Re: Dell DRAC QUestion

2006-01-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I have three servers with Dell remote access cards. One of them work fine. It is running FBSD5.4, and when I log onto the DRAC card I can acces the console fine. The other two, I can only access the console up untill the point that the login: prompt appears. After

Re: NIC

2006-01-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Fabian Keil wrote: -Original Message- From: Fabian Keil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 7:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIC "Vitalie Apostu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When I unplug UTP cable from NIC card a

Re: Strange Failure Mode in FreeBSD 4.11

2006-01-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Martin McCormick wrote: The Ethernet interface, known as em0 on this system, comes up According to all the messages. If, however, you try to use it, it is as dead as a stone. If I try to ping the local host from root, I get this: ping: sendto: Permission denied ping: sendto: Permissio

Re: swap - 2 HDs

2005-12-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Will Maier wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 09:33:57AM -0300, Aguiar Magalhaes wrote: Is It recommended to configure swap area in both HDs ?? I don't see the point -- swap is where pages that don't fit in your real memory go. It's less optimal than real memory in terms of latency, but

Re: Multiboot SATA/PATA (changed subject)

2005-12-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Erik Norgaard wrote: Andrew Falanga wrote: I'm new to FreeBSD but not to UNIX. The guy who burned me the 6.0 release iso's told me that during the install, FreeBSD would detect my Windows XP drive but it didn't. I have two hard drives, one for FreeBSD one for Windows. The FreeBSD drive is

Re: doubts

2005-12-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Anirban Adhikary wrote: Hi guys This is Anirban. I have a doubts on the following question. How to write a shell program that will check whether a server is up or down (on ping) and log the report to a file. You may be wondering why no-one is replying to you and the main reasons would be:

Re: can't mount msdos fs on freebsd6?

2005-12-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jeff D. Hamann wrote: sorry, partial newbie here... mothra# fdisk -s /dev/ad0 yields, /dev/ad0: 193821 cyl 16 hd 63 sec Partstartsizetypeflags 1: 6361432497 0x07 0x00 2:61432560 61448625 0x0f 0x00 3:12288118572485280 0xa5 0x80 I also made my partition usin

Re: getting iwi_firmware to work

2005-12-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jeff D. Hamann wrote: I have a dual boot machine which I can read the primary ntfs partition (but not the fat32 partition -- very unhappy about that). Generically, there's no problem reading FAT32 partitions and it's the only writeable-and-shareable-with-windows filesystem type, so maybe y

Re: Slices

2005-12-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Seems I was a tad off in my earlier estimate of "within the last 60 days"... but Googling for " 'boot like linux' freebsd" produces the thread I was thinking of (the initial post of which is here): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-March/079428.htm

Re: can't mount msdos fs on freebsd6?

2005-12-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jeff D. Hamann wrote: Strange, but I can mount an ntfs filesystem (dual boot machine) but not the fat32 partition on a new freebsd 6.0 installation. The drive contains three paritions: /dev/ad0s1 -- 30GB NTFS (winxp) mounted on /winxp /dev/ad0s2 -- 30GB FAT32 (data to be accessed by both winx

Re: Slices

2005-12-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Kevin Kinsey wrote: OK. But then what would be ideal slice size for /, /var, /usr, /boot? A word of probable caution (though I stand ready to be corrected): FreeBSD isn't like Linux in the fact that it expects /boot to be in / (the 'a' slice of whatever disk the bootmgr has been instru

Re: SCP!

2005-12-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: You use PSCP.EXE instead of PUTTY.EXE from a Windows' "cmd" prompt. That's probably awful, if you're looking for something with fancy, colourful GUI buttons, but it has certainly saved my a$$ a few times :) There's also filezilla, which I haven't used myself but have

Re: grep'ping the ps output....

