Re: file permissions

2002-11-05 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 11:58:30PM -0400, m wrote: > > > Is this good paranoia? have you had any problems, > > > have you tried this? > > > > You really should provide more details. Have we tried what? > > I don't want to remove "ALL" access to a file, I want the owner and the > groups to use i

RE: Cleaning up /]

2002-11-05 Thread Danny.Carroll
What about /tmp ? You could symlink it to some other fs... > -Original Message- > From: Matthew Emmerton [mailto:matt@;gsicomp.on.ca] > Sent: 06 November 2002 00:40 > To: I am Insane; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Cleaning up /] > > > > I need some help. I'm not a complete newbie but

Re: FS options for FreeBSD

2002-11-05 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 10:23:25PM -0500, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > I'm looking for different filesystem options for FreeBSD. > > I'm ripping apart a Linux machine that's running a mail service which > utilizes the reiserfs for performance gain. Since that's not available > for FreeBSD (I ran a

simple question

2002-11-05 Thread mike
Hello all, The easiest way of going about this is giving you a example. I am in /usr and i want to tar -xzvf ports.tar.gz, but i want to continue working in my shell while this process runs in the background. What would i type to make the output of that command not show but at the end simply do

Re: 4.7 REL Install problem "Write failure on transfer!"

2002-11-05 Thread Kjell
> I'm trying to install 4.7-Release from CDROM. > BootMgr is installed and works to boot Win98. > The FreeBSD partition seems to get formated ok. > But when the "/bin" files are copied: "Write failure on transfer!" When I boot from floppies and use the 4.7 CD for sysgen I get a similar message.

Adding drive using Fdisk?

2002-11-05 Thread Mark-Nathaniel Weisman
Hello all, Hey I've got a 4.5-stable box that I'm real fond of that I would like to add another drive with a "bootable" OS already installed. The other disk was a master drive in another machine that worked (well it is MS?) Anyway, I've added to the system, and my boot menu gives me the option

Installation hangs at ata0: resetting devices ..

2002-11-05 Thread D. Michael McFarland
I'm having some trouble installing 4.7 from CD on a new machine, but I may finally be close enough to ask a meaningful question. The hardware includes Motherboard: ECS P4S5MG/651+, AMI BIOS, 2.4 GHz P4, 1 GB DDR RAM Primary IDE: Master: 40 GB Western Digital HD Slave: 80

Re: make fails during upgrade, so...

2002-11-05 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Giorgos Keramidas thusly... > > > # cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf > # config -d /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NEWKERNEL NEWKERNEL > # cd /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NEWKERNEL > # make depend > # make clean ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ why would one need to run "make clean" after

Re: XFree86, Anti-aliasing, Truetype, Freetype

2002-11-05 Thread Steve Wingate
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 06:29, Scott I. Remick wrote: > > a few more specifics here *might* be somewhat helpful. > > Well, bear with me... if I knew exactly what specific info you needed to > solve the problem, I'd probably already know the answer myself. ;) Extra > info happily provided as-reques

Fwd: Re: Help with s/key

2002-11-05 Thread Jim
S/Key is a pretty nifty way of sending garbled passwords over cleartext means (telnet). It was sort of a pre-cursor to ssh. Although widely used still, it is somewhat obsolete...but then, one can never be too paranoid, right? :) So, let me 'splain... | Sincerely, I don't understand this stuff.

