Q's on dump(8) and restore(8)

2003-09-13 Thread Mark Terribile
Hi, I'm looking to improve and automate my primitive backups and I'm considering dump(8)/restore(8). But before I go this route, I'd like to be sure I can control their behavior. Unfortunately, the man pages don't seem to completely describe the interaction between the numerical dump flag i

smbmount problem

2003-09-13 Thread sebastian ssmoller
hi, i am running fbsd 5.1. when i try to mount a samba share on a debian system i get : smbfs: server name "x.y" too long the server name is 16 chars long and i found out (looking at the sources) that there is a limit of 15. my question: why is there such a limit? (i used this share from several l

FreeBSD 5.1 and a USB pen drive

2003-09-13 Thread Richard Dymond
I've googled and Usenet-ed high and low for info on this, but to no avail. I've got one of those handy 256MB USB pen drives that I'd like to get working with FreeBSD 5.1. As a long-time linux user I'm used to plugging the device in, loading the usb-storage kernel module - which recognises the devi

nvidia kernel module ate my modem (!)

2003-09-13 Thread Richard Dymond
OK, so here's the story. I'm running FreeBSD 5.1 on a PC, and I've just compiled the nvidia kernel module so I can get the most out of my GeForce card. I've got nvidia_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf, and I reboot. Log in, startx, lovely nvidia splash screen. Hooray! Decide to dial up and have a br

What now ? - 4.4->4.8 Binary upgrade has left machine broken

2003-09-13 Thread Richard Shea
Hi - I've just attempted to upgrade from 4.4 to 4.8 using the 'Upgrade' option within sysinstal and now I can't get the machine to offer me a logon prompt. I was hoping I could get suggestions about what to do next. During the install everything was going fine until during ... "Extracting info int

Possible ? - clean install but preserve one filesystem ?

2003-09-13 Thread Richard Shea
Hi - I'm having problems upgrading 4.4 -> 4.8 but it's got to work by Monday so I'm looking at all my options. Before things went bad I backed up off the machine /etc and /usr/local/etc. Also took notes about file systems etc. I have one file system on its own IDE drive that I would like to prese

What now ? [second thoughts ] - 4.4->4.8 Binary upgrade has left machine broken

2003-09-13 Thread Richard Shea
Following on from previous post. During the upgrade I got to that screen before you see the sysinstal menu where you can reconfig the Kernel and I took the 'Skip Kernel Config' option - I wasn't really sure what the right thing to do was but I was guessing that the upgrade process would 'learn' wha

x windows

2003-09-13 Thread Ian Todd
I have a gforce 2 mx 400 and trying to run x windows. I have downloaded and installed the latest drivers for it and i am still getting the same error message before i installed it. what could the problem be the error is: Fatal server error: no screens found Im running freebsd in vmware. Regards

configure args in ports

2003-09-13 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi ! How can I pass configure arguments to a port without editing the Makefile ? Is there something like: make -DOPTION1 -DOPTION2 CONFIGURE_ARGS="--with_option3" install clean ? Thanks. - -- Antoine Jacoutot [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lphp.org P

Re: x windows

2003-09-13 Thread sebastian ssmoller
hi, On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 11:46, Ian Todd wrote: > I have a gforce 2 mx 400 and trying to run x windows. I have > downloaded and installed the latest drivers for it and i am still > getting the same error message before i installed it. what could the > problem be the error is: > > Fatal server er

Re: configure args in ports

2003-09-13 Thread Jens Rehsack
Antoine Jacoutot wrote: Hi ! How can I pass configure arguments to a port without editing the Makefile ? Is there something like: make -DOPTION1 -DOPTION2 CONFIGURE_ARGS="--with_option3" install clean ? see env(1) Regards, Jens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mai

Re: configure args in ports

2003-09-13 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 13 September 2003 12:01, Jens Rehsack wrote: > > How can I pass configure arguments to a port without editing the Makefile > > ? Is there something like: > > make -DOPTION1 -DOPTION2 CONFIGURE_ARGS="--with_option3" install clean ? > > see e

