Re: Again: There must be a better way

2002-09-27 Thread Brian Astill
On Saturday 28 September 2002 11:15, mufassa bendover wrote : For goodness sake - have you tried simply "mount /cdrom"? That will work provided you have the right settings in /etc/fstab , and you almost certainly already have. The only comment I would make in your favour is that some advice fro

freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2002-09-27 Thread suken woo
folks: before add a new disk , my original disk was installed winxp+FBSD4.7 on primary driver0. but after add disk to my box and install current on it ,i found my xp cannot boot by bootmgr. and the BIOS display my orginally disk has become on primary driver1.the new disk on primary dirver0 .is

Re: XP Windows and Nat

2002-09-27 Thread Aleksey Ovcharenko
On Thursday 26 September 2002 11:07, Grant Cooper wrote: > I have am using FreeBSD as a firewall and just recently upgraded to an XP > box. Not so much a problem but my Network connection gives me a warning > every 15 - 20 min saying my internet connection is down. Then it > re-connects. About a 5

Re: xterm and colors

2002-09-27 Thread Frank Heitmann
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 12:54:10AM -0500, Bryan Cassidy wrote: > How do i set the colors so when I just use "ls" I get the color > directories and the rest of colors? I just want the basic colors > that I can get without having to do alot of configuring. Have you set your TERM environment variabl

Another Apache CGI problem

2002-09-27 Thread Kirk Bailey
I run apache with FreeBSD, and have an interesting issue. I can do exec '

Re: sendmail: File descriptors missing on startup: stderr; Bad file descriptor

2002-09-27 Thread Duncan Anker
On Friday, Sep 27, 2002, at 23:03 Australia/Brisbane, Dan Langille wrote: > I keep seeing this in /var/log/maillog but do not know the cause: > >sendmail[42390]: File descriptors missing on startup: stderr; Bad > file descriptor > > I'm on FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #0: Thu Sep 26

Re: I need some help...

2002-09-27 Thread Charles Pelletier
quite honestly, i think you are wasting your time working with 286's. even people who can't afford computers know better than to use a pre Pentium machine. while you do have a noble cause in mind, you must realize that 286's, even with tweaking, can hardly even run DOS, let alone connect to the mo

Re: Upgrading ports from sources outside ports tree

2002-09-27 Thread Jens Rehsack
"Inge Thorin Eidsæther" wrote: > > Hi all! > > General question: > Does anyone know how to upgrade a port when the latest sources are > available on the net, but haven't made it into the ports tree yet? > > Example: > I need to rebuild mod_php4 (for Apache2) from the latest sources, > because

xterm and colors

2002-09-27 Thread Bryan Cassidy
I have read a few threads on bsdforums.org about settings the colors for xterm when i use the "ls" command. I tried what people said to do but came up with nothing. They really didn't specify to clear how to do this. When I use the "ls -G" command I get color in xterm while in X. How do i set t

Re: I need some help...

2002-09-27 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 20:46:12 -0700 "C T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To whom it may concern, > > My name is Craig and I am in the process of forming a non-profit > organization that takes old computers (286's etc...), setting them up > for email, word processing, internet browsing, spread shee

Questions

2002-09-27 Thread Enrique Morfin
Hi! I just install freebsd to try it, maybe to change it. I have always use linux, so maybe i'm doing something wrong. Where can i configure the default desktop for users?(maybe KDE or GNOME) How can i start or stop daemons? (httpd for example) How can i deactivate skey passwd for remote logi

Re: I need some help...

2002-09-27 Thread Ken McGlothlen
"C T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | [...] I am in the process of forming a non-profit organization that takes old | computers (286's etc...), setting them up for email, word processing, | internet browsing, spread sheets, and them giving them to people who can't | afford computers. | | One of my

I need some help...

