Yoxel.Com

Hello FreeBSD team, We have been working on an interesting project here at Yoxel.Com. It is a project management service called "Release Planning System" which allows software developing teams to: - collaboratively create a release plan based on deadline, effort estimates and priorities. - tr

Re: Can someone clarify ipfw's in/out/recv/xmit/via concepts?

in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Dave McCammon thusly... > > Here is a link to a thread that help me to understand the > in/out/recv/xmit stuff. > > http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc/tree/browse_frm/thread/240d22a55265689/4bb2dd91a376fa6c?rnum=1&hl=en&_done=%2Fgro

buildworld failed in /usr/src/contrib/groff/src/preproc/eqn/eqn.y and lex.cpp, no such file box.h and eqn_tab.h

I want to migration from FreeBSD 5.2 to FreeBSD RELENG_5. After using cvsup update source code, I run buildworld. First time it stop at libstdc++, no unwind.h, I fixed it by modify Makefile.inc in it. Second time it stop at libsupc++, fixed it with same way. Third time, it failed in libgroff, fixe

Bind failures

Recently I aquired a wireless card, and sometime during the setup I believe I borked something. Nothing seems to be able to bind to a port. During start up each time I see an error like : "Starting syslogd. Jul 28 18:13:31 syslogd: bind: Can't assign requested address Jul 28 18:13:31 syslogd: bin

Re: groupadd/useradd in FreeBSD?

In the last episode (Jul 29), Xu Qiang said: > Maybe it is an off-topic question. > > I "cd /usr/local/mysql/sql-bench" and "perl run_all_tests", just to get the > following error: > - > Got error: 'Access denied for user 'root'@'localh

Re: Dead disk? READ_DMA Failure

On 7/28/05, Erik Nørgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Please read on although this is a long one... I might panic and > coredump myself if I don't get this fixed. > > I have a one year old Hitachi Travelstar 60GB/4200RPM disk. This > night and since then, I get these errors: > > ad0: T

Getting session details from a dump tape

Hi, I've done a level 0 dump of a server which is spanned over several tapes. Somehow, when I was labelling the tapes, I did something wrong and have an extra tape in there. I'm wondering if there is some way to find out what is on the tapes? I know I could do an ls to look at the files, but t

RE: groupadd/useradd in FreeBSD?

Dan Nelson wrote: > You set a password on mysql's root user, and probably didn't tell > sql-bench about it. Take a look at the the sql-bench documentation or > look at the run_all_tests script to find out how to tell it what the > password is. Sorry I didn't read the file README in the sql-bench

RE: groupadd/useradd in FreeBSD?

Maybe it is an off-topic question. I "cd /usr/local/mysql/sql-bench" and "perl run_all_tests", just to get the following error: - Got error: 'Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)' when connecting to DBI:mysql:

Re: groupadd/useradd in FreeBSD?

In the last episode (Jul 29), Xu Qiang said: > Dan Nelson wrote: > > No-one usually logs in as the mysql user, so you don't need to set > > one. Mysqld will automatically setuid() itself to the "mysql" user > > when it starts up. > > Suppose it is a general scenario, not restricted to MySQL setup.

Re: groupadd/useradd in FreeBSD?

Am 29.07.2005 um 02:53 schrieb Xu Qiang: Suppose it is a general scenario, not restricted to MySQL setup. How to set up a user's password after creating his/her uid/username? as root do a "passwd ". Jörg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

RE: groupadd/useradd in FreeBSD?

Dan Nelson wrote: > No-one usually logs in as the mysql user, so you don't need to set > one. Mysqld will automatically setuid() itself to the "mysql" user > when it starts up. Suppose it is a general scenario, not restricted to MySQL setup. How to set up a user's password after creating his/her

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Re: Large filesystem woes

Nice catch! I think you should report this to phk@ or ru@ who have been the most active in the fdisk area :-) - Giorgos On 2005-07-28 16:40, dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've remounted the disk readonly, and was still seeing the same errors. > I've looked at the fdisk source and compared

