RE: SIngle User Mode Help

2004-03-05 Thread Joe Pokupec
Thanks for the many posts guys. I understand the concept of mounting the /usr partition. Actually, the "mount -a" worked even though the fstab was mucked up. I didn't realize that single user mode doesn't mount the slices by default... but it all makes sense now. Thanks Joe -Original Message

Re: Problems (Still) Mounting CDROM

2004-03-05 Thread Chuck McManis
As far as your kernel is concerned there is no CDROM drive attached to it. You should see something like: atapci0: port 0xf000-0xf00f,0-0x3,0-0x7,0-0x3,0-0x7 irq 0 at device 31.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 ... snip ... sio1: type 16550A ppc0: paral

.Xdefaults info (global xterm resizing continued)

2004-03-05 Thread Aaron Peterson
sorry to start a new thread. i accidentally deleted all my mail from the main thread. check out "man xrdb" and the following links https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECN/Resources/KnowledgeBase/Docs/20020202104217 http://www.saao.ac.za/unix/node73.html (these were at the top of my search results o

Problems (Still) Mounting CDROM

2004-03-05 Thread Rishi Chopra
Here's what happens: usha# mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0 /mnt mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0: No such file or directory Here's the dmesg (Kernel config and Fstab also included below): Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 T

Getting Cut-Off

2004-03-05 Thread Rishi Chopra
I have two machines in my loft (a FreeBSD server and a Win2k box) connected via CAT5 crossover cable. I connect to the FreeBSD machine via SSH, and use secure file transfer to upload/download from the machine. In the last week, the FreeBSD machine has dropped my connection on 3 seperate occasi

Re: Adaptec 2410SA starts doing this: aac0: COMMAND 0xc551a7e8 TIMEOUT AFTER 147 SECONDS (Modified by Chad Leigh -- Shire.NetLLC)

2004-03-05 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Mar 5, 2004, at 10:05 PM, Scott Long wrote: On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: I originally sent this to -questions, but got no response. I hope this is a good place to send this. While the drives and controller are SATA, the driver is the SCSI aac driver for the adaptec

Re: New Users Learning FreeBSD

2004-03-05 Thread Chuck McManis
At 12:42 PM 3/6/2004, Joshua Lokken wrote: It doesn't seem like a splash screen can really tell you much about the quality of a piece of software or an OS. No it can't, and for end users its all they care about. Which is "how long before I can start using this thing?" To put it in perspective, th

Re: Can't mount cd9660 file system.

2004-03-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:39:02PM -0500, David wrote: > Hi, everyone. I'm using freeBSD 5.1 > > I am having trouble mounting a cd9660 file system. I've > done this hundredths of times with no problems. But > for the first time, I am burning the iso image to dvd > medium. A dvd+r exactly... Do y

Re: Adaptec 2410SA starts doing this: aac0: COMMAND 0xc551a7e8 TIMEOUT AFTER 147 SECONDS (Modified by Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC)

2004-03-05 Thread Scott Long
On Sun, 29 Feb 2004, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > I originally sent this to -questions, but got no response. I hope this > is a good place to send this. While the drives and controller are > SATA, the driver is the SCSI aac driver for the adaptec raid, hence > this group. I would appreci

Re: ruby1.8 segmentation fault

2004-03-05 Thread Steve Ireland
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 22:11 Subject: ruby1.8 segmentation fault > Hi BSDers, I read the ports/UPDATING about ruby stuff and do accordingly, > after reinstall portupgrade, I did "portupgrade -fr > /usr/ports/lan

Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1 and Bluetooth

2004-03-05 Thread Peter Schuller
> We will shortly be starting some development with bluetooth and I'm > looking to setting up a workstation dedicated for that. This > workstation will also be used for palm os development since that is part of > the same project so the workstation needs to be somewhat stable for > that. Is the b

SENDER ! Virus found in message from you !

