Re: disklabel messup.

On 3/11/06, Steve P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been reading up on how to "clone" a disk, so I can boot into a copy. > Seems like some say tar can do it, but I have seen a place that said to only > use dump. I tend to use pax, since it's a bit more straightforward* than tar for copying,

Re: "cg 0: bad magic number" (used to be Disappointed with version 6.0)

--- "Donald J. O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, I have narrowed down my problem a great deal. It appears that > > FreeBSD cannot read the partition table of my 300 GB Seagate > > Barracuda. My dos diagnostic utility works because it accesses the > > disk in a different way. > > > > I

Re: Re: GNOME & Gdk

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ gedit (gedit:50388): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 28 (No space left on device) or .. (gedit:23354): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 12 (Cannot allocate memory) df and ulimit? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ ulimit -a core file size (blocks, -c) unlimited da

Re: gmirror on a laptop.

On 3/11/06, Patrick Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > List; > > I wanted to fiddle around with gmirror(8) on a Dell C-600 Laptop. It has > a 2-slice, 20 Gig HD, and I essentially wanted to mirror ad0s1 to ad0s2. > I realize this will put the HD under stress, but otherwise it seems do-able. > > Wha

NIC BCM5751 not supported

Hi: I am installing FreeBSD in a IBM ThinkCentre 8136-KSQ, it has a network card Boradcom in the mother board. I see a chip with this numbers: Broadcom BCM5751FKFB HS0521 P21 744910 N Whit "dmesg | grep -i ethe" I got: pci2: at device 0.0 (no driver attached) With "pciconf -lv" I got: [EMAI

Re: Unable to build or update vcdimager

On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 08:29:36PM -0800 I heard the voice of Ade Lovett, and lo! it spake thus: > > Since libtool has precisely nothing to do with texinfo files, I'm > curious as to how you came to this co-incidental guess. libtool is > merely a wrapper around compiling and linking executable co

The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-02-19 - 2006-03-11

The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the maili

Re: "cg 0: bad magic number" (used to be Disappointed with version 6.0)

On Saturday 11 March 2006 21:08, you wrote: > Hi Donald. It's me again. I sent this to the list and saw I didn't > include you. > I haven't seen the one on the list yet, this one got here first. > . > > Ok, I have narrowed down my problem a great deal. It appears that > FreeBSD canno

Re: Unable to build or update vcdimager

On Mar 11, 2006, at 18:32 , Matthew D. Fuller wrote: My offhand guess (based on coincidence, not any knowledge that it actually is so) is that it's fallout from the recent libtool changes. Since libtool has precisely nothing to do with texinfo files, I'm curious as to how you came to this co

Re: dd - cloning a disk.

At 03:29 PM 3/11/2006, Joseph Vella wrote: On Saturday 11 March 2006 14:43, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > > Here is a simple (I think!) question for the I/O savy among you: > > > > If I had two identical disks, say, 73 GB Seagate 10K SCSIs, one completely > > operational fully setup FreeBSD with

Re: GNOME help PLEASE

On 3/11/06, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > while i'm not regular user of gnome, i have to configure it for users. > > the problem is how to make configuration template default for every new > user. > > i tried to copy whole or partial user directory to other users+chown but > no succe

Re: GNOME help PLEASE

As far as I know, this only works with a "normal" adduser.conf and using the adduser command or pw. Also, (with X11 programs especially) you'll have to edit all absolute paths in the config files to point to either relative, of if the app supports it, $HOME or ~/, so the programs won't attempt to

Re: dd - cloning a disk.

list sometime in the last 3-5 weeks. Giorgios Keramidas commented that "dd" was too slow for his tastes and dd is the fastest, but probably he used small block size. 64K is OK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

