From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 00:47:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA14055 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 00:47:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.io.org (post.io.org [198.133.36.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA14050 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 00:47:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from crunch.io.org (crunch.io.org [198.133.36.156]) by post.io.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA02905; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 03:45:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 03:45:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Tao To: Jeremy Sigmon cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail + smrsh + procmail question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 12 Oct 1996, Jeremy Sigmon wrote: > > my .forward looks like this: > "|IFS=' ' && exec /usr/libexec/sm.bin/procmail USER=jsigmon" All my .forward says is this: "|/usr/local/bin/procmail #taob" This is with procmail 3.11p4. smrsh only looks for binaries in the sm.bin directory, but I've specified the full path because my .forward file is sometimes read by a non-smrsh sendmail server. You can probably get away with simply "|procmail #jsigmon". -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org, taob@ican.net) Senior Systems and Network Administrator, Internet Canada Corp. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't" From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 02:01:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA20034 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 02:01:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.225.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA20025 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 02:01:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA14045; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 10:01:46 +0100 Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA12026; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 10:06:59 +0100 Message-Id: <199610200906.KAA12026@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 10:06:57 +0100 From: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph P. Kukulies) To: tom@oliverdesign.com (Thomas B. Fox) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make world compile times In-Reply-To: <3.0b33.32.19961019154208.00699f40@oliverdesign.com>; from Thomas B. Fox on Oct 19, 1996 15:42:09 -0700 References: <3.0b33.32.19961019154208.00699f40@oliverdesign.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.46 Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Thomas B. Fox writes: > > I was wondering how long a 'make world' compile takes people > on various machines. Roughly said: 4 days on a 386SX, around 12h on a 486DX2/66, 1.5 h on a P6. Depends also on disk speed, make options (-pipe) and tmp/obj location. > > I want to know roughly where my machines performance level is > compared to other configurations. > > Thanks in advance. > Thomas B. Fox - tom@oliverdesign.com > - Webmaster and MIS > - Oliver Design, Inc. - 5 Victor Sq. - Scotts Valley, CA 95066 -- --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 04:10:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA04471 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 04:10:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (root@cyclone.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA04423 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 04:10:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from neuron (ppp2 [194.95.214.132]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA15369; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 13:10:40 +0100 Message-ID: <326A2323.2CCF@degnet.baynet.de> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 12:03:31 +0000 From: Darius Moos Reply-To: moos@degnet.baynet.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Song Lining CC: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: named,ppp and reboot problem References: <3269C141.41C67EA6@public.jn.sd.cn> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk - Do you have the hosts-file configured ? - How did you ifconfig your ethernet-devices (IP or DNS) - When do you start your named (after routed/gated ?) - How does your resolv.conf look (not really needed for a right configured named). - How does your named.boot file look - How does your zone-files look How about more info ? Darius Moos. Song Lining wrote: > > Hi, > > I setup named justnow to act as a full function DNS but when I reboot my > machine, it stoped after "recovering vi sessions", I must type CTRL-C > three times to get the login appear. Another question is I can NOT ppp > again if I run the named at boot time, but I can ppp after killed named. > After ppp connection established, I can start named again and it runs > well. I'm now reading some documents of named carefully but I need > somebody give me a clue. > > Thanks in advance! > > Song > -- > ¢ -- email: moos@degnet.baynet.de From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 07:36:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA22662 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 07:36:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms1.hinet.net (donny@ms1.hinet.net [168.95.4.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA22655 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 07:36:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from donny@localhost) by ms1.hinet.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) id WAA02360; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 22:33:51 +0800 (CST) Message-Id: <199610201433.WAA02360@ms1.hinet.net> From: donny@ms1.hinet.net (Donny Lee) To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Rebuilding a new kernel. What I should take care? Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 22:04:59 -0400 Lines: 17 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Since I have to rebuild a new kernel for my IDE CD-ROM, I'd like to hear you all in some points: 1) Should I comment out those devices or options I don't need in MY_KERNEL config file? 2) What's good and bad if, for example, I comment out those scsi devices except the one fits my scsi card? 3) Will a smaller kernel speed up ay boot time? if so, how to make a kernel small? BTW, thanks for you all. I can't fine many FreeBSD companions here in Taipei, and worse no FreeBSD related local news groups, I then have to post every questions here. // Donny From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 07:36:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA22687 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 07:36:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms1.hinet.net (donny@ms1.hinet.net [168.95.4.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA22671 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 07:36:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from donny@localhost) by ms1.hinet.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) id WAA02367; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 22:33:53 +0800 (CST) Message-Id: <199610201433.WAA02367@ms1.hinet.net> From: donny@ms1.hinet.net (Donny Lee) To: Don Yuniskis Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to get an IDE CD-ROM work? Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 21:35:14 -0400 Lines: 18 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -=*> Don Yuniskis wrote: >> > > I have a Philips ATAPI IDE 8x CD-ROM, which works fine under >> > Must be a misconfiguration because we have seen the Philips 8X IDE/ATAPI >> > CDROM work on FreeBSD 2.1.5 without any problems... >> Ummm... what configuration I should go through? I found >> no CD-ROM related statement in my /etc/fstab file, what >> mount statement I should add in? > Is the device recognized at boot?? No, only the IDE port is detected. The ATAPI IDE CDROM is the only device connected to my primary IDE port, as slave, I have no other IDE devices. I checked /dev, making sure there are a wcd0 and a rwcd0c there. I also had a try of mount, and a msg 'device not configured' returned. // Donny From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 07:45:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA23479 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 07:45:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agt.net (clgrps02.agt.net [198.161.156.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA23458 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 07:44:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james (ltbrpx01-port-34.agt.net [204.209.197.98]) by agt.net (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA23684 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 08:44:49 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <326A3BC5.1480@agt.net> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 08:48:37 -0600 From: james earl Organization: Abc X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01b1 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: netscape setup Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk What is the appropriate directory to extract the netscape archive into? Also, is it possible to get rid of all the warning messages, displayed during startup (of netscape) as well as during operation? I done what was directed in the README, with no change in the warnings. From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 08:03:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA25160 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 08:03:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from doorman.brann.org ([207.122.63.53]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA25155 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 08:03:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jbrann@localhost) by doorman.brann.org (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA08091; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 11:06:22 -0400 (EDT) From: John Brann Message-Id: <199610201506.LAA08091@doorman.brann.org> Subject: Re: netscape setup In-Reply-To: <326A3BC5.1480@agt.net> from james earl at "Oct 20, 96 08:48:37 am" To: james_earl@agt.net (james earl) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 11:06:21 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Organisation: Not while I'm at home X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk james earl wrote... > What is the appropriate directory to extract the netscape archive into? > > Also, is it possible to get rid of all the warning messages, displayed > during startup (of netscape) as well as during operation? I done what > was directed in the README, with no change in the warnings. > Hmm, The simplest solution is, probably, to use the port - all of the ancillary setup is handled for you. Put the netscape tarball in /usr/ports/distfiles cd to /usr/ports/www/netscape[2,3,301] and do a make all install. John -- Well, that's like hypnotizing chickens. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 08:34:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA26465 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 08:34:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA26460 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 08:34:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id RAA12838; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 17:33:30 +0200 (IST) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 17:33:29 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron To: "Timothy P. Layton, Sr." cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP !!! I have a mail hacker. In-Reply-To: <199610190913.JAA07351@global-sol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 19 Oct 1996, Timothy P. Layton, Sr. wrote: > Help !!! > > my mail host is receiving a couple thousand messages per night > from a ficticous user at a fake domain. > > I looked in the maillog and found what domain the messages where > coming from. > > Can I reject all mail from a single domain, and can I take it even > further by refusing any type of connection from a domain ?? I think you've just discovered you need a firewall... As an immediate action, look into ipwf (if you're running 2.1.5 or up - it's much improved since 2.1.0). Use it to block out things you don't need. Then, especially if you