FreeBSD 6.0 - install critiques - install issues

OK...I've been running FreeBSD since 4.0...and I've always noticed "installation" issues here and there. Mostly though, I've always been good to go after a good dry run (which I always recommend to everyone I recommend FreeBSD to) and usually on a 2nd run all the options are fine. I've pretty

NIC ON FREEBSD 6.0

HOW DO i GET MY NIC CARD TO WORK ON MY LAPTOP USING FREEBSD ? THX MICHAEL PAQUETTE [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTE

Where are the config files stored?

Hello I'm posting here coz I got this problem since a while and it's very disturbing. I install a soft like postfix for example and I cant find the sample config files which normally comes with the packages. Under linux the sample are stored either in there right place (i.e. /etc/postfix/main.cf) o

Setting up a microphone

Hello, I'd like to try recording through the microphone both for skype and for general audio recording but can't figure out how to get sound out of the microphone. The Handbook's "7.2.2 Testing the Sound Card" section is a great set of simple instructions for testing of playback (cat /dev/s

Re: Where are the config files stored?

> I install a soft like postfix for example and I cant find the sample > config files which normally comes with the packages. Under linux the Depending how you installed the soft. If it is through the ports, samples usually go into /usr/local/etc Olivier __

Re: Where are the config files stored?

On 1/24/06, Guillaume R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Hallo, > I install a soft like postfix for example and I cant find the sample > config files which normally comes with the packages. Under linux the > sample are stored either in there right place (i.e. > /etc/postfix/main.cf) or in /usr

gunzip : invalid compressed data

Hi, I have recently downloaded a .tgz file to an m.s XP machine then ftp'd it to my BSD laptop. When I try to open the file with tar or gunzip, I get the following; file.tgz : invalid compressed data--format violated. Is this due to the file being transfered from a NTFS? Pls cc me if you can he

Re: NIC ON FREEBSD 6.0

HOW DO I MAKE MY GIRLFRIEND GIVE ME MORE TIME TO BE AT THE COMPUTER? THX DANIEL A. A. LDRADA[AT]GMAIL.COM On 1/24/06, michael paquette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HOW DO i GET MY NIC CARD TO WORK ON MY LAPTOP USING FREEBSD ? > > THX MICHAEL PAQUETTE > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: Port forwarding.

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 06:41:27AM +0100, Daniel A. wrote: > sis0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > options=8 > inet6 fe80::20a:e6ff:fe53:fc1e%sis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 > inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 > ether 00:0a:e6:53:fc:1e > media:

Re: Port forwarding.

Ah, thanks a lot! It finally works! *Does a happy dance* All the other guides to ipfilter / ipnat only listed changes to ONE of the files (either ipf.rules or ipnat.rules), and never mentioned putting the changes before mapping, even though they did cover that topic. On 1/24/06, Igor Robul <[EMA

Dell DRAC Questions

David Dean wrote: As I understand it, the DRAC has a seperate IP, which you can connect to and issue commands through some kind of web interface - is that entirely wrong? I'm wondering if you can shed some light on what you actually GET out of a DRAC card in terms of functionality on FreeBSD?

Messed up CUPS configuration

Dear list, I'm currently switching to FreeBSD. Most things are going very well but every now and then I hit something which I can't solve on my own. I had managed to configure CUPS correctly and print with it but - if I'm correct this is the thing to do if you want to use modern printers ra

Re: Where are the config files stored?

Check /usr/local/etc > Hello > I'm posting here coz I got this problem since a while and it's very > disturbing. > I install a soft like postfix for example and I cant find the sample > config files which normally comes with the packages. Under linux the > sample are stored either in there right

Broadcomm BCM4401-B0 and memory upgrade issue.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, After the memory upgrade on my Laptop (HP nx5000) FreeBSD 6.0 stable, the driver for NIC bfe0 (Broadcom BCM4401-B0) stops working. The NIC LED lights are on. The bfe0 interface is up and active. However, I got a permanent message on the console

Broadcom BCM4401-B0 and memory upgrade issue.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, After the memory upgrade on my Laptop (HP nx5000) FreeBSD 6.0 stable, the driver for NIC bfe0 (Broadcom BCM4401-B0) stops working. The NIC LED lights are on. The bfe0 interface is up and active. However, I got a permanent message on the console

