The FreeBSD Diary: 2005-09-04 - 2005-09-24

2005-09-25 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Re: New user getting very discouraged with IPv6 problems, cannot get tunnel working completely :(

2005-09-25 Thread Tilman Linneweh
Am 25.09.2005 um 03:32 schrieb aksis: On the HE site, after you login, in the Tunnel Details section, there is an option to rebuild the tunnel, this might fix the problem. Beyond that I would email HE, send them the relative info and ask them to look at it. Additional check your ipv6

Webcams and FreeBSD

2005-09-25 Thread Ned Harrison
I'm running FreeBSD 5.4 as a desktop operating system on my home computer. I would like to set up a webcam for physical security/nature observation while I'm away from the residence. Something simple, I just want to take periodic images and store them on an external hard drive. In the past

Re: ssh segfault

2005-09-25 Thread Chris
On 21/09/05, Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I just upgraded my SSL crypto library to 0.9.8 and ssh to other machines is creating a core dump. Is there an appropriate mail list for these types of issues? how might I troubleshoot this issue? also how might I return to teh

Re[2]: ssh segfault

2005-09-25 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Chris, Sunday, September 25, 2005, 12:55:00 PM, you wrote the following: On 21/09/05, Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I just upgraded my SSL crypto library to 0.9.8 and ssh to other machines is creating a core dump. Is there an appropriate mail list for these types of

Re: portupgrade + make_ports.sh: Fixing everything in one go

2005-09-25 Thread Chris
Micah wrote: Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: Hello! I thought I'd ask you all if my make_ports.sh is as convenient as I think it is, or if it's totally off track or what not: # cat make_ports.sh cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/cvsupfile cd /usr/ports make fetchindex portupgrade -raP portsdb -uU Not the

Eggdrop 1.6.15 with Ipv6 support + FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE

2005-09-25 Thread Andreas Melsom Haakonsen
Hi all! I've been struggling with some problems lately after going from FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE to FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE. Eggdrop will not listen to tcp4, at any cost. It will only listen to IPv6 (tcp6), no matter what i do. The same error occurs with muh, but works fine on psybnc. Here's an

Re: Configuring sound

2005-09-25 Thread Michał Masłowski
try running /usr/sbin/mixer from your shell/xterm ;) $ /usr/sbin/mixer Mixer vol is currently set to 75:75 Mixer pcm is currently set to 80:80 Mixer speaker is currently set to 75:75 Mixer line is currently set to 75:75 Mixer mic is currently set to 100:100 Mixer cd

Re: Configuring sound

2005-09-25 Thread Tobias Fendin
Michał Masłowski wrote: Mixer rec is currently set to 0:0 maybe you should change rec's value to something bigger.. -tobbe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

data recovery

2005-09-25 Thread anti cl0ck
Hi i just removed /home/mylib/UNIX with rm -rf /home/mylib/UNIX this dir is my important directory. now i`m trying to recover all data in this dir. there is no such file UNIX in /home/mylib bcos i removed it but in my locate database , it shown me the following # locate UNIX /usr/home/mylib/UNIX

Re: data recovery

2005-09-25 Thread Björn König
anti cl0ck wrote: can i make data recovery from locate database?. No, this databases contains only filenames. Björn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: data recovery

2005-09-25 Thread Beecher Rintoul
On Sunday 25 September 2005 10:31 am, anti cl0ck wrote: Hi i just removed /home/mylib/UNIX with rm -rf /home/mylib/UNIX this dir is my important directory. now i`m trying to recover all data in this dir. there is no such file UNIX in /home/mylib bcos i removed it If you have no backup try

Re: data recovery

2005-09-25 Thread jonas
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 11:11:57 -0800 Beecher Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 25 September 2005 10:31 am, anti cl0ck wrote: Hi i just removed /home/mylib/UNIX with rm -rf /home/mylib/UNIX this dir is my important directory. now i`m trying to recover all data in this dir.

Kernel Compiling Problems...

2005-09-25 Thread Robert Mendal
Hello, I'm trying to make a custom kernel for my system for the first time and I'm having some problems. I followed the directions in the FreeBSD Handbook and printed my dmesg.boot file for reference as well. I don't believe I deleted or commented out anytihng that would be causing the error but

Re: Kernel Compiling Problems...

