/stand/sysinstall core dump

2003-02-01 Thread Bob Bomar
When I was installing 5.0 Release, the installer hung when it was detecting my SanDisk card reader. I unpluged it and restarted the installation, and everything worked fine. Now when I try to run /stand/sysinstall it core dumps when I have my card reader plugged in. uanme: FreeBSD

Re: restricting user's directory listing and changing

2003-02-01 Thread Oliver Bantke
Greetings. Basically, I have this group of users, that I give SSH/SFTP access, but I don't want them to be able to see the complete file hierarchy and ``cd'' to them. I just want a user to be able to access the user's home, and that's it. I looked up some docs on the

Re: BIND 9.2.2rc1 installation confirmation?

2003-02-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:45:17PM -0500, Jamie wrote: It required OpenSSL 0.9e or higher which I was able to get to install with make; make install. Then I continued with another attempt at BIND. I finally finished with the installation but now I can't seem to find a way to confirm that BIND

Re: Ooops.

2003-02-01 Thread bastill
Quoting Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've been quietly following this thread since it started and ... I can't reproduce this behaviour. I've created and deleted I don't know how many test directories and symlinks and I can't get it to do what you're claiming it did. As root, try copying

apache+ssl-1.3.27.1.48_1 has missing libssl.so.2

2003-02-01 Thread taproot420
I just installed the apache+ssl-1.3.27.1.48_1.tgz package on my 4.7 box and the damn thing wont start...has this error message. # httpsdctl start /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libssl.so.2 not found /usr/local/sbin/httpsdctl start: httpsd could not be started find / -name libssl.so.2

apache

2003-02-01 Thread taproot420
I just installed the apache+ssl-1.3.27.1.48_1.tgz package on my 4.7 box and the damn thing wont start...has this error message. # httpsdctl start /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libssl.so.2 not found /usr/local/sbin/httpsdctl start: httpsd could not be started find / -name libssl.so.2

Re: Sendmail directory ownership changed

2003-02-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 07:55:24PM -0600, Joey Teel wrote: A few days ago I started getting errors in my syslog saying that sendmail couldn't write to the mail directories, on inspection of the permissions, I discovered that all the mail directories had been changed to be owned by my personal

Re: FreeBSD 2.7-RELEASE - Where are cvsup example files?

2003-02-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 11:00:06PM -0800, joe mcguckin wrote: What happened to the example config files that used to live In /usr/share/examples/cvsup ? Errr... I hope you mean 4.7-RELEASE --- I don't think there was ever a 2.7 release, although there was a 2.2.7 one upon a time. As I

Error while compiling kernel.

2003-02-01 Thread Sergey Niunco
I'm trying to compile a new kernel on my 4.7-STABLE. This is what I get: /usr/src/sys/modules/umass/../../dev/usb/umass.c:380: syntax error before `{' /usr/src/sys/modules/umass/../../dev/usb/umass.c:383: warning: no semicolon at e nd of struct or union

Re: Resizing partions

2003-02-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:40:32PM -0500, stan wrote: I've got a laptop that I originaly partioned inot a windoze, and FreeBSD partiton. I'm going to upgrade this unit this weekend, and I wnat to concatenate the 2 partions. Is there a way to do this? (Yes, it's the m$ parition I'm nuking).

Crossoveroffice

2003-02-01 Thread Alex Huth
Hi guys! Has anyone installed crossoveroffice on FreeBSD. I´ve get the problem needing glibc 2.1. When i do a search in the prots i only find a japanese glibc. Any ideas how to solve the problem? Thanks ... Alex Huth To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: Error while compiling kernel.

