Re: strange reboots

2003-08-21 Thread zhuravlev alexander
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 11:29:13PM -0700, paul beard wrote: > zhuravlev alexander wrote: > > [ please CC me, because I am not a list subscriber ] > > > > Hi! > > > > We encounter with strange casual reboots of our server. > > Does anyone know any tactics of investigation why > >

mod_perl 1.28 with apache 1.3.28 questions

2003-08-21 Thread paul beard
I have been trying to get mod_perl and apache to play nicely together and they refuse. I have a couple of problems. 1. I can't build and install mod_perl 1.28. I get and Error 1 when make checks to see if any version is installed. I can then go into work/mod_perl-1.28 and make install, but some

Re: strange reboots

2003-08-21 Thread paul beard
zhuravlev alexander wrote: [ please CC me, because I am not a list subscriber ] Hi! We encounter with strange casual reboots of our server. Does anyone know any tactics of investigation why this happens. anything in /var/log/messages that looks interesting? do you do any monitoring of the

Re: about using dd command to copy hard drives

2003-08-21 Thread Dan Strick
On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm using freebsd 5.0 Jan 2003 series > > I know that dd is good at copying block devices when they > are at identical sizes. But if they're different sizes will it > copy correctly? > > I want to copy my entire freebsd hard disk which is 6 GB >

Re: strange reboots

2003-08-21 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 21 August 2003 11:11 pm, zhuravlev alexander wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:47:15PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > > On Thursday 21 August 2003 10:36 pm, zhuravlev alexander wrote: > > > [ please CC me, because I am not a list subscriber ] > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > We encount

Re: strange reboots

2003-08-21 Thread zhuravlev alexander
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:47:15PM -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Thursday 21 August 2003 10:36 pm, zhuravlev alexander wrote: > > [ please CC me, because I am not a list subscriber ] > > > > Hi! > > > > We encounter with strange casual reboots of our server. > > Does anyone know a

Re: strange reboots

2003-08-21 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 21 August 2003 10:36 pm, zhuravlev alexander wrote: > [ please CC me, because I am not a list subscriber ] > > Hi! > > We encounter with strange casual reboots of our server. > Does anyone know any tactics of investigation why > this happens. > > [ns:

strange reboots

2003-08-21 Thread zhuravlev alexander
[ please CC me, because I am not a list subscriber ] Hi! We encounter with strange casual reboots of our server. Does anyone know any tactics of investigation why this happens. [ns:/u/zaa]>uname -rs FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE

about using dd command to copy hard drives

2003-08-21 Thread D Velez
I'm using freebsd 5.0 Jan 2003 series I know that dd is good at copying block devices when they are at identical sizes. But if they're different sizes will it copy correctly? I want to copy my entire freebsd hard disk which is 6 GB to a new hard disk at 20 GB. I read the man pages but still can't

Backup and restore advise sought

2003-08-21 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm building a dual-boot (FreeBSD 4.8 / Windows) workstation for a friend. Initially, he wanted FBSD/WinXP so I gave approx 1/2 of the hard drive (the 1st half) to FreeBSD and the 2nd 1/2 to Win. I've installed, configured, built a custom kernel and brought FreeBSD up to -STABLE. I've al

lgiconv and scrollkeeper

2003-08-21 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
In the process of installing Gnome2, I've run into a problem with a missing library, and unlike the usual case of my just not looking hard enough, I'm really stuck this time. When I try to build scrollkeeper, I get stopped at: /usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lgiconv and then an array of error

Re: IP Problems

2003-08-21 Thread Supote Leelasupphakorn
--- Ben Dover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >OK, this is difficult to explain and my problem is probably > bigger than > what I have found but here goes. I have a dedicated 5.1 > FreeBSD box and > when I did a dmesg I received a repeating message as follows: > arplookup 66.246.xx.1 failed: ho

Toshiba T2100 Install Trouble

2003-08-21 Thread Aaron ILES
I'm attempting to install FreeBSD 5.1 on a Toshiba T2100 laptop. (That's a x486 with 8meg of RAM booting from floppies) The kernel and MFS root are uncompressed ok, however, when booting the kernel the boot pauses after just a few seconds, screens worth of something is printed and the machine reb