Re: configure args in ports

2003-09-13 Thread Jens Rehsack
Antoine Jacoutot wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 13 September 2003 12:01, Jens Rehsack wrote: How can I pass configure arguments to a port without editing the Makefile ? Is there something like: make -DOPTION1 -DOPTION2 CONFIGURE_ARGS="--with_option3" install clean

Re: Re: x windows

2003-09-13 Thread Ian Todd
after fbsd boots i install the vmware tools and it still doesnt help. any other idea? On 13 Sep 2003 11:59:59 +0200 sebastian ssmoller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >hi, > >On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 11:46, Ian Todd wrote: >> I have a gforce 2 mx 400 and trying to run x windows. I have >> downloaded and

Re: Re: x windows

2003-09-13 Thread sebastian ssmoller
does the vmware-tools install program overwrites the XF86Config or generates a new one ? how does the video card section of ur XF86Config look like ? which card do u use ? On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 12:57, Ian Todd wrote: > after fbsd boots i install the vmware tools and it still doesnt help. > any ot

HOW TO USE C-R-O-N?????

2003-09-13 Thread Denis
Hi All!!! Does anybody can show me how i can use Cron??? For example, I want to start: /usr/bin/perl /usr/scripts/my.pl every 30 seconds. Can i to do it? -- Best regards, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.

/etc/fstab explain me please.....

2003-09-13 Thread Denis
Hi All!!! I want to mount automatically my second disk drive which has Fat32 file system. Could you tell me what i must write in FSType section in /etc/fstab?? Maybe "msdos" or "fat32"??? -- Best regards, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PRO

SHELL scripts..... HOW TO START LEARN????

2003-09-13 Thread Denis
Hi All!!! Do you happen to know where is some helpful information about SHELL programming??? -- Best regards, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, se

Re: HOW TO USE C-R-O-N?????

2003-09-13 Thread Jerry Bell
crontab -e then put in */2**** /usr/bin/perl /usr/scripts/my.pl save and it should be good to go. Jerry http://www.syslog.org - Original Message - From: "Denis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 7:09 AM Subject: HOW TO USE

Re: /etc/fstab explain me please.....

2003-09-13 Thread Jerry Bell
msdosfs should work so long as it's fat or fat32. Jerry http://www.syslog.org - Original Message - From: "Denis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 7:11 AM Subject: /etc/fstab explain me please. Hi All!!! I want to mount automatically

Re: configure args in ports

2003-09-13 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 13 September 2003 12:36, Jens Rehsack wrote: > Nope, > $ env CONFIGURE_ARGS=--with-option3 OPTION2=yes make install clean > would work fine as well as > $ env CONFIGURE_ARGS=--with-option3 make -DOPTION2 install clean > would as well as > $

Re: HOW TO USE C-R-O-N?????

2003-09-13 Thread Jerry Bell
As has been pointed out, this will make it run every 2 minutes, not every 30 seconds. I don't know of a way to go less than 1 minute. Jerry - Original Message - From: "Jerry Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Denis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003

Re: Q's on dump(8) and restore(8)

2003-09-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 12:00:11AM -0700, Mark Terribile wrote: > I'm looking to improve and automate my primitive > backups and I'm considering dump(8)/restore(8). But > before I go this route, I'd like to be sure I can > control their behavior. Unfortunately, the man pages > don't seem to

I need help getting a desktop working.

2003-09-13 Thread exodus
Dear Freebsd, I have installed freebsd 4.4 (the ones that came with the manual.) I got it all installed correctly but when i log in freebsd it leaves me at a dos like screen with a $. I want to know how to get a desktop working (the quickest way.) Thank you for your time. -Mike D __

Re: Is there cool download manager in FreeBSD?

2003-09-13 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+-- rk47 [freebsd] [12-09-03 13:47 IST]: | Alex Zivenko wrote: | | > Hi people! | > Is there cool download manager in FreeBSD? Like Reget, or Flashget in WIN, | > Don't disturb me about KGet (he can't to continue download, when | > connection has broken) | > Best regards, | > Alex Zivenko | > http

Re: SHELL scripts..... HOW TO START LEARN????

