Re: Running top on system console without being logged on

2005-01-07 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 6 at 21:04, Anthony Atkielski launched this into the bitstream: Reko Turja writes: RT> Actually not command line options as such, but you can make a login RT> class for the top user in /etc/login.conf and feed the options via TOP RT> environment variable from there. RT> RT> You cant shell ou

Re: Asus K8N-E and slow disk transfer (fwd)

2005-01-07 Thread Ganael Laplanche
Hi Rob, It runs well but you have to turn ACPI off at boot... Ganaël LAPLANCHE [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.martymac.com Tel : (+33)6.84.03.57.24. -- Original Message --- From: Robert McHugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:18:26 -0500 (EST) Subj

Re: Asus K8N-E and slow disk transfer

2005-01-07 Thread Ganael Laplanche
Hi Jorn, It is set to "auto". I haven't tried to set it manually, maybe it's a good idea ! I'm gonna try this... Thanks, Ganaël LAPLANCHE [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.martymac.com Tel : (+33)6.84.03.57.24. -- Original Message --- From: "Jorn Argelo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gana

Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs

2005-01-07 Thread Scott Bennett
On Thu Jan 6 09:58:55 2005 Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:55:10 -0700 Danny MacMillan >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:35:43PM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: >> >> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 12:37:41 -0700 Danny MacMillan

Re: cam_simq_alloc undefined

2005-01-07 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:34:02AM +0100, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: I need to load the scsi stuff as modules, because otherwise i have to reboot after every change to the raid controller's configuration (which i am playing with ATM). Or is there another way to have the kernel

RE: FreeBSD on Sun SPARC 20

2005-01-07 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matthias Buelow > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 9:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Sun SPARC 20 > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I've got

Question re: GCC on FreeBSD for AMD64

2005-01-07 Thread alexei kozlov
Hello, Gurus. My fellow asked me if GCC on FreeBSD for AMD64 supports 64bit memory pointers. He means is it possible to allocate *very* big (4GB and more) chunks of storage? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

RE: Webmail Frontend to mailboxes.

2005-01-07 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 6 at 21:41, Ted Mittelstaedt launched this into the bitstream: Use IMP. Of course, some people pooh-pooh it saying it's hard to setup. However, IMP is one of those programs that is worth the effort, as if you install the entire suite of programs you have a very powerful front end mail syst

Re: kernel make error in if_wi.o

2005-01-07 Thread lucas reddinger
in other words, 5.x has a generic 802.11b driver called wlan(4) that contains common infrastructure among the many wireless drivers. that's what i get for just switching from 4.x (i don't believe there was such a thing). thanks for the help. lucas reddinger On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 21:25:22 -0800, Kr

FW: pmap_enter Vs pmap_kenter_temporary

2005-01-07 Thread Romil Shah
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Romil Shah Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 11:58 AM To: Freebsd Subject: pmap_enter Vs pmap_kenter_temporary Hi, I am using older ver of FreeBSD RELEGN4 , my system has 2200S Adaptec RAID controller wh

RE: Webmail Frontend to mailboxes.

2005-01-07 Thread Jorn Argelo
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 21:41:50 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote > Use IMP. Of course, some people pooh-pooh it saying it's hard > to setup. However, IMP is one of those programs that is worth > the effort, as if you install the entire suite of programs you > have a very powerful front end mail system.

RE: Webmail Frontend to mailboxes.

2005-01-07 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 09:59 +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: > On Jan 6 at 21:41, Ted Mittelstaedt launched this into the bitstream: > > > Use IMP. Of course, some people pooh-pooh it saying it's hard > > to setup. However, IMP is one of those programs that is worth > > the effort, as if you install

Able to mount samba but it's empty

2005-01-07 Thread Supote Leelasupphakorn
Hi all, I'm using 4.8-RELEASE-p15 and Samba-2.2.8a for mounting shared directory on Windows2000 (NTFS). So far the disk on Windows2000 is only 120 GB and mounting is successful. But after I changed a disk to 200GB, I can sucessfully mount both 120GB and 200GB (I mean no any error message are di

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-07 Thread Dick Davies
* Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0135 07:35]: > Perhaps we all should ask why it is OK for SuperMicro to release > a > motherboard that is incompatible with the existing FreeBSD versions? Because they hate our freedom, of course... -- 'One cannot make an omelette without breaking eg

RE: Webmail Frontend to mailboxes.

