Trouble with rshd after replacing 5.x with 6.2-RELEASE

2007-09-08 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
Not long ago, I took a working FreeBSD 5.x system on my local network, (whose name is "shiny") wiped the disk clean, and then installed from scratch FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. I then configured it as best as I could to get it to behave as much as possible like the old/prior 5.x system. Most suff mostl

Re: Trouble with rshd after replacing 5.x with 6.2-RELEASE

2007-09-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Doing something simple from another machine on my network, such as: rsh shiny.lan.monkeys.com date you rsh as root? fix /etc/pam.d/rsh authrequiredpam_rhosts.so no_warn allow_root instead of authrequiredpam_rhosts.so no_warn

Re: UserID/Samba issue for wheel group members - newbie poster

2007-09-08 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:26 PM 9/7/2007, Bronte Averay wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: At 05:05 AM 9/7/2007, Bronte Averay wrote: Hello all, Firstly, apologies if this email appears more than once, just getting used to the protocols. I have an interesting but frustrating issue that I've not been able to diagnos

using a Hercules/Ralink usb wifi

2007-09-08 Thread beni
Hi all, I'm trying to get my usb wifi to work. The key is recognized by dmesg : [...] ural0: Ralink 802.11 bg WLAN, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 4 ural0: MAC/BBP RT2570 (rev 0x00), RF unknown ural0: Ethernet address: 00:08:d3:08:31:fd ural0: if_start running deferred for Giant ural0: timeout waiting for B

Clustering harddisk- Is this possiblem?

2007-09-08 Thread Aminuddin
Hi, I have 5 remote servers and each has about 400GB of HDD and another 2 servers running fedora. Is it possible for me to bind all the BSD boxes HDD to the fedora boxes? That means all data that's being downloaded to the fedora boxes is actually being stored in the FreeBSD boxes, transparent to t

Re: Clustering harddisk- Is this possiblem?

2007-09-08 Thread walsimou
On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 21:15:08 +0800, "Aminuddin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I have 5 remote servers and each has about 400GB of HDD and another 2 > servers running fedora. Is it possible for me to bind all the BSD boxes > HDD > to the fedora boxes? > > That means all data that's being dow

Re: Encrypting mirrored device with geli fails

2007-09-08 Thread Thomas Hobbes
> > > I was trying to encrypt /dev/mirror/gm0s1f but a "MD5 mismatch" > occurred: > > # umount /crypt > > # dd if=/dev/random of=/root/gm0s1f.key bs=64 count=1 > > 1+0 records in > > 1+0 records out > > 64 bytes transferred in 0.000580 secs (110331 bytes/sec) > > longer.. 32k or so. The same fail

Re: Clustering harddisk- Is this possiblem?

2007-09-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
man mount_nfs on BSD man mountd man nfsd on fedora On Sat, 8 Sep 2007, Aminuddin wrote: Hi, I have 5 remote servers and each has about 400GB of HDD and another 2 servers running fedora. Is it possible for me to bind all the BSD boxes HDD to the fedora boxes? That means all data that's being

snapshot is corrupt

2007-09-08 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
I just got the following when trying a portsnap. Any ideas? I really don't understand how portsnap works, so for me the error message isn't that useful. $ sudo portsnap fetch update Password: Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap3.Fre

Re: Encrypting mirrored device with geli fails

2007-09-08 Thread Thomas Hobbes
>> > >>> I was trying to encrypt /dev/mirror/gm0s1f but a "MD5 mismatch" > >> occurred: > >> > >> # umount /crypt > >>> # dd if=/dev/random of=/root/gm0s1f.key bs=64 count=1 > >>> 1+0 records in > >>> 1+0 records out > >>> 64 bytes transferred in 0.000580 secs (110331 bytes/sec) > >> > >> longer..

