Re: natd not starting on boot-up

2006-06-07 Thread Björn König
Hello Roger, what happens if you type /etc/rc.d/natd start after boot-up? Björn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Openoffice compilation failure

2006-06-07 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: I saw an email that suggested that the problem is that the epm that comes bundled with the openoffice source has a problem with argument lines that are too long. Changing the name of the ports directory to /usr/p fixed it for me. Thanks, Thanks, Thanks and Th

Re: natd not starting on boot-up

2006-06-07 Thread Roger Merritt
At 08:46 AM 6/7/2006 +0200, you wrote: Hello Roger, what happens if you type /etc/rc.d/natd start after boot-up? The script prints out the string " natd", leading space but no newline, and a process is started for natd. -- Roger ___ freebsd

quota printing ?

2006-06-07 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello I'm searching for a centralized quota printing solution that would run over CUPS or LPRNG , I've reviewed pyquota but it doesn't fit our needings. Ideally it could use a SYBASE database system as backend as we have a SYBASE server ... Thanks a lot. -- Cordialement Frank Bonnet To be or

Re: natd not starting on boot-up

2006-06-07 Thread Roger Merritt
At 04:35 PM 6/7/2006 +1000, you wrote: On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:13:29 +0700 Roger Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm thoroughly puzzled. Over the weekend I transferred my FreeBSD system to > a new hard drive. Through laziness I didn't follow the instructions and had > to make a completely

Re: natd not starting on boot-up

2006-06-07 Thread Nick Withers
On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:23:18 +0700 Roger Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 04:35 PM 6/7/2006 +1000, you wrote: > >On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:13:29 +0700 > >Roger Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'm thoroughly puzzled. Over the weekend I transferred my FreeBSD > > system to > > > a

(no subject)

2006-06-07 Thread Dan Mahoney
Hey all. Background: I build my sendmail from scratch, and have the sendmail build disabled in /etc/make.conf I recently tried to build a sendmail milter that needed a very recent version of libmilter, and I found that FreeBSD has forever been including a libmilter.so file that's very old an

Re: natd not starting on boot-up

2006-06-07 Thread Derrick Ryalls
On 6/7/06, Nick Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:23:18 +0700 Roger Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 04:35 PM 6/7/2006 +1000, you wrote: > >On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:13:29 +0700 > >Roger Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I'm thoroughly puzzled. Over the wee

reading process memory

2006-06-07 Thread Tofik Suleymanov
Hello, folks I believe that it is possible to read contents of the memory used/utilized by a process (assuming right privileges). First i've tried to do this through procfs by reading 'mem' property of the given process, but no success. Maybe there is another way of doing such things ? Any clu

Kernel module path

2006-06-07 Thread Richard Jones
Hi, I'm having trouble loading kernel modules. Put simply "make installkernel" seems install native kernel modules into /boot/kernel/, but kldload seems to want to load them from /boot/modules. Obviously I can load modules by hand and/or copy the modules into /boot/modules, but surely there's a b

Re: natd not starting on boot-up

2006-06-07 Thread Panagiotis
Roger Merritt wrote: I'm thoroughly puzzled. Over the weekend I transferred my FreeBSD system to a new hard drive. Through laziness I didn't follow the instructions and had to make a completely new install. Everything now seems to be working the way it should, Apache, MySQL, PHP, syslog, Samb

Re: natd not starting on boot-up

2006-06-07 Thread Panagiotis
Roger Merritt wrote: I'm thoroughly puzzled. Over the weekend I transferred my FreeBSD system to a new hard drive. Through laziness I didn't follow the instructions and had to make a completely new install. Everything now seems to be working the way it should, Apache, MySQL

Re: natd not starting on boot-up

2006-06-07 Thread Roger Merritt
At 02:12 AM 6/7/2006 -0700, you wrote: On 6/7/06, Nick Withers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:23:18 +0700 Roger Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 04:35 PM 6/7/2006 +1000, you wrote: > >On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:13:29 +0700 > >Roger Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >

Re: slow system startup; recovering vi sessions

2006-06-07 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
At Wed, 7 Jun 2006 05:39:38 +0100 (BST), dharam paul wrote: > Is there a way to bring it out of this cycle of > recovery so that the system boots faster. normally vi recovery files are in /var/tmp/vi.recover. you can empty this directory if you are sure that you do not need the saved files. hth,

Re: lm/temp monitoring

2006-06-07 Thread Jim Stapleton
That works well enough, thank you! -Jim Stapleton On 6/6/06, Toni Schmidbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At Tue, 6 Jun 2006 19:33:33 -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: > What package contains the "lm" utility (driver?) use for temperature > monitoring? What is a good package to get a reading of my > C

Re: Virtual hosts and PHP "downloads": php5 and apache22 on FreeBSD6.1-STABLE

2006-06-07 Thread John DeStefano
Just an update on this: as you might expect, after deinstalling apache22, reinstalling apache13, de/reinstalling PHP5, and adding the "old" manual updates to httpd.conf, my server is back up and running. A fitting conclusion to 1.5 days of self-induced stress. Thanks to Mikhail, Kevin, "fbsd," an

FreeBSD Wireless Access Points with Atheros Cards

2006-06-07 Thread Nick Withers
G'day all, I was recently asked to set up a wireless access point by a mate. Having read section 27.3.3.2 - "Building a FreeBSD Access Point" ("http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html";) from the FreeBSD Handbook I duly advised my friend that they'd need to

RE: Virtual hosts and PHP "downloads": php5 and apache22 on FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE

2006-06-07 Thread Robert Slade
-Original Message- From: John DeStefano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 June 2006 01:19 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Virtual hosts and PHP "downloads": php5 and apache22 on FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE > John, > > I have the same problem with a new install and asked the same question re

routing on FreeBSD 6.1 (from FreeBSD 4.10)

2006-06-07 Thread tim m
hello .. I've been doing this on FreeBSD 4.10 and it has worked very well: # for using sip_spoof static_routes="spt mxs" route_spt="-net 10.0.0.138/32 -interface 213.xx.xxx.xxx -cloning" route_mxs="default 10.0.0.138" this is with a Speedtouch 510, doing the "sip_spoof". I now need to use a Sp

Re: troubleshooting network settings

2006-06-07 Thread Malcolm Fitzgerald
Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: I am running freeBSD v6.0 security on a home network behind an adsl router. I cannot connect to localhost from a browser (apache is running!) I cannot connect to localhost port 22 (KPackage tries to use ssh) On 29/05/2006, at 11:37 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Hmm, is tha

USB-Serial ??

2006-06-07 Thread John Andrewartha
Hi and thanks once again for the support, The saga of the 3G modem. Labeled in AU as the Maxon MM 5500c. This device is a modem on the usb bus, it looks like and understands the at commands. Under XP. I am using fbsd 6.1. How do I get ppp to talk to it? The man pages keep pointing to /dev/cuaU

Re: apache13 to 22

2006-06-07 Thread Dag Rune Sneeggen
Perttu Laine wrote: On 12/9/05, Odhiambo Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: apachectl stop cd /usr/ports/www/apache13 make deinstall cd /usr/ports/www/apache22 && make install cd /usr/ports/www/mod_php5 make -DWITH_APACHE2 -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER reinstall Just to inform you people about th

Generic Kernel suggestion

2006-06-07 Thread Danial Thom
It seems that Freebsd 6.1 (and likely others versions as well) will hang when booted on a machine with no parallel port. Since many newer MBs are leaving the PP off due to lack of interest, it might be a good idea to fix this, since the point of a GENERIC kernel is that its a superset of what's nee

Re: Kernel module path

2006-06-07 Thread Nick Withers
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 11:28:09 +0100 Richard Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble loading kernel modules. Put simply "make > installkernel" seems install native kernel modules into /boot/kernel/, > but kldload seems to want to load them from /boot/modules. >From kldload's m