Re: Can't boot 5.x

At 04:21 PM 7/28/2005, Gerald S Stoller wrote: I tried to boot FreeBSD versions 5.0 , 5.3 , and 5.4 ; all were unsuccessful. I was told that something basic in the boot stuff was changed and my micro-processor (or BIOS , or whatever) may be out-of-date vis-a-vis the new boot proces

Can't boot 5.x

I tried to boot FreeBSD versions 5.0 , 5.3 , and 5.4 ; all were unsuccessful. I was told that something basic in the boot stuff was changed and my micro-processor (or BIOS , or whatever) may be out-of-date vis-a-vis the new boot process. My system's uname -a is FreeBSD 4.3-RELEAS

Re: Large filesystem woes

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Hmmm, in multiuser mode, your root filesystem is mounted as read-write > and it resides in da0, so GEOM will forbid opening the disk device in > read-write mode for editing the partition table. > > In single user mode, devfs is still used, but your r

Re: Backup kernel - confirmation

Bryan Maynard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, you can do that. Also of note is that when FreeBSD compiles a > kernel it takes the old kernel and renames it kernel.old. When FreeBSD > is booting you can select which kernel to use simpy by entering > "boot /boot/kernel.old/kernel" or "boot /bo

Re: need some advice

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 dick hoogendijk wrote: > I have the chance to buy a new computer. It will take a long time > before I can do this again. > > My options are: > > Athlon64-3000+ (Newcastle) on a MSI K8T NEO-FSR board (1Gb 3200 > mem) Athlon64-3400+ (Clawhammer on

Re: Large filesystem woes

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, dpk wrote: > truss indicates that fdisk may be getting the error from somewhere else: > > stat("/dev/da0",0xbfbfeb30) = 0 (0x0) > open("/dev/da0",0x2,00) ERR#1 'Operation not > permitted' > open("/dev/da0",0x0,027757765630)

Re: Large filesystem woes

On 2005-07-28 16:04, dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # df -k > Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0s1a 35082074 1147642 31127868 4%/ > devfs 1 10 100%/dev > procfs 4 40 100%/proc > # fdisk

Re: Large filesystem woes

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > It won't wipe away the table. It will just let you edit the existing > table interactively, through a series of questions like: > > - Do you want to edit partition 1? > - Do you want to edit partition 2? > - Do you want to edit par

Re: need some advice

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, dick hoogendijk wrote: I have the chance to buy a new computer. It will take a long time before I can do this again. My options are: Athlon64-3000+ (Newcastle) on a MSI K8T NEO-FSR board (1Gb 3200 mem) Athlon64-3400+ (Clawhammer on the same board Intel Prescott 3.4Mhz on

Re: need some advice

dick hoogendijk wrote: > Is there much difference between the athlon3000/3400 ?? > Will the intel platform have (dis)advantages ? Well, the 3400+ will be slightly faster when it comes to number crunching. They'll be up to par to the Intel chip, but the Intel system will cost more. If price is imp

Re: Large filesystem woes

On 2005-07-28 15:52, dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> Are you trying to start from scratch, or just making changes to the >> existing table? If it's the second, then try the -u option: >> >> # fdisk -u /dev/da0 >> >> This should give you a chanc

Re: Large filesystem woes

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > Are you trying to start from scratch, or just making changes to the > existing table? If it's the second, then try the -u option: > > # fdisk -u /dev/da0 > > This should give you a chance to interactively change the partition > table of the di

Re: Sendmail help needed

At 03:17 PM 7/28/2005, Alexandre Vieira wrote: Hello folks, I'm trying to get past a standard in sendmail which is very simple. I have several machines reporting mails trough local MTA's (sendmail) in each one of the boxes to our main mailserver. The thing is, I did not developed the scripts an

need some advice

I have the chance to buy a new computer. It will take a long time before I can do this again. My options are: Athlon64-3000+ (Newcastle) on a MSI K8T NEO-FSR board (1Gb 3200 mem) Athlon64-3400+ (Clawhammer on the same board Intel Prescott 3.4Mhz on a Intel 915p board (1024 Mb DDRII pc4300 memory

Sendmail help needed

Hello folks, I'm trying to get past a standard in sendmail which is very simple. I have several machines reporting mails trough local MTA's (sendmail) in each one of the boxes to our main mailserver. The thing is, I did not developed the scripts and they are using "mailx -s user" which normally

Re: Determine processing holding open a 52+Gig file ...