2002-09-27 Thread C T
To whom it may concern, My name is Craig and I am in the process of forming a non-profit organization that takes old computers (286's etc...), setting them up for email, word processing, internet browsing, spread sheets, and them giving them to people who can't afford computers. One of my obs

Re: Bus error (core dumped) when running pkg_add

2002-09-27 Thread John Bleichert
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Søren Neigaard wrote: > Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:44:57 +0200 > From: Søren Neigaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Bus error (core dumped) when running pkg_add > > If I try to run pkg_add on either a tbz file, tgz file or without > specifying any fil

Official web page of Polish users.

2002-09-27 Thread Aleksander
Hello. Please explain me, if we as a team who made two largest Polish web sites about FreeBSD [www.bsdzine.org and www.freebsd.okey.pl], could get from you a subdomain for official web site of Polish users. We want to translate docs, faqs etc. There is a quite big number of us, and we would like

Please don't bite again -- it gets worse and worse lately --- Re: Again: There must be a better way

2002-09-27 Thread Danny Pansters
Please, As a reader and sometimes off-list responder on our FreeBSD lists, all I can say is that they're useful, and that it is of course polluted by spam and pranksters subscribing the list to other lists and last but not least by trolls, but they are is still _very_ useful. Keep it that way an

Re: Filesystem Question

2002-09-27 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Somewhere near: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sbin/mount_std/mount_std.c I didn't see *CURRENT* in the huge menu of releases, but I now see that it's called "MAIN" there. And with cvsup it's called "HEAD". Remarkable. (But I'll rest

Again: There must be a better way

2002-09-27 Thread mufassa bendover
Listen Guys As a girl...I dont want to deal with that hard stuff. But also if I install windows in my box, I will have to fix it probably at the end of the month (girls hate fixing things). So is there anyway you guys can solve problems for notonly me, but other girls who have the same p

Re: updating by copying /usr/obj and /usr/src not working

2002-09-27 Thread Samuel Chow
> I used to be able to update systems by making world on a fast machine, then > copying the /usr/obj and /usr/src that resulted from that update directly to > other slower systems and just doing a make installworld and make > installkernel. > > Recently however, when I attempt this, the install f

packages for rc2

2002-09-27 Thread SweeTLeaF
Hello , are there any 4.7rc2 packages as i cant find them? only the rc1 dir for 4.7 has packages. I was wanting to add windowmaker to my 4.7rc2 system and tried the packages from the rc1 rel as i mentioned there are none for rc2and it did not work with several failed to install

"The Complete FreeBSD", third edition: errata and addenda

2002-09-27 Thread Greg Lehey
Errata and addenda for the Complete FreeBSD, third edition Last revision: 2 August 1999 The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge co

"The Complete FreeBSD", second edition: errata and addenda

2002-09-27 Thread Greg Lehey
Errata and addenda for the Complete FreeBSD, second edition Last revision: 21 June 1999 The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge c

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2002-09-27 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update 3 September 1999 This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that at least one

Re: su not using ~/.bash_profile

2002-09-27 Thread James Long
On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 01:48:57AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > well, > %su - > > does, but a su from root to another user doesn't, and i'd like it to.. > I use an alias: alias su='su -l' To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body

su not using ~/.bash_profile

2002-09-27 Thread rene
well, %su - does, but a su from root to another user doesn't, and i'd like it to.. ciao.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Memory Allocation Accounting (a conceptual question)

2002-09-27 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 04:01:37PM -0700, Coleman, Ellery wrote: > > 3- If i were able to determine that a process had died without > returning all of it's memory, does the modern unix kernel provide a > mechanism that would allow me to retrieve/recycle this wasted memory? This can't happen for

Memory Allocation Accounting (a conceptual question)

2002-09-27 Thread Coleman, Ellery
Hey guys, Can you reference any articles/FAQ's that deal with the following questions: 1- Does the modern unix kernel (ie. FreeBSD, solaris, linux) implement Memory Allocation Accounting (MMA)? In my mind, an MMA system would keep track of how much memory each process has "checked out" and

