How to create *exactly* the same partitions in different disks

2005-08-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi, pretty simply, how do I create slices (fdisk) that are exactly the same throughtout different drives so they can be used in a RAID5 config? I tried using sysinstall and typing the SAME values but they result is always slightly off. I tried passing the values by hand, but it changes it any

Re: rsync and moving files [Re: backup w/ snapshots]

2005-08-31 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Charles Swiger [2005-08-30 10:49 -0400] > On Aug 30, 2005, at 3:32 AM, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: > > Yes, that's correct! But let's say I keep more than one snapshot around. I > > maybe didn't mention this, but this the sole purpose of using snapshots; > > for me to have more full backup

Re: rsync and moving files [Re: backup w/ snapshots]

2005-08-31 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Garance A Drosihn [2005-08-30 12:50 -0400] > Fwiw, I understand the problem you're trying to describe. And the > basic issue is that rsync keeps no information between separate > runs of it. It has no way of knowing that a given file on the > source volume used to be at a different locatio

Re: How to create *exactly* the same SLICES in different disks

2005-08-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
sorry, i meant slices. i need 2 slices, exactly the same size on each of 4 disks. Norberto Meijome wrote: Hi, pretty simply, how do I create slices (fdisk) that are exactly the same throughtout different drives so they can be used in a RAID5 config? I tried using sysinstall and typing the SA

Re: Is there a way to connect to a Microsoft VPN?

2005-08-31 Thread Lyubich, M
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 01:23 -0400, WOB wrote: > I normally use my > home Windows XP Pro box to connect to my works VPN, and then use > RemoteDesktop to connect to my Work PC - so I know the connections work > under Windows. I want to get rid of my home Windows box. > > Any suggestions? I'm ki

suidperl unable to find

2005-08-31 Thread Dark Star
Hello Gurus, I'm not sure this issue is for this list, but anyhow I would like to have this small help. Im on FreeBSD 4.8, fresh installed, and ports up to date. both perl-5.6.2_2 and perl-5.8.7 are installed, use.perl port and rehash has been done. I cannot locate the file

suidperl (update)

2005-08-31 Thread Dark Star
Hello, Sorry for disturb, but the issue has been solved, what a silly thing, I had to recomile perl with enable suid to yes. Thank you Marwan _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http

RE: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem

2005-08-31 Thread Robert Slade
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 07:01, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >-Original Message- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Vizion > >Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 4:21 PM > >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > >Cc: Robert Slade > >Subject: Re: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4

Re: GbE NICs besides em (recommendation wanted)

2005-08-31 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 8/31/05, Emanuel Strobl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm quiet disappointed with the em nics and wanted to try some other > GigaBit NICs (1000baseTX only). > AFAIK there are re, sk, bge driven cards. Which doesn't saturate a [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > at 200mbit/s with interrupt load (li

Re: Perl 5.8.7 port requires libm.so.4

2005-08-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 01:27:07PM -0500, Will Maier wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 02:16:18PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > Will Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hmm. I base my statement off the output from `uname -a`: > > > > FreeBSD `hostname` 5.4-SECURITY FreeBSD 5.4-SECURITY #0: W

Re: Logo Contest Update?

2005-08-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 10:06:27AM -0400, Josh Ockert wrote: > Please refrain from misinformation. But that's so hard for Ted! Kris pgpwWfIEUNikl.pgp Description: PGP signature

rc.conf - setting interface UP without IP-address?

2005-08-31 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, I'm looking for a way to set an interface UP using /etc/rc.conf without giving the interface an IP-address (i.e. neither static nor DHCP) Background: The machine in question has three Ethernet-IFs - one connects to the LAN (and has an IP-address) the other two are used for monitoring traffic

entropy

2005-08-31 Thread Hanspeter Roth
Hello, what is entropy for? What are the consequences if one sets rc.conf/entropy_file and rc.conf/entropy_dir to "NO"? -Hanspeter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

questions

2005-08-31 Thread Rubén González Arnau
q -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] The state law of Pennsylvania prohibits singing in the bathtub. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: moving everything except a directory

