Re: Mounting a partition from freebsd 6.2?

2009-01-13 Thread perryh
is there anything specific I should look at for switches or just dump /dev/ad2s1 | restore? Use:dump 0af - | restore -rf - It would be advisable to read the dump and restore manpages first. In 6.1, and I suspect still in 6.2, restore -r should be used only when restoring onto an

Re: 7.1 : watchdog bge0 timeout ?

2009-01-13 Thread Frank Bonnet
I'm gonna retry installing 7.1 today on a different hardware machine ( an older one ) let's see what happen then. Frank Bonnet wrote: Jos Chrispijn wrote: [Lowell Gilbert] Uit een eerder bericht van 10-1-2009 15:51 :: Could be hardware trouble, I suppose. I know FreeBSD can detect

Re: Looking for pointer to VPN / IPSEC info

2009-01-13 Thread Joe Kraft
Bill Campbell wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009, Joe Kraft wrote: I have a personal network behind a FreeBSD firewall running IPFW. It's been working fine for years, but as I'm getting more mobile in my work I'd like to be able to access my network while traveling. At work the problem is solved with

mountd, DNS

2009-01-13 Thread Pieter Donche
Installed FreeBSD-amd64 and asked to set up NFS server and client during sysinstall. In the boot process, at 'mountd' it takes some time, then: Jan 12 14:36:10 macos mountd[686]: can't get address info for host hmacs.cmi.ua .ac.be Jan 12 14:36:10 macos mountd[686]: bad host hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be,

Using device.hints to determine network device unit number

2009-01-13 Thread Yehonatan Yossef
Hi, I would like to determine the unit number of my network cards, make the device on pci0:16 appear always as mtnic0 and pci0:9 appear always as mtnic1. # pciconf -l | grep mtnic mtn...@pci0:19:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x001715b3 chip=0x636815b3 rev=0xa0 hdr=0x00 mtn...@pci0:16:0:0:

2 networkcards in 1 system

2009-01-13 Thread Pieter Donche
I installed FreeBSD-amd64 on a system which has 2 networkcards and configured 1 networkcard with its IP parameters. Now I want to add the second networkcard, and did: # sysinstall do Post-Install Configuratio Configure additional Netwerk Services Configure additional network interface

Re: 2 networkcards in 1 system

2009-01-13 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, and selected em1 and gave it its IP parameters (I used the same hostname macos.cmi.ua.ac.be, in the DNS servers here macos.cmi.ua.ac.be is assigned to two IP addresses) First I doubt that this will work. You can assign several names to a single IP address in DNS, but you

Re: 2 networkcards in 1 system

2009-01-13 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.bewrote: I installed FreeBSD-amd64 on a system which has 2 networkcards and configured 1 networkcard with its IP parameters. Now I want to add the second networkcard, and did: # sysinstall do Post-Install Configuratio

Re: 2 networkcards in 1 system

2009-01-13 Thread Ivailo Tanusheff
I suppose you use both NICs on a same network - you use common network segment or use common switch/hub. This is an old issue - try to change the segment or use vlans on the switch :) Regards, Ivailo Tanusheff Deputy Head of IT Department ProCredit Bank (Bulgaria) AD Pieter Donche

Using device.hints to determine network device unit number

2009-01-13 Thread Yony Yossef
Hi, I would like to determine the unit number of my network cards, make the device on pci0:16 appear always as mtnic0 and pci0:9 appear always as mtnic1. # pciconf -l | grep mtnic mtn...@pci0:19:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x001715b3 chip=0x636815b3 rev=0xa0 hdr=0x00 mtn...@pci0:16:0:0:

Disk Label Editor problem

2009-01-13 Thread luizbcampos
I installed FreeBSD-7.0amd64 on my 40GB disk and I chose automatic partition at disk label editor. I need to download a 665GB OS but at a given moment the system complains about lack of space on the disk (469GB). It has happened for two times. ad4s1a none 512MB*

