Fw: help with installation of 6.2 release i386 on older HP desktop

2008-01-07 Thread Joseph Eaton
More precisely. I do select the elements I want (All and then Exit and then Install from CD-ROM and then some files flash before my eyes and then I come to a screen that says: User Confirmation Requested and below that Unable to transfer the base distribution from adc0 and on the next line Do

help with installation of 6.2 release i386 on older HP desktop

2008-01-07 Thread Joseph Eaton
Thanks in advance for your help. I am a newbie trying to install FreeBSD for the first time. I have an HP desktop computer with 64MB of SDRAM, a 12 GB hard drive and a Pentium II processor running at 333 MHz. I am trying to put FreeBSD 6.2 on this machine but have not had any luck. I've

Re: Fw: help with installation of 6.2 release i386 on older HP desktop

2008-01-07 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Joseph Eaton wrote: More precisely. I do select the elements I want (All and then Exit and then Install from CD-ROM and then some files flash before my eyes and then I come to a screen that says: User Confirmation Requested and below that Unable to transfer the base distribution from adc0

Re: 7.0-PRERELEASE installworld fails [SOLVED]

2008-01-07 Thread Unga
--- Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may be an overkill but should do the job: # rm -r /usr/src /usr/obj restore sources # cd /usr/src # make buildworld # make kernel # mergemaster -p # make installworld # mergemaster -i This procedure solved the problem. Thank you very

Re: port collection RELEASE6.2 lost after reinstall with CVSUP

2008-01-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Frank Shute wrote: So if it's not branched but tagged, what's the difference between the ports tree I get if I use RELENG_4_8 compared to RELENG_7_0 as tags in my ports supfile? Probably not a very great deal -- you'll get equally

Re: outgoing mail STOPPED.

2008-01-07 Thread Gary Kline
Hi gang, first a public, up-front *thanks* to Bill Swingle and everyone else here at magnesium.net. If not for this site AND my networking (at least) working, I would be severely SOL and sans oar. At least this acct lets me tell a few people

Re: Fw: help with installation of 6.2 release i386 on older HP desktop

2008-01-07 Thread tesolarisc
Try to burn a new cd/dvd and burn it at a lower speed. It might be that the cd/dvd isn't 100%. cheers On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 00:17 -0800, Joseph Eaton wrote: More precisely. I do select the elements I want (All and then Exit and then Install from CD-ROM and then some files flash before my

Re: outgoing mail STOPPED.

2008-01-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Gary Kline wrote: Then I checked my /etc/namedb/s/db.thought.org to see id anything there could conceivably be hanging port 25. Zip. (I still updated the date and re-exed. I checked with ps and grep to find something new: The

Re: port collection RELEASE6.2 lost after reinstall with CVSUP

2008-01-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 09:03:12AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: Frank Shute wrote: So if it's not branched but tagged, what's the difference between the ports tree I get if I use RELENG_4_8 compared to RELENG_7_0 as tags in my ports supfile? Probably not a very great deal --

Re: wpi error: bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory properly

2008-01-07 Thread vittorio
Il Monday 07 January 2008 03:18:21 Benjamin Close ha scritto: vittorio wrote: Context: HP laptop DV6000, centrino duo, FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 When loading if_wpi I get the following line saying that bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory properly SNIP wpi0: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG mem

Strange messages when booting freebsd 7.0-beta4

2008-01-07 Thread vittorio
I recently upgraded from 6.2 to 7.0-beta4 Now, in /var/log/messages I invariably find the following messages: - Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All

Samba: changing UNIX passwords from Windows

2008-01-07 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
Hello We have a FreeBSD server (7.0 BETA3) running as PDC (Samba 3.0.28) passwords stored in tdbsam. Theres are no problems for users and machines to log on to the network as long as they use the passwords I have made by smbpasswd -a username. But I cannot make a working configuration which

Re: wpi error: bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory properly

