ad0: TIMEOUT the saga continues.

2005-01-04 Thread borg
Greetings all, Today is the second time I get this message on my console: ad0: Timeout - write_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=18576259 later same exact msg and LBA=3157791 The machine freezes I had to hard boot it each time I see this msg. It's random no time interval or pattern and it's mac

Hard Drive Buffer tool.

2005-01-27 Thread borg
Greetings, Someone gave me an IDE HD and he doesn't know how many MB buffer it is. I checked the manufacturer data sheet. And I found that this exact model comes with 2MB and 8MB buffer. Anyone knows if there is a tool or a built-in utility under FreeBSD that allows me to get such information, wi

postfix chrooting.

2004-09-14 Thread borg
Greetings, I have a FreeBSD 5.3-BETA3 #0 setup. Installed Bind9 and chrooted it. It's running perfectly. Now I'm trying to chroot postfix-2.1.4,1 MTA. I googled the mailing list and other sites, the only reference I found mentioning the source code containing a directory examples/chroot-setup/FRE

Re: BIND9 REPLACE BASE BIND8

2004-09-14 Thread borg
--- Joshua Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been having been having some issues with BIND > that have been > driving me up the wall. I believe I may have located > the problem. I > believe I had both BIND8 and BIND9 installed on the > same system. So I am > reinstalling from the ports col

Re: Bind9 replace base Bind8 "corrected"

2004-09-14 Thread borg
--- borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's a very common confusion. Usually after > installing Bind9 from the ports "named -v" gives you > the 8.x version. A fast and dirty method to override > the old Bind8 with Bind9 tools and file: > cd /usr/ports/net/

Re: postfix chrooting.

2004-09-16 Thread borg
--- Volker Kindermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My question is, how to proceed after that ? What > do I > > have to do to create the chroot environment. And > what > > option I should enclude in the main.cf to make > postfix > > start chrooted. > > look at master.cf. There you can determine,

mini-itx posting.

2004-09-16 Thread borg
Greetings, I want to post some info on a mini-itx mobo I bought, so other users can benefit from that. can I post that to freebsd-questions@ ? If not what's the right list ? ___ Do you Yahoo!? Declare Yourself - Register online to vote today! http:/

Re: mini-itx posting.

2004-09-17 Thread borg
Greetings, I was told freebsd-hardware@ is the appropriate place to such posting. It's in the archive now. In order not to waste more bandwidth here is the link: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2004-September/001919.html Good luck, = "UNIX, it's a way of life."

5.3-RELEASE time line

2004-10-24 Thread borg
Greatings, I've noticed that 5.3-RC1 is in the ftp now. Maybe there will be a 5.3-RC2 later on. Anyone knows when roughly the 5.3-RELEASE will be available. I want to wait for that. Just need an estimate date if anyone knows. regards, = "UNIX, it's a way of life." ___

PCI modems supported.

2004-11-01 Thread borg
Greetings, I was looking at the hardware-i386 under releases for a PCI modem V.92 data/fax/voice that is supported under FreeBSD. Found only a reference to 3com 3CP5609 not much on google, but one OpenBSD link compained about it. I would like to get a feedback if anyone had a successful experienc

World Clock "timezones"

2004-11-03 Thread borg
Greetings, I'm looking for a world clock that helps me keep track of time in different cities by showing me clocks for multiple time zones. Preferably under X if not I don't mind using a non-GUI based application. I searched the /usr/ports for the string "clock" & "timezone" but nothing from the

Bind9 run two instances vs. multiple views.

2004-11-06 Thread borg
Greetings, I'm planning to install 5.3 Release today and setup Bind 9 on a server. my question is: Can anyone confirm my thoughts that running Bind 9 in multiple views to handle External and Internal queries is more efficient (in terms of system resources) than of running two instances of Bind 9

Ezjail & freebsd-update

2011-08-21 Thread Rocky Borg
I had an opportunity to upgrade a server from freebsd 8.1 to 8.2 since it had to be restarted any way. I upgraded it with freebsd-update and compiled a custom kernel with no problem. However I haven't been able to find a procedure for updating jails when they've been setup with ezjail. I did 'e

FreeBSD on AMD 64 Boot Lock Up - ACPI Related

2005-05-08 Thread Joseph Borg
Hi, I'm a newbie to freebsd. I've just installed the AMD64 version (5.4 RC 3) on my system (Asus A8V Deluxe Motherboard). The install off the CD's went fine, and I was really happy that Freebsd supports the Promise SATA RAID controller (currently have to Sata Disks in RAID 1 Mirror configuration).

