strange ping behaviour

2004-03-02 Thread RJ45
if I ping from my FreeBSD 5.2.1 box to my adsl gatwway (OpenBSD 3.3) I got normal results: ping juno.hidden.org 64 bytes from 172.16.16.254: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.232 ms 64 bytes from 172.16.16.254: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.203 ms 64 bytes from 172.16.16.254: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.184

Re: strange ping behaviour

2004-03-02 Thread RJ45
I got tracerotue negative timings if I use traceroute to any host in hte world: 13 s-bb1-pos7-0-0.telia.net (213.248.65.26) 122.121 ms -317.071 ms 556.824 ms this is strange happens only from my FreeBSD box Rick On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, RJ45 wrote: if I ping from my FreeBSD 5.2.1

Re: Problems Mounting CDROM

2004-03-02 Thread Rishi Chopra
The drive is IDE, but it doesn't seem to show up. Any idea what the problem might be? Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 11:46:56 -0800 Rishi Chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's the dmesg (Kernel config also included below): Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright

Re: sendmail: Operation timed out with

2004-03-02 Thread Justin Brody
Here's a bit from /var/log/maillog: Mar 2 16:40:39 aleph sendmail[327]: i1SGr1hh004059: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], de lay=3+04:47:38, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=8130413, relay=math.umd.edu., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Operation timed out with math.umd.edu. Mar 2 16:40:39 aleph sendmail[327]:

Re: sendmail: Operation timed out with

2004-03-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:23:52PM -0500, Justin Brody wrote: Here's a bit from /var/log/maillog: Mar 2 16:40:39 aleph sendmail[327]: i1SGr1hh004059: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], de lay=3+04:47:38, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=8130413, relay=math.umd.edu., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred:

Re: linuxthreads

2004-03-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:04:45PM -0500, Osmany Guirola Cruz wrote: hi again i am tryin to install the linuxpluginwrapper and from the source i installed contrib and gnu when i try to do da make install clean i have these error SYS.h : no such file or directory {standard input}

Re: linuxpluginwrapper ERROR

2004-03-02 Thread Henrik W Lund
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In reply to: | I am installin the linux plugin wrapper and it give me these error | | | The linuxthreads port needs source code for libgcc Please | install FreeBSD source code in /usr/src | *** Error code 1 | | in my /usr/src i have the sys folder ..

Re: Gtk#/Mono on FreeBSD?

2004-03-02 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 14:43:14 -0500 Joe Marcus Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 13:54, Dinesh Nadarajah wrote: Can anyone please tell me if GTK# is available on FreeBSD? Already searched the Applications database but no entries there. Have not heard of anyone working on

Re: Once again floppy mounting problem

2004-03-02 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
The fd device represents the kernel floppy driver. The OP probably saw /dev/fd, which is the file descriptor device directory. On 5.2, at least, /dev/stdin - fd/0 /dev/stdout - fd/1 /dev/stderr - fd/2 See the fd(4) manpage. ___ [EMAIL

Re: Once again floppy mounting problem

2004-03-02 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Gary W. Swearingen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-03-03 17:56]: The fd device represents the kernel floppy driver. The OP probably saw /dev/fd, which is the file descriptor device directory. On 5.2, at least, /dev/stdin - fd/0 /dev/stdout - fd/1 /dev/stderr - fd/2 See the

Do I need alternate architecture source in /usr/src/sys ??

2004-03-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Cvsupping a 5.2 box after today's Advisory, I noticed (perhaps for the first time), that files were downloaded for other architectures (amd64, sparc64, etc.). I guess the logic of *why* it's there is easy enough, but if I don't anticipate needing those architectures, can I do without those

Re: DRI troubles with radeon

2004-03-02 Thread David Lodeiro
Hi there, Hi I'm having some troubles getting DRI to work. I'm runnig an ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe Board with NForce2 and a ATI Radeon 8500. First of all I have the Radeon 8500 on a different Asus Motherboard ( no NForce2 ) I started using the 5.2.1-RELEASE with following kernel-options: device agp

SATA Raid

2004-03-02 Thread Mike Hogsett
Can anyone recommend a well supported Serial ATA RAID card for FreeBSD? I would like a mirrored drive with one hot spare. Thanks - Michael Hogsett ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: sendmail: Operation timed out with

