Re: DVD-RAM on FreeBSD 5.1R (LG 4040)?

2003-11-23 Thread Stefan A. Deutscher
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 12:26:11AM +, Stefan A. Deutscher wrote: > Hi all, > > just got an ATAPI LG 4040 multiwriter (CD-R/RW, DVD+/-R,+/-RW, and > DVD-RAM) and wish to use it on FreeBSD 5.1. While still having to > configure the system to address it in UDMA rather than PIO 4 mode, it > insta

Re: Can I install packages only for my release?

2003-11-23 Thread Rahul Fernandez
> > The secret is that once you've installed the system, put away > sysinstall(1). Learn how to use the system level commands for > installing packages -- particularly pkg_add(1). Even better, use the > ports tree. This may sound terrifying to the uninitiated: "what, you > mean I should compil

The FreeBSD Diary: 2003-11-02 - 2003-11-22

2003-11-23 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: Automatically encrypting data files in a partition.

2003-11-23 Thread Paul Hamilton
Thanks for that Lowell! Looks like it might work. I will have a play with it! Cheers, Paul Hamilton -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lowell Gilbert Sent: Saturday, 22 November 2003 9:28 AM To: Paul Hamilton Cc: Freebsd-Questions Subject: Re

Re: Fwd: newbee help on freebsd email server setup

2003-11-23 Thread Dennis M. Yocum
thank you there are many in ports i am running a simple freebsd server dedicated for email so far anyway i want to have about 15 people getting email do you have any reccommendations? (wont hold ya to it) thanks again den - Original Message - From: "Lowell Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

PCI Raid 5 cards for FreeBSD

2003-11-23 Thread Paul Hamilton
Hi, I have seen both the Promise and 3ware raid cards mentioned over time in this mailing list. I would like to be able to run a 1-2TB raid 5 SATA on FreeBSD 4.9. Is anyone using a card from these suppliers? Will FreeBSD install on a Raid 5 array (after it has been configured in the Array BIOS)

Re: Can I install packages only for my release?

2003-11-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 12:03:35AM -0800, Rahul Fernandez wrote: > > > > > The secret is that once you've installed the system, put away > > sysinstall(1). Learn how to use the system level commands for > > installing packages -- particularly pkg_add(1). Even better, use the > > ports tree. Th

Re: Monitoring a file?

2003-11-23 Thread Cordula's Web
> > What is the canonical way to monitor accesses to a file? > You may want to take a look at 'fam,' in /usr/ports/devel/fam , as some > of the code's already been done for this type of monitoring AFAIK... Yes, that is a nice framework to start with. It uses help from the kernel (imon pseudo dev

Re: pidentd troubles

2003-11-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 03:28:09PM -0500, Ben Dover wrote: > I was running pidentd server in fbsd 5.1 and ran into a problem. On reboot > thousands of identd processes would be created. This caused an enormous > problem as you can imagine. I ended up doing a pkg_delete of pidentd. Has > anyo

Re: Monitoring a file?

2003-11-23 Thread Cordula's Web
> > A file, let's say, /path/to/a/file, is being modified by > > an unknown process P(u) at random times. Unfortunately, > > the name of the program ran by P(u) is unknown. > > I'd think the failsafe way to approach this is with a wrapper so that when > process P accesses file F it's really

Re: Monitoring a file?

2003-11-23 Thread Cordula's Web
> > What is the canonical way to monitor accesses to a file? > > > > Problem description: > > > > > > A file, let's say, /path/to/a/file, is being modified by > > an unknown process P(u) at random times. Unfortunately, > > the name of the program ran by P(u) is unknown.

Re: Monitoring a file?

2003-11-23 Thread Cordula's Web
> > A file, let's say, /path/to/a/file, is being modified by > > an unknown process P(u) at random times. Unfortunately, > > the name of the program ran by P(u) is unknown. > > Have you tried moving the file elsewhere and seeing if anyone > complains about the absence? No, P(u) obviously

Re: About setup FreeBSD 5.1 RELEASE to Sony notebook PCG-R505GCK

2003-11-23 Thread toor
On 22 Nov 2003 09:20:09 -0500 Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "toor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On 21 Nov 2003 09:06:31 -0500 Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"toor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> When I begin setup I see next message: >> eisa0: on motherboard >> eisa0

Re: Monitoring a file?

