Complaints on X startup about knonsole_grantpty
Having brought my X-Installation completely up to date (or so I think) to X 3... I know see this in the X messages... konsole: chownpty failed for device /dev/ptyp2::/dev/ttyp2. : This means the session can be eavesdroped. : Make sure konsole_grantpty is installed in : /usr/local/bin/ and setuid root. whereis reveals konsole_grantpty: /usr/local/bin/konsole_grantpty ls reveals -rwsr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5380 Nov 19 02:09 /usr/local/bin/konsole_grantpty And echo $PATH reveals PATH is /local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/home/cls/bin:.:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games ls also reveals crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel6, 2 Nov 21 07:33 /dev/ptyp2 ^^ crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel5, 2 Nov 21 09:03 /dev/ttyp2 ^^ Clues ? Thu Nov 21 09:05:14 CET 2002 -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Portsupgrade -uU
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:28:45PM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote: At 02:04 AM 11/21/02, you wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:21:07AM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote: When running portsupgrade -uU I get the output below. How can I fix these malformed entries, non-existent entries and incomplete dependencies? Running pkgdb -F shows everything to be fine. If you're running portsdb -Uu, you *don't*. It's up to port maintainers to fix the problem with the port entries. Most of the output are just warnings (intended for maintainers). INDEX builds shouldn't have any warnings if you perform them in a clean environment. Either your ports collection is out of date (i.e. in an inconsistent state) or the index build is picking up things from the host environment like installed ports, WITH_*/WITHOUT_* variables, etc. If the latter, it's a bug in portupgrade..someone should investigate and report it to the author. Kris msg09576/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Confirmation: ext2fs requires kernel rebuild?
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 08:25:56AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:12:12PM -0500, Chris Pepper wrote: At 7:50 PM -0800 2002/11/20, David Schultz wrote: Thus spake Chris Pepper [EMAIL PROTECTED]: snip LINT says: # # Add support for the EXT2FS filesystem of Linux fame. Be a bit # careful with this - the ext2fs code has a tendency to lag behind # changes and not be exercised very much, so mounting read/write could # be dangerous (and even mounting read only could result in panics.) # options EXT2FS This message has been in LINT since the dawn of time and is extremely mystifying. Be a bit careful .. meaning what ? You either mount it or don't mount it, use it or don't use it. What exactly are you supposed to be careful of :) Saying Boo!. Data corruption. Kris msg09577/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Bash programming; Was: connecting to SCSI drive
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-11-21 02:17:13 -0500: Following the suggestions that were posted, I now have a working script that checks for a connection to the DVD-RAM drive. The following works, but returns the 'Device not configured' error if there's no disk in the drive. elif !(sudo mount -t ufs -o rw /dev/cd0a $montering_punkt) then Currently, I'm suppressing the error message (2/dev/null), but I'd rather capture sterr in a variable and replace it with a custom message if the error is 'Device not configured'. (The devise is configured, but I forgot to put a disk in the drive, so the system error message is confusing.) I've tried read and redirection, but I can't seem to capture the error message in a variable. Does anyone know how to do this? tested in zsh (should work in bash): MSG=$(sudo mount ... 21) if [ $? -ne 0 -a $MSG == Device not configured ]; then echo My custom error message fi a dumbed-down version that'll work in /bin/sh (most portable): MSG=`sudo mount /floppy 21` if [ $? -ne 0 -a x$MSG = xDevice not configured ]; then echo My custom error message. fi -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message.see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Sendmail not relaying to localhost (4.6 and 4.7 RELEASE)
Hi all, I had a weird problem a while ago that after installing FreeBSD 4.6 RELEASE sendmail was not accepting local mail for delivery. After looking at mail -v user I saw that sendmail was not accepting relaying for the localhost. Now I could telnet to localhost on port 25 and that worked so SMTP itself was running. The problem turned out to be that in /etc/hosts the following was missing: ::1 localhost Now I thought that maybe that was an isolated problem with FBSD4.6 but I install 4.7 last night (Mini ISO) and had the exact same problem. The /etc/hosts file did not have ::1 I have been told that the ::1 is a IPV6 loopback? Is that correct? Why would it seem to be missing from the install? Regards, Alistair. --- Alistair Phillips POS Development The Foschini Group E-Mail - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel - +27(0)21 938 1146 Fax - +27(0)21 930 3599 Cell - +27(0)82 480 8851 Information contained in this e-mail is intended for the use of the person to whom it was addressed. If you are not the addressee, you may not copy, forward, disclose or deliver this message or any part of it to anyone else. If you received this e-mail in error, please reply to the sender of this message, and delete the mail. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be those of The Foschini Group of Companies, to whom no liability shall attach whatsoever. The Foschini Group disclaim all liability for any loss, damage or expense however caused, arising from the use of or reliance upon the information provided through this service. Any recipient of an unacceptable communication, a chain letter or offensive material of any nature is requested to report this to email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Sendmail not relaying to localhost (4.6 and 4.7 RELEASE)
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-11-21 11:30:30 +0200: I had a weird problem a while ago that after installing FreeBSD 4.6 RELEASE sendmail was not accepting local mail for delivery. After looking at mail -v user I saw that sendmail was not accepting relaying for the localhost. Now I could telnet to localhost on port 25 and that worked so SMTP itself was running. that's not the same thing. mail(1) doesn't talk SMTP AFAIK. The problem turned out to be that in /etc/hosts the following was missing: ::1 localhost Now I thought that maybe that was an isolated problem with FBSD4.6 but I install 4.7 last night (Mini ISO) and had the exact same problem. The /etc/hosts file did not have ::1 do you use IPv6? if not (and you're not, or you wouldn't be asking the question below), it's meaningless. I have been told that the ::1 is a IPV6 loopback? Is that correct? yes, it's the IPv6 loopback. Why would it seem to be missing from the install? *probably* because it's irrelevant in 99.5% cases? show us your /etc/rc.conf, and your sendmail configuration. -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message.see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: Sendmail not relaying to localhost (4.6 and 4.7 RELEASE)
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-11-21 11:30:30 +0200: I had a weird problem a while ago that after installing FreeBSD 4.6 RELEASE sendmail was not accepting local mail for delivery. After looking at mail -v user I saw that sendmail was not accepting relaying for the localhost. Now I could telnet to localhost on port 25 and that worked so SMTP itself was running. that's not the same thing. mail(1) doesn't talk SMTP AFAIK. I am sure it did when I tried it last night. My BSD box is at home so I will give it a try tonight and then see what happens. The problem turned out to be that in /etc/hosts the following was missing: ::1 localhost Now I thought that maybe that was an isolated problem with FBSD4.6 but I install 4.7 last night (Mini ISO) and had the exact same problem. The /etc/hosts file did not have ::1 do you use IPv6? if not (and you're not, or you wouldn't be asking the question below), it's meaningless. Well I did not install IPv6 by default. When I setup the network card during the install it prompted me if I wanted to config via IPv6 or DHCP and I said no. I have been told that the ::1 is a IPV6 loopback? Is that correct? yes, it's the IPv6 loopback. Why would it seem to be missing from the install? *probably* because it's irrelevant in 99.5% cases? show us your /etc/rc.conf, and your sendmail configuration. Shall get that tonight and then pass it along. -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message.see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html Information contained in this e-mail is intended for the use of the person to whom it was addressed. If you are not the addressee, you may not copy, forward, disclose or deliver this message or any part of it to anyone else. If you received this e-mail in error, please reply to the sender of this message, and delete the mail. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be those of The Foschini Group of Companies, to whom no liability shall attach whatsoever. The Foschini Group disclaim all liability for any loss, damage or expense however caused, arising from the use of or reliance upon the information provided through this service. Any recipient of an unacceptable communication, a chain letter or offensive material of any nature is requested to report this to email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
backing up to cd
What is the best way to backup to an atapi cdr? is it mkisofs or burncd or cdrecord? I would like to be able to have this automated where I will create a cron job that uses tar and gzip to compare the files in the directory and if there is a change in the file it will make a new backup then send it to be burned. But I am having a tough time trying to figure out which would be the smoothest way to back it up and then recover the files from the cd. I would like to be able to mount the cdrom and simply 'cp' the files to a directory. Can anyone one tell me what they think would work best? Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Confirmation: ext2fs requires kernel rebuild?
