Re: What program let you finish typing a file name when you hit ESC.

2003-07-07 Thread rcooley
Heh... The version of PDKSH in the FreeBSD ports does that. I found it rather annoying that (for some reason) tab completion didn't work, but ESC completion did. To set the options for PDKSH, or most any other shell, look at the output of "set -o". DanB wrote: What program let you finish typ

Re: Can't install/upgrade/remove ports

2003-07-07 Thread Bjarne Wichmann Petersen
On Tuesday 08 July 2003 00:15, Dragoncrest wrote: > Just recently ran into an issue upgrading, removing, or installing > ports. For some strange reason when I compile the port, it's fine, but > as soon as the "make install" or any installing command runs it > immediately dumps out with an error si

Re: problem upgrading from 5.0 to 5.1

2003-07-07 Thread Serge Yaroshenko
Hi! Paul Chvostek wrote: On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 01:38:59PM -0500, Michael L. Squires wrote: I've got a box on which 5.0-RELEASE was installed. I updated the source tree using cvsup to RELENG_5_1 and tried to recompile, and now every RELENG_5_1 is compiling for me (as of 7/4). Oka

Re: What program let you finish typing a file name when you hit ESC.

2003-07-07 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 08), parv said: > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote DanB thusly... > > > > What program let you finish typing a file name when you hit ESC? > > A shell. At least bash2 & ksh93 can, depending upon configuration. Most newer shells use TAB instead of ESC, because ESC al

gated-pub.tar.gz Is this a port you can install with pkg_add?

2003-07-07 Thread DanB
gated-pub.tar.gz Is this a port you can install with pkg_add? It not what do you use? Dan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Can't install/upgrade/remove ports

2003-07-07 Thread Serge Yaroshenko
Hi! You want upgrade installed ports ? If yes then install /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade and read man pages for portsdb, pkgdb, portversion and portupgrade. This utils check what ports version in /usr/ports (portsdb) and what ports installed in your System (pkgdb). portversion - list all ports;

Change terminals

2003-07-07 Thread Marvin J. Kosmal
Question When you ssh into your work machine from home How or can you change the terminal you are on.. example below Last login: Mon Jul 7 22:23:50 2003 from clark.lab [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ w 22:31:55 up 4 days, 8:42, 7 users, load average: 1.16, 1.03, 1.01 USER TTY FROM

Re: What program let you finish typing a file name when you hit ESC.

2003-07-07 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote DanB thusly... > > What program let you finish typing a file name when you hit ESC? A shell. At least bash2 & ksh93 can, depending upon configuration. - Parv -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.

What program let you finish typing a file name when you hit ESC.

2003-07-07 Thread DanB
What program let you finish typing a file name when you hit ESC? Dan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: help - it hangs hard

2003-07-07 Thread Ron Riese
Lowell, Per my earlier episle. When the FD is removed from activation the result is the same. FWIW there are only 2 invaguaries. These relate to the VIATech (1106) power Management Controller (3040) and the Createive Technology (1274) Ensoniq ESB71 (1371). After the: uhub0: 2 ports with 2 remova

Re: How to restart my network without reboot?

2003-07-07 Thread Steven Wiltshire
Hi Rob, I suggest using ifconfig to modify the netmask. Try this: "ifconfig device inet ip.address.here netmask netmask.goes.here broadcast your.broadcast.address.here" For example, "ifconfig fxp0 inet 10.0.0.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255" - this should tide you over until the

Re: USB mouse/keyboard causes kernel panic during boot sequence

2003-07-07 Thread Michael E. Mercer
Alrighty then, Ok, after following FAQ 18.13 on the freebsd web site, I've been struggling for the last 4 hours trying to get this thing to dump core but it just won't! I added ad2s1b to the dumpdev in rc.conf and also read about kernel init problems need to have dumpdev added to the loader. So I

Re: spamassassin slow to process messages

2003-07-07 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 08), Daniel Bye said: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:57:14AM +1000, Andrew Thomson wrote: > > we're back in business... > > > > Jul 8 09:50:11 athomson spamd[52899]: clean message (0.4/5.0) for ajt:1001 in > > 10.2 seconds, 3044 bytes. > > Jul 8 09:50:28 athomson spamd[5

