Urgent!!!
Hello I have server Processor Info Processor #1 Name: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz which has installed FreeBSD 5.1 on it. And it has lots of domain installed on it. From last few day i am facing one problem, the mysql database, some table get courrept i repair them by command repair table but as the entry's are changed it get courrept again. Then i use the command myisamchk --extend-check *.MYI in /var/lib/mysql then it fix the table. What should else i need to do for not to repeat this again Please help me It's urgent. Thank You Sam __ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK i feel stupid about this noob question but....
I dont know whats wrong with me but for some reason i cant add users to my system. I go through the whole bit of adduser -s but it asks user names must match reguilar expressions [regext] ... I dont even remember that happening when i use to add users or i might just be going insane, anyways i put in regext or the username or something but when i finaly get through the other 4 questions on there and get to acually try to add the user it says it must follow the expression ... I decided to beat my head agenst my desk to see if i could knock something lose, anyone wanna help with this? i have added users before ( back when i first got everything installed about 2 years ago) and have not really needed to since, but now im trying again.. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newbieish Desktop Questions
Hi, I've recently installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 onto my home pc to use as a desktop OS and am working through getting it going just right. I have some experience with administrating earlier versions as headless servers with 4.x and Solaris, but very little experience with multimedia. I have a ton of little questions, and minor niggles that i'm sure could be solved by RTFM and a lot that will be down to personal preference ;) First up, the system is was an absolute minimal 5.2.1 install, no X, no packages etc. First thing I did was build cvsup in ports, cvsup ports and get portupgrade going. I've recompiled the kernel a few times tuning it to my hardware, getting scsi support for my ide cdrw amongst other things. I installed x.org from source and put gnome2 / gdm on top of it. The NVIDIA drivers are running accelerated and my Aureal Vortex2 sound card works. On top of that I have linux-flash running on Firebird 0.9.1, Evolution as a mail client and OpenOffice.org running happily. All in all it's working pretty good, but there are some issues :) When i su - root, the DISPLAY doesn't seem to get set properly and root can't open X windows, I can hack this in roots profile, but is there a better way of doing it? Speaking of root, i'm so used to Bash i'd like to switch to it for the root user - is there any gotchas with moving bash to /bin and updating /etc/shells to allow it? More media orientated questions, when using Gentoo during bootup before X started you could switch the console into VESA SVGA and have high resolution, including having a graphical splash screen to obscure the boot text before X came up - is there any way to do that. Another thing Gentoo had was a very flashy screen for GDM, and I assume KDM too - anyone knowof resources for doing something like that, even if it's just clip art of Beastie. Boot sequence, I have FreeBSD on the master drive and Win98 for gaming on the slave drive, but the boot loader never picked up Win98 during install what do I edit it get it to see it, or should I install an alternative loader such as Grub? I have my fat32 filesystem mounted at /mnt/windows: /dev/ad1s1 /mnt/windowsmsdos rw0 0 But it mounts 700 as root, what should I use to change it to 775 root:wheel? Onto mplayer, got this installed with all the codecs, and installed the skins and fonts to get it graphical, but it just wont seem to start up with a gui, and yes i'm using gmplayer any suggestions? Another odd thing is after it finishes playing it messes up the console and somehow turns off local echo - anyone experienced this? DVD playback, neither mplayer nor xine seem to recognise my dvd, i did the kernel tweaks and devfs tweaks in the handbook: lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5 Jul 9 20:14 /dev/cdrom - acd0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3 Jul 9 20:14 /dev/dvd - acd0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Jul 9 20:14 /dev/rdvd - acd0 CDRW burning, what works well on FreeBSD? - I've been a bit spoiled by Nero on Windows so ideally want something as hassle free as that, used XCDRoast on Linux and it wasn't bad. Anyway thanks in advance, no doubt more questions will come up With Regards Kristian ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbieish Desktop Questions
On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 10:03, Kristian Holdich wrote: Hi, I've recently installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 onto my home pc to use as a desktop OS and am working through getting it going just right. I have some experience with administrating earlier versions as headless servers with 4.x and Solaris, but very little experience with multimedia. I have a ton of little questions, and minor niggles that i'm sure could be solved by RTFM and a lot that will be down to personal preference ;) First up, the system is was an absolute minimal 5.2.1 install, no X, no packages etc. First thing I did was build cvsup in ports, cvsup ports and get portupgrade going. I've recompiled the kernel a few times tuning it to my hardware, getting scsi support for my ide cdrw amongst other things. I installed x.org from source and put gnome2 / gdm on top of it. The NVIDIA drivers are running accelerated and my Aureal Vortex2 sound card works. On top of that I have linux-flash running on Firebird 0.9.1, Evolution as a mail client and OpenOffice.org running happily. All in all it's working pretty good, but there are some issues :) When i su - root, the DISPLAY doesn't seem to get set properly and root can't open X windows, I can hack this in roots profile, but is there a better way of doing it? Speaking of root, i'm so used to Bash i'd like to switch to it for the root user - is there any gotchas with moving bash to /bin and updating /etc/shells to allow it? More media orientated questions, when using Gentoo during bootup before X started you could switch the console into VESA SVGA and have high resolution, including having a graphical splash screen to obscure the boot text before X came up - is there any way to do that. Another thing Gentoo had was a very flashy screen for GDM, and I assume KDM too - anyone knowof resources for doing something like that, even if it's just clip art of Beastie. Boot sequence, I have FreeBSD on the master drive and Win98 for gaming on the slave drive, but the boot loader never picked up Win98 during install what do I edit it get it to see it, or should I install an alternative loader such as Grub? I have my fat32 filesystem mounted at /mnt/windows: /dev/ad1s1 /mnt/windowsmsdos rw0 0 But it mounts 700 as root, what should I use to change it to 775 root:wheel? Onto mplayer, got this installed with all the codecs, and installed the skins and fonts to get it graphical, but it just wont seem to start up with a gui, and yes i'm using gmplayer any suggestions? Another odd thing is after it finishes playing it messes up the console and somehow turns off local echo - anyone experienced this? DVD playback, neither mplayer nor xine seem to recognise my dvd, i did the kernel tweaks and devfs tweaks in the handbook: lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 5 Jul 9 20:14 /dev/cdrom - acd0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3 Jul 9 20:14 /dev/dvd - acd0 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Jul 9 20:14 /dev/rdvd - acd0 CDRW burning, what works well on FreeBSD? - I've been a bit spoiled by Nero on Windows so ideally want something as hassle free as that, used XCDRoast on Linux and it wasn't bad. http://www.freebsdsoftware.org/ports.php?c=sysutilsn=k3b try k2b work great for me in linux Anyway thanks in advance, no doubt more questions will come up With Regards Kristian ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OK i feel stupid about this noob question but....
On Saturday 10 July 2004 18:52, Jammet wrote: I dont know whats wrong with me but for some reason i cant add users to my system. I go through the whole bit of adduser -s but it asks user names must match reguilar expressions [regext] ... I dont even remember that happening when i use to add users or i might just be going insane, anyways i put in regext or the username or something but when i finaly get through the other 4 questions on there and get to acually try to add the user it says it must follow the expression ... I decided to beat my head agenst my desk to see if i could knock something lose, anyone wanna help with this? i have added users before ( back when i first got everything installed about 2 years ago) and have not really needed to since, but now im trying again.. Ummm. Do you have a /etc/adduser file? Maybe this file is corrupt, try moving it and then run adduser again. If I remember correctly the first run thru of adduser stores some settings on how root likes to add users, such as name limitations/expressions. Someone might have added an user and changed the internal settings or something. Also try adding a user thru the sysinstall interface. -Alastair ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lucent LT modem under FreeBSD
I've read that the proper drivers are in the ports collection, but there's one big problem. The only way I'd be able to access the ports collection is with an internet connection, and to have an internet connection I need the Lucent winmodem drivers for FreeBSD. I really want to install FreeBSD on my system, and have made room for it accordingly (58 gigs of room at that). Any help? Any download mirrors? Anything? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
arp messages XXX is on but got reply.../multihoming problem
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Re: Sendmail upgrade advice
epilogue wrote: I have read through all the readme and install files and just can't seem to get any further. Any help really appreciated. I am upgrading from 8.11.6. Rob. hello rob, would sendmail 8.12.11 be enough to satisfy your upgrading needs? if so, no need to hassle with a manual build, because you'll find it in the ports tree. More appropriately, I'd say, is that someone ports 8.13.0 -- I have been waiting for it, too. And I'm sure I'm not the only one. - Mark ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ipfw and matching bridged packets with both 'xmit' and 'recv'
Hello. I have a functioning bridge set up between rl0 and rl2 on a
machine running FreeBSD 4.9, and I'd like to count tcp connections
initiated from the clients on the rl2 side to hosts on the rl0 side,
but not from the machine functioning as a bridge.
I set the sysctl values net.link.ether.ipfw and
net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw to 1, and I invisioned this ipfw command:
ipfw add 1 count tcp from any to any out recv rl2 xmit rl0 bridged setup
and, as expected, ended up with this:
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1 0 0 count tcp from any to any out recv rl2
xmit rl0 layer2 setup
6 130074716 89026633533 allow ip from any to any
65535 252 21461 deny ip from any to any
From a client on the rl2 side of the bridge, I established a tcp
connection to a host on the rl0 side, but an ipfw show 1 revealed that
the counter hadn't been incremented.
What am I missing? I understand, based on my interpretation of the
recv | xmit | via {ifX | if* | ipno | any} section of the ipfw
manual page that you can have recv and xmit both in the same rule
provided that it's outbound. What can I do to get my desired
functionality?
Thanks.