2008-01-07 Thread Tim Kellers
vittorio wrote: Il Monday 07 January 2008 03:18:21 Benjamin Close ha scritto: vittorio wrote: Context: HP laptop DV6000, centrino duo, FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 When loading if_wpi I get the following line saying that bus_dmamem_alloc failed to align memory properly SNIP wpi0: Intel(R)

home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script

2008-01-07 Thread Steve Franks
I keep reading about making sh scripts executable with #!/bin/sh on the first line and chmod to executable. That works with all my system scripts (rc, etc.) or my system would be DOA, no doubt. When I do it in my home folder, however, running script gives command not found. I've only read about

Re: VoIP and SSH

2008-01-07 Thread Jon Krause
Andrew Falanga wrote: On Friday 04 January 2008 14:55:00 Jon Krause wrote: Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, I don't understand this one and I'm hoping someone here might know. My father's router wasn't forwarding connection requests for any port that we'd configured for sshd to listen on.

RE: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script

2008-01-07 Thread Barry Byrne
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Franks Sent: 07 January 2008 15:53 I keep reading about making sh scripts executable with #!/bin/sh on the first line and chmod to executable. That works with all my system scripts (rc,

home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script

2008-01-07 Thread Robert Huff
Steve Franks writes: I keep reading about making sh scripts executable with #!/bin/sh on the first line and chmod to executable. That works with all my system scripts (rc, etc.) or my system would be DOA, no doubt. When I do it in my home folder, however, running script gives command

Re: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script

2008-01-07 Thread Eric Crist
On Jan 7, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Steve Franks wrote: I keep reading about making sh scripts executable with #!/bin/sh on the first line and chmod to executable. That works with all my system scripts (rc, etc.) or my system would be DOA, no doubt. When I do it in my home folder, however, running

Re: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script

2008-01-07 Thread Steve Franks
This is a sort of 'don't shoot yourself in the foot' design. You cannot run a script or binary simply by name if you're cwd is the directory that contains that script or binary. IIRC, you can't cd / usr/bin and run anything in /usr/bin without explicitly calling that file with the ./

Re: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script

2008-01-07 Thread Josh Carroll
I keep reading about making sh scripts executable with #!/bin/sh on the first line and chmod to executable. That works with all my system scripts (rc, etc.) or my system would be DOA, no doubt. When I do it in my home folder, however, running script gives command not found. That typically

Re: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script

2008-01-07 Thread Josh Carroll
How are you running the commands? The problem is probably to do with your path. Your home directory isn't typically and shouldn't be in your PATH (try echo $PATH). You need to specify the full path to your scripts or place a ./ in front of the script name if in the same directory. e.g.

Re: VoIP and SSH

2008-01-07 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Jan 7, 2008 8:45 AM, Jon Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Falanga wrote: On Friday 04 January 2008 14:55:00 Jon Krause wrote: Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, I don't understand this one and I'm hoping someone here might know. My father's router wasn't forwarding connection

Re: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script

2008-01-07 Thread Jim Bow
Hey Steve, Steve Franks wrote: Ah! You'd think any one of the many tutorials I read would have mentioned that little detail ;) Tutorials do have a tendency to look over important details. That's why I would always recommend a good book, something like UNIX Power Tools in your case, which,

Re: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script

2008-01-07 Thread Erik Osterholm
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 09:13:39AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: This is a sort of 'don't shoot yourself in the foot' design. You cannot run a script or binary simply by name if you're cwd is the directory that contains that script or binary. IIRC, you can't cd / usr/bin and run anything in

minimum valid block size on DVD-RAM

2008-01-07 Thread Martin Laabs
Hi, I'm investigating a problem concerning the minimum valid block size accepted by DVD (writing) devices when writing on a DVD-RAM. (Please don't mix DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD-RAM up here.) My motivation for this is the handbook chapter 18.7.9 that describes how to format a DVD-RAM. All listed