'k, this is the second time its happened ... on a file system that is currently 35% full (52G free), all the disk space disappeared ... Is there a way of finding out what process is holding open this "immense" file? I'm pretty sure lsof can tell you... either just plain "lsof" or maybe with

Re: Determine processing holding open a 52+Gig file ...

At 02:40 PM 7/28/2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote: 'k, this is the second time its happened ... on a file system that is currently 35% full (52G free), all the disk space disappeared ... Are you out of inodes? df -i Is there a way of finding out what process is holding open this "immense" file?

Freebsd testing with squid. User authentication works, now trying to get group based auth

as the subject says, when I try to test group auth, I get: /usr/local/libexec/squid/wb_group -d /wb_group[19095](wb_check_group.c:344): External ACL winbindd group helper build Jul 27 2005, 17:33:37 starting up... /wb_group[19095](wb_check_group.c:308): Can't contact winbindd. Dying proxy1# ps -a

Re: MySQL - Cannot access as root

On Thursday 28 July 2005 04:20 pm, Gerard Seibert wrote: > I have just installed MySQL 5. I can access the program as a regular > user, but not as root. As I regular user I have no privileges. If I > attempt to access as root, I receive this error message. > > ERROR 1045 (28000) Access denied for u

Determine processing holding open a 52+Gig file ...

'k, this is the second time its happened ... on a file system that is currently 35% full (52G free), all the disk space disappeared ... Is there a way of finding out what process is holding open this "immense" file? Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub

Dead disk? READ_DMA Failure

Hi, Please read on although this is a long one... I might panic and coredump myself if I don't get this fixed. I have a one year old Hitachi Travelstar 60GB/4200RPM disk. This night and since then, I get these errors: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=48926527 ad0: TIMEOUT -

MySQL - Cannot access as root

I have just installed MySQL 5. I can access the program as a regular user, but not as root. As I regular user I have no privileges. If I attempt to access as root, I receive this error message. ERROR 1045 (28000) Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO) I can access the

Re: Samba over VPN

On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 15:44 -0400, cell wrote: > The VPN network is look like http://www.linux-win.org/reseau.png Which of those machines are configured to be a bridge device? Please don't top post. Reply under the original poster's lines. Chris ___ fr

Re: huh?

On Thursday 28 July 2005 06:55 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Wednesday 27 July 2005 10:39, Chris wrote: > > > Do you have curses like "cisco rhce msce CCNA" , maybe > > > for free ? > > YOU - are an idiot... Read the list name... FreeBSD Questions... > I think he meant to ask, "are there FreeBSD

Re: Can someone clarify ipfw's in/out/recv/xmit/via concepts?

--- "Gary W. Swearingen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see in another msg that I'm not the only one > scratching my head over > the ipfw manpage's explanation of > in/out/recv/xmit/via concepts. I've > spent many hours reading that manpage and working on > my rc.firewall > (and it seems to wor

Re: defragmentation in FreeBSD 4.11

On Thursday 28 July 2005 03:07 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Bob Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > From: Victor Semionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [...] > > > Why is it unnecessary to defragment UFS? > > > > In normal use, files never become fragmented enough to affect > > performance. In a (loose)

Re: Samba over VPN

The VPN network is look like http://www.linux-win.org/reseau.png - Original Message - From: "Chris Haulmark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "cell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 9:07 PM Subject: Re: Samba over VPN On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 20:06 +0200, cell wrote: Hello ,

Re: FreeBSD 6

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 03:33:55PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > At boot up I get these errors / warnings: > "kenv: unable to get dumpdev" How are you setting up your dumpdev? Show us your config. > "no such user: _dhcp, falling back to "nobody"" > > I left groups and master.passwd files to

Re: FreeBSD 6

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 03:00:49PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > Do I always need to run 'make cleandepend' when rebuilding a kernel, > normally I build my kernels the old school way? > > Is it just me or is -O2 now the default for kernel builds? What about > -Os, safe to use? Should be OK. >