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FreeBSD wireless difficulty
Hello, I had been having difficulty recently with getting my fbsd 4.9 machine to connect to my linksys home wireless router and because of the problem, had to upgrade to fbsd 5.2.1 and noticed more activity out of my wireless card. The computer is a Toshiba Satellite 2405-S221 with a Avaya Wireless PCMCIA card using the wi drivers to run it. I'm able to associate with the router at home and am able to ping it without a problem but I can not browse webpages and the like. I also have bsd-airtools installed and have used dstumbler, the only problem being is that the program doesn't see my wireless card. Any tips or suggestions? Doug ICQ : 26096369 AIM : itss0lidstate ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: truss command on 5.2.1-p9
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 10:03:56AM +0300, Murat Ustuntas wrote: I need to truss command on FreeBSD 5.2.1-p9. But, if I want to run the command truss says me: # truss /usr/sbin/sshd truss: cannot open /proc/8668/mem: No such file or directory truss: cannot open /proc/curproc/mem: No such file or directory sshd process is running, and in the proc directory, i have the number 8668 and mem too. What is the problem? How can I fix that? (I dont know that this is a bug or not :( ) I encountered the same problem some months ago and am cut pasting from a post that proved helpful. You don't have a process filesystem mounted on /proc. Execute the following kldload procfs mount_procfs /dev/procfs /proc -- RR ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flashplasyer plug-in for Opera
On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 23:29:17 -0400, epilogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 21:49:14 -0300 Paulo Fonseca Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to enable flash plug-in on freebsd 5.1 like this: 1) cd /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplayer make install clean it's ok 2) Tools - Preferences - Plug-ins - Change path the working path is: opera; /usr/X11R6/share/opera/plugins:/usr/local/lib/flash/ it's fine 3) when opera starts with opera -debugplugin command the message below occurs: judging by the command above, you're using the 'native' version of opera (that is to say, opera for freebsd). is there any reason you would expect the LINUX-flashplayer to work? :P try /usr/ports/www/flashpluginwrapper for the native version OR install /usr/ports/www/linux-opera. either should solve your problem. Use www/linuxpluginwrapper instead of www/flashpluginwrapper - it's newer, better maintained and supports a newer version of the Flash player. That said, it doesn't work with native Opera on FreeBSD 5.x - only on 4.x. So if you want Flash in Opera on FreeBSD 5.x, use linux-opera. Arjan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Building stable on current or with custom kernel
I have a Dell GX100 SMP PIII 733 with a 3COM Ethernet, USR PCI modem, and 2 18G SCSI disk. After problems with running 4.9 RELEASE on it, I am currently running 5.2.1 on the machine. (FYI I also have a uniprocessor PII Dell GX1 running 4.10-RELEASE-p2, which I can do a native build on.) None of my machines have a full CVS repository, just normal source trees. I mention this because it appears building a install environment (CD Image) assumes local CVS access. I need to get a -stable kernel booting on the SMP GX100 again to determine the exact issues; I have the second SCSI disk to install onto, but the 4.10 CD install kernel won't boot because the serial driver sees the modem, and (lacking the PUC device in the install kernel) commandeers the IRQ. The machine panics from what I think is secondary damage from the IRQ being unavailable. Since the kernel configuration screen doesn't allow disabling PCI devices, there is no (console) workaround. Thus, I need to install on this machine either with a custom kernel or cross building from the 5.2.1 installation on the other disk.Suggestions as to how to do either? -ahd- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD wireless difficulty
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 06:34:55 -0500 Douglas Korinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did sit in front o' the 'puter and offer us these pearls of wisdom: Hello, I had been having difficulty recently with getting my fbsd 4.9 machine to connect to my linksys home wireless router and because of the problem, had to upgrade to fbsd 5.2.1 and noticed more activity out of my wireless card. The computer is a Toshiba Satellite 2405-S221 with a Avaya Wireless PCMCIA card using the wi drivers to run it. I'm able to associate with the router at home and am able to ping it without a problem but I can not browse webpages and the like. I also have bsd-airtools installed and have used dstumbler, the only problem being is that the program doesn't see my wireless card. Any tips or suggestions? Doug Just at a glance is the router actually preforming NAT for you ? Are you getting an IP address via DHCP or static? If you use the dstumbler command can you see your own WLAN? First pass on your mail suggests that maybe you can connect to the network but cannot get out of it. Personally I use dstumbler to get the network associated then I need to config by hand and add a default route. I use fixed dns servers so that is never an issue but perhaps your situation is different. Can you talk me a bit through the steps you take to be able to ping your wireless router? HTH LukeK ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbieish Desktop Questions
On 10 Jul 2004 at 10:03, Kristian Holdich wrote: Speaking of root, i'm so used to Bash i'd like to switch to it for the root user - is there any gotchas with moving bash to /bin and updating /etc/shells to allow it? From my notes: Use FreeBSD's password file manipulation utility, vipw, to modify root's default shell. At a root prompt, type vipw. A copy of the /etc/passwd file will be displayed. Use standard vi editing commands to change root's default shell from /bin/csh (all of the way at the end of the first line) to /usr/local/bin/bash. While you're already editing the file, go ahead and change root's unofficial name 'Charlie ' to 'Super- Nina' or any other name that envisions Superman, etc. When you get mail from root (e.g. from the cron jobs that run every night), it'll now be maked as coming from 'Super-Nina' and not 'Charlie '...just a little bit nicer. Save exit. --- GL from kjell ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbieish Desktop Questions
On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 14:40, Kjell Midtseter wrote: On 10 Jul 2004 at 10:03, Kristian Holdich wrote: Speaking of root, i'm so used to Bash i'd like to switch to it for the root user - is there any gotchas with moving bash to /bin and updating /etc/shells to allow it? From my notes: Use FreeBSD's password file manipulation utility, vipw, to modify root's default shell. At a root prompt, type vipw. A copy of the /etc/passwd file will be displayed. Use standard vi editing commands to change root's default shell from /bin/csh (all of the way at the end of the first line) to /usr/local/bin/bash. While you're already editing the file, go ahead and change root's unofficial name 'Charlie ' to 'Super- Nina' or any other name that envisions Superman, etc. When you get mail from root (e.g. from the cron jobs that run every night), it'll now be maked as coming from 'Super-Nina' and not 'Charlie '...just a little bit nicer. Save exit. --- GL from kjell There's one glaring problem with that, if for some reason you need to go into single user mode under FreeBSD's default slicing scheme root wont have a shell as /usr isn't mounted. It's always good practice to keep the shell root uses in /sbin or /bin. You can change the shell root, or any other user uses by using chpass also, and so long as the shell is in /etc/shells it will be valid. I was actually more interested in understanding whether any critical scripts would start barfing if the shell got changed, I know on Solaris I got into the habit of keeping root using /sbin/sh. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mouse in X
I have set FBSD up on an old pentium II MMX 233 MHZ machine and everything works fine except for the mouse (serial). When using X the mouse behaves crazy i cant get it to move in any useful way. Ive checked and checked and found: edit /etc/XF86Config and set Protocol to Sysmouse and Device to /dev/sysmouse but this does not work- any suggestions ? What exactly does the Section InputDevice for the mouse say? Are you running moused? I never had much luck using moused and using the mouse in X. Try stopping moused and using protocol auto. The device would be /dev/cuaa0 or /dev/cuaa1. _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: clearing a drive
I've got a corrupted drive which i am unable now to clear. Whenever i try to fdisk it then relabel it i get an error that partition c does not cover the entire disk and that this might interfere with system utilities. I've tried: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad1 bs=512 count=1 and various combinations thereof, without success. If I have any questions about whether the disk is usable, I usually go to the manufacturer's disk tools. Sometimes called a low level format, or disk diagnostic. Usually, they have a DOS based tool that you download from their website and it will be able to test and reformat the drive. _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Sendmail upgrade advice
Actually, I don't have access to the ports tree. This is a server owner by the ISP and they told me I need to do my own upgrades. It is one of those virtual servers where I have root access to my own little virtual area, however I can't make any updates to the ports tree. So, it looks like a manual upgrade is needed but I'm just running round in circles. Thanks for any advice. Rob. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 6:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Sendmail upgrade advice epilogue wrote: I have read through all the readme and install files and just can't seem to get any further. Any help really appreciated. I am upgrading from 8.11.6. Rob. hello rob, would sendmail 8.12.11 be enough to satisfy your upgrading needs? if so, no need to hassle with a manual build, because you'll find it in the ports tree. More appropriately, I'd say, is that someone ports 8.13.0 -- I have been waiting for it, too. And I'm sure I'm not the only one. - Mark ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sendmail upgrade advice
Rob wrote: Actually, I don't have access to the ports tree. This is a server owner by the ISP and they told me I need to do my own upgrades. It is one of those virtual servers where I have root access to my own little virtual area, however I can't make any updates to the ports tree. So, it looks like a manual upgrade is needed but I'm just running round in circles. If you have a regular jail(8) environment, nothing (save insufficient disk space) prevents you from installing your own ports tree. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD wireless difficulty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 34 Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 06:34:55 -0500 From: Douglas Korinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FreeBSD wireless difficulty To: FreeBSD Help [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hello, I had been having difficulty recently with getting my fbsd 4.9 machine to connect to my linksys home wireless router and because of the problem, had to upgrade to fbsd 5.2.1 and noticed more activity out of my wireless card. The computer is a Toshiba Satellite 2405-S221 with a Avaya Wireless PCMCIA card using the wi drivers to run it. I'm able to associate with the router at home and am able to ping it without a problem but I can not browse webpages and the like. I also have bsd-airtools installed and have used dstumbler, the only problem being is that the program doesn't see my wireless card. Any tips or suggestions? Doug ICQ : 26096369 AIM : itss0lidstate - I don't know if the atuwi driver supports your WLAN card, but you might want to check it. You schould check it at www.vitsch.net/bsd/atuwi/ I hope you will be able to fix it -- Frank Staals - The Greatest pleasure in life is doing things people say you cannot do - Walter Bagehot - With questions or comment mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD wireless difficulty
On Saturday 10 July 2004 10:46 am, Frank Staals wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 34 Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 06:34:55 -0500 From: Douglas Korinke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FreeBSD wireless difficulty To: FreeBSD Help [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Hello, I had been having difficulty recently with getting my fbsd 4.9 machine to connect to my linksys home wireless router and because of the problem, had to upgrade to fbsd 5.2.1 and noticed more activity out of my wireless card. The computer is a Toshiba Satellite 2405-S221 with a Avaya Wireless PCMCIA card using the wi drivers to run it. I'm able to associate with the router at home and am able to ping it without a problem but I can not browse webpages and the like. I also have bsd-airtools installed and have used dstumbler, the only problem being is that the program doesn't see my wireless card. Any tips or suggestions? First and foremost, always check the FreeBSD site for hardware compatibility. Once that done, and your sure your pcmcia is supported, let's move on. For me to get my NetGear working, here were my steps. 1. edit /etc/rc.conf If static - ifconfig_wi0=inet (some IP) netmask (some netmask) defaultrouter=(some IP) If dynamic - ifconfig_wi0=DHCP defaultrouter=(some IP) 2. Create a file in /etc called start_if.wi0 ifconfig wi0 ssid (some SSID) wepmode on wepkey 0x(some wepkey) 3. Ensure your WAP is using WEP AND if you are allowing only devices with added MAC addies, ensure you put in the mac addy of your wireless nic. 4. Lastly - ensure your firewall rules reflect the correct nic IE: oif=wi0 (or whatever your variable is for the interface, if used) -- Best regards, Chris -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ClamAV virus dat updated: Sat Jul 10 2004 at 03:02:53 daily.cvd is up to date (version: 400, sigs: 778, f-level: 2, builder: tkojm) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Moving my Outlook PST file to any BSD E-mail client
On Friday 09 July 2004 05:06 pm, Steve wrote: arden wrote: this may be of interest http://outport.sourceforge.net/ On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 20:50, MikeM wrote: On 7/9/2004 at 9:20 AM Joshua Lewis wrote: |Does anyone know of an e-mail client that supports importing an outlook |.PST file. | |If I can move my old e-mail onto my new machine then I can be done with |Microsoft. = I used Eudora (I believe there is a no-charge version) to convert the .pst file to mailbox format on the Windows box, then just copied the mailbox tree over to the destination. I don't know if either of these have been suggested..but they may work http://www.wirejunkie.com/freestuff/devout/ http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-list/2002-April/msg00043.html If you use KMail - http://kmail.kde.org/tools.html There are suggested tools to do this. Also - make search key=pst files | more Port: libpst-0.4.1 Path: /usr/ports/mail/libpst Info: A tool for converting Outlook .pst files to Unix mbox format Maint: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Best regards, Chris -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ClamAV virus dat updated: Sat Jul 10 2004 at 03:02:53 daily.cvd is up to date (version: 400, sigs: 778, f-level: 2, builder: tkojm) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Moving my Outlook PST file to any BSD E-mail client
On Saturday 10 July 2004 11:16 am, Chris wrote: If you use KMail - http://kmail.kde.org/tools.html There are suggested tools to do this. Also - make search key=pst files | more Port: libpst-0.4.1 Path: /usr/ports/mail/libpst Info: A tool for converting Outlook .pst files to Unix mbox format Maint: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Another useful link: http://www.emailman.com/conversion/index.html -- Best regards, Chris -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ClamAV virus dat updated: Sat Jul 10 2004 at 03:02:53 daily.cvd is up to date (version: 400, sigs: 778, f-level: 2, builder: tkojm) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OK i feel stupid about this noob question but....
