Just installed FreeBSD

2005-03-07 Thread Katsuki Hirata
Hi, I just installed FreeBSD and I have no clue how to run it. I'm sure it's installed right. When I boot, and after loginging with both root and/or another username, I don't know what to do from there on. How do I get gnome or KDE on? Is it supposed to be a graphical thing like Windows or Redhat l

RE: Disk Error

2005-03-07 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Doug Hardie > Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 10:24 PM > To: Aftab Jahan Subedar > Cc: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Re: Disk Error > > > I doubt that its dying. There is only one bad sector. The > drive is

Re: tech question

2005-03-07 Thread Doug Hardie
On Mar 6, 2005, at 23:45, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Mar 7, 2005, at 12:31 AM, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Sunday 06 March 2005 11:28 pm, popbox wrote: Excuse me for foolish question and "pig latin". I'm a new user of FreeBSD and I have a trouble with mounting DVD. There is no s

Re: Just installed FreeBSD

2005-03-07 Thread gabriel
*tsk tsk tsk* If I were you, I'd take a long, deep look at the freebsd Handbook. If you expect freebsd to be _anything_ like red-cr*p linux you are sadly mistaken. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ Cheers! On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 00:20:28 -0800 (PST), Katsuki Hirata <[EMAIL

Re: Just installed FreeBSD

2005-03-07 Thread cyb
On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 00:20 -0800, Katsuki Hirata wrote: > Hi, I just installed FreeBSD and I have no clue how to > run it. I'm sure it's installed right. When I boot, > and after loginging with both root and/or another > username, I don't know what to do from there on. How > do I get gnome or KDE

RE: Swapping hard drives

2005-03-07 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric McCoy > Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 6:07 AM > To: Ralph > Cc: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Re: Swapping hard drives > > > Ralph wrote: > > Hello folks > > I'm looking to do a quick swap on a hard

LogoFreeBSD_for...

2005-03-07 Thread gunaza
Trade mark FreeBSD for competition. Yours faithfully, Yury Gunaza. Excuse, that has for the first time sent the big files. Now has made archive of the same investments. -- Best regards, gunaza mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]___ fre

Re: Disk Error

2005-03-07 Thread Eric McCoy
Doug Hardie wrote: I doubt that its dying. There is only one bad sector. The drive is in constant use. Its ran at 100% for almost 12 hours while copying the files and no errors were detected. Its always the same sector with the error. Just as a note, hard drives now come with a number of "sp

Re: apache exits on signal 4

2005-03-07 Thread Eric McCoy
dave wrote: Hello, Fbsd 5.3-RELEASE, apache 2.53, php4 installed. Everything was working than i got a report of site's being down. I investigated and learned that apache was not starting. I tried a restart, which did not produce an error, however checking for an http process ID didn't show anyt

USB 2.0 Flash Drive problem

2005-03-07 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Hi folks, I saw that a problem related to this has already been posted to this list sometime in 2003, but no answers have been given. I just bought an USB 2.0 Flash Drive (Microspot). When I plug it in, I get these messages on the console: umass0: PNY USB2.0 FlashDisk, rev 2.00/0.50, addr 2 da0 a

Re: Which lib for pthreads?

2005-03-07 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 08:15:26PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: : Um. If you are compiling C++ code into an object file, you ought to use : c++ and not cc when linking, too. I'm using ${CC} in the makefile, and it seems to automagically choose the correct tool. : Also, you may not have relinked '

SCHED_ULE with 5.4-PRE ?

2005-03-07 Thread J.D. Bronson
options SCHED_ULE I ran this option on 5.2.1 with P4 HTT and never had any issues. I understand it was removed...but have the issues been resolved and is it worth using with only HTT and not true SMP? Thanks- -- J.D. Bronson Aurora Health Care // Information Services // Milwaukee, WI USA Office: 4

UTF-8 in the next releases?

