I just installed FreeBSD 4.7 and need some guidance ,examples, on
tracking the 4.7 stable release. This is a production server so i just
want to find out how to get it up2date with security patches etc... for
the stable 4.7 release. The cvs commands in the faq are confusing so i
would apprecia
Hi,
Thanks for the earlier advice; I installed 5.8.0 neatly next to my 5.5003
version. :)
So, now I wonder, how do I tell a new package to install under 5.8.0, and
not the old dirs? Would I be using,
/usr/local/bin/perl Makefile.pl
Instead of,
/usr/bin/perl Makefile.pl ?
Would that su
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I saw an article that explained how CDRW disks were constucted and how to
both write to, and erase them so they could act as useful data backup disks.
Bit can I find it? Can I - (insert expletive to taste)!
(I made extensive use of google and the search facility at
Are we aiming at the wrong target, here?
I used the fixit CD to examine ad0s3, where my missing files reside.
What I found was that (eg) /bin, /etc, /dev were full of files/directories, but
/var and /usr were empty. I didn't ask dump/restore to delete anything, and did
not ask rm to remove the fi
Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Darren Pilgrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
There are two sets of commands you can use to build a kernel in FreeBSD:
"Procedure 1" is the old way: config, make depend, make, make
install. "Procedure 2" is the make kernel sequence from makeworld.
Section 9.3 of the Handbook
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 21:19:02 +0100, "Chris Delnooz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
> Hi all,
>
> i'm experiencing problems with the installation of the GRUB bootloader. I
> have
> installed the port (grub version 0.92) and created the /boot/grub
> directory
> with the files from /usr/local/share/grub/
Hello,
I would like to know to which mailing list I could find answers or post
questions about locale support on freeBSD.
thanks,
Alexandros
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Dear freeBSD gurus,
I have an asus pr-dlsw motherboard (dual xeon p4, agp pro 50, lsi 1030
u320 scsi on board), and I have a seagate 15.3k rpm hard drive that
supports u320, a geforce4 ti4400 -128mb video card, and the dreaded SB
Live.
When I start my installation of bsd it tells me it can't find
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 09:04:28AM -0800, Casey Scott wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using Konsole from KDE to establish an ssh connection to my fbsd system
> I have not found anyway to allow me to use the delete key as a typical delete
> key. In /etc/ttys , it does not look like I can change the t
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 05:20:53PM -0500, Stephen D. Kingrea wrote:
> tcpdump tells me that incoming smtp requests are generating these
> messages at the same time as recieving mail. i am pretty sure that
> either sendmail or ipfw rules is the cause...
>
> any good tutorials out there on interpret
Darren Pilgrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There are two sets of commands you can use to build a kernel in FreeBSD:
>
> "Procedure 1" is the old way: config, make depend, make, make
> install. "Procedure 2" is the make kernel sequence from makeworld.
>
> Section 9.3 of the Handbook says I shou
There are two sets of commands you can use to build a kernel in FreeBSD:
"Procedure 1" is the old way: config, make depend, make, make install.
"Procedure 2" is the make kernel sequence from makeworld.
Section 9.3 of the Handbook says I should use procedure 1 if I haven't
updated my source tree
Dear/Beste Rick,
Sunday, February 2, 2003, 2:57:32 AM, you wrote:
>> I'm looking for a analog modem. I didn't see any in the hardware lists.
>> Can you please tell me which ones will work on FreeBSD?
> 99% of all modems are analog. There are some digital modems, but
> they're rare. But
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Jason Hunt wrote:
> OT, but my understanding is that Windows XP Home Edition will not log
> in to NT4-based (SMB-only) networks, but only Windows 2000 (Active
> Directory) networks. However, Windows XP Professional will log in to
> both.
In my experience, XP Home is completel
> I'm looking for a analog modem. I didn't see any in the hardware lists.
> Can you please tell me which ones will work on FreeBSD?