2005-01-07 Thread Colin J. Raven
On Jan 7 at 09:41, Peter Risdon launched this into the bitstream: On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 09:59 +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: On Jan 6 at 21:41, Ted Mittelstaedt launched this into the bitstream: Use IMP. Of course, some people pooh-pooh it saying it's hard to setup. However, IMP is one of those pro

RE: Webmail Frontend to mailboxes.

2005-01-07 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:12 +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: > On Jan 7 at 09:41, Peter Risdon launched this into the bitstream: > > > On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 09:59 +0100, Colin J. Raven wrote: > >> On Jan 6 at 21:41, Ted Mittelstaedt launched this into the bitstream: > >> > >>> Use IMP. [...] > > Now

failover for http

2005-01-07 Thread RYAN vAN GINNEKEN
Does anyone know of a good package or howto that covers the failover topic?? I have found lots of stuff on google but hard to know if these progs do what i need. There has to be something in the ports that archive this spread with wackmole maybe seems very complex and not even sure it will s

Freeze in boot

2005-01-07 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am trying to update an HP Netserver E60 machine, that was running fine with 4.0 RELEASE. I upgraded to 4.10 RELEASE, but not it freeze at boot time with GENERIC kernel. pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 agp0: mem 0x at device 0.0 on pci0 Then nothing. Googling around,

sendmail update

2005-01-07 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I have a question about the update procedure. I have a mail server running sendmail with a very customised configuration. So far I have compiled/installed my own copy of sendmail. If I update the system, it will re-install a standard sendmail. Now if I want the update procedure to regenerate

Re: atheros (ath) wifi driver problem

2005-01-07 Thread Peter Risdon
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 18:18 -0800, Mo Po wrote: > Hello, > > I installed FreeBSD 5.3 today (coming from linux/debian). > I need to use the atheros wifi driver (man page ATH(4)), which is > included in 5.3. (I have an atheros based PCI card in an athlon xp based > system). > > I get the following

Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-07 Thread David Gerard
Ted Mittelstaedt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050107 17:37]: > David Gerard > > Ted Mittelstaedt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050106 06:29]: > > > It's of course quite legal for end users to download the JDK directly > > > from Sun and compile it on FreeBSD themselves and then use it. > > The main problem with

Re: sendmail update

2005-01-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-01-07 17:38, Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a mail server running sendmail with a very customised > configuration. So far I have compiled/installed my own copy of > sendmail. If I update the system, it will re-install a standard > sendmail. > > Now if I want the update

Problem when SSH-ing to FreeBSD 5.3 using PuTTY?

2005-01-07 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi all, On two distinct machines (both running FreeBSD 5.3 release, one is the AMD-64 version, the other is the i386 version) I am experiencing problems when trying to SSH to the machine using PuTTY. PuTTY shows the login prompt just fine, but when entering the proper username/password (yes, I

Re: Problem when SSH-ing to FreeBSD 5.3 using PuTTY?

2005-01-07 Thread Hexren
OG> Hi all, OG> On two distinct machines (both running FreeBSD 5.3 release, one is the OG> AMD-64 version, the other is the i386 version) I am experiencing OG> problems when trying to SSH to the machine using PuTTY. OG> PuTTY shows the login prompt just fine, but when entering the proper OG> u

Re: tcsh, colorful prompt

2005-01-07 Thread Thanos Tsouanas
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 04:06:59AM +0100, Mario Hoerich wrote: > # Thanos Tsouanas: > > I dont really care for the color of the prompt, but I would like > > to see what i type (input) with a specific color. > [...] > > In short, i would like the color to end upon \n... > > I think you can do this

RE: Problem when SSH-ing to FreeBSD 5.3 using PuTTY?

