Re: NFS server fail-over - how do you do it?

2004-05-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 02:43:37AM -0500, adp wrote: > I am running a FreeBSD 4.9-REL NFS server. Once every several hours our main > NFS server replicates everything to a backup FreeBSD NFS server. We are okay > with the gap in time between replication. What we aren't sure about is how > to automa

Root password and single user problems

2004-05-31 Thread Marcus Kellis
When moving from the University of Idaho dorms, where I installed FreeBSD 5.2.1, back to my dad's place, my installation got all sorts of crazy, between DHCP, hostname, and other problems that were I guess part of my system's configuration. So recently I've been trying to fix them, and get my syste

Re: Can I specify the resolver timeout?

2004-05-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 06:38:58AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2004-05-30 22:26, adp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >"Giorgos Keramidas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On 2004-05-30 12:04, adp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Is there a way to override this timeout value? I know it is possib

Re: Root password and single user problems

2004-05-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-05-31 01:13, Marcus Kellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When moving from the University of Idaho dorms, where I installed FreeBSD > 5.2.1, back to my dad's place, my installation got all sorts of crazy, > between DHCP, hostname, and other problems that were I guess part of my > system's con

Support Serial ATA

2004-05-31 Thread Subs-Box
Здравствуйте, freebsd-questions. It Is Planned include support Serial ATA for FreeBSD 4.x? -- С уважением, Subs-Box mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Freebsd - Mail configuration and syntax

2004-05-31 Thread Carla Neves
Dear All, I would like someone to give me some good tips to configure my email on Freebsd v4.9, to send/receive messages. I would like to use what I have already installed: sendmail, mailx. I went through the Freebsd manual but I coulnd't find any tips for the syntax of sending/receiving emails

Gnome System Monitor 2.2.2

2004-05-31 Thread Mike Jeays
This applet works fine for CPU and memory, but shows 0% for network utilization on my machine, even when doing a heavy FTP transfer. Is there some magic setting somewhere, please? FreebSD 5.1 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: Can I specify the resolver timeout?

2004-05-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2004-05-31 08:20, Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 06:38:58AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > Hmmm, I *am* running 5.X. Looking at the manpage source I see that this > > option's missing from the 4.X sources :( > > This came up on the list quite recently.

Re: Freebsd - Mail configuration and syntax

2004-05-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 09:32:21AM +0100, Carla Neves wrote: > I would like someone to give me some good tips to configure my email > on Freebsd v4.9, to send/receive messages. I would like to use what I > have already installed: sendmail, mailx. I went through the Freebsd > manual but I coulnd

Re: ifconfig in rc.conf network problems

2004-05-31 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On stardate Sun, 30 May 2004, the wise Joost Bekkers entered: On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 11:34:43PM +0200, Olaf Hoyer wrote: 2) put the media change in a separate shell script, and throw it unter /usr/local/etc/rc.d, so that it will be executed later on something like: cat dc0-speedchange.sh #!/bin/sh

Re: ifconfig in rc.conf network problems

2004-05-31 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On stardate Sun, 30 May 2004, the wise Warren Block entered: On Sun, 30 May 2004, Marco Beishuizen wrote: I used to have two ifconfig lines in my rc.conf: ifconfig_dc0="DHCP" ifconfig_dc0="media autoselect" The first to enable DHCP and the second to set my networkcard to 100BaseTX full duplex. Can

Don't know what else to do with DHCP...help??

2004-05-31 Thread Don
I have a slight problem with my shiny new copy of FreeBSDI can't seem to get connected to my ISPI have read everything I could fid in the FAQs and manual but haven't managed to find a solution to my dilema When I went to install everything worked just fine...I even installed over FTP...I c

Re: Don't know what else to do with DHCP...help??

2004-05-31 Thread Rob
When I went to install everything worked just fine...I even installed over FTP...I chose my NIC and did automatic DHCP configuration. It worked like a charm... however my extacsy was to be shortlived.. when booting there is a long pause when the dhclient startsmy guess is it is querying the ser

Re: Don't know what else to do with DHCP...help??

