Re: Kernel compiling error on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-07-06 Thread Igor Robul
Piotr Baranowski wrote: KK> Show us the exact error and exactly what you did, we can't help if KK> you're vague about it. what i did was: 1) cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf 2) cp GENERIC OWIEC 3) editing OWIEC 4) config OWIEC 5) cd ../compile/OWIEC 6) make depend 7) had errors 8) make -a D depend 9)

mounting an external USB HDD

2005-07-06 Thread Warren
im running FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE and am trying to do the above. umass0: Genesyslogic USB Mass Storage Device, rev 2.00/0.33, addr 2 So i presume it's ums0 and it's a NTFS filesystem ... mount_ntfs: /dev/ums0: Block device required What little i have found on the web plus man pages im afraid im mis

RE: Has this box been hacked?

2005-07-06 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Sure, FreeBSD 4.11 is very easy for a remote attacker to root. All you need to do is let a user on it setup some convenient password like the word "password" for the root user, and use the same on an easy-to-remember userID like "sam" or "bob", then put a DNS entry in for it like "porno-pictures.e

RE: help with she script

2005-07-06 Thread fbsd_user
On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 16:47:24 -0400 "fbsd_user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is my last coding problem. > > > target="check-state" > > # Find the rule number of the target rule where you want the doorman > # pass rules inserted before. > > ruleno=`ipfw list | sed -n -e "s/00\([0-9]*\) $target

imap-uw / squirrellmail / mysql / postfix / postfixadmin question

2005-07-06 Thread M. Goodell
Hello, I have successfully installed: imap-uw / squirrellmail / mysql / postfix / PostfixAdmin and have setup postfix virtual domain capability. Postfix accepts mail for virtual hosts / accounts that I configured with PostfixAdmin very well. Watching the mail log the mail arrives and is delive

HELP:I'm on deployment and they've got Linksys Wireless-G usb network adapter(is there any hope?)

2005-07-06 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Good day, This will be really really quick.Is linksys wireless-g 2.4ghz usb network adapter supported by freebsd 5.4?? If so, please point me somewhere I can make it work. Thanks! - Sell on Yahoo! Auctions - No fees. Bid on great items. ___

Re: How do I reinstall the FreeBSD bootmanager? - next problem :-(

2005-07-06 Thread Jud
Bob Willcox wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 10:27:50AM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: Now, to my original problem (that caused me to overwrite the FreeBSD boot manager with another that I tried called GAG). This particular system has a single 300 GB harddrive installed with four Slices (partitions

Does PF firewall have stateless rules

2005-07-06 Thread fbsd_user
Does the OpenBSD Packet Filter firewall have stateless rules? Meaning, if I coded a rule to pass in for port 23 without any of the different state options coded, do I also have to code the same kind of rule to allow that port 23 packet back out like in IPFW. Or is there no stateless rules in PF?

Re[2]: Kernel compiling error on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-07-06 Thread Piotr Baranowski
KK> Show us the exact error and exactly what you did, we can't help if KK> you're vague about it. what i did was: 1) cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf 2) cp GENERIC OWIEC 3) editing OWIEC 4) config OWIEC 5) cd ../compile/OWIEC 6) make depend 7) had errors 8) make -a D depend 9) seen errors ;-) then i use

Re: Kernel compiling error on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-07-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 02:34:52AM +0200, Zenobius Xavierus wrote: > Hello :-) > > I'm new to this list, and to FreeBSD alltogether. > Today i tried to compile new Kernel and i did it 'by the book'. The > problem is with compiling, i get error like: > 'cc1: error: unrecognized command line option

Kernel compiling error on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-07-06 Thread Zenobius Xavierus
Hello :-) I'm new to this list, and to FreeBSD alltogether. Today i tried to compile new Kernel and i did it 'by the book'. The problem is with compiling, i get error like: 'cc1: error: unrecognized command line option "-f"' and then errors about "no such file or directory" i tried several thing

USB drive errors (USB 2.0 and memory drive)