2004-03-05 Thread virus
You sent to user perry message with VIRUS . Wiadomosc, ktora wyslales na adres perry zawierala WIRUSA. KAV Report: document_excel.pif infected: I-Worm.NetSky.d

Re: xterm

2004-03-05 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Sat, 6 Mar 2004 19:21:24 +0800 Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote: > - snip - > > you might check into setting options for xterm in the .Xdefaults > > file of your home directory... > > Hi Aaron, > > Kindly advise where can I find .Xdefaults. I found > /home/user/.Xauthority but

mount floppy/cdrom on diskless PC: "vfsload: Exec format error"

2004-03-05 Thread Rob
Hi, I have a diskless PC with a floppy and CDrom drive. I can create a dos floppy without a problem, but the mount fails: # /usr/sbin/fdformat /dev/fd0.1440 Format 1440K floppy `/dev/fd0.1440'? (y/n): y Processing done. # /sbin/disklabel -B -r -w

segmentation fault - jdk4

2004-03-05 Thread Ricardo Britto
Hi, I'm running 5.2.1 Release version of FreeBSD, gcc 3.3.3 and I'm getting the same error when trying to compile JDK 1.4 from ports: *any_file_that_changes.c or .h*: *number_that_changes*: compiler error: segmentation fault I've searched for information and people say that could be problems

Re: Important notify about your e-mail account.

2004-03-05 Thread auto reply
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Can't mount cd9660 file system.

2004-03-05 Thread David
Hi, everyone. I'm using freeBSD 5.1 I am having trouble mounting a cd9660 file system. I've done this hundredths of times with no problems. But for the first time, I am burning the iso image to dvd medium. A dvd+r exactly... First, I created the image with the mkisofs command: mkisofs -J -R -o

ruby1.8 segmentation fault

2004-03-05 Thread tscheng
Hi BSDers, I read the ports/UPDATING about ruby stuff and do accordingly, after reinstall portupgrade, I did "portupgrade -fr /usr/ports/land/ruby16" and here it goes: [Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... - 435 packages found (-22 +61) (...)/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:467: [BUG]

speedy-CGI and Command 'apxs -q CC' failed

2004-03-05 Thread Noah
Hi! FreeBSD-STABLE errors building CGI-SpeedyCGI-2.22 from /usr/ports - any clues what I am doing wrong here? ===> Configuring for p5-CGI-SpeedyCGI-2.22 ERROR: Command 'apxs -q CC' failed. *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/ports/www/p5-CGI-SpeedyCGI. thanks in advance, Noah ___

Re: xterm

2004-03-05 Thread Stephen Liu
- snip - > you might check into setting options for xterm in the .Xdefaults file of > your home directory... Hi Aaron, Kindly advise where can I find .Xdefaults. I found /home/user/.Xauthority but I can' read it TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ [EMAIL PROTE

Re: xterm

2004-03-05 Thread Stephen Liu
- snip - > You can add the fontsize as a parameter when you invoke it, like this: > > xterm -fn > > I use 'xterm -fn 9x15' on a high res monitor and set it (along with some > other params) in my window manager (blackbox) menu config. Hi Ed, Where can I find "window manager"? From 'Control Cente

Re: PowerChute Plus

2004-03-05 Thread K.S.Selvarajan
Dear Vulpes Velox, Thank you very much for your E-Mail. Really what I need that the system should be get switched off at a prescribed time and switched on at prescribed time with out user intervention. The said PowerChute is capable enough to do so. Anyhow, I would try the modules indicated by you

Re: GUI-related questions.

2004-03-05 Thread Chris
On Friday 05 March 2004 07:40 pm, Gary Kline wrote: > > The err stated that I should pkg_delete 3.1.4 first; that > KDE-3.2.0 was trying to install in the same place. > A few hours ago I tried pkg_add to install this. It found > kde but not kde3. Using mozilla I found ther

Re: GUI-related questions.