Re: netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 205.238.xx.7

2003-07-07 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 8 July 2003 at 2:55:34 +, DanB wrote: > inet 205.238.xx.1 netmask 0xfff8 broadcast 205.238.xx.7. Need a > netmask convertor to change 0xfffc to 255.255.xxx.xxx. Anybody > know of a good one? Aaah. The other answers explained the question, which wasn't immediately obv

Re: netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 205.238.xx.7

2003-07-07 Thread Marvin J. Kosmal
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 19:55, DanB wrote: > inet 205.238.xx.1 netmask 0xfff8 broadcast 205.238.xx.7. Need a > netmask convertor to change 0xfffc to 255.255.xxx.xxx. Anybody > know of a good one? me ffhex = 255 decimal fchex = 252 so looks like 255.255.255.252 > > Dan > >

Re: How to restart my network without reboot?

2003-07-07 Thread Jez Hancock
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:51:20AM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: > I had to change the netmask of my ethernet card. So I modified > /etc/rc.conf. But for that to take > effect, I should reboot. Now, how can I avoid a reboot for such a small > change? To make this rc.conf setting take effect without re

Re: netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 205.238.xx.7

2003-07-07 Thread Jez Hancock
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 02:55:34AM +, DanB wrote: > inet 205.238.xx.1 netmask 0xfff8 broadcast 205.238.xx.7. Need a > netmask convertor to change 0xfffc to 255.255.xxx.xxx. Anybody > know of a good one? Google for 'network calculator'. This was the first result I found: http://www.

netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 205.238.xx.7

2003-07-07 Thread DanB
inet 205.238.xx.1 netmask 0xfff8 broadcast 205.238.xx.7. Need a netmask convertor to change 0xfffc to 255.255.xxx.xxx. Anybody know of a good one? Dan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: tmda problems - anyone using it?

2003-07-07 Thread David Banning
> It's been working just fine for at least the past 6 months. > > I remember I had to activate the bit-bucket alias to avoid some mail > loops. I also made some changes so that I could use '-' instead of '+' > in addresses. Other than that, I think I just followed the docs and it > all worked

How to restart my network without reboot?

2003-07-07 Thread Rob Lahaye
Hi, I had to change the netmask of my ethernet card. So I modified /etc/rc.conf. But for that to take effect, I should reboot. Now, how can I avoid a reboot for such a small change? I had a look at the ifconfig command, to set the interface manually, but I was completely lost by the amount of

Re: Startup scripts not running on 4.8

2003-07-07 Thread Andy Farkas
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Brent Wiese wrote: > The box is in a remote datacenter so I'm unable to look at the console right > now. Message log and dmesg are giving no clues as to whats happening. To find out what gets written to the console, enable this in /etc/syslog.conf: # uncomment this to log all

Re: Can't install/upgrade/remove ports

2003-07-07 Thread Dragoncrest
Ok, I have a little bit more information on this problem. Tried installing a new port, one that hasn't been installed before. Make worked fine. But as soon as I do "make install" it fails out exactly the same way each time. Is there something I can do to fix this? I've even rebuilt

Re: Winmodem ltmdm dirver what device to use?

2003-07-07 Thread stan
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 07:55:22AM +, Sergey DoubleF Zaharchenko wrote: > stan wrote: > >I've been working on setting up an new laptop as a background task for a > >couple of months now. > > > >All of a sudden today, I find I have to go out of town early in the > >morning. > > > >I've installe

Hello

2003-07-07 Thread Rocael Gallo
I am newbie with FreeBsd, I have one applicattion that needs to open the seria port /dev//ttyd1, but it cannot do that, I think this is because the sio driver tries to open teh cuaa? device, My question is why can I disable the dialout device for my COM2 ports? Thanks in advance...___

Re: strange messages in /var/log and all logins refused ...

2003-07-07 Thread twig les
I did a mount -a, then a fsck -y, then manually changed the passwords back to what they were and the machine seems ok. df -h shows both disks working fine and I can access the root and all partitions. I hope this was just some stupid disk problem that is *not* the harbinger of another disk death.