2005-03-07 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Hello list, I have a small question to you! Is UTF-8 planned to be integrated in the system like in SuSE Linux ? Maybe in the next releases or never??? With regards Stevan Tiefert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Tranferring crontab files from user to user

2005-03-07 Thread ikenna ononogbu
I recently resumed work in a firm and the crontab jobs (using UNIX D2) are in the user name of my predecessor. The files have now been transferred to a general directory (everyone has access to). How do I now transfer the crontab executable files into my own directory? I will appreciate s

logo design competition

2005-03-07 Thread Alexander
Здравствуйте, questions. Где-то встретил объявление о конкурсе на логотип FreeBSD и решил себя попробовать... может понравиться.. -- С уважением, Alexander mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD_logo.cdr Description: Binary data __

Re: Help! I am in beeg trouble.

2005-03-07 Thread dR
Thanks for your offer of help, Jahan. I solved my problem. The directory /usr/bin/ was gone. I think what happened was that I used the portupgrade command and portupgrade behaved "unpredictably" -- my ports environment is in a non-standard location. I backed up /etc/* and reinstalled all the syste

Re: Tranferring crontab files from user to user

2005-03-07 Thread antenneX
This should work: Copy the crontab into a file (like mycron)in your $home. Issue command: crontab mycron Check it with command: crontab -l Best regards, Jack L. Stone - Original Message - From: "ikenna ononogbu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 7:17 AM Subject: Tranf

Re: Compiling XFE

2005-03-07 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Graham Bentley wrote: Hello All, I admit, I am a lazy admin and like clicking with a mouse whilst talking on the phone, drinking tea and eating toast. I got used to XFE from using Linux and have enjoyed it in FreeBSD - until I installed it under 5.3 I am also an XFE fan, I love the command line als

Re: Problem with libgphoto2, Canon Ixus v2 (USB) and 5.3-STABLE

2005-03-07 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Chris Hill wrote: On Sun, 6 Mar 2005, Roland Smith wrote: On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 07:48:16PM +0100, Olivier Certner wrote: I've tried to download a few pics from my Canon Ixus v2 camera with libgphoto2 (frontends: kamera and gphoto2) without success. The camera is supported though, I even used

What's the easiest way to do a backup and verify?

2005-03-07 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Is there an easy way to combine a backup and verify when doing backups with dump? On Windows NT it's just a matter of checking a box. I seem to recall the last time I looked into this on UNIX there was no easy way to accomplish a verify operation for a backup, but perhaps things have changed with

Re: Just installed FreeBSD

2005-03-07 Thread Ramiro Aceves
Katsuki Hirata wrote: Hi, I just installed FreeBSD and I have no clue how to run it. I'm sure it's installed right. When I boot, and after loginging with both root and/or another username, I don't know what to do from there on. How do I get gnome or KDE on? Is it supposed to be a graphical thing li

Re: Tranferring crontab files from user to user

2005-03-07 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 01:17:14PM +, ikenna ononogbu wrote: > > I recently resumed work in a firm and the crontab jobs (using UNIX D2) > are in the user name of my predecessor. The files have now been > transferred to a general directory (everyone has access to). How do I > now transf

Re: What's the easiest way to do a backup and verify?

2005-03-07 Thread Freminlins
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 14:56:44 +0100, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there an easy way to combine a backup and verify when doing backups > with dump? With the FreeBSD version of dump, no. You can use the L flag to ensure a consistent dump, though this is not the same thing as verif

Re: Just installed FreeBSD

2005-03-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Katsuki Hirata wrote: > > Hi, I just installed FreeBSD and I have no clue how to > > run it. I'm sure it's installed right. When I boot, > > and after loginging with both root and/or another > > username, I don't know what to do from there on. How > > do I get gnome or KDE on? Is it supposed t

NFS server/client issue

2005-03-07 Thread Michael Conlen
I have several FreeBSD 4.11 webservers mounting a FreeBSD 5.3-p5 NFS server. After rebooting the the NFS server the webservers automatically picked up the NFS mount when the server came back up. I noticed that the NFS mount acted slowly (often generating server not responding/server back messag

sendmail.cf and clmilter.sock

2005-03-07 Thread Mike Hauber
Alright, this has got me pulling my hair out. On startup, I'm getting the following error: /usr/local/sbin/clamav-milter: socket-addr (/var/run/clamav/clmilter.sock) doesn't agree with sendmail.cf (error probably wrapped) /usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamav-milter is unchanged from the install of secu

Re: What's the easiest way to do a backup and verify?