2003-09-13 Thread Alastair G. Hogge
On Saturday, 13 September 2003 21:12, Denis wrote: > Hi All!!! > > Do you happen to know where is some helpful information about SHELL > programming??? There was a recent article on DaemonNews.net about Shell programming that might be helpfull to you. _

Re: SHELL scripts..... HOW TO START LEARN????

2003-09-13 Thread Bob Perry
Denis wrote: Hi All!!! Do you happen to know where is some helpful information about SHELL programming??? _Unix Shell Programming_, Third Editiion, Stephen G. Kochan and Patrick Wood, was recommended to me. This book is easy to understand and provides plenty of examples and exercises Seco

Re: Possible ? - clean install but preserve one filesystem ?

2003-09-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 09:38:44PM +1200, Richard Shea wrote: > Hi - I'm having problems upgrading 4.4 -> 4.8 but it's got to work by > Monday so I'm looking at all my options. > > Before things went bad I backed up off the machine /etc and > /usr/local/etc. Also took notes about file systems etc.

Re: FreeBSD and DNS

2003-09-13 Thread Ronnie Clark
OK, this sounds great, and Thanks for the reply. But, do you know of a good How-to document so I can have something to reference? Thanks, RC --- Erik Sabowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > do you use granitecanyon? i was using them and they > were having that > problem, so I am doing that now >

Re: Q's on dump(8) and restore(8)

2003-09-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hi, > I'm looking to improve and automate my primitive > backups and I'm considering dump(8)/restore(8). But > before I go this route, I'd like to be sure I can > control their behavior. Unfortunately, the man pages > don't seem to completely describe the interaction > between the numer

Re: smbmount problem

2003-09-13 Thread Dancho Penev
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 11:22:57AM +0200, sebastian ssmoller wrote: From: sebastian ssmoller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 13 Sep 2003 11:22:57 +0200 Subject: smbmount problem hi, i am running fbsd 5.1. when i try to mount a samba share on a debian system i get : smbfs: server nam

Re: SHELL scripts..... HOW TO START LEARN????

2003-09-13 Thread Dan Welch
In my opinion the very best for *beginning* is UNIX SHELL PROGRAMMING by Kochan and Wood and once you have the basics in hand, be sure to consult UNIX POWER TOOLS by Peek, O'Reilly, and Loukides On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 03:12:42PM +0400, Denis wrote: > Do you happen

Re: /etc/fstab explain me please.....

2003-09-13 Thread Guilmot Mike
Denis wrote: > Hi All!!! > > I want to mount automatically my second disk drive which has Fat32 > file system. Could you tell me what i must write in FSType section > in /etc/fstab?? > Maybe "msdos" or "fat32"??? msdos is what you're looking for :) Like mount_msdos when it's not automatic

Re: /etc/fstab explain me please.....

2003-09-13 Thread David Gerard
On 09/13/03 11:11, Denis wrote: I want to mount automatically my second disk drive which has Fat32 file system. Could you tell me what i must write in FSType section in /etc/fstab?? Maybe "msdos" or "fat32"??? msdos is correct. Here's mine: $ cat /etc/fstab # See the fstab(5) manual page for

RE: 56k pccard modem connect speed?

2003-09-13 Thread fbsd_user
Once user ppp makes the connection and the line speed is set, any self adjustment to the line speed made by the modem is not captured by user ppp. Furthermore I have not seen any (modem terminal servers) that captures and report on this ether. Some pci modem mfg have added an I-reg to capture the

setting up a second ppp connection

2003-09-13 Thread David Banning
Sometimes my pppoe connection goes down, and since I want to find out about it right away, I was thinking it would be helpful to have my freebsd box connect to the net via a dialup line, and then email my cell phone that the connection is down. I don 't want to disable the pppoe connection which

Re: nis security (DES passwords)

2003-09-13 Thread Guy Van Sanden
I was looking arround for this, and I found that Kerberos uses DES encryption, John (on my sytem) reports it rather weak: Benchmarking: Standard DES [24/32 4K]... DONE Many salts: 151603 c/s real, 169200 c/s virtual Only one salt: 152806 c/s real, 155607 c/s virtual Benchmarking: BSDI DES (x

Re: HOW TO USE C-R-O-N?????