Problems with pgsql 8.0.4 & freebsd 6: partially solved

I have been using a postgresql 8.0.4 server under freebsd 5.4 like a charm for a long time . Yesterday, I upgraded freebsd from 5.4 to 6 via the CD (the iso was downloaded from ftp.freebsd.org). Restating postgresql it happened: # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/010.pgsql.sh start --: not found FATAL: X

smbclient failure

I have posted this on the SAMBA forum, but without results. Perhaps someone here can assist me. I am networking three WinXP Pro machines with one FreeBSD 5.4 PC. The network seems to work correctly; however, I am still unable to get the following command to work correctly. The x's replace the corr

Re: Post-Install update steps?

Is there a way to tell which are available as packages? I would have guessed gqview would have been, but apparently it is not. I'm also not certain I am doing the commands right, though I was able to install subversion successfully via packages. thanks! On 1/24/06, Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: NIC ON FREEBSD 6.0

michael paquette wrote: HOW DO i GET MY NIC CARD TO WORK ON MY LAPTOP USING FREEBSD ? Why don't you tell us what the NIC actually is? And please STOP SHOUTING. --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: NIC ON FREEBSD 6.0

Alex Zbyslaw wrote: michael paquette wrote: HOW DO i GET MY NIC CARD TO WORK ON MY LAPTOP USING FREEBSD ? Why don't you tell us what the NIC actually is? And please STOP SHOUTING. And consider http://www.freebsd.org and the documentation listed there. Tom Veldhouse __

Blogin software recoendations

I would like to set up a internal bloging system at work for people to use as a sort of "daily journal". I want to host this on FreeBSD, preferably by using something that;s in the ports tree. I've installed and got working wordpress, but it doesn't seem to have the ability to allow me to define i

Re: Dell DRAC Questions

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 11:24:55AM +, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > I help run two Dell 2850s, both several hundred miles from me, both with > DRACs. > > The DRACs do indeed have a separate IP and you can connect to them > either through a Web interface or via SSH (but you might need to upgrade > t

FreeBSD 6.0 and PX-716SA

I tried to install FreeBSD 6.0 on my system last night and couldn't finish the install. The system has a SATA hard drive and SATA DVD drive. I started the install and it let me create partitions and format the drives fine, but when I got to the part where it asked for installation media, it would r

Re: install help? make: don't know how to make package-depends-list. Stop

Joseph Vella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried to install bluefish. I might have made a mess. Apparently, but you can always clean up with pkg_delete(8). That's one of the good things about sticking with the ports system. > I first downloaded the package from the freebsd ftp site. I did p

Re: Dell DRAC Questions

Ken Stevenson wrote: What software did you have to install (if any) on the 2850's in order to use the serial console? I have a couple 2650's with DRAC's, and I can connect to the Web interface on the DRAC port, but the serial console never connects. None. For me they just worked out of the

Re: understanding virtual memory

On 23/01/06 Lowell Gilbert said: > "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sysctl -a | grep Memory > > Virtual Memory: (Total: 724K, Active 545156K) > > Real Memory:(Total: 232508K Active 124272K) > > Shared Virtual Memory: (Total: 24684K

Re: Post-Install update steps?

On 1/24/06, Xn Nooby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a way to tell which are available as packages? I would have > guessed gqview would have been, but apparently it is not. I'm also not > certain I am doing the commands right, though I was able to install > subversion successfully via pac

Re: Subversion Port

Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-01-23 14:39, "K. Workman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-01-23 14:09, "K. Workman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: subversion/svnversion/svnversion . /repos/svn/trunk > /usr/local/inclu

VPN / Bridge

Hello, I've been trying to create a tunnel/bridge between two networks which both reside behind a FreeBSD router using NAT. I've achieved it using the handbook example in chapter 14.10. Clients on network A are able to ping clients on network B and clients on network A are able to map sam

azureus core dumps

hi after upgrading linux_base and xorg-server azureus won't work anymore,i tried to reinstall all including java but no help.this is the log what azureus prints out after crashing,any help?thanks! An unexpected exception has been detected in native code outside the VM. Unexpected Signal : 11 o