Re : Apache CGI problem

2002-09-27 Thread Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim
Hello all, Saturday, September 28, 2002, 5:49:52 AM, freebsd-questions wrote: > Hello all, >I finally found the cause of the problem. PHP 4.2.3. I commented the >LoadModule and AddModule clauses in httpd.conf and bam!, all CGIs and Perls >work as healthy as they can be. S

Audio IN to GnomeMeeting on FreeBSD

2002-09-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
I am trying to get GnomeMeeting to work properly ona FreeBSD 4.7RC box. I have tried two different platforms, a Dell with ICH2 audio and an IBM with Intel ICH3 sound. Both play sound just fine, but neither seem to input and process audio from the mic input. Both systems report about the same thin

firebird-1.0.1.tar.gz now has IPFIREWALL blocking!

2002-09-27 Thread Jan Knepper
Hi! For those interested/using firebird, I just released a new version which included IPFIREWALL blocking. Check http://www.digitaldaemon.com/FreeBSD/firebird/ for more info. Jan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Kernel log question "pullup failed"

2002-09-27 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 27), Charles Pelletier said: > so, having never used IPFW, does that really signify anything other > than bad transmission? i mean, sounds like it could be a warning for > corrupted packets? Corrupted packets will usually get flagged later on, when the checksum is verifie

Re: Apache CGI problem

2002-09-27 Thread Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim
Hello all, I finally found the cause of the problem. PHP 4.2.3. I commented the LoadModule and AddModule clauses in httpd.conf and bam!, all CGIs and Perls work as healthy as they can be. Solved a problem only to bring up another. I installed the latest PHP from the

Re: Kernel log question "pullup failed"

2002-09-27 Thread Charles Pelletier
so, having never used IPFW, does that really signify anything other than bad transmission? i mean, sounds like it could be a warning for corrupted packets? somebody explain that to me? --charlie pelletier --litmus(mp3.com/litmus) - Original Message - From: "Dan Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Filesystem Question

2002-09-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-09-27 10:45, "Gary W. Swearingen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might generalize your answer by referring readers to the "See Also" > section of the "mount" manual of their choice of the -STABLE or -CURRENT > distribution [...] > > Or, for the diligent or desparate, the non-CURRENT sour

Re: Kernel log question "pullup failed"

2002-09-27 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 27), Peter Brezny said: > Has anyone seen this before? > > > pullup failed > > what is it? It's an ipfw log message. It could certainly stand to be a bit clearer :) >From man ipfw: FINE POINTS o There are circumstances where fragmented datagrams are u

updating by copying /usr/obj and /usr/src not working

2002-09-27 Thread Peter Brezny
Hi everyone, I used to be able to update systems by making world on a fast machine, then copying the /usr/obj and /usr/src that resulted from that update directly to other slower systems and just doing a make installworld and make installkernel. Recently however, when I attempt this, the install

Re: 2 gateways - seperate routes for different ports?

2002-09-27 Thread D. Penev
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 08:23:12PM +1000, Alek - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 20:23:12 +1000 (EST) >Subject: 2 gateways - seperate routes for different ports? >From: "Alek - [EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Greetings, > >I currently have 2 gate

Kernel log question "pullup failed"

2002-09-27 Thread Peter Brezny
Has anyone seen this before? > pullup failed what is it? Thanks Peter Brezny skyrunner.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: FreeBSD and Verizon DSL

2002-09-27 Thread Vincent Poy
I thought there were some GTE territories on the east coast as well. Not all Verizon West territories have the ATM yet since the FR networks can be at a minimum of T1 speed but the ATM requires atleast a DS3. In Hawaii, 90% of the DSLAM's are still FR. Cheers, Vince - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: there must be a better way

2002-09-27 Thread burningclown
I'd like to add to this. I used Windows exclusively (with some sidetrips since I was married to a rabid Mac user) from about 1994 to 1999, when I launched into Slackware Linux (later other distros but I have since returned to Slackware). I first tried FreeBSD around late 2000 or so, and have n

