The FreeBSD Diary: 2003-06-08 - 2003-06-28

2003-06-29 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the mailing list arc

Re: hard disk error , run fsck manually

2003-06-29 Thread manee
hi sirs, thanks for your time indeed. --- David Wolfskill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reboot your system. > > During the 10-second "spinning propeller" > count-down, press the space > bar once. You should see the prompt > > boot> > > > At that point, type > > boot -s > > and press "

setting up ports mirror

2003-06-29 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, Looking for the voice of expierence. What is the best way of setting up a local ports mirror? Any particular programs or fancy scripts? Trying to above nvftp -r ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/ Thanks Rus -- www: http://www.65535.net | Hosting - Shell Accounts MSNM: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's this mean?

2003-06-29 Thread budsz
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 02:36:28PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: >in_chksum is a routine that validates the checksum of recieved network data. >As far as I can tell from the code, that error means that the packet of data >was three bytes shorter than it should have been. One way or the other it's >a ne

Re: cvsup tag for 4.8-STABLE?

2003-06-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 12:57:15AM +0200, Frank Reppin wrote: > On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Gregory Norman wrote: > > On the same note, will *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_8 work to > > update from 4.4 Release to 4.8 Stable? > yup, it will do the job - involving the required commands > ofcourse (buil

cdrom-drive opens @ will

2003-06-29 Thread Marko Leer
Hi all, I'm running this 1U server with a cd-RW-rom-drive. Every now and then the drive opens. Unfortunately it's a laptop sort of drive because it's in a 1U server, so it won't close by itself. I was wondering if there's any standard proces running on FreeBSD that opens it; I haven't monitored i

crontab : exec, permission denied

2003-06-29 Thread ico
I added to /etc/crontab this line: */5 * * * * user1/usr/local/bin/getmail \ -r /usr/home/user1/.getmail/getmailrc I wanted getmail to pick-up mail for user user1. Result is error: exec: :permission denied $ls -l /usr/local/bin/getmail r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3

solvde -> Re: IP aliases not working...Any ideas welcome!

2003-06-29 Thread Keith Spencer
Someone said I only look stupid...but hey maybe that's why I am stupid! OOPS! I goofed again. Thanks and sorry Keith --- Kevin Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday, Jun 28, 2003, at 21:00 US/Pacific, > Keith Spencer wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I seek to add 30 or so aliases to an ex

Re: setting up ports mirror

2003-06-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 08:22:44AM +0100, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > Looking for the voice of expierence. What is the best way of setting up a > local ports mirror? Any particular programs or fancy scripts? > > Trying to above nvftp -r ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/ Do you mean ports or packages?

Re: NVIDIA, GEForce4, TV-OUT.

2003-06-29 Thread Nakal
On Sunday 29 June 2003 00:07, Joachim Dagerot wrote: > Has anyone one been lucky trying to get the tv-out on a geForce4 card > working with the nvidia card? Yes. > I'm running latest 5.1 of freeBSD and could need some samples from > the X86Free config file on how to get the TV-out working. I wi

WIN2000 & FreeBSD

2003-06-29 Thread Alex Zivenko
How can I install WIN2000 and FreeBSD on one machine. The reason is in this: the FreeBSD loader cannot see WIN2000 fs, and WIN 2000 loader can't see FreEBSD fs. If you can, send me your reply in russian :) Thanks Beforehand ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] maili

Re: WIN2000 & FreeBSD

2003-06-29 Thread Quinn Ellis
At 11:06 PM 28/06/2003 +0400, you wrote: How can I install WIN2000 and FreeBSD on one machine. The reason is in this: the FreeBSD loader cannot see WIN2000 fs, and WIN 2000 loader can't see FreEBSD fs. If you can, send me your reply in russian :) Firstly, freebsd can see NTFS, but not write to it

Re: WIN2000 & FreeBSD

2003-06-29 Thread P. U. Kruppa
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Quinn Ellis wrote: > At 11:06 PM 28/06/2003 +0400, you wrote: > >How can I install WIN2000 and FreeBSD on one machine. The reason is in > >this: the FreeBSD loader cannot see WIN2000 fs, and WIN 2000 loader can't > >see FreEBSD fs. If you can, send me your reply in russian :)

