Re: time to come clean... .

2006-09-04 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 09:44:53PM -0700, David King wrote: It's time to come clean and admit that parts/most of rsync are lost on me. [...] How can I automate the backup via rsync to other servers? Depending on the backup strategy that you want, I highly recommend rsnapshot

Re: Dump to DVD

2006-09-04 Thread Martin Hepworth
Hi Well I know this is a bit OT, but amanda can do spit 'dump's over multilple tapes/dvds/whatever. That way you also have an index of what's on what media etc. -- Martin On 9/4/06, Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone give me a bit of help? I'm trying to dump /user to

building and installing world on two separate machines

2006-09-04 Thread Dave
Hello, I have a machine that i want to upgrade from 5.x to 6.1. I've got a 6.1 world built on a much faster system and would like to just install it on this machine. I thought about nfs, but i have to drop to single user mode to do the make installworld and won't have nfs available. Is

Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-04 Thread Perry Hutchison
Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1? AbiWord and OpenOffice both require Gnome, which won't build. richtext builds OK, but as soon as I try to select bold it writes 4 lines to stderr and drops core: Message backtrace: bold bold OutOfBounds: offset 0, size 0

Re: time to come clean... .

2006-09-04 Thread Howard Jones
On 4 Sep 2006, at 05:35, Gary Kline wrote: How can I automate the backup via rsync to other servers? If what you want is a backup to the disk on a remote system (rather than a tape drive or whatever), then have a look at rdiff-backup: http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_rdiff_backup

Re: building and installing world on two separate machines

2006-09-04 Thread Mitch
On 09/04/06 02:25 AM, Dave wrote: Hello, I have a machine that i want to upgrade from 5.x to 6.1. I've got a 6.1 world built on a much faster system and would like to just install it on this machine. I thought about nfs, but i have to drop to single user mode to do the make installworld

Re: building and installing world on two separate machines

2006-09-04 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 04), Dave said: I have a machine that i want to upgrade from 5.x to 6.1. I've got a 6.1 world built on a much faster system and would like to just install it on this machine. I thought about nfs, but i have to drop to single user mode to do the make installworld

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-04 Thread Erik Norgaard
Perry Hutchison wrote: Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1? AbiWord and OpenOffice both require Gnome, which won't build. What do you mean: which won't build? No problems here - I recently compiled both. They don't require the full gnome package. There is a

Re: how can I su as root over telnet or ssh?

2006-09-04 Thread Thomas
Hi The manpage for su explains it. PAM is used to set the policy su(1) will use. In particular, by default only users in the ``wheel'' group can switch to UID 0 (``root''). Cheers, Thomas armstrong adam schrieb: It really woks!!thanks, but why this happen? which part of the

Re: time to come clean... .

2006-09-04 Thread Erik Norgaard
Gary Kline wrote: I've just installed/reinstaled rsync here on ns1.thought.org (aka sage) and on zen.thought.org. I've fiddled with the rsyncd.conf on both FBSD systems. What I don't understand is how rsync, using ssh, gets past the secret password. If, say, I

Re: building and installing world on two separate machines

2006-09-04 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 04 September 2006 08:25, Dave wrote: Hello, I have a machine that i want to upgrade from 5.x to 6.1. I've got a 6.1 world built on a much faster system and would like to just install it on this machine. I thought about nfs, but i have to drop to single user mode to do the make

Trouble installing 6.1 on an old machine

2006-09-04 Thread Andreas Widerøe Andersen
I have an OLD machine (from 1996) that's been running FreeBSD for about 8 years now steady and reliable. It has gone through several versions and was running 4.11 untill today when I decided to make a fresh 6.1 install. When booting from the installation CD the only way I can make it skip a lot

Re: Dump to DVD (partially solved)

2006-09-04 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Sunday 03 September 2006 18:09, stan wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:17:58PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: On Sunday 03 September 2006 15:27, stan wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 03:10:45PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote: Can someone give me a bit of help? I'm trying to dump /user to

Re: Best gigabit network interface for FreeBSD?