2005-08-31 Thread Ceasar Navato
--- Brian John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Say I am at ~ and I have 10 directories inside named > 1, 2, 3, 4 ,5, 6, > 7, 8, 9 and 10. What command can I use to move > everything but directory > 2? You can use combination of different commands to solve this problem. Base on your problem, y

3ware raid disks requiring fsck ing,

2005-08-31 Thread Gerald de la Pascua
I have started getting failures on a freebsd 4.x machine running 3ware card, the machine had been crashing from time to time, and it crashed and would not reboot saying noufs. Replacing the 3ware card ( a 7002 I think, the older 2 port ones) with a 7006 fixed this issue, but since then I have

Problem when making index in /usr/ports

2005-08-31 Thread bsd
Hello, Since this morning I have problem generating my index whith the traditional "make index" executed in/usr/ports I have already "make fetchindex" but this didn't solve the issue. Any help will be apreciated. root:newmail 12:16 /usr/ports # make index Generating INDEX-5 - please wait

Re: How to create *exactly* the same partitions in different disks

2005-08-31 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 12:07 AM 8/31/2005, Norberto Meijome wrote: Hi, pretty simply, how do I create slices (fdisk) that are exactly the same throughtout different drives so they can be used in a RAID5 config? I tried using sysinstall and typing the SAME values but they result is always slightly off. I tried pa

Re: rc.conf - setting interface UP without IP-address?

2005-08-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-08-31 11:02, Ewald Jenisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for a way to set an interface UP using /etc/rc.conf > without giving the interface an IP-address (i.e. neither static nor > DHCP) > > Background: The machine in question has three Ethernet-IFs - one > connects to the LAN (a

Re: GbE NICs besides em (recommendation wanted)

2005-08-31 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Mittwoch, 31. August 2005 10:51 CEST schrieb Dmitry Mityugov: > On 8/31/05, Emanuel Strobl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm quiet disappointed with the em nics and wanted to try some other > > GigaBit NICs (1000baseTX only). > > AFAIK there are re, sk, bge driven cards. Which do

portsnap and updates using cron

2005-08-31 Thread martin hudec
Hello, I am using portsnap to update my ports tree like following: 1. Calling portsnap cron from root's cron 2. Updating ports tree using portsnap -I update from root's cron But it does not update anything by portsnap cron. In /usr/local/etc/portsnap.conf I have: WORKDIR=/usr/local

heimdal kerberos & ssh

2005-08-31 Thread Stijn Hoop
Hi, I'm trying to setup a Kerberos realm, on a 5.4-STABLE box using the base heimdal version. I have succesfully created the database and I can get a ticket using kinit. Now I'm trying to setup the ssh service so that it authenticates to the kerberos server, and so that it saves the ticket to th

Re: rc.conf - setting interface UP without IP-address?

2005-08-31 Thread Rein Kadastik
Excuse me for a silly question, but what the hell is UP? I know, what is IP, I know how ifconfig works, but wtf is UP? Rein Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-08-31 11:02, Ewald Jenisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm looking for a way to set an interface UP using /etc/rc.conf without giving

Re: rc.conf - setting interface UP without IP-address?

2005-08-31 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 02:41:45PM +0300, Rein Kadastik wrote: > Excuse me for a silly question, but what the hell is UP? I know, what is > IP, I know how ifconfig works, but wtf is UP? > UP is the state of the interface. You can set an IF up/down to enable/disable the IF. Current state of an in

Re: rc.conf - setting interface UP without IP-address?

2005-08-31 Thread Rein Kadastik
Thanks, the answer was just too simple for me to figure it out by myself :) Rein Ewald Jenisch wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 02:41:45PM +0300, Rein Kadastik wrote: Excuse me for a silly question, but what the hell is UP? I know, what is IP, I know how ifconfig works, but wtf is UP?

Re: rc.conf - setting interface UP without IP-address?

2005-08-31 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 01:36:32PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > Try "up" (lowercase) instead. > Thanks much for the hint! This absolutely does the trick - now I've got "all my interfaces" up ;-) Regards, -ewald ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: Interrupt Storm Dell PowerEdge 1850

2005-08-31 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Nicklas B. Westerlund wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: But if you do that, then I believe you will not be able to use the DRAC as a remote console because your virtual keyboard won't work. (not without changing to the ukbd0 from your real keyboard, which pretty much defeats the point of the virtu

RE: Logo Contest Update?