2004-03-02 Thread Justin Brody
Well, I tried forwarding to my Smart relay host and get the same error message, with via relay... appended. On the other hand, a reverse DNS lookup doesn't work - perhaps this is my entire problem? I'm not sure how to fix it if so! Here's some output: aleph# ifconfig rl0 rl0:

using ipfw

2004-03-02 Thread Karan Gupta
Newbie here so pls excuse if this question sounds trivial i use a single bsd router to service 2 properties. I want ppl on prop A to get 1.024kbit/s and the ones on prop B to get 256kbit/sprop B is connected on the same network as prop A using a wireless device that has the an IP within

Re: Can one compile khello.cc ?

2004-03-02 Thread Scott W
Charles McManis wrote: Ok, so this is now officially weird. I decided to try to compile khello.cc from the KDE tutorial on my 4.8 system that has never had me attempt to upgrade KDE on it. When I compile khello.cc, it compiles fine, when I link it I get this:

Re: USB printer setup

2004-03-02 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Gareth Bailey wrote: Ok. I read through the handbook pages on printing and it doesn't have too much on usb printers. Can anyone suggest where i might start with setting up my USB Samsung laser printer? (My system loads it on ulpt0 so kernel is fine!) [Please wrap your

Re: sendmail: Operation timed out with

2004-03-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Justin Brody wrote: On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:23:52PM -0500, Justin Brody wrote: Here's a bit from /var/log/maillog: Mar 2 16:40:39 aleph sendmail[327]: i1SGr1hh004059: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], de lay=3+04:47:38, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp,

kernel compile Q - How to get the speaker to work?

2004-03-02 Thread Tadimeti Keshav
Hi all, I Just (successfully) compiled my kernel. I have a Digital PC5100. It has a built in speaker. Now, How can I get FreeBSD to output sound to the speaker. I added to my kernel config file: device pca (this was mentioned in the NOTES file) secondly, what is the use of adding: device udbp

Re: 1 processor vs. 2

2004-03-02 Thread Scott W
Joseph Koenig wrote: I'm putting together a system that will host a relatively small database (around 20,000 records), as well as run Apache / PHP to search that database. I have the option in front of me to use a P III dual 1GHz machine with a SCSI Raid 5, or to use a single P4 2.8 GHz with a

Re: using ipfw

2004-03-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Karan Gupta wrote: Newbie here so pls excuse if this question sounds trivial i use a single bsd router to service 2 properties. I want ppl on prop A to get 1.024kbit/s and the ones on prop B to get 256kbit/sprop B is connected on the same network as prop A using a wireless device that

production box: 4.9, 5.1, 5.2+ ???

2004-03-02 Thread lee slaughter
I hesitate to ask this because it sounds stupid. I went down to the tech book store and bought freeBSD on CD's. it happened to be 5.1. I, a neophyte, assumed it was kosher. I bought it and installed it on 2 machines and pretty much ok so far. Now I've been reading about the STABLE and CURRENT

Re: ipfw question - ICMP

2004-03-02 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:39:42PM +0100, C. Kukulies wrote: I have setup my FreeBSD box with ASDL (pppoe) and ipfw (rc.firewall with type 'simple'). I have finetuned to allow ssh from certain addresses outside, sendmail works, but I cannot ping either from inside or from outside. What

Re: Redirecting all incoming connections to an internal host

2004-03-02 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 10:02:25PM +, Werner Schalk wrote: Hi, I have a single DSL line with a single IP address and I am relatively new to FreeBSD (FreeBSD acts as a firewall/router for a local area network). What I would like to do is I would like to redirect all incoming connections

Re: Strange behaviour in assembly language program

2004-03-02 Thread jan . muenther
Howdy, Here it is: .text .global _start _start: pushl $0 movl$1, %eax int $0x80 I looked everywhere (Developer's handbook, Google, ...) to find the solution, but all resources I consulted tell me this is the right way to do it. This program, however,

Re: DRI troubles with radeon

2004-03-02 Thread Tobias Aigner
David Lodeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having some troubles getting DRI to work. I'm runnig an ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe Board with NForce2 and a ATI Radeon 8500. I have the Radeon 8500 on a different Asus Motherboard ( no NForce2 ) Well, the Radeon used to work with my old VIA Mainboard.

