RE: sendmail help?

2004-01-23 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, fbsd_user wrote: totally different. I believe the original poster was asking about using sendmail to retrieve email from his ISP's smtp server. And the OP was asking about _outgoing_ smtp. Regards, /\_/\ All dogs go to heaven. [EMAIL

Re: upgrading mysql

2004-01-23 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Christer Solskogen wrote: I was wondering upgrading the mysql ports to 4.x series. should this be okay? gallery-1.4.1 ,p5-Mysql-modules-1.2219, php4-4.3.4_5, phpMyAdmin-2.5.4, phpSysInfo-2.1 and squirrelmail-1.4.2_1 seems to like mysql-3, and i was wondering if these

Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS

2004-01-23 Thread W. Sierke
Keith Kelly wrote: On Jan 22, 2004, at 5:24 PM, Keith Kelly wrote: I already tried (with both 4.9 and 5.1) letting the FreeBSD install proceed with fdisk's geometry value assumptions, and what I always get is a non-bootable hard drive that gives the Missing operating system error

Re: Fetchmail config help

2004-01-23 Thread Peter Risdon
fbsd_user wrote: I have an registered domain name. The company that hosts my domain name has an application that allows me to forward all my different users email to an single account at my ISP. This was ok when all the email was for me, but now the family also wants to use my domain name. I want

How dangerous is 5.2 for production use

2004-01-23 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi list, I am considering switching our production server from 4.9 to 5.2. production means that it serves some 20 people at our university institute. Unfortunately the machine crashes occasionally which would be tolerable if it was up again immediately. However the fsck of our 300+500 GB

Re: Printing list of sites access

2004-01-23 Thread Peter Risdon
Jenny Ravu wrote: Hi, I would like to know how I can print on one of my server with Freebsd, We use this server for our internet access, this is connected to a ROUTER that has a link to our ISP. And all the users fo via this server to access the internet, It's difficult to know what you are

Re: How dangerous is 5.2 for production use

2004-01-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:45:31AM +0100, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: I am considering switching our production server from 4.9 to 5.2. production means that it serves some 20 people at our university institute. Unfortunately the machine crashes occasionally which would be tolerable if it was

Re: Printing list of sites access

2004-01-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 12:28:21PM +1000, Jenny Ravu wrote: I would like to know how I can print on one of my server with Freebsd, We use this server for our internet access, this is connected to a ROUTER that has a link to our ISP. And all the users fo via this server to access the

Background fsck only for UFS2??

2004-01-23 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi list, Does anyone know if the background fsck feature of 5.x is also available for UFS filesystems or is it only for UFS2? Heinrich -- Heinrich Rebehn University of Bremen Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering - Department of Telecommunications - Phone : +49/421/218-4664 Fax :

Re: How dangerous is 5.2 for production use

2004-01-23 Thread Peter Risdon
Matthew Seaman wrote: Certainly. You will find it better suited to the large filesystems you have than UFS1. I also have a vague feeling that background fsck is a UFS2 feature, but I can't find documentation to either confirm or deny that. I'm sure this is right. If one of my 5.* machines

log_in_vain=YES

2004-01-23 Thread Didier WIROTH
When using log_in_vain=YES I get a lot of console message of these types: Jan 21 03:01:12 ultimate kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:113 from 127.0.0.1:49188 flags:0x02 Jan 21 03:01:12 ultimate kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:113 from 127.0.0.1:49190 flags:0x02 Jan 21

Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS

2004-01-23 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Keith Kelly wrote: OK, but if the auto mode uses the wrong C/H/S translation, this default may be the source of your problem. What happens when you switch from using auto to explicitly using LBA? I don't know. I've never had to change away from Auto to get any other OS to install or boot from

Re: How dangerous is 5.2 for production use

2004-01-23 Thread Roberto Pereyra
However the fsck of our 300+500 GB RAIDs takes almost an hour and that's why i want to switch to 5.x because it fscks in the background. Hi FreeBSD 4.9 can fsck in the background too, look /etc/defaults/rc.conf Set in /etc/rc.conf fsck_y_enable=YES roberto The machine is an ASUS