2005-09-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 03:32:25PM -0400, Robert Mendal wrote: Hello, I'm trying to make a custom kernel for my system for the first time and I'm having some problems. I followed the directions in the FreeBSD Handbook and printed my dmesg.boot file for reference as well. I don't believe I

i386 on AMD64 architecture

2005-09-25 Thread Graham North
It is my understanding that the AMD 64 family supports 32-bit i386 code completely...can someone confirm this. I would like to stay with 32 bit for the time being but run it on a new MB using an AMD64 architecture. Should I therefore be simply installing an i386 iso as though it is on an

Re: i386 on AMD64 architecture

2005-09-25 Thread Micah
Graham North wrote: It is my understanding that the AMD 64 family supports 32-bit i386 code completely...can someone confirm this. I would like to stay with 32 bit for the time being but run it on a new MB using an AMD64 architecture. Should I therefore be simply installing an i386 iso as

Re: i386 on AMD64 architecture

2005-09-25 Thread Graham North
Thanks Micah! Which version of FBSD are you using? Your choice of MB looks pretty solid. Can you recommend a good, supported (and cheap) video card as the A8V-E does not seem to have video. Thanks again, Graham/ Micah wrote: Graham North wrote: It is my understanding that the AMD

NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the AMD CPU and OS kernel

2005-09-25 Thread dick hoogendijk
I have problems getting the nvidia driver to work. I get these error msgs starting X NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the AMD CPU and OS kernel NVRM: kernel upgrade recommended + I recompiled my generic kernel and leave option AGP out. (nvidia's agp gart is used then) + I use

Placement of XBitHack in httpd.conf file

2005-09-25 Thread Gerard Seibert
Reading up on the XBitHack statement for the Apache2 httpd.conf file, tell s me what it does, but not where to place it in the configuration file. Does it make any difference, or can I just place it anywhere? -- Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the AMD CPU and OS kernel

2005-09-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
dick hoogendijk wrote: I have problems getting the nvidia driver to work. I get these error msgs starting X NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the AMD CPU and OS kernel NVRM: kernel upgrade recommended + I recompiled my generic kernel and leave option AGP out. (nvidia's agp

sio0 : silo overflow

2005-09-25 Thread caleb
Hi, I am having some problems with the serial port (si0) connected to my modem. Everytime I try to download a file I get the following output on my console; kernel sio0: 1 more silo overflow I thought it might be the baud rate but stty displays the following information; speed 115200

2 questions partitions + dmesg

2005-09-25 Thread Eric Murphy
Hey guys 2 questions here... the first one has to do with paritioning.. Im running an a8n SLI deluxe mother board useing the Nvidia RAID controller In the BSD installer it shows up as ad4 ad6 and ar0 -- ar0 being the raid arrary.. Now I would like to dual boot windows and BSD, and this is

New Kernel Cannot Mount Root...

2005-09-25 Thread Robert
My new custom kernel cannot mount root. I searched the list archives but couldn't find anything helpful. Here is the error message I receive: *Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a* *setrootbyname failed* *ffs_mountroot:can't find rootvp* *Root mount failed: 6* ** Root is located at /dev/ad0s1a so

Re: i386 on AMD64 architecture

2005-09-25 Thread Micah
Graham North wrote: Thanks Micah! Which version of FBSD are you using? Your choice of MB looks pretty solid. Can you recommend a good, supported (and cheap) video card as the A8V-E does not seem to have video. Thanks again, Graham/ I'm using 5.4-RELEASE-p7 for the i386 install and

Re: NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the AMD CPU and OS kernel

2005-09-25 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 22:06:48 +0100 Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dick hoogendijk wrote: I have problems getting the nvidia driver to work. I get these error msgs starting X NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the AMD CPU and OS kernel NVRM: kernel upgrade

Re: New Kernel Cannot Mount Root...

2005-09-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 05:25:47PM -0400, Robert wrote: My new custom kernel cannot mount root. I searched the list archives but couldn't find anything helpful. Here is the error message I receive: *Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a* *setrootbyname failed* *ffs_mountroot:can't find

SSI error message

2005-09-25 Thread Gerard Seibert
I inserted the XBitHack on statement into a .htaccess to turn on the SSI function. I then made the necessary modification to the httpd.conf file so that the file would be used. Now, I receive this error message in the httpd-error.log and I have no idea how to correct it. [Sun Sep 25 18:14:40

[Fwd: Re: i386 on AMD64 architecture]

2005-09-25 Thread Graham North
Original Message Subject:Re: i386 on AMD64 architecture Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:10:35 -0700 From: Graham North [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks

Re: SSI error message

2005-09-25 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 03:22 PM 9/25/2005, Gerard Seibert wrote: I inserted the XBitHack on statement into a .htaccess to turn on the SSI function. I then made the necessary modification to the httpd.conf file so that the file would be used. Now, I receive this error message in the httpd-error.log and I have no

Problem connecting to http on port 81

2005-09-25 Thread Vincent Stipo
I have a problem connecting to webservers(http) that run on port 81 using freebsd 5.4 I can't get it to work with lynx, wget. BitTorrent cant connect to trackers that run on 81 either. I don't have any firewalls or anything installed. I have no clue what the problem is. For example.. my server

Re[2]: SSI error message

2005-09-25 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:40:21 -0700, Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SSI error message Wrote these words of wisdom: At 03:22 PM 9/25/2005, Gerard Seibert wrote: I inserted the XBitHack on statement into a .htaccess to turn on the SSI function. I then made the necessary modification

proftpd: No address associated with hostname

2005-09-25 Thread Mark
Hello, I have been running proftpd for years (FreeBSD 4.11). Today I upgraded to 1.3.0rc2. And now I get this in my log: getaddrinfo 'asarian-host.net' error: No address associated with hostname Yeah, right. I have googled on this quite a bit; but all I see are lame recommendations like to add

Monitoring network connections recomendations please

2005-09-25 Thread Vizion
hi Recomendations please for an X windows monitoring progs that give a view of network activity but also enable me to drill down for more detail and also enable me to set warnings so that I could see (for example:) connections by selected ftp users or accesses to specific files or

Re: hints for troubleshooting poor sound quality.