2005-01-07 Thread Subhro
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Olaf Greve > Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 16:53 > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Problem when SSH-ing to FreeBSD 5.3 using PuTTY? > > Hi all, > > On two distinct machin

apachectl oddness

2005-01-07 Thread Robin Becker
I'm running standard freeBSD 4.9 and am port upgrading apache2. I think the old version was 2.50_3 and the new is 2.52_4. In the latest build I have added WITH_THREADS=1 as I need this for mod_python. I notice now that apachectl startssl has problems reading the pass phrase. I normally do this

similar dmassage tool for freebsd?

2005-01-07 Thread Didier Wiroth
Hi, For openbsd there is a tool called dmassage . From the original doc: dmassage parses the dmesg of your OpenBSD system, and can do three things with that information: a) make the kernel boot faster b) reduce kernel size c) show all devices in a tree-like hierarchy Does a similar tool exist

Re: sk0: discard oversize frame (ether type ....) [SOLVED]

2005-01-07 Thread mario . lobo
The upgrade to 5-CURRENT did it. sk0 now works fine ! On 5 Jan 2005 at 11:14, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" Doing it right now!! > > Thanks, > > -- >//| //|| > // | // || > -//--//---|| ARIO LOBO > // //|| > - > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.ipad.com.br > > On

netstat odd behavior

2005-01-07 Thread mario . lobo
Hello; On all installations of FreeBSD I´ve ever done in the past, netstat -an displays LISTENing servers and any tcp connection in any state. On the 5.3 I have installed here ( updated to RELENG_5_3 + build/installworld ), this command only shows only this; --

Sil 3114 RAID controller issues with FreeBSD 5.3 Release AMD-64

2005-01-07 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi, A client of mine asked me to install their AMD-64 machine as a MySQL database server. Totally against my strong suggestion to use a proper SCSI hardware RAID 10 solution (or at least a hardware SATA RAID solution), they insist on using the internal Sil 3114 software RAID controller in RAID

Re: Remote upgrade possible?

2005-01-07 Thread Mike Jeays
On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 23:26, Tabor Kelly wrote: > Laurence Sanford wrote: > > Joseph Koenig (jWeb) wrote: > > > > > This is possible, however you are always taking a chance when you > > installworld without going to single user mode first. That said, I make > > a habit out of pushing my luck w

RE: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-07 Thread Mike Jeays
> Only the Java Cryptography Extension is unavailable as source. More info > is of course available on the FreeBSD Java mailing list. So why would anyone trust it? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: FreeBSD on Sun SPARC 20

2005-01-07 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Skylar Thompson wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a Sun SPARC 20 collecting dust, and I was wondering if any version of FreeBSD would run on my Sun SPARC 20? From what I can gather FreeBSD only works on UltraSPARC. The SS20 isn't an UltraSPARC, so it won't be supported by FreeBSD's Sparc

Re: netstat odd behavior

2005-01-07 Thread Simon Barner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On all installations of FreeBSD I?ve ever done in the past, > > netstat -an > > displays LISTENing servers and any tcp connection in any state. > > On the 5.3 I have installed here ( updated to RELENG_5_3 + build/installworld > ), this command only > shows only this;

Re: clearing space

2005-01-07 Thread Marty Landman
At 12:36 AM 1/7/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It does. You might want to try something like: du -x / | sort -rn | head -15 to figure out wheer your diskspace has gone. Ok, I've cleared half the space by rm -r /root/.cpan. Now I have # df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /d

Re: clearing space

2005-01-07 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 07:53 -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > At 12:36 AM 1/7/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >It does. You might want to try something like: > > > >du -x / | sort -rn | head -15 > > > >to figure out wheer your diskspace has gone. > > Ok, I've cleared half the space by rm -r /root

Bind 9.3.0 Server on Freebsd

2005-01-07 Thread Volker Lieder
Hello list, i need to install a DNS-Server for more than 1000 Domains, official internet DNS-Server. I tried out to install a bind 9.3.0, but after i start the server a few minutes later it don't answers any dns-requests. Has someone an idea where i find information to tune my dns-server? Volk

