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Dear All,
I had bacula running on my Freebsd 5.3 system.
I have upgraded my system to FreeBSD 5.4 and installed bacula
from the ports tree. When I attempt to run a job I get the following error:
*run
Using default Catalog name=MyCatalog DB=bacula
A job name must be specif
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone any experience trying to make FreeBSD an Active Directory
Server? From my research and experiementation, I am under the impression
that it is possible, but I have yet to come up with any articles where it
has actual been done fully.
it may be not relevant, or
To whom it may concern,
im just a little confused, im seeing a many referances to version 6 on
your website, but i can't physically find it anywhere. is this a
version currently being worked on? or released for certain
architectures? some more information would be most helpful.
thank you,
just
At 02:10 AM 7/31/2005, Justin Wert wrote:
To whom it may concern,
im just a little confused, im seeing a many referances to version 6 on
your website, but i can't physically find it anywhere. is this a
version currently being worked on? or released for certain
architectures? some more informat
On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 08:43, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Has anyone any experience trying to make FreeBSD an Active Directory
> > Server? From my research and experiementation, I am under the impression
> > that it is possible, but I have yet to come up with any articles
On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 09:42, Glenn Dawson wrote:
> At 02:10 AM 7/31/2005, Justin Wert wrote:
> >To whom it may concern,
> >
> >im just a little confused, im seeing a many referances to version 6 on
> >your website, but i can't physically find it anywhere. is this a
> >version currently being worke
Robert Slade wrote:
I am currently working on setting up the network, and one of the things
that is quite clear is that full ADS functionality is not necessary.
My view is that for a small network, roaming profiles, printer and file
sharing is all that is really necessary. It looks like Samba ha
I m using FreeBSD 5.3, on Dell Power Edge 6650 Quad Processor Machine,
my system get stuck while i m accessing it through ssh. well after
some time , when i acces the machine & check , /var/log/messages ,, i
can bge0: WatchDog Timedout -- resetting error. Is there any one , to
tap my back & get me
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> Please submit a PR with these both lines.
will do - I didn't do that straight away because I saw no
functional difference.
And then there is the other unresolved problem that
sane-find-scanner no longer identifies the scanner:
# sane-find-scanner -q
Hi all,
Can anyone recommend a vendor / reseller of server hardware in Australia
(preferrably NSW)? In particular, (dual ) Opteron based systems. Of
course, it'd be great if anyone actually had suggestions on the
specifics of the system that are known to work with 5.4 SMP.
thanks in advance,
Nikolas Britton wrote:
> Correct about DD... This array will NEVER be used with another OS and
> It will NEVER be booted from The disk array will never show it's
> self in DOS because it needs special drivers. In FreeBSD I want it to
> show up as one big disk and just mount it as /data or somet
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:
> Thanks guys. I think I've "got" most of it now.
[..]
> When it tests an incoming packet it doesn't try to predict which
> interface it will be transmitted on (not sure why, if NAT isn't on),
> so "in" rules don't match against an "xmit" inter
Chris wrote:
Glenn Dawson wrote:
At 08:08 AM 7/30/2005, Sean wrote:
What command can display all the network parameters assigned from
dhcp, such DNS?
I have looked at ifconfig and netstat but unless I missed a switch I
do not see them as correct choices.
Not exactly one command, but you c
Hi, Thru this e-mail I like to ask you for help me because I´ve tried to
download the floppies images necessary to start the installation of freeBSD,
but I just couldn´t...
The issue is that the OS (Windows XP), shows an error referring to the space of
the floppie (there´s no enough space for th
On 2005-07-30 20:34, Fabian Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Warren Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, FreeBsdBeni wrote:
>>> Is there an easy way to get to know the volume id or disclabel of a cd or
>>> dvd ? Mounting the cd/dvd just gives me the contents of the disc, but not
Hi all,
I accedently delete /var/db directory. Shame!
I found a way to recover structure:
1) /usr/sbin/mtree -deU -f /etc/mtree/BSD.var.dist -p /var
2) and then I recreate the log files looking at the /etc/newsyslog.conf.
That saved me a reinstall !
But now I can't update my ports.
