The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-04-30 - 2006-05-20

2006-05-21 Thread Dan Langille
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

clean reinstall all ports

2006-05-21 Thread Joe Auty
Hello, I kind of messed up the permissions of my /usr/local directory. Is there a way to clean install all ports? I notice that manually reinstalling doesn't seem to correct all permission errors, which is why doing some sort of clean reinstall that would produce squeaky clean versions of

what does this mean

2006-05-21 Thread Imran Imtiaz
i've seen the following log in my messages can any body tell me what does it mean? May 21 02:50:29 darkstar sm-mta[55021]: k4KLoTeq055021: localhost [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MSA regards, Imran ___ freebsd-qu

Getting the messages too late

2006-05-21 Thread Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez
Hi friend. Today sunday i am receiving the freebsd-questions messages dated last wednesday... Is this "normal"?. Can be any problem in the list work?. Thanks very much, in advance. Regards. Jose. -- http://www.lordofunix.org/ Not Registered GNU/Hurd User. Registered BSD User 51101. Registe

ffsdrv: Nice tool. Can we fix it?

2006-05-21 Thread Kyrre Nygard
Hello! http://ffsdrv.sourceforge.net Is a real nice tool for accessing UFS2 harddrives from Windows. It's one of a kind, allowing you to mount and read. However it crashes when dealing with files above 50M. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=browse&group_id=119016&atid=683208 The project

Re: [freebsd-questions] what does this mean

2006-05-21 Thread Howard Jones
Imran Imtiaz wrote: i've seen the following log in my messages can any body tell me what does it mean? May 21 02:50:29 darkstar sm-mta[55021]: k4KLoTeq055021: localhost [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MSA Do you run something like Nagios or BigBrother on y

RE: setting host name during install?

2006-05-21 Thread fbsd
First of all you are not the owner of the shawcable.net domain name so you have no control over the DNS server to point beastie.gv.shawcable.net to the ip address which is your pc. Commerisal users have static ip address assigned to them by their ISP. Thay can then purchase & register an domain na

Re: 6.1 new sysinstall country panel?

2006-05-21 Thread Ceri Davies
On 17/5/06 18:08, "fbsd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While installing fresh virgin 6.1 from cdrom, the first thing > I get is a new panel asking for me to select the country I am from. > > What is the purpose of this new country selection screen? > Why was it added to sysinstall in 6.1? It was

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2006-05-21 Thread pnp-bounces
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deskutils/taskjuggler failing on 6.1-RC

2006-05-21 Thread Yousef Raffah
I'm trying to build deskutils/taskjuggler but it keeps on failing saying: le.Tpo" -c -o ProjectFile.lo ProjectFile.cpp; \ then mv -f ".deps/ProjectFile.Tpo" ".deps/ProjectFile.Plo"; else rm -f ".deps/ProjectFile.Tpo"; exit 1; fi In file included from ProjectFile.cpp:63: ICalReport.h:19:35: libkca

pf: changing tables with rules

2006-05-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgedv.net
is it possible to write pf.conf rules, that will add matching packets to tables? if yes, can someone post an example for me? thx in advance ;-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions T

I am having trouble adjusting the display rates. Currently, The resolution is set at 640x400.

2006-05-21 Thread Des Mond
Does anyone know as to where within the configure file my problem is? Here is a copy of the settings. I've tried reconfiguring the file by vi and also by an earlier reference on this forum. Neither has helped so far. The settings:Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured"

Upgrading to 6.1 from 5.4

2006-05-21 Thread Jiongyi Jiang \(citiz\)
Dear all, I got 5.4 installed before and now wants to have 6.1. Is there any way to upgrade from 6.1 to 5.4 rather than install a fresh version of 6.1? Thanks in advance. Best, McLuke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Re: Getting the messages too late

2006-05-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez wrote: Hi friend. Today sunday i am receiving the freebsd-questions messages dated last wednesday... Is this "normal"?. Can be any problem in the list work? I don't recall any major disruptions to list traffic this week, so it's more likely that the problem is more

Re: I am having trouble adjusting the display rates. Currently, The resolution is set at 640x400.