On 2002-11-20 19:50, David Schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thus spake Chris Pepper [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I know they're distinct, but it's silly for a discussion of Linux applications to ignore the possibility of those apps residing on a Linux filesystem. I couldn't find ext2fs documented anywhere, which is the first issue. The second is adding a link comment to the LABI chapter. Hmm...I think you're right. I don't see any documentation for the option. I would just as soon hook the module up to the default build like all the other modules, but maybe the license is an issue. The license *is* an issue. Distributing kernels that by default include GPL'ed code can have many complications for people who make commercial applications based on FreeBSD source. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: backing up to cd
mkisofs + burncd for IDE, mkisofs + cdrecord for SCSI read manuals or handbook for details. On Thursday 21 November 2002 13:40, Jon Reynolds wrote: What is the best way to backup to an atapi cdr? is it mkisofs or burncd or cdrecord? I would like to be able to have this automated where I will create a cron job that uses tar and gzip to compare the files in the directory and if there is a change in the file it will make a new backup then send it to be burned. But I am having a tough time trying to figure out which would be the smoothest way to back it up and then recover the files from the cd. I would like to be able to mount the cdrom and simply 'cp' the files to a directory. Can anyone one tell me what they think would work best? Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Dual-Boot Windows 2000 and FreeBSD 4.6
* Visotheary Riviere-Ung [EMAIL PROTECTED] [21.11.02 11:00]: I have only one hard disk and I want to make a dual-boot Windows 2K and FreeBSD. How can I do it? My first attempt had erased W2K. Is there a fix for this? Salut, Visotheary! Have you re-partitioned your harddrive before installing FreeBSD or just installed BSD *over* and *into* your Windows partition? While you install FreeBSD, the sysinstall program lets you choose to install a boot manager. Please refer to the FreeBSD handbook for more details: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html -- Martin Möller mm at bsdsi.com http://bsdsi.homeunix.com/ GPG Key ID: 0x3C979285ICQ # 82221572 I do not accept unsolicited commercial mail. Do not spam me! msg09588/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
mpd
Howdy I have tried to install a server with VPN over pptp using mpd from ports. It starts fine but I cannot connect to it and nothing goes to /var/log/ppp.log The VPN box is my firewall. I am trying to connect to it from Windows2K with static inet IP creating connection directly to the outside inet IP of my VPN FreeBSD firewall. I have also this rule in my firewall script: ipfw add allow tcp from any to $oip1 1723 keep-state I have this entry in my syslog.conf !ppp *.* /var/log/ppp.log mpd is started with mpd -b option. sockstat -l4 doesnt show mpd either, i donno if it should tho... Any idea why it fails? The config files are following: /usr/local/etc/mpd/mpd.conf : vpn: load pptp pptp: new -i ng0 pptp pptp set iface disable on-demand set iface idle 1800 set bundle enable multilink set link yes acfcomp protocomp set link no pap chap set link enable chap set link keep-alive 10 60 set link mtu 1460 set ipcp yes vjcomp # set ipcp ranges 0.0.0.0/0 set ipcp ranges 192.168.64.10/32 192.168.1.250/32 set ipcp dns 192.168.64.5 set ipcp nbns 192.168.64.3 # # The five lines below enable Microsoft Point-to-Point encryption # (MPPE) using the ng_mppc(8) netgraph node type. # set bundle enable compression set ccp yes mppc set ccp yes mpp-e40 # set ccp no mpp-e40 set ccp yes mpp-e128 set ccp yes mpp-stateless /usr/local/etc/mpd/mpd.links: vpn: set link type pptp set pptp self 192.168.64.2 set pptp peer 11.223.34.56 set pptp enable originate incoming outcall and /usr/local/etc/mpd/mpd.secret : yazzy xxxyyyzzz -- Marcin M. Jessa Software developer/System Administrator Wireless Reading Systems ASA Skreddervn 9 N-1537 Moss Phone: +47 69 27 96 88 Cellular: +47 988 505 44 Just because it works does not make it right. Uptime: 11:27AM up 3 days, 19:04, 2 users, load averages: 0.06, 0.03, 0.00 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Ang LinuxForum
- Original Message - From: Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Der er heller ikke mange *BSD folk som har meldt sig til at holde en BoF / foredrag på Linuxforum (er dog lige kommet 2 stks til) Som sædvanlig stiller jeg gerne op hvis det ønskes, men jeg aner lige så sædvanligt ikke hvad folk i givet fald ville høre fra mig... Meget gerne noget med FreeBSD kernen i FreeBSD 5.0, samt hvad der mere er af nye ting i 5.0. mvh rafter -- __ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with POP3/IMAP access for only US$19.95/yr Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: yahoo IM crashing for anyone else?
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:18:50PM -0800, Jim Arnold wrote: About three days again Gaim started crashing on me with a vengeance with a signal 6. It appears to be related to Yahoo. As a test I installed ymessanger and it too is crashing just as often. Gaim had a bug that was causing a segfault with yahoo. It was fixed in the latest version, so upgrade to 0.59.6. I can't explain why ymessenger was crashing. -- Anand Buddhdev http://anand.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Dual-Boot Windows 2000 and FreeBSD 4.6
Hi, I have only one hard disk and I want to make a dual-boot Windows 2K and FreeBSD. How can I do it? My first attempt had erased W2K. Is there a fix for this? Thanks for your help -- Visotheary RIVIERE-UNG CNRS UMR 7625 Fonctionnements et Evolution des Systèmes écologiques (Bâtiment A, 7ème étage) 7 Quai Saint-Bernard 75252 Paris Cedex 05 Tel: 01 44 27 25 70 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: does ucom0 work?
David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have been getting the error; Oct 28 11:51:53 ada /kernel: ucom0: Palm, Inc. Palm Handheld, rev 1.00/1.00, +addr 2 Oct 28 11:51:53 ada /kernel: ucom0: Palm, Inc. Palm Handheld, rev 1.00/1.00, +addr 2 Oct 28 11:51:53 ada /kernel: ucom0: init failed, STALLED Oct 28 11:51:53 ada /kernel: device_probe_and_attach: ucom0 attach returned 6 in the log when I attach and hit the hotsync on my palm device. one of the developers at pilot-link had mentioned this as an unfixed error on getting pilot-link working with FreeBSD's USB port. Is this error a FreeBSD error? Is there FreeBSD'ers using ucom0 successfully? ucom with uvisor certainly works for me. Look in the archives of the freebsd-stable list for a message I sent a few weeks ago that has a few tips and gotchas in it. -- Dan Pelleg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
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www.ruspost.ru - îòïðàâü áóìàæíîå ïèñüìî ðîäíûì è äðóçüÿì, íå îòõîäÿ îò êîìïüþòåðà! Êèáåðïèñüìî - äåøåâëå òåëåãðàììû, áûñòðåå îáû÷íîé ïî÷òû! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Performance degration of moving FFS hdd from a slow to a fast pc.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a question about FFS filesystem. According to a paper about the design of UFS filesystem[1], if you create the FFS filesystem on a slow cpu and then move it to a fast cpu with a fast controller, theh the FFS wont perform efficient. This is justified because when the UFS is created having in mind the speed of the system, in order to create the cyllinder group summary information with optimal rotationally blocks [see page 7 of the paper]. If somebody takes the hdd of the slow pc and put it on a much faster pc, then it is reported that the throughput will drop significantly because of lost disk revolutions. I would like to know if this is true. Can I move my hdd of my old slow pc [intel 486] to a pentium III 600Mhz machine without performance penatly, or its better to re-create the filesystem? Thank you very much... References: [1] http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/mckusick84fast.html - --- We are being monitored..but there is a solution... Use PGP for signing and encrypting emails Download my public key at http://www.us.pgp.net -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE93M3XGe/V3CxAyHoRAtCKAJsFEPJAEgYOzE8NkszHO5jUBETrnwCfTC+V vLYTHw2fXGYPIwfuzA3TitM= =/4V2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Find abandoned packages
Lo folks, how do you find installed ports / packages on your system, that are not required by others? Thanx. -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Arp and Route Commands
On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 20:56:55 + (UTC) in lucky.freebsd.questions, Karl Timmermann wrote: Hello, I'm new to the list and was hoping maybe someone could help me. These commands work in Linux (and in this order), but not in FreeBSD/Mac OS X as the arp and route commands are different: arp -s 10.10.10.0 00:00:ca:13:4b:54 -i eth1 arp -s 10.10.10.0 00:00:ca:13:4b:54 -i eth1 arp -s 10.10.10.0 00:00:ca:13:4b:54 arp -s 10.10.10.0 00:00:ca:13:4b:54 route add -net 10.10.10.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 dev eth1 route add -net 10.10.10.0 -netmask 255.255.255.0 -interface eth1 route add default gw 10.10.10.0 dev eth1 route add default 10.10.10.0 -interface eth1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: Find abandoned packages
If you check out /var/db/pkg it lists what ports are installed essentially. I don't know how to tell whether or not its a dependency though, so maybe someone else can answer that. I'd like to know that too come to think of it. -SM -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Pascal Giannakakis Sent: November 21, 2002 8:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Find abandoned packages Lo folks, how do you find installed ports / packages on your system, that are not required by others? Thanx. -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: Find abandoned packages
If you check out /var/db/pkg it lists what ports are installed essentially. I don't know how to tell whether or not its a dependency though, so maybe someone else can answer that. I'd like to know that too come to think of it. pkg_info or pkg_version - would be quite the same in this situation. What i need is an intelligent programm that finds old stuff, and best even offers a yes / no dialog to uninstall it. -- +++ GMX - Mail, Messaging more http://www.gmx.net +++ NEU: Mit GMX ins Internet. Rund um die Uhr für 1 ct/ Min. surfen! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.
I apologize to the list - I thought I can cleared the cc: - didnt realise it went out on the list. Its what I get for gettin pissed off too late at nite. On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Gary D Kline wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:07:57PM -0500, Stephen Hovey wrote: Oh bite me already man, that was worth a laugh! the endless reams of this spam make me think of pt barnum. -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Dual-Boot Windows 2000 and FreeBSD 4.6
* Visotheary Riviere-Ung [EMAIL PROTECTED] [21.11.02 13:26]: Of course, I have re-partitioned my hard disk. In the handbook, they indicate that you must delete a partition (the second one) to install FreeBSD, so did I but it doesn't work. You don't have to actually delete and reassign it. You can also use the T-key to change the partition's type from whatever to UFS. But ok: Deleting and creating it again with sysinstall does the same! :-) -- Martin Möller mm at bsdsi.com http://bsdsi.homeunix.com/ GPG Key ID: 0x3C979285ICQ # 82221572 I do not accept unsolicited commercial mail. Do not spam me! msg09602/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Reacting to spam targetted to freebsd.org [was: Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.]
On 2002-11-21 08:44, Stephen Hovey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Gary D Kline wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:07:57PM -0500, Stephen Hovey wrote: Oh bite me already man, that was worth a laugh! the endless reams of this spam make me think of pt barnum. I apologize to the list - I thought I can cleared the cc: - didnt realise it went out on the list. Its what I get for gettin pissed off too late at nite. The best thing to do is take a look at the spam headers and post a notice to [EMAIL PROTECTED] since the originator of the message is easy to find by looking at the following: : Received: from mail.FreeBSD.org (node-c-173f.a2000.nl [62.194.23.63]) : by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4845643E9E : for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 04:55:36 -0800 (PST) : (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) That's what I did. More than once. Signing my messages with PGP too. This very spammer has hit the lists more than once, and every time I mailed {abuse|postmaster} at a2000.nl. If they receive a few hundred messages for each spam message they let through they will certainly start acting fast :-) So instead of replying to the lists, let abuse@ know. Many times! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Reacting to spam targetted to freebsd.org [was: Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.]
Quoth Giorgos Keramidas on Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 15:58:03 +0200 This very spammer has hit the lists more than once, and every time I mailed {abuse|postmaster} at a2000.nl. If they receive a few hundred messages for each spam message they let through they will certainly start acting fast :-) Would it be possible for the owners of the lsit to install something like SpamAssassin so that those messages actually don't get to us? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=*=- www.kierun.org PGP: 009D 7287 C4A7 FD4F 1680 06E4 F751 7006 9DE2 6318 IRC: nick kierun, server spod.uk.amiganet.org, channel #sanctus NNGS: nick kierun, server nngs.cosmic.org, port 9696. msg09604/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: perl version in -STABLE build
branch. Note, however, that on 4.x there's no problem with keeping 5.8 installed from ports, and the default system perl in its usual place. There's a nice mechanism installed for choosing between them at will. And that would be ... ? -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Amazing Developments http://www.buddydog.org Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. -- Redd Foxx To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
rxvt slow startup after installing xfstt
I need help with a bug that occurs when xfstt (truetype fontserver) is installed. I'm using rxvt 2.6.4_1 and it's working great... until I install xfstt 1.1_1. Then it takes about 1 minute to startup an rxvt window. Is this a known problem and is there a cure? I'm using Freebsd 4.7-release on XFree86 4.2.1. -Nils N To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Reacting to spam targetted to freebsd.org [was: Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.]
