"Root Directory Not Found"

2002-11-21 Thread James Wu
Rant: I'm quite a newbie to the BSDs, having migrated recently from the Linux's, and have found the consistancy I have been looking for throughout all the Linux distributions. This is my dream operating system! Critical Question: After following a couple security guides (namely http://defcon1.o

Re: port forwarding

2002-11-21 Thread Axel Gruner
Hiho. On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 18:48:03 -0800 (PST) Shvetima Gulati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the easiest way of forwarding a port in FreeBSD. Suppose I > want my server to listen on port 8280, but want all connection > attempts to port 80 to be forwarded to this port ... can that be > done

Re: How to monitor user commands

2002-11-21 Thread Axel Gruner
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:51:59 +0100 Olivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here is my problem : I have a FreeBSD box with a couple shell > accounts, accessible through ssh. I would like to be able to monitor > the commands some users are issuing, and be noticed about when they > log, how long and wha

Re: FreeBSD ISO Images

2002-11-21 Thread Axel Gruner
Hiho. On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 09:08:09 +0300 Odhiambo Washington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Turns out that the image is good but I am as stupid as the IBM Aptiva > that was giving the "no kernel" message, in that I did not test the > image on a different machine. I am amazed no flames came my way ;

Re: A question of where to put swap

2002-11-21 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:04:58AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:44:54AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > I am in the business of re-arranging my disk layouts to reflect the > > realities if life :) > > My FreeBSD system currently runs on a SCSI-3 Disk, but I have two >

Re: VPN

2002-11-21 Thread Nikolay Petrov
Hello Ian, Thursday, November 21, 2002, 11:18:27 PM, you wrote: IW> Been looking at a number of how-to's on the web for connecting Win2k IW> clients to Freebsd as a VPN. IW> However, despite carefully following them, I can't get any of them to IW> work. IW> Could someone on the list who has man

ATAPI magneto-optical device trouble

2002-11-21 Thread Ruslan Ivachnenko
Does FreeBSD-4 STABLE support FUJITSU MCE3130AP/0020 ATAPI magneto-optical device? If yes, how should i configure it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: enabling finger - why not?

2002-11-21 Thread Jeff Jirsa
On 21 Nov 2002, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > At 2002-11-22T03:18:29Z, Jeff Jirsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Finger is relatively safe. Most of the arguments for not allowing it > > involve privacy rather than security (I don't really like people knowing > > when I log in and out, if they need t

Problem with the upgrade and now I need to rollback.. =/

2002-11-21 Thread Ben Turner
Ok well I attempted the upgrade on a remote machine from 4.6 to 5.0 and it failed, miserably. Before it failed, it was throwing a message across the screen as to the location where it backed up the existing kernel. Does anyone, by chance, know the default location and filename for the kernel backup

Re: FreeBSD ISO Images

2002-11-21 Thread Odhiambo Washington
* Anand Buddhdev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20021121 19:27]: wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 06:48:28PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > > I must have missed this. Or simply dump. period. > > > > It looks like there is no more ISO image to burn to a CD since 4.6

Re: Bash programming; Was: connecting to SCSI drive

2002-11-21 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:41:13AM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote: > MSG=$(sudo mount ... 2>&1) > if [ $? -ne 0 -a $MSG == "Device not configured" ]; then > echo "My custom error message" > fi Thanks. The one thing I never thought to try was putting '2>&1' *inside* the parenthes

Re: [oetiker@ee.ethz.ch: Re: MRTG problem]

2002-11-21 Thread budsz
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 01:37:38PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: >For what it's worth 2.9.26 works fine on my -current system, monitoring >~500 ports. Ups I forgot tell about this, I was upgrade mrtg via portupgrade and I run in FreeBSD-4.7 STABLE version. -- budsz To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAI

Re: [oetiker@ee.ethz.ch: Re: MRTG problem]

2002-11-21 Thread budsz
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 09:07:06PM +0100, Frank Reppin wrote: >budsz: have you already informed the maintainer? Not yet sir. Maybe I'll try. Thx -- budsz To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: enabling finger - why not?