Re: FreeBSD 6

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 03:07:46PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > One more thing... Will FreeBSD 5.4 kernel modules work under 6.x? No, you have to recompile them. Kris pgptKs7RhvAiz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: defragmentation in FreeBSD 4.11

Freminlins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gayn Winters wrote: > > > What I get from reading this article is that if the use of the file > > system is to store lots of small files, then use a small block size. Am > > I missing something? > > No and yes! There is a minimum block and fragment size

Re: script for adding a samba-user

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:02:08 -0700 Glenn Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >been working on a script to add a samba-user, below an example which > >is not working, can someone provide the fix here to make it work > >properly ? > > It's difficult to help since you didn't provide a description of

Re: script for adding a samba-user

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, been working on a script to add a samba-user, below an example which is not working, can someone provide the fix here to make it work properly ? #!/bin/sh adduser -G data -s scponly $1 smbpasswd $1 Assuming you use samba3 something like echo

Re: script for adding a samba-user

On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 12:02 -0700, Glenn Dawson wrote: > At 11:25 AM 7/28/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >hi, > > > >been working on a script to add a samba-user, below an example which is > >not working, can someone provide the fix here to make it work properly ? > > It's difficult to help s

Re: Samba over VPN

On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 20:06 +0200, cell wrote: > Hello , i have created a VPN ( with openvpn-2.0_3 on freebsd 5.4 ) between > my network who has a gateway on freebsd 5.4 and others computer on win xp, > and a network who has windows xp home as gateway.Windows xp home gateway used > openvpn 2 t

Re: defragmentation in FreeBSD 4.11

Bob Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Message: 6 > Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:20:31 +0300 > From: Victor Semionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: defragmentation in FreeBSD 4.11 > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="window

Re: script for adding a samba-user

At 11:25 AM 7/28/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, been working on a script to add a samba-user, below an example which is not working, can someone provide the fix here to make it work properly ? It's difficult to help since you didn't provide a description of the problem beyond "not workin

Re: Wireless with Aironet 350 Card Help needed

On Thursday 28 July 2005 01:28 pm, Reeves, Brandon wrote: > I have a Freebsd 5.3 Laptop with an Aironet 350 Card. I can get the > card associated with the AP using WEP etc. However, I still can not > ping the outside internet. I had this working while I was initially > toying with the card but for

Re: huh?

On Wednesday 27 July 2005 10:39, Chris wrote: > > Do you have curses like "cisco rhce msce CCNA" , maybe > > for free ? > YOU - are an idiot... Read the list name... FreeBSD Questions... I think he meant to ask, "are there FreeBSD certifications similar to RHCE, MSCE, etc.?", which is a perfect

Re: FreeBSD 5.4+SMP, severe network degredation

I've been having similar issues after upgrading to the latest 5.4-STABLE. I used to have it running 5.4-STABLE with the GENERIC PAE kernel. I rebuilt the world, and the kernel and now my bge (1Gbit) gets a lot of "watchdog timeout -- resetting" issues. I have acpi enabled in my kernel as well, per

Re: xorg keyboard layout

On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 01:00:47PM +0400, Igor Robul wrote: > Dikshie wrote: > > >Dear All, > >because my laptop is Japanese laptop so I define > >keymap="jp.106" on /etc/rc.conf > >BUT when I do startx (using XORG 6.8.2) > >the keyboard layout back to default (generic english keyboard) ! > > > >

Re: defragmentation in FreeBSD 4.11

Gayn Winters wrote: > What I get from reading this article is that if the use of the file > system is to store lots of small files, then use a small block size. Am > I missing something? No and yes! There is a minimum block and fragment size. In this case there were not enough contiguous fragme

Wireless with Aironet 350 Card Help needed

I have a Freebsd 5.3 Laptop with an Aironet 350 Card. I can get the card associated with the AP using WEP etc. However, I still can not ping the outside internet. I had this working while I was initially toying with the card but for some reason it no longer works. This is a new card I have added to

script for adding a samba-user

hi, been working on a script to add a samba-user, below an example which is not working, can someone provide the fix here to make it work properly ? #!/bin/sh adduser -G data -s scponly $1 smbpasswd $1 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Samba over VPN

Hello , i have created a VPN ( with openvpn-2.0_3 on freebsd 5.4 ) between my network who has a gateway on freebsd 5.4 and others computer on win xp, and a network who has windows xp home as gateway.Windows xp home gateway used openvpn 2 too and i have created a bridge in my freebsd gateway an

Re: how to run 2 instance of memcached from rc.conf?