2005-09-25 Thread Sandy Rutherford
On 19 Sep 2005 10:23:07 -0400, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: George Hartzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've set up an ASUS small form factor machine based around an P4S8L ... The machine has two mini-jacks, one in the front and one in the back. If I plug a set of

Re: Problem connecting to http on port 81

2005-09-25 Thread albi
On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 16:09:33 -0700 Vincent Stipo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a problem connecting to webservers(http) that run on port 81 using freebsd 5.4 I can't get it to work with lynx, wget. BitTorrent cant connect to trackers that run on 81 either. I don't have any firewalls or

Re: Problem connecting to http on port 81

2005-09-25 Thread Vincent Stipo
I have a squid proxy running on the server. Don't know how that would affect anything. When going through the proxy, I can't connect to any port 81 sites. There is no firewall. The server is located at a co-lo, as far as I know, there shouldnt be any port blocking. If I for example.. set up an

Re: NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the AMD CPU and OS kernel

2005-09-25 Thread RW
On Sunday 25 September 2005 22:41, dick hoogendijk wrote: On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 22:06:48 +0100 http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=52388 OK, I read the news msgs on this board and get the impression you're trying to say to me it's because I use an amd64? But I run a normal i386

Re[2]: SSI error message

2005-09-25 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 04:24 PM 9/25/2005, Gerard Seibert wrote: On Sun, 25 Sep 2005 15:40:21 -0700, Glenn Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SSI error message Wrote these words of wisdom: At 03:22 PM 9/25/2005, Gerard Seibert wrote: I inserted the XBitHack on statement into a .htaccess to turn on the SSI

can not mount a large FAT32 filesystem

2005-09-25 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Hello! I have a 4Gb flash-card with FAT32 filesystem. Whenever I try to mount it (on 5.x and 4.x) I get: msdos: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument and the kernel complains: da0: reading primary partition table: error reading fsbn 0 mountmsdosfs(): bad FAT32 filesystem The

user account changes lost on reboot

2005-09-25 Thread Jarrod Harch
Hi, I just setup a new 5.4 install, which went fairly well. I added some accounts - I used adduser to do one account, and logged on as the user OK. The other account was created when I installed gdm as the display manager. On rebooting the root password is missing, the user account I created is

Mounting NetBSD disk under FreeBSD.

2005-09-25 Thread FC
I am switching from NetBSD to FreeBSD and I have to get some data from a disk labeled on NetBSD 2.0. I would like to mount this disk on my new FreeBSD-5.4. But the only devices which shows on /dev are ad1 and ad1s1. The devices for each partitions are missing (ad1s1a, ad1s1b, ad1s1b,

AMD64 question

2005-09-25 Thread Eric Murphy
Hey guys im having trouble complieing a custem kernel for this version of BSD I mkae a copy of the GENERIC kernel, editing it for what i want and renameing it to GREED When I move into cd /usr/src and issue make buildkernel KERNCONF=GREED It says GREED is missing and is not there, but it

How to use USB memory-stick for booting FreeBSD?

2005-09-25 Thread Rob
Hi, I have a USB memory stick of one GigaByte. I learned that on some PCs, the BIOS allows booting from USB memory-stick. Is this possible with FreeBSD? If yes, then how do I install FreeBSD on such a USB memory stick, so that it becomes a 'bootable USB'? Thanks, Rob.

Re: AMD64 question

2005-09-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 01:05:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Eric Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Eric Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: AMD64 question To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Hey guys im having trouble complieing a custem kernel for this version of BSD I mkae a copy of the GENERIC

Re: How to use USB memory-stick for booting FreeBSD?

2005-09-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-09-25 22:06, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a USB memory stick of one GigaByte. I learned that on some PCs, the BIOS allows booting from USB memory-stick. Is this possible with FreeBSD? Yes. If yes, then how do I install FreeBSD on such a USB memory stick, so that it becomes

Re: How to use USB memory-stick for booting FreeBSD?

2005-09-25 Thread Rob
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-09-25 22:06, Rob wrote: I have a USB memory stick of one GigaByte. I learned that on some PCs, the BIOS allows booting from USB memory-stick. Is this possible with FreeBSD? Yes. Great! If yes, then how do I install FreeBSD on such a USB memory stick,

Re: How to use USB memory-stick for booting FreeBSD?

2005-09-25 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-09-25 22:32, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: By installing a FreeBSD base system on it (approx. 170 MB) and a boot loader, and setting your BIOS to boot from USB legacy device. Hmmm, how do I do that? After a system and kernel build, is it then something like