Re: Cron on qmail not sending me logs

2003-08-29 Thread Scott Ballantyne
Hi Ralph, > > When I manually send mail to root from either inside the box or from > elsewhere, it is properly received by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (an external domain). > > Any and all comments would be appreciated. Thank you in advance. > It sounds like you have it setup properly. It works fine for

scripting the buildworld/installworld process

2003-08-29 Thread Charles Howse
Hi, I'm working on scripting the buildworld/installworld process. This will keep me from messing up everything by doing it wrong or making a typo. I'll be glad to post the scripts for review if anyone's interested. Right now, I have a couple of questions. 1. I realize that running buildworld/inst

Re: Local procmail mailer, bypassing aliases?

2003-08-29 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 29), Damian Gerow said: > Thus spake Dan Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [29/08/03 16:22]: > > Try adding > > > > MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS(`LOCAL', -A') > > > > to your sendmail.mc and regenerating (assuming you're using > > FEATURE(`local_procmail') ). > > That will modify the

Re: allowing non root users to mount

2003-08-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Desmond Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I don't understand how editing /etc/fbtab will help me provide a > > mounting point that is accessible to everyone. I believe that fbtab will > > just set the permissions of the device to whatever is specif

Re: Ports Installed Are Newer Than Tree? -- SOLVED

2003-08-29 Thread Adam McLaurin
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 18:30, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I'm sure my approach was drastic and would appreciate knowing how I > could have fixed this instead of blowing everything away and starting > over. Don't beat yourself up too much because of this. Every once in a while things like this happen, a

Re: allowing non root users to mount

2003-08-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Desmond Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't understand how editing /etc/fbtab will help me provide a > mounting point that is accessible to everyone. I believe that fbtab will > just set the permissions of the device to whatever is specified in that > file. Yes, but it can also set the owne

Re: Ports Installed Are Newer Than Tree? -- SOLVED

2003-08-29 Thread Drew Tomlinson
- Original Message - From: "Drew Tomlinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 11:35 AM Subject: Ports Installed Are Newer Than Tree? > It seems that the ports I have installed on my system are newer than the > ones in the ports tree. If I run po

Re: zmore for bzip2?

2003-08-29 Thread ES
For your bzip2 files, would the following command suffice? bzcat | less This would be similar to handling a gzipped file with: zcat | less ...which is essentially what "zmore" does... -bsdterm On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 11:00:42AM -0500, David Kelly wrote: > /etc/newsyslog.conf uses J in Free

RE: allowing non root users to mount

2003-08-29 Thread Desmond Lee
Hello Thank you for your reply. I don't understand how editing /etc/fbtab will help me provide a mounting point that is accessible to everyone. I believe that fbtab will just set the permissions of the device to whatever is specified in that file. For example, if I have the following in the /etc

Re: Cron on qmail not sending me logs

2003-08-29 Thread gv-list-freebsdquestions
Hello Ralph, Friday, August 29, 2003, 4:36:35 PM, you wrote: RD> Thank you for your replies. I am in the process of migrating from Linux and setting up my first FreeBSD box, so I am unfamiliar with FreeBSD, but I do know qmail well. Qmail normally logs to its own multilog, (far superior with bus

Re: restoring mysql databases from mysqldump was Re: upgrading mysql

2003-08-29 Thread Michelle
I believe I succesfully restored the databases by running simply mysql > backup-file.sql. However, I believe the permissions are not working properly. Apache is unable to connect the sql server and I cannot shutdown the sql server with the user name and password I normally use. On Friday, Aug

Re: restoring mysql databases from mysqldump was Re: upgrading mysql

2003-08-29 Thread Alan Batie
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 02:33:07PM -0700, Michelle wrote: > I ran mysqldump -A > backup-file.sql and then upgraded the mysql port, > but now when I try to restore the backups using mysql "database name" > < backup-file.sql, It states unknown database. I've never had a mysql upgrade trash my dat

Re: Cron on qmail not sending me logs

2003-08-29 Thread Ralph Dratman
Thank you for your replies. My /etc/mail/mailer.conf is as follows: - sendmail/var/qmail/bin/sendmail send-mail /var/qmail/bin/sendmail mailq /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qread newaliases /var/qmail/bin/newaliases ---

restoring mysql databases from mysqldump was Re: upgrading mysql

2003-08-29 Thread Michelle
I ran mysqldump -A > backup-file.sql and then upgraded the mysql port, but now when I try to restore the backups using mysql "database name" < backup-file.sql, It states unknown database. I also have a mysqlhotcopy backup of all my databases. Am I doing something wrong when trying to recover

Re: MYSQL Fresh Reinstall, How?

