disk problem

2002-12-10 Thread steve ellis
data from /usr?? any thoughts? all data gone on /usr? thanks. steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: ipfw firewall help

2002-12-06 Thread Steve Bertrand
verifying whether the traffic was able to come in to the interface, and whether it was able to go back out. You may also want to post to freebsd-ipfw. Hope this helps! Steve Please forgive me for asking this, I know it's probably been gone over numerous times. I have a network at a colo

buildworld fail

2002-12-06 Thread Steve Bertrand
first attempt of upgrading an FBSD box, and is strictly a development machine. I also have other production machines that are at 4.5, but can't upgrade them until this one is successful. Tks! Steve Bertrand To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions

Re: buildworld fail

2002-12-06 Thread Steve Bertrand
Kent: I see the differences between the compiler commands, but have no idea how to change them. I would like to try your idea. I have given no special flags to make. What flags would I give to make when making world? Tks, Kent Stewart wrote: On Friday 06 December 2002 01:02 pm, Steve

Evolution trash emptying

2002-12-02 Thread Steve Wingate
Anyone else noticing that Evolution (1.08) is not emptying the trash on exit, even with the relevant option selected in the configuration? -- +-+ |Steve Wingate [EMAIL PROTECTED] |MCSE, CCNA

Re: what are my options? lost password.

2002-11-25 Thread Steve Wingate
into single user mode, mount / read-writeable, edit /etc/passwd and change the password field to a * or something. Check the handbook online. -- +-+ |Steve Wingate [EMAIL PROTECTED] |MCSE

Re: BIND 9 problem

2002-11-20 Thread Steve Caine
to be working fine supporting about 60 domains. If you'll post or email a bit of your named.conf and of one of your zone files I'll be happy to see if I can see what's causing the problem. What version of Bind 9 are you running? Steve. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd

Re: Acroread5

2002-11-20 Thread Steve Wingate
title bar.) There was an error opening this document. A temporary file could not be opened. I've been getting this error also lately. Something has definitely changed and I don't know what. -- +-+ |Steve Wingate

Re: Boot manager...

2002-11-15 Thread Steve Wingate
On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 20:03, John Von Essen wrote: Im curious about something. On my machine, the freebsd boot manager displays something like: F1 FreeBSD F2 DOS F5 Drive 1 Nothing will boot on F5, its just an extra drive I use for my /usr mount. Question is... is it possible to

Re: Xeons and Max # of CPUs supported

2002-11-14 Thread Steve Wingate
. +-+ |Steve Wingate [EMAIL PROTECTED] |MCSE, CCNA Thu Nov 14 11:59:00 PST 2002 +-+ |FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE |11:59AM up 4:27, 0 users, load averages: 0.19, 0.06, 0.02

Re: setuid XFree ?

2002-11-14 Thread Steve Wingate
) - Xwrapper-4 just bring me to the root X window (with the cross)? Try removing/reinstalling wrapper, although if X starts at all that probably isn't the issue. What's in ~/.xinitrc? +-+ |Steve Wingate [EMAIL PROTECTED] |MCSE

Re: linux unreal tournament 2003 -- any success?

2002-11-12 Thread Steve Wingate
isn't activated. +-+ |Steve Wingate [EMAIL PROTECTED] |MCSE, CCNA Tue Nov 12 11:59:00 PST 2002 +-+ |FreeBSD 4.7-RC |11:59AM up 24 days, 12

Re: Lexmark Z23 USB Printer

2002-11-12 Thread Steve Wingate
such winprinter that works reliably with free software drivers. You might try reading up on gimp-print and the CUPS printing system. +-+ |Steve Wingate [EMAIL PROTECTED] |MCSE, CCNA Tue Nov 12 11:59:00 PST 2002

Re: In search of the ultimate .muttrc

2002-11-12 Thread Steve Wingate
PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message +-+ |Steve Wingate [EMAIL PROTECTED] |MCSE, CCNA Tue Nov 12 11:59:00 PST 2002

Re: bootloader grub

2002-11-11 Thread Steve Wingate
. +-+ |Steve Wingate [EMAIL PROTECTED] |MCSE, CCNA Mon Nov 11 09:59:00 PST 2002 +-+ |FreeBSD 4.7-RC | 9:59AM up 23 days, 10:31, 2 users, load averages

XFree86 memory usage

2002-11-11 Thread Steve Wingate
I'm trying to figure out why X11 is using so much memory on my workstation. Here is the output from 'top': PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPUCPU COMMAND 236 steve 2 0 215M 210M select 1 435:16 0.05% 0.05% XFree86 215MB seems like alot to me. OTOH

Re: How to stop SPAMMER??!