2005-07-06 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Well, I've been in a config debug mood lately, so I'm going to go after one more issue. Rather, I'm gonna ask for help here, since I can't find the solution online. This has been happening since I managed to get ehci working without causing the kernel to freak out. I'm running 5.4 RELEASE p1 (up

RE: Simple question--OT

2005-07-06 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
I just received this message NOW at 7:55 pm EST But I did receive it before , could this be related to my new BSD box?? Or have any others received delayed duplicates? And is says 3:51 pm -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Swiger

RE: Usage help

2005-07-06 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Ok, I hijacked another users ram chip (256) and I put in , Running like a champ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jean-Paul Natola Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 5:26 PM To: Charles Swiger Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Usa

Re: devfs permissions wierdness

2005-07-06 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 07/07/05 01:11 AM, Roland Smith sat at the `puter and typed: > On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 04:11:41PM -0400, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > > I have my devfs config set up to allow certain devices to be mounted > > by users in the cdusers group as follows: > > > > own da1 root:cdusers > > permd

RE: not-yet-a-newbie : DL (ftp?) iso image help question

2005-07-06 Thread John Brooks
don't know who "Anon" is, but you might try "anonymous" -- John Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of nbco > Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 6:04 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; datora tehnika > Subject: Re: no

Re: devfs permissions wierdness

2005-07-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 04:11:41PM -0400, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > I have my devfs config set up to allow certain devices to be mounted > by users in the cdusers group as follows: > > own da1 root:cdusers > permda1 0660 > own da1aroot:cdusers > permda1a0660 > own

Re: not-yet-a-newbie : DL (ftp?) iso image help question

2005-07-06 Thread nbco
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 22:48, datora tehnika wrote: > Hi folks -- > So, I'm trying to DL the ISO images & have been having a very > frustrating past three days. Very minor fluctuations in the local > connection (including power blips) keep wrecking the ISO image DL via > web browser. I'd lik

RE: Usage help

2005-07-06 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Ok I did reduce my vm usage to 54% And it *seems* to be running a little quicker , but that always happen after I restart sa I'll check on it later Thanks you very much, I really appreciate your help -Original Message- From: Charles Swiger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,

Re: perl-after-upgrade

2005-07-06 Thread Bob Hall
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 03:10:04PM -0400, Bob Hall wrote: > I don't know squat about perl. I recently ran portupgrade, which > upgraded perl. Goose stopped working, because the location for Curses.pm > was no longer in @INC. I tried to run perl-after-upgrade, but I couldn't > get it to run. I foun

Re: Weird "nice" behavior

2005-07-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 03:19:07PM -0400, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > On 07/06/05 02:55 PM, Kris Kennaway sat at the `puter and typed: > > On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 02:26:22PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > "Scott I. Remick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > I'm seeing something strange/annoy

FreeBSD locks up when X-windows running (LONG)

2005-07-06 Thread Andreas Kohn
Hi, say, do you see any messages like NVRM: Xid: 13, 02005600 0056 0c28 006500ac 0080 (Numbers may vary, I think) in your kernel messages after such a lock-up happened? I have a NVidia Geforce 2MX, and drivers >1.0.6113 create such messages. I don't have to completely reset t

Re: devfs permissions wierdness

2005-07-06 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 07/06/05 04:11 PM, Louis LeBlanc sat at the `puter and typed: > I have my devfs config set up to allow certain devices to be mounted > by users in the cdusers group as follows: > > own da1 root:cdusers > permda1 0660 > own da1aroot:cdusers > permda1a0660 > own

not-yet-a-newbie : DL (ftp?) iso image help question

2005-07-06 Thread datora tehnika
Hi folks -- Been reading through the email list archives & haven't seen this yet (in last 90 days or so). I think this is the best list for me to be on .. it seems to be for general questions, including raw newbie pointers. Since I have failed to DL the ISO's by myself, I don't even qualify as a

Re: Usage help

2005-07-06 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 6, 2005, at 5:26 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: is this how I should change it? spamd_flags=${spamd_flags:-"-c -d -r - m 20 ${spamd_pidfile}"} Try more like: spamd_flags=${spamd_flags:-"-c -d -r -m 2 ${spamd_pidfile}"} You don't have enough memory in your machine to run twenty ~30MB