2005-08-31 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kris Kennaway >Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 1:54 AM >To: Josh Ockert >Cc: Pratt, Benjamin E.; FreeBSD-Questions; Ted Mittelstaedt >Subject: Re: Logo Contest Update? > > >On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 10:06:27A

Re: rc.conf - setting interface UP without IP-address?

2005-08-31 Thread Pavel Jordák
On 31 Srpen 2005, 11:02, Ewald Jenisch napsal(a): > > Hi, > > I'm looking for a way to set an interface UP using /etc/rc.conf > without giving the interface an IP-address (i.e. neither static nor DHCP) > > Background: The machine in question has three Ethernet-IFs - one connects to the LAN (and has

Re: Interrupt Storm Dell PowerEdge 1850

2005-08-31 Thread Nicklas B. Westerlund
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > > What version of FreeBSD? AFAIU, FreeBSD only supports one console > keyboard, so if you plug in ukbd1 and make it the console, the DRAC on > ukbd0 shouldn't work. I'm sure I tried this and that it didn't work, > but I'd be happy to be wrong. Are you sure that both your D

Re: How to create *exactly* the same partitions in different disks

2005-08-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
Glenn Dawson wrote: At 12:07 AM 8/31/2005, Norberto Meijome wrote: fdisk wants slices to start on a head boundary, and end on a cylinder boundary. if you make start evenly divisible by the number of sectors per track, and make size+start evenly divisible by sectors*heads, fdisk won't change

FTP Permissions

2005-08-31 Thread Andreas Wideroe Andersen
Hi, I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 STABLE and the latest Proftpd. I have a little problem I need help with. I want about 10 users to have access to the same directory/subdirectories on the FTP server and all must be able to upload, delete and retrive (full access) to the files in these directories.

Detailed DNS setup ?

2005-08-31 Thread kilim
Hello, I'm about to set up named under FreeBSD 5.4. I have read all the documentation, O'Reily book and various sites telling me how to go about things. But I fear that just reading about it and doing it are completely different things. What I would like to do is write a list of things that

Re: Interrupt Storm Dell PowerEdge 1850

2005-08-31 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
This may be getting a bit Off Topic, but I always find it annoying when archive thread peter out without any conclusion... Nicklas B. Westerlund wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: What version of FreeBSD? AFAIU, FreeBSD only supports one console keyboard, so if you plug in ukbd1 and make it the

Re: Application layer firewall on FreeBSD, is it possible ?

2005-08-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
hey, Daniel Dvořák wrote: We are small wireless community and have shared access to internet for all members. Core members decided to control p2p traffic by default and to allow each person in individual way, after showing their knowledge of authorial low. :) I think you mean copyright law.

Re: FTP Permissions

2005-08-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
Andreas Wideroe Andersen wrote: Hi, hi there, I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 STABLE and the latest Proftpd. I have a little problem I need help with. I want about 10 users to have access to the same directory/subdirectories on the FTP server and all must be able to upload, delete and retrive (ful

Re: entropy

2005-08-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hanspeter Roth wrote: Hello, hello, grab a beverage and start reading ;) what is entropy for? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy What are the consequences if one sets rc.conf/entropy_file and rc.conf/entropy_dir to "NO"? $ grep entropy /etc/defaults/rc.conf entropy_file="/entropy" # S

Re: Application layer firewall on FreeBSD, is it possible ?