Re: Setting up a microphone

Keith Beattie wrote: Hello, I'd like to try recording through the microphone both for skype and for general audio recording but can't figure out how to get sound out of the microphone. The Handbook's "7.2.2 Testing the Sound Card" section is a great set of simple instructions for testing o

Re: [GENERAL] Problems with pgsql 8.0.4 & freebsd 6: partially solved

Vittorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FATAL: XX000: failed to initialize lc_messages to "" > LOCATION: InitializeGUCOptions, guc.c:3699 We've seen that reported before, on more than one platform (I recall hearing about it on OS X, for instance). But no one's ever been able to explain what caus

Application

In FreeBSD, are it that commercial softwares such as Oracle, VeritasVCS, and LifeKeeper are fewer than that of Linux why? -- GANBARE! NIPPON! Yahoo! JAPAN JOC OFFICIAL INTERNET PORTAL SITE PARTNER http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/ganbare-nippon/ _

upgrading apache+modssl

I am having problems upgrading from apache+mod_ssl-1.3.34+2.8.25 to apache+mod_ssl-1.3.34+2.8.25_2 First I tried using this portupgrade -R apache+mod_ssl-1.3.34+2.8.25 which gives me this error; ===> Applying FreeBSD patches for apache+mod_ssl-1.3.34+2.8.25_1 /usr/bin/perl: not found *** Er

Re: understanding virtual memory

"Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 23/01/06 Lowell Gilbert said: > > > "Michael P. Soulier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ sysctl -a | grep Memory > > > Virtual Memory: (Total: 724K, Active 545156K) > > > Real Memory:(Total: 232

Re: Submit a bug for broken PicoBSD Dummynet/bridge?

On 23 Jan 2006, at 21:27, Tyler T wrote: I posted about this earlier but no replies. Since then I wiped my hard drive and reinstalled FreeBSD 6 from scratch. I still get this error when trying to make a PicoBSD Dummynet bridge floppy http://i1.tinypic.com/mhwvux.gif Should I go ahead and subm

I still obtain error when compile /usr/ports/math/scilab

Hello! Thank you for previous help :-) ! I upgrade my port tree (cvsup) and all instaled ports (portupgrade -a) and still is problem with compiling /usr/ports/math/scilab. Especially with port: /usr/ports/textproc/sablotron. Could someone help me with this issue. I want to use scilab for my

Sharing internet connection, how?

Hello! I have two ethernet cards on my computer. The first is rl0 - with the adrress from my ISP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (DSL 1M), and the second is vr0 - with the address 192.168.1.1. I want to use my computer as gateway to internet for the other computers in my home. How I can sharing internet conne

Re: Submit a bug for broken PicoBSD Dummynet/bridge?

> > I still get this error > > when trying to make a PicoBSD Dummynet bridge floppy > > > > http://i1.tinypic.com/mhwvux.gif > That depends if you rolled your own crunchgen configuration or not. > Are you following a standard document to do this? Thanks for the reply!! I'm using http://people.fr

Re: VPN / Bridge

Bob Kersten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been trying to create a tunnel/bridge between two networks > which both reside behind a FreeBSD router using NAT. I've achieved it > using the handbook example in chapter 14.10. Clients on network A are > able to ping clients on network B and clients o

Re: Post-Install update steps?

Xn Nooby wrote: Is there a way to tell which are available as packages? I would have guessed gqview would have been, but apparently it is not. I'm also not certain I am doing the commands right, though I was able to install subversion successfully via packages. You can look at /usr/ports/LEGA

Re: Blogin software recoendations

stan wrote: I want to host this on FreeBSD, preferably by using something that;s in the ports tree. I've installed and got working wordpress, but it doesn't seem to have the ability to allow me to define individual blogs for each person, which is what I need. I'd like for each persons blog to hav

Re: Submit a bug for broken PicoBSD Dummynet/bridge?

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 09:24:00AM -0700, Tyler T wrote: > > > I still get this error > > > when trying to make a PicoBSD Dummynet bridge floppy > > > > > > http://i1.tinypic.com/mhwvux.gif > > > That depends if you rolled your own crunchgen configuration or not. > > Are you following a standard d

Re: Sharing internet connection, how?