have a network of machines to protect, build a firewall. It is pretty easy to do. I recommend reading: Firewalls and Internet Security by Cheswick and Bellovin (ISBN: 0-201-63357-4), published by Addison-Wesley. It is a bit old, but *very* well written, built upon real world experience, and has pointers to free firewall resources on the 'net. One of the great motos of this book (and many others on security) is: Don't let anyone from the outside even get at your sendmail. Sendmail is far too complex to be bug-free, and the Bad Guys will use those bugs. The TIS firewall toolikit (it's in the ports collection) has a wrapper for sendmail (made of two programs: smap and smapd). > > Please Help ! > > Thanks > Tim- > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Timothy P. Layton, Sr. > http://www.global-sol.com > mailto:tlayton@global-sol.com > voice:314.298.0873 Fax:314.298.8482 > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Nadav From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 08:35:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA26518 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 08:35:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA26501 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 08:35:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id RAA12852; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 17:34:22 +0200 (IST) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 17:34:22 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron To: james earl cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netscape setup In-Reply-To: <326A3BC5.1480@agt.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, james earl wrote: > What is the appropriate directory to extract the netscape archive into? > > Also, is it possible to get rid of all the warning messages, displayed > during startup (of netscape) as well as during operation? I done what > was directed in the README, with no change in the warnings. > Did you install it from the port? I have done it quite a long time ago, but the ports will usually put things in the correct place/ Nadav From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 08:37:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA26617 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 08:37:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA26612 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 08:37:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id RAA12882; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 17:36:20 +0200 (IST) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 17:36:20 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron To: Donny Lee cc: Don Yuniskis , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to get an IDE CD-ROM work? In-Reply-To: <199610201433.WAA02367@ms1.hinet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Donny Lee wrote: > -=*> Don Yuniskis wrote: > >> > > I have a Philips ATAPI IDE 8x CD-ROM, which works fine under > >> > Must be a misconfiguration because we have seen the Philips 8X IDE/ATAPI > >> > CDROM work on FreeBSD 2.1.5 without any problems... > >> Ummm... what configuration I should go through? I found > >> no CD-ROM related statement in my /etc/fstab file, what > >> mount statement I should add in? > > Is the device recognized at boot?? > > No, only the IDE port is detected. > > The ATAPI IDE CDROM is the only device connected to my primary IDE > port, as slave, I have no other IDE devices. I checked /dev, making > sure there are a wcd0 and a rwcd0c there. I guess it won't work this way. Most of the time FreeBSD wants ATAPI CDROM's to be the slave of *something* (read as: a hard disk). If you don't have an IDE disk on your system there are two options: 1. Get one (it can be any old scrap metal that speaks IDE). 2. Use a SCSI CDROM (I assume that you're using SCSI for your hard disks if you don't have EIDE disks). > > I also had a try of mount, and a msg 'device not configured' returned. > > // Donny > Nadav From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 08:41:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA26817 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 08:41:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA26812 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 08:41:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id RAA12895; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 17:40:52 +0200 (IST) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 17:40:52 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron To: Donny Lee cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rebuilding a new kernel. What I should take care? In-Reply-To: <199610201433.WAA02360@ms1.hinet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Donny Lee wrote: > Since I have to rebuild a new kernel for my IDE CD-ROM, > I'd like to hear you all in some points: > > 1) Should I comment out those devices or options I don't need in > MY_KERNEL config file? Basicly, the answer is yes. Note, however, that you need to be sure of what you need and what not. Read through LINT (and Installing and Running FreeBSD if you have that). Some devices (for example ether, loop, npx) should *not* be removed. Removing things you don't need will make your kernel smaller. > > 2) What's good and bad if, for example, I comment out those > scsi devices except the one fits my scsi card? Good: The kernel will be smaller and it will not probe for devices you don't have (though you can get that effect by just disabling the probe on the devices). This means that you'll have more memory free for useful stuff, and the machine will boot faster (device probes are very time-consuming). Bad: Very little I guess. If you add cards, you'll have to make a new kernel, but I guess people aren't changing their SCSI controller that frequently. Ugly: When you have to shoot - shoot, don't talk :-) > > 3) Will a smaller kernel speed up ay boot time? if so, how to > make a kernel small? See above. The size of the kernel is not the major factor in boot time. Probing for devices is. > > BTW, thanks for you all. I can't fine many FreeBSD companions > here in Taipei, and worse no FreeBSD related local news groups, > I then have to post every questions here. > > // Donny > Nadav From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 08:56:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA27554 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 08:56:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.ptd.net (root@ns1.ptd.net [198.80.46.