Is there a w
zlatozar wrote:
Hi all,
I accedently delete /var/db directory. Shame!
I found a way to recover structure:
[...]
But now I can't update my ports.
Is there a way to recover my db of all installed ports?
from your backups. You DO keep backups, right? :)
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Sam Leffler wrote:
Eric Schuele wrote:
Sam Leffler wrote:
Eric Schuele wrote:
Both my APs (home and office) hide their ssids. One is a wrt54g
(home), the other is linksys as well... though I forget the model at
the moment (FWIW its a/b/g). What can I do to provide the info you need?
Sam Leffler wrote:
Eric Schuele wrote:
Sam Leffler wrote:
Eric Schuele wrote:
dhclient.conf contains
===
interface "ath0" {
#send option host-name "myhost";
#send option domain-name "nxdomain.org";
send dhcp-client-identifier "myhost";
media
### Home
Glenn Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The only danger in not having the slice table is that if you use non
> BSD tools, such as the ones that come with windows, they will
> potentially write over things that that you don't want them to.
The FreeBSD FAQ mentions more serious dangers.
> Also,
Doing a set of packages so when building new machines can do the whole
ports installations through packages.
When I did pkg_add mc-4.6.0_15 got the warning
requires 'gettext-0.14.1', but 'gettext-0.14.5' is installed
Is it safe to ignore these type of errors?
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Francisco Reyes wrote:
Doing a set of packages so when building new machines can do the whole
ports installations through packages.
When I did pkg_add mc-4.6.0_15 got the warning
requires 'gettext-0.14.1', but 'gettext-0.14.5' is installed
Is it safe to ignore these type of errors?
With get
I once used kaudiocreator to rip some CD's and convert them to MP3
files. It had a very nice graphical interface. I know of cdda2mp3 (rip)
and lame (mp3) but like the easy use of this kind of program.
KAudiocreator however is a KDE program. I don't have anything of kde
installed and like to keep i
Hi,
I am trying to write a C program that will send 3 bytes to the cuaa0 com
port at 9600 baud, 8n1. I am trying to control a Northlight 8 Channel Servo
motor controller:
http://home.att.net/~northlightsystems/DMX512toRCservo.htm
Most of the code came from this page:
http://www.easysw.com/~mike/
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Norbert Koch wrote:
I have a one year old Hitachi Travelstar 60GB/4200RPM disk. This
night and since then, I get these errors:
ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=48926527
ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=48926527
ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA
On 2005-07-31 22:50, Paul Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to write a C program that will send 3 bytes to the cuaa0 com
> port at 9600 baud, 8n1. I am trying to control a Northlight 8 Channel Servo
> motor controller:
> http://home.att.net/~northlightsystems/DMX512toRCserv
I realize this may be partial religion and then potentially bias due to the list
but here goes anyway.
I need to build a DMZ server, of sorts, that will sit on the public internet.
It will take in data from embeded devices and in turn services from behind a
firewall will pull data from it to l
Hi,
I would like to use my META (ALT in my keyboard) key instead of ESC.
I'm using uk.cp850 keyboard and my ALT key doesn't work on my
console. I've tried to alter uk.cp850.kbd in
/usr/share/syscons/keymaps, but I was unsuccessful.
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Paul Hamilton wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to write a C program that will send 3 bytes to the cuaa0 com
port at 9600 baud, 8n1. I am trying to control a Northlight 8 Channel Servo
motor controller:
http://home.att.net/~northlightsystems/DMX512toRCservo.htm
Most of the code came from this page:
http
I'm using FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p3
I upgraded php to 5.0.4 but extensions are 5.0.3. Now I can't update
them. I try making port ports manually or portupgrade any of
extensions it gives this error message:
In file included from /usr/local/include/php/main/../main/php_config.h:2417,
f
A R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On install i get this error : Unable to find device node for
> /dev/ad0s1b in /dev! The creation of filesystems will be aborted
It looks like it was trying to do something (swapon?) with the swap
device, but the "devfs" system never created a /dev/ad0s1b for it
b
(Badly formatted message omitted)
I suspect that you didn't follow the README's instructions and instead
tried to put the 2880k "boot.flp" on a 1440k floppy. You only need
the other two images if you have a 1440k drive. IIRC, the big one is
for a few special drives and for use on "El Torito" boo
Hello , i'm on freebsd 5.4 and i use munin-main-1.2.2 and munin-node-1.2.2 but
i have a problem when i run munin.I have in log "munin-graph.log" that :
Jul 31 18:13:18 - Unable to graph
/usr/local/var/munin/linux-win.org/gw-bsd.linux-win.org-vmstat-sleep-g.rrd:
Garbage ':' after command:
Jul 3
zlatozar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there a way to recover my db of all installed ports? How I can
> reinstall all my ports? Will reinstall helps?