2002-11-21 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-11-22T03:18:29Z, Jeff Jirsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Finger is relatively safe. Most of the arguments for not allowing it > involve privacy rather than security (I don't really like people knowing > when I log in and out, if they need to bother me, there are better ways to > track me

dns problem

2002-11-21 Thread Jeff
I'm running into a DNS problem, I'm not certain where the problem is, but hopefully with this information someone can assist me. the problem right now is exclusively with *.etrade.com I am running an internal DNS server. (FBSD-4.6.2/named-8.3.3 with the most recent security patches, and the mos

Re: smc wireless adhoc

2002-11-21 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Bognár, Attila" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : What other suggestions do you have? adhoc mode sucks really badly on -stable. I'd use hostap. Alternatively, I'd use ibss-create if you really want to run in 'adhoc' mode. Normal adhoc sucks between cards

Re: port forwarding

2002-11-21 Thread Marco Radzinschi
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Shvetima Gulati wrote: > > Hi all, > > What is the easiest way of forwarding a port in FreeBSD. Suppose I want > my server to listen on port 8280, but want all connection attempts to port > 80 to be forwarded to this port ... can that be done? > > Thanks, > Shv Yes, with IPF

Re: SanDisk SD USB reader

2002-11-21 Thread Scott A. Moberly
> On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 21:35:18 -0600 (CST) > "Scott A. Moberly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > In local.freebsd-stable, you wrote: >> >> Just curious if I am barking up the wrong tree here (device not >> supported)? >> >> >> >> from kernel config file: >> >> >> >> device umass

Re: wanted: suggested sysctl variables for heavily used high-capacityfile-server

2002-11-21 Thread Mike Silbersack
Don't bother changing the icmp bandlim sysctl settings or disabling it, it won't help. What you're seeing is the result of packets being rejected after smbd crashed. Icmp bandwidth limiting had nothing to do with samba crashing, so don't bother fiddling with it. What you should do is use gdb to

Re: enabling finger - why not?

2002-11-21 Thread Jeff Jirsa
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, JacobRhoden wrote: > Hi, > > I have a machine which has a number of users, and its a 'possibility' that > they could do something they shouldnt. What are the reasons which I may not > want finger enabled? > > (The machine has sendmail and httpd, so a DoS through the finger por

enabling finger - why not?

2002-11-21 Thread JacobRhoden
Hi, I have a machine which has a number of users, and its a 'possibility' that they could do something they shouldnt. What are the reasons which I may not want finger enabled? (The machine has sendmail and httpd, so a DoS through the finger port is probably not an issue) Regards, Jacob Jaco

/dev/random

2002-11-21 Thread Martin McCormick
I am the one who asked the question about /dev/random earlier today. I don't know if answers are appropriate on this list, but here is what I found out: The /dev/random device was working but exceedingly slowly because I was using the wrong IRQ's. That was partly due to the fact

Re: wanted: suggested sysctl variables for heavily used high-capacity file-server

2002-11-21 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 21), David Smithson said: > Hi. I'm seeking suggestions for sysctl variables to use on a > highly-taxed mission-critical file-server. This computer exports two > 630GB arrays via SAMBA over gigabit on 3ware escalades. Anyone have > any tips? > > The reason I'm asking is

port forwarding

2002-11-21 Thread Shvetima Gulati
Hi all, What is the easiest way of forwarding a port in FreeBSD. Suppose I want my server to listen on port 8280, but want all connection attempts to port 80 to be forwarded to this port ... can that be done? Thanks, Shv To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freeb

Re: FreeBSD gateway

2002-11-21 Thread Thomas Heien
The last two lines from dmesg: IP packet filtering initialized, divert disabled, rule-based forwarding enabled, default to deny, logging disabled ip_fw_ctl: invalid command Well, I've been having the same exact problem as Constatine posted, so when I got home tonite and looked up the last erro