Re: local copy of handbook

2009-01-13 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:59:04 -0500 Randy Pratt bsd-u...@embarqmail.com wrote: You might consider using Docsnap. This allows you to maintain all the FreeBSD documentation with a minimum of effort. Docsnap is an rsync repository for easy updating of installed FreeBSD documentation

FreeBSD 7.0 Installation error

2009-01-13 Thread T D
Hi people, Hi people, I am Tom and I have been attempting to install FreeBSD 7.0 from a dvd. I put the dvd in the drive and boot, the boot screen appears with the options default, acpi disabled, safe mode, etc, I then select default. The hardware probing/detecting scrolls by and then comes to a

Re: Disk Label Editor problem

2009-01-13 Thread RW
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:02:59 -0200 luizbcampos luizbcam...@gmail.com wrote: I installed FreeBSD-7.0amd64 on my 40GB disk and I chose automatic partition at disk label editor. I need to download a 665GB OS but at a given moment the system complains about lack of space on the disk (469GB). It

Re: PHP setup question

2009-01-13 Thread Steve Bertrand
stan wrote: If you want to see what I have, It's reachable at http://beachcave/net/ampache/ I can't reach it :) Reply with the proper URL and I'll have a look. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

FreeBSD Transition Questions.

2009-01-13 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Well, over the past few days I have made the transition to FreeBSD (6.4) as the primary OS on my home computer. I am currently running GNOME as a desktop, and it seems to be running well. Indeed, I am using Thunderbird to write this email! I have a couple of questions regarding the

Re: Disk Label Editor problem

2009-01-13 Thread Ricardo Jesus
luizbcampos wrote: I installed FreeBSD-7.0amd64 on my 40GB disk and I chose automatic partition at disk label editor. I need to download a 665GB OS but at a given moment the system complains about lack of space on the disk (469GB). It has happened for two times. ad4s1a

wireless nic - access point

2009-01-13 Thread regis505
I installed a D-Link WDA-2320 (Atheros chipset) wireless nic on my FreeBSD 7.1 system. I configured it as an access point. I read many posts on that topic and I am confused whether I need to bridge the wireless network to the wired network or just let the FreeBSD gateway to manage that. So far,

Re: Replace SCSI Drive

2009-01-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:09:54PM -0700, Tim Judd wrote: snip Not to be presumptious, or rude, but I've read the first part of this thread (a bit late, yes) and I'm just confused. If you're going to go so far as to prep the drive at home, before driving to the NOC, with a unrunnable

Re: Mounting a partition from freebsd 6.2?

2009-01-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:06:25AM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: is there anything specific I should look at for switches or just dump /dev/ad2s1 | restore? Use:dump 0af - | restore -rf - It would be advisable to read the dump and restore manpages first. In 6.1, and I

Re: Replace SCSI Drive

2009-01-13 Thread Grant Peel
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:09:54PM -0700, Tim Judd wrote: snip Not to be presumptious, or rude, but I've read the first part of this thread (a bit late, yes) and I'm just confused. If you're going to go so far as to prep the drive at home, before driving to the

Re: FreeBSD Transition Questions.

2009-01-13 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, Well, over the past few days I have made the transition to FreeBSD (6.4) as the primary OS on my home computer. I am currently running GNOME as a desktop, and it seems to be running well. Indeed, I am using Thunderbird to write this email! I have a couple of

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Re: Disk Label Editor problem

2009-01-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:02:59AM -0200, luizbcampos wrote: I installed FreeBSD-7.0amd64 on my 40GB disk and I chose automatic partition at disk label editor. I need to download a 665GB OS but at a given moment the system complains about lack of space on the disk (469GB). It has happened

Re: laptop battery + i2c bus reprogramming

2009-01-13 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 10), michael said: several of my laptop batteries(L-ION) have an i2c bus to the eeprom inside the case. is it possible to reprogram or reset a battery i have repacked from within freebsd or will i need to do this with the available windows programs? what i'm asking is

Re: FreeBSD Transition Questions.