Re: Kernel module path

2006-06-07 Thread Daniel Bye
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 11:28:09AM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble loading kernel modules. Put simply "make > installkernel" seems install native kernel modules into /boot/kernel/, > but kldload seems to want to load them from /boot/modules. > > Obviously I can load modul

Re[2]: natd not starting on boot-up

2006-06-07 Thread voodoo
put this script into /usr/loca/etc/rc.d/ # cat /usr/local/etc/rc.d/natd.sh #!/bin/sh /sbin/natd -n rl1 > Roger Merritt wrote: >> I'm thoroughly puzzled. Over the weekend I transferred my FreeBSD >> system to a new hard drive. Through laziness I didn't follow the >> instructions and had to mak

Re: Kernel module path

2006-06-07 Thread Richard Jones
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 10:40:54PM +1000, Nick Withers wrote: > On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 11:28:09 +0100 > Richard Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm having trouble loading kernel modules. Put simply "make > > installkernel" seems install native kernel modules into /boot/kernel/, > >

portupgrade question

2006-06-07 Thread Michael S
Good day everyone! I have a portupgrade related question. I am behind a proxy and fetch doesn't appear to cope with it very well. I installed wget and it works great. I updated the pkgtools.conf to reflect that, however portupgrade insists on using fetch for some reason. At first I thought that p

Re: slow system startup; recovering vi sessions

2006-06-07 Thread dharam paul
Hello, Thank you very much. There were nine files. I removed all of them. Thanks for help please. Regards --- Toni Schmidbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At Wed, 7 Jun 2006 05:39:38 +0100 (BST), > dharam paul wrote: > > Is there a way to bring it out of this cycle of > > recovery so that the sy

Re: slow system startup; recovering vi sessions

2006-06-07 Thread Eric Schuele
dharam paul wrote: Hello, My freebsd 5.4 is taking about 5-7 minutes to start/restart because it tries to recover the crashed vi sessions. Is there a way to bring it out of this cycle of recovery so that the system boots faster. Thanks & Regars Send instant messages to your online friends htt

WARNING: a geometry of 77545/16/63 for ad0 is incorrect

2006-06-07 Thread justin schlingmann
Hello, I`m trying to install freebsd 6.1 from an iso i fetched from ftp.uk.freebsd.org. I get the following meassage: WARNING: a geometry of 77545/16/63 for ad0 is incorrect uing a more likely geometry. If this geometry is incorrect or you are unshure wether or not it`s correct, please consult t

Re: AC97 sound card on 6.1

2006-06-07 Thread Sean
Gregory Nou wrote: Dave wrote: Hello, I'm atempting to get an integrated AC97 sound card working under 6.1. I know this card works, loading the snd_driver module finds it, but i do not know which actual module works it over. I'd rather not have to load 26 sound modules just the ones i actu

Re: i wish to buy your site

2006-06-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > On Sun, June 4, 2006 11:54, Richard Collyer wrote: > > bill hunt wrote: > >> dear webmaster. > >> My name is Bill Hunt and I'm interested in purchsing your site. > >> the price is nagotiable and I'm willing to pay as much as we can agree > >> on. > >> please let me know if it's ok by you and w

Latex TTF font installation:missing binaries

2006-06-07 Thread Vittorio
I'm trying to install new proprietary TTF fonts (helvetica neue) for use with pdflatex under freebsd 6.1. In doing so, I'm following the many docs on the subject found either under the fontinst and fonts dir of texmf-dist or in the internet (plenty & somewhat misleading docs, indeed) but many

Re: Firefox crashes and hangs my 6.1R system

2006-06-07 Thread Adi Pircalabu
On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:46:46 +1000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Lately, and seemingly inexplicably, firefox will lock up my X server > with it if I click a button where filesystem access is required eg. > if I'm in an 'upload file' form and a 'Browse...' button is available > to go to a filesystem b