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (11.21.2002 @ 0600 PST): Yann Golanski said, in 1.3K: Would it be possible for the owners of the lsit to install something like SpamAssassin so that those messages actually don't get to us? end of Re: Reacting to spam targetted to freebsd.org [was: Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.] from Yann Golanski FreeBSD can't use any restrictive level of filtering. SpamAssassin on my server nukes some peoples' emails to this list at times. The answer to the question of why doesn't FreeBSD... is why don't you? # Adam - -- Adam Weinberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE93O+Mo8KM2ULHQ/0RAupnAJ4jrosN8STUbKFUHCoQNMWFK6B5PwCfRa/u CQZUHn3SrVtJXQts0hf1wi4= =ht6x -END PGP SIGNATURE- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: FreeBSD gateway
I am having almost the same exact problem. I've followed the guides on freebsddiary, in the handbook, and instructions here in the list, but I still can't ping out to the internet from my xp box. I can however ping the external NIC's IP address though. Maybe someone can post a simplified rc.firewall just for gateways? From: Constantine [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Marc Perisa [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Derrick Ryalls [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: FreeBSD gateway Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 18:18:01 -0500 Marc Perisa wrote: Derrick Ryalls wrote: Hello! I have installed FreeBSD 4.7 recently, and it seems it does not want to work as a gateway. I have two network cards in my FreeBSD computer, fxp0 for LAN and sis0 for the cable modem. I am new to FreeBSD, so I am confused what the difference between gateways and routers is (I was thinking they link to the same thing). I can ping my FreeBSD box from winxp, I can ping internet from remote session to FreeBSD, but I cannot ping internet from my winxp. My winxp has ip 192.168.0.1, netmask 255.255.255.0, and gateway 192.168.0.18 settings. Now FreeBSD /etc/rc.conf follows: gateway_enable=YES kern_securelevel_enable=NO nfs_reserved_port_only=YES ifconfig_sis0=DHCP ifconfig_fxp0=inet 192.168.0.18 netmask 255.255.255.0 #router_enable=YES # from handbook gateway_enable=YES firewall_enable=YES firewall_type=OPEN natd_enable=YES natd_interface=sis0 natd_flags= #/ handbook Are your ip's reversed? I think the gateway should have the .1 address and the xp box should use the .18 Nope. He set his FreeBSD box to the IP 192.168.0.18 and his Windows XP box to 192.168.0.1 . All is ok with that. It is only uncommon to do. Normally you would give the defaultgateway for a network x.y.z.1 or x.y.z.254 . But it is not forbidden to set it to any IP in that subnet. Are you using the default kernel? If so, you will need to add a couple lines are recompile. options IPFIREWALL #firewall options IPDIVERT#divert sockets as for the difference between a router and a gateway, a gateway is a machine to deal with going from one network (lan) to another network (wan), I think. From your point of view (as needed for this problem) routers and gateways are the same. In this case the FreeBSD box is acting as a router for your internal net to the Internet. A simple router would do the same. But for more complex routing you have to either setup gated (or similar software) or add all rules (if they are static) by hand. A gateway is the simplest form of a router. The last two lines from dmesg: IP packet filtering initialized, divert disabled, rule-based forwarding enabled, default to deny, logging disabled ip_fw_ctl: invalid command That hints to a problem with the /etc/rc.firewall script (which is called when you add to /etc/rc.conf firewall_enable=YES). Please provide us with the output of ipfw list. (You have to do that as root of course). I think your firewall ruleset is not tuned for a gateway situation. Hope that helps Marc # ipfw show 001000 0 allow ip from any to any via lo0 002000 0 deny ip from any to 127.0.0.0/8 003000 0 deny ip from 127.0.0.0/8 to any 65000 8102 5158330 allow ip from any to any 655351 60 deny ip from any to any I want FreeBSD to act as a simple gateway for my LAN, but for some reason it does not want to work that way, though I have confirmed to the installation programme that I want FreeBSD to function as a gateway. What are the simplest steps I need to follow to make FreeBSD act as a gateway? (I have a fresh 4.7R installation) Thanks. Constantine To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Reacting to spam targetted to freebsd.org [was: Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.]
At 2002-11-21T14:00:56Z, Yann Golanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would it be possible for the owners of the lsit to install something like SpamAssassin so that those messages actually don't get to us? Erm, I'm roughly 99.999% against that idea. What if someone's writing to ask how to secure their FreeBSD box that's currently being used as a spam relay (and is on many blackhole lists)? For what it's worth, I run SpamAssassin locally, and use it to *mark* possible spams, but never drop them. Then I configured my client to filter based on the `X-Spam-Status' header into a spam folder that I periodically check. Once a month or so, I find a piece of mail that *should* have passed but was marked, so I have to adjust my rules and/or whitelist accordingly. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
How do I block spam locally? (WAS: Re: Reacting to spam targettedto freebsd.org [was: Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.])
I agree, but how do I run spam filtering locally? As an average desktop user, I simply use a client to POP mail from a server -- are there client plugins that filter for spam? I currently use Evolution, but am willing to change if there a spam filter plugins for other clients. As a slightly-more-than-average desktop user, I just figured out fetchmail to fetch a POP3 account to my local sendmail (base system, default install, set for local deliver only). Is SpamAssassin the best way to go? Is it a plugin for Sendmail? If I'm going to start messin' with my local MTA, should I try something besides Sendmail? The config options of Sendmail are somewhat daunting -- it seems like an SMTP handler should be simpler. Thoughts? Thanks all, -Matt On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 09:47, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2002-11-21T14:00:56Z, Yann Golanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Would it be possible for the owners of the lsit to install something like SpamAssassin so that those messages actually don't get to us? Erm, I'm roughly 99.999% against that idea. What if someone's writing to ask how to secure their FreeBSD box that's currently being used as a spam relay (and is on many blackhole lists)? For what it's worth, I run SpamAssassin locally, and use it to *mark* possible spams, but never drop them. Then I configured my client to filter based on the `X-Spam-Status' header into a spam folder that I periodically check. Once a month or so, I find a piece of mail that *should* have passed but was marked, so I have to adjust my rules and/or whitelist accordingly. -- Matt Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: yahoo IM crashing for anyone else?
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:18:50PM -0800, Jim Arnold wrote: About three days again Gaim started crashing on me with a vengeance with a signal 6. It appears to be related to Yahoo. As a test I installed ymessanger and it too is crashing just as often. Gaim had a bug that was causing a segfault with yahoo. It was fixed in the latest version, so upgrade to 0.59.6. I can't explain why ymessenger was crashing. I am already running 0.59.6. Sorry, I should have posted that. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Hard drive woes.. (itronix)
I am trying to install free on this machine, as I have no floppy/cdrom for this box I am restricted to installing via another laptop then swapping the drive back. Boot goes fine until: ata0-master: no status, reselecting device ata0-master: timeout sending command=ec s=ff e=00 ata0-master: ata identify failed For fun I tried NetBSD and the machine boots fine. For reference under FreeBSD the drive appears as: wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq14 wd0 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 0:(IBM-DDLA-21620) wd0: drive supports 16 sector PIO transfers, LBA addressing wd0: 1551MB, 3152 cyl, 16 heads, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 3177216 sectors wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 NetBSD sees it as: wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 wd0 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 0: IBM-DBCA-204860 wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA addressing wd0: 4645 MB, 10068 cyl, 15 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 9514260 sectors wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (Ultra/33) (i have installed it on a bigger drive recently, the errors were still the same when i tried FreeBSD on both drives) What is it that is restricting Free from booting while allowing netbsd and openbsd to boot properly? As much as I love NetBSD (shudder), I would really prefer to have Free running on this machine. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Note: the bios on this machine, although updated is very limited to drive specific configuration options so anything I do modify must be on the OS end. Paul Halliday. http://dp.penix.org --- And so your god bungled his work deliberately, in order to tempt or test his creature - did he then not know, did he then not doubt what the result would be? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Dual-Boot Windows 2000 and FreeBSD 4.6
Hi, I have only one hard disk and I want to make a dual-boot Windows 2K and FreeBSD. How can I do it? My first attempt had erased W2K. Is there a fix for this? Thanks for your help Well, if you installed the FreeBSD over the top of the W2K slice, then it is gone. You will have to reinstall it. To do a dual boot, you need at least two primary slices - one for the W2k and one for FreeBSD. Then, you want to have the Microsloth stuff installed first - if you try to install it second, it will almost certainly ignore what you have already installed and clobber it. So, reinstall W2K if it has been wiped. Now, you take the system with W2k installed and use a utility to shrink the W2k slice (MS stuff calls them partitions) and make room for a FreeBSD slice. Then use the utility or the FreeBSD install utility (/stand/sysinstall which is what is running when you install from FreeBSD CD or install floppies) or use fdisk(8) to turn that freed up space in to a slice and install FreeBSD on it. The utility for shrinking W2K and other slice/partition management that I am familier with is Partition Magic. It works and isn't too expensive. There are others, some even cheaper. There are also freeware utilities but the free ones I have seen can't handle NTFS type files systems and that is probably what your W2k is using. Partition Magic has pretty good instructions with it, but it uses all MS terminology, so slices become partitions and it doesn't know about UNIX partitions. Now, if you did properly create a slice for FreeBSD and installed FreeBSD in it and didn't wipe out the W2K, then maybe you only messed up the slice table. You might be able to use either Partition Magic or one of the other utilities that manage disk slices/partitions to remake the slice table without reinstalling anything. Good luck, jerry -- Visotheary RIVIERE-UNG CNRS UMR 7625 Fonctionnements et Evolution des Systèmes écologiques (Bâtiment A, 7ème étage) 7 Quai Saint-Bernard 75252 Paris Cedex 05 Tel: 01 44 27 25 70 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
dhclient too verbose in /var/log/messages
For the last year or so something changed in dhclient and/or my ISP resulting in dhclient being way too chatty with syslog and flooding /var/log/messages with this about every 75 minutes, when my DHCP lease is renewed: Nov 21 05:43:00 Frisket dhclient: New Network Number: 24.214.110.0 Nov 21 05:43:00 Frisket dhclient: New Broadcast Address: 24.214.110.255 I don't see any ready way to configure dhclient to mute this output. Placing a sed filter in /etc/syslog.conf would be one way to stifle the chattyness but that should be the avenue of last resort. How might I convince dhclient to be quiet and/or log elsewhere? -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] = The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Dual-Boot Windows 2000 and FreeBSD 4.6
this is what I did. created 2 partitions. install win2k on the first partition install freebsd on second partition use freebsd boot manager works great. This is not the only way of doing it I believe. - Original Message - From: Visotheary Riviere-Ung [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 4:02 AM Subject: Dual-Boot Windows 2000 and FreeBSD 4.6 Hi, I have only one hard disk and I want to make a dual-boot Windows 2K and FreeBSD. How can I do it? My first attempt had erased W2K. Is there a fix for this? Thanks for your help -- Visotheary RIVIERE-UNG CNRS UMR 7625 Fonctionnements et Evolution des Systèmes écologiques (Bâtiment A, 7ème étage) 7 Quai Saint-Bernard 75252 Paris Cedex 05 Tel: 01 44 27 25 70 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: perl version in -STABLE build