2004-03-05 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 04:29:41PM -0600, Vulpes Velox wrote: > On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 00:51:41 -0800 > Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > Before I launch into my new DNS server, I thought I'd try > > Gnome and KDE. I still do most things in terminals, by > >

Re: Upgrading from 4.7 to 5.2.1 buildworld errors

2004-03-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 01:28:25PM -0600, Ray Seals wrote: > I have a 4.7 machine that I installed the 5.2.1 sources on (ie. copied > the /usr/src directory from a fresh installed 5.2.1 machine). > > When I do a make buildworld I get an error about "no target to make" > when it starts stage 4.1

Re: make install problem

2004-03-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 01:43:00AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > im in the middle of a > > #make deinstall > #make reinstall > > of py-bittorrent, so i can download things using this fantastic tool. > > unfortunately, it seems like when i run that, or a #make all install clean, > it shows th

Re: How can I rebuild prots databases?

2004-03-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 03:06:18PM -0500, stan wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:09:06AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 07:18:45AM -0500, stan wrote: > > > > > > > > > I'm getting things like this when I run portupgrade: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ! (pgaccess-0.98.6)

"The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda

2004-03-05 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inev

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2004-03-05 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2003/03/09 22:09:31 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that at

Re: Where to find e2fsck?

2004-03-05 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 22:02:30 +0200 Kyryll A Mirnenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's very stupid problem when using EXT2[3]FS partitions > read-write on > FreeBSD that after power failure you have nothing to check it (e.g. > apropriate fsck) and can't use it rw any more (I've no linux on

in FreeBSD-4.5R: nl_langinfo() - where is it?

2004-03-05 Thread Charles Bacon
I've downloaded the FreeBSD 4.5-version of OpenOffice.org1.1.0 - this is the second version of OpenOffice.org I've tried. Incanting openoffice-1.1 (or any of the symlinks which point to it) results in the message /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/program/libsal.so.3: Unde

Re: GUI-related questions.

2004-03-05 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 00:51:41 -0800 Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > Before I launch into my new DNS server, I thought I'd try > Gnome and KDE. I still do most things in terminals, by > CLI rather than GUI. Here I use ctwm and have my workspaces > c

Building Packages - Links to Tutorials?

2004-03-05 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I have a "faster" machine that I'd like to use to build packages and then install those packages on my "slower" machine. I'm looking for links to info describing this process and some best practices. I'm familiar with using portupgrade to build and install ports. I've read the portupgrade ma

Re: Where to find e2fsck?

2004-03-05 Thread Jeremy Faulkner
Kyryll A Mirnenko wrote: There's very stupid problem when using EXT2[3]FS partitions read-write on FreeBSD that after power failure you have nothing to check it (e.g. apropriate fsck) and can't use it rw any more (I've no linux on my machine for a year, the partition is one left from it's inst

Re: Where to find e2fsck?

2004-03-05 Thread albi
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 22:02:30 +0200 Kyryll A Mirnenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's very stupid problem when using EXT2[3]FS partitions > read-write on > FreeBSD that after power failure you have nothing to check it (e.g. > apropriate fsck) and can't use it rw any more (I've no linux on

Partition Magic-like UFS drives manager

2004-03-05 Thread Kyryll A Mirnenko
I really need UFS / FFS (internal slices) manager able to move & merge both BIOS UFS partitions & slices inside it. Does anyone know such tool? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscri

Questions regarding Sendmail on FreeBSD

2004-03-05 Thread Jason Williams
Hello everyone. I've been playing with Sendmail for a couple of weeks now and I feel pretty comfortable with it. Lately, what i've done is just download the source code for sendmail and build and compile as needed. It still works fine. However, I have some questions about how Sendmail comes set

Accessing Oracle8i Data on a FreeBSD System

2004-03-05 Thread Martin McCormick
I have just been thrust in to unknown waters when it comes to data bases. I will be writing scripts which live on a FreeBSD Unix system and which will query a Pinnacle server on another host. The only oracle client for FreeBSD is oracle7-client. There is also oracle7 support in the curre

Where to find e2fsck?