Help with s/key

2002-11-05 Thread Odhiambo Washington
Sincerely, I don't understand this stuff. I've tried to read it. Is anyone willing to tell me the advantages of s/key and whether I should use it? This is what happens: wash@ns2 ('tty') ~ 479 -> ssh newhost otp-md5 105 ba3562 ext S/Key Password: otp-md5 172 ba9156 ext S/Key Password: otp-md5

Sendmail questions

2002-11-05 Thread budsz
Hi, I got some message from cron daemon like: ---cut Mail in local queue: Mail in submit queue: mailq: illegal option -- A sendmail: usage: sendmail [ -t ] [ -fsender ] [ -Fname] [ -bp ] [ -bs ] [ arg... ] ---cut Whereas I was try to disable sendmail daemon from /etc/rc.conf like: ---cut # Set

Re: FS options for FreeBSD

2002-11-05 Thread DaleCo Help Desk
Recent thread round here somewhere discussed this very briefly. I remember ext2 on the list, along with, of course, ufs, and seems like NTFS Kevin Kinsey - Original Message - From: "Forrest Aldrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 9:23 PM Subje

Re: file permissions

2002-11-05 Thread m
> > Is this good paranoia? have you had any problems, > > have you tried this? > > You really should provide more details. Have we tried what? I don't want to remove "ALL" access to a file, I want the owner and the groups to use it, but not "world" or "anyone". - rwxrwx - - - This question

Re: make fails during upgrade, so...

2002-11-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-11-05 21:40, Charles Pelletier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > no unfortunately, i have been using the old way... > 1. cvsup cvsupfile OK so far. > 2. make -j4 buildworld Try without -j4. > 3. make installworld That's not a good thing to do in this part of the procedure. This should be t

Re: file permissions

2002-11-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-11-05 23:34, m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, I was wondering if it is good or bad to set permission to > something like 750... Whose permissions? > That's to say, 0 for users. The most secure system is the one that is offline, not connected to a power cable, and locked in a room t

Re: make fails during upgrade, so...

2002-11-05 Thread Charles Pelletier
no unfortunately, i have been using the old way... 1. cvsup cvsupfile 2. make -j4 buildworld 3. make installworld 4. make new kernel: (/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/) cp OLDKERNEL NEWKERNEL ee NEWKERNEL (replace name of oldkernel with newkernel name) save run /usr/sbin/config NEWKERNEL make depend .

Re: make fails during upgrade, so...

2002-11-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-11-05 17:26, Charles Pelletier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I remove the dependencies created with the make depend I did > prior to this failed make? The original problem I had turned out to > be a memory issue so the make depend completed successfully. Ran > make, and it failed, pre

file permissions

2002-11-05 Thread m
Hi all, I was wondering if it is good or bad to set permission to something like 750... that's to say, 0 for users. Is this good paranoia? have you had any problems, have you tried this? thanks. CC please. Bye. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questi

Re: Using msdos floppy on FreeBSD

2002-11-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 05), Zhihui Zhang said: > I have two FAT floppy that I used to transfer files between FreeBSD > and Windows. One can show longer file names, the one cannot. What > format command (on FreeBSD or Windows) does this trick (i.e. choose > FAT32)? I want to reformat the floppy t

FS options for FreeBSD

2002-11-05 Thread Forrest Aldrich
I'm looking for different filesystem options for FreeBSD. I'm ripping apart a Linux machine that's running a mail service which utilizes the reiserfs for performance gain. Since that's not available for FreeBSD (I ran across some flames about it, actually) - I wonder what alternatives exist o

Using msdos floppy on FreeBSD

2002-11-05 Thread Zhihui Zhang
I have two FAT floppy that I used to transfer files between FreeBSD and Windows. One can show longer file names, the one cannot. What format command (on FreeBSD or Windows) does this trick (i.e. choose FAT32)? I want to reformat the floppy that does not show longer than eight names. Thanks. -Z

Re: Shared object "libkrb.so.3" not found

2002-11-05 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 18:22, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 10:35:20PM +0300, Dmitry_S wrote: > > Hi All! > > > > can anyone help me? my system doesn't have a libkrb.so library, how do i install >it? > > > > when i run GNOME, it writes: > > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared obje

Re: Manual title standards (was: man 1 eject)

2002-11-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-11-05 13:02, "Gary W. Swearingen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "DaleCo Help Desk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Peter, what in the *header* of your eject manpage? Generally, > > FBSD's own manpages show up with "FreeBSD System Manager's > > Manual", or "FreeBSD General Commands Manual",