John Von Essen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What system scripts cant't run under 5.8? I don't know specifically, but *all* perl dependencies have been removed in FreeBSD 5.x. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: perl version in -STABLE build
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 09:04:10AM -0500, Jonathan Arnold wrote: branch. Note, however, that on 4.x there's no problem with keeping 5.8 installed from ports, and the default system perl in its usual place. There's a nice mechanism installed for choosing between them at will. And that would be ... ? See /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/pkg-message. HTH, --Stijn -- What if everything you see is more than what you see -- the person next to you is a warrior and the space that appears empty is a secret door to another world? What if something appears that shouldn't? You either dismiss it, or you accept that there is much more to the world than you think. Perhaps it really is a doorway, and if you choose to go inside, you'll find many unexpected things. -- Shigeru Miyamoto msg09617/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: perl version in -STABLE build
Jonathan Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: branch. Note, however, that on 4.x there's no problem with keeping 5.8 installed from ports, and the default system perl in its usual place. There's a nice mechanism installed for choosing between them at will. And that would be ... ? use.perl. When you install the port, you get a message about it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
FreeBSD ISO Images
I must have missed this. Or simply dump. period. It looks like there is no more ISO image to burn to a CD since 4.6.2?? Why are there 2 disk images? I burnt a 4.7-disc1.iso and it fails to boot - no kernel... -r--r--r-- 1 3usit 582746112 Nov 17 00:23 5.0-DP2-disc1.iso -r--r--r-- 1 3usit 312606720 Nov 17 00:21 5.0-DP2-disc2.iso -r--r--r-- 1 3usit 118 Nov 17 00:35 CHECKSUM.MD5 -r--r--r-- 1 3usit 27192 Apr 7 2002 5.0-DP1-disc2.iso -r--r--r-- 1 3usit 675971072 Apr 7 2002 5.0-DP1-install.iso -r--r--r-- 1 3usit 180 Aug 15 03:55 CHECKSUM.MD5 -r--r--r-- 1 3usit 657457152 Aug 15 16:32 4.6.2-disc1.iso -r--r--r-- 1 3usit 234094592 Aug 15 03:24 4.6.2-disc2.iso -r--r--r-- 1 3usit 114 Aug 15 17:57 CHECKSUM.MD5 -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] The box said 'Requires Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com Windows 95, NT, or better,' Tel: +254 2 313985-9 +254 2 313922 so I installed FreeBSD. GSM: +254 72 743223 +254 733 744121 This sig is McQ! :-) Psychiatrists say that one out of four people are mentally ill. Check three friends. If they're OK, you're it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
How to monitor user commands
Hello, Here is my problem : I have a FreeBSD box with a couple shell accounts, accessible through ssh. I would like to be able to monitor the commands some users are issuing, and be noticed about when they log, how long and what they do, e.g by mail. I know 'w','last','lastcomm', etc.. but those don't exactly suit my needs. I could examine those users' .bash_history files but this is easy to overcome, they could 'export HISTFILE=/dev/null' whenever they login. So I need something more reliable... Is there any tool in the ports that could do that? Or has anybody done any script or something that would help me? Thanks a lot for any ideas Olivier ~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Adding new disk as the primary.
Hello all, My disk is getting full and I'm thinking of getting bigger and faster disk to accomodate my installation. I do not want to do reinstallation and prefer to export previous settings in the present disk. There's too many of them that I have to customize and I hate to redo it all. The present disk will serve as /usr/ports partition and the rest will be placed on the upcoming disk. Is there a way to do this or do I have to do a reinstallation? Thank you in advance. __ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Boot stuck at F1 after swapping drives
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 23:13, Andy Sparrow wrote: yeah, i have BIOS in AUTO, I was able to boot to the harddrive with a cdrom by using 0:da(0,a)/kernel, but the harddrive's boot0 booter couldn't boot it on its own. Since I can boot to it, the BIOS should have correct setting for the drive right? IME, it's entirely possible for FreeBSD to have a bogus idea of the geometry which prevents booting from the drive (the last 5-6 large drives I've set up on machines with old BIOS'es have done this if I don't create an M$DOS partition from M$ FDISK first - you can even delete it in 'sysinstall', it just forces the correct geometry when the disk is read in 'sysinstall', IIUC), but you can load the boot stuff just fine from (e.g.) CD-ROM and then boot the kernel off the drive... I presume that this is because the BIOS can boot the CD, and the CD-loaded boot stuff has the same bogus idea of the geometry, and can then load the kernel That makes sense. However, if you have /ever/ booted FreeBSD directly from this HDD, then this probably isn't what happened (the geometry shouldn't change, and it was valid once). and Yes, before I swapped drives, I was able to boot FreeBSD without any problems. For some reason, some part of the boot stuff got lunched, and you probably just need to re-write it. My firewall box did this once after a power-cycle, I have no idea why. Right, I think the power management stuff might've screwed up the MBR. I tried rewriting it with boot0cfg per suggestions by Giorgos Keramidas, but no luck. I don't recall what I did to get around this now, it was either disklabel -B da0s1 auto or boot0cfg -d 0x80 or something like that... 'man boot' would be a good place to start. :-) Disclaimer: it's your disk, not mine. Take appropriate precautions, including treating the above advice with some caution (I think I was on 4.4-STABLE when I did the above, but it *was* some time ago)... In particular, if I were in your position, I think I'd be inclined to wait and see if someone chimes in with a response of NN! to the above advice :- Yeah, I booted it off with a CDROM, and I dont reboot my laptop very often, so it's not that bad (not like it's a server or anything). I hoping one of you guys would know what to do. I'm wondering if I can just get rid of the booter, I only have one OS on my FreeBSD drive, so it doesn't really make sense to have a booter with only one option, I don't know, but when I had NetBSD I didn't even have a booter. How do I get right of boot0? -- andrew y ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://andrewng.com fingerprint : 46a1 29ff 893a 0381 dc81 1e1e bed8 e882 9bfc 594c signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: FreeBSD ISO Images
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 06:48:28PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: I must have missed this. Or simply dump. period. It looks like there is no more ISO image to burn to a CD since 4.6.2?? Sure there is. Which server were you looking at, and which directory? Why are there 2 disk images? I burnt a 4.7-disc1.iso and it fails to boot - no kernel... The image you burnt must be bad. And you only need the first CD; the rest of the CDs contain extra packages, but you can install FreeBSD 4.7 from just the first CD. -- Anand Buddhdev http://anand.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
jumpy optic mouse
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Re: How do I block spam locally? (WAS: Re: Reacting to spam targetted to freebsd.org [was: Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.])
don't top-post please. # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-11-21 10:00:43 -0500: I agree, but how do I run spam filtering locally? As an average desktop user, I simply use a client to POP mail from a server -- are there client plugins that filter for spam? I currently use Evolution, but am willing to change if there a spam filter plugins for other clients. Unless Evolution can't grok usual mail formats (mbox, Maildir), you'll want to do something like: POP3 client - spam filter - disk - MUA (note that you use Evolution to do both sides of the graph) you don't need to change your MUA. As a slightly-more-than-average desktop user, I just figured out fetchmail to fetch a POP3 account to my local sendmail (base system, default install, set for local deliver only). Is SpamAssassin the best way to go? Is it a plugin for Sendmail? If I'm going to start messin' with my local MTA, should I try something besides Sendmail? The config options of Sendmail are somewhat daunting -- it seems like an SMTP handler should be simpler. you don't need fetchmail to reinject the messages to sendmail just to get them stored on the disk. sorry for being this terse, i'm short on time. -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message.see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Boot stuck at F1 after swapping drives
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:23:40AM -0600, Andrew Y Ng wrote: I'm wondering if I can just get rid of the booter, I only have one OS on my FreeBSD drive, so it doesn't really make sense to have a booter with only one option, I don't know, but when I had NetBSD I didn't even have a booter. How do I get right of boot0? fdisk -B -b /boot/mbr ad0 (or da0 if you've got a SCSI hard drive). Do make sure you make a note of the output of 'fdisk -v' before you begin, in case of accidents. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
jumpy optic mouse
Anyone got a fix for a jumpy optic mouse in X It is a PS/2 Labtec Optical Mouse. Works fine in Win2k. Generic PS/2 worked fine before I switched. probed at boot as: psm0: PS/2 Mouse irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: model 4D+ Mouse, device ID 8 Freebsd 5.0-current Nov 19. Latest Xfree4 from ports (in Xfree config under Mouse0) Option Protocol Auto Option Device /dev/psm0 have tried sysmouse as protocol--didnt' work have tried PS/2 as protocol--didn't work. have tried /dev/sysmouse as device--didn't work have tried above both (sysmouse, /dev/sysmouse)together--didn't work have tried above with moused_enable=YES in rc.conf which didn't work Thanks. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: jumpy optic mouse
Works fine in Win2k. Generic PS/2 worked fine before I switched. Option Protocol Auto Option Device /dev/psm0 There are two XFree86Config files. Maybe you are modifying the wrong one. Just a guess... To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
How to Start the Random Number Generator
I need to run the application dnssec-keygen which uses /dev/random to generate keys for signing domain name server transactions. If I run it on any of the FreeBSD systems I have set up which are all running Version 4.5 or 4.7, this application hangs due to lack of entropy, or at least that is one reason. I was directed to use rndcontrol to turn on various interrupts in the random number generator such as the keyboard and IDE controller interrupts and the system would start to build an entropy pool. Rndcontrol showed me that there were no interrupts being sampled right now so I told it to look at IRQS 3, 14 and 15. the man page in section 4 for random mentions a seed to get everything started, but I can't seem to find any other information to cause /dev/random to spit out data yet. The dnssec-keygen application still hangs so I am obviously missing some step. /dev/random does exist on the systems in question and seems to return a null which is not what it is supposed to be doing. What else should I look at? Thank you. Martin McCormick To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: jumpy optic mouse
--- Kliment Andreev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Works fine in Win2k. Generic PS/2 worked fine before I switched. Option Protocol Auto Option Device /dev/psm0 There are two XFree86Config files. Maybe you are modifying the wrong one. Just a guess... With one modification to /etc/X11/XF86Config I had created a bigger problem(X died completely) so I presumed that was the place. Where is the other file? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: [OT] Spare mailservers
We are now adding a second mailserver (20 MX) to our configuration, which will forward mail to the main mailserver (10 MX) through mailertable. A third one will be added as soon as we grow as we now expect. To avoid having to edit all the DNS zones again then why do that? are you running MS DNS? If you're running BIND, use $INCLUDE, aggressively, in all your zone files. Len To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Adding new disk as the primary.