- Original Message - From: Jammet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 3:52 AM Subject: OK i feel stupid about this noob question but I dont know whats wrong with me but for some reason i cant add users to my system. I go through the whole bit of adduser -s but it asks user names must match reguilar expressions [regext] ... I dont even remember that happening when i use to add users or i might just be going insane, anyways i put in regext or the username or something but when i finaly get through the other 4 questions on there and get to acually try to add the user it says it must follow the expression ... I decided to beat my head agenst my desk to see if i could knock something lose, anyone wanna help with this? i have added users before ( back when i first got everything installed about 2 years ago) and have not really needed to since, but now im trying again.. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jammet, adduser.conf doesn't yet exist on your system and adduser is asking you for the defaults. If you accept the default entries, it will ask you at the end to save them. Tell it yes and run add user again and you're all set and back to your normal routine. -- Micheal Patterson TSG Network Administration 405-917-0600 Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
arplookup errors in /var/log/messages
hi, is there anyway i can stop receiving these errors Jul 10 10:00:40 web /kernel: arplookup 63.171.211.198 failed: host is not on local network Jul 10 10:02:37 web last message repeated 82 times -- thx john ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BSD Airtools?
Hey all, I've looked everywhere, and I can't find the bsd-airtools port. Can anyone enlighten me? Thanks. -- Eric F Crist Keep your pecker hard and your powder dry, and the world WILL turn. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can't Mount Optical Drive
Hi, I'm on a Dell Latitude D600 with a CD-RW/DVD-R. When I try to mount the drive I get an error: 5 # mount /dev/acd0 /cdrom mount: /dev/acd0: Input/output error But dmesg says: acd0: CDRW QSI CD-RW/DVD-ROM SBW242U at ata1-master PIO4 So although my drive is recognized correctly, it doesn't work with FreeBSD. But it worked for building and installing FreeBSD a few days ago, so I know the drive is functional. How do I get the drive to mount? Does it make any difference that I am running GNOME 2.6? I have some another disk mounting question, too. Sometimes when I try to mount the CD drive I get an error that goes something like: Incorrect super block What does this error mean? What does it mean in reference to a hard drive? What does it mean in reference to a CD drive? - Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't Mount Optical Drive
Jason Dusek disturbed my sleep to write: 5 # mount /dev/acd0 /cdrom mount: /dev/acd0: Input/output error You may want to try: mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom or its equivalent: mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom Also, if you're trying to mount a DVD instead of a CD, you may need to try: mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0c /cdrom I have some another disk mounting question, too. Sometimes when I try to mount the CD drive I get an error that goes something like: Incorrect super block What does this error mean? What does it mean in reference to a hard drive? What does it mean in reference to a CD drive? The superblock is a chunk of disk that has housekeeping information like the amount of free space, where to find free inodes, and so on. The error can mean pretty much the same things no matter what the medium. It might mean that you've specified the wrong filesystem -- mount (which defaults to FreeBSD's UFS filesystem) instead of mount -t cd9660, say. It might also mean that the the filesystem hasn't been formatted yet, or (if a CD) that you've burned a coaster. Or, it might mean that you are about to be very grateful for your carefully-followed backup plan. :-) -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ports
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How do I submit fixes to a particular port? regards, Patrick - -- Patrick Mackinlay [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://patrick.spacesurfer.com/tel: +44.7050699851 Yahoo messenger: patrick00_uk fax: +44.7050699852 SpaceSurfer Limited http://www.spacereg.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFA8C8ZD97IpyzY3RIRAnW6AJ9E0nPITIVXwzYVMF0ml7B8XG5jbACdFD0W wPUABSyVFGiEPl7Hf5MlKxg= =LMX3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Moving my Outlook PST file to any BSD E-mail client
When I switched from Outlook to Evolution I imported via Netscape/Mozilla Mail. It needs to be done on Windows however as it uses some Win32 API calls to parse the mailbox file. Most stuff is good about importing netscape mail format. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
System Profile
Is there a way to find out what hardware was detected by FreeBSD or to get a list of what it recognizes on my system? -- James W. Thompson, II (New Orleans, LA) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ports
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Re: System Profile
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004, James W. Thompson, II wrote: Is there a way to find out what hardware was detected by FreeBSD or to get a list of what it recognizes on my system? dmesg | less -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cvsup behind windows xp (The next level)
On Friday 09 July 2004 18:00, you wrote: On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 03:09:23PM +0200, Grant Speelman wrote: On Thursday 08 July 2004 11:52, you wrote: On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:33:18AM +0200, Grant Speelman wrote: I got the small problem, I would like to keep my ports collection update using cvsup but I don't have a direct connection to the internet. My Computer is on a network with my Fathers computer which is running windows xp. Lets say I have full access to my fathers computer as long I don't remove windows xp. What would I have to do to my fathers computer and my in order to keep my ports collections updated. I read the man pages something about cvsup using a socks proxy but where do I find this runsock(I look in the ports and try the 'which' command) and how do I use it. You can enable 'connection sharing' on your Father's XP box which should permit your FreeBSD machine sufficient network access to run cvsup(1). Connection Sharing simply makes the XP machine into a NAT gateway for your home network, and enables a DHCP+DNS service on the XP box, so that other home machines can autoconfigure themselves against it. A FreeBSD machine should be able to do that without too much trouble. Right I check up on this connection sharing on windows Xp but run into a small problem , the connection sharing will only work if you use windows xp's dailup to connect to your ISP but my father uses the dailup connection program the ISP offers(and I tried setting it up using the xp's dailer but with no success) , therefore there is no dailup in the network connections of xp, so I can't use the connection sharing of xp unless there is some other way to enable it. You'ld have to ask someone who knew about XP to get an answer to that. It is possible though for me to use a proxy , I use it for my basic connections like mail , www , etc. But how would I be able to get cvsup to work on a connection like this? Depends on the proxy. If it's an application specific proxy then unfortunately you are out of luck. You would need a program that ran under windows and that understood the cvsup protocol. I don't believe that such a program exists. On the other hand, if you have a much lower level of proxying -- down at the packet level -- all you would need to do is forward packets destined for port 5999/tcp. I say proxy, but the piece of software that does that job is usually described as doing Network Address TRanslation -- and the standard way of doing that under Windows is with the Connection Sharing setup, so dead end there as well. However, all is not lost. You can use CTM instead of cvsup -- see the ctm(1) man page and the handbook section: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ctm.html With CTM you get a series of 'deltas' sent to you via e-mail (which you should have no trouble receiving) -- use the ctm(1) program to apply them to your sources and it will keep everything up to date for you. Thanks for the help , I give ctm a shot Grant ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cvsync
Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does it have some bonuses over cvsup? It's written in portable C. It requires threads, but you don't have to worry about porting a Modula-3 compiler and runtime environment to each new platform. Featurewise it's about on a par with CVSup, with the notable omission of checkout mode. Also see URL:http://www.cvsync.org/. -- Christian naddy Weisgerber [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: System Profile
James W. Thompson, II [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to find out what hardware was detected by FreeBSD or to get a list of what it recognizes on my system? dmesg -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cvsup RELENG_5_2 deletes make files and most of source
On 2004.07.10 14:04:59 -0400, David Kaplowitz wrote: I've been googling around for an answer to this apparent problem, but am not getting anywhere with it. When I run cvsup with the tag RELENG_5_2, I see all manner of (seemingly legit) files being deleted, but nothing actually gets added/checked out. Viewing the contents of Have you tried another mirror? It could be a (very) out-of-date mirror that doesn't have 5.2 ? Also you could try to delete the files in /usr/sup. If I run the same command with a supfile with the tag=. flag set, everything updates, nothing gets deleted, but I can't run make buildworld successfully. I get all manner of errors --- and I'd prefer to run -STABLE rather than -CURRENT, unless there's some compelling reason to run -CURRENT on this machine. 5.X is the -CURRENT branch (still) and -STABLE is 4.X (e.g. 4.10). The system is 5.2.1-R on a MSI Neo K8T FIS2R mobo with an AMD 3200+ with ddr 400/pc3200 RAM and an SATA HDD. Hmm, that's an i386 system, so it's not related to this mailing list (freebsd-amd64). You should use the freebsd-questions for generic questions... -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team pgpHLL9Gm7PhW.pgp Description: PGP signature
PF and ADSL
Hi everyone
I'm running an Alcatel Speedtouch 510v4 which deals with PPPoE on it's own and
gives DHCP for the internal network... what a charm. My link is 3008kb
download and 800kb upload.