RE: FreeBSD on AMD 64 Boot Lock Up - ACPI Related

2005-05-08 Thread Joseph Borg
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FreeBSD on AMD 64 Boot Lock Up - ACPI Related On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 08:32:43PM +0200, Joseph Borg wrote: > Should I disable ACPI completely? If so, how should I go about doing this > and how will it affect my system? Disabling ACPI seems to solve problems for a lot of

RE: FreeBSD on AMD 64 Boot Lock Up - ACPI Related

2005-05-10 Thread Joseph Borg
First of all, please to not top-post. It disturbs the normal flow of reading. But to answer your question, if your PC's devices are all correctly working with FreeBSD drivers and if you don't use power management I see no great need for ACPI. Laptops might need the power management component of AC

NVIDIA Driver on 5.4 RC3

2005-05-10 Thread Joseph Borg
Hi, I've got an NVIDIA TNT2 and I'm trying to install NVIDIA's driver on the AMD 64 Release of 5.4 RC3. The driver I'm trying to install is: NVIDIA-FreeBSD-x86-1.0-7174.tar.gz. When I try to install it, make stops with an error saying that vm86.h was not found. Has anyone come across this problem

RE: ASUS A8V-E onBoard Gigabit Ethernet Marvell 88E8053 Chipset

2005-05-14 Thread Joseph Borg
Any word on a driver for this chipset? It doesn't seem to be detected at all. I have read here: http://sources.zabbadoz.net/freebsd/if_sk.html that it's not yet supported by the "sk" driver, however other chips of a similar type are supported. Is there any word on if it's supported anywhere by

Re: is this a possible DoS attack?

2005-05-16 Thread Joseph Borg
On 5/16/05, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I had a server reboot itself twice in close succession in the middle > of the night, after a long uptime. This server had not reboot itself > in ages (years) -- all previous boots were controlled. > > The syslog has the follo

Newbie Questions

2005-05-17 Thread Joseph Borg
Hi, I've got a couple of questions I was hoping someone could help me with: - I've got an (extremely old) HP Scanjet 4c Scanner hooked up via an Adaptec SCSI card to my system. Freebsd seems to recognize this scanner at boot: May 17 20:48:36 cronus kernel: pass0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0 May 1

RE: NVIDIA Driver on 5.4 RC3

2005-05-17 Thread Joseph Borg
-Original Message- From: Mike Jeays [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 May 2005 22:00 To: Rod Person Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVIDIA Driver on 5.4 RC3 On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 12:37, Rod Person wrote: > On Tue, 10 May 2005 12:24:30 -0400, Joseph B

RE: scanner software, dvd software, Gnome sound problem (was: Newbie Questions)

2005-05-17 Thread Joseph Borg
Hi Bob, Thanks for the info :) I've never used it, but the standard answer seems to be SANE: /usr/ports/graphics/xsane /usr/ports/graphics/sane-frontends - I've installed it; now I'll try and figure out how to use it. Shouldn't be a problem I guess. > - Secondly, I've also got a NEC IDE DVD-RW

RE: Newbie Questions

2005-05-17 Thread Joseph Borg
Hi Ron, Thanks for your tips. The sound card and mixer look ok now. I've also installed xsane and I'm now figuring out how to use it. As for the DVD, I've search my ports for growisofs however, I cannot find it. Can I download it off anywhere? Thanks, Joe

Samba Config

2005-05-24 Thread Joseph Borg
Hi, I don't know whether this is the appropriate list to ask but since my install is on FreeBSD, I thought I'd try. I've got a FreeBSD server 5.4 running samba 3.x. I then have 3 Windows XP Pro Stand Alone PCs. I'd like to use the samba server as a simple file share/network drive server. I would n