Startup scripts not running on 4.8

2003-07-07 Thread Brent Wiese
I have never had this issue before in all the years I've ran freebsd. I have a relatively new install of 4.8 (my only 4.8 box). When I reboot the box, none of the scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d are being run, nor are the things in /etc/rc.local. I've checked the /etc/defaults/rc.conf and see tha

Re: Can't install/upgrade/remove ports

2003-07-07 Thread Dragoncrest
> did you /var/db/pkg/ entry ? I don't understand what you mean. I've looked in there, even tinkered in there a bit to try to trick the ports to install/upgrade but to no luck. Someone at work mentioned about rebuilding the pkgdb, but I'm not sure how to do that. __

Re: spamassassin slow to process messages

2003-07-07 Thread Daniel Bye
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:57:14AM +1000, Andrew Thomson wrote: > we're back in business... > > Jul 8 09:50:11 athomson spamd[52899]: clean message (0.4/5.0) for > ajt:1001 in 10.2 seconds, 3044 bytes. > Jul 8 09:50:28 athomson spamd[52912]: clean message (0.4/5.0) for > ajt:1001 in 10.3 second

Re: spamassassin slow to process messages

2003-07-07 Thread Andrew Thomson
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 09:37, Matthew Hunt wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:08:37AM +1000, Andrew Thomson wrote: > > > I've got a CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (930.32-MHz > > 686-class CPU) and I'm seeing performance like, > > > > Jul 8 08:25:11 athomson spamd[52016]: clean messag

Re: Mounting extended dos partition

2003-07-07 Thread Brian Astill
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 11:51 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 22:18, Brian Astill wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 04:08 pm, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > On Sunday 06 July 2003 10:45 pm, Brian Astill wrote: > > > > On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 05:21 am, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > > > Any ideas on how I mou

Re: spamassassin slow to process messages

2003-07-07 Thread Andrew Thomson
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 09:22, Daniel Bye wrote: > Could be mx timeouts, DNS timeouts, rbl timeouts, dcc/razor/pyzor > timeouts... > > In your global SpamAssassin config, try setting a value for timelog_path - > this will cause spamd to log what it's doing, and where it spent most time > doing it.

Re: spamassassin slow to process messages

2003-07-07 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:08:37AM +1000, Andrew Thomson wrote: > I've got a CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (930.32-MHz > 686-class CPU) and I'm seeing performance like, > > Jul 8 08:25:11 athomson spamd[52016]: clean message (0.4/5.0) for > ajt:1001 in 10.2 seconds, 2132 bytes. Wel

Re: problem upgrading from 5.0 to 5.1

2003-07-07 Thread Paul Chvostek
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 01:38:59PM -0500, Michael L. Squires wrote: > > > I've got a box on which 5.0-RELEASE was installed. I updated the source > > tree using cvsup to RELENG_5_1 and tried to recompile, and now every > > RELENG_5_1 is compiling for me (as of 7/4). Okay, but it's not for me.

Re: spamassassin slow to process messages

2003-07-07 Thread Daniel Bye
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:08:37AM +1000, Andrew Thomson wrote: > I'm looking for some suggestions as to why my spamassassin is so slow! > > Installed from ports. > > Details: > > p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-2.55 > 5.0-RELEASE-p7 > > I'm running spamd and using spamc/procmail to pass the messages to >

RE: Changed ISP now can't get to websites / traceroute

2003-07-07 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hi Edmund, On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 23:01, Edmund Craske wrote: > Argh! I'm always the last to put it down to the dreaded i word, but... > INCOMPETENCE! > Err.., okay :-) > That is all. > Ed > Found out that MS Windows actually uses ICMP for traceroute, whereas FreeBSD (et al) go with UDP. I've

spamassassin slow to process messages

2003-07-07 Thread Andrew Thomson
I'm looking for some suggestions as to why my spamassassin is so slow! Installed from ports. Details: p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-2.55 5.0-RELEASE-p7 I'm running spamd and using spamc/procmail to pass the messages to spamd. I was reading the following, http://spamassassin.rediris.es/dist/spamd/READM

Re: quotas on vnode disks

2003-07-07 Thread Clement Laforet
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 15:40:06 -0700 (PDT) Rus Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > Long story short. Is it possible to enable quota support on vnode disks as > doing a mount -o usrquota,grpquota /dev/vn0 /mnt/point just isn't working > for me It should world since quota are FS related. If

Re: strange messages in /var/log and all logins refused ...