2005-03-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Is there an easy way to combine a backup and verify when doing backups > with dump? > > On Windows NT it's just a matter of checking a box. I seem to recall > the last time I looked into this on UNIX there was no easy way to > accomplish a verify operation for a backup, but perhaps things ha

Re: What's the easiest way to do a backup and verify?

2005-03-07 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Jerry McAllister writes: > Actually, if used frequently for backups - such as every day, DAT is > notoriously prone to failure. I've heard this for years, but I've never encountered it, on my own systems or on any others. My drives are HP SureStore SCSI drives. Currently I have BASF tapes, and t

Re: Just installed FreeBSD

2005-03-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hi, I just installed FreeBSD and I have no clue how to > run it. I'm sure it's installed right. When I boot, > and after loginging with both root and/or another > username, I don't know what to do from there on. How > do I get gnome or KDE on? Is it supposed to be a > graphical thing like Wind

Re: What's the easiest way to do a backup and verify?

2005-03-07 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Mar 7, 2005, at 10:05 AM, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Jerry McAllister writes: The only real thing you can do is to read back the tape and look for a couple of files with fairly high inode numbers for each file system dumped.If you can read them, you can assume the tape is readable. I'm surpris

Dell PowerEdge with large storage array?

2005-03-07 Thread Greg Barniskis
I would like to hear from anyone using Dell PE servers (e.g. PE 2650 or larger/newer) with any kind of Dell or non-Dell external storage (SAN, NAS or other) with FreeBSD 5.X. What works well? What doesn't? Dell Fibre Channel AX100? PowerVault 7XX? Other? We've used FreeBSD 4.x on a wide variety

Re: Which lib for pthreads?

2005-03-07 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 07), Jonathon McKitrick said: > On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 08:15:26PM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > : Um. If you are compiling C++ code into an object file, you ought > : to use c++ and not cc when linking, too. > > I'm using ${CC} in the makefile, and it seems to automagical

Re: Which lib for pthreads?

2005-03-07 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 09:38:45AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: : > That was the problem. I thought only the library with the thread : > calls needed to be linked with pthread. Apparently the app needs it : > as well. : : Ideally not; dynamic shared libraries can list dependencies: I thought the sa

Re: Just installed FreeBSD

2005-03-07 Thread Ramiro Aceves
- Original Message - From: "Jerry McAllister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ramiro Aceves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Katsuki Hirata" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "freebsd-questions-en" Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 3:40 PM Subject: Re: Just installed FreeBSD > > > > Katsuki Hirata wrote: > > > Hi, I

Re: Just installed FreeBSD

2005-03-07 Thread v . demartino2
:-- Messaggio originale -- :From: "Ramiro Aceves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :To: "Jerry McAllister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 16:46:22 +0100 :Cc: Katsuki Hirata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :Cc: freebsd-questions-en :Subject: Re: Just installed FreeBSD : : .. :FreeBSD and even D

Re: X not loading in full screen

2005-03-07 Thread Matt Juszczak
The monitor is a laptop LCD screen. See my xorg.conf at http://www.atopia.net/scratch/xorg.conf. I also tried stretching the screen in my bios, that stretches the console but X still starts in a small window in the middle of my screen. My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite 2675DVD. The log file

Re: Just installed FreeBSD

2005-03-07 Thread Ean Kingston
>> >> Katsuki Hirata wrote: >> > Hi, I just installed FreeBSD and I have no clue how to >> > run it. I'm sure it's installed right. When I boot, >> > and after loginging with both root and/or another >> > username, I don't know what to do from there on. How >> > do I get gnome or KDE on? Is it supp

Jail security

2005-03-07 Thread Frank de Bot
Hi, I've set up a jail. But I don't have any idea how safe a jail is. Often is told chroot and jails can be escaped. How safe is it to give other people user access to a jailed environment? or maybe even root... Thanks in advanced, Frank de Bot ___ fre

Re: Just installed FreeBSD

2005-03-07 Thread Ramiro Aceves
>I would add the BSD-like linux gentoo to the list, perhaps before debian: >it has a complete repository of packages and above all, what I found more >appealing with respect to debian, a wonderful managemente of ports allowing >you to compile your own system from scratch just like the ports of Free

Re: Jail security

2005-03-07 Thread Jorn Argelo
On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:04:41 +0100, Frank de Bot wrote > Hi, > > I've set up a jail. But I don't have any idea how safe a jail is. > Often is told chroot and jails can be escaped. How safe is it to > give other people user access to a jailed environment? or maybe even > root... A jailed proces

Re: What's the easiest way to do a backup and verify?

