Re: IPTV

2006-02-10 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 09 February 2006 18:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Helo, Did any one know IPTV solutions for FreeBSD? hm, vlc. Not exactly IPTV though. You'll find in the ports/multimedia/vlc I need some sofware that allow resive multicast TV and cast them to STB and PC... The thing with IPTV is

Re: is upgrading from 4.x to 6.x possible?

2006-02-10 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 02/09/06 06:05 Erik Trulsson said the following: The other option available is of course to make a backup of all data and config files, make a new clean install of 6.x, and then restore files from backup. which is exactly what i did and something i'd recommend for all 4.x to 6.x direct

Re: VPN not working

2006-02-10 Thread Michael Vince
You can try out this script if you like, it may or may not help. I created it so I could more easily remember all the VPN knobs that need to be touched when creating a VPN. http://www.roq.com/projects/vpnsetup/vpnsetup.pl Mike Subhro wrote: Hello, I am trying to connect to my workplace

Firefox-1.5.0.1 not starting after successfull instalation

2006-02-10 Thread Vladis
Hi, I encountered same problem, Firefox doesn't want start. It took some (not short) time but I've installed new Firefox-1.5.0.1 successfully, without errors after all. Unfortunately, I cannot start it now. It simply ends earlier then it starts. Nothing happens: #/usr/X11R6/bin #./firefox #

twe question

2006-02-10 Thread freebsd_daemon
dear list, i own a 3ware 7500-4LP (FBSD 4.11R) twe0: 3ware Storage Controller driver ver. 1.40.01.001 port 0xb000-0xb00f mem 0xf900-0xf97f,0xf980-0xf98f irq 9 at device 1.0 on pci3 twe0: AEN: soft reset twe0: 4 ports, Firmware FE7X 1.05.00.049, BIOS BE7X 1.08.00.046 twe0: Monitor

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 JDK issue

2006-02-10 Thread Ben Paley
I know there has been a lot of activity on the mailing lists these   days regarding JDK and OOo. From what I could gather, most of it is   regarding keeping it working after the update of JDK14. In any event,   I was installing OOo-2.0 for the first time, and the build failed.   The error

Re: FreeBSD 6 on DVD

2006-02-10 Thread Chris
Foo Ji-Haw wrote: FreeBSD is only 2-disc. I don't see why it's so painful to switch only twice in a single installation. - Original Message - From: Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD - Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 8:18 AM Subject: FreeBSD 6

Re: SDR GEM312P

2006-02-10 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Tom Grove wrote: Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. I'm building a new server and stumbled upon this: ses0 at ahd0 bus 0 target 8 lun 0 ses0: SDR GEM318P 1 Fixed Processor SCSI-2 device ses0: 3.300MB/s transfers ses0: SAF-TE Compliant Device I guess it has something to do with a SCSI

Re: Mount changing mount point rights?

2006-02-10 Thread Ceri Davies
On 9 Feb 2006, at 12:52, Norberto Meijome wrote: hi all, I'm mounting a GELI encrypted, file backed vnode on ~/mount_folder. I am member of wheel. I start with Home directory: drwxr-x--- 51 betom betom 3072 Feb 9 23:38 betom file and folder which i want to mount in.

Re: SDR GEM312P

2006-02-10 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Chuck Swiger wrote: Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. I'm building a new server and stumbled upon this: ses0 at ahd0 bus 0 target 8 lun 0 ses0: SDR GEM318P 1 Fixed Processor SCSI-2 device ses0: 3.300MB/s transfers ses0: SAF-TE Compliant Device I guess it has something to do with a SCSI hot-swap

Re: Using dd to Make a Clone of a Drive

2006-02-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-09 18:48, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Bah! That's too slow for my taste. I would usually go for a newfs, dump, and restore option. For instance, to create a copy of /usr on a second disk: newfs -U /dev/ad1s1a mount /dev/ad1s1a /mnt

RE: Regarding QuickCam webcams and FreeBSD

2006-02-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Go into the ports and build one of the webcam programs, get the list of supported cameras from it's docs, find one of these on ebay, is about the best you can do I think. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Simon Chang Sent: Thursday,

RE: need some advice on our cisco routers..