2003-08-29 Thread Ben Dover
I just don't understand what your talking about. When I start mysql I get the following below error so I guess its not running enough to do what your talking about? Could you please explain a little more in detail where I would type that command if it is a command. Thanks From: "Aaron Wohl"

natd: failed to write packet back

2003-08-29 Thread Steve Camp
Can someone tell me what the following message logged to /var/log/messages means, and whether I ought to be concerned about it: Aug 29 13:41:29 server natd[180]: failed to write packet back (Permission denied) natd is process 180: root 180 0.0 0.1 532 272 ?? Ss Wed11AM 0:17.15

Re: Question on CVS Branches

2003-08-29 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 09:46:36PM +0200 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > > [ ... ] > > > Thank you. Yet another question: I would like to update my source tree > > > automatically each night. However the cvs login

Re: Local procmail mailer, bypassing aliases?

2003-08-29 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Dan Nelson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [29/08/03 16:22]: > Try adding > > MODIFY_MAILER_FLAGS(`LOCAL', -A') > > to your sendmail.mc and regenerating (assuming you're using > FEATURE(`local_procmail') ). That will modify the local_procmail mailer to bypass local aliases, correct? 'Cept that

Re: Local procmail mailer, bypassing aliases?

2003-08-29 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 29), Damian Gerow said: > Does anyone have an m4 for a procmail mailer the completely bypasses > the alias table? I had one working about a month ago, but it seems > to be broken, and I just can't figure out why... I also don't know > where to start looking for one. Try

Re: upgrading mysql

2003-08-29 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 11:56 AM 8.29.2003 -0700, Michelle wrote: >I would like to upgrade mysql from mysql-server-3.23.54 to >mysql-server-3.23.57 and understand that I will need to do a dump >before upgrading since the upgrade needs to overwrite the databases. >Since I have never done this before, I just want to

Problem installing FreeBSD from DVD drive (IBM laptop)

2003-08-29 Thread MeTaLmAn
Hi! I tried (many many times) to install Freebsd in my IBM laptop and I had this problem: the laptop doesnt have a floppy drive, it only have one hd and one dvd drive. So, I configured the BIOS to boot from DVD drive, then HD. when I turned the laptop on with the BSD cd rom on it, it started the

Fwd: MYSQL Fresh Reinstall, How?

2003-08-29 Thread Ben Dover
I appreciate the replies and suggestions that everyone has sent. I'm less than a novice regarding MYSQL or I wouldn't have deleted the MYSQL database in the first place. It took me some time to find where the databases were located as "locate" wouldn't produce them. I'm googleing for the error

Re: Question on CVS Branches

2003-08-29 Thread rebehn
Quoting Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > [ ... ] > > Thank you. Yet another question: I would like to update my source tree > > automatically each night. However the cvs login requires a password to > > be typed in. Is there any way to automate this? Strangely, the cv

Re: Cron on qmail not sending me logs

2003-08-29 Thread Scott Ballantyne
Matthew Graybosch writes: > > On 20:49 Thu 28 Aug , Scott Ballantyne wrote: > > > You can always set the NO_MAILWRAPPER=true and NO_SENDMAIL=true flags > > in /etc/make.conf. > > I thought you were supposed to also set sendmail_enable="NONE" in > /etc/rc.conf as well. > Well, that makes it

Re: read/write access

2003-08-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i messed up my read/access by using chmod...will someone tell me the default > umask for /var/ftp/incoming There's no default, really, because that directory doesn't exist by default. What you want the permissions to be depends on, among other things, who owns

HELP! "key_acquire2: invalid sequence number is passed" -- IPSECVPN down...