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Re: qmail timeout problem

2002-11-05 Thread Joan Picanyol i Puig
* Miroslav Pendev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20021105 17:10]: > How can I *fix* this problem? :-) I am assuming you are talking about reverse resolving. As far as I can tell, the IP's owner (your ISP) is responsible for queries to t.z.y.x.in-addr.arpa (where x.y.z.t is your IP addres

Re: make fails #2

2002-11-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 05:27:16PM -0600, Charles Pelletier wrote: > Just realized I forgot to say that I'm upgrading from 4.6 to 4.7. Good for you :) I assume this was in follow-up to some other message; since you haven't preserved any context in this reply it's difficult to know what you're ref

Asus a7n266-vm

2002-11-05 Thread Paul English
I'm having one heck of a time getting FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE to work on one of these motherboards. It includes the integrated NVidia NForce chipset with built in Realtek 10/100 lan and Geforce2MX graphics. The network card simply doesn't show up anywhere. That is not the end of the world since I hav

Re: [Fwd: Cleaning up /]

2002-11-05 Thread Jeff Jirsa
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, I am Insane wrote: > So, in short (the .cpan file is approx 50 MB) is removable? or is it > necessary? it appears that most of the files are source files... > > could removing them effect my system adversly? Feel free to delete it. It's used for building the modules you just i

Re: [Fwd: Cleaning up /]

2002-11-05 Thread I am Insane
So, in short (the .cpan file is approx 50 MB) is removable? or is it necessary? it appears that most of the files are source files... could removing them effect my system adversly? Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Nov 05), I am Insane said: That's been my normal experience, / doesn't ch

Follow-up: Yet Another make release fails on ghostscript-gnu

2002-11-05 Thread Michael Dexter
Greetings again, Regarding the make release mentioned earlier... After peppering my /usr/ports/distfiles/ tree with very redundant distfiles, i.e. the same files in /usr/ports and /usr/ports/ghostscript and /usr/ports/ghostscript-gnu, things finally worked. (Ending on a vn present failure but

Re: [Fwd: Cleaning up /]

2002-11-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 05), I am Insane said: > That's been my normal experience, / doesn't change in size except for a > small amount when I install important / major programs and even then it > usually isn't affected. However, I recently installed a few CPAN modules > in order to allow pop/i

Re: Is the Bison port broken?

2002-11-05 Thread E. J. Cerejo
you were right, upgrading fixed it. Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 02:45:31AM -0500, E. J. Cerejo wrote: does anybody know how to get around this? It's probably because your version of FreeBSD contains an old version of texinfo. Update to a newer version of FreeBSD, or m

Re: IPFW, natd, redirect_address help needed

2002-11-05 Thread David Cramblett
well you could simply do an ipfw flush and then use ipfw command line to add back the rule for the loopback device and the natd divert line (looks like your using natd?), then do a: ipfw add pass all from any to any and make sure that you can send and recive traffic in both directions without

Re: [Fwd: Cleaning up /]

2002-11-05 Thread I am Insane
That's been my normal experience, / doesn't change in size except for a small amount when I install important / major programs and even then it usually isn't affected. However, I recently installed a few CPAN modules in order to allow pop/imap-before-smtp (as I've found very little information

urgent proposal

2002-11-05 Thread markus chuka
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Re: [Fwd: Cleaning up /]

2002-11-05 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 06:34 PM 11.5.2002 -0500, I am Insane wrote: >I sent this to the newbies list, but was hoping it wasn't too off topic >for the questions list. > >Can anyone help? > > Original Message >Subject: Cleaning up / >Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 14:43:21 -0500 >From: I am Insane <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Cleaning up /]

2002-11-05 Thread Matthew Emmerton
> I need some help. I'm not a complete newbie but I'm new enough to not > know which files are actually needed in my / filesystem. > > my current df -k shows > > Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/ad0s1a100750 82898 979289%/ > /dev/ad0s1g 10080382 76