Re: Help setup home network when gateways, ip asigned by DHCP

2003-08-21 Thread David Kelly
On Thursday 21 August 2003 08:17 pm, Rod Person wrote: > > My problem is that my gateway get its external ip address via DHCP. > I can't figure out how to setup ipfw rules to use DHCP addresses. Use either the "me" pseudo-address or trigger on the interface. A few rules copied out of my current i

Re: Help setup home network when gateways, ip asigned by DHCP

2003-08-21 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 09:17:55PM -0400, Rod Person wrote: > Here are the portions of rc.ipfw: > > oif="fxp0" > onet=? this is assigned via DHCP > omask="255.255.255.240" <- Should I change this? > oip= I believe your current omask will work; try it and see. I use omask="255.255.255

Re: compiler error

2003-08-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 04:32:22AM +0300, ZaiD Dashti wrote: > ===> Script "configure" failed unexpectedly. > Please report the problem to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [maintainer] and attach > the > "/usr/ports/databases/mysql323-client/work/mysql-3.23.56/config.log" > including the output

Re: cvsup problems

2003-08-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:09:42PM -0700, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > I get different error messages. Here's some output of what's going on now > (the first error is VERY common): This is a network problem. Either the cvsup server, or something between your system and the cvsup server is causing the

Re: Help setup home network when gateways, ip asigned by DHCP

2003-08-21 Thread Mike Maltese
You may want to try IP Filter instead. In my opinion, it's rule syntax makes it much easier to work with DHCP. http://www.obfuscation.org/ipf/ipf-howto.html#TOC_29 - Original Message - From: "Rod Person" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 6:17 PM

compiler error

2003-08-21 Thread ZaiD Dashti
hi i have tried to install mysql and mod_php4, but i got this message: checking if c++ supports bool types... yes checking if conversion of longlong to float works... Segmentation fault (core dumped) no configure: error: Your compiler cannot convert a longlong value to a float! If you are using

Help setup home network when gateways, ip asigned by DHCP

2003-08-21 Thread Rod Person
I have been trying to setup a home network for some weeks now. Here is the setup --- -- --- |Cable Modem|---|Gateway/Server||Cisco Poweredhub|--|FreeBSD| --- -- ||Laptop |

KDE Import of Outlook email

2003-08-21 Thread Chris
Has anyone been able to import Outlook email (more so the .pst file when exported) into KMail? If so - can you please lend an "How To"? -- Best regards, Chris __ PGP Fingerprint = D976 2575 D0B4 E4B0 45CC AA09

Problems Installing FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT

2003-08-21 Thread R B
hi my name is pyr0teknix696 and i've been using linux for 3 years and decided to try freebsd on an old AST x486 with 32MB ram and a 3.16G HDD my problem is that the BIOS is not able to boot from CROM drives so i read through the docs and BSD and it says to create boot floppies with fdimage i do eve

Re: cvsup problems

2003-08-21 Thread Mike Maltese
> I get different error messages. Here's some output of what's going on now > (the first error is VERY common): > > --- > > TreeList failed: Network write failure: Connetion closed > ... > Detailer failed: Network write failure: Connection closed > Will retry at 08:14:58 > Have you

Re: file picker

2003-08-21 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 06:49:06PM -0500 or thereabouts, Walter wrote: > Josh, > > Sorry to bother you, but the $RANDOM symbol returns > a blank. Do I need to initialize something? On bash/zsh $RANDOM returns a random number. On sh it's apparently undefined. To define it, do RANDOM=$( perl -e 's

cvsup problems

2003-08-21 Thread Bsd Neophyte
I've done a fresh install of FreeBSD 4.8 on my Dual p3-700 box. I've been having a lot of problems, which i'll outline progressively. However, at the moment, I'm having some issues with cvsup. I've been trying to update my ports and sources and I keep running into problems. I've deleted the ent