Re: Sil 3114 RAID controller issues with FreeBSD 5.3 Release AMD-64

2005-01-07 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 01:16:35PM +0100, Olaf Greve wrote: > Hi, > > A client of mine asked me to install their AMD-64 machine as a MySQL > database server. Totally against my strong suggestion to use a proper > SCSI hardware RAID 10 solution (or at least a hardware SATA RAID > solution), they

Re: burning 5.3-RELEASE CDs

2005-01-07 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Fri, 7 Jan 2005 02:31:37 -0600 (CST), Scott Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu Jan 6 09:58:55 2005 Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:55:10 -0700 Danny MacMillan > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> >On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 06:35:

Re: Howto check the hard disk bad sectors in FreeBSD?

2005-01-07 Thread Curtis Almond
You can do a simple dd command to read the entire disk. If bad sectors are found during the dd you should see ATA error messages spewing to the console and written in /var/log/messages. On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 13:13:18 +0800, Unreal HSHH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have one harddisk instal

Re: clearing space

2005-01-07 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:05:42 +, Peter Risdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 07:53 -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > > Let's say I want to > > > > mv /sbin /usr/sbin > > mv /root /usr/root > > > > How problematic can this become? I can anticipate at least having to revise > > per

Re: failover for http

2005-01-07 Thread M
On Jan 7, 2005, at 5:17 AM, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: Does anyone know of a good package or howto that covers the failover topic?? I have found lots of stuff on google but hard to know if these progs do what i need. There has to be something in the ports that archive this spread with wackmole

Re: clearing space

2005-01-07 Thread Marty Landman
At 08:55 AM 1/7/2005, Joshua Lokken wrote: On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:05:42 +, Peter Risdon > How about: > > #mv /sbin /usr/sbin > #ln -s /usr/sbin /sbin > #mv /root /usr/root > #ln -s /usr/root /root I've run into a little bit of trouble here. I ssh into my fbsd box as user marty in group wheel,

Re: clearing space

2005-01-07 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 09:24 -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > At 08:55 AM 1/7/2005, Joshua Lokken wrote: > >On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:05:42 +, Peter Risdon > > > > > How about: > > > > > > #mv /sbin /usr/sbin > > > #ln -s /usr/sbin /sbin > > > #mv /root /usr/root > > > #ln -s /usr/root /root > > I've

Re: Problem when SSH-ing to FreeBSD 5.3 using PuTTY?

2005-01-07 Thread Jon Krause
From: Olafo : Hi all, : : On two distinct machines (both running FreeBSD 5.3 release, one is the : AMD-64 version, the other is the i386 version) I am experiencing : problems when trying to SSH to the machine using PuTTY. : : PuTTY shows the login prompt just fine, but when entering the proper : u

Re: clearing space

2005-01-07 Thread Tabor Kelly
Peter Risdon wrote: How about: #mv /sbin /usr/sbin #ln -s /usr/sbin /sbin #mv /root /usr/root #ln -s /usr/root /root Isn't this a bad idea if you ever have to boot to single user mode and only have / mounted? -- Tabor Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tabor.taborandtashell.net __

Re: clearing space

2005-01-07 Thread Marty Landman
At 09:30 AM 1/7/2005, Peter Risdon wrote: > > # mv /sbin /usr/sbin > # ln -s /usr/sbin /sbin > # mv /root /usr/root > # ls -s /usr/root /root Typo here: ls instead of ln - that's why there's no link. Oh man, could I be any stupider? Do you have physical access to the machine? Yep, haven't used the

network slows 1000x

2005-01-07 Thread Blake Freeburg
Hello, I have a Duron based FreeBSD box (4.10-current) that I am using as a nat box. Kernel is recompiled with options. When a lot of traffic flows across the interface from internal to external networks, I find that the natd appears to get congested, making ping times to the next hop (st

Re: network slows 1000x

2005-01-07 Thread albi
Blake Freeburg wrote: When a lot of traffic flows across the interface from internal to external networks, I find that the natd appears to get congested, making ping times to the next hop (still on my network) go from .1 ms to 1000s of ms. Rebooting fixes it --- cut - This happens o

Re: Problem when SSH-ing to FreeBSD 5.3 using PuTTY?