Re: shell script

2002-11-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2002-11-21 14:10, Brian Henning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a simple shell script problem. if i have a file name with a > space in the name the following script doesn't get the entire name. > The for loop conditional statement below stops for spaces or new > lines... i would like it to s

openssl port problem

2002-11-21 Thread Ken Kroel
greetings all, i am having a problem with the openssl port (FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE). i have installed it and openssh (which works fine) using the ports, but when i try to install several other programs that depend on openssl (sylpheed-claws, vtun), they fail and tell me that they can't find openssl:

Samba Problem

2002-11-21 Thread Adam Stroud
I am relatively new to FreeBSD. I have been using Linux for about a year and I have decided to make the change to FreeBSD. I currently have one computer running Win98, one running RedHat Linux and one running FreeBSD. I am having trouble connecting to the smb shares on the Linux box from the

Re: Portsupgrade -uU

2002-11-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 11:44:10PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > Mmm..the dependency list warnings hit with me with complaints about > things not found in "japanese". Since I have a refuse file that excludes > all the non-English languages, and the ports directory for them do not > exist I am a

Re: wanted: suggested sysctl variables for heavily used high-capacity file-server

2002-11-21 Thread David Smithson
Hi. > > > > > 6 Nov 21 04:20:01 fnord /kernel: Limiting icmp unreach response from 208 > > > to 200 packets per second > > > > This is because you have 'options ICMP_BANDLIM' in your kernel config. > > Further more you can increase this by setting net.inet.icmp.icmplim: 200 > using sysctl. That's

Re: wanted: suggested sysctl variables for heavily used high-capacity file-server

2002-11-21 Thread david
On Thursday 21 November 2002 20:08, david wrote: > [snip] > > > 6 Nov 21 04:20:01 fnord /kernel: Limiting icmp unreach response from 208 > > to 200 packets per second > > This is because you have 'options ICMP_BANDLIM' in your kernel config. Further more you can increase this by setting net.inet.i

Re: wanted: suggested sysctl variables for heavily used high-capacity file-server

2002-11-21 Thread david
[snip] > 6 Nov 21 04:20:01 fnord /kernel: Limiting icmp unreach response from 208 to > 200 packets per second This is because you have 'options ICMP_BANDLIM' in your kernel config. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: restore question

2002-11-21 Thread Mark
Actually, come to think of it, I could use my RAID controller to do a "hardware" backup. That is, whenever I want to make a backup, I could simply remove the second disk of the RAID 1, insert a blank disk, and have the new disk rebuild, and store the disk I took out as backup. Then, for the next ba

Re: Multiple questions...

2002-11-21 Thread Philip Hallstrom
> since when does 'w' show ftp users that are not on a tty? They dont.. I > just double checked Most people that setup a FreeBSD machine, know > all about man also.. Okay... so I was wrong... but you also said "background" not just FTP... and the man page references ps which would give it to

wanted: suggested sysctl variables for heavily used high-capacity file-server

2002-11-21 Thread David Smithson
Hi. I'm seeking suggestions for sysctl variables to use on a highly-taxed mission-critical file-server. This computer exports two 630GB arrays via SAMBA over gigabit on 3ware escalades. Anyone have any tips? The reason I'm asking is because smbd has been dropping processes lately. I recently a

Re: Multiple questions...

2002-11-21 Thread Chris P
since when does 'w' show ftp users that are not on a tty? They dont.. I just double checked Most people that setup a FreeBSD machine, know all about man also.. C. On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > > Whats an easy way to check if people are using my machine in the > > backround

Re: Aging Apple LaserWriter

2002-11-21 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > I could not find what I want to know doing the ususal perusals. > I have the chance to pick up an aging Apple Laserwriter 16/600 that > supports PS2 .. I assume (hope) that this would work trouble-free on > FreeBSD. It has parallel port and ethernet co

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2002-11-21 Thread Eric Dedrick
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Re: Boot stuck at F1 after swapping drives