On Tuesday 24 January 2006 18:19, cblasius pondered: > Hello! > > I have two ethernet cards on my computer. The first is rl0 - with > the adrress from my ISP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (DSL 1M), and the second is vr0 > - with the address 192.168.1.1. > > I want to use my computer as gateway to internet for th

RE: Sharing internet connection, how?

What you want to do is covered step by step in the install guide at www.a1poweruser.com or at http://www.unixguide.net/freebsd/fbsd_installguide/index.php good luck -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of cblasius Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Re: Application

beckey wrote: >In FreeBSD, are it that commercial softwares such as Oracle, >VeritasVCS, and LifeKeeper are fewer than that of Linux why? > > >-- >GANBARE! NIPPON! >Yahoo! JAPAN JOC OFFICIAL INTERNET PORTAL SITE PARTNER >http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/ganbare-nippon

Re: How to tell if IPF is running?

"jdow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Which tool would be able to do this sort of thing best and how might it > have been done. PF has most of the bits you need built in, see eg http://www.bgnett.no/~peter/pf/en/bruteforce.html (part of a PF tutorial). For weeding out old table entries, you mig

Re: Submit a bug for broken PicoBSD Dummynet/bridge?

> > > > I still get this error > > > > when trying to make a PicoBSD Dummynet bridge floppy > > > > http://i1.tinypic.com/mhwvux.gif > > > > > Are you following a standard document to do this? > > > > Thanks for the reply!! I'm using > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/picobsd/doc/how2build.

Re: Blogin software recoendations

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 11:40:18AM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > stan wrote: > >I want to host this on FreeBSD, preferably by using something that;s in the > >ports tree. I've installed and got working wordpress, but it doesn't seem > >to have the ability to allow me to define individual blogs for e

Re: Sharing internet connection, how?

cblasius wrote: Hello! I have two ethernet cards on my computer. The first is rl0 - with the adrress from my ISP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (DSL 1M), and the second is vr0 - with the address 192.168.1.1. I want to use my computer as gateway to internet for the other computers in my home. How I can shar

Why did symlinks fix libgmodule-2.0.so.600 not found error?

I tried to install firefox from ports. It didn't work, and after that kscd (a KDE cd player) stopped working. Kscd would complain libgmodule-2.0.so.600 not found. Some searching led me to creating sysmlinks from libmodule-2.0.so.0 to it. Then kscd complained about libgthread-2.0.so.600. Aft

Re: Blogin software recoendations

stan wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 11:40:18AM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: stan wrote: I want to host this on FreeBSD, preferably by using something that;s in the ports tree. I've installed and got working wordpress, but it doesn't seem to have the ability to allow me to define individual blog

Re: Blogin software recoendations

stan wrote: On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 11:40:18AM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: stan wrote: I want to host this on FreeBSD, preferably by using something that;s in the ports tree. I've installed and got working wordpress, but it doesn't seem to have the ability to allow me to define individual blogs

Re: gunzip : invalid compressed data

[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have recently downloaded a .tgz file to an m.s XP machine then ftp'd it to > my BSD laptop. When I try to open the file with tar or gunzip, I get the > following; > file.tgz : invalid compressed data--format violated. Is this due to the file > being transfered fro

Re: Setting up a microphone

On 01/24/06 07:11, uidzero wrote: It's worked flawlessly for me after I add recompiled the kernel with sound support. (I use Skype as well.) Thanks and glad to hear that Skype is working. Listening to music, etc. works just fine for me too, it's how to get input from the mic which I'm stuc

courier-imap and different logging in jail

Hi, I installed courier-imap 4.0.6 in a jail recently and it's logging to /var/log/maillog as 'couriertcpd'. That means I cannot use "!pop3d" and "!imapd" in syslog.conf to redirect those logs to another file. Strange enough this isn't how it works in other servers that aren't using jails.

What'a a stale dependancy and how to fix?