Re: Copying an entire tree

2003-08-21 Thread Pat Lashley
--On Thursday, August 21, 2003 15:45:54 -0600 Tillman Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:23:54PM -0700, Pat Lashley wrote: >> Is there any simple clean way to copy an entire directory tree and >> preserve both the flags (like schg) AND hard links within the tree? >>

Re: FreeBSD as router - performance vs hardware routers

2003-08-21 Thread Bsd Neophyte
--- "J. Seth Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > First, and I know this is off-topic, is anyone here happy with their > router enough to recommend it? I'd prefer to go with a hardware router, > but I prize reliability and stability apparently higher than the current > crop of manufacturers. Eve

Installing from CD-ROM (was Re: your mail)

2003-08-21 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, James Igoe wrote: > I am unable to install freebsd with the ISOs that were provided on the > freebsd ftp site. I have burned them onto a cd and I have attempted to boot > from them. However, I have found that they will not boot. I am working on a > i386 architecture, using bot

Re: IP Problems

2003-08-21 Thread Nils Vogels
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 07:00:32PM -0400, Ben Dover (BD) wrote: BD> OK, this is difficult to explain and my problem is probably bigger than BD> what I have found but here goes. I have a dedicated 5.1 FreeBSD box and BD> when I did a dmesg I received a repeating message as follows: BD> arplooku

Re: Copying an entire tree

2003-08-21 Thread Dan Strick
>> > No, I hadn't thought of using rsync for a purely local copy. But now > that I've tried it, add it to the list of utilities that lose the flags. > (I'm particularly interested in preserving the schg and nodump flags.) > > So far, the only thing I know of that seems to do everything right >

IP Problems

2003-08-21 Thread Ben Dover
OK, this is difficult to explain and my problem is probably bigger than what I have found but here goes. I have a dedicated 5.1 FreeBSD box and when I did a dmesg I received a repeating message as follows: arplookup 66.246.xx.1 failed: host is not on local network This peaked my curiosity so

Re: make installworld fails on 4.8 in /usr/src/share/colldef

2003-08-21 Thread Doug Poland
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 11:36:57PM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm attempting to installworld on a 4.8-RELEASE machine. I installed > the OS yesterday from CD-ROM. Today I did a cvsup for latest sources. > I've successfully built world, built and installed custom kernel. > For th

Re: Gnome2 config files weirdness

2003-08-21 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 21:58, stan wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:16:15PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 12:09, stan wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:14:59PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 21:01, stan wrote: > > > > > I'm trying t

Re: Gnome2 config files weirdness

2003-08-21 Thread stan
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:16:15PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 12:09, stan wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:14:59PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 21:01, stan wrote: > > > > I'm trying to get Gnome 2 up and running on a TABLE machine. I'

Re: 4.9 New Features

2003-08-21 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 21:53, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > Can anyone tell me a URL of new features for 4.9. I can't find anything > obvious on freebsd.org. Just a TODO list This is still not a definite list, but it's pretty close. http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes/4-STABLE/relnotes-i386.h

4.9 New Features

2003-08-21 Thread Rus Foster
Hi All, Can anyone tell me a URL of new features for 4.9. I can't find anything obvious on freebsd.org. Just a TODO list Rgds Rus -- w: http://www.jvds.com | Linux + FreeBSD VDS's from $15/mo e: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Totally Customizable Technology t: 07919 373537 | General FreeBS

Re: Source update problems

2003-08-21 Thread Joe Altman
On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 12:33:15AM +0100, geek wrote: > I have a problem to update my source! > This is my supfile: > > SRCSUPFILE: > *default host=cvsup2.freebsd.org > *default base=/usr > *default prefix=/usr > *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 > *default delete use-rel-suffix > *default compres

dhclient denied

2003-08-21 Thread Bob Hall
I posted about this a while ago, but I haven't been able to find the cause. I'm getting the following message: Aug 21 13:00:03 kongemord dhclient: send_packet: Permission denied DHCP seems to work fine; I'm getting and maintaining DHCP leases properly. But these messages are filling up my messag

Re: Copying an entire tree

2003-08-21 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:23:54PM -0700, Pat Lashley wrote: > On Thursday, August 21, 2003 22:19:28 +0200 Nico Meijer > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Is there any simple clean way to copy an entire directory tree and > >> preserve both the flags (like schg) AND hard links within the tree? >

CVS GSSAPI authentication.