2005-12-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Eric Schuele wrote: Hello, I am sure this is quite trivial, but... I have need to determine if an app (firefox, or anything really) is already running before I perform some action. So I grep the ps output. However sometimes (many times) that which I'm searching for is present in the outpu

Re: Detect hardware changes

2005-12-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Keith Bottner wrote: Ok I find the lines that related to skc in the /var/run/dmesg.boot and they are included below: skc0: port 0xe800-0xe8ff mem 0xfbfffc00-0xfbfffcff irq 11 at device 9.0 on pci2 skc0: failed: rid 0x10 is ioport, requested 3 device_attach: skc0 attach returned 6 The second l

Re: NVRM errors from nvidia.ko

2005-12-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
c m wrote: I get this message with FreeBSD 6.0 and nvidia ports driver NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled with this combination of AMD cpu and OS kernel, upgrade reccomended. Athlon 64 754 3000+ newcastle. I get pci transfer rates and i need agp with FreeBSD's gart or nvidias gart doesnt matter.

Re: Detect hardware changes

2005-12-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Keith Bottner wrote: I have not compiled a kernel. This is a standard FreeBSD 5.4-Release installation. How can I check to see if the loadable module is installed? Have a look in /var/run/dmesg.boot and see if you have a line like sk0: unknown media type 0xff If so, plug your card into th

Re: hardening FreeBSD for Spamassassin

2005-12-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
jdow wrote: From: "Alex Zbyslaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> jdow wrote: http://www.surl.org/. You mean http://www.surbl.org/ The other URL works but isn't very useful :-) I did indeed mess up and leave out the b. Mea culpa. I should add "thanks for the i

Re: Memory limit issue (malloc) for PHP script under Apache

2005-12-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Olaf Greve wrote: Hi all, A colleague of mine has run into a weird issue, for which we hope someone knows a solution (or otherwise: if someone knows there's no (easy) solution, that's also good to know. The issue: when running a script that will consume a large amount of memory (under Free

Re: update from ports

2005-12-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Pablo Allietti wrote: hi i have a simple question. i was installed spamassasin from /usr/ports how is the procedure to upgrade this package? i need to deinstall and install again or have any way to only upgrade like yum in fedora? If you are doing installations by hand then, yes, you need to

Re: problem sourcing a file while configuring OpenVPN 2.0 on FreeBSD 6.0

2005-12-01 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Matt Singerman wrote: Hi all, Perhaps I am missing something incredibly stupid here, but I can't source the vars file that is part of the OpeVPN configuration process: # source ./vars export: Command not found. D: Undefined variable. You are running csh and this script is for sh and deriva

Re: i have an amd25oo processor, is it possible for me to use the i386 edition$B!)(B

2005-11-28 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Kevin wrote: i have an amd25oo processor, is it possible for me to use the i386 edition$B!)(B Please don't ask your question on the subject line, especially one as long as this. If you mean, can you use i386 version of FreeBSD on a 64-bit AMD, the answer is yes. Both AMD and Intel 64-bi

Re: strange entropy (or cron) message

2005-11-28 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found this bit of stuff in the rc.conf: - # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Mon Oct 3 08:28:56 2005 moused_flags=""ZAxisMapping" "4 5" " - I don't understand why there are doubled-double quotes. This is the only place in rc.conf

Re: inetd.conf becomes blank after reboot

2005-11-26 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jayesh Jayan wrote: Hi, On some of the machine where I have FreeBSD 5.4, /etc/inetd.conf becomes a blank file soon after reboot. I have kept a copy of the file and when the service fails after reboot I restore the backup and restart the inetd service. What I need to check, to solve this issue

Re: Viewing Programs Running From CRON

2005-11-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Gerard Seibert wrote: I have asked many dumb questions before, and this will no doubt add to the list. Scenario: I start a program from CRON. As an example, let us use /sysutils/portmanager. Now this program is being run in the background. How do I get it to run in the foreground so that I can