Re: troubleshooting network settings

2006-06-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: I am running freeBSD v6.0 security on a home network behind an adsl router. I cannot connect to localhost from a browser (apache is running!) I cannot connect to localhost port 22 (KPackage tries to use ssh) On 29/05/2006, at 11:37 PM, K

burncd error

2006-06-07 Thread Josh Paetzel
I'm running 6.1-RELEASE Trying to burn iso's using burncd gives me an error. gimpy# burncd -f /dev/acd0 -s 48 data i386pkg-3.0.iso fixate next writeable LBA 0 writing from file i386pkg-3.0.iso size 710566 KB written this track 710566 KB (100%) total 710566 KB fixating CD, please wait.. burncd: i

Re: reading process memory

2006-06-07 Thread James Riendeau
How are you defining "assuming right privileges"? The only way you're going to be able to read another processes address space is in the kernel. Even a process running as root is not able to read another process's data. One of the principle responsibilities of the OS is to manage the pri

Re: Makefile for rpm-4.0.4_4

2006-06-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I connected to www. Freebsd.org, sherched for rpm and got to a page > with several rpm ports that can be downloaded. Since O have FreeBSD > 6.0 I figured I could go for the latehast rpm which is 4.0.4_4. So I > first downloaded rpm4.tar, and put it in my /usr/rpm/rpm4/

Re: FreeBSD Wireless Access Points with Atheros Cards

2006-06-07 Thread Mark Moellering
Nick, I tried this maybe a month back. I added an ath card to a firewall (becoming the third NIC) and set it up following the directions. While I could connect to the access point/firewall, I could not get to anything beyond it. After some reading, I decdied to buy a standalone acce

Re: Kernel module path

2006-06-07 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/7/06, Richard Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble loading kernel modules. Put simply "make installkernel" seems install native kernel modules into /boot/kernel/, but kldload seems to want to load them from /boot/modules. 3rd party kernel modules go in /boot/modules an

Re: Kernel module path

2006-06-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 12:22, John Nielsen wrote: > On Wednesday 07 June 2006 08:41, Daniel Bye wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 11:28:09AM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm having trouble loading kernel modules. Put simply "make > > > installkernel" seems install native ke

Re: Kernel module path

2006-06-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 08:41, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 11:28:09AM +0100, Richard Jones wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm having trouble loading kernel modules. Put simply "make > > installkernel" seems install native kernel modules into /boot/kernel/, > > but kldload seems to want to

FreeBSd 6.1 hylafax and Acorp modem...

2006-06-07 Thread Casper
Hi, I tryed to setup hylafax fax server with Acorp internal modem with conexant-RH56D-PCI chip set. I installed from ports hylafax and try to setup it: fax# faxsetup Setup program for HylaFAX (tm) 4.2.5. Created for i386-unknown-freebsd6.1 on Wed Mar 15 17:04:26 UTC 2006. Checking system

Re: reading process memory

2006-06-07 Thread Bill Moran
> > I believe that it is possible to read contents of the memory used/ > > utilized by a process (assuming right privileges). > > First i've tried to do this through procfs by reading 'mem' > > property of the given process, but no success. > > Maybe there is another way of doing such things ?

kdehier port fails package build

2006-06-07 Thread Nikolas Britton
infomatic# make package-recursive ===> Building package for kdehier-1.0_9 Creating package /usr/ports/packages/All/kdehier-1.0_9.tbz Registering depends:. Creating bzip'd tar ball in '/usr/ports/packages/All/kdehier-1.0_9.tbz' tar: share/templates/.keep_me: Cannot stat: No such file or directory

On mail principles

2006-06-07 Thread a
A brief: How to use "envelope from" provided that I have a mailbox on ISP. A full explanation: My computer has no static IP-address, nor DNS-name in Internet. Internally, it has static name "localhost" and static IP-address 127.0.0.1. So, I have a mail address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". But I cannot

Re: Kernel module path

2006-06-07 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/7/06, Richard Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 10:40:54PM +1000, Nick Withers wrote: > On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 11:28:09 +0100 > Richard Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I'm having trouble loading kernel modules. Put simply "make > > installkernel" seems i

RE: troubleshooting network settings

2006-06-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
> > Hmm, is that all? Unusual; I'd think the loopback _should_ > be set up > > correctly. > > > > `ifconfig lo0 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0` ?? > > > > If that fixes it, then we have to figure out *why* it's not being > > doing automatically. Problem during init/rc, most likely ...