I installed Packet Filter in my box mainly to give a performance boost by
putting a big priority on ACKs. Based on Shamim Mohamed's pf.conf for ADSL,
http://www.drones.com/obsd-fw.html I have this:
altq on $external priq bandwidth 790kb queue { highpri_q, default_q }
queue highpri_q priority 7
queue default_q priority 1 priq(default)
pass in quick on $external inet proto tcp from any to any port $services \
flags S/SA keep state queue (default_q, highpri_q)
pass out quick on $external inet proto tcp from any to any \
flags S/SA keep state queue (default_q, highpri_q)
pass out quick on $external inet proto udp all keep state
pass out quick on $external inet proto icmp from any to any keep state
I'm wondering, is the bandwidth for upload or download? If it's set, as-is,
for upload (790kb) wouldn't that also limit the download as so? If it's set
for download (3000kb) wouldn't that be useless for prioritisation of the
upload?
Vincent Rodrigue
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Ftp server near me
All documentation tells you when running CVSUP or installing FBSD from FTP to use the FTP server closest to you. So how do you determine the best server. I recall reading a post that said run a command that will determine the closest server or fastest server near you. I however lost the page I printed out and can't remember the web address. Any ideas how to find the fastest server near me? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ftp server near me
Joshua Lewis wrote: All documentation tells you when running CVSUP or installing FBSD from FTP to use the FTP server closest to you. So how do you determine the best server. I recall reading a post that said run a command that will determine the closest server or fastest server near you. I however lost the page I printed out and can't remember the web address. Any ideas how to find the fastest server near me? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/sysutils/fastest_cvsup It will find the fastest ftp for you to download from. Michael -- Michael D. Whities [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.one-arm.com -- There are four colors of hats to watch for: Black, White, Grey, and Red. The meanings are: Cracker, Hacker, Guru, and Victim. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ftp server near me
fastest_cvsup is a simple program to use that can be found in the ports tree. I'd recommend it. /usr/ports/sysutils/fastest_cvsup DerDrache Joshua Lewis wrote: All documentation tells you when running CVSUP or installing FBSD from FTP to use the FTP server closest to you. So how do you determine the best server. I recall reading a post that said run a command that will determine the closest server or fastest server near you. I however lost the page I printed out and can't remember the web address. Any ideas how to find the fastest server near me? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ftp server near me
My apologies. I did not read your original email as closely as I should have. fastest_cvsup will only test cvsup servers. DerDrache wrote: fastest_cvsup is a simple program to use that can be found in the ports tree. I'd recommend it. /usr/ports/sysutils/fastest_cvsup DerDrache Joshua Lewis wrote: All documentation tells you when running CVSUP or installing FBSD from FTP to use the FTP server closest to you. So how do you determine the best server. I recall reading a post that said run a command that will determine the closest server or fastest server near you. I however lost the page I printed out and can't remember the web address. Any ideas how to find the fastest server near me? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ftp server near me
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 13:18:36 -0700 Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All documentation tells you when running CVSUP or installing FBSD from FTP to use the FTP server closest to you. So how do you determine the best server. I recall reading a post that said run a command that will determine the closest server or fastest server near you. I however lost the page I printed out and can't remember the web address. Any ideas how to find the fastest server near me? I think your looking for /usr/ports/sysutils/fastest_cvsup . The fastest may change depending on mirror loads or net conditions so I use this in my script that cvsups things: # Find fastest cvsup server at the moment host=`fastest_cvsup -Q -c us` /usr/local/bin/cvsup -g -L 2 -h $host /your/path/to/supfile See the manpage for fastest_cvsup for options available of course. The above is for US cvsup mirrors. Adjust accordingly. Best regards, Randy -- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sendmail upgrade advice
hope this helps
im going to use 8.12.10 as an examplei think the instructions are
referring to this: when you unpack sendmail-8.x.x it makes a dir called
sendmail.8.x.x (whatever the version name)
cd into that dir. theres a INSTALL file that pretty much says everthign i
said herebut oh well...who reads instructions anyway
you will also see a dir oddly enough called sendmail cd into that
that is where you run the
sh Build
then it wants you to go to the cf/cf dir todo so do:
cd ../cf/cf
then copy the .mc file that matches your environment. do this:
cp generic-bsd4.4.mc sendmail.mc
edit the sendmail.mc file you just copied adding whatever options you
want...i use the following
--SNIP
FEATURE(nouucp, reject)
FEATURE(local_procmail)
FEATURE(access_db, `hash -TTMPF /etc/mail/access')
FEATURE(virtusertable, `hash /etc/mail/virtusertable')
FEATURE(blacklist_recipients)
FEATURE(use_cw_file)
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `relays.ordb.org', BLACKLISTED - see
http://ORDB.org/lookup/?host=${client_addr};)dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `bl.spamcop.net', SPAM BLOCKED - see
http://spamcop.net/w3m?action=checkblockip=${client_addr};)dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `sbl.spamhaus.org', `571 ACCESS DENIED to $f thru
${client_name} by /spamhaus/ ; Please see
http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/;')dnl
FEATURE(`dnsbl', `list.dsbl.org', `571 ACCESS DENIED to $f thru
${client_name} by /dsbl/ ; Please see
http://dsbl.org/listing.php?ip=${client_addr}
')dnl
define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `whatever.domain')dnl
define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `goaway,authwarnings,noexpn,novrfy')
SNIP---
just a note about the above snippet...i use RBL checks also above that i
have enabled virtusertable access procmail for a local mailer.
1.virtusertable allows you to have virtual users for domain hosting
envronments make sure /etc/mail/virtusertable exists
2. access is used to help limit allow or deny certain users or IPs or
domains...for spam or abuse purpuses make sure /etc/mail/access exists
as well as /etc/mail/relay_domains if it doesnt already
3. i use procmail as my local mailer also to help with spam filtering
theres alot of procmail recipies you can find on the net.
ANYHWO---
make sure each FEATURE define is on a line by itself
then save and then run
sh Build sendmail.cf
make backups of your current sendmail configs in /etc/mail ( if ya want )
then do:
sh Build install-cf
then go back to the sendmail dir by doing
cd ../../sendmail
then run:
sh Build install
thats it ...your done ...upgraded sendmail :-)
--
Brent Bailey CCNA
Bmyster LLC
Computer Networking and Webhosting
Network Engineer, Webmaster, President
http://www.bmyster.com
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On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 17:58:15 -0400
Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
I had some problems with Sendmail a few weeks ago and it was suggested
that I upgrade. I am finally able to do this but am now experiencing
further problems. I downloaded 8.13 but the instructions just seem to
lead me in circles sending me from one readme to another.
Ok, so it tells me the easiest way to build sendmail is to type sh Build
in the Sendmail directory. I just get an error:
%sh build
build: Can't open build: No such file or directory
%sh Build
Configuration: pfx=, os=FreeBSD, rel=4.4-RELEASE, rbase=4,
rroot=4.4-RELEASE, arch=i386, sfx=, variant=optimized
Using M4=/usr/bin/m4
Creating
/usr/home/rob/sendmail-8.13.0/obj.FreeBSD.4.4-RELEASE.i386/sendmail
using
/usr/home/rob/sendmail-8.13.0/devtools/OS/FreeBSD sed: 1: s/
//g
: unterminated substitute pattern
sed: 1: s/
//g
: unterminated substitute pattern
ERROR: /usr/bin/m4 failed; You may need a newer version of M4, at least
as new as System V or GNU
I see that it is using M4=/usr/bin/m4 so do I need to perform some sort
of upgrade on that file first?
I also see that the instructions tell me to create any necessary site
configuration build files, as noted in devtools/Site/README. Well this
particular Readme tells me nothing on how to perform these file
creations.
I have read through all the readme and install files and just can't seem
to get any further.
Any help really appreciated. I am upgrading from 8.11.6.
Rob.
hello rob,
would sendmail 8.12.11 be enough to satisfy your upgrading needs? if so,
no need to hassle with a manual build, because you'll find it in the ports
tree.
