Re: FreeBSD 7.x compatible Gigabit network card
Unga wrote: Hi all I want to buy a FreeBSD 7.x compatible wired Gigabit (10/100/1000Mbps) PCI-based network card. Please let me know what cards are recommended and work successfully with FreeBSD 7.x. Many thanks in advance. Kind regards Unga Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aloha Unga, I have TrendNet PCI TXR Nic cards running on 4 servers and 3 Desktops. They are stable on FreeBSD they use the Realtek 8169 chip. Al ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Did Microsoft give up?
Aloha, I just saw on TV news that Micro$oft has announced that it is opening its code for development of its operating system. Does this mean the Open Source Community has proved itself the best way to go? ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Linux distro
Chad Perrin wrote: On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 10:13:39PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 12:51 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: by not being linux at all. FreeBSD is more a server than a desktop system. Ubuntu particularly is FreeBSD isn't both desktop or server system. it is just unix - it depends from the user how it's being used. True. But looking at it from a newbie point of view the statement helps give it perspective. I have to translate for people all the time and I know this works. We all know that FreeBSD whoops linux's ass, but as to how it does this is beyond most newer users. :P The way you phrased it makes it sound like FreeBSD is simply unsuited to use as a desktop system. Contrary to that impression, I'm sending this from a Thinkpad laptop with FreeBSD on it, and it's by far the best desktop OS I've ever had the pleasure to use. Aloha, I use 3 FreeBSD Destops and 1 old Dell laptop, all with XFCE 3 GUI all the time. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Computers that us FreeBSD. HELP!!!!!!!
Ryan Jenkins wrote: Hello, I currently have a Computer System that is based off the FreeBSD Operating System and I am trying to find a new supplier of hardware. Right now I am having a hard time finding a Computer Manufacture that can make a system that uses FreeBSD. I currently have found a product from MPC or Micron/Gateway that creates systems with no Operating System, but my programmers are having a hard time with getting the software loaded on the system. Can you please help me find a supplier that builds Desktop or All-in-One computers that will operate FreeBSD. Ryan Jenkins P.O. Box 21138 P: 406 896-9900 F: 406 896-0045 C: 406 208-8193 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Confidentiality Statement: This e-mail contains confidential information which also may be privileged. Unless you are the addressee (or authorized to receive for the addressee), you may not copy, use, disclose, or distribute the e-mail message or any information contained in the message. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please advise the sender by replying to this message or by telephone and then promptly delete it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aloha, I have built FreeBSD on several HP models and on 2 Dell boxes in the past. I now use Bio Star mother boards and build them from scratch into ATA cases. I have also used ASUS mother boards but 2 of them have start and boot after power off hardware issues. Nothing to do with FreeBSD bing the OS. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fdisk from fixit CD: geom not found
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Boot install CD and choose Fixit get live CD, it's better for this. fdisk -BI extract saved disklabel from tape and install with bsdlabel Initialise filesystems using stored output of dumpfs -m (from tape) Restore filesystems from tape good you have such i plan. this is rare case today;) I'm tripping up on the first step, which although it appears to create the you forgot to bsdlabel -B ad0a (or da0s1a whatever you have) after restore slice, throws a ``Geom not found'' message - which is potentially worrying to someone blindly following a recovery script. no idea, i don't use slices (just disklabel) maybe kernel module not loaded? is slice actually created? as far as i remember i've got this message with bsdlabel -B, but i ignored it as everything worked fine. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aloha, I get that response with many of the large hard drives I install. I dont think it means anything because once you just carry on FreeBSD doesn't seem to care. I think somebody posted that it was either bios or drive size related at one time. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Outgoing FTP connections with pf and ftp-proxy
NetOpsCenter wrote:
Matthias Kellermann wrote:
Hi list,
I'm trying to get outgoing FTP sessions to work with pf and
ftp/ftp-proxy in a NAT environment.
My simple config on a test machine looks like this:
--
int_if = rl0
localnet = 192.168.0.0/24
tcp_services = { ssh, domain, www, https, ftp }
udp_services = { domain }
nat on $int_if from $localnet to any - ($int_if)
rdr pass proto tcp from any to any port ftp - 127.0.0.1 port 8021
block all
pass from $localnet to any keep state
pass proto udp to any port $udp_services keep state
pass out proto tcp to any port $tcp_services keep state
pass in proto tcp from any to any user proxy keep state
pass in proto tcp from any to any port ssh keep state
--
FTP login works fine. But if I want to do a ls on the FTP server I get
the following error on the client (no matter if NAT client or gateway):
425 Failed to establish connection.
Any idea whats wrong with my setup?
Thanks,
Matthias
Aloha Matthias,
I am having the same ftp problem on servers that are on an ATM 5 IP
circuit. There is no NAT involved with one of these. The outbound FTP
goes out but I cant get the files to list when I go inbound from
outside on an recognized IP.
SSH on the same box works fine.
It would make my day to get this working.
~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740
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+ http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* +
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Followup :
I found what the problem was with ftp on my ATM line setup finally.
In order to pass data as Jonathan Horne suggested you have to add a
special line to identify the ports used passively.
Add the line below to the pf.conf below the ftp port 21 or 8021
pass in on $ext_if proto tcp from any to $ext_if port 49151
I found this buried in the middle of an article I searched on PF self
protecting an FTP Server
Thanks
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Re: question on DSL signal
David Banning wrote: I run a small FreeBSD server with a standard DSL line. I have it ping the ISP every five seconds, and when it doesn't ping it logs the results. I notice very inconsistent results. Sometimes it's up for a week without a single drop, while other times it's up for 30 seconds, down for a minute, up for 2 minutes, down for 1. That can go on for 10 hours, and then maybe it's stable again for a day or so. It's always appears to be the DSL signal itself, as I can see the modem sync light starts flashing when the signal goes down. To end any possibility of the phone company pointing their finger at the wiring in my house, I put the DSL modem right at the phone connection block where the line enters the house and then called them. Problem persists. The phone company say they have replaced lines all over the neighborhood while trying to fix the problem. Eventually the connection becomes stable, the phone company declares that they found the problem, but when he's gone, the trouble starts again. Now knowing how common this is, I installed the same logging system at another company's server, that is located a few miles away. Guess what? Same drop-in drop-out problem. To any average computer user, these lines might appear normal - when a page stops loading for a minute they just live with it, and forget about it. So here's my question: 1. is there anyone who has a lot of experience monitoring DSL lines that can tell me how common this is? 2. Is there any way to avoid it? 3. I have used three different DSL modems, but the are all home quality: an Alcatel Speed Touch, a Speedstream 5260, and a Westell Wirespeed. Would spending more money on another type of modem help? If so, what is recommended? Any comments would be helpful. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aloha David, We had a similar issue here in Wahiawa Hi. and the phone line was indeed the problem. In our case it was a junction about a .5 mile (1 KM) away . The box on a pole was full of water when ever it was raining. When it dried out everything would be fine for a while. The phone guy drilled a hole in the bottom of the box and we have not had the problem since. It could also be a bank of d slams at the phone co office as well. Some are know to have issues. In Canada you have freezes and thaws that make lines have flaws from expansion and contraction too. ( I used to live there.) Good Luck with the phone co. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + 8.* All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: www search engines