2002-11-09 Thread Steve Wingate
? This shouldn't happen in the default configuration any longer I believe. Either check the Handbook online for sendmail configuration. 3. Dunno +-+ |Steve Wingate [EMAIL PROTECTED] |MCSE, CCNA Sat Nov 9 16:59:00 PST

Star/OpenOffice font lists

2002-11-06 Thread Steve Wingate
I notice that when I start a new text document in StarOffice or OpenOffice I get one font list (Truetype included) but when I start an html document I get a much longer list of choices. It seems like some font directories - such as freefont nucleus - are ignored for text documents. Has anyone

Re: NFS Performance woes

2002-11-05 Thread Steve Shorter
it is better to use multiple 100Mbs NIC's than to use Gig ether if you can get away with it. YMMV. -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Junior hacker assignment :o

2002-11-05 Thread Steve Tremblett
a (configurable) timeout to this final | system notice that automatically reboots when this | timer has expired. | | Where do I start reading? I mean, I think this is a | kernel thingy, right? Does shutdown -r now reboot the machine without APM? -- Steve Tremblett To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: XFree86, Anti-aliasing, Truetype, Freetype

2002-11-05 Thread Steve Wingate
so many things that some steps may not be necessary. For the record I'm using Gnome 2.0, Mozilla-1.2beta compiled with Xft2 support, 1600x1200 screen on 19 monitor in X11. I have the following Xft-related ports installed: [steve@daemon]:/home/steve pkg_info | grep Xft Xft-2.0_1 A client

Re: Why Use a Daemon as a Symbol since it alienates many?

2002-11-03 Thread Steve Tremblett
| | | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message | | | | | | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message | +---end quoted text--- -- Steve Tremblett

Solution to why my 4.7 CD wouldn't boot my machine

2002-11-01 Thread Steve Holmlund
explanation as to why this is so would be appreciated. It may have nothing to do with FreeBSD, I realize. The drive in my Server is a Matshita DVD, I believe. I burned the CDs on a Win2K machine with Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4.05. Thanks. Steve Holmlund To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Solution to why my 4.7 CD wouldn't boot my machine

2002-11-01 Thread Steve Holmlund
I forgot to say that when trying to boot from the bad CD, the server indicated that the Boot Record was not found and then booted off the existing OS on the hard drive. Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Separating the OS from the data - tough to do?

2002-10-31 Thread Steve Warwick
is for use by the system administrator when installing software locally. It needs to be safe from being overwritten when the system software is updated. It may be used for programs and data that are shareable amongst a group of hosts, but not found in /usr. Need a copy? Email me for the PDF Steve

Re: Separating the OS from the data [Addendum]

2002-10-31 Thread Steve Warwick
machine. In THEORY it should be possible to do an upgrade in the time it takes to do a reboot. For server farms this would be a big benefit... Steve -- Problem: Separating OS from underlying data. Which parts of the BSD OS are not part of the initial, never modified OS? Or, which pieces

Re: Re: Logging ssh login failures

2002-10-31 Thread Steve Wingate
On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 11:29:14PM -0500, Steve Wingate wrote: How can I get FreeBSD 4.7-stable to log password ssh login attempt failures? Googling shows people last year added it via a patch to /etc/security but I wonder if it's been added to base now. What about the traces in /var

bar

2002-10-30 Thread steve ellis
. Stupidly, I did not archive it properly, and now I'm stuck. There's even a man page for this. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. Steve Ellis [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: [GWAVA:15w6ex12] Source block message notification

2002-10-30 Thread steve ellis
Dear Mr./Ms. 'GWAVA', My email was a technical question sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It has been answered. I'm sorry the FreeBSD.ORG technical questions are being missent to you. My note had an email address, as shown above, in case a spam filter is actng up. Steve Ellis GWAVA wrote

Sendmail: non-relay secure

2002-10-30 Thread Steve Warwick
Hi, I have sendmail / qpopper running on a production machine and have yet to figure out a way to open mail up to my client sin a secure way. Eg. Client logs in from aol.com to check and send mail. Is there a way to do this that will not open my machine up to abuse? TIA Steve

Re: Lexmark Z33 printer help

2002-10-29 Thread Steve Wingate
From: Morten Grunnet Buhl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2002/10/28 Mon PM 07:41:13 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Lexmark Z33 printer help Hello fellow FreeBSD friends, I would like to hear if anyone have gotten a Lexmark Z33 printer working. I have found this link [1] to an official

Yes, but how do I upgrade?