Re: Usage help

2005-07-06 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 6, 2005, at 4:55 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Ok, if I can figure out what this means procs memory page disk faults cpu r b w avmfre flt re pi po fr sr ad0 in sy cs us sy id 1 10 0 435856 5288 260 22 63 43 334 9137 0 447

RE: Usage help

2005-07-06 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
On Jul 6, 2005, at 4:16 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > Here's the situation , minute after I launch Spamassassin the > machine starts > crawling, although top shows anywhere from 50 - 90 idle it just > slows down > extremely , for example I'll type top and wait anywhere between 4 > and 1

RE: Usage help

2005-07-06 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
On Jul 6, 2005, at 4:16 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > Here's the situation , minute after I launch Spamassassin the > machine starts > crawling, although top shows anywhere from 50 - 90 idle it just > slows down > extremely , for example I'll type top and wait anywhere between 4 > and 12

Re: Start telnet server help

2005-07-06 Thread jdyke
Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, >Have you got a line indicating >inetd_enable="YES" >in your /etc/rc.conf? Yes it's indicated, The file rc.conf is accumulative? Because inside it appears the last configuration changed with the date. The line inetd_enable="YES" is repeated every time I made a change. a

IBM HDAPS Driver

2005-07-06 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Hi, As maybe you have already noticed, I use Linux, but this doesn't go into the case. We are working on getting the IBM HDAPS (Hard Drive Active Protection System) which is the one that parks the head of your new IBM lappy when it's on free fall or when there is heavy vibration. Anyway,

RE: Usage help

2005-07-06 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Ok, if I can figure out what this means procs memory page disk faults cpu r b w avmfre flt re pi po fr sr ad0 in sy cs us sy id 1 10 0 435856 5288 260 22 63 43 334 9137 0 447 134 782 11 6 83 -Original Message- From: Charl

Re: Start telnet server help

2005-07-06 Thread Greg Barniskis
Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, >Have you got a line indicating >inetd_enable="YES" >in your /etc/rc.conf? Yes it's indicated, The file rc.conf is accumulative? Because inside it appears the last configuration changed with the date. The line inetd_enable="YES" is repeated every time I made a change.

RE: Start telnet server help

2005-07-06 Thread fbsd_user
You can delete all the inetd_enable="YES" statements in rc.conf but one. If you also have a firewall on the freebsd box you have to add rule to allow tcp port 23 in. In /etc/inetd.conf you have to uncomment the telnet line to activate the telnet server. You also need an user account other than roo

Start telnet server help

2005-07-06 Thread Efren Bravo
Hi, >Have you got a line indicating >inetd_enable="YES" >in your /etc/rc.conf? Yes it's indicated, The file rc.conf is accumulative? Because inside it appears the last configuration changed with the date. The line inetd_enable="YES" is repeated every time I made a change. and $ telnet loc

Re: Usage help

2005-07-06 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 6, 2005, at 4:16 PM, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Here's the situation , minute after I launch Spamassassin the machine starts crawling, although top shows anywhere from 50 - 90 idle it just slows down extremely , for example I'll type top and wait anywhere between 4 and 12 seconds be

Problems building OO

2005-07-06 Thread Mike Meyer
I'm trying to build openoffice-1.1, setting WITHOUT_MOZILLA since I don't have (or want) mozilla installed. It's failing in the build process with: rm -f ../../unxfbsd.pro/bin/odk645/examples/OLE/delphi/InsertTables/SampleUI.dfm >& /dev/null tr -d "\015" < ../../examples/OLE/delphi/InsertTables

Re: Account password expiration

2005-07-06 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 06), Mike Carlson said: > Is there a way in 5.x to have account passwords expire every 180 > days? Or I should say N days really. I think this was once tunable in > /etc/login.conf but thats has been repalced with PAM. > > Anyway, I just need account passwords to expire ev