2003-07-07 Thread Andy Farkas
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, twig les wrote: > Also, I found some strange output in /var/log/messages.0.gz on > the machine that locked up. There is an identical machine (same > hardware and config) that did *not* have any of this stuff. The > last line in the message below (the "Device not configured")

Re: Changed ISP now can't get to websites / traceroute

2003-07-07 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello, Sorry about the delay.., On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 22:03, Micheal Patterson wrote: > > 14 * border-to-141-netrack.boulder.co.coop.net (207.174.144.178) 139.951 > ms !X * > > > 15 border-to-141-netrack.boulder.co.coop.net (207.174.144.178) 136.281 > ms !X * * > > > 16 border-to-141-net

quotas on vnode disks

2003-07-07 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, Long story short. Is it possible to enable quota support on vnode disks as doing a mount -o usrquota,grpquota /dev/vn0 /mnt/point just isn't working for me Rgds Rus -- www: http://www.65535.net | Hosting - Shell Accounts MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Virtual Servers from just

Re: customer support ticket and tracking software

2003-07-07 Thread Clement Laforet
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 12:47:03 -0800 "admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > can somebody recommend customer support tracking software - giving each > support email and Phone call a case number and allowing multiple users to > track and add to the progress of a support issue. > > any ideas here? Doubl

Re: Can't install/upgrade/remove ports

2003-07-07 Thread Clement Laforet
On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 18:15:40 -0400 "Dragoncrest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just recently ran into an issue upgrading, removing, or installing > ports. For some strange reason when I compile the port, it's fine, but > as soon as the "make install" or any installing command runs it > immediately

Can't install/upgrade/remove ports

2003-07-07 Thread Dragoncrest
Just recently ran into an issue upgrading, removing, or installing ports. For some strange reason when I compile the port, it's fine, but as soon as the "make install" or any installing command runs it immediately dumps out with an error similar to this: ===> Generating temporary packing list ===

Re: FreeBSD 4.4-REL to FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE upgrade problem.

2003-07-07 Thread Dustin Puryear
At 02:58 PM 7/7/2003 -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: On July 7, 2003 02:39 pm, you wrote: > At 02:27 PM 7/7/2003 -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: > >On July 7, 2003 02:19 pm, you wrote: > >There is a blurb near the top that mentions running pwd_mkdb with > > the -p option to rebuild the master password file.

Re: Changed ISP now can't get to websites / traceroute

2003-07-07 Thread Micheal Patterson
> 14 * border-to-141-netrack.boulder.co.coop.net (207.174.144.178) 139.951 ms !X * > > 15 border-to-141-netrack.boulder.co.coop.net (207.174.144.178) 136.281 ms !X * * > > 16 border-to-141-netrack.boulder.co.coop.net (207.174.144.178) 159.470 ms !X * 137.951 ms !X > > Note here that you don

Re: Logging packets dropped by IPFW

2003-07-07 Thread Tim Kientzle
Tim Kientzle wrote: Micheal Patterson wrote: - Original Message - >> From: "Tim Kientzle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Logging packets dropped by IPFW Is there any way to generate log information about the packets dropped by IPFW? The 'log' modifier doesn't seem to do anything ... option

Re: FreeBSD 4.4-REL to FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE upgrade problem.

2003-07-07 Thread Dustin Puryear
At 02:27 PM 7/7/2003 -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: On July 7, 2003 02:19 pm, you wrote: From the man page for mergemaster: -p Pre-buildworld mode. Compares only files known to be essen- tial to the success of {build|install}world, including /etc/make.co

Re: Nwclient-6.0.2 core dumps on startup

2003-07-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 03:35:31PM -0600, Kirk Davis wrote: > Hi, > I have installed the Networker client from the ports > (/usr/ports/net/sysutils/nwclient602). The clients seems to run fine when > started up manualy as the root user. When I create a shell script in > /usr/local/etc/rc.d

Re: Changed ISP now can't get to websites / traceroute

2003-07-07 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello, On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 21:20, John Murphy wrote: > Stacey Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Well., that's the story they're feeding me now. Something to do with the > >fact that its a new range?? > > Hmm. Looking at the headers of your post you seem to have an address > in the p