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Re: Ftp server near me
DerDrache wrote: My apologies. I did not read your original email as closely as I should have. fastest_cvsup will only test cvsup servers. DerDrache wrote: fastest_cvsup is a simple program to use that can be found in the ports tree. I'd recommend it. /usr/ports/sysutils/fastest_cvsup DerDrache Joshua Lewis wrote: All documentation tells you when running CVSUP or installing FBSD from FTP to use the FTP server closest to you. So how do you determine the best server. I recall reading a post that said run a command that will determine the closest server or fastest server near you. I however lost the page I printed out and can't remember the web address. Any ideas how to find the fastest server near me? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ahh, the same here. I aoologize. Michael -- Michael D. Whities [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.one-arm.com -- There are four colors of hats to watch for: Black, White, Grey, and Red. The meanings are: Cracker, Hacker, Guru, and Victim. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
resizing my slices/partitions - was pruning the Ports tree
Hello all: I would like to expand my FreeBSD partion on the hard drive of which it only has 60%. The rest of the HD holds an old installation of Win98. When I first installed FBSD 4.8 I used Partition Magic to carve off 1.2G of a 2.0G HD and give me dual boot capability so as to retain the Win98.After recently installing a full ports tree I find that my FBSD /usr slice is almost out of file handles. A sensible solution.. how about removing my 800M of Windows and capturing it for FBSD. NOTE - please read end of email concerning inodes. Looking for suggestions and warnings..! Of course I can blow everything away, reformat and re-install, but my preference would be to: 1) shutdown 2)use my partion magic boot disk to reformat the 800MB windows partion 3)use sysinstall to expand my /usr slice, maybe even resize some of the others Perhaps I can do this all with sysintall without even shutting down? I have not used that program since my original install 6 months ago so am not sure of its capabilities, weaknesses and strengths. Something important to note, I am not out of disk space but have run out of file handles (BSD calls them Inodes) - so it really is nodes that I need to recapture not space - might this have some implications that necessitate a complete reformat or re-install?? Suggestions and comments greatly appreciated. Cheers, Graham/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ftp server near me
On Saturday 10 July 2004 01:33 pm, uidzero wrote: DerDrache wrote: My apologies. I did not read your original email as closely as I should have. fastest_cvsup will only test cvsup servers. DerDrache wrote: fastest_cvsup is a simple program to use that can be found in the ports tree. I'd recommend it. /usr/ports/sysutils/fastest_cvsup DerDrache Joshua Lewis wrote: All documentation tells you when running CVSUP or installing FBSD from FTP to use the FTP server closest to you. So how do you determine the best server. I recall reading a post that said run a command that will determine the closest server or fastest server near you. I however lost the page I printed out and can't remember the web address. Any ideas how to find the fastest server near me? Ahh, the same here. I aoologize. I think I would have given the same answer. It was the only choice since the Handbook no longer tells you where each mirror is located. All you can do now, is choose an FTP mirror that is in a country close to you. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cvsup RELENG_5_2 deletes make files and most of source
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 21:46:04 +0200, Simon L. Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried another mirror? It could be a (very) out-of-date mirror that doesn't have 5.2 ? Also you could try to delete the files in /usr/sup. I hadn't tried it, but after you suggested it I did. I think Don's reply (above) mentions what I was doing wrong. I appreciate the input though. 5.X is the -CURRENT branch (still) and -STABLE is 4.X (e.g. 4.10). Somewhere in the back of my head I knew this from my previous installs of the 5.x tree, but I saw some other posts that confused me. Thanks for clarifying this. No wonder I was getting make buildworld errors. The system is 5.2.1-R on a MSI Neo K8T FIS2R mobo with an AMD 3200+ with ddr 400/pc3200 RAM and an SATA HDD. Hmm, that's an i386 system, so it's not related to this mailing list (freebsd-amd64). You should use the freebsd-questions for generic questions... Actually you must be confusing my K8T (k8t800 chipset) with another of MSI's K8T Neo mobos. My 3200+ is the 64-bit 2.0Ghz., not the 32-bit 2.8Ghz...(or whatever the 3200+ is in the 32-bit world) Cheers, Dave ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't Mount Optical Drive
Hi Again, In that there must be something else wrong, because after trying a few permutations I was unable to get the drive on my D600 to work: 1 root # mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0: Input/output error 2 root # mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0c: No such file or directory 3 root # mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0c /cdrom mount_cd9660: /dev/cd0c: No such file or directory 4 root # mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0 /cdrom mount_cd9660: /dev/cd0: No such file or directory Do I need to create some directories for this to work? How will my computer know what directories to attach the drive to? - Jason Saint Aardvark the Carpeted wrote: Jason Dusek disturbed my sleep to write: 5 # mount /dev/acd0 /cdrom mount: /dev/acd0: Input/output error You may want to try: mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom or its equivalent: mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom Also, if you're trying to mount a DVD instead of a CD, you may need to try: mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0c /cdrom I have some another disk mounting question, too. Sometimes when I try to mount the CD drive I get an error that goes something like: Incorrect super block What does this error mean? What does it mean in reference to a hard drive? What does it mean in reference to a CD drive? The superblock is a chunk of disk that has housekeeping information like the amount of free space, where to find free inodes, and so on. The error can mean pretty much the same things no matter what the medium. It might mean that you've specified the wrong filesystem -- mount (which defaults to FreeBSD's UFS filesystem) instead of mount -t cd9660, say. It might also mean that the the filesystem hasn't been formatted yet, or (if a CD) that you've burned a coaster. Or, it might mean that you are about to be very grateful for your carefully-followed backup plan. :-) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resizing my slices/partitions - was pruning the Ports tree
[Please wrap your lines around 72 chars or so ... see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html ] Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all: I would like to expand my FreeBSD partion on the hard drive of which it only has 60%. The rest of the HD holds an old installation of Win98. When I first installed FBSD 4.8 I used Partition Magic to carve off 1.2G of a 2.0G HD and give me dual boot capability so as to retain the Win98.After recently installing a full ports tree I find that my FBSD /usr slice is almost out of file handles. This is very unusual. There are generally more than enough inodes so that you don't run out of inodes before you run out of space. Did you use custom options to newfs when you created the filesystem? Do you have a TON of small files? You may want to just ckeck the filesystem and see what's eating up all the inodes to make sure it isn't something you can just delete. My /usr filesystem is 10G, and the defaults created over 1 million inodes. I'm using 2.7G and 170,000 inodes, which means I'll run out of space when I still have 1/2-million free inodes. Of course I can blow everything away, reformat and re-install, but my preference would be to: 1) shutdown 2)use my partion magic boot disk to reformat the 800MB windows partion 3)use sysinstall to expand my /usr slice, maybe even resize some of the others Perhaps I can do this all with sysintall without even shutting down? I have not used that program since my original install 6 months ago so am not sure of its capabilities, weaknesses and strengths. You've got the right idea, but you're a little off. _Assuming_ your Windows partition is the last partition on the HDD, and the /usr partition is second to last, the following will work: 1) BACK UP any important data ... this procedure is easy to screw up! 2) Use PM or something similar to remove the Win partition and expenad the BSD partition to take up the space used by Win. You can also use BSD's disklabel and related utilities to do this (in single-user mode). 3) Boot FreeBSD into single-user mode 4) Use growfs to increase the size of the /usr filesystem to take up the partition. Since inodes are laid out in as a ration of #inodes/block, newfs will add more inodes in ration to the amount of space added. My point is that if you continue to use the filesystem in this manner, you're still going to run out of inodes before you fill the drive (even with the increased space). Although, this is a valid short-term fix that will provide you with more inodes. Depending on what you want to accomplish (long term) you may want to take the time now to backup this filesystem and re-newfs it with a value for -i that's appropriate. See the man page for newfs for more details. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Moving my Outlook PST file to any BSD E-mail client
Tom's Hardware wrote a good how-to on this for Linux. I am assuming the tool to convert outlook to evolution is in ports. If not you can install linux, savi the .pst file to a network share, then install BSD with evoltion and away you go. http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20040412/wintolinux-06.html On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:21:10 +0100, Kristian Holdich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I switched from Outlook to Evolution I imported via Netscape/Mozilla Mail. It needs to be done on Windows however as it uses some Win32 API calls to parse the mailbox file. Most stuff is good about importing netscape mail format. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Person new to FreeBSD needs help...
Dear Group, I am new to FreeBSD and am having a problem. I downloaded the ISOs of Disk 1 and 2 of version 4.10 and go through the installation and everything seems to be fine until I reboot. Then it says that it cannot load the kernel or kernel.old. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance, Jeff Erickson ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resizing my slices/partitions - was pruning the Ports tree
Hello Bill: Thanks again for your help. Does the line wrap look better now? I reduced from 76 to 66. Regarding inodes - /usr is 778MB and began with 99,838 inodes. That would jive approximately with your million for 10G drive. It now has 96M of free space but only 590 inodes remaining.This heavy drain on inodes occurred when I downloaded the full Ports tree a month or so ago. Not sure of the numbers but it was clearly a TON of small files :--). /usr is /dev/ad0s2g - I cannot remember from my install but think that Windows may be the first partition..?? You said: _Assuming_ your Windows partition is the last partition on the HDD, and the /usr partition is second to last, the following will work: 1) BACK UP any important data ... this procedure is easy to screw up! 2) Use PM or something similar to remove the Win partition and expenad the BSD partition to take up the space used by Win. You can also use BSD's disklabel and related utilities to do this (in single-user mode). 3) Boot FreeBSD into single-user mode 4) Use growfs to increase the size of the /usr filesystem to take up the partition. I suspect that since the Ports download is an infrequent deal and most of my other files are much larger than the 500B or so of the Ports that the problem will be alleviated by adding space with a proportional number of nodes - (provided the next Ports update does not leave me with tons of debris) I will do some hunting for info on single user mode and growfs before proceeding. Is it necessary for me to user single user mode if I am the only user? I can of course restrict myself to a single logon. Thanks again for such really good help. Graham/ - Original Message - From: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 2:50 PM Subject: Re: resizing my slices/partitions - was pruning the Ports tree [Please wrap your lines around 72 chars or so ... see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html ] Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all: I would like to expand my FreeBSD partion on the hard drive of which it only has 60%. The rest of the HD holds an old installation of Win98. When I first installed FBSD 4.8 I used Partition Magic to carve off 1.2G of a 2.0G HD and give me dual boot capability so as to retain the Win98.After recently installing a full ports tree I find that my FBSD /usr slice is almost out of file handles. This is very unusual. There are generally more than enough inodes so that you don't run out of inodes before you run out of space. Did you use custom options to newfs when you created the filesystem? Do you have a TON of small files? You may want to just ckeck the filesystem and see what's eating up all the inodes to make sure it isn't something you can just delete. My /usr filesystem is 10G, and the defaults created over 1 million inodes. I'm using 2.7G and 170,000 inodes, which means I'll run out of space when I still have 1/2-million free inodes. Of course I can blow everything away, reformat and re-install, but my preference would be to: 1) shutdown 2)use my partion magic boot disk to reformat the 800MB windows partion 3)use sysinstall to expand my /usr slice, maybe even resize some of the others Perhaps I can do this all with sysintall without even shutting down? I have not used that program since my original install 6 months ago so am not sure of its capabilities, weaknesses and strengths. You've got the right idea, but you're a little off. _Assuming_ your Windows partition is the last partition on the HDD, and the /usr partition is second to last, the following will work: 1) BACK UP any important data ... this procedure is easy to screw up! 2) Use PM or something similar to remove the Win partition and expenad the BSD partition to take up the space used by Win. You can also use BSD's disklabel and related utilities to do this (in single-user mode). 3) Boot FreeBSD into single-user mode 4) Use growfs to increase the size of the /usr filesystem to take up the partition. Since inodes are laid out in as a ration of #inodes/block, newfs will add more inodes in ration to the amount of space added. My point is that if you continue to use the filesystem in this manner, you're still going to run out of inodes before you fill the drive (even with the increased space). Although, this is a valid short-term fix that will provide you with more inodes. Depending on what you want to accomplish (long term) you may want to take the time now to backup this filesystem and re-newfs it with a value for -i that's appropriate. See the man page for newfs for more details. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any
Re: Lucent LT modem under FreeBSD
I've read that the proper drivers are in the ports collection, but there's one big problem. The only way I'd be able to access the ports collection is with an internet connection, and to have an internet connection I need the Lucent winmodem drivers for FreeBSD. Someone can probably suggest something more optimal, but FWIW, here's my tedious manual procedure for installing ports without a network connection: 1. Try to compile the port, up to the point where it complains 2. Press Ctrl-C, interrupting the compilation 3. Make a note of the name of the missing file 4. Go to different computer with network connection, carrying floppy or CD-R 5. Download missing file from ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/ 6. Transfer it to /usr/ports/distfiles on target machine using floppy or CD-R 7. Lather, rinse, and repeat from step one until compilation no longer complains For only the ltmdm port (Lucent winmodem driver), this should not be an astonishing amount of work, and afterwards you can install your ports in style like the cool kids do. :) Good luck, -Jan Christian ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Where is sysinstall
I DL the iso image files but found no install program. Can you help? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How Critical Is It To Use an ISP Running FreeBSD or BSD/OS?