Re: Simple question

2005-07-06 Thread Bryan Maynard
I just want to note: it tokk all of five minutes to get an answer to this question. I know not all questions are, or can be, answered this quickly. I just think it's worth noting that Open Source Software does have excellent user support. . . Just my .02 :-) >On Wednesday 06 July 2005 07:45 pm

Re: Account password expiration

2005-07-06 Thread Matthias Buelow
Mike Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Is there a way in 5.x to have account passwords expire every 180 days? Or I >should say N days really. I think this was once tunable in /etc/login.conf >but thats has been repalced with PAM. man pw pw.conf mkb. _

Usage help

2005-07-06 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hello everyone, I'm a newbie- please be gentle, I have deployed a BSD box running , EXIM , SA, & CLAM Here's the situation , minute after I launch Spamassassin the machine starts crawling, although top shows anywhere from 50 - 90 idle it just slows down extremely , for example I'll type top

devfs permissions wierdness

2005-07-06 Thread Louis LeBlanc
I have my devfs config set up to allow certain devices to be mounted by users in the cdusers group as follows: own da1 root:cdusers permda1 0660 own da1aroot:cdusers permda1a0660 own da1croot:cdusers permda1c0660 own da1s1 root:cdusers perm

Re: Start telnet server help

2005-07-06 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 03:30:21PM -0400, Efren Bravo wrote: > Hi, > I've followed these steps to try to install telnet server but it doesn't > works: > #sysinstall ->Option: "Configure" > ->Option: "Networking" > ->Option: "Inetd" : This option loads /etc/inetd.conf file where I > uncommented th

Re: Simple question

2005-07-06 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 07/06/05 03:45 PM, Efren Bravo sat at the `puter and typed: > Hi again, > > I'm reading a Pdf book downloaded from freeBSD.org called FreeBSD > Handbook and there I always find this references: > > sendmail(8) > sshd(8) > /etc/inetd.conf(5) <-Which is the meaning of those numbers Thi

Re: Simple question

2005-07-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hi again, > > I'm reading a Pdf book downloaded from freeBSD.org called FreeBSD > Handbook and there I always find this references: > > sendmail(8) > sshd(8) > /etc/inetd.conf(5) <-Which is the meaning of those numbers Those are the man page sections to look at for documentation. S

Re: Start telnet server help

2005-07-06 Thread Greg Barniskis
Garrett Cooper wrote: Did you actually add the pkg for the telnet server? Also, realize that port 21 is the default listening port for telnet, so if you thought that the open ports displayed is out of the ordinary, it's not really unless you changed the listening port. Have you tried telnetting

Re: Simple question

2005-07-06 Thread Michael Beattie
On 7/6/05, Efren Bravo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi again, > > I'm reading a Pdf book downloaded from freeBSD.org called FreeBSD > Handbook and there I always find this references: > > sendmail(8) > sshd(8) > /etc/inetd.conf(5) <-Which is the meaning of those numbers > > Thanks > The numbe

Re: Simple question

2005-07-06 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 6, 2005, at 3:45 PM, Efren Bravo wrote: Hi again, I'm reading a Pdf book downloaded from freeBSD.org called FreeBSD Handbook and there I always find this references: sendmail (8) sshd(8) /etc/inetd.conf(5) <-Which is the meaning of those numbers Thanks It refers to the section of th

Simple question

2005-07-06 Thread Efren Bravo
Hi again, I'm reading a Pdf book downloaded from freeBSD.org called FreeBSD Handbook and there I always find this references: sendmail(8) sshd(8) /etc/inetd.conf(5) <-Which is the meaning of those numbers Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: Start telnet server help

2005-07-06 Thread Garrett Cooper
Did you actually add the pkg for the telnet server? Also, realize that port 21 is the default listening port for telnet, so if you thought that the open ports displayed is out of the ordinary, it's not really unless you changed the listening port. Have you tried telnetting to yourself (ie telne

Start telnet server help

2005-07-06 Thread Efren Bravo
Hi, I've followed these steps to try to install telnet server but it doesn't works: #sysinstall ->Option: "Configure" ->Option: "Networking" ->Option: "Inetd" : This option loads /etc/inetd.conf file where I uncommented the line: telnet stream tcp nowait root . and at last I restart the sy