2006-09-04 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 9/3/06, Brett Glass [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Was going to post this to net@, but figured I'd get a bigger audience and better answers on this list. (Please copy responses to me as well as the list to make sure I see them.) I'm building a machine which is going to have very high network

Re: Trouble installing 6.1 on an old machine

2006-09-04 Thread Andreas Widerøe Andersen
I just downloaded version 4.11 from the FreeBSD ftp archives, burnt a boot CD and tried to reinstall the system via FTP from the archives. This worked perfect. No problems. I guess this means it's not a hardware problem, but rather some changes made to newer versions of FreeBSD. Anyone know

ACPI won't shutdown

2006-09-04 Thread bsd
Hello, I have configured a new server and everything goes find but ACPI. When Shutting down the server I have these messages : … All buffers synced. Uptime: 5m2s mpt0: Unhandled Event Notify Frame. Event 0x30 mpt1: Unhandled Event Notify Frame. Event 0x30 Shutting down ACPI Then nothing !!

Re: Various package/ports problems

2006-09-04 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 06:31:18PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:58:36PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 01:59:14PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum

RE: Trouble installing 6.1 on an old machine

2006-09-04 Thread Bob
I have same problem with my 10+ year old server boxes. First the boot bios scan has changed between 4.11 and 6.0. You can upgrade your old PC's bios. In most cases the mfg does not support the motherboard any more so chance of getting upgrade to burn the bios chip is most un-likely. You can get

UPGRADING PACKAGES

2006-09-04 Thread Phares Kariuki
Hello I installed Samba 2 on a FreeBSD box running 5.4 Stable... now the problem is this... I urgently need to upgrade this package but cannot seem to find a way to do so... I didnt install it off the port... In istalled it using pkg_add... it was in the CD that contains applications

Out of Office Auto Reply:

2006-09-04 Thread prasanth . sekharan
I will be on vacation from 05-09-2006 to 17-09-2006 and would have limited access to email.In my absence please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks -Prasanth Sekharan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: flash plugin and firefox

2006-09-04 Thread RW
On Saturday 02 September 2006 15:46, Jordi Carrillo wrote: This I suppose is the eternal question, but I'm quite sick of looking around google without having a detailed step by step process to get the flash plugin for firefox. There are some that talk about tweaking the kernel and applying

Re: UPGRADING PACKAGES

2006-09-04 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 9/4/06, Phares Kariuki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I installed Samba 2 on a FreeBSD box running 5.4 Stable... now the problem is this... I urgently need to upgrade this package but cannot seem to find a way to do so... I didnt install it off the port... In istalled it using pkg_add... it

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-04 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Monday 04 September 2006 02:08, Perry Hutchison wrote: Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1? AbiWord and OpenOffice both require Gnome, which won't build. richtext builds OK, but as soon as I try to select bold it writes 4 lines to stderr and drops core: Message

Re: ACPI won't shutdown

2006-09-04 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Monday 04 September 2006 06:17, bsd wrote: Hello, I have configured a new server and everything goes find but ACPI. When Shutting down the server I have these messages : … All buffers synced. Uptime: 5m2s mpt0: Unhandled Event Notify Frame. Event 0x30 mpt1: Unhandled Event Notify

Error Trying to Compile Xfree86-4-clients

2006-09-04 Thread Warren Liddell
I have been trying to fix up my X client and KDE for a while, but after fixing everything else, this one package keeps failing and im at a loss as to why and how to solve this issue, any help/assistance on this matter would be greatlyu appreciated. Below is a snippet of the end result of the

Re: ACPI won't shutdown

2006-09-04 Thread Matteo Pillon
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 01:17:12PM +0200, bsd wrote: Computer seems to freeze for an infinite amount of time. I have to manually shutdown the computer with the Power button ! Did you try with 'halt -p'? If it doesn't work, can you give more infos on your system? Bye. -- * Pillon Matteo

Re: Trouble installing 6.1 on an old machine

2006-09-04 Thread Andreas Widerøe Andersen
Thanks for your help! Yeah, can't get any BIOS upgrades anymore. I doubt that I'll spend time on removing harddrives again. I may just stick to 4.11 then. It's just a testserver on my local network anyway. Best, Andreas --- On 9/4/06, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have same problem with my

How to get the install config options back?