2002-11-21 Thread Andrew Y Ng
I actually only have one partition and a swap partition, here are fdisk and disklabel outputs, and it's an IDE drive. thanks! ayn@aynlaptop:~>fdisk -s /dev/ad0: 1836 cyl 255 hd 63 sec PartStartSize Type Flags 1: 6329495277 0xa5 0x80 ayn@aynlaptop:~>disklabel /dev/a

Re: Disk copying

2002-11-21 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: "David Schultz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 12:44 AM Subject: Re: Disk copying > Are the disks the same size/geometry? If so: > > dd if=/dev/olddisk of=/dev/newdisk bs=32k Can "dd" also be

Re: A question of where to put swap

2002-11-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:44:54AM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > I am in the business of re-arranging my disk layouts to reflect the > realities if life :) > My FreeBSD system currently runs on a SCSI-3 Disk, but I have two > modern, fast IDE disks that will be gaining a considerable amount of >

Re: A question of where to put swap

2002-11-21 Thread Duncan Anker
On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 09:44, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > I am in the business of re-arranging my disk layouts to reflect the > realities if life :) > My FreeBSD system currently runs on a SCSI-3 Disk, but I have two > modern, fast IDE disks that will be gaining a considerable amount of > free space in

Re: Multiple questions...

2002-11-21 Thread Philip Hallstrom
> Whats an easy way to check if people are using my machine in the > backround.. IE doing an ftp? Is there something other then checking man w > OK, and the next question.. My setup is like this.. wireless in (an0) > NAT/DHCP (false addresses) out on sis0 to the house network. > > Once in a whil

A question of where to put swap

2002-11-21 Thread Cliff Sarginson
I am in the business of re-arranging my disk layouts to reflect the realities if life :) My FreeBSD system currently runs on a SCSI-3 Disk, but I have two modern, fast IDE disks that will be gaining a considerable amount of free space in the re-arrangements. I tend to run during the course of the d

Re: Disk copying

2002-11-21 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I want to backup my disk with all of its contents. Exactly, I want to copy > it completely to another disk. > > I have only one freebsd partition and several slices on my disk. I want to > copy all the data to another bigger disk preserving my

Re: OSS drivers from 4Front

2002-11-21 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake John Bleichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is anybody using the OSS sound drivers from 4Front? If so, are they any > good? I'm trying to do some recording and mixing in BSD (using > Audacity) and I'm getting whacked by the lack of full-duplex support in > the native drivers for my sound ca

Re: Reacting to spam targetted to freebsd.org [was: Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.]

2002-11-21 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Yann Golanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Quoth Giorgos Keramidas on Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 15:58:03 +0200 > > This very spammer has hit the lists more than once, and every time I > > mailed {abuse|postmaster} at a2000.nl. If they receive a few hundred > > messages for each spam message they l

Re: XFree86 Problem: Cannot Disable Virtual Desktop

2002-11-21 Thread Bernardo M. Brummer
It's a little tricky, but I did it this way: used the graphic xf86cfg (or something like that), there I went to video modes, it opens quite a big chart where you can find depth and video modes options. A few tries and I got 1150x980 (or something like) with 15bits, which I liked better than 1280x

Re: Boot stuck at F1 after swapping drives

2002-11-21 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Andrew Y Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, I shutdown FreeBSD and changed my harddrive and > booted up Win2K this morning (needed Windoze for something > real quick). I put the FreeBSD harddrive back and it wouldn't > boot, it got stuck at the F1 boot0 prompt. Like it couldn't > find th

Multiple questions...

2002-11-21 Thread Chris P
Hello all, I have a couple of simple questions, and 1 tough one.. First the easy ones.. Whats an easy way to check if people are using my machine in the backround.. IE doing an ftp? Is there something other then checking processes? like maybe a netstat command or something? I'm asking this m

Re: Aging Apple LaserWriter

2002-11-21 Thread Matthew Emmerton
> Hello, > I could not find what I want to know doing the ususal perusals. > I have the chance to pick up an aging Apple Laserwriter 16/600 that > supports PS2 .. I assume (hope) that this would work trouble-free on > FreeBSD. It has parallel port and ethernet connections. > > (I know you have to m

Re: Buf, Wired and Inact memory

2002-11-21 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Avleen Vig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I understand that Inact memory is memory that has been requested by > processes but not in use. Is this correct? > > I don't understand however, what Buf and Wired memory is used for. How > many I free some of this up for use by my other processes? An

Re: Confirmation: ext2fs requires kernel rebuild?