Re: Question on Multi OSes

2002-09-27 Thread Kevin Golding
Someone, quite probably SweeTLeaF, once wrote: >What i would like to find out is how to have xp on its own drive and >freebsd on its own drive and be able to boot either such as i do now. >I saw a device that connected to each drive and jumps over the drive to >make it primary, sec.etc... to boot

Re[2]: cant find libc.so.4

2002-09-27 Thread SweeTLeaF
Hello Giorgos, Friday, September 27, 2002, 4:28:06 AM, you wrote: GK> On 2002-09-27 01:51, SweeTLeaF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have been looking on all the ftp/s and have noticed that 5.0-current >> has the .tbz format so i guess there is difference in the 5.0 DP1 and >> 5.0-current. I was

Re: there must be a better way

2002-09-27 Thread Frank Heitmann
> Did you never consider that FreeBSD is a server system? I use it as a desktop system, I hope that's also ok :) And to the original poster: I have used Windows all my life (ok, it's not that long, because I have just become 22, but in computer-years it's a lot :) and have just started to use

centericq and xterm

2002-09-27 Thread Frank Heitmann
Hi. Yesterday I posted a message describing a problem with centericq and X (running centericq in an xterm console did not work at my system, because the arrow keys did not work right from the start). Today I was able to solve that problem by changing ESCDELAY=0 to ESCDELAY=1 in conscommon.cc and

Re: Question on Multi OSes

2002-09-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hello Ryan, > > Friday, September 27, 2002, 2:52:43 PM, you wrote: > > RH> Dear Representative, > > RH> I am planning on setting a Dell Inspiron 8200 over the weekend. I plan on >installing Win XP, Free BSD, and BeOS. Are there any restictions I should keep in >mind on partitioning? I pl

Re: FreeBSD and Verizon DSL

2002-09-27 Thread David
> > > The way it works is the the Verizon known as BellAtlantic requires > > > PPPoE while the Verizon known as GTE doesn't. BA uses a ATM network while > > > GTE uses a Frame Relay based network. Verizon West formerly known as GTE used to use only Frame Relay. They are now using both Frame Rela

Re: FreeBSD and Verizon DSL

2002-09-27 Thread Vincent Poy
You can usually tell from the modem you're using. The GTE one is a Fujitsu/Orkit and uses DHCP. The BellAtlantic one uses modems from Efficient Networks/Siemens, Westell and Alcatel and uses PPPoE. What was the name of the telco before it was Verizon, that's one way to tell. Cheers, V

updating rc releases

2002-09-27 Thread SweeTLeaF
Hello , If 4.7RC2 was installed, could it be cvs updated to the 4.7 release when its available? -- Best regards, SweeTLeaF mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Question on Multi OSes

2002-09-27 Thread SweeTLeaF
Hello Ryan, Friday, September 27, 2002, 2:52:43 PM, you wrote: RH> Dear Representative, RH> I am planning on setting a Dell Inspiron 8200 over the weekend. I plan on installing Win XP, Free BSD, and BeOS. Are there any restictions I should keep in mind on partitioning? I plan on RH> formating

Re: favor for a brazilian freebsd user

2002-09-27 Thread Benjamin Krueger
* Otvio Rox! ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020927 05:46]: > hi, im brazilian and i work as a free lancer with networks using freebsd, > and i work at an internet provider in fortaleza city called 'baydenet' > (www.baydenet.com.br). > > i am really interested in having an e-mail adress @freebsd.org . Her

Re: Question on Multi OSes

2002-09-27 Thread John Bleichert
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Ryan Haarberg wrote: > Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 19:52:43 - > From: Ryan Haarberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Question on Multi OSes > > Dear Representative, > > I am planning on setting a Dell Inspiron 8200 over the weekend. I plan on installing

Re: How to shut down cleanly by killing power

2002-09-27 Thread Petri Riihikallio
> > This way the system reboots, but the reboot is interrupted with >> powerdown at early stage. Not ideal, I agree, but a solution still. > >And it has the side-benefit of nicely handling the fairly common case of >where the power comes back on just long enough to get your UPS going >again, esp

