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Re: make -j$n buildworld : use of -j investigated

2004-11-22 Thread Nagilum
The idea behind the speedups by using n>number of CPUs is that you use unused CPU cycles during disk activity. Obviously this works only on systems which use 'low CPU usage storage' such as SCSI, firewire or more prominently NFS for the sources. Of cause this also assumes you don't have any per

Re: Ogle Question

2004-11-22 Thread Peder Blom
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 17:28:31 -0500 RL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone? > > And BTW, I also linked /dec/acd0 to /dev/dvd; still got the same > issue. > > > On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 17:49:20 -0500, RL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, I just installed ogle-gui and when I try to open up a dvd or

Re: HZ kernel option

2004-11-22 Thread jason
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Hi Ok, I am trying to get a feel for the "HZ" option in the 5.3 (RELENG_5) kernel config. # The granularity of operation is controlled by the kernel option HZ whose # default value (100) means a granularity of 10ms (1s/HZ). options HZ=100 For a machine

Re: Sysinstall - why two different programs in 5.3 RELEASE?

2004-11-22 Thread Jay O'Brien
Adam Fabian wrote: > On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 07:12:04PM -0800, Jay O'Brien wrote: > >>However, the FreeBSD Handbook says to type /stand/sysinstall: >>I find the following files are present: >> >> 403488 Nov 4 17:27 /usr/sbin/sysinstall >>2046148 Nov 4 20:22 /stand/sysinstall >> >>When I invoke th

Re: NEW: cannot ssh to my computer

2004-11-22 Thread Ivan Georgiev
> > I guess I have put this > > -:wheel:ALL EXCEPT LOCAL > > in /etc/login.access but had no recollection of doing it. After > > commenting it out the problem is gone. > > hello again ivan, > > fwiw, your 'problem' may actually be better than your 'solution'. with > all the script kiddies who are

ATI Radeon 9250 on FreeBSD 5.2.1 AMD64 - can't detect

2004-11-22 Thread Chan Fook Sheng
Hi I recently installed FreeBSD 521 on amd64. I am using ATI Radeon 9250 AGP graphics card. It seems that the graphics card is not recognised, even after i recompile my kernel to include "device agp". so now i can;t take advantage of the video card and my X is still using VGA driver. i have att

Re: Sysinstall - why two different programs in 5.3 RELEASE?

2004-11-22 Thread Adam Fabian
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 07:12:04PM -0800, Jay O'Brien wrote: > However, the FreeBSD Handbook says to type /stand/sysinstall: > I find the following files are present: > > 403488 Nov 4 17:27 /usr/sbin/sysinstall > 2046148 Nov 4 20:22 /stand/sysinstall > > When I invoke these programs, the screens

Re: NEW: cannot ssh to my computer

2004-11-22 Thread epilogue
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 22:37:19 -0500 Ivan Georgiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Just another thing ... > > > > > > If I remove myself from the group wheel then I CAN ssh to my > > > computer; if I put myself back to wheel - then CANNOT ssh to the > > > computer. > > > > > > How can I ssh and be

Re: hello.

2004-11-22 Thread stheg olloydson
- Original Message - From: "mase progamer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 00:36 Subject: hello. > hello, > I own a small computer & gaming store. i was wondering if you could send me some freebsd posters & pamphlets & other such materials for

RE: Sound volume in GNOME 2.8

2004-11-22 Thread Subhro
/usr/ports/audio/aumix Indian Institute of Information Technology Subhro Sankha Kar Block AQ-13/1, Sector V Salt Lake City PIN 700091 India > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RL > Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 9:13 > To

Re: unsure about /etc/hosts

2004-11-22 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Nikolas Britton wrote: > Oliver Fuchs wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >I am at the moment unsure about the localhost entries in my /etc/hosts. > >From /usr/src/etc/hosts I have found this one: > > > ># Host Database > ># > ># This file should contain the addresses and aliases for loca

Re: unsure about /etc/hosts

2004-11-22 Thread Oliver Fuchs
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Dick Davies wrote: > * Oliver Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1107 21:07]: > > > # Host Database > > # > > # This file should contain the addresses and aliases for local hosts that > > # share this file. Replace 'my.domain' below with the domainname of your > > # machine. > > # >