Re: How dangerous is 5.2 for production use

2004-01-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:49:34AM +, Peter Risdon wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: Certainly. You will find it better suited to the large filesystems you have than UFS1. I also have a vague feeling that background fsck is a UFS2 feature, but I can't find documentation to either confirm or

ARP poisonong. LIVE_MAC

2004-01-23 Thread Alexey Kuzmenko
Hi all, There is a kernel module under Linux which is called LIVE-MAC. This module provide a sort of arp spoofing attack. It broadcasts arp replies for restricted host causing these hosts (basically windows) not to work in the LAN. I'm wandering if there is something like above but for FreeBSD.

Re: How dangerous is 5.2 for production use

2004-01-23 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:49:34AM +, Peter Risdon typed: Matthew Seaman wrote: Certainly. You will find it better suited to the large filesystems you have than UFS1. I also have a vague feeling that background fsck is a UFS2 feature, but I can't find documentation to either confirm

Re: How dangerous is 5.2 for production use

2004-01-23 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 07:22:04AM -0300, Roberto Pereyra typed: However the fsck of our 300+500 GB RAIDs takes almost an hour and that's why i want to switch to 5.x because it fscks in the background. Hi FreeBSD 4.9 can fsck in the background too, look /etc/defaults/rc.conf Set

failing hardware panic

2004-01-23 Thread Tig
I'm running a FreeBSD 5.2 system and have just started getting a panic/reboot problem. It *appears* to be a hard drive issue. I'm not sure where to start, however, in trying to work out which for the 3 IDE drives has the problem. What commands/tools can I use that will help me to identify the

Re: How dangerous is 5.2 for production use

2004-01-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 07:22:04AM -0300, Roberto Pereyra wrote: However the fsck of our 300+500 GB RAIDs takes almost an hour and that's why i want to switch to 5.x because it fscks in the background. FreeBSD 4.9 can fsck in the background too, look /etc/defaults/rc.conf Set in

Re: log_in_vain=YES

2004-01-23 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 10:54:50AM +0100, Didier WIROTH typed: When using log_in_vain=YES I get a lot of console message of these types: Jan 21 03:01:12 ultimate kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:113 from 127.0.0.1:49188 flags:0x02 Jan 21 03:01:12 ultimate kernel: Connection attempt

Re: Trouble booting 4.9 on Compaq DL360

2004-01-23 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Matt Reinhart wrote: Hello, I recently did a standard (Developer, no X) install of 4.9-RELEASE on a Compaq Proliant DL360. Everything went smoothly. Hi! Which model of the Dl360 do you have? ida is normally used on the Generation 1, which is a completely white box,

Re: How dangerous is 5.2 for production use

2004-01-23 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 09:49:34AM +, Peter Risdon wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: Certainly. You will find it better suited to the large filesystems you have than UFS1. I also have a vague feeling that background fsck is a UFS2 feature, but I can't find documentation

Re: Background fsck only for UFS2??

2004-01-23 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
On Friday 23 January 2004 10:42, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: Hi list, Does anyone know if the background fsck feature of 5.x is also available for UFS filesystems or is it only for UFS2? It's not UFS2 but 5.x related. 5.2 has UFS2 as default, but 5.1 also had background fsck while 4.x does not.