2006-09-04 Thread Andreas Widerøe Andersen
Hi, When I install a new port (Ie. php5) I early get a config options box where I can choose various add-ons. However, if the installation fails or I abort it somehow I can't seem to get the option box back the next time I want to install the port again. How can I get this box back so I can

Re: apache22 Checksum mismatch

2006-09-04 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Alexey Mikhailov wrote: If you trust to content of file apache22/apr_dbd_mysql.rev-50.c you can even use make NO_CHECKSUM=1 install. But if I were at your place I tried to update apache22 port and if this will happen again I would submit PR. Hello. Thanks for the answer. I repeatedly updated

Re: How to get the install config options back?

2006-09-04 Thread Vasile C
On Monday 04 September 2006 13:54, Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: Hi, When I install a new port (Ie. php5) I early get a config options box where I can choose various add-ons. However, if the installation fails or I abort it somehow I can't seem to get the option box back the next time I

Re: ACPI won't shutdown

2006-09-04 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Monday 04 September 2006 08:35, Matteo Pillon wrote: On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 01:17:12PM +0200, bsd wrote: Computer seems to freeze for an infinite amount of time. I have to manually shutdown the computer with the Power button ! Did you try with 'halt -p'? If it doesn't work, can you

Re: migrating user and web files to new server

2006-09-04 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
On 3 September 2006, at 21:59, Noah wrote: hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: Obviously they are different syntax, but the two commands posted give you the same end result. Why are you rejecting the syntax?! Hi there, I never saw any syntax for the scp way of doing it. Also after I

Re: How to get the install config options back?

2006-09-04 Thread Alexander Sashurin
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro* Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro* Hi, When I install a new port (Ie. php5) I early get a config options box where I can choose various add-ons.

Re: How to get the install config options back?

2006-09-04 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Monday 04 September 2006 09:25, Alexander Sashurin wrote: *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro* Andreas Widerøe Andersen wrote: *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(r) Pro* Hi, When I install a new port (Ie. php5) I early

Re: solaris

2006-09-04 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 03 Sep Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: I am not sure about installing Solaris into an existing partition. I remember one of the FBSD's (a RC, but still) destroying my partition table. That's the reason I ask. I know that I don't have to use the main option (that's for the whole disk). But

Re: Various package/ports problems

2006-09-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 04:52:08AM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 06:31:18PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:58:36PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Kris Kennaway

Re: solaris

2006-09-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
dick hoogendijk wrote: On 03 Sep Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: I am not sure about installing Solaris into an existing partition. I remember one of the FBSD's (a RC, but still) destroying my partition table. That's the reason I ask. I know that I don't have to use the main option

Re: New widescreen monitor, old radeon card - will this not work?

2006-09-04 Thread Atom Powers
On 9/3/06, Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, you'd think, but no. I got a $50 GeForce 6200 LE/256M card and it works, as long as I use the proprietary driver. With the standard nv driver that xorgconfig came up with, it was just as bad as the Radeon. The nvidia config utility did not

Newbie question - vidcontrol (?) and video mode at startup

2006-09-04 Thread Oliver Iberien
Hi, With my new widescreen monitor, the console starts up with text bleeding off the edge of the display. What is the best console video mode for a console on a 1680x1050 display, and how do I get it to start up with it? Thanks, Oliver ___

Re: solaris

2006-09-04 Thread Bill-S
At Mon, 4 Sep 2006 it looks like Matthew Seaman composed: dick hoogendijk wrote: On 03 Sep Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: I am not sure about installing Solaris into an existing partition. I remember one of the FBSD's (a RC, but still) destroying my partition table. That's the

Re: New widescreen monitor, old radeon card - will this not work?

2006-09-04 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Monday 04 September 2006 08:18, Atom Powers wrote: It wouldn't, because it doesn't know what kind of monitor you have. Take a look at the modline in this post to see what I'm talking about. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=69920 I don't remember what that all means, but

Fiber Channel, Emulex

2006-09-04 Thread Chris Knipe
Hi, Any drivers to support Emulex??? Would love to get my beasty connected to FC!! Thanks, Chris. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

where is my adduser.conf file ?