2003-09-13 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-09-13T11:09:12Z, Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does anybody can show me how i can use Cron??? For example, I want to > start: /usr/bin/perl /usr/scripts/my.pl every 30 seconds. Can i to do it? You really don't want to do it that way. You probably want to wrap your script with some

Bad partition table?

2003-09-13 Thread Matt Dau
Hi, I'm having a problem with my old FreeBSD partition. I had the harddrive in a working system that i changed the motherboard in. It was unstable at first, causing the system to lock up a couple times. I finally got the problems worked out and installed 5.1 on a new drive. It is up and run

Re: JAILS: Shared IP?

2003-09-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
Chris wrote: 1) What would be the advantage(s) or disadvanatage(s) of giving each website it's own IP vs sharing a single IP? Are you doing SSL? You'd need to give each SSL site it's own IP, but otherwise you can do what Apache calls "name-based virtual domains" and share. 2) Is one going to be

mldonkey which name?

2003-09-13 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Hey, I installed mldonkey, but now I'm a bit confused what program to run. It seems lots of them were installed by portinstall (mlchat, mlgui, mlguistart, mlin, etc..) What do I run when I want a P2P session under X? -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD

Re: HOW TO USE C-R-O-N?????

2003-09-13 Thread Chris Craft
Here's how I run scripts every 30 seconds from crontab: * * * * * /path/to/somescript * * * * * sleep 30; /path/to/somescript Cheers, Chris. On Saturday 13 September 2003 06:02, Jerry Bell wrote: > As has been pointed out, this will make it run every 2 minutes, not every > 30 seconds. I don't

Re: smbmount problem

2003-09-13 Thread sebastian ssmoller
On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 15:04, Dancho Penev wrote: > On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 11:22:57AM +0200, sebastian ssmoller wrote: > >From: sebastian ssmoller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Date: 13 Sep 2003 11:22:57 +0200 > >Subject: smbmount problem > > > >hi, > >i am running fbsd 5.1. when

RE: yet another newbie ppp/modem question

2003-09-13 Thread fbsd_user
If your modem is external, maybe you have com1 & com2 disabled in the PC bio's. If PCI modem them and you are not using com1,2 ports then you should disable there bio's so modem can use them. One other thing FBSD does not work with winmodems, those cheap modems manufactured just for MS/Windows ma

Re: triple NIC route challenge

2003-09-13 Thread -kevin-
Vickly, On 03-09-13 01:12, vickly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > do u using outbond n' inbound with difrent isp ? I could. ISP1 is Vendor X. ISP2 is Vendor Y. I would like all inbound to be on ISP2. But I would like to split outbound between ISP1 and ISP2. > - Original Message - > From:

Re: I need help getting a desktop working.

2003-09-13 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 02:49:51PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Freebsd, > > >I have installed freebsd 4.4 (the ones that came with the manual.) I Which manual is that? There's a paper version of the handbook, but that doesn't come with a CD. I know that "FreeBSD Unleashed" comes

TCP/IP: Operation Timed Out

2003-09-13 Thread yo _
Hello All! I manage a general mail server for my organization and recently i have been receiving complaints that not all their messages are being sent. A quick check to the maillog and i noticed that many of the mail servers of the receivers are getting "Operation timed out" responses. I manual

Re: sendto: buffer space not available

2003-09-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is serious. I have just cvsuped stable-supfile again and did all > necessary steps re kernel/world. It is still having this problem. Anybody > stumbled accross the same? Should I just reinstall back to 4.8-RELEASE? > Because I got another identical hardware/machi

Re: Setiathome question

2003-09-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Charles Howse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > I recently changed my /usr/local/etc/rc.setiathome.conf file. > I changed seti_std_args from: > -email -graphics > To: > -email > > That's the only line that's uncommented. > > Then I reboot (I know I didn't have to) > Now I can't see setiathom

cvsup connection problems [was Re: how to update source tree without cvs?]

