Re: Minimum system requirements

2011-03-20 Thread Daniel Marsh
I'm sure he meant is there a video that shows the steps taken to complete the install. This will also list hardware requirements, but in short it does depend on what you want, I run BSD on a pentium m, 1ghz with 1gb ram and it runs sweet. You could run it on lesser hardware without a problem...

Re: badly munged system

2009-07-17 Thread Daniel Marsh
Eltan, The actual problem is the fact you installed the kernel, booted the new kernel and are using the old world. You can boot the old kernel and do a make installworld and it will work. The world and the kernel will have problems, especially if there are major version differences between the

Re: Question about forcing fsck at boottime

2009-03-31 Thread Daniel Marsh
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:01:37 +0800, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:35:11 +0530 manish jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am migrating from Linux and am still learning the basics of FreeBSD. One thing that I would to carry over from my Linux days is to

Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-21 Thread Daniel Marsh
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess it can, but in the past when hardware has failed for me, I generally got some indicative errors in the logs. hardware failures are different. rarely causes reboot, or reboots ramdomly independent of what you

Re: making packages from ports

2007-11-12 Thread Daniel Marsh
On Nov 13, 2007 11:48 AM, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've got a box i'd like to build packages from ports on, and deploy those packages to other machines. I'll use postfix as an example. I did make package from postfix's directory and selected pcre and mysql support. I got the

Re: can't upgrade - catch-22

2007-10-27 Thread Daniel Marsh
On 10/27/07, Keith Seyffarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On FreeBSD before 6.2 ports system unfortunately can not set default X11BASE by itself so please help it a bit by setting X11BASE=${LOCALBASE} in make.conf. On the other hand, if you do wish to use non-default X11BASE, please

Re: Booting a GELI encrypted hard disk

2007-10-24 Thread Daniel Marsh
On 10/23/07, Steve Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am voraciously attempting to get a FreeBSD system to boot from a GELI encrypted hard disk, but am having problems. You don't need to encrypt the whole harddisk. You can encrypt separate slices. There is no need to encrypt stuff

Re: Booting a GELI encrypted hard disk

2007-10-10 Thread Daniel Marsh
On 10/10/07, Steve Bertrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am voraciously attempting to get a FreeBSD system to boot from a GELI encrypted hard disk, but am having problems. All of my searches lead to the same problem...GELI passphrase can not be entered correctly upon boot. I have

Re: minimal install is too big

2007-10-04 Thread Daniel Marsh
On 10/5/07, Tim Judd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Recently, for pure entertainment and a little bit of a experience thing, I have been looking and/or finding many devices that have linux embedded. While in of itself the fact that it works, I'm not discounting. But I'd like to expand

Re: Transparent email proxy

2007-07-16 Thread Daniel Marsh
On 7/16/07, Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, With the firewall, it is easy to make the use of the outgoing mail hub compulsory. Is there some reason beyond that that you want to do things transparently? Yes, I should have been a bit more specific. As university department, we

Re: without SSL

2007-07-11 Thread Daniel Marsh
On 7/12/07, pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jul 11, 2007, at 10:22 AM, pj wrote: I can access apache from my windows machine: It works But I cannot access http://biggie:1 - message says: try https://... that does bring up the Webmin page. I know apache listens on port

Re: Filesystem Full

2007-06-12 Thread Daniel Marsh
On 6/13/07, Dixit, Viraj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks, My FreeBSD 5.3 system message logs are showing me this info, Jun 12 14:53:48 gatekeeper kernel: pid 58059 (ftpd), uid 1049 inumber 141313 on /u sr: filesystem full Jun 12 15:34:17 gatekeeper kernel: pid 60158 (ftpd), uid 1049 inumber

Re: rsync install md5 error

2007-06-08 Thread Daniel Marsh
On 6/9/07, Agus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am trying to install /usr/ports/net/rsync and i am getting MD5 checksum mismatch for rsync-2.6.6.tar.gz then it says if u are sure u want to override this check, type make NO_CHECKSUM=yes What does it mean that the MD5 and sha256

Re: Locked Myself Out - Cannot su

2007-05-28 Thread Daniel Marsh
On 5/29/07, Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/27/07, Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/27/07, Conrad J. Sabatier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 27 May 2007 19:17:20 -0400 Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is one of those things where after you realize what you've done,

Re: freebsd network fax server?