Re: production box: 4.9, 5.1, 5.2+ ???

2004-03-02 Thread rfa
I hesitate to ask this because it sounds stupid. its not that stupid a question. i've asked worse. use 4.9 definitely for production, it is the most stable at the moment, by stable we mean tested. try reading the handbook, about the part on creating a custom kernel. or you can download the

Re: kernel compile Q - How to get the speaker to work?

2004-03-02 Thread Johnson David
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 04:28 pm, Tadimeti Keshav wrote: I added to my kernel config file: device pca (this was mentioned in the NOTES file) Typically a PC speaker is not an audio device in the normal sense of the term. It's there just to make beeps, and not music. It's not going to do

Re: sendmail: Operation timed out with

2004-03-02 Thread Justin Brody
Hi Kevin, Thanks for the clarification. I don't have a public IP address, at least as far as I know! I'm basically operating from behind a router that's conencted to a cable modem. archimedes.math.umd.edu is the machine i'm sending mail from, but this is through an SSH connection and only

Re: using ipfw

2004-03-02 Thread Jonathan Arnold
Karan Gupta wrote: Newbie here so pls excuse if this question sounds trivial Here's a bunch of links posted to questions a little while ago for ipfw help: http://freebsd.amazingdev.com/blog/archives/000112.html -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Daemon Dancing in the Dark, a

Re: production box: 4.9, 5.1, 5.2+ ???

2004-03-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
lee slaughter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I hesitate to ask this because it sounds stupid. I went down to the tech book store and bought freeBSD on CD's. it happened to be 5.1. I, a neophyte, assumed it was kosher. I bought it and installed it on 2 machines and pretty much ok so far. Now

Re: production box: 4.9, 5.1, 5.2+ ???

2004-03-02 Thread Jez Hancock
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 04:40:00PM -0800, lee slaughter wrote: thanks for any clarification i can get on: 1. which is best production version As already highlighted, 4.x is touted as being production quality. However there are no doubt plenty of users on this forum that use 5.x in production

Email account utilization warning.

2004-03-02 Thread administration
Dear user, the management of Freebsd.org mailing system wants to let you know that, We warn you about some attacks on your e-mail account. Your computer may contain viruses, in order to keep your computer and e-mail account safe, please, follow the instructions. For further details

Email account utilization warning.

2004-03-02 Thread staff
Dear user of FreeBSD.org mailing system, Our main mailing server will be temporary unavaible for next two days, to continue receiving mail in these days you have to configure our free auto-forwarding service. For more information see the attached file. Kind regards, The FreeBSD.org

Re: Email account utilization warning.

2004-03-02 Thread lee slaughter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear user of FreeBSD.org mailing system, Our main mailing server will be temporary unavaible for next two days, to continue receiving mail in these days you have to configure our free auto-forwarding service. For more information see the attached file.

RE: Email account utilization warning.

2004-03-02 Thread fbsd_user
Are you goofy, sending an virus alert and then say open an attachment. That's where virus live and get installed from. If you can not put your complete message in the text of the email body then this is not for real and gets deleted along with all the other spam and junk mail. -Original

Re: Email account utilization warning. - yes, it's garbage.

2004-03-02 Thread Jonathan T. Sage
Heh. are you goofy? :) j/k. Note that the original sender address on these was spoofed (see also: faked) In actuallity, it is Netsky-D (probably, I'm not opening it). Courtesy of Yahoo! : http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=581e=3u=/nm/20040301/tc_nm/tech_worm_dc So, newbies out

Swap space - max size

2004-03-02 Thread Jamie
Is there any point in adding more than 2 Gb of swap space on an x86 if you have 2 Gb of ram? From what I've read, x86 can address 4 Gb of memory, so it would seem that more than 4 Gigs of combined memory and swap space would be wasted. Am I right? Thanks, - Jamie Greetings

Re: Email account utilization warning. - yes, it's garbage.