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 11:59:27PM +0800, Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim typed: Hello all, My disk is getting full and I'm thinking of getting bigger and faster disk to accomodate my installation. I do not want to do reinstallation and prefer to export previous settings in the present disk. There's too many of them that I have to customize and I hate to redo it all. The present disk will serve as /usr/ports partition and the rest will be placed on the upcoming disk. Is there a way to do this or do I have to do a reinstallation? You don't have to reinstall. 1) Boot the system with the new disk as a secundary disk, eg. ad2 2) use /stand/sysinstall to partition the new disk and put a bootmanager on it 3) newfs the partitions (this can also be done from sysinstall) 4) Use dump/restore to copy the content of your old disk to the newer; eg: # mount /dev/ad2s1a /mnt # cd /mnt # /sbin/dump -0af - / | /sbin/restore -rf - (repeat for other partitions) 5) remove old disk, replacing with new disk. Thank you in advance. __ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: [OT] Spare mailservers
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, at 16:53 [=GMT+0100], Len Conrad wrote: We are now adding a second mailserver (20 MX) to our configuration, which will forward mail to the main mailserver (10 MX) through mailertable. A third one will be added as soon as we grow as we now expect. To avoid having to edit all the DNS zones again then why do that? are you running MS DNS? No, but the people I am working for right now, have a primary running NT. And editing remotely is a pain in the ass. So slw. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: jumpy optic mouse
With one modification to /etc/X11/XF86Config I had created a bigger problem(X died completely) so I presumed that was the place. Where is the other file? /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Boot stuck at F1 after swapping drives
I'm wondering if I can just get rid of the booter, I only have one OS on my FreeBSD drive, so it doesn't really make sense to have a booter with only one option, I don't know, but when I had NetBSD I didn't even have a booter. How do I get right of boot0? Well, you could overwrite boot0 with the plain MBR that just boots the first partition on the machine. That's what this laptop does... I know which option that is in 'sysinstall' :) Looks to me like you'd use boot0cfg or diskinstall with /boot/mbr as the boot0 file instead of boot0. However, if you're seeing the 'F1' message, that /is/ boot0. I'd guess that it's boot1 or something later in the sequence that isn't working for you. HTH. Regards, AS To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
DHCP Question
I don't know if this is the palce to go for help, but here goes. I have freeb running on a machine with 3 NICS-fxp0, dc0, rl0. I want to run DHCP on fxp0 and dc0-the LAN side of the network. I wrote the conf file, and it works for fxp0, but I get an odd error message when I try to bring up dhcpd on dc0. The message is dc0 exceeds max (255) for precision . Anyone have any ideas what might cause this error? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks TMS III To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Pptpd , HDCP and LDAP or SQL authentication
Hi guys. Finally I managed to successfully setup mpd allowing me to access the other side of the VPN link. Thanks a lot for your suggestions. I have three remining questions before I will make a HowTo out of my experience. 1. How can I enable access to the whole LAN on the other side of my VPN link allowing users to browse it. 2. How to run DHCP over mpd's tunnel? 3. Do you know if there is a way to authenticate pptpd users with LDAP or SQL instead of the mpd.secret text file? Any suggestions and comments are welcome. Cheers. YazzY To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Reacting to spam targetted to freebsd.org [was: Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.]
On 21 Nov 2002 08:47:40 -0600 Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Erm, I'm roughly 99.999% against that idea. What if someone's writing to What about the other 0.001 percent? :) ask how to secure their FreeBSD box that's currently being used as a spam relay (and is on many blackhole lists)? It's not that a bad idea, honestly, just don't use the default 5 theshold, but a higher one. For what it's worth, I run SpamAssassin locally, and use it to *mark* possible spams, but never drop them. Then I configured my client to filter based on the `X-Spam-Status' header into a spam folder that I periodically check. Once a month or so, I find a piece of mail that *should* have passed but was marked, so I have to adjust my rules and/or whitelist accordingly.-- I also have postfix hand mail to spamassassin before it's delivered to cyrus. However, I found it even better to permban several (useless for me) TLDs at the firewall level (*.es *.kr *.cn *.tw and several southamerican countries) I'm aware you can't do that on a server like FreeBSD's, but found it extremely useful on my own one. I, personally, have never recieved a legit mail from any of those countries. The spam problem is a touchy one, but I'm sure some meassures are taken at the server level for the mailing lists. I once heard a SPAM attempt hits the FreeBSD mail servers once a second. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt EnergyHQ :: http://www.energyhq.tk Of course it runs NetBSD! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Portsupgrade -uU
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:28:45PM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote: At 02:04 AM 11/21/02, you wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:21:07AM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote: When running portsupgrade -uU I get the output below. How can I fix these malformed entries, non-existent entries and incomplete dependencies? Running pkgdb -F shows everything to be fine. If you're running portsdb -Uu, you *don't*. It's up to port maintainers to fix the problem with the port entries. Most of the output are just warnings (intended for maintainers). INDEX builds shouldn't have any warnings if you perform them in a clean environment. Either your ports collection is out of date (i.e. in an inconsistent state) or the index build is picking up things from the host environment like installed ports, WITH_*/WITHOUT_* variables, etc. If the latter, it's a bug in portupgrade..someone should investigate and report it to the author. I thought that I have a clean environment. There are no WITH_*/WITHOU_* variables in my /etc/make.conf. I just finished doing a portupgrade -aufp and still get them. About the only time I don't see them, is right before a release and you are building iso's. The messages are real. For example, I see messages like p5-Net-SSH-Perl-1.23: non-existent -- dependency list incomplete p5-Net-SSH-Perl-1.23: non-existent -- dependency list incomplete and the INDEX that is built has no r-deps. The Makefile sets r-deps to RUN_DEPENDS=${BUILD_DEPENDS} but I have a b-deps with entries and a R-deps: with no entry. One thing I have noticed is that most of them have a PKGNAMEPREFIX= p5- syntax. I have thought about hiding them but considered that similar to redirecting my buildworld to /dev/null and then doing an installworld. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
passwords in /etc/group
Hello. How can I use password in /etc/group? If I can't, why man groups keep silence about it? Sem. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
please help: how do I replace words
Hi all I have problem to replace words from 192.168.0.1 to 172.16.0.1 in file abc.com file content: abc.com 192.168.0.1 localhost.abc.com 127.0.0.1 I tried: sed -n 's/192.168.0.1/172.16.0.1/w abc.com.tmp' abc.com file abc.com.tmp only shows l line abc.com 172.16.0.1 and missing localhost.abc.com 127.0.0.1 I tried and it is same! sed -n 's/192.168.0.1/172.16.0.1/gw abc.com.tmp' abc.com I can't use perl because the sed is within shell script TIA ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Boot stuck at F1 after swapping drives
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Andrew Y Ng wrote: Hi all, I shutdown FreeBSD and changed my harddrive and booted up Win2K this morning (needed Windoze for something real quick). I put the FreeBSD harddrive back and it wouldn't boot, it got stuck at the F1 boot0 prompt. Like it couldn't find the MBR or something. How do I get it to boot again? This is weird. Maybe I didn't shut it down correctly this morning. I encountered the same kind of weirdness when I was trying to build a FreeBSD-based firewall for somebody and un-plugged my normal drive(s) which have Windows XP and FreeBSD installed on them and then proceeded to do a fresh FreeBSD 4.7 installation on a new lone disk. Once finished, it wouldn't boot. I would get Operating system missing with the standard boot sector installed, and with the boot manager installed, it would hang after F1. Using the install CD boot-loader, I could unload the CD kernel and load /kernel off of the newly installed drive and start to boot it, but it would hang immediately after issuing 'boot'. So, I try a completely different hard drive (a little bigger and newer, but only a 10GB drive), do a 4.7 installation on it, and it worked. Then I re-installed on the same drive, and it DIDN'T work. Nothing changed in the BIOS or hardware, just a re-install. I tried re-installing over and over again with different boot options and different ways of partitioning it. I tried with both 4.6 and 4.7 releases, thinking maybe there was some kind of bootloader breakage in 4.7. No go. What type of IDE controller are you using? I was using a Promise 133 TX2 add-on card. I tried the on-board ATA33 (PIIX4) controller on my system, and encountered the same problem, though I never actually completely removed the add-on card. It is possible the Promise BIOS was causing problems even though it claimed it didn't load since I didn't have any devices attached to the card. I racked my brain with that problem for hours and finally gave up. Luckily when I plugged my regular drives back in XP and FreeBSD booted up just fine on those. One thing I probably should have tried was to dd a bunch of zeroes over the first few MB of the drive so that I'd be starting with a fresh drive before installation. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon(at)wolves.k12.mo.us FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet - Available for IA32 (Intel x86) and Alpha architectures - IA64, PowerPC, UltraSPARC, ARM, and S/390 under development - http://www.freebsd.org No trees were harmed in the composition of this message, although some electrons were mildly inconvenienced. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: jumpy optic mouse
In the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ directory, I only have example config files. One is XF86Config.98 and the other is XF86Config.eg. --- Kliment Andreev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With one modification to /etc/X11/XF86Config I had created a bigger problem(X died completely) so I presumed that was the place. Where is the other file? /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: please help: how do I replace words
adrian kok [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I tried: sed -n 's/192.168.0.1/172.16.0.1/w abc.com.tmp' abc.com file abc.com.tmp only shows l line abc.com 172.16.0.1 and missing localhost.abc.com 127.0.0.1 sed 's/192.168.0.1/172.16.0.1/' abc.com abc.com.tmp norbert. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Performance degration of moving FFS hdd from a slow to a fast pc.