Question on Multi OSes

2002-09-27 Thread Ryan Haarberg
Dear Representative, I am planning on setting a Dell Inspiron 8200 over the weekend. I plan on installing Win XP, Free BSD, and BeOS. Are there any restictions I should keep in mind on partitioning? I plan on formating three partitions as FAT 32. The first one 24 Gb with Win XP (for work), the

Re: How to shut down cleanly by killing power

2002-09-27 Thread Petri Riihikallio
Thanks for your reply! >"sync" is pretty much useless, it doesn't buy you anything. >Particularly, it won't mark your filesystems clean (so fsck >will still have to run on the next boot), and it does not >guarantee that there's no unwritten data left in memory. Yes, this I found out by testing.

Re: How to shut down cleanly by killing power

2002-09-27 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
> This way the system reboots, but the reboot is interrupted with > powerdown at early stage. Not ideal, I agree, but a solution still. And it has the side-benefit of nicely handling the fairly common case of where the power comes back on just long enough to get your UPS going again, especially i

Re: my sendmail got error

2002-09-27 Thread Adam Weinberger
did you compile sendmail yourself, from source? did you change any of the security settings? -Adam >> (09.27.2002 @ 1134 PST): - said, in 2.0K: << > > > hi guys.. > i got a problem with my sendmail, > > while i use sendmail with 8.12.5 or/and 8.12.6 version, > > its look like my sendmail a

Re: Upgrading ports from sources outside ports tree

2002-09-27 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Inge Thorin Eidsæther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there some manual way to do it that does not require me to be > an experienced programmer? I doubt it, if you're not willing to get your hands dirty learning to decipher Makefiles as are used by ports. It doesn't take a very long time to l

Re: Upgrading ports from sources outside ports tree

2002-09-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 05:44:36PM +0200, Inge Thorin Eidsæther wrote: > > Hi all! > > General question: > Does anyone know how to upgrade a port when the latest sources are > available on the net, but haven't made it into the ports tree yet? You make the appropriate local modifications to the

Re: cvsup

2002-09-27 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
"Brian Henning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > i just upgraded from 4.6 to 4.62 the other day because i could not do a > pkg_add -r cvsup. I thought that might fix the problem, but it didn't.. is > there a reason why every time i try to use pkg_install -r that it cannot > find the pack

Re: cvsup

2002-09-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 09:00:12AM -0500, Brian Henning wrote: > Hello, > > i just upgraded from 4.6 to 4.62 the other day because i could not do a > pkg_add -r cvsup. I thought that might fix the problem, but it didn't.. is > there a reason why every time i try to use pkg_install -r that it cann

Re: Moving /usr/ports to a new location??

2002-09-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 10:31:01PM -0500, Nick Slager wrote: > Thus spake Steven Lake ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > I'm curious. I'm trying to scavange as much room as I can in /usr > > and I was wondering if it would be ok to move the /usr/ports director into > > /var? I know I don't want to

Re: need help with pkg_add

2002-09-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 09:54:51AM +0200, Guido Van Hoecke wrote: > TapRoot420 wrote: > >Hello, I just installed FreeBSD 5.0 DP1 and everything is great with the > >system except i cant get pkg_add to work via ftp. I am trying to install > >the current afterstep package from the offical freebsd

Re: make buildkernel error

2002-09-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 07:11:41AM +0700, - wrote: > ===> VLAN > mkdir -p /usr/obj/usr/src/sys > cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf; > >PATH=/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/sbin:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/bin:/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/games:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin > config -d /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VLAN /

my sendmail got error

2002-09-27 Thread -
hi guys.. i got a problem with my sendmail, while i use sendmail with 8.12.5 or/and 8.12.6 version, its look like my sendmail acts open relay, and the worse, i couldn't receive any mails from outside my domain, theese below the error msgs: Sep 28 01:31:41 maiser sendmail[41153]: g8RIVaD6041