2004-03-05 Thread Kyryll A Mirnenko
There's very stupid problem when using EXT2[3]FS partitions read-write on FreeBSD that after power failure you have nothing to check it (e.g. apropriate fsck) and can't use it rw any more (I've no linux on my machine for a year, the partition is one left from it's installation) - kernel denies

FreeBSD scanning slides

2004-03-05 Thread Dave
Hi folks, I'm looking to replace an old scanner which died. It has a white light and colour scanning element and worked well enough for me to scan in negatives and slides without any special addons etc. I've been through the list at www.sane-project.org to see what might be my best low cost repl

Re: x86 install routines

2004-03-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > What's the problem with making this freebsd easy to install from the prompt? > I am curious, is writing install routines for the x86 desktop difficult? > and what > exactly is the difficulty. > Let me know, I am more than happy to help the project. Are you talking about installing FreeBSD or

Re: xterm

2004-03-05 Thread Ed Budd
On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 16:42:26 -0500 "Gerald S. Stoller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use xterm a lot and I always set the font size to > tiny which requires (to my current knowledge) an additional > action (this action is particularly reprehensible to me because > it requires that I use

Re: GUI-related questions.

2004-03-05 Thread Lee Harr
Before I launch into my new DNS server, I thought I'd try Gnome and KDE. I still do most things in terminals, by CLI rather than GUI. Here I use ctwm and have my workspaces configured with many xterms/workspace. I've hand-coded at least three different sized xterms.

Re: Qpopper & SSL

2004-03-05 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Filmbetyg - Pelle Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-06 15:04]: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html#CURRENT > > > - Original Message - > From: "Joshua Lokken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Pelle Andersson (SPD Systems AB)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

x86 install routines

2004-03-05 Thread patrick
What's the problem with making this freebsd easy to install from the prompt? I am curious, is writing install routines for the x86 desktop difficult? and what exactly is the difficulty. Let me know, I am more than happy to help the project. Cordially, Patrick Sadler

Re: xterm

2004-03-05 Thread Aaron Peterson
> I use xterm a lot and I always set the font size to > tiny which requires (to my current knowledge) an additional > action (this action is particularly reprehensible to me because > it requires that I use both hands, one on the mouse and one on > the keyboard) after the window is opened.

xterm

2004-03-05 Thread Gerald S. Stoller
I use xterm a lot and I always set the font size to tiny which requires (to my current knowledge) an additional action (this action is particularly reprehensible to me because it requires that I use both hands, one on the mouse and one on the keyboard) after the window is opened. Is the

Re: New Users Learning FreeBSD

2004-03-05 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Charles McManis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-06 11:48]: > My less than complimentary thought is that they all suck, but that's only > because 99% of the developers who are writing code for *Linux/*BSD don't > really care about the "new user experience." They care about whatever it is > they ar

Re: How can I rebuild prots databases?

2004-03-05 Thread stan
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:09:06AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 07:18:45AM -0500, stan wrote: > > > > > > > I'm getting things like this when I run portupgrade: > > > > > > > > > > > > ! (pgaccess-0.98.6)(missing origin) > > > > > > ! (acroread-3.02) (missing o

Re: New Users Learning FreeBSD

2004-03-05 Thread Charles McManis
My less than complimentary thought is that they all suck, but that's only because 99% of the developers who are writing code for *Linux/*BSD don't really care about the "new user experience." They care about whatever it is they are developing. Thus the difference between say "standard install"

Antivir doesn't work on local 5.x file system, but works fine on mounted ...