ADSL Bandwidth Monitoring

2007-09-08 Thread Bahman M.
Hi all, I have an ADSL connection at home. When I'm _uploading_ files the whole upload bandwidth is consumed; so far so good. But when _downloading_ no more than 30~40% of download bandwidth is consumed. The guys in the ISP say they've granted me the requested bandwidth but this is not wh

Re: ADSL Bandwidth Monitoring

2007-09-08 Thread Mel
On Saturday 08 September 2007 16:16:08 Bahman M. wrote: > How may I know the real bandwidth limits of my connection? Any tool or > trick? Or maybe I'm misunderstanding something about ADSL bandwidth? net/bmon is a good tool to see the bandwidth of your local interfaces. Other then that, bandwi

Re: ADSL Bandwidth Monitoring

2007-09-08 Thread Joao Barros
On 9/8/07, Bahman M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an ADSL connection at home. > > When I'm _uploading_ files the whole upload bandwidth is consumed; so > far so good. > > But when _downloading_ no more than 30~40% of download bandwidth is > consumed. > > The guys in the ISP say t

Re: nvidia-driver rebooting machine on X startup

2007-09-08 Thread Mel
On Saturday 08 September 2007 00:43:59 Darren Spruell wrote: > On 9/7/07, Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 07 September 2007 19:43:03 Darren Spruell wrote: > > > On 9/6/07, Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > At 03:10 PM 9/6/2007, Darren Spruell wrote: > > > > > > > > Wonde

Re: Sony Ericsson: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): NOT READY asc:3a, 0 (repeated)

2007-09-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Snow Mountains" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I posted this question 10 days ago, got no replies. Is it possible > nobody here installed CD release of FreeBSD 6.2 and has Sony Ericsson > mobile phone or something similar which causes similar problem? :-) > > Maybe summer time is the cause :-) So

Re: Dumb question about DES/MD5 in /etc/master.passwd

2007-09-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
João Carlos Mendes Luís <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >This question must be really dumb, but I cannot find its answer. > >In a somewhat recently updated RELENG_6 FreeBSD, whenever I run the > program /usr/bin/passwd to change an users password, it encrypts the > password using DES. I have

Re: snapshot is corrupt

2007-09-08 Thread Pollywog
On Saturday 08 September 2007 13:58:24 Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > I just got the following when trying a portsnap. Any ideas? > I really don't understand how portsnap works, so for me the error > message isn't that useful. > > > $ sudo portsnap fetch update > Password: > Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD

Re: ADSL Bandwidth Monitoring

2007-09-08 Thread Bahman M.
Joao Barros wrote: On 9/8/07, Bahman M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I have an ADSL connection at home. When I'm _uploading_ files the whole upload bandwidth is consumed; so far so good. But when _downloading_ no more than 30~40% of download bandwidth is consumed. The guys in the ISP s

Re: snapshot is corrupt

2007-09-08 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Sep 8, 2007, at 10:10 AM, Pollywog wrote: This is what I would do... as root, cd /usr/ports/ rm -rf * (make sure you are in /usr/ports/ when you do this) Safer would probably be rm -rf /usr/ports/ mkdir /usr/ports portsnap fetch (this will take a while) portsnap extract After t

Re: need help using ndis and inconv

2007-09-08 Thread Terrence Wilson
When I enter the command: # rehash Nothing happens. I still can't run the iconv command. In fact, I don't see an iconv executable file anywhere. I installed it as a package, and when I run the command: # pkg_info -L iconv-2.0_3 | less I get a list of files -- mainly .so files and .cct files in

Re: snapshot is corrupt

2007-09-08 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Sep 8, 2007, at 11:28 AM, Steve Bernacki wrote: This happens to me from time to time on a few older (6.1) systems. Typically, re-running "portsnap fetch" clears the issue. I did another fetch and that did seem to solve the problem. So I didn't have to go to the more drastic solution of

Re: snapshot is corrupt

2007-09-08 Thread Steve Bernacki
This happens to me from time to time on a few older (6.1) systems. Typically, re-running "portsnap fetch" clears the issue. Steve On 9/8/07, Jeffrey Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just got the following when trying a portsnap. Any ideas? > I really don't understand how portsnap works