"portupgrade -a" told me to do "pkgdb -F". "pkgdb -F" asked me what to do with stale dependancies and I didn't know what to do. What should I do? Most of these are the same items that my attempts at a firefox install hangs up at. Below is the dialog: Prajipati-FreeBSD# portupgrade -a [Rebuil

Re: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE apache13-modssl signal 11s

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:38:56 +0200 Omer Faruk Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed apache13-modssl 1.3.34+2.8.25_2 to my FreeBSD > 6.0-RELEASE. But when I try to start server using -DSSL I get signal > 11s. But when I disable mod_ssl httpd works fine. Does anybody lived > something l

Debian apt-get / FreeBSD ports

Hello, I come from a Debian background, i normally 'apt-get update' the list of the packages that apt-get mirrors serve before 'apt-get install'ing any package. Is there anything like that while using FreeBSD ports? If no, How does ports know what are the versions of the latest packages? thanks, S

FBSD5 and FBSD6 aren't too keen on the SFU/AD NIS server

My current situation is that I have a Solaris based NIS server and various client machines, including FreeBSD. A production FreeBSD 5 machine and a test FreeBSD 6 machine work just fine with it, except for a small glitch on the FreeBSD 6 machine: >speyburn# ypwhich >panther.internal.local >speybu

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 - install critiques - install issues

But now I've installed 6.0 for the first time on a machine that I plan on making a production box, and I've still noticed some of the installation "oddities." I've noticed zero oddities, if you're prepared as recommended in the Handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbo

Debian apt-get / FreeBSD ports

Hello, I come from a Debian background, i normally 'apt-get update' the list of the packages that apt-get mirrors serve before 'apt-get install'ing any package. Is there anything like that while using FreeBSD ports? If no, How does ports know what are the versions of the latest packages? thanks, S

Re: Blogin software recoendations

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 12:22:00PM -0500, DAve wrote: > stan wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 11:40:18AM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: > > > >>stan wrote: > >> > >>>I want to host this on FreeBSD, preferably by using something that;s in > >>>the > >>>ports tree. I've installed and got working wordpr

Re: Debian apt-get / FreeBSD ports

At Tue, 24 Jan 2006 it looks like [EMAIL PROTECTED] composed: > Hello, > I come from a Debian background, i normally 'apt-get update' the list of > the packages that apt-get mirrors serve before 'apt-get install'ing any > package. Is there anything like that while using FreeBSD ports? If no, > How

Re: Debian apt-get / FreeBSD ports

The traditional way is to use CVSup, but I prefer portsnap. -David On 1/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > I come from a De

Re: Debian apt-get / FreeBSD ports

hi, just use cvsup frequently to update your ports tree ;) by this, u can get latest packages on ports. regards, bye. [ps: i use debian + freebsd. apt-get is my favourite :)] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Debian apt-get / FreeBSD ports

Hello, I come from a Debian background, i normally 'apt-get update' the list of the packages that apt-get mirrors serve before 'apt-get install'ing any package. Is there anything like that while using FreeBSD ports? If no, How does ports know what are the versions of the latest packages? Welc

Re: Debian apt-get / FreeBSD ports

> I come from a Debian background, i normally 'apt-get update' the list of > the packages that apt-get mirrors serve before 'apt-get install'ing any > package. Is there anything like that while using FreeBSD ports? If no, > How does ports know what are the versions of the latest packages? I have h

make index

After running CVSup, I've seen people build their "index" via cd /usr/ports make index # wait a frickin' long time What is the index, and does it really require rebuilding after each CVSup? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and

Re: Sharing internet connection, how?

I have two ethernet cards on my computer. The first is rl0 - with the adrress from my ISP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (DSL 1M), and the second is vr0 - with the address 192.168.1.1. I want to use my computer as gateway to internet for the other computers in my home. How I can sharing internet connection on

Re: make index

After running CVSup, I've seen people build their "index" via cd /usr/ports make index # wait a frickin' long time What is the index, and does it really require rebuilding after each CVSup? It's the index that's used to determine if installed ports are up to date. And yes, it takes a frickin

Re: make index

Michael P. Soulier wrote: > After running CVSup, I've seen people build their "index" via > > cd /usr/ports > make index > # wait a frickin' long time > > What is the index, and does it really require rebuilding after each CVSup? The index is a list of all of the ports, what each port depends on