2005-08-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
Norberto Meijome wrote: after reading my own post i realised it wasn't too clear I havent seen any way to control traffic for P2P apps reliably @ the protocol layer, 'I havent seen any way to reliably control traffic for P2P apps by simply looking @ ports + IP protocol' u need to inspect

Re: entropy

2005-08-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
Norberto Meijome wrote: Hanspeter Roth wrote: Hello, hello, grab a beverage and start reading ;) what is entropy for? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_entropy being far more accurate to this thread. Beto, with half a brain correcting the

Re: heimdal kerberos & ssh

2005-08-31 Thread Stijn Hoop
OK, I think I figured this out, at least partially: On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 01:23:00PM +0200, Stijn Hoop wrote: > So it seems that the authentication is working, however the TGT is not > being saved. It turns out that you really need to specify the 'ccache' parameter to pam_krb5 but in the correc

Re: GbE NICs besides em (recommendation wanted)

2005-08-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
Emanuel Strobl wrote: Thank you for the offer, but I thought people had some simple test results in mind. If you next time use rdump or large NFS transfers to another GbE connected (and fast enough) box just watch the system load (I use systat -vm 1) and see what card causes what interrupt lo

Re: upgrading perl -ports

2005-08-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Please don't top-post. Zan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday, August 30, 2005, at 01:30 P:M, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > Zan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> in my /usr/local/bin I can clearly see that there is a newer version > >> of perl (5.8.0) already there, but when I type 'perl

Re: Setting HTTP_PROXY for all users

2005-08-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 04:32:42PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > I want to set HTTP_PROXY for all users on my machine, and I'd like to do > it in /etc/login.conf as then it's only in one place. > > However, I need to put a colon in for the port number and can't see how > to escape it so that the ent

Re: Detailed DNS setup ?

2005-08-31 Thread Kevin Kinsey
kilim wrote: Hello, I'm about to set up named under FreeBSD 5.4. I have read all the documentation, O'Reily book and various sites telling me how to go about things. But I fear that just reading about it and doing it are completely different things. What I would like to do is write a list

Re: Detailed DNS setup ?

2005-08-31 Thread kilim
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 08:44:35AM -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > kilim wrote: > > > >I'm about to set up named under FreeBSD 5.4. > BIND in FreeBSD 5.X is version 9, and is already set up > "in a sandbox" (e.g., chrooted to /var/named). Hi, so I guess I just need to follow the section 24.7[1]

Re: portsnap and updates using cron

2005-08-31 Thread Kevin Kinsey
martin hudec wrote: Hello, I am using portsnap to update my ports tree like following: 1. Calling portsnap cron from root's cron 2. Updating ports tree using portsnap -I update from root's cron But it does not update anything by portsnap cron. In /usr/local/etc/portsnap.conf I have: W

Re: broken getopt

2005-08-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Robert Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 14:25 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > Robert Fitzpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Aug 29 11:11:10 esmtp postfix/master[67333]: > > > warning: /usr/local/libexec/postfix/pipe: bad command startup -- > > > throttling >

Re: portsnap and updates using cron

2005-08-31 Thread martin hudec
Hello, On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 08:54:31AM -0500 or thereabouts, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Not sure. Check the logs, etc. If you're familiar with ktrace, > kdump, etc., you could follow the program's progress if you > find no log information. /var/log/cron reports me that cronjob was done. No I am

Timezone isn't setting to EST corectly, ntp doesn't help

2005-08-31 Thread Robert G.
I'm connected to a remote machine located in NJ and ran /usr/sbin/sysinstall and set the timezone to "Eastern Time", but the clock is displaying 2:30PM or so when it is only 10:44AM here. I tried ntp but that didn't work as well. Does anyone have any idea what's wrong? Thanks. -- Robert G.

Re: Setting HTTP_PROXY for all users

2005-08-31 Thread Ceri Davies
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 02:41:39PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 04:32:42PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote: > > I want to set HTTP_PROXY for all users on my machine, and I'd like to do > > it in /etc/login.conf as then it's only in one place. > > > > However, I need to put a col

Re: /etc/profile and PATH

2005-08-31 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Miguel Cárdenas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried to setup PATH in ~/.profile and now is updated but how can I setup > this variable system wide? specifically want to add the Qt and MySQL binary > directories to the PATH... Yeah, "man login.conf", but it's heavy reading which I suspect many