Wojciech Puchar wrote: what search engines, other than Google, do you find useful for general use? google simply don't like to talk with me, when i like to use anything to protect my privacy. i don't abuse this service, but i don't like google tracing what i search, when and why. it started maybe week ago, so i have to use something else. http://wojtek.3miasto.net.pl/google/goolag.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aloha Wojciech, I find ASK.com useful. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Intel® G31 + ICH7
Mel wrote: On Saturday 02 February 2008 11:14:04 Gordon McKee wrote: Hi Does anyone know how to get FreeBSD to work with the above chipset. Tried 6.3 and 7 ISO images. Get lots of disk and no NIC is detected. I have http://www.foxconnchannel.com/product/Motherboards/detail_spec.aspx?ID=en-u s345. RTL8111B should be supported with rl driver. Apparently it's not detected, so a pciconf -lv |grep -A4 '^none' would help greatly. This was on the list a while ago about RealTek 8110. Bernd Walter wrote: Realtek has two devices for Gbit PCI: the 8169 and the reduced 8110. They are both more or less the same - likely even the same chip inside, but the later has pins reduced. AFAIK the later can't have an external PHY, which you can't have anyway if there is neither a connector or PHY itself connected on the board. The 8168 is the successor for PCI express, with the 8111 being the new reduced variant. Both PCIe are detected but didn't run stable with our re(4), but it is said that the latest driver fixes this and also adds a good speed improvement. Good Luck... -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell 1950
shinny knight wrote: Hello, We are in the process of ordering few servers and we think to ask here first for any known issues with same. BTW...company policy requires only Dell servers. Yes, I know...kinda snob^^ Purpose for this server will be firewall (we are using PF with stateful rules) and custom kernel with NIC pooling compiled. We hope this baby will deliver up to 800Mbps per NIC (4). One thing is that Dell is not certifying Intel Gigabit NIC with FreeBSD. Since in the kernel we have only 'device em # Intel PRO/1000 adapter Gigabit Ethernet Card' Does this include also below specified device? Is any of you using Intel® PRO 1000VT Quad Port Gigabit NIC? Is kernel pooling option compatible or working with Intel® PRO 1000VT Quad Port Gigabit NIC? Appreciate any feedback or suggestion about same. TIA Dell PowerEdge 1950 configuration: PowerEdge 1950 III: Quad Core Intel® Xeon® L5335, 2x4MB Cache, 2.0GHz, 1333MHz FSB Additional Processors:Quad Core Intel® Xeon® L5335, 2x4MB Cache, 2.0GHz, 1333MHz FSB Memory: 4GB 667MHz (4x1GB), Dual Ranked DIMMs Backplane: 1x2 Backplane for 3.5-inch Hard Drives Primary Controller: PERC6i SAS RAID Controller, 2x4 Connectors, Int, PCIe, 256MB Cache Hard Drive Configuration: Integrated SAS/SATA RAID 1, PERC 6/i Integrated/SAS6/iR Primary Hard Drive: 250GB 7.2K RPM Serial ATA 3Gbps 3.5-in HotPlug Hard Drive 2nd Hard Drive: 250GB 7.2K RPM Serial ATA 3Gbps 3.5-in HotPlug Hard Drive Network Adapter: Intel® PRO 1000VT Quad Port Gigabit NIC, Copper, PCIe-4 CD/DVD Drive: 8X DVD-ROM Best regards, Catalin - Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have the Intel Pro1000 running on a 1386 box FreeBSD 8.* No problems with it. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Outgoing FTP connections with pf and ftp-proxy
Matthias Kellermann wrote:
Hi list,
I'm trying to get outgoing FTP sessions to work with pf and
ftp/ftp-proxy in a NAT environment.
My simple config on a test machine looks like this:
--
int_if = rl0
localnet = 192.168.0.0/24
tcp_services = { ssh, domain, www, https, ftp }
udp_services = { domain }
nat on $int_if from $localnet to any - ($int_if)
rdr pass proto tcp from any to any port ftp - 127.0.0.1 port 8021
block all
pass from $localnet to any keep state
pass proto udp to any port $udp_services keep state
pass out proto tcp to any port $tcp_services keep state
pass in proto tcp from any to any user proxy keep state
pass in proto tcp from any to any port ssh keep state
--
FTP login works fine. But if I want to do a ls on the FTP server I get
the following error on the client (no matter if NAT client or gateway):
425 Failed to establish connection.
Any idea whats wrong with my setup?
Thanks,
Matthias
Aloha Matthias,
I am having the same ftp problem on servers that are on an ATM 5 IP
circuit. There is no NAT involved with one of these. The outbound FTP
goes out but I cant get the files to list when I go inbound from
outside on an recognized IP.
SSH on the same box works fine.
It would make my day to get this working.
~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740
+ http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] +
+ http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* +
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Re: Realtek 8111B LAN Chipset
Greg Mars wrote: I'm buying parts for a computer and want to make sure that the core components are as freebsd friendly as possible. So far, I've decided on a core 2 quad q6600 and I'm choosing the motherboard now. However it seems many of the popular motherboards have Realtek ALC888 as built-in audio and Realtek 8111B as built-in LAN. I read at: http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/i386/article.html that the sound should work but I couldn't find any info on the LAN. Does anyone on the list have any experience with it? By the way, I'm going to run FreeBSD 7. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aloha, Realtek 8169 is a 1000 M and works on 7.* and 8.* I think 8111 maybe old 100M ? Are you sure about the Realtek model #? ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trendnet TEG-PCITXR hw rev 3.0 re driver
Shawn Barnhart wrote: Went looking for a cheap GigE PCI card to use with a 6.2 (6.3-PRERELEASE) stable system, and brought this home due to Microcenter not stocking Intel cards and me not wanting to wait for Newegg to ship one to me. I have the re driver built into the kernel, but this particular card is not recognized even though its supposed to be based on the Realtek 8169 chipset. Realtek has a linux driver download (of unknown quality) and that source has a mod time of 2/06, so I'm guessing it's not a reinvention of the wheel or a super-significant change. Anyone track these things close enough to know if there's something significant changed in this chipset family? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have 5 of the nic cards TEG PCI TXR running on Various versions of 7. * and 8.* of FreeBSD. There was somebody on the weekind also having trouble with version 6.* Same as your problem. Try switch to 7.* ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CDROM Boot Hangs But Only Under 6.x
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 25/12/2007, Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am building a new server out of both older and brand new components. It is based on a Pentium D 925 and ABIT LG-95Z mobo. The DVD-RW is a Lite-On about a year old with very low hours on it. So ... here's a fun one: I can boot and install FreeBSD 4.x (CD) or Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop 10 SP1 (DVD) via the DVD. But attempting to do this with 6.x (I have tried 6.2R and 6.3-PRE disk #1) causes a hang during boot. The loader gets as far as showing the vertical bar that ordinarily spins to show intitial kernel loading progress and the the machine just sits there. There is some further activity on the optical drive at this point and then the cursor sort of jumps around a bit. I've not yet tried swapping the optical drive out - though I doubt this is the problem since I can load the other OSs. I've tried removing and moving memory sticks in case this is a flakey memory problem - no change. I've tried removing the only two cards in the machine: 3COM 905C-TX and an Adaptec 2940UW - no change. I have one last ditch thing I will try later tonight which is to force the DVD IDE port into PIO mode and out of DMA mode. But that's it. I am stumped. Ideas anyone? If it is not hardware, check your bios settings (and mayhap set back to default or very conservative) (of which the PIO trick may work). Also, 7.0 ran extremely well for me back in Sept., you might try it as an alternative. HTH Aloha, I had the same problem with a couple of older mobo's . I ended up loading 6.* on a hd on a different machine that I knew worked. I physically moved it to the problem box and it Worked. I think the issue could be the size or the type of HD in my case. Some older mobo bios jam up when a HD is more than 60 gig I have found. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 6.2 and Asus A7N8X-E