2004-05-31 Thread Don
--- Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the last entry in /var/db/dhclient.leases ? > If there's something, does that make sense ? > > Anything dhclient related in /var/log/messages ? > > And how about running dhclient manually in the > foreground ? > As root, kill the running dhclient pid

RE: Don't know what else to do with DHCP...help??

2004-05-31 Thread David Daugherty
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Don > Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 5:09 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Don't know what else to do with DHCP...help?? > when booting there is a long pause when the dhclient > startsmy guess is it is querying the server for the dhcp > info. however

how come ur o/s dosn't have this?

2004-05-31 Thread Curtis Hatch
how come it dosn't tell to switch cd or if it is the wroung cd i need to told that pus the fix cd it dosn't tell to switch that cd too i think there also shuld be format the hard disk drive pl put these things in thank you curtis Hatch ___ [EM

how come it dosn't have this too it just the cd switching

2004-05-31 Thread Curtis Hatch
how come it dosn't boot direct like to freebsd i don't wanna typ it my self pl make there changes thank u ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTE

This is Lan support questions

2004-05-31 Thread Bok Yick
You website(FreeBSD 4.10 HW I386) to show support Lan (D-Link DFE-530TX) but my set up can't to find please to reply!thank you very much [EMAIL PROTECTED] 全港最大手機下載中心 http://mobile.yahoo.com.hk/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

question about hardware

2004-05-31 Thread Антон Чернышов
Hello, freebsd-questions. Where FreeBSD can support Adaptec SATA ICH5-R RAID Controller on Intel Server MotherBoards (such as S875WP1-E). -- Best regards, Anton mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list ht

Re: This is Lan support questions

2004-05-31 Thread Technical Director
This card should work fine. If you are on a running system without the vr device compiled into the kernel you can test the driver by doing the following: kldload if_vr If this works, in bold white letters or in a dmesg output you should see: vr0: more blah vr0: Ethernet address: blah miibus:

Re: how come ur o/s dosn't have this?

2004-05-31 Thread Artem Koutchine
r u capble of communicatin with ppl in an undestandable manner? - Original Message - From: "Curtis Hatch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 6:37 AM Subject: how come ur o/s dosn't have this? how come it dosn't tell to switch cd or if it is the wroung

routing for 1000 users and 10Mbit internet.

2004-05-31 Thread hugle
Hello all. I run into some problem here Let's take, that I have 10mbit internet and 1000 users behind the router. All I want to do is to NAT internet over all of these users give some users external IPs (BIMAP in ipfilter) And olso do traffic shaping, like: Some IP groups (10.0.0.0/24) one pipe -

Re: Freebsd - Mail configuration and syntax

2004-05-31 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 31 May 2004, Carla Neves wrote: 1- Configuring sendmail (although is already in the manual) There are whole books on this. It depends on what you want to accomplish. 2- Syntax used to send email (with examples would be great). sendmail is a Mail Transfer Agent, a system program that deal

Re: Don't know what else to do with DHCP...help??

2004-05-31 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 31 May 2004, Don wrote: There was nothing in the /var/db/dhclient.leases and the only relevant thing I found in the /var/log/messages was this May 31 05:02:10 kernel: skc0: <3Com 3C940 Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 0xe580-0xe5803fff irq 18 at device 9.0 on pci0 May 31 05:02:

Groups

2004-05-31 Thread Scott Gerhardt
To simplify administration for some temporary groups I would like to make a group a member of an existing group. The question is: Can a group be made a member of a group, i.e. nested groups? There is nothing in the documentation that says that a group can or cannot be made a member of a group.

Re: Groups

2004-05-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 08:37:39AM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote: > To simplify administration for some temporary groups I would like to > make a group a member of an existing group. > > The question is: Can a group be made a member of a group, i.e. nested > groups? > > There is nothing in the do

Re: routing for 1000 users and 10Mbit internet.