Mounting a RHLinux 7.1 partition

2005-08-31 Thread Isaac Grover
Good morning everyone, Due to a hardware failure on my RHLinux 7.1 gateway, I have chosen to install FreeBSD 5.4 as my new gateway's operating system. The hard drive didn't die fortunately, as I did test it on another system to make sure it booted, and aside from kudzu complaining about some new

mail malady - dns/postfix

2005-08-31 Thread Jerod Prothe
Greetings all, On my network, we used to have some NT box acting as the mail exchanger and a faulty dns for our domain. That box has nearly crumbled. It's still active, but no longer accepting mail. I set up a computer (called galley) with 5.4 and it is (supposedly) running authoritative dns

Re: mouse wheel problem

2005-08-31 Thread Alejandro Pulver
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:57:18 -0500 "Efren Bravo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've written on /etc/rc.conf : > > moused_port="/dev/psm0" > moused_flags="-r high -z 4" > moused_type="auto" > moused_enable="YES" > > and on /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > Section "InputDevice

Re: Timezone isn't setting to EST corectly, ntp doesn't help

2005-08-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
Robert G. wrote: I'm connected to a remote machine located in NJ and ran /usr/sbin/sysinstall and set the timezone to "Eastern Time", but the clock is displaying 2:30PM or so when it is only 10:44AM here. I tried ntp but that didn't work as well. Does anyone have any idea what's wrong? You

Re: Perl 5.8.7 port requires libm.so.4

2005-08-31 Thread Will Maier
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 04:52:22AM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 01:27:07PM -0500, Will Maier wrote: > > Indulge a newb, then: how did that come about? I'm still figuring > > out port and packages and how they relate to the different releases. > > Do you mean that my portsna

Re: mail malady - dns/postfix

2005-08-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
Jerod Prothe wrote: The problem is, now local citizens are trying to send mail to us, Jerod, pls define 'local citizens'. My view of "local" is surely different to yours. but they are getting bounce messages reporting that it couldn't talk to otto, the old NT box. yup, # telnet otto.usd

Re: FTP Permissions

2005-08-31 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Hi, I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 STABLE and the latest Proftpd. I have a little problem I need help with. I want about 10 users to have access to the same directory/subdirectories on the FTP server and all must be able to upload, delete and retrive (full access) to the files in these directories.

Re: Interrupt Storm Dell PowerEdge 1850

2005-08-31 Thread John Straiton
You sir, are a genius. Fixed John On Aug 27, 2005, at 6:42 AM, Nicklas B. Westerlund wrote: John Straiton wrote: Hello, I am attempting to install 5.4R on a brand new Dell PowerEdge 1850 machine. The installation goes perfectly however after the reboot, I am unable to log into the machine

Re: Detailed DNS setup ?

2005-08-31 Thread Kevin Kinsey
kilim wrote: On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 08:44:35AM -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote: kilim wrote: I'm about to set up named under FreeBSD 5.4. BIND in FreeBSD 5.X is version 9, and is already set up "in a sandbox" (e.g., chrooted to /var/named). Hi, so I guess I just need t

Re: mail malady - dns/postfix

2005-08-31 Thread Jerod Prothe
Norberto Meijome wrote: Jerod, pls define 'local citizens'. My view of "local" is surely different to yours. Good question: local as in residents down the street in the same small town yup, # telnet otto.usd217.org 25 Trying 209.42.72.250... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Con

Re: mail malady - dns/postfix

2005-08-31 Thread Greg Barniskis
Jerod Prothe wrote: Greetings all, On my network, we used to have some NT box acting as the mail exchanger and a faulty dns for our domain. That box has nearly crumbled. It's still active, but no longer accepting mail. I set up a computer (called galley) with 5.4 and it is (supposedly) runn

Re: mail malady - dns/postfix

2005-08-31 Thread Jerod Prothe
Greg Barniskis wrote: Jerod Prothe wrote: Greetings all, On my network, we used to have some NT box acting as the mail exchanger and a faulty dns for our domain. That box has nearly crumbled. It's still active, but no longer accepting mail. I set up a computer (called galley) with 5.4 a

Re: mail malady - dns/postfix

2005-08-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
Jerod Prothe wrote: Norberto Meijome wrote: Jerod, pls define 'local citizens'. My view of "local" is surely different to yours. Good question: local as in residents down the street in the same small town :) it's not so much an issue of "physical" proximity but network , which isps,e