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 10:01:04AM -0700, At Home wrote: I've got an extra Asus A7N8X-E mobo I'm trying to bring 6.2 up on. AMD 3200+, Barton 2G PC-3200 rom, 1G OCZ and 1G Kingston valueram Seagate ES ST3250820NS Sata drives jumpered for 1.5GB only NVidia FX5600 AGP display adapter I checked the archives and found comments about disabling ACPI, which I've done, but it still hangs at various points in the process of loading up the disk. I've tried turning off the on-board SATA controller and using an Adaptec SATA controller with no improvement. I've also tried slowing the clock and a few other de-optimizations, to no avail. Is this basically a bad idea, or is there some piece of the puzzle I'm missing? Any help would be much appreciated. Checking the specifications of that motherboard, there is nothing obvious that should prevent it from working with FreeBSD. If the process stops at different places each time, then it sounds like bad hardware. The kind of hardware problems that most often give strange errors are: a) Bad RAM. Check your memory with memtest86 (or equivalent.) Try removing one of the memory sticks at a time. b) Bad power supply. Try another if you have one. c) Overheating of some component. Make sure you have adequate cooling of the system. You could also try updating the BIOS, in case some bugs have been fixed in a later version. Problems with ACPI are almost always due to bugs in the BIOS. Aloha Gary, I agree with the hardware diagnosis. I have an ASUS A8N-VM CSM mobo running FreeBSD 7.* Dual AMD CPU There are still unreliable on board hardware issues with my board so it is only used for receiving email and as a desktop. No on line work that matters. It did not like FreeBSD 6.1 when I tried to load it as the OS. So I tried 7 and it at least worked. This may work for you. I just loaded FreeBSD 8.* onto a Winfast mobo to try out on a box I made and it was smooth going. The developers have come a long way with aFreeBSD since I started using 3.* many years ago. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bare Metal Recovery FreeBSD How To
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Nuno Gonçalves wrote: I am trying to do a Bare Metal Recovery from a FreeBSD 6.0 system to a different Hardware. I have a backup from all partitions of the affected system so I am trying to install a minimum FreeBSD 6.0 in a different hardware which I already have up and running. What kind of backup? Is it a dump(8) file? I created a Swap Partition, a “/” partition where the minimum system is running, and a third partition “/backup” in which I will restore the backup through the network. Next step will be to change the boot manager and make it boot through “/backup”. Do you guys think this is doable? I Think I probably must recompile the kernel after the bare metal recovery because the hardware is different, still do you think it might work? Did the kernel have a lot of customization? A GENERIC kernel should boot on almost anything --- which is why bare metal recovery seems a misnomer to me. If the hard disk survives, I simply stick it in another box and rarely have any difficulties. If it doesn't, I do a minimal install with the desired final slice/partition scheme on the new HDD, and simply restore(8) over the top. What is your opinion on this? What should be the best approach ? Well, I don't know your exact situation, but OOTOMH, the partitioning scheme you mention seems like wasting a disk unless you want the final system to have only /, swap, and /backup. Which could be OK, I guess, but isn't the traditional BSD Right Way(tm). Also, I'd consider installing a newer release than 6.0, and only restoring the important stuff. Again, it depends on your situation. My $.02, Kevin Kinsey I agree with Kevin. If the HD is ok just stick it in a new box and it will work with most current motherboards. I have done this many times. All you may have to re configure is your network if the nic on the new box is different. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )
Randy Ramsdell wrote: Robert Huff wrote: Randy Ramsdell writes: What is the value of background_fsck in /etc/rc.conf ? This isn't set. Was is supposed to be? So far, I have only installed applications we need. And everything seem fine except the reboot issue. I'm going to jump in here. Based on what you've said, it sounds like: the system was running there was power outage, the system did not have a UPS when the system rebooted, fsck complained but nothing was done about the errors Let me clarify. All our servers are on UPSes, however the power outage outlasted the UPSes. That is why I stated prolonged power outage. Fsck did complain, but everything was fixed as I sat there and dealt with it. We do not want to deal with it in an offsite location and that is why this thread. IF THAT'S TRUE ... ... then the seems in your description is applicable, and should be a red flag. Get someone to the system, reboot it into single user mode, and run (and re-run) fsck until it runs without error. (Answer 'y' to all prompts.) This should be done whenever the file system is not shutdown cleanly. The filesystem is fine. Our set up just does not recover gracefully on hard reboots. (And consider a UPS, even it it only keeps the system alive for the few minutes necessary for a clean shutdown.) Is a dirty file system causing the reboots? No. a power prolonged power failure caused the last shutdown. Possibly; wiser heads than mine would have to lay out scearios. But it may also be responsible for other damage, more subtle but equally unpleasant. A fix is available. Use it. I understand this will not be easy, and I sympathize. Balance that pain against the small but non-trivial chance to catastrophic data loss, and choose wisely. Robert Huff Thanks for the reply. I think I will just set the rc.conf variable to answer Y to fsck questions unless there is a better way. A side note, this system has been hard shutdown two times and each time required intervention. We also use several Linux system ( reiserfs and ext3 ) and raely do I have to interact with the systems on reboot. There is a differnce and I am in the fisrt stages trying to understand this. PS. I am confused about why so many people are replying to the list and my personal e-mail. This one was sent to me only. Others were sent to me and the list. Actually, every other reply. Is this normal for the list as I am new as of today? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aloha, If the power outages are prolonged and outlast the UPS you can parallel the small battery in the UPS with a 100 amp hour stationary battery if you have the room. We can get 9 hours on a stationery battery for our servers if we lose power here in Hawaii. (which just happened this week during a winter storm.) ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Freebsd filesystem ( hard reboot )
Randy Ramsdell wrote: Vince wrote: Randy Ramsdell wrote: We started using FreeBSD for some network monitoring, but have found that a hard reboot forces us to answer filesytem questions on boot. Is there a way to mount each filesystem without this? Or how can we use FreeBSD in a remote location without needing to intervene in situatutions like this? This is unusual in my experience, part of the charm of FreeBSD for me is how rarely I have had to interact with fsck thanks to the whole background fsck thing. What version of FreeBSD are you using? Assuming a 5.x or later since you say you've started to use FreeBSD. I am fairly sure it is v6.2 What is the value of background_fsck in /etc/rc.conf ? This isn't set. Was is supposed to be? So far, I have only installed applications we need. And everything seem fine except the reboot issue. This will be an offsite system so I do not want human intervention on boot for power outages or hard reboots. You can also try setting fsck_y_enable=YES in rc.conf (this will do fsck -y if the initial preen fails.) I will use this. Do you mean by try, that this will work? I assume so. Thanks Vince! Oh, Is there a way to not receive 2 messages for every reply to this thread? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Questions on a FreeBSD reboot? Any boxes I have ever built can reboot by themselves with no human intervention. BUT SEE BELOW: This sounds like a BIOS settings issue on a box that has powered off. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: looking for online text editor
David Banning wrote: Often I have to maintain my fbsd box from outside locations. I have tried using webmin but sometimes outside computers stop me from running the java filemanager - same goes for attempting to run mindterm-ssh. Is there some plain text editor program out there that will allow me to simply login and edit my files in plain text - (not a gui html editor) ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You could try pico. I use it with ssh access to remote servers. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://aloha50.net - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is it difficult to move from Linux?