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA27548 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 08:56:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mgpr.ptd.net (cs1-6.cli.ptd.net [204.186.33.6]) by ns1.ptd.net (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA02462 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 11:56:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 11:55:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Guy Silliman To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: xfree86 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk could someone point me in the right direction for some help setting up xwin? I have been trying and failing horribly, with only a 320x200 default screen display. I have followed the faq instructions and tried several different configs for my monitor and diamond stealth 3d 2000, but as I have found this thing is really a pisser to get going. thanks for any help Guy Silliman mgpr@ptd.net From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 09:12:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA28280 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:12:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.webspan.net (mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA28274 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:12:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA25505; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 12:11:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA23068; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 12:10:54 -0400 (EDT) To: Nadav Eiron cc: "Timothy P. Layton, Sr." , questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: HELP !!! I have a mail hacker. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 20 Oct 1996 17:33:29 +0200." Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 12:10:54 -0400 Message-ID: <23066.845827854@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Nadav Eiron wrote in message ID : > On Sat, 19 Oct 1996, Timothy P. Layton, Sr. wrote: > > Help !!! > > > > my mail host is receiving a couple thousand messages per night > > from a ficticous user at a fake domain. > > > > I looked in the maillog and found what domain the messages where > > coming from. > > > > Can I reject all mail from a single domain, and can I take it even > > further by refusing any type of connection from a domain ?? Sorry, missed the orig. message. My first step would be to contact the postmaster(s) responsible for the source of the trouble, and if it continues after that message, look at setting up a firewall at some downstream router (possibly your gateway, if you have access to it) As an aside, does anyone know anything about a mail faker (seemingly a bulk mail faker) which leaves its signature as `Homicide' in the message ID field? Hosts under my control have been attacked at least twice with this, the mail going somwhere else (perhaps fortunately), but using one of the local servers as a first (supposedly untraceable) hop. It's getting quite annoying. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 09:33:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA29047 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:33:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from doorman.brann.org ([207.122.63.53]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA29034 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:32:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jbrann@localhost) by doorman.brann.org (8.7.6/8.7.3) id MAA14746; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 12:36:05 -0400 (EDT) From: John Brann Message-Id: <199610201636.MAA14746@doorman.brann.org> Subject: Re: xfree86 In-Reply-To: from Guy Silliman at "Oct 20, 96 11:55:44 am" To: gws@ptd.net (Guy Silliman) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 12:36:05 -0400 (EDT) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Organisation: Not while I'm at home X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Guy Silliman wrote... > could someone point me in the right direction for some help setting up > xwin? I have been trying and failing horribly, with only a 320x200 > default screen display. I have followed the faq instructions and tried > several different configs for my monitor and diamond stealth 3d 2000, but > as I have found this thing is really a pisser to get going. > > thanks for any help > Guy Silliman > mgpr@ptd.net > Hi, Yes, getting X up and running can be a pain. I've done it a few times with different bits of hardware, so I may be able to help, but I'm no guru... Thing 1: You have some sort of natty diamond stealth card, which I know nothing about. Go through the READMEs and the hardware manual to find out what the graphics chip in the card is (S3?) and if the precise card is supported by XFree or if the card can do 100% emulation of some other card which is supported. Thing 2: Get the right server. Probably XF86_S3, if the card isn't supported, you'll be stuck with XF86_VGA16. Thing 3: crank up xf86config Thing 4: If that isn't cooking, e-mail me with the X start-up output and a copy of your XF86Config, and I'll see if I can make anything of it. One of the machines I eventually failed to get going with any sort of worthwhile graphics had a Diamond card in it. They seem to change models about every 20 minutes. That card (some sort of PCI thing) was too new for XFree to have caught up with it, but too old for Diamond to produce NT drivers... :-( Regards, John -- Well, that's like hypnotizing chickens. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 09:38:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA29637 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:38:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from diablo.ppp.de (diablo.ppp.de [193.141.101.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA29630 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:38:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Greg Lehey Received: from freebie.