installation error

2005-03-04 Thread Boon Kiong
Hi, I tried to install FreeBSD 4.5 and apply auto setting for the installation. At last I got prompt saying MAKEDEV returned non-zero status 100%. Any help will be appreciated, thanks. __ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo!

Re: installation error

2005-03-04 Thread cyb
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 00:23 -0800, Boon Kiong wrote: Hi, I tried to install FreeBSD 4.5 and apply auto setting for the installation. At last I got prompt saying MAKEDEV returned non-zero status 100%. Any help will be appreciated, thanks. Maybe you should give 4.11 a try instead. Andreas

any ideas why these xorg hassles???

2005-03-04 Thread Gary Kline
Guys, Here's the story XFree-4 vs xorg. I have 4 platforms on a KVM so every machine uses the same tube. With XFree, my 3 FBSD systems had a flawless 1280x1024 display. With xorg, on my E-machines (ATI-Rage- 4M Video) the screen quivers. On my

RE: any ideas why these xorg hassles???

2005-03-04 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
What version FreeBSD we talking here? And if it's 4.X, why on earth did you change it? Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary Kline Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 12:55 AM To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: any ideas why these xorg

printer set up

2005-03-04 Thread chezang
Hi list, I'm a freebsd newbie. I have no idea of how to setup my computer to use Laser printer which is on the network. Ofcourse I can use Internet from my PC. please help me regards chezang ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: any ideas why these xorg hassles???

2005-03-04 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:01:08AM -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: What version FreeBSD we talking here? And if it's 4.X, why on earth did you change it? xorg is only on 5.3. My remaining OS is 4.10. gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org

make world DESTDIR=... libc.a

2005-03-04 Thread Constantin Khatskevich
! 5.3 , , buildworld(!), make world DESTDIR=... - , libc.a, UPDATES : 20010919: There's a bug in the world build process. The cross-tools are build with the NEW headers, but the OLD libc.a. This leads to all kinds of problems with the new libc. A temporary

Re: printer set up

2005-03-04 Thread cyb
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 15:09 +0600, chezang wrote: Hi list, I'm a freebsd newbie. I have no idea of how to setup my computer to use Laser printer which is on the network. Ofcourse I can use Internet from my PC. please help me regards chezang

Re: any ideas why these xorg hassles???

2005-03-04 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 04 March 2005 12:55 am, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, Here's the story XFree-4 vs xorg. I have 4 platforms on a KVM so every machine uses the same tube. With XFree, my 3 FBSD systems had a flawless 1280x1024 display. With xorg, on my E-machines (ATI-Rage-

help needed on configuring rl0 on medion laptops

2005-03-04 Thread hb4j
hi everyone, I am a very enthusiastic FreeBSD newbie (I have wanted to use FreeBSD for years, but thanks to the latest Freesbie 1.1 which is awesome, I have finally made the step). I have a good knowledge of linux administration, both system and network and am presently learning the

Re: any ideas why these xorg hassles???

2005-03-04 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 04 March 2005 01:34 am, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 12:55 am, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, Here's the story XFree-4 vs xorg. I have 4 platforms on a KVM so every machine uses the same tube. With XFree, my 3 FBSD systems had a flawless

Re: any ideas why these xorg hassles???

2005-03-04 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 04 March 2005 01:52 am, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 01:34 am, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 12:55 am, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, Here's the story XFree-4 vs xorg. I have 4 platforms on a KVM so every machine uses the same tube.

Re: /boot like linux!

2005-03-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-03-03 18:39, Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's *best* to make more partitions (esp for /var) so that if something goes out of control logging, or you just neglect your logs, it doesn't go and fill up your only (ie / ) partition. Like most *nix OS's, it can be as simple or

Re: /boot like linux!

2005-03-04 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:15:00AM -0500, Garance A Drosehn wrote: I have run with softupdates on for '/' on all my systems, for a few years now. It has not caused me any problems that I know of, but then the way I define my partitions is probably a lot different than what most people do.

Re: CVS Repository

2005-03-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-03-03 21:36, cizuriet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys, I have tried setting up my own CVS tree with the /src tree in my local machine, but after setting the CVSROOT to any of the suggestions on the web site, when I try to log on with the anoncvs passwd, I get the following response.

Re: any ideas why these xorg hassles???