2003-09-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
yew chin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > thanks for answering, i will try to learn how to use > ctm. But 1 thing really weird is that, when i use > cvsup, i can establish connection to the cvsup server. > But it doesn't download the src and ports. > here is the output of my cvsup > > Connecting to

RE: Misc PPP questions

2003-09-13 Thread fbsd_user
Kernel ppp is the old way which is no longer maintained. User ppp is the rewritten replacement for kernel ppp and is the one used by everyone these days. Kernel ppp is a dead horse, forget all about it. To end user ppp session use console command killall ppp -Original Message- From: [EM

Re: Newbie need help on configuring mouse and X windows

2003-09-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Lei Luo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am new to FreeBSD and just trying to learning something. I installed > FreeBSD without X system on my computer and it works fine. But when I > tried to configure mouse and X windows, I had big problem. > > As instructed in the handbook, I configured the t

Not quite mail relay

2003-09-13 Thread Derrick Ryalls
I am looking for a way to further secure a mail server. It isn't an open rely, but when others try to use it as such with bad return addresses, a small flood of rejection mail end up on the bad addressed server. Ex. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hotmail ends up with a ton of

Re: xv flag to not create ~/dir/dir/.xvpics/

2003-09-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Peter Leftwich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If I `cd ~/dir/dir` then run `xv -vsmap` xv creates cached thumbnails. > > Does anyone know of a flag for "xv" to -NOT- create a directory called > ".xvpics"? I do not want xv to create this directory. Thanks. The option -vsmap is *asking* for the t

Re: TCP/IP: Operation Timed Out

2003-09-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 12:32:55PM -0400, yo _ wrote: > I manage a general mail server for my organization and recently i have been > receiving complaints that not all their messages are being sent. A quick > check to the maillog and i noticed that many of the mail servers of the > receivers ar

cyrus-imapd and spamassassin

2003-09-13 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I installed cyrus-imapd2 and read in the dox that the delivery agent will be (cyr)deliver in stead of procmail. I use sendmail as my MTA and procmail. In my ~/.procmailrc file I call spamc and I hate to loose the spamassassin services if I'm gonna use cyrus-imapd Can anybody tell my how to use sp

Compile error

2003-09-13 Thread Claudiu Bichir
Hy guys ! I'm triyng to compile this simple prog. in FreeBSD 5.0: #include #include int main() { char h[80]; struct hostent *x; printf("Host:");scanf("%s",h); x=gethostbyname(h); printf("%s\n", x->h_addr_list[0][0]); return 0; } but it gives me the fallowing error /var/tmp//ccDxQUWw.o(.eh

Re: Not quite mail relay

2003-09-13 Thread Gary
Hello Derrick, Saturday, September 13, 2003, 12:02:01 PM, you wrote: D> I am looking for a way to further secure a mail server. A mail server is either secure or not, not half way... it's like being half pregnant. If you installed qmail properly and from lifewithqmail.org it is secure by defaul

/dev/null permission issues

2003-09-13 Thread Scott Kupferschmidt
Hello, I know I've sent in once before regarding, but no one has seemed to know how to fix this issue. It seems when I install boxes with 4.8-rel cd the /dev/null changes permission every minute to non-writable by any user, breaking a lot of scripts piping output to /dev/null. Anytime I try chmo

Re: sendto: buffer space not available

2003-09-13 Thread chael
Yes, exact kernel configurations too. To be specific, I just copy/pasted the extra options plus the pseudo-device gre. And, yes. The same, on a 256MB machine. I have also tried the advice of Colin to set the sysctl : net.inet.raw.recvspace=131072 net.inet.raw.maxdgram=8192 net.inet.tcp.sendspace

Re: I need help getting a desktop working.