2005-03-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-03-07 16:05, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Jerry McAllister writes: >> The only real thing you can do is to read back the tape and look for >> a couple of files with fairly high inode numbers for each file system >> dumped. If you can read them, you can assume the tape is r

Re: Jail security

2005-03-07 Thread Frank de Bot
Jorn Argelo wrote: On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:04:41 +0100, Frank de Bot wrote Hi, I've set up a jail. But I don't have any idea how safe a jail is. Often is told chroot and jails can be escaped. How safe is it to give other people user access to a jailed environment? or maybe even root... A jailed

Help Renaming Multple Files

2005-03-07 Thread Phusion
I need help figuring out how to rename multple files. The files are named like reports_abcdef_MMDD.dat, reports_hijklm_MMDD.dat, and reports_nopqrs_MMDD.dat. Here is an example. Original Filename: reports_abcdef_MMDD.dat New Filename: abcdef_MMDD.dat Let me know how I can do t

Re: Help Renaming Multple Files

2005-03-07 Thread Frank de Bot
for files in `ls`;do newfile=`echo $files | sed "s|^reports_||g"`;mv $files $newfile;done it's unproved code at the moment, but it gives an idea how to do it. Phusion wrote: I need help figuring out how to rename multple files. The files are named like reports_abcdef_MMDD.dat, reports_hijklm

Re: SCHED_ULE with 5.4-PRE ?

2005-03-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 06:46:04AM -0600, J.D. Bronson wrote: > options SCHED_ULE > > I ran this option on 5.2.1 with P4 HTT and never had any issues. > I understand it was removed...but have the issues been resolved It seems to work for me as long as I don't use PREEMPTION. > and is it worth us

Re: What's the easiest way to do a backup and verify?

2005-03-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 04:05:15PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > I'm surprised there isn't just some way of reading the tape and doing a > few simple sanity checks on the data (without comparing it to anything). > A drive or tape error would likely show on such checks. What you could do is dum

Re: Help Renaming Multple Files

2005-03-07 Thread joseph kacmarcik
> I need help figuring out how to rename multple files. The files are > named like reports_abcdef_MMDD.dat, reports_hijklm_MMDD.dat, > and reports_nopqrs_MMDD.dat. Here is an example. > > Original Filename: reports_abcdef_MMDD.dat > New Filename: abcdef_MMDD.dat > > Let me kn

Question on SCSI controllers and camcontrol

2005-03-07 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Why does camcontrol say that I have two SCSI controllers, when in fact I have only one (on a PCI card I added to the machine). My SCSI devices show on controller 1, whereas there's nothing on controller 0. I don't have an on-board SCSI controller on the motherboard, so the only SCSI on the machin

Re: Question on SCSI controllers and camcontrol

2005-03-07 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 07), Anthony Atkielski said: > Why does camcontrol say that I have two SCSI controllers, when in fact I > have only one (on a PCI card I added to the machine). My SCSI devices > show on controller 1, whereas there's nothing on controller 0. I don't > have an on-board SCSI

Re: Just installed FreeBSD

2005-03-07 Thread Xian
On Monday 07 March 2005 16:01, Ean Kingston wrote: > >> Katsuki Hirata wrote: > >> > Hi, I just installed FreeBSD and I have no clue how to > >> > run it. I'm sure it's installed right. When I boot, > >> > and after loginging with both root and/or another > >> > username, I don't know what to do fr

Re: cvsup info

2005-03-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 08:03:38AM +0100, Jack Raats wrote: > I would like to know where I can find the latest changes in the FReeBSD > 4-STABLE tree. I know it's a legacy tree, but sometimes I see updates while > cvsup-ing. Is there a kind of website where you can read these changes (a > kind

Re: removing p5-File-Temp from portversions upgrade list ?