2006-09-04 Thread azhar freebsd
hi all i am new abt freebsd . it may be very simple problem but i am lost . help me ! [EMAIL PROTECTED]/etc# uname -a FreeBSD mine.freebsd.org 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #1: Wed Aug 30 13:08:32 JST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/MYGENRIC-001 i386 [EMAIL PROTECTED]/etc#

Re: where is my adduser.conf file ?

2006-09-04 Thread Frank Staals
azhar freebsd wrote: hi all i am new abt freebsd . it may be very simple problem but i am lost . help me ! [EMAIL PROTECTED]/etc# uname -a FreeBSD mine.freebsd.org 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #1: Wed Aug 30 13:08:32 JST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/MYGENRIC-001 i386

Re: Fiber Channel, Emulex

2006-09-04 Thread Chris Knipe
Hmm. Absolutely NO fiber channel adapters listed on the supported hardware?? :-( That's not good... Regards, Chris. - Original Message - From: Chris Knipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 5:55 PM Subject: Fiber Channel, Emulex

Re: A question about programming RS-232

2006-09-04 Thread Сергей Собко
On Monday 04 September 2006 02:39, you wrote: --- stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 11:26:04PM +0600, ?? ? wrote: Hello. I have a question I can't deal myself. And nobody can help me in resolving my problem. Problem: I have a hand-made device, I

Re: time to come clean... .

2006-09-04 Thread pauls
--On September 3, 2006 10:02:45 PM -0700 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yeah, the default IS ssh, rsh-no-mo. what i want is to cron stuff exactly like Mathews's ideas. then at least, i'll have VERY recent synchronization iow:help me get this right; please. i have spent hours

Where Are All These Files Located?

2006-09-04 Thread Ted Johnson
Hi; In installing logcheck, I read the following information: BSD and FreeBSD: You should go to the /etc directory and edit the /etc/daily, /etc/weekly, and /etc/monthly scripts and change the 'rotate()' script function to change the log permissions on rotation. Simply change the line:

Re: Fiber Channel, Emulex

2006-09-04 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 04), Chris Knipe said: Hmm. Absolutely NO fiber channel adapters listed on the supported hardware?? :-( Multiple LSI Logic cards are supported by the mpt driver, as are many Qlogic cards by the isp driver. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/hardware-i386.html The

Where Are All These Files Located?

2006-09-04 Thread Robert Huff
Ted Johnson writes: BSD and FreeBSD: You should go to the /etc directory and edit the /etc/daily, /etc/weekly, and /etc/monthly scripts and change the 'rotate()' script function to change the log permissions on rotation. find -x / -name daily should give you the answer.

Re: Where Are All These Files Located?

2006-09-04 Thread Ted Johnson
Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ted Johnson writes: BSD and FreeBSD: You should go to the /etc directory and edit the /etc/daily, /etc/weekly, and /etc/monthly scripts and change the 'rotate()' script function to change the log permissions on rotation. find -x / -name daily

Re: Where Are All These Files Located?

2006-09-04 Thread pauls
--On September 4, 2006 9:42:25 AM -0700 Ted Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi; In installing logcheck, I read the following information: BSD and FreeBSD: You should go to the /etc directory and edit the /etc/daily, /etc/weekly, and /etc/monthly scripts and change the 'rotate()' script

Re: solaris

2006-09-04 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Sep 4, 2006, at 8:57 AM, dick hoogendijk wrote: On 03 Sep Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: I am not sure about installing Solaris into an existing partition. I remember one of the FBSD's (a RC, but still) destroying my partition table. That's the reason I ask. I know that I don't have

RE: where is my adduser.conf file ?

2006-09-04 Thread Bob
Its in /etc But if I remember correctly you have to run adduser one time to select default values and create the default conf file. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of azhar freebsd Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 12:04 PM To:

Re: calendar

2006-09-04 Thread RW
On Sunday 03 September 2006 18:01, Michael S wrote: Good day all. I have a question about calendar.usholidays. In the man page for calendar it says that this file must be updated every year. Is it enough just to cvsup, buildworld and installworld? I am following RELENG_6_1. So am I, and my