6.1 doesn't recognize IDE HD

2006-06-07 Thread michael.white
All, I'm trying to install i386 FreeBSD 6.1 onto an HP Omnibook 800CT (Pentium 166 MMX, 80 MB RAM, 4.3. GB HD). I'm booting from floppy because the onlyCDROM is a SCSI CDROM that is not bootable. Everything seems to go well (even the recognization of the SCSI controller and CDROM) except that

burncd error

2006-06-07 Thread Michael S
I had the same kind of issue, also with 6.1-RELEASE, and just fixed it the Windows way - reboot. And it worked fine. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: kdehier port fails package build

2006-06-07 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/7/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: infomatic# make package-recursive ===> Building package for kdehier-1.0_9 Creating package /usr/ports/packages/All/kdehier-1.0_9.tbz Registering depends:. Creating bzip'd tar ball in '/usr/ports/packages/All/kdehier-1.0_9.tbz' tar: share/temp

Re: portupgrade question

2006-06-07 Thread Andrey Slusar
Wed, 7 Jun 2006 09:38:36 -0400, Michael S wrote: > I have a portupgrade related question. I am behind a proxy and fetch > doesn't appear to cope with it very well. I installed wget and it > works great. I updated the pkgtools.conf to reflect that, however > portupgrade insists on using fetch for s

Re: portupgrade question

2006-06-07 Thread Michael S
Thanks, I will definitely try it out. On 6/7/06, Andrey Slusar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 09:38:36 -0400, Michael S wrote: > I have a portupgrade related question. I am behind a proxy and fetch > doesn't appear to cope with it very well. I installed wget and it > works great. I

Re: AC97 sound card on 6.1

2006-06-07 Thread Andrey Slusar
Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:12:17 -0400, Sean wrote: > Gregory Nou wrote: > > Dave wrote: > >> Hello, > >>I'm atempting to get an integrated AC97 sound card working under > >> 6.1. I know this card works, loading the snd_driver module finds > >> it, but i do not know which actual module works it over.

Installing OpenOffice 2.0.2

2006-06-07 Thread doug
This is just to document how to install this package from the FreeBSD package system. The install is "easy" following the steps outlined. the glitches could probably be fixed with the appropriate symlinks on the package mirrors. I used ftp2. 1) download openoffice.org-2.0.2.rc2.tbz from /pub/F

Re: FreeBSD Wireless Access Points with Atheros Cards

2006-06-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 11:42, Mark Moellering wrote: > On Wednesday 07 June 2006 8:11 am, Nick Withers wrote: > > G'day all, > > > > I was recently asked to set up a wireless access point by a > > mate. Having read section 27.3.3.2 - "Building a FreeBSD Access > > Point" > > ("http://www.freebsd

Tcpdump dropping packets

2006-06-07 Thread Paul Schmehl
I'm fiddling around with ntop, but, after an initial packet capture, it doesn't capture any more traffic. It claims that libpcap is dropping all the packets. If I run tcpdump like this: tcpdump -i I get this: 15 packets captured 51104 packets received by filter 50288 packets dropped by ker

RE: USB-Serial ??

2006-06-07 Thread Steve Bertrand
> The saga of the 3G modem. Labeled in AU as the Maxon MM 5500c. > This device is a modem on the usb bus, it looks like and > understands the at commands. Under XP. > I am using fbsd 6.1. > How do I get ppp to talk to it? > The man pages keep pointing to /dev/cuaU? A device that does > not exis

Re: reading process memory

2006-06-07 Thread James Riendeau
Ahh. I think I goofed slightly. I think your application has to be the parent of the running process to get at that property. See: http://www.informit.com/articles/article.asp?p=366888&seqNum=10 James Riendeau MMI Computer Support Technician 1300 University Ave Rm. 436, Dept. of MedMicro Ma

Re: quota printing ?

