Employment Opportunity (NOT SPAM)
I know that this is not on topic, but thought that somebody here may be interested. My company in Bristol, UK, is recruiting a Systems Administrator. I've placed the details HERE http://www.furrie.net/JobOffer You never know who this might suit ;-) intY has scanned this email for all known viruses (www.inty.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Pushing commands to the background
Hello all, I'm not sure if it's exactly On Topic (I bet you'll let me know!), but here goes... I work in technical support, for a FreeBSD based, Internet Appliance am after a way to gather some network quality information. I'd like to run some commands, one after another, have the output(s) added (appended) to a file, then, when all is complete, have that file sent to my email address. I can then compile the data make some sense of it, maybe... Stuff like: - hostname uptime ping -c 100 ftp.furrie.net traceroute ftp.furrie.net I'd like to push all the commands into the background be able to log off and let it do its business unattended. Unfortunately, with my lacking knowledge, so far I have managed this, (sad isn't it)... (ping -c 10 ftp.furrie.net /tmp/results cat /tmp/results | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Even with an at the end of this command, I do not get my prompt back :-( Please can somebody help me? Even if it's just to give me another place to ask my question... Many Thanks Everyone! Chris Phillips PS. I often write emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but rarely send them, as I read my questions before sending often find much better results when googling with my questions. intY has scanned this email for all known viruses (www.inty.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: xterm + colors just wont splice...
On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 05:13, Thanos Tsouanas wrote: Ive never managed to see colored output on an Xterm on FreeBSD.. i mean, the -bg, -fg color switches work fine... but i cant see the colors of vim, nor when i ls -G etc etc. Any ideas? Try changing your TERM to xterm-color. -Matt -- Hi yall! I too, would like to see similar colours to what I used to, when I was running Mandrake. For example, you'd get different file types shown in different colours (when doing ls) even in vi you'd get code coloured in a nice helpful fashion. Editing HTML was a joy! My favoured shell is zsh (it's what we use at work, so I am sticking with it) I've searched for some .zshrc examples but not had any great joy I'm afraid. Please can somebody point me in the right direction? Thanks ;-) FYI: - http://www.furrie.net/cgi-bin/uname-a.pl http://www.furrie.net/cgi-bin/dmesg.pl (The output of this is a little worrying... Eeek!) http://www.furrie.net/cgi-bin/uptime.pl http://www.furrie.net/cgi-bin/printenv Obviously, not all of these are usefull. I'm learning stuff though :-) intY has scanned this email for all known viruses (www.inty.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: full/half duplex
Aaron Wrote: - I have a 3Com 3c900-Combo and ifconfig is reporting that it was in half-duplex mode, so I booted up my 3com dos utility book disk and checked and it was at half-duplex so I changed it to full. ifconfig is still reporting it being half-duplex. Do I need to reinstall the driver or something? How would I go about it? *** Is it plugged into a hub or a switch? A hub will only do half duplex. A switch will do full duplex. Worth mentioning... Chris intY has scanned this email for all known viruses (www.inty.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: full/half duplex
Aaron wrote: - I have a 3Com 3c900-Combo and ifconfig is reporting that it was in half-duplex mode, so I booted up my 3com dos utility book disk and checked and it was at half-duplex so I changed it to full. ifconfig is still reporting it being half-duplex. Do I need to reinstall the driver or something? How would I go about it? Chris Phillips wrote: Is it plugged into a hub or a switch? A hub will only do half duplex. A switch will do full duplex. Worth mentioning... Aaron wrote: - Oh yes and btw, the nic that's hooked up to my cable modem, a 3c509B is also set at full duplex by the 3com utility but it does not come up half-duplex.. didnt know if this info would help. Then... Well, it was plugged into a hub. I just went downstairs and swapped the hub with a switch, rebooted the freebsd box just to be sure, and xl0 still came up half-duplex. any other ideas? *** I think you could do with submitting a bit more info before anybody can make any educated guesses. I'm definitely stuck without any more ;-) Chris intY has scanned this email for all known viruses (www.inty.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Dmesg filled with arp: link address is broadcast for IP address
Hello, I've had an annoying connectivity failure with a Windows 98 SE client just now left a ping running to see if any wire wiggling I did was helping... I duly forgot about this! While doing something else, (just about to post about apache2 frontpage), my dmesg was filled with this: - arp: link address is broadcast for IP address 10.6.8.22! arp: link address is broadcast for IP address 10.6.8.22! arp: link address is broadcast for IP address 10.6.8.22! arp: link address is broadcast for IP address 10.6.8.22! Then I put the suspect host on to DHCP on reboot I got this in dmesg: - arp: link address is broadcast for IP address 169.254.14.80! So, it's presumably down to this dodgy device...? (still not functioning btw... But its new IP kind of gives that away doesn't it!) It's connected lights the port up on the switch (even flashing with my pings) I've tried searching google previous posts on the mailinglist to no avail... Any Ideas Chaps? Chris Phillips System Details can be found here: http://www.furrie.net/Aphrodite/ intY has scanned this email for all known viruses (www.inty.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Apache2 Port FrontPage Extensions