Re: IPFW, natd, redirect_address help needed

2002-11-05 Thread Terrac Skiens
since this is a super small distribution I do not have the default open, closed, and client firewall configs. The set I am using is based on the client one though, however I adjusted it to allow traffic from the inside to the outside on specific ports and hopefully keep-state to let the returning

Re: IPFW, natd, redirect_address help needed

2002-11-05 Thread David Cramblett
Do you have gateway_enable="YES" in your firewall? Can you get packets through both directions just fine with the firewall set to "OPEN"? David Terrac Skiens wrote: Hi there, I have been trying to set up an embedded system from soekris, running a small version of freebsd on it's internal com

[Fwd: Cleaning up /]

2002-11-05 Thread I am Insane
I sent this to the newbies list, but was hoping it wasn't too off topic for the questions list. Can anyone help? Original Message Subject: Cleaning up / Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 14:43:21 -0500 From: I am Insane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I need some help. I'm no

make fails #2

2002-11-05 Thread Charles Pelletier
Just realized I forgot to say that I'm upgrading from 4.6 to 4.7. Charles Pelletier Tech. Coordinator St Luke's School To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

IPFW, natd, redirect_address help needed

2002-11-05 Thread Terrac Skiens
Hi there, I have been trying to set up an embedded system from soekris, running a small version of freebsd on it's internal compact flash hard disk. The machine is built, I have remote access to it and I intend to use it as a firewall + nat appliance. Directing traffic from machines internally

make fails during upgrade, so...

2002-11-05 Thread Charles Pelletier
How do I remove the dependencies created with the make depend I did prior to this failed make? The original problem I had turned out to be a memory issue so the make depend completed successfully. Ran make, and it failed, presumably for the same reason, but, i got a message regarding operands and '

Re: Shared object "libkrb.so.3" not found

2002-11-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 10:35:20PM +0300, Dmitry_S wrote: > Hi All! > > can anyone help me? my system doesn't have a libkrb.so library, how do i install it? > > when i run GNOME, it writes: > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libkrb.so.3" not found The real question is why it is giving

Re: Is the Bison port broken?

2002-11-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 02:45:31AM -0500, E. J. Cerejo wrote: > does anybody know how to get around this? It's probably because your version of FreeBSD contains an old version of texinfo. Update to a newer version of FreeBSD, or manually install the newer version of texinfo. The FreeBSD ports c

Re: FreeBSD filesystem 1TB Limit

2002-11-05 Thread Walter
This is no doubt heresy coming from a newbie especially, but I was reading that NetBSD can support at least up to 4TB: http://www.netbsd.org/Misc/features.html#large-filesystems Walter Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "Joseph Gleason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > IIRC There was a 1TB limit on the

Re: Is Perl Fixed Yet?

2002-11-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 03:14:29AM -0500, Lee Nelson wrote: > > Did they ever fix the bugs in the Perl that comes with > FreeBSD? In FreeBSD 4.5 for example, setting $0 (the > process name) causes a core dump. There are others - > ones that I know exist but I can't find. You'd have to either t

4.7 REL Install problem "Write failure on transfer!"

2002-11-05 Thread Curt Tyler
I'm trying to install 4.7-Release from CDROM. BootMgr is installed and works to boot Win98. The FreeBSD partition seems to get formated ok. But when the "/bin" files are copied: "Write failure on transfer!" Motherboard: ASUS A7V Win95-98 Promise Ultra100 IDE controller PDC20265 Primary master:

Re: recovering normal partition from vinum

2002-11-05 Thread Frank Tobin
Frank Tobin, on 2002-11-05, wrote: > I'm trying to recover as much data as possible from a vinum partition > that was on top of a faulty hd. To make sure vinum doesn't wipe > anything accidentally, I'd like to get access to it as a normal fbsd > partition or slice. Is it possible to tell dd to r