2003-02-01 Thread Sergey Niunco
Device scbus was and is in my kernel config. A few days ago I compiled it without a problem. On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 13:18:27 + Danny Pansters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 12:40:55 +0100 Sergey Niunco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to compile a new kernel on my

Re: Resizing partions

2003-02-01 Thread stan
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 11:45:50AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:40:32PM -0500, stan wrote: I've got a laptop that I originaly partioned inot a windoze, and FreeBSD partiton. I'm going to upgrade this unit this weekend, and I wnat to concatenate the 2 partions.

avifile distfile

2003-02-01 Thread Baby Peanut
Hi, The distfile for ports/multimedia/avifile is not available on the sites listed by the ports tree. It is still available on the web. Try http://www.filesearching.com/ or http://www.alltheweb.com/ (and use ftp files mode) HTH, BP __ Do

BIND 9.2.2rc1 installation confirmation?

2003-02-01 Thread Jamie
I'm really new to UNIX. Please be gentle with me. I've chosen to run BIND 9.2.2rc1 as advised by someone on the BIND mailing list. I can only hope that I installed it properly. It required OpenSSL 0.9e or higher which I was able to get to install with make; make install. Then I continued with

pc-card modem setup, device, ppp.conf

2003-02-01 Thread Michael Walsh
I just installed FreeBSD 4.7 on my HP OmniBook 4150 laptop and everything runs well. I have an external modem that I connect to the COM1 port (/dev/cuaa0) and I'm able to phone to my ISP without a problem. This laptop came with a pc-card modem that I'd like to get working, so that I don't have

no Qt == no aviplay

2003-02-01 Thread Baby Peanut
configure of avifile says: configure: warning: *** Could not find usable Qt (headers and libraries) on your system! *** If it _is_ installed, delete ./config.cache and re-run ./configure, *** specifying path to Qt headers and libraries in configure options. *** Switching off Qt compilation! The

Re: Multiple solutions for a problem (Re: How to map bad sectors on IDE?)

2003-02-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Marc Schneiders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Your advise sounds perfectly sound for IBM and Microsoft and the Pentagon. But for a home or small office situation, there might be another way to deal with it? Especially since we are not talking about something 10 years old or heavily used in a

Re: How to map bad sectors on IDE?

2003-02-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
John Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: out of circulation. 'apropos badblocks' and 'man fsck' failed to suggest such a function in fBSD, but it might be worth more looking. badsect(8) Why is it radical? After all, IDE disks already do bad-block remapping internally, so you've built up a

SpamAssassin

2003-02-01 Thread Justin P. Michel
Greetings, Is there anyone that has a simple set-up guide for Spam Assassin? I've installed it from the ports, but have no idea where to go next. Checking the web has only brought me documents which further confuse me. Regards, Justin P. Michel |- J Continuum |- 21071 - 640 River Street |-

Tomcat's dogging me...

2003-02-01 Thread Rich Fox
Hi, Okay, after many hours I have tomcat installed and I can connect to it's webserver. Unfortunately, I want to connect to to Apache and have it hand off the requests to tomcat. Here's the background and the most current glitches... FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE Jakarta-Tomcat 4.1.12 Apache 2.0.43

oh my god the nasa shuttle blewup

2003-02-01 Thread JoeB
Seven soles lost in the disaster. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

acd0 problem installing 5.0

2003-02-01 Thread John Murphy
Greetings I can't seem to install FreeBSD 5.0 Release on some old but functioning i386 hardware. The problem occurs just after creating the emergency holographic shell on vt4, and the error message says: Error mounting /dev/acd0 on /dist: Operation not supported by device (19). I've installed

Re: Ooops.

2003-02-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-02-01 20:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've been quietly following this thread since it started and ... I can't reproduce this behaviour. I've created and deleted I don't know how many test directories and symlinks and I can't get it to do

Re: SpamAssassin

2003-02-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-02-01T16:22:11Z, Justin P. Michel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there anyone that has a simple set-up guide for Spam Assassin? I've installed it from the ports, but have no idea where to go next. Checking the web has only brought me documents which further confuse me. I published a

Re: pc-card modem setup, device, ppp.conf

2003-02-01 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 10:42:47AM -0500, Michael Walsh wrote: I just installed FreeBSD 4.7 on my HP OmniBook 4150 laptop and everything runs well. I have an external modem that I connect to the COM1 port (/dev/cuaa0) and I'm able to phone to my ISP without a problem. This laptop came with

Postfix SpamAssassin

2003-02-01 Thread JoeB
Can Spamassassin work directly with Postfix? Meaning no procmail in the mix? IF so is there any HOWTO's on it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Tomcat's dogging me...