2002-10-29 Thread Steve Warwick
. TIA Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Yes, but how do I upgrade?

2002-10-29 Thread Steve Wingate
From: Steve Warwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2002/10/29 Tue PM 03:10:44 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Yes, but how do I upgrade? Hi I have a 4.3 BSD machine to upgrade, and it's a production machine :( On a test machine I have learned to CVSUP. I have used sysinstall and played

Re: Re: Yes, but how do I upgrade?

2002-10-29 Thread Steve Wingate
From: Steve Warwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2002/10/29 Tue PM 03:49:02 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Yes, but how do I upgrade? Hmmm, if as Kent mentions, there are many changes since 4.3, perhaps a better solution would be to reverse the process. Build an entirely new OS from

2 drives + 2 IDE channels = better?

2002-10-29 Thread Steve Warwick
Hi, Is is better to run a 2nd drive on another IDE channel or on the same bus? Eg. IDE channel 1 = ad0 (main OS), IDE channel 2 = ad1 (other data - maybe MySQL and websites?) Thoughts, opinions? TIA Steve. PS. Is it obvious I'm building a new machine :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: 2 drives + 2 IDE channels = better?

2002-10-29 Thread Steve Wingate
Is is better to run a 2nd drive on another IDE channel or on the same bus? Eg. IDE channel 1 = ad0 (main OS), IDE channel 2 = ad1 (other data - maybe MySQL and websites?) For performance reasons a seperate channel is better. If you're anal about cable neatness, air flow and all that weird

Re: divxPlayer

2002-10-28 Thread Steve Wingate
From: Mike Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2002/10/28 Mon AM 11:53:23 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: divxPlayer When i try to launch divxPlayer (up to date and compiled from ports) I get: ELF binary type 3 not known. Abort trap My guess is that you installed Linux emulation,

Re: re: divxplayer

2002-10-28 Thread Steve Wingate
Unfortunatley, adding the line linux=YES to /etc/rc.conf has not solved the problem of me getting : ELF binary type 3 not known. Abort trap. I've tried running netscape communciator as well with the same msg. Did you reboot afterwards? Work like you don't need the money Dance like

Re: video cards supported

2002-10-28 Thread Steve Wingate
From: Tony Esposito [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2002/10/23 Wed PM 05:44:52 EDT To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: video cards supported Hello, I can not find any list of video cards supported for FreeBSD 4.0 at http://www.freebsd.org. Can you assist?

Re: Re: dhcp option to *not* overwrite /etc/resolv.conf

2002-10-28 Thread Steve Wingate
I have read the man pages, searched a few forums, but I did not found a way to prevent dhcp to do not change my /etc/resolv.conf. I do not have access to the dhcp server configuration, so I need to change it on my client. I also tried to chmod it to only read mode, but that did not work

Re: remote mounting of UNIX directories

2002-10-27 Thread Steve Wingate
From: michael sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2002/10/27 Sun PM 06:15:12 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: remote mounting of UNIX directories Its my understanding a windows box CANNOT mount a /home/user a remote fbsd server, only those on the same local network. Am I correct? Not

4.7 cd won't boot

2002-10-27 Thread Steve Holmlund
...Not found. It then proceeds to boot from my existing 4.6 setup on the hard disk. I plugged my 4.6 CD back in and it booted off the CD fine. Has something changed in 4.7? I've burned 4 different 4.7 CDs all with the same result. Thanks. Steve Holmlund P.S. The only real difference on my laptop

UDMA limited to 33 - resolution

2002-10-23 Thread Steve Warwick
the placement of the UDMA100 Master and the UDMA66 Slave on the bus and all items were recognized correctly. Master is now last on the chain. hth Steve Warwick To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

OS upgrade planning?