NFS mount problem - can't get net id for host

2003-06-29 Thread Rod Person
I'm trying to setup a nfs share on my server. I'm trying to connect from a laptop to that share. The laptops ip address is assigned via dhcp. I try to connect to the share with the command mount -v servername:/mountpoint /mnt and get the error: nfs: can't get net id for host /etc/exports /data_

cvsupd : TreeComp failed: Network write failure: Connection closed

2003-06-29 Thread Dan Langille
I am seeing this message frequently in /var/log/cvsupd.log: Jun 14 00:10:10 cvsup cvsupd[60286]: +801 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SNAP_16_1e/17.0] Jun 14 00:24:44 cvsup cvsupd[60286]: =801 [2968Kin+1243Kout] src- all/cvs cvsup cvsupd[60286]: -801 [2968Kin+1243Kout] TreeComp failed: Network write failure:

Re: NFS mount problem - can't get net id for host

2003-06-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 08:22:53AM -0400, Rod Person wrote: > I'm trying to setup a nfs share on my server. I'm trying to connect from > a laptop to that share. The laptops ip address is assigned via dhcp. > > I try to connect to the share with the command > mount -v servername:/mountpoint /mnt >

remote X on 5.1-RELEASE

2003-06-29 Thread Terry Todd
How do you get remote X to work with 5.1-RELEASE? Here is an attempt with some fields blanked out. $ xhost + access control disabled, clients can connect from any host $ telnet __ Trying ___.___.__.___... [EMAIL PROTECTED]> xterm _X11TransSocketINETConnect: Can't connect: errno = 6

Silly KDE question

2003-06-29 Thread Matthew Ryan
Hi there, I recently installed XWindows and KDE. In a fit of enthusiasm I set about playing with, and heavily customising my new desktop environment whilst still logged on as Root (DOH!) In order to save personalising KDE again: - Can I copy the .kderc and .kde files from one home directory t

Re: What's this mean?

2003-06-29 Thread Bill Moran
budsz wrote: On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 02:36:28PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: in_chksum is a routine that validates the checksum of recieved network data. As far as I can tell from the code, that error means that the packet of data was three bytes shorter than it should have been. One way or the other

Re: What's this mean?

2003-06-29 Thread budsz
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 09:58:25AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: >I'm guessing the problem is continuous. > >Start monitoring your network traffic with tcpdump or ethereal or whatever >seems easiest for you. Search the Internet for information on short packet >attacks or anything else that seems to be

Re: cvsup tag for 4.8-STABLE?

2003-06-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 12:57:15AM +0200, Frank Reppin wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Gregory Norman wrote: > > > > On the same note, will *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_8 work to > > > update from 4.4 Release to 4.8 Stable? > > > yup, it will do

Re: Silly KDE question

2003-06-29 Thread Rod Person
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 14:54:02 +0100 Matthew Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can I copy the .kderc and .kde files from one home directory to > another? Are there any other files I will need to copy. > Or do I have to start over. You can most likely do this. I've done similar things. You'll need to

Re: WIN2000 & FreeBSD

2003-06-29 Thread Jud
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 14:11:13 +0200 (CEST), P. U. Kruppa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Quinn Ellis wrote: At 11:06 PM 28/06/2003 +0400, you wrote: >How can I install WIN2000 and FreeBSD on one machine. The reason is in >this: the FreeBSD loader cannot see WIN2000 fs, and WIN 200

NFS - Problem 2 today, NFSPROC_NULL error

2003-06-29 Thread Rod Person
ok, when trying to make a nfs connect to the server, I get the following error. NFSPROC_NULL: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused Nothing is written in /var/messages on the server. So I'm not sure what to do. I tried starting nfsiod on the client and still the same error.

Stability problems (bktr).