2006-05-21 Thread Martin Baumann
Hello Des, Sunday, May 21, 2006, 4:00:32 PM, you wrote: DM> Does anyone know as to where within the configure file DM> my problem is? Here is a copy of the settings. I've DM> tried reconfiguring the file by vi and also by an DM> earlier reference on this forum. Neither has helped so DM> far. Try

Re: after upgrade from 6.0 to 6.1

2006-05-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Zimmerman, Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>Your procedure is almost identical to mine but I usually reboot after >>installing >>the new kernel, test it and then drop into single user mode to do the rest. >>The only exception is your step #7, I don't do it and wondering why you >>have it in t

Re: where can i enable bootwerbose in pccbb_pci.c

2006-05-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"william wallace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > code like this :if (bootverbose) > cbb_print_config(brdev); > where can i enable bootwerbose in pccbb_pci.c Just use the verbose flag at boot. See boot(8). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: cleaning off unix/linux????

2006-05-21 Thread Derek Ragona
Download the utility to low-level format the drive from the drive makers website. -Derek At 06:46 PM 5/20/2006, Gary Kline wrote: Gang, A 40G drive that I thought was bad (when trying to install W2K on the drive) may be entirely good. I am trying to avoid hav

Re: Upgrading to 6.1 from 5.4

2006-05-21 Thread Eric
Jiongyi Jiang (citiz) wrote: > Dear all, > > I got 5.4 installed before and now wants to have 6.1. Is there any way > to upgrade from 6.1 to 5.4 rather than install a fresh version of 6.1? > Thanks in advance. > > The handbook covers how to update your system. The link below outlines on

Re: A really really weird problem with FreeBSD 6..

2006-05-21 Thread Hugo Silva
Hugo Silva wrote: jekillen wrote: On May 19, 2006, at 10:00 AM, Hugo Silva wrote: Hi list, I've been using FreeBSD on the desktop for several years now without any major problems. However, as of lately, I've been running into a very annoying problem. I'll try to explain: I play some Open

Re: clean reinstall all ports

2006-05-21 Thread David Kelly
On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 03:40:05AM -0400, Joe Auty wrote: > Hello, > > I kind of messed up the permissions of my /usr/local directory. Is > there a way to clean install all ports? I notice that manually > reinstalling doesn't seem to correct all permission errors, which is > why doing some s

problem with /dev/console

2006-05-21 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello After reboot I get this messages /var/log/messages: [snip] May 21 18:16:28 merkur kernel: fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 May 21 18:16:28 merkur kernel: sio0: port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 May 21 18:16:28 merkur kernel: sio0: type 16550A May 21 18:16:28 merkur kerne

Re: Upgrading to 6.1 from 5.4

2006-05-21 Thread Odhiambo Washington
* On 21/05/06 20:23 +0800, Jiongyi Jiang (citiz) wrote: | Dear all, | | I got 5.4 installed before and now wants to have 6.1. | Is there any way to upgrade from 6.1 to 5.4 rather than install a | fresh version of 6.1? Thanks in advance. hi Jiang, I am FreeBSD "damu" (by blood), and so I'll te

Re: OpenGL and Intel Graphics [WAS: Cake and Eat it Too: RTCW Port]

2006-05-21 Thread Eric Anholt
On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 16:26 -0500, Jeff Cross wrote: > Michael Nottebrock wrote: > > Jeff Cross schrieb: > >> I ran the "make" commands you specified but still do not have a i915.o > >> file on my system. Here is what I have related to i915: > > > > Oops. Turns out the complete i915 module was on

Kerberos init problem

2006-05-21 Thread nagios
Hello, I am using a freeBSD 5.4. and am trying to authenticate using "pam_krb5.so" against an OS X server REALM. I have couple of problems that seems a bit tough to handle for a "novice" of kerberos as I am. For the picture here is my config : --- - A KD