Nwclient-6.0.2 core dumps on startup

2003-07-07 Thread Kirk Davis
Hi, I have installed the Networker client from the ports (/usr/ports/net/sysutils/nwclient602). The clients seems to run fine when started up manualy as the root user. When I create a shell script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d it core dumps on startup with the following error: Jul 7 15:35:00

Re: Logging packets dropped by IPFW

2003-07-07 Thread Tim Kientzle
Micheal Patterson wrote: - Original Message - From: "Tim Kientzle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Logging packets dropped by IPFW Is there any way to generate log information about the packets dropped by IPFW? The 'log' modifier doesn't seem to do anything ... options IPFIREWALL_V

Re: Logging packets dropped by IPFW

2003-07-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Tim Kientzle wrote: Is there any way to generate log information about the packets dropped by IPFW? The 'log' modifier doesn't seem to do anything on my system right now , though from what I can tell, it's supposed to only log the rule that was triggered, which isn't the same thing at all. Did you

Re: Logging packets dropped by IPFW

2003-07-07 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: "Tim Kientzle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 4:22 PM Subject: Logging packets dropped by IPFW > Is there any way to generate log information > about the packets dropped by IPFW? The 'log' > modifier doesn't seem to do

Re: customer support ticket and tracking software

2003-07-07 Thread Daniel Bye
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:47:03PM -0800, admin wrote: > can somebody recommend customer support tracking software - giving each > support email and Phone call a case number and allowing multiple users to > track and add to the progress of a support issue. > > any ideas here? We use OTRS, which i

Re: FreeBSD 4.4-REL to FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE upgrade problem.

2003-07-07 Thread Dustin Puryear
At 01:59 PM 7/7/2003 -0700, Freddie Cash wrote: > (/usr/src/Makefile comments) > 1. cd /usr/src > 2. make buildworld > 3. make buildkernel > 4. make installkernel > 5. reboot > 6. mergemaster -p There's your problem. You should run "mergemaster -p" as step 2. The -p means "Pre-buildworld". This w

Logging packets dropped by IPFW

2003-07-07 Thread Tim Kientzle
Is there any way to generate log information about the packets dropped by IPFW? The 'log' modifier doesn't seem to do anything on my system right now , though from what I can tell, it's supposed to only log the rule that was triggered, which isn't the same thing at all. In particular, I'd like to

Re: FreeBSD 4.4-REL to FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE upgrade problem.

2003-07-07 Thread Freddie Cash
On July 7, 2003 01:57 pm, Dustin Puryear wrote: > I have a test server that is being used to test a 4.4-REL to > 4.8-STABLE upgrade, and I've found the system will no longer boot > unless I load a saved 4.4-REL kernel. The error I get is along the > lines of: > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad4s1a >

Re: Symbolic names for (ethernet) interfaces

2003-07-07 Thread James Long
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:29:58PM +0200, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > > How does one specify a 'symbolic' name for an ethernet interface; i.e. be > able to refer to rl0, vx1 or ep0 by a name like 'net0, net1' or 'net2'. > > With net1 et.al. tied to a specific PCI slot or card Mac address. So t

FreeBSD 4.4-REL to FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE upgrade problem.

2003-07-07 Thread Dustin Puryear
I sent this to freebsd-questions earlier via the newsgroup, but I just found out today that the list-to-news gateway has been down for half a month now. Any idea when it's going back up? Who was hosting that service anyway? And now for the question.. I have a test server that is being used to

strange messages in /var/log and all logins refused ...

2003-07-07 Thread twig les
Hey *, this morning I tried to log into my freebsd 4.6 release box and was refused (SSH 2.9 sent back the passwd prompt and denied me). I called someone else and they tried, and were refused too. I got in via the console and reset my user and the root passwd and could ssh in successfully. I'm th

Re: customer support ticket and tracking software

2003-07-07 Thread Matthew Bettinger
On Monday 07 July 2003 03:47 pm, admin wrote: > can somebody recommend customer support tracking software - giving > each support email and Phone call a case number and allowing multiple > users to track and add to the progress of a support issue. > > any ideas here? googleRT , PerlDesk, Oneor

customer support ticket and tracking software

2003-07-07 Thread admin
can somebody recommend customer support tracking software - giving each support email and Phone call a case number and allowing multiple users to track and add to the progress of a support issue. any ideas here? - noah ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing l

Re: Users question...