2003-08-21 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I've successfully setup a CVS pserver running from inetd. I've also got authentication working through the use of KerberosV (Heimdal) tickets with the GSSAPI stuff. However, I've been reading through the info file for CVS and I can't understand whether or not the authentication is secure -

pxeboot

2003-08-21 Thread Jonathan T Wang
I'm interested in installing FreeBSD using PXEBoot. Unfortunately, I don't have access to a FreeBSD machine to get the pxeboot boot loader - does anyone know where I can find it? Thanks, Jonathan Wang ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.free

[no subject]

2003-08-21 Thread James Igoe
Hello, I am unable to install freebsd with the ISOs that were provided on the freebsd ftp site. I have burned them onto a cd and I have attempted to boot from them. However, I have found that they will not boot. I am working on a i386 architecture, using both a p3 450mhz, 384MB RAM, ameritech b

Re: permission

2003-08-21 Thread Sunil Sunder Raj
Hi, Options Indexes Includes MultiViews ExecCGI FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Regards SSR From: GNorm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: permission Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 18:18:41 -0400 I have installed apache and got it to run, however when I tried to access a

Re: Copying an entire tree

2003-08-21 Thread Pat Lashley
--On Thursday, August 21, 2003 22:19:28 +0200 Nico Meijer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there any simple clean way to copy an entire directory tree and preserve both the flags (like schg) AND hard links within the tree? (And, of course, preserve device special nodes, etc.) Have you looked at rsyn

SOCKS5 guru needed

2003-08-21 Thread Hugo Saro
Hey everyone, I want to set up a proxy to play rtcw with lower ping on the usual servers, i've installed the socks5 port, but the manpage didn't help much. I want to have 2 usernames that need to auth on the server and are only allowed to connect to any host on udp ports 27960-28960 . Anyone knows

Re: libIDL problem during Gnome2 build

2003-08-21 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:03:05PM -0400, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > Oops, another problem during my attempted Gnome2 build, and this > one is even less clear to me. During the build of libIDL, I > get the following error: > > ===> Bulding for libIDL-0.8.2 > bison -y -d -v 2>/dev/null ./parser.y

Automatic response to your mail

2003-08-21 Thread rentals
Thank you for contacting Adventure Touring - we will be in touch shortly. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: mozilla-firebird dependency on gnomecontrolcenter?

2003-08-21 Thread Chuck Tuffli
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 08:48:04PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 08:29:03PM -0700, Chuck Tuffli wrote: > > Ok, I did a cvsup of ports-base and the build completed without the > > strangeness I saw earlier. Now when I run firebird, nothing happens > > (i.e. no browser window

Re: Copying an entire tree

2003-08-21 Thread Nico Meijer
Hi Pat, > Is there any simple clean way to copy an entire directory tree and > preserve both the flags (like schg) AND hard links within the tree? > (And, of course, preserve device special nodes, etc.) Have you looked at rsync? HTH... Nico ___ [EMAIL

Copying an entire tree

2003-08-21 Thread Pat Lashley
Is there any simple clean way to copy an entire directory tree and preserve both the flags (like schg) AND hard links within the tree? (And, of course, preserve device special nodes, etc.) cp -r Copies hardlinked files as separate files cpioDoesn't preserve flags pax

ed1 network problems on laptop

2003-08-21 Thread Michael A. Smith
I've got a Sony VAIO PCG-FX101 (vanilla Celeron 600 laptop). It's run FreeBSD without a problem before. I just installed a new hard drive and installed 4.8-RELEASE on it. Now, I'm having all kinds of network problems that I didn't have a few days ago with the exact same hardware/OS (except the

Re: HELP! Sendmail 8.12.9 problems up the wazzoo on FreeBSD4.3....