2003-02-01 Thread Rich Fox
Hi, Okay well I sorted out part of it anyways. The package /usr/ports/mod_jk/ that is in the FreeBSD 4.7 is not compatible with Apache 2.0. --well, or maybe it is, but it will not compile without some of the src files from the apache1.3 distribution, specifically, util_date.h and

RE: Sendmail directory ownership changed

2003-02-01 Thread Joey Teel
Thank you for the info, I received some additional help off the list as well :) Before changing anything, I decided to make a disk image for mounting Read-Only when I have the time to investigate it more thoroughly. So far it seems to be working properly. Thank you again to those who helped :)

Re: Postfix SpamAssassin

2003-02-01 Thread Len Conrad
Can Spamassassin work directly with Postfix? yes, as a content-filter, see the Spamassassin site, see the postfix site. Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

AMD 64bit support

2003-02-01 Thread abdul hakeem
Hello, I would like to know if the upcoming AMD Opteron 64bit CPU is supported on FreeBSD ? Regards, Abdul Hakeem To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Last Chance...15.2 MILLION OPT-IN EMAIL ADDRESSES...PLUS $2,000 IN FREE EMAIL MARKETING SOFTWARE!

2003-02-01 Thread Hayri
WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE YOUR MESSAGE SEEN BY OVER 15.2 MILLION OPT-IN, TARGETED PEOPLE DAILY? Below contains all the information you will ever need to market your product or service on the Internet. If you have a product, service, or message that you would like to get out to Thousands,

Grub 0.92 fails to recognise disks on FBSD5

2003-02-01 Thread Chris Delnooz
Hi all, i'm experiencing problems with the installation of the GRUB bootloader. I have installed the port (grub version 0.92) and created the /boot/grub directory with the files from /usr/local/share/grub/i381-freebsd. Next I created a menu.lst file in /boot/grub and thought to install GRUB in

DNS question

2003-02-01 Thread aSe
I've got a dns running on a freebsd computer at my company. I'm new to the concept of DNS and how it all works. My question is: When a person does a dns lookup to the server and its not already cached, how does It find out the correct name server to use to find the ip? Thanks! To

Re: DNS question

2003-02-01 Thread Bill Moran
[please wrap you lines at 72 characters or so] aSe wrote: When a person does a dns lookup to the server and its not already cached, how does It find out the correct name server to use to find the ip? FreeBSD comes with a list of root DNS servers. These are master servers maintained by many

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2003-02-01 Thread Remington L.
I have a Sony VAIO GRX-570 running 5.0-RELEASE. Like many others I do not have a mouse either and I have no idea how to get it back. I did anticipate this so when I had 4.7 I documented this: Psm0: PS/2 Mouse irq 12 on atkbdc0 Psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 I doubt that helps but

Re: DNS question

2003-02-01 Thread Len Conrad
When a person does a dns lookup to the server and its not already cached, how does It find out the correct name server to use to find the ip? The DNS navigates the DNS namespace until it finds a positive or negative answer, or the until DNS's that should have the answer fail to respond. Len

Re: Verizon DSL+PPPoE

2003-02-01 Thread Doug Reynolds
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:54:55 -0500, Matthew Emmerton wrote: I remember seeing this posted about a year ago, but I couldn't google it one my business server, I run Verizon DSL and PPPoE. I setup it up like with the example they used on Freebsddairy. the problem I ran into, after about