2003-07-07 Thread Marvin J. Kosmal
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 12:38, Ken Menzel wrote: > This is really a MySQL question, \ > Get Paul Dubois' excellent book. MySQL Second Edition ( Sams > Publishing). It's great! Is this a good beginners book??? I need to get this system down > -- Marvin J. Kosmal Linux Activist Registered

Symbolic names for (ethernet) interfaces

2003-07-07 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
How does one specify a 'symbolic' name for an ethernet interface; i.e. be able to refer to rl0, vx1 or ep0 by a name like 'net0, net1' or 'net2'. With net1 et.al. tied to a specific PCI slot or card Mac address. So that it becomes easier to write HW independed rc.conf or zebra.conf files. Thanks

Re: Changed ISP now can't get to websites / traceroute

2003-07-07 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello Frank, On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 19:23, Frank Knobbe wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 13:52, Stacey Roberts wrote: > > > 2] Does anyone know of any reason why traceroute might fail on FreeBSD, > > but work on Win2K Pro? > > Stacey, > > FreeBSD uses UDP based traceroute while Windows boxes use I

Re: funky dns required

2003-07-07 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 03:59:12PM +1000, Andrew Thomson wrote: > I currently have a caching nameserver on my local domain that really > just caches and forwards to my primary nameserver. > > A lot of laptop users connect to the public ip of my mailserver as this > is what they'd use if they were

Re: Users question...

2003-07-07 Thread Ken Menzel
This is really a MySQL question, But you need to GRANT the user you created permissions to use the MYSQL database. Use the root user to do the grant. see: http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Adding_users.html Get Paul Dubois' excellent book. MySQL Second Edition ( Sams Publishing). It's great! Also t

Re: fstab spezial

2003-07-07 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Selon Martin Klaffenboeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I want to have a mechanism where some different non root users can > mount a floppy (and a cdrom, but lets start with a floppy) which are > all in the same group. > > And it should be easy with an fstab entry. > > How would you do that?

Re: fstab spezial

2003-07-07 Thread Martin Klaffenboeck
Am 2003.07.07 21:22 schrieb(en) Bill Moran: Martin Klaffenboeck wrote: Hello, Is it possible to make an fstab entry which matches to all users? Something like: /dev/fd0 ${HOME}/floppy msdos dev,rw,noauto 0 0 But this does not work, and I couldn't find the correct one in the docu

Re: Changed ISP now can't get to websites / traceroute

2003-07-07 Thread Frank Knobbe
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 13:52, Stacey Roberts wrote: > 2] Does anyone know of any reason why traceroute might fail on FreeBSD, > but work on Win2K Pro? Stacey, FreeBSD uses UDP based traceroute while Windows boxes use ICMP based traceroute. Some providers (like ComCast cable) block ICMP packets (s

Re: help - it hangs hard

2003-07-07 Thread Ron Riese
Q: Does it have a problem without adjusting the parameters at all? A: Yes same problem. Q: Can you install with the floppy disconnected? A: My recollection is that I could not move the floppy to inactive status in the menu Will have to verify later today. Will update at that time 7-8pm Pacific

Re: fstab spezial

2003-07-07 Thread Bill Moran
Martin Klaffenboeck wrote: Hello, Is it possible to make an fstab entry which matches to all users? Something like: /dev/fd0 ${HOME}/floppy msdos dev,rw,noauto 0 0 But this does not work, and I couldn't find the correct one in the documentation. I don't believe it's possible. L

fstab spezial

2003-07-07 Thread Martin Klaffenboeck
Hello, Is it possible to make an fstab entry which matches to all users? Something like: /dev/fd0 ${HOME}/floppy msdos dev,rw,noauto 0 0 But this does not work, and I couldn't find the correct one in the documentation. Thanks, Martin -- If you've got an idea and need help, or j

Changed ISP now can't get to websites / traceroute

2003-07-07 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello, Sorry for brining this to the list, but I've been grappling on my own with this for the last two weeks now. I had an ADSL connection at one point, but have moved home. With this, I had to change ISP's in order to get ADSL where I now live. The thing is, now that I've got this new ISP (