Re: Problems with pgsql 8.0.4 & freebsd 6: partially solved

On Jan 24, 2006, at 7:47 AM, Vittorio wrote: Yesterday, I upgraded freebsd from 5.4 to 6 via the CD (the iso was downloaded from ftp.freebsd.org). I've done this many times with no problems. However. You serve yourself very well by recompiling all your ports or reinstalling the packag

auth.log & intruder prevention

Hi Everyone, In auth.log of my FreeBSD boxes I got many requests to port 22, as you can see below. begin of snippet Jan 22 11:21:50 zeus sshd[92900]: Failed password for illegal user cracking from 65.208.188.105 port 58344 ssh2 Jan 22 11:21:53 zeus sshd[92902]: Failed password for illegal user

Re: How to tell if IPF is running?

Ack, it looks like it would limp through doing the simple job wanted. The good news is that I can make it work. The bad news is that it's apparently so much simpler with the Linux iptables facilities. I can see I have a bunch of reading to do before setting up to replace the firewall machine. Tha

Re: Debian apt-get / FreeBSD ports

Thanks to everybody, i'll check it out -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Begin Message --- The traditional way is to use CVSup, but I prefer portsnap.

Is A Sound Card Required For Music Player Daemon?

I am running FBSD 6.0 on a headless system with no sound card. What I had hoped to do was get Music Player Daemon running on this box and then send it's output to Icecast2. The actual "sound" would be generated by other devices with sound cards. But in looking over the mpd.conf file, it appe

Re: Broadcomm BCM4401-B0 and memory upgrade issue.

On Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 13:05:16 +0100, "Mykhailo Lyubich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > After the memory upgrade on my Laptop (HP nx5000) FreeBSD 6.0 stable, > the driver for NIC bfe0 (Broadcom BCM4401-B0) stops working. The NIC LED > lights are on. The bfe0 interface is up and active. Howev

Re: Broadcomm BCM4401-B0 and memory upgrade issue.

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 03:12:17PM -0600, Mark Tinguely wrote: > Have you tried to boot with the old contigmalloc using the sysctl > option "vm.old_contigmalloc=1"? Yes. This makes an enormous difference in boot up times. With vm.old_contigmalloc=1, fxp0 probes within a few seconds. Without it, f

shell scripting question (mdconfig device choosing)

Hello, When I mdconfig a device and _do not_ specify a particular numbered md device (with the -u flag), it just chooses an unused device number for me. Which makes me happy. Unfortunately, mdconfig chooses the next available device, from the highest device currently in use, regardless of wheth

Re: shell scripting question (mdconfig device choosing)

Ensel Sharon wrote: and I know how to use awk to strip away the leading "md" from each piece of the output ... but I do not know how to take output like: 8 9 11 14 and decide that the lowest available number is "0". How can I do this ? % echo '9 8 11 14' | sort -nt ' ' | head -1 8 -- -Chuck

Re: make index

On Tuesday 24 January 2006 11:19, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Michael P. Soulier wrote: > > After running CVSup, I've seen people build their "index" via > > > > cd /usr/ports > > make index > > # wait a frickin' long time > > > > What is the index, and does it really require rebuilding after each > >

RE: auth.log & intruder prevention

We are talking about a few users and nobody has a permanent IP. -IS -Original Message- From: Dan O'Connor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Dienstag, 24. Januar 2006 22:29 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: auth.log & intruder prevention > I am wondering if any script is available to pr

Re: shell scripting question (mdconfig device choosing)

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Ensel Sharon wrote: > > and I know how to use awk to strip away the leading "md" from each piece > > of the output ... but I do not know how to take output like: > > > > 8 9 11 14 > > > > and decide that the lowest available number is "0". How can I

Re: Sound driver for Compaq Presario?

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 23:44:56 +0100 (CET) Andreas Davour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Considering what kind of memory for detail you have in these cases, > I bet that you remember correct and considering the name > "snd_atiixp" it wouldn't surprise me if that can solve the problem. > Time to le

Re: Sound driver for Compaq Presario?