2003-11-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 11:17:57AM +0100, Cordula's Web wrote: > > > A file, let's say, /path/to/a/file, is being modified by > > > an unknown process P(u) at random times. Unfortunately, > > > the name of the program ran by P(u) is unknown. > > > > Have you tried moving the file elsewhere

Re: (Semi)hot swap IDE

2003-11-23 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! I wrote: > >If the majority is right and IDE drives cannot be hot swapped, this > >would indicate that we would need to power down the machine every time > >we want to change the backup HDs. This would be less than > >perfect, but since we are cheap we could live with it. > >OTOH I re

booting freebsd and openbsd

2003-11-23 Thread Paulo Roberto
Hi, I got 4.9 installed on my machine and I need to be able to dual-boot freebsd and openbsd. The freebsd boot-loader recognizes (F2 BSD) but does not boot the openbsd partition. Do I have to set any extra parameter? thanks, Paulo __ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your i

Modem

2003-11-23 Thread Danny louis
Hi, I recently Installed FreeBSD on my IBM THinkpad 600x. How do I configure the 56K internal modem for dial up and internet services from scratch? Thanks, Daniel Lewis 561-547-6647 __ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.co

fsck error messages don't get logged?

2003-11-23 Thread Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto
Hello all, I just had a crash, and upon reboot fsck displayed these gnarly errors that went by too quick for me to read, my different display lines settings loading on the console making it worse. So I thought, allright, just dmesg. Nothing about the errors there. /var/log/messages? nothing

Re: startx and numlocks

2003-11-23 Thread Dru
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Chris Pressey wrote: > On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 08:38:24 -0500 (EST) > Dru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Does anyone know how to keep numlocks on when using "startx"? I have > > numlocks on in all of my terminals, but when I start X, it goes off. > > Is there a line I can

RE: Modem

2003-11-23 Thread fbsd_user
Read the FBSD handbook. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/userppp.ht ml -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Danny louis Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2003 9:28 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Modem Hi, I recently Insta

Re: FreeBSD, FHS, and /mnt/cdrom

2003-11-23 Thread Frank Murphy
On Saturday 22 November 2003 8:18, Charles Swiger wrote: > /mnt should be reserved as a default temporary mount point-- it's silly > to risk breaking existing tools or procedures. Anyway, I suggest you > solicit feedback from Solaris users and possibly MacOS X people as > well. Solaris features v

FreeBSD 5.1 on a Laptop

2003-11-23 Thread D Velez
Hi, I was wondering if FreeBSD 5.1 can be install on a laptop? I appreciate any comments Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Monitoring a file?

2003-11-23 Thread Cordula's Web
> > > > A file, let's say, /path/to/a/file, is being modified by > > > > an unknown process P(u) at random times. Unfortunately, > > > > the name of the program ran by P(u) is unknown. > Not a lock as such, but: > > # chflags schg /path/to/a/file > > should achieve the effect you desire.

Re: FreeBSD 5.1 on a Laptop

2003-11-23 Thread Daniela
On Sunday 23 November 2003 16:21, D Velez wrote: > Hi, I was wondering if FreeBSD 5.1 can be > install on a laptop? I installed 5.0 once, without any problems. There will surely not be a great difference between them. For more info: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/laptop/artic

Mozilla and long time in resolving Hostnames

2003-11-23 Thread tullio pellicano
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advice needed on creating hmtl docs?

2003-11-23 Thread fbsd_user
My shop has been writing internal standards & tutorials in MS/windows word. They now want to make these available online over the internet as web pages. We use FBSD as our gateway and apache as our web server. I know I can install apache with ms/FrontPage extensions added and then use FrontPage to

Re: dmesg.today->dmesg.yesterday

2003-11-23 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Jesse Guardiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> How does dmesg.today get rotated to dmesg.yesterday? >> >> I suspect my dmesg.today of being corrupted by old info. >> I have gotten the following message in my security output >> for the last four days: >> >> pid 4062 (cl

Re: advice needed on creating hmtl docs?