2005-01-07 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi Jon, You did not state the version of Putty you are using. Hmmm, good one. I just checked and it is version 0.50. Try the latest version, (release 0.56) I beleive. There was a problem in earlier versions of Putty with keyboard-interactive method of authentication. I'll give that a shot. It's qui

Re: Sil 3114 RAID controller issues with FreeBSD 5.3 Release AMD-64

2005-01-07 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi Erik, Thanks for your answer! I don't think FreeBSD supports the SiI 3114 as a RAID controller, but only as a normal controller. All the RAID stuff for that controller is done in software anyway, but FreeBSD needs to know what format the BIOS uses for a RAID setup, and it doesn't. Indeed that i

possible issue with pam

2005-01-07 Thread KC Somaratne
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 11:17:41PM -0500, Barry Hawkins wrote: >> List, >> Hello. I have recently begun to encounter an issue with changing >> passwords on my 5.1 installation. I haven't touched anything on it for >> a few months, and the last change-related activity I had were some >> po

Re: clearing space

2005-01-07 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 06:39 -0800, Tabor Kelly wrote: > Peter Risdon wrote: > > How about: > > > > #mv /sbin /usr/sbin > > #ln -s /usr/sbin /sbin > > #mv /root /usr/root > > #ln -s /usr/root /root > > Isn't this a bad idea if you ever have to boot to single user mode and > only have / mounted? >

Re: clearing space

2005-01-07 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 09:48 -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > At 09:30 AM 1/7/2005, Peter Risdon wrote: > > > > > > # mv /sbin /usr/sbin > > > # ln -s /usr/sbin /sbin > > > # mv /root /usr/root > > > # ls -s /usr/root /root > > > >Typo here: ls instead of ln - that's why there's no link. > > Oh man, c

[no subject]

2005-01-07 Thread nova
Hello freebsd-questions, Hello, I would like to know there is in FreeBSD a support of such file systems as RiserFS or XFS, this file systems supporting of Gentoo. Thank for attention ! -- Best regards, nova mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

openoffice on 5.3-RELEASE

2005-01-07 Thread Duane Winner
Hello, Has anybody been able to get OpenOffice installed from port on 5.3-RELEASE ? I am running 5.3-RELEASE-p2 (Xorg and JDK1.4.2p7 also installed) Yesterday, I attempted: # portinstall openoffice and chose editors/openoffice-1.1 14 hours later... the output looked like it built cleanly, but d

Re: clearing space

2005-01-07 Thread Tabor Kelly
Peter Risdon wrote: #mv /sbin /usr/sbin #ln -s /usr/sbin /sbin I have a system I need to hose this weekend anyway, so checked first. I moved the /root directory to /usr/root, then exited from su - and su still worked. Then I rebooted into single user mode and got a shell. So it seemed fine,

Re: openoffice on 5.3-RELEASE

2005-01-07 Thread albi
Duane Winner wrote: Sigh..it's always OpenOffice that gives me headaches. I tried to just do a pkg_add -rv openoffice and that got me openoffice-1.1.2, which I guess I could live with until it gets fixed, but then I discovered during 'openoffice-1.1.2-setup' that characters were overlapping

Re: source control question

2005-01-07 Thread ÐÐÐÐÑÐÐÐÑ ÐÐÑÐÐÑÐÐÐ
Robert William Vesterman wrote: Does anyone know of a source control system that is not so directory-centric? Most of the ones I've seen seem to have a base assumption that, more or less, "directory" == "project". But in reality, a directory could be a project, or part of a project, or part of m

Re: clearing space

2005-01-07 Thread Marty Landman
At 10:15 AM 1/7/2005, Peter Risdon wrote: Boot into single user mode. This has become a problem. Took a working keyboard from another box and it won't work. Unless by some weird chance I should reboot first. But shouldn't the keyboard, if the ps2 port is working properly, at least have numlock a