RE: Problem Installing FreeBSD 6.0, asking for help

> I believe you are saying that 5.2 is currently installed on > the hard drive and you want to do a fresh install from scratch of > 6.0. > > You have to change the pc bios setup to boot from the cd drive > instead of from the hard drive. > The pc will then boot from the 6.0 cd and install 6.0 destr

weird ports error

I get a weird error when i try to make, or use portmanager. it says that bsd.port.mk doesn't exist, and it doesn't. where can I get a copy of this file? -Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

pkgdb warning message

When running the following command: pkgdb -Fv, I receive the following message: Duplicated origin: devel/libtool15 - libtool-1.5.22_1 libtool-1.5.22_2 Unregister any of them? [no] I am unsure of what action to take, therefore I have chosen the default [no] one suggested. Would it be prudent to

Re: Unable to build or update vcdimager

Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 03:37:59PM +0900 I heard the voice of > > Norikatsu Shigemura, and lo! it spake thus: > > SEE ALSO: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=93916 > > I got a similar error from dirmngr. It seems like the program > installs its own INFO fil

PS/2 mouse problem

I experienced that same issue one time, and the problem was the mouse protocall chosen during X configuration. For me the problem was corrected by choosing "mouse systems" when re-running the X configuration. i.e. as root: xorgcfg -text mode Byron - WA4GEG ___

Re: Unable to build or update vcdimager

g for portmgr's approval. I'll commit with following message. Index: UPDATING === RCS file: /home/ncvs/ports/UPDATING,v retrieving revision 1.294 diff -u -r1.294 UPDATING --- UPDATING7 Mar 2006 18:50:37 - 1.294 +++ UPDATING12 Mar 2006 06:00:31 - @@ -6,6 +

Re: "cg 0: bad magic number" (used to be Disappointed with version 6.0)

On Saturday 11 March 2006 23:51, Peter wrote: > > Are you doing this through sysinstall or are you manually running > > fdisk > > and bsdlabel. > > Through sysinstall. Both disklabel and fdisk don't work. The former > gives "input/output error" and output to the latter I gave in my last > post.

Re: dd - cloning a disk.

On 3/12/06, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It is, with a few 'buts'. Firstly, the source should be mounted > > but may not - unless system is generally idle. fsck will be checking the > copy then, but with success. No matter what fsck says later, it's too dangerous. A FreeBSD s

PS/2 mouse problem

>When X system is loaded my mouse freezes on upper-right corner and> >when i try to move it then screen blinks. >What could be wrong? Oops, correction: >I experienced that same issue one time, and the problem was the >mouse protocall chosen during X configuration. For me the problem >was corr

Re: pkgdb warning message

On Sunday 12 March 2006 07:07, Gerard Seibert wrote: > When running the following command: pkgdb -Fv, I receive the > following message: > > Duplicated origin: devel/libtool15 - libtool-1.5.22_1 > libtool-1.5.22_2 Unregister any of them? [no] > > I am unsure of what action to take, therefore I have

Re: gmirror on a laptop.

Patrick Bowen wrote: > I wanted to fiddle around with gmirror(8) on a Dell C-600 Laptop. It has > a 2-slice, 20 Gig HD, and I essentially wanted to mirror ad0s1 to ad0s2. > I realize this will put the HD under stress, but otherwise it seems > do-able. > > What I want to know is whether this is suc

Re: weird ports error

On 3/12/06, Andrew Spott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I get a weird error when i try to make, or use portmanager. it says > that bsd.port.mk doesn't exist, and it doesn't. > > where can I get a copy of this file? # rm -rf /usr/ports && portsnap fetch && portsnap extract __

Re: pkgdb warning message

Gerard Seibert wrote: When running the following command: pkgdb -Fv, I receive the following message: Duplicated origin: devel/libtool15 - libtool-1.5.22_1 libtool-1.5.22_2 Unregister any of them? [no] I am unsure of what action to take, therefore I have chosen the default [no] one suggested.