2005-03-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 12:00:55PM +0100, FreeBsdBeni wrote: > So, how do I get the p5-File-Temp out of the portversion-list of files that > need to be upgraded ? Since File::Temp is bart of the base perl now, your best bet is to: # pkg_delete -f p5-File-Temp # pkgdb -F # portupgrad

Re: D-Link NIC.

2005-03-07 Thread gabriel
Okay, so I've managed to get the Wless nic talking to the Access Point (per the logs) but I'm having problems getting an ip address. Check out the dhclient output: dolores# dhclient -v ndis0 Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1 Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reser

Re: Just installed FreeBSD

2005-03-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Do you know what command I have to type in for either kde or afterstep or > xwwindows to start up? This is what I need to know, after putting my > computer on and starts loading, it asks for username and password and I > type that and hit enter. Then what do I do, how do i load kde or after

Re: What's the easiest way to do a backup and verify?

2005-03-07 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Monday, March 07, 2005 06:16:04 PM +0100 Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 04:05:15PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: I'm surprised there isn't just some way of reading the tape and doing a few simple sanity checks on the data (without comparing it to anything).

Re: What's the easiest way to do a backup and verify?

2005-03-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Jerry McAllister writes: > > > Actually, if used frequently for backups - such as every day, DAT is > > notoriously prone to failure. > > I've heard this for years, but I've never encountered it, on my own > systems or on any others. My drives are HP SureStore SCSI drives. > Currently I hav

Re: Question on SCSI controllers and camcontrol

2005-03-07 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Dan Nelson writes: > Run "camcontrol devlist -v". That will print out which controller each > scbus is attached to. Maybe you have a dual-channel SCSI card, or have > added "device atapicam" to your kernel config file? Here's what I get: freebie# camcontrol devlist -v scbus0 on sbp0 bus 0: <

Issue to install Gnomemeeting

2005-03-07 Thread Bachelier Vincent
I have a problem to install gnomemeeting here my cut: CUT -- [root] ~# portinstall gnomemeeting ---> Installing 'gnomemeeting-0.98.5_4' from a port (net/gnomemeeting) ---> Building '/usr/ports/net/gnomemeeting' ===> Cleaning for gnomemeeting-0.98.5_4 ===> Vulnerabi

Re: IP aliases and forcing outbound IP

2005-03-07 Thread patrick
Should I assume by the lack of replies that this just isn't possible under FreeBSD? Seems like it should be doable. Any help would be greatly appreciated, Patrick On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 13:04:37 -0800, patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a FreeBSD 4.11 box whose ethernet card has several IP

Re: Question on SCSI controllers and camcontrol

2005-03-07 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 07), Anthony Atkielski said: > Dan Nelson writes: > > Run "camcontrol devlist -v". That will print out which controller > > each scbus is attached to. Maybe you have a dual-channel SCSI > > card, or have added "device atapicam" to your kernel config file? > > Here's what

Re: What's the easiest way to do a backup and verify?

2005-03-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jerry McAllister writes: > > > Actually, if used frequently for backups - such as every day, DAT is > > notoriously prone to failure. > > I've heard this for years, but I've never encountered it, on my

Re: Jail security

2005-03-07 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
On Mar 7, 2005, at 9:35 AM, Frank de Bot wrote: Jorn Argelo wrote: On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:04:41 +0100, Frank de Bot wrote Hi, I've set up a jail. But I don't have any idea how safe a jail is. Often is told chroot and jails can be escaped. How safe is it to give other people user access to a jaile

Re: IP aliases and forcing outbound IP

2005-03-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
patrick wrote: Should I assume by the lack of replies that this just isn't possible under FreeBSD? Seems like it should be doable. What happens if you do: route add certainhost 10.0.1.111 ...? What happens if you create a jail and run your task from inside there using the jail's IP as the alia

Re: What's the easiest way to do a backup and verify?

2005-03-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Jerry McAllister writes: > > > > > Actually, if used frequently for backups - such as every day, DAT is > > > notoriously prone to failure. > > > > I've heard this for years, but I've never e

unknown port..what is this?