2004-05-31 Thread Fernando Gleiser
On Mon, 31 May 2004, hugle wrote: > The question in what machine do i need? > What CPU and how much of ram ? I set up a firewall for more than 300 users, a DMZ with a public webserver, webmail and MX on a PII-350MHz with 128 MB RAM. On another client, I set up a firewall for 50 users with a Pent

5.2.1 goes beserk on EPIA M board

2004-05-31 Thread Robert Downes
I have no CD drive on my EPIA machine, so I plugged the 2.5" Toshiba drive into another machine to install FreeBSD 5.2.1 from a minimal install CD I burned myself. Installation ran fine on the big machine (a Pentium 4) and FreeBSD was able to boot on that machine without problem. I plugged the

Re: 3Com 3c905B-TX Fast EtherLink XL Packet Loss

2004-05-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
Technical Director wrote: [ ... ] 3Com 3c905B-TX showing up as xl0 plugged in using a etl certified (whooie) cat-5e to: Linksys EtherFast 4116 Using ping -f /{some address}/, I've noticed at these configured speeds the following: 10baseT/UTP half-duplex == 11% packet loss 10baseT/UTP full-duplex ==

Re[2]: routing for 1000 users and 10Mbit internet.

2004-05-31 Thread hugle
FG> On Mon, 31 May 2004, hugle wrote: >> The question in what machine do i need? >> What CPU and how much of ram ? FG> I set up a firewall for more than 300 users, a DMZ with a public webserver, FG> webmail and MX on a PII-350MHz with 128 MB RAM. dammit.. why then my users eats so much CPU? look:

Re: 5.2.1 goes beserk on EPIA M board

2004-05-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
Robert Downes wrote: [ ... ] ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA status=11 error=84 LBA=4127103 I did have, yesterday, FreeBSD 5.0 running on my EPIA M successfully until I tried to buildworld using 5.2.1 sources, at which point my EPIA hard crashed and reset itself. I assumed my PSU had failed briefly,

Re: NFS server fail-over - how do you do it?

2004-05-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
adp wrote: One of my big problems right now is that if our primary NFS server goes down then everything using that NFS mount locks up. If I change to the mounted filesystem on the client then it stalls: # pwd /root # cd /nfs-mount-dir [locks] If I try to reboot the reboot fails as well since FreeBS

Re: FreeBSD 4.10 and terminal woes - FIXED

2004-05-31 Thread Odhiambo Washington
* Geert Hendrickx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20040529 21:55]: wrote: > On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 03:04:36PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > I decided to upgrade the box that I read my mail on (using mutt) to > > FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE. It has been running 4.9-STABLE since those days ;) > > > > Now all

Re: 5.3-RELEASE

2004-05-31 Thread Odhiambo Washington
* Brad Tarver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20040528 17:24]: wrote: > The FBSD 4.10-RELEASE announcement > (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.10R/announce.html) mentioned > 5.3-RELEASE. Any word on when 5.3 might arrive? What do you expect to come with it? ;-)) -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/lea

Re: routing for 1000 users and 10Mbit internet.

2004-05-31 Thread Bill Moran
hugle wrote: FG> On Mon, 31 May 2004, hugle wrote: The question in what machine do i need? What CPU and how much of ram ? FG> I set up a firewall for more than 300 users, a DMZ with a public webserver, FG> webmail and MX on a PII-350MHz with 128 MB RAM. dammit.. why then my users eats so much CPU?

Re: routing for 1000 users and 10Mbit internet.

2004-05-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
hugle wrote: [ ... ] why then my users eats so much CPU? look: CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.8% system, 38.0% interrupt, 61.2% idle Mem: 21M Active, 177M Inact, 133M Wired, 1228K Cache, 199M Buf, 1677M Free I have only 61% idle ? usualy i have ~50 idle.. now I have P4 2.4GHZ maybe my setup

Re[2]: routing for 1000 users and 10Mbit internet.

2004-05-31 Thread Fernando Gleiser
On Mon, 31 May 2004, hugle wrote: > dammit.. > why then my users eats so much CPU? > look: > CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.8% system, 38.0% interrupt, 61.2% idle > Mem: 21M Active, 177M Inact, 133M Wired, 1228K Cache, 199M Buf, 1677M Free > > I have only 61% idle ? > usualy i have ~50 idl

Re: NFS server fail-over - how do you do it?