2003-06-29 Thread Zeo Smeijsters
Hi all, My /dev/bktr device is not working stable, sometimes it works fine but most of the time I receive this message dmesg: pci0: at device 6.0 (no driver attached) pci0: at device 6.1 (no driver attached) Other times it's : bktr0: at device 10.0 on pci0 bktr0: could not map memory device

Deleting Symlink

2003-06-29 Thread Bryan Cassidy
Hello everyone. I'm using FreeBSD 5.1 and I am trying to delete a symlink from one file to another (/usr/local/www/data to data-dist and /usr/local/www/cgi-bin to cgi-bin-dist) I was told when I use portupgrade it will delete my files If I don't delete the symlinks so could someone help me out

Re: Silly KDE question

2003-06-29 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 29 Jun Rod Person wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 14:54:02 +0100 > Matthew Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can I copy the .kderc and .kde files from one home directory to > > another? Are there any other files I will need to copy. > > Or do I have to start over. > > You can most likely do this

Re: Deleting Symlink

2003-06-29 Thread Adam
On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 12:15, Bryan Cassidy wrote: > Hello everyone. I'm using FreeBSD 5.1 and I am trying to delete a symlink from one > file to another > > (/usr/local/www/data to data-dist and /usr/local/www/cgi-bin to cgi-bin-dist) > > I was told when I use portupgrade it will delete my files

Spanish KDE

2003-06-29 Thread Monah Baki
Hi all, I'm running kde 3.1 (english verion) on my FreeBSD 4.8. I would like to test the spanish version of KDE. I downloaded from kde the 11MB file kde-i18n-es. Configure runs with no error, however make starts generating these error: /usr/local/bin/meinproc --check --cache index.cache.bz2 ./in

Re: cvsupd : TreeComp failed: Network write failure: Connectionclosed

2003-06-29 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Dan Langille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cvsup cvsupd[60286]: -801 [2968Kin+1243Kout] TreeComp failed: Network > write failure: Connection closed At face value, this means that the network connection failed (which then causes the tree comparison layer to abort). You probably need to talk to th

aoi (Art of Illusion)

2003-06-29 Thread P. U. Kruppa
Hi! I tried the aoi port. Construction of 3D-Objects works nicely, but I have problems rendering textures. Uniform seems to be ok, but I don't get any Procedural 3D . Do I have to read more manuals or is this a problem with the FreeBSD port? Regards, Uli. +---+

mount_msdos /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usb ->dev not configured

2003-06-29 Thread Lars
Hi all, Hardware: IBM TP R40; SONY 256 MB USB2 "Microvault" (works flawlessly on other sytems and on same system under WinXP); OS is FBSD 4.8; Kernel: device scbus device da device uhci device ohci device usb device ugen device uhid device umass are enabled; /var/run/dmesg.boot: uhci0:

Re: mount_msdos /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usb ->dev not configured

2003-06-29 Thread Gary Jennejohn
Lars writes: > I noticed that all PCI and USB hardware is on IRQ 11, > may that be the cause? > I don't think it should matter. At least the USB devices have an IRQ. > So, dear list, what am I doing wrong? > What does the kernel emit when you plug it in? My kernel emits the following whne I

Re: WIN2000 & FreeBSD

2003-06-29 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, Just a point of clarification here before it causes more confusion. > On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Quinn Ellis wrote: > > > At 11:06 PM 28/06/2003 +0400, you wrote: > > >How can I install WIN2000 and FreeBSD on one machine. The reason is in > > >this: the FreeBSD loader cannot see WIN2000 fs, and W

Re: cdrom-drive opens @ will

2003-06-29 Thread Shantanu Mahajan
+-- Marko Leer [freebsd] [29-06-03 09:51 +0200]: | Hi all, | | I'm running this 1U server with a cd-RW-rom-drive. | Every now and then the drive opens. Unfortunately it's a laptop | sort of drive because it's in a 1U server, so it won't close by | itself. | | I was wondering if there's any standa