Re: solaris

2006-09-04 Thread Bill-S
At Mon, 4 Sep 2006 it looks like Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC composed: On Sep 4, 2006, at 8:57 AM, dick hoogendijk wrote: On 03 Sep Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: I am not sure about installing Solaris into an existing partition. I remember one of the FBSD's (a RC, but

CB

2006-09-04 Thread Conrad Bellman
Hello, I have downloaded the two disks needed for BSD, apon loading the firs disk, I am stuck with the command list, and unable to use it, due to can't find kernel I tried loading kernel, and other commands but always get the no kernel error, did I download Disk 1 2 incorrectly ? I turned

Unusual Network-Performance with outbound traffic

2006-09-04 Thread Martin Werner
Hi, I'm running a FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE Server with a fxp0: Intel 82559ER Pro/100 Ethernet port 0x2000-0x203f mem 0xf412-0xf4120fff,0xf410-0xf411 irq 9 at device 8.0 on pci1 and have some rather unusual network performance issue with outbound traffic. Using fixed IP-Adresses, no

RE: CB

2006-09-04 Thread Bob
Since 5.2 version FreeBSD has problems installing on older PC's, pre-2000 or maybe pre-2002. Move HD to newer PC do install and return to older pc and all is well. You could all ways try installing version 4.11 and if that works then you know for sure your pc is legacy version. If you used

Re: HP-1022 laser printer

2006-09-04 Thread Matteo Pillon
Hi, Andriy. On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 12:09:09PM -0700, Andriy Babiy wrote: Could anybody advise me on the HP-1022 laser printer? Does anyone have this model working on the FreeBSD? I'm going to buy it, therefore I wanted to check if there are any issues/problems about it. I found postings

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-04 Thread Perry Hutchison
Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1? AbiWord and OpenOffice both require Gnome, which won't build. What do you mean: which won't build? No problems here - I recently compiled both. They don't require the full gnome package. Both of them (and also Dia) require

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-04 Thread Perry Hutchison
Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1? ... You can go to http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/ and download openoffice2.0.3 pre-built binaries from there. I would suggest that, rather than trying to build it. Thanks for the pointer. That is the sort of thing I was

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-04 Thread RW
On Monday 04 September 2006 22:55, Perry Hutchison wrote: Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1? ... You can go to http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/ and download openoffice2.0.3 pre-built binaries from there. I would suggest that, rather than trying to

Re: Two Dell PE1850s keep locking up...

2006-09-04 Thread Alexandre Biancalana
Hi ! I´m having the same problem. My machine have 2GB of ram and 1 one processor, connected to a PowerVault 220 (Storage) and a PowerVault 110T (LTO 2 Tape Drive). Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-04 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Monday 04 September 2006 13:55, Perry Hutchison wrote: Try to save yourself as much pain as possible. Building openoffice from ports tends to fall in the category of pain. So it would seem :( I thought the whole point of the Ports Collection was to avoid this sort of problem. That's

Re: Various package/ports problems

2006-09-04 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 04:52:08AM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: For example if i try to run portversion i get: undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass /usr/local/sbin/portversion:239: [BUG] Bus Error from Ruby (ruby 1.8.5 is up to

requesting advice on freebsd as vmware guest

2006-09-04 Thread Peter
Hi, I have XP (3 GHz Pentium and 1.5 MB RAM) running at work and would like to have access to a FBSD system within it. I am not sure which vmware product to install. I believe vmware server is good if you need remote connections (something I do not require at this point). There is also

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-04 Thread Jon Drews
On 9/4/06, Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perry Hutchison wrote: Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1? AbiWord and OpenOffice both require Gnome, which won't build. There is a commercial program, textmaker (www.softmaker.com), which I have found much better

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-04 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 9/4/06, Perry Hutchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1? AbiWord and OpenOffice both require Gnome, which won't build. richtext builds OK, but as soon as I try to select bold it writes 4 lines to stderr and drops core: Message

load balancing nat

2006-09-04 Thread Subhro
Hello folks, I have a strange problem on hand. I have got two internal LANs and one ISP link. I am trying to share the link between the two internal LANs and do a load balancing between the two. The rules I am using are: nat on $ext_if from { $int1_if:network, $int2_if:network } to any -

Re: Where Are All These Files Located?