Re: slow sendmail starting on a lan

2005-01-07 Thread Joshua Lokken
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 19:50:39 -0600, Vulpes Velox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here I am running into is this... sendmail is taking for ever to start > on a box. My main server has no problem, but this box takes a long > time starting sendmail. > > Here are the related config files and ect for the b

Re: openoffice on 5.3-RELEASE

2005-01-07 Thread albi
albi wrote: there's more info here : http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/ build-instructions, known problems and alternative downloads on the webpage above mentioned the link that says : "OOo 1.1.3 for 4.10 and 1.1.2 for 5.2.1-RELEASE" actually has OOo 1.1.3 for 5.3 for download _

Re: how do I permit ordinary users to mound SCSI devices ?

2005-01-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kevin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Matthias Buelow wrote: > > > Kevin Smith wrote: > > > >> How do I permit ordinary users to mound SCSI devices ? > >> > >> As suggested in the FAQ, section 9, I am able to allow members of > >> operator group mount the cdrom by setting sysctl -w vfs.usrmou

gif interface with IPSec spontaneously stopping working

2005-01-07 Thread Chris Martin
I have to machines on a community wireless network with static IP addresses. These machines are used to form a VPN over the CWN, providing a secure routed path between two private networks. To secure the link I am using gif interfaces at each end to form the tunnel, and then we are using IPsec with

Re: clearing space

2005-01-07 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 07:39 -0800, Tabor Kelly wrote: > Peter Risdon wrote: > > > > >>>#mv /sbin /usr/sbin > >>>#ln -s /usr/sbin /sbin [...] > > > I was in reference to the /sbin moving to /usr/sbin. > Yes, that's a very good point, which I'd missed completely. /sbin/mount Peter. __

Re: FreeBSD on Sun SPARC 20

2005-01-07 Thread Matthias Buelow
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Also, with a Sparc 20 try to load a copy of Solaris 2.6 rather than a later copy, it will run faster and Sun still releases patches for it. Hmm, I don't know if that's worth it. I run Solaris 9 on an SS20 (2x 60MHz SM61, 224MB RAM) and am very satisfied with its performanc

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netatalk, NFS, OS X and backup

2005-01-07 Thread Alan Curtis
I need some advice about integrating my FreeBSD server with some Macs running OS X. I have a server running FreeBSD 5.3 with NFS and netatalk enabled, a Powerbook G4 running OS X 10.3.7 and they are connected through a wireless network. I used the Powerbook to administer the server using ssh,

Re: clearing space

2005-01-07 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 10:41 -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > At 10:15 AM 1/7/2005, Peter Risdon wrote: > > >Boot into single user mode. Scratch that. > > This has become a problem. Took a working keyboard from another box and it > won't work. Unless by some weird chance I should reboot first. >

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-07 Thread Tom Vilot
Eric F Crist wrote: What is the point of the { } around some variables? It's not strictly necessary, except in some cases. i.e: m=34 echo $m You don't need it there. But you would want it here: f=/var/filename fname=${f//name/name2} It's when you need to differentiate the variable name from opera

FreeBSD trashed after installing Win98SE in lower partition - what to do?

2005-01-07 Thread John
My questions have to do with the mess I have left after trying to do a dual-boot system with Win98SE and FreeBSD 4.9+. After running the FreeBSD system for nearly a year, and loving it, I finally got around to digging up the media I needed to do the Win98SE install, and my FreeBSD partition is now

Re: my lame attempt at a shell script...

2005-01-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-01-07 09:36, Tom Vilot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Eric F Crist wrote: >> What is the point of the { } around some variables? > > It's not strictly necessary, except in some cases. i.e: > > m=34 > echo $m > > You don't need it there. > But you would want it here: > > f=/var/filename > fnam

Re: Supermicro Hardware and FreeBSD

2005-01-07 Thread Tom Vilot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You guys couldnt even sweep up after the original FreeBSD team. What a travesty. And apparently there aren't any technically capable people using FreeBSD anymore, because they all seem very happy with an O/S that is substantially slower than it was before. What a waste.