Account password expiration

2005-07-06 Thread Mike Carlson
Hello, Is there a way in 5.x to have account passwords expire every 180 days? Or I should say N days really. I think this was once tunable in /etc/login.conf but thats has been repalced with PAM. Anyway, I just need account passwords to expire every 180 days, any help is appreciated. Oh, I do

Re: Weird "nice" behavior

2005-07-06 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 07/06/05 02:55 PM, Kris Kennaway sat at the `puter and typed: > On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 02:26:22PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > "Scott I. Remick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > I'm seeing something strange/annoying tonight... maybe someone could help > > > explain why it's happening.

perl-after-upgrade

2005-07-06 Thread Bob Hall
I don't know squat about perl. I recently ran portupgrade, which upgraded perl. Goose stopped working, because the location for Curses.pm was no longer in @INC. I tried to run perl-after-upgrade, but I couldn't get it to run. I've got a book that said to use # perl perl-after-upgrade or

Re: Weird "nice" behavior

2005-07-06 Thread Matthias Buelow
Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE >> >> I'm trying to do a large local rsync in the background, while listening to >> streaming audio via RealPlayer and do other stuff. I have the rsync >> running at nice level 20 ("nice -20") which I've confirmed via ps: Please t

Re: Weird "nice" behavior

2005-07-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 02:26:22PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "Scott I. Remick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm seeing something strange/annoying tonight... maybe someone could help > > explain why it's happening. > > > > FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE > > > > I'm trying to do a large local rsync

Re: NIC suggestion

2005-07-06 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jul 6, 2005, at 10:32 AM, Casey Scott wrote: I am experiencing the same rebooting under network stress that others on this list have reported. The box is using 3com 905b's, and I would like to try another NIC in the box to make sure that this isn't just a driver issue, though I strongly

Re: NIC suggestion

2005-07-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > On Wednesday 06 July 2005 11:32, Casey Scott wrote: > > I am experiencing the same rebooting under network stress that others on > > this list have reported. The box is using 3com 905b's, and I would like > > to try another NIC in the box to make sure that this isn't just a driver > > issue, t

Re: multi-port NIC suggestions?

2005-07-06 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 6, 2005, at 1:13 PM, Greg Barniskis wrote: Can anyone suggest (or warn against) any particular NIC make/model that features 2 or 4 NIC ports on a single card, for use with 5.4- STABLE (or even 6.0 since this is a long term project)? We are interested in prototyping a small footprint ro

Re: Weird "nice" behavior

2005-07-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Scott I. Remick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm seeing something strange/annoying tonight... maybe someone could help > explain why it's happening. > > FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE > > I'm trying to do a large local rsync in the background, while listening to > streaming audio via RealPlayer and do o

Trouble connecting OS X 10.4.1 client to FreeBSD -current (on sparc64) mpd server for pptp tunneling

2005-07-06 Thread Tillman Hodgson
Howdy, I've been googling for information about getting a Mac OS X client (a powerbook running 10.4.1) to work with a VPN server of some sort on FreeBSD (-current as of April 25 running on sparc64). The VPN server has a static IP and acts as a firewall and BGP/OSPF router as well (over tunnels to

Re: How do I reinstall the FreeBSD bootmanager? - next problem :-(

2005-07-06 Thread Bob Willcox
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 10:27:50AM -0500, Bob Willcox wrote: > I need to reinstall the FreeBSD bootmanager on one of my systems and > was hoping someone can point me in the right direction on doing this. > I tried running /sbin/sysinstall but decided that I wasn't confident > enough of what I was d

Re: Linksys WMP11 on Freebsd 4.3

2005-07-06 Thread Danny Howard
Jamie Ann P. Zamodio wrote: Hi, I would just like to ask if there is any way at all that I can configure the Linksys wireless PCI card (WMP11) to work on Freebsd 4.3? I know the card's not compatible, but if I can't make it work I'll have to buy a wireless card that IS compatible and I'm hoping

Re: dhclient.conf for wireless interface

2005-07-06 Thread Danny Howard
Erik Nørgaard wrote: Hi, I am trying to configure dhclient to associate with the correct accesspoint, I use FreeBSD Current with the new dhclient ported from OpenBSD. The examples I can find mentions that I should create an entry in my dhclient.conf like this: interface "ath0" { medi

Compaq Presario 6000 Install Failure FBSD 5.4 RELEASE (Should Be PROLIANT!)