Re: make -j$n buildworld : use of -j investigated

2004-11-22 Thread Rob
Laurence Sanford wrote: Rob wrote: With these simple tests, I come to the conclusion that "make -j$n buildworld" is best with n = number of CPUs. Does that make sense? Rob. This is what I've been telling people and using myself for years. However, I've been

Re: SCSI Hard drive "MEDIUM ERROR"

2004-11-22 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 22), Ryan J. Cavicchioni said: > AWRE (Auto Write Reallocation Enbld): 1 > ARRE (Auto Read Reallocation Enbld): 1 > TB (Transfer Block): 0 > RC (Read Continuous): 0 > EER (Enable Early Recovery): 0 > PER (Post Error): 0 > DTE (Disable Transfer on Error): 0 > Read Ret

Re: Sound volume in GNOME 2.8

2004-11-22 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 22:43 -0500, RL wrote: > Simple question. I am using GNOME 2.8 and the only way to increase the > sound that I see is to use the volume control icon in the upper right > hand corner; however, I want it to be even louder than that. It isn't > all that loud, especially playing

Sound volume in GNOME 2.8

2004-11-22 Thread RL
Simple question. I am using GNOME 2.8 and the only way to increase the sound that I see is to use the volume control icon in the upper right hand corner; however, I want it to be even louder than that. It isn't all that loud, especially playing dvds. Is there a built in mixer program that I can us

Re: SCSI Hard drive "MEDIUM ERROR"

2004-11-22 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 22), Ryan J. Cavicchioni said: (top-posting fixed) > Dan Nelson wrote: > >In the last episode (Nov 22), Ryan J. Cavicchioni said: > >>What would this mean? I get it during heavy FTP transfers on a drive > >>that is 75% full. > >> > >>(da1:ahc0:0:8:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:381b

Re: SCSI Hard drive "MEDIUM ERROR"

2004-11-22 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
AWRE (Auto Write Reallocation Enbld): 1 ARRE (Auto Read Reallocation Enbld): 1 TB (Transfer Block): 0 RC (Read Continuous): 0 EER (Enable Early Recovery): 0 PER (Post Error): 0 DTE (Disable Transfer on Error): 0 Read Retry Count: 255 Write Retry Count: 255 It seems to be enabled. Is there

Re: NEW: cannot ssh to my computer

2004-11-22 Thread Ivan Georgiev
> > Just another thing ... > > > > If I remove myself from the group wheel then I CAN ssh to my computer; > > if I put myself back to wheel - then CANNOT ssh to the computer. > > > > How can I ssh and be a member of the wheel group? > > hello ivan, > > it might be worth your while to check /etc/log

RE: MySQL problems on FBSD 5.2.1

2004-11-22 Thread steveb99
I have it working, but don't know if it is the right answer. Some of the info I got hinted at rebuilding in a different order. So I uninstall apache2, mod_php4, and mysql4. Then rebuilt the ports in this order MySQL, then apache, and last mod_php. The problem still existed. I found another por

Re: SCSI Hard drive "MEDIUM ERROR"

2004-11-22 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
Would the excesive FTP load cause this? I was downloading mp3's over LAN so I was getting 7 mbit speed. Would this cause the disks to do this? Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Nov 22), Ryan J. Cavicchioni said: What would this mean? I get it during heavy FTP transfers on a drive that is

Sysinstall - why two different programs in 5.3 RELEASE?

2004-11-22 Thread Jay O'Brien
When I installed 5.3 RELEASE, the installation program, when it was finished installing, said "Congratulations... to re-enter utility after the system is up, type /usr/sbin/sysinstall." However, the FreeBSD Handbook says to type /stand/sysinstall: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books

make -j$n buildworld : use of -j investigated

2004-11-22 Thread Rob
Hi, I have tested following with FreeBSD 5.3-Stable. On several different PCs I have used make -j$n buildworld with $n ranging from 1 to 9. Although people suggest "-j4" as optimal in general case, I have come to a very different conclusion: 1) single CPU with enough RAM (2 GHz, 512 MB) there

Re: Setting up Postfix with PosgreSQLon FreeBSD

2004-11-22 Thread Manuel Rabade Garcia
Bill Schmitt (SW), who happens to be smarter than you, thinks: > Manuel Rabade Garcia wrote: > >On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 14:43:04 -0500 > >"Bill Schmitt (SW)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>I've been trying to find some documentation on setting up Postfix to > >>use PostgreSQL on FreeBSD. There