2002-10-23 Thread Steve Warwick
and suggestions gratefully received. TIA Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Setup: UDMA133 - recognized?

2002-10-23 Thread Steve Warwick
Hi, I noticed that during boot ad0 is limited to UDMA33 - I have UDMA133 motherboard and drive so, is this really true? TIA Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

combining shared libraries into 1 library?

2002-10-19 Thread Steve Kargl
Is it possible to combine 2 shared libraries into a single library? I've read the ld(1) man page, but it isn't clear whether this is possible. I would like to do ld -Bsharable -o libX.so libY.so libZ.so where libY.so are libZ.so are combined into libX.so. -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Upgrading to CURRENT

2002-10-17 Thread Steve Tremblett
to work (or even build) at any given time. Tracking the STABLE stream is probably what you're after. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/index.html -- Steve Tremblett To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body

Re: FreeBSD usage in safety-critical environments

2002-10-09 Thread Steve Kudlak
project and mucking with the low grade in my opinion C-2 security that Sun OSes had and finding bugs in things like FTP logging and the like. I now do other things so I don't worry about that. :) But it is an interesting issue. I wonder if we should move it to chat? Have Fun, Sends Steve

Re: Please help me

2002-10-09 Thread Steve Caine
reading when I first met 6th Edition UNIX in the late 70's. Steve. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Help with net.inet.ip.intr_queue_maxlen

2002-10-05 Thread Steve Francis
Can someone help me with net.inet.ip.intr_queue_maxlen tuning? Firstly, its the size of the IP input queue, per the source. So does that mean after the NIC has received the packet, the interupt from the NIC has been processed and the packet retrieved from the NIC, then the packet is placed in

Make always fails on new system

2002-09-30 Thread Steve Warwick
AK31 / 256meg ddr ram / Dlink 530tx+ enet TIA Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: Boot Splash questions

2002-07-25 Thread Steve Tremblett
definitely looking forward to | FreeBSD 5.x. | | Craig +---end quoted text--- -- Steve Tremblett To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: PHP Apache Assistance ~ like a moron

2002-07-24 Thread Steve Mazerski
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 23:21, Steve Mazerski wrote: On Wednesday 24 July 2002 22:48, MET wrote: ee /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf I then append the line:AddType application/x-httpd-php .php does Apache know about the PHP module? Somewhere in the httpd.conf there should

Re: freebsd plugins?

2002-07-24 Thread Steve Mazerski
On Thursday 25 July 2002 00:51, Ed Yu wrote: I tried search online but all I find is linux plugins. I made these work by installing linux-mozilla. But since there is no linux-galeon port and I'd rather run freebsd galeon, is there a way to make them work? This article:

Re: Gnome2 build problem SOLVED! Thanks Joe!

2002-07-23 Thread Steve Wingate
On Tuesday 23 July 2002 02:38 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All - I'd like to thank Joe Marcus Clarke for his assistance in getting past the fact that a repeated error building gconf-editor was keeping me from getting to Gnome2. The culprit was yet another outdated /usr/X11R6/include

Re: Backup Scripts

2002-07-23 Thread Steve Wingate
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 20:43:10 -0700 Michelle Weeks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to scripting and am trying to use the below script I found to run backups of our FreeBSD 4.5 server, but I keep getting the error: Level-backup.sh Backup Tue Jul 23 21:04:22 PDT

Re: Mod_frontpage config error

2002-07-22 Thread Steve Wingate
On Monday 22 July 2002 01:03 am, Lord Raiden wrote: Ran into something I'm not entirely sure how to fix. Was running the config script for configuring frontpage extentions on one of our apache servers by running the script /usr/local/frontpage/version5.0/fp_install.sh on the server after

Re: /kernel write failed system full

2002-07-22 Thread Steve Wingate
On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 21:35, Mark B wrote: OK I know I did something wrong, but with little chance to correct the system, with error messages spewing out at a blinding rate, I hit the reset button then fsck the disks on boot, then edit the fstab to block off all but the basic fs needed to run.

Re: /cdrom for normal users?

2002-07-18 Thread Steve Mazerski
On Thursday 18 July 2002 20:09, Daniel Bye wrote: On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 07:15:10AM -0700, Balaji, Pavan wrote: By default, cdrom is /dev/acd0c is only mountable by root in FreeBSD. You can make it mountable by normal users by changing the /etc/fstab entry to users,ro,noauto

Re: /cdrom for normal users?

