Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*sh and slow build world in FreeBSD 5.1

2003-10-10 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:58 AM +0100 10/10/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) I can't get /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*sh to work. I don't have any ideas to offer on this. 2) Building kernels/worlds is MUCH slower than under 4.X. A kernel used to take around an hour; it's taking about 4 under 5.1 (Cyrix 166mhz/64Mb RAM).

Re: lpd setup for remote printer

2003-10-15 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:17 PM -0400 10/15/03, Tom Parquette wrote: I'm trying to configure printing on the "local" machine (Stargate) to point to lp on P3R-272. This is what I currently have coded in Stargate's printcap file: lp|HP2000 on P3R-272:\ :sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\

Re: Clarification on CVS Tags

2003-10-28 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:00 AM -0800 10/28/03, Jason Williams wrote: Thanks Matthew for your explanation. You answered a lot of my questions. Makes sense now really. Just out of curiosity, why would someone want to use: RELENG_4_8_0_RELEASE? Is there some type of benefit? One would think that the best option for p

Re: Smbd process not disconnecting

2003-10-29 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:42 AM -0600 10/29/03, Charles Howse wrote: Note below, that the connection was opened on the 28th, but did not close, however the connection to "Seeds" closed about 4 mins after I opened it. Snippet from /var/log/moe.log [2003/10/28 12:11:13, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(698) moe (

RE: Smbd process not disconnecting

2003-10-29 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:22 PM -0600 10/29/03, Charles Howse wrote: Garance wrote: > I'm not much of an expert on the low-level details, but I can say that what you're seeing is also what I've seen, and that I believe samba is supposed to work that way. I just checked again, and the connection was closed at 12:13

Re: problems with LPD

2003-10-30 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:45 PM -0700 10/28/03, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a printer configured in the BSD, is working fine, now I need to enable that other systems print in this printer, to do this I add 2 lines to the file /etc/hosts.lpd 10.192.2.134 as_nte.intranet.telmex.com. but the remote system can't prin

RE: problems with LPD

2003-10-31 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:55 PM -0700 10/31/03, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Garance. Thanks for your answer, ... I think that the solution to my dilemma, is modify the source code of LPD. But before this I like to try the "netgroup" option, where can I begin to read? Well, you can check: man hosts.lpd which

Re: FreeBsd , I REALLY need some help :-)

2003-11-04 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:47 PM +0100 11/4/03, Nic Bergen wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install freebsd on an old i486 (75mhz) with 40mb ram I have two harddrives 260 and 349mb. Which version of FreeBSD are you trying to install? -- Garance Alistair Drosehn= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer

Re: Help debugging printing

2002-10-06 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:50 PM -0400 10/6/02, Gerard Samuel wrote: >I setup and installed a printer yesterday, and installed LPRng and >apsfilter from ports (fresh cvsup), and had apsfilter print out that >funky test page. In continuing the setup the box, I am trying to >print a file, and getting these results -> >--

Re: LPD protocol screwup and ctl_renametf error

2002-10-18 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:12 PM -0400 10/18/02, TheGlenMann wrote: Docs on the subtleties on LPD seem to be in short supply. It looks like the PAGEPROTECT thing breaks the whole system, then the cannot rename seems to be Windows trying again to send the file... How can I determine what is wrong? I suspect that permis

Re: samba printing stopped after upgrade to 2.2.6

2002-10-28 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:03 PM -0500 10/28/02, Vivek Khera wrote: > "DN" == Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: but I have not enabled CUPS in samba at all. Does anyone know what I need to do to migrate successfully from samba 2.2.5 to 2.2.6? Here's my config: DN> When you did the install, you proba

Re: Samba taking too long to upload files.

2002-11-04 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:56 AM -0800 11/4/02, Roberto Armenteros wrote: The download process is very fast, but not the upload process. When I upload to my other windows machine it goes five times as fast as my bsd box. What could be the problem? Make sure your ethernet card has the correct setting wrt half-duplex v

Re: xargs -J

2002-11-26 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:10 PM -0500 11/25/02, David S. Jackson wrote: Hi, I've been trying to use |xargs -J [] mv [] [].suffix but to no avail. I've tried |xargs -J mv \[\] \[\].suffix and variations but that doesn't seem to work either. It seems to work fine with the -i command under GNU xargs, but not under F