2002-11-21 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 03:09:12PM -0800, David Schultz wrote: > Thus spake Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > LINT says: > > > ># > > > ># Add support for the EXT2FS filesystem of Linux fame. Be a bit > > > ># careful with this - the ext2fs code has a tendency to lag behind > > > ># cha

Re: Confirmation: ext2fs requires kernel rebuild?

2002-11-21 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > LINT says: > > ># > > ># Add support for the EXT2FS filesystem of Linux fame. Be a bit > > ># careful with this - the ext2fs code has a tendency to lag behind > > ># changes and not be exercised very much, so mounting read/write could > > >#

Aging Apple LaserWriter

2002-11-21 Thread Cliff Sarginson
Hello, I could not find what I want to know doing the ususal perusals. I have the chance to pick up an aging Apple Laserwriter 16/600 that supports PS2 .. I assume (hope) that this would work trouble-free on FreeBSD. It has parallel port and ethernet connections. (I know you have to make provision

Re: Disk copying

2002-11-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hello, > > I want to backup my disk with all of its contents. Exactly, I want to copy > it completely to another disk. > > I have only one freebsd partition and several slices on my disk. I want to > copy all the data to another bigger disk preserving my user and group > settings. > >

Re: Portsupgrade -uU

2002-11-21 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:21:30AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:28:45PM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote: > > At 02:04 AM 11/21/02, you wrote: > > >On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:21:07AM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote: > > >> > > >> When running "portsupgrade -uU" I get the output be

Disk copying

2002-11-21 Thread ertank
Hello, I want to backup my disk with all of its contents. Exactly, I want to copy it completely to another disk. I have only one freebsd partition and several slices on my disk. I want to copy all the data to another bigger disk preserving my user and group settings. Is it possible to use

Re: Changing to/from user within script

2002-11-21 Thread Paul A. Scott
> I want to run a cron job as a user on my system. Once the job has > completed I need root privileges to power the system down. I don't > mind if the script has to run as a root cron job, but running the > processing as a user will prevent against filling a partition. > > Can this be done wit

disk-to-disk backup of root/bootable filesystem (?)

2002-11-21 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
I have an x86 system here that contains an 18GB SCSI drive and also a 20GB IDE drive. The 18GB SCSI drive contains a complete FreeBSD system that has been installed and then tailored to my personal preferences. It also contains a lot of my personal working files. The SCSI drive contains only a

What minimum version to support broadcom 5703?

2002-11-21 Thread Michael Scheidell
What minimum version of FBSD to I need to support the Broadcom 5703X? gig card? I did notice that 4.5 supports earlier ones, and found a patch to stable for the 5702. I applied that patch to my 4.5 sources, and volia! fbsd boots and sees the devices! (but with a bogus mac addy and it really didn

Re: artsd & ogle

2002-11-21 Thread Lauri Watts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 21 November 2002 21.14, Peter J. Blok wrote: > My question: does artsd need to keep /dev/dsp open all the time? Should > ogle be able to open /dev/dsp at the same time and not get an error while > opening it? No, you can tell it to exit w

Re: nVidia drivers w/ 4.7-RELEASE

2002-11-21 Thread Kenneth Culver
I had them working just fine on -RELEASE. Ken On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, lewiz wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 08:25:39AM +0530, Gautham Ganapathy wrote: > > Will the nvidia drivers work with 4.7-RELEASE? 4.7-STABLE won't have > > ISOs, right? > > You need 4.7-STABLE to get the NVidia drivers working