Re: vmware and freebsd 8

2010-07-27 Thread Rocky Borg
I haven't used vmware so I can't say if it's better but it didn't take me long to get freebsd up and running with virtualbox. Just follow the instructions at http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox You do have to install /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions/ on the guest. I got FreeBSD 8.1

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-07-28 Thread Rocky Borg
On 7/28/2010 1:46 PM, Chuck Robey wrote: The point is, no sane person really believes that Beastie equates to devil worship, and I don't like the idea of letting crazies dictate my life. So you're saying I shouldn't be ritualing sacrificing a chicken as "Carl Orff's - O Fortuna" plays in the b

Re: Ifconfig (DHCP?) configures two IPs in one IF

2010-08-05 Thread Rocky Borg
On 8/5/2010 11:17 AM, Guojun Jin wrote: This problem comes in 8.1-R. I have seen it before and thought I filed a report but cannot find it. I found one (bin/21292) for ifconfig, but it was for two NICs with a same IP. Now is a reversed case One NIC has two IPs. Here is the description: Due

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

2010-08-06 Thread Rocky Borg
On 8/6/2010 10:15 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote: Thank you Manolis for your work. I installed it and have one difficulty, that otherwise I would not bother you or other users here on the list. I loaded gdm to autologin xfce but I can autologin to gnome. How can I do it to only load xfce. T

Re: pkg_add on dialup: resume?

2010-08-07 Thread Rocky Borg
On 8/7/2010 6:03 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: However, I'm on dialup. pkg_add doesn't seem to be able to resume since I can't use the phone line (or the computer) long enough to install packages all in one go. Is there a solution to this? There might be a more elegant solution but this is

Re: ssh under attack - sessions in accepted state hogging CPU

2010-08-09 Thread Rocky Borg
One thing I don't see mentioned a lot is port knocking. It's not perfect but it does have it's uses. Since it sounds like you have a lot of users that need to connect you might be able to adapt it to your situation. I haven't tried this specific port knocking sequence but you could setup a kno

Re: How to connect a jail to the web ?

2010-08-10 Thread Rocky Borg
On 8/10/2010 4:01 AM, Brice ERRANDONEA wrote: Hello, I've just created my first FreeBSD jail in order to install a web server inside. But I don't know how to connect it to the web. When I try pinging a http website, it doesn't work. Of course, it works when I do it from outside the jail. Anothe

Re: How to connect a jail to the web ?

2010-08-10 Thread Rocky Borg
On 8/10/2010 5:02 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: 1. ping is a security risk from within a jail and is disabled by design. (read jail(8) for details). No use using a jail if the first thing you do is re-enable ping in the jail. To test for public internet connection from within a jail use dig or whois comman

Re: Re : How to connect a jail to the web ?

2010-08-11 Thread Rocky Borg
On 8/11/2010 8:35 AM, Brice ERRANDONEA wrote: I tried all of this without any result. But I won't give up. What I want is a jail with an Apache http server running inside. So, the jail must have a public IPv4 and access to the web. I've been in the same boat as you and there isn't a lot of cle

Re: releases, branches,..

2010-08-12 Thread Rocky Borg
On 8/12/2010 2:02 PM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: On 12-8-2010 22:53, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:46:18 +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I'm running 8.1-RELEASE now, but what about security issues found? Which brach do I follow? In this case, use "freebsd-update" to track -RELEASE; you

Re: box reboot after hdd write error

2010-08-18 Thread Rocky Borg
On 8/17/2010 11:37 PM, claudiu vasadi wrote: Hello fellas, My system is a 8.0-RELEASE with 6 hdd's. 2 days ago I had some power failures and 2 disks were affected. These 2 hdd;s are connected to "atapci0: port 0xd000-0xd007,0xd100-0xd103,0xd200-0xd207,0xd300-0xd303,0xd400-0xd40f mem 0xfa4a000

Re: Mail and DNS setup

2010-08-19 Thread Rocky Borg
On 8/19/2010 3:44 PM, Depo Catcher wrote: While we're at it, any alternatives to bind? We have a slow internet so like to cache things locally. Other than local lookup and caching, nothing else is needed. Unbound ( http://www.unbound.net/ ) just does validating, recursive, and caching DNS.