At 09:36 AM 7/28/2005, Danny Howard wrote: How are you giving anything different arguments? I only see one service configured in your rc.conf. > So how do I use the same script to run 2 instance of memcached? From my original email: then, you can use two sets of variables in /etc/rc.conf li

Re: defragmentation in FreeBSD 4.11

On 7/28/05, Bob Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why is it unnecessary to defragment UFS? > > > > In normal use, files never become fragmented enough to affect performance. In > a (loose) sense, files are intentionally fragmented in a controlled way so > that fragmentation doesn't cause pr

Re: Shell script frustration

At 10:10 AM +0100 7/28/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Garance wrote: > What I do in this cases is create a script called "list_args.sh": #!/bin/sh printf "\nlist_args.sh at `date +%H:%M:%S` with \$# = $#\n" # Process all parameters. N=0 while test $# != 0 ; do N=$(($N+1)) printf

Re: sterminal or alternative

On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 09:07:35AM +0200, Maarten wrote: > Is anyone aware if there have been efforts to port sterminal? If not, are > there any ported alternatives which I have overlooked? Maarten, Perhaps you can get it ported easily. :) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters

Re: how to run 2 instance of memcached from rc.conf?

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 11:59:59PM -0700, Lei Sun wrote: > Yeah, the tricky part is not to what to do, but how to do it. I know I > need to configure 2 ip or 2 ports. > > As the memcached.sh is using run_rc_command, and somehow, even if when > I am giving it 2 arguments with different port, it stil

Re: FreeBSD 5.4+SMP, severe network degredation

Woah. Well, I guess I didn't try *everything*. Removing "device acpi" from the kernel config leaves me witih a PAE+SMP kernel that works fine. I can fetch files at wire speed and everything. So, I guess this issue is closed. acpi was the ultimate culprit. On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, dpk wrote: > By the

Re: FreeBSD 5.4+SMP, severe network degredation

By the way, I also compared GENERIC performance against GENERIC w/ "options SMP" added, and had the same results. On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, dpk wrote: > We just received several SuperMicro servers, 3.0Ghz Xeon x 2, 4GB RAM. > They're using the em driver and the ports are set to 1000Mbit (we also > tri

Re: boot problem

On 7/28/05, asd asd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > I have problem with booting FreeBSD 5.4 on my laptop Toshiba Satellite > 2410-304: > sometimes it boots without problem but sometimes it stops at line "uhci0: > 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-A> port 0xefe0-0xefff irq 11 at device

Re: Backup kernel - confirmation

On Thursday 28 July 2005 02:10 pm, Norberto Meijome wrote: > quick question - I have a remote box with SMP/HTT disabled, but I'd > like to see how it works with it. If I make a copy of my current > kernel to /kernel_orig, I should be able to install the SMP one as > /kernel, and if hell breaks lose

Re: FreeBSD file system example and question

Thanks! The arch-book is something i was looking for. Somehow i missed that when seeking doc/ m. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: defragmentation in FreeBSD 4.11

Message: 6 Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:20:31 +0300 From: Victor Semionov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: defragmentation in FreeBSD 4.11 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1251" > > This is one of the things I find really h

Re: Boot page fault - alternative kernel needed?

Jason Morgan wrote: I have an old laptop that I am finally trying to get FreeBSD installed on. It was recently running Linux just fine, but I am having a tough time getting FreeBSD installed on it. Here is the error I get when booting. I have typed all that is visible on the screen when it c

Re: Reading the volume-id/label of a cd/dvd ?

Am Donnerstag, 28. Juli 2005 16:49 CEST schrieb Warren Block: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, FreeBsdBeni wrote: > > Is there an easy way to get to know the volume id or disclabel of a cd > > or dvd ? Mounting the cd/dvd just gives me the contents of the disc, > > but not its "name". > > In k3b one can ask

Re: Reading the volume-id/label of a cd/dvd ?