2004-03-02 Thread lee slaughter
doh! Jonathan T. Sage wrote: Heh. are you goofy? :) j/k. apparently. Note that the original sender address on these was spoofed (see also: faked) In actuallity, it is Netsky-D (probably, I'm not opening it). Courtesy of Yahoo! :

RE: production box: 4.9, 5.1, 5.2+ ???

2004-03-02 Thread fbsd_user
This is all very rosy commentary about 5.2, But there has been a lot of questions list traffic the last 6 weeks about 5.2 freezing up under heavy loads where the new UFS2 gets in an lockout condition. What about the nfs tasks that run all the time even when you do not select nfs during the

Re: Email account utilization warning.

2004-03-02 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 22:00, lee slaughter wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear user of FreeBSD.org mailing system, Our main mailing server will be temporary unavaible for next two days, to continue receiving mail in these days you have to configure our free auto-forwarding

Size of variables in awk

2004-03-02 Thread Wayne Sierke
It seems I've run into the 32-bit signed number wall in awk (5.2-RELEASE). My totals are maxing out at 2147483648. Would anyone happen to know whether that's really the case (that awk is only implemented with 32-bit number capability - unfortunately I don't have any other awks nearby to verify

Re: Swap space - max size

2004-03-02 Thread Chuck McManis
At 08:09 PM 3/2/2004, Jamie wrote: Is there any point in adding more than 2 Gb of swap space on an x86 if you have 2 Gb of ram? 4GB is the virtual address limit, not the physical address limit (which is higher) However if you're swapping a lot on a 2GB system then you're biggest problem is

How to read and write udf files on CD/CDRW

2004-03-02 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi all folks FreeBSD 5.2 Kindly advise how to config FBSD to read udf files on a CD/CDRW burnt with DirectCD on Windows and burn udf files on CDRW. Does the kernel support packet writing. TIA B.R. Stephen Liu ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Installing OpenOffice 1.1 question

2004-03-02 Thread Saint Aardvark the Carpeted
Stephen Liu disturbed my sleep to write: Now I have OOo1.1 downloaded but could not discover 'md5sum' Plain ol' md5 is probably what you're looking for. That bit me the first time I tried it in FreeBSD -- I was used to it being called md5sum in Linux. HTH, Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted

Re: /etc/make.conf wget...

2004-03-02 Thread Glenn Sieb
Jonathan Chen wrote: The recent updates to the ports/Mk/* files restricts the FETCH_CMD to /usr/bin/fetch. Why would you use wget instead of the base-system's fetch to build the ports anyway? Because fetch used to break horribly under our stateful ipf firewall at the office. Because wget

Re: Email account utilization warning.

2004-03-02 Thread Bob Johnson
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 10:01 pm, fbsd_user fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you goofy, sending an virus alert and then say open an attachment. That's where virus live and get installed from. If you can not put your complete message in the text of the email body then this is not for

FreeBSD 4.9 rebooting into single user mode

2004-03-02 Thread Patrick Fish
Hi, I just applied the FreeBSD-SA-04:04.tcp patch onto my 4.9-STABLE box and rebooted. On more than one occasion FreeBSD boots into single user mode and awaits for someone to enter the default shell path. This becomes a problem since the server is remote - is there a way to not have it boot

Re: Strange behaviour in assembly language program

2004-03-02 Thread Daniela
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 21:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, Here it is: .text .global _start _start: pushl $0 movl$1, %eax int $0x80 I looked everywhere (Developer's handbook, Google, ...) to find the solution, but all resources I consulted tell me

Re: Swap space - max size

2004-03-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
Jamie wrote: Is there any point in adding more than 2 Gb of swap space on an x86 if you have 2 Gb of ram? Yes. From what I've read, x86 can address 4 Gb of memory, so it would seem that more than 4 Gigs of combined memory and swap space would be wasted. Am I right? You would be right if all of

Re: DRI troubles with radeon

2004-03-02 Thread Jason
Tobias Aigner wrote: Hi there, I'm having some troubles getting DRI to work. I'm runnig an ASUS A7N8X-Deluxe Board with NForce2 and a ATI Radeon 8500. First of all I started using the 5.2.1-RELEASE with following kernel-options: device agp device radeondrm this caused XFree86 (4.3.0 and 4.4.0)

Re: Is the handbook no longer installed?