2004-05-31 Thread adp
We can live with the chance that a file write might fail as long as we can switch over to another NFS server if the primary fails. So amd will help us avoid the "client hung" issue? I will have to take a look. That is the worst thing of all when it comes to a failed NFS server. You can't even remot

Re: NFS server fail-over - how do you do it?

2004-05-31 Thread adp
Very useful information, thanks. We have a very stable NFS server, but I am still working hard to put some redundancy into place. I was thinking that since NFS is udp-based, that if the primary NFS server failed, and the secondary assumed the primary NFS server's IP address, that things would at le

Re: Can I specify the resolver timeout?

2004-05-31 Thread adp
It would be nice to see this in 4.10 or 4.11 (if there will be one). We aren't looking to move to 5.x within the next several months, if not longer. FreeBSD is just too stable to upgrade. :) - Original Message - From: "Giorgos Keramidas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Matthew Seaman" <[EMAIL PRO

amd and Konqueror

2004-05-31 Thread Karel J. Bosschaart
Hi, Recently I started playing around with amd to automount my cdrom. It works very nice, but when I use konqueror to browse around the cdrom and then close the browser, the cdrom never gets unmounted: first I have to kill a process that typically looks like 7183 ?? S 0:02.48 kdeinit: kon

pam_smb+samba

2004-05-31 Thread adrian
Help me !! The foruns, internet and yours support no help? who then ? How I do this autentication linux in the samba server with pam_smb? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubsc

Documentation for LDAP Mail Server

2004-05-31 Thread David Snyder
I want to setup a mail server on my FreeBSD box that runs Postfix and Cyrus that authenticates through OpenLDAP and have encryption (ssl?). Also, I'd like everything to be database backed... DB3 or DB4? I can't seem to find anything on the internet that will show me how. Does anyone have know

Re: NFS server fail-over - how do you do it?

2004-05-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
adp wrote: We can live with the chance that a file write might fail as long as we can switch over to another NFS server if the primary fails. Sorry, NFS simply won't work with the model of operation you've described. There is no way to do fallback to a secondary NFS server if the primary goes down

HELP: I ran /stand/sysinstall...upgrade(100 % completed) But nothing happened..

2004-05-31 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Hi, I'm currently using freebsd 4.9 and I've wanted to upgrade to freebsd 4.10. What I did was I've followed the instructions on the site which says that the most convinient way is to use the /stand/sysinstall utility and choose the Upgrade from the list... when I'm on it... I've chosen to downlo

Re: Documentation for LDAP Mail Server

2004-05-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
David Snyder wrote: I want to setup a mail server on my FreeBSD box that runs Postfix and Cyrus that authenticates through OpenLDAP and have encryption (ssl?). Also, I'd like everything to be database backed... DB3 or DB4? I can't seem to find anything on the internet that will show me how. It

RE: Problems after CVSUP

2004-05-31 Thread Edward Carmody
I cvsup'd src-all and ports-all. Can't think of anything else that I might have done... Another weird thing I've noticed...the directories for ports no longer have makefiles, etc, only html README files. -Original Message- From: Kent Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, Ma

RE: Problems after CVSUP

2004-05-31 Thread Edward Carmody
Conrad, Run mergemaster a second time? Didn't do that... I've since rebooted this box a couple times...is it too late to run mergemaster a second time? Also, is it too late to run the make all install in /etc/mail? If it's too late for these, how do I fix the damage I've done? -Original M

Re: HELP: I ran /stand/sysinstall...upgrade(100 % completed) But nothing happened..

2004-05-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 11:11:28AM -0700, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > I'm currently using freebsd 4.9 and I've wanted to > upgrade to freebsd 4.10. What I did was I've followed > the instructions on the site which says that the most > convinient way is to use the /stand/sysinstall utility > and

FreeBSD 4.8R sluggish performance

2004-05-31 Thread Scott
This problem also occurred a few months ago but spontaneously resolved itself after a few cold boots, so I never found out exactly what the problem was. Most functions have slowed dramatically. Some examples: If I try to ping a host on the internet (e.g. freebsd.org), I get all the packets, but

Re: Problems after CVSUP

2004-05-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 02:46:43PM -0400, Edward Carmody wrote: > I cvsup'd src-all and ports-all. Can't think of anything else that I might > have done... > > Another weird thing I've noticed...the directories for ports no longer have > makefiles, etc, only html README files. Classic error. Yo

Re: FreeBSD 4.8R sluggish performance

2004-05-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 03:17:30PM -0400, Scott wrote: > If I try to ping a host on the internet (e.g. freebsd.org), I > get all the packets, but the output of the command doesn't > begin for at least 10 seconds. If I try startx, it takes about > 30 seconds just to begin to display the root window

Re: NFS server fail-over - how do you do it?