Re: FreeBSD trashed after installing Win98SE in lower partition - what to do?

2005-01-07 Thread Henrik Hudson
> The questions I'm going to get to and need answers for, based on the > details to follow are > 1) What did I do wrong(other than using an MS-operating system, that's >just a series of unfortunate events which are unavoidable)? As a rule of thumb don't install Windows AFTER a BSD / Linux. It

Re: 3ware Esclade 7006-2

2005-01-07 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 02:37 AM 07/01/2005, Justin England wrote: - Original Message - From: "Mike Tancsa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Justin England" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 8:19 PM Subject: Re: 3ware Esclade 7006-2 On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 23:01:31 -0700, in sentex.lists.freebsd.qu

Re: clearing space

2005-01-07 Thread Marty Landman
At 11:32 AM 1/7/2005, Peter Risdon wrote: On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 10:41 -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > > This has become a problem. Took a working keyboard from another box and it > won't work. Unless by some weird chance I should reboot first. > This happens, but don't just reboot. Peter, are you say

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2005-01-07 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2004/09/19 02:40:48 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that a

"The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda

2005-01-07 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inev

Re: openoffice on 5.3-RELEASE

2005-01-07 Thread Duane Winner
Thanks! I was able to find OOo_1.1.3_FreeBSD53Intel_install.tbz and get that installed and working. I still had the bad user interface fonts, but I found that to be a problem with my xorg config, and I (mostly) fixed it. I sitll have some minor 'ticks' snuggled inside my r's, n's, e's and g char

Re: clearing space

2005-01-07 Thread Peter Risdon
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:59 -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > At 11:32 AM 1/7/2005, Peter Risdon wrote: > >On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 10:41 -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > > > > > > > > This has become a problem. Took a working keyboard from another box and it > > > won't work. Unless by some weird chance I s

IPFW and whois lookup

2005-01-07 Thread V Foulk
Hello, I have recently setup IPFW on a test box, and found that (for the most part) it was pretty straight forward. Every rule and service on the box seems to work great, except for one problem I haven't been able to track down. Regardless of the settings, even when set to open as defaul

GTK error with SciTE.

2005-01-07 Thread Rod Person
I'm trying to use SciTE and when ever I start it I get the following error... I've tried this on 2 seperate FBSD machines one running 5.3 release and the other running a 5.3 rc 2 (I think). Both get the same error. I been trying to figure this out for sometime and can't seem to find anything abou

Re: Remote upgrade possible?

2005-01-07 Thread Danny MacMillan
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 07:25:02AM -0500, Mike Jeays wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 23:26, Tabor Kelly wrote: > > > > I routinely use 'portupgrade -rRN' in xterm, in X-Windows to > > install new ports on my box. The second to last time I did this, > > one of the ports what was upgraded was xterm.

SCSI HD issue ...

2005-01-07 Thread Tom Vilot
Picking up on that SCSI hardware problem I posted about earlier ... I'm in the process of installing a second HD which will, hopefully, be the replacement for the one I believe is flaky. I've installed the second drive. I used dd to copy over to each partition (Yes, I know this is not the right way

Network monitoring software

2005-01-07 Thread freebsduser
Hiya folks, I'm looking for some network monitoring software. I've tried zabbix and jffnms but neither of them functioned after being configured or installing. If anybody has any success stories I would like to hear about any of them so I can look at other packages in ports net and net-mgmt. Th

Re: apachectl oddness

2005-01-07 Thread Robin Becker
Robin Becker wrote: I'm running standard freeBSD 4.9 and am port upgrading apache2. I think the old version was 2.50_3 and the new is 2.52_4. In the latest build I have added WITH_THREADS=1 as I need this for mod_python. I notice now that apachectl startssl has problems reading the pass phrase.