2004-03-05 Thread George Swentek
Antivir ( http://www.antivir.de/ ) - a popular antivirus scanner doesn't work on local file system in Freebsd 5.X The result from FreeBSD 4.9 system: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$antivir -s /var/log/ AntiVir / FreeBSD Version 2.1.0-9 Copyright (c) 1994-2004 by H+BEDV Datentechnik GmbH. All rights reserve

Upgrading from 4.7 to 5.2.1 buildworld errors

2004-03-05 Thread Ray Seals
I have a 4.7 machine that I installed the 5.2.1 sources on (ie. copied the /usr/src directory from a fresh installed 5.2.1 machine). When I do a make buildworld I get an error about "no target to make" when it starts stage 4.1 (building includes). This is a production box and I don't want to

Boot time, init? getty repeated too many times

2004-03-05 Thread Peter Leftwich
Hi everyone and happy Friday. When I boot my FreeBSD box, I think init is giving an error that getty repeated too many times and that it will halt for 30 seconds. Is there a simple fix for this? I am not getting a login prompt and AFAIK the other vtty's are not accessible. The system locks up.

RE: New Users Learning FreeBSD

2004-03-05 Thread Remko Lodder
You know, Every OS is 'difficult' to learn. However the freebsd handbooks and other docs , on the site are very very informative which can tell you whatever you want, and a good FAQ And ofcourse We are there to help you (Questions mailing list, and the others ;)) Cheers -- Kind regards, Remko

Re: 1 processor vs. 2

2004-03-05 Thread Charles Swiger
On Mar 5, 2004, at 5:57 AM, Jan Grant wrote: How did you come to this conclusion? For a RAID 5 with a single parity drive, the reason you zero the disks out completely on initialisation is to set up the integrity of the parity check. Then any update to any RAID5 with single parity requires a read

Re: SIngle User Mode Help

2004-03-05 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-06 06:00]: > > > > > > Hey Guys, > > > > > > > > I'm constantly botching up my fstab file and the system will fail to boot > > > You're right to make a copy before tinkering. > > > > > > That is correct, but, of course, it only gets the root (/) fi

Re: sparc classic

2004-03-05 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 11:15:09AM -0600, Brian Henning wrote: > Is there a port of freebsd that will run on a sparc classic? > I only see one for 64 bit sparc on the ftp site. No. FreeBSD currently does not support 32-bit Sparc machines, and AFAIK such support is not planned for the future eithe

make install problem

2004-03-05 Thread rfa
im in the middle of a #make deinstall #make reinstall of py-bittorrent, so i can download things using this fantastic tool. unfortunately, it seems like when i run that, or a #make all install clean, it shows this: >> wxPythonSrc-2.4.2.4.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. >>

Re: sparc classic

2004-03-05 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 11:15:09AM -0600, Brian Henning wrote: > Is there a port of freebsd that will run on a sparc classic? > I only see one for 64 bit sparc on the ftp site. No, there isn't. Sparc64 works wonderfully, however. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2.1R/hardware.html I suspect tha

make install problem

2004-03-05 Thread rfa
im in the middle of a #make deinstall #make reinstall of py-bittorrent, so i can download things using this fantastic tool. unfortunately, it seems like when i run that, or a #make all install clean, it shows this: >> wxPythonSrc-2.4.2.4.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. >>

Re: fxp autoselect problem

2004-03-05 Thread Joshua Lokken
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-06 03:00]: > Hello, > > I have a problem with the fxp driver in FreeBSD4.9 RELEASE. > The switch is 100Mbit full duplex but it seems the handshake with my > network card does not work correctly. > > fxp0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > media: Ethern

sparc classic

2004-03-05 Thread Brian Henning
Is there a port of freebsd that will run on a sparc classic? I only see one for 64 bit sparc on the ftp site. Thanks, brian ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[

Re: Networking problem UPDATED

2004-03-05 Thread Chris Dillon
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Steve Ireland wrote: > The two interfaces are on different subnets: 192.168.0.0/24 and > 192.168.10.0/24. You need to either add a static route between them > or change their netmasks to at least a /21. Huh? They _must_ be on different subnets. You can't route one subnet acr

Re: PowerChute Plus

2004-03-05 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 15:30:45 +0600 "K.S.Selvarajan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Advise me to install APC PowerChute Plus 4.5.2.1 on FreeBSD 5.1 or > later. PowerChute 4.5.2_1 is for Red Hat 6.1 or 6.2 > > The other version of PowerChute 4.5.3_1 is for Red Hat 7.2 > > Which is suitable for our