99% of all modems are analog. There are some digital modems, but
they're rare. But you need to be careful, because DSL routers are
sometimes mislabeled as Mo
Ok, nevermind. That's working ok now.
Now, on to the next bit of fun. Fetchmail is being dog slow. Yet it's
being silent and won't tell me why.
Any suggestions?
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Doug> I've bought a handfull of cheap Microsoft Natural Keyboards from
Doug> a reseller, but they turned out to be USB only keyboards.
Mike> Change your keyboard type in your XF86Config file from pc101 (or
Mike> whatever it is set to currently) to something higher, and try
Mike> xev again.
Mike>
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XP Home will not 'log into' ANY server-based network (NT4 domain model OR
Active Directory). However, this does not mean you can't access samba
shares on other machines. ie. it supports workgroup networking but not
domain networking. Login to the local XP Home box, browse on the network to
find
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Sergey Niunco wrote:
> Device scbus was and is in my kernel config. A few days ago I compiled
> it without a problem.
>
Did you CVSUP since the lat time you compiled? If so, you might have done
it during a commit, so something got broken. Every now and then (maybe
two or thr
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Bill Moran wrote:
> There's an XP machine right behind me that talks to our Samba server just
> fine. Just don't configure Samba to be a domain server.
>
> And, it does work just fine under domain systems as well. Samba just doesn't
> do active directory yet.
>
OT, but my u
On Feb 2, 2003, 00:20 (+0100) Mats Dufberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> FreeBSD version: 5.0
>
> I try to connect a Fujitsu Memorybird, a USB mass storage device, to my
> computer. When I connect it to the USB bus I get the follwing message:
>
> umass0: Fujitsu Memorybird, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 3
FreeBSD version: 5.0
I try to connect a Fujitsu Memorybird, a USB mass storage device, to my
computer. When I connect it to the USB bus I get the follwing message:
umass0: Fujitsu Memorybird, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 3
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 d
Hi all. Trying to install fetchmail but it keeps saying that it can't
find intl.4 so it tries to install gettext and that complains that it can't
find expat.4 and then fails out.
I tried going to the fetchmail homepage but that's apparently moved and
the guy who's providing the homepage for
Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have created a file swap0 in /usr/local/swapfiles
>
> I then ran
>
> vnconfig -e /dev/vn0b /usr/local/swapfiles/swap0 swap
Didn't you mean vn0c?
> When I look at the output from swapinfo
>
> It shows
>
> Device 1K-blocks UsedAv
Burn a bootable ISO image to a blank CDR.
Iso images are on the ftp site.That does involve a cost to the project for
bandwidth, so consider downloading the mini install iso and then pull
anything else you need only as you need it.
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.
Hi All,
I am now blind looking for the answers...
How does one upgrade perl (FreeBSD 4.4) from one version (5.00503) to a new
version (5.8.0) without loosing all the currently installed modules? (I have
lots).
-Grant
Grant W. Peel
Server Admin
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Hi again all,
I am having reverse DNS issues so I am posting from another server.
I am astounded at the bandwidth created by my little oops. Something that
does make some sence to me is the . and .. directories. that had never
occured to me. Anyways, the commands I used are quite fresh in my mind
tcpdump tells me that incoming smtp requests are generating these
messages at the same time as recieving mail. i am pretty sure that
either sendmail or ipfw rules is the cause...
any good tutorials out there on interpreting tcpdump output?
stephen
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Juris Krumins wrote:
>Coul
Stephen Hovey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This has been an open question - I dont believe IDE's do much of their own
> bad block marking -
The manufacturers claim otherwise; do you know something the rest of
us don't?
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On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Alex wrote:
> I'm looking for a analog modem. I didn't see any in the hardware lists.
> Can you please tell me which ones will work on FreeBSD?
Virtually all external modems which connect to the COM1/COM2 serial port
work perfectly fine.
Dw.
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This has been an open question - I dont believe IDE's do much of their own
bad block marking -
there used to be a utility called bad144 - though I dont know that it did
much - I know SCO has a utility.