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 11:44:56PM +0100, Andreas Davour wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jan 2006, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > >>The computer behaves as if there is no card there! If I didn't remember > >>hearing the Windows XP jolly sound when starting the computer I would be > >>tempted to think it broken. > >

Re: Setting up a microphone

mixer recsrc must be mic, do you have that? Dan On Tuesday 24 January 2006 17:35, Keith Beattie wrote: > On 01/24/06 07:11, uidzero wrote: > > It's worked flawlessly for me after I add recompiled the kernel with > > sound support. (I use Skype as well.) > > Thanks and glad to hear that Skype is w

Re: Dell DRAC Questions

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 02:32:32PM +, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Ken Stevenson wrote: > > >What software did you have to install (if any) on the 2850's in order to > >use the serial console? I have a couple 2650's with DRAC's, and I can > >connect to the Web interface on the DRAC port, but the seri

Re: make index

What version of FreeBSD are you using. It can make a difference as to which way want to you go. If you are using 6.0, you can use portsnap, which is so much faster than anything else, it's laughable. I only use cvsup for updating src. Don On Tuesday 24 January 2006 13:01, Michael P. Soulier

Re: auth.log & intruder prevention

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 10:02:26PM +0100, Ilias Sachpazidis wrote: > Hi Everyone, hello, > > In auth.log of my FreeBSD boxes I got many requests to port 22, as you can > see below. > begin of snippet > Jan 22 11:21:50 zeus sshd[92900]: Failed password for illegal user cracking > from 65.2

IPsec, VPN and FreeBSD

Hi: We intend to build IPSec based VPN server on FreeBSD platform so that we can access internal network of a lab. The remote side will use VPN client and could be from anywhere of the Internet, or may be from the another site of the company. From the hnadbook, I saw the sample of site-to-site con

RE: auth.log & intruder prevention

Thanks Daniel, I was about to develop a perl script. It, however, seems that bruteforceblocker does what I was looking for. Thanks again, Ilias -Original Message- From: Daniel Gerzo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mittwoch, 25. Januar 2006 00:58 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTEC

Your gs version doesn't have driver "hpdj"

I recently upgrade apsfilter and all support packages. On install, while attempting to configure for an older HP deskjet printer I get the apsfilter configuration error; Your gs version doesn't have driver "hpdj" While installing ghostscript-gnu, I noticed that -all- print drivers are selected f

inetd and security

Hello freebsd-questions, What better for security reasons? Inetd, xinetd, standalone? As sample -- vsftpd. As i know, inetd insecure and deprecated. But what better, xinetd or standalone? -- Best regards, Playnet mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __

samba: add mashine script and other

Hello freebsd-questions, Who have subj for LDAP? As i understand, i can use smbldap-tools. But which params? Who can give part of smb.conf with add... ? -- Best regards, Playnet mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions

Re: IPsec, VPN and FreeBSD

gahn wrote: Hi: We intend to build IPSec based VPN server on FreeBSD platform so that we can access internal network of a lab. The remote side will use VPN client and could be from anywhere of the Internet, or may be from the another site of the company. From the hnadbook, I saw the sample of s

ntop segfault

Hey people, So I built ntop, but it's dying on me. Tue Jan 24 20:34:51 2006 RRD: Created base directory (/var/db/ntop/rrd) Tue Jan 24 20:34:51 2006 RRD: Created directory (/var/db/ntop/rrd/graphics) Tue Jan 24 20:34:51 2006 RRD: Created directory (/var/db/ntop/rrd/flows) Tue Jan 24 20:34:51 2

Re: make index

On 24/01/06 Donald J. O'Neill said: > What version of FreeBSD are you using. It can make a difference as to > which way want to you go. If you are using 6.0, you can use portsnap, > which is so much faster than anything else, it's laughable. I only use > cvsup for updating src. At the moment I

thread hijacking, was: auth.log & intruder prevention

On 24/01/06 Ilias Sachpazidis said: > Hi Everyone, > > In auth.log of my FreeBSD boxes I got many requests to port 22, as you can > see below. It's considered poor mailing list ettiquette to hijack a thread. Please start a new post instead. Some of us are using threaded mail readers. Thanks, M

Re: IPsec, VPN and FreeBSD

Thanks Julian: Well, the another site is using a linux box for firewall. We have extra PCs available so we could build another FreeBSD box. That probably makes the VPN setup a lot easier between two sites. As to the roaming users, very unlikely there will be dial-up line, but those users could be

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