2005-03-04 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 04 March 2005 02:38 am, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 01:52 am, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 01:34 am, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 12:55 am, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, Here's the story XFree-4 vs

Re: Renaming root account

2005-03-04 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: In my opinion, absolutely none at all. People should never change the default shell of root from /bin/csh and toor is just a hack to please those who are too bored to type: % exec bash I'm not sure what's worse: using anything other than /bin/sh

Re: global vimrc file

2005-03-04 Thread Ramiro Aceves
FreeBSD MailingLists wrote: I have the following ~/.vimrc syn on set incsearch set ignorecase set smartcase set scrolloff=2 set wildmode=longest,list I want to set this up as the default settings for my system. under linux i think there was a way to set global vimrc settings by writing to

Re: /boot like linux!

2005-03-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 18:08:24 -0500 Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a FreeBSD 5.3 user as well as a Gentoo Linux user. In Gentoo linux, you only have to create 3 partitions: - cut --- In FreeBSD, you seem to have to create many more: not true, during installation

Re: Audio latency

2005-03-04 Thread Luyt
On Thursday 03 March 2005 19:20, J.E. Dooper wrote: I think this might be the problem: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-questions/2004-August/055314 .html Though I don't understand much about the solution... This might also be interesting, how sysctl hw.targetirqrate is used:

Re: /boot like linux!

2005-03-04 Thread Erik Norgaard
Jesse Guardiani wrote: In particular, it seems that /boot MUST be on the same partition as /. This stinks, as now you have to create separate partitions for /usr and /var, which wastes space. You are not required to create separate partitions, but there are good reasons to do so, namely to avoid

pf seems to start late?

2005-03-04 Thread J.D. Bronson
Mar 4 06:15:11 sole kernel: Setting hostname: sole.domain.com Mar 4 06:15:11 sole kernel: bge0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 Mar 4 06:15:11 sole kernel: options=1aTXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING Mar 4 06:15:11 sole kernel: inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xff00

Re: ipfw or pf

2005-03-04 Thread Albert Shih
Le 03/03/2005 à 13:07:53-0800, Loren M. Lang a écrit Well it's not de syntaxes, I always use packet filter system (sometime on hardware like Foundry/Cisco) where the rule is : First match first use. And the pf use entire rules is very strange for me (I known I can use ?quick? butwell

Re: [repost] ip.forwarding with pf

2005-03-04 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can someone tell me which is appropriate when FreeBSD 5.4-PRE is used as a router running pf with built in NAT ? fastforwarding may or may not be useful, but as far as I can tell, it's no replacement for the net.inet.ip.forwarding sysctl. By convention,

Thunderbird crash

2005-03-04 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
I installed the latest thunderbird port (1.01) to see how it compared to Mozilla Mail. So far I have had three bus errors and a segmentation fault! SO far I haven't even been able to reply to an email. Needless to say, Mozilla Mail does not have this level of problems for me. I imported all

security logs being mailed to root

2005-03-04 Thread sn1tch
When I ran FBSD 5.2.1 I used to get the daily, weekly, and monthly security logs and such mailed to root...now since I did a clean install with 5.3 I no longer get anything, when I log in I have no mail...what gives? I enjoyed reading them .. is there a way to get that functionality back?

USB printing problem: /dev/ulpt0: device busy

2005-03-04 Thread Eugene Rogoza
Hello everybody, I'm experiencing certain problems with USB printing. I have a Minolta PagePro 1300W printer connected to USB port. FreeBSD 5.3 recognizes the printer just fine and creates /dev/ulpt0 and /dev/unlpt0 device nodes. But the simple test like echo test /dev/ulpt0 (or /dev/unlpt0)

freebsd raid problem

2005-03-04 Thread Sein_Schatten
hi. i have installed freebsd on a partition on my hd. but i have a it8212 chip and 4 devices plugged onto it and cant afford to have the hd with freebsd on ide0 (ide12 are via it8212). i have to unplug all hds before freebsd is able to boot. if i have one hd on an ide with it8212 it has

Re: Sharing directories with jails

2005-03-04 Thread Viren Patel
On Thursday 03 March 2005 05:23 pm, Ean Kingston wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 12:42 pm, Chris Hodgins wrote: [cut original question and answer] Ok perhaps I should clarify what my intentions are a little more. I am planning on providing a FreeBSD jail for any member of a geek