2004-05-31 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 31), adp said: > Very useful information, thanks. We have a very stable NFS server, > but I am still working hard to put some redundancy into place. I was > thinking that since NFS is udp-based, that if the primary NFS server > failed, and the secondary assumed the primary

Re: FreeBSD 4.8R sluggish performance

2004-05-31 Thread Tim Traver
Yep, I would bet on DNS troubles as well... many apps have to wait for the DNS request to time out before they continue. Check to make sure that the DNS servers in resolv.conf are reachable by your machine. Tim. At 12:17 PM 5/31/2004, Scott wrote: This problem also occurred a few months ago but

Re: Don't know what else to do with DHCP...help??

2004-05-31 Thread hoe-waa
Aloha This sounds a whole lot like my DHCP problem. It was being discussed on this list earlier last week. I have attached my thread for your perusal. I have the same ethernet card as you. There is a workaround in the attachment that I am using (I also created a script to do it) but if someone c

RE: Problems after CVSUP

2004-05-31 Thread Edward Carmody
Matthew, So, like this?: *default host=cvsup2.us.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_2 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all ports-all tag=. -Original Message- From: Matthew Seaman [mailto:[EMAI

Re: Problems after CVSUP

2004-05-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 04:20:17PM -0400, Edward Carmody wrote: > So, like this?: > > *default host=cvsup2.us.FreeBSD.org > *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_2 > *default delete use-rel-suffix > *default compress > src-all > por

Re: FreeBSD 4.8R sluggish performance

2004-05-31 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 31 May 2004, Scott wrote: I can always tell when the problem will occur based upon what happens at boot. There are no error messages, but the slowness begins when the standard daemons are loading. Cron and sshd load just fine, but the delay occurs as sendmail loads, and there is another del

Making chmod changes static

2004-05-31 Thread Gerard Seibert
I am using FreeBSD 5.2.1 I need to make both the floppy drive (fd0), the internal zip dive (afd0) and the cdrom (acd0) usable by any user without having to use 'sudo' or go the 'su' route. I believe that I have followed all of the directions for using 'chmod' and creating a mount point in the us

Re: NFS server fail-over - how do you do it?

2004-05-31 Thread scion+freebsd-questions
Couple of issues regarding failover. 1) If system B is going to take over system a's IP, it also needs to take it's MAC address. Else you have to wait for an ARP timeout. Some systems (all?) perform a gratuitous arp-reply when an if comes up. But some other systems ignore this if

SOLVED: Re: FreeBSD 4.8R sluggish performance

2004-05-31 Thread Scott
Thanks, Matthew, you were exactly right. My ISP has given me problems with DNS before, but it never manifested in this way. Instead, in the middle of a browsing session both DNS servers would fail and I would simply type in the information for a DNS server from another ISP into resolv.conf. The t

Re: Making chmod changes static

2004-05-31 Thread Simon Barner
> I need to make both the floppy drive (fd0), the internal zip dive (afd0) > and the cdrom (acd0) usable by any user without having to use 'sudo' or go > the 'su' route. Hi, you want /dev/devfs.conf (see devfs(8) for more details). E.g.: # Commonly used by many ports linkacd0cdrom perm

Re[3]: routing for 1000 users and 10Mbit internet.