2003-08-29 Thread Steve Camp
Hi, I need some help. I am running a VPN between a FreeBSD 4.3 box and another FreeBSD 4.7 box. I am using the IPSEC / Racoon setup that comes with FreeBSD. I have not compiled anything: I inherited sysadmin duties for these boxen from another fellow. They had been working just fine when I f

A ppp configuration question

2003-08-29 Thread stan
I'm trying to set up one of my FreeBSD STABLE machines to dial intot the company ppp server using a 80-0 number. I'v already got a ppp.conf entry that works for the local number, and the 800 number differs only in that it's a diffferent phone number (obviously), and that the answer sequence involve

Re: allowing non root users to mount

2003-08-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Desmond Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I followed the instructions on the FAQ section about making non-root > users able to mount file systems and that worked fine, but it only works > if the target of the mounting point is accessible by that user. Right. You want that for security reasons.

upgrading mysql

2003-08-29 Thread Michelle
I would like to upgrade mysql from mysql-server-3.23.54 to mysql-server-3.23.57 and understand that I will need to do a dump before upgrading since the upgrade needs to overwrite the databases. Since I have never done this before, I just want to make sure I have the correct steps after reading

Local procmail mailer, bypassing aliases?

2003-08-29 Thread Damian Gerow
Does anyone have an m4 for a procmail mailer the completely bypasses the alias table? I had one working about a month ago, but it seems to be broken, and I just can't figure out why... I also don't know where to start looking for one. (Please Cc: me in responses... Thanks.)

Re: Off Topic Regex Question

2003-08-29 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Roger Williams wrote: > I know thins is not the place but I know one of you know this one off the > top of your head. > > I have: > > $list = "dog 1 1 1 cat 2 1 snake 111" > and I want to end up with: > dog 1 cat 2 snake 1 > I thought > $list =~ s/ \d \d/ \d/g; > would do the

some problems with automount

2003-08-29 Thread Desmond Lee
Hello I'm trying to use amd or the automount so that removable media such as floppies, zip disks and cdroms will be mounted when needed. My goal is to put 'amd_enable="YES"' in the /etc/rc.conf file so that mounting is taken care of when the OS is booted. I've read the man pages for amd, amd.conf

Re: Driver for Onstream ADR2.60 IDE

2003-08-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > While we're on the subject - is there any good backup devices in the 60Gb > range for FreeBSD that have a similar cost as the OnStream drive (what was > it again, 300$? something like that?)? > IIRC, my big beef with the OnStream drive (besides the weird format the > driver used and slowness b

Re: can't login as anyone - not even as root!

2003-08-29 Thread Dave Banning
--- Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Thanks, Sunil for the steps, but I have tried that already. > > > > When I get to the # prompt in single user mode, I cannot use > > the passwd command. I get the error;; > > > > passwd: error opening database: /etc/pwd.db: Permission den

Re: can't login as anyone - not even as root!

2003-08-29 Thread Dave Banning
> Hmm.. Pretty long but only the last few screens are important. Problem's > kinda weird, > really. This is a *LAST DITCH EFFORT*, but try this. It may work. (Note: > this assumes > you've got system sources around). > > OK boot -s > # mkdir /var/oldpwd > # mv /etc/master.passwd /etc/passwd /etc/

Re: ipfilter/natd for windows domain controllers

2003-08-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
Redmond Militante wrote: [ ... ] my question is - do i need to upgrade my hardware? No. You can filter T1 or 10Mbs ethernet level bandwidth with a Pentium-grade box with a fraction of the RAM your system has. The only real hardware concern is to make sure you've got high-quality NICs in the box

Re: Verio mover to FreeBSD

2003-08-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why if Verio has moved our sites to you, are they still charging us $6,000 per annum for hosting? $500 per month for rack space, power, a leased Intel box with, say 10 Mbs burstable traffic, nightly backups, and such? Most of these are fixed costs which don't have much t

Re: Verio mover to FreeBSD

2003-08-29 Thread Jeremy D. Pavleck
Very well put! Almost sounds like a greeting card from Hallmark :-p ** Jeremy D. Pavleck [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 11:35:46AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Why if Verio has moved our sites to you, are they still

epson cx5200 printer

2003-08-29 Thread Ralph
Was wondering if anyone here has set up this printer i know the driver is the c82 in gimp-print but apsfilter wont work any ideas. thanks, byte ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Verio mover to FreeBSD