Re: pkgdb warning message

Gerard Seibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When running the following command: pkgdb -Fv, I receive the following > message: > > Duplicated origin: devel/libtool15 - libtool-1.5.22_1 libtool-1.5.22_2 > Unregister any of them? [no] > > I am unsure of what action to take, therefore I have chose

Apache configuration for www/rt34 port?

I'm trying to implement the www/rt34 port on a machine that I already have wordpress, and a few other things running on. I'm using Apache 1.3 (from ports). I've run the db setup script and set up the .pm files corectly (I think). Then I put the follosing snippet of code in httpd.conf Ser

ERROR: version of config(8) does not match kernel

I've update my src directory, but keep getting the following error (see below). Yes I understand what it is saying, but how can I fix it?! I ran cvsup a couple of times, but it doesn't seem to help. # cat cvs-supfile *default host=cvsup3.nl.freebsd.org *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup *default

Re: dd - cloning a disk.

On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 16:53 +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > On 3/12/06, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > It is, with a few 'buts'. Firstly, the source should be mounted > > > > but may not - unless system is generally idle. fsck will be checking the > > copy then, but with s

Re: GNOME help PLEASE

On 3/12/06, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As far as I know, this only works with a "normal" adduser.conf and > > using the adduser command or pw. > > > > Also, (with X11 programs especially) you'll have to edit all absolute > > paths in the config files to point to either relative,

Re: ERROR: version of config(8) does not match kernel

Kiffin Gish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've update my src directory, but keep getting the following error > (see below). > > Yes I understand what it is saying, but how can I fix it?! I ran > cvsup a couple of times, but it doesn't seem to help. > > # cat cvs-supfile > *default host=cvsup3.nl.

Re: dd - cloning a disk.

On 3/12/06, Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have done this 'safely', by booting Knoppix, and using dd to copy the > disk in the knowledge that all the UFS filesystems are closed and clean. > Use a large blocksize; you can go a lot bigger than 64K. Single-user mode is more than enough and

Re: Apache configuration for www/rt34 port?

stan wrote: > I'm trying to implement the www/rt34 port on a machine that I already have > wordpress, and a few other things running on. > > I'm using Apache 1.3 (from ports). I've run the db setup script and set up > the .pm files corectly (I think). Then I put the follosing snippet of code > i

Re: Natd with Multiple DSL Connections

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 How about interface bonding/aggregation ? Check ng_fec(4) for details. Hope this helps, Nagilum. Ramiz Sardar wrote: > Dears, I am using freebsd machine in office as a gateway and using > ipfw+natd for internet sharing. I have two dsl connection

Re: Authentication with auto replication

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > > I have a system that needs user authentication. > > Right now I am using NIS to share the users password between all > the machines that need it: one machine is the primary server, > others clients are also running

Re: Unable to build or update vcdimager

On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 10:51:32PM +0900 I heard the voice of Norikatsu Shigemura, and lo! it spake thus: > > + to the latest versions. Please remove the following entries > + manually from $PREFIX/info/dir before upgrading them to > + vcdimager-0.7.23_2 (and later) and dirmngr-0.9.3_2 (and lat

Missing Disk Space?

I was just wondering if anyone could tell me why I am missing so much space on my /home partition(approx 15G). Thanks for your time, I appreciate it. Freesbie $ uname -a FreeBSD alexander.rmnanetworks.com 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Mar 12 05:47:59 MST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/u

Anyone seen this scsi error before ?

Recently swapped out my Sony for a HP DAT and got this first time in dmesg (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): PREVENT ALLOW MEDIUM REMOVAL. CDB: 1e 0 0 0 0 0 (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0 (sa0:ahc0:0:6:0): N

Re: Missing Disk Space?