2006-02-10 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Cisco's site is pretty big to find anything for a newbie. If you can implement all the recommendations here: http://www.dhs.gov/interweb/assetlibrary/NIAC_HardeningInternetPaper_Jan0 5.pdf your way ahead of most networks. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

natd auth requests

2006-02-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
how can i make ident service to make informative answers for connections handled by natd? like answering last byte of source IP number or DNS reverse name or maybe from table like oidentd? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re[2]: IPTV

2006-02-10 Thread georg
I need some sofware that allow resive multicast TV and cast them to STB and PC... The thing with IPTV is that the content is encrypted, and gets decrypted by the STB, which is controlled by your IPTV-provider. You cannot simply connect your FreeBSD box to your switch, receive multicast video

Re: IPTV

2006-02-10 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Friday 10 February 2006 13:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need some sofware that allow resive multicast TV and cast them to STB and PC... The thing with IPTV is that the content is encrypted, and gets decrypted by the STB, which is controlled by your IPTV-provider. You cannot simply

Re: Acoustic management for ATA Harddisks?

2006-02-10 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, Is there a way to turn on acoustic management for ATA harddisks? Hitachi Feature Tool comes as a bootable floppy as has done this for every hard disk I've owned (which is only a handful, but includes, Hitachi, Samsung, IBM and Maxtor). Google will find it for

Re: email cluster ?

2006-02-10 Thread Deepak Naidu
You can inturn use LVS (Linux Virtual Cluster) to load balance between two or more servers. Cheers, Deepak Naidu. Vulpes Velox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:13:25 +0100 Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I'm thinking to setup a FreeBSD based load balancing cluster email hub.

Re: Using dd to Make a Clone of a Drive

2006-02-10 Thread Martin McCormick
Paul Schmehl quotes and then writes: Copying with dd(1) is not as fast :) Have you tried dcfldd? sysutils/dcfldd Thank you. I hadn't thought of that. This is what I appreciate about groups like this. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information

xmule 6.0-REL

2006-02-10 Thread guru
Hi, I've tried to install xmule in 6.0-REL from the ports collection, but the port is broken: # cd /usr/ports/net/xmule # make === xmule-1.10.0.a is marked as broken: Incomplete pkg-plist. # the FreeBSD homepage shows a recent version but in a tree which 6.0-REL not has: /usr/ports/net-p2p

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 JDK issue

2006-02-10 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Ben Paley wrote: I know there has been a lot of activity on the mailing lists these days regarding JDK and OOo. From what I could gather, most of it is regarding keeping it working after the update of JDK14. In any event, I was installing OOo-2.0 for the first time, and the build failed.

Re: FreeBSD 6 on DVD

2006-02-10 Thread Björn König
Chris schrieb: It's obvious that you have not installed at least 6.0 - and if you have, you have not installed more then just the base. I suggest to install not more than just the base at first and install packages later. Then you need to switch the CD once only. Björn

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 JDK issue

2006-02-10 Thread Ben Paley
On Friday 10 February 2006 13:04, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Seems like the best solution would be to let it use jdk15, but it doesn't seem to want to play. Had same build failure as OP, now when i try the pkg from ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD/2.0.1/FreeBSD6/ i

LDAP account manager (LAM) does'n work correctly

2006-02-10 Thread Jan HREHO
Hi. My system: FreeBSD 6.0 + update ports. OpenLDAP 2.2.30. Samba 3.0.21a Apache 2.0.55_33 PHP 5.1.2_1 LAM 0.5.1 All programs I installed over ports OpenLDAP work's right. I check it over phpldapadmin. My problem: When I create new user over LAM and I go 'Samba 3' site get follow on the

Re: Tracking Security in Ports and Base System

2006-02-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
Andreas Davour wrote: Which makes me finally throw out a question I've been wondering about. Is there no way of getting a specific tagged ports tree, if you'd like to get a ports tree the way it looked when, say, 4.6-RELEASE came out? Sure you can. Just edit your ports supfile to have:

Re: FreeBSD 6 on DVD

2006-02-10 Thread Duane Whitty
Chris wrote: Anyone have a mirror that supports at least a torrent for 6.0 on DVD? I hate the ISO's with all that damned swithing of the CD's. Better yet, doe anyone know the layout used to create the DVD? Hi, I haven't yet tried this myself but nevertheless thought you might find it

Re: SDR GEM312P

2006-02-10 Thread Tom Grove
Andrea Venturoli wrote: Tom Grove wrote: Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. I'm building a new server and stumbled upon this: ses0 at ahd0 bus 0 target 8 lun 0 ses0: SDR GEM318P 1 Fixed Processor SCSI-2 device ses0: 3.300MB/s transfers ses0: SAF-TE Compliant Device I guess it has