RE: DNS question

2003-02-01 Thread Len Conrad
Ahh okay, I understand that. Someone once told me the information is already downloaded in a list, so the server doesn't have to contact root all the time to get ns information. Is this not true anymore? bind9 has the root-servers hints zone in its binary, but will use an external hints zone

Bootable CD

2003-02-01 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am going blind again. What is the easiest way to make a bootable FreeBSD 4.7 RELEASE CD-ROM? -Grant To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Microsoft USB keyboard

2003-02-01 Thread Douglas K. Rand
I've bought a handfull of cheap Microsoft Natural Keyboards from a reseller, but they turned out to be USB only keyboards. I've got the keyboards working with FreeBSD XFree86 just fine, with the exception of the extra hot keys. They hot keys don't seem to make any X events at all. When I launch

RE: appending files on smbfs

2003-02-01 Thread Patrick Stinson
oh wait, thought you were swedish. I meant that I looked at that. You have to log in to the filesystem with a name that works before it will let yo on. notice how I can create the file, but canat append to it. -Original Message- From: Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday,

Analog Modum

2003-02-01 Thread Alex
Dear freebsd-questions, I'm looking for a analog modem. I didn't see any in the hardware lists. Can you please tell me which ones will work on FreeBSD? -- Best regards, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Analog Modum

2003-02-01 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Alex wrote: I'm looking for a analog modem. I didn't see any in the hardware lists. Can you please tell me which ones will work on FreeBSD? Virtually all external modems which connect to the COM1/COM2 serial port work perfectly fine. Dw. To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: Multiple solutions for a problem (Re: How to map bad sectors on IDE?)

2003-02-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Stephen Hovey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This has been an open question - I dont believe IDE's do much of their own bad block marking - The manufacturers claim otherwise; do you know something the rest of us don't? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: arplookup 0.0.0.0

2003-02-01 Thread Stephen D. Kingrea
tcpdump tells me that incoming smtp requests are generating these messages at the same time as recieving mail. i am pretty sure that either sendmail or ipfw rules is the cause... any good tutorials out there on interpreting tcpdump output? stephen On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Juris Krumins wrote:

Re: Ooops

2003-02-01 Thread Grant Peel
Hi again all, I am having reverse DNS issues so I am posting from another server. I am astounded at the bandwidth created by my little oops. Something that does make some sence to me is the . and .. directories. that had never occured to me. Anyways, the commands I used are quite fresh in my

Perl

2003-02-01 Thread Grant Peel
Hi All, I am now blind looking for the answers... How does one upgrade perl (FreeBSD 4.4) from one version (5.00503) to a new version (5.8.0) without loosing all the currently installed modules? (I have lots). -Grant Grant W. Peel Server Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thenetnow.com To

Re: Bootable CD

2003-02-01 Thread taxman
Burn a bootable ISO image to a blank CDR. Iso images are on the ftp site.That does involve a cost to the project for bandwidth, so consider downloading the mini install iso and then pull anything else you need only as you need it.

Re: swapinfo shows 0 0 Nan% and no device

2003-02-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have created a file swap0 in /usr/local/swapfiles I then ran vnconfig -e /dev/vn0b /usr/local/swapfiles/swap0 swap Didn't you mean vn0c? When I look at the output from swapinfo It shows Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail

RE: MySQL and Perl error

2003-02-01 Thread Mike
Got through it using make install FORCE_PKG_REGISTER=yes OVERWRITE_DB=yes SKIP_DNS_CHECK=yes But now I get bind on unix socket: permission denied I did a chown -R on the var/db/mysql and everything under it but still the same error... Hints? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: Microsoft USB keyboard

2003-02-01 Thread Mike Erickson
* Douglas K. Rand ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I've bought a handfull of cheap Microsoft Natural Keyboards from a reseller, but they turned out to be USB only keyboards. I've got the keyboards working with FreeBSD XFree86 just fine, with the exception of the extra hot keys. They hot keys

Can't install fetchmail - HELP!