Re: Problem pulling particular directory from CVS

2002-11-27 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:43 PM -0800 11/26/02, Paul A. Scott wrote: > From: Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Are you maybe running out of space on your local drive? You might > also have a corrupted CVS repo, but I don't think you'd be getting > those errors in that case. No, I have over 40GB available on the f

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-07 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:48 PM +1030 12/8/02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I was at a local installfext yesterday (http://installfest.auug.org.au/), and a number of people were interested in doing diskless booting, either for reasons of economy or reliability. I'm currently about to finish the manuscript of the fourt

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-07 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:28 AM -0500 12/8/02, Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 12:48 PM +1030 12/8/02, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: If *you* are interested, please let me know. I'll make a decision depending on the amount of feedback I get. There's at least two cases, right? diskless booting

Re: Interest in diskless booting?

2002-12-08 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:54 PM -0800 12/8/02, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: I mostly-wasted a bunch of time investigating web sites and articles which had schemes for diskless booting, and then discovered that the "picobsd" manpage told me everything I needed to know (to set up a non-harddisk filtering bridge booting of

Re: printing over the network

2002-12-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:02 PM +0200 12/21/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Are you using lpd or lprng (have to get that out of the way) lpd Is lpd running / listening? - Show me iulian#ps -ax | grep lpd 4544 ?? Is 0:00.01 lpd What does "lpc status all" return? Nothing What version of freebsd are yo

Re: AFS 1.2.11 compilation on FreeBSD 5.2?

2004-03-17 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:03 AM -0800 3/17/04, Matt Weatherford wrote: Has anyone done this? Care to share your notes? :) I want the AFS server, mainly. I dont care about the client. I have not compiled or run the server, but some friends of mine claim "it wasn't too hard to do". Compiling and running a server on

RE: newsyslog and apache

2004-03-22 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 5:19 PM -0800 3/22/04, Noah wrote: I ask that you please be specific as to what you think is wrong with my newsyslog.conf file because I cant seem to figure out what you are talking about here? Looks like my newsyslog.conf file matches the recommended config: Hi. I do not run apache at all, bu

Re: installworld failing on sparc64

2004-04-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 5:48 AM + 4/3/04, Andy Miller wrote: I am currently upgrading a Sparc64 system from 5.1 to 5.2.1. buildworld was successful, as well as the build and install of the kernel. After a reboot, I ran installworld and received the following error message: ===> bin/csh install -s -o root -g wheel

Re: I *really* need help PLEASE - buildworld failing on mkdep libstdc++can't find unwind.h but it *is* there

2004-04-12 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 2:41 PM -0600 4/12/04, P.D. Seniura wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: > It is not clear to me what problem you are trying to solve by > the activities you are pursuing: perhaps you ought to install > 5.2.1 or 4.9 from a .iso image and get on with other tasks, > and revisit the issue of recompiling

Re: confusing printing error

2004-05-13 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 7:53 PM -0500 5/13/04, Eric Crist wrote: Hey list, I re-ran the apsfilter setup routine, and now my printer seems to work fine, except I can only print with: # lpr -Paps1 I can't print from Kmail, or anything else, as I get the following error: A print error occurred. Error message received

Re: dual processor and FreeBSD 4.9

2004-05-10 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:16 PM +0200 5/10/04, Vivailsud Staff Member wrote: Hello, I am in trouble with FreeBSD 4.9p, I have got dual processor server (2 x Pentium II 400MHz) and I would like that FreeBSD could be able to use the both of them. I have read that you need to compile the kernel once again, but I would lik

RE: Samba and $

2003-08-14 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:41 PM +0800 8/12/03, Katinka Mills wrote: I thought in the version with Freebsd 4.8 that you could now use accounts with $ signs in them The 'pw' command has been changed so that you can create user accounts (and user groups) which end in a $. That's all samba should need. I'm pretty sure th

Re: lpd logging

2003-08-14 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:13 PM +1000 8/5/03, jason fiddian wrote: help please we have lpd -l running to log daemon activities but where does it log to? It depends on what lines you have in /etc/syslog.conf. You would want to check /var/log/lpd-errs, and you may also see the lines in /var/log/messages. If /var/log/lpd

Re: Bind query logging stops after a logrotate.

2003-09-08 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:04 PM -0700 9/8/03, Charlie Schluting wrote: FBSD 5.1: Using Bind9.2.2, and I have query logging turned on: logging { channel "querylog" { file "/var/log/query.lo~g"; print-time yes; }; category queries { querylog; }; }; After a logrotate, it stops logging completely. The permissions ar

Re: Which Sata-controller card?