VIA Technologies USB 2.0 IDE Bridge woes

2007-09-08 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm running 6.2-STABLE on i386. Yesterday I purchased a 3.5" USB 2.0 Hard Drive Enclosure kit under the brand name RocketFish, model number RF-HD35. My intention was to put a couple of extra 250GB PATA drives to work. I mounted a WD 250GB PATA drive in the enclosure and plugged it into

Re: ADSL Bandwidth Monitoring

2007-09-08 Thread Amitabh Kant
On 9/8/07, Bahman M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tested the connection by downloading 2~3 files simultaneously and used > 'bmon' as Mel suggested in another reply (thanks to him). As I'd > already guessed the RX don't get bigger than 30~40% of the expected > bandwidth. I performed the test wit

Re: ADSL Bandwidth Monitoring

2007-09-08 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Amitabh Kant wrote: On 9/8/07, Bahman M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I tested the connection by downloading 2~3 files simultaneously and used 'bmon' as Mel suggested in another reply (thanks to him). As I'd already guessed the RX don't get bigger than 30~40% of the expected bandwidth. I perform

Re: ADSL Bandwidth Monitoring

2007-09-08 Thread RW
On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:27:38 -0500 Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Amitabh Kant wrote: > > On 9/8/07, Bahman M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I tested the connection by downloading 2~3 files simultaneously > >> and used 'bmon' as Mel suggested in another reply (thanks to > >> him). As

Re: ADSL Bandwidth Monitoring

2007-09-08 Thread Tim Daneliuk
RW wrote: On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:27:38 -0500 Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Amitabh Kant wrote: On 9/8/07, Bahman M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I tested the connection by downloading 2~3 files simultaneously and used 'bmon' as Mel suggested in another reply (thanks to him). As I'd a

question about BSDCan videos

2007-09-08 Thread Ovi
Hello I've found this website: http://www.mavetju.org/unix/multimedia/openbsd/multimedia.html There are links for BSDCan videos and other FreeBSD resources. I my question is: can I upload thoses videos to Google Video and then embed them on my website? My website is http://www.freebsdonline

Re: /usr/ports & portupgrade when only using packages

2007-09-08 Thread Adam J Richardson
Mel wrote: On Wednesday 05 September 2007 20:34:56 Adam J Richardson wrote: Well, that's easy... # rm -R /usr/ports Saves you a load of disk space, too. The only downside is you get slightly older versions of software with packages. Oh, and don't use portsnap, it'll undo that "rm -R" for you

RE: ADSL Bandwidth Monitoring

2007-09-08 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Get a personal website from the ISP Upload a file to the personal webserver Download the file from the personal webserver. If the bandwidth isn't what it's supposed to be, then have the ISP call the local telephone company and have that company check to see that your modem is training at the co

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 - STABLE sysctl: hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest: Invalid argument

2007-09-08 Thread Bogdan Potishuk
George Vanev said the following on 30.08.2007 12:22: > Hi, > > I tried to build a custom kernel, but i get the following error on boot up: > hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest: C1 > sysctl: hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest: Invalid argument > > I have updated the source tree. > I tried to compile and install /usr/src/sy

RE: ADSL Bandwidth Monitoring

2007-09-08 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Amitabh Kant > Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 12:25 PM > To: Bahman M. > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: ADSL Bandwidth Monitoring > > > On 9/8/07, Bahman M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote

Nginx + FastCGI + PHP5 on FreeBSD 7.0

2007-09-08 Thread OutBackDingo
Ok wizards Nginx Lighttpd Fast-cgi and PHP5 seems all configured, yet when i point a browser at a php page it tries to download the file, instead of render it in the browser, any ideas what i missed --nginx.conf-- #user nobody; worker_processes 1; events { worker_con

RE: ADSL Bandwidth Monitoring

2007-09-08 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tim Daneliuk > Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 2:01 PM > To: RW > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: ADSL Bandwidth Monitoring > > > RW wrote: > > On Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:27:38 -0500 > >

Nginx PHP5 Fast-CGI FreeBSD CURRENT

2007-09-08 Thread OutBackDingo
Ok wizards Nginx Lighttpd Fast-cgi and PHP5 seems all configured, yet when i point a browser at a php page it tries to download the file, instead of render it in the browser, any ideas what i missed --nginx.conf-- #user nobody; worker_processes 1; events { worker_con