Re: mail malady - dns/postfix

2005-08-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
Jerod Prothe wrote: CNAME to galley? That's a good idea. this will only affect those who have an updated record of your zone and can see that new record. For those that still think that MX is otto on it's real(old) IP, the CNAME wont help them a bit. Assigning otto's public IP to galle

Re: portsnap and updates using cron

2005-08-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
martin hudec wrote: Hello, On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 08:54:31AM -0500 or thereabouts, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Not sure. Check the logs, etc. If you're familiar with ktrace, kdump, etc., you could follow the program's progress if you find no log information. /var/log/cron reports me that cronj

Re: How to get /etc/ssh back

2005-08-31 Thread Sean P. Malone
Thanks! I installed openssh-portable and that worked. I did have to create symlinks from /etc/ssh to /usr/local/etc/ssh and /usr/sbin/sshd to /usr/local/sbin/sshd. In my case, the sshd_program line in /etc/rc.conf didn't force the system to use the portable sshd as opposed to the base. Thus,

Re: 3ware raid disks requiring fsck ing,

2005-08-31 Thread Gerald de la Pascua
> I have started getting failures on a freebsd 4.x machine running 3ware > card, the machine had been crashing from time to time, and it crashed and > would not reboot saying noufs. > Replacing the 3ware card ( a 7002 I think, the older 2 port ones) with a > 7006 fixed this issue, but since t

Re: mail malady - dns/postfix

2005-08-31 Thread Greg Barniskis
Norberto Meijome wrote: Jerod Prothe wrote: CNAME to galley? That's a good idea. this will only affect those who have an updated record of your zone and can see that new record. For those that still think that MX is otto on it's real(old) IP, the CNAME wont help them a bit. Assigning otto

Re: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem

2005-08-31 Thread Robert Slade
On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 00:21, Vizion wrote: > On Tuesday 30 August 2005 13:31, the author Robert Slade contributed to the > dialogue on- > Re: Proliant 5000 sever Fbsd 5.4 (re)boot problem: > > >On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 21:20, Vizion wrote: > >> On Tuesday 30 August 2005 13:22, the author Robert

Re: portsnap and updates using cron

2005-08-31 Thread Will Maier
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 04:08:46PM +0200, martin hudec wrote: > First, I tell my custom script (with environment set by PATH=) to > call portsnap fetch && portsnap update, but he is unable to fetch > anything at all, therefore I started to use portsnap cron and I > hoped to be able to fetch it. So

Re: Is there a way to connect to a Microsoft VPN?

2005-08-31 Thread Eric Schuele
WOB wrote: I use /usr/ports/net/pptpclient to connect to a MS VPN endpoint and /usr/ports/net/rdesktop to "Remote Desktop" to my XP machine at the office. Works great. This sounded like what I needed to do. When I run the pptp client, it doesn't appear to do anything. I did the followin

Re: mail malady - dns/postfix

2005-08-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
Jerod Prothe wrote: Norberto Meijome wrote: Jerod Prothe wrote: Norberto Meijome wrote: Jerod, pls define 'local citizens'. My view of "local" is surely different to yours. [...] Actually the ones complaining are the ones in the same domain as our ISP. Meaning, pld.com (the one and onl

Re: portsnap and updates using cron

2005-08-31 Thread martin hudec
Hello, On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 02:07:57AM +1000 or thereabouts, Norberto Meijome wrote: > man ktrace > man kdump > > in a nutshell: ktrace shows the kernel calls that a process is > executing. It creates a dump file which you can view with kdump. similar > (better actually) than strace and what

Re: portsnap and updates using cron

2005-08-31 Thread martin hudec
Hello, On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 11:28:03AM -0500 or thereabouts, Will Maier wrote: > So what happens when you run: > > # /usr/local/sbin/portsnap fetch > # /usr/local/sbin/portsnap update They are both running pretty well from command line. > on the command line? Your portsnap.conf

Pentium and GUI

2005-08-31 Thread Rick-Ashley Read
Howdy I am up against a wall trying to discern which LATEST version will run with a dual Pentium board, and allow a GUI interface. I am over my head studying for CCNP Certification exams. I have spent all the time I can budget for looking for this simple info. I have release 4.3

problem with email...