2007-05-27 Thread Daniel Marsh
On 5/27/07, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with the printserver routine is you have no way to specify the recipient fax number. Emailing the fax to the hylafax server is the way to go. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DHCP/NIC IP address contention issues

2007-04-25 Thread Daniel Marsh
On 4/26/07, L Goodwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will someone please lead me in the right direction towards resolving the following network issue? snip 1) Apr 25 13:33:19 SERVER kernel: arp 00:40:f4:47:fb:8e is using my IP address xxx.xxx.x.xx! 2) dhcppc0# Apr 25 14:07:05 dhcpp0 kernel: arp:

Re: Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers

2007-04-23 Thread Daniel Marsh
On 4/24/07, L Goodwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to implement an automated backup facility on the FreeBSD file server I'm setting up for a client. It will have a software RAID 1 Mirror/Duplex that is made available to Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista Home Premium users as a Samba share. I

Re: PPP and resolv.conf

2007-04-17 Thread Daniel Marsh
On 4/17/07, Ansar Mohammed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I stop ppp from modifying my /etc/resolv.conf? Everytime I establish a pppoe session, my resolv.conf file gets reconfigured to my ISPs DNS Servers. You could make resolv.conf to what you want it to be and then do: chflags schg

Re: tsclient removed from SuSE?

2007-03-27 Thread Daniel Marsh
On 3/28/07, Zhang Weiwu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recall that there had been tsclient come with SuSE 9.x. Now I am using SuSE 10.2. I cannot find tsclient in the SuSE standard repository nor in packman. (Can I know why this is removed?) Zhang, this is a FreeBSD list, not SuSE, please, mail

Re: nss_ldap and openldap on the same server.

2007-03-12 Thread Daniel Marsh
On 3/12/07, Gerhard Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a small problem. On my central server we run an openldap server that contains the userdata for some systems. An the server uses this ldap server for authentication and nss. The problem is that when the server is booting slapd

Re: syncing user passwd information between servers

2007-03-08 Thread Daniel Marsh
On 3/9/07, Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to figure out the Best admininstrative way to do the following: We have two FreeBSD 6.2 servers and want to keep the passwd files in sync so all the same users can log into each machine, their UID's match, and when the update the

Re: Changing command-line resolution

2007-03-07 Thread Daniel Marsh
On 3/8/07, frzburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I was wondering if there is a way to change the command-line resolution... Back then with Linux, I could adjust the resolution in grub or lilo by passing some parameters to the kernel. Is there any way to do the same thing in FreeBSD? I wouldn't

Re: VMware equivalent?

2007-02-05 Thread Daniel Marsh
On 2/6/07, Chris Maness [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an open source equivalent to vmware? -- Bochs, Qemu, and there's another really cool one that I can't think of! :( ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: windows behaviour on installing new packages

2007-02-01 Thread Daniel Marsh
On 2/2/07, Gobbledegeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I noticed over the past few weeks, that after installing numerous packages (pkg_add -r), I could not execute them (not found). They were standard packages installed in the standard locations like /usr/local/bin or sbin (already in

Re: Command watching opened files by processes in FreeBSD

2007-01-29 Thread Daniel Marsh
On 1/30/07, O. Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello out there, does FreeBSD has a nativ root-restricted facility watching opened files of a process or process group (like lsof or filemon)? Thanks in advance, Oliver You can always install lsof from the ports...