Re: error: portsdb and cvsup with refuse file

2005-11-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Peter wrote: With 5.4 I received an error using portsdb after updating my ports tree with a refuse file. How does one deal with this? # portsdb -U Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..p5-Unicode-MapUTF8-1.09: "/usr/ports/japanese/p5-Jcode" non-existent -- dependency

Re: Accessing samba shares without password prompts

2005-11-22 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: Can someone point me to info on how to access shares on the netowrk without having to provide the password. I am logged in to my FreeBSD 6.0 workstation with the user name and password equal to that of a user on the other samba servers and Windows. IIUC and AFAIK, yo

Re: iSCSI support

2005-11-22 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Whole devices accessed directly can be a lot faster than NFS, since the client doesn't have to constantly ask the NFS server whether the file it's currently accessing has changed. any problem to add such option to NFS?? with iSCSI you just CAN't do it. anyway this askin

Re: Dump Help

2005-11-22 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to utilize dump to copy the entire disc to a network drive , so that in the event of hardware failure I can just restore to a new machine Here's the output of df Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a248M 35M

Re: Where or What is 'idconfig'

2005-11-22 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Gerard Seibert wrote: I have noticed the following in several scripts as well as being present during a 'make' session. /sbin/ldconfig -m I believe that the '-m' switch does change occasionally, but off hand I do not remember. My question is, exactly where and or what is 'idconfig'? I canno

Re: uninstalling packages...

2005-11-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Javier Matos wrote: Hello, I want information about uninstallation of packages. I know how to perform that kind of actions but I really want to know if something like pkg_add "a_package" and then pkg_delete "a_package" really delete ALL FILES installed with pkg_add command. In short, yes.

Re: MX freebsd

2005-11-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Bill Moran wrote: dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any idea how long it takes until the MX freebsd mailservers know that my mail relay has changed? It's three days ago now that I changed my MX records and still mail for nagual.st is routed to my old mx mailservers. Mail arrives (l

Re: dds drive support?

2005-11-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Bob Ababurko wrote: I am trying to figure out whether or not I can run a Seagate dds-4 STD2401LW tape drive under freebsd...say 6.0. Or any version for that matter. Assuming it's a SCSI tape drive then there is no particular reason it would not work. SCSI tape drives are all the same as fa

Re: Need urgent help regarding security

2005-11-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: Now we have a couple of inputs, we just have to figure out which is the proper combination. Here they are: 1. Use private key for ssh logins (should bring the private key always... and if it is stolen.) Private keys can (and should) be passphrase protected.

Re: How to properly set-up an SSH tunnel on FreeBSD for automatic backups

2005-11-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Olaf Greve wrote: Hi, I'm trying to set-up an SSH tunnel between two FreeBSD machines, over a direct cross-wire connection between the two, and I'm having issues in doing so. The question(s) I have is/are probably not FreeBSD specific, but still I hope someone can answer it/them... I don't

Re: makings of a junk yard cluster ??

2005-11-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Arden wrote: like most people involved in IT you tend to build you a "junk yard" of redundant machines Here's a URL I filed away for a rainy day when I had some spare time (yeah, right :-)). Interesting read if nothing else: http://blizzard.rwic.und.edu/~nordlie/miniwulf/ Google might

Re: xterm conflicts with xorg-clients

2005-11-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: I believe upgrading xorg-clients and then xterm should work, if only that damn xorg-clients port would compile! I found this link late last night which might help, but haven't tried it myself yet. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-i386/2005-January/002040

Re: xterm conflicts with xorg-clients

2005-11-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Eric Ekong wrote: Check /usr/ports/UPDATING. There should be a fairly recent entry discussing how to deal with this. Actually it is the first listing in /usr/ports/UPDATING 20051113: AFFECTS: users of x11/xterm, x11/xorg-clients, x11/XFree86-4-clients AUTHOR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Xterm no

Re: How can I install xorg-clients?