Re: RAID Recomendation

2002-11-21 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2002-11-21T18:51:30Z, Alvaro Gil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 1 - Can I do this with software? I have read sections 12 and 13 but I am > still a bit confused if I can back up the entire disk? Absolutely! I'm using vinum on several production systems to great effect. > That is, if one fail

smc wireless adhoc

2002-11-21 Thread Bognár, Attila
Hello, I have an smc2632w, smc2602w and asus spacelink wl-100 wireless network cards. But I can't manage to get all three of them to work together. The configuration is following: - 1 PC with smc2602w PCI card, freebsd 4.6 (gateway) - 1 notebook with smc2632w PCMCIA card, win98 - 1 notebook with

Changing to/from user within script

2002-11-21 Thread Jeff Penn
Possibly a trivial question. I want to run a cron job as a user on my system. Once the job has completed I need root privileges to power the system down. I don't mind if the script has to run as a root cron job, but running the processing as a user will prevent against filling a partition. C

Re: Dual-Boot Windows 2000 and FreeBSD 4.6

2002-11-21 Thread Jud
-Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Laszlo Vagner) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 16:42:22 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: Dual-Boot Windows 2000 and FreeBSD 4.6 > > better yet create 2 partitions while installing win2k, but only install > on the first

Re: OSS drivers from 4Front

2002-11-21 Thread Vivek Khera
> "JB" == John Bleichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JB> Is anybody using the OSS sound drivers from 4Front? If so, are they any JB> good? I'm trying to do some recording and mixing in BSD (using JB> Audacity) and I'm getting whacked by the lack of full-duplex support in JB> the native driv

Re: Portsupgrade -uU

2002-11-21 Thread Kent Stewart
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:58:44PM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: I use the /usr/ports/Tools/portbuild/scripts/makeindex script on bento that takes care of everything to generate a clean INDEX..I probably should fold this back into 'make index' itself. I changed my uports s

Re: jumpy optic mouse

2002-11-21 Thread Dave McCammon
--- "Gary W. Swearingen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave McCammon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Anyone got a fix for a jumpy optic mouse in X > > It is a PS/2 Labtec Optical Mouse. > > How jumpy? Do you just need to play with the mouse > settings of "xset"? Mouse will move normally, then,

Re: RAID Recomendation

2002-11-21 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 10:40 PM 11.21.2002 +0100, Mark wrote: >- Original Message - >From: "Alvaro Gil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 7:51 PM >Subject: RAID Recomendation > >> 1 - Can I do this with software? I have read sections 12 and 13 >> but I am still a

Re: passwords in /etc/group

2002-11-21 Thread Cliff Sarginson
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:20:32PM +0300, Sergey Matveychuk wrote: > Hello. > > How can I use password in /etc/group? > If I can't, why man groups keep silence about it? > Probably because no-one uses them :) What purpose do they serve ? A System Manager can put the users in the appropriate group

Re: shell script

2002-11-21 Thread pbdlists
Hello Brian, First of all, your script will not run, you forgot a closing quote on the third line from the end. But not to your problem. I was pounding over a similar issue recently and the solution I came up with was to replace the for loop with a while loop combined with a read command. not wo

Re: How to Start the Random Number Generator

2002-11-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:54:33AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > the man page in section 4 for random mentions a seed to > get everything started, but I can't seem to find any other > information to cause /dev/random to spit out data yet. The > dnssec-keygen application still hangs so I

Re: Reacting to spam targetted to freebsd.org [was: Re: PLS GET BACK TO ME.]

2002-11-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 02:00:56PM +, Yann Golanski wrote: > Quoth Giorgos Keramidas on Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 15:58:03 +0200 > > This very spammer has hit the lists more than once, and every time I > > mailed {abuse|postmaster} at a2000.nl. If they receive a few hundred > > messages for each sp

Re: Advantages over GNU/Linux?