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, FreeBsdBeni wrote: Is there an easy way to get to know the volume id or disclabel of a cd or dvd ? Mounting the cd/dvd just gives me the contents of the disc, but not its "name". In k3b one can ask the info about a disc and get all the info about the inserted cd/dvd (disc ty

Re: apache13-modssl-1.3.33+2.8.22_1 port broken??

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Viren Patel wrote: I am trying to install apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22_1 and get the following: #make ===> apache+mod_ssl-1.3.33+2.8.22_1 has known vulnerabilities: => apache -- http request smuggling. Reference:

Re: make buildworld fails in openssl/colldef [SOLVED]

Marius Korsmo wrote: That does not look like an *old* version, it looks like a completely different file. Did you install anything not from ports that might have overwritten it? Did you try and install a port into a target hierarchy that /usr/local? (The same copyright header as the real 5

Re: Problems with booting & MBR

Gary W. Swearingen wrote: If you're sticking to FreeBSD's boot0 MBR, you'll have to put one on each disk. I don't know if boot0 can remember "F5" as the default choice for auto-booting or not. But one way or another the first disk's boot0 needs to use "F5" to start the second disk's MBR/boot0

Re: groupadd/useradd in FreeBSD?

In the last episode (Jul 28), Xu Qiang said: > Btw, Just think of this problem: > > Although I have added the user "mysql" to my machine, I didn't set > its password. When does this newly added user get his/her password > and change it? No-one usually logs in as the mysql user, so you don't need

Re: Questions

"Razvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What version of FreeBSD is indicat for my server ? You should have put that in the "Subject" line. I'd use 5.4-RELEASE until I encounted serious problems with it, when I'd switch to 5.4-STABLE before retrying and reporting the problems.

Re: Grub not working

Benjamin Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Two guesses: > > - You can't write to a disks MBR while it's being used. I've seen > this myself, but I'm not exactly why this is, or how it can be > circumvented (other than booting from another device). Yes. It wasn't always this way. You can ma

Re: FreeBSD file system example and question

Marcin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, where can i find information or examples of how to write a file system > for FreeBSD, apart from /usr/src/sys/* and /usr/share/man/*? The Architecure Handbook. (/usr/share/doc/en/arch-handbook) The old McKusick book (/usr/share/doc/en/design-44bsd)

Re: Problems with booting & MBR

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options DumpPass# > /dev/ad1s2b noneswapsw 0 0 > /dev/ad1s2a / ufs rw 1 1 > /dev/ad0s1a /usr/local

Backup kernel - confirmation

quick question - I have a remote box with SMP/HTT disabled, but I'd like to see how it works with it. If I make a copy of my current kernel to /kernel_orig, I should be able to install the SMP one as /kernel, and if hell breaks lose, I should be able to point it to /kernel_orig ... right? any

pkg_create: correct usage?

i'm trying to create packages on freebsd-5.4-RELEASE. can anyone tell me how to define a packinglist for pkg_create with the ability to remove the directories after pkg_delete and not getting complaints if they are not empty? if i specify @dirrm in the packinglist, i get these errors, if some pa

Re: make buildworld fails in openssl/colldef [SOLVED]

Quoting Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Marius Korsmo wrote: It took two weeks to fix this problem, and therefore I do have a few questions. The error turned out to be in err.h. The file located in /usr/include was totally different from the one located in /usr/src/include. < /*- < * Cop

RE: defragmentation in FreeBSD 4.11

On 7/27/2005 at 7:30 PM Mike Jeays wrote: |This is one of the things I find really hard to get Windows users to |understand. They just won't believe that a company like Microsoft would |still be using a filesystem that needs defragmenting if it were possible |to design one that didn't. I often w

RE: Port Scan

> Does anyone know what could be causing this? Some of these are probes > from external IP's, but a lot of these are the servers probing itself. > > > Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:80 from 127.0.0.1:65215 flags:0x02 > > > Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:80 from 127.0.0.1:65215 flags:0x

Re: Port Scan

On 7/28/05, Cody Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know what could be causing this? Some of these are probes > from external IP's, but a lot of these are the servers probing itself. > > > Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:80 from 127.0.0.1:65215 flags:0x02 > > > Connection attem