I think your ports (eg, /usr/ports/*/*) are still installed and most
of your package files (eg, /usr/local/bin/portinstall) are too, but
your pa
Jeff wrote:
I realize this may be partial religion and then potentially bias due to
the list but here goes anyway.
There is nothing wrong with bias, per se, if you are aware that it exists. :-)
I need to build a DMZ server, of sorts, that will sit on the public
internet. It will take in data
I have a well running FreeBSD-5.4 system. In a few days I get an
Athlon64 based system, so I will be able to install the FreeBSD-5.4-64
version _OR_ use dump / restore to transport my system to the new drive.
Personally I think it is wiser to wait for fbsd-6.x to make the
transfer and use my (old)
dick hoogendijk wrote:
> Personally I think it is wiser to wait for fbsd-6.x to make the
> transfer and use my (old) FreeBSD-5.4-i386 version on my new machine.
Yeah, that's a good idea. 6.0-RELEASE is currently scheduled for August
15. Or you could install 6.0-BETA1 now. It runs pretty well here,
On 7/31/05, Gary W. Swearingen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A R <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On install i get this error : Unable to find device node for
> > /dev/ad0s1b in /dev! The creation of filesystems will be aborted
>
> It looks like it was trying to do something (swapon?) with the sw
On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 19:38:01 +0200
Benjamin Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes. Ports that are known not to build on certain architectures have an
> ONLY_FOR_ARCH flag set. Eg:
>
> cd /usr/ports/www/opera; make -V ONLY_FOR_ARCH
Just tried this, but got no response. Maybe it works now.
> Th
On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 22:10 +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> Hi all,
> Can anyone recommend a vendor / reseller of server hardware in Australia
> (preferrably NSW)? In particular, (dual ) Opteron based systems. Of
> course, it'd be great if anyone actually had suggestions on the
> specifics of t
On Sunday 31 July 2005 07:40 am, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Francisco Reyes wrote:
> > Doing a set of packages so when building new machines can do the
> > whole ports installations through packages.
> >
> > When I did pkg_add mc-4.6.0_15 got the warning
> > requires 'gettext-0.14.1', but 'gettext-0.1
> > cd /usr/ports/www/opera; make -V ONLY_FOR_ARCH
>
> Just tried this, but got no response. Maybe it works now.
Oops. Forget the S there at the end. It's ONLY_FOR_ARCHS .
> > There are a few things that will not work at all on amd64 right now,
> > however: OpenOffice.org, proprietary media cod
Hi,
When I try to burn data with burncd here what I get :
written this track 136368 KB total 136368 KB
only wrote -1 of 32768 bytes: Input/output error
burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCFLUSH): Input/output error
and in dmesg :
acd0: timeout waiting for ATAPI ready
after it's impossible to access cd drive wit
dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> cd /usr/ports/www/opera; make -V ONLY_FOR_ARCH
>
> Just tried this, but got no response. Maybe it works now.
#!/bin/ksh -o posix
find /usr/ports -name Makefile | while () ; do
read DIR
cd ${DIR%Makefile}
BBB=$(make -V BROKEN 2>
On Jul 31, 2005, at 9:50 AM, Paul Hamilton wrote:
I am trying to write a C program that will send 3 bytes to the
cuaa0 com
port at 9600 baud, 8n1.
Oddly I found information on how to do that very easy to find for
Unix. Conversely wanted to do the same thing in Windows and hit a
brick wa
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> only wrote -1 of 32768 bytes: Input/output error
> burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCFLUSH): Input/output error
I got something like that on 5.4 (i386 or amd64, I forget) and cured
it by using cdrecord from cdrtools port after rebuilding kernel to
support it. That might tell you wh
Is there any HDTV card supported yet under FreeBSD?