Re: SCSI Hard drive "MEDIUM ERROR"

2004-11-22 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 22), Ryan J. Cavicchioni said: > What would this mean? I get it during heavy FTP transfers on a drive > that is 75% full. > > (da1:ahc0:0:8:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:381b12 csi:ff,ff,ff,ff asc:11,1 > (da1:ahc0:0:8:0): Read retries exhausted actual retry count: 104 > (da1:ahc0:

Re: NEW: cannot ssh to my computer

2004-11-22 Thread epilogue
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 00:05:33 -0500 Ivan Georgiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just another thing ... > > If I remove myself from the group wheel then I CAN ssh to my computer; > if I put myself back to wheel - then CANNOT ssh to the computer. > > How can I ssh and be a member of the wheel group?

RE: 5.3 freez at install

2004-11-22 Thread Subhro
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laszlo Antal > Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 1:37 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: 5.3 freez at install > > Hi > I am trying to install Fbsd 5.3 on a Toshiba laptop. I download the

Re: FAT32/NTFS, external hard drive issue

2004-11-22 Thread scott renna
Sorry took me so long to get back to this message, but here's what I got: fdisk /dev/da0s1: *** Working on device /dev/da0s1 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=19456 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions

SMBFS vulnerability

2004-11-22 Thread Skylar Thompson
I just read about Linux's vulernability WRT SMBFS. Does FreeBSD suffer from the same vulnerability? -- -- Skylar Thompson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- http://www.os2.dhs.org/~skylar/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

nfs server pid310 not responding ---> why does this line appear continuesly???

2004-11-22 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Good day! I don't know what have I done with my machine. I haven't enabled the nfs server or anything that has to do with nfs but why does these line continuesly appearing in my terminal?? Any idea?? My machine's hostname is layline and i'm running 5.3-release. Here are the lines: layline kern

Odd Tar behavior

2004-11-22 Thread Derrick Ryalls
Greetings list, I just observed some really strange behavior with a tar file in my backup script. Using a command like tar -cf /someplace/www.tar www (when in /usr/local) it produces a 2 Meg file. Under webroot, there are several files that are 500+ meg in size, so this size value is suspect, t

SCSI Hard drive "MEDIUM ERROR"

2004-11-22 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
What would this mean? I get it during heavy FTP transfers on a drive that is 75% full. (da1:ahc0:0:8:0): MEDIUM ERROR info:381b12 csi:ff,ff,ff,ff asc:11,1 (da1:ahc0:0:8:0): Read retries exhausted actual retry count: 104 (da1:ahc0:0:8:0): Retrying Command (per Sense Data) (da1:ahc0:0:8:0): READ(10

Re: Setting up Postfix with PosgreSQLon FreeBSD

2004-11-22 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
Manuel Rabade Garcia wrote: On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 14:43:04 -0500 "Bill Schmitt (SW)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've been trying to find some documentation on setting up Postfix to use PostgreSQL on FreeBSD. There seems to be a lot of documentation on doing it with mySQL, but I can't seem to find an

Re: building any mozilla-based browser fails

2004-11-22 Thread Nikolas Britton
Chip wrote: I used to have Firefox installed, then tried to run portupgrade, and it failed. I then did a make deinstall and make reinstall now I get a failed install. Also tried to install mozilla and netscape, both also fail. Below is the last bit from the firefox install. BTW, I sent this ( a

Re: Setting up Postfix with PosgreSQLon FreeBSD

2004-11-22 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote: I've been trying to find some documentation on setting up Postfix to use PostgreSQL on FreeBSD. There seems to be a lot of documentation on doing it with mySQL, but I can't seem to find anything using PostgreSQL. Does anyone here have any documentation, suggestions, or

Re: XFree86 cut the screen

2004-11-22 Thread Adam Fabian
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 11:41:36PM +, Dude Dude wrote: > I've freebsd running in a box with 5.3, and when i startx, the X gives a > big black margin, and cut my 17" screen. > Only the default window manager dont do that, what i can do ?? Sounds like X could just be drawing the screen incorrec

Re: Setting up Postfix with PosgreSQLon FreeBSD

2004-11-22 Thread Manuel Rabade Garcia
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 14:43:04 -0500 "Bill Schmitt (SW)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been trying to find some documentation on setting up Postfix to > use PostgreSQL on FreeBSD. There seems to be a lot of documentation on > doing it with mySQL, but I can't seem to find anything using > Postgre

security.jail.sysvipc_allowed: implications ?