Re: FreeBSD 6 on DVD

2006-02-10 Thread Chris
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Duane Whitty wrote: Chris wrote: Anyone have a mirror that supports at least a torrent for 6.0 on DVD? I hate the ISO's with all that damned swithing of the CD's. Better yet, doe anyone know the layout used to create the DVD? Hi, I haven't yet tried this myself but

RE: sshd / ssh setup

2006-02-10 Thread fbsd_user
For the archives. Example of configuring OpenSSH Environment description: In this example we have a FreeBSD system which we will call the host. We have an Remote FreeBSD system which is located some where on the public internet, we will call this the FBSD-client. We also have an Remote

g_vfs_done():md2[WRITE(offset=434585600...?

2006-02-10 Thread fbsd_quest
Hi all, I am seeking information about what this and other similar messages mean, and corrective action to take. At the time of the error message, the machine spontaneously rebooted (apparently without panic ) and came back with a corrupt /var filesystem (to which fsck required manuall

Re: stale dependancy

2006-02-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
Phillip Ledger wrote: im trying to update the ports on my FreeBSD 6 release box however when i run portupgrade i get the error Stale dependency: phpMyAdmin-2.6.3.1 -- pdflib-6.0.1_2 -- manually run 'pkgdb -F' to fix, or specify -O to force. i have tryed boath and i cant seem to get it to

Re: AtapiCam not recognizing philips cd burner

2006-02-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jason Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Whilew trying to get CD burning working under FreeBSD 6.0 (and 6.1-PreRelease), I keep getting the following error in my dmesg and cd1 is never created. The drive is a Philips CDRW4012P. It shows up as /dev/acd1 and reports correctly in dmesg. However, once

Re: Using dd to Make a Clone of a Drive

2006-02-10 Thread Peter
--- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-02-09 18:48, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Bah! That's too slow for my taste. I would usually go for a newfs, dump, and restore option. For instance, to create a copy of /usr on a second disk:

Re: g_vfs_done():md2[WRITE(offset=434585600...?

2006-02-10 Thread fbsd_quest
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:20:11 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: g_vfs_done():md2[WRITE(offset=434585600, length=131072)]error = 28 Hi, if I were you I'd first check stable and current archives for similar problems. Second, I'd write to stable list giving as many as possible relevant

Re: g_vfs_done():md2[WRITE(offset=434585600...?

2006-02-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am seeking information about what this and other similar messages mean, and corrective action to take. At the time of the error message, the machine spontaneously rebooted (apparently without panic ) and came back with a corrupt /var filesystem (to which

Re: Using dd to Make a Clone of a Drive

2006-02-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-10 09:44, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As long as the new slice had enough space, geometry shouldn't matter to dump|restore ? Right :) It also allows restoring in a different partition layout. Any chance of there being a way

Re: Using dd to Make a Clone of a Drive

2006-02-10 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 10, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-02-10 09:44, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As long as the new slice had enough space, geometry shouldn't matter to dump|restore ? Right :) It also allows restoring in a

Something in the mailing list kept crashing kmail.

2006-02-10 Thread Christopher Theodore; Rhodes
Everytime I tried highlighted the folder that this mailing list was kept in it would crash kmail. I finaly deleted the parent folder thus eliminating what ever the problem was. Anyone else having this problem with kmail in the last 15 emails to this list?

Re: natd auth requests

2006-02-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
Wojciech Puchar wrote: how can i make ident service to make informative answers for connections handled by natd? like answering last byte of source IP number or DNS reverse name or maybe from table like oidentd? If you're using 1-to-1 NAT forwarding, run identd or the inetd-based version on

Re: Using dd to Make a Clone of a Drive

2006-02-10 Thread Ken Stevenson
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-02-09 14:36, Martin McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After installing FreeBSD5.4, the ISC dhcp server and ISC bind on a hard drive, I wanted to clone that drive to a second drive so as to generate a second server, using what I had already installed as

Re: A script for poets

2006-02-10 Thread Kristian Vaaf
Thank you all for your interesting replies! Though I did not mean to ask for advice on a script that would generate texts for you. I mean, that's impossible. However, using http://www.rhymer.com, it would do something like this. 1 is for End rhymes 2 is for Last syllable rhymes 3 is for

Re: Using dd to Make a Clone of a Drive

2006-02-10 Thread Peter
--- Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 10, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-02-10 09:44, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As long as the new slice had enough space, geometry shouldn't matter to dump|restore

Re: is upgrading from 4.x to 6.x possible?