2003-08-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 11:35:46AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why if Verio has moved our sites to you, are they still charging us $6,000 > per annum for hosting? > What is the viability of this server? > With the CA economy in dire straits, how secure is your future? FreeBSD isn't a for-pr

Re: Verio mover to FreeBSD

2003-08-29 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: "Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 10:50 AM Subject: Re: Verio mover to FreeBSD > Did I miss something? > > If they moved your server to FreeBSD, it just means the Operating System on your se

Re: Question on CVS Branches

2003-08-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
Heinrich Rebehn wrote: [ ... ] Thank you. Yet another question: I would like to update my source tree automatically each night. However the cvs login requires a password to be typed in. Is there any way to automate this? Strangely, the cvs man page does not even mention the login command. The do

Re: Driver for Onstream ADR2.60 IDE

2003-08-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
Jeremy D. Pavleck wrote: While we're on the subject - is there any good backup devices in the 60Gb range for FreeBSD that have a similar cost as the OnStream drive (what was it again, 300$? something like that?)? Something like a DLT 7000 or 8000, if you have SCSI available? DLT does up to 35/70

Re: Driver for Onstream ADR2.60 IDE

2003-08-29 Thread Jeremy D. Pavleck
While we're on the subject - is there any good backup devices in the 60Gb range for FreeBSD that have a similar cost as the OnStream drive (what was it again, 300$? something like that?)? IIRC, my big beef with the OnStream drive (besides the weird format the driver used and slowness backing up/res

Re: Driver for Onstream ADR2.60 IDE

2003-08-29 Thread Peter Elsner
Short answer: No Long answer: No, because OnStream isn't using a standard ATAPI driver for their IDE drives. The make use of accessing the drive using very special commands in their proprietary backup software. Without the software the drive won't work. I have already contacted On Stream abo

WDM problem

2003-08-29 Thread Monah Baki
Hi all, I'm trying to execute wdm, I get : error 13 binding socket address 177 Cannot open server authrization file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/wdm/authdir/authfiles/A:0- yooW24 I get the login screen but thats it, the background/beastie.jpg is missing and I can't login. This only happens if I login as

Re: Verio mover to FreeBSD

2003-08-29 Thread Dan
Did I miss something? If they moved your server to FreeBSD, it just means the Operating System on your server changed [EMAIL PROTECTED] extolled: > Why if Verio has moved our sites to you, are they still charging us $6,000 > per annum for hosting? > What is the viability of this server? > With

Verio mover to FreeBSD

2003-08-29 Thread Jastonephd
Why if Verio has moved our sites to you, are they still charging us $6,000 per annum for hosting? What is the viability of this server? With the CA economy in dire straits, how secure is your future? J.A.Stone PhD (London) Founder [EMAIL PROTECTED] javari.com P.O.Box 230551 Ansonia Station New Y

Netgear FA511 driver

2003-08-29 Thread Ganael Laplanche
Hi all, Has anybody managed to make an FA511 card work under FreeBSD ? Many thanks, Ganaël LAPLANCHE [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel : (+33)6.84.03.57.24. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscr

Re: dmesg output

2003-08-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 23:51, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > I wanted to clear the dmesg -a output because i had this problem with > > > a IDE disk, wich give this message all over > > > > > > ad0s1g: hard error reading fsbn 133851519 of 65253984-65254015 (ad0s1 bn > > > 133851519; cn 8331 tn 222

PPP and radius.conf - shouldnt it be doing round-robin?

