl9Oku5QJHVRAo2jemuZaSBCK9l26nYMQFfCcpI/XVT BXBzQwr9xyVaab5ea6Vyy7XTCHzVb3iRkVJJVigRuSpVsP9utTtwVQRYbeHXxvx+ UNRqFtn1wxjnK20Rg7OiMAWRCjafx3yQPo3i416fVX09RH9jOTAX3DB71OV1xleN PBBGgFbz9g2rjoty2nRhCtuMwW18QoaYcLX1XjEbFZ3h6krszcppg2NesemZmAi2 vUjYJoQYoR1Lo2dqI1+d9Nmp+ZdvYsFkEKOGtNcxoDmTrvMQhXvJohmlttAfLQNy 9aJrlMqRO2Wfa/MdM5sHkMTDY9HD8bZcuek84aAEYr5F4fK/0wjsAYbfr9xJsKnR ovKv3Ho2azA72SfMyLfuP7MK2C4lwtGJP73O+JqIzRsiuY7AVWSLwBsKuX0vBpN8 9e9p3zly5oxjx2RIglJlKgUuM9qwfSLlWupK698aBQ== =8sqC -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie source question
Marty Landman wrote: I installed the 4.8 mini iso w/o the source and would like to now install the source code too. How is this done, and is there a beginner's tutorial on working with gcc (I assume that's the standard compiler?) on fbsd? Chapter 21 of the FreeBSD handbook covers most of this. Most people that are tracking FreeBSD via source use the utility cvsup. This part of the handbook covers this utility as well as how to build FreeBSD from source. Once you've read the handbook, it's not that hard at all. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html Also, once you get the source, the comments inside the main Makefile (/usr/src/Makefile) also give the steps necessary to build from source. Richard Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie source question
At 12:03 PM 11/29/2003, Aaron Myles Landwehr wrote: you can /stand/sysinstall to re-enter the sysinstall menu and install the src that way Where on the sysinstall menu is this option? Marty Landman Face 2 Interface Inc 845-679-9387 Sign On Required: Web membership software for your site Make a Website: http://face2interface.com/Home/Demo.shtml ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie source question
/stand/sysinstall configure Distributions then select src after that all the sources are in there. Just select what you want. -aaron[EMAIL PROTECTED] At 12:03 PM 11/29/2003, Aaron Myles Landwehr wrote: you can /stand/sysinstall to re-enter the sysinstall menu and install the src that way Where on the sysinstall menu is this option? Marty Landman Face 2 Interface Inc 845-679-9387 Sign On Required: Web membership software for your site Make a Website: http://face2interface.com/Home/Demo.shtml ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie install question
Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've had so many truncated d/l's trying to install the Mysql server from the port that came with my 4.8 mini iso that I decided instead to d/l the mysql-max-4.0.16-unknown-freebsd4.7-i386.tar.gz from mysql.org and install from there. How is this done? Do I just drop the tar.gz into the ports dir and then make install; make build after make dist-clean? Which subdir does the .gz file go into? distfiles [man ports(7)] Also note the -F and -R options for fetch, which is the default program used for the downloads. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie install question
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Marty Landman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've had so many truncated d/l's trying to install the Mysql server from the port that came with my 4.8 mini iso that I decided instead to d/l the mysql-max-4.0.16-unknown-freebsd4.7-i386.tar.gz from mysql.org and install from there. How is this done? Do I just drop the tar.gz into the ports dir and then make install; make build after make dist-clean? Which subdir does the .gz file go into? distfiles [man ports(7)] Also note the -F and -R options for fetch, which is the default program used for the downloads. I did mine the hard way. I grabbed that file and put into /tmp. I then gunzipped un-tarred and configured and made. It worked, but surely the distfiles methods is easiest. Have you resolved the truncated downloads? I would make sure that is not an issue prior to installing from the gz. You sure don't want the further aggravation of some file broken while installing. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie install question
Bob Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did mine the hard way. I grabbed that file and put into /tmp. I then gunzipped un-tarred and configured and made. It worked, but surely the distfiles methods is easiest. It also means you can't use the package tools on the program should you want to remove it in the future (or update it, etc.). ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: newbie install question
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Bob Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did mine the hard way. I grabbed that file and put into /tmp. I then gunzipped un-tarred and configured and made. It worked, but surely the distfiles methods is easiest. It also means you can't use the package tools on the program should you want to remove it in the future (or update it, etc.). Yes, I know. I seem to have great aim when it comes to shooting myself in the foot. ;-) Fortunately, I see no pressing need for me to upgrade or remove MySQL, as the current config is exactly what I need. I'll remember this for next time. BTW, I guess I am not the only one to not be able to install MySQL from ports. I have tried on three different machines all running 4.9 and it never worked. Go figure. Bob ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