Donovan R. Palmer wrote: Hi, I have been using Linux for over 10 years, but have for a number of reasons become very interested in learning to use FreeBSD. Are there any ex or current Linux users here and could you tell me how hard it is to make the shift from Linux? Is there anything in particular which has been written which would be useful to read? T.I.A. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read the FreeBSD handbook. I found out that FreeBSD was much easier to follow (Files and Such ) than Linux about 9 years ago and have rarely looked back. Unless of course when a client has Linux on a server or whatever. If you have run Linux than you can easily note the file names that are different in FreeBSD. You'll see that many are the same. Enjoy! ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can login using root password, but not remotely with SSH
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 03:39:19PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: James writes: Add yourself to wheel (which is the root group on FreeBSD, a name I believe it inherited from earlier BSDs, but I've no idea what the justification for choosing 'wheel' is; any BSD historians here - you'd be welcome to let us know!) Not sure, but I believe wheel predates UNIX. I have certainly seen the idea on OSes that do. Wheel is 'big wheel' as in the hot shot who has the run of things and bosses folks around - or thinks he can. jerry Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aloha! I always thought of the root as the hub of a wheel and the qualified users of the hub would be joined to the hub of the wheel by spokes from out on the rim. Maybe this is where it came from. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ATM DSL - Firewall - Lan How to configure?
Aloha, Anybody on this list know of a how to for configuring a firewall for a 5 IP ATM DSL? I know that the firewall has to come between the DSL modem and the Switch/router for the 5 IP's assigned. However the gateway IP must be able to be seen through the firewall in order for the ATM circuit to work. So you cant use addresses for the nics. Is there a way to use incoming and outgoing nic cards in a firewall FreeBSD box for this purpose. I am looking at a netgear firewall/switch for this purpose but I would rather use FreeBSD box for this firewall. Thanks, ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Postfix woes
Rem P Roberti wrote: I did what you all requested and submitted my Postfix problem to the Postfix list. The resident guru went over my maillog and sent back his analysis which, in short, states that the problem has nothing to do with Postfix, and that I should seek help here to get to the bottom of it all. That reply is listed below. This is a rather strange business. Rem From: Rem P Roberti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Bcc: Subject: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Boot-up weirdness] Reply-To: - Forwarded message from Victor Duchovni [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 21:44:36 -0400 From: Victor Duchovni [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Boot-up weirdness On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 06:11:42PM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: Oct 18 16:39:20 bsd postfix/postfix-script[3805]: starting the Postfix mail system Oct 18 16:39:20 bsd postfix/master[3806]: daemon started -- version 2.4.5, configuration /usr/local/etc/postfix Oct 18 16:39:25 bsd postfix/postfix-script[3811]: refreshing the Postfix mail system Oct 18 16:39:25 bsd postfix/master[3806]: reload configuration /usr/local/etc/postfix Something runs postfix reload five seconds after Postfix starts. It is not Postfix doing that, so find the start script or cron job responsible. Oct 18 16:40:40 bsd postfix/postfix-script[3937]: stopping the Postfix mail system Oct 18 16:40:40 bsd postfix/master[3806]: terminating on signal 15 Something runs postfix stop 85 seconds after that, it is not Postfix doing that, so find the start script or cron job responsible. Oct 18 16:40:40 bsd postfix/postfix-script[3958]: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running The code in question wants to make doubly sure that Postfix is down, which it is. Oct 18 16:42:26 bsd postfix/postfix-script[894]: starting the Postfix mail system Oct 18 16:42:26 bsd postfix/master[895]: daemon started -- version 2.4.5, configuration /usr/local/etc/postfix Postfix is restarted by something on your system 106 seconds later. from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=701, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Oct 18 16:42:28 bsd postfix/postfix-script[943]: fatal: the Postfix mail system is already running Oct 18 16:42:29 bsd postfix/postfix-script[983]: fatal: the Postfix mail system is already running Something is trying to start Postfix again. I am guessing you have two Postfix start scripts fighting each other... Oct 18 17:38:44 bsd postfix/postmap[1555]: fatal: open transport.db: Permission denied An hour or so later, something is trying to run postmap or postmap -q, it is not Postfix doing that. Find the cron job or start script in question. Oct 18 17:39:15 bsd postfix/postfix-script[1559]: stopping the Postfix mail system Oct 18 17:39:15 bsd postfix/master[895]: terminating on signal 15 Oct 18 17:39:21 bsd postfix/postfix-script[1609]: starting the Postfix mail system Oct 18 17:39:21 bsd postfix/master[1610]: daemon started -- version 2.4.5, configuration /usr/local/etc/postfix Postfix is restarted. Oct 18 17:39:27 bsd postfix/postfix-script[1615]: refreshing the Postfix mail system And reloaded for good measure. /usr/local/etc/postfix Oct 18 17:41:23 bsd postfix/postfix-script[1768]: stopping the Postfix mail system Oct 18 17:41:23 bsd postfix/master[1610]: terminating on signal 15 Oct 18 17:41:23 bsd postfix/postfix-script[1789]: fatal: the Postfix mail system is not running Oct 18 17:42:52 bsd postfix/postfix-script[894]: starting the Postfix mail system Oct 18 17:42:52 bsd postfix/master[895]: daemon started -- version 2.4.5, configuration /usr/local/etc/postfix This insanity has nothing to do with Postfix, if you can't find the cron jobs, start scripts, management agents, ... that are doing this, go back the FreeBSD list and ask for help to find them. Aloha, I run Postfix/Dovecot under FreeBSD 7* since Jan 2007. I had trouble with postfix by itself on FreeBSD when I first set up a mail server. I then had one of the FreeBSD gurus on the list suggest I run Dovecot to make postfix behave nicely on FreeBSD. That solved my problems. If you havent tried this FreeBSD Postfix/Dovecot based install it may work for you. Also if you are running Dovecot remember just start it in /etc/rc.conf you dont need to start postfix in there as well. If you are just running Postfix you have to start it in /etc/rc.conf ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: www.freebsd.org won't load in IE 7.x in vista box.