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Marc Schneiders wrote:
> On 31 Jan 2003, at 19:43 [=GMT-0500], Lowell Gi
Dear freebsd-questions,
I'm looking for a analog modem. I didn't see any in the hardware lists.
Can you please tell me which ones will work on FreeBSD?
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Alex
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oh wait, thought you were swedish. I meant that I looked at that. You have
to log in to the filesystem with a name that works before it will let yo on.
notice how I can create the file, but canat append to it.
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Sent: Thursday, January
* Douglas K. Rand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I've bought a handfull of cheap Microsoft Natural Keyboards from a
> reseller, but they turned out to be USB only keyboards.
>
> I've got the keyboards working with FreeBSD & XFree86 just fine, with
> the exception of the extra "hot keys". They hot ke
I've bought a handfull of cheap Microsoft Natural Keyboards from a
reseller, but they turned out to be USB only keyboards.
I've got the keyboards working with FreeBSD & XFree86 just fine, with
the exception of the extra "hot keys". They hot keys don't seem to
make any X events at all. When I launc
Got through it using
make install FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=yes OVERWRITE_DB=yes SKIP_DNS_CHECK=yes
But now I get "bind on unix socket: permission denied"
I did a chown -R on the var/db/mysql and everything under it but still
the same error...
Hints?
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I am going blind again.
What is the easiest way to make a bootable FreeBSD 4.7 RELEASE CD-ROM?
-Grant
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Ahh okay, I understand that. Someone once told me the information is
already downloaded in a list, so the server doesn't have to contact
root all the time to get ns information. Is this not true anymore?
bind9 has the root-servers "hints zone" in its binary, but will use an
external hints zone
all is well now. your advice rules.
thank you!
stephen
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>On 2003-01-31 16:44, "Stephen D. Kingrea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> using 4.7 on a gateway designated machine (ipfw/natd) serving 3
>> wstations.
>>
>> www#tcpdump -i dc0 ###in fact, any i
> Seven soles lost in the disaster.
14 soles, seven souls.
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On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:54:55 -0500, Matthew Emmerton wrote:
>> I remember seeing this posted about a year ago, but I couldn't google
>> it
>>
>> one my business server, I run Verizon DSL and PPPoE. I setup it up
>> like with the example they used on Freebsddairy.
>>
>> the problem I ran into,
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>
>aSe wrote:
>
>> When a person does a dns lookup to the server and its not already cached,
>> how does It find out the correct name server to use to find the ip?
>
>FreeBSD comes with a list of "root" DNS servers. These are master servers
>maintain
When a person does a dns lookup to the server and its not already cached,
how does It find out the correct name server to use to find the ip?
The DNS navigates the DNS namespace until it finds a positive or negative
answer, or the until DNS's that should have the answer fail to respond.
Len
I have a Sony VAIO GRX-570 running 5.0-RELEASE. Like many others I do
not have a mouse either and I have no idea how to get it back. I did
anticipate this so when I had 4.7 I documented this:
Psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0
Psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
I doubt that helps but can anyone gi
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aSe wrote:
When a person does a dns lookup to the server and its not already cached,
> how does It find out the correct name server to use to find the ip?
FreeBSD comes with a list of "root" DNS servers. These are master servers
maintained by man
Hi All
Kinda stuck bad on this one and need some pointers. While reinstalling
MySQL I get
===> Extracting for mysql-server-3.23.54
>> Checksum OK for mysql-3.23.54.tar.gz.
===> mysql-server-3.23.54 depends on executable: libtool - found
===> mysql-server-3.23.54 depends on file: /usr/local/
I've got a dns running on a freebsd computer at my company. I'm new to the concept of
DNS and how it all works.
My question is:
When a person does a dns lookup to the server and its not already cached, how does It
find out the correct name server to use to find the ip?
Thanks!