Serial Line Communications

2003-06-29 Thread Bryan W. Maxwell
Hi guys im back. Well i think i have taken care of the routing and such. I setup the local rl0(ethernet card) to 192.168.2.1 and in the hosts file i setup a slip-gateway as 192.168.2.2. This allowed me to use the command arp -s slip-gateway auto pub. This allowed me to ping the 192.168.2.2 side

attention: quinn ellis :: multiboot help

2003-06-29 Thread Sundar Subramanian
http://geodsoft.com/howto/dualboot/ good tutorial on multiboot systems regards ~s ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: WIN2000 & FreeBSD

2003-06-29 Thread Adam
On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 16:12, Jerry McAllister wrote: > Here there seems to be some confusion on the use of the word partition. > FreeBSD uses the term "slice" to mean the major division of the disk > that Microsloth uses the term "partition" for. You need only two of > these slices (MS partitions

Re: NFS - Problem 2 today, NFSPROC_NULL error

2003-06-29 Thread Bill Moran
Rod Person wrote: ok, when trying to make a nfs connect to the server, I get the following error. NFSPROC_NULL: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused Nothing is written in /var/messages on the server. So I'm not sure what to do. I tried starting nfsiod on the client and still the sa

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2003-06-29 Thread esayer1
FreeBSD- If i buy a UATA133 Bare Hard Drive, do i have to buy a disk controller. If i have to and i buy a PCI one does in connect to the hard drive via jumpers or does the mother board just connect it to the hard drive. Also is there any compadibility issues with certain hard driv

Re: New hard drive (was: "")

2003-06-29 Thread Ryan Thompson
[Tip: Your message did not contain a subject. Choose an appropriate subject line for your questions in the future, please ] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > FreeBSD- > If i buy a UATA133 Bare Hard Drive, do i have to buy a disk controller. Not likely, unless you

Re: question regarding quotas

2003-06-29 Thread Josh Brooks
Hi Dan, On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Dan Nelson wrote: > Quotas are per-user, not per-directory. Any files those users create, > anywhere in that filesystem, will contribute to their quota. Files > created by other userids but placed in those directories will count > against the other user's quota. >

Re: question regarding quotas

2003-06-29 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 29), Josh Brooks said: > On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Dan Nelson wrote: > > Quotas are per-user, not per-directory. Any files those users > > create, anywhere in that filesystem, will contribute to their > > quota. Files created by other userids but placed in those > > directorie

PPP troubles

2003-06-29 Thread RexFelis
Hello all, A while back I wrote in about this problem, but then got swamped with life and had to quit working on it. Now I have some time, and I have recently had to rebuild all of the operating systems on my computer - Win2k Pro, Linux Mandrake 9.1 and FreeBSD 4.7. Here's the problem. I have i

Re: aoi (Art of Illusion)

2003-06-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 08:10:46PM +0200, P. U. Kruppa wrote: > Hi! > > I tried the aoi port. Construction of 3D-Objects works nicely, > but I have problems rendering textures. > Uniform seems to be ok, but I don't get any Procedural 3D . > > Do I have to read more manuals or is this a problem wi

Permission denied messages from named

2003-06-29 Thread Tom Parquette
I have a bind8 DNS running that I'm getting the following messages out of. It appears I have permissions set wrong somewhere but I do not know where because it does not give me a path name. AFAIK, /etc/named has always been owned by root:wheel. Thus, I'm assuming these files are supposed to go s

How to Start Courier-Imap?

2003-06-29 Thread Tomlinson, Drew
I've installed courier-imap 1.7.1 using portupgrade on my 4.8 system but I can't figure out how to start it. I'm familiar with /usr/local/etc/rc.d and see links to start scripts there but when I run them, I get errors about being unable to find files. Here's and example: blacklamb# ./courier-ima

RE: How to Start Courier-Imap?