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0vF0ta-000QoyC; Sun, 20 Oct 96 17:38 MET Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.de (8.8.2/8.6.12) id SAA13263; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:11:14 +0200 (MET DST) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Message-Id: <199610201611.SAA13263@freebie.lemis.de> Subject: Re: Missing disk space In-Reply-To: <9610170927.AA18514@iworks.InterWorks.org> from "Daniel M. Eischen" at "Oct 17, 96 04:27:53 am" To: deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org (Daniel M. Eischen) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:11:13 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Daniel M. Eischen writes: > > I recently re-installed FreeBSD from a 2.1.5-RELEASE CD, after > which I immediately upgraded to -current. I allocated 50MB > for the root partition, which has always been more than enough > with /usr, /home, and /var mounted (or linked to mounted) > partitions. > > A du -kx shows: > > bash# du -kx / > 1 /dev/fd > 41 /dev > 2 /usr > 1 /stand > ... > 15439 / > > for a total of ~15MB. Looking at df -k tells a different story: > > bash# df -k > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/sd0a 49231 45229 64 100% / > /dev/sd1s1e 504046 359048 104676 77% /opt/a > /dev/sd1s1f 504046 287618 176106 62% /opt/b > /dev/sd1s1g 599060 52364 498772 10% /opt/c > /dev/sd1s1a 504046 441594 22130 95% /usr > procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc > > Notice there is about 45MB of used disk space for /. It seems that > "df -k" is showing what the system thinks is there, because I can > easily fill up the root filesystem. But, I know that I haven't used > that much disk space - manual surfing through / shows the same as > du. > > bash# df -k > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/sd0a 49231 45229 64 100% / > ... > > bash# dd of=/junk if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=4000 > > /: write failed, file system is full > dd: /junk: No space left on device > 3969+0 records in > 3968+0 records out > 4063232 bytes transferred in 1 secs (4063232 bytes/sec) > > bash# df -k > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/sd0a 49231 49205 -3912 109% / > ... > > Where or where did my disk space go? Good question. I can think of several possibilities: 1. You used it up, and du is lying. 2. You have a broken file system, and for some reason you haven't performed an fsck on the file system since it happened. 3. (Most likely). You have data on the root file system in /usr or /opt/*. When you mount the corresponding file system, this data is no longer accessible, but it's still there, and it can been seen on NFS mounts. I'd suggest going into single user mode (only / mounted) and doing an fsck. Then check with du again. I suspect that you'll find different results. To go into single user mode, you should be able to say 'shutdown now', but that will almost invariably leave /usr mounted and not dismountable. It's easier to reboot and specify the -s option to the Boot: prompt. Greg From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 09:39:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA29663 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:39:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from diablo.ppp.de (diablo.ppp.de [193.141.101.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA29636 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:38:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Greg Lehey Received: from freebie.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0vF0tZ-000QowC; Sun, 20 Oct 96 17:38 MET Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.de (8.8.2/8.6.12) id SAA13249; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:02:49 +0200 (MET DST) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Message-Id: <199610201602.SAA13249@freebie.lemis.de> Subject: Re: Microfoft Exchange -> UNIX (FreeBSD-2.1.5) In-Reply-To: <199610190356.XAA02257@nightmare.dreaming.org> from Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe at "Oct 18, 96 11:56:09 pm" To: mitayai@nightmare.dreaming.org (Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:02:48 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe writes: > > hello! > > I was wondering if there was a way to get MS Exchange to use a UNIX box as the mail host. Is there a built-in way for MS Mail to query a UNIX box with Microsoft Networks? I use the Samba server on my FreeBSD-2.1.5 UNIX firewall/gateway for everything else like file and print sharing, if that helps any. As an alternative, is there a freeware/public domain/shareware/cheap SMTP client for Windows 95? I could use a POP mail program, i know, but for long-winded reasons the former best suits my needs. > > If there is anything at all you can mention, even docs to look at, i'd much appreciate it. Sorry, I don't know. The reason I'm replying to this message is to suggest that you avoid using mailers that mail in non-standard formats. I see this message was written with Microsoft Exchange (how did you get it to the real world?), and your first paragraph came out as a single line with 500 characters. This happens very frequently with Microsoft mailers, and like badly transmitted faxes, it makes the sender look stupid without him necessarily recognizing the fact. This may be a configuration problem, but as I said, it happens often enough. These problems don't seem to happen with UNIX mailers. Greg From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 09:40:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA29786 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:40:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from diablo.ppp.de (diablo.ppp.de [193.141.101.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA29777 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:40:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Greg Lehey Received: from freebie.