2009-01-13 Thread Grant Peel
Ricardo Jesus wrote: Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, Well, over the past few days I have made the transition to FreeBSD (6.4) as the primary OS on my home computer. I am currently running GNOME as a desktop, and it seems to be running well. Indeed, I am using Thunderbird to write this email! I

Re: laptop battery + i2c bus reprogramming

2009-01-13 Thread Michael Copeland
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 10), michael said: several of my laptop batteries(L-ION) have an i2c bus to the eeprom inside the case. is it possible to reprogram or reset a battery i have repacked from within freebsd or will i need to do this with the available windows

Re: FreeBSD Transition Questions.

2009-01-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 13, 2009, at 9:54 AM, Grant Peel wrote: A couple of more questions if anyone has the time. 1. I have been searching for a iTunes client. i.e. a player that I can play my iTunes on. Does such a thing exist? Mplayer and xine should understand and be able to play unprotected AAC

Re: FreeBSD Transition Questions.

2009-01-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:54:24PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: 1. I have been searching for a iTunes client. i.e. a player that I can play my iTunes on. Does such a thing exist? There are lots of players capabable of playing mp3 in /usr/ports/multimedia/, e.g. audacious, amarok, xmms2, xmms

Re: NFS or an alternative?

2009-01-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 12, 2009, at 9:56 PM, Jay Hall wrote: I am in the process of redesigning my organization's network. And, since we will be using mostly Macintosh OS X clients, I am considering using NFS. However, I will need the ability to perform user/group authentication since users may not

Re: NFS or an alternative?

2009-01-13 Thread Michael Copeland
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 12, 2009, at 9:56 PM, Jay Hall wrote: I am in the process of redesigning my organization's network. And, since we will be using mostly Macintosh OS X clients, I am considering using NFS. However, I will need the ability to perform user/group authentication since

Re: FreeBSD Transition Questions.

2009-01-13 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Jan 13, 2009, at 9:54 AM, Grant Peel wrote: A couple of more questions if anyone has the time. 2. I want to import my Oulook express folders to Thinderbird. I know it can be done on windows, but when I try the impirt

Re: FreeBSD Transition Questions.

2009-01-13 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:54:24PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: 2. I want to import my Oulook express folders to Thinderbird. I know it can be done on windows, but when I try the impirt feature (running Thunderbord on

Re: FreeBSD Transition Questions.

2009-01-13 Thread George Davidovich
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 07:47:38PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:54:24PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: 2. I want to import my Oulook express folders to Thinderbird. I know it can be done on windows, but when I try the impirt feature (running Thunderbord on FreeBSD),

Problems with FreeBSD 8-CURRENT as Xen domU

2009-01-13 Thread Mister Olli
hi... I've managed to compile and setup a paravirtualized domU with FreeBSD 8 (SVN snapshot from 'head'). Currently I'm running into two mayor problems: - The system time is not behaving as expected. Example: I fired the domain up at 01:43 in the morning and

Re: FreeBSD Transition Questions.

2009-01-13 Thread Grant Peel
Kurt Buff wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Jan 13, 2009, at 9:54 AM, Grant Peel wrote: A couple of more questions if anyone has the time. 2. I want to import my Oulook express folders to Thinderbird. I know it can be done on windows, but

Re: FreeBSD Transition Questions.

2009-01-13 Thread cwt
George Davidovich wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 07:47:38PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:54:24PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: 2. I want to import my Oulook express folders to Thinderbird. I know it can be done on windows, but when I try the impirt feature

Re: FreeBSD Transition Questions.

2009-01-13 Thread Kurt Buff
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com wrote: Kurt Buff wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Jan 13, 2009, at 9:54 AM, Grant Peel wrote: A couple of more questions if anyone has the time. 2. I want to import my Oulook

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 Installation error

2009-01-13 Thread T D
This is a listing of my hardware, I probably should have listed it in my earlier post. Hardware: Motherboard: A7N8X-E Deluxe socket A (462) Chipset: Northbridge: NVIDIA nforce2 spp ultra400 Southbrdige nvidia nforce2 MCP-T memory ddr 184pin (maximum of 3x184) I have kingston kvr400x64c3ak 512mb