2005-07-06 Thread RA Cohen
Ted, Thanks for getting us pointed in the right direction. Turns out the Compaq BIOS that this bunch of hardware wanted was plain ol' SCO UNIX. Go figure...just about all the other Compaq-based FBSD boxes I've built have been done with SCO Unixware 7.1 or thereabouts...go figure! Roy ___

Re: Software RAID-1 - Swap partition

2005-07-06 Thread Danny Howard
John Oxley wrote: Hi, I followed http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ to create a software RAID mirror. I have two 75G drives in the machine. I allocated 74G to the filesystem on each drive and 1 G to swap. When I blanked ad1 and created ad1s1, I didn't notice that it had taken up the whol

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
David Gerard wrote: Ayn Rand(founder of Scientology) Ayn Rand was really L Ron Hubbard. At last, a conspiracy theory worth believing in :-) The truth *is* out there: http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/ayn-rand-and-hubbard.htm http://www.facade.com/celebrity/L_Ron_Hubbard/ and search for Birth Ma

RE: NIC suggestion

2005-07-06 Thread fbsd_user
I would like to inquire about what FreeBSD version are you running? Did you do a fresh install of 5.4 to a empty disk or did you do the build world process? Build world means you are running the old file system. Fresh install means you are running the new file system. During the development and i

multi-port NIC suggestions?

2005-07-06 Thread Greg Barniskis
Along the same lines of a similarly titled concurrent thread... Can anyone suggest (or warn against) any particular NIC make/model that features 2 or 4 NIC ports on a single card, for use with 5.4-STABLE (or even 6.0 since this is a long term project)? We are interested in prototyping a small

RE: Migrating FreeBsd installation to another hard drive

2005-07-06 Thread Ruben Bloemgarten
Hi there, I had to do something similar i.e. change RAID levels, there is no need to install anything. Just use the fixit CD. Here is my procedure : Ofcourse you'll have to change disk[slice] names to what suits you. NOTE: I used tar for the /usr slice as I had some size constraints and therefore

Re: Migrating FreeBsd installation to another hard drive

2005-07-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chris Roos wrote: One final question is whether the dump/restore process is the best approach in this instance? I have read about using dd but am not entirely sure whether this would do what I need? No, you should use dump/restore and if it is the root partition you will need to edit fstab

Re: NIC suggestion

2005-07-06 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 6, 2005, at 12:32 PM, Casey Scott wrote: I am experiencing the same rebooting under network stress that others on this list have reported. The box is using 3com 905b's, and I would like to try another NIC in the box to make sure that this isn't just a driver issue, though I strongly su

Re: make distribution fails with call to cap_mkdb

2005-07-06 Thread jdyke
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: jdyke wrote: h. sweet. thanks. i'll check that out. my cvs-supfile is *default release=cvs tag=. *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_4 --Alex thanks all. will re-up. was thinking `.` equated to my release, guess i should have read closer. ___

Re: make distribution fails with call to cap_mkdb

2005-07-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
jdyke wrote: h. sweet. thanks. i'll check that out. my cvs-supfile is *default release=cvs tag=. *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_4 --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: NIC suggestion

2005-07-06 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 11:32, Casey Scott wrote: > I am experiencing the same rebooting under network stress that others on > this list have reported. The box is using 3com 905b's, and I would like > to try another NIC in the box to make sure that this isn't just a driver > issue, though I stron

Has this box been hacked?