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Lisandro Grullon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This is insane, the FreebSD team needs to find a more liable solution to this problem, hence some of our prospects users that will be browsing the site with vista machi9nes will just go away without knowing what is going on. Is the team currently working gin a solution to this problem, after all most networks still routing through IPv6. Patiently waiting for an answer...Lisandro Grullon The following is taken from the script of government informational video #3378: Commentator: Fear not! [Cut to scenes of Post WWII networking facilities ravaged by the war. Half-starving network technicians are trying to repair antiquated routers and switches.] Commentator: The FreeBSD team is working feverishly to solve this problem. Unfortunately, the resolution requires the replacement of billions of dollars worth of network equipment spread across the world, much of it owned by private companies who have little or no knowledge of the problem or the solution. [Cut to air-drops of new networking equipment being dropped over war- torn cities. Crowds of people line the streets and cheer as the parachutes drop gently to the ground right in front of the local telco.] Commentator: Luckily, the FreeBSD project has scores of influential computer technicians all over the world, and they're all working to solve the problem. We believe that, in time, this scourge on our network can be removed! [Cut to shots of community groups meeting in churches with laptops.] Commentator: What can you do to help? Work to track down the exact cause of your particular network problem and report it to the responsible party. Volunteer with your local user's group for whatever needs done! Help to organize others and spread the news! Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:07:55 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: www.freebsd.org won't load in IE 7.x in vista box. On 10/16/07, Lisandro Grullon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all users, After troubleshooting from all angles this problem i have run out of imagination/sense. I loaded a machine with Windows Vista a work and try accessing the www.freebsd.org website. The web site didn't load, yet I try again in 10 other machines to see if it was a machine issue. Lastly I try loading the size in a Windows XP machine and it works ok. What seems to be the problem in this case? I have run out of ideas and even ask a few colleges at work and they don't seem to have a clue either. Please advise. Lisandro grullon From the section Compatibility problems of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_window_scale_option TCP Window Scaling is widely implemented in the Windows Vista operating system. Because many routers do not properly implement TCP Window Scaling, it can cause a users Internet connection to malfunction intermittently for a few minutes, then appear to start working again for no reason. If diagnose problem is selected in Vista, an error message will be displayed cannot communicate with primary DNS server. -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Peek-a-boo FREE Tricks Treats for You! http://www.reallivemoms.com?ocid=TXT_TAGHMloc=us___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aloha! You have an Academy Award winning comment here. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: good replacement for open office
Aryeh Friedman wrote: Open office does not compile on 7-current amd64 what would be a good replacement(s) for most of it's functionality (word processing and spreadsheets are what matter to me) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aloha, I've had to use AbiWord since I ran into the same problem on 7 CURRENT. I have a working Open office on a FreeBSD 4.11 box here that I use when all else fails. Is there a way to copy that and have it work on 7 CURRENT? -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How setup modem ZTE AC8700. It is no have driver for UNIX
Alter Ego wrote: Hi ! Dear friends. Sorry for my english. I am very need to setup and work in FreeBSD 6.2 (for example) on my modem ZTE AC8700 (this is 3G modem) This modem have drivers ... only for windows (suck) Can you help me, and say - can i use this modem without drivers ... OR maybe i can use it with ... hmmm ... another driver. What you think about this ? Best Regards, Dj Alter Ego ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aloha, Is this DSL? I have 2 DSL lines here. Neither use drivers. 1 is an 8 ATM Circuit with 5 separate IP addresses. I configured each box to an IP in the series and the common ATM gateway IP. You can put a firewall/router between the Modem and the Computers or on each computer separately. The second line is a 3M/768 and goes into a Freesco Firewall/Router which I set for the local lan IP and the Gateway IP of the ISP and the dedicated IP of the line for my circuit. Neither needed drivers. I belive the Modem may have to be set to Bridge mode in some installs if the modem is not one that does both. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 7.0-CURRENT Ports Collection?
James Jeffery wrote: Does 7.0 come with a disk for the Ports Collection or would they have to be downloaded from the internet? Im having trouble getting packages from the web, lots of errors when i try to install them. Everything seems dependant on everything else. Once i get the SSH to work i will post some output. But for now, is there a problem installing packages on 7.0? Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aloha, I have been down loading various ports for 7.0 CURRENT since January. 2007 Only problems I have had were with the Open Office Download and the Sun licensing. I have never been able to clear the errors on that issue. All the other down loads from Ports and the OS itself have been flawless on several boxes with different motherboards. Some older motherboards can give you grief with downloads and using HD's over 10 gigs or so. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IBM Lotus freesoftware
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 21), NetOpsCenter said: Anybody know if the IBM LOTUS office package ( Free Software) that is for Redhat 5 Enterprise Server will run under FreeBSD /Linux ? We are looking to use an editor/office suite for a client. They heard about this new offering a couple of days ago. You're probably better off using a natively-built OpenOffice; IBM just rebadged it. I can't find the files that are requires to be installed for the FreeBSD version. The Sun website for JAVA does not have the ones named in the error message that comes up upon completion of an install. This is with either version 1 or 2 of OO. The other ones are for other than jdk , which is the two mentioned in the error. I don't believe I have overlooked them as I have tried and read all the ones listed. I dont think the IBM version is blocked like the FreeBSD one is. Any Ideas appreciated. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Booting to Sysinstall
Christer Hermansson wrote: Jerahmy Pocott wrote: Hello, Okay so here is the situation: Server has dead fd and cd drives, or maybe none at all. You want to install FreeBSD on it. The idea I had was to create a small partition, copy the contents of a cd into, set it to boot off that partition, reboot and it would boot up into sysinstall. Would this be possible? Or is it a dumb idea? Boot from usb-memory http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick-episode-2 or use pxe http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/article.html However I would choose to connect a CD-player or move the harddisk to some other machine that have a CD and do the install and then move the harddisk back. I use the attach a CD Rom method on many servers I have built and it works fine unless the HD is too big for the bios on the motherboard. Sometimes you can load FreeBSD 7 on an HD on another box successfully, but if the bios on the box it ends up on will not let it run if the HD is too big. There are several options. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SoftMaker missing from ports for any version.
Aloha, Ports seems broken to download SoftMaker. Also cant download from the SoftMaker website either. Is this a viable program or dead? Anybody know or ever used this? Thanks ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OpenOffice Java downloads
Aloha, I would like to know where the download files for OpenOffice 1.1 are located now. I downloaded OpenOffice from FreeBSD site and it gives error 1 when finished saying you have to install 3 or 4 files from outside. But the files listed on the screen are not listed on the sites given as their location. I checked the archive java files at Sun and they are not there either. I'd even go for switching to different office program which runs under FerrBSD with out all this hassle if it was able to open .doc and .swx files. Thanks for the help. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice Java downloads
Bill Moran wrote: In response to NetOpsCenter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Aloha, I would like to know where the download files for OpenOffice 1.1 are located now. I downloaded OpenOffice from FreeBSD site and it gives error 1 when finished saying you have to install 3 or 4 files from outside. But the files listed on the screen are not listed on the sites given as their location. I checked the archive java files at Sun and they are not there either. I'd even go for switching to different office program which runs under FerrBSD with out all this hassle if it was able to open .doc and .swx files. I expect you're going to have a difficult time rounding up all those versions of those files, as OOo 1.1 is gotten rather old. Is there any reason you can't use OOo 2.X? I have 1.1 in use now on an elderly 4.11 box that works just fine. I tried to load 2.x last Jan on a 7.0 box and could.t get the files to download from Sun/Java then. I just set up a new FreeBSD 7.0 box to eventually replace the 4.11 desktop This is where I want to install the Open Office. So I really dont care what the version is so long as the file names reflect what the freebsd install error 1 gives when it finishes its part. I just happened to start this ritual of installing with 1.1 to see if it worked. Which it did not. I also see that IBM is releasing their version of OpenOffice as FreeWare for all OS'es. Is this available as a straight install on FreeBSD oe linux/FreeBSD as a port? I have clients who insist using .doc files since they have M$ stuff. That is why I need a system that can run them on FreeBSD. I dont do Windows. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IBM Lotus freesoftware
Aloha, Anybody know if the IBM LOTUS office package ( Free Software) that is for Redhat 5 Enterprise Server will run under FreeBSD /Linux ? We are looking to use an editor/office suite for a client. They heard about this new offering a couple of days ago. Thanks, ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Are you guys using xcdroast?
Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, hey, this is an X application. Lisandro Grullon wrote: Hi Ladies and Gentleman, I have been trying to get a Buring aplication going in my box, as per the handbook recomendation I decided to get xcdroast, I am getting an error when I try launching it from commmand line as root. Can someone elaborate if they experience the same error. (xcdroast:20529): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: All GTK applications need X up and running. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aloha, If you want a command line cd burner try burncd from ports. I have used it for years with rarely any coasters. To make iso cd's I vse this: #burncd -f /dev/acd0c data testfile.iso fixate You can burn audio cd's just as easily. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ?