2003-09-13 Thread Jud
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 12:31:19 -0400, Bob Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 02:49:51PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Freebsd, I have installed freebsd 4.4 (the ones that came with the manual.) I Which manual is that? There's a paper version of the handbook, but that

Re: /dev/null permission issues

2003-09-13 Thread Stephen Hilton
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 14:47:23 -0400 (EDT) Scott Kupferschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I know I've sent in once before regarding, but no one has seemed to know > how to fix this issue. It seems when I install boxes with 4.8-rel cd the > /dev/null changes permission every minute to

Re: yet another newbie ppp/modem question

2003-09-13 Thread Jud
On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 12:14:45 -0400, fbsd_user <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If your modem is external, maybe you have com1 & com2 disabled in the PC bio's. If PCI modem them and you are not using com1,2 ports then you should disable there bio's so modem can use them. One other thing FBSD does not

Re: nis security (DES passwords)

2003-09-13 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 05:01:31PM +0200, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > I was looking arround for this, and I found that Kerberos uses DES > encryption, John (on my sytem) reports it rather weak: > I'm now using MD5 passwords in NIS. > > Yet it seems the consensus that Kerberos is secure, am I missing

Re: another newbie struggling with ppp/modem issues

2003-09-13 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Alex thusly... > > My modem is sitting on cuaa2 and I needed to re-compile my kernel > to recognize that port. I did this and everything went fine, ... > am getting the dreaded "sio5: configured irq 2 not in bitmap of > probed irqs 0" error which I haven't fou

Re: mldonkey which name?

2003-09-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 05:49:56PM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > Hey, > > I installed mldonkey, but now I'm a bit confused what program to run. > It seems lots of them were installed by portinstall (mlchat, mlgui, > mlguistart, mlin, etc..) > > What do I run when I want a P2P session under X?

Re: Compile error

2003-09-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 10:52:29AM -0700, Claudiu Bichir wrote: > Hy guys ! I'm triyng to compile this simple prog. in FreeBSD 5.0: > #include > #include > > int main() > { > char h[80]; > struct hostent *x; > > printf("Host:");scanf("%s",h); > x=gethostbyname(h); > printf("%s\n", x->h_addr_l

Re: /dev/null permission issues

2003-09-13 Thread Scott Kupferschmidt
Hello, We are not running X, this is a server it is happening on. The only thing running is apache, mysql, sendmail, inetd (proftpd), and that's about it. I find it odd that this is only happening on boxes we installed with 4.8-rel and not any other revision. I manage over 300 machines daily an

Re: Best FTPD...

2003-09-13 Thread Timur
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 09:18:03PM +0200, Incredible Networks wrote: > Hi, > > I need an FTP Server for FreeBSD 4.8 that complies with the following: > > 1. Anonymous (Read Only) and Authenticated (Read/Write) Access > 2. Listens on multiple Interfaces (one for anynomous) > 3. Anonymous Access re

Re: smbmount problem

2003-09-13 Thread Dancho Penev
> On Sat, 2003-09-13 at 15:04, Dancho Penev wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 11:22:57AM +0200, sebastian ssmoller wrote: >> >From: sebastian ssmoller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >Date: 13 Sep 2003 11:22:57 +0200 >> >Subject: smbmount problem >> > >> >hi, >> >i am running fbsd

Re: TCP/IP: Operation Timed Out

2003-09-13 Thread yo _
Thank you for your help but after looking in to the problem, i realized it is not the ident protocol. This could be a problem due to timeouts with the ident protocol, also known as auth, which uses port 113. Most mailservers will try and do an ident check on you when you connect to them. If you

mail server setup

2003-09-13 Thread Aaron Walters
I am setting up freebsd as an incoming mail server running sendmail. Is there documentation to do this and make sure i do this right?? I am having problems with people relaying through my existing mail server running sco unix and sendmail. Please advise about documentation to do this. Thank y

Re: Compile error

2003-09-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Claudiu Bichir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hy guys ! I'm triyng to compile this simple prog. in FreeBSD 5.0: > #include > #include > > int main() > { > char h[80]; > struct hostent *x; > > printf("Host:");scanf("%s",h); > x=gethostbyname(h); > printf("%s\n", x->h_addr_list[0][0]); > return

Re: cyrus-imapd and spamassassin

2003-09-13 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 07:42:09PM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > Can anybody tell my how to use spamc w/ cyrus-imapd? as always google knows the answer... a quick search on "cyrus spamc" directed me to the following site: http://subwiki.honeypot.net/cgi-bin/view/Freebsd/SendMailAndCyrus hth, t

usb mouse probs

2003-09-13 Thread Ryan Haggerty
I looked at the hand book played with rc.conf and all the stuff i need in the kerel is there there is a /dev/ums0 too dmesg says it found my micrsoft wirless optical usb mouse but i can not seem to get it to work from dmesg ums0: Microsoft Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse\M-. 1.0A, rev 2.00/0.1

Extended partitions under FreeBSD: more info, and how to mount?