2006-02-10 Thread Robert Huff
Dinesh Nair writes: The other option available is of course to make a backup of all data and config files, make a new clean install of 6.x, and then restore files from backup. which is exactly what i did and something i'd recommend for all 4.x to 6.x direct upgrades. there's been

Re: Using dd to Make a Clone of a Drive

2006-02-10 Thread Ken Stevenson
Peter wrote: I intend to use g4u. I have done some preliminary testing and I am quite confident that I can upload and download an image. I am now wondering about the situation where I need to recreate the partition that is to contain the image. It needs to be exactly the same size (sectors)

Re: A script for poets

2006-02-10 Thread marianne mueller
This doesn't help with rhyming, but it's fun to strip off the subjects of spam, and later manually choose out the ones you like. Begging people's indulgence, here's one spam poem. I call it Where Do Dark Circles Lie? Where Do Dark Circles Lie? dish dominate newborn programmer archetypal gaiety

stale dependencies in pkgdb

2006-02-10 Thread Andrew
Hello, I am trying to use a combination of portaudit and portupgrade to automatically maintain installed packages on my system, but portupgrade often hangs on stale dependencies. I've run pkgdb -F as portupgrade suggests, deleting stale dependencies, but they seem to keep reappearing. I guess I'm

Re: Using dd to Make a Clone of a Drive

2006-02-10 Thread Peter
--- Ken Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter wrote: I intend to use g4u. I have done some preliminary testing and I am quite confident that I can upload and download an image. I am now wondering about the situation where I need to recreate the partition that is to contain the

Re: A script for poets

2006-02-10 Thread Urs Schroffenegger
Kristian Vaaf wrote: Thank you all for your interesting replies! Though I did not mean to ask for advice on a script that would generate texts for you. I mean, that's impossible. However, using http://www.rhymer.com, it would do something like this. 1 is for End rhymes 2 is for Last

stale dependencies in pkgdb

2006-02-10 Thread Robert Huff
Andrew writes: I've run pkgdb -F as portupgrade suggests, deleting stale dependencies, but they seem to keep reappearing. I'm not an expert on pkgdb, but I'm pretty sure that's the way it works. You need to fix, not delete, the stale dependencies. This may take some effort

USB0 host controller crash

2006-02-10 Thread Joe Altman
Last night, I fired up Grip and shortly after it was invoked, my mouse (ums0: Razer Razer Diamondback Optical Mouse, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 3, iclass 3/1 ums0: 7 buttons and Z dir) went dark. It's transparent, so it was obvious when it died. Right about that time, the USB keyboard followed (ukbd0:

Re: A script for poets

2006-02-10 Thread Greg Barniskis
Urs Schroffenegger wrote: To make an independent rhyming dictionnary program, I think you basically need to have a list of words written phonetically and with syllabes separation. After that, it's only a search function to find the matching pattern. The difficult part is to get the phonetic

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2006-02-10 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2006-02-10 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

Re: FreeBSD 6 on DVD

2006-02-10 Thread Robert Slade
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 14:10, Chris wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Duane Whitty wrote: Chris wrote: Anyone have a mirror that supports at least a torrent for 6.0 on DVD? I hate the ISO's with all that damned swithing of the CD's. Better yet, doe anyone know the layout used to create the

Support for IPv6 SNMP and IPv6 SYSLOG

2006-02-10 Thread McGuerty, Jay S.
Hi, I've looked through the release notes for the latest version of FreeBSD and it is not clear whether it supports SNMPv6 and SYSLOGv6.Can you confirm IPv6 support for these protocols? Thanks, Jay ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

RE: Support for IPv6 SNMP and IPv6 SYSLOG

2006-02-10 Thread McGuerty, Jay S.
Hi, Update, specifically does FreeBSD ucd-snmp patch function as a SNMP Server? _ From: McGuerty, Jay S. Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 9:15 AM To: 'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org' Subject: Support for IPv6 SNMP and IPv6 SYSLOG Hi, I've looked through the release notes for the

Re: Using dd to Make a Clone of a Drive

2006-02-10 Thread Bart Silverstrim
On Feb 10, 2006, at 11:11 AM, Peter wrote: --- Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 10, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-02-10 09:44, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As long as the new slice had enough space,