2002-07-18 Thread Steve Mazerski
/cdrom cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not permitted Am I missing something, or is something missing me? ;-) S.Mazerski (07.18.2002 @ 1154 PST): Steve Mazerski said, in 2.1K: On Thursday 18 July 2002 20:09, Daniel Bye wrote: On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 07:15:10AM -0700, Balaji, Pavan wrote

Re: /cdrom for normal users?

2002-07-18 Thread Steve Mazerski
On Friday 19 July 2002 00:15, Adam Weinberger wrote: user localhost doesn't have access to read from /dev/acd0c. -Adam user localhost is in group operator, and /dev/acd0c is readable by group operator: localuser@localhost ls -l /dev/acd0c crw-rw 4 root operator 117, 0 Jul 14

A: How big /var ? Or: too small for the xemacs package?

2002-07-18 Thread Steve Mazerski
Me again.. Just had a call from the RTFM daemon: To answer my own questions... I moved /var to a larger partition (see http://www.freebsddiary.org/file-system-full.php for a HOW-TO) Questions: - I presume pkg_add puts temporary files in /var. Is this normal / sensible? pkg_add uses

Re: GDM

2002-07-17 Thread Steve Wingate
On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 23:21, Jonathan Chen wrote: [Please do not remove Cc: freebsd-questions] On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 11:55:31AM +0530, Akthar Hussain wrote: Hi Jonathan, Thanks for your reply. But why a normal user can able to start GDM withou loging as root. since a normal

/cdrom for normal users?

2002-07-17 Thread Steve Mazerski
Is it the done thing in FreeBSD for normal users to mount CD-ROMs in a local directory rather than /cdrom? As a normal user all I get is this: localuser mount /cdrom cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not permitted despite changing the permissions on both the CD-ROM device and /cdrom to

Re: Slow boot initialisation

2002-07-14 Thread Steve Mazerski
Here's some further information: On Saturday 13 July 2002 23:01, Steve Mazerski wrote: (...) Every time the waiting symbols (i.e. the ASCII chars |/-\ ) appears, the system seems to be doing a series of seeks to each hard disks alternatively, but nothing else apart from keeping the waiting

RE: Cannot start bind in samdbox?

2002-07-14 Thread Steve Wingate
On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 03:11, Lars Wittebrood wrote: Stacey, Do you have the directory structure right in your sandbox? I have bind chrooted in /chroot/bind and my command to start it there is : /chroot/bind/named -u bind -g bind -t /chroot/bind -d 1 You have -t /etc/namedb/s/ so you

Re: [Fwd: RE: Cannot start bind in sandbox?]

2002-07-14 Thread Steve Wingate
If you're reading this link for sandboxing BIND this is as standard as it gets. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/dns.html From what I've read from you it appears you haven't done everything these steps tell you to do. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Cannot start bind in samdbox?

2002-07-14 Thread Steve Wingate
On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 10:09, Steve Wingate wrote: On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 03:11, Lars Wittebrood wrote: Stacey, Do you have the directory structure right in your sandbox? I have bind chrooted in /chroot/bind and my command to start it there is : /chroot/bind/named -u bind -g bind -t

Re: Private Home network

2002-07-14 Thread Steve Wingate
On Sun, 2002-07-14 at 10:48, Harry W Hale III wrote: I have small network at home consisting of three machines. These machines are connected through a router to a cable modem where they share the internet. My router assigns by dhcp ip numbers in the range of 192.168.1.2 to

Slow boot initialisation

2002-07-13 Thread Steve Mazerski
I'm considering replacing Linux with FreeBSD and have just made a test installation on my desktop machine. This is an unspectacular KMD K6 with two IDE drives and no exotic hardware. The installation seems to have been successful. I installed 4.6-RELEASE on a free primary partition (ca. 1 GB)

(minor) install partitioning bug?

2002-07-13 Thread Steve Mazerski
Synopsis: FreeBSD interactive install tool unable to repartition a slice with a non-FreeBSD file system and system id. Description: I've just installed FreeBSD (4.6-RELEASE) on a Linux machine for the first time on that particular machine. My plan was to use a redundant primary partition on

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