2004-11-22 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:33 AM +0100 11/22/04, Stephan Fiebrandt wrote: If you just need to expand your Mainboard with a SATA Controller, all you need is a poor card with a Silicon chip on it (Sil 3112 etc). I've seen cards starting at 10$. Almost all low-cost cards have this chip series, meanwhile on 5.3 it should wo

Re: Which Sata-controller card?

2004-11-22 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:08 AM +0100 11/22/04, Questions wrote: Garance A Drosihn wrote: At 9:33 AM +0100 11/22/04, Stephan Fiebrandt wrote: If you just need to expand your Mainboard with a SATA Controller, all you need is a poor card with a Silicon chip on it (Sil 3112 etc). Unless something happened in the past

Re: Which Sata-controller card?

2004-11-22 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:08 AM +0100 11/22/04, Questions wrote: Garance A Drosihn wrote: Unless something happened in the past week or so, you can still have WRITE_DMA problems with the SiL 3112 if you connect a "fake SATA" drive to it, such as some of the Western Digital drives. ... These drives seem to

Re: make -j$n buildworld : use of -j investigated

2004-11-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:51 PM +0900 11/23/04, Rob wrote: Laurence Sanford wrote: Rob wrote: With these simple tests, I come to the conclusion that "make -j$n buildworld" is best with n = number of CPUs. Does that make sense? Rob. This is what I've been telling people and usin

Re: make -j$n buildworld : use of -j investigated

2004-11-23 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:41 AM +0900 11/24/04, Rob wrote: Garance A Drosihn wrote: Also, did you do your benchmarking before or after the recent fixes to -j processing? I haven't redone them after that change, and I think it will be interesting to see what effect that has. These tests were done on 5.3-Stable

Re: HD Space

2004-12-05 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:02 AM -0200 12/6/04, Giuliano Cardozo Medalha wrote: People, After a cvsup, installworld and portupgrade ... I have installed a new optimized kernel. After that I have installed KDE3 in my FreeBSd 5.3 machine. The problem is now /usr is 4 GB used against 1 G free. How is possible to clean /us

Re: newsyslog

2004-12-12 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:07 AM -0500 12/11/04, munn wrote: I have two FreeBSD machines running 4.10-RELEASE-p5. On machine A newsyslog rolls over the log files perfectly, on Machine B I get the message: /var/log/auth.log.0: No such file or directory The newsyslog.conf entries are : MACHINE A: /var/log/auth.log

Re: Why reccomend Bash shell?

2004-12-16 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:11 PM -0600 12/15/04, Adam wrote: In Greg Lehey's book "The Complete FreeBSD" he reccomends changing the default shell for users to bash shell. -p. 94 What are the Pro's/Con's of using bash as opposed to the other shells? Personal preferences, mostly. In my case, my first unix accounts were s

Re: Installing CUPS pkg

2003-03-12 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:58 AM -0600 3/12/03, Bob McCarty wrote: JBMAC# make install ===> Installing for cups-1.1.18.0_4 ===> cups-1.1.18.0_4 is already installed - perhaps an older version? If so, you may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properl

Re: question on samba install

2003-03-19 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:01 AM -0500 3/19/03, David Banning wrote: If I install samba without cups, is it still possible to print with samba? I have a small network with a few win boxes and the samba install is older. It doesn't have cups. I am just wondering, since samba now installs cups by default, whether it is a

Re: Personal development CVS question

2003-03-24 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:04 PM -0500 3/24/03, Steve Bertrand wrote: The current state of my app is ready for production, so I would like to take a snapshot of it as is, then implement it. I would like to leave this snapshot alone, and further develop in other aspects of the program now. Am I correct with this method?

Re: VMware2 build under -CURRENT ... is Broken?

2003-04-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:49 PM -0700 4/1/03, Danilo Fiorenzano wrote: 5.0-CURRENT with sources cvsup'd on March 30. "portinstall vmware2" aborts with: .../vmmon-only/freebsd/hostif.c: In function `FindMPN': .../vmmon-only/freebsd/hostif.c:186: invalid operands to binary >> *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/emulators

Re: customizing printcap to email file

2003-04-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:33 PM -0500 4/3/03, David Banning wrote: what I would like to do is have windows boxes print to a unix printer filter which would convert the file into pdf format and put the file into a directory where it could be emailed out. Anyone tried this? First off, I tried modifying the printcap if

Re: About newsyslog behavior

2003-07-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:08 PM +0300 7/2/03, Jim Xochellis wrote: I suspected that some processes are confused because a *new* log file is created and these processes are making the assumption that their log file will be always the same and perhaps they open it once and then work with the FILE pointer. If a program

Re: Managing /etc/hosts.lpd??