Re: LDAP account manager (LAM) does'n work correctly

2006-02-10 Thread Jan HREHO
Nathan Vidican wrote: Jan HREHO wrote: Hi. My system: FreeBSD 6.0 + update ports. OpenLDAP 2.2.30. Samba 3.0.21a Apache 2.0.55_33 PHP 5.1.2_1 LAM 0.5.1 All programs I installed over ports OpenLDAP work's right. I check it over phpldapadmin. My problem: When I create new user over LAM and I

Re: stale dependencies in pkgdb

2006-02-10 Thread Andrew
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 11:42 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Andrew writes: I've run pkgdb -F as portupgrade suggests, deleting stale dependencies, but they seem to keep reappearing. I'm not an expert on pkgdb, but I'm pretty sure that's the way it works. You need to fix, not

Re: How is this List Connected with the usenet?

2006-02-10 Thread Eric Schultz
Chris Maness wrote: Does this list crossover into Usenet? Good afternoon... check out http://dir.gmane.org/index.php?prefix=gmane.os.freebsd they have various web interfaces, as well as nntp and rss feeds. read-only though. to post you have to subscribe and send mail to the list. --

Re: natd auth requests

2006-02-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: how can i make ident service to make informative answers for connections handled by natd? like answering last byte of source IP number or DNS reverse name or maybe from table like oidentd? How about running oidentd, if you already know it does what

Re: #:Failed to force tx and rx idle state

2006-02-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Thiago Esteves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I've had troubles with a ethernet adapter dc It send the mensage ::: = dc0: Failed to force tx and rx idle state= ::: What's it? It tried and failed to reset the MAC controller. What other symptoms are you

Re: CD installation and file flags

2006-02-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Alex Renn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed FreeBSD 6.0 from CD and noticed that file flags were not applied by default to /boot, /bin, /sbin. Right. suid files get the flags, but nothing else. I set kernel_securelevel to 3 but it does not help a lot while there are no schg flags on

Re: Problem installing 6.0 - Help

2006-02-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matias Surdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6 on a new pc. After creating the partitions and choosing the packages to install, when te transfer of the base system from the DVD-drive (with a standard CD inside) to the hard disk starts, an error message

Re: Problem installing 6.0 - Help

2006-02-10 Thread Matias Surdi
yes, it's good I've burned it again and the problem still exists.. :-( 10 Feb 2006 13:56:55 -0500, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Matias Surdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6 on a new pc. After creating the partitions and choosing the packages to

Re: Tracking Security in Ports and Base System

2006-02-10 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 10), Andreas Davour said: On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Chuck Swiger wrote: Chris Maness wrote: How should I set up cvsup to just track security updates for ports. And would the best thing to do after I synced CVS, do portupgrade -a so that everything selected gets rebuilt.

Re: xmule 6.0-REL

2006-02-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I've tried to install xmule in 6.0-REL from the ports collection, but the port is broken: # cd /usr/ports/net/xmule # make === xmule-1.10.0.a is marked as broken: Incomplete pkg-plist. # the FreeBSD homepage shows a recent version but in a tree which

Re: Problem installing 6.0 - Help

2006-02-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Don't top-post, please. Matias Surdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 10 Feb 2006 13:56:55 -0500, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Matias Surdi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6 on a new pc. After creating the partitions and choosing the packages to

/usr/lib/libxpg4.so.3 missing - Did I miss a memo?

2006-02-10 Thread Trix Farrar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On my network, I have several hosts that were originally installed with FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE, 5.3-RELEASE, and 5.4-RELEASE. All of these have been updated now to 6.0-RELEASE-p4. One host was originally installed from 6.0-RELEASE media and

Re: stale dependencies in pkgdb

2006-02-10 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Friday 10 February 2006 12:41, Andrew wrote: On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 11:42 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Andrew writes: I've run pkgdb -F as portupgrade suggests, deleting stale dependencies, but they seem to keep reappearing. I'm not an expert on pkgdb, but I'm pretty sure that's

Re: stale dependencies in pkgdb

2006-02-10 Thread Andrew
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 11:42 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Andrew writes: I've run pkgdb -F as portupgrade suggests, deleting stale dependencies, but they seem to keep reappearing. I'm not an expert on pkgdb, but I'm pretty sure that's the way it works. You need to fix, not

Re: stale dependencies in pkgdb

2006-02-10 Thread Andrew
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 15:11 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Andrew writes: I guess what is unclear to me is how I go about fixing the stale dependencies. I was under the impression that portupgrade would take care of the dependencies for a particular port, and the stale dependency was

Re: /usr/lib/libxpg4.so.3 missing - Did I miss a memo?