On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 12:33:22PM -0700, Freesbie wrote: > I was just wondering if anyone could tell me why I am missing so much space > on my /home partition(approx 15G). > > Thanks for your time, I appreciate it. > > Freesbie > > $ uname -a > FreeBSD alexander.rmnanetworks.com 6.0-RELEASE Fr

FreeBSD 6.0 - SMP Generic Kernels via freebsd-update

Hello, I am trying to confirm whether or not Generic SMP kernels for FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE are offered via freebsd-update, as they were with 5.3-RELEASE, 5.4-RELEASE, etc. Basically does the procedure described at the URL below work for the 6.0-RELEASE? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-sec

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 - SMP Generic Kernels via freebsd-update

Kenneth Bond wrote: > I am trying to confirm whether or not Generic SMP kernels for > FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE are offered via freebsd-update, as they > were with 5.3-RELEASE, 5.4-RELEASE, etc. > > Basically does the procedure described at the URL below work > for the 6.0-RELEASE? > http://lists.freebs

Re: Missing Disk Space?

Erik, Thanks for the quick reply. For others, you can adjust this value via tunefs although it may adversly affect system performance. Freesbie - Original Message - From: "Erik Trulsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Freesbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 1:01 PM

Re: ERROR: version of config(8) does not match kernel

On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 04:58:49PM +0100, Kiffin Gish wrote: > I've update my src directory, but keep getting the following error (see > below). > > Yes I understand what it is saying, but how can I fix it?! I ran cvsup a > couple of times, but it doesn't seem to help. Follow the upgrading proced

Sending error messages to a cell phone?

I have an email address setup for my cell phone and I would like FreeBSD to send critical error messages to this address. How do I tell FreeBSD to do this and more importantly should I do this, because it costs 10 cents for each message? -- BSD Podcasts @ http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ _

Re: Sending error messages to a cell phone?

On Sun, 2006-03-12 at 15:13 -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > I have an email address setup for my cell phone and I would like > FreeBSD to send critical error messages to this address. > > How do I tell FreeBSD to do this and more importantly should I do > this, because it costs 10 cents for each m

Re: gmirror on a laptop.

Chuck Swiger wrote: Patrick Bowen wrote: I wanted to fiddle around with gmirror(8) on a Dell C-600 Laptop. It has a 2-slice, 20 Gig HD, and I essentially wanted to mirror ad0s1 to ad0s2. I realize this will put the HD under stress, but otherwise it seems do-able. What I want to know is whet

Re: Unable to build or update vcdimager

Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 10:51:32PM +0900 I heard the voice of > > Norikatsu Shigemura, and lo! it spake thus: > > + to the latest versions. Please remove the following entries > > + manually from $PREFIX/info/dir before upgrading them to > > + vcdimager-0.7.23_2 (and

dvd-slideshow

I would like to see if others are getting similar errors with dvd-slideshow. If you have the current ports tree, try to install and run dvd-slideshow. The ports tree has version 7.2. When I try to run the script, I get error messages like crazy. Anyone else get this? I used the example fil

Re: Unable to build or update vcdimager

On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 17:22:29 -0500 Gerard Seibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 10:51:32PM +0900 I heard the voice of > > Norikatsu Shigemura, and lo! it spake thus: > > > + to the latest versions. Please remove the following entries > > > + ma

specifying ftp mirror for port installs

Hi, how can I specify what ftp mirror my system will use when downloading distfiles during a port installation? I'm using 6.0. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: dvd-slideshow

Chris Maness wrote: I would like to see if others are getting similar errors with dvd-slideshow. If you have the current ports tree, try to install and run dvd-slideshow. The ports tree has version 7.2. When I try to run the script, I get error messages like crazy. Anyone else get this? I

What is the meaning of following message

I am getting the following message: inetd[624]: ssh/tcp: bind: Address already use Anyone could tell me what is the meaning of this message? Thanks, Jeffrey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

Re: What is the meaning of following message

On Mar 12, 2006, at 6:28 PM, Jeffrey wrote: I am getting the following message: inetd[624]: ssh/tcp: bind: Address already use Anyone could tell me what is the meaning of this message? It is possible that you have sshd running standalone already and you also have inetd trying to start ssh