2003-08-21 Thread Danny Horne
Steve Camp was once thought to have said: > Hi Danny, > > Thanks for the reply. I believe I did. To your knowledge, should the > following work: > > city.example.com# grep smmsp /etc/passwd > smmsp:*:25:25:Sendmail Queue:/nonexistent:/nonexistent > > city.example.com# grep smmsp /etc

Re: HELP! Sendmail 8.12.9 problems up the wazzoo on FreeBSD 4.3....

2003-08-21 Thread Steve Camp
Hi Danny, Thanks for the reply. I believe I did. To your knowledge, should the following work: city.example.com# grep smmsp /etc/passwd smmsp:*:25:25:Sendmail Queue:/nonexistent:/nonexistent city.example.com# grep smmsp /etc/group smmsp:*:25: Or will the /nonexistent home dire

Re: HELP! Sendmail 8.12.9 problems up the wazzoo on FreeBSD4.3....

2003-08-21 Thread Danny Horne
Steve Camp was once thought to have said: > > Hi, > > I am sending / posting this message to > > FreeBSD questions mailing list > comp.mail.sendmail newsgroup > sendmail mailing list > possibly other comp.unix.bsd.* newsgroups > > I am quite stumped. Any and all help is we

Out of Office AutoReply: Wicked screensaver

2003-08-21 Thread SZCZEPANIAK,NORBERT (HP-Germany,ex1)
Hello, you send an e-mail to Norbert Szczepaniak Hewlett-Packard GmbH I will be out of the office until September, 8th. 2003 and I will have no access to my HP e-mail account. I will respond to your e-mail as fast as possible, but excuse a delay in an answer to you. Thank you for your patie

On vacation

2003-08-21 Thread Jo Espitallier
I will return on Tuesday, September 2 and will respond to your email at that time. For immediate assistance, please contact Nicole Romero Chaidez at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-q

Re: SMTP attempt?

2003-08-21 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:24:58AM -0700, Dan Strick wrote: > >> > > I've been noticing a lot of the following the last week: > > Aug 21 01:00:01 kongemord /kernel: Connection attempt to TCP 127.0.0.1:25 > > from 127.0.0.1:1074 > > > > I can't figure out what's trying to connect to the SMT

HELP! Sendmail 8.12.9 problems up the wazzoo on FreeBSD 4.3....

2003-08-21 Thread Steve Camp
Hi, I am sending / posting this message to FreeBSD questions mailing list comp.mail.sendmail newsgroup sendmail mailing list possibly other comp.unix.bsd.* newsgroups I am quite stumped. Any and all help is welcomed. I will be working on this problem all day.

Re: Problems with PCI RAID installation on FreeBSD 4.8

2003-08-21 Thread Christopher Raven
Hi Jason, Thanks for the feedback... yes was aware of Vinum but I hear a few horror stories of trying to change drives out when there's a problem... The card was hardware (I thought)... but the bit I didn't expect was that the card would be transparent to FreeBSD if not recognised. I figured an

MODE_SENSE_BIG

2003-08-21 Thread Nader Turki
hello, i'm trying to install freebsd 4.8-r from a cd and i keep getting this line while probing: acd0: MODE_SENSE_BIG command timeout - resetting ata1: resetting devices .. done i keep getting those 2 lines over and over, can someone help me please? thanks, nader --

libIDL problem during Gnome2 build

2003-08-21 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
Oops, another problem during my attempted Gnome2 build, and this one is even less clear to me. During the build of libIDL, I get the following error: ===> Bulding for libIDL-0.8.2 bison -y -d -v 2>/dev/null ./parser.y gmake:: *** [stamp-parser] Error 1 *** Error code 2 Any thoughts about what to

jftpgw port and seteuid not permitted

2003-08-21 Thread Jim Flowers
Would like to evaluate this ftp proxy on FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE but although it makes cleanly, when I go to run it I get a logged error message: Aug 21 13:16:32 [67924]: Could not change the EUID to 65534: Operation not permitted and the program quits. The program is: -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1

Re: Missing libintl.so.1 for Gnome2 build

2003-08-21 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 12:05:08PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 11:12, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > > I am trying to build Gnome2 on my system (FreeBSD 4.8), and keep > > running into a problem. I'm getting the following error: > > > > ===> Building for pkgconfig-0.15.0 > >

Re: make installworld problem with stable upgrade.