Re: How dangerous is 5.2 for production use

2004-01-23 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Roberto Pereyra wrote: FreeBSD 4.9 can fsck in the background too, look /etc/defaults/rc.conf Set in /etc/rc.conf fsck_y_enable=YES all that does is to automatically answer Y whenever fsck asks you a question. it still doesnt make fsck happen in the background as the

totally allocated apache bandwidth in freebsd

2004-01-23 Thread Didier WIROTH
Hi, (I'm new to freebsd and apache) With mod_bandwidth you can limit bandwidth per client ip or make adjustments depending on the size of the file etc.. But as far I've read so far you can't limit an overall bandwidth with it. In Microsoft IIS you have an option Limit the total network bandwidth

Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS

2004-01-23 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 14:24:19 -0800 Keith Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: Thanks for your thoughtful and helpful reply. I should have given more technical details. I already tried (with both 4.9 and 5.1) letting the FreeBSD install proceed with fdisk's geometry value assumptions,

Default /var directories/permissions in 4.9R

2004-01-23 Thread Cliff Addy
I've got a new 4.9R box with fbsd installed by the vendor. However, the /var partion did not get installed properly and I need to reconstruct it. I have no other 4.9 systems to compare it with and apparently it's different from the other systems we have around here. Are the default layout and

RE: Nis

2004-01-23 Thread Scott Mitchell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm running NIS with freebsd as the server and using redhat clients. I have authentication working fine but I cant seem to get changing the passwords to work. If you change the password from a redhat box it just changes the NIS password not the system password

Problem with foppy drive

2004-01-23 Thread
Hello Support. I have read this files and it didn't help me. Also I booted with GENERIC kernel and my floppy drive didn't work. But this day I booted in kernel's model where ACPI don't supports at all and my drive worked good. So it helps to solve the problem. Thank you for help. Thursday,

Re: Default /var directories/permissions in 4.9R

2004-01-23 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 06:55:15 -0500 (EST) Cliff Addy [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably wrote: I've got a new 4.9R box with fbsd installed by the vendor. However, the /var partion did not get installed properly and I need to reconstruct it. I have no other 4.9 systems to compare it with and apparently

FW: totally allocated apache bandwidth in freebsd

2004-01-23 Thread Didier WIROTH
I forgot to mention that I'm using FreeBSD5.2-release. Perhaps pf altq would also be a solution for limiting bandwidth?! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Didier WIROTH Sent: vendredi 23 janvier 2004 12:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

RE: totally allocated apache bandwidth in freebsd

2004-01-23 Thread fbsd_user
Could not find anything called altq in the FBSD ports system. Would you please translate altq to an FBSD port name. Thanks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Didier WIROTH Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 7:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

PCI driver development problems

2004-01-23 Thread Admin
I am using FreeBSD Version 5.1. I am developing a driver for a PCI interface. I have spent almost a month to understand the FreeBSD architecture and how to develop a device driver. I have a number of issues requiring immediate help: 1. I have tried using the

Re: totally allocated apache bandwidth in freebsd

2004-01-23 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 08:45:50 -0500 fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could not find anything called altq in the FBSD ports system. Would you please translate altq to an FBSD port name. http://www.rofug.ro/projects/freebsd-altq/ -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD user

FreeBSD 5.2: could not load OpenGL subsystem

2004-01-23 Thread db
Hi group Having installed /usr/ports/games/linux-enemyterritory/ I (of course) want to run it, but get: loading libGL.so.1: QGL_Init: dlopen libGL.so.1 failed: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory failed ... Sys_Error: GLimp_Init() - could not load OpenGL

Re: PCI driver development problems

2004-01-23 Thread Bob Pickles
Gurdial I am in the same position, but have gone past most of these issues, I only have 5 days experience though. The device should be made in your attach() function using make_dev(), then the device should be installed... use tail -f /var/log/messages to see errors that kldload reports, this

Re: FW: totally allocated apache bandwidth in freebsd

2004-01-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Didier WIROTH [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I forgot to mention that I'm using FreeBSD5.2-release. Perhaps pf altq would also be a solution for limiting bandwidth?! Yes. Or ipfw(8) and dummynet(4). And so on. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: totally allocated apache bandwidth in freebsd

2004-01-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Didier WIROTH Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 7:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FW: totally allocated apache bandwidth in freebsd I forgot to mention that I'm using FreeBSD5.2-release. Perhaps pf altq would also be a solution for limiting