2005-11-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
bob self wrote: after doing a portupgrade today I've got things messed up. I didn't read /usr/ports/UPDATING. I have now un-installed xterm and xorg-clients and am now trying to put them back in. I'm trying xorg-clients first but I get this error. xdriinfo.o(.text+0x5b): In function `main'

Re: xterm conflicts with xorg-clients

2005-11-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jeppe Larsen wrote: On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:22:08 +, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: I believe upgrading xorg-clients and then xterm should work, if only that damn xorg-clients port would compile! I found this link late last night which might help, but haven't tried it myself yet.

Re: xterm conflicts with xorg-clients

2005-11-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Mike Hernandez wrote: On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 05:22:08PM +, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Jeppe Larsen wrote: After running cvsup and portupgrade, I'm having some problems with xterm and some other programs. Portupgrade failed because of the following: ===> xterm-206_1 confli

Re: xterm conflicts with xorg-clients

2005-11-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jeppe Larsen wrote: After running cvsup and portupgrade, I'm having some problems with xterm and some other programs. Portupgrade failed because of the following: ===> xterm-206_1 conflicts with installed package(s): xorg-clients-6.8.2 They install files into the same place.

Re: xorg.conf

2005-11-10 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Alex Kelly wrote: if you're just interested in seeing if it's there, try this: find / -name "xorg.conf" Try: locate xorg.conf first. Much quicker. If that doesn't find anything then try find, but with huge disks searching everywhere would take, well, a while. --Alex _

Re: 5-STABLE to 6-RELEASE upgrade

2005-11-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Dinesh Nair wrote: On 11/08/05 02:25 J. W. Ballantine said the following: and did a cvsup to get the new bits. I then ran a make world; make buildkernel; and then a make installkernel. This steps fails with: you should be using buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel, reboot, installwor

Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Micah wrote: I'm really beginning to doubt it's the PSU. Why? I cannot get the output voltage to drop no matter what load I throw at it. I plugged in four additional hard drives and ran a system stress test and still the voltages remained rock steady at the values I stated earlier. I ran

Re: Subject: Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Micah wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 07:11:42AM -0800, Micah wrote: I cleaned out all the fans, but they weren't that dirty. I can't test the temps while the system is under load (have to reboot and check them in the bios). Try xmbmon of mbmon from the/usr/ports/sy

Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Bill Moran wrote: Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Micah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm running the i386 version of FreeBSD with 1gb ram. Didn't think to check this before, but I'm getting ~112-113 volts into the PSU from the surge strip. I'm probably going to get a new PSU t

Re: Diagnosing reboot under load

2005-11-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Micah wrote: Except it reboot later when rebuilding the KDE stuff with portinstall NOT the Gnome script. And I'm getting occasional segmentation faults on Thunderbird and intermittent compiler errors like this one while portinstalling kdepim: then mv -f ".deps/eudora_xxport.Tpo" ".deps/eudora

Re: Changing location of ports tree

2005-11-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
ross wrote: My /usr partition is to small for some of the larger programs (openoffice.org, jdk, etc) and I want to move my ports tree to a harddrive with more space. can I just change the line in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf that says "ENV['PORTSDIR'] ||= '/usr/ports'" to "ENV['PORTSDIR'] |

Re: Cron Job will not run.

2005-11-03 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Brandon Hinesley wrote: The script below works perfectly when I run it from a console, however, nothing at all seems to happen as evidenced by the backups not being rotated. I don't know if this makes a difference, but the "Backup" folder is a file system on an external hard drive. I am also u

Re: sk0: watchdog timeout

2005-11-03 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Vladimir Dvorak wrote: Hello, I have a problem with network card. From time to time kernel says sk0: watchdog timeout It has (probably) random behavior. I use FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p8, motherboard is ASUS A8V Deluxe (AMD64, Athlon64XP 3200+) and internal network card from pciconf -v -l [EMAIL

Re: New Logo

2005-11-03 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Peter Clutton wrote: Ted wrote: Your opinion, they probably wouldn't agree. If you decide Beastie isn't important enough to bother defending, that's your choice. Of course I will note that you had no problem getting the attention for your books by using Beastie images on their covers. [