In the last episode (Nov 21), BigBrother (BigB3) said: I have a question about FFS filesystem. According to a paper about the design of UFS filesystem[1], if you create the FFS filesystem on a slow cpu and then move it to a fast cpu with a fast controller, theh the FFS wont perform efficient. This is justified because when the UFS is created having in mind the speed of the system, in order to create the cyllinder group summary information with optimal rotationally blocks [see page 7 of the paper]. If somebody takes the hdd of the slow pc and put it on a much faster pc, then it is reported that the throughput will drop significantly because of lost disk revolutions. I would like to know if this is true. Can I move my hdd of my old slow pc [intel 486] to a pentium III 600Mhz machine without performance penatly, or its better to re-create the filesystem? Those optimizations were long since removed from the FFS code. The old C/H/S style of disk layout hasn't been used in 10 years (which means that FFS's logical cylinder groups do not correspond with the physical sylinders on the hard drive anymore), and CPUs are so fast that there is no need to compensate for a slow CPU anymore. You can put the disk in a faster PC and it will work optimally. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: please help: how do I replace words
Use the following with the -e option, not the -n option: sed -e 's/192.168.0.1/172.16.0.1/g' in-file out-file With in-file containing: abc.com 192.168.0.1 localhost.abc.com 127.0.0.1 And resulting out-file containing: abc.com 172.16.0.1 localhost.abc.com 127.0.0.1 -John Von Essen On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 02:23 PM, adrian kok wrote: Hi all I have problem to replace words from 192.168.0.1 to 172.16.0.1 in file abc.com file content: abc.com 192.168.0.1 localhost.abc.com 127.0.0.1 I tried: sed -n 's/192.168.0.1/172.16.0.1/w abc.com.tmp' abc.com file abc.com.tmp only shows l line abc.com 172.16.0.1 and missing localhost.abc.com 127.0.0.1 I tried and it is same! sed -n 's/192.168.0.1/172.16.0.1/gw abc.com.tmp' abc.com I can't use perl because the sed is within shell script TIA ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com.hk address at http://mail.english.yahoo.com.hk To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message Do: To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: jumpy optic mouse
In the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ directory, I only have example config files. One is XF86Config.98 and the other is XF86Config.eg. So you have one XF86Config file. Check this also, it might help. http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.1/XF86Config.5.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: jumpy optic mouse
--- Kliment Andreev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ directory, I only have example config files. One is XF86Config.98 and the other is XF86Config.eg. So you have one XF86Config file. Check this also, it might help. http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.1/XF86Config.5.html This worked but a little bit of a hassle. With X running-plugged in a working PS/2 scroll mouse- hit the CTL-ALT-BKSP to restart X. The mouse worked fine. Unplugged working PS/2 scroll mouse-plugged in PS/2 optic mouse-hit the CTL-ALT-BKSP and now optic mouse works fine. hm. Any suggestion why? __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
artsd ogle
Hi, I am trying to make ogle work, but it bails out /dev/dsp being busy. Turns out that artsd has it still open. When I kill artsd, ogle works fine. It used to work very well, but (I think) since I did a portupgrade from arts-1.0.3 to arts-1.0.4_1 it stopped working. My question: does artsd need to keep /dev/dsp open all the time? Should ogle be able to open /dev/dsp at the same time and not get an error while opening it? I am not a member of this list, so please reply to me as well. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Confirmation: ext2fs requires kernel rebuild?
Thus spake Chris Pepper [EMAIL PROTECTED]: even into GENERIC. To do the latter, the module must exist; it will be created if you make the kernel with -DWANT_EXT2FS_MODULE. It is also installed by sysinstall, IIRC. [...] Hmm...I think you're right. I don't see any documentation for the option. I would just as soon hook the module up to the default build like all the other modules, but maybe the license is an issue. I think it's off by default for stability, but would like to submit a patch to the LABI Handbook chapter linking to a discussion of the FS module. Unfortunately, I haven't yet found a URL that describes it. Thus spake Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The license *is* an issue. Distributing kernels that by default include GPL'ed code can have many complications for people who make commercial applications based on FreeBSD source. I'm not talking about linking ext2fs support into the kernel by default, I'm talking about just *creating* the module by default. See previous discussion. Stability isn't an issue, except for people who explicitly load the module. I'm aware of the problems with linking GPL'd code into the kernel, but that's not what is being discussed here. The license would only be a problem if there are legal or religious reasons against people building binaries that *could* be linked into the kernel. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: jumpy optic mouse
On Thursday 21 November 2002 15:08, Dave McCammon wrote: --- Kliment Andreev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ directory, I only have example config files. One is XF86Config.98 and the other is XF86Config.eg. So you have one XF86Config file. Check this also, it might help. http://www.xfree86.org/4.0.1/XF86Config.5.html This worked but a little bit of a hassle. With X running-plugged in a working PS/2 scroll mouse- hit the CTL-ALT-BKSP to restart X. The mouse worked fine. Unplugged working PS/2 scroll mouse-plugged in PS/2 optic mouse-hit the CTL-ALT-BKSP and now optic mouse works fine. hm. Any suggestion why? Mine did this too. If I didn't unplug it, plug it back in then start X it was horribly messed. I just got a different mouse. :/ __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: rxvt slow startup after installing xfstt
in message 000b01c29160$7c5c8000$[EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Nils Nordén thusly... I'm using rxvt 2.6.4_1 and it's working great... until I install xfstt 1.1_1. ... I'm using Freebsd 4.7-release on XFree86 4.2.1. just curious: isn't xfs support built in XFree86 4.2.1 enough (so that you see the need of using xfstt)? - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Find abandoned packages
Liquid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you check out /var/db/pkg it lists what ports are installed essentially. I don't know how to tell whether or not it?s a dependency though, so maybe someone else can answer that. I'd like to know that too come to think of it. Please keep non-ASCII characters out of list mail; we're not all MSFT-compliant, yet. (The ? above was a byte valued 222, octal.) From more info: http://www.cs.tut.fi/%7Ejkorpela/www/windows-chars.html Back to the question: The following is from my ports notes. It doesn't solve the problem, but should provide some clues. Try just pkg_tree -v. -- To make list of ports listed from most-dependent to not dependent (best make order). pkg_tree -v | sed -e 's/\\__/ /' | tr '|' ' ' | sort -u | tr -d ' ' |/tmp/pkgup To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Portsupgrade -uU
Kent Stewart wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:28:45PM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote: At 02:04 AM 11/21/02, you wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:21:07AM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote: When running portsupgrade -uU I get the output below. How can I fix these malformed entries, non-existent entries and incomplete dependencies? Running pkgdb -F shows everything to be fine. If you're running portsdb -Uu, you *don't*. It's up to port maintainers to fix the problem with the port entries. Most of the output are just warnings (intended for maintainers). INDEX builds shouldn't have any warnings if you perform them in a clean environment. Either your ports collection is out of date (i.e. in an inconsistent state) or the index build is picking up things from the host environment like installed ports, WITH_*/WITHOUT_* variables, etc. If the latter, it's a bug in portupgrade..someone should investigate and report it to the author. I thought that I have a clean environment. There are no WITH_*/WITHOU_* variables in my /etc/make.conf. I just finished doing a portupgrade -aufp and still get them. About the only time I don't see them, is right before a release and you are building iso's. The messages are real. For example, I see messages like p5-Net-SSH-Perl-1.23: non-existent -- dependency list incomplete p5-Net-SSH-Perl-1.23: non-existent -- dependency list incomplete and the INDEX that is built has no r-deps. The Makefile sets r-deps to RUN_DEPENDS=${BUILD_DEPENDS} but I have a b-deps with entries and a R-deps: with no entry. One thing I have noticed is that most of them have a PKGNAMEPREFIX= p5- syntax. I have thought about hiding them but considered that similar to redirecting my buildworld to /dev/null and then doing an installworld. I have done some experimenting and what I see using net-ssh-perl for the test is the following: portsdb -uU make search name=Net-SSH-Perl Port: p5-Net-SSH-Perl-1.23 Path: /usr/ports/net/p5-Net-SSH-Perl Info: Perl5 module implements both the SSH1 and SSH2 protocols Maint: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: net perl5 B-deps: p5-Convert-PEM-0.06 p5-Crypt-DH-0.03 p5-Crypt-DSA-0.12 p5-Crypt-Random-1.11 p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 p5-Digest-MD5-2.20 p5-Digest-SHA1-2.01 p5-MIME-Base64-2.12 p5-Math-Pari-2.010201 R-deps: make index portsdb -u make search name=Net-SSH-Perl Port: p5-Net-SSH-Perl-1.23 Path: /usr/ports/net/p5-Net-SSH-Perl Info: Perl5 module implements both the SSH1 and SSH2 protocols Maint: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: net perl5 B-deps: p5-Convert-PEM-0.06 p5-Crypt-DH-0.03 p5-Crypt-DSA-0.12 p5-Crypt-IDEA-1.01 p5-Crypt-RSA-1.48 p5-Crypt-Random-1.11 p5-Digest-BubbleBabble-0.01 p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 p5-Digest-MD5-2.20 p5-Digest-SHA1-2.01 p5-IO-1.20 p5-MIME-Base64-2.12 p5-Math-GMP-1.07 p5-Math-Pari-2.010201 p5-String-CRC32-1.2 R-deps: p5-Convert-PEM-0.06 p5-Crypt-DH-0.03 p5-Crypt-DSA-0.12 p5-Crypt-IDEA-1.01 p5-Crypt-RSA-1.48 p5-Crypt-Random-1.11 p5-Digest-BubbleBabble-0.01 p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 p5-Digest-MD5-2.20 p5-Digest-SHA1-2.01 p5-IO-1.20 p5-MIME-Base64-2.12 p5-Math-GMP-1.07 p5-Math-Pari-2.010201 p5-String-CRC32-1.2 The only thing make index complained about was Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: freeciv-imlib-1.13.0 Something is seriously wrong with the INDEX that portsdb -U generates. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: nVidia drivers w/ 4.7-RELEASE