RE: log_in_vain=YES

2004-01-23 Thread Didier WIROTH
Thanks for answering. No actually I don't think someone is spoofing. There is a firewall (other machine, actually) blocking any kind of incomingoutgoing 127. adresses. So I don't think (at this time) that this is the problem. What I ment with cron, is that there are daily reports the are being

Re: VMware 3 crashes 5.2 system

2004-01-23 Thread Dany Nativel
Vmware3 worked for me under 5.2RC2... I haven't tried on 5.2 Release yet. The only thing that never worked was the full screen mode using either nvidia or nv driver. You can find some tips for installing VMWARE under FreeBSD at : http://www.packetwatch.net/documents/papers/vmware2.txt Here is

RE: log_in_vain=YES

2004-01-23 Thread fbsd_user
Your problem conclusion sounds logical to me. I run postfix and firewall with log_in_vain option On my gateway system and do not get what you have. Can not help you in verifying the problem. It's not really an bug, just uncommon mix of system configuration options. Sendmail is functioning normally

DSL with User PPP and Static IP

2004-01-23 Thread Jerrys Transmission
Hello, I have just started working for a local auto transmission repair shop and am trying to get the local server up and running. Specifically, the server works great with dynamic IPs assigned from the DSL provider (using PPPoE) but it burps when I attempt a static IP as per the handbook's

Re: FreeBSD 5.2: could not load OpenGL subsystem

2004-01-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 03:07:45PM +0100, db wrote: Hi group Having installed /usr/ports/games/linux-enemyterritory/ I (of course) want to run it, but get: loading libGL.so.1: QGL_Init: dlopen libGL.so.1 failed: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Re: totally allocated apache bandwidth in freebsd

2004-01-23 Thread Dinesh Nair
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Didier WIROTH wrote: How do you handle this throttle limits on Freebsd? Are you using ipfw dummynet? (may be you have link with sample rules, I've already read man 8 ipfw) Perhaps other possibilities? dummynet pipes it is. there're examples on the man page. Regards,

Re: Segmentation fault on OPIE when sequence number 0

2004-01-23 Thread Dany Nativel
I've posted my s/key issue on this mailing list, BSD forums and also submitted a bug report to FBSD... no response so far or any advice on how to debug the problem. I'd like to switch my Debian based file server to freebsd but this issue on s/key is annoying. Any comments are welcome. Thanks

RE: totally allocated apache bandwidth in freebsd

2004-01-23 Thread fbsd_user
From the ALTQ home web page says it's an stand-a-lone application and says nothing about being incorporated into PF the firewall. If it is then all the better. Thanks for the pointer to this information. http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/kjc/kjc/software.html#ALTQ ALTQ: Alternate Queueing for BSD

Re: FreeBSD 5.2: could not load OpenGL subsystem

2004-01-23 Thread Karel J. Bosschaart
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 03:07:45PM +0100, db wrote: Hi group Having installed /usr/ports/games/linux-enemyterritory/ I (of course) want to run it, but get: loading libGL.so.1: QGL_Init: dlopen libGL.so.1 failed: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory failed

RE: log_in_vain=YES

2004-01-23 Thread fbsd_user
If this is happening while your system is connected to the public internet then your system is under attack by somebody who is spoofing ip address 127.0.0.1. Port 113 is the ident protocol. There is no reason for the cron jobs to be doing that. You should power off you system when not in use at

Re: FreeBSD 5.2: could not load OpenGL subsystem

2004-01-23 Thread dslb
-- Original Message -- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:40:49 + From: Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: db [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.2: could not load OpenGL subsystem Usually that's installed by the linux_base* port. Except that the emulators/linux_base-8 port

Re: FreeBSD 5.2: could not load OpenGL subsystem

2004-01-23 Thread dslb
-- Original Message -- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:15:28 +0100 From: Karel J. Bosschaart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: db [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.2: could not load OpenGL subsystem If you have an nvidia card, you need to install x11/nvidia-driver and use the nvidia

Re: FreeBSD tunnels / performance et'al (gif/tun etc.)