2003-09-13 Thread Kai Grossjohann
I'm running -current as of a couple of days ago (using the GENERIC kernel). I have this disk layout: ~> fdisk *** Working on device /dev/ad0 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=232632 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS

Re: mail server setup

2003-09-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 05:12:38PM -0400, Aaron Walters wrote: > I am setting up freebsd as an incoming mail server running sendmail. Is there > documentation to do this and make sure i do this right?? I am having problems with > people relaying through my existing mail server running sco unix

Newbie needs advice for software raid

2003-09-13 Thread Tom Munro Glass
I'm considering buying a Dell PowerEdge 1600SC with 3 SCSI drives (no hardware raid) for use as a file, print, database, email/groupware and intranet server. I'm also considering whether to use Linux or FreeBSD - I have some experience with both but have never used software raid on either. I fee

Problems Compiling Apache with Mod_Perl and Mod_SSL

2003-09-13 Thread Jason L. Schwab
Heya Folks; System Specs: FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE OpenSSL 0.9.7a (OS Installed) Apache 1.3.27 Mod_Perl 1.28 Mod_SSL 1.3.28 / 2.8.15 Perl 5.8.0 (ports/lang/perl58 installed) (use.perl port) I have tried many, many ways

permission denied in root!

2003-09-13 Thread Paul Orsi
Please help. Two problems: 1. I'm trying to compile NEWKERN. #config NEWKERN #CD ../ ../compile/NEWKERN Permission Denied 2. could not change permissions for etc/fstab also.Can no longer write to

Xterm-color

2003-09-13 Thread Todd Stephens
Probably a no-brainer, but how can I make my xterm start as xterm-color? If I want color ls, I have to type TERM=xterm-color from the command line every time I start a new terminal window. What file do I need to edit to make X start with xterm-color? -- Todd Stephens ICQ# 3150790 "A witty s

Fw: permission denied in root!

2003-09-13 Thread Paul Orsi
I may try: chattr -V -i NEWKERN chmod u+x NEWKERN let me know if you have any ideas.,thanks - Original Message - From: Paul Orsi To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 3:27 AM Subject: permission denied in root! Please help. Two problems: 1

Re: permission denied in root!

2003-09-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 03:27:55AM -0700, Paul Orsi wrote: > Please help. > Two problems: > 1. I'm trying to compile NEWKERN. #config NEWKERN > #CD ../ ../compile/NEWKERN > Permission Denied You

Re: Xterm-color

2003-09-13 Thread Bob Hall
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 06:22:29PM -0400, Todd Stephens wrote: > Probably a no-brainer, but how can I make my xterm start as xterm-color? > If I want color ls, I have to type TERM=xterm-color from the command > line every time I start a new terminal window. What file do I need to > edit to mak

Finding BIND version

2003-09-13 Thread Ronnie Clark
How does one determine the version number of BINd running on a system? RC __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list h

Re: Finding BIND version

2003-09-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 04:05:56PM -0700, Ronnie Clark wrote: > How does one determine the version number of BINd > running on a system? named -v Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Finding BIND version

2003-09-13 Thread Frank Reppin
hi, nslookup -q=txt -class=CHAOS version.bind. and/or [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# /usr/local/sbin/named -v BIND 9.2.2 the first might be forged since the bind/dns admin can put sth like: version "foobar"; into his named.conf regards, frank Ronnie Clark wrote: How does one dete

Disk problem at install (Signal 11).

2003-09-13 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I've just come to install FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on a new machine. It's got four disks in it, but right now I'm only working with one (ad0), which is a 30GB disk that's been lying about for a bit. I'm getting: DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for swap partitions ad0: hard error cmd=read fsbn 0 status=

Re: nvidia kernel module ate my modem (!)