Re: How to shut down cleanly by killing power

2002-09-27 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 08:45 PM 9.27.2002 +0300, Petri Riihikallio wrote: >>I have several SmartUPS (APC 1500s) that run the most critical machines and >>dictate to the slaves. > >I believe the SmartUPS can be programmed to wait before they start to >supply power. If I read the apcupsd docs correctly you can check y

Re: find case-insensitive challenge

2002-09-27 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-27 20:06:45 +0200: > Roman Neuhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-27 19:37:15 +0200: > > > Slower? I don't think that -name "*.[Jj][Pp][Gg]" is any > > > slower than -iname "*.jpg". > > > > i was talking about find(1) complet

Re: find case-insensitive challenge

2002-09-27 Thread Oliver Fromme
Roman Neuhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-27 19:37:15 +0200: > > Slower? I don't think that -name "*.[Jj][Pp][Gg]" is any > > slower than -iname "*.jpg". > > i was talking about find(1) completely rewritten as a shell script. OK, sorry then. I wasn't r

Re: find case-insensitive challenge

2002-09-27 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-27 19:37:15 +0200: > Roman Neuhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the point is that emulating find with other tools would be so long > > winded that everyone would end up with find written as a shell > > script. that would be a lot slower, and someone

Re: How to shut down cleanly by killing power

2002-09-27 Thread Petri Riihikallio
>I've never tried this and it's not the ideal method, but it's simple, >so I offer it for your consideration: > >Put your UPS software on the root partition. > >In the software which initiates the mains-failure shutdown, just do >"shutdown -r now" or "init 6" or "reboot" or whatever. > >At the top

Re: How to shut down cleanly by killing power

2002-09-27 Thread Petri Riihikallio
>I have several SmartUPS (APC 1500s) that run the most critical machines and >dictate to the slaves. I believe the SmartUPS can be programmed to wait before they start to supply power. If I read the apcupsd docs correctly you can check you settings with "apcaccess eeprom". It should return the

Bus error (core dumped) when running pkg_add

2002-09-27 Thread Søren Neigaard
If I try to run pkg_add on either a tbz file, tgz file or without specifying any file, it core dumps. Here is the message: Bus error (core dumped) Sep 27 21:41:06 neigaard /kernel: pid 110 (pkg_add), uid 0: exited on signal 10 (core dumped) What is this, is it a hardware error? I dont seem to ha

Re: Filesystem Question

2002-09-27 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 2002-09-26 17:10, Eff Norwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If yes, I'd love to know how. If no, I'd love to know why not.s > > I think this would be a great addition to the FAQ. > > It hasn't been asked a lot, but I'll see what I can do :-)

Re: find case-insensitive challenge

2002-09-27 Thread Oliver Fromme
Roman Neuhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the point is that emulating find with other tools would be so long > winded that everyone would end up with find written as a shell > script. that would be a lot slower, and someone would reimplement it > in C. thus, saying that -ina

Re: How to shut down cleanly by killing power

2002-09-27 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
I've never tried this and it's not the ideal method, but it's simple, so I offer it for your consideration: Put your UPS software on the root partition. In the software which initiates the mains-failure shutdown, just do "shutdown -r now" or "init 6" or "reboot" or whatever. At the top of /etc/

Re: reverse proxy?

2002-09-27 Thread Fernando Gleiser
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Richard Lucas wrote: > > From my research it looks as if squid can do part of what I need but from > what I've read it can only forward requests to one server. I need something > that can forward requests to multiple servers depending on what is > requested. For example, if s

Re: find case-insensitive challenge

2002-09-27 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-27 18:23:27 +0200: > Roman Neuhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-27 18:10:04 +0200: > > > Well, almost. Those primaries which operate on the properties of the > > > inodes are required (-perm, -mtime etc.). > > > > not reall

mouse and touchpad

2002-09-27 Thread Kenzo
I have a Sony viao F-650 laptop. I'm running FreeBSD 4.6.2 and I was wondering if there's a way of having both the USB mouse and touch pad working at the same time in KDE. Right now I just have the mouse working, but I want to be able to use the touch pad when I'm on the road. Is it possible?