2002-11-21 Thread lewiz
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 07:45:21PM -0500, Lee Nelson wrote: > P.S. if you need a virus scanner on FreeBSD check out > VirusScan from Network Associates. They have a > command line scanner that integrates with Amavis > and is very simple to install and update. > Not affliated, j

Re: Portsupgrade -uU

2002-11-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:58:44PM -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > >>INDEX builds shouldn't have any warnings if you perform them in a > >>clean environment. Either your ports collection is out of date > >>(i.e. in an inconsistent state) or the index build is picking up > >>things from the host envi

Re: Dual-Boot Windows 2000 and FreeBSD 4.6

2002-11-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > better yet create 2 partitions while installing win2k, but only install > on the first, then > install freebsd on the second, finally install the freebsd boot manager. Yup. If you have to go back and reinstall W2K anyway. But, if you already have it there, squeezing it is easier and less h

Re: RAID Recomendation

2002-11-21 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: "Alvaro Gil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 7:51 PM Subject: RAID Recomendation > 1 - Can I do this with software? I have read sections 12 and 13 > but I am still a bit confused if I can back up the entire disk? > T

Re: nVidia drivers w/ 4.7-RELEASE

2002-11-21 Thread lewiz
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 08:25:39AM +0530, Gautham Ganapathy wrote: > Will the nvidia drivers work with 4.7-RELEASE? 4.7-STABLE won't have > ISOs, right? You need 4.7-STABLE to get the NVidia drivers working. I don't know exactly what -RELEASE is missing but I'm quite sure. There are still proble

Re: panic: kmem_map too small

2002-11-21 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Petri Helenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >Most kernel memory is not pageable, so swap probably won't help > >you. Your `kmem_map too small' error message should report to you > >the size of the attempted allocation and the size of kmem_map. > >If the map really isn't full, I'm not sure why

Re: RAID Recomendation

2002-11-21 Thread John Von Essen
Alvaro, For a hardware solution, I would recommend the Adaptec 2400A - which supports up to four drives. The retail kit includes cables and goes for around $340. This card allows you to boot from the array. -John Von Essen On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 01:51 PM, Alvaro Gil wrote: I am in

Re: VPN

2002-11-21 Thread Philip Hallstrom
this worked for me the last time I did it. http://stuff.adhesivemedia.com/freebsd/mpd.php On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Ian Watkinson wrote: > Been looking at a number of how-to's on the web for connecting Win2k > clients to Freebsd as a VPN. > > However, despite carefully following them, I can't get any

Re: Is there such a thing like a TCP proxy|relay?

2002-11-21 Thread Carlos Carnero
Hi, > I think you want NAT: Umm, not really. Following Mr. Hallstrom suggestion I tried balance and it works beautifully for my needs. Thanks a lot :) Carlos. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus – Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.

VPN

2002-11-21 Thread Ian Watkinson
Been looking at a number of how-to's on the web for connecting Win2k clients to Freebsd as a VPN. However, despite carefully following them, I can't get any of them to work. Could someone on the list who has managed this, either point me in the direction of a how-to that works, or share their con

Re: panic: kmem_map too small

2002-11-21 Thread Petri Helenius
David Schultz wrote: Most kernel memory is not pageable, so swap probably won't help you. Your `kmem_map too small' error message should report to you the size of the attempted allocation and the size of kmem_map. If the map really isn't full, I'm not sure why you would get this panic, unless yo

Re: jumpy optic mouse

2002-11-21 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Dave McCammon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone got a fix for a jumpy optic mouse in X > It is a PS/2 Labtec Optical Mouse. How jumpy? Do you just need to play with the mouse settings of "xset"? Mouse setup is fairly well documented. I think most people configure "moused" to run the mouse a

Re: Portsupgrade -uU

2002-11-21 Thread Kent Stewart
Kent Stewart wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:28:45PM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote: At 02:04 AM 11/21/02, you wrote: On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:21:07AM -0600, Scott Gerhardt wrote: When running "portsupgrade -uU" I get the output below. How can I fix these mal

Re: Is there such a thing like a TCP proxy|relay?