Re: clearing space

2005-01-07 Thread Marty Landman
At 12:20 PM 1/7/2005, Peter Risdon wrote: > > >No - you ought to be able to su to root still. Live and learn. That worked, guess I can read up on su myself to understand the difference. One thing that does occur to me: what is your user's shell and, if it isn't bash, do you have bash installed? A

Re: openoffice on 5.3-RELEASE

2005-01-07 Thread Benjamin Walkenhorst
I was too lazy to wait for the thin to build, so I downloaded the binary package. Works fine. =) Kind regards, Benjamin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any m

make sudo failed

2005-01-07 Thread Marty Landman
A previous thread mentioned sudo as a good way for me to get out of the habit of su - so much. I just tried to install and this is what I got, don't know what to make of it (pardon the pun) or what to do next. # make build && make install

Re: copying from DVD drive causes crash: vm_fault: pager readerror, pid 13421 (cp) on FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE

2005-01-07 Thread Christoph Steigmeier
Hello I observe a similiar behaviour here on an ASUS Laptop with a MATSHITAUJ-831D/1.00 DVD-RW Drive. Altough only with DVD's, but not with CD's. Installed is FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2. The only difference to the GENERIC kernel is that I added the device atapicam to the kernel. The failure occures

Re: make sudo failed

2005-01-07 Thread Matteo Santori
Marty Landman wrote: A previous thread mentioned sudo as a good way for me to get out of the habit of su - so much. I just tried to install and this is what I got, don't know what to make of it (pardon the pun) or what to do next. # make b

Re: openoffice on 5.3-RELEASE

2005-01-07 Thread albi
Duane Winner wrote: Thanks! I was able to find OOo_1.1.3_FreeBSD53Intel_install.tbz and get that installed and working. nice I still had the bad user interface fonts, but I found that to be a problem with my xorg config, and I (mostly) fixed it. I sitll have some minor 'ticks' snuggled inside my

Re: clearing space

2005-01-07 Thread Robert Huff
Marty Landman writes: > Ok, I've cleared half the space by rm -r /root/.cpan. yay! > # du -x / | sort -rn | head -15 > 60093 / > 15052 /root > 13750 /root/nmap-3.50 Did you somehow install nmap under root, or use it as the root build directory? And if so, was that

Re: Remote upgrade possible?

2005-01-07 Thread M
On Jan 7, 2005, at 12:33 PM, Danny MacMillan wrote: I haven't looked at the code, but your assertion is extremely unlikely. I really want to say "impossible" but as I said, I haven't looked at the code. If FreeBSD loaded entire executable images into RAM when starting new processes, it would perfo

Moving *directories*, like sbin, root, of / to /usr (was Re: clearing space)

2005-01-07 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Marty Landman thusly... > > Let's say I want to > > mv /sbin /usr/sbin > mv /root /usr/root > > How problematic can this become? You should know there already is one /usr/sbin ... which will be late if you had already mv(1)'d as root w/o -i option. You shou

Re: netstat odd behavior

2005-01-07 Thread mario . lobo
Tried that before posting. this is what I get Active Internet connections (including servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address(state) udp4 0 0 *.514 *.* On 7 Jan 2005 at 10:56, Jose Hidalgo Herrera wrote: > > What about > netstat

Re: clearing space

2005-01-07 Thread Marty Landman
At 01:08 PM 1/7/2005, Robert Huff wrote: Did you somehow install nmap under root, or use it as the root build directory? And if so, was that intentional? Dunno, dunno, and obviously unintentional since I don't know anything about it. As much as I hate to plead ignorance in this case anyth

About ports dist

2005-01-07 Thread Martin Gonzalez
Hi.. I have 2 very quick questions/comment about installation from the FreeBSD CDs, and X-window: When I try to install the X.org distribution, it sends an error message that says it cannot find the packages/INDEX on the specified media. I checked on the CD 2, and there it is, the full ports c

Re: make sudo failed

2005-01-07 Thread Marty Landman
At 01:53 PM 1/7/2005, Matteo Santori wrote: Marty Landman wrote: A previous thread mentioned sudo as a good way for me to get out of the habit of su - so much. I just tried to install and this is what I got, don't know what to make of it (pardon the pun) or what to do next. +

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