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 08:25:39AM +0530, Gautham Ganapathy wrote: Will the nvidia drivers work with 4.7-RELEASE? 4.7-STABLE won't have ISOs, right? You need 4.7-STABLE to get the NVidia drivers working. I don't know exactly what -RELEASE is missing but I'm quite sure. There are still problems with them (they hang my machine all the time) so be prepared for trouble. -lewiz. -- There's no future in time travel. --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg09657/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Portsupgrade -uU
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:58:44PM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: INDEX builds shouldn't have any warnings if you perform them in a clean environment. Either your ports collection is out of date (i.e. in an inconsistent state) or the index build is picking up things from the host environment like installed ports, WITH_*/WITHOUT_* variables, etc. If the latter, it's a bug in portupgrade..someone should investigate and report it to the author. I thought that I have a clean environment. There are no WITH_*/WITHOU_* variables in my /etc/make.conf. I just finished doing a portupgrade -aufp and still get them. About the only time I don't see them, is right before a release and you are building iso's. The messages are real. For example, I see messages like p5-Net-SSH-Perl-1.23: non-existent -- dependency list incomplete p5-Net-SSH-Perl-1.23: non-existent -- dependency list incomplete and the INDEX that is built has no r-deps. The Makefile sets r-deps to RUN_DEPENDS=${BUILD_DEPENDS} but I have a b-deps with entries and a R-deps: with no entry. One thing I have noticed is that most of them have a PKGNAMEPREFIX= p5- syntax. I have thought about hiding them but considered that similar to redirecting my buildworld to /dev/null and then doing an installworld. I have done some experimenting and what I see using net-ssh-perl for the test is the following: portsdb -uU make search name=Net-SSH-Perl Port: p5-Net-SSH-Perl-1.23 Path: /usr/ports/net/p5-Net-SSH-Perl Info: Perl5 module implements both the SSH1 and SSH2 protocols Maint: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: net perl5 B-deps: p5-Convert-PEM-0.06 p5-Crypt-DH-0.03 p5-Crypt-DSA-0.12 p5-Crypt-Random-1.11 p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 p5-Digest-MD5-2.20 p5-Digest-SHA1-2.01 p5-MIME-Base64-2.12 p5-Math-Pari-2.010201 R-deps: make index portsdb -u make search name=Net-SSH-Perl Port: p5-Net-SSH-Perl-1.23 Path: /usr/ports/net/p5-Net-SSH-Perl Info: Perl5 module implements both the SSH1 and SSH2 protocols Maint: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: net perl5 B-deps: p5-Convert-PEM-0.06 p5-Crypt-DH-0.03 p5-Crypt-DSA-0.12 p5-Crypt-IDEA-1.01 p5-Crypt-RSA-1.48 p5-Crypt-Random-1.11 p5-Digest-BubbleBabble-0.01 p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 p5-Digest-MD5-2.20 p5-Digest-SHA1-2.01 p5-IO-1.20 p5-MIME-Base64-2.12 p5-Math-GMP-1.07 p5-Math-Pari-2.010201 p5-String-CRC32-1.2 R-deps: p5-Convert-PEM-0.06 p5-Crypt-DH-0.03 p5-Crypt-DSA-0.12 p5-Crypt-IDEA-1.01 p5-Crypt-RSA-1.48 p5-Crypt-Random-1.11 p5-Digest-BubbleBabble-0.01 p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 p5-Digest-MD5-2.20 p5-Digest-SHA1-2.01 p5-IO-1.20 p5-MIME-Base64-2.12 p5-Math-GMP-1.07 p5-Math-Pari-2.010201 p5-String-CRC32-1.2 The only thing make index complained about was Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: freeciv-imlib-1.13.0 This one is because you have imlib installed, and freeciv auto-detects this (unless you set WITHOUT_IMLIB or change PREFIX/X11BASE/LOCALBASE to something bogus) and changes its package name (and configure behaviour). The duplicate comes because the freeciv-gtk port does the same thing. I use the /usr/ports/Tools/portbuild/scripts/makeindex script on bento that takes care of everything to generate a clean INDEX..I probably should fold this back into 'make index' itself. Something is seriously wrong with the INDEX that portsdb -U generates. Yes, it appears so. I've CC'ed knu@ Kris msg09658/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Advantages over GNU/Linux?
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 07:45:21PM -0500, Lee Nelson wrote: P.S. if you need a virus scanner on FreeBSD check out VirusScan from Network Associates. They have a command line scanner that integrates with Amavis and is very simple to install and update. Not affliated, just impressed. This sounds interesting - can you provide any more details? -lewiz. -- What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. -- Bertrand Russell, Skeptical_Essays, 1928 --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- msg09659/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Reacting to spam targetted to freebsd.org [was: Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.]
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:00:56PM +, Yann Golanski wrote: Quoth Giorgos Keramidas on Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 15:58:03 +0200 This very spammer has hit the lists more than once, and every time I mailed {abuse|postmaster} at a2000.nl. If they receive a few hundred messages for each spam message they let through they will certainly start acting fast :-) Would it be possible for the owners of the lsit to install something like SpamAssassin so that those messages actually don't get to us? The FreeBSD mail server ALREADY does a huge amount of spam filtering. You're only seeing less than 1% of the spam that comes in. The mail server rejects about one spam *per second* to freebsd mailing lists. Kris msg09660/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to Start the Random Number Generator
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:54:33AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: the man page in section 4 for random mentions a seed to get everything started, but I can't seem to find any other information to cause /dev/random to spit out data yet. The dnssec-keygen application still hangs so I am obviously missing some step. I can't see anything in the manpage that indicates this. Certainly you don't need to manually seed /dev/random for it to work correctly. /dev/random does exist on the systems in question and seems to return a null which is not what it is supposed to be doing. Please run the following commands for me: ls -l /dev/*random rndcontrol dd if=/dev/random bs=64 count=1 | od Kris msg09661/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: passwords in /etc/group
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:20:32PM +0300, Sergey Matveychuk wrote: Hello. How can I use password in /etc/group? If I can't, why man groups keep silence about it? Probably because no-one uses them :) What purpose do they serve ? A System Manager can put the users in the appropriate groups for their work. I have never seen them used on any Unix system I have worked on, and I seem to recall from some ancient documentation that they are more trouble than they are worth. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: jumpy optic mouse
--- Gary W. Swearingen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dave McCammon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone got a fix for a jumpy optic mouse in X It is a PS/2 Labtec Optical Mouse. How jumpy? Do you just need to play with the mouse settings of xset? Mouse will move normally, then, all of the sudden, jump to left of screen or bottom left of screen. Mouse setup is fairly well documented. I think most people configure moused to run the mouse and then tell X to use /dev/sysmouse instead of /dev/psm0. Maybe you've got the two mouse drivers both going after /dev/psm0 or something. Using moused and pointing X to sysmouse protocol and /dev/sysmouse didn't work at all. Mouse became extremely eratic. Regular PS/2 mouse worked fine with same setup as I have now. Optic PS/2 mouse has to be plugged in after X is started with the regular PS/2 mouse. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Changing to/from user within script
Possibly a trivial question. I want to run a cron job as a user on my system. Once the job has completed I need root privileges to power the system down. I don't mind if the script has to run as a root cron job, but running the processing as a user will prevent against filling a partition. Can this be done without running two different cron jobs?. thanks Jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
smc wireless adhoc
Hello, I have an smc2632w, smc2602w and asus spacelink wl-100 wireless network cards. But I can't manage to get all three of them to work together. The configuration is following: - 1 PC with smc2602w PCI card, freebsd 4.6 (gateway) - 1 notebook with smc2632w PCMCIA card, win98 - 1 notebook with asus wl-100 PCMCIA card, winxp pro What is working: 1. The ASUS card with access point 2. The ASUS card with an avaya card in adhoc mode 3. The ASUS card with an eagletec card in adhoc mode 4. The ASUS card with the smc2632w card in 802.11 adhoc mode (in the win98 utility, there is a simple adhoc mode, too) 5. The smc2632w card in adhoc mode with the smc2602w card configured with ifconfig ... mediaopt adhoc What is not working: 1. The ASUS card with the smc2602w card (one time i could manage to make it work, but could not reproduce it) 2. The smc2602w card (configured with ifconfig ... mediaopt adhoc) with the smc2632w card configured in 802.11 adhoc mode in the provided win98 utility 3. The three cards together. I think if I could configure the smc2602w card to 802.11 adhoc mode, it could work (what is the difference between 802.11 adhoc and adhoc mode?). What other suggestions do you have? thank you very much, attila bognr To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: nVidia drivers w/ 4.7-RELEASE
I had them working just fine on -RELEASE. Ken On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, lewiz wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 08:25:39AM +0530, Gautham Ganapathy wrote: Will the nvidia drivers work with 4.7-RELEASE? 4.7-STABLE won't have ISOs, right? You need 4.7-STABLE to get the NVidia drivers working. I don't know exactly what -RELEASE is missing but I'm quite sure. There are still problems with them (they hang my machine all the time) so be prepared for trouble. -lewiz. -- There's no future in time travel. --|| url: http://lewiz.info/ | http://www.westwood.karoo.net/pgpkey ||-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: artsd ogle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 21 November 2002 21.14, Peter J. Blok wrote: My question: does artsd need to keep /dev/dsp open all the time? Should ogle be able to open /dev/dsp at the same time and not get an error while opening it? No, you can tell it to exit when idle, arts aware applications will restart it if they want it. More useful, configure arts to not just exit when idle, but to also use a different device than /dev/dsp when it's on. http://freebsd.kde.org/faq.shtml (Question 11, and it's answer) Regards, - -- Lauri Watts -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE93V0A/gUyA7PWnacRAjcmAKCG4RUSUFbE9Ld8M91b3LlmyyHevACfb42d pdwT1Uh8YLKmgZJFNHSUm4Y= =ANPe -END PGP SIGNATURE- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
What minimum version to support broadcom 5703?