2003-06-29 Thread Tomlinson, Drew
> -Original Message- > From: Jon Reynolds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2003 4:10 PM > To: Tomlinson, Drew > > > On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 15:02, Tomlinson, Drew wrote: > > I've installed courier-imap 1.7.1 using portupgrade on my > 4.8 system > > but I can't figure ou

Re: PPP troubles

2003-06-29 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 03:55:36PM -0700, RexFelis wrote: > Hello all, > > A while back I wrote in about this problem, but > then got swamped with life and had to quit > working on it. Now I have some time, and I have > recently had to rebuild all of the operating > systems on my computer - Win2k

Re: Permission denied messages from named

2003-06-29 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 07:02:02PM -0400, Tom Parquette wrote: [...] > Messages from all.log: > Jun 29 18:02:30 Atlas named[301]: fopen() of 2.168.192.in-addr.arpa.dumptmp failed: > Permission denied [...] > ld -l of /etc/namedb: > -rw--- 1 root wheel 610 Mar 27 18:14 2.168.192.in-a

Re: PPP troubles

2003-06-29 Thread Nathaniel Nigro
im having the same problem, exept ive narrowed my problem down, but i can't figure out why its doing it .. for some reason once its up, its adding nameserver 255.255.255.255 in my /etc/resolv so its not resolving any addresses. seems to work fine in linux. www.angelfire.com/linux/natedogg/ppp.z

what kernel does freebsd use?

2003-06-29 Thread Andrew Roland
Hello, I've read that there are multiple kernels for BSD. What does FreeBSD use? Can I swap it out for other kernels? Or am I mistaken? Thanks Andrew -- __ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr

Re: How to Start Courier-Imap?

2003-06-29 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-06-29T23:02:18Z, "Tomlinson, Drew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > blacklamb# ./courier-imap-imapd.sh.sample start > .: Can't open /usr/local/etc/courier-imap/imapd-ssl: No such file or > directory Without being an expert in Courier, might I suggest that you configure it first? It seems to

adduser question

2003-06-29 Thread Marvin J. Kosmal
Hi New to FreeBSD Currently using Libranet trying to switch my main box to FreeBSD.. MY current problem is adduser I think is is corrupted. When I type adduser I get the regular first three lines. Check /etc/shells Check /etc/master.pwd Check /etc/group Usernames must match regulare expre

Re: How to Start Courier-Imap?

2003-06-29 Thread David Kelly
On Sunday 29 June 2003 06:02 pm, Tomlinson, Drew wrote: > I've installed courier-imap 1.7.1 using portupgrade on my 4.8 system > but I can't figure out how to start it. I'm familiar with > /usr/local/etc/rc.d and see links to start scripts there but when I > run them, I get errors about being unab

Re: what kernel does freebsd use?

2003-06-29 Thread Nathaniel Nigro
From: "Andrew Roland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: what kernel does freebsd use? Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 18:45:02 -0600 Hello, I've read that there are multiple kernels for BSD. What does FreeBSD use? Can I swap it out for other kernels? Or am I mistaken? Thanks Andrew -

Re: what kernel does freebsd use?

2003-06-29 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 06:45:02PM -0600, Andrew Roland wrote: > Hello, > > I've read that there are multiple kernels for BSD. What does FreeBSD > use? Can I swap it out for other kernels? Or am I mistaken? Each BSD variant uses its own kernel. FreeBSD uses the FreeBSD kernel (no, there is no spe

Re: question regarding quotas

2003-06-29 Thread Josh Brooks
Hello. On 29 Jun 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The only thing I can think of that might work: if you didn't mind a > > whole lot of filesystems, you could create a filesystem per directory > > you wanted to control. Then the filessytem size itself wo

Setting sendmail to auto block repeated denied sender?

2003-06-29 Thread Dragoncrest
HI all. Shot in the dark here, but I was just wondering if there was a way to get sendmail to automatically block or discard any messages (preferably discard) any messages from a particular email address that are repeatedly rejected due to unresolvable domain names. About every day I'll get

Re: question regarding quotas

2003-06-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
Josh Brooks wrote: [ ... ] Again, I am just trying to take an arbitrary directory, say: /export/data7/homes/jerry and place a configurable limit on how big that directory can get, without mounting it as its own filesystem... FreeBSD doesn't have a filesystem with per-directory quota support. For

Re: what kernel does freebsd use?