2003-08-29 Thread Sten Daniel Sørsdal
I use userland ppp with radius authentication against 2 radius servers, on a freebsd 4.8-stable box that i use as a router/gateway. The two servers are on two different interfaces, it seems that when i unplug the first server (#1 in radius.conf) from the switch the arp cache on the gateway will

Re: dmesg output

2003-08-29 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 23:51, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > I wanted to clear the dmesg -a output because i had this problem with > > a IDE disk, wich give this message all over > > > > ad0s1g: hard error reading fsbn 133851519 of 65253984-65254015 (ad0s1 bn > > 133851519; cn 8331 tn 222 sn 18) status=5

Re: dmesg output

2003-08-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > I wanted to clear the dmesg -a output because i had this problem with > a IDE disk, wich give this message all over > > ad0s1g: hard error reading fsbn 133851519 of 65253984-65254015 (ad0s1 bn 133851519; > cn 8331 tn 222 sn 18) status=59 error=40 > ad0s1g: hard error reading fsbn 133851519

ipfilter/natd for windows domain controllers

2003-08-29 Thread Redmond Militante
hi i have an ipfilter/ipnat box, that i'm using to protect an apache webserver. the machine is 4.7-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p3 #1: Mon Aug 11 18:27:06 CDT 2003. the machine is a dell optiplex gx260 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz 512 mb of ram. it's been doing a fine job. my boss aske

Re: dmesg output

2003-08-29 Thread Marco Gonçalves
I wanted to clear the dmesg -a output because i had this problem with a IDE disk, wich give this message all over ad0s1g: hard error reading fsbn 133851519 of 65253984-65254015 (ad0s1 bn 133851519; cn 8331 tn 222 sn 18) status=59 error=40 ad0s1g: hard error reading fsbn 133851519 of 65253984-652

Re: Nachi Worm apparently causes "Live Lock" on 4.7 server

2003-08-29 Thread Jim Durham
On Friday 29 August 2003 01:14 am, paul beard wrote: > James C. Durham wrote: > > On Friday 29 August 2003 04:23 am, paul wrote: > >>James C. Durham wrote: > >>>It turned out that we had several Windows boxes in the building > >>> that had been infected with the Nachi worm. This causes some > >>> k

Re: can't login as anyone - not even as root!

2003-08-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Thanks, Sunil for the steps, but I have tried that already. > > When I get to the # prompt in single user mode, I cannot use > the passwd command. I get the error;; > > passwd: error opening database: /etc/pwd.db: Permission denied > passwd: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged > Sort of sounds

USB printer HP LJ 1300

2003-08-29 Thread Sergey Zaikov
Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 1300 printer and uname -a FreeBSD acc.acc.tula.ru 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #3: Thu Aug 28 15:43:53 MSD 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/Z i386 My kernel have this lines for USB support: # USB supp

Re: Resizing disk partitons?

2003-08-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:21:28 -0400, stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've got a laptop with a single hard disk that is curently paritioned > > into > > 3 partions. 1 for FreeBSD, 1 for linux Swap, and a 3rd for Linux. > > > > I've got an application that requires a M$ OS. Is there a way

Re: sound

2003-08-29 Thread Dan
Maybe this will help? http://glou.net/~thomas/pcg-fx301.html Especially this part: Sound support The sound chip is known as AC97. In FreeBSD, recompiling a kernel with device pcm included or even (not sure) using the GENERIC kernel might get sound working. In Linux, you will have to recompil

Re: Syslogd dying often on different hardware - hackers?

2003-08-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 02:36:01PM +0200, Sten Daniel Sørsdal wrote: > > Many of my servers tend to have their syslogd die on them. > In dmesg i could see the signal number on one of them; 11 > But kill -l doesnt reveal which that is: > > pid 17263 (syslogd), uid 0: exited on signal 11 > pid 8726

Boot Message: hints file version mismatch 36

2003-08-29 Thread Alexander Schmitz
Hi, using FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE on i386. Cant't find any information about this Boot-Message: --- snipp dmesg output --- ... ad0: 38154MB [77520/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA100 acd0: CD-RW at ata0-slave PIO4 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a hints file

Re: MYSQL Fresh Reinstall, How?

2003-08-29 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 02:52 AM 8.29.2003 -0400, Ben Dover wrote: > I managed to mess up my MYSQL4.1 on my 5.1 box and I can't seem to get it >straightened out. I think the best way to resolve this would be to do a >fresh install of MYSQL server. I did a pkg_delete of MYSQL-server and >client and installed agai

can't login

2003-08-29 Thread Ray Bagby
Greetings! I am unable to login as a user or as root. I had been using KDM but I decided to go back to using startx. I commented out the ttyv8 line in ttys then restarted. Now when the box starts I see: login: Aug 29 07:07:58 sleepy gdnc: 2003-08-29 12:07:58.490 gdnc[212] No local

Syslogd dying often on different hardware - hackers?