2006-06-07 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Frank Bonnet wrote: > I'm searching for a centralized quota printing solution that would run > over CUPS or LPRNG , I've reviewed pyquota but it doesn't fit our needings. > > Ideally it could use a SYBASE database system as backend as we have a > SYBASE > server ... This is one of the admin task

Re: reading process memory

2006-06-07 Thread James Riendeau
I'm going to anticipate your next question, and say that if you're not the parent, you will have to "attach" to the process. How that's done? I don't know, probably through a system call to ptrace or writing to the procfs ctl directory. I'm speaking through erudite knowledge rather than

unable to load a kernel

2006-06-07 Thread justin schlingmann
Hello, Everytime when I install freebsd 6.1 and boot it after instalation I get this message. "unable to load a kernel" When i install freebsd 5.5 there are no problems, everything works fine. Anyone knows what`s wrong with this installation, is it a known bug or what. Maybe someone can help me wi

Re: burncd error

2006-06-07 Thread John Nielsen
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 11:04, Josh Paetzel wrote: > I'm running 6.1-RELEASE > > Trying to burn iso's using burncd gives me an error. > > gimpy# burncd -f /dev/acd0 -s 48 data i386pkg-3.0.iso fixate > > next writeable LBA 0 > writing from file i386pkg-3.0.iso size 710566 KB > written this track 7

Re: burncd error

2006-06-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Josh Paetzel wrote: I'm running 6.1-RELEASE Trying to burn iso's using burncd gives me an error. gimpy# burncd -f /dev/acd0 -s 48 data i386pkg-3.0.iso fixate next writeable LBA 0 writing from file i386pkg-3.0.iso size 710566 KB written this track 710566 KB (100%) total 710566 KB fixating CD, p

Re: portupgrade question

2006-06-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 09:38:36AM -0400, Michael S wrote: > Good day everyone! > > I have a portupgrade related question. I am behind a proxy and fetch > doesn't appear to cope with it very well. What did you try? fetch works fine with proxies for the rest of us :) Kris pgpQqWxSTgnVY.pgp Des

Re: portupgrade question

2006-06-07 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
At Wed, 7 Jun 2006 09:38:36 -0400, Michael S wrote: > I have a portupgrade related question. I am behind a proxy and fetch > doesn't appear to cope with it very well. I installed wget and it > works great. I updated the pkgtools.conf to reflect that, however > portupgrade insists on using fetch for

Re: portupgrade question

2006-06-07 Thread Michael S
I had them set, but in lower case - $http_proxy and $ftp_proxy. wget doesn't have a problem with that. More precisely (applogies for not specifying in the first place) the problem was retrieving files from FTP hosts. HTTP sites were fine. On 6/7/06, Toni Schmidbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At

Re: portupgrade question

2006-06-07 Thread Michael S
wget works like magic. I used the defaults. fetch I guess is the FreeBSD default for "fetching" files from the web. It was having problems fetching files from FTP sites. No idea what the problem is. On 6/7/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 09:38:36AM -0400, Mic

Re: i wish to buy your site

2006-06-07 Thread Hunter Fuller
On 07 Jun 2006, at 1:02 AM, Daniel A. Akulenok wrote: No, guys. All of *you* who responded to this mail failed to realize that this is a spam message, and that it is most probably just an alternative scam to the nigerian stuff. Spammers getting smarter? ... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA :)

compiling ports to packages on fast system, installing on slower one

2006-06-07 Thread Dave
Hello, I was wondering if this was possible? I've got a box that i'd like to install the latest gnome 2.14 desktop on, as well as some very intense apps to build. I would like to compile the needed apps on my fastest machine as packages, then transfer all the packages to the slower box, and

Re: Heavy creation and deletion of symlinks

2006-06-07 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jun 6, 2006, at 10:49 PM, Dag Rune Sneeggen wrote: So my question is; how does such activity affect the general health and operation of FreeBSD? It doesn't, really. The OS will happily deference the symlinks you create as needed. Also, the health of the harddrive(s) which will most lik