2005-08-31 Thread kdonathan
Hello, Thank you in advance for your help. My name is Karen Donathan and I am the Computer Science teacher at George Washington High School in Charleston, WV. (http://gwhs.kana.k12.wv.us). We have been running FreeBSD on our webserver for abuot 5 years. Over the summer, I recently began get

Re: mail malady - dns/postfix

2005-08-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
Greg Barniskis wrote: Hard to say, but as far as a management discussion goes, it is clear that this problem has really nothing to do with your selection of FreeBSD as DNS/mail host, and (barring better failsafe procedures like IP number migration) would have occurred regardless of the OS chos

RE: portsnap and updates using cron

2005-08-31 Thread Ruben Bloemgarten
Hi there, To run portsnap and/or freebsd update as a cron job use : #portsnap cron *NOT fetch Regards, Ruben -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of martin hudec Sent: August 31, 2005 6:30 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re:

Re: Mounting a RHLinux 7.1 partition

2005-08-31 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Isaac Grover wrote: Good morning everyone, Due to a hardware failure on my RHLinux 7.1 gateway, I have chosen to install FreeBSD 5.4 as my new gateway's operating system. The hard drive didn't die fortunately, as I did test it on another system to make sure it booted, and aside from kudzu comp

Re: portsnap and updates using cron

2005-08-31 Thread Will Maier
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 06:32:17PM +0200, martin hudec wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 11:28:03AM -0500 or thereabouts, Will Maier wrote: > > So what happens when you run: > > # /usr/local/sbin/portsnap fetch > > # /usr/local/sbin/portsnap update > They are both running pretty well from

Re: Problem when making index in /usr/ports

2005-08-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
bsd wrote: Hello, root:newmail 12:16 /usr/ports # make index Generating INDEX-5 - please wait..p5-Unicode-MapUTF8-1.09: "/usr/ ports/japanese/p5-Jcode" non-existent -- dependency list incomplete ===> converters/p5-Unicode-MapUTF8 failed *** Error code 1 1 error

mount_msdosfs gives read-only error

2005-08-31 Thread Ronald Klop
Hello, I'm running 6.0-BETA3 and this is happening on all my floppies. # fdformat /dev/fd0 fdformat: open(/dev/fd0): Read-only file system # ls -l /dev/fd0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root operator 14, 103 Aug 31 13:14 /dev/fd0 (It was chmod 660 first and I changed it to 666 without benefit.) I'm runnin

Re: 3ware raid disks requiring fsck ing,

2005-08-31 Thread Sean Hafeez
Try memtestx86. Bad RAM could also cause the issues. Also look at the IDE cables. 2 bad cards would not be normal. On Aug 31, 2005, at 9:19 AM, Gerald de la Pascua wrote: I have started getting failures on a freebsd 4.x machine running 3ware card, the machine had been crashing from time to

Re: Pentium and GUI

2005-08-31 Thread Sean Hafeez
Not sure you are going to SMP on this board under FreeBSD. I would try NetBSD or Linux. On Aug 31, 2005, at 9:35 AM, Rick-Ashley Read wrote: Howdy I am up against a wall trying to discern which LATEST version will run with a dual Pentium board, and allow a GUI interface. I a

Re: Logo Contest Update?

2005-08-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 04:57:31AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > >-Original Message- > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kris Kennaway > >Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 1:54 AM > >To: Josh Ockert > >Cc: Pratt, Benjamin E.; FreeBSD-Questions; Ted Mitt

Re: problem with email...

2005-08-31 Thread Noel Jones
On 8/31/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Thank you in advance for your help. My name is Karen Donathan and I am the > Computer Science teacher at George Washington High School in Charleston, WV. > (http://gwhs.kana.k12.wv.us). We have been running FreeBSD on our w

Re: Pentium and GUI

2005-08-31 Thread Charles Swiger
On Aug 31, 2005, at 12:35 PM, Rick-Ashley Read wrote: I am up against a wall trying to discern which LATEST version will run with a dual Pentium board, and allow a GUI interface. Running a GUI interface desires 64MB of RAM or more, but is independent of the type of CPUs you have.