2004-01-23 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 20 January 2004 21:40 -0500 Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Karl Pielorz wrote: I've just setup a FreeBSD tunnel (we've tried both gif and tun [via nos-tun]) now between two fairly large networks of machines... What version of FreeBSD are you using? If using

Re: FreeBSD tunnels / performance et'al (gif/tun etc.)

2004-01-23 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Karl Pielorz wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Karl Pielorz wrote: I've just setup a FreeBSD tunnel (we've tried both gif and tun [via nos-tun]) now between two fairly large networks of machines... What version of FreeBSD are you using? If using FreeBSD 5.x, you may

framebuffers?

2004-01-23 Thread Geert Hendrickx
Hello, I'm used to having framebuffers in Linux, and I would like to have that in FreeBSD too. I have already reconfigured and recompiled my kernel with options VESA enabled. Then I added this 2 lines to /etc/rc.conf: font8x8=/usr/share/syscons/fonts/iso-8x8.fnt

Re: Trouble booting 4.9 on Compaq DL360

2004-01-23 Thread Matt Reinhart
Which model of the Dl360 do you have? ida is normally used on the Generation 1, which is a completely white box, wheras the G2 has a black outfit, and uses the ciss driver. But I've never seen an G1 with 1266 MHz, or were those very late series? It is a late G1 in a completely white

Re: FreeBSD 5.2: could not load OpenGL subsystem

2004-01-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 04:11:49PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Original Message -- Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:40:49 + From: Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: db [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.2: could not load OpenGL subsystem Usually that's

Re: How do I get into GUI?

2004-01-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, my name is Claude, and I'm new to FreeBSD. I've installed it on a hard drive by itself, and I get it to boot. The install seemed to have completed without a glitch. My problem is that I expected the booting process to finish in the graphical user interface. Instead, it stops at a

Re: what's the priority on building 5.1 packages?

2004-01-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 03:29:51AM -0200, Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto wrote: Hello all, Maybe this is not the best list to post this question, but it won't hurt. I've been compiling everything from source for lack of options, and was just wondering what should be the policy for 5.1

Re: How do I get into GUI?

2004-01-23 Thread HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER
Hi Claude, FreBSD takes a minimalistic approach to installing applications in the default install. By default, XWindows is not installed. Read the handbook section on XWindows: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html It describes XWindows installation, config and

RE: sendmail logs and other questions

2004-01-23 Thread JJB
Dirk Thanks for the pointer to /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README. It seems like this is generic info not really targeted at the way sendmail is installed under FBSD. So guessing at what it's really trying to saw I have arrived at this to tell sendmail my sites domain name. cd /etc/mail ee

Re: FreeBSD tunnels / performance et'al (gif/tun etc.)

2004-01-23 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 23 January 2004 10:51 -0500 Robert Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just wondering if it was something 'weird' such as the delay over the tunnel being on average 'just the right delay time' to cause problems that you wouldn't get on a LAN or something? :) I agree that something sounds

Re: How do I get into GUI?

2004-01-23 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:21:13 + Claude Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, my name is Claude, and I'm new to FreeBSD. I've installed it on a hard drive by itself, and I get it to boot. The install seemed to have completed without a glitch. :) My problem is that I expected the booting

Re: How do I get into GUI?

2004-01-23 Thread Peter Risdon
Claude Martin wrote: My problem is that I expected the booting process to finish in the graphical user interface. Instead, it stops at a CLI prompt. Maybe I did something wrong. No, although you were probably asked during the install whether you wanted to configure X Windows. Not everyone

RE: DSL with User PPP and Static IP

2004-01-23 Thread fbsd_user
Jacob Your rc.conf is all wrong, you are doing the nat process in both 'user ppp' and IPFW, this is wrong. The default IPFW firewall rules are useless in protecting you. If you want stateful ipfw rules which will give you max in protection and that will work as is for your situation let me know.

libdri.a

2004-01-23 Thread Brian H
Greetings: Problem: When I goto start xwindows with the startx command I get the following Symbol __glXActiveScreens from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libdri.a is unresolved! Background: Recently installed xfree 4.3.0 server and client from the ports directory after updating the

Is this a Race Condition?