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Hi all,
i'm experiencing problems with the installation of the GRUB bootloader. I have
installed the port (grub version 0.92) and created the /boot/grub directory
with the files from /usr/local/share/grub/i381-freebsd. Next I created a
menu.lst file in /boot/grub and thought to install GRUB in
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Hello,
I would like to know if the upcoming AMD Opteron 64bit CPU is supported
on FreeBSD ?
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Can Spamassassin work directly with Postfix?
yes, as a "content-filter", see the Spamassassin site, see the postfix site.
Len
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Thank you for the info, I received some additional help off the list as
well :)
Before changing anything, I decided to make a disk image for mounting
Read-Only when I have the time to investigate it more thoroughly.
So far it seems to be working properly.
Thank you again to those who helped :)
Hi,
Okay well I sorted out part of it anyways.
The package /usr/ports/mod_jk/ that is in the FreeBSD 4.7 is not
compatible with Apache 2.0. --well, or maybe it is, but it will not
compile without some of the src files from the apache1.3 distribution,
specifically,
util_date.h
and possibly
Can Spamassassin work directly with Postfix?
Meaning no procmail in the mix?
IF so is there any HOWTO's on it?
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On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 10:42:47AM -0500, Michael Walsh wrote:
> I just installed FreeBSD 4.7 on my HP OmniBook 4150 laptop and
> everything runs well. I have an external modem that I connect to the
> COM1 port (/dev/cuaa0) and I'm able to phone to my ISP without a
> problem.
>
> This laptop came
At 2003-02-01T16:22:11Z, "Justin P. Michel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there anyone that has a simple set-up guide for Spam Assassin? I've
> installed it from the ports, but have no idea where to go next. Checking
> the web has only brought me documents which further confuse me.
I publish
On 2003-02-01 20:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Quoting Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > I've been quietly following this thread since it started and ...
> > I can't reproduce this behaviour. I've created and deleted I
> > don't know how many test directories and symlinks and I can't get
> > it
Hi,
I am using Konsole from KDE to establish an ssh connection to my fbsd system
I have not found anyway to allow me to use the delete key as a typical delete
key. In /etc/ttys , it does not look like I can change the terminal type, so
it must be done automatically. In konsole I can use
Greetings
I can't seem to install FreeBSD 5.0 Release on some old but
functioning i386 hardware. The problem occurs just after
creating the emergency holographic shell on vt4, and the error
message says: Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist: Operation
not supported by device (19).
I've installed Fre
Hi,
Okay, after many hours I have tomcat installed and I can connect to it's
webserver. Unfortunately, I want to connect to to Apache and have it hand
off the requests to tomcat.
Here's the background and the most current glitches...
FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE
Jakarta-Tomcat 4.1.12
Apache 2.0.43
jdk1.2.
Greetings,
Is there anyone that has a simple set-up guide for Spam Assassin? I've
installed it from the ports, but have no idea where to go next. Checking
the web has only brought me documents which further confuse me.
Regards,
Justin P. Michel
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John Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> out of circulation. 'apropos badblocks' and 'man fsck' failed to suggest
> such a function in fBSD, but it might be worth more looking.
badsect(8)
> > Why is it radical? After all, IDE disks already do bad-block
> > remapping internally, so you've built
Marc Schneiders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Your advise sounds perfectly sound for IBM and Microsoft and the
> Pentagon. But for a home or small office situation, there might be
> another way to deal with it?
>
> Especially since we are not talking about something 10 years old or
> heavily used
configure of avifile says:
configure: warning:
*** Could not find usable Qt (headers and libraries) on your system!
*** If it _is_ installed, delete ./config.cache and re-run ./configure,
*** specifying path to Qt headers and libraries in configure options.
*** Switching off Qt compilation!
The
Seven soles lost in the disaster.
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I just installed FreeBSD 4.7 on my HP OmniBook 4150 laptop and
everything runs well. I have an external modem that I connect to the
COM1 port (/dev/cuaa0) and I'm able to phone to my ISP without a
problem.
This laptop came with a pc-card modem that I'd like to get working, so
that I don't have to
I'm really new to UNIX. Please be gentle with me. I've chosen to run
BIND 9.2.2rc1 as advised by someone on the BIND mailing list. I can only
hope that I installed it properly.