Re: apache13 to 22

2006-06-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Dag Rune Sneeggen wrote: Perttu Laine wrote: On 12/9/05, Odhiambo Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: apachectl stop cd /usr/ports/www/apache13 make deinstall cd /usr/ports/www/apache22 && make install cd /usr/ports/www/mod_php5 make -DWITH_APACHE2 -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER reinstall Just to

Re: portupgrade question

2006-06-07 Thread Andy Reitz
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Michael S wrote: > Good day everyone! > > I have a portupgrade related question. I am behind a proxy and fetch > doesn't appear to cope with it very well. I installed wget and it > works great. I updated the pkgtools.conf to reflect that, however > portupgrade insists on using

RE: FreeBSd 6.1 hylafax and Acorp modem...

2006-06-07 Thread fbsd
I believe your modem is a winmodem. This modem is manufactured for ms/window boxes. Some people have luck using the ltmdm port to get some winmodems to work with FreeBSD. You would be far better off using an external serial modem. These all work with FreeBSD right out of the box and is best so

Re: burncd error

2006-06-07 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 14:46, you wrote: > On Wednesday 07 June 2006 11:04, Josh Paetzel wrote: > > I'm running 6.1-RELEASE > > > > Trying to burn iso's using burncd gives me an error. > > > > gimpy# burncd -f /dev/acd0 -s 48 data i386pkg-3.0.iso fixate > > > > next writeable LBA 0 > > writing f

Re: Heavy creation and deletion of symlinks

2006-06-07 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jun 6, 2006, at 10:49 PM, Dag Rune Sneeggen wrote: So my question is; how does such activity affect the general health and operation of FreeBSD? It doesn't, really. The OS will happily deference the symlinks you create as needed. Also, the health of the harddrive(s) which will most lik

Re: On mail principles

2006-06-07 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jun 7, 2006, at 1:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But this way is bad for local purposes: my MTA's diagnostic messages are sent trough internet or lost at all, e. g. when my ADSL is in down. (Moreover, my letters sent to other local users have non-local "envelope from" address. Then local

Re: i wish to buy your site

2006-06-07 Thread jdow
From: "Jerry McAllister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Sun, June 4, 2006 11:54, Richard Collyer wrote: > bill hunt wrote: >> dear webmaster. >> My name is Bill Hunt and I'm interested in purchsing your site. >> the price is nagotiable and I'm willing to pay as much as we can agree >> on. >> please let

Re: burncd error

2006-06-07 Thread Napoleon Dynamite
I got that error pretty routinely for a while. The cd-r was always usable, though. I switched to k3b for cd burning and have not seen that error since. On Wednesday 07 June 2006 10:44, Michael S wrote: > I had the same kind of issue, also with 6.1-RELEASE, and just fixed it > the Windows way - re

RE: 6.1 doesn't recognize IDE HD

2006-06-07 Thread fbsd
Try turning off power management in motherboard bios. Also check that bios ide use auto setting. Set bios boot from floppy then drive c, not just floppy alone. If bios has system setting, set to unix or other, not windows. Try posting to freebsd-mobile list for better support. -Original Messa

Spontaneous reboot involving 6-stable, gdb, and -pthread

2006-06-07 Thread Jeremy Nelson
I am trying to collect enough information to file a bug report about a problem I am running into. I have two separate machines: Machine 1 is running 6.1-RC/amd64 Machine 2 first was running 5.4-RELEASE/amd64 Machine 2 then it ran 5-STABLE/amd64 Machine 2 now it

how does cron exec jobs?

2006-06-07 Thread Atom Powers
I have a cronjob ( cfexecd -F ) that often hangs; but no matter how I run it from the shell ( sh -c "cfexecd -F" & ) it never hangs. (Running it from the shell is how I clear the hung state.) How can I simulate a cron job from the shell? There must be something different about the way cron is exe

Re: On mail principles

2006-06-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-06-07 20:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A brief: > > How to use "envelope from" provided that I have a mailbox on ISP. > > A full explanation: > > My computer has no static IP-address, nor DNS-name in Internet. > Internally, it has static name "localhost" and static IP-address 127.0.0.1. >

Re: FreeBSd 6.1 hylafax and Acorp modem...