2004-11-22 Thread klr
Hi, I'd like to know what are the implications of setting security.jail.sysvipc_allowed=1 while using FreeBSD jails. If I understood correctly, setting this to 1 allows processes inside the jail to communicate to the host server/other jails using SysV shared memory, but I don't understand the full

TOra - Toolkit For Oracle on freebsd 5.3

2004-11-22 Thread eodyna
Hi Guys, I need a front end client to access Oracle databases on my network. I came across TOra. There is a linux version but not a bsd one. heh. Ummm, has anyone installed TOra on freebsd? If so, is there a "How-to-guide" somewhere? Or does anyone know of a good front end client to access Oracle

building any mozilla-based browser fails

2004-11-22 Thread Chip
I used to have Firefox installed, then tried to run portupgrade, and it failed. I then did a make deinstall and make reinstall now I get a failed install. Also tried to install mozilla and netscape, both also fail. Below is the last bit from the firefox install. BTW, I sent this ( a couple days

Re: Setting up Postfix with PosgreSQLon FreeBSD

2004-11-22 Thread Peter Schuller
Hello, > Thanks for responding, Ryan, but I'm confused. I have managed to start > postgres with a user I called pgsql. The install appears to do that with > a user called postgres but doesn't reference postfix. How do I tell > postfix that I want to use postgres? Basically in main.cf you must spe

Re: unsure about /etc/hosts

2004-11-22 Thread Nikolas Britton
Oliver Fuchs wrote: Hi, I am at the moment unsure about the localhost entries in my /etc/hosts. From /usr/src/etc/hosts I have found this one: # Host Database # # This file should contain the addresses and aliases for local hosts that # share this file. Replace 'my.domain' below with the domainn

gnome crashes on startx

2004-11-22 Thread Antoine Solomon
gnome gives me a segmentation fault when I try to start it using startx. When i try other windows managers such as fluxbox and enlightenment I have no problems starting. When in fluxbox or enlightenment, I get a segmentation fault with gtk programs like mozilla, firefox and gaim also. I also tri

Re: Setting up Postfix with PosgreSQLon FreeBSD

2004-11-22 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
What is Postfix using PostgreSQL for? Is there a reason why you are not using the most current version of PostgreSQL? Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote: Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote: I've been trying to find some documentation on setting up Postfix to use PostgreSQL on FreeBSD. There seems to be a lot of docum

XFree86 cut the screen

2004-11-22 Thread Dude Dude
I've freebsd running in a box with 5.3, and when i startx, the X gives a big black margin, and cut my 17" screen. Only the default window manager dont do that, what i can do ?? thx PS: the freebsd recognize the monitor!! _ MSN Messen

trying to keep hdd in power saving mode

2004-11-22 Thread kaak kaabakas
hello, i recently built a home network server on freebsd 5.3 and am now looking for a way to keep it's hdd in power saving mode - the server is basically a pentium 166mhz machine, and the sound the hard drive is really annoying, as the machine is next to my bed. moving it is not an option - the

FreeBSD as router question

2004-11-22 Thread Dennis Moore
I'm trying to set up the following system. Any help is appreciated. * A switch with VLAN 2 and VLAN 3 * A FreeBSD server with interfaces VLANs 2 and 3 * X Number of clients on VLAN 3 * VLAN 2: 192.168.0.0/24 * VLAN 3: 172.0.0.0/24 Clients must be able to get an address from DHCP on the FreeBSD

Re: Setting up Postfix with PosgreSQLon FreeBSD

2004-11-22 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
Bill Schmitt (SW) wrote: I've been trying to find some documentation on setting up Postfix to use PostgreSQL on FreeBSD. There seems to be a lot of documentation on doing it with mySQL, but I can't seem to find anything using PostgreSQL. Does anyone here have any documentation, suggestions, or

HZ kernel option

2004-11-22 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
Hi Ok, I am trying to get a feel for the "HZ" option in the 5.3 (RELENG_5) kernel config. # The granularity of operation is controlled by the kernel option HZ whose # default value (100) means a granularity of 10ms (1s/HZ). options HZ=100 For a machine that is running as a server, runni

Re: Should I use Xorg or XFree86 for XServer?