2004-01-23 Thread Martin McCormick
I have a cron job that looks for files in /tmp and other directories that are more than X days old so that they go away and don't keep piling up. Every few days, I get a message like: --- Forwarded Message Date:Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:51:00 CST From:[EMAIL PROTECTED](Cron

cdburn -l syntax ???

2004-01-23 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Hi! I would like to burn a list of .wav's to CD-ROM . # cdburn -f /dev/acd0 audio * can process a directory with 6 or 7 files. When I try 14 or 15 the machine will freeze (not enough RAM ???). So I created a list of files with # ls list (and removed the last line which is list itself) and tried

Re: Thank you

2004-01-23 Thread Simon Barner
I searched your site, but my burning question is, How do I start the Graphical Interfaces, KDE and Gnome? I did a Custom Installation following the directions of the website. I installed all the packages and Ports. I want to learn everything. I don't know about gnome but for KDE, add

Re: Is this a Race Condition?

2004-01-23 Thread Daniela
On Friday 23 January 2004 17:13, Martin McCormick wrote: I have a cron job that looks for files in /tmp and other directories that are more than X days old so that they go away and don't keep piling up. Every few days, I get a message like: --- Forwarded Message Date:Fri, 23

recommendation for disk sector editor

2004-01-23 Thread Lee_Shackelford
Good morning, FreeBSD enthusiasts, Would you wish to recommend a disk sector editor program? I am looking for something that provides functionality similar to Microsoft DskProbe, but not requiring a graphics user interface, and most importantly, does not require any operating system support

portsdb -uU

2004-01-23 Thread Lou Katz
I am running 4.7. When I run 'portsdb -uU' I get LOTS of output of the form: someport: somethingelse non-existent -- dependency list incomplete Does this matter? How do I fix this? -- -=[L]=- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Is this a Race Condition?

2004-01-23 Thread Martin McCormick
Thank you. Daniela writes: Yes, that's most likely the cause. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

freebsd 4.8 and the spamassassin 2.6x port

2004-01-23 Thread Michael Whitley
I have read through the archives and seen that newer versions of Spamassassin have fits with freebsd because of an outdated perl version. I noticed that there is a SpamAssassin 2.6 port out for freeBSD 4.9 but was wondering if anyone has had success with installing it on a 4.8 system? Michael

Re: portsdb -uU

2004-01-23 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 23 January 2004 09:54 am, Lou Katz wrote: I am running 4.7. When I run 'portsdb -uU' I get LOTS of output of the form: someport: somethingelse non-existent -- dependency list incomplete Does this matter? How do I fix this? Sometimes and you can't fix it. Portsdb is complaining

Package from the packages-5.1-release directory won't install on a 5.1 system

2004-01-23 Thread Francis Litterio
I have a stock 5.1 release system, but when I try to install the package amsn-0.71_1.tbz, which I downloaded from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.1-release/All/amsn-0.71_1.tbz pkg_add says it needs version tcl-8.4.3,1 of tcl but my 5.1 system has tcl version 8.3.5_2

sendmail + sasl

2004-01-23 Thread Robert Huff
Matthew Seaman writes: You don't mention SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) -- by default, the sendmail on FreeBSD doesn't contain any SASL functionality, but you will need to add it in order to use authentication. First install the security/cyrus-sasl2 port. Then edit

RE: sendmail logs and other questions

2004-01-23 Thread David Fleck
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, JJB wrote: So guessing at what it's really trying to saw I have arrived at this to tell sendmail my sites domain name. cd /etc/mail ee freebsd.mc Change DOMAIN(generic) to DOMAIN(fbsdjones.com) Save file m4 freebsd.mc To compile the freebsd.mc source into the