Re: problem upgrading from 5.0 to 5.1

2003-07-07 Thread Michael L. Squires
> I've got a box on which 5.0-RELEASE was installed. I updated the source > tree using cvsup to RELENG_5_1 and tried to recompile, and now every RELENG_5_1 is compiling for me (as of 7/4). Are you running mergemaster -p make buildworld make buildkernel KERNCONF= make installkernel KERNCONF= ma

Re: gzip library (compressing a buffer in C)

2003-07-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Chris Ptacek wrote: Does anyone know if there is a library available to allow a C program to gzip a buffer. Basically I have a buffer of data that I will be transfering and would like to gzip it before sending. The receiving system already does a gunzip and I am trying to handle the same format, s

Re: Users question...

2003-07-07 Thread Daniel Bye
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:17:43PM -0400, Xpression wrote: > Can I have a special account to manage a specific service, > specifically MySQL. I mean, I running MySQL as mysql user, but when I want > to update the database I have to login as root, made changes and so on, > then, I want to cr

gzip library (compressing a buffer in C)

2003-07-07 Thread Chris Ptacek
Does anyone know if there is a library available to allow a C program to gzip a buffer. Basically I have a buffer of data that I will be transfering and would like to gzip it before sending. The receiving system already does a gunzip and I am trying to handle the same format, so other compression

Users question...

2003-07-07 Thread Xpression
Can I have a special account to manage a specific service, specifically MySQL. I mean, I running MySQL as mysql user, but when I want to update the database I have to login as root, made changes and so on, then, I want to create another user to this job, I have added a user as member of whe

Re: Postfix With SASL Authentication?

2003-07-07 Thread Drew Tomlinson
- Original Message - From: "Sunil Sunder Raj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 11:10 PM Subject: Re: Postfix With SASL Authentication? > 1) Install postfix+sasl > 2) edit /usr/local/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf > pwcheck_metho

Re: Login.Access

2003-07-07 Thread Daniel Bye
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:00:49AM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote: > Login seems to be ignoring my /etc/login.access settings. Did you cap_mkdb /etc/login.access after editing the file? > > I have the following entries (see below) in my login.access, yet any new > user (not in the wheel group) is

Re: Extended FAT 32

2003-07-07 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 06:44:27PM +0200 or thereabouts, Olivier DAVY wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I would like to know if it is possible to read windows FAT32 partitions > that are in the extended partition with FreeBSD (I got the 5.1) ? First extended partition: # mkdir /win # mount_msdosfs /de

Re: problem upgrading from 5.0 to 5.1

2003-07-07 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:42:49PM -0400 or thereabouts, Paul Chvostek wrote: > > I'm confused... > > I've got a box on which 5.0-RELEASE was installed. I updated the source > tree using cvsup to RELENG_5_1 and tried to recompile, and now every > time it gets to bin/cat, it chokes. The source t

Re: USB mouse/keyboard causes kernel panic during boot sequence

2003-07-07 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:34:48PM -0400 or thereabouts, Michael E. Mercer wrote: > Anybody?!?!?! > > > > Hello peoples, > > I have posted this before and unfortunately I still have this problem. > During the boot sequence, when it probes for the USB devices, it causes > a kernel panic (page fa

Login.Access

2003-07-07 Thread Scott Gerhardt
Login seems to be ignoring my /etc/login.access settings. I have the following entries (see below) in my login.access, yet any new user (not in the wheel group) is still allowed to login. What am I missing? # $FreeBSD: src/etc/login.access,v 1.3 1999/08/27 23:23:42 peter Exp $ # -:ALL EXCEPT wh

Re: 4.6-stable : libc.so.4 upgrade to libc.so.6 question

2003-07-07 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 10:56:32AM -0500 or thereabouts, Kris Yates wrote: > Hello, > > First of all, I dont think I am subscribed to the list. Please send > your replies directly to my email address, as I dont have time to check > the list archives as often as I would like. > > I have a 4.6-s