Re: problem with email...

2005-08-31 Thread Will Maier
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 12:40:18PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Over the summer, I recently began getting "fake" email messages > from [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], > [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED], etc. etc. etc. The subject > line is always something like "YOUR ACCOUNT IS SUSP

Re: problem with email...

2005-08-31 Thread Charles Swiger
On Aug 31, 2005, at 12:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Over the summer, I recently began getting "fake" email messages from [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED], etc. etc. etc. The subject line is always something like "YOUR ACCOUNT IS SUSPENDED", "Y

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 110, Issue 10

2005-08-31 Thread Simon Hewitt
All I can say is download PureFTPd (www.pureftpd.org) and compile with the following switch --with-puredb (from the main documentation). Install and then follow the directions for setting up virtual users (http://www.pureftpd.org/README.Virtual-Users) . Create your users and start the server

Re: Logo Contest Update?

2005-08-31 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 08/31/05 12:59 PM, Kris Kennaway sat at the `puter and typed: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 04:57:31AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > > > > >-Original Message- > > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kris Kennaway > > >Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 1:

Re: Logo Contest Update?

2005-08-31 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 8/31/05, Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > LOL. You guys are brutal. I'm glad I decided to stay out of this > thread. Sorta. :) Me too. Especially after I found out who's actually inside the OpenBSD fish/logo: http://www.openbsd.org/27.html :-))) -- Dmitry Mityugov, St. Peter

Re: Command to trace a route?

2005-08-31 Thread John Oxley
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:28:26PM -0500, Kelly D. Grills wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 04:50:43PM -0500, Efren Bravo wrote: > > Hi, > > > > What's the name of the command to trace a route to a host, on windows > > is tracert. > > > > Thanks > > > > As others have pointed out it

Re: Command to trace a route?

2005-08-31 Thread Charles Swiger
On Aug 31, 2005, at 1:43 PM, John Oxley wrote: As others have pointed out it's traceroute. apropos may help the next time you're looking for a command: Slightly OT, but tcptraceroute is also very useful: Info: A traceroute implementation using TCP packets "traceroute -P tcp"...? :-) The m

Re: Logo Contest Update?

2005-08-31 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 08/31/05 09:41 PM, Dmitry Mityugov sat at the `puter and typed: > On 8/31/05, Louis LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > > LOL. You guys are brutal. I'm glad I decided to stay out of this > > thread. Sorta. :) > > Me too. Especially after I found out who's actually inside the OpenBSD >

Doing a modulo in /bin/sh??

2005-08-31 Thread Gary Kline
I can grab the results of "w=$date+%U)"; in C an use the modulo operator; is there a way to do this is /bin/sh? ot zsh? tia, guys, gary #/bin/sh w=$(date +%U) echo "w is $w"; (even=$(w % 2 )); ## flubs. echo "even is $even"; ## flubs. if [ $even -eq

Re: Doing a modulo in /bin/sh??

2005-08-31 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I can grab the results of "w=$date+%U)"; in C an use the modulo operator; is there a way to do this is /bin/sh? ot zsh? tia, guys, gary #/bin/sh w=$(date +%U) echo "w is $w"; (even=$(w % 2 )); ## flubs. echo "even is $even"; ## flubs. if [ $even -eq

Re: problem with email...

2005-08-31 Thread Ed Stover
On Wed, August 31, 2005 10:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > Thank you in advance for your help. My name is Karen Donathan and I am > the Computer Science teacher at George Washington High School in > Charleston, WV. (http://gwhs.kana.k12.wv.us). We have been running > FreeBSD on our

Re: Doing a modulo in /bin/sh??

2005-08-31 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 11:18:57AM -0700, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > > I can grab the results of "w=$date+%U)"; in C an use the modulo > > operator; is there a way to do this is /bin/sh? ot zsh? > > > > tia, guys, > > > > gary > > > >#/bin/sh > >w=$(date +%U) > >echo "w is $w"; > >(

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