2003-01-28 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:19 PM -0500 1/28/03, Bill Moran wrote: Mark wrote: Is there a better way to manage lpd permissions than specifying individual hosts in /etc/hosts.lpd? I have a heterogeneous network here (there are a few Winder's machines in addition to a bunch of Unix machines) that has a bunch of

Re: lpd/lpr "stopped" working

2003-02-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:39 PM +0100 2/3/03, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: Hi! I'm a bit pussled. I can print from OpenOffice and Phoenix. But konq chokes: "A print error occured. Error message received from system: /usr/local/bin/lpr -P 'laserjet' '/var/tmp/kde-mekanix/kdeprint_pYNslYF' : execution failed with

Re: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE and X11R6 build on 5.0-CURRENT in one set

2003-02-04 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 9:15 PM +0700 1/16/02, Pavel Burovsky wrote: Excuse me for, perhaps, plaqued question. FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE (I obtained it from www.linuxcenter.ru) contains the XFree86 server built on 5.0-CURRENT snapshot(anyway it so reported by XFree86 server). Is it normal? FAQ says it's not. I would pleas

Re: printing error

2003-02-08 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 8:44 PM -0800 2/8/03, chip wiegand wrote: I just setup my new Epson C62 printer, works great on my freebsd box. I am using samba to share it with the rest of the family pc's. They see it in network neighborhood, connect, install the drivers, all fine. but the test page won't print. Nothing ap

Re: 5.0-RELEASE under VMWare 3 : slowdown and even hangup

2003-02-13 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 10:51 AM +0100 2/13/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm kinda in the same situation : XP Pro, WMWare 3.2, several virtual machines running fine (linux,w2k), but the freebsd 5-RELEASE is quite a pain to use in this env. The guest OS keeps on slowing down, to the point that it's unusable. Kris Ken

Re: machine accounts and samba

2003-03-02 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:48 AM +0100 3/2/03, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: charles pelletier wrote: how do you add a machine account in samba? i've already added users using 'smbpasswd -a username password' but cannot for the life of me remember how to add a machine to the samba domain. man smbpasswd smbpasswd -m Then

Re: VMware 3.1 and FreeBSD

2002-07-16 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:49 AM -0400 7/17/02, Bob Bomar wrote: >I was trying to install VMware 3.1 on my FBSD box, when I got >to the configureing part, it gave me this error: > >[bob@warrior] ~>sudo vmware-config.pl >Password: >Setup is unable to find the "insmod" program on your machine. >Please make sure it is in

Re: Question on order and targets of kernel and world builds

2002-07-17 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 11:04 PM -0400 7/16/02, John Mills wrote: >Hello - > >I would appreciate a bit more information on the 'world' and 'kernel' >building process. Please point me at the right section of the Handbook >or Greg's book if there is a succinct description. > >I have been doing 'CVSUP' followed by: > >#

Re: strange errors in /var/log/lpd-errs

2002-07-21 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:17 PM +1000 7/21/02, Danny wrote: >I have a FreeBSD running samba with a shared printer. > >Everytime I want to print something FreeBSD suddenly halts (keyboard >doesn't work etc) and the OS produces the following error messages in >/var/log/lpd-errs > > lpd[344]: lpd startup: logging=0 > l

Re: /var/run/printer?

2002-07-24 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 6:30 PM -0700 7/23/02, Ed Yu wrote: >When I try to run 'lpc restart all', >it shows lp: > cannot open lock file >lp: >lpc: unable to connect to /var/run/printer: no such >file or directory >lpc: check to see if the master 'lpd' process is >running. > couldn't start daemon > > >However, ps

Re: /var/run/printer?

2002-07-24 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 3:34 PM -0700 7/24/02, Ed Yu wrote: >You are right. When I restart the machine after I >uncommented LPD_ENABLE="YES", /var/run/printer shows >up. I also did check /usr/local/sbin and there are lpc >and lpd in it. I basically totally mixed LPR and >LPRng. Hmm. I am not completely sure I unders

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