Ivan Voras wrote: NetOpsCenter wrote: I have been using FreeBSD 7.0 since Jan 8 2007 CURRENT on this box which is a desktop for browsing and email with a Dual core AMD CPU setup. It rocks. I use FreeBSD 7.0 Current on 2 small mailservers using 3 year old hardware and it is rock solid. I believe the FreeBSD team has really got their act together on this one. Are you using any of the new features in 7.x? SCHED_ULE, ZFS? Because my only 7.x production server that does crashes daily (luckily it's not a critical machine) and non-server machines are not far behind. If you're not using the new features, you could just as well run 6.x :) I'm actively trying to solve some of these problems, but from my experience (I do a lot of things that may be considered experimental, but mostly userland-side, I run vanilla kernels) 7 simply isn't stable yet. It might be in 7.0, but it's not yet. I dont believe I use anything exotic. ZFS is not used either. My needs are simple and I have found 7 CURRENT works on several nic cards that I had problems with using in previous versions. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ?
Kris Kennaway wrote: P.U.Kruppa wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Charles Bacon wrote: I installed FreeBSD-RELEASE6.2 last January, and wonder if there will be a 6.3. Just discovered freebsd-update(8), tried it out, and saw: WARNING: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date. It is strongly recommended that you upgrade to a newer release within the next 4 months. 1. Now I wonder if I'll have to rebuild my filesystems again when 7.0 comes out. ...releases/amd64 contains only 6.1 and 6.2 among the ISO images. Have a look at http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html . There will be at least a 6.3-RELEASE (work hasn't started yet) and 7.0 will be sort of a non-production beta release. So you will have enough time before you have to do a a major upgrade. I disagree that 7.0 will be a non-production beta release. We're working very hard to make sure it as good quality as it can be (but that also depends directly on users helping out). Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aloha, In support of FreeBSD 7.0 and the people who have developed it I have been using FreeBSD 7.0 since Jan 8 2007 CURRENT on this box which is a desktop for browsing and email with a Dual core AMD CPU setup. It rocks. I use FreeBSD 7.0 Current on 2 small mailservers using 3 year old hardware and it is rock solid. I believe the FreeBSD team has really got their act together on this one. (From Experience with FreeBSD: I have run FreeBSD since 3.*on desktops with xfce3 gui. I now run servers for www and postfix as well. ) ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No FreeBSD.org
No seeing FreeBSD.org on line in Hawaii This Morning. 10:19 HNL Time. Aloha! ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: http://www.freebsd.org site unreachable
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-09-14 22:13, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am unable to get to freebsd.org is this on my end only ? just loaded. works It seems to work now. With many of the FreeBSD folks mid-flight to Copenhagen, for EuroBSDCon 2007, it seems quite nice that after a few hours the site is back up :) - Giorgos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aloha Giorgos, Anybody know what happened? I couldnt get several sites here in Hawaii for quite a while. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD.org up again
Anybody know what happened? We had several sites we couldnt get up for a few hours here too. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Test on FreeBSD site
Bill Moran wrote: In response to NetOpsCenter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Aloha, How long does it take for a test to be accepted or rejected on the FreeBSD test mail box? Is three minutes normal for a test to pop up? I had some FreeBSD 7 config issues and this nearly caused me to think I hadn't cleared the problem because it took quite a while to pop up. It depends on how busy the server is at the time you send it, among other factors. I haven't noticed if the mail servers are doing greylisting, but it wouldn't surprise me if they were. In this day and age, with the spam scourge and all the alleged solutions that everyone's mail servers use, anything less than 10 minutes for a delivery should be considered successful. Thanks for the reply. FreeBSD 7 is excellent. Applause to the Developers. I have been using FreeBSD since 2. something. Is there a good how to set up spam assassin for FreeBSD? Most I have tried have no FreeBSD specific file placements listsed and I can't get it to work. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Test on FreeBSD site
Aloha, How long does it take for a test to be accepted or rejected on the FreeBSD test mail box? Is three minutes normal for a test to pop up? I had some FreeBSD 7 config issues and this nearly caused me to think I hadn't cleared the problem because it took quite a while to pop up. Mahalo ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Gnome FreeBSD
Michael S wrote: Good day all, I decided to add GUI to my GUI-less FreeBSD machine. I am considering installing Gnome, which I haven't used for long while and the last time was on Linux anyway. The reason is that most of my favorite applications use gtk libraries, like Firefox, GAIM (can't get used to the new name),wxPython and others. In short I wanted to avoid 2 huge sets of libraries (gtk and qt) by not installing KDE. I wanted to know how Gnome feels on FreeBSD, is it polished enough? Are there crashes? Any caveats at all? Thanks in advance, Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You may want to look at XFCE which many of the FreeBSD people use as a GUI. Lean and efective. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to know the size of RAM memory
Prakash Poudyal wrote: Hello everybody, Can any body tell how to see the size of RAM memory in freebsd. ? Thank you Sincerely Prakash ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] dmesg -a | more This will get you all the stats from boot up. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Complete hang during boot at boot2 prompt
Feargal Reilly wrote: Hi, I have a server which went down overnight, and would not subsequently boot. A reboot was performed by facilities staff before I got to look at it so I don't know what was showing on the console. The reason for the outage is unknown, and nothing showed in /var/log/messages, other than routine ntpd time sync messages. The server in question is a Intel SR1425BK1 server running FreeBSD 6.2 amd64 GENERIC with a SATA RAID-1 array provided by an onboard LSILogic MegaRAID controller. When booted, it would pass the various BIOS screens without problem, the RAID utility would say that the array was optimal, and then FreeBSD would start to boot, but it couldn't get past boot2: FreeBSD/amd64 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader boot: At this point, the server emitted a single continous beep, and nothing else happened. Keyboard input did nothing, although Ctrl-Alt-Del still worked, and at one point a heart symbol appeared after I hit keys randomly for a while. My question is, what could have caused this failure? My initial guesses were either a memory failure or a really badly corrupted boot sector, but I'm not convinced by either explanation, for reasons outlined below. I urgently needed the data to be online again, so I yanked one disk out of the machine and inserted it into another host, and took the server back to the office. There, I yanked a memory module, and it booted fine, albeit complaining about the degraded RAID array. However, when I reinserted the memory, it continued to boot. I didn't have the foresight to try it before I fiddled with the disks, but I can't imagine that it had been seated incorrectly as the server had been up for two months without problem. Also, the BIOS tests passed, although I know they aren't too in depth. I'll run sysutils/memtest anyway, and see what that throws up. Meanwhile, I inserted a replacement disk and rebuilt the RAID-1 array, and it is still booting fine, so my best guess now is a corrupted boot sector. The disk that I removed to insert into another host was ad4, which I'm guessing is the disk that it would have being trying to boot from in the first place. So a bad sector could be responsible, but it would seem to be very convenient, as there does not appear to be any other data corruption on the disk. Also, I've run a short SMART test, and everything is okay as far as it is concerned. I'm in the process of running a long test, but that won't finish before I leave the office. If it were a corrupted sector, would it be able to get to boot2? Any other suggestions as to what caused the failure? I know I've changed the conditions and may never be able to reproduce it (nor do I want to), but if I've failing hardware, I'd like a best guess as to where it is. Thanks for your time, -fr. Aloha, I have had memory chips walk out of the slots on several occasions. Sometimes its vibration or in Hawaii we have humidity issues occasionally that tend to cause this too. I have learned to spray the sockets and card connections with contact cleaner about every 6 months to avaid this problem. Especially in areas where servers are not in a cool environment. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: About FreeBSD installation
Yordan Yordanov wrote: Hello I want to install the last stable release of FreeBSD Unix on my desktop machine with AMD64 processor. Are there any differences in the FreeBSD ports for these two platform: FreeBSD/i386 and amd64? In the FreeBSD handbook I saw a workaround which should be applied to set up FreeBSD for some chipsets. If I have such a problem can I try to install i386 version on my machine. There is no reason not to work, but I want to be sure that this is possible. Greetings from Bulgaria Yordan - С бензин в кръвта! http://auto-motor-und-sport.bg/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yordan, This FreeBSD box I am using to email you is a dual AMD 64 running on i386 7.0 CURRENT. It runs just finefast. The AMD64 version of the os gave me many errors and wouldn't run the video card so I switched to the i386. top -S shows it is running efficiently. Aloha ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Auto shutdown/restart software for FreeBSD?