Re: FreeBSD 5.2: could not load OpenGL subsystem

2004-01-23 Thread db
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 16:01:53 + Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead, install the x11/nvidia-driver port. This is a port of the linux code for driving NVIDIA cards, and it overwrites the X11R6 supplied libGL.so.1 shlib with it's own version. Read the docs carefully and be

Re: portsdb -uU

2004-01-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lou Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am running 4.7. When I run 'portsdb -uU' I get LOTS of output of the form: someport: somethingelse non-existent -- dependency list incomplete Does this matter? Only if you want the ports that are reporting it. (which you probably don't, if you don't

Re: framebuffers?

2004-01-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 23), Geert Hendrickx said: Hello, I'm used to having framebuffers in Linux, and I would like to have that in FreeBSD too. I have already reconfigured and recompiled my kernel with options VESA enabled. Then I added this 2 lines to /etc/rc.conf:

Re: Is this a Race Condition?

2004-01-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 23), Martin McCormick said: Thank you. Daniela writes: Yes, that's most likely the cause. If you use find's -delete action instead of -exec, you can shorten the window between finding and deleting. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: freebsd 4.8 and the spamassassin 2.6x port

2004-01-23 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jan 23, 2004, at 1:07 PM, Michael Whitley wrote: I have read through the archives and seen that newer versions of Spamassassin have fits with freebsd because of an outdated perl version. I noticed that there is a SpamAssassin 2.6 port out for freeBSD 4.9 but was wondering if anyone has had

a good ip subnet calculator with gui..!

2004-01-23 Thread Neal Hamilton
Is there any subnet calculators with a gui for unixfreebsd? After hours of searching i could only find ipsc with a reference of gipsc but the ports are broken and the package i installed freebsd-5.1 does not have gipsc. I usually use solar winds or boson ip tools on windows,, so if there

Re: freebsd 4.8 and the spamassassin 2.6x port

2004-01-23 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 12:07 PM 1.23.2004 -0600, Michael Whitley wrote: I have read through the archives and seen that newer versions of Spamassassin have fits with freebsd because of an outdated perl version. I noticed that there is a SpamAssassin 2.6 port out for freeBSD 4.9 but was wondering if anyone has had

Re: freebsd 4.8 and the spamassassin 2.6x port

2004-01-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Michael Whitley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have read through the archives and seen that newer versions of Spamassassin have fits with freebsd because of an outdated perl version. I noticed that there is a SpamAssassin 2.6 port out for freeBSD 4.9 but was wondering if anyone has had success

Re: freebsd 4.8 and the spamassassin 2.6x port

2004-01-23 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 02:04 PM 1.23.2004 -0500, Charles Swiger wrote: On Jan 23, 2004, at 1:07 PM, Michael Whitley wrote: I have read through the archives and seen that newer versions of Spamassassin have fits with freebsd because of an outdated perl version. I noticed that there is a SpamAssassin 2.6 port out

Re: a good ip subnet calculator with gui..!

2004-01-23 Thread Doug Poland
Neal Hamilton wrote: Is there any subnet calculators with a gui for unixfreebsd? After hours of searching i could only find ipsc with a reference of gipsc but the ports are broken and the package i installed freebsd-5.1 does not have gipsc. I usually use solar winds or boson ip tools on

Re: framebuffers?

2004-01-23 Thread Cordula's Web
In the last episode (Jan 23), Geert Hendrickx said: Hello, I'm used to having framebuffers in Linux, and I would like to have that in FreeBSD too. I have already reconfigured and recompiled my kernel with options VESA enabled. Then I added this 2 lines to /etc/rc.conf:

Re: DSL with User PPP and Static IP

2004-01-23 Thread Jacob D. Hunt
Thanks for the suggestions. I have implemented all the changes including disabling the IPFW firewall NAT. I simplified the /etc/ppp/ppp.conf file and made sure it still worked using the dynamic config of set ifaddr 10.0.0.1/0 10.0.0.2/0 255.255.255.0 0.0.0.0. I then proceeded to change that