Re: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script

2008-01-07 Thread James Harrison
On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 10:50 -0600, Erik Osterholm wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 09:13:39AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: This is a sort of 'don't shoot yourself in the foot' design. You cannot run a script or binary simply by name if you're cwd is the directory that contains that script

Re: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script

2008-01-07 Thread Mike Bristow
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:50:47AM -0600, Erik Osterholm wrote: The '.' notation for the current working directory enables you to add the current directory you happen to be in as part of your path (thus making it searched when executing a command), however this has serious security

Re: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script

2008-01-07 Thread Mike Jeays
On January 7, 2008 12:04:39 pm Mike Bristow wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:50:47AM -0600, Erik Osterholm wrote: The '.' notation for the current working directory enables you to add the current directory you happen to be in as part of your path (thus making it searched when executing a

Re: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script

2008-01-07 Thread Robert Huff
James Harrison writes: One example that comes to mind is the CUPS port. It installs its own version of the lpr binary in /usr/local/bin. However, there's also an instance of lpr, the BSD version, in /usr/bin. So how do you make sure you're using the CUPS version of the binary? The

Re: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script

2008-01-07 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Mike Jeays [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On January 7, 2008 12:04:39 pm Mike Bristow wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:50:47AM -0600, Erik Osterholm wrote: The '.' notation for the current working directory enables you to add the current directory you happen to be in as part of your

32-bit FreeBSD binary on amd64

2008-01-07 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Hello! I'm struggling with a 32-bit FreeBSD executable, which is identified as: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped Unfortunately, the executable would not run: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libm.so.4: unsupported file

photo editor

2008-01-07 Thread Danielisz Laszlo
Hi! What photo editor do you use on your system, expecting Gimp? Do you any application which can connect to the google's picasa gallery and upload/download photos? Laci Looking for last minute

Re: minimum valid block size on DVD-RAM

2008-01-07 Thread Kimi
On 07/01/2008, Martin Laabs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm investigating a problem concerning the minimum valid block size accepted by DVD (writing) devices when writing on a DVD-RAM. (Please don't mix DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD-RAM up here.) My motivation for this is the handbook chapter

Re: photo editor

2008-01-07 Thread Chess Griffin
* Danielisz Laszlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-01-07 11:50:56]: Hi! What photo editor do you use on your system, expecting Gimp? Do you any application which can connect to the google's picasa gallery and upload/download photos? Although I have not really used it very much, I believe

Re: home dir executable (!/bin/sh, chmod+x) shell scripts won't run without sh script

2008-01-07 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 01:21:46PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: James Harrison writes: One example that comes to mind is the CUPS port. It installs its own version of the lpr binary in /usr/local/bin. However, there's also an instance of lpr, the BSD version, in /usr/bin. So how do you

Re: disabling boot output

2008-01-07 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tilman Linneweh wrote: * Omer Faruk Sen [ Jan 4, 2008 (15:20 )]: How can I disable boot messages so user can't see any boot message. I think there is 4 part for that and each of them requires a different configuration file to be edited. 1)

Are 8K sector sizes sane for geli devices?

2008-01-07 Thread Bill Moran
In creating a geli encrypted drive, I tried using a sector size of 8K, but experienced random panics. I've now switched to 4K and am using bonnie to stability test the partition. Is anyone aware of stability issues with geli partitions with blocks larger than 4K? The docs indicate that larger

tcp wrappers

2008-01-07 Thread Jim Pazarena
tcp wrappers does not seem to be compiled with the 'blacklist patch' which Wietse Venema provided some years back. I am curious if/why the implementor(s) within FreeBSD chose to ignore that useful patch? Would someone please point out to me how/where I could re-compile tcpd to include this

Re: tcp wrappers

2008-01-07 Thread Vince
Jim Pazarena wrote: tcp wrappers does not seem to be compiled with the 'blacklist patch' which Wietse Venema provided some years back. I am curious if/why the implementor(s) within FreeBSD chose to ignore that useful patch? Would someone please point out to me how/where I could re-compile