Aftab Jahan Subedar wrote: Would it recharge the battery fully after discharge? I dont think so. So you got to recharge the external battery EXTERNALLY after power failure. Aloha Aftab, This was the first thing I tested. I unplugged the unit and let it run on battery all day while I was in town. Then I plugged in the UPS and its internal charger did its thing until the next day and I tested the current with a big amp meter I got from an auto sourse store and it was fully charged in less than 24 hrs. It was not fully discharged by the way even when the battery ran the 2 servers for the 9 hours. Al Hey welcome to visit Dhaka. Regards- Aftab Jahan Subedar CEO/Software Engineer Subedar Technologies Ltd Soubedar Baag Bibir Bagicha #1 North Jatra Bari Dhaka 1204 Bangladesh +880152635208 -http://www.DhakaStockExchangeGame.com Spyware detector -http://www.google.com/search?q=kayoty On 5/13/07, NetOpsCenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jekillen wrote: Hello again; Is there software for ups auto shutdown and restart for use with a ups system that has the capacity; I.E. a serial connection and references in the manual to software (for Windows mostly) download? Currently I have a Vesta Pro 600 unit. I had one made by Minuteman that crapped out on me last night. It had been doing ok and was a replacement for one made by Tripp Lite, which also failed permanently. I am running one desk top FreeBSD system, headless but with high speed SCSI drives in addition to the boot drive. I am away during the week for at least 8 - 9 hours during the week and cant be there if the power goes down to shut the system down before the ups exhausts its battery. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Jeff K. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aloha Jekillen, I had a similar problem here in Hawaii with our 2 noc servers. I replaced the small UPS battery with a 100 amp stationery battery out side the box. It now will run for about 10 hours if we have a power outage for that long. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Auto shutdown/restart software for FreeBSD?
jekillen wrote: Hello again; Is there software for ups auto shutdown and restart for use with a ups system that has the capacity; I.E. a serial connection and references in the manual to software (for Windows mostly) download? Currently I have a Vesta Pro 600 unit. I had one made by Minuteman that crapped out on me last night. It had been doing ok and was a replacement for one made by Tripp Lite, which also failed permanently. I am running one desk top FreeBSD system, headless but with high speed SCSI drives in addition to the boot drive. I am away during the week for at least 8 - 9 hours during the week and cant be there if the power goes down to shut the system down before the ups exhausts its battery. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Jeff K. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aloha Jekillen, I had a similar problem here in Hawaii with our 2 noc servers. I replaced the small UPS battery with a 100 amp stationery battery out side the box. It now will run for about 10 hours if we have a power outage for that long. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard ...
Derek Ragona wrote: At 09:55 AM 4/10/2007, Marc G. Fournier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I hate it when a subject doesn't easily present itself ... but ... Is there something that I'm missing, such that if I add a keyboard to a server *after* rebooting it with no keyboard, that will have that keyboard recognized? Basically, I have several remote servers, with no keyboards, but if I need a tech to check something on the console (ie. the ethernet went down for some reason), when they plug a keyboard back in again, there is no signal until they actually power cycle the machine ... which of course, is too late to do any diagnosis :( Thx ... This is a limitation of the hardware in the keyboards and the motherboards. The only solution I have found is to use a KVM switch which keeps the keyboard and mouse ports active during bootups. -Derek Aloha, KVM switch... This is the way I do it as well with 8 servers in a noc . ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KVM over IP (Was: Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard) ...
Marc G. Fournier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone know of a reasonably priced one? Our newer servers, we've been using HP servers, so that we have this built in, but I have 6 older servers that I'd love to be able to deal with remotely without headaches ... I only need to be able to access one at a time ... I've tried the 'serial console' route, but if the server crashes, logging in to the serial console doesn't show you anything, whereas, with the HP 'remote console' feature, its the same as a KVM, where running it does a screen refresh, so that I can see what is on the screen at the time of the crash ... - --On Tuesday, April 10, 2007 10:09:37 -0500 Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:55 AM 4/10/2007, Marc G. Fournier wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I hate it when a subject doesn't easily present itself ... but ... Is there something that I'm missing, such that if I add a keyboard to a server *after* rebooting it with no keyboard, that will have that keyboard recognized? Basically, I have several remote servers, with no keyboards, but if I need a tech to check something on the console (ie. the ethernet went down for some reason), when they plug a keyboard back in again, there is no signal until they actually power cycle the machine ... which of course, is too late to do any diagnosis :( Thx ... This is a limitation of the hardware in the keyboards and the motherboards. The only solution I have found is to use a KVM switch which keeps the keyboard and mouse ports active during bootups. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGG+F94QvfyHIvDvMRAkjPAJ4yR6MUTVjCSsPAhuip/EBDXoG2vgCg2HJo uC5J2RdkeqD1D8Lm92QHjpI= =Pn4r -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aloha, Reasonably priced in US $ You can get a KVM switch from Newegg.com for a little over $100. US. Hawking Technology CS168 8 Port is what we installed in our rack here. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Split a PDF page
David Kelly wrote: On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 02:28:43PM +0100, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Don Hinton wrote: Try PDFjam: /usr/ports/print/pdfjam hth... Thanks, but this doesn't seem to do what I need. It can put multiple pages on one, but cannot split them back. Tuning in late has anyone suggested *printing* the PDF to PDF using a PDF viewer? Print only the ranges of pages you are interested in. At worst print to PS file and then convert PS to PDF. I do this fairly often in Preview on MacOS X. Aloha I have printed a single page of instructions from a PDF by copying and pasting from the PDF, the specific page, to AbiWord then printing it out. You can try that. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how utilize several IP's on one line
Eric wrote: David Banning wrote: I just spoke with my DSL supplier and they said that they could give me 5 IP addresses with a DSL line. I am used to only one IP address per phone line - how are the other IP addresses from the same DSL line utlilized and routed to different servers? one per phone line? that doesnt make sense. Do they expect you to have 5 phone lines? The router they supply you will be responsible for directing traffic to the different IPs. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aloha, 5 IP's on one line is likely to be an ATM/DSL circuit. You have a gateway at the isp and then 5 allocated IP's at your side using a switch or router at your side. You also have a broadcast IP and a Net IP to configure. If you get this I can give you a how to that worked here at our noc. The usual confic gives you 768/768 speed. We find this works ok. email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you need a how to so you'll know what you are getting into. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flash with Firefox 2