Re: Junior hacker assignment :o

2002-11-05 Thread Dave McCammon
--- Dave McCammon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Mike Hogsett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Look in /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c > > > > static void > > shutdown_halt(void *junk, int howto) { > > ... > > } > > > > Looks interesting. > > > > - Mike > > > > > Hi, > > > > > >

Re: Mount floopy disk

2002-11-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 11:05:58AM -0800, Naydoe Maung wrote: > What are the consequences if I eject the floppy or reboot the system without > unmounting the floppy? and does it also apply to the CD-ROM too? > Thanks. With floppy disks, it depends to some extent on the precise model of drive.

resource temporarily unavailable

2002-11-05 Thread Daniel Fisher
Hello, I am running release 4.6.2 and recently I've been getting the following error: Error: input: Resource temporarily unavailable This occurs intermittently while I'm editing files in vi. Can anyone tell me what's going on? Thanks. -- Daniel Fisher msg07843/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP si

jail routing problem

2002-11-05 Thread Derek Marshall
Hi, With the following setup I don't understand why ip from the jail 192.168.1.2 cannot reach hosts in 192.168.2.0/24. Can I use a fancy ipfw fwd rule to make it work? Anything routes that use the default gateway is fine. Here is the setup: = Host system = default gateway 192.168.1.254 fxp0:

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Re: motherboard temperature/fan monitoring?

2002-11-05 Thread paul beard
Dan Pelleg wrote: Try healthd. The manpage says it does LM78. Healthd actually gets closer than anything else: it does pick up the voltages, but still no luck on temperature or fan speed. -- Paul Beard / 8040 27th Ave NE / Seattle WA 98115 / paulbeard [at] mac [ dot] com / 206 529 8400 web

Yet Another make release fails on ghostscript-gnu

2002-11-05 Thread Michael Dexter
Greetings from Latvia, I am very, very excited about FreeBSD's "make release" ability but like many others I have read about on the various list archives, I my builds are hanging on trivial failures. In this case, the eplaser-3.0.4-651.tgz file is failing its checksum, bringing the build to a

psminrt: Mouse problems

2002-11-05 Thread david
Everything I load X my mouse moves horribly slow and unresponsive until I logout of X, unplugged my mouse, plug it back in, and reload X. Here is what dmesg shows about the mouse: (15:29 is when the machine got booted.. 31:59 is when I unplugged it and plugged it back in). Question: Is there a

Re: bridging the right way?

2002-11-05 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
"Jonas Sonntag" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > so...is it possible this way, or would it be far smarter to plug a third nic > into the fbsd box only for bridging ? > > thanks for any advice I don't know if it's possible that way; I'm no expert. But I've read that it's foolish to put a public ser

SOLVED: cheat sheet? apache, mod_ssl, mod_php, mysql

2002-11-05 Thread DaleCo Help Desk
I blew away most of /usr/local and did 'make deinstall' in all affected portdirs. After that, smooth as a baby's bottom... I suppose I had done something(s) in a non-standard way, the wrong order, etc., heretofore, and had borked the setup. Thanks to all, props esp. to Mr.z DeGroot, Williams, By

RE: Junior hacker assignment :o

2002-11-05 Thread andrew . boring
> -Original Message- > From: DaleCo Help Desk [mailto:daleco@;daleco.biz] > If the OS is shut down, then the kernel's shut down, > right, and how's it gonna count seconds 'til Resurrection Day? I'm going out on a limb here, but there is an article in SysAdmin magazine that discusses the

RE: Kernal Panics

2002-11-05 Thread Neil Doody
Okay, thanks for your help, atm, the hdd has been installed as a slave, by mistake. If I get them to put another on the master, copy all the files like you say here, what do I need to do to make sure the system will boot off the master the next time round ? This is probably a lot to ask, but coul