Re: What is the meaning of following message

At 03:28 PM 3/12/2006, Jeffrey wrote: I am getting the following message: inetd[624]: ssh/tcp: bind: Address already use Anyone could tell me what is the meaning of this message? It means that you are running sshd as a daemon _and_ starting it from inetd. You can't do both. -Glenn Than

Re: What is the meaning of following message

Acutally, I had the same problem the other day. I found out that there where multipule copies of inetd running on my system... ps aux | grep inetd If you kill em all and restart it, it should fix the problem. That's how I fixed mine anyway's. - Original Message - From: "Jeffrey"

RC scripts HOWTO

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Guys, could you please direct me to some info, the detailed the better, on how RC and RCng scripts work in FreeBSD. Can't seem to find in handbook or google. Thanks in advance Bob -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Note: This signature can be verified at h

Re: What is the meaning of following message

Thanks Glenn, Michael and Chris, I had enabled ssh from inetd.conf. I have disabled ssh from inetd.conf. Jeffrey - Original Message - From: "Glenn Dawson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jeffrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 10:36 AM Subject: Re: What is the meaning of f

Problem doing Buildworld

2 days ago i was able to do a buildworld & installworld quite fine .. now im getting an error on my FreeBSD 6.1-PreRelease system and reading UPDATING gives me nothing ===> etc/sendmail (all) rm -f freebsd.cf m4 -D_CF_DIR_=/usr/src/etc/sendmail/../../contrib/sendmail/cf/ /usr/src/etc/sen

Re: Problem doing Buildworld

You need to do a: cd /usr/src mergemaster -p Freesbie - Original Message - From: "Warren Liddell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 5:24 PM Subject: Problem doing Buildworld 2 days ago i was able to do a buildworld & installworld quite fine .. now im getting an e

RE: FreeBSD cluseter ?

Take a look at Cyrus Imapd with the Murder plugin. This is working very well for me. -Erin > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RJ45 > Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 1:59 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: FreeBSD cluseter

Re: RC scripts HOWTO

Bob Goodman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Guys, could you please direct me to some info, the detailed the better, on how RC and RCng scripts work in FreeBSD. Can't seem to find in handbook or google. man pages for rc and rcorder not provide what you are looking for eithe

Re: Problem doing Buildworld

On Sunday 12 March 2006 16:24, Warren Liddell wrote: > 2 days ago i was able to do a buildworld & installworld quite fine .. > now im getting an error on my FreeBSD 6.1-PreRelease system and > reading UPDATING gives me nothing > > ===> etc/sendmail (all) > rm -f freebsd.cf > m4 > -D_CF_DIR_=/us

Postfix doesn't do anything when I connect to it through telnet or Mozilla Thunderbird

Hi, I'm trying to set up a Postfix SMTP server on my machine (FreeBSD 4.11). I read the cheat notes here and I can get Postfix running. However, when I try to telnet in or connect with Mozilla Thunderbird nothing happens. Here is an example:

Re: Problem doing installworld

> This is a little bit obscure but you basically didn't follow the generic > instructions on updating your system. You can get away without doing > the > mergemaster -p > most of the time but when you see a message about a missing user or > group, you have to add them to the appropriate file and ca

Re: connection reset by peer from one location but not another

On Mar 10, 2006, at 4:36 AM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Bill Campbell wrote: On Thu, Mar 09, 2006, Brian Ross wrote: I'm getting a "connection reset by peer" disconnect after about 10 minutes (or less) when I SSH to my 5.4-STABLE server from my home connection (cable DHCP), but I can stay conn

where is mergemaster?

Where can I find mergemaster? I would like to upgrade my box. __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mai

Re: where is mergemaster?