2003-09-13 Thread Lewis Thompson
Okay, most importantly. Hah hah! I love the topic. On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 10:28:04AM +0100, Richard Dymond wrote: > Chapter 2: Investigation. Had a fiddle with /etc/rc.conf and > /boot/loader.conf, and discovered that if I refrain from loading the > nvidia module at boot time, ppp works fine an

RE: Not quite mail relay

2003-09-13 Thread Derrick Ryalls
> > D> Ex. > > D> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > D> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > D> hotmail ends up with a ton of bounce msgs > > Bounces are a normal part of email life. > > D> and thinks the server is a relay. > > No they don't. Email admims look at the last sender IP > address in the headers,

Re: TCP/IP: Operation Timed Out

2003-09-13 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 12:32:55PM -0400, yo _ wrote: [...] > At home i tried connecting to these servers via telnet on port 25 as well, > and it worked with ease. Then immediatly I ssh'ed to our remote mail server > and telnet'ed to these "operation timed out" mail servers on port 25 and > sti

pkg_delete PERL ?

2003-09-13 Thread Richard Shea
Hi - I've got disk space problems I'm trying to resolve by having a clear up. I've got a lot of stuff which appears to be Perl modules (see listings bottom) but I don't know how to uninstall Perl modules - can anyone tell me ? On the same subject is it possible to uninstall Perl ? When I do pkg_in

Vinum for root.

2003-09-13 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I'm looking to setup my new FreeBSD 5.1 server with a mirrored vinum volume. I've read through the necessary handbook entries but it doesn't seem to answer my question: I'm wanting to do this at install time -- is this possible? The ``Using Vinum for the Root Filesystem'' chapter doesn't

Re: HOW TO USE C-R-O-N?????

2003-09-13 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 03:09:12PM +0400, Denis wrote: > Hi All!!! > > Does anybody can show me how i can use Cron??? > For example, I want to start: > /usr/bin/perl /usr/scripts/my.pl > every 30 seconds. Can i to do it? No cron doesn't handle minutes. For more information type man cron f

Re: permission denied in root!

2003-09-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 04:58:45AM -0700, Paul Orsi wrote: > I also did #../compile/NEWKERN and got permission denied. > I made a typo (in the email), yes I did do a lower case 'cd'.permission > denied again. > I needed to change permissions to the fstab file since it would not let > me write to it

Re: Disk problem at install (Signal 11).

2003-09-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 12:49:22AM +0100, Lewis Thompson wrote: > Hi, > > I've just come to install FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE on a new machine. It's > got four disks in it, but right now I'm only working with one (ad0), > which is a 30GB disk that's been lying about for a bit. I'm getting: > > DEBUG:

Re: What now ? [second thoughts ] - 4.4->4.8 Binary upgrade hasleft machine broken

2003-09-13 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 09:42:24PM +1200, Richard Shea wrote: > Following on from previous post. This is a new mail. I don't know any thing about a previous port. > During the upgrade I got to that screen > before you see the sysinstal menu where you can reconfig the Kernel and I > took the 'Ski

Re: mldonkey which name?

2003-09-13 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 05:49:56PM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > Hey, > > I installed mldonkey, but now I'm a bit confused what program to run. > It seems lots of them were installed by portinstall (mlchat, mlgui, > mlguistart, mlin, etc..) With mlnet you can start just te core. This give you t

Re: Dummynet Pipes

2003-09-13 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 03:04:16PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > I've got a question about dummynet pipes, basically I've installed two rules per > user to control their traffic flow: > > add 150 pipe 15 ip from 78.77.76.21 to any out > pipe 15 config bw 512Kbit/s queue 10 > add 160 pipe 16 ip fr

Re: Where can I find a log file for this ... ?

2003-09-13 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 04:16:10PM +0200, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > Hi, > > one FreeBSD machine at work froze, saying something about some > kind of panic. I simply rebooted it, because I had no time then > to have a close look at it. > Is there some kind of log file where I could see this mess

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