2004-11-22 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 11/22/04 05:57 PM, Doug Van Allen sat at the `puter and typed: > I'm going to install 5.3, but I now understand that sysinstall does > not handle in install of XServer. It is a post-install duty. I don't > know which is the better one to install-Xorg or XFree86?? Reading > some vague posts ab

Re: Should I use Xorg or XFree86 for XServer?

2004-11-22 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 05:57:21PM -0500, Doug Van Allen wrote: > I'm going to install 5.3, but I now understand that sysinstall does > not handle in install of XServer. It is a post-install duty. I don't > know which is the better one to install-Xorg or XFree86?? Reading > some vague posts abou

FreeBSD 5.3 Does Not Install on Toshiba Satellite Laptop

2004-11-22 Thread Laszlo Antal
Hi, I am tryin to install FreeBSD 5.3 on my Toshiba Satellite Laptop. Every time I boot up from the cd it stops loading at pci0 on pcib0 I tryed everything in my bios.I even disable the wirwles card and the mouse, unpluged evry extra and still stops. I tryed boot with ACPI, ACPI disable, Safe Mode

vinum + powerfailure -> one volume corrupt, others unaffected

2004-11-22 Thread Peter Schuller
Hello, I just had a "power outtage" (= i accidentally hit the killswitch on the master power source...). One of the machines affected was one running FreeBSD with several vinum volumes[1]. When booting up afterwards, all but one of the vinum volumes recovered completely. By "completely" i mean

Should I use Xorg or XFree86 for XServer?

2004-11-22 Thread Doug Van Allen
I'm going to install 5.3, but I now understand that sysinstall does not handle in install of XServer. It is a post-install duty. I don't know which is the better one to install-Xorg or XFree86?? Reading some vague posts about this it seemed that people were using Xorg. Thanks! _

Re: Setting up Postfix with PosgreSQLon FreeBSD

2004-11-22 Thread Ryan J. Cavicchioni
Bill, These instructions have always worked for me: http://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.2/static/installation.html The important thing is to make sure you use gmake when compiling. Here is a quick install that I modified to work on BSD: ./configure gmake su gmake install pw useradd postgres mkdir /u

pginfo problem

2004-11-22 Thread Hans Van den Eynden
In ifree there is index = ptr2index(ptr); //the index in the page_dir is calculated info = page_dir[index]; //the FIRST pginfo structure in the list for that specific chunksize free_bytes(ptr, index, info); in free_bytes there is /* Find the chunk number on the page */ i = ((u

Re[2]: tunneling everything

2004-11-22 Thread Cezar Fistik
Hello Andrei, Monday, November 22, 2004, 10:11:32 PM, you wrote: AI> Hi! I am looking for a solution to this problem: I AI> want to make a tcp tunneling. The ssh tunneling AI> doesn`t satisies me because I don`t want to tunnel a AI> specific service, I want to tunnel everything. For AI> example:

Re: TCSH crash

2004-11-22 Thread Charles Swiger
On Nov 22, 2004, at 3:38 PM, Marcelo Souza wrote: Both machines have 1GB. It only happened with tsch. With sh it's OK. I have no problems with this using /bin/sh or ZSH, but I can confirm the issue using tcsh on 4.10 and on MacOS X. As this isn't a FreeBSD-specific issue, you pro

Re: NEW: cannot ssh to my computer

2004-11-22 Thread Ivan Georgiev
On Monday 22 November 2004 02:59 pm, Shantanoo Mahajan wrote: > +++ Ivan Georgiev [freebsd] [22-11-04 07:41 -0500]: > | On Monday 22 November 2004 06:39 am, Dick Davies wrote: > | > * Panagiotis Christias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1116 09:16]: > | > > On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 00:05:33 -0500, Ivan Georgiev <[

vinum status in daily log

2004-11-22 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. Got a couple of server with vinum mirrored volumes. From time to time a disk or the other tends to get out of sync and is labeled as stale. If I miss the thing in the logs it might stay so for months... The ideal solution would be to write a script to include vinum status in the daily repo

Re: NEW: cannot ssh to my computer

2004-11-22 Thread Ivan Georgiev
On Monday 22 November 2004 08:42 am, cape canaveral wrote: > On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 08:35:58 -0500, Ivan Georgiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 22 November 2004 08:25 am, Ruben de Groot wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 07:41:32AM -0500, Ivan Georgiev typed: > > > > On Monday 22 November