Re: Junior hacker assignment :o

2002-11-05 Thread Dave McCammon
--- Mike Hogsett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Look in /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c > > static void > shutdown_halt(void *junk, int howto) { > ... > } > > Looks interesting. > > - Mike > > > Hi, > > > > --- Mike Hogsett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well whatever function the ker

Re: Kernal Panics

2002-11-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
Sorry to post to my own post, but, > > Hi, this method you speak of here. > > > > Would it be possible to perform these tasks in multiuser mode, i.e. via > > ssh ? As I have no console to this server. > > Yes, but then there is no guarantee that the copy is exact because > they might change du

Manual title standards (was: man 1 eject)

2002-11-05 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
"DaleCo Help Desk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Peter, what in the *header* of your eject > manpage? Generally, FBSD's own man- > pages show up with "FreeBSD System > Manager's Manual", or "FreeBSD General > Commands Manual", etc., etc. Changing the subject, those "FreeBSD ... Manual" strings a

Re: Kernal Panics

2002-11-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hi, this method you speak of here. > > Would it be possible to perform these tasks in multiuser mode, i.e. via > ssh ? As I have no console to this server. Yes, but then there is no guarantee that the copy is exact because they might change during the process of the dump/restore. But, if

Re: NFS Performance woes

2002-11-05 Thread Lasse Laursen
Hi, Thanks for your reply. I have some additional questions: > Well the only rule for selecting the number of nfsiods and nfsd is the > maximum number of threads that are going to request an NFS operation on > the server. For example assume that your web server has a typical number > of httpd dam

Re: cvsup done, now what]

2002-11-05 Thread David Cramblett
You need to build and install the source. There is a really good doc on this in the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html It is not to tough, good luck. David Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings. I downloaded the ISO image for 4.7-release and burned it

Re: FreeBSD filesystem 1TB Limit

2002-11-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Joseph Gleason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > IIRC There was a 1TB limit on the size of any filesystem (or actually of any > block device) in FreeBSD based the kernel internaly using a 512 byte block > size and having a max of 2^31 blocks. (512*2^31 = 2^40 = 1TB) > > Do I remember correctly? Cl

cvsup done, now what

2002-11-05 Thread Darryl Hoar
Greetings. I downloaded the ISO image for 4.7-release and burned it to a cd. I installed this on a server of mine. I then copied /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile to /etc. Edited stable-supfile to my desires. then I cvsup /etc/stable-supfile this completed. What do I need to do next to

Map a network interface to another name.

2002-11-05 Thread Abel Alejandro
I have a program that is hardcoding the interface name to ed0. But I don't have access to the source code or can modify the binary to look at another interface. So my question is, can I make my rl0 or xl0 interface to get the name of ed0 or do some kind of alias? Please CC, I am not subscribed.

Re: Phoenix does nothing

2002-11-05 Thread Adam Weinberger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> (11.05.2002 @ 0509 PST): Richard Tobin said, in 0.4K: << > > What version of perl are you using? Install perl5.8, rebuild phoenix, > > and it'll likely work. Hopefully. > > The reason that I installed it now is that the requirement for a > particul

Re: Junior hacker assignment :o

2002-11-05 Thread Fernando Gleiser
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, DaleCo Help Desk wrote: > > With a second look, you say "(configurable)" so > I guess the -r switch isn't enough. > > I suppose you want to read the code in > /usr/src/sbin/shutdown/shutdown.c Nope. This is the code to the shutdown command, which tells the kernel to shut down.