2005-03-07 Thread sn1tch
I ran nmap against one of my BSD boxes and it keeps returning port 199:smux.. I have no idea why it would be running or what its for. I am running nmap from a windows machine...would this affect it any? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: UTF-8 in the next releases?

2005-03-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Stevan Tiefert wrote: I have a small question to you! Is UTF-8 planned to be integrated in the system like in SuSE Linux ? Maybe in the next releases or never??? What do you mean by UTF-8 integration? Many of the system utilities have been internationalized via things like gettext and libintl, a

Re: unknown port..what is this?

2005-03-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
sn1tch wrote: I ran nmap against one of my BSD boxes and it keeps returning port 199:smux.. I have no idea why it would be running or what its for. I am running nmap from a windows machine...would this affect it any? Thanks Are you running SNMP? Kevin Kinsey _

Re: unknown port..what is this?

2005-03-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 04:09:21PM -0500, sn1tch wrote: > I ran nmap against one of my BSD boxes and it keeps returning port > 199:smux.. I have no idea why it would be running or what its for. I > am running nmap from a windows machine...would this affect it any? Use sockstat to find out what is

Re: unknown port..what is this?

2005-03-07 Thread sn1tch
Ah, yes I am.. but what would this be for? thanks for the reply On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 15:21:50 -0600, Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > sn1tch wrote: > > >I ran nmap against one of my BSD boxes and it keeps returning port > >199:smux.. I have no idea why it would be running or what its for

Re: unknown port..what is this?

2005-03-07 Thread Troy
If you want to disable it, just edit snmpd.conf in /usr/local/share/snmp and put in something like: smuxsocket 1.0.0.0 and you will notice the smux port will no longer be listening. -Troy On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 04:47:19PM -0500, sn1tch wrote: > Ah, yes I am.. but what would this be for? >

Re: unknown port..what is this?

2005-03-07 Thread sn1tch
Thanks for the help, it seems to work..just one thing i noticed on the console was a message stating it could not bind to that IP which I understand is normal. Thanks again On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 15:53:07 -0600, Troy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you want to disable it, just edit snmpd.conf in /usr

issue with dump

2005-03-07 Thread Robert Huff
When I do this: huff@> dump 0 -L -a -u -f /dev/sa0 /usr I get this: huff@> ps -ax | grep dump 84349 p4 S+ 0:14.07 dump 0 -L -a -u -f /dev/sa0 /usr (dump) 84357 p4 S+ 1:39.84 dump: /dev/da1s1d: pass 4: 11.97% done, finished in 4 84358 p4 DL+0:32.80 dump 0 -L -a

Recompiling the Kernel for better ATA support

2005-03-07 Thread Benjamin Keating
I'm having a problem with my drives and found a promising solution (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2004-October/008821.html) It looks like i need to modify /usr/src/sys/dev/ata/ata-lowlevel.c with the following, but im unsure how to read it. Some pointers about how to understand

Re: Change to different SCSI interface causes boot failure

2005-03-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Danny Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to replace the motherboard in my FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE > server for a different one. The old board has on-board Adaptec > AIC-7896N SCSI, the new one has on-board Symbios Ultra3 SCSI, on > bootup I get the following error - > > Mounting root fr

Enabling PCCARD When Installing From Floppies - FreeBSD 5.3

2005-03-07 Thread Iain Dooley
I'm attempting to install FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE via FTP using boot floppies from: ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.3-RELEASE/floppies/ on an IBM thinkpad using an "Orinoco Gold" wireless LAN card (which uses the wi driver) in the PCMCIA slot of the thinkpad. the boot process is happeni

dummynet problem, kernel options checked

2005-03-07 Thread Lucas
Hello, I'm running FreeBSD 5.3 Stable, installed from an iso on one of the dutch ftp mirrors. Everything works fine, installation went as expected. After a while I wanted some simple traffic shaping, and since the machine I wanted that for isn't the fastest, I chose to use ipfw with dummynet. From