Re: :::. Sendmail on FreeBSD -> Deferred: Operation timed out with

2006-05-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-05-20 14:30, Mikhail Goriachev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Giorgos, Kevin, thanks a lot for your input. Finally this madness is > getting some explanation. I was getting a few beers short of a carton on > this one. hospitaldeninos.cl has got some config issues: > > http://www.dnsreport.com

Re: building a cluster

2006-05-21 Thread Carlos Silva
Hi, This info hasn't helped me too much unfortunately =(. Someone can give me a great tutorial for noobs? Best Regards, Carlos Silva, CSilva Web: [1]http://www.csilva.org/ W. D. wrote: At 00:49 5/21/2006, Carlos Silva wrote: Hi, I want to build a cluster with 2-3 nodes to convert

Re: clean reinstall all ports

2006-05-21 Thread Joe Auty
On May 21, 2006, at 12:50 PM, David Kelly wrote: On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 03:40:05AM -0400, Joe Auty wrote: Hello, I kind of messed up the permissions of my /usr/local directory. Is there a way to clean install all ports? I notice that manually reinstalling doesn't seem to correct all permissi

Dell SC430

2006-05-21 Thread Robin Becker
The Dell SC430 seems pretty good value for a small home server see http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pedge_sc430?c=uk&cs=ukbsdt1&l=en&s=bsd but I can't find any freebsd users except http://happygiraffe.net/blog/archives/2006/01/17/new-server#comments and he doesn

Re: print-cdrom-packages.sh??

2006-05-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 01:01:23PM +0100, Howard Jones wrote: > Moving on with my automated installs, I want to build some additional > packages into the FTP area of my install server, which was seeded from > the 6.1-RELEASE ISOs. > > The "FreeBSD Release Engineering for Third Party Software Pac

CD burning in FreeBSD

2006-05-21 Thread Adam M
I have FreeBSD 6.0. I have a Sony CD-RW burner. I was wondering if I should use cdrecord or burncd. Also, where would I find info on erase cd-rws. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: cleaning off unix/linux????

2006-05-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 07:21:23PM -0500, Charles Howse wrote: > > On May 20, 2006, at 6:46 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > Gang, > > > > A 40G drive that I thought was bad (when trying to install W2K > > on the drive) may be entirely good. I am trying to avoid having > > to buy a DO

Re: building a cluster

2006-05-21 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Carlos Silva wrote: >Hi, >This info hasn't helped me too much unfortunately =(. >Someone can give me a great tutorial for noobs? > Best Regards, > Hi, Well, you could start with something like: http://www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/transcode?action=browse&id=Examples/Cluster_Batch_Enc

Re: CD burning in FreeBSD

2006-05-21 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Adam M wrote: > I have FreeBSD 6.0. I have a Sony CD-RW burner. I was wondering if I should > use cdrecord or burncd. Also, where would I find info on erase cd-rws. Hi, You could start with: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html To blank a CD-RW (quick for

Re: cleaning off unix/linux????

2006-05-21 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 13:41 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 07:21:23PM -0500, Charles Howse wrote: > > > > On May 20, 2006, at 6:46 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > Gang, > > > > > > A 40G drive that I thought was bad (when trying to install W2K > > > on the drive) may be

Re: cleaning off unix/linux????

2006-05-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 10:24:31AM +1000, Rowdy wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > Gang, > > > > A 40G drive that I thought was bad (when trying to install W2K > > on the drive) may be entirely good. I am trying to avoid having > > to buy a DOS/Win platform. I've had both W2K and FBSD

Re: cleaning off unix/linux????