2003-08-29 Thread Sten Daniel Sørsdal
Many of my servers tend to have their syslogd die on them. In dmesg i could see the signal number on one of them; 11 But kill -l doesnt reveal which that is: pid 17263 (syslogd), uid 0: exited on signal 11 pid 87264 (syslogd), uid 0: exited on signal 11 /var/log has lots of space, newsyslog does

Re: Patching procedures

2003-08-29 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Hello Matthew Thank you for your very complete answer. I'm going to be experimenting with this for a while, and I'll do a lot of reading. Kind regards Guy On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 13:29, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:09:35AM +0200, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > > ** message didn't

Tape drive suggestion (IDE)

2003-08-29 Thread Noel Fitzpatrick
Hi, I'm currently in the market for a reasonably inexpensive tape drive, I was looking at the Seagate Hornet 40GB IDE drive? Does anyone have any experience with this? Or any recommendation as regards a drive. I'm looking to spend less than 500 euros/dollars. I'm looking to back up 30-40Gb per

Re: How do I change the speed on ttyd0?

2003-08-29 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:56, Marcelo Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > I need to read data from a temperature sensor (PIC12C509) that requires: > serial data at 2400 baud, 8 bits, no parity, one or two stop bits. I tried > several things, tip, cu, > Device-SerialPort-0.13, etc. It seems to be the ttyd0 spee

Re: Resizing disk partitons?

2003-08-29 Thread Jud
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:21:28 -0400, stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've got a laptop with a single hard disk that is curently paritioned into 3 partions. 1 for FreeBSD, 1 for linux Swap, and a 3rd for Linux. I've got an application that requires a M$ OS. Is there a way I can repartion this driv

sound

2003-08-29 Thread Jendos
Hello! I'm sorry for my evil english! I can't solve problem by myself(crooked hands :) I have a Microstar P4DCE+ motherboard and freeBSD 4.5 To enable support my onboard AC'97, I include in my kernel: device pcm options PNPBIOS Compile it, reboot and then give a commands: dmesg | grep pcm (pcm

Re: Question on CVS Branches

2003-08-29 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Simon Barner wrote: Is RELENG_4 to be considered stable? I.e. can i use it for production? Well, that depends. At the moment, -stable has (or had) some stability problems since some enhancements for huge memory systems (> 4gb) where merged from -current). I think the best for production system is

Re: MYSQL Fresh Reinstall, How?

2003-08-29 Thread Jez Hancock
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 03:04:07AM -0600, Aaron Wohl wrote: > If you rm -rf /var/db/msyql then reinstall it doesnt work right now is > the problem... at least on freebsd. It gives the host.frm error the > poster asked about. Ive only been able to get a new system going by > restoring the mysql dat

Re: MYSQL Fresh Reinstall, How?

2003-08-29 Thread Aaron Wohl
If you rm -rf /var/db/msyql then reinstall it doesnt work right now is the problem... at least on freebsd. It gives the host.frm error the poster asked about. Ive only been able to get a new system going by restoring the mysql database (/var/db/mysql/mysql) from elsewhere. On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 09:

Re: MYSQL Fresh Reinstall, How?

2003-08-29 Thread Jez Hancock
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 02:52:56AM -0400, Ben Dover wrote: > I managed to mess up my MYSQL4.1 on my 5.1 box and I can't seem to get it > straightened out. I think the best way to resolve this would be to do a > fresh install of MYSQL server. I did a pkg_delete of MYSQL-server and > client an

Re: IPFW reset dead???

2003-08-29 Thread KONDOU, Kazuhiro
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 18:25:52 +0200 "Info [swebase]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > would reset closed ports so a scanner not would see it open (filtered). > How do i close a port so no portscanner sees it in freebsd 4.8 ?? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/i386/conf/NOTES#rev1.905 do y

Which Radiusd to use?