2002-11-21 Thread Philip Hallstrom
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=tcp%20proxy&stype=all On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Carlos Carnero wrote: > Hi, > > ok, this is another wacky question. I have connected > two subnetworks to my FreeBSD router to the internet. > By design they shouln't be able to communicate between > them--which

Re: Find abandoned packages

2002-11-21 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
"Liquid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you check out /var/db/pkg it lists what ports are installed > essentially. I don't know how to tell whether or not it?s a dependency > though, so maybe someone else can answer that. I'd like to know that > too come to think of it. Please keep non-ASCII

Re: panic: kmem_map too small

2002-11-21 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Petri Helenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > With about 150M in use and KVA_PAGES undefined in config (default), > > > both 4.7-STABLE and 5.0-CURRENT panic (1G installed memory). > > > > Yes, the default is 256, IIRC. That corresponds to 1 GB of KVA, > > and you have only 1 GB of physical

Input/output error on PWS600au when mounting floppy and cdrom

2002-11-21 Thread Marco Beishuizen
Hi, Since running FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE on my DEC/PWS600au I can't mount floppies and cdrom's anymore. In both cases I get the same error: msdos: /dev/fd0: Input/output error cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Input/output error On FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE they worked fine. The floppy and cdrom also mount on my Inte

Re: rxvt slow startup after installing xfstt

2002-11-21 Thread parv
in message <000b01c29160$7c5c8000$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Nils Nordén thusly... > > I'm using rxvt 2.6.4_1 and it's working great... > until I install xfstt 1.1_1. ... > I'm using Freebsd 4.7-release on XFree86 4.2.1. just curious: isn't xfs support built in XFree86 4.2.1 enough (so that you see

Re: Is there such a thing like a TCP proxy|relay?

2002-11-21 Thread Matt Smith
I think you want NAT: man ipnat man natd -Matt On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 15:30, Carlos Carnero wrote: > Hi, > > ok, this is another wacky question. I have connected > two subnetworks to my FreeBSD router to the internet. > By design they shouln't be able to communicate between > them--which I have do

Is there such a thing like a TCP proxy|relay?

2002-11-21 Thread Carlos Carnero
Hi, ok, this is another wacky question. I have connected two subnetworks to my FreeBSD router to the internet. By design they shouln't be able to communicate between them--which I have done with IP Filter. What I'd like to do now is to make a TCP proxy/relay on my firewall/router. For instance, o

Re: jumpy optic mouse

2002-11-21 Thread david
On Thursday 21 November 2002 15:08, Dave McCammon wrote: > --- Kliment Andreev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ directory, I only have > > > example config files. One is XF86Config.98 and the > > > other is XF86Config.eg. > > > > So you have one XF86Config file. Check thi

Re: Confirmation: ext2fs requires kernel rebuild?

2002-11-21 Thread David Schultz
Thus spake Chris Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> >even into GENERIC. To do the latter, the module must exist; > >> >it will be created if you make the kernel with -DWANT_EXT2FS_MODULE. > >> >It is also installed by sysinstall, IIRC. > >> [...] > > > >Hmm...I think you're right. I don't see any d

artsd & ogle

2002-11-21 Thread Peter J. Blok
Hi, I am trying to make ogle work, but it bails out /dev/dsp being busy. Turns out that artsd has it still open. When I kill artsd, ogle works fine. It used to work very well, but (I think) since I did a portupgrade from arts-1.0.3 to arts-1.0.4_1 it stopped working. My question: does artsd ne

shell script

2002-11-21 Thread Brian Henning
Hello, i have a simple shell script problem. if i have a file name with a space in the name the following script doesn't get the entire name. The for loop conditional statement below stops for spaces or new lines... i would like it to stop for just new lines. is there a way to do that with shell s

NSS anyone?

2002-11-21 Thread Matt Smith
Hi all- My searches on freebsd.org of both the site and the mailing lists have returned some confusing (to me) answers, so here is the question: Does FreeBSD-Current support NSS, particularly for use against LDAP or *SQL? Thanks, -Matt -- Matt Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe: send

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