2004-05-31 Thread hugle
FG> On Mon, 31 May 2004, hugle wrote: >> dammit.. >> why then my users eats so much CPU? >> look: >> CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.8% system, 38.0% interrupt, 61.2% idle >> Mem: 21M Active, 177M Inact, 133M Wired, 1228K Cache, 199M Buf, 1677M Free >> >> I have only 61% idle ? >> usualy i

RE: Root password and single user problems

2004-05-31 Thread Marcus Kellis
> Interrupt the loader at the boot prompt by pressing SPACE instead of ENTER. > > Then, run "unload" to clean up any modules already loaded. > > boot: unload > > Unset "acpi_load" in the loader. > > boot: unset acpi_load > > Load the kernel again. > > boot: load kernel > > Boot si

Re[2]: Making chmod changes static

2004-05-31 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Monday, May 31, 2004 4:59:58 PM Simon Barner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |>> I need to make both the floppy drive (fd0), the internal zip dive (afd0) |>> and the cdrom (acd0) usable by any user without having to use 'sudo' or go |>> the 'su' route. |> |>Hi, |> |>you want /dev/devfs.conf (see de

Re: Don't know what else to do with DHCP...help??

2004-05-31 Thread Don
[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Aloha > This sounds a whole lot like my DHCP problem. It was > being > discussed on this list earlier last week. I have > attached my thread for your perusal. > > I have the same ethernet card as you. There is a > workaround in the attachment that

Re: Don't know what else to do with DHCP...help??

2004-05-31 Thread hoe-waa
Aloha Don I am very happy I was able to help. One question for you before I answer yours. I still have to kill dhclient and netstart after a reboot. Did you imply that after wiping out the hostname in rc.conf you can reboot and your dhcp is up? Now for your question. I have not had any proble

archivemail-0.6.1 not working as expected

2004-05-31 Thread Oliver Fuchs
Hi, I want to use archivemail-0.6.1 (Python 2.3.2) on FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE. I have three questions/problems with the proper use: 1) I get the error message: /usr/local/bin/archivemail:760: SyntaxWarning: assignment to None (None, last_dir) = os.path.split(os.path.dirname(message.fp.name)) I fo

bento and the ports system

2004-05-31 Thread Jon Noack
I was recently reading a packaging discussion over on the DragonFly kernel list ("apt-get" thread -- originally "first release date" thread). Some of it touched on the time required to build when using a source-based packaging system. This gave me an idea: why don't we integrate the bento clu

Re: Re[2]: Making chmod changes static

2004-05-31 Thread Simon Barner
> I check the devfs(8) manual and found nothing about a devfs,conf file. Oh, sorry. The reference was just for more in-depth information about devfs. > I tried to create on but was not successful. I therefore assume you mean > that I am to use the commands in the devfs(8) manual to create this f

Re: archivemail-0.6.1 not working as expected

2004-05-31 Thread Simon Barner
Oliver Fuchs wrote: > Hi, > > I want to use archivemail-0.6.1 (Python 2.3.2) on FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE. > I have three questions/problems with the proper use: > > 1) I get the error message: > /usr/local/bin/archivemail:760: SyntaxWarning: assignment to None > (None, last_dir) = os.path.split(os

Re: routing for 1000 users and 10Mbit internet.

2004-05-31 Thread Bill Moran
hugle wrote: FG> On Mon, 31 May 2004, hugle wrote: dammit.. why then my users eats so much CPU? look: CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.8% system, 38.0% interrupt, 61.2% idle Mem: 21M Active, 177M Inact, 133M Wired, 1228K Cache, 199M Buf, 1677M Free I have only 61% idle ? usualy i have ~50 idl

Re: NFS server fail-over - how do you do it?

2004-05-31 Thread horio shoichi
On Sun, 30 May 2004 02:43:37 -0500 "adp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am running a FreeBSD 4.9-REL NFS server. Once every several hours our main > NFS server replicates everything to a backup FreeBSD NFS server. We are okay > with the gap in time between replication. What we aren't sure about is

Re: Don't know what else to do with DHCP...help??

2004-05-31 Thread Don
Yes...what I did was completely delete the hostname line from my /etc/rc.conf and had my inconfig_sk0="DHCP" though this does seem somewhat problematic...every now and then I will boot up and it won't work...then I just reboot and all of a sudden it works *shrug* I fogured out what was wrong with

Re: Don't know what else to do with DHCP...help??