To locate use the command: which mergemaster - Original Message - From: "Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "freebsd-questions" Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 9:21 PM Subject: where is mergemaster? Where can I find mergemaster? I would like to upgrade my box. ___

Re: Postfix doesn't do anything when I connect to it through telnet orMozilla Thunderbird

Either you forgot to do the command /usr/local/bin/newaliases or a series of postmap commands. I think it is the first one causing you grief Freesbie - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 8:20 PM Subject: Postfix doesn't do anything when I co

RE: Help with lost MBR on USB HDD

Hi fbsd_user, Happy to help! The tools I used were: > dd (pre-installed in FreeBSD) > chexedit (available under /usr/ports/editors/chexedit) In terms of literature I read a great deal, all of which was helpful. Perhaps the most helpful links though were: o http://www.ata-atapi.com/hiwchs.htm

Re: Tippingpoint SMS client software

On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 08:36:45 +1100 Edwin Groothuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > We recently obtained a Tippingpoint SMS server which is currently > safe guarding our network against the bad guys. > > Unfortunately, the client software for Linux (which is nothing more > than a Java

make installkernel doesn't work?

I don't get it. I'm trying to switch from a custom kernel named SERVER to a generic kernel. %uname -imrs FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p4 amd64 SERVER cd /usr/src make clean rm -rf /usr/obj make buildkernel make installkernel %sysctl kern.ident kern.ident: SERVER Why isn't the GENERIC kernel taking effec

Re: Postfix doesn't do anything when I connect to it through telnet or Mozilla Thunderbird

On 3/12/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to set up a Postfix SMTP server on my machine (FreeBSD 4.11 > ). I > read the cheat notes here < > http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/mail.html> > and I can get Postfix running. However, when I try to telnet in

Re: Postfix doesn't do anything when I connect to it through telnetor Mozilla Thunderbird

I have had this problem before, it was one of the commands I posted, almost 100% sure. Kieran - Original Message - From: "Logan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 9:58 PM Subject: Re: Postfix doesn't do anything when I connect to it through telnetor Mozilla Thunder

Network: not found problem

I have been having a problem as of late with programs not running at startup. When I finally goto to my local startup directory and call the scripts directly I get an error of: "Network: not found". I can ping properly out to the Internet, traceroute etc. The only firewall I have on my box is I

Re: make installkernel doesn't work?

On Mar 12, 2006, at 8:55 PM, Cstdenis wrote: I don't get it. I'm trying to switch from a custom kernel named SERVER to a generic kernel. %uname -imrs FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p4 amd64 SERVER cd /usr/src make clean rm -rf /usr/obj make buildkernel make installkernel %sysctl kern.ident kern.ident:

make release / automated install / install.cfg woes

Is there some extra magic to making install.cfg work when rolling a release? I spent a fair amount of time this weekend preparing a custom release based off releng_6_0, and it works great but for one tiny detail.. After the installation is 'finished' and I reboot the system without the CD, i

Re: make installkernel doesn't work?

(Resending, didn't get the mailing list in the last copy) No script, just running those commands manually. %grep KERNCONF /etc/make.conf % All make.conf contains is a few WITH_ and WITHOUT_ switches for some ports and the perl stuff. I commented out the optimization stuff a few tries ago. %env |

Re: RC scripts HOWTO

On 3/13/06, Bob Goodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guys, > could you please direct me to some info, the detailed the better, > on how RC and RCng scripts work in FreeBSD. > Can't seem to find in handbook or google. I'm afraid the only way to get comprehensive knowledge at this time is to careful

changing INMBCLUSTERS kernel configuration option

I have a FreeBSD 5.4 server i try to change iNMBCLUSTERS kernel configuration option using sysctl nmbclusters but its giving me sysctl: unknown oid 'nmbclusters', am i missed something ? or its no longer available in FreeBSD 5 ?? -- Emam El 3asfra land ___

Re: make installkernel doesn't work?

Maybe you set your ident to something else: $ grep ident /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC or whatever your arch is. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail t