Re: Cacti -vs- mrtg

2006-11-07 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 09:48, Jeff Mohler wrote: I can use MRTG, and have MRTG do what I want it to do. Id like to try cacti, but..am I alone in finding that it's a PITA? Im not trying to be negative, just looking for a reality check. I like the simplicity of mrtg, but I like the go

Re: pf working but no log

2006-11-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-11-07 08:53, Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: No, that should be ok. Can you see pflogd running when you run: # pgrep pflogd | xargs ps -xau -p No, and now when I think about it the main problem is that it has never been

Re: pf working but no log

2006-11-07 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Dear Giorgos, Juha and others, On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: No, and now when I think about it the main problem is that it has never been started (maybe). I tried to follow the manual and issued /etc/rc.d/pflogd start but I have no such file in that directory. Hmmm, this is

Re: Cacti -vs- mrtg

2006-11-07 Thread Howard Jones
Jeff Mohler wrote: I can use MRTG, and have MRTG do what I want it to do. Id like to try cacti, but..am I alone in finding that it's a PITA? Im not trying to be negative, just looking for a reality check. I like the simplicity of mrtg, but I like the go back in time of cacti to view

Re: Cacti -vs- mrtg

2006-11-07 Thread Jeff Mohler
Thats cool..I dont mind the plug. :) I want to build a flexable performance analyzer for netapp boxes on some very critical data..that I can customise per customer if I have to, down to a 10-15sec window. I'll have to check out the other tools..heck..I cant get a stock cacti install to make a

Re: pf working but no log

2006-11-07 Thread Juha Saarinen
On 11/7/06, Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I create the pflog file then? Thank you! As far as I know, you don't need to create it yourself. I certainly didn't have to do that. If you look at man pflogd it says the daemon logs to /var/log/pflog by default. That it doesn't on

booting from second drive/operating system not found

2006-11-07 Thread Eric Andrews
Hey, I've got a six drive RAID 10 array on the first SCSI channel that shows up as da0, and a single SCSI drive on the second SCSI channel that shows up as da1. I can run the regular installer on da1 just fine - everything copies over, disklabels are made, MBR is written, yadda yadda. but no

libtool missing library?

2006-11-07 Thread Ben Paley
Hello, I'm trying to compile kftpgrabber from source, and get this when I make: /bin/bash ../../../../libtool --silent --tag=CXX --mode=link g++ -Wno-long-long -Wundef -Wall -W -Wpoi nter-arith -O2 -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common -DQT_CLEAN_NAMESPACE -DQ

Questions on first-time installation (Re: (no subject))

2006-11-07 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, First, I want to join the lists that you think are best for a highly knowledgable and experienced PC/Windows user who knows little about unix. Would you be so kind as to guide me, please? You're on the right list, but it helps to use a

Re: (no subject)

2006-11-07 Thread Old Ranger
Greetings, I agree with Bill. Get yourself a computer comparable to the one you wish to make the real install on, and go for it. That way, WHEN you make boo-boos, it won't cost you anything but time. You'll be glad you did. DO NOT make your first install on the critical machine Just some

Re: Install error - MOD_LOAD (amr_linux, 0xffffffff806205d0, 0) error 6

2006-11-07 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 20:43:25 -0600 tecol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried to install the AMD64 build of FreeBSD 6.1. Very early in the installation right after the Timecounter messages, I get this MOD_LOAD error 6 and the system hangs: Timecounter TSC frequency 2011163535 Hz quality 800

Re: Questions on first-time installation (Re: (no subject))

2006-11-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In response to Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: this workstation has two intallations of XP and a windows boot manager for selecting them. Under no circumstances can we afford for this to be disturbed (at least until we can finally get rid of windows

i need to upgrade a disk

2006-11-07 Thread Jonathan Horne
i have a system that is FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE, that i need to upgrade its single disk. id like to keep all its existing slices the same size, and then use the unused space to create a new /opt slice. would dd be the way to go? if so, could someone advise on its proper usage for duplicating

Re: i need to upgrade a disk

2006-11-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i have a system that is FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE, that i need to upgrade its single disk. id like to keep all its existing slices the same size, and then use the unused space to create a new /opt slice. would dd be the way to go? if so, could

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Installation problem

2006-11-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Mark Maddox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have an onboard Intel ICH7-M SATA controller with an SATA hard drive and cdrom connected to it. I am unable to install FreeBSD onto the harddrive. According to the FreeBSD website ICH7 has been supported since version 6.0 I have tried putting

Re: i need to upgrade a disk

2006-11-07 Thread Eric
Jonathan Horne wrote: i have a system that is FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE, that i need to upgrade its single disk. id like to keep all its existing slices the same size, and then use the unused space to create a new /opt slice. would dd be the way to go? if so, could someone advise on its proper

Re: i need to upgrade a disk

2006-11-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Jonathan Horne wrote: i have a system that is FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE, that i need to upgrade its single disk. id like to keep all its existing slices the same size, and then use the unused space to create a new /opt slice. would dd be the way to go? if so, could someone advise on its proper

RE: Questions on first-time installation

2006-11-07 Thread Bob Schwartz
First, to all who answered...many thanks! I can see I found the right places. You're on the right list, but it helps to use a subject line. Noted and done. You should not install on that machine, then. Its not uncommon for first time users to hose other installations. Based on your under no

Re: Questions on first-time installation

2006-11-07 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Bob Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [snip] Also, your (or someone else's) suggestion that I disconnect the others for the moment is a good one...and I guess that that would do, except that I would not end up with a boot manager when I hook the others back up afterwards? Also,

RE: Questions on first-time installation

2006-11-07 Thread Bob Schwartz
That's a safe bet, from the standpoint of the Windows installations, but it can cause grief if you try to plug everything back in. I've had problems with the BIOS moving drives around, then FreeBSD can't figure out which drive it should be mounting off. I'm not saying it's a bad idea, all I'm

Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?

2006-11-07 Thread Eric Schuele
On 11/06/2006 05:48, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: Thanks everyone for the replay to my post as it did finally occur to me that perhaps this question had been asked on the mailing list, but unfortunately it occurred to me after I sent it. So, basically the Apple team took FreeBSD and the CM

Re: Questions on first-time installation

2006-11-07 Thread Vince
Bob Schwartz wrote: That's a safe bet, from the standpoint of the Windows installations, but it can cause grief if you try to plug everything back in. I've had problems with the BIOS moving drives around, then FreeBSD can't figure out which drive it should be mounting off. I'm not

Re: Reading crashed SCSI disk

2006-11-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 11/5/06, Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wondering if there is a way to read the physical blocks (those that are readable) and save the data, from that I could be able to rebuild some of the mailboxes. dd if=/scsi_drive of=/some/file/name Should read anything readable, though

'cd' ing inside a shell script

2006-11-07 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Some of my webmail users are using lots of disk space. I want to make a shell script, like so: cd /home/webmail/public_html/cgi-bin/etc/users ; du -h -d1 | grep M | sort -nr -k1 and run it daily in a cronjob, mailing the results to my assistants. with the 'cd' at that start of the

Slow Internet connection using FreeBSD

2006-11-07 Thread Stanley Wright
Hi All, I dual boot FreeBSD and Slackware. Connecting to the internet with Slackware is blazing yet with FBSD its slower than a snail. I have no other problems using FreeBSD otherwise. Thanks Stan - Sponsored Link Mortgage rates near historic

Re: Installing FreeBSD

2006-11-07 Thread Peo Nilsson
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 13:42 -0500, Nathan Vidican wrote: Peo Nilsson wrote: Next I will download FreeBSD 6.1 Release again, this time from another 1) Have now downloaded 6.1R again (didn´t have the iso´s left on hd). 2) Burnt them with both k3b and Nautilus. 3) Installed the k3b version. =

RE: Questions on first-time installation

2006-11-07 Thread Bob Schwartz
Hmmm. OK. Thank you. Bob Schwartz * This communication, including any attachments or enclosures, may contain information that is (1) legally privileged, (2) confidential, (3) proprietary and confidential. If you are not the

Re: i need to upgrade a disk

2006-11-07 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 09:12, Eric wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote: i have a system that is FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE, that i need to upgrade its single disk. id like to keep all its existing slices the same size, and then use the unused space to create a new /opt slice. would dd be the

Re: 'cd' ing inside a shell script

2006-11-07 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, Some of my webmail users are using lots of disk space. I want to make a shell script, like so: cd /home/webmail/public_html/cgi-bin/etc/users ; du -h -d1 | grep M | sort -nr -k1 and run it daily in a cronjob, mailing the results to my assistants.

Re: Slow Internet connection using FreeBSD

2006-11-07 Thread Martin Hepworth
Could be DNS problems - have you turned off IPv6 so DNS doens't use that first?? -- Martin On 11/7/06, Stanley Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I dual boot FreeBSD and Slackware. Connecting to the internet with Slackware is blazing yet with FBSD its slower than a snail. I have no

Sendmail greet_pause config

2006-11-07 Thread Simon Gao
Hi, I am trying to enable a new feature, greet_pause, with Sendmail 8.13.x on FreeBSD 4.7. When I try to re-generate sendmail.cf file, I got following error and the file generation failed: # m4 /usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4 sendmail.mc sendmail.cf m4: sendmail.mc at line 53:

Update pkg_info

2006-11-07 Thread Simon Gao
Hi, After updating ports using portsnap, I have this problem when running pkg_info: pkg_info: read_plist: bad command '@conflicts ruby18-bdb[2-4]*' How do I update pkg_info package on FreeBSD 4.7? Simon ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Sendmail greet_pause config

2006-11-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
Simon Gao wrote: Hi, I am trying to enable a new feature, greet_pause, with Sendmail 8.13.x on FreeBSD 4.7. When I try to re-generate sendmail.cf file, I got following error and the file generation failed: # m4 /usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4 sendmail.mc sendmail.cf m4: sendmail.mc

Re: Sendmail greet_pause config

2006-11-07 Thread Simon Gao
Matt, Here is the sendmail.mc: == divert(-1) # # Copyright (c) 1983 Eric P. Allman # Copyright (c) 1988, 1993 divert(0) VERSIONID(`$FreeBSD: src/etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc,v 1.10.2.16 2002/05/22 16: 39:14 gshapiro Exp $') OSTYPE(freebsd4)

Re: Sendmail greet_pause config

2006-11-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Simon Gao wrote: I am trying to enable a new feature, greet_pause, with Sendmail 8.13.x on FreeBSD 4.7. You should update to FreeBSD 4.11 or later, which will give you a newer sendmail in the base system, which will probably fix the /etc/mail make magic which builds config files. Otherwise,

Re: Questions on first-time installation

2006-11-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 10:33:30AM -0500, Bob Schwartz wrote: First, to all who answered...many thanks! I can see I found the right places. Sorry for top posting, but I think, given the conditions you specify, probably the best thing for you to do is buy another drive - and replace one of the

Re: Sendmail greet_pause config

2006-11-07 Thread Vince Hoffman
Simon Gao wrote: Hi, I am trying to enable a new feature, greet_pause, with Sendmail 8.13.x on FreeBSD 4.7. When I try to re-generate sendmail.cf file, I got following error and the file generation failed: # m4 /usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4 sendmail.mc sendmail.cf m4: sendmail.mc at line

Re: Sendmail greet_pause config

2006-11-07 Thread Simon Gao
If I use portupgrade to update sendmail, can I downgrade sendmail later to the previous version if things do not work out? Simon Chuck Swiger wrote: Simon Gao wrote: I am trying to enable a new feature, greet_pause, with Sendmail 8.13.x on FreeBSD 4.7. You should update to FreeBSD 4.11 or

help with NO_OPENSSL= true in make.conf

2006-11-07 Thread Eric
is this something i should or shouldnt have? I use openssh-portable-4.4.p1 on my machines and cannot recall when NO_OPENSSL= true was added to make.conf. is this something I should keep in my make.conf? what are the implications if i keep it vs removing it? thanks all! Eric

denying a user access from the internet

2006-11-07 Thread Dave
Hello, I've got a FreeBSD box that i have a user on who needs special console access. I've given him access to what is required, but i do not want him to be able to log in from the internet via ssh, telnet, or even a serial terminal if possible. Basically if this user isn't right in front

Re: i need to upgrade a disk

2006-11-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 08:59:59AM -0600, Jonathan Horne wrote: i have a system that is FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE, that i need to upgrade its single disk. id like to keep all its existing slices the same size, and then use the unused space to create a new /opt slice. would dd be the way to

Important Information Regarding Your Banking Account

2006-11-07 Thread JPMorgan Chase Co.
[1][chase.gif] Dear Chase customer, As the Internet and information technology enable us to expand our services,we are committed to maintaining the trust customers have placed in us for protecting the privacy and security of information we have about you. In order to

Re: Sendmail greet_pause config

2006-11-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
Simon Gao wrote: If I use portupgrade to update sendmail, can I downgrade sendmail later to the previous version if things do not work out? Sure-- take a backup of the system. Although you can simply build sendmail from the sources directly on FreeBSD just fine, instead, if you're having

hpet support

2006-11-07 Thread McQueen, Ward
Hi In the release notes for ver 7.0, it states acpi now has basic support for the HPET time counter. Does this mean 7.0 will use the HPET in legacy mode or in a reduced capacity? thanks Ward ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Bus error (core dumped)

2006-11-07 Thread RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN
Hello all i am tring to get apache13_modssl this on FreeeBSD ver 4.11 stable to work. apachectl start works ok but when i try to start apachectl startssl i get this on the command line tokyo.computerking.ca /usr/local/etc/apache #apachectl startssl Bus error (core dumped) I get nothing

installation without /usr/local/etc?

2006-11-07 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, Trying to learn more about FBSD I decided to use an old box of mine (PII 200, 128 RAM, 17GB HD) to install FBSD-6.1 on it. My question is whether it is normal that after installation I do not have /usr/local/etc (just /usr/local)? I couldn't use the web to install the OS so I made

Re: Sendmail greet_pause config

2006-11-07 Thread Simon Gao
Thanks all. My problem is now fixed by using /usr/local/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4. Sendmail has been upgraded since default install through port. Simon Vince Hoffman wrote: Simon Gao wrote: Hi, I am trying to enable a new feature, greet_pause, with Sendmail 8.13.x on FreeBSD 4.7. When

Re: Sendmail greet_pause config

2006-11-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
Simon Gao wrote: The sendmail version is 8.13.4, which I am certain greet_pause is available. I assume if a certain version of Sendmail installed, then all the features should be available regardless which version FreeBSD? Is that correct? See here:

Re: Hard Drive Issues

2006-11-07 Thread Richard McIntyre
Tom Judge wrote: Richard McIntyre wrote: I'm having a similar problem, Oct 13 03:01:31 tco1 kernel: ad2: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=40UNCORRECTABLE LBA=181778119 Oct 13 07:11:15 tco1 kernel: ad2: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=40UNCORRECTABLE

Re: 'cd' ing inside a shell script

2006-11-07 Thread dgmm
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 14:37, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, Some of my webmail users are using lots of disk space. I want to make a shell script, like so: cd /home/webmail/public_html/cgi-bin/etc/users ; du -h -d1 | grep M | sort -nr -k1 and run it daily in a cronjob, mailing the

Re: Hard Drive Issues

2006-11-07 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Nov 7, 2006, at 1:49 PM, Richard McIntyre wrote: Tom Judge wrote: Richard McIntyre wrote: I'm having a similar problem, Oct 13 03:01:31 tco1 kernel: ad2: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=40UNCORRECTABLE LBA=181778119 Oct 13 07:11:15 tco1 kernel: ad2: FAILURE - READ_DMA

Re: Hard Drive Issues

2006-11-07 Thread David Kelly
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 04:49:08PM -0500, Richard McIntyre wrote: Tom Judge wrote: I've put a new disk into the system, The current disk is 200 GB, the new disk is 250 GB. If I run the command: dd if=/dev/ad2 of=/dev/ad3 conv=noerror Will this copy the (changing the appropriate device

Re: denying a user access from the internet

2006-11-07 Thread Kelly D. Grills
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 03:54:00PM -0500, Dave wrote: Hello, I've got a FreeBSD box that i have a user on who needs special console access. I've given him access to what is required, but i do not want him to be able to log in from the internet via ssh, telnet, or even a serial

need to get updates, packages, ports, etc. via Windows XP wireless

2006-11-07 Thread Scott Bennett
Here's my situation: I have a nearly two-year-old Inspiron XPS with a Dell 1450 dual-band wireless card and a Mobility Radeon 9800 graphics card. FreeBSD's support for these is insufficient to make the system useful under FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE, which I recently installed to replace 5.4. At

Re: installation without /usr/local/etc?

2006-11-07 Thread George Fazio
On Tue November 7 2006 16:18, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, Trying to learn more about FBSD I decided to use an old box of mine (PII 200, 128 RAM, 17GB HD) to install FBSD-6.1 on it. My question is whether it is normal that after installation I do not have /usr/local/etc (just

Re: need to get updates, packages, ports, etc. via Windows XP wireless

2006-11-07 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 18:40:12 -0600 (CST) Scott Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a workable procedure to use to get FreeBSD updates, packages, port source files, and so forth downloaded under Windows XP, which does have working wireless support, so that I can try to make 6.1

Re: Hard Drive Issues

2006-11-07 Thread David Kelly
Thinking about this a bit more. Don't mount all your new partitions before starting dump. Only mount the new root at /mnt. I think you *can* mount them all in advance but there are two sets of mode bits which apply to a mounted filesystem, those of the filesystem, and those of its mount

php 5.2.0... go boom!

2006-11-07 Thread Jonathan Horne
well, im franticly researching that bit of text that has flashed by during countless portupgrades... backing up previous version. right about now, i would LOVE to have php 5.1.6_3 back... 1) anyone else have bad luck with the upgrade to 5.2.0? my httpd-error logs are filling with this:

Re: php 5.2.0... go boom!

2006-11-07 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 21:08, Jonathan Horne wrote: well, im franticly researching that bit of text that has flashed by during countless portupgrades... backing up previous version. right about now, i would LOVE to have php 5.1.6_3 back... 1) anyone else have bad luck with the upgrade

FreeBSD 64-bit(EM64T) and Hyperthreading support

2006-11-07 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Hi, I just purchased a new Intel Pentium 4(3.06Ghz), 533 Mhz FSB, supporting EM64T (as written in the box). It has 1 MB cache size, package type = LGA 775, processor number = 524 Features: (as shown in the dropdown combo box when cpu speed =3.06, processor number = 524)

Re: Install error - MOD_LOAD (amr_linux, 0xffffffff806205d0, 0) error 6

2006-11-07 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 22:36:10 -0600 tecol [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I've tried all the boot methods. please CC the list so any useful information ends up in the archives - specially now that you included far more info :) Default (option 1), single user (option 4), and verbose logging

Re: Reading crashed SCSI disk

2006-11-07 Thread Olivier Nicole
I am wondering if there is a way to read the physical blocks (those that are readable) and save the data, from that I could be able to rebuild some of the mailboxes. dd if=/scsi_drive of=/some/file/name Should read anything readable, though without bs=xxx it may be quite slow. You

Re: denying a user access from the internet

2006-11-07 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 15:54:00 -0500 Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've got a FreeBSD box that i have a user on who needs special console access. I've given him access to what is required, but i do not want him to be able to log in from the internet via ssh, telnet, or even a serial

Re: Reading crashed SCSI disk

2006-11-07 Thread Fluffles
I tried dd if=/dev/da0s1 of=/somefile dd stopped after a short while with I/O error, after a number of SCSI reading errors. best regards, Olivier Hi Olivier, You might want to try: dd if=/dev/da0s1 of=/somefile bs=512 options=sync,noerror The bs=512 means it will transfer sectors

Re: FreeBSD 64-bit(EM64T) and Hyperthreading support

2006-11-07 Thread Fluffles
You Wrote: I wonder if I could benefit from these features when running AMD64 version. On i386 install, I just enabled SMP and the OS happilly reported 2 logical cpus, however, I'm not sure how I will build a particular application to benefit from this hyperthreading thing. Not all

Any recommended Client for LCS?

2006-11-07 Thread Yousef Adnan Raffah
Hello, We have a Micro$oft LCS server at work and I was wondering if I can use any client on my FreeBSD box? Are there any clients that can connect to the LCS server? I think it is using the SIP protocol, which is an RFC standard, no? What are your recommendations of clients and have you use a