Re: ra0

2007-01-18 Thread Daniel Marsh
On 1/19/07, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two drives connected to a PCI ATA100 card. When I went to install FreeBSD I see three drives. ad10, ad8 and ar0. I am guessing this is some kind of Raid so used FreeBSD's auto config option for that drive and installed it on that one

Re: Encrypted filesystem cgd

2005-08-18 Thread Daniel Marsh
On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 18:26:44 +0800, vittorio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been reading with interest in Dru Lavigne's BSD Hacks of an encrypted filesystem named cgd which at the time of her writing was included in NetBSD only. has cgd been ported in FreeBSD (doesn't seem to me)? It's

Re: Creating standalone passwords in /etc/passwd format

2005-08-16 Thread Daniel Marsh
On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 18:07:06 +0800, Gareth Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had a look at crypt (enigma), but it doesn't appear to use the same algorithm? I need the same as that used in passwd! Thanks Try making a PERL script with the following lines...

Re: Recommend a file manager

2005-08-16 Thread Daniel Marsh
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:53:17 +0800, Campbells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey everyone, I run Fluxbox and I'm looking for an efficient, complete and good looking file manager. Any suggestions? Thanks Gareth Use the following, ls, cd, rm, mkdir, rmdir, chmod, chown, chflags, getfacl

Re: printing problems with CUPS on localhost server

2005-08-04 Thread Daniel Marsh
On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 09:13:18 +0800, Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just set up my FreeBSD box to act as a printserver. I used CUPs and Samba following great directions found here: http://www.ajl-tech.com/index2.php?option=contentdo_pdf=1id=16 The printserver works very nicely

Re: perl stdin

2005-08-04 Thread Daniel Marsh
On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 09:38:15 +0800, Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/3/05, Wouter van Rooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: \ Hello, At the first place, sorry for my bad English. My question is: How can you, when you're writing a perl program, make a input (stdin) hidden, so that

Re: WinXP and FreeBSD configuration problems

2005-08-04 Thread Daniel Marsh
On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 10:44:30 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, OK it is now day three and I have given up. This will be a long one just to warn you now. I have a 320 GiB HD and a 5 GiB HD. The 320 is faster than the 5 (yes, it is that old). I want to dual boot WinXP and FreeBSD.

Re: Lotus Notes 6.5.1

2005-08-02 Thread Daniel Marsh
On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 14:49:07 +0800, Ivailo Tanusheff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Didn't changed subject last time) Hi, I want to find a way to run Lotus Notes 6.5.1 on my FreeBSD Workstation. Is there anyone who has made this? I have installed wine, but when I try to install or run the client

Re: FreeBSD Active Directory Server

2005-07-30 Thread Daniel Marsh
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005 20:03:56 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone any experience trying to make FreeBSD an Active Directory Server? From my research and experiementation, I am under the impression that it is possible, but I have yet to come up with any articles where it has actual been

Re: defragmentation in FreeBSD 4.11

2005-07-29 Thread Daniel Marsh
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 21:13:49 +0800, MikeM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/28/2005 at 11:57 AM Bob Johnson wrote: |Microsoft used to claim that NTFS doesn't need defragmentation. |Compared to MSDOSFS, that's a reasonably accurate statement, but |if you push it hard enough, it will still become

Re: Bootstrapping Raid 5 w/GEOM

2005-07-21 Thread Daniel Marsh
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:11:18 +0800, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have a box with 4 x 120 GB EIDE drives which I want to convert to FreeBSD 5.4 ( it's an old SNAP 4500 from Snap Appliance, now owned by Adaptec, running a custom build of Linux) I want to setup

Re: DNS service with a SQL backend

2005-07-21 Thread Daniel Marsh
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:20:11 +0800, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruno Gallant wrote: Hello, We are redesigning our DNS infrastructure, which has been running on BIND with the regular flat files for years, and there would be a need for the data to be in a database. (postgresql

Re: Virtual Interfaces and Subnet Masks

2005-06-23 Thread Daniel Marsh
Why don't you just setup an IP alias for the fxp0 interface? ie: ifconfig_fxp0_alias0=inet 192.168.1.7 On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 10:51:16 +0800, Martin McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We needed to bring up a second interface on a FreeBSD system in order to cause it to substitute for