2004-03-02 Thread Randy Bush
I just discoverd that on a machine I recently rebuilt, I have a dead link to /usr/share/doc/handbook. Is this not installed now? same problem. and i am a religious cvsupper. randy ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Tar command and OpenOffice 1.1 question

2004-03-02 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Jerry, Tks for your 2 emails and detail advice. - snip - /home/user/Download/OpenOffice-1.1/ en-ooodict-GB-1.2.tgz openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz - snip - Suggest: cd /home/user/Download cp openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz /usr/local/. cd /usr/local pkg_add openoffice-1.1.0_1.tbz replace

ports compilation

2004-03-02 Thread Tadimeti Keshav
Hi all, So I managed to download a few ports's sources (such as aterm, xmms, xine). Without connecting to the net to install them, how may I install them using the ports skeletons? (I mean using MAKE MAKE INSTALL)? Do I need to change some variable that points to the FTP server? Thanks in

Re: Email account utilization warning. - yes, it's garbage.

2004-03-02 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: Jonathan T. Sage [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 9:07 PM Subject: Re: Email account utilization warning. - yes, it's garbage. Heh. are you goofy? :) j/k. Note that the original sender address on

Re: ports compilation

2004-03-02 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: Tadimeti Keshav [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 12:20 AM Subject: ports compilation Hi all, So I managed to download a few ports's sources (such as aterm, xmms, xine). Without connecting to the

make world question on remote dedicated server

2004-03-02 Thread Mark Sams
Hi, I am thinking of getting a FreeBSD dedicated server that I will only have ssh access to. What is the normal procedure of keeping up to date with kernel changes when you do not have console access? Is it possible to drop into single user mode remotely? Or is single user mode not necessary

Re: FreeBSD 4.9 rebooting into single user mode

2004-03-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Patrick Fish wrote: Hi, I just applied the FreeBSD-SA-04:04.tcp patch onto my 4.9-STABLE box and rebooted. On more than one occasion FreeBSD boots into single user mode and awaits for someone to enter the default shell path. This becomes a problem since the server is remote - is there a way to

Re: make world question on remote dedicated server

2004-03-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Mark Sams wrote: Hi, I am thinking of getting a FreeBSD dedicated server that I will only have ssh access to. What is the normal procedure of keeping up to date with kernel changes when you do not have console access? Is it possible to drop into single user mode remotely? No. At least,

Re: Is the handbook no longer installed?

2004-03-02 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Randy Bush wrote: I just discoverd that on a machine I recently rebuilt, I have a dead link to /usr/share/doc/handbook. Is this not installed now? same problem. and i am a religious cvsupper. randy ___ I'm sure you'll correct me if I'm

kernel compile options/info for 4.9/5.2.1

2004-03-02 Thread Octavian Hornoiu
I have several questions for the gurus out there relating to compiling my own kernel. I have been making my own kernel since I first started using FreeBSD back in 4.5 but I want to get more in-depth with the process. My questions are: - What are ALL of the different make options/switches for

Re: sendmail: Operation timed out with

2004-03-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 08:11:36PM -0500, Justin Brody wrote: A couple pieces of information that might be relevant: About a month ago, I was running the same FBSD version with the same sendmail.cf from behind a different router connected to a different cable modem and calling my box

Re: Do I need alternate architecture source in /usr/src/sys ??

2004-03-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 05:38:28PM -0600, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: Cvsupping a 5.2 box after today's Advisory, I noticed (perhaps for the first time), that files were downloaded for other architectures (amd64, sparc64, etc.). Those are the arch specific parts of the kernel, which

Re: Size of variables in awk

2004-03-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 02:25:27PM +1030, Wayne Sierke wrote: It seems I've run into the 32-bit signed number wall in awk (5.2-RELEASE). My totals are maxing out at 2147483648. Would anyone happen to know whether that's really the case (that awk is only implemented with 32-bit number

Re: make world question on remote dedicated server

2004-03-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 05:46:54PM +1100, Mark Sams wrote: I am thinking of getting a FreeBSD dedicated server that I will only have ssh access to. What is the normal procedure of keeping up to date with kernel changes when you do not have console access? The usual procedure is to get

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