2003-02-01 Thread Dragoncrest
Hi all. Trying to install fetchmail but it keeps saying that it can't find intl.4 so it tries to install gettext and that complains that it can't find expat.4 and then fails out. I tried going to the fetchmail homepage but that's apparently moved and the guy who's providing the homepage for

Support for Memorybird USB mass storage

2003-02-01 Thread Mats Dufberg
FreeBSD version: 5.0 I try to connect a Fujitsu Memorybird, a USB mass storage device, to my computer. When I connect it to the USB bus I get the follwing message: umass0: Fujitsu Memorybird, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 3 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Fujitsu Memorybird 1.06

Re: Support for Memorybird USB mass storage

2003-02-01 Thread Mats Dufberg
On Feb 2, 2003, 00:20 (+0100) Mats Dufberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD version: 5.0 I try to connect a Fujitsu Memorybird, a USB mass storage device, to my computer. When I connect it to the USB bus I get the follwing message: umass0: Fujitsu Memorybird, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 3 da0

Re: Samba and XP?

2003-02-01 Thread Jason Hunt
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Bill Moran wrote: There's an XP machine right behind me that talks to our Samba server just fine. Just don't configure Samba to be a domain server. And, it does work just fine under domain systems as well. Samba just doesn't do active directory yet. OT, but my

Re: Multiple solutions for a problem (Re: How to map bad sectors onIDE?)

2003-02-01 Thread Stephen Hovey
This has been an open question - I dont believe IDE's do much of their own bad block marking - there used to be a utility called bad144 - though I dont know that it did much - I know SCO has a utility. On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Marc Schneiders wrote: On 31 Jan 2003, at 19:43 [=GMT-0500], Lowell

Re: Error while compiling kernel.

2003-02-01 Thread Jason Hunt
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Sergey Niunco wrote: Device scbus was and is in my kernel config. A few days ago I compiled it without a problem. Did you CVSUP since the lat time you compiled? If so, you might have done it during a commit, so something got broken. Every now and then (maybe two or three

RE: Samba and XP?

2003-02-01 Thread Michael Ritchie
XP Home will not 'log into' ANY server-based network (NT4 domain model OR Active Directory). However, this does not mean you can't access samba shares on other machines. ie. it supports workgroup networking but not domain networking. Login to the local XP Home box, browse on the network to find

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2003-02-01 Thread Kevin Schooler
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Fetchmail slow? (was Re: Can't install fetchmail - HELP!)

2003-02-01 Thread Dragoncrest
Ok, nevermind. That's working ok now. Now, on to the next bit of fun. Fetchmail is being dog slow. Yet it's being silent and won't tell me why. Any suggestions? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Analog Modum

2003-02-01 Thread Rick Hamell
I'm looking for a analog modem. I didn't see any in the hardware lists. Can you please tell me which ones will work on FreeBSD? 99% of all modems are analog. There are some digital modems, but they're rare. But you need to be careful, because DSL routers are sometimes mislabeled as

OT - Re: Samba and XP?

2003-02-01 Thread William Palfreman
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Jason Hunt wrote: OT, but my understanding is that Windows XP Home Edition will not log in to NT4-based (SMB-only) networks, but only Windows 2000 (Active Directory) networks. However, Windows XP Professional will log in to both. In my experience, XP Home is completely

Re: Microsoft USB keyboard

2003-02-01 Thread Douglas K. Rand
Doug I've bought a handfull of cheap Microsoft Natural Keyboards from Doug a reseller, but they turned out to be USB only keyboards. Mike Change your keyboard type in your XF86Config file from pc101 (or Mike whatever it is set to currently) to something higher, and try Mike xev again. Mike I'm