Re: Buildworld fails for 6.0-RC1

2005-11-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Eric F Crist wrote: Something you could try in this instance is deleting everything under /usr/src: #cd /usr/src && rm -rf ./ Then re-sup your source tree. Make damn sure you don't have the only copies of your kernel config file under /usr/src before you do this... --Alex __

Re: FileSystem Full error in FreeBSD 5.4-Release even if the partition is not full

2005-10-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Deepak Naidu wrote: I am not sure whether I am running out of inodes or not... If i run out of inodes, what would be the resolution... #df -i Filesystem 1K-blocksUsedAvail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/da0s1f 10154158 1152026 818980012% -15710 1334620 -1%

Re: FileSystem Full error in FreeBSD 5.4-Release even if the partition is not full

2005-10-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Deepak Naidu wrote: I get the below error in my /var/log/messages regarding the filesystem being full, whereas it is not full. #df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 9.7G576M 8.3G 6% / devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B100% /dev /dev/da0s1g 13G

Re: Weird SSH problem... Any ideas?!?

2005-10-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Olaf Greve wrote: Hi, Yesterday it has been brought to my attention that SSH access is not working well on my new server. The background: I have set-up a new server (FreeBSD 5.4-Release AMD/64) and I migrated the user accounts from my old server (FreeBSD 5.2.1-Release i386). Now, I was u

Re: rsync unable to sync suid files

2005-09-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Rajarajan Rajamani wrote: I am running Release 5.4 with 2 disks and am using rsync to sync between the two. On installing the second disk I used dump/restore to mirror them and am since using rsync for incremental changes. However I have a problem that rsync is unable to copy some files and I s

Re: portaudit question.....

2005-09-29 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Wright Jim Contractor 14MDSS/SGSI wrote: I guess my question is this. How do I use the FreeBSD tools, Ports/Packages, etc, to install this latest version?? Or am I missing the concept altogether ? ( I understand the process of downloading this latest version and installing it manually. Just t

Re: file name case issue on fat32 (Was: Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...)

2005-09-27 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
martinko wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: martinko wrote: Dmitry Mityugov wrote: On 9/27/05, martinko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... hello, when i mount a fat32 partition some files have different case (see below) then in windows. how come ?? e.g.: $ ll -rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel7

Re: file name case issue on fat32 (Was: Re: Sharing data files on a dual-boot machine ...)

2005-09-27 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
martinko wrote: Dmitry Mityugov wrote: On 9/27/05, martinko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... hello, when i mount a fat32 partition some files have different case (see below) then in windows. how come ?? e.g.: $ ll -rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel734 Mar 1 2005 a.txt -rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel

Re: mysql port install

2005-09-27 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
eoghan wrote: Hi Glenn Yes i have tried this and i get: This: not found I think there is something fundamentally wrong with my install? I started acting up when i tried to do a sysintall upgrade which didnt complete (perl and others wouldnt install for xorg i think). Ive learnt a lot in the

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 gar

Re: Graphics driver for Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900

2005-09-22 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Aleksander Grande wrote: I recently bought a Dell Lattitude X1 witch comes installed with the new 915 chipset from Intel. I ofcourse removed windows and installed FreeBSD 5.4(Stable) and everytingh works fine, except the resolution in Xorg. Because i could not find any drivers for the graphics c

Re: ct Re: NMAP probing of network ports

2005-09-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Boris Karloff wrote: Chris wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Boris Karloff wrote: Ain't you 'sposed to be dead?! That's Bela Lugosi... Actually, so is Boris --- Bela Lugosi famously died in the middle of filming Plan 9 from Outer Space (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/plannine

Re: Structuring Starting Order of Programs

2005-09-18 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Gerard Seibert wrote: Using FreeBSD 5.4, or any other version I guess, is there any way to set the start order of programs in the '/usr/local/etc/rc.d' directory? The scripts are run in lexical order, so use the "standard" number prefix scheme 100. 200. (see for example /etc/periodic/daily).