Re: New Users Learning FreeBSD

2004-03-05 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 00:16:09 -0800 "Loren M. Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am curious what some newbies experiences were with FreeBSD who > have have no unix experience before. I have someone that I might be > setting up a unix workstation of some kind for and I'm debating > whether I shoul

Re: SIngle User Mode Help

2004-03-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > * Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-06 02:42]: > > > > > > Hey Guys, > > > > > > I'm constantly botching up my fstab file and the system will fail to boot > > > correctly. I've learned to create a working fstab and call is fstab.orig > > > which I can overwrite the botched file i

Re: SIngle User Mode Help

2004-03-05 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-06 02:42]: > > > > Hey Guys, > > > > I'm constantly botching up my fstab file and the system will fail to boot > > correctly. I've learned to create a working fstab and call is fstab.orig > > which I can overwrite the botched file if I end up in Sin

address CD drive differently between 4.8 and 4.9

2004-03-05 Thread Chris McMahon
Hello... I'm mounting FreeBSD from a USB CD device. This doesn't happen automatically; at a "mountroot" prompt, in 4.8, I had to type "cd9660:cd0" and it worked. For 4.9, the necessary command changed-- but I can't remember what it is! That is, it's "mountroot>cd9660:???". If s

Re: Binary file created in / with same name as root password,

2004-03-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:18:38PM -0500, Bob Johnson wrote: > > On Thursday 04 March 2004 04:13 pm, Jonathan Neill > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > > Apologies if this is a stupid question and I should RTFM, but > > > something on my Freebsd-5.1 box is creating a binary file in / with >

Re: filesystem

2004-03-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hi, I can't seem to edit or create files under any other directory other than /usr, > /var, or /home (and there respective subdirectories) even as root. i get the error: > filesystem full. > > I have an 80 gig HD and a fresh install of FreeBSD, so i know my hd is not full. > perhaps this

Re: Jail setup

2004-03-05 Thread Chris Meyers
On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 00:57, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: > ...cut... > > Things seem to be fine. I can see the jailed environment and everything > > looks fine. I log out and then try to set up the last configuations so I > > can ssh in and run sendmail. In the non-jail /etc/rc.conf I added the > >

fxp autoselect problem

2004-03-05 Thread David . Bauer
Hello, I have a problem with the fxp driver in FreeBSD4.9 RELEASE. The switch is 100Mbit full duplex but it seems the handshake with my network card does not work correctly. fxp0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX) status: active The network throughput is

Re: SIngle User Mode Help

2004-03-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hey Guys, > > I'm constantly botching up my fstab file and the system will fail to boot > correctly. I've learned to create a working fstab and call is fstab.orig > which I can overwrite the botched file if I end up in Single User Mode... You're right to make a copy before tinkering. > I ca

Re: Dual-boot FreeBSD 4.x/5.x

2004-03-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > > Is it possible to dual boot FreeBSD 4.9 and 5.2.1 on one system, each > using a different / partition, but sharing the same /usr partition for > example? I'd really like to try out some of the features of 5.x, but be > able to easily go back to 4.9 if I find it too unstable. I don't think

Re: apache log files rotation

2004-03-05 Thread Uwe Doering
Dave McCammon wrote: --- fbsd_user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can apache logs be rotated by /etc/newsyslog.conf? If not, how is it normally done? ___ Here is the relevent portion of my newsyslog.conf /var/log/httpd-access.log 640 14*$D0 Z

Re: mysql in a jail

2004-03-05 Thread Uwe Doering
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a system running four jails. MySQL is running in two of the jails and I am trying to add it to a 3rd jail. Starting the server gets the message: 040302 19:34:15 mysql started 040302 19:34:15 Can't start server : Bind on unix socket: Permission denied 040302 1

make of Cyrus-sasl fails

2004-03-05 Thread Guy Van Sanden
I tried to make Cyrus-sasl, but I failed like this: (My system is FreeBSD 5.2.1 with MIT Kerberos) cc -Wall -W -O -pipe -mcpu=pentiumpro -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib -rpath=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib -o saslauthd saslauthd.o mechanisms.o auth_dce.o au