2006-06-07 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Casper wrote: > > Hi, > > I tryed to setup hylafax fax server with Acorp internal modem with > conexant-RH56D-PCI chip set. > > [...] > > > I`m in dead end with this modem? Hi, Conexant chips are winmodems. As far as I'm concerned they're a no go. For instance, Lucent LTs are supported th

Re: burncd error

2006-06-07 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Josh Paetzel wrote: > I'm running 6.1-RELEASE > > Trying to burn iso's using burncd gives me an error. > > gimpy# burncd -f /dev/acd0 -s 48 data i386pkg-3.0.iso fixate > > next writeable LBA 0 > writing from file i386pkg-3.0.iso size 710566 KB > written this track 710566 KB (100%) total 710566 K

Re: Tcpdump dropping packets

2006-06-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Paul Schmehl wrote: I'm fiddling around with ntop, but, after an initial packet capture, it doesn't capture any more traffic. It claims that libpcap is dropping all the packets. If I run tcpdump like this: tcpdump -i I get this: 15 packets captured 51104 packets received by filter 50288 p

Re: Firefox crashes and hangs my 6.1R system

2006-06-07 Thread freebsd-questions
Hi Adi, Thanks for the reply :) On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 18:23:46 +0300, Adi Pircalabu wrote: > >I tried to reproduce it on two 6.1-STABLE systems but with no result, >file upload works just fine. I have a bad feeling that it's very hard >to reproduce. >On the other hand, did the problem started to occ

Re: portupgrade question

2006-06-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 04:35:12PM -0400, Michael S wrote: > wget works like magic. I used the defaults. fetch I guess is the > FreeBSD default for "fetching" files from the web. It was having > problems fetching files from FTP sites. > No idea what the problem is. Try setting FTP_PASSIVE_MODE. T

Re: natd not starting on boot-up

2006-06-07 Thread Roger Merritt
At 01:34 PM 6/7/2006 +0300, you wrote: Try to comment the line natd_enable="YES" and then add a new line at the end of rc.conf: /etc/rc.d/natd start Well, that looks like it would work. I'll keep it in mind as a last resort. if this doesn't work, try to put natd_flags="" I'll give it a tr

Re: troubleshooting network settings

2006-06-07 Thread Malcolm Fitzgerald
On 08/06/2006, at 2:42 AM, Steve Bertrand wrote: Hmm, is that all? Unusual; I'd think the loopback _should_ be set up correctly. `ifconfig lo0 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0` ?? If that fixes it, then we have to figure out *why* it's not being doing automatically. Problem during

Re: troubleshooting network settings

2006-06-07 Thread Malcolm Fitzgerald
On 08/06/2006, at 12:06 AM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: I am running freeBSD v6.0 security on a home network behind an adsl router. I cannot connect to localhost from a browser (apache is running!) I cannot connect to localhost port 22 (KPackage

Re: portupgrade question (solved)

2006-06-07 Thread Michael S
I did define the to environment variables. For some reason, wget works just fine on the same machine. Thanks a lot. On 6/7/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 04:35:12PM -0400, Michael S wrote: > wget works like magic. I used the defaults. fetch I guess is the >

Re: burncd error

2006-06-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Napoleon Dynamite wrote: [ ...top posting recovered... ] On Wednesday 07 June 2006 10:44, Michael S wrote: I had the same kind of issue, also with 6.1-RELEASE, and just fixed it the Windows way - reboot. And it worked fine. I got that error pretty routinely for a while. The cd-r was always usa

Re: i wish to buy your site

2006-06-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > From: "Jerry McAllister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > >> On Sun, June 4, 2006 11:54, Richard Collyer wrote: > >> > bill hunt wrote: > >> >> dear webmaster. > >> >> My name is Bill Hunt and I'm interested in purchsing your site. > >> >> the price is nagotiable and I'm willing to pay as much as w