Re: ct Re: NMAP probing of network ports

2005-09-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chris wrote: On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Boris Karloff wrote: Ain't you 'sposed to be dead?! That's Bela Lugosi... --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Trying to colour syslog-ng logs to ttyv7 but won't work after a reboot

2005-09-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Ashley Moran wrote: Norberto Meijome wrote: > or figure out in which order things are started and make sure the > ttyvs are launched before syslogng Can you recommend a good description of the FreeBSD boot process? The handbook is a bit sketchy and only goes into the initial stages. I've t

Learning shell features [was Re: can't run /sbin commands]

2005-09-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Dave Webster wrote: I'm a happy camper. Thanks for your help. Glad it's working for you again. PS. Is there some good reference to explain shell variables and environment variables, how they're set and their lifetime. Well, there are the manual pages for the shells (tcsh/csh (same thi

Re: Trying to colour syslog-ng logs to ttyv7 but won't work after a reboot

2005-09-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Norberto Meijome wrote: Perhaps the ttyv7 isn't properly created until after all the local rc scripts are run? That's all I can think. you may want to edit the syslogng.sh to add some debug lines to see if ttyv7 is up @ that point in time. based on the result of this, you may want to backgr

Re: Trying to colour syslog-ng logs to ttyv7 but won't work after a reboot

2005-09-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Ashley Moran wrote: I have a 5.4-STABLE server that I've reconfigured to use syslog-ng instead of syslogd. It collects logs from all our servers and sorts them into per-host folders. Our network admin showed me his gentoo machine earlier which uses ccze to colour log files as they scroll up

Re: Fixing a MBR (and more) that ??? trashed

2005-09-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Gayn Winters wrote: -Original Message- From: Alex Zbyslaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 1:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fixing a MBR (and more) that ??? trashed Gayn Winters wrote: Alex Zbyslaw [mailto

Re: can't run /sbin commands

2005-09-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Dave Webster wrote: When I first installed FreeBSD I was able to run "halt" and "reboot" as su without the full /sbin/reboot command. After adding a new path to PATH, I've been unable to run these commands without specifying the full path. [...] Here is the output of echo $PATH: /sbin:/bin:/

Re: Firefox and Java (new)

2005-09-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Laurence Sanford wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Beecher Rintoul wrote: Still trying to get java working with firefox. I recompiled and installed jdk14. Now when I go to Sun's test site I get: Applet testvm notinited Loading Java Applet Failed Your about:plugins looks the same as

Re: Firefox and Java (new)

2005-09-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Beecher Rintoul wrote: Still trying to get java working with firefox. I recompiled and installed jdk14. Now when I go to Sun's test site I get: Applet testvm notinited Loading Java Applet Failed Your about:plugins looks the same as mine. Where is this java test site? --Alex __

Re: Fixing a MBR (and more) that ??? trashed

2005-09-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Gayn Winters wrote: Alex Zbyslaw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Why do you think it's not safe to add hard drives? It doesn't seem "safe" if Windows blows away the multiboot MBR that FreeBSD so carefully made! Windows overwriting the MBR seems to be the reason peop

Re: Not allowing SSH logins without a public key?

2005-09-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Frank Mueller - emendis GmbH wrote: Edit the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config and change the following two parameters to NO PasswordAuthentication no ChallengeResponseAuthentication no Make sure that RSAAuthentication yes remains set. Then sighup the ssh-daemon by invoking the following command

Re: Fixing a MBR (and more) that ??? trashed

2005-09-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Gayn Winters wrote: Regarding repair: Alex (above) seemed to think sysinstall would do it, but I tried a couple times (reloading FreeBSD each time) and gave up. Given Gary's comments, I suspect that I corrupted the disk label on the FreeBSD partition mis-using sysinstall somehow. Sorry,

Re: I've Created a Permission Problem which Baffles Me.