2003-08-29 Thread Perica Veljanovski
Hi I'm looking for a free radiusd, to handle a pre-paid dial-up system. It should have different time zone charging, and every imaginable pre-paid card limitation (expire date, hours limit, CLID filter, etc.). 10x ahead... -- http://www.perica.info

Re: MYSQL Fresh Reinstall, How?

2003-08-29 Thread Aaron Wohl
Yeah I ran into that yesterday myself. The mysql_install_db doesnt leave you with a working mysql database lately. What did to fix it was mysqld -u mysql --skip-grant & (Im assuming you have your mysql firewalled off, if not do that first ;) At that point mysql is up enough to restore the mysql

Re: can't login as anyone - not even as root!

2003-08-29 Thread horio shoichi
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:40:20 -0700 (PDT) Dave Banning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, Sunil for the steps, but I have tried that already. > > When I get to the # prompt in single user mode, I cannot use > the passwd command. I get the error;; > > passwd: error opening database: /etc/pwd.db:

RE: allowing non root users to mount

2003-08-29 Thread Desmond Lee
Thanks for your help Lowell and others who replied :) I apologize for asking a question that was already posted on the FAQ FreeBSD site. I should have looked at the obvious resource for that. I followed the instructions on the FAQ section about making non-root users able to mount file systems an

Re: hard drive disk timeout

2003-08-29 Thread Luke Kearney
(B- Original Message - (BFrom: "Nathan Wheeler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (BTo: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (BSent: Friday, August 29, 2003 3:50 PM (BSubject: hard drive disk timeout (B (B (BHi, (B (BI asked this before, but no one answered. Just hoping someone might be able (Bto. (B (BI'm

MYSQL Fresh Reinstall, How?

2003-08-29 Thread Ben Dover
I managed to mess up my MYSQL4.1 on my 5.1 box and I can't seem to get it straightened out. I think the best way to resolve this would be to do a fresh install of MYSQL server. I did a pkg_delete of MYSQL-server and client and installed again from ports but I'm getting the same error messag

hard drive disk timeout

2003-08-29 Thread Nathan Wheeler
Hi, I asked this before, but no one answered. Just hoping someone might be able to. I'm trying to use 4.7. But when I try to boot to it, even with a CD, a hard drive device timesout. When I take out that hard drive, I can boot fine. Here is how my hard drives and cdrom is set up: Winxp is o

Re: Necessary code or trash?

2003-08-29 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 09:58:55PM -0500, Marc Wiz wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:43:14PM -0700, Alan Batie wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 05:33:45PM -0400, Matthew Graybosch wrote: > > > > rm - 410 268 bytes, > > > > mv - 407 568 bytes, > > > > date - 423 748 bytes. > > > > > > As

How do I change the speed on ttyd0?

2003-08-29 Thread Marcelo Schmidt
Hi, I need to read data from a temperature sensor (PIC12C509) that requires: serial data at 2400 baud, 8 bits, no parity, one or two stop bits. I tried several things, tip, cu, Device-SerialPort-0.13, etc. It seems to be the ttyd0 speed is locked in 9600: # stty -a -f /dev/ttyd0 speed 9600 baud

Re: Mozilla and linebreaks

2003-08-29 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 29), Hendrik Hasenbein said: How do I force mozilla to break at 72 or 80 chars? I guess you're talking about writing email messages? Edit->Preferences->Composition, Wrap plaintext messages at [ 72 ] characters should be the default. It is turned on o

Re: Floppies

2003-08-29 Thread David
After downloading the *.flps in binary mode they work fine. No specific reason for 5.1 other than trying to get the latest and greatest. After reading "http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/early-adopter.html"; I've decided to go with 4.8 STABLE. Thank you for the help and the info. David -

Re: can't login as anyone - not even as root!