Hello, I have installed the apache2 port on my FreeBSD server: - I have spent the evening looking on Google, FreeBSD, Apache even M$ but I think I must really suck at searching, as I have come up with no helpful links about Apache2 and FrontPage Extensions. I wouldn't install them except that I've offered to host a website for a charity they use them :-| Have I done wrong by installing apache2 instead of 1.3? I hope not. I'd rather not post here as I feel like I am a pest. Any links that people have found useful themselves, would be much appreciated, so I can go away RTFM. Many thanks in advance, Chris Phillips uname -a dmesg can be found here: http://www.furrie.net/Aphrodite/ I'm open to suggestions for some more useful things that I could include in the webpage above? I'm subscribed to the FreeBSD-Questions, but if you do not wish to SPAM the list, emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] are fine. intY has scanned this email for all known viruses (www.inty.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: Using mount... (SOLVED)
Chris Phillips wrote: - Hi, I have read man mount googled lots but I am at a loss as how to mount the 2 partitions on my 2nd hard disk. I've created 2 new partitions on it: /dev/ad1s1b (swap) and /dev/ad1s1e /data (ufs) Ideally, I'd like to mount both the swap the /data partition, then use mount -p to give me the correct format of the required /etc/fstab entries... I am stumbling at the first step unfortunately :-( aphrodite# uname -a FreeBSD aphrodite.furrie.net 4.8-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-PRERELEASE #1: Thu Feb 20 23:27:51 GMT 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/APHRODITE i386 aphrodite# dmesg (somewhat snipped) ad0: 19092MB WDC WD200EB-00BHF0 [38792/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA66 ad1: 114473MB WDC WD1200BB-00CAA1 [232581/16/63] at ata0-slave UDMA66 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a aphrodite# mount /dev/ad1s1e /data mount: /dev/ad1s1e on /data: incorrect super block Matthew said: - Right. First of all, swap partitions aren't mounted as such. You just have to tell the system to start swapping onto the partition: # swapon /dev/ad1s1b To make that happen automatically on reboots, add a line like so to /etc/fstab: /dev/ad1s1b none swap sw 0 0 In order to mount your /data partition, either you need to tell the mount command all the parameters it needs: # mount -t ufs -o rw /dev/ad1s1e /data or you need to enter the equivalent data into /fstab so that mount can look up what it needs to know there. There are some other fields in fstab that 'mount -p' will give default values, but that you'll probably want to set to something useful. Try something like this in fstab: /dev/ad1s1e /data ufs rw 2 2 Oh, and do make sure you've created a filesystem on the partition before you try and mount it.. # newfs /dev/ad1s1e Josh also mentioned newfs... Chris Phillips thanks all as this is now SOLVED! I was experiencing some difficulty, as if I added the said lines into /etc/fstab, I would be unable to boot completely. This was possibly due to the fact that when I used /stand/sysinstall to fdisk the drive label the partitions, it would seem to have not done anything... Oh dear! I tried again (omitting the swap space as already have a big'un on the 1st drive (ad0). I used the W option in the label editor which seemed to do the trick now with the fstab file looking like the one below, things are wonderful again ;-) aphrodite# more /etc/fstab # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ad0s1b noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0s1f /tmp ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1g /usr ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad0s1e /var ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad1s1e /data ufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 proc/proc procfs rw 0 0 I can now get the system back to normal, (having copied the contents of the /data disk all over the place, while I reformatted it)... /usr being somewhat crowded at the moment! That's not to mention me XP box that's completely maxed out with copied data ;-) aphrodite# df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a128990 30598 8807426% / /dev/ad0s1f 257998 428 236932 0% /tmp /dev/ad0s1g17586670 15102178 107756093%/usr /dev/ad0s1e257998 6188 231172 3% /var /dev/ad1s1e115394404 225978 1059368740% /data procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc Thanks again all xx end intY has scanned this email for all known viruses (www.inty.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
I dont seem able to post here :-(
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Re: I dont seem able to post here :-(
Chris Phillips wrote: What be my problem? Bill wrote: - Check the issues listed here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#FREEBSD-M AIL-BOUNCES -- Bill Moran Having established that I can post (I think i may have been a proper dullard - need I mention HTML mail?), I was composing an email all about how I was having trouble mounting my ext2 disk, when I figured it out ;-) Now I just have to figure out the values I need to put into /etc/fstab, so I can do without the mount command... I am googling some more so this topis can safely be put to bed... Many thanks for the replies BTW ;-) CJP end intY has scanned this email for all known viruses (www.inty.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: X server for Windows
Subject: Re: X server for Windows On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 04:14, Ben Williams wrote: Friday, January 31, 2003, 3:55:02 AM, you wrote: X-Win32 by Starnet is the nicest win32 X Server I've seen, but you have to buy it after the trial's up. As a regular user of Xwin32, it's incredibly buggy and unstable compared to eXceed from Hummingbird. Adam - Original Message - I can wholeheartedly recommend Hummingbird - Exceed. Have used it in a training environment also at home work, finding it most excellent ;-) Chris Phillips (furrie) intY has scanned this email for all known viruses (www.inty.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
FD_SETSIZE and increasing FD amount in BIND
Hi, I'm following BIND's loosely documented procedures on how to increase the amount of file descriptors that BIND can use. I've created the file fd_setsize.h in the ports/freebsd/include directory as specified by BIND's INSTALL file. Does anyone have any experience with this? Thanks! -Chris Phillips -BChosting.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -866 255 3377 (toll-free) -604 764 0269 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