Re: Binary file created in / with same name as root password, seemingly sporadically

2004-03-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 05:11:49AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 06:27:04AM -0600, Jonathan Neill wrote: > > Why yes, as a matter of fact it is^H^Hwas... > > > > Something special about it? > > Only that it's a spectacularly bad password that happens to coincide > with an

Re: filesystem

2004-03-05 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
[ 72 chars / line, please ] On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 00:44:06 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, I can't seem to edit or create files under any other directory > other than /usr, /var, or /home (and there respective subdirectories) > even as root. i get the error: filesystem full. > > I have an 8

RE: filesystem

2004-03-05 Thread Remko Lodder
what's in df -h ? can you preview it here? Perhaps you have too many big files in your / partition, Cheers -- Kind regards, Remko Lodder Elvandar.org/DSINet.org www.mostly-harmless.nl Dutch community for helping newcomers on the hackerscene mrtg.grunn.org Dutch mirror of MRTG -Oorspronke

PowerChute Plus

2004-03-05 Thread K.S.Selvarajan
Advise me to install APC PowerChute Plus 4.5.2.1 on FreeBSD 5.1 or later. PowerChute 4.5.2_1 is for Red Hat 6.1 or 6.2 The other version of PowerChute 4.5.3_1 is for Red Hat 7.2 Which is suitable for our FreeBSD with available Linux Emulators. With regards Selvarajan ___

filesystem

2004-03-05 Thread gRaPneLL
Hi, I can't seem to edit or create files under any other directory other than /usr, /var, or /home (and there respective subdirectories) even as root. i get the error: filesystem full. I have an 80 gig HD and a fresh install of FreeBSD, so i know my hd is not full. perhaps this has something t

help

2004-03-05 Thread Umair Hussain
hi ... im using wana use pppoE its not that i cannot configure the thng ive got evrythng done with ppp.conf n my modem also getting connected now i need to get sum accounting done on my users which r on windows offcourse i wana use a radius server so can ne1 out there plz help me out

Re: Binary file created in / with same name as root password, seemingly sporadically

2004-03-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 06:27:04AM -0600, Jonathan Neill wrote: > Why yes, as a matter of fact it is^H^Hwas... > > Something special about it? Only that it's a spectacularly bad password that happens to coincide with an unrelated FreeBSD file. I hope your new root password isn't "COPYRIGHT" or "

Re: How can I rebuild prots databases?

2004-03-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 07:18:45AM -0500, stan wrote: > > > > > I'm getting things like this when I run portupgrade: > > > > > > > > > > ! (pgaccess-0.98.6)(missing origin) > > > > > ! (acroread-3.02) (missing origin) > > > > > ! (netscape-wrapper-2000.07.07)(missing origin)

Re: REALLY frustrated with ports problem

2004-03-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 12:01:36PM +, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > Thanks, guys, it was the optimization settings. I was trying the ones I > found on the bsd-tuning page, and thought -O3 was okay for non-kernel. Please be sure to tell whoever wrote the "bsd-tuning" page that they're giving

Re: Growing RAID5 (using RAID0).

2004-03-05 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 11:28:17PM +1100, Tony Frank wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 02:15:14PM +, Lewis Thompson wrote: > > i.e. can I create a RAID0 volume from two RAID5 volumes? > > I understand this might sound a little odd but if it works it would be > > the ideal solution for me. I

vmware3 -CURRENT.