Hello, I remember reading in The Complete FreeBSD, by Greg Lehey, that you'll be better off with an ISP that runs FreeBSD or BSD/OS. Can anyone provide a scenario(s) where this would be most apparent? I don't know what OS my ISP uses but I do know that they only support Windows and Mac platforms. I've run OS/2 and FreeBSD using their email services and never really needed technical support. Now, I'm considering a new ISP primarily due to cost. Also, considering obtaining my own domain name and exploring web hosting. I assume that recommending an ISP is inappropriate but if you know of any forums that have discussed ISPs for FreeBSD, feel free to recommend them. Thank you. -- I've learned that whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed. FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p2 #0 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbieish Desktop Questions
Kristian Holdich wrote: On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 14:40, Kjell Midtseter wrote: There's one glaring problem with that, if for some reason you need to go into single user mode under FreeBSD's default slicing scheme root wont have a shell as /usr isn't mounted. It's always good practice to keep the shell root uses in /sbin or /bin. You can change the shell root, or any other user uses by using chpass also, and so long as the shell is in /etc/shells it will be valid. I was actually more interested in understanding whether any critical scripts would start barfing if the shell got changed, I know on Solaris I got into the habit of keeping root using /sbin/sh. As far as I know, you're prompted for a root shell whenever you enter single user mode anyways (I am, at least, and I use /bin/csh for root normally. I'm still prompted every time). So, whatever shell you use for root in multiuser mode shouldn't matter, as single user mode is a different kettle of fish altogether. Granted, getting into the habit of using one shell for root in multiuser, then having to switch into an unfamiliar shell for single user could complicate work slightly... As for vital scripts failing, I doubt it. Unless you start symlinking like crazy, things should work fine, as scripts starting with #!/bin/sh will always use /bin/sh and so on (so unless /bin/sh is a symlink to /usr/bin/wish or some such exotic setup, nothing will barf. :-) -Henrik W Lund ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How Critical Is It To Use an ISP Running FreeBSD or BSD/OS?
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:09:13 -0400, Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I remember reading in The Complete FreeBSD, by Greg Lehey, that you'll be better off with an ISP that runs FreeBSD or BSD/OS. Can anyone provide a scenario(s) where this would be most apparent? I don't know Greg's reasoning for that statement but it does seem rather wrong to me. Would you judge a waitress on their choice of shoes? Of course not, you'd judge them based on their service. Would you decide on who to hire to build you a fence based on what kind of screwdriver they use? Why would you choose an ISP based on what tool they use to provide you with a service? See how their service has been in the past and if their service meets your needs, that's all there really is to it. --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How Critical Is It To Use an ISP Running FreeBSD or BSD/OS?
Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I remember reading in The Complete FreeBSD, by Greg Lehey, that you'll be better off with an ISP that runs FreeBSD or BSD/OS. Can anyone provide a scenario(s) where this would be most apparent? If you have problems and call their tech support. A number of ISPs in the past, when I've had problems and called, they say, do this with Windows and when I say I'm not using Windows they reply that they don't support anything but, and therefore can't help me. That's been in spite of the fact that I've done everything reasonable to determine that the problem is _NOT_ on my end, they simply refuse to do _any_ diagnostic work if I wasn't using Windows. The situation seems to be getting better, and nowadays, I just lie and say I'm using Windows and execute the equivalent commands in FreeBSD and explain the result. I don't know what OS my ISP uses but I do know that they only support Windows and Mac platforms. I've run OS/2 and FreeBSD using their email services and never really needed technical support. As long as you never need tech support, you'll probably never have a problem, nor care what OS your ISP uses. After all, the Internet was designed to be OS-independent ... when everything is working correctly! Now, I'm considering a new ISP primarily due to cost. Also, considering obtaining my own domain name and exploring web hosting. I assume that recommending an ISP is inappropriate but if you know of any forums that have discussed ISPs for FreeBSD, feel free to recommend them. I don't think it's inappropriate. I don't know of any nationwide ISPs that support/use FreeBSD, but if you're in the Pittsburgh, PA area, city-net is FreeBSD friendly. Otherwise, you could give your location and if someone knows a FreeBSD friendly ISP in your area, I'm sure he'll let you know. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: resizing my slices/partitions - was pruning the Ports tree
Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Bill: Thanks again for your help. Does the line wrap look better now? I reduced from 76 to 66. You tell me. Regarding inodes - /usr is 778MB and began with 99,838 inodes. That would jive approximately with your million for 10G drive. It now has 96M of free space but only 590 inodes remaining.This heavy drain on inodes occurred when I downloaded the full Ports tree a month or so ago. Not sure of the numbers but it was clearly a TON of small files :--). /usr is /dev/ad0s2g - I cannot remember from my install but think that Windows may be the first partition..?? If so, you're probably hosed. To add space onto a partition, the available space needs to be immediately after it. Unless Partition Magic can move things around to put the free space immediately after the /usr partition, you're not going to be able to growfs it. Last time I used PM, it didn't have much understanding of BSD filesystems, that may have changed, but I don't know. You said: _Assuming_ your Windows partition is the last partition on the HDD, and the /usr partition is second to last, the following will work: 1) BACK UP any important data ... this procedure is easy to screw up! 2) Use PM or something similar to remove the Win partition and expenad the BSD partition to take up the space used by Win. You can also use BSD's disklabel and related utilities to do this (in single-user mode). 3) Boot FreeBSD into single-user mode 4) Use growfs to increase the size of the /usr filesystem to take up the partition. I suspect that since the Ports download is an infrequent deal and most of my other files are much larger than the 500B or so of the Ports that the problem will be alleviated by adding space with a proportional number of nodes - (provided the next Ports update does not leave me with tons of debris) Yes, the ports uses a lot of inodes, as it's a lot of directories and small files. I didn't know that partition was so small. I will do some hunting for info on single user mode and growfs before proceeding. Is it necessary for me to user single user mode if I am the only user? I can of course restrict myself to a single logon. You need to be in single-user so the /usr partition is unmounted. You can't growfs a mounted partition (unless something has changed?) If you can manage to get the /usr partition unmounted in multiuser mode, that will work as well. Thanks again for such really good help. Graham/ - Original Message - From: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 2:50 PM Subject: Re: resizing my slices/partitions - was pruning the Ports tree [Please wrap your lines around 72 chars or so ... see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html ] Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all: I would like to expand my FreeBSD partion on the hard drive of which it only has 60%. The rest of the HD holds an old installation of Win98. When I first installed FBSD 4.8 I used Partition Magic to carve off 1.2G of a 2.0G HD and give me dual boot capability so as to retain the Win98.After recently installing a full ports tree I find that my FBSD /usr slice is almost out of file handles. This is very unusual. There are generally more than enough inodes so that you don't run out of inodes before you run out of space. Did you use custom options to newfs when you created the filesystem? Do you have a TON of small files? You may want to just ckeck the filesystem and see what's eating up all the inodes to make sure it isn't something you can just delete. My /usr filesystem is 10G, and the defaults created over 1 million inodes. I'm using 2.7G and 170,000 inodes, which means I'll run out of space when I still have 1/2-million free inodes. Of course I can blow everything away, reformat and re-install, but my preference would be to: 1) shutdown 2)use my partion magic boot disk to reformat the 800MB windows partion 3)use sysinstall to expand my /usr slice, maybe even resize some of the others Perhaps I can do this all with sysintall without even shutting down? I have not used that program since my original install 6 months ago so am not sure of its capabilities, weaknesses and strengths. You've got the right idea, but you're a little off. _Assuming_ your Windows partition is the last partition on the HDD, and the /usr partition is second to last, the following will work: 1) BACK UP any important data ... this procedure is easy to screw up! 2) Use PM or something similar to remove the Win partition and expenad the BSD partition to take up the space used by Win. You can also use BSD's disklabel and related utilities to do this (in single-user mode). 3) Boot FreeBSD into single-user mode 4) Use
Re: How Critical Is It To Use an ISP Running FreeBSD or BSD/OS?