Re[2]: Analog Modum

2003-02-01 Thread Alex
Dear/Beste Rick, Sunday, February 2, 2003, 2:57:32 AM, you wrote: I'm looking for a analog modem. I didn't see any in the hardware lists. Can you please tell me which ones will work on FreeBSD? 99% of all modems are analog. There are some digital modems, but they're rare. But you

Why should I use `config;make depend;make...` instead of `make kernel`when building from a stock source tree? (ref. Handbook sec. 9.3)

2003-02-01 Thread Darren Pilgrim
There are two sets of commands you can use to build a kernel in FreeBSD: Procedure 1 is the old way: config, make depend, make, make install. Procedure 2 is the make kernel sequence from makeworld. Section 9.3 of the Handbook says I should use procedure 1 if I haven't updated my source tree.

Re: Why should I use `config;make depend;make...` instead of `make kernel` when building from a stock source tree? (ref. Handbook sec. 9.3)

2003-02-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Darren Pilgrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are two sets of commands you can use to build a kernel in FreeBSD: Procedure 1 is the old way: config, make depend, make, make install. Procedure 2 is the make kernel sequence from makeworld. Section 9.3 of the Handbook says I should use

Re: arplookup 0.0.0.0

2003-02-01 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 05:20:53PM -0500, Stephen D. Kingrea wrote: tcpdump tells me that incoming smtp requests are generating these messages at the same time as recieving mail. i am pretty sure that either sendmail or ipfw rules is the cause... any good tutorials out there on interpreting

Re: delete key produce a ~ (tilde) in terminal

2003-02-01 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 09:04:28AM -0800, Casey Scott wrote: Hi, I am using Konsole from KDE to establish an ssh connection to my fbsd system I have not found anyway to allow me to use the delete key as a typical delete key. In /etc/ttys , it does not look like I can change the

u320 scsi by lsi

2003-02-01 Thread Jason Boisvert
Dear freeBSD gurus, I have an asus pr-dlsw motherboard (dual xeon p4, agp pro 50, lsi 1030 u320 scsi on board), and I have a seagate 15.3k rpm hard drive that supports u320, a geforce4 ti4400 -128mb video card, and the dreaded SB Live. When I start my installation of bsd it tells me it can't

Greek suppport

2003-02-01 Thread Alexandros Perdikomatis
Hello, I would like to know to which mailing list I could find answers or post questions about locale support on freeBSD. thanks, Alexandros To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Grub 0.92 fails to recognise disks on FBSD5

2003-02-01 Thread Jud
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 21:19:02 +0100, Chris Delnooz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi all, i'm experiencing problems with the installation of the GRUB bootloader. I have installed the port (grub version 0.92) and created the /boot/grub directory with the files from

Re: Why should I use `config;make depend;make...` instead of `makekernel` when building from a stock source tree? (ref. Handbook sec. 9.3)

2003-02-01 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Darren Pilgrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are two sets of commands you can use to build a kernel in FreeBSD: Procedure 1 is the old way: config, make depend, make, make install. Procedure 2 is the make kernel sequence from makeworld. Section 9.3 of the Handbook says

Re: Ooops.

2003-02-01 Thread bastill
Are we aiming at the wrong target, here? I used the fixit CD to examine ad0s3, where my missing files reside. What I found was that (eg) /bin, /etc, /dev were full of files/directories, but /var and /usr were empty. I didn't ask dump/restore to delete anything, and did not ask rm to remove the

Re: Using CDRW for backup

2003-02-01 Thread bastill
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I saw an article that explained how CDRW disks were constucted and how to both write to, and erase them so they could act as useful data backup disks. Bit can I find it? Can I - (insert expletive to taste)! (I made extensive use of google and the search facility

how to update release with just security patches

2003-02-01 Thread sweetleaf
I just installed FreeBSD 4.7 and need some guidance ,examples, on tracking the 4.7 stable release. This is a production server so i just want to find out how to get it up2date with security patches etc... for the stable 4.7 release. The cvs commands in the faq are confusing so i would