RE: slow SSH access from another FreeBSD, but not from WinXP

2004-11-22 Thread Subhro
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of I Nyoman Suka Ada > Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 0:59 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: slow SSH access from another FreeBSD, but not from WinXP > > SSH-ing to my FreeBSD box fro

Re: slow SSH access from another FreeBSD, but not from WinXP

2004-11-22 Thread Dan Rue
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 03:28:52AM +0800, I Nyoman Suka Ada wrote: > Hi, > maybe this is more related to SSH rather than FreeBSD, > but thought I give it a shot here. > > SSH-ing to my FreeBSD box from Windows XP seems to have no problem. > But when I tried SSH-ing from another FreeBSD/Linux syste

Re: unsure about /etc/hosts

2004-11-22 Thread Dick Davies
* Oliver Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1107 21:07]: > # Host Database > # > # This file should contain the addresses and aliases for local hosts that > # share this file. Replace 'my.domain' below with the domainname of your > # machine. > # > # > ::1 localhost localhost.my.domain

securecrt fix to ssh to 5.3

2004-11-22 Thread dave
Hello, Just info for user's of securecrt who are trying to connect to a 5.3 box. Firstly, PasswordAuthentication is the setting you have to change in sshd_config to continue to use passwords. I don't know what ChalengeResponseAuthentication does, but it adds several password login prompts so i

Re: tunneling everything

2004-11-22 Thread Dan Rue
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 12:11:32PM -0800, Andrei Iarus wrote: > Hi! I am looking for a solution to this problem: I > want to make a tcp tunneling. The ssh tunneling > doesn`t satisies me because I don`t want to tunnel a > specific service, I want to tunnel everything. For > example: I would like my

tcsh hang with long input line (Re: TCSH crash)

2004-11-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >Is it a known problem? > > > > > >>perl -e 'for $i (0..1){ print $i ; }' > trash > >>`cat trash` > >> > >Word too long. > >^C^C^C > > > > > >The tcsh halt with this. Eith

Re: xorgconfig

2004-11-22 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+++ Giuliano Cardozo Medalha [freebsd] [22-11-04 03:02 -0200]: | Hi, | | I am trying to config my xorg with the command: "xorgconfig" ... without | success. | | When I run the command it start some questions, but it stops when | referred to keyboard: | | xkb rule file /usr/X11R6/lib/x11/xkb/ru

test

2004-11-22 Thread Oliver Fuchs
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Re: TCSH crash

2004-11-22 Thread Marcelo Souza
Kevin, Both machines have 1GB. It only happened with tsch. With sh it's OK. On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: |[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | |>Hi all, |> |>Is it a known problem? |> |> |> |>>perl -e 'for $i (0..1){ print $i ; }' > trash |>>`cat tr

unsure about /etc/hosts

2004-11-22 Thread Oliver Fuchs
Hi, I am at the moment unsure about the localhost entries in my /etc/hosts. From /usr/src/etc/hosts I have found this one: # Host Database # # This file should contain the addresses and aliases for local hosts that # share this file. Replace 'my.domain' below with the domainname of your # machi

Re: TCSH crash

2004-11-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 04:31:58PM -0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it a known problem? > > > perl -e 'for $i (0..1){ print $i ; }' > trash > >`cat trash` > Word too long. > ^C^C^C > > > The tcsh halt with this. Either FreeBSD 4.9 or BSDI 4.3. You should rep

5.3 freez at install

2004-11-22 Thread Laszlo Antal
Hi I am trying to install Fbsd 5.3 on a Toshiba laptop. I download the Iso images (disc 1; disc 2) When I boot from the disc1 every time Freeze at :: pci0: on pcib0 I tryed boot with the option to disable ACPI. But it still freeze. Any Idea what am I doing wrong? Laszlo (I did have Fbsd 4.10 on

unsure about /etc/hosts

2004-11-22 Thread Oliver Fuchs
Hi, I am at the moment unsure about the localhost entries in my /etc/hosts. From /usr/src/etc/hosts I have found this one: # Host Database # # This file should contain the addresses and aliases for local hosts that # share this file. Replace 'my.domain' below with the domainname of your # machi