What minimum version of FBSD to I need to support the Broadcom 5703X? gig card? I did notice that 4.5 supports earlier ones, and found a patch to stable for the 5702. I applied that patch to my 4.5 sources, and volia! fbsd boots and sees the devices! (but with a bogus mac addy and it really didn't work) so, I copied ~current/src/sys/dev/bge to my 4.5 sources and, well, it doesn't even compile. so, do I have to go to 4.7 to get it to work -- Michael Scheidell, CEO SECNAP Network Security, LLC Sales: 866-SECNAPNET / (1-866-732-6276) Main: 561-368-9561 / www.secnap.net Looking for a career in Internet security? http://www.secnap.net/employment/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
disk-to-disk backup of root/bootable filesystem (?)
I have an x86 system here that contains an 18GB SCSI drive and also a 20GB IDE drive. The 18GB SCSI drive contains a complete FreeBSD system that has been installed and then tailored to my personal preferences. It also contains a lot of my personal working files. The SCSI drive contains only a single defined BIOS partition. That BISO partition, in turn, has been sub-partitioned into one (1) FreeBSD root partition and also a smallish FreeBSD swap partition. I want to make a full, complete, and _bootable_ backup of everything that is on the SCSI drive onto the IDE drive. Ideally, I want to end up in a situation where I can remove the SCSI drive, and then boot from the IDE drive and then just carry on working as if nothing had happened. I prefer not to waste time copying empty disk space (e.g. using dd). Assuming that I am am able to make the necessary receiving partitions on the IDE drive, and assuming that I make suitable ufs file system on the IDE drive, and assuming that I then use `cpio -p' to copy all of the files from the one ufs filesystem on the SCSI drive to the (new) corresponding ufs partition on the IDE drive, what else will I need to do in order to make sure that I can then boot from the new (copy) partition on the IDE drive? I assume that I'll have to set up some sort of a MBR on the IDE drive. I would appreciate exact instructions for doing that. I also assume that I'll have to diddle the /etc/fstab file on the IDE drive, after copying files, so as to have it make reference to the IDE drive partitions, rather than to the original SCSI drive partitions. (I think that I can handle this part.) So anyway, what else might I need to do in order to make this work? P.S. The system in question has a reasonably modern Aware BIOS that allows me to specify whether the system should try to boot from SCSI or from IDE first. Of course, once I get all of the files over onto the IDE drive, I will toggle that from its current setting (SCSI) to its new setting (IDE). To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Changing to/from user within script
I want to run a cron job as a user on my system. Once the job has completed I need root privileges to power the system down. I don't mind if the script has to run as a root cron job, but running the processing as a user will prevent against filling a partition. Can this be done without running two different cron jobs?. Not sure if I understand the problem, but it seems to me that you can run script as root from cron, and resource limits can be controlled with the shell's 'ulimit' (sh) or 'limit' (csh) commands. -- Paul A. Scott mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://skycoast.us/pscott/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Disk copying
Hello, I want to backup my disk with all of its contents. Exactly, I want to copy it completely to another disk. I have only one freebsd partition and several slices on my disk. I want to copy all the data to another bigger disk preserving my user and group settings. Is it possible to use cp? In this way I supposed to create my partitions before and mount them under some partition and just cp -Rp / /newdisk but Won't it start to copy the data recursively when copying reachs /newdisk? Just curious. Regards, -- Ertan Kucukoglu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Portsupgrade -uU
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:21:30AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:28:45PM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote: At 02:04 AM 11/21/02, you wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:21:07AM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote: When running portsupgrade -uU I get the output below. How can I fix these malformed entries, non-existent entries and incomplete dependencies? Running pkgdb -F shows everything to be fine. If you're running portsdb -Uu, you *don't*. It's up to port maintainers to fix the problem with the port entries. Most of the output are just warnings (intended for maintainers). INDEX builds shouldn't have any warnings if you perform them in a clean environment. Either your ports collection is out of date (i.e. in an inconsistent state) or the index build is picking up things from the host environment like installed ports, WITH_*/WITHOUT_* variables, etc. If the latter, it's a bug in portupgrade..someone should investigate and report it to the author. Mmm..the dependency list warnings hit with me with complaints about things not found in japanese. Since I have a refuse file that excludes all the non-English languages, and the ports directory for them do not exist I am a bit puzzled. I get the odd one for chinese, but none for any of the other languages I don't install. Co-incidentally I have literally just run make index, afre a cvsup a few hours ago, and it still whines about missing japanese dependencies. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson The Netherlands [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Disk copying
Hello, I want to backup my disk with all of its contents. Exactly, I want to copy it completely to another disk. I have only one freebsd partition and several slices on my disk. I want to copy all the data to another bigger disk preserving my user and group settings. Is it possible to use cp? In this way I supposed to create my partitions before and mount them under some partition and just cp -Rp / /newdisk but Won't it start to copy the data recursively when copying reachs /newdisk? You are better off using dump(8)/restore(8) to make the copies. Alternatively, you could use tar. None of dump/restore, tar or cp will make a bootable disk. You have to do that outside of the process (before tranferring files). If you use dd or some other image copy utilities, you can make it bootable, but it ain't the easiest way. jerry Just curious. Regards, -- Ertan Kucukoglu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Confirmation: ext2fs requires kernel rebuild?
Thus spake Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: LINT says: # # Add support for the EXT2FS filesystem of Linux fame. Be a bit # careful with this - the ext2fs code has a tendency to lag behind # changes and not be exercised very much, so mounting read/write could # be dangerous (and even mounting read only could result in panics.) # options EXT2FS This message has been in LINT since the dawn of time and is extremely mystifying. Be a bit careful .. meaning what ? You either mount it or don't mount it, use it or don't use it. What exactly are you supposed to be careful of :) Saying Boo!. FreeBSD support for ext2fs is a specific instance of the more general problem that features that very few people care about tend not to get maintained. FreeBSD already has a filesystem that is more complete and faster than ext2fs,[1] so the only people using both UFS and ext2fs are also running Linux. If you mount an ext2fs filesystem r/w, consider yourself a beta tester. [1] The designers of ext2 basically took FFS and removed the parts they didn't care for or were hard to implement. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Multiple questions...
Hello all, I have a couple of simple questions, and 1 tough one.. First the easy ones.. Whats an easy way to check if people are using my machine in the backround.. IE doing an ftp? Is there something other then checking processes? like maybe a netstat command or something? I'm asking this mostly because of problem #2 which I'll get to in a sec.. But I need to fully shot off my machine sometimes, and a wall command wont do it for some people using my machine, meaning they wont see it. So I like to just do a quick check to see if someone is doing stuff.. people using my web, well too bad, apache will be back soon enough, ssh users, I can talk request them.. FTP is a bit harder though.. OK, and the next question.. My setup is like this.. wireless in (an0) NAT/DHCP (false addresses) out on sis0 to the house network. Once in a while sis0 seems to die.. I think maybe the network card is flaky or something. Basically all the house machines loose connectivity to the FreeBSD box. Cant ping it, nothing. From the FreeBSD box a netstat -rn shows nothing.. all PC's have dropped.. DHCP shows nothing being used, etc.. However.. ifconfig sis0 shows up. And I cannot down it.. So, the only fix I know of so far is a complete shut OFF and turn back on. Reboot doesnt cut it. Its needs power off.. Thats why I think its a bad card.. Anyone else have troubles like this? Anyone have suggestions short of replacing the card yet? Trying to save $.. been unemployed almost a year now.. Thanks everyone! C. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Boot stuck at F1 after swapping drives
Thus spake Andrew Y Ng [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I shutdown FreeBSD and changed my harddrive and booted up Win2K this morning (needed Windoze for something real quick). I put the FreeBSD harddrive back and it wouldn't boot, it got stuck at the F1 boot0 prompt. Like it couldn't find the MBR or something. How do I get it to boot again? Make sure you've got boot0 on the primary master (assuming IDE) or da0 (SCSI) and on no other drives. Booting from one boot manager on the BIOS boot disk to boot0 on another drive hasn't worked well in my experience. Also, make sure FreeBSD's idea of your drive geometry matches what the BIOS thinks. Posting disklabel and 'fdisk -s' output might help. (The fixit CD is your friend here.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Reacting to spam targetted to freebsd.org [was: Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.]
Thus spake Yann Golanski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoth Giorgos Keramidas on Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 15:58:03 +0200 This very spammer has hit the lists more than once, and every time I mailed {abuse|postmaster} at a2000.nl. If they receive a few hundred messages for each spam message they let through they will certainly start acting fast :-) Would it be possible for the owners of the lsit to install something like SpamAssassin so that those messages actually don't get to us? Just add a SPAM filter at your end. By the way, this works far better if people don't *reply* to the SPAM, circumventing your filters. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Disk copying
- Original Message - From: David Schultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 12:44 AM Subject: Re: Disk copying Are the disks the same size/geometry? If so: dd if=/dev/olddisk of=/dev/newdisk bs=32k Can dd also be used to copy to/fro my RAID disks (40G), to a single 40G disk? The latter is of a different brand, but has the same size. In other words: how identical does the geometry need to be? If I can use dd here, I think I will use dd to create a core system; and then use additional dumps to backup individual slices. Thanks! - Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Boot stuck at F1 after swapping drives
I actually only have one partition and a swap partition, here are fdisk and disklabel outputs, and it's an IDE drive. thanks! ayn@aynlaptop:~fdisk -s /dev/ad0: 1836 cyl 255 hd 63 sec PartStartSize Type Flags 1: 6329495277 0xa5 0x80 ayn@aynlaptop:~disklabel /dev/ad0 # /dev/ad0: type: unknown disk: amnesiac label: fictitious flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 1836 sectors/unit: 29498112 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 294981120unused0 0 # (Cyl.0 - 1836*) On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 17:36, David Schultz wrote: Thus spake Andrew Y Ng [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I shutdown FreeBSD and changed my harddrive and booted up Win2K this morning (needed Windoze for something real quick). I put the FreeBSD harddrive back and it wouldn't boot, it got stuck at the F1 boot0 prompt. Like it couldn't find the MBR or something. How do I get it to boot again? Make sure you've got boot0 on the primary master (assuming IDE) or da0 (SCSI) and on no other drives. Booting from one boot manager on the BIOS boot disk to boot0 on another drive hasn't worked well in my experience. Also, make sure FreeBSD's idea of your drive geometry matches what the BIOS thinks. Posting disklabel and 'fdisk -s' output might help. (The fixit CD is your friend here.) -- andrew y ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://andrewng.com fingerprint : 46a1 29ff 893a 0381 dc81 1e1e bed8 e882 9bfc 594c signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
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