Re: ADSL Bandwidth Monitoring

2007-09-08 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't understand this. If the actual DSL circuit is point-to-point - i.e., not shared between the premise and the DSLAM in the CO, just exactly *where* is the contention occuring? Inside the ISP's router. However even cheap

Re: Nginx PHP5 Fast-CGI FreeBSD CURRENT

2007-09-08 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:38:50 +0300, OutBackDingo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > # .php5 sent to php5 > location ~ .*\.php5$ { I'm not sure for this expression, i use for .php location ~ \.php$ { > include /usr/local/etc/nginx/fastcgi_params; > fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:10005; >

csh if..then delhema.

2007-09-08 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have tried every escape sequence I can think of, and I still get Division by 0 error here.. if ($filesystem == "\/") then $fsname = $fsnm1 elseif ($filesystem == '/var') then $fsname =$fsnm2 elseif ($files

Re: ADSL Bandwidth Monitoring

2007-09-08 Thread RW
On Sat, 8 Sep 2007 15:30:57 -0700 "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Amitabh > > Kant Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 12:25 PM > > To: Bahman M. > > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: setting up xorg - mouse

2007-09-08 Thread Computer Answers
sorry about the time delay: um it is a generic PS2 mouse made by digiView I tried running the xorg config wizard a few tmes choosing different mouse types each time. None of them work. as for xorg.conf Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocall" "Auto" Option "Devi

Re: Sony Ericsson: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): NOT READY asc:3a, 0 (repeated)

2007-09-08 Thread Snow Mountains
Lowell Gilbert wrote: > I have a Sony Ericsson phone, but it isn't a USB device. Thanks Lowell for your response. Do you attach your Sony Ericsson to computer at all, for example if you use it as camera? Is there any other option, or something that can you recommend? Another cable? > These kinds

Re: csh if..then delhema.

2007-09-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-08 20:00, Grant Peel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have tried every escape sequence I can think of, and I still get > Division by 0 error here.. > > if ($filesystem == "\/") then > $fsname = $fsnm1 > elseif ($filesystem == '/var') the

Re: ADSL Bandwidth Monitoring

2007-09-08 Thread Joao Barros
On 9/8/07, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Amitabh Kant > > Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 12:25 PM > > To: Bahman M. > > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: ADSL Ba

Re: Dumb question about DES/MD5 in /etc/master.passwd

2007-09-08 Thread João Carlos Mendes Luís
Lowell Gilbert wrote: João Carlos Mendes Luís <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: This question must be really dumb, but I cannot find its answer. In a somewhat recently updated RELENG_6 FreeBSD, whenever I run the program /usr/bin/passwd to change an users password, it encrypts the password

Re: csh if..then delhema.

2007-09-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-09-08 20:00, Grant Peel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I have tried every escape sequence I can think of, and I still get Division by 0 error here.. if ($filesystem == "\/") then $fsname = $fsnm1 elseif ($filesyst

The FreeBSD Diary: 2007-08-19 - 2007-09-08

2007-09-08 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

natd / ipfw services on internal interface

2007-09-08 Thread Joe
I have a question about natd/ and ipfw. I am running natd on my external interface and I have some services on my internal interface. The services seem to be getting their ip addresses nat'd and some of them work and some of them dont. Any idea how to prevent things from going into natd? J

RE: ADSL Bandwidth Monitoring

2007-09-08 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joao Barros > Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2007 7:33 PM > To: Ted Mittelstaedt > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: ADSL Bandwidth Monitoring > > > On 9/8/07, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: ADSL Bandwidth Monitoring

2007-09-08 Thread Tek Bahadur Limbu
Hi Bahman, Bahman M. wrote: Hi all, I have an ADSL connection at home. When I'm _uploading_ files the whole upload bandwidth is consumed; so far so good. But when _downloading_ no more than 30~40% of download bandwidth is consumed. The guys in the ISP say they've granted me the requeste