2005-07-06 Thread Brett Glass
A client had a network problem, and I wanted to make sure that his FreeBSD 4.11 router wasn't the cause of it, so I rebooted it. I then did a "last" command and saw the following: root ttyv0 Tue Jul 5 12:01 - 12:05 (00:04) adminttyp0localhost

Re: How do I reinstall the FreeBSD bootmanager?

2005-07-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-07-06 10:27, Bob Willcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I need to reinstall the FreeBSD bootmanager on one of my systems and was hoping someone can point me in the right direction on doing this. I tried running /sbin/sysinstall but decided that I wasn't confident

NIC suggestion

2005-07-06 Thread Casey Scott
I am experiencing the same rebooting under network stress that others on this list have reported. The box is using 3com 905b's, and I would like to try another NIC in the box to make sure that this isn't just a driver issue, though I strongly suspect it isn't. Can someone suggest a common 100 MB NI

Re: reg: Gmake

2005-07-06 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 6, 2005, at 12:20 PM, Sunil Seth wrote: I am trying to install Postgresql on FreeBSD and as a part of installation I wanted to use Gmake command. When I use this command it gives me command not found. I am new to FreeBSD and Postgresql. Any help would be appreciated Use ports:

Re: reg: Gmake

2005-07-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 09:20:06AM -0700, Sunil Seth wrote: > I am trying to install Postgresql on FreeBSD and as a part of installation > I wanted to use Gmake command. When I use this command it gives me command > not found. I am new to FreeBSD and Postgresql. Any help would be appreciated Ins

Re: make distribution fails with call to cap_mkdb

2005-07-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 04:06:45PM +, jdyke wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 12:33:35PM +, jdyke wrote: > > > >>Trying to rebuild a jail and am getting an error on `make distribution` > >>I was able to do this when the server was at 5.3-RELEASE without error, > >>bu

reg: Gmake

2005-07-06 Thread Sunil Seth
I am trying to install Postgresql on FreeBSD and as a part of installation I wanted to use Gmake command. When I use this command it gives me command not found. I am new to FreeBSD and Postgresql. Any help would be appreciated Thanks Sunil __

Migrating FreeBsd installation to another hard drive

2005-07-06 Thread Chris Roos
Hi, I've recently had the job of moving a FreeBsd installation to another hard drive. After quite a lot of reading I got round to following this article[1] using a VMWare FreeBsd instance. In brief the article uses dump and restore to move the data from one mounted partition to another in s

Re: make distribution fails with call to cap_mkdb

2005-07-06 Thread jdyke
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 12:33:35PM +, jdyke wrote: Trying to rebuild a jail and am getting an error on `make distribution` I was able to do this when the server was at 5.3-RELEASE without error, but since upgrading to 5.4-RELEASE it continusiously fails. The error is

Re: make distribution fails with call to cap_mkdb

2005-07-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 12:33:35PM +, jdyke wrote: > Trying to rebuild a jail and am getting an error on `make distribution` > I was able to do this when the server was at 5.3-RELEASE without error, but > since upgrading to 5.4-RELEASE it continusiously fails. > > The error is: > cap_mkdb: il

Re: How to use libchk

2005-07-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 01:40:50PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Running libchk I find for instance > > Unresolvable link(s) found in: /usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/components/libjar50.so > libnspr4.so > libplc4.so > libplds4.so > libxpcom.so > > What should I do? > D

Re: squid bind to port 80 fails when started via squid.sh script

2005-07-06 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Wayne Sierke wrote: On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 03:33 +0200, P.U.Kruppa wrote: On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Wayne Sierke wrote: FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE/squid-2.5.9_3 If I start squid via the script (as root), I get: /var/log/squid_cache.log: commBind: Cannot bind socket FD 11 to *:80: (13

Re: How do I reinstall the FreeBSD bootmanager?

2005-07-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-07-06 10:27, Bob Willcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to reinstall the FreeBSD bootmanager on one of my systems and > was hoping someone can point me in the right direction on doing this. > I tried running /sbin/sysinstall but decided that I wasn't confident > enough of what I was do

Re: How do I reinstall the FreeBSD bootmanager?