2006-02-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 02:02:17PM -0600, Trix Farrar wrote: On my network, I have several hosts that were originally installed with FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE, 5.3-RELEASE, and 5.4-RELEASE. All of these have been updated now to 6.0-RELEASE-p4. One host was originally installed from 6.0-RELEASE

Re: stale dependencies in pkgdb

2006-02-10 Thread Peter
--- Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 11:42 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Andrew writes: I've run pkgdb -F as portupgrade suggests, deleting stale dependencies, but they seem to keep reappearing. I'm not an expert on pkgdb, but I'm pretty sure that's the

pear problem

2006-02-10 Thread Albert Shih
Hi all On a FreeBSD 5.4-p8 I've a problem to install pear ports. When I try to do that cd /usr/ports/devel/pear make install the ports install stop with core dump (php.core). Anyone have this problem ? (All ports is up2date). Regards. -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT)

changelog for 6.1 ?

2006-02-10 Thread Xn Nooby
I was trying to find out if the keyboard on my zv5445us HP Pavillion laptop will work, but I can't find the list of bugs fixed. My laptop only works with an external USB keyboard. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-February/015418.html A lot of bugfixes havebeen made, some

Re: changelog for 6.1 ?

2006-02-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 04:32:43PM -0500, Xn Nooby wrote: I was trying to find out if the keyboard on my zv5445us HP Pavillion laptop will work, but I can't find the list of bugs fixed. My laptop only works with an external USB keyboard. You need to look at the CVS repository (in the CVSRoot

Re: natd auth requests

2006-02-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
handled by natd? like answering last byte of source IP number or DNS reverse name or maybe from table like oidentd? If you're using 1-to-1 NAT forwarding, run identd or the inetd-based version on the internal hosts you're forwarding to. If you're using NAT to only forward individual ports to

Re: natd auth requests

2006-02-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
connections handled by natd? like answering last byte of source IP number or DNS reverse name or maybe from table like oidentd? How about running oidentd, if you already know it does what you'd like? It's in ports. well that's what i needed. ___

Help Installing FreeBSD 6.0 with GUI

2006-02-10 Thread Alexandre Adao
I am VERY new on FeeBSD and I installed it using the standard option. How can have freeBSD 6.0 runing on GUI? Is there any step by step proceedure? Thanks for any help. --Alex __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam

Re: natd auth requests

2006-02-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
number or DNS reverse name or maybe from table like oidentd? How about running oidentd, if you already know it does what you'd like? It's in ports. well that's what i needed. ___ oidentd is an ident (rfc1413 compliant) daemon that runs on Linux,

Re: Help Installing FreeBSD 6.0 with GUI

2006-02-10 Thread Ken Stevenson
Alexandre Adao wrote: I am VERY new on FeeBSD and I installed it using the standard option. How can have freeBSD 6.0 runing on GUI? Is there any step by step proceedure? Thanks for any help. --Alex Read the following: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html --

randomized source IP for userland app?!

2006-02-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
is it possible for userland application (or many of then) for TCP connections to select it's source IP address from a list random or round-robin way? (say 2-4 different IP's) with ipfw or other ways? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

SATA RAID0 and Plextor SATA DVD0-RW DRIVE system hang

2006-02-10 Thread RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN
HI I am having great difficulty with my SATA DVD-RW drive. It is a Plextor PX-716A ver 1.08 and is serial ATA seems to work/detect as acd1 fine before. However I cannot remember if i could mount it but did not try very hard and do not exactly know what i am doing with dvd-rw and FreeBSD yet.