RE: make buildworld error

> I keep getting the following on a 4.9 system when trying to move to > 4.11. > > rm -f sa main.o pdb.o usrdb.o sa.8.gz sa.8.cat.gz > rm -f .depend GPATH GRTAGS GSYMS GTAGS > ===> usr.sbin/setkey > ".depend", line 1: Need an operator > ".depend", line 2: Need an operator > ".depend", line 3: Need

Port Scan

Does anyone know what could be causing this? Some of these are probes from external IP's, but a lot of these are the servers probing itself. > Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:80 from 127.0.0.1:65215 flags:0x02 > Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:80 from 127.0.0.1:65215 flags:0x02 > Connec

make buildworld error

I keep getting the following on a 4.9 system when trying to move to 4.11. rm -f sa main.o pdb.o usrdb.o sa.8.gz sa.8.cat.gz rm -f .depend GPATH GRTAGS GSYMS GTAGS ===> usr.sbin/setkey ".depend", line 1: Need an operator ".depend", line 2: Need an operator ".depend", line 3: Need an operator ".dep

Boot page fault - alternative kernel needed?

I have an old laptop that I am finally trying to get FreeBSD installed on. It was recently running Linux just fine, but I am having a tough time getting FreeBSD installed on it. Here is the error I get when booting. I have typed all that is visible on the screen when it crashes. # Begin is

Re: Problem report rejected

Thanks to all who helped! I went to the web form at http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html, but didn't find an appropriate place to attach some file. Then, I noticed that the GMail's web interface tried to expand tabs to spaces when forwarding my original message, which was unacceptable. Finally, I

Questions

Hi, What version of FreeBSD is indicat for my server ? I have: MB: X5DA8 - Supermicro dual XEON 2.40 GHz ( http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/E7505/X5DA8.cfm ) , with AIC-7902, 4xHDD SEAGATE 36G SCSI, 512DDRAM, video ATI RADEON9550. I use for server www, ftp, mail, router. Th

Re: Power cut during portupgrade -NRP kde

On Wednesday 08 June 2005 07:58, Gareth Bailey wrote: > Hi all, > > I believe that a kde install using packages where possible is the quickest > route. I started the kde install using "portupgrade -NRP kde", but had a > power cut half way through :-( How might i continue where I left off? Just run

Re: defragmentation in FreeBSD 4.11

> This is one of the things I find really hard to get Windows users to > understand. They just won't believe that a company like Microsoft would > still be using a filesystem that needs defragmenting if it were possible > to design one that didn't. I often wonder why myself - after all, they > m

Boot page fault - alternative kernel needed?

I have an old laptop that I am finally trying to get FreeBSD installed on. It was recently running Linux just fine, but I am having a tough time getting FreeBSD installed on it. Here is the error I get when booting. I have typed all that is visible on the screen when it crashes. # Begin is

Re: Epson 2480/2580 scanner support

On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 12:39:34PM +0200, Erik Nørgaard wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry if this question is misplaced, but the sane project hosts no user > mailing list, and the hardware list brought no luck. > > Looking at the handbook it seems that ny scanner supported by the sane > backend is support

Question about FreeBsd 5.4 + BIND 9.3.1 and threads

Hello, I have a FreeBSD 5.4R box running BIND 9.3.1 from base on a dual Xeon with hyperthreading enabled. According to the man page for named: -n #cpus Create #cpus worker threads to take advantage of multiple CPUs. If not specified, named will try to determin

Can someone clarify ipfw's in/out/recv/xmit/via concepts?

(Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 105, Issue 7) Gary writes: > I see in another msg that I'm not the only one scratching my head over > the ipfw manpage's explanation of in/out/recv/xmit/via concepts. I've > spent many hours reading that manpage and working on my rc.firewall > (and it seems

Re: Grub not working

Valerio daelli wrote: > I am trying to install grub as a boot loader on my disk. > I installed it from ports. > When I try to install it on the MBR I get the error > [...] > Error 29: Disk write error Two guesses: - You can't write to a disks MBR while it's being used. I've seen this myself, bu

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