2003-06-29 Thread Joel Rees
> You can't swap it out for another kernel (not without lots of work > anyway) and if you did it would no longer really be FreeBSD but some > new system. Ergo, Darwin ... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

Re: adduser question

2003-06-29 Thread Jez Hancock
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 05:52:53PM -0700, Marvin J. Kosmal wrote: > When I type adduser > > I get the regular first three lines. > > Check /etc/shells > Check /etc/master.pwd > Check /etc/group > > Usernames must match regulare expression: [mkosmal]: iirc, the first time you run adduser it promp

Re: what kernel does freebsd use?

2003-06-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 06:45:02PM -0600, Andrew Roland wrote: > Hello, > > I've read that there are multiple kernels for BSD. What does FreeBSD > use? Can I swap it out for other kernels? Or am I mistaken? It uses the FreeBSD kernel :-) (Yes, you're mistaken) Kris P.S. Please wrap your emails

PPP troubles SOLVED!!!

2003-06-29 Thread RexFelis
Yah! Boy does it feel good to track down and solve this problem on my own!!! Here's what I did. I copied the contents of /etc/ppp from my Linux partition to my Windows partition and then compared each corresponding file to it's freebsd counterpart. And what I found was that my resolv.conf f

Re: TODO list?

2003-06-29 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-06-28 10:32:43 -0700: > On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 11:57:41AM -0500 or thereabouts, Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Jun 28), Joshua Oreman said: > > > Is there like a search for PRs with no "Fix:"? > > > > If you cvsup the gnats repository, you can do your own ar

Re: Help! I killed my rc.conf and cant boot correctly!

2003-06-29 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-06-28 16:04:58 +1000: > --- Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, > 2003-06-27 at 23:57, Keith Spencer wrote: > > > Want to hear a tale of stupidity and woe. I screwed up fbsd 4.7 > > > system rc.conf and can only seem to boot into a basic session. > > > Cant edit o

Re: question regarding quotas

2003-06-29 Thread Ryan Thompson
Josh Brooks wrote to Lowell Gilbert: > Again, I am just trying to take an arbitrary directory, say: > > /export/data7/homes/jerry > > and place a configurable limit on how big that directory can get, > without mounting it as its own filesystem... FreeBSD doesn't support any filesystems that do th

Re: Deleting Symlink

2003-06-29 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-06-29 12:28:39 -0400: > On Sun, 2003-06-29 at 12:15, Bryan Cassidy wrote: > > Hello everyone. I'm using FreeBSD 5.1 and I am trying to delete a symlink from one > > file to another > > > > (/usr/local/www/data to data-dist and /usr/local/www/cgi-bin to cgi-bin-dist) > >

Re:hard disk error , run fsck manually

2003-06-29 Thread manee
--- Alex Zivenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You need just run fsck. See the man page. I had this > problem too. Only yesterday. All was fixed with > fsck, I just gived root password and logged in in > single user mode. Then I just runned fsck with some > params. > thank you for your time. but

Sysctl uptime

2003-06-29 Thread Remington L.
Is there a sysctl string that can tell me my uptime? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: How do i uninstall Jdk1.3 or any jdk version fron freebsd .

2003-06-29 Thread Shrikant Mhatre
Thanks for the reply , i tried this things as explained in the documnetation on www.freeBSD.org but it did not remove the folders /usr/local/jdk1.3.1 altough i did installed them from ports as described on the freebsd site I had to remove this folders manually ... Shrikant Mhatre On Satu

Re: Sysctl uptime

2003-06-29 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 09:17:54PM -0700 or thereabouts, Remington L. wrote: > Is there a sysctl string that can tell me my uptime? No, but kern.boottime is the boot time of the kernel, so subtract that from `date +%s` and you have uptime in seconds. Note that sysctl's output for this field will n

Welcome to CGT-VB

2003-06-29 Thread CGT-VB Moderator
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Re: question regarding quotas

2003-06-29 Thread Sergey \"DoubleF\" Zaharchenko
Josh Brooks wrote: So my question was, is there a way to control how big a directory can grow, regardless of who is putting what files in that directory. So you are going to make a directory N Mbytes large... Make a file N Mbytes large, vnconfig it, disklabel it, newfs it and mount to your directo

Re: remote X on 5.1-RELEASE

2003-06-29 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-06-29 08:07:45 -0500: > How do you get remote X to work with 5.1-RELEASE? > > Here is an attempt with some fields blanked out. > > $ xhost + > access control disabled, clients can connect from any host > $ telnet __ > Trying ___.___.__.___... > > > [EMAIL

Re: PPP troubles SOLVED!!!