Re: minimum valid block size on DVD-RAM

2008-01-07 Thread Martin Laabs
Hi, [...] it works for me perfectly for over a year on a firewall file server, only thing I changed was the default block/frag size for UFS2 to 8096/1024. Only time I hear them spin-up is when periodic runs daily/weekly/monthly. Are you sure you have the frag size set to 1024? This should

Re: Users login configuration

2008-01-07 Thread Bill Moran
In response to ivan dimitrov [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi list, i have a freebsd server connected in local network behind a router. is there a way to configure the sshd to allow to login some (group of) users with their passwords only from the local network and to allow login other

Re: unpack win32 exe file

2008-01-07 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Lars Kristiansen wrote: Chris Whitehouse skrev: Rob wrote: Chris Whitehouse wrote: I have a Windows executable file (.exe) which in a Windows environment would be run to extract some files which it contains. Is there any way I can extract the files on my FreeBSD system? I've tried unzip,

Re: OSX NFS-Server FreeBSD NFS Client

2008-01-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 2, 2008, at 10:50 PM, Konrad Heuer wrote: I observe a serious problem with NFS exports from a Mac OS X 10.4 server to FreeBSD 6.2 NFS clients (itself running on DELL PowerEdge 2850 server hardware). We use the StorNext distributed file system in which FreeBSD cannot participate

Re: batch rename

2008-01-07 Thread Colin Brace
On Jan 5, 2008 6:34 AM, Jeff Laine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My goal is to rename several files in such a way as to decapitalize starting letters in their names. The solution seems to be simple but I'm stuck. What should I use? awk/sed or write some shell-script? If you want to forsake the

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zpool cache failed

2008-01-07 Thread Steven Friedrich
I recently source upgraded to 7-RC1. When I boot, just after loading the kernel, it reports zpool cachefailed. Any ideas? -- Steven Friedrich Louisville, KY 40216 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: batch rename

2008-01-07 Thread Jim Bow
Jeff Laine wrote: My goal is to rename several files in such a way as to decapitalize starting letters in their names. The solution seems to be simple but I'm stuck. What should I use? awk/sed or write some shell-script? I found myself at this point once too, and then I discovered

Re: How do I get sendmail working again

2008-01-07 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Sunday 06 January 2008 02:34:34 Josh Tolbert wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 09:22:52AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: There's your problem. You've got two conflicting sets of daemon options -- effectively you're telling sendmail to bind to the same interfaces twice for port 25. Just

changing the postion of a partion in fdisk

2008-01-07 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have my FreeBSD partition as partition 1 and my ntfs as partition 2 but Vista insists that there is no suitable partion to install to (even though the ntfs partition is big enough)... after some research I found that vista absolutely insists that

webcalendar and php and classes

2008-01-07 Thread Noah
webcalendar 1.16 installed since 1.05 was not working for me and getting the following fatal error and warning: # /a/www/webcalendar/tools/send_reminders.php Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613/fileinfo.so' - Cannot open

is there a /bin/sh method to tell the ending of a file

2008-01-07 Thread Gary Kline
Hi All, Is there an easy way of determing whether a string//filename ends in *.gz? using /bin/sh? I spend around 20 minutes cobbling together scripts to burn ISO files last night. Then blindly wasted one CD-R file that was gzipped. tar barfs on you,but cdrecord dev=foo.gz writes exactly

Re: is there a /bin/sh method to tell the ending of a file

2008-01-07 Thread Paul Procacci
Is this what you mean? - #!/bin/sh STRING=mystring.gz if [ .gz = `echo \$STRING\ | sed -n 's/.*\(\.gz\)$/\1/p'` ]; then echo test; fi --- ~Paul On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 09:10:58PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Hi All, Is there an easy way of determing