Re: Junior hacker assignment :o

2002-11-05 Thread Mike Hogsett
Look in /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c static void shutdown_halt(void *junk, int howto) { ... } Looks interesting. - Mike > Hi, > > --- Mike Hogsett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well whatever function the kernel is in while it > > loops, polling the > > keyboard asking "press any key t

Re: Novice question about testing sound cards

2002-11-05 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, you wrote: >Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: OK, I'm willing to give that a try, but what device should I can the .au file to? Do I cat to /dev/dsp0 ? >>> >>>Yes, give it a try. >> >> >> I tried it, and nothing happened. No sound came out. >> >> I cat'd the

Re: Junior hacker assignment :o

2002-11-05 Thread Carlos Carnero
Hi, --- Mike Hogsett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well whatever function the kernel is in while it > loops, polling the > keyboard asking "press any key to reboot" could have > additional logic for > a countdown timer to reboot. Great! > How and where to do this? I don't know. Not so great ;)

Re: Junior hacker assignment :o

2002-11-05 Thread Carlos Carnero
Hi, > Is that 'check init' or 'hack init'? Um... at this moment make that 'check'. Hopefully I can change it to 'hack' in the future :) > > I might just alter shutdown so it took an > additional argument to -r along the lines > of shutdown -r [when-die] [when-resurrect] >

Re: Junior hacker assignment :o

2002-11-05 Thread Mike Hogsett
> - Original Message - > From: "Carlos Carnero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "DaleCo Help Desk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "FreeBSD Questions" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 2:07 PM > Subject: Re: Junior hacker assignment :o > > > > Hello, > > > > --- DaleCo Help Desk <[

Re: Junior hacker assignment :o

2002-11-05 Thread DaleCo Help Desk
- Original Message - From: "Carlos Carnero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "DaleCo Help Desk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "FreeBSD Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 2:07 PM Subject: Re: Junior hacker assignment :o > Hello, > > --- DaleCo Help Desk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

vinum: recovering from hd read errors

2002-11-05 Thread Frank Tobin
Note: This post is a long shot at trying to see if anyone else has encountered a similar issue, and see if there are any tricks/traps that I should avoid. It takes a while to get to the actual question, but a lot of preparatory info is needed. On a legacy FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT, from about Aug 26 19

RE: Kernal Panics

2002-11-05 Thread Neil Doody
Hi, this method you speak of here. Would it be possible to perform these tasks in multiuser mode, i.e. via ssh ? As I have no console to this server. -Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:jerrymc@;clunix.cl.msu.edu] Sent: 05 November 2002 19:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMA

Any way to recover files after they have been deleted?

2002-11-05 Thread David Cramblett
While cleaning up my home directory Imistakenly deleted some files. Is there any way to get them back? I shut down my system and remounted the drive read-only. I tried running fsdb but am having trouble figuring out how to locate the inodes with the data I deleted. Any help would be apprec

make install for apsfilter-7.2.3 fails

2002-11-05 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello, Trying to install apsfilter-7.2.3, which fails. I've included the tail of the build here in the hope that it is of some use to those that maintain / know more about this port. Here is the uname info: # uname -a FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #0: Sat Oct 12 10:04:03 BST 2002

Re: Junior hacker assignment :o

2002-11-05 Thread Carlos Carnero
Hello, --- DaleCo Help Desk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I suppose you want to read the code in > /usr/src/sbin/shutdown/shutdown.c in the (appropiately named? :) function die_you_gravy_sucking_pig_dog() rebooting means sending init a INT signal... I'll heck init (and that's kernel turf right?)

Re: Junior hacker assignment :o

2002-11-05 Thread Carlos Carnero
Hi, --- Stephen Hovey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Um - its already in there - man shutdown This is from an earlier message: Hi, --- DaleCo Help Desk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And this is a need that "shutdown -r" doesn't > address? >From an earlier message: --- Steve Tremblett wrote: > D

Re: Junior hacker assignment :o

2002-11-05 Thread Carlos Carnero
Hi, --- DaleCo Help Desk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And this is a need that "shutdown -r" doesn't > address? >From an earlier message: --- Steve Tremblett wrote: > Does "shutdown -r now" reboot the machine without > APM? yes it does. And it can set for a specific time if I use something other