Setting up Postfix with PosgreSQLon FreeBSD

2004-11-22 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
I've been trying to find some documentation on setting up Postfix to use PostgreSQL on FreeBSD. There seems to be a lot of documentation on doing it with mySQL, but I can't seem to find anything using PostgreSQL. Does anyone here have any documentation, suggestions, or pointers to web sites? I'

RE: tunneling everything

2004-11-22 Thread Andrei Iarus
Hi! I am looking for a solution to this problem: I want to make a tcp tunneling. The ssh tunneling doesn`t satisies me because I don`t want to tunnel a specific service, I want to tunnel everything. For example: I would like my host to route everything through a tcp tunnel. I would like to see what

Re: mailinglist with postfix+mysql

2004-11-22 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+++ Martin Hudec [freebsd] [22-11-04 17:49 +0100]: | Hello, | | I am using postfix with mysql backend to provide mail | delivery services. Is there any mailinglist with support | for mysql stored subscribers addresses, and if is, which one | can you generally recommend to me? http://www.goo

Re: NEW: cannot ssh to my computer

2004-11-22 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+++ Ivan Georgiev [freebsd] [22-11-04 07:41 -0500]: | On Monday 22 November 2004 06:39 am, Dick Davies wrote: | > * Panagiotis Christias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [1116 09:16]: | > > On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 00:05:33 -0500, Ivan Georgiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > > > Just another thing ... | > > > | > >

Re: Job Control

2004-11-22 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+++ cape canaveral [freebsd] [22-11-04 03:07 -0800]: | Depends on your shell, or version of cd I suppose. | | bash-3.00$ ls -la | grep test | drwxr-xr-x 2 aaron wheel 512 Nov 22 05:15 test | -rw-r--r-- 1 aaron wheel22 Nov 22 05:22 test1 | bash-3.00$ cd t* | bash-3.00$ pwd | /usr/home/a

Re: openssl 0.9.7e

2004-11-22 Thread Charles Swiger
On Nov 22, 2004, at 1:58 PM, J.D. Bronson wrote: thanks for helping me out. I wanted to update the base version as this is a NEWER version that contains bug fixes and maybe some security fixes - But I am not sure. FreeBSD follows software like OpenSSL, BIND, Sendmail, and so forth closely. Sec

Re: gnome problem

2004-11-22 Thread John Webster
Antoine, You need to comment out the following in /etc/X11/XF86Config: Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" See /usr/ports/UPDATING jw --On Monday, November 22, 2004 13:43:18 -0500 Antoine Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When first running gnome I get this error window popping up. > > Erro

Re: TCSH crash

2004-11-22 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is it a known problem? perl -e 'for $i (0..1){ print $i ; }' > trash `cat trash` Word too long. ^C^C^C The tcsh halt with this. Either FreeBSD 4.9 or BSDI 4.3. - Marcelo Souza Hmm, doesn't happen here on 5.3. How much RAM on your box? K

Re: gnome problem

2004-11-22 Thread Christian Hiris
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 November 2004 19:43, Antoine Solomon wrote: > When first running gnome I get this error window popping up. > > Error activating XKB configuration. > Probably internal X server problem. > > X server version data: > The X.Org Foundation > 60

Re: gnome problem

2004-11-22 Thread Antoine Solomon
actually this is what i have for Option "XkbRules" Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard1" Driver "Keyboard" Option "AutoRepeat" "250 30" Option "XkbRules" "xfree86" Option "XkbModel" "pc105" Option "XkbLayout" "us" EndSection On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:25

slow SSH access from another FreeBSD, but not from WinXP

2004-11-22 Thread I Nyoman Suka Ada
Hi, maybe this is more related to SSH rather than FreeBSD, but thought I give it a shot here. SSH-ing to my FreeBSD box from Windows XP seems to have no problem. But when I tried SSH-ing from another FreeBSD/Linux systems, the time delay between connecting and the "password:" prompt is very long. I

FreeBSD 5.3 problem with xorg video

2004-11-22 Thread David R Loszewski
I have a Dell Inspiron 8000 which has a Nvidia GeForce2 Go, I've had everything working fine under FreeBSD 5.2.1 with XFree86 using the nv driver for my video card, but now when I updated my system to FreeBSD 5.3 it won't work now that it's using xorg. Using the same driver with the same configur