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 Installation error

2009-01-13 Thread T D
Hopefully I am posting to the correct list...Or should I be posting to freebsd-stable? --- On Wed, 14/1/09, T D ttd...@yahoo.com.au wrote: From: T D ttd...@yahoo.com.au Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 Installation error To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: Wednesday, 14 January, 2009, 6:58 AM

Re: wireless nic - access point

2009-01-13 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 13 January 2009 06:00:08 regis505 wrote: I installed a D-Link WDA-2320 (Atheros chipset) wireless nic on my FreeBSD 7.1 system. I configured it as an access point. I read many posts on that topic and I am confused whether I need to bridge the wireless network to the wired network or

freebsd-update doesn't seem to update to Latest

2009-01-13 Thread Sebastian Setzer
Hi, I did a freebsd-update to 7.1-RELEASE as described in the release notes. After that, I installed Openoffice (with pkg_add) and got several warnings like this one: pkg_add: warning: package 'gnome-vfs-2.22.0_2' requires 'atk-1.22.0_1', but 'atk-1.20.0' is installed Now I did # pkg_add -r

Re: 3945ABG wireless problems

2009-01-13 Thread Mel
On Thursday 08 January 2009 22:55:48 Alain G. Fabry wrote: Hi, I'm having problems with my 3945ABG Wireless card. I keep on getting wpi0: Radio Transmitter is switched off pushing 802.11 button on laptop - Turning OFF --- Jan 9 07:59:08 desmo kernel: ugen0: at

updated to 7.1 via cvs source, PAE kernel. server unstable

2009-01-13 Thread brad davison
Hi all, Hopefully someone can shed some light on my problem. Over the weekend, we upgraded our mailserver that was running like a champ w/ FBSD 7.0 and a PAE kernel (8gb RAM). I didn't use the freebsd-update program, because I read that if you're not using a GENERIC kernel, it wont work.

Problems with ixgbe driver

2009-01-13 Thread Bc. Radek Krejca
Hello, I have problems with ixgbe driver: 1. build fails In file included from /usr/src/sys/dev/ixgbe/ixgbe.c:39: /usr/src/sys/dev/ixgbe/ixgbe.h:87:21: error: tcp_lro.h: No such file or directory mkdep: compile failed *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DL380-G5. *** Error code

Re: 3945ABG wireless problems

2009-01-13 Thread maddae...@gmail.com
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Alain G. Fabry alainfa...@belgacom.net wrote: Hi, I'm having problems with my 3945ABG Wireless card. I keep on getting wpi0: Radio Transmitter is switched off pushing 802.11 button on laptop - Turning OFF --- Jan 9 07:59:08

receiving mail

2009-01-13 Thread Pieter Donche
Newly installed FreeBSD-7.0. Sending mail to other hosts works. Receiving mail does not: Between host1 (non-freebsd) and host2 (freebsd 7), sending a mail from host1 to host2 (both in domain .domain.topdom) results in message 'Returned mail: see transcript for details: - The

Re: updated to 7.1 via cvs source, PAE kernel. server unstable

2009-01-13 Thread matt donovan
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 4:32 PM, brad davison demonichandextensi...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi all, Hopefully someone can shed some light on my problem. Over the weekend, we upgraded our mailserver that was running like a champ w/ FBSD 7.0 and a PAE kernel (8gb RAM). I didn't use the

Re: freebsd-update doesn't seem to update to Latest

2009-01-13 Thread matt donovan
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Sebastian Setzer sebastianset...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Hi, I did a freebsd-update to 7.1-RELEASE as described in the release notes. After that, I installed Openoffice (with pkg_add) and got several warnings like this one: pkg_add: warning: package

Re: Odd behavior after upgrading to 7.0-p7

2009-01-13 Thread Mel
On Saturday 10 January 2009 16:37:50 Andrew Falanga wrote: I installed 7.0 i386 and all was working great. I upgraded to p7 and now when I end my X session, I have kdm loading, it doesn't bring me to a login prompt. It dumps me on console 0 and I have to kill the kdm-bin process to return