Re: Junior hacker assignment :o

2002-11-05 Thread DaleCo Help Desk
- Original Message - From: "Carlos Carnero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 1:20 PM Subject: Junior hacker assignment :o > Hello, > > I'd like to make my own modification to FreeBSD, but I > really don't know where to star

Re: Junior hacker assignment :o

2002-11-05 Thread DaleCo Help Desk
- Original Message - From: "Carlos Carnero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 1:20 PM Subject: Junior hacker assignment :o > Hello, > > I'd like to make my own modification to FreeBSD, but I > really don't know where to sta

Re: NFS Performance woes

2002-11-05 Thread BigBrother
>> According to my experience UDP is much preffered for NFS transport >> protocols. Also try to have the NFSIOD daemon being executed on every >> machine by putting in the /etc/rc.conf >> >> nfs_client_enable="YES" >> nfs_client_flags="-n 10" >> >> >> [u may put more than 10 instances if u suspec

Re: Kernal Panics

2002-11-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hi, ive been getting kernel panics, number 12's for some time, ive had > the whole load of hardware changed, the only thing that is the same now > is the hard disk drive. > > We thought this had cured the problem, but I had one the other day. > Okay, I thought this was a one off, but I just h

Re: Junior hacker assignment :o

2002-11-05 Thread Carlos Carnero
Hi, > Does "shutdown -r now" reboot the machine without > APM? yes it does. And it can set for a specific time if I use something other than now :) But I need it for other purposes. Let me see if I can explain this. I'm using a real dumb UPS, which can signal FreeBSD that not only the AC's gone

Shared object "libkrb.so.3" not found

2002-11-05 Thread Dmitry_S
Hi All! can anyone help me? my system doesn't have a libkrb.so library, how do i install it? when i run GNOME, it writes: /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libkrb.so.3" not found Thanx! -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body

Re: Junior hacker assignment :o

2002-11-05 Thread Stephen Hovey
> Hello, > > I'd like to make my own modification to FreeBSD, but I > really don't know where to start. This is what I want > to do: > > After doing a shutdown (no APM nor ACPI) FreeBSD tells > me that the system is ready to be powered down. I'd > like to add a (configurable) timeout to this fina

Re: Junior hacker assignment :o

2002-11-05 Thread Steve Tremblett
+ Carlos Carnero wrote: | Hello, | | I'd like to make my own modification to FreeBSD, but I | really don't know where to start. This is what I want | to do: | | After doing a shutdown (no APM nor ACPI) FreeBSD tells | me that the system is ready to be powered down. I'd | like to add a (config

Junior hacker assignment :o

2002-11-05 Thread Carlos Carnero
Hello, I'd like to make my own modification to FreeBSD, but I really don't know where to start. This is what I want to do: After doing a shutdown (no APM nor ACPI) FreeBSD tells me that the system is ready to be powered down. I'd like to add a (configurable) timeout to this final system notice th

Re: network config or apache config or neither?

2002-11-05 Thread Mike Hogsett
Hmm. Looks to me that they need to change: www.hamanndonald.com10800 INCNAME stimpy to www.hamanndonald.com10800 INCNAME stimpy.hamanndonald.com or to www.hamanndonald.com10800 INA 198.88.146.57 > $ host -all hamanndonald.com > rcode = 0 (Succ

Re: mounting smbfs at boot time

2002-11-05 Thread Rotaru Razvan
Hello, well when I said ~/.nsmbrc i meant also /root/.nsmbrc. Still i doesn't work for me, but then again my method with the daemon-like startup script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d is unusual. /usr/local/etc/nsmb.conf doesn't even work work even with a normal mount_smbfs command with -N. Can you tell m

network config or apache config or neither?

2002-11-05 Thread Jeff D. Hamann
I've got a freebsd 4.4. machine (which rocks!) that acts as my server behind a router to handle web servering, email, etc and have had almost zero problems with the setup. When I attempt to set a browser from outside my lan (say from a college campus nearby) I cannot get to my domain (www.hamanndo

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