2003-06-29 Thread Robert Storey
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 19:49:20 -0700 (PDT) RexFelis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's what I did. I copied the contents of > /etc/ppp from my Linux partition to my Windows > partition and then compared each corresponding > file to it's freebsd counterpart. And what I > found was that my resolv.

Re: question regarding quotas

2003-06-29 Thread Josh Brooks
Hi, On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Sergey "DoubleF" Zaharchenko wrote: > Josh Brooks wrote: > > So my question was, is there a way to control how big a directory can > > grow, regardless of who is putting what files in that directory. > > So you are going to make a directory N Mbytes large... > Make a fil

Re: ethernet

2003-06-29 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-06-28 13:06:25 -0700: > I wrote details which are the OS says in my first mail.The release 5.1. I didn't > detect anything just i can't use it. > explained with ifconfig pciconf and dmesg. > > Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Yunus E. Kose" writes: > > >

Re: Mailing List Problem

2003-06-29 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-06-26 08:52:48 -0700: > Hello, I am using Sylpheed 0.9.2 as my mail client and > when I try to send a e-mail to ANY of the FREEBSD > mailing lists using Sylpheed it will never send. I can > send e-mails to other mailing lists (non-freebsd ones) > just fine but not any of

Re: software packages

2003-06-29 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-06-26 22:12:50 +0100: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 04:34:33PM -0400, david wrote: > > Hi, I'm using freebsd 5.0 Jan 2003 series > > > > Since all files are downloaded to the /usr/ports/distfiles, > > I would like to know which software packages belong > > to what program.

Re: question regarding quotas

2003-06-29 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 29), Josh Brooks said: > On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Sergey "DoubleF" Zaharchenko wrote: > > So you are going to make a directory N Mbytes large... Make a file > > N Mbytes large, vnconfig it, disklabel it, newfs it and mount to > > your directory. You should be solved then. > >

nagios on FreeBSD 4.8 Stable problem..

2003-06-29 Thread kinux
Take a look with this link please.. http://www.freebsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11502 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

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2003-06-29 Thread kc copling
hello i just installed freebsd and i installed all the packages and everything but when i hit startx in the terminal it wont log me into the graphical interface what could be wrong and how can i fix it ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: question regarding quotas

2003-06-29 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 12:25:45AM -0500 or thereabouts, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jun 29), Josh Brooks said: > > On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Sergey "DoubleF" Zaharchenko wrote: > > > So you are going to make a directory N Mbytes large... Make a file > > > N Mbytes large, vnconfig it, diskl

Re: Spanish KDE

2003-06-29 Thread Herbert
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 01:14:02PM -0400, Monah Baki wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm running kde 3.1 (english verion) on my FreeBSD 4.8. I would like > to test the spanish version of KDE. I downloaded from kde the 11MB > file kde-i18n-es. # cd /usr/ports/misc/kde3-i18n-es && make install clean Herb

Re: question regarding quotas

2003-06-29 Thread Josh Brooks
On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Dan Nelson wrote: > > If you're adventurous, you could use growfs :) > Reading the archives, it seems as if you would use growfs, but then run into performance problems because you did not defragment afterward (and there is no defrag utility for UFS). Something about the p

Re: Stability problems (bktr).

2003-06-29 Thread Anish Mistry
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 29 June 2003 11:54 am, Zeo Smeijsters wrote: > Hi all, > > My /dev/bktr device is not working stable, sometimes it works fine but most > of the time I receive this message > Have you tried to move the card to the first PCI slot ie. right n

Re:

2003-06-29 Thread Han Hwei Woo
>From the sounds of it, you haven't configured X yet. The handbook will walk you through it if you've never done this before. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html In the event that you already have, or do it and still have problems, include the error messages in your