What about FreeBSD6?
Is anyone working on a driver?
from
Michael
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2005-08-01 00:23, Paul Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes, very full on code ;-) I will see if I can get it to compile!
Thanks for that. In the mean time I pondered the endianess thing, and I
have tried using my original code to write 1 byte at a time, 3
On Sunday 31 July 2005 18:12, dick hoogendijk wrote:
> I know the OS itself will be faster, but how about
> ports.
The benchmarks I've seen have been a mixed bag. There's one in the AMD64 list
where a webserver ran twice as fast on i384 than on amd64.
_
installing linux_base and get error:
/===> linux_base-rh-7.3 depends on executable: rpm - found
Linux mode is not enabled.
Loading linux kernel module now...
kldload: can't load linux: Exec format error
The linux kernel module could not be loaded.
Please enable linux mode manually and retry.
/
I
i get a spam of errors on the screen that looks something like this
ad4: WARNING - READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying request) LBA=137895
ad4: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51 error=84
LBA=293567
i have no idea
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On Sunday 31 July 2005 17:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> installing linux_base and get error:
> /===> linux_base-rh-7.3 depends on executable: rpm - found
> Linux mode is not enabled.
> Loading linux kernel module now...
> kldload: can't load linux: Exec format error
> The linux kernel module cou
Dear all,
I'm trying to compile my program with my gcc bundled with Release 5.3
I always get the error "Installation problem: exec 'as' no such file
or directory".
It seems that I should install the as program.
Can someone tell me where I can download the tbz ball?
Any help would be appreciated:)
Chuck Swiger wrote:
Jeff wrote:
I realize this may be partial religion and then potentially bias due
to the list but here goes anyway.
There is nothing wrong with bias, per se, if you are aware that it
exists. :-)
I need to build a DMZ server, of sorts, that will sit on the public
intern
Hello all,
I am a complete newbie to Unix and am looking into which window management
system to use. I want one that is lean on system resources, nice to look at
but doesn't take all the fun of learning a new system away from the user (if
that makes sense). I like the look of Fluxbox and Enlight
I sent 3 mails to the port maintainer but I didn't get any replies.
That's very strange !
--- On Wed 07/27, Glenn Dawson < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
From: Glenn Dawson [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 08:10:40 -0700
Subject: Re: cannot install ntop u
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2005-08-01 13:54:12 +1200:
> I am a complete newbie to Unix and am looking into which window
> management system to use. I want one that is lean on system
> resources, nice to look at but doesn't take all the fun of learning
> a new system away from the user (if that makes se
Hi all.
In my work, we connect to the internet over one http proxy
(squid) running on fedora, with windows(98/2k/xp) we dont have any
problem to acces to the outside. I have my user and password, the
proxy have the IP: 192.168.1.2 Port 3128
I need to access to the internet to upda
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
I am a complete newbie to Unix and am looking into which window management
system to use. I want one that is lean on system resources, nice to look at
but doesn't take all the fun of learning a new system away from the user (if
that makes sense). I like the
When trying to portupgrade -f sdocbook-xml, it fails
with the following error:
xmlcatmgr: entry already exists for
`/usr/local/share/xml/sdocbook/4.1.2.5/catalog' of
type `CATALOG'
When I do a pkg_info | grep sdocbook, nothing shows
up. I've searched and haven't been able to find this
error anywh
In the ports: samba3 and proftpd I recieved errors while applying
Freebsd patches for the ports .. its says 1 out of * hunks failed -- ,
and failed to apply cleaning .. I cvsup ports right before hand.
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At 08:57 PM 7/31/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the ports: samba3 and proftpd I recieved errors while applying Freebsd
patches for the ports .. its says 1 out of * hunks failed -- , and failed
to apply cleaning .. I cvsup ports right before hand.
I just cvsupped ports, and tried building th
cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg
make install clean
cd /usr/ports/x11/kde3
make install clean
Dude, read the FreeBSD handbook, located at www.freebsd.org
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