2006-05-21 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 09:57:44PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: > Quoting Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Gang, > > > > A 40G drive that I thought was bad (when trying to install W2K > > on the drive) may be entirely good. I am trying to avoid having > > to buy a DOS/Win platf

Re: Dell SC430

2006-05-21 Thread David Kelly
On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 08:08:13PM +, Robin Becker wrote: > The Dell SC430 seems pretty good value for a small home server see I am using a Dell 400SC which is 2 generations older than the 430SC. The full (minimal) system new from Dell was about the same price as similar case, PS, MB, and CPU

installing ports behind IPFILTER

2006-05-21 Thread Brett Wiggins
Hi everyone, I am having some problems installing ports when I have IPFILTER running. I have put FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES in /etc/make.conf but the command 'make all install clean' yields; ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found => jce-aba-1.1.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist

Re: installing ports behind IPFILTER

2006-05-21 Thread Duane Whitty
Brett Wiggins wrote: Hi everyone, I am having some problems installing ports when I have IPFILTER running. I have put FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES in /etc/make.conf Try putting it in /etc/login.conf /etc #grep PASSIVE * login.conf: :setenv=MAIL=/var/mail/$,BLOCKSIZE=K,FTP_PASSIVE_

Re: installing ports behind IPFILTER

2006-05-21 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Brett Wiggins wrote: > Hi everyone, > I am having some problems installing ports when I have > > IPFILTER running. I have put FTP_PASSIVE_MODE=YES in /etc/make.conf > > but the command 'make all install clean' yields; > > ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found > => j

Re: Promise SATA controller / Maxtor drive problems (resolved)

2006-05-21 Thread Øyvind Skaar
I've got a Promise SATAII 150 TX2plus (pci) controller connected to my Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard. The drive in question is a Maxtor 6B200M0. First of all, when the drive is connected I can't get any resent FreeBSD boot cd to do anything but a "intsant reboot" - it starts to load, some text

Re: Maple 8 on FreeBSD with Diablo

2006-05-21 Thread Albert Shih
Le 20/05/2006 à 20:43:04-0300, Henry Lenzi a écrit > Hi -- > > Maple keeps getting me trouble... > Has anyone installed Maple 8 with the new diablo? What the handbook > says does not apply to Maple 8...There is no FLEXim script for > Linux/Unix. > The best way to use Maple (I don't have maple 8,

Re: quota and /var/mail

2006-05-21 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hello Mike, Thank you for your answer, as im stuck on this point and lost with my users, beside none answering this question on the list! No when I enabled quota I did the configuration on /usr shall i enable it on /var to? then how to make the sendmail or the shell reads the user quota

foomatic-db portupgrade problem

2006-05-21 Thread Denny White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Searched through the cvs & stable mailing lists, as well as in /usr/ports/UPDATING, & couldn't find any instance of anyone having problems updating the foomatic-db port. After the initial failure to update, I looked at the Makefile & that seems to be

Re: quota and /var/mail

2006-05-21 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:37 PM 21/05/2006, Marwan Sultan wrote: No when I enabled quota I did the configuration on /usr shall i enable it on /var to? then how to make the sendmail or the shell reads the user quota on his home directory and his /var/mail/$username ? Hi, It all depends on how you h

Install FreeBSD on Dell Inspiraon E1505/ 6400 laptop

2006-05-21 Thread Sadashiv Kulthe
Helllo, I want to Install Linux on Dell Inspiraon E1505/ 6400 laptop can anyone tell me is it compatitable? Can I install it? It has following configuration 1) Inspiron E1505, Intel Core Duoprocessor T2300 (2MB/1.66GHz/667MHz) 2) 15.4 Inch Wide-screen WXGA Display for Inspiron 6400/E150 3) 1G

Video mode not supported for LCD monitor

2006-05-21 Thread Malcolm Fitzgerald
I've just replaced my trusty CRT screen with a spunky LCD screen. After the machine boots I don't see the login window. Instead I see a bouncing box that says "Video Mode not Supported". How do I rectify this? malcolm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: Install FreeBSD on Dell Inspiraon E1505/ 6400 laptop