It required OpenSSL 0.9e or higher which I was able to get to install
with "make; make install". Then I continued with an
Hi,
The distfile for ports/multimedia/avifile is not available on the sites listed
by the ports tree.
It is still available on the web. Try
http://www.filesearching.com/
or
http://www.alltheweb.com/ (and use ftp files mode)
HTH,
BP
__
Do yo
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 11:45:50AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:40:32PM -0500, stan wrote:
> >
> > I've got a laptop that I originaly partioned inot a windoze, and FreeBSD
> > partiton. I'm going to upgrade this unit this weekend, and I wnat to
> > concatenate the 2 pa
Device scbus was and is in my kernel config. A few days ago I compiled it without a
problem.
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 13:18:27 +
Danny Pansters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 12:40:55 +0100
> Sergey Niunco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to compile a new kernel on my
Hi guys!
Has anyone installed crossoveroffice on FreeBSD. I´ve get the problem needing
glibc > 2.1. When i do a search in the prots i only find a japanese glibc.
Any ideas how to solve the problem?
Thanks ...
Alex Huth
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On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:40:32PM -0500, stan wrote:
>
> I've got a laptop that I originaly partioned inot a windoze, and FreeBSD
> partiton. I'm going to upgrade this unit this weekend, and I wnat to
> concatenate the 2 partions. Is there a way to do this? (Yes, it's the m$
> parition I'm nuking
I'm trying to compile a new kernel on my 4.7-STABLE. This is what I get:
/usr/src/sys/modules/umass/../../dev/usb/umass.c:380: syntax error before `{'
/usr/src/sys/modules/umass/../../dev/usb/umass.c:383: warning: no semicolon at e
nd of struct or union
/usr/src/sys/modules/umass/../../dev/usb/uma
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:00:06PM -0800, joe mcguckin wrote:
> What happened to the example config files that used to live
> In /usr/share/examples/cvsup ?
Errr... I hope you mean 4.7-RELEASE --- I don't think there was ever a
2.7 release, although there was a 2.2.7 one upon a time.
As I remembe
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 07:55:24PM -0600, Joey Teel wrote:
> A few days ago I started getting errors in my syslog saying that
> sendmail couldn't write to the mail directories, on inspection of the
> permissions, I discovered that all the mail directories had been changed
> to be owned by my perso
I just installed the "apache+ssl-1.3.27.1.48_1.tgz" package on my 4.7
box and the damn thing wont start...has this error message.
# httpsdctl start
/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libssl.so.2" not found
/usr/local/sbin/httpsdctl start: httpsd could not be started
find / -name libssl.so
I just installed the "apache+ssl-1.3.27.1.48_1.tgz" package on my 4.7
box and the damn thing wont start...has this error message.
# httpsdctl start
/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libssl.so.2" not found
/usr/local/sbin/httpsdctl start: httpsd could not be started
find / -name libssl.so
Quoting Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I've been quietly following this thread since it started and ...
> I can't reproduce this behaviour. I've created and deleted I don't
> know how many test directories and symlinks and I can't get it to
> do what you're claiming it did.
As root, try copyi
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:45:17PM -0500, Jamie wrote:
> It required OpenSSL 0.9e or higher which I was able to get to install
> with "make; make install". Then I continued with another attempt at
> BIND. I finally finished with the installation but now I can't seem to
> find a way to confirm that
> Greetings.
>
> Basically, I have this group of users, that I give SSH/SFTP access,
> but I
> don't want them to be able to see the complete file hierarchy and ``cd''
> to
> them. I just want a user to be able to access the user's home, and that's
> it.
>
> I looked up some docs on th
When I was installing 5.0 Release, the installer hung when
it was detecting my SanDisk card reader. I unpluged it
and restarted the installation, and everything worked
fine. Now when I try to run /stand/sysinstall it core
dumps when I have my card reader plugged in.
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