Re: is there a /bin/sh method to tell the ending of a file

2008-01-07 Thread Bill Campbell
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008, Paul Procacci wrote: Is this what you mean? - #!/bin/sh STRING=mystring.gz if [ .gz = `echo \$STRING\ | sed -n 's/.*\(\.gz\)$/\1/p'` ]; then echo test; fi Another way might be #!/bin/sh # basename $filename .gz returns $filename unless it has a .gz

Re: is there a /bin/sh method to tell the ending of a file

2008-01-07 Thread Paul Procacci
/Gulp Guess I'm too `new` skool! ;-P Cheers! On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 12:47:53AM -0500, John Levine wrote: - #!/bin/sh if [ .gz = `echo \$STRING\ | sed -n 's/.*\(\.gz\)$/\1/p'` ]; then echo test; fi E. I think that we can now safely take advantage of

Re: is there a /bin/sh method to tell the ending of a file

2008-01-07 Thread Jon Hamilton
} On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 09:10:58PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: } Paul Procacci [EMAIL PROTECTED], said on Mon Jan 07, 2008 [11:34:08 PM]: } Hi All, } } Is there an easy way of determing whether a string//filename ends in } *.gz? using /bin/sh? I spend around 20 minutes cobbling together }

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Re: is there a /bin/sh method to tell the ending of a file

2008-01-07 Thread John Levine
- #!/bin/sh if [ .gz = `echo \$STRING\ | sed -n 's/.*\(\.gz\)$/\1/p'` ]; then echo test; fi E. I think that we can now safely take advantage of features added to the shell in the late 1970s. --- #!/bin/sh case $1 in *.gz) echo that is a gzipped

Re: OSX NFS-Server FreeBSD NFS Client

2008-01-07 Thread Konrad Heuer
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 2, 2008, at 10:50 PM, Konrad Heuer wrote: I observe a serious problem with NFS exports from a Mac OS X 10.4 server to FreeBSD 6.2 NFS clients (itself running on DELL PowerEdge 2850 server hardware). We use the StorNext distributed file system

Updating 7.0-BETA2 to RC1...

2008-01-07 Thread peter.piggybox
I'm shortly going to update my laptop from 7.0-BETA2 (a fresh install) to 7.0-RC1. I'll do this with a buildworld/installworld cycle. However, reading the site for freebsd-update I noticed that if I were to do a binary upgrade then it recommends rebuilding all ports as well. Is rebuilding all

Re: is there a /bin/sh method to tell the ending of a file

2008-01-07 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 12:01:18AM -0600, Jon Hamilton wrote: } On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 09:10:58PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: } Paul Procacci [EMAIL PROTECTED], said on Mon Jan 07, 2008 [11:34:08 PM]: } Hi All, } } Is there an easy way of determing whether a string//filename ends in }

Re: PHP5 segmentation fault

2008-01-07 Thread zbigniew szalbot
Hello Jeffrey, Jeffrey Lehman pisze: Hello everyone, this is my first post to the list as I am a new FreeBSD user as of last week. I've installed 7.0RC1 amd64 architecture on my poweredge 2950. I'm having issues with apache22 and php5. Here is the process I went through to install both.

PHP5 segmentation fault

2008-01-07 Thread Jeffrey Lehman
Hello everyone, this is my first post to the list as I am a new FreeBSD user as of last week. I've installed 7.0RC1 amd64 architecture on my poweredge 2950. I'm having issues with apache22 and php5. Here is the process I went through to install both. 1. Installed www/apache22 using 'make

Re: is there a /bin/sh method to tell the ending of a file

2008-01-07 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 11:34:08PM -0600, Paul Procacci wrote: Is this what you mean? - #!/bin/sh STRING=mystring.gz if [ .gz = `echo \$STRING\ | sed -n 's/.*\(\.gz\)$/\1/p'` ]; then echo test; fi --- ~Paul Sorry. You get the