2003-08-29 Thread Sunil Sunder Raj
Hi, If the problem still exists try get master.passwd from /var/backups run the command # pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd Regards SSR From: Dave Banning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sunil Sunder Raj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: can't login as anyone - not even as root! Date: Thu, 2

Re: Nachi Worm apparently causes "Live Lock" on 4.7 server

2003-08-29 Thread paul beard
James C. Durham wrote: On Friday 29 August 2003 04:23 am, paul wrote: James C. Durham wrote: It turned out that we had several Windows boxes in the building that had been infected with the Nachi worm. This causes some kind of DOS or ping probe out onto the internet and the local LAN. Removing the

Re: Nachi Worm apparently causes "Live Lock" on 4.7 server

2003-08-29 Thread paul
Matthew Emmerton wrote: They were doing the same thing at the IBM location where I work. It's brutal if you are in the middle of something, but it's the only way to keep the latest breed of MS virii/worms/whatever from spreading. agreed, but if a small subset of hosts can degrade the network --

Re: can't login as anyone - not even as root!

2003-08-29 Thread Dave Banning
Thanks, Sunil for the steps, but I have tried that already. When I get to the # prompt in single user mode, I cannot use the passwd command. I get the error;; passwd: error opening database: /etc/pwd.db: Permission denied passwd: /etc/master.passwd: unchanged and permissions are as follows; #

Re: Nachi Worm apparently causes "Live Lock" on 4.7 server

2003-08-29 Thread Matthew Emmerton
> James C. Durham wrote: > > > > > It turned out that we had several Windows boxes in the building that had been > > infected with the Nachi worm. This causes some kind of DOS or ping probe out > > onto the internet and the local LAN. > > > > Removing the inside interface's ethernet cable caused th

Re: Nachi Worm apparently causes "Live Lock" on 4.7 server

2003-08-29 Thread paul
James C. Durham wrote: It turned out that we had several Windows boxes in the building that had been infected with the Nachi worm. This causes some kind of DOS or ping probe out onto the internet and the local LAN. Removing the inside interface's ethernet cable caused the ping times on the out

Re: Help Required

2003-08-29 Thread Mark Terribile
>> >> We are having presentations on different OS in >> our class.. and i chose the Unix freeBSD for my >> group to do a presentation on.. i would >> like some info - if possible - on this system, or >> anything that could help me with that presentation. >> ... >Smells like homework. >One tip, g

Re: Help Required

2003-08-29 Thread paul beard
Ahmad Memon wrote: Hello.. We are having presentations on different OS in our class.. and i chose the Unix freeBSD for my group to do a presentation on.. i would like some info - if possible - on this system, or anything that could help me with that presentation. So i thought maybe

Re: allowing non root users to mount

2003-08-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Desmond Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, can you do this on freeBSD? I mean, with RedHat it does it for > you so that you have a floppy and cdrom icon on your desktop. But can > you do that w/ freeBSD? I don't think so cause if there is no floppy/zip > disk/ or cdRom in the drive when yo

Re: can't login as anyone - not even as root!

2003-08-29 Thread Sunil Sunder Raj
Hi, STEPS = As the os(FREEBSD) is starting it will display the following message: Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Booting [kernel ] in 10 seconds... You should now ress the space bar, and you will see the following message: Type '?' for a list of comman

Re: allowing non root users to mount

2003-08-29 Thread Luke Kearney
(B- Original Message - (BFrom: "Desmond Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (BTo: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (BSent: Friday, August 29, 2003 12:49 PM (BSubject: allowing non root users to mount (B (B (B> Hello (B> (B> I'm trying to set up my system so that it can automatically mount some (B> file

allowing non root users to mount

2003-08-29 Thread Desmond Lee
Hello I'm trying to set up my system so that it can automatically mount some file systems on boot. However, can you do this on freeBSD? I mean, with RedHat it does it for you so that you have a floppy and cdrom icon on your desktop. But can you do that w/ freeBSD? I don't think so cause if there

Re: Nachi Worm apparently causes "Live Lock" on 4.7 server

2003-08-29 Thread K Anderson
James C. Durham wrote: On 8/21, I noticed that internet connectity through our 4.7 FreeBSD gateway NAT box was getting REALLY slow. Checking with our T1 provider, there was only 128K of data stream (aprox) flowing out the T1. Ping times to the router on the external interface yielded times of

Re: Necessary code or trash?

2003-08-29 Thread Marc Wiz
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 04:45:24PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Aug 28), Marc Wiz said: > > Sticking with /bin/sh is a good idea. > > > > What I have done is build a static version of bash and put it /bin > > > > I changed root's shell to /bin/bash and run just fine. > > > >

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