Bob, There is a freebsd isp list, for those of us who operate isps and use freebsd for some functional element, up to and including user shell accounts. Why would it (choice of boxen) matter to you? You may not even be aware if your isp is virtual or facilities-based, let alone the os directly observed end-user services are platformed by. If you can't find non-MS tech support, then you've made the wrong choice. Eric ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where is sysinstall
On Saturday 10 July 2004 06:06 pm, Brian Hayashi wrote: I DL the iso image files but found no install program. Can you help? The iso image is to be burned to a CD, which will be bootable. Boot up your computer using the CD and follow the instructions at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html Best of luck, Andrew Gould ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How Critical Is It To Use an ISP Running FreeBSD or BSD/OS?
On Saturday 10 July 2004 04:20 pm, Bill Moran wrote: Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I remember reading in The Complete FreeBSD, by Greg Lehey, that you'll be better off with an ISP that runs FreeBSD or BSD/OS. Can anyone provide a scenario(s) where this would be most apparent? If you have problems and call their tech support. A number of ISPs in the past, when I've had problems and called, they say, do this with Windows and when I say I'm not using Windows they reply that they don't support anything but, and therefore can't help me. That's been in spite of the fact that I've done everything reasonable to determine that the problem is _NOT_ on my end, they simply refuse to do _any_ diagnostic work if I wasn't using Windows. The situation seems to be getting better, and nowadays, I just lie and say I'm using Windows and execute the equivalent commands in FreeBSD and explain the result. I don't know what OS my ISP uses but I do know that they only support Windows and Mac platforms. I've run OS/2 and FreeBSD using their email services and never really needed technical support. As long as you never need tech support, you'll probably never have a problem, nor care what OS your ISP uses. After all, the Internet was designed to be OS-independent ... when everything is working correctly! Now, I'm considering a new ISP primarily due to cost. Also, considering obtaining my own domain name and exploring web hosting. I assume that recommending an ISP is inappropriate but if you know of any forums that have discussed ISPs for FreeBSD, feel free to recommend them. I don't think it's inappropriate. I don't know of any nationwide ISPs that support/use FreeBSD, but if you're in the Pittsburgh, PA area, city-net is FreeBSD friendly. Otherwise, you could give your location and if someone knows a FreeBSD friendly ISP in your area, I'm sure he'll let you know. Look at their web page with Netcraft, it will tell you what their web server is and I think that is a good clue as to what the rest of their setup. Use What's that site running at http://news.netcraft.com/ Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ftp server near me
I had this question a couple years back. I did command line ftp logins until I found something I recognized, usually a school or university. I'm on the East Coast (US) so I got lucky with MIT, Perdue and UNC. Commercial-sited servers, your guess is as good as mine. I guess you could try to brute-force a solution w/ some combination of nslookup, traceroute etc and a six-pack... - Original Message - From: Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: DerDrache [EMAIL PROTECTED]; uidzero [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 5:02 PM Subject: Re: Ftp server near me On Saturday 10 July 2004 01:33 pm, uidzero wrote: DerDrache wrote: My apologies. I did not read your original email as closely as I should have. fastest_cvsup will only test cvsup servers. DerDrache wrote: fastest_cvsup is a simple program to use that can be found in the ports tree. I'd recommend it. /usr/ports/sysutils/fastest_cvsup DerDrache Joshua Lewis wrote: All documentation tells you when running CVSUP or installing FBSD from FTP to use the FTP server closest to you. So how do you determine the best server. I recall reading a post that said run a command that will determine the closest server or fastest server near you. I however lost the page I printed out and can't remember the web address. Any ideas how to find the fastest server near me? Ahh, the same here. I aoologize. I think I would have given the same answer. It was the only choice since the Handbook no longer tells you where each mirror is located. All you can do now, is choose an FTP mirror that is in a country close to you. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation/Boot-up help please...
- Original Message - From: Jeff Erickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 6:59 PM Subject: Installation/Boot-up help please... Dear Group, I am new to FreeBSD and am having a problem. I downloaded Disk 1 and 2 of version 4.10 and go through the installation and everything seems to be fine until I reboot. Then it says that it cannot load the kernel or kernel.old. What am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance, Jeff Erickson ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did you set the disk bootable in the fdisk part of the install? The part where you create the partitions? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Person new to FreeBSD needs help...
Jeff Erickson disturbed my sleep to write: I am new to FreeBSD and am having a problem. I downloaded the ISOs of Disk 1 and 2 of version 4.10 and go through the installation and everything seems to be fine until I reboot. Then it says that it cannot load the kernel or kernel.old. What am I doing wrong? Very strange -- those files should've been copied over as part of the installation. Are you able to post the exact message you get? Does your installation span more than one disk? Is this a dual-boot machine? Is there anything at all unusual about your setup? -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
5.2.1 Install Error (Unable To Find Device Node)
I'm getting an Unable to find device node for /dev/da0s1b in /dev error that is causing installation to abort. The disk is a 4x200GB IDE RAID array. Any idea what the problem might be? = Rishi Chopra http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rchopra __ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How Critical Is It To Use an ISP Running FreeBSD or BSD/OS?
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:09:13 -0400, Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I remember reading in The Complete FreeBSD, by Greg Lehey, that you'll be better off with an ISP that runs FreeBSD or BSD/OS. Can anyone provide a scenario(s) where this would be most apparent? I don't know Greg's reasoning for that statement but it does seem rather wrong to me. Would you judge a waitress on their choice of shoes? Of course not, you'd judge them based on their service. Would you decide on who to hire to build you a fence based on what kind of screwdriver they use? Why would you choose an ISP based on what tool they use to provide you with a service? Well, first it reflects on their judgement. If they run on FreeBSD, I give them credit for better jedgement. Secondly, if you have problems or questions, you are more likely to get an intelligent answer if they run one of the BSDs. If they run MS, they are more likely to just say they don't support anything different when you ask. jerry See how their service has been in the past and if their service meets your needs, that's all there really is to it. Service with what? MS only or including other systems? jerry --roop ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can't Mount USB Flash Drive
Hi, I have a Dell D600, and I count mount flash devices on it. They show up in dmesg. Here I put the drive in the top one, pull it out and stick it in the bottom one, and then put it back in the top one: ugen0: SanDisk Corporation Cruzer Mini, rev 2.00/0.10, addr 2 ugen0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected ugen0: detached ugen0: SanDisk Corporation Cruzer Mini, rev 2.00/0.10, addr 2 ugen0: at uhub0 port 1 (addr 2) disconnected ugen0: detached ugen0: SanDisk Corporation Cruzer Mini, rev 2.00/0.10, addr 2 Strangely, they show up as the same address on the same device. When I try to mount ugen0, I get a message that sayeth: Block device required. What does this mean? What do I do? - Jason Saint Aardvark the Carpeted wrote: Jason Dusek disturbed my sleep to write: In that there must be something else wrong, because after trying a few permutations I was unable to get the drive on my D600 to work: 1 root # mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0: Input/output error 2 root # mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0c: No such file or directory Huh...you should have /dev/acd0c already. Try going to /dev and running: sh ./MAKEDEV acd sh ./MAKEDEV cd and try it again. If it *still* doesn't work, I would wonder if there's a problem with this particular disk. Is it a rewritable? Do you have a known-good CD that you can try, or another machine you can try the problematic disk on? Remember, /dev/cd0c is to be used if this is a DVD you're trying to mount. (That said, I'm going by memory here, and you *may* be able to get away with mounting a DVD using /dev/acd0c.) Do I need to create some directories for this to work? How will my computer know what directories to attach the drive to? The mount command (or its variants like mount_cd9660) usually takes two arguments: the device you want to mount, and where you want to mount it. (I'm ignoring other, hyphenated arguments like -o rw and so on.) So for: mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom you're saying that you want the device /dev/acd0c to be made available at the *already-existing* directory /cdrom. (So yes, the mount point -- the directory you want to mount the device at -- has to be present already.) You can leave out one or the other argument (but not both) if there's an entry for the device in /etc/fstab. For example, you might have this entry: /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 which would mean you could get away with either mount /cdrom or mount /dev/acd0c HTH, Hugh ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flashplasyer plug-in for Opera
Arjan, I running now: /usr/ports/www/linux-opera /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper I received the message Flash6 with Opera is not avilable. on make of linuxpluginwrapper, but in browser, the shockwave flash plugin is active. I set up my browser to identify as Mozilla but web pages that use flash do not work fine. Can you send me some web page address that use flash ? www.globo.com or www.cursoaprovacao.com.br not work correctly. Thanks, Paulo. On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 14:27:57 +0200, Arjan Van Leeuwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 23:29:17 -0400, epilogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 21:49:14 -0300 Paulo Fonseca Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to enable flash plug-in on freebsd 5.1 like this: 1) cd /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplayer make install clean it's ok 2) Tools - Preferences - Plug-ins - Change path the working path is: opera; /usr/X11R6/share/opera/plugins:/usr/local/lib/flash/ it's fine 3) when opera starts with opera -debugplugin command the message below occurs: judging by the command above, you're using the 'native' version of opera (that is to say, opera for freebsd). is there any reason you would expect the LINUX-flashplayer to work? :P try /usr/ports/www/flashpluginwrapper for the native version OR install /usr/ports/www/linux-opera. either should solve your problem. Use www/linuxpluginwrapper instead of www/flashpluginwrapper - it's newer, better maintained and supports a newer version of the Flash player. That said, it doesn't work with native Opera on FreeBSD 5.x - only on 4.x. So if you want Flash in Opera on FreeBSD 5.x, use linux-opera. Arjan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo E-mail Protegido Terra. Scan engine: VirusScan / Atualizado em 08/07/2004 / Verso: 1.5.2 Proteja o seu e-mail Terra: http://www.emailprotegido.terra.com.br/ -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flashplasyer plug-in for Opera
