lost+found

2006-07-09 Thread Jerlique Bahn
Hello, If I pull the power on my server whilst its doing heavy IO, should I get files in lost+found if my raid card has battery backed cache? I was under the understanding that the file operations were atomic, and hence freebsd's file system should have no corrupted files on the reboot. The

The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-06-18 - 2006-07-08

2006-07-09 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 rl interface

2006-07-09 Thread Antony Mawer
On 8/07/2006 5:10 PM, Rob Hurle wrote: But the killer is that I want to run 2 ethernet interfaces. The on-board one is fxp0 (Intel) and comes up fine. The other is a PCI card with the RealTek 8139D chipset, so I'm expecting a rl0 interface. I've put if_rl_load=YES into the

Printing to winprinters with LPR, no CUPS needed

2006-07-09 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
So you don't like printing with CUPS or aspfilter or any of those hold-your-hand programs, eh? Well, neither do I. So you have a yucky winprinter which doesen't understand a Real Man's printer control language like any decent self-respecting printer does? Well, so do I! You can indeed print to

Re: lost+found

2006-07-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
Jerlique Bahn wrote: If I pull the power on my server whilst its doing heavy IO, should I get files in lost+found if my raid card has battery backed cache? Yes, it's still possible. I was under the understanding that the file operations were atomic, and hence freebsd's file system should

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 rl interface

2006-07-09 Thread Rob Hurle
Hi Antony, Thanks for that valuable information: Jul 9 09:14:08 grandpa kernel: module_register: module pci/rl already exists! Jul 9 09:14:08 grandpa kernel: Module pci/rl failed to register: 17 This means the driver is already in the kernel, so you do not need to load it

Re: usb storage device mounting problems

2006-07-09 Thread Bram Kuijper
Hi, still cannot seem to get usb device working as an ordinary user between multiple reboots, without doing /etc/rc.d/devfs start as root every time. did the following things described under 4.3.3. from http://www.gphoto.org/doc/manual/permissions-usb.html added this to devfs.rules:

6.1; reiserfs works only once, then crashes system :(

2006-07-09 Thread Bill Schoolcraft
Hello Family I have a problem whereas if it never worked, I'd be ok for the moment but this worked once then never worked again. I have a fully functional 6.1 system working, dual booted with an OS that has a reiserfs partition. /dev/ad3s1 I was able to do the kernel module load of the

RE: using fping to monitor internet connection status

2006-07-09 Thread Paul Hamilton
-Original Message- From: Greg Barniskis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 6 July 2006 11:32 PM To: Paul Hamilton Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using fping to monitor internet connection status Paul Hamilton wrote: Hi, I need to monitor a number

after i upgraded 6.0 to 6.1, do i need to rebuild all of the ports i installed?

2006-07-09 Thread lveax
hey all. i have a question about upgrade: after i upgraded from freebsd5.4 to 6.0 in 2005,i got some error when run a part of installed ports was installed in version 5.4,until a committer tell me to rebuild all of my ports. now i want to upgrade from 6.0 to 6.1 do i need to do this? i have

Re: after i upgraded 6.0 to 6.1, do i need to rebuild all of the ports i installed?

2006-07-09 Thread Colin Percival
lveax wrote: after i upgraded from freebsd5.4 to 6.0 in 2005,i got some error when run a part of installed ports was installed in version 5.4,until a committer tell me to rebuild all of my ports. now i want to upgrade from 6.0 to 6.1 do i need to do this? No. This is what a stable branch

Re: after i upgraded 6.0 to 6.1, do i need to rebuild all of the ports i installed?

2006-07-09 Thread doug
You will be fine (I think), but the real answer is in /usr/src/UPDATING On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, lveax wrote: hey all. i have a question about upgrade: after i upgraded from freebsd5.4 to 6.0 in 2005,i got some error when run a part of installed ports was installed in version 5.4,until a

6.1 Install Halt Problems

2006-07-09 Thread Some Guy
Hello, I'm experiencing some strange problems while installing FreeBSD via CD-ROM, and hoping someone might have an idea as to what's causing this. FreeBSD will load fine, and I am able to get to the sysinstall menu, when a few minutes pass, and the computer halts. The amount of time it takes to

Sysinstall - Will not die

2006-07-09 Thread Duane Hill
If this has been discussed before, please point it out. I've done some searching and can not quite come up with the solution other than to reboot the server. I'm hoping a reboot can be avoided. I recently attempted to run sysinstall to install something that was not listed in the ports

sshd not working

2006-07-09 Thread Elijah Savage
I just did a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.1 I enabled ssh on startup. I can see that it is running from the console but it is not accepting ssh connections across the network. I can ping the machine and nmap the machine and see ssh port 22 open, also /etc/rc.conf shows ssh enabled what am I

Re: sshd not working

2006-07-09 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 02:55:41PM -0400, Elijah Savage wrote: I just did a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.1 I enabled ssh on startup. I can see that it is running from the console but it is not accepting ssh connections across the network. I can ping the machine and nmap the machine and see

Re: sshd not working

2006-07-09 Thread Elijah Savage
On Jul 9, 2006, at 3:03 PM, Darrin Chandler wrote: On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 02:55:41PM -0400, Elijah Savage wrote: I just did a fresh install of FreeBSD 6.1 I enabled ssh on startup. I can see that it is running from the console but it is not accepting ssh connections across the network. I can