Content Filtering setup for 2000 ISP users

2005-03-07 Thread Matt Juszczak
Hello all, Setting up a content filtering machine (two nics, ipnat, ipf) with a transparent proxy and Dan's guardian. ipnat and or ipf will RDR all outgoing packets on port 80 to the localhost proxy server which is Dan's guardian. Question is, I've got a base distro of freebsd running a custom

Re: dummynet problem, kernel options checked

2005-03-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Lucas wrote: [ ... ] Is there any way I could check if it really compiled? I vaguely remember something containing the word dummynet flashing by while compiling. If you check `dmesg`, you should see a line like: DUMMYNET initialized (011031) However, your problem sounds like your kernel and world a

Disk Error ... back up method

2005-03-07 Thread Yance Kowara
Hi all, I am a FreeBSD newbie... would like to know more about backing up the whole FreeBSD system to a new hard disk. What is the most convenient method of backing up to a new harddisk? any pointers appreciated I cut and pasted Aftabs' reply to Disk Error thread ... Thanks in advance. >

Video Conf Software

2005-03-07 Thread Sean
All, Trying to find some Video Conference software for personal use to chat with a friend of mine. Obviously I am using Freebsd (amd64) he is on Windows. Any recommendations? Thanks Sean _

Re: /boot like linux!

2005-03-07 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Jesse Guardiani writes: > >> How recent are we talking about? > > In the 5.x timeframe, I believe, but I don't remember exactly when the > improvements were made. I recall that soft updates are now encouraged > on just about any partition. > > I've never had any trou

Re: dummynet problem, kernel options checked

2005-03-07 Thread Lucas
> Lucas wrote: > [ ... ] >> Is there any way I could check if it really compiled? I vaguely >> remember something containing the word dummynet flashing by >> while compiling. > > If you check `dmesg`, you should see a line like: > > DUMMYNET initialized (011031) > > However, your problem sounds lik

Help with GIANT-LOCKED in REL5.3

2005-03-07 Thread Chiang Seng Chang
Hi, Anyone knows if GIANT-LOCKED is something new in 5.3 ? I have on the same machine running 5.2 which does not have any giant-locked in dmesg. The only difference is that I changed the bios to boot 5.3 from the 3ware raid drive. (oh, and I disabled a lot unused drivers in the 5.3 kernel confi

Re: Video Conf Software

2005-03-07 Thread Nick Pavlica
Does Gnome Conference provide this? --Nick On Mon, 07 Mar 2005 19:40:47 -0500, Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > Trying to find some Video Conference software for personal use to chat > with a friend of mine. > Obviously I am using Freebsd (amd64) he is on Windows. > Any recomm

Re: X not loading in full screen

2005-03-07 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, Matt Juszczak wrote: So what does /var/log/Xorg.0.log say? I'd guess that it's not finding what it thinks is an acceptable refresh rate for the monitor. The monitor is a laptop LCD screen. See my xorg.conf at http://www.atopia.net/scratch/xorg.conf. I also tried stretching

Re: Help with GIANT-LOCKED in REL5.3

2005-03-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 08:50:06PM -0500, Chiang Seng Chang wrote: > > Hi, > > Anyone knows if GIANT-LOCKED is something new in 5.3 ? It's just a status message, under earlier versions (4.x) the ENTIRE KERNEL was giant locked. Kris ___ freebsd-questio

Getting current ports and packages.

2005-03-07 Thread Ron Gilbert
I posted the following message on [EMAIL PROTECTED], but didn't get a response, so maybe someone here can help: I am trying to figure out why I am not getting the lasted packages. I am trying to get ImageMagick 6.2.0.5, which according to freshports is the latest, but when I do "pkg_add -r Im

vt220 and wrong pgup, pgdn, home and end keys

2005-03-07 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
Please cc me on replies. My /etc/ttys uses vt220 for one of my consoles. (Because I am logging into a host that doesn't know cons25.) I see that PgUp sends ESC [ I instead of ESC [ 5 ~ Also, page down sends ^[[G, home sends ^[[H and end is ^[[F. TERM is vt220 (as set by getty). I didn't modify

Re: Getting current ports and packages.