Ok! Linux-Opera is just fine with flashplayer now on freebsd 5.1. make install on /usr/ports/www/linux-opera make install on /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin recompile and install /usr/src/libexec/rtld-elf and make /usr/ports/linuxpluginwrapper it'll runs ok! On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 22:01:56 -0300, Paulo Fonseca Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arjan, I running now: /usr/ports/www/linux-opera /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper I received the message Flash6 with Opera is not avilable. on make of linuxpluginwrapper, but in browser, the shockwave flash plugin is active. I set up my browser to identify as Mozilla but web pages that use flash do not work fine. Can you send me some web page address that use flash ? www.globo.com or www.cursoaprovacao.com.br not work correctly. Thanks, Paulo. On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 14:27:57 +0200, Arjan Van Leeuwen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 9 Jul 2004 23:29:17 -0400, epilogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 21:49:14 -0300 Paulo Fonseca Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to enable flash plug-in on freebsd 5.1 like this: 1) cd /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplayer make install clean it's ok 2) Tools - Preferences - Plug-ins - Change path the working path is: opera; /usr/X11R6/share/opera/plugins:/usr/local/lib/flash/ it's fine 3) when opera starts with opera -debugplugin command the message below occurs: judging by the command above, you're using the 'native' version of opera (that is to say, opera for freebsd). is there any reason you would expect the LINUX-flashplayer to work? :P try /usr/ports/www/flashpluginwrapper for the native version OR install /usr/ports/www/linux-opera. either should solve your problem. Use www/linuxpluginwrapper instead of www/flashpluginwrapper - it's newer, better maintained and supports a newer version of the Flash player. That said, it doesn't work with native Opera on FreeBSD 5.x - only on 4.x. So if you want Flash in Opera on FreeBSD 5.x, use linux-opera. Arjan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Esta mensagem foi verificada pelo E-mail Protegido Terra. Scan engine: VirusScan / Atualizado em 08/07/2004 / Verso: 1.5.2 Proteja o seu e-mail Terra: http://www.emailprotegido.terra.com.br/ -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: excluding from tar
On Saturday 10 July 2004 09:55 pm, D Golden wrote: I've created a tar archive of my entire system, but I want to exclude everything in /proc , /usr/ports, and the FILE /usr/backup.tar when updating the archive. I've tried: 1. cd / tar -vu --file /usr/backup.tar * --exclude=/proc --exclude=/usr/ports --exclude=/usr/backup.tar 2. cd / tar -vu --file /usr/backup.tar * --exclude=/proc/* --exclude=/usr/ports/* --exclude=/usr/backup.tar 3. cd / tar -vu -X /root/nodump --file /usr/backup.tar * and in /root/nodump I have 3 lines: /proc # Also tried /proc/* /usr/ports # Also tried /usr/ports/* /usr/backup.tar However, in all three examples, /proc , /usr/ports, and the FILE get updated. What am I missing? Dana Here is what I use - hack to suit: tar -zcf [EMAIL PROTECTED] +%m%d%y`.tgz --exclude-from /usr/home/backups/exclude.txt racerx/ Have all the excludes in the file /exclude.txt racerx# more exclude.txt /usr/home/backups/* /usr/home/racerx/Desktop/MP3/* /usr/home/racerx/downloads/* /usr/home/racerx/dcc/* ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Best regards, Chris -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ClamAV virus dat updated: Sat Jul 10 2004 at 03:02:53 daily.cvd is up to date (version: 400, sigs: 778, f-level: 2, builder: tkojm) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: excluding from tar
On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 22:55, D Golden wrote: I've created a tar archive of my entire system, but I want to exclude everything in /proc , /usr/ports, and the FILE /usr/backup.tar when updating the archive. I've tried: 1. cd / tar -vu --file /usr/backup.tar * --exclude=/proc --exclude=/usr/ports --exclude=/usr/backup.tar 2. cd / tar -vu --file /usr/backup.tar * --exclude=/proc/* --exclude=/usr/ports/* --exclude=/usr/backup.tar 3. cd / tar -vu -X /root/nodump --file /usr/backup.tar * and in /root/nodump I have 3 lines: /proc # Also tried /proc/* /usr/ports # Also tried /usr/ports/* /usr/backup.tar However, in all three examples, /proc , /usr/ports, and the FILE get updated. What am I missing? Dana ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tar removes the leading / from file names before doing the comparison, so you have to leave them out in the --exclude strings. Try usr/ports/*, for example, instead of /usr/ports/*. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How Critical Is It To Use an ISP Running FreeBSD or BSD/OS?
On Jul 10, 2004, at 17:33, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 19:09:13 -0400, Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I remember reading in The Complete FreeBSD, by Greg Lehey, that you'll be better off with an ISP that runs FreeBSD or BSD/OS. Can anyone provide a scenario(s) where this would be most apparent? I don't know Greg's reasoning for that statement but it does seem rather wrong to me. Would you judge a waitress on their choice of shoes? Of course not, you'd judge them based on their service. Would you decide on who to hire to build you a fence based on what kind of screwdriver they use? Why would you choose an ISP based on what tool they use to provide you with a service? Well, first it reflects on their judgement. If they run on FreeBSD, I give them credit for better jedgement. Secondly, if you have problems or questions, you are more likely to get an intelligent answer if they run one of the BSDs. If they run MS, they are more likely to just say they don't support anything different when you ask. In an ISP of any size, the CS reps will be almost totally divorced from the infrastructure team. What OS' they support for customers has very little to do with what they run on the backside. KeS ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
reinstall world
Hi, I gave my entire laptop's hard drive to FreeBSD, but I am beginning to have second thoughts - a lot of my devices don't work. I think I might try dual booting FreeBSD and, say, Gentoo. So this will probably work, because I'm only using a small portion of the disk at present: 17 root # df -m Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 247 123 10454%/ devfs 00 0 100%/dev /dev/ad0s1g 89310 8216 0%/home /dev/ad0s1e 9890 910 0%/tmp /dev/ad0s1f 24790 3621 1918616%/usr /dev/ad0s1d 989 37 872 4%/var What is a good way to make space on my disk? If I just repartition /usr and /home, I'll probably screw them up. So if I tar up each of the partitions, and maybe etc and some other junk as well, and then: 1. Reformat and reinstall. Put on Gentoo and BSD. 2. Go into the BSD slice and nuke everything, then unpack my tarballs. do I have a good chance of everything working right? - Jason ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbieish Desktop Questions
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 08:02:22AM -0600, Kristian Holdich wrote: ... There's one glaring problem with that, if for some reason you need to go into single user mode under FreeBSD's default slicing scheme root wont have a shell as /usr isn't mounted. It's always good practice to keep the shell root uses in /sbin or /bin. ... If your concern is that you won't be able to log in to single-user mode, consider that you will be prompted for a shell in any case (at least I am). If your concern is that you would like to have bash available in single user mode as well, make sure it is statically linked. If you will be installing from ports, the following should work (if I'm reading the Makefile correctly): cd /usr/ports/shells/bash2 make -DWANT_STATIC_BASH install clean -- Danny MacMillan ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
upgrade failure..
Hi, i have install freebsd 4.9 on a old AMD box, i have been cvsup download the source code, then upgrade it to 4.10 stable but failure at make buildkernel KERNCONF=test i give following error cc -c -O -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -W missing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -an si -nostdinc -I- -I. -I/usr/src/sys -I/usr/src/sys/../include -I/usr/src/sys/co ntrib/dev/acpica -I/usr/src/sys/contrib/ipfilter -D_KERNEL -include opt_global. h -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 /usr/src/sys/isofs/cd9660/cd9660_node.c cc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 4 *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/people. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. === Then i comment out CD9660 two line in kernel as no CD_ROM on my box. make clean == recompile But error come again. === md cc -O -pipe -include /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/people/opt_global.h -D_KERNEL -Wall - Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpo inter-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -ansi -DKLD_MODULE -nostdi nc -I- -I. -I@ -I@/../include -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -Wall -Wredundant-d ecls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -ansi -c /usr/src/sys/modules/md/../.. /dev/md/md.c cc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11 *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules/md. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/people. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. == i Comment out the two line in kernel with MD make clean == recompile and the next error.. === accf_http cc -O -pipe -include /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/people/opt_global.h -D_KERNEL -Wall - Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpo inter-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -ansi -DKLD_MODULE -nostdi nc -I- -I. -I@ -I@/../include -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -Wall -Wredundant-d ecls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -ansi -c /usr/src/sys/modules/accf_htt p/../../netinet/accf_http.c cc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11 *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules/accf_http. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sys/modules. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/people. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src. This time i have no idea on this error, it seems the compiler problem OR hardware problem, not sure... %dmesg | grep CPU CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (350.80-MHz 586-class CPU) in my kernel machine i386 #cpuI386_CPU #cpuI486_CPU cpu I586_CPU #cpuI686_CPU ident test maxusers64 What will be the problem?? Does it need to edit something in /etc/make.conf for AMD CPU or setting something on gcc?? Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HDD Sizes reported wrong?
Hey, I have a LSI MegaRaid Raid card with 5x 36gig raid 5 scsi drives.. This gives me 144gig of useable space. 133 GIG if u do the 1024 bytes calucation. So really its 133gig of useable space all up. Now my /home is getting reported at 108gig(which is right) But for some reason its saying 97gig free and 2.4 gig used.. Im confussed where the other 8.5gig or so is gone?? First I thought it counted the bytes in 1000 not 1024.. But even saying that I should have more space then I have.. /dev/amrd0s1a 2.9G50M 2.6G 2%/ devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100%/dev /dev/amrd0s1h 108G 2.4G97G 2%/home /dev/amrd0s1g 871M34K 801M 0%/tmp /dev/amrd0s1d 4.4G 1.2G 2.8G31%/usr /dev/amrd0s1e 1.9G27M 1.8G 1%/var /dev/amrd0s1f13G 2.1M12G 0%/var/log Thanks Steve ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: HDD Sizes reported wrong?
In the last episode (Jul 11), Steven Adams said: I have a LSI MegaRaid Raid card with 5x 36gig raid 5 scsi drives.. Now my /home is getting reported at 108gig(which is right) But for some reason its saying 97gig free and 2.4 gig used.. Im confussed where the other 8.5gig or so is gone?? /dev/amrd0s1h 108G 2.4G97G 2%/home First, I recommend not using the -h option when trying to total things up. You lose lots of precision. Second, the df values don't total up because 8% is reserved on ffs filesystems so the disk allocation algorithms stay efficient. You can lower it with tunefs but as the disk gets closer to 100%, performance rapidly degrades and files will get fragmented. Root can use that 8% which gives you the added benefit that if a user fills up a drive it doesn't keep root processes from working. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DISK-MORE-THAN-FULL -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