Re: expat portupgrade dies

2005-03-04 Thread Randy Schultz
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Paul Schmehl wrote: -}--On Thursday, March 03, 2005 03:59:00 PM -0600 Randy Schultz -}[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -} -} On a 5.3 system when I try to portupgrade some ports the portupgrade -} dies on expat: -} -} I've tried doing a pkg_delete on the old expat, same effect. Is

Re: expat portupgrade dies

2005-03-04 Thread Randy Schultz
On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Michael C. Shultz wrote: -}On Thursday 03 March 2005 01:59 pm, Randy Schultz wrote: -} On a 5.3 system when I try to portupgrade some ports the portupgrade -} dies on expat: -} --- Upgrading 'expat-1.95.6_1' to 'expat-1.95.8' -} (textproc/expat2) --- Building

Re: expat portupgrade dies

2005-03-04 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 04 March 2005 07:44 am, Randy Schultz wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Michael C. Shultz wrote: -}On Thursday 03 March 2005 01:59 pm, Randy Schultz wrote: -} On a 5.3 system when I try to portupgrade some ports the portupgrade -} dies on expat: -} --- Upgrading 'expat-1.95.6_1' to

Re: Sharing directories with jails

2005-03-04 Thread Anish Mistry
On Friday 04 March 2005 10:24 am, Viren Patel wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 05:23 pm, Ean Kingston wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 12:42 pm, Chris Hodgins wrote: [cut original question and answer] Ok perhaps I should clarify what my intentions are a little more. I am

Re: pf seems to start late?

2005-03-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-03-04 06:29, J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mar 4 06:15:11 sole kernel: Starting syslogd. Mar 4 06:15:11 sole kernel: Mar 4 06:15:11 sole syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel Mar 4 06:15:11 sole kernel: Starting named. Mar 4 06:15:12 sole kernel: Setting date

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2005-03-04 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2004/09/19 02:40:48 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2005-03-04 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

SATA RAID controllers

2005-03-04 Thread Steven King
Dear Sirs, Does FreeBSD 4.1 support the Intel E7201 SATA Raid controller. Best regards, Steven King. Technical Manager, Pathfinder Telecom Limited. +44 1202 587234 (Direct) +44 7802 706931 (Mobile) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: security logs being mailed to root

2005-03-04 Thread exp
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 08:59:45AM -0500, sn1tch wrote: When I ran FBSD 5.2.1 I used to get the daily, weekly, and monthly security logs and such mailed to root...now since I did a clean install with 5.3 I no longer get anything, when I log in I have no mail...what gives? I enjoyed reading

Re: Audio latency

2005-03-04 Thread J.E. Dooper
Well, I guess it's a sound driver problem, because when i tried those 4front OSS drivers ( http://www.opensound.com ) the latency was gone. Why can 4front OSS function without latency and freebsd's drivers not? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

RE: Booting an iso image from HD for pre-burn testing on FreeBSD

2005-03-04 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(addendum to prior -questions inquiry) I found a way using Bochs (bochs.sourceforge.net). It will boot an iso image as will vmware 4.5 (others?). I have however run into a hiccup. 4.x will boot, 5.x won't. I've submitted it as a possilbe bug to the bochs bug tracker. If anyone in the freebsd

ftp monitoring and limiting transfer rates

2005-03-04 Thread Frank Staals
Hey everyone, I have a question: I am running FreeBSD 5.3 with the default ftp-server ( ftpd ) as ftp deamon, everything works fine but I'd like to see what files peolpe are trying to download and when people log in. I would like I can get a html file which I can access on my httpd server. I

Re: pf seems to start late?

2005-03-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-03-04 18:41, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2005-03-04 06:29, J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mar 4 06:15:11 sole kernel: Starting syslogd. Mar 4 06:15:11 sole kernel: Mar 4 06:15:11 sole syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel Mar 4 06:15:11 sole

Re: ftp monitoring and limiting transfer rates

2005-03-04 Thread Freminlins
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 18:26:26 +0100, Frank Staals [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everyone, I have a question: I am running FreeBSD 5.3 with the default ftp-server ( ftpd ) as ftp deamon, everything works fine but I'd like to see what files peolpe are trying to download and when people log in. I

Re: Are quotas possbile on md filesystems?

2005-03-04 Thread Michael R. Wayne
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:53:19 -0500, Michael R. Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to use quotas on file-backed md filesystems on 5.3? I was guessing that a line in fstab like: OK, I see the error in my ways. My goal is to use file-based filesystems that are preserved acoss boots.

Re: Vinum raid5 problems......

2005-03-04 Thread matt virus
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 3 March 2005 at 15:35:31 -0600, matt virus wrote: Hi all: I have a FBSD 5.2.1 box running vinum. 7 *160gb drives in a raid5 array. I can post specific errors and logs and such later, i'm away from the box right now --- anybody have any thoughts ? How

Re: any ideas why these xorg hassles???

2005-03-04 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:52:01AM -0800, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 01:34 am, Michael C. Shultz wrote: I'm running portmanager on a test system to see if it is able to switch between XFree86 and xorg, if it is all you need due is make the change in make.conf then

root: /etc/rc: WARNING: Setting entropy source to blocking mode

2005-03-04 Thread Bruce Rohde
I can't get ssh to work Does this have anything to do with it? root: /etc/rc: WARNING: Setting entropy source to blocking mode Thanks, Bruce Rohde 713-818-1381 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: any ideas why these xorg hassles???

2005-03-04 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 02:38:28AM -0800, Michael C. Shultz wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 01:52 am, Michael C. Shultz wrote: [[ ]] I have to add one thing, the meta port if installed for the old X version needs to be manually removed first. I'm pretty sure I

Re: any ideas why these xorg hassles???

2005-03-04 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:03:34PM -0500, Chris Shenton wrote: Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Another couple things. With XFree, I set the DefaultDepth' to 8; now, on both computers it is maxed out at 16. If I do set the default depth to 8, xdm fails. (It tries to'

Re: any ideas why these xorg hassles???

2005-03-04 Thread Michael Shultz
This report relates to a message you sent with the following header fields: Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 10:10:23 -0800 From: Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: any ideas why these xorg hassles??? Your message

Re: security logs being mailed to root

2005-03-04 Thread sn1tch
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 12:08:41 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 08:59:45AM -0500, sn1tch wrote: When I ran FBSD 5.2.1 I used to get the daily, weekly, and monthly security logs and such mailed to root...now since I did a clean install with 5.3 I no

Re: Found This In /usr - @LongLink

2005-03-04 Thread James A. Coulter
Eric F Crist wrote: James, I'm not trying to be rude, but a 30 second search through Google results for @LongLink turned up the following entry (on the first results page): Eric, You are correct and I did exactly that 30 seconds after hitting on the send button on that e-mail. Sorry - I'm a

Re: security logs being mailed to root

2005-03-04 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Friday 04 March 2005 10:18 am, sn1tch wrote: On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 12:08:41 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 08:59:45AM -0500, sn1tch wrote: When I ran FBSD 5.2.1 I used to get the daily, weekly, and monthly security logs and such mailed to

Re: security logs being mailed to root

2005-03-04 Thread epilogue
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 12:08:41 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 08:59:45AM -0500, sn1tch wrote: When I ran FBSD 5.2.1 I used to get the daily, weekly, and monthly security logs and such mailed to root...now since I did a clean install with 5.3 I no longer get anything,

Re: security logs being mailed to root

2005-03-04 Thread Kevin Kinsey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 08:59:45AM -0500, sn1tch wrote: When I ran FBSD 5.2.1 I used to get the daily, weekly, and monthly security logs and such mailed to root...now since I did a clean install with 5.3 I no longer get anything, when I log in I have no mail...what

multible networks routing over vpn tunnel

2005-03-04 Thread thomas may
hello, i have two private network segments, 192.168.0.x and 192.168.1.x connected over a VPN Tunnel, freebsd, racoon and ipsec. on one site we want to add a new network segment 192.168.3.x is this possible and how is the correct syntax ? this is what i have done: gifconfig gif0 A.B.C.D

Re: ip forward and pf

2005-03-04 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+++ J.D. Bronson [freebsd] [02-03-05 16:57 -0600]: | net.inet.ip.fastforwarding | or | net.inet.ip.forwarding AFAIK, its net.inet.ip.forwarding | | | Can someone tell me which is appropriate when FreeBSD 5.4-PRE is used as a | router running pf with built in NAT ? | | And what is the

Re: security logs being mailed to root

2005-03-04 Thread sn1tch
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 12:34:36 -0600, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 08:59:45AM -0500, sn1tch wrote: When I ran FBSD 5.2.1 I used to get the daily, weekly, and monthly security logs and such mailed to root...now since I did a clean

CGI script executing and Apache help

2005-03-04 Thread Shawn B
I am running FreeBSD-4.8 with Apache 1.3 installed. I changed the htdocs directory in httpd.conf to /home/user1/public_html/ and I added a /cgi-bin/ in the same user directory. Scripts will not execute from the cgi-bin, as the scripts contents are displayed in the browser window. I went through

/english/battlepainters

2005-03-04 Thread Aftab Jahan Subedar
Hi, Today I found a attack on me web server trying to get into that url. Anyone knows anything about the actual i. target about that attack ? ii. accomplish software installed in the server from port ? Thank you Aftab Jahan Subedar http://www.tucows.com/preview/379868.html - Kayoty ,my Spyware

Re: CGI script executing and Apache help

2005-03-04 Thread sn1tch
Try adding this /Directory ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /home/user/site/public_html/cgi-bin/ On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:36:04 -0500 (EST), Shawn B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running FreeBSD-4.8 with Apache 1.3 installed. I changed the htdocs directory in httpd.conf to /home/user1/public_html/ and I

Moving a directory hierarchy - best practice?

2005-03-04 Thread Joachim Dagerot
I have spent 20 minutes or so googling around to find the best way to _move_ a complete directory hierarchy. But must admitt that I haven't foundmany good answers. The best suggestion was from http://badgertronics.com/knowledge/one.adp?parent=25: To move /tmp/blarg to /var: % cd /tmp % tar

Re: Moving a directory hierarchy - best practice?

2005-03-04 Thread Sebastian
I have spent 20 minutes or so googling around to find the best way to _move_ a complete directory hierarchy. But must admitt that I haven't foundmany good answers. The best suggestion was from http://badgertronics.com/knowledge/one.adp?parent=25: To move /tmp/blarg to /var: % cd /tmp %

Re: /boot like linux!

2005-03-04 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Jesse Guardiani writes: Then why doesn't sysinstall enable soft updates on the root FS by default? Because the root is not often written, and any data loss on the root is likely to have more negative effects than on other directories (often it would be something

Re: Moving a directory hierarchy - best practice?

2005-03-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-03-04 21:35, Joachim Dagerot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have spent 20 minutes or so googling around to find the best way to _move_ a complete directory hierarchy. But must admitt that I haven't foundmany good answers. The best suggestion was from

Weird mouse error

2005-03-04 Thread Florian Hengstberger
After a kernel compile to add nat support my mouse is moving very,very slowly on both the X-Server and the console. Everything was fine before I decided to reduce my kernels size by commenting out a number of options supporting hardware I don't own. I commented out another options, which seemed to

Re: Moving a directory hierarchy - best practice?

2005-03-04 Thread Ean Kingston
I have spent 20 minutes or so googling around to find the best way to _move_ a complete directory hierarchy. But must admitt that I haven't foundmany good answers. The best suggestion was from http://badgertronics.com/knowledge/one.adp?parent=25: To move /tmp/blarg to /var: % cd /tmp %

Re: Moving a directory hierarchy - best practice?

2005-03-04 Thread Joachim Dagerot
Thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately your commands will not affect the root folder of the hierarchy. I must create a directory in the destination path with the same name of the folder where my data is in. example: /home/user/level1/l2/l3/l4 I would like to move level1 to a new

Re: Moving a directory hierarchy - best practice?

2005-03-04 Thread Pat Maddox
What's wrong with a %mv /home/user/level1 / %mv /level1 /root On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 22:13:05 +0100, Joachim Dagerot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately your commands will not affect the root folder of the hierarchy. I must create a directory in the

Re: Moving a directory hierarchy - best practice?

2005-03-04 Thread Pat Maddox
Or even in one command... % mv /home/user/level1 /root/ On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:29:57 -0700, Pat Maddox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's wrong with a %mv /home/user/level1 / %mv /level1 /root On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 22:13:05 +0100, Joachim Dagerot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your

Re: Moving a directory hierarchy - best practice?

2005-03-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-03-04 22:13, Joachim Dagerot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your suggestion. You're welcome, but *please* do not post replies _before_ the text to which you reply. It's extremely annoying to read the reply then. The best suggestion was from

Re: Moving a directory hierarchy - best practice?

2005-03-04 Thread Joachim Dagerot
Doesn't work for me: - No such file or directory What's wrong with a %mv /home/user/level1 / %mv /level1 /root On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 22:13:05 +0100, Joachim Dagerot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately your commands will not affect the root folder of the

Re: /boot like linux!

2005-03-04 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Jesse Guardiani writes: How recent are we talking about? In the 5.x timeframe, I believe, but I don't remember exactly when the improvements were made. I recall that soft updates are now encouraged on just about any partition. I've never had any trouble with it, but my system is lightly

Detected Ethernet Cards Fail To Configure At Boot

2005-03-04 Thread Damien Tougas
Hello, I am running a server with 5.3-RELEASE. I have 3 3COM 905 ethernet cards (xl0, xl1, and xl2). I am getting this bizarre problem where the cards are detected during the boot process: xl0: 3Com 3c905-TX Fast Etherlink XL port 0xb000-0xb03f irq 12 at device 10.0 on pci0 miibus0: MII bus on

Re: Are quotas possbile on md filesystems?

2005-03-04 Thread Bob Johnson
Michael R. Wayne wrote: On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:53:19 -0500, Michael R. Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to use quotas on file-backed md filesystems on 5.3? I was guessing that a line in fstab like: OK, I see the error in my ways. My goal is to use file-based filesystems that

Re: security logs being mailed to root

2005-03-04 Thread epilogue
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:06:03 -0500 sn1tch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 12:34:36 -0600, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 08:59:45AM -0500, sn1tch wrote: When I ran FBSD 5.2.1 I used to get the daily, weekly, and

Re: Detected Ethernet Cards Fail To Configure At Boot

2005-03-04 Thread David Kelly
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 05:31:42PM -0500, Damien Tougas wrote: [...] but their configuration fails. I don't get any error messages, its almost as if they don't exist. One of the interfaces is configured to have DHCPD running on it, but DHCPD fails saying xl2: not found. [...] To fix the

Belkin PS/2 to USB converter, Not Pointing

2005-03-04 Thread Jed Clear
Installing the IOGear GCS1734 USB KVM seems to have made the whole issue go away. Of course installing the KVM took a few tries to find the right power cycling and reboot combination to get any functionality. It looked like the whole USB infrastructure of the KVM was DoA, initially. On the

natd, ipfw problem

2005-03-04 Thread Florian Hengstberger
Hi! Tell me if I should post this otherwhere. Given two network cards sis0 (external) and vr0 (internal) I'm trying to give my girlfriend access to the web. Her ip is 192.168.0.2, I've installed natd, a proper kernel and configured my firewall, but so far only pings from her computer to the web

Re: natd, ipfw problem

2005-03-04 Thread Ean Kingston
It's been a while but I'll see if I can help out. On Friday, March 4, 2005, at 06:52 PM, Florian Hengstberger wrote: Hi! Tell me if I should post this otherwhere. Given two network cards sis0 (external) and vr0 (internal) I'm trying to give my girlfriend access to the web. Her ip is 192.168.0.2,

questions on file formats

2005-03-04 Thread Dave Pesner
Does FreeBSD support the .DMG file format? I need to know this because I'm looking for a free alternative for an OS X emulator and a liscensed copy of OS X(isn't open source software great) for my next computer. If BSD does support OS X file formats such as DMG, great. If not, please suggest a

vinum gbde

2005-03-04 Thread Nick Pavlica
All, Is it possible to use vinum and gbde? I read in the handbook that they were not compatible, but saw a number of posts on the Internet that mention an integration of the two in 5.x. Thanks! --Nick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: questions on file formats

2005-03-04 Thread Ean Kingston
On Friday, March 4, 2005, at 07:35 PM, Dave Pesner wrote: Does FreeBSD support the .DMG file format? I need to know this because I'm looking for a free alternative for an OS X emulator and a liscensed copy of OS X(isn't open source software great) for my next computer. If BSD does support OS X

Running vsftpd standalone vs inetd

2005-03-04 Thread Pat Maddox
Is it better to run vsftpd standalone or using inetd? A friend of mine told me that it's more secure to do it standalone, and apparently that's the recommended method now. If that's the case, how do I go about getting vsftpd to run when the machine boots up? It doesn't look like there's a

growfs failure

2005-03-04 Thread Steve Sizemore
Hi, all. Running FreeBSD 5.3 using hardware RAID (Dell Perc/4 Di). I added a disk to the Logical Volume, rebuilt the RAID array, resized the slice (fdisk), and changed the label (bsdlabel). All of that worked just fine. However, when I tried to grow the filesystem, growfs failed, saying growfs:

Installing 4.11, disk probing problem

2005-03-04 Thread joe mcguckin
Installing on an Intel 815 motherboard, the installer insists that the ATA disk is ar0. Is this normal? At boot time I get diagnostic messages about ar0 broken raid, etc -joe -- Joe McGuckin ViaNet Communications 994 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, CA 94303 Phone: 650-213-1302 Cell:

password manager?

2005-03-04 Thread Sergei Gnezdov
I like Windows password manager Access Manager. Is there an easy way to manage my passwords, pin numbers on FreeBSD? It would be nice to have both UI and Console interfaces as long as they are easy to use. I like to use Gnome oriented tools when it comes to UI.

NFS V4 Replication

2005-03-04 Thread Nick Pavlica
All, Is it possible to replicate NFS servers is V4? If so can you point me in the right direction in setting this up. Thanks! --Nick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Are quotas possbile on md filesystems?

2005-03-04 Thread Bob Johnson
On Friday 04 March 2005 05:56 pm, Bob Johnson wrote: Michael R. Wayne wrote: On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:53:19 -0500, Michael R. Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to use quotas on file-backed md filesystems on 5.3? I was guessing that a line in fstab like: OK, I see the error in my

Re: Are quotas possbile on md filesystems?

2005-03-04 Thread Bob Johnson
On Friday 04 March 2005 10:33 pm, Bob Johnson wrote: On Friday 04 March 2005 05:56 pm, Bob Johnson wrote: Michael R. Wayne wrote: On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 16:53:19 -0500, Michael R. Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to use quotas on file-backed md filesystems on 5.3? I was

Re: Sources vs. ports

2005-03-04 Thread Madhusudan Singh
Thanks for your response. On Thursday 03 March 2005 16:21, Jeff With wrote: On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 15:47:02 -0500, Madhusudan Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi Since some of the ports I need are broken, I am thinking of installing those parts from source. However, is there a way to

Re: Are quotas possbile on md filesystems?

2005-03-04 Thread stheg olloydson
it was said: snip So after all that, NOW I notice that there is already a published patch for this: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/74105 Oh, well. It was an amusing exercise. - Bob Eh? Maybe _I_ am the one missing something. The link you provided goes to a patch for IPX.

Re: cpu overhead

2005-03-04 Thread abu khaled
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 13:36:51 +0900, Bhaban Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could anybody tell me is there any cpu monitoring tools for FreeBSD. pleas send me any idea. for the console i use top i don't use X but there are many ports that provide CPU/MEMORY/ monitoring. Search in the ports !

followup on help needed on configuring rl0

2005-03-04 Thread hb4j
hi everyone, I have been able to manually setup my rl0 without Xserver and BEFORE this stinking rl0 : watchdog timeout error message appeared at boot time and I could surf with NO problem, so that means that Freesbie recognizes and initializes my realtek 8139 nic (it is integrated on my medion

Re: Are quotas possbile on md filesystems?

2005-03-04 Thread Bob Johnson
On Friday 04 March 2005 11:39 pm, stheg olloydson wrote: it was said: snip So after all that, NOW I notice that there is already a published patch for this: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/74105 Oh, well. It was an amusing exercise. - Bob Eh? Maybe _I_ am the one

Re: cpu overhead

2005-03-04 Thread pete wright
On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 07:03:11 +0200, abu khaled [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 13:36:51 +0900, Bhaban Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could anybody tell me is there any cpu monitoring tools for FreeBSD. pleas send me any idea. for the console i use top i don't use X but there

RE: any ideas why these xorg hassles???

2005-03-04 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary Kline Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 1:12 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Gary Kline; FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: any ideas why these xorg hassles??? On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:01:08AM -0800,

getting sylpheed-claws to view html mail

2005-03-04 Thread Brian John
Hello, I installed the sylpheed-claws port with the WITH_ALL=YES option. I also loaded the 'dillo-viewer' plugin. However, it still is not using dillo to read HTML mail. Is there something else that I need to do? Thanks /Brian ___