2006-09-04 Thread Matthew Seaman
Ted Johnson wrote: Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ted Johnson writes: BSD and FreeBSD: You should go to the /etc directory and edit the /etc/daily, /etc/weekly, and /etc/monthly scripts and change the 'rotate()' script function to change the log permissions on rotation.

Re: Various package/ports problems

2006-09-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 02:00:20PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 04:52:08AM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: For example if i try to run portversion i get: undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-04 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Perry Hutchison wrote: Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1? AbiWord and OpenOffice both require Gnome, which won't build. What do you mean: which won't build? No problems here - I recently compiled both. They don't require the full gnome package. Both of them (and

Kbtv application: I'm looking for someone who wants to take over maintainership/development

2006-09-04 Thread Danny Pansters
FYI: Kbtv is a small TV app for FreeBSD/KDE. It works with Brooktree/Conexant and with Philips SAA713x based analog TV cards (I actually recommend using the latter). AFAIK, it is the only properly working app that uses SAA (and unlike bktr, saa never freezes or panics). Also supports webcams

portmanager port upgrade question

2006-09-04 Thread stan
I'm trying to upgrade a machine, which was built only about 2 weeks agao. portmanager reprts the following: portmanager 0.4.1_6 FreeBSD brown.fas.com 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #11: Sun Sep 3 13:33:28 EDT 2006 [EMAIL

Re: portmanager port upgrade question

2006-09-04 Thread Alistair Sutton
On 04/09/06, stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to upgrade a machine, which was built only about 2 weeks agao. portmanager reprts the following: portmanager 0.4.1_6 FreeBSD brown.fas.com 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE

Re: How To Close Ports (OT?)

2006-09-04 Thread Ted Johnson
Well, I did that, and studied other documents as well, and have packet filters running right now. I also did a search of the document you suggested and it doesn't even have the word close in it, therefore, it would appear to not address the issue. From your reply, I'm missing something obvious

Re: How To Close Ports (OT?)

2006-09-04 Thread Travis H.
On 9/4/06, Ted Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also did a search of the document you suggested and it doesn't even have the word close in it, therefore, it would appear to not address the issue. From your reply, I'm missing something obvious here. But would you point it out anyway? Fair

Re: solaris

2006-09-04 Thread backyard
--- Bill-S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Mon, 4 Sep 2006 it looks like Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC composed: On Sep 4, 2006, at 8:57 AM, dick hoogendijk wrote: On 03 Sep Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: I am not sure about installing Solaris into an existing partition.

Re: UFS2 fsck Question (semantics of -p)

2006-09-04 Thread Can Sar
We ran our experiment on top of a very simple RAM disk which does not have any caches or anything of that sort. The dmesg log is at http://keeda.stanford.edu/dmesg The resultant images are at: http://keeda.stanford.edu/ufs-umount-image http://keeda.stanford.edu/ufs-mount-sync-image If you

Re: not adding daemons to rc.conf

2006-09-04 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Jona Joachim wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote: ive noticed that apache can be started manually using the apachectl tool, even if it is not enabled in /etc/rc.conf. do many other daemons have this ability? i have a dev server that i would like to not have many things enabled in the rc.conf, but i

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-04 Thread Perry Hutchison
Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1? AbiWord and OpenOffice both require Gnome, which won't build. ... KOffice 1.5 has OpenDocument support. Not that I'm any more eager to get into a KDE mess than a Gnome mess :) File format support is not important. I just need

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-04 Thread Perry Hutchison
Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1? AbiWord and OpenOffice both require Gnome, which won't build. What do you mean: which won't build? No problems here - I recently compiled both. They don't require the full gnome package. Both of them (and also Dia) require

Re: Conrad

2006-09-04 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Perry Hutchison wrote: I am interested in downloadind the 2 disks for linux, and trying to install them on my computer, but I am not sure what i have to download, could comeone please help me You may be asking the wrong list. FreeBSD is not Linux, although it can run many Linux binaries if

RE: load balancing nat

2006-09-04 Thread Bob
How about posting a diagram of the cable wiring of your network, then maybe we have a starting point to work on your problem. Chances this has nothing to do with NAT as source of problem. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Subhro Sent:

stuff:: FreeBSD folks, my giveaway hardware, and more.