Re: Problem compiling mpg123

2002-09-27 Thread Adam Weinberger
it's busted in the current ports tree. i get the same errors. i hope to submit a patch for it today. -Adam >> (09.27.2002 @ 0341 PST): Pascal Giannakakis said, in 0.8K: << > > I am running 4.6-STABLE on i396 and I cannot compile mpg123 as I get the > > following error > > any help appreciated

Re: How to shut down cleanly by killing power

2002-09-27 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 07:09 PM 9.27.2002 +0300, Petri Riihikallio wrote: >>In my case where I DON'T want the machines to restart after complete >>shutdown, was from an expensive learning experience. In our area >>(summertime subtropics), sometimes the power comes back on but flips right >>back off -- just as the mac

Re: sendmail: File descriptors missing on startup: stderr; Bad file descriptor

2002-09-27 Thread Dan Langille
On 27 Sep 2002 at 17:31, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 09:03:28AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > > I keep seeing this in /var/log/maillog but do not know the cause: > > > >sendmail[42390]: File descriptors missing on startup: stderr; Bad > > file descriptor >

Re: How to shut down cleanly by killing power

2002-09-27 Thread David Siebörger
On Fri 2002-09-27 (19:03), Petri Riihikallio wrote: > You have an APC "smart" model, I have a dumb one. The smart ones have > a "shutdown grace period". That is, they don't kill the power > immediately after the -k command, but after a delay. That -d 3 should > make it 3 seconds, which is kind

Re: sendmail: File descriptors missing on startup: stderr; Bad file descriptor

2002-09-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 09:03:28AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > I keep seeing this in /var/log/maillog but do not know the cause: > >sendmail[42390]: File descriptors missing on startup: stderr; Bad > file descriptor > > I'm on FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #0: Thu Sep 26 09:02:16 EDT

Re: UNKNOWN IP OPTION emergency

2002-09-27 Thread Lars Eggert
soheil h wrote: > > I see on the TCP/IP illustrated it puts an LSRR option and record the ip > addresses into it and make the off 12 !!! to say all the things are done > i run this command the x.x.x.x is my default gw. but it takes the > source route error > ! > why this happend?

Re: Curses at Ncurses Buildworld crash

2002-09-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
"John Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : Well maybe I was just lucky, but no such problem bit : when I rebuilt and reinstalled RELENG_4_5 without a : hitch, but I got exactly the same results you did : with RELENG_4_6. : : It' a bit unsettling because : 1) Presumably the build can be done succe

Re: find case-insensitive challenge

2002-09-27 Thread Oliver Fromme
Roman Neuhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-27 18:10:04 +0200: > > Well, almost. Those primaries which operate on the properties of the > > inodes are required (-perm, -mtime etc.). > > not really: ls(1). ls(1) output is not suitable for parsing, unfortun

Re: mounting /usr/ports to multiple jails

2002-09-27 Thread Oliver Fromme
Dirk Engling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, this is not the problem, I do have with NFS. I, honestly, > do not want to have that mountd/portmap/nfsd on my host system, > as it proved to be "insecure on some occasions". I don't think so. If you bind everything to localhost only, export /us

Re: find case-insensitive challenge

2002-09-27 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-27 18:10:04 +0200: > Roman Neuhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-27 17:15:00 +0200: > > > That wouldn't make it any more portable. Bugging the Open Group > > > _might_ be more useful. > > > > right. > > > > > But then ag

Re: find case-insensitive challenge

2002-09-27 Thread Oliver Fromme
Roman Neuhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-27 17:15:00 +0200: > > That wouldn't make it any more portable. > > Bugging the Open Group _might_ be more useful. > > right. > > > But then again, it's against the UNIX philosophy. > > In UNIX, you've got a