Re: updated to 7.1 via cvs source, PAE kernel. server unstable

2009-01-13 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
matt donovan schreef: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 4:32 PM, brad davison demonichandextensi...@hotmail.com wrote: Since then, we have had severe server instability after a few hours. The server completely locks up requiring a hard boot, then the fsck_ufs runs for a while. This is our production

Re: receiving mail

2009-01-13 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 13 January 2009 13:20:33 Pieter Donche wrote: 'Returned mail: see transcript for details: - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - u...@host2.domain.topdom - Transcript of session follows - 550 5.1.2 u...@host2.domain.topdom... Host unknown

FreeBSD-SA-09:03.ntpd

2009-01-13 Thread Mitja
I did as instructions says: b) Execute the following commands as root: # cd /usr/src # patch /path/to/patch # cd /usr/src/lib/bind # make obj make depend make make install # cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/named # make obj make depend make make install # /etc/rc.d/named restart ...and I got: make:

Re: receiving mail

2009-01-13 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Pieter Donche wrote: Between host1 (non-freebsd) and host2 (freebsd 7), sending a mail from host1 to host2 (both in domain .domain.topdom) results in message 'Returned mail: see transcript for details: - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors

Re: FreeBSD-SA-09:03.ntpd

2009-01-13 Thread Daniel Molina Wegener [Coder.CL]
On Tuesday 13 January 2009 21:30:59 Mitja wrote: I did as instructions says: b) Execute the following commands as root: # cd /usr/src # patch /path/to/patch # cd /usr/src/lib/bind # make obj make depend make make install # cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/named # make obj make depend make make

Re: unsub

2009-01-13 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On January 13, 2009 9:38:31 AM -0600 Javier Henderson jav...@kjsl.org wrote: unsub Another Criminal Minds fan? Paul Schmehl, If it isn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. ** WARNING: Check the headers before

mythtv ported over to freebsd?

2009-01-13 Thread David Karapetyan
Has anyone installed mythtv on a fbsd box? I checked the port makefile, and it stated that the port was broken? Is this true? If so, what are the major issues? On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 06:30:59PM -0600, Mitja wrote: I did as instructions says: b) Execute the following commands as root: # cd

Re: unsub

2009-01-13 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On January 13, 2009 9:38:31 AM -0600 Javier Henderson jav...@kjsl.org wrote: unsub Another Criminal Minds fan? ROFL! -- Sahil Tandon sa...@tandon.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Foiling MITM attacks on source and ports trees

2009-01-13 Thread cpghost
On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 05:44:12PM +0100, cpghost wrote: Any idea? Could this be implemented as a plugin to Subversion (since it must access previous revisions of files and previously computed digests)? Given read-only access to the repository, a set of simple Python scripts or C/C++ programs

NFS fstab style

2009-01-13 Thread Anthony L
Hi, I've posted this question on a few boards but couldn't get a solid confirmation: Can someone confirm that these two lines are the same -or- if one is preferred over the other ? Code: 192.168.1.8:/temp/tmp_nfs nfs rw,-b,-i 0 0 192.168.1.8:/temp/tmp_nfs nfs rw,bg,intr

Re: NFS fstab style

2009-01-13 Thread perryh
Can someone confirm that these two lines are the same -or- if one is preferred over the other ? Code: 192.168.1.8:/temp/tmp_nfs nfs rw,-b,-i 0 0 192.168.1.8:/temp/tmp_nfs nfs rw,bg,intr 0 0 I've never seen the style of line 1 before, no idea whether it would work or not.

updating to 7.1 with a small root slice

2009-01-13 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Dear all, I am looking for your advice. Due to a very stupid design decision my / slice is only 256 MB. It seems too little so whenever I compile a new kernel, I need to move the kernel.old to a different slice to install the new one. Then I pray, hope for the best and reboot. However, I read

Re: receiving mail

2009-01-13 Thread Pieter Donche
on host1: $ host -t MX macos.cmi.ua.ac.be returns no answer This is the same as with another host on the same subnet, also in the same zone and on the same switch... and which does receive a sent mail --- But, when I try from host1 $ telnet host2.domain.topdom 25 Trying 143.129.75.1...