2003-08-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 05:08:52PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 04:55:39PM +0200, Shobaki sam. wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Since yesterday (French time), i try to update a fresh install of 4.8 > > release to stable, and cvsuped sources many many times. Here is the error

hubs and promiscuous packet listening

2003-08-21 Thread Aaron Wohl
Does anyone know the model number of a cheap hub to use when packet sniffing? The two suposed hubs I have seem to be blocking packets not addressed to me same as a switch would... I'm trying tcpdump and ipgrab as root via a hub to listen to anouther computer. The interface is going into promiscu

Re: How does one erase a FreeBSD disk (slice) label?

2003-08-21 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:49:09AM -0700 or thereabouts, Dan Strick wrote: > >> > > > Go back in time and kill the person that wrote this code > > > before he wrote it? > > > > LOL > >> > > What does "LOL" stand for? Laughing Out Loud -- Josh > > Dan Strick > [E

RE: file picker

2003-08-21 Thread Barry Byrne
ls -1 | perl -e 'srand; rand($.) < 1 && ($filename = $_) while <>; print $filename;' - Barry -- Barry Byrne, IT Manager, WBT Systems, Block 2, Harcourt Centre Harcourt Street, Dublin 2, Ireland > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Walter >

Re: file picker

2003-08-21 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 11:36:24AM -0500 or thereabouts, Walter wrote: > Hi All, > >I want to run a cron job to upload a different image > file to a web site as a new background every night. > >I need a way to automatically select a different file > from a directory which I will populate

Re: IDE Raid Card

2003-08-21 Thread Johan Paul
Richard Lucas wrote: Could someone suggest an IDE controller card that I could boot off of? I just want to do RAID 1 with 2 disks but don't want to buy one and then find out it doesn't work. I'm running the latest 4-STABLE. Hi, I use Promise FastTrak TX2 with great success for RAID 1 with two dis

Re: dvd+rw-tools

2003-08-21 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:19:32PM +0100 or thereabouts, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > Hi all, > > Sorry for the load of posts this week, but I've got a new toybox and > they aren't working well... > > I'm trying to use dvd+rw-tools port to burn DVD's. My first problem was > that after burning a DVD, I w

Re: IDE Raid Card

2003-08-21 Thread Mike Tancsa
3ware 7200 is my favorite. http://www.hypermicro.com/store/raid_adap.htm, the 7200-2. It works really well with FreeBSD. e.g. shell1# df Filesystem1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on /dev/twed0s1a61483065644 5012%/ /dev/twed0s1g 39225660 11567212 2452039

Re: IDE Raid Card

2003-08-21 Thread Peter Elsner
I've successfully used the 3-WARE Escalade series. http://www.3ware.com FreeBSD recognizes it in the GENERIC kernel with the twe driver. Peter Elsner At 11:24 AM 8/21/2003 -0500, you wrote: Could someone suggest an IDE controller card that I could boot off of? I just want to do RAID 1 with 2

file picker

2003-08-21 Thread Walter
Hi All, I want to run a cron job to upload a different image file to a web site as a new background every night. I need a way to automatically select a different file from a directory which I will populate over time, and then feed that name to the upload script. I can't find anything like t

IDE Raid Card

2003-08-21 Thread Richard Lucas
Could someone suggest an IDE controller card that I could boot off of? I just want to do RAID 1 with 2 disks but don't want to buy one and then find out it doesn't work. I'm running the latest 4-STABLE. Thanks, Richard ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing li

Re: Gnome2 config files weirdness

2003-08-21 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 12:09, stan wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:14:59PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 21:01, stan wrote: > > > I'm trying to get Gnome 2 up and running on a TABLE machine. I've built the > > > gnome2 port, and I'm getting gdm2 as a login screen. I'm

Re: Gnome2 config files weirdness

2003-08-21 Thread stan
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 10:14:59PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 21:01, stan wrote: > > I'm trying to get Gnome 2 up and running on a TABLE machine. I've built the > > gnome2 port, and I'm getting gdm2 as a login screen. I'm able to log in as > > a normal user. But when I

Re: make installworld problem with stable upgrade.