Re: sshd not working

2006-07-09 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 03:38:33PM -0400, Elijah Savage wrote: Well thank you for the reply but it was the network card. I am not sure if I should take it back or not. It is a brand new network D Link GigE card realtek chipset RTL8169. This was such strange behavior, I could get out

default umask for Apache

2006-07-09 Thread jekillen
Hello; I've not had to do this on a Unix system before. But now I have Apache running as nobody and have php scripts creating and writing to directories. The files it creates have the default mask rw-r-r and I want to change it to rw-rw-- so I can remove the files and dirs with group write

Re: sshd not working

2006-07-09 Thread Elijah Savage
On Jul 9, 2006, at 4:12 PM, Darrin Chandler wrote: On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 03:38:33PM -0400, Elijah Savage wrote: Well thank you for the reply but it was the network card. I am not sure if I should take it back or not. It is a brand new network D Link GigE card realtek chipset RTL8169. This

Re: default umask for Apache

2006-07-09 Thread Kelly D. Grills
On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 01:19:47PM -0700, jekillen wrote: Hello; I've not had to do this on a Unix system before. But now I have Apache running as nobody and have php scripts creating and writing to directories. The files it creates have the default mask rw-r-r and I want to change it to

Belkin Wireless G notebook card

2006-07-09 Thread Scott Ballantyne
I am trying to get a Belkin Wireless G notebook card running on a Sony VAIO laptop, FreeBSD 6.1. I followed the advice in the handbook and copied the following files from the Belkin CD to the if_ndis directory: rt61.inf and rt61.sys and ran ndiscvt -i rt61.inf -s rt61.sys -o

CUPS, Quota limit reached woes woes woes

2006-07-09 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Hello, After successfully setting up my HP Officejet with CUPS and having printed a successful test page. I can no longer print. Now I try to print nothing happens, I go into cups configuration page and I don't see any printer there, it just disappeared, I go through the adding a new printer

Re: CUPS, Quota limit reached woes woes woes

2006-07-09 Thread Anthony Agelastos
On Jul 9, 2006, at 7:36 PM, E. J. Cerejo wrote: Hello, Hello, After successfully setting up my HP Officejet with CUPS and having printed a successful test page. I can no longer print. What version of CUPS did you get your printer working with and what version are you running now? Now

Re: CUPS, Quota limit reached woes woes woes

2006-07-09 Thread E. J. Cerejo
The version is Common UNIX Printing System 1.2.0, I installed it using the portinstall and I had just finished updating my ports tree. Anthony Agelastos [EMAIL PROTECTED] escreveu: On Jul 9, 2006, at 7:36 PM, E. J. Cerejo wrote: Hello, Hello, After successfully setting up my HP Officejet

Re: CUPS, Quota limit reached woes woes woes

2006-07-09 Thread Anthony Agelastos
On Jul 9, 2006, at 7:48 PM, E. J. Cerejo wrote: The version is Common UNIX Printing System 1.2.0, I installed it using the portinstall and I had just finished updating my ports tree. I was trying to extract if you had it working on a 1.1.x install of CUPS and when you updated it to 1.2.0 it

[UPDATE] Re: BTX halted

2006-07-09 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 18 Jun 2006 17:01:30 +1000 Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 23:50:10 +0400 horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I install FreeBSD 5.3 from floppy-diskets. After a choice of loading(default, safe_mode) there is a error: int=000e err=

Re: Video card

2006-07-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Don't top-post, please. victor leon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the install is normal after that when i restart the cpu sounds a beep and can't use X mode ,i only can use text mode my monitor is a AOC model CT520n So FreeBSD is fine, but you're having problems with configuring X. Have you

The ENV variable

2006-07-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The shell variable ENV is supposed to name a script to be invoked whenever the Korn shell starts up an interactive shell. While this is the case for just about all users, on my system it is not the case for users with the user-id of root . Is this how UNIX is supposed to work?

Re: Creating vinum RAID 1 on place

2006-07-09 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 7 July 2006 at 11:29:46 +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, Is there a trick on the way to build a vinum RAID 1 without backup-in the data first? Sometimes. It's described in The Complete FreeBSD, page 236 or so. See http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/ for how to get the

FreeBSD 6.1 SMP Kernel - Cardbus issue

2006-07-09 Thread Brian Henning
Hello All, I am stuck on a FreeBSD 6.1 SMP Kernel issue that won't allow me to use my Cardbus wireless nic. I did a little digging and I found that a driver is not being loaded for the pci0 bridge device. Is there a way to load a driver for this device? I think this will resolve my issue. Is

Re: The ENV variable

2006-07-09 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 01:43:40AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The shell variable ENV is supposed to name a script to be invoked whenever the Korn shell starts up an interactive shell. While this is the case for just about all users, on my system it is not the case for users with

Boot Menu

2006-07-09 Thread RdBSD
Dear All, How can i change default menuitem in boot menu to number 3 or safe mode. so it will boot the default to number 3 in menu ? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Boot Menu

2006-07-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-07-10 10:53, RdBSD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear All, How can i change default menuitem in boot menu to number 3 or safe mode. so it will boot the default to number 3 in menu ? That's usually a slightly bad idea. Why do you want to do this?