2005-07-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#WIN95-DAMAGED-BOOT-MANAGER ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

How do I reinstall the FreeBSD bootmanager?

2005-07-06 Thread Bob Willcox
I need to reinstall the FreeBSD bootmanager on one of my systems and was hoping someone can point me in the right direction on doing this. I tried running /sbin/sysinstall but decided that I wasn't confident enough of what I was doing to risk trashing my install. BTW, this is on an amd64 6-current

Re: Problem updating apache 2.1.x via port

2005-07-06 Thread Hornet
On 7/6/05, bsd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a problem updating my apache port. > > Compile seem to be ok and then install goes wrong. > > Any idea how to fix that ? > > > > ===> Installing for apache-2.1.4 > > ===> apache-2.1.4 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so.3 > > - foun

Horde PEAR

2005-07-06 Thread dick hoogendijk
I installed Horde and run horde/test/php Two things: the "memory limit" in the php4 port is on. OK I could recompile, but.. And I keep on getting PEAR: pear not found. This is strange. A pear config-show gives my a php_dir of "/usr/local/lib/php/pear" So I put include_path = .:/usr/local/lib/php

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD (Beastie vs Penguin)

2005-07-06 Thread Bob Hall
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 11:43:07PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > 30 years from now they will probably try for bestiality marriage Beastie getting married? Be still my heart! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: toggle volume with scroll wheel in X on freeBSD ?

2005-07-06 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 07/05/05 10:06 PM, Joe Schmoe sat at the `puter and typed: > Hello, > > WHen I used to use windows, a very favorite app I used > was: > > http://www.toggle.com/products/volume/ > > Very simple - if you held down control, then the mouse > scroll wheel caused master volume to go up and down. >

Re: Procedure for migrating user accounts to new system ?

2005-07-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Nelis Lamprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 05 Jul 2005 16:44:02 -0400, Lowell Gilbert > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Nelis Lamprecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > What is the correct procedure to follow for migrating user accounts > > > from one FreeBSD 4.x system to a new FreeBSD

disk write barriers

2005-07-06 Thread Matthias Buelow
Hi folks, I'd like to know something about the (possible) existence of disk write-barriers in FreeBSD. I often read the advice that one should disable write-back caching on modern disks in order to make softupdates actually work. Unfortunately, disabling the write-back cache on typical ATA/SATA co

make distribution fails with call to cap_mkdb

2005-07-06 Thread jdyke
Trying to rebuild a jail and am getting an error on `make distribution` I was able to do this when the server was at 5.3-RELEASE without error, but since upgrading to 5.4-RELEASE it continusiously fails. The error is: cap_mkdb: illegal option -- l usage: cap_mkdb [-v] [-f outfile] file [file ..

Re: aaaargghh.. sendmail again

2005-07-06 Thread Julian Elischer
I'll be trying the various suggestions I got tomorrow thanks all. On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-07-05 19:31, Gregory Neil Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Very true. Is that correct though, or should we remove it from the generic.m4 file of FreeBSD? No, I don't wa

tcp strangness

2005-07-06 Thread Dr Support XGforce.COM
hi: we are using freebsd 5.4 and 4.10 as pop3 server, one of the msg that the cron daliy run generated email cause our pop3 to break in the middile of the msg download. We tested by using either pop3 cleint or a direct telnet pop3 login. we looked at the tcpdump, the telnet side strangely se

Re: Procedure for migrating user accounts to new system ?

2005-07-06 Thread Mike Brown
Nelis Lamprecht wrote: > To answer my own posting. Simply copy(keeping correct permissions) > /etc/passwd, /etc/master.passwd and /etc/group to the new system > making sure you have a backup of the original if anything goes wrong. > Then run pwd_mkdb -p /etc/passwd which will update /etc/pwd.db, >

Re: Linux move to FreeBSD

2005-07-06 Thread David Gerard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050703 23:08]: > FreeBSD looks like a good stating place for me, > but one think about FreeBSD makes me uncomfortable > is the symbol/emblem that the OS uses. That is a "devil" ! > I would like to know if possible how this came about, > and what thinking was

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