2003-08-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 04:55:39PM +0200, Shobaki sam. wrote: > Hello all, > > Since yesterday (French time), i try to update a fresh install of 4.8 > release to stable, and cvsuped sources many many times. Here is the error i > got while make installworld: > > ln: /usr/share/locale/am_ET.UTF8/LC

png2html port linker error [help?]

2003-08-21 Thread Kris Yates
png2html-1.1_1 < needs updating (port has 1.1_3) linker error While exec "portupgrade png2html-1.1_1": "/usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lgd *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/png2html/work/png2html-1.1. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/png2html

Re: Missing libintl.so.1 for Gnome2 build

2003-08-21 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 11:12, Jesse Sheidlower wrote: > I am trying to build Gnome2 on my system (FreeBSD 4.8), and keep > running into a problem. I'm getting the following error: > > ===> Building for pkgconfig-0.15.0 > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libintl.so.1" not found > > I see fr

Re: gtar now in base system

2003-08-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kris Yates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > While exec 'portupgrade gtar-1.13.25_5' > > "...gtar is in base system." > > Should I: > > a) "pkg_delete gtar-1.13.25_5" > > or > > b) "rm -rf /var/db/pkg/gtar-1.13.25_5/" > > ? The former. It will delete the files installed by the port as well as

Re: passwd vs adduser

2003-08-21 Thread support
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 10:35:28AM -0500, Kris Yates wrote: > I modified my system so that passwd now uses blowfish. However, adduser > still uses DES. How can I force adduser to use blowfish? You could try checking /etc/adduser.conf perhaps there's an option in there to specify the password has

gtar now in base system

2003-08-21 Thread Kris Yates
While exec 'portupgrade gtar-1.13.25_5' "...gtar is in base system." Should I: a) "pkg_delete gtar-1.13.25_5" or b) "rm -rf /var/db/pkg/gtar-1.13.25_5/" ? Thanks, Kris PLEASE send reply directly to me as I do not read the list as often as I would like...tkx __

RE: Calendar program dates

2003-08-21 Thread Charles Howse
> > OK, I jumped the gun here. > > After browsing through some of the calendar.* files, I > realize that it > > sends an event for tomorrow if no event for today exists. > > Sorry about that. :-) > > > > From the man page:- > > The calendar utility checks the current directory for a > fil

passwd vs adduser

2003-08-21 Thread Kris Yates
I modified my system so that passwd now uses blowfish. However, adduser still uses DES. How can I force adduser to use blowfish? Please send replies directly as a reply to me, as I do not have time to read the list as often as I would like. Thanks, Kris _

Re: Calendar program dates

2003-08-21 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 22:48, Charles Howse wrote: > > Hi, > > I've got the calendar program emailing me events that > > occurred (supposedly) today in history. > > > > However, it's listing events that occurred tomorrow. Is that normal? > > The date is correct on my system and the email date is corr

Re: Problems with PCI RAID installation on FreeBSD 4.8

2003-08-21 Thread Jason Stewart
Christopher Raven wrote: Hi, I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.8 onto an Intel ISP2150 that I have ripped the SCSI cabling and boards from in place of a PCI RAID system. All seems to have gone well and I can boot and configure the RAID card locally (4x80GB). However, FreeBSD insists in seeing th

Re: Installation

2003-08-21 Thread Lucas Holt
It might be helpful to get a UNIX quick reference. O'Reilly makes one called "learning the unix operating system." Its a little book with basic commands in it. If you decide to give up on freebsd, I would recommend buying that Macintosh. Mac OS X has BSD roots as they say. In fact, buying a