2004-05-31 Thread hoe-waa
I think I'll leave mine as is until I or someone (hint, hint) comes up with the real fix. I don't reboot this machine very often and my script file seems to work fine. If you are interested, here it is $ cat /root/scripts/start-sk0.sh #! /bin/sh killall -9 dhclient sh /etc/netstart ifconfig -a

Gnome Frontend for Managing User Accounts

2004-05-31 Thread Clay
Howdy, I am a new to FreeBSD. Does anyone know of a Gnome utility for managing FreeBSD user accounts? I haven't yet found one. -Clay ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send a

Re: Gnome Frontend for Managing User Accounts

2004-05-31 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 22:19, Clay wrote: > Howdy, > > I am a new to FreeBSD. Does anyone know of a Gnome utility for managing FreeBSD > user accounts? I haven't yet found one. sysutils/gnomesystemtools However, it is geared more toward FreeBSD 5.X. Joe > > -Clay > _

make depend error

2004-05-31 Thread john huss
Hello, Can any of you kind teeps help me out please? I'm trying to compile my FreeBSD 4.9 kernel for the first time and am having problems. I am recompiling for several reasons; to learn about compiling the kernel; to get sound support for my isa soundcard and (finally); to compile in some fire

Re: bento and the ports system

2004-05-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 05:29:38PM -0500, Jon Noack wrote: > What I envision: > Packages are already being built (for example, > http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-packages-5-latest/). The > ports system would default to using the package if available, but there > would be an option t

Re: bento and the ports system

2004-05-31 Thread Jon Noack
On 05/31/04 21:40, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 05:29:38PM -0500, Jon Noack wrote: What I envision: Packages are already being built (for example, http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-packages-5-latest/). The ports system would default to using the package if available, bu

Re: bento and the ports system

2004-05-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 09:48:10PM -0500, Jon Noack wrote: > >Packages on pointyhat may not always be consistent or working. > >Furthermore, they may not interoperate as expected with what you have > > on your own system, because ports are customized for installed > >packages and build settings

Problem With Fix-It CD

2004-05-31 Thread Rishi Chopra
I'm unable to load the Fix-It CD; my computer will not boot the CD directly, and a mounting error is given when I attempt to load the CD using the boot diskettes. I've tried taking my RAID array to another machine, and the sysinstall program freezes when loading. I've verified that the CD (Fr

Seeking advice on 'ports-supfile'

2004-05-31 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, FreeBSD-5.2 I'm seeking for advice on 'ports-supfile' to run # cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/ ports-supfile the second time as at the first time there were some problems ports-supfile is kept on /usr/local/etc/cvsup/ cat /usr/local/etc/cvsup/ports-supfile . *default host=cvsup10

Troubles with ports...

2004-05-31 Thread Muhammad Ali
Hi, I've downloaded the complete ports collection (ports.tar.gz). I've extracted it in /usr. Now i go to /usr/ports/x11/kde3 and do make install. I get: *kde-3.2.2 depends on file: /usr/X11R6/bin/moc - not found* then it says: *Found saved configuration for qt-3.3.2* and that qt-x11-free-3.3.2.ta

Re: Troubles with ports...

2004-05-31 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 31), Muhammad Ali said: > Hi, I've downloaded the complete ports collection (ports.tar.gz). > I've extracted it in /usr. Now i go to /usr/ports/x11/kde3 and do > make install. I get: > > *kde-3.2.2 depends on file: /usr/X11R6/bin/moc - not found* > then it says: *Found sa

RE: Troubles with ports...

2004-05-31 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Mon, 31 May 2004 23:18:37 -0600, Muhammad Ali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've downloaded the complete ports collection (ports.tar.gz). I've > extracted it in /usr. Now i go to /usr/ports/x11/kde3 and do make > install. I get: > > *kde-3.2.2 depends on file: /usr/X11R6/bin/moc - not found* >

Re: Seeking advice on 'ports-supfile'

2004-05-31 Thread Adam Smith
On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 01:14:13PM +0800, Stephen Liu said: > Hi folks, > > FreeBSD-5.2 > > I'm seeking for advice on 'ports-supfile' to run > > # cvsup -g /usr/local/etc/cvsup/ > ports-supfile > > the second time as at the first time there were some > problems I don't quite use it this way.