Pietro Cerutti wrote: On 3/16/07, Jay Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't be the first person to ask this, but a Google and a cursory search of the archives don't lend me much in the way of hints. Anyone have a link or an explanation of how to get the Flash plugin working within Firefox? I've gotten Java up already, but Flash continues to elude me... I'm currently running 6.2-STABLE, firefox-2.0.0.2,1, linux-flashplugin-7.0r69 and linuxpluginwrapper-20051113_7 and flash plugin works well on most of the websites I've been. Here's the relevant part of my /etc/libmap.conf [/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so] libpthread.so.0 libpthread.so.2 libdl.so.2pluginwrapper/flash7.so libz.so.1 libz.so.3 libm.so.6 libm.so.4 libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/flash7.so Don't forget to add the symbolic links required: # cd /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins # ln -s /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt . # ln -s /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so . Hope this helps, -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator Chapman University Aloha. I've been following this thread since I have had many problems in the past with FireFox and Flash. I'm now running FreeBSD 7.0 CURRENT 200701 on a desktop box and loaded the linux flash and it works fine so far with Firefox and Mozilla on this box. It is a ASUS mobo - with a dual AMD 64 / 4200 clock This install is way better than any of the ones I have experienced with FreeBSD before. I have used FreeBSD since 3.* early 1990's if memory serves me. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flash with Firefox 2
FreeBSD WickerBill wrote: On 3/18/07, NetOpsCenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pietro Cerutti wrote: On 3/16/07, Jay Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't be the first person to ask this, but a Google and a cursory search of the archives don't lend me much in the way of hints. Anyone have a link or an explanation of how to get the Flash plugin working within Firefox? I've gotten Java up already, but Flash continues to elude me... I'm currently running 6.2-STABLE, firefox-2.0.0.2,1, linux-flashplugin-7.0r69 and linuxpluginwrapper-20051113_7 and flash plugin works well on most of the websites I've been. Here's the relevant part of my /etc/libmap.conf [/usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so] libpthread.so.0 libpthread.so.2 libdl.so.2pluginwrapper/flash7.so libz.so.1 libz.so.3 libm.so.6 libm.so.4 libc.so.6 pluginwrapper/flash7.so Don't forget to add the symbolic links required: # cd /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins # ln -s /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt . # ln -s /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so . Hope this helps, -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator Chapman University Aloha. I've been following this thread since I have had many problems in the past with FireFox and Flash. I'm now running FreeBSD 7.0 CURRENT 200701 on a desktop box and loaded the linux flash and it works fine so far with Firefox and Mozilla on this box. It is a ASUS mobo - with a dual AMD 64 / 4200 clock This install is way better than any of the ones I have experienced with FreeBSD before. I have used FreeBSD since 3.* early 1990's if memory serves me. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Which version of flash are you using on FreeBSD 7 CURRENT ? I'm using 6.1 p11 FF 2.0.0.2 + Flash 7 from ports and rarely have any crashes Aloha.. Its Flash 7 for linux an this FreeBSD 7.0 box. -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: getting mail to work
Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On Mar 13, 2007, at 8:17 PM, jekillen wrote: On Mar 12, 2007, at 5:14 PM, RW wrote: Just as long as you understand the distinction between forward and reverse DNS. Based on the whois record for for your IP address, at the moment you appear to have the following reverse DNS for the address range 75.7.236.224 - 75.7.236.231: $ for i in `jot 8 224` ; do dig +short -x 75.7.236.$i ; done adsl-75-7-236-224.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net. adsl-75-7-236-225.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net. adsl-75-7-236-226.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net. adsl-75-7-236-227.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net. adsl-75-7-236-228.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net. adsl-75-7-236-229.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net. adsl-75-7-236-230.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net. adsl-75-7-236-231.dsl.irvnca.sbcglobal.net. OK, It appears that it is the ISPs name servers who are responding. When I call up my sights I get to the machines they are on according to my present DNS setup. But that is what the public sees. If (which I strongly doubt) your own internal nameservers give a different result to $ dig +short -x 75.7.236.224 then it still makes no difference to the rest of the world which, when doing a *reverse* lookup on your IP address doesn't get anything that looks like your domain name. try www.brushandbard.com That's not the question. RW was (correctly) talking about *reverse* DNS, aka DNS PTR records. That is we are looking at the translation *from* number *to* name. If you look up one of my statically IP addresses $ dig +short -x 72.64.118.115 n115.ewd.goldmark.org. you get that instead of static-72-64-118-115.dllstx.fios.verizon.net It took me many unpleasant hours on the phone to Verizon to get the reverse look up the way it is now. I spent those hours on the phone specifically because I did want to run my own direct to MX mailserver. # I just got this above problem cleared up with the Nework that supplies my lines and IP addresses. Is this a common practice that the static IP you get from a Network Provider will reflect the Network Providers ID not yours? I guess then you have to include what you expect in your order for a line/s and IP/s. for running mail servers. Al Plant NetOpsCenter hdk5.net # My mailserver sends out mail as being from lists.shepard-families.org (in the envelope and header froms) but identifies itself as gecko.ewd.goldmark.org a regular look up of either of those returns 72.64.118.115 A reverse of that turns up n115.ewd.goldmark.org which when you do a regular lookup gets you 72.64.118.115 So my machine is claiming to be in goldmark.org, and doing a reverse lookup on its IP address points you back to goldmark.org. So that strongly suggests that when it identifies itself as goldmark.org, it is doing so with the consent not only of the person who controls the goldmark.org domain, but also with the consent of the person (in this case Verizon) who controls the IP address of the machine. If mail from my machine failed this IP -- name1 -- IP -- name2 -- IP test (the test being that name1 and name2 are in the same domain and that IP is the same IP throughout), then mail from my machine would get a high spam score by most systems. I really don't want to sound harsh with this, but if you aren't fully clear on concepts like reverse and forward DNS and authoritative servers for each, you really should be looking for a solution that doesn't involve you running a direct to MX system. You can still run your own mailserver which you can integrate with your webserver, but have it relay all of the outgoing mail to your ISP's SMTP host which is set up for the purpose. Also if you post your queries to the postfix mailing list (I think I recall that you were using postfix) you will probably find lots of pointers to information explaining about configuration. The Book of Postfix (ISBN 1-59327-001-1) has a good discussion of the need for other hosts being able to reverse resolve the IP of your mail hub. -j -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...
Patrick Bowen wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote: ive been a KDE user for as long as i can remember. this week, im off from work, and want to spend some time trying something new with my laptop. so far i have it built with 6.2-RELEASE-p2, and xorg up to the minimal desktop. id like to try to try something thats not gnome, or basically id like to try some of the lesser known, but still just as functional desktops. can i get some recommendations, as well as what graphical mail reader and web browser works best with your recommendation? thanks, jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jonathan; Take a look at WindowMaker, or BlackBox if you want to get real minimal. Both are excellent window managers (not desktops) and can be found in ports. Firefox, Thunderbird, and all the rest work just fine. Patrick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jonathan, I have used XFCE 3.* on all my free BSD boxes for years. It is a Simple GUI which I use on any Desktops I build. The video is clear and is simple. ( XFCE4* I did not like the concept.) Emails etc all work and install easily from ports. Aloha, ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
odule php5_module is already loaded, skipping ?
SNIP Obviously there are two LoadModule directives for php5_module in your httpd.conf file. Remove one of them and the message will disappear. Regards Rambius Also to be sure Check your /etc/rc.conf and make sure there is only one instance of apache started. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux Compat
Aloha Jerry, I installed FreeBSD 7.* recently and I recall I didnt select Linux. But when I wanted to load Linux Mozilla Browser so I wouldnt have a hassle with flash it added all the necessary components. ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