2005-09-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Martin McCormick wrote: On this particular system, the /var and /var/tmp directories certainly look like they do on other FreeBSD systems that don't have this problem. Script started on Tue Sep 13 15:36:59 2005 bash-2.05b$ cd / bash-2.05b$ ls -ld var drwxr-xr-x 20 root wheel 512 Aug 31 14:44

Re: Firefox & Java

2005-09-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Beecher Rintoul wrote: On Tuesday 13 September 2005 12:56 am, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Beecher Rintoul wrote: I am attempting to get java working with firefox. I have both jdk 1.4 and 1.5 installed. Per google, I symlinked libjavaplugin_oji.so to /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins, but firefox

Re: memory test off of a 'DISK-ON-KEY' device ... ?

2005-09-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chris Howells wrote: On Tuesday 13 September 2005 05:03, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I'm trying to run some tests on a new server that I'm putting together, and would like to run some memory tests ... I found memtest86, but it runs on floppies, which doesn't help me, since I don't have a floppy

Re: Fixing a MBR (and more) that ??? trashed

2005-09-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Gayn Winters wrote: Life was good until I wanted to add another disk. The w2k operating system, when booted, saw the new hardware, "installed" it, and demanded that I reboot. OK, but when I did, the FreeBSD boot manager was trashed. Its menu looked like: F1 ??? F2 FreeBSD F5 Default: F# I co

Re: Firefox & Java

2005-09-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Beecher Rintoul wrote: I am attempting to get java working with firefox. I have both jdk 1.4 and 1.5 installed. Per google, I symlinked libjavaplugin_oji.so to /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins, but firefox doesn't work with either jdk. No errors, just comes up saying plugin required. What else d

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird

2005-09-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Michael Louie Loria wrote: I solve the problem by deleting compreg.dat but it is too tiresome to delete compreg.dat everytime I had to open firefox and thunderbird. I have no clue about the underlying problem but you could make life a little less frustrating before you find a fix with alia

Re: Won't go into multi-user mode

2005-09-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Christopher H. Laco wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Understood. Nonetheless, this is not enough information from which to diagnose the problem. Enough or not, It's all there is. I installed FBSD. I supped and built to stable. Everthing boots and works fine. I installed mysql4.0 from ports an

Re: USB-RS232 adapter in FreeBSD 5?

2005-09-05 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Bill Moran wrote: Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bill Moran wrote: You're correct. I guess I understand why they split NOTES up, but it sure makes it a PITA to figure out what options are available ;) % cat ../../conf/NOTES NOTES > LINT.mine I

Re: USB-RS232 adapter in FreeBSD 5?

2005-09-05 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Bill Moran wrote: You're correct. I guess I understand why they split NOTES up, but it sure makes it a PITA to figure out what options are available ;) % cat ../../conf/NOTES NOTES > LINT.mine It's not rocket science :) A better question is why the "make LINT" option insist on stripping

Re: sed not working

2005-09-03 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Rein Kadastik wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Rein Kadastik wrote: Rein Kadastik wrote: Hi I have a problem with sed on one of my systems. Does anybody have some ideas, what would be the reason? I tested the sed command also on 4.8-RELEASE and 4.10-STABLE where it works nicely. Even

Re: sed not working

2005-09-03 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Rein Kadastik wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Rein Kadastik wrote: Rein Kadastik wrote: Hi I have a problem with sed on one of my systems. You've probably tried this, but what does "which sed" show on the broken system? It should show /usr/bin/sed and if it doesn&#

Re: Problems to setup one PCI SCSI Card? Freebsd 5.4-p6

2005-09-03 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
perikillo wrote: Hi people i need to install one SCSI PCI card, the chip is support by freebsd 5.4 hardware using the driver ahc: Chip 26160N Adaptec I read the man pages for the driver ahc(4), and say this: SYNOPSIS For one or more VL/EISA cards: device eisa device ahc For