Re: MySQL from ports on FreeBSD 5.1

2003-08-21 Thread Jez Hancock
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 03:07:41PM +0100, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:44:07PM +0100, Jez Hancock wrote: > > > This is the PR: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/53252 > > > > The actual patch is in PR: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/535

Missing libintl.so.1 for Gnome2 build

2003-08-21 Thread Jesse Sheidlower
I am trying to build Gnome2 on my system (FreeBSD 4.8), and keep running into a problem. I'm getting the following error: ===> Building for pkgconfig-0.15.0 /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libintl.so.1" not found I see from some other archived messages that this has something to do wit

Re: Crontab error mails

2003-08-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
please. top-post, Dont "Johan Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > That is the format for the system crontab. /etc/crontab > > > > root has its own crontab entry (under /root). > > > > user crontabs have a different format then the system crontab. > > > > Remove the root from that line, and it

make installworld problem with stable upgrade.

2003-08-21 Thread Shobaki sam.
Hello all, Since yesterday (French time), i try to update a fresh install of 4.8 release to stable, and cvsuped sources many many times. Here is the error i got while make installworld: ln: /usr/share/locale/am_ET.UTF8/LC_COLLATE: No such file or directory *** Error code 1 Is something going wro

Re: CD-ROM

2003-08-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
K Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also, if you forget your root password (this is practically a FAQ) It's *precisely* a FAQ. "I have forgotten the root password! What do I do?" http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#FORGOT-ROOT-PW ___

Re: Email clients

2003-08-21 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-08-21T14:30:43Z, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes - it is on the Cisco site. Do you have ideas? Well, I was going to recommend simply downloading it to see what happens. Can anyone download it, or do you have to have an account? If it's "open", if you point me toward the URL I'll

Re: Email clients

2003-08-21 Thread Chris
On Thursday 21 August 2003 09:27 am, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-08-21T14:17:53Z, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Indeed, there is a Linux VPN client from Cisco however, it demands a > > certain version of the Linux kernel. I don't know if there is a way > > around that. > > Can you downlo

Install from existing filesystem

2003-08-21 Thread Charles Howse
Hi, Gosh, I've asked a lot of questions today and lately. Sorry if I'm pestering everyone. For my education I'd like to learn the installation procedure for installing from an existing filesystem. I do this with my Redhat 9 machine. I have the .iso images on the second HDD, and have a kickstart

Re: Email clients

2003-08-21 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-08-21T14:17:53Z, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Indeed, there is a Linux VPN client from Cisco however, it demands a > certain version of the Linux kernel. I don't know if there is a way around > that. Can you download it for free? > As to Wine - I have thought of that, but tried to

Re: Samba & Iconv

2003-08-21 Thread Jan Karabas
Fortunately, I solved it. You must be root to do mount_smbfs. So that, I set SET_UID and SET_GID bits at mount_smbfs. It is not secure, but it works. Thanks for interest ** Jan Karabas (J\'an Karab\'a\v s) Institute of Math. and Computer Science Mat

Re: Email clients

2003-08-21 Thread Chris
On Thursday 21 August 2003 08:53 am, Kirk Strauser wrote: > > I still need my Windows box to access work via a PIX... > > Have you experimented with Wine to see if your software will run under > FreeBSD? Is there a Linux version that might run? Indeed, there is a Linux VPN client from Cisco howev

Problems with PCI RAID installation on FreeBSD 4.8

2003-08-21 Thread Christopher Raven
Hi, I am trying to install FreeBSD 4.8 onto an Intel ISP2150 that I have ripped the SCSI cabling and boards from in place of a PCI RAID system. All seems to have gone well and I can boot and configure the RAID card locally (4x80GB). However, FreeBSD insists in seeing the RAID (supposedly striped

Re: MySQL from ports on FreeBSD 5.1

2003-08-21 Thread Wayne Pascoe
On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 02:44:07PM +0100, Jez Hancock wrote: > This is the PR: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/53252 > > The actual patch is in PR: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/53561 > > You should be able to fix this by running: > > cd /usr/ports > fetc

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