Extended FAT 32

2003-07-07 Thread Olivier DAVY
Hi everybody, I would like to know if it is possible to read windows FAT32 partitions that are in the extended partition with FreeBSD (I got the 5.1) ? Thanks for your attention, olivier -- -- Olivier DAVY ENSIMAG engineer - HEC alumnus E-mail : [EMAIL PROTE

problem upgrading from 5.0 to 5.1

2003-07-07 Thread Paul Chvostek
I'm confused... I've got a box on which 5.0-RELEASE was installed. I updated the source tree using cvsup to RELENG_5_1 and tried to recompile, and now every time it gets to bin/cat, it chokes. The source tree *is* up to date, I've tried running `make clean update buildworld` to no avail. It al

USB mouse/keyboard causes kernel panic during boot sequence

2003-07-07 Thread Michael E. Mercer
Anybody?!?!?! Hello peoples, I have posted this before and unfortunately I still have this problem. During the boot sequence, when it probes for the USB devices, it causes a kernel panic (page fault) if there is either (or both) a USB mouse and/or keyboard attached. If I remove the mouse and k

Re: Internet Connection Problem

2003-07-07 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Eddie Tremblay wrote: > I just finished install Unix FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE. I am new to unix and i am > having trouble setting it up on the internet. > > I live in Ontario , Canada and i am using Bell Sympatico, DSL. > > It is a broadband connection. Can you please email me ba

Re: Adding new hard disk

2003-07-07 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: "Matthew Seaman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 5:47 PM Subject: Re: Adding new hard disk > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:57:28PM +, Mark wrote: > > > Ok, I bought a new 80G hard disk, for

Re: /var/mail question

2003-07-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
quadrant wrote: I was temporarilly using pine to retrieve my email, and upon exiting the program, pine notified me that the /var/mail directory was vulnerable, and advised a chmod 1777 of such. The default is 775. What are the implications of this, and won't 1777 make the folder more vulnerable? My

Re: /var/mail question

2003-07-07 Thread Bill Moran
quadrant wrote: I was temporarilly using pine to retrieve my email, and upon exiting the program, pine notified me that the /var/mail directory was vulnerable, and advised a chmod 1777 of such. The default is 775. What are the implications of this, and won't 1777 make the folder more vulnerable? My

Re: post-installation problem

2003-07-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hi, > I have installed FreeBSD 4.0 on my PC Not specifically an answer to your question, but, is there a reason you are attempting a new install of such an old version of FreeBSD? If not, I would suggest installing V 4.8. You should have not trouble installing things from /usr/ports or pa

Re: /var/mail question

2003-07-07 Thread Daniel Bye
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:59:51AM -0400, quadrant wrote: > I was temporarilly using pine to retrieve my email, and upon exiting the > program, pine notified me that the /var/mail directory was > vulnerable, and advised a chmod 1777 of such. The default is 775. > What are the implications of this,

/var/mail question

2003-07-07 Thread quadrant
I was temporarilly using pine to retrieve my email, and upon exiting the program, pine notified me that the /var/mail directory was vulnerable, and advised a chmod 1777 of such. The default is 775. What are the implications of this, and won't 1777 make the folder more vulnerable? My understanding w

4.6-stable : libc.so.4 upgrade to libc.so.6 question

2003-07-07 Thread Kris Yates
Hello, First of all, I dont think I am subscribed to the list. Please send your replies directly to my email address, as I dont have time to check the list archives as often as I would like. I have a 4.6-stable box, which seems to be running fine. I installed a PHP extension recently, which

Re: Adding new hard disk

2003-07-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:57:28PM +, Mark wrote: > Ok, I bought a new 80G hard disk, for backups. I added it on the second IDE. > But now, when I ran FDISK and the Label program (booted from CD), it will > not allow me to just add /backup as mount point, and says it wants a root + > swap parti

Re: post-installation problem

2003-07-07 Thread Bill Moran
Edouard Saksonov wrote: Hi, I have installed FreeBSD 4.0 on my PC I did boot from CDROM, but in the "Media" I had to put "DOS", cause my PC refuses to install everything from CDROM (may be not of supported type). So, I copied whole CDROM to C>/FREEBSD, and I used DOS partition for install. Everyt

Re: funky dns required

2003-07-07 Thread Luke Cowell
If email is your only concern, then there's a much simpler solution. I have implemented this before and I find it works well. I've only tested this solution where the smtp server runs on my NAT box (NAT being required is implicit... Was implicit). Simply add this line to your nat config rdr fxp0

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