2006-05-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Helllo, > > I want to Install Linux on Dell Inspiraon E1505/ 6400 laptop can anyone tell > me is it compatitable? Your Subject said you want to install FreeBSd on the laptop. It should work OK. But, you should know that FreeBSD is not LINUX or related to LINUX. It is a UNIX type Operating S

Re: Video mode not supported for LCD monitor

2006-05-21 Thread rod person
On Mon, 22 May 2006 10:36:17 +1000 Malcolm Fitzgerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just replaced my trusty CRT screen with a spunky LCD screen. > After the machine boots I don't see the login window. Instead I see a > bouncing box that says "Video Mode not Supported". How do I rectify > thi

Re: Install FreeBSD on Dell Inspiraon E1505/ 6400 laptop

2006-05-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 21 May 2006 at 17:25:38 -0700, Sadashiv Kulthe wrote: > Helllo, > > I want to Install Linux on Dell Inspiraon E1505/ 6400 laptop can > anyone tell me is it compatitable? As others have observed, Linux and FreeBSD are two different operating systems. You certainly need to decide which (

Re: foomatic-db portupgrade problem

2006-05-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 06:57:43PM -0500, Denny White wrote: > > Searched through the cvs & stable mailing lists, as well as > in /usr/ports/UPDATING, & couldn't find any instance of anyone > having problems updating the foomatic-db port. After the initial > failure to update, I looked at the Make

Re: Video mode not supported for LCD monitor

2006-05-21 Thread Malcolm Fitzgerald
On 22/05/2006, at 10:46 AM, rod person wrote: On Mon, 22 May 2006 10:36:17 +1000 Malcolm Fitzgerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've just replaced my trusty CRT screen with a spunky LCD screen. After the machine boots I don't see the login window. Instead I see a bouncing box that says "Video

Re: email with a database

2006-05-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
> > is there an email solution that employs some kind of database that stores > > mail for long term? id rather not turn on "leave a copy on the server" as > > this has shown to give poorer and poorer performance over time for me. > People normally take backups of their machines in order to protec

Re: Video mode not supported for LCD monitor

2006-05-21 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 10:36:17AM +1000, Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: > I've just replaced my trusty CRT screen with a spunky LCD screen. After > the machine boots I don't see the login window. Instead I see a > bouncing box that says "Video Mode not Supported". How do I rectify > this? Get the L

Python port problems

2006-05-21 Thread Joe Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Starting up Mailman on one machine I'm on produces the following error message (see below). For some reason, this is not a problem with the same version on another FreeBSD machine I'm on, both installed from ports. I have 'mail/mailman'

/usr/local/libexec/apache22/libphp4.so not installed

2006-05-21 Thread Noah
FreeBSD-4.11 After rebuilding php4-4.4.2_2 with Apache Module and apache-2.2.2 from /usr/ports - I no longer am finding that /usr/local/libexec/apache22/libphp4.so is getting installed. Any clues as to what I am doing wrong? I cant figure it out at the moment. --- snip --- # /usr/local/etc/

FreeBSD Security Survey

2006-05-21 Thread Colin Percival
Dear FreeBSD users and system administrators, While the FreeBSD Security Team has traditionally been very good at investigating and responding to security issues in FreeBSD, this only solves half of the security problem: Unless users and administrators of FreeBSD systems apply the security patches

uhub1: device problem (SHORT_XFER)

2006-05-21 Thread Norberto Meijome
Hi all, I have an external USB-2 Seagate 300GB Drive. It's been working great this far, plugged into a 2 x AMD64 server (running amd64 6.0, which i recently upgraded to 6.1). But now when I plug it as usual, i get: uhub1: device problem (SHORT_XFER), disabling port 2 (or port 1 if I use the oth

RE: FreeBSD Security Survey

2006-05-21 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Colin, Just a couple problems with the survey: Question #6 needs a "Sometimes" as it is not going to be a yes or no question for many people. Your also ignoring the fact that many security holes are a lot easier to ignore and just block off the affected service. For example we run an older R