2003-11-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 12:22:34PM -0500, fbsd_user wrote: > I would really like to use the ms/word docs as source input to some > FBSD hmtl generator to build original hmtl source that apache can > serve up natively. Can any body suggest how to do this? http://wvware.sourceforge.net in ports as

Re: Modem problems

2003-11-23 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Shaun Alcaster (ECI Support) wrote: > We have a lease line directly connected to out internet survice provider. > Both have 56k lease line modems, but can only connect at about 33.3Kbs how > do we change this. Most likely the problem is with your phone lines, not FreeBSD or your ISP. I work at a

Re: FreeBSD 5.1 on a Laptop

2003-11-23 Thread Jesse Guardiani
D Velez wrote: > Hi, I was wondering if FreeBSD 5.1 can be > install on a laptop? I've been running 5.1-RELEASE on my IBM Thinkpad A30p for 4 or 5 months now. I like it a lot. It's was a bit trickier to get installed than 4.8-RELEASE, but once it's installed it works well. -- Jesse Guardiani, S

Re: Disklabel problem IBM SCSI3 disks, vinum too

2003-11-23 Thread Bob Collins
At 07:30 PM 11/21/2003, you wrote: >[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] > >Quotation broken. > >On Friday, 21 November 2003 at 9:25:58 -0500, Bob Collins wrote: >> At 08:41 PM 11/19/2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/em

RE: Modem

2003-11-23 Thread Jesse Guardiani
fbsd_user wrote: > Read the FBSD handbook. > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/userppp.ht Also, you might want to try kppp from the KDE project. It's a graphical front end to Kernal PPP (pppd), and I find that it's much easier to use than the CLI when I need to connect in

daemon monitoring

2003-11-23 Thread Will Prater
List, What are most of you using to monitor the running daemons? I have been loooking into DJB daemontools which seems appropriate, but are there any others that you reccomend? If DJB's daemontools is the one, could I get some more examples? I am primarily trying to keep my mail system online:

Re: HD error: BAD SUPER BLOCK

2003-11-23 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! > Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 10:53:06 +0100 > From: Robert Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > this is the problem: > I had a machine running FreeBSD 4.7-Stable. There I added a 80GB > harddisk. This harddrive I wanted to install on my other machine running > FreeBSD 4.9-Release

ftp/ftpd and kerberos5

2003-11-23 Thread Дейтер Александр Валериевич
Why ftp and ftpd in FreeBSD 5.x does not support kerberos5 ? Thanks! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: advice needed on creating hmtl docs?

2003-11-23 Thread paul beard
On Nov 23, 2003, at 9:22 AM, fbsd_user wrote: I would really like to use the ms/word docs as source input to some FBSD hmtl generator to build original hmtl source that apache can serve up natively. Can any body suggest how to do this? One approach I've had some success with is to take the baroqu

Boot manager clarification

2003-11-23 Thread Craig Caughlin
Hi folks, I have 2 hard disks, each on their own channel. I have XOSL installed as my boot manager, in Drive 1, Partition 1. I have Windows 2000-Pro on Drive 1, Partition 2. I want to install FreeBSD 5.0 on Drive 2, but use XOSL to load it. Should I install FreeBSD using the "Standard" MBR option

Novice needs advice building new kernel: UPG 4.7-RELEASE ---> 4.9-RELEASE

2003-11-23 Thread Jeff Bogari
Thanks in advance for the expert assistance: I'm *halfway* knowledgeable with my 4.7-RELEASE system. Built it on a 486/66 (16MB RAM) about a year ago. It's time to upgrade to 4.9-RELEASE. Here's what I've got so far: 1. Set the options in sysinstall to retrieve 4.9-RELEASE instead of 4.7-R

hard drive bench

2003-11-23 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi :) Is there a hard drive speed measurement available for FreeBSD ? I don't need anything fancy, just something like "hdparm -t" under Linux. Thanks. -- Antoine Jacoutot [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lphp.org PGP/GnuPG key: http://www.lphp.org/ressources/ajacoutot.asc

Material

2003-11-23 Thread NEED_FIRST NEED_LAST
Hi, I am a student at Minot State University in Minot,ND. I work in the computer lab and was noticing all the posters that we have up are getting old and out dated. Some one mentioned to me FreeBSD (rocks). I have never heard about freebsd so I was wondering do you have any material that you could

Re: More info [was Re: Sony PCG-GRX570 laptop, panic on boot w/ 5.1R...]

2003-11-23 Thread Remington
George Hartzell wrote: George Hartzell writes: > > I've been trying to install something 5-ish on a Sony PCG-GRX570 > laptop. > > I started off trying to boot off of the 5.1 release CD, normally, > w/out acpi, and safe. Every option panic-ed, with essentially the > same message (see below), alt

Re: More info [was Re: Sony PCG-GRX570 laptop, panic on boot w/ 5.1R...]

2003-11-23 Thread George Hartzell
Remington writes: > George Hartzell wrote: > > >George Hartzell writes: > > > > > > I've been trying to install something 5-ish on a Sony PCG-GRX570 > > > laptop. > > > > > > I started off trying to boot off of the 5.1 release CD, normally, > > > w/out acpi, and safe. Every option pani

POLA violation?: snmp renumbering stuff

2003-11-23 Thread paul beard
For some reason, my locally installed snmp daemons decided to renumber the elements in the hrStorageTable, meaning all the attached disks were being either misreported or just plain dropped from my graphs (paulbeard.no-ip.org/mrtg/blue/index.html). Not that the new numbering doesn't make sense

remote mount hangs sysstem

2003-11-23 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
Is there a way to mount a cdrom or remote file systems using fstab but not having it crash out the system. example if i have a nfs share set up to another machine and that machine goes down the next time i reboot my system the machine hangs when it cannot find the share and will not allow me

Re: hard drive bench

2003-11-23 Thread Stefan A. Deutscher
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 08:58:54PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > Hi :) > > Is there a hard drive speed measurement available for FreeBSD ? > I don't need anything fancy, just something like "hdparm -t" under Linux. > > Thanks. Hi Antoine, check out bonnie from the ports tree and make sure

Postfix/procmail/fetchmail/spamassassin setup

2003-11-23 Thread Jonas Manalive
Hello, I am having terrible time trying to figure out why I can't get any emails. I used to be able to receive them before, but since reinstalling FreeBSD (new harddrive), I am not able to get any emails again. I am using FreeBSD 5.1 - standalone computer with me as the sole user. With postfix, I

Re: daemon monitoring

2003-11-23 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 10:52:48AM -0800, Will Prater wrote: > List, > > What are most of you using to monitor the running daemons? I have been > loooking into DJB daemontools which seems appropriate, but are there > any others that you reccomend? > > If DJB's daemontools is the one, could I ge

usb digital camera

2003-11-23 Thread Kent Hauser
Hi, Is there some trick to using USB devices? I'm trying to access my Nikon coolpix 5000 (latest firmware PTP mode) from 4.9-STABLE with no luck. usbdevs sees the camera, as does "gphoto2 --auto-detect". However, I'm unable to access the camera data with "gphoto2 --auto-detect --summary" (or vi

Re: remote mount hangs sysstem

2003-11-23 Thread paul beard
On Nov 23, 2003, at 12:13 PM, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: Is there a way to mount a cdrom or remote file systems using fstab but not having it crash out the system. example if i have a nfs share set up to another machine and that machine goes down the next time i reboot my system the machine ha

Running rbldnsd

2003-11-23 Thread Mark
zones: rbldnsd: ip4set:dynablock.my-domain.info: 20031123 174253: \ e32/24/16/8=372826/241350/1001/0 rbldnsd: generic:zoneheader.dynablock.my-domain.info: 20031123 183814: e=3 rbldnsd: version 0.96 (29 May 2003) started (listening on [127.0.0.1]:53) Yet, I cannot get any query to resolve on

virus

2003-11-23 Thread Jackie S. McCracken
Somebody on this list has mimail virus could you all please scan your windows computers. I've got about 100 of them in the last 4 days. Hint I did NOT get any after yesterday morning until this morning so if your computer was off most of the day yesterday you're probably the one. Thanks in ad

Re: remote mount hangs sysstem

2003-11-23 Thread Scott W
RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: Is there a way to mount a cdrom or remote file systems using fstab but not having it crash out the system. example if i have a nfs share set up to another machine and that machine goes down the next time i reboot my system the machine hangs when it cannot find the sh

Re: remote mount hangs sysstem

2003-11-23 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
So if i set to noauto does it still get mounted or do i have to execute a command later paul beard wrote: On Nov 23, 2003, at 12:13 PM, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: Is there a way to mount a cdrom or remote file systems using fstab but not having it crash out the system. example if i have a nfs

Re: Postfix/procmail/fetchmail/spamassassin setup

2003-11-23 Thread Simon Barner
Hi, could you please verfiy your postfix configuration using `postfix check'? Perhaps this will show some errors. Other hints: Check /var/log/maillog (and post some lines from the tail if you still can fix your problem). Is the postfix daemon listening on port 25? Are you able to telnet there:

Re: Disklabel problem IBM SCSI3 disks, vinum too

2003-11-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Single-line paragraphs. On Sunday, 23 November 2003 at 13:03:47 -0500, Bob Collins wrote: > At 07:30 PM 11/21/2003, you wrote: >> On Friday, 21 November 2003 at 9:25:58 -0500, Bob Collins wrote: >>> vinum -> list >>> 4 drives:

Re: usb digital camera

2003-11-23 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003, Kent Hauser wrote: >Hi, > >Is there some trick to using USB devices? I'm trying to access my Nikon >coolpix 5000 (latest firmware PTP mode) from 4.9-STABLE with no luck. I've found the easiest way to deal with digital cameras is to buy the appropriate USB flash memory adapte

Re: remote mount hangs sysstem

2003-11-23 Thread paul beard
On Nov 23, 2003, at 1:31 PM, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: So if i set to noauto does it still get mounted or do i have to execute a command later sure, just use "mount /mount/point" If the fstab works now, you won't need to do anything else. There may be more sophisticated ways (automounters and s

Re: Postfix/procmail/fetchmail/spamassassin setup

2003-11-23 Thread Jonas Manalive
> could you please verfiy your postfix configuration using `postfix > check'? Perhaps this will show some errors. No errors. > Other hints: Check /var/log/maillog (and post some lines from the tail > if you still can fix your problem). A'ha! What do I do here to fix this? (I think I should have

Re: booting freebsd and openbsd

2003-11-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Paulo Roberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I got 4.9 installed on my machine and I need to be able to dual-boot > freebsd and openbsd. The freebsd boot-loader recognizes (F2 BSD) but > does not boot the openbsd partition. Do I have to set any extra > parameter? Funny, I didn't think that should

Re: usb digital camera

2003-11-23 Thread JacobRhoden
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 09:02 am, Kent Hauser wrote: > usbdevs sees the camera, as does "gphoto2 --auto-detect". However, I'm > unable to access the camera data with "gphoto2 --auto-detect --summary" (or > via digikam or via konquerer). I used to use gphoto to read my photos, but these days I just ha

Re: fsck error messages don't get logged?

2003-11-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just had a crash, and upon reboot fsck displayed these gnarly > errors that went by too quick for me to read, my different display > lines settings loading on the console making it worse. So I thought, > allright, just dmesg. Nothi

Re: remote mount hangs sysstem

2003-11-23 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
this is my fstabs file could you please explain where i enter and set values for the -R and -b options # See the fstab(5) manual page for important information on automatic mounts # of network filesystems before modifying this file. # # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options

Re: Monitoring a file?

2003-11-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Cordula's Web" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've finally found the culprit with a traditional method: > * md5 (binary from an uncompromised machine) on all files > * reinstalling from scratch (not buildworld, but really > installing from FTP) > * md5 again and diff. [snip] > Ugh... s

Re: hard drive bench

2003-11-23 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Monday 24 November 2003 00:01, Stefan A. Deutscher wrote: > check out bonnie from the ports tree and make sure the test files are > at least the size of your RAM. Otherwise you'll be measuring the speed > of the caching system, which is pretty fast on BSD. Thanks a lot :) Regards. Antoine _

while I have your attention... Names, copyright and IPv6

2003-11-23 Thread paul van den bergen
Hi all, given how clearly you-all answered my query about 'hostname' (thanks folks) I thought I'd chance my luck. so, let me get this straight... in the IPv4 world there is this thing called DNS and domain names... I can buy my self a name off a name vendor - eg. bergen.org... I then get to ow

Re: Monitoring a file?

2003-11-23 Thread Cordula's Web
> > I've finally found the culprit with a traditional method: > > * md5 (binary from an uncompromised machine) on all files > > * reinstalling from scratch (not buildworld, but really > > installing from FTP) > > * md5 again and diff. > > [snip] > > > Ugh... system clean again at last.

Re: (Semi)hot swap IDE

2003-11-23 Thread Jez Hancock
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 01:16:50PM +0200, Toomas Aas wrote: > > 1. The 'generic' removeable drive trays for IDE that use a normal IDE > > controller (like attaching to the slave or secondary channel on most > > onboard IDE), with another disk or device attached that's being used, do > > not sup

order in fstab and md/mfs

2003-11-23 Thread Ronald Klop
Hello, Today I noticed my mfs on /tmp not mounting properly, because of the order of the entries in fstab. Mfs can't be mounted too early. Is this meant to be or should there be a second stage for this mount, just like nfs mounts which are deferred until after the network is up. I saw it is do

Re: remote mount hangs sysstem

2003-11-23 Thread Scott W
RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: this is my fstabs file could you please explain where i enter and set values for the -R and -b options # See the fstab(5) manual page for important information on automatic mounts # of network filesystems before modifying this file. # # DeviceMountpoint

mounting windows FS questions

2003-11-23 Thread paul van den bergen
Hi all, I have a dual boot machine Win2k + BSD... obviously I can mount the windows partition under BSD. can I mount the BSD partition(s) under windows? I have been told that writing to the windows partition from BSD is kinda dubious. why is this? is it possible to work around this? --

Re: order in fstab and md/mfs (extra info)

2003-11-23 Thread Ronald Klop
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 01:02:09 +0100, Ronald Klop wrote: Hello, Today I noticed my mfs on /tmp not mounting properly, because of the order of the entries in fstab. Mfs can't be mounted too early. Is this meant to be or should there be a second stage for this mount, just like nfs mounts which ar

Ooops - Re: while I have your attention... Names, copyright and IPv6

2003-11-23 Thread paul van den bergen
Ooops... I forgot the most important part of my question... IPv6 how does this all work under IPv6? is the IPv6 domain name allocation as fully fledged as teh IPv4 services? I.e. are there and what are the restrictions on who can set up a name broker service for IPv6? what are the likely got

Re: while I have your attention... Names, copyright and IPv6

2003-11-23 Thread Cordula's Web
> Question 1) where does the DNS record for that name reside? with my ISP? with > the name vendor? Let's assume that the name is bergen.org. bergen.org is stored in three places: * the registry for .org (http://www.pir.org/) points bergen.org to a registrar. * the registrar pointed to by

telnet and ssh problem.

2003-11-23 Thread falaki
Hi Every body; I have a FreeBSD Server. It has telnet and ssh up. They work, but not properly. When I ssh to the server or telnet from Linux shell by each Enter I see the following message: bash: \033]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]:${PWD/#$HOME/~}\007: bad substitution But when I telnet from Window

vinum configuration

2003-11-23 Thread dave
Hello, Trying to get vinum going on a 5.1 machine, with two IDE 40 gb hard drives at the moment, two more will be added later once i know my setup is working. Below are my disklabels for ad0s1 and ad1s1 as well as the vinum configuration. I need to know if all of this is right and if not what i

Re: while I have your attention... Names, copyright and IPv6

2003-11-23 Thread Scott W
paul van den bergen wrote: Hi all, given how clearly you-all answered my query about 'hostname' (thanks folks) I thought I'd chance my luck. so, let me get this straight... in the IPv4 world there is this thing called DNS and domain names... I can buy my self a name off a name vendor - eg. be

Re: telnet and ssh problem.

2003-11-23 Thread Scott W
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Every body; I have a FreeBSD Server. It has telnet and ssh up. They work, but not properly. When I ssh to the server or telnet from Linux shell by each Enter I see the following message: bash: \033]0;[EMAIL PROTECTED]:${PWD/#$HOME/~}\007: bad substitution But wh

Re: fsck error messages don't get logged?

2003-11-23 Thread Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto
Lowell Gilbert wrote: >You can't scroll the window back to the messages? I just found out about Scroll Lock, checking better.. was convinced I had some sort of keyboard problem because Shft-PgUp never worked :). Well, tough luck.. I had already booted again, so the messages are gone. It would b

Re: Ooops - Re: while I have your attention... Names, copyright and IPv6

2003-11-23 Thread Scott W
paul van den bergen wrote: Ooops... I forgot the most important part of my question... IPv6 how does this all work under IPv6? is the IPv6 domain name allocation as fully fledged as teh IPv4 services? I.e. are there and what are the restrictions on who can set up a name broker service for IPv

Re: mounting windows FS questions

2003-11-23 Thread Scott W
paul van den bergen wrote: Hi all, I have a dual boot machine Win2k + BSD... obviously I can mount the windows partition under BSD. can I mount the BSD partition(s) under windows? I have been told that writing to the windows partition from BSD is kinda dubious. why is this? is it possible t

Re: IPv6

2003-11-23 Thread Cordula's Web
> how does this all work under IPv6? is the IPv6 domain name allocation as > fully fledged as teh IPv4 services? I.e. are there and what are the > restrictions on who can set up a name broker service for IPv6? what are the > likely gottchas? I don't know for sure here, so please take this wit

Re: hard drive bench

2003-11-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 23 November 2003 at 23:01:21 +, Stefan A. Deutscher wrote: > On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 08:58:54PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: >> Hi :) >> >> Is there a hard drive speed measurement available for FreeBSD ? >> I don't need anything fancy, just something like "hdparm -t" under Linux. >

Re: while I have your attention... Names, copyright and IPv6

2003-11-23 Thread Cordula's Web
> > microsoft.bergen.org > > SCO.bergen.org > > Sun.bergen.org > > Question3) > > surely I'm breaking copyright or trademark laws here? whats to stop me being > > You are totally responsible for respecting coyright and trademark laws. > Registrars (and registries) are not responsible for this. I

Re: daemon monitoring

2003-11-23 Thread Will Prater
Sorry, I mispoke. I will be using Nagios to monitor, but I need to make sure they will restart if there is an error. Will nagios do this as well? Thanks On Nov 23, 2003, at 1:57 PM, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 10:52:48AM -0800, Will Prater wrote: List, What are most of you

Re: vinum configuration

2003-11-23 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 23 November 2003 at 19:15:30 -0500, dave wrote: > Hello, > Trying to get vinum going on a 5.1 machine, with two IDE 40 gb hard > drives at the moment, two more will be added later once i know my setup is > working. Below are my disklabels for ad0s1 and ad1s1 as well as the vinum > co

RE: NEED_FIRST NEED_LAST

2003-11-23 Thread john
>From one computer lab monitor to another, BSD is good stuff. I've recently wiped my RH 9.0 machine to install BSD on the recommendation of one of my professors and now most of the advanced lab machines are running it, much to the delight of the users. Key points: 1.) The ports collection. Forget

xcdroast + IDE drive possible?

2003-11-23 Thread Phoetoid
I was wondering if there is any way I can use xcdroast with an IDE drive? I read something the other day about using atapicam in your kernel to allow atapi devices to be used like scsi devices, but eh I cant remember it! Anyways, if anyone has tips on how to do this or perhaps a suggestion for ano

Re: fsck error messages don't get logged?

2003-11-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It would be nice to have them logged. Any serious errors will stop the fsck to prompt for what to do next, so it's not as bad as it seems... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: xcdroast + IDE drive possible?

2003-11-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Phoetoid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was wondering if there is any way I can use xcdroast with an IDE > drive? I read something the other day about using atapicam in your > kernel to allow atapi devices to be used like scsi devices, but eh I > cant remember it! Anyways, if anyone has tips o

Re: Postfix/procmail/fetchmail/spamassassin setup

2003-11-23 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 02:51:30PM -0800, Jonas Manalive wrote: > > could you please verfiy your postfix configuration using `postfix > > check'? Perhaps this will show some errors. > > No errors. > > > Other hints: Check /var/log/maillog (and post some lines from the tail > > if you still can fi

Re: daemon monitoring

2003-11-23 Thread Alex de Kruijff
Dear Will, I've moved you text to the buttom so its more readable for other. On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 04:46:09PM -0800, Will Prater wrote: > On Nov 23, 2003, at 1:57 PM, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > >On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 10:52:48AM -0800, Will Prater wrote: > >>List, > >> > >>What are most of you u

5.0 vs. 5.1

2003-11-23 Thread john
I'm currently running 5.0 release and am wondering about the possible positives/negatives of switching to another release, particularly 5.1 current. I'm running it as my "work" machine for programming and school type things, side by side with my windows machine, so it's not *essential*, but I wou

Re: daemon monitoring

2003-11-23 Thread Jez Hancock
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 02:11:39AM +0100, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 04:46:09PM -0800, Will Prater wrote: > > On Nov 23, 2003, at 1:57 PM, Alex de Kruijff wrote: > > >On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 10:52:48AM -0800, Will Prater wrote: > > >>List, > > >> > > >>What are most of you usi

Re: Ooops - Re: while I have your attention... Names, copyright and IPv6

2003-11-23 Thread paul van den bergen
as usual, there has been a bit of a misunderstanding... being a loosely typed language, Engliosh is difficult to communicate in :-0 Names, addresses and DNS are obviously different things. I understand where IPv6 addresses come from (sort of). I understand (sort of) how IPv6 works for DNS recor

Re: fsck error messages don't get logged?

2003-11-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 23), Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto said: > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > >You can't scroll the window back to the messages? > > I just found out about Scroll Lock, checking better.. was convinced I > had some sort of keyboard problem because Shft-PgUp never worked :). > We

Re: Ooops - Re: while I have your attention... Names, copyright and IPv6

2003-11-23 Thread Luke Kearney
On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 12:43:11 +1100 paul van den bergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> granted us these pearls of wisdom: > as usual, there has been a bit of a misunderstanding... being a loosely typed > language, Engliosh is difficult to communicate in :-0 > > Names, addresses and DNS are obviously differ

Re: POLA violation?: snmp renumbering stuff

2003-11-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 23), paul beard said: > For some reason, my locally installed snmp daemons decided to > renumber the elements in the hrStorageTable, meaning all the attached > disks were being either misreported or just plain dropped from my > graphs (paulbeard.no-ip.org/mrtg/blue/index.ht

Re: Ooops - Re: while I have your attention... Names, copyright and IPv6

2003-11-23 Thread Cordula's Web
> if I operate a network, boxen1.example.org, boxen2.example.org, etc., as an > IPv4 address space and a second coincident network, boxen1.example6.org, > boxen2.example6.org, etc., as an IPv6 based address space, where does the > authority to allocate the IPv6-network based names reside? AFAI

Fwd: [bn@vastnet.co.uk: Re: Question]

2003-11-23 Thread Dan Nelson
- Forwarded message from VastNET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 20:47:14 - From: VastNET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Question X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 GNU gdb 4.18 (FreeBSD) Copyright 1998 Free Software Fo

Re: Ooops - Re: while I have your attention... Names, copyright and IPv6

2003-11-23 Thread Cordula's Web
> You are responsible for keeping track of the names > under *.example.org, *.example6.org, *.example46.org. > There is no such thing as an IPv6[-only] domain name. > > If you asked about PTR records, this would be more > interesting... [Hint: ip6.arpa.] ;-) The reference is: RFC 3596: DNS Exte

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