Re: sed not working

2005-09-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Rein Kadastik wrote: Rein Kadastik wrote: Hi I have a problem with sed on one of my systems. Lets take the following command: sed -e '/^\([a-z_][a-z_]*\) /s//\1 gen_/' On all other systems the input would be transformed: int something() -> int gen_something() On the broken system, the tr

Re: Interrupt Storm Dell PowerEdge 1850

2005-08-31 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
This may be getting a bit Off Topic, but I always find it annoying when archive thread peter out without any conclusion... Nicklas B. Westerlund wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: What version of FreeBSD? AFAIU, FreeBSD only supports one console keyboard, so if you plug in ukbd1 and make it the

Re: Interrupt Storm Dell PowerEdge 1850

2005-08-31 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Nicklas B. Westerlund wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: But if you do that, then I believe you will not be able to use the DRAC as a remote console because your virtual keyboard won't work. (not without changing to the ukbd0 from your real keyboard, which pretty much defeats the point o

Re: Boot loader won't start windows on other HD

2005-08-29 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Barnaby Scott wrote: I know questions like this have been asked before, but I can't find a straight answer! Forgive me though if I have missed one. I have a Windows 2000 machine into which I wanted to put an extra hard disk to run FreeBSD. In my pre-installation reading, I noticed that FreeBSD

Re: Interrupt Storm Dell PowerEdge 1850

2005-08-29 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Nicklas B. Westerlund wrote: John Straiton wrote: Hello, I am attempting to install 5.4R on a brand new Dell PowerEdge 1850 machine. The installation goes perfectly however after the reboot, I am unable to log into the machine (or in this case, create the entropy salt) John, Le

Re: wine error

2005-08-26 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Zorro Super Hero wrote: i get the "wine" from "winehq.com" i go to "Freebsd" and i get the version..."Wine-20050725.tar.gz" i do "tar -zxvf " . the next thing i do "./configure " and everything was good. nex i do "make depend" and it was good to. (with no error). now i do "make". and its run for

Re: /rescue/vi doesn't work without /usr (no terminal db)

2005-08-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
N.J. Thomas wrote: BUGS Most of the rescue tools work even in a fairly crippled system. The most egregious exception is the rescue version of vi(1), which currently requires that /usr be mounted so that it can access the termcap(5) files. Hopefully, a failsafe ter

Re: portsdb -Uu duplicate entry warnings

2005-08-24 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 08:07:13AM -0400, bob self wrote: I've been told that these messages are not a problem. But I do think that they are warnings. How can I get rid of these warnings? You don't, they're not a problem. If you really don't want to see them, I

Re: what is stuck here?!

2005-08-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Garrett Cooper wrote: On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: how come *nothing* happens when i rm -rf directory/? it just won't move ... top from another terminal tells me: 55272 root 1160 14396K 13768K RUN 0:27 36.13% 35.40% rm what? the directory/ only contains a .maild

Re: boot menu (WinXp - freeBSD)

2005-08-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, Finally I could install fBSD, I had to upgrade the bios. My PC had WinXP on the fist partition and on the other one I installed fBSD, what do I have to write in the boot.ini(winXP) to choose which OS should be loaded? No idea. But if you install the FreeBSD boot mana

Re: FAILURE - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE status=41

2005-08-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jimmy Bäckström wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Jimmy Bäckström wrote: Hi list! I've googled and searched the mailing list archives for this but couldn't find anything useful. I just installed freebsd 5.4 on a dell PE 2850 with RAID5 (PERC). The installation goes fine and as fa

Re: FAILURE - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE status=41

2005-08-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jimmy Bäckström wrote: Hi list! I've googled and searched the mailing list archives for this but couldn't find anything useful. I just installed freebsd 5.4 on a dell PE 2850 with RAID5 (PERC). The installation goes fine and as far as I can tell it runs ok, haven't really done anything with y

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