Re: "amr0: bad slot x completed" and fsck_ufs hanging

2004-11-22 Thread Panagiotis Christias
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:49:36 +0100 (CET), Marco Beishuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On stardate Sun, 21 Nov 2004, the wise Marco Beishuizen entered: > > > > > On stardate Sun, 21 Nov 2004, the wise Panagiotis Christias entered: > > > >> the only hint I could find is from the amr(4) man page:

Re: openssl 0.9.7e

2004-11-22 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 12:52 PM 11/22/2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: > If I can find out who maintains this port then maybe they could explain? > I mean how hard can this be (even to document within the Makefile) ? OK. You're on a recent 5.x system that has dynamically linked software in the root partition -- on older F

Re: "amr0: bad slot x completed" and fsck_ufs hanging

2004-11-22 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On stardate Sun, 21 Nov 2004, the wise Marco Beishuizen entered: On stardate Sun, 21 Nov 2004, the wise Panagiotis Christias entered: the only hint I could find is from the amr(4) man page: amr%d: bad slot %d completed The controller reported completion of a command that the driver did not issue

Re: openssl 0.9.7e

2004-11-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 11:14:26AM -0600, J.D. Bronson wrote: > shadow# make distclean > ===> Cleaning for perl-5.8.5 > ===> Cleaning for openssl-0.9.7e_1 > ===> Deleting distfiles for openssl-0.9.7e_1 > shadow# make -DOPENSSL_OVERWRITE_BASE > # > # this ports does not support the dynamic root

gnome problem

2004-11-22 Thread Antoine Solomon
When first running gnome I get this error window popping up. Error activating XKB configuration. Probably internal X server problem. X server version data: The X.Org Foundation 6070 If you report this situation as a bug, please include: - The result of xprop -root | grep XKB - The result o

Re: openssl 0.9.7e

2004-11-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 11:14:26AM -0600, J.D. Bronson wrote: > If I can find out who maintains this port then maybe they could explain? > I mean how hard can this be (even to document within the Makefile) ? It certainly isn't hard to find out who maintains this port: > grep MAINTAINER /usr/port

semaphore problem with Bakbone's Netvault on FreeBSD 4.10

2004-11-22 Thread Georg Altmann
Hi all, I have a problem running the backup software Netvault from Bakbone (http://www.bakbone.com) under FreeBSD 4.10. We are using Netvault to make backups of two servers and several workstations in our network. Backups are first staged to disk and later transferred to an ADIC FastStor 2 (LTO

TCSH crash

2004-11-22 Thread scuba
Hi all, Is it a known problem? > perl -e 'for $i (0..1){ print $i ; }' > trash >`cat trash` Word too long. ^C^C^C The tcsh halt with this. Either FreeBSD 4.9 or BSDI 4.3. - Marcelo Souza ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http:

Re: openssl 0.9.7e

2004-11-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 02:59:45PM +, Chris wrote: > no if I do WITH_OPENSSL_PORT=yes it doesnt overwite the base, OK, the port is telling you that you can't install it to overwrite the base system on 5.3 (because openssl installs into /lib as well and the port hasn't been updated to do this),

Re: Restarting rc.conf

2004-11-22 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Monday, November 22, 2004 12:34:58 PM + David Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would imagine for convenience - if their reasons are similar to what mine were. i.e if you have made several changes to rc.conf then manually restarting several services via /etc/rc.d or /usr/local/etc/rc.d

Re: firefox & thunderbird upgrade problem

2004-11-22 Thread Gary Aitken
Answering my own question in case it's relevant to anyone else. The lynux article quoted below is useless; the missing library is the result of the library search path not being set up correctly because the startup script was bypassed when firefox was started directly. doh. I managed to get both f

Re: Which Sata-controller card?

2004-11-22 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:08 AM +0100 11/22/04, Questions wrote: Garance A Drosihn wrote: Unless something happened in the past week or so, you can still have WRITE_DMA problems with the SiL 3112 if you connect a "fake SATA" drive to it, such as some of the Western Digital drives. ... These drives seem to work okay o

Re: FreeBSD, Intel Motherboards and Portmaster Serial Console - How?

2004-11-22 Thread Samuel Clements
Okay - I'm terribly sorry for replying to myself *again* but to answer your first question of redirection kernel messages to COMB (or 2 or whatever), the docs say: 20.6.5.2 Using Serial Port Other Than sio0 for the Console Using a port other than sio0 as the console requires some recompiling. If

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