Re: DSPAM

2010-08-26 Thread Rocky Borg
On 8/26/2010 5:36 PM, siefke_lis...@web.de wrote: -o smtpd_authorized_xforward_hosts=127.0.0.0/8 That's probably the problem. It needs to be the ip of the jail. A jail maps localhost addresses like 127.0.0.1 to the jail's address. So when you specify network blocks in access restrictions,

jailaudit

2010-09-25 Thread Rocky Borg
I've been trying to get jailaudit setup to mail reports daily and I haven't had much luck. It generates reports and I can read them in /usr/local/etc/jailaudit/reports. However when I try # jailaudit mail r...@example.com ALL No email is sent (nothing shows up in the maillog). The only time I

Any way to net boot the FreeBSD installer?

2004-07-26 Thread Donald Burr of Borg
some help, guidance, a "HOW TO" type guide, etc.? Thanks! -- Donald Burr of Borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! Website: http://www.borg-cube.com/| http://www.freebsd.org/ PO Box 91212, Santa Barbara CA 93190-1212 \- Tel: (805)56

Support for Seagate TRAVAN NS20 (using FreeCom USB-ATAPI chip)?

2002-12-31 Thread Donald Burr of Borg
Is there any hope of getting this thing to work (anyone know of any drivers out there, etc.) or are we SOL? We're runninng 4.7-RELEASE. -- Donald Burr of Borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! WWW: http://www.borg-cube.com/ ICQ #16997506 | http://www.freebsd.org/ P.

Promise Ultra ATA 133 PCI card supported?

2002-09-18 Thread Donald Burr of Borg
TA 133 PCI controller. Is this card supported by FreeBSD? (Running 4.7-PRERELEASE, cvs'd at Sun Sep 8 02:42 PM PDT)? Thanks, Donald -- Donald Burr of Borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! WWW: http://www.borg-cube.com/ ICQ #16997506 | http://www.freebsd.org/ P.O. Box

Re: Promise Ultra ATA 133 PCI card supported?

2002-09-19 Thread Donald Burr of Borg
ive that is master, and another that is slave, on the same controller. -- Donald Burr of Borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! WWW: http://www.borg-cube.com/ ICQ #16997506 | http://www.freebsd.org/ P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 \

Booting FreeBSD Install Floppy with USB Floppy drive?

2002-12-14 Thread Donald Burr of Borg
if I attach a CD-ROM drive to this unit, but hey, I always do things the unconventional way :-) (Besides, I don't have any CD-ROM drives.) Any and all help greatly appreciated. Thanks! -- Donald Burr of Borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! WWW: http://www.borg-

Bandwidth allocation - is this possible?

2002-12-16 Thread Donald Burr of Borg
d. Thanks! -- Donald Burr of Borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! WWW: http://www.borg-cube.com/ ICQ #16997506 | http://www.freebsd.org/ P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 \- Phone: (805)563-0672

Setting up a multi-platform VPN?

2003-07-18 Thread Donald Burr of Borg
latform VPN monster going? Help! I need some backup!! Thanks, Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Donald Burr of Borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! Website: http://www.borg-cube.com/| http://www.freebsd.org/ PO Box 91212, Santa Barbara CA 93190-1212 \-

Trouble reading BSD formatted HD in USB hard drive... but it worksfine in Linux!

2003-07-23 Thread Donald Burr of Borg
abs USB-to-IDE bridge chip, tho I can't tell what the chip's part number is. Thanks!! -- Donald Burr of Borg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! Website: http://www.borg-cube.com/| http://www.freebsd.org/ PO Box 91212, Santa Barbara CA 93190-1212 \--

Need help with strange routing situation

2003-09-02 Thread Donald Burr of Borg
an unsuitable platform for the setup described above, and if another platofrm is more suitable (e.g. Linux), I suppose I could switch if necessary, tho that's not the optimal setup (I am very happy with the way FreeBSD works for me). So, any idea of how to do this? Or do I need to go buy so