2004-03-05 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I've just CVSupped to -CURRENT in an attempt to learn more about FreeBSD development in general. However, vmware3 no longer works. I get errors about vmnet1 not existing, yet I have the appropriate entries in /compat/linux/dev. However, I /do/ have a vmnet4097 when I run ifconfig. I not

RE: redirecting /tmp

2004-03-05 Thread Sunil Sunder Raj
Hi, Stop all processess. # rm -rf /tmp # mkdir /usr/tmp # chmod 1777 /usr/tmp # ln -s /usr/tmp /tmp Restart all processess. Regards SSR _ Easiest Money Transfer to India. Send Money To 6000 Indian Towns. http://go.msnserver.com/IN/4

Re: vinum crashed

2004-03-05 Thread Tony Frank
Hi there, On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 09:14:06AM +0100, Axel S. Gruner wrote: > I setup a disk stripping with two disks and vinum. I was impressed about > the quick and easy setup. > The configuration is, that i installed FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 on /, a little > bit of swap, and the gave the rest for vinu

RE: Qpopper & SSL

2004-03-05 Thread Lee Dilkie
> I have followed the instruction at various sites about how this > should be done including eudora.com/qpopper. I have also followed > alot of instructions on how to make a cert-file (cert.pem) from > a .key and .crt file. That includes openssh.org. I cannot get it > to work anyway. --> I must b

Re: Growing RAID5 (using RAID0).

2004-03-05 Thread Tony Frank
Hi there, On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 02:15:14PM +, Lewis Thompson wrote: > I've been thinking about this and I'm wondering if it is possible to do > something like the following: > > I have an existing RAID5 volume, comprised of just 3 120GB disks. > However, I've just bought three more 250GB

Re: latest security advisory and 5.1R

2004-03-05 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 13:35:55 -0500 "fbsd_user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please expand on your comment about 4.10 being the next stable > release. I take this to mean that 5.2.1 is an long way off from > moving to the stable branch. Are you in the inter-circle that > authorizes the movement of

Re: Binary file created in / with same name as root password, seemingly sporadically

2004-03-05 Thread Jonathan Neill
Why yes, as a matter of fact it is^H^Hwas... Something special about it? > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Apologies if this is a stupid question and I should RTFM, but > > something on my Freebsd-5.1 box is creating a binary file in / with > > the same name as my root password and I was curious

Re: How can I rebuild prots databases?

2004-03-05 Thread stan
On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 05:06:29PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 04:36:21PM -0500, stan wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 11:52:32AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 08:07:54AM -0500, stan wrote: > > > > I'n updating a bunch of older (around 4.2) ma

Re: Dual-boot FreeBSD 4.x/5.x

2004-03-05 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 03:10:38 -0800 "Loren M. Lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to dual boot FreeBSD 4.9 and 5.2.1 on one system, each > using a different / partition, but sharing the same /usr partition for > example? I'd really like to try out some of the features of 5.x, but be >

Qpopper & SSL

2004-03-05 Thread Pelle Andersson (SPD Systems AB)
Hi! Want to get Qpopper to work with SSL on a FreeBSD 4.9. I have followed the instruction at various sites about how this should be done including eudora.com/qpopper. I have also followed alot of instructions on how to make a cert-file (cert.pem) from a .key and .crt file. That includes openss

Re: priority-- curious about cpu resouce share

2004-03-05 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko wrote: On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 00:34:37 +0800 "Zhang Weiwu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote: Today I did't experiment on {rt|id}prio(1), just to be interesting. I am trying to understand FreeBSD priority mechenism. IMHO realtime/idle priority only starvs processes whe

Re: REALLY frustrated with ports problem

2004-03-05 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
Thanks, guys, it was the optimization settings. I was trying the ones I found on the bsd-tuning page, and thought -O3 was okay for non-kernel. You just helped a MAJOR headache go away. ;-) NOTE: Please CC me, as I am not currently subscribed. Thanks. jm -- My other computer is your windows

FreeBSD 5.2.1 nVidia Problem

2004-03-05 Thread Irakli
Hi I had same problem, when I install nvidia driver on BSD 5.2.1 X can't loads. The result was garbage and frozen screen I found your message: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3FF95CBD.8060304 and it was help me thanks if anybody has same problem: kernel configuration file: #device agp #

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