5.2 cvsup make buildworld error

2004-01-23 Thread Michael Clark
This is the second computer I have had problems upgrade from 5.1 to 5.2 on. The first computer I had to format as it died during installworld and I was unable to boot it. This computer died on make installworld as well. After that I was unable to use any basic commands, ls, ext. Rebooted and

5.2 cvsup make buildworld error

2004-01-23 Thread Michael Clark
Sry if this double post I used the wrong address the first time. This is the second computer I have had problems upgrade from 5.1 to 5.2 on. The first computer I had to format as it died during installworld and I was unable to boot it. This computer died on make installworld as well. After

Re: DSL with User PPP and Static IP

2004-01-23 Thread Lance E. Lott
try adding this line to your ppp.conf file. disable ipv6cp See if that makes a difference. Lance At 01:47 PM 1/23/2004, you wrote: Thanks for the suggestions. I have implemented all the changes including disabling the IPFW firewall NAT. I simplified the /etc/ppp/ppp.conf file and made sure

Re: sendmail logs and other questions

2004-01-23 Thread Ed Budd
On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:39:15 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dirk Meyer) wrote: Dirk Thanks for the pointer to /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README. It seems like this is generic info not really targeted at the way sendmail is installed under FBSD. But it handle almot all configuration options.

Re: 5.2 cvsup make buildworld error

2004-01-23 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 23 January 2004 12:26 pm, Michael Clark wrote: Sry if this double post I used the wrong address the first time. This is the second computer I have had problems upgrade from 5.1 to 5.2 on. The first computer I had to format as it died during installworld and I was unable to boot it.

umass0: SanDisk Cruzer, Trying To Mount But Errors In 'dmesg', help!

2004-01-23 Thread Brian Black
hi i am trying to get my usb thumbdrive to be able to mount if anyone can help or tell me whats wrong please do. here is a current semi-listing of dmesg. umass0: SanDisk Cruzer, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2 GEOM: create disk da0 dp=0xc26e0450 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: SanDisk Cruzer

calcru negative-time messages

2004-01-23 Thread RA Cohen
I have searched high and low for help with these negative-time calcru messages...there is scant information out there, mostly a paragraph in the troubleshooting section of the FreeBSD docs. Most folks following the instructions there on later versions of FBSD seem to not be successful in getting

Re: Package from the packages-5.1-release directory won't install on a 5.1 system

2004-01-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 01:22:38PM -0500, Francis Litterio wrote: I have a stock 5.1 release system, but when I try to install the package amsn-0.71_1.tbz, which I downloaded from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.1-release/All/amsn-0.71_1.tbz pkg_add says it needs

Hot Swap hardware on FreeBSD?

2004-01-23 Thread Stephen P. Cravey
I'm trying to locate a good resource for creating hot swap capable servers with FreeBSD and Vinum. Specifically, I'm trying to find out several things: Are there resources somewhere that document this type of thing? Please? Do I need controllers for SATA/SCSI that will handle the

Re: umass0: SanDisk Cruzer, Trying To Mount But Errors In 'dmesg', help!

2004-01-23 Thread Jonathan Fosburgh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 23 January 2004 02:44 pm, Brian Black wrote: major snippage Try mount -t msdos /dev/daXs1 /mnt where X is the disk drive number. - -- Jonathan Fosburgh AIX and Storage Administrator UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX -BEGIN

world

2004-01-23 Thread Brian H
Greetings: Problem: I do not have a fast internet connection at home and I want to upgrade my freebsd from release to stable. For the ports tree I download the file ftp1.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/ports/ports.tar.gz from a fast connection. Is there something similar that I can download for

Re: world

2004-01-23 Thread Chris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 23 January 2004 03:21 pm, Brian H wrote: Greetings: Problem: I do not have a fast internet connection at home and I want to upgrade my freebsd from release to stable. For the ports tree I download the file

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