Re: How to shut down cleanly by killing power

2002-09-27 Thread Petri Riihikallio
>In my case where I DON'T want the machines to restart after complete >shutdown, was from an expensive learning experience. In our area >(summertime subtropics), sometimes the power comes back on but flips right >back off -- just as the machine is trying to restart -- this happened THREE >times in

Re: How to shut down cleanly by killing power

2002-09-27 Thread Petri Riihikallio
>The way I've set it up, upsmon (part of NUT) issues a 'shutdown -p' >when the battery is low. A local hack to rc.shutdown then instructs >the UPS to turn itself off a few seconds later, by running: > > /usr/local/libexec/nut/newapc -a su1000 -k -d 3 > >In the scenario you describe, things wo

Upgrading ports from sources outside ports tree

2002-09-27 Thread Inge Thorin Eidsæther
Hi all! General question: Does anyone know how to upgrade a port when the latest sources are available on the net, but haven't made it into the ports tree yet? Example: I need to rebuild mod_php4 (for Apache2) from the latest sources, because of a bug that (among other things) causes the file

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Re: mounting /usr/ports to multiple jails

2002-09-27 Thread Dirk Engling
> One way would be to NFS-export /usr/ports to localhost > (read-only), then mount it from localhost into every jail. > This works pretty well, unless you have more than a few > hundred jails. Advantage: When you update the ports, you > just have to update /usr/ports in the host environment. >

Re: find case-insensitive challenge

2002-09-27 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-27 17:15:00 +0200: > Roman Neuhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-27 14:36:48 +0200: > > > The problem with that is that it's not portable. I try > > > to avoid getting used to such non-portable features. > > > Typing an extra grep

Re: How to shut down cleanly by killing power

2002-09-27 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 05:14 PM 9.27.2002 +0200, David Siebörger wrote: >On Fri 2002-09-27 (14:00), Petri Riihikallio wrote: >> Have you thought about this situation: >> >> 1. The UPS is almost empty, and the monitoring system issues shutdown -p >> 2. The system starts the shutdown sequence. It can take well over a

FreeBSD 4.6.2-p2/4.7-RC tape drive/sa - driver problems

2002-09-27 Thread Hartmann, O.
Hello. I have serious trouble with two HP DAT drives (both DAT 40 drives, one single tape drive, one 6-slot autoloader SureStore 40x6i). Both trouble making systems are SMP machine (two Intel PIII/866 CPUs) with SymbiosLogic SCSI controler. Both tape drives have the following parameters: Physi

Re: mounting /usr/ports to multiple jails

2002-09-27 Thread Oliver Fromme
Dirk Engling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running a multi-jail server and want to > get rid of having a local copy of /usr/ports > in every jail. I thought about mounting it > read-only to all jails and modify make.conf > appropriately. One way would be to NFS-export /usr/ports to local

Re: Wondering about mail clients (specific features)

2002-09-27 Thread Richard Jones
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 03:38:35PM -0500, Oscar Ricardo Silva wrote: > Is there something I'm missing in pine that will do this? Are there other > mail clients that will notify you when new mail has been received and > placed in a mailbox other than "IN" ? Mutt does, you need to add > "mailbo

Re: find case-insensitive challenge

2002-09-27 Thread Oliver Fromme
Roman Neuhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-27 14:36:48 +0200: > > The problem with that is that it's not portable. I try > > to avoid getting used to such non-portable features. > > Typing an extra grep is faster than using -iname and > > then finding out that

Re: How to shut down cleanly by killing power

2002-09-27 Thread David Siebörger
On Fri 2002-09-27 (14:00), Petri Riihikallio wrote: > Have you thought about this situation: > > 1. The UPS is almost empty, and the monitoring system issues shutdown -p > 2. The system starts the shutdown sequence. It can take well over a > minute. There is no way to stop it now. > 3. Power ret

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