Re: twe question

2006-02-10 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:53:01 +0100 (MET), in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: dear list, two days ago i got the following log message twe0: AEN: twe0: port 1: sector repair occurred what does it mean? (source code doesn't say) the box is running for nearly 400 days now; until now no

MBR blown away

2006-02-10 Thread Peter
I need help. I added a slice to a single hard drive dual-boot (windows) system and now I guess that scrambled my MBR. I get three options from the FreeBSD (5.4) boot manager: 1. DOS 2. FreeBSD 3. FreeBSD I can boot to FreeBSD (the new slice is fine) by choosing option 3 but the windows/dos

question

2006-02-10 Thread Jose Jesus Ortega
By any chance do you know what Debian GNU/kFreeBSD because I'm confused on it. Can I run freeBSD packages or ports if I install debian with that package or is it something else? thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: MBR blown away

2006-02-10 Thread Lorin Lund
Peter wrote: I need help. I added a slice to a single hard drive dual-boot (windows) system and now I guess that scrambled my MBR. I get three options from the FreeBSD (5.4) boot manager: 1. DOS 2. FreeBSD 3. FreeBSD I would think that the appearance of the above menu, and the fact that

SATA Raid

2006-02-10 Thread Robert Uzzi
Anyone know of any of the cheaper SATA raid cards that work well under FreeBSD. I'd love to go get a 3ware but they are fairly pricey. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: need help setting up a new partition

2006-02-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 2/8/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09-Feb-2006 Peter wrote: I have a dual-boot arrangement with Win2k (on the first and second partition) and FreeBSD 5.4 (on the third partition). I am willing to sacrifice the second partition and give it over to FreeBSD as I am

Re: MBR blown away

2006-02-10 Thread Ken Stevenson
Peter wrote: I need help. I added a slice to a single hard drive dual-boot (windows) system and now I guess that scrambled my MBR. I get three options from the FreeBSD (5.4) boot manager: 1. DOS 2. FreeBSD 3. FreeBSD I can boot to FreeBSD (the new slice is fine) by choosing option 3 but the

uhub1: device problem (SET_ADDR_FAILED), disabling port

2006-02-10 Thread Warren Liddell
X is failing to start due to it failing to get the mouse, yet during boot the mouse is/does work briefly ... but at the end i get uhub1: device problem (SET_ADDR_FAILED), disabling port 1 .. then everything goes to hell and the mouse looses power/connectivity etc and X wont start. Im

scripting sysinstall for pxeboot

2006-02-10 Thread Christopher Cowart
Hello- I'm working on a project to netboot servers and perform a custom installation of FreeBSD. I have pxeboot working with tftp, providing an mfs image over the network. sysinstall runs as init and attempts to follow my install.cfg. However, when running my mediaSetFTP command, sysinstall

Strange problem with user account

2006-02-10 Thread Ian A. Tegebo
Somehow I've foobarred a user account. It's on a system that first had the account in /etc/passwd, but then I moved the system over to using LDAP for user imformation. Other accounts are fine, but this one will not allow auth and gives the following error when trying to su ian as root: # su

Re: configure acls on remote machine

2006-02-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 2/9/06, Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robin Becker wrote: I see possible options as 1) switch to single user mode somehow and then unmount /home and configure acls with tunefs 2) su to root kill processes using /home do the umount and so on with /home unmounted.

Connecting to serial port

2006-02-10 Thread Steve Douville
I'm trying to connect to the serial port of a Dell PowerConnect 3024. I've connected a null modem cable between them. During boot, this is what is happening: Feb 11 00:34:17 server2 kernel: sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 Feb 11 00:34:17 server2 kernel: sio0: port may

Re: changelog for 6.1 ?

2006-02-10 Thread Xn Nooby
Do you know what the URL is? I'm looking around here: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD On 2/10/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 04:32:43PM -0500, Xn Nooby wrote: I was trying to find out if the keyboard on my zv5445us HP Pavillion laptop will work,

Re: changelog for 6.1 ?

2006-02-10 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 01:11:22AM -0500, Xn Nooby wrote: Do you know what the URL is? I'm looking around here: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD http://cvsweb.freebsd.org/ (as 10 seconds with google would have shown you ;-) Kris pgpC4GGDtODJz.pgp Description: PGP signature

swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer - fixed (sort of)

2006-02-10 Thread John .
Hello list A month or so ago I noticed that my server was freezing up. It would slowly recover, but there were 10 or so entries like this: kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blk no: 140947, size: 32768 Feb 10 13:26:56 shell kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj:

I can't mount my USB thumb drive or ipod -- no /dev/da*

2006-02-10 Thread Erin Sharmahd
I'm a bit of a newbie, but I've done a good bit of research, and some asking around on this issue, and haven't been able to resolve it yet. I'm using FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE with the GENERIC kernel. (from what i can tell, it has all of the necessary pieces to allow usb drives). When I plug my ipod

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