2006-09-04 Thread Gary Kline
Atom Powers lives close enough that a stop-over yesterday was reasonable. I had tao booted to Fixit mode and with some magic ifconfig command Atom managed to rescue the hundreds of megs of stuff that I should have backed up by rsync or otherwise. This

Re: requesting advice on freebsd as vmware guest

2006-09-04 Thread Eric Schuele
On 09/04/2006 16:00, Peter wrote: Hi, I have XP (3 GHz Pentium and 1.5 MB RAM) running at work and would like to have access to a FBSD system within it. Have you considered Virtual PC from MS? I believe its free. I am not sure which vmware product to install. I believe vmware server is

Re: requesting advice on freebsd as vmware guest

2006-09-04 Thread Duane Hill
On Monday, September 4, 2006 at 9:00:44 PM, Peter confabulated: Hi, I have XP (3 GHz Pentium and 1.5 MB RAM) running at work and would like to have access to a FBSD system within it. I am not sure which vmware product to install. I believe vmware server is good if you need remote

Re: requesting advice on freebsd as vmware guest

2006-09-04 Thread ke han
Sounds like you want something almost as good as VMware Workstation, but free...thats VMware Server. VMware Player is really for static distribution purposes; doesn't allow you to snapshot or create VMs. I'm using VMware Server for FreeBSD 6.1 on Win XP now...works great!! ke han On Sep

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-04 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
If you installed programs from packages when you installed the system, you may get problems with version conflicts installing from an updated ports collection - this happens usually when the last release is getting old. In that case, maybe you should clean out the system, deinstall all

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-04 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 9/4/06, Perry Hutchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know where I can find a working word processor for 6.1? AbiWord and OpenOffice both require Gnome, which won't build. ... KOffice 1.5 has OpenDocument support. Not that I'm any more eager to get into a KDE mess than a Gnome mess :)

Re: load balancing nat

2006-09-04 Thread Subhro
Hello Bob, Thanks for taking the time to answer. I would post a diagram as requested. To ISP | (ext_if) -- | | | FBSD | || (int1_if)|

Interface Alias Question

2006-09-04 Thread Tim Radigan
To all, I have a quick question, I have a FreeBSD 6.1 box and one of the NICs is aliased to have a total of 3 IP addresses. How does the outbound traffic get handled there? Does it always send outbound packets with the primary IP address? If so, is there a way to force a certain protocol,

Re: Word processor for 6.1

2006-09-04 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Perry Hutchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, September 04, 2006 7:58 PM Subject: Re: Word processor for 6.1 On 9/4/06, Perry Hutchison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know where I

Re: Various package/ports problems

2006-09-04 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 02:00:20PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Kris Check the manpage, probably I meant pkgdb -fu Sorry, i dont understand what im checking hte manpage to have it do. Running pkgdb -fu does rebuild the package database, but i

Re: Various package/ports problems

2006-09-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 08:57:51PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 02:00:20PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Kris Check the manpage, probably I meant pkgdb -fu Sorry, i dont understand what im checking hte

Re: solaris

2006-09-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-09-04 16:57, dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03 Sep Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: I am not sure about installing Solaris into an existing partition. I remember one of the FBSD's (a RC, but still) destroying my partition table. That's the reason I ask. I know that

Re: portmanager port upgrade question

2006-09-04 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Mon, 4 Sep 2006 17:44:43 -0400 stan wrote: I'm trying to upgrade a machine, which was built only about 2 weeks agao. Seems that either you didn't upgrade the portstree or installed a deprecated linux_base port by hands. linux_base-8-8.0_16 /emulators/linux_base-8

Re: solaris

2006-09-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-09-04 08:41, Bill-S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Mon, 4 Sep 2006 it looks like Matthew Seaman composed: Back in the Solaris 8 days, the trick was to use fdisk to create a primary partition and mark it as type 'Linux Swap' after which Solaris would happily recognise it as a location to

Re: solaris

2006-09-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-09-04 15:52, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would recommend the second drive option. Me too. Not for the same reasons though. I have attempted installing Solaris 10 on multiple computers and all if ever seems to do is corrupt the drive on me. Once I got it to boot up and go

  1   2   >