2005-03-07 Thread abu khaled
On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 19:12:39 -0800, Ron Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I posted the following message on [EMAIL PROTECTED], but > didn't get a response, so maybe someone here can help: > > I am trying to figure out why I am not getting the lasted packages. I > am trying to get ImageMagick

Re: vt220 and wrong pgup, pgdn, home and end keys

2005-03-07 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 07), Jeremy C. Reed said: > My /etc/ttys uses vt220 for one of my consoles. (Because I am logging > into a host that doesn't know cons25.) > > I see that PgUp sends ESC [ I instead of ESC [ 5 ~ > Also, page down sends ^[[G, home sends ^[[H and end is [[F. > TERM is vt220 (

OT please comment on my underconstruction open source website ...

2005-03-07 Thread faisal gillani
i am making a regional open sources softwares site , & would like to here comments of professionals like you. this sites is made , maintain , & hosted by me only , :-( , need help . thanks :-) *º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨¨*¤ Allah-hu-Akber*º¤., ¸¸,.¤º*¨¨*¤ God is the Greatest _

Re: Help with GIANT-LOCKED in REL5.3

2005-03-07 Thread Chiang Seng Chang
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 08:50:06PM -0500, Chiang Seng Chang wrote: Hi, Anyone knows if GIANT-LOCKED is something new in 5.3 ? It's just a status message, under earlier versions (4.x) the ENTIRE KERNEL was giant locked. Kris The GIANT-LOCKED status message is not displayed in 5

Russian from ssh console

2005-03-07 Thread Sergei Gnezdov
I'd like to be able to read Russian messages from slrn. I set LANG environment variable to ru_RU, but it does not help. I think it is because the underlying system does not support Russian or something like this. I don't plan to type messages in Russian. Most of the GUI apps seem to support for

ttydX and xterm size (LINES and COLUMNS understanding)

2005-03-07 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Dear console gurus, when I open a xterm on the local machine, say with 100x37, vi and man recognizes the size and display the content correctly. If I use cu/tip in a 100x37 xterm "ls" works fine (uses all lines) as long as I start vi but man doesn't work (no scrolling possible). After the vi ses

can't send logo to your server mail returned

2005-03-07 Thread Denis
Здравствуйте, freebsd-questions. This is the Postfix program at host mx2.freebsd.org. I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned below could not be delivered to one or more destinations. For further assistance, please send mail to If you do so, please include this problem report

Re: Help Renaming Multple Files

2005-03-07 Thread Uwe Doering
Phusion wrote: I need help figuring out how to rename multple files. The files are named like reports_abcdef_MMDD.dat, reports_hijklm_MMDD.dat, and reports_nopqrs_MMDD.dat. Here is an example. Original Filename: reports_abcdef_MMDD.dat New Filename: abcdef_MMDD.dat Let me know h

FreeBSD 5.3 freezes under heavy hdd load

2005-03-07 Thread cyb
Hello, from time to time my FreeBSD freezes under heavy hdd load and only a hard reset will bring it back to life with fsck complaining about 'Softupdate Inconsistencies'. I had this behaviour on 5.3-RELEASE, 5.3-RELEASE-p5 and now i have it on 5.4-PRERELEASE. I am using a custom kernel with SMP

Re: ttydX and xterm size (LINES and COLUMNS understanding)

2005-03-07 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 08), Emanuel Strobl said: > When I open a xterm on the local machine, say with 100x37, vi and man > recognizes the size and display the content correctly. If I use > cu/tip in a 100x37 xterm "ls" works fine (uses all lines) as long as > I start vi but man doesn't work (no s

console printout at diskless boot

2005-03-07 Thread mats . lindberg
Hi! I am using freebsd in a diskless configuration with etherboot as the bootloader. Now I want to use this setting in a newly bought PC, but it does not boot. I'm using the same kernel as in my working system and the ethernet nic is the same. A major problem for me is that I cannot see when/wh

Re: ttydX and xterm size (LINES and COLUMNS understanding)

2005-03-07 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 8. März 2005 08:29 schrieb Dan Nelson: > In the last episode (Mar 08), Emanuel Strobl said: > > When I open a xterm on the local machine, say with 100x37, vi and man > > recognizes the size and display the content correctly. If I use > > cu/tip in a 100x37 xterm "ls" works fine (uses a

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