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0vF0tY-000QobC; Sun, 20 Oct 96 17:38 MET Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.de (8.8.2/8.6.12) id SAA13323; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:35:56 +0200 (MET DST) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Message-Id: <199610201635.SAA13323@freebie.lemis.de> Subject: Re: which vt? In-Reply-To: from hmmm at "Oct 16, 96 09:13:54 pm" To: hmmm@alaska.net (hmmm) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:35:56 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk hmmm writes: > > can a SH script figure out what vt it is being viewed on? Sure. tty(1) tells you just that: $ tty /dev/ttyp7 This is a pty, of course, but it works just as well on vts. If it's not on a tty, you get things like: $ rsh allegro tty not a tty Greg From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 09:40:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA29838 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:40:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from diablo.ppp.de (diablo.ppp.de [193.141.101.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA29805 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:40:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Greg Lehey Received: from freebie.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0vF0tZ-000QooC; Sun, 20 Oct 96 17:38 MET Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.de (8.8.2/8.6.12) id RAA13239; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 17:58:15 +0200 (MET DST) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Message-Id: <199610201558.RAA13239@freebie.lemis.de> Subject: Re: Making a DOS Partition writeable In-Reply-To: <199610171158.NAA01001@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> from Robert Eckardt at "Oct 17, 96 01:58:30 pm" To: roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Robert Eckardt) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 17:58:15 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Robert Eckardt writes: >> I have a 30MB Primary DOS partition on the same HD with FreeBSD. >> Unfortunately, it is Read-Only. Is it possible to mount a DOS partition >> that id Read-Write capable? Why is the primary DOS partition Read-Only? > > Look into /etc/fstab > You will find a line like > /dev/wd0s1 /c msdos ro 0 0 > This makes it read-only: ^^ > > Just change it to > /dev/wd0s1 /c msdos rw 0 0 There's a good reason that DOS file systems get mounted read-only. The file system code *was* buggy, and a write to an MS-DOS file system could cause file system corruption. I don't know if it's still the case--maybe somebody else can comment--but you should know the potential risks of writing to DOS file systems. Greg From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 09:41:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA29961 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:41:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from diablo.ppp.de (diablo.ppp.de [193.141.101.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA29954 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:41:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Greg Lehey Received: from freebie.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0vF0wZ-000QnSC; Sun, 20 Oct 96 17:41 MET Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.de (8.8.2/8.6.12) id SAA13343; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:39:54 +0200 (MET DST) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Message-Id: <199610201639.SAA13343@freebie.lemis.de> Subject: Re: Will freebsd run with a single 16 meg non parity 72 pin simm? In-Reply-To: from Keith Leonard at "Oct 10, 96 10:40:10 pm" To: keithl@gil.net (Keith Leonard) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:39:53 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Keith Leonard writes: > On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, David Snodgrass wrote: > >> >> see subject for question... >> linux won't run with my ram...will free bsd? > > I may be going out on a limb here but one of my machines runs Linux and > Freebsd 2.1.5 with a single 16 meg non parity simms chip. You may want to > check the simms - I had a bad 8 in another machine that screwed everything > up during install for both Linux and FreeBSD. Make sure your machine > allows single simms modules (some don't and require 2 8's to get 16) > > If I'm wrong - I appologize to the group for responding - but I am doing > it. No need to apologize. I think you've summed it up quite nicely: if the machine is designed to run with one SIMM, as 486s are, but Linux doesn't run, then it's probably a hardware problem. Under those circumstances, FreeBSD almost certainly would not run either. Greg From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 09:45:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA00275 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:45:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.zip.com.au (root@mail.zip.com.au [203.12.97.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA00265 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:45:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MYHOSTNAME (aglet14.zip.com.au [203.12.97.173]) by mail.zip.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id CAA24862 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 02:44:36 +1000 Message-Id: <199610201644.CAA24862@mail.zip.com.au> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Sue Blake" Organization: We Learn To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 02:39:24 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: vt100 mysteries Reply-to: sue@welearn.com.au Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Thanks to all who helped with my previous questions! I can't resolve a problem related to vt100 (I think) so I'd better spell it out. Yes I know there's hideous problems with different ideas of vt100 but any near approximation of success would be miraculous at this stage. What I want to do: Telnet (or dial even) in to my shell account and use apps there, like I used to do from DOS dial-in or win/os2 PPP-telnet. What I'm working with: The ISP runs Linux, I'm set up there as vt100 and that seems necessary for things like pine, lynx, irc, joe, tin, etc to work. My shell on the linux system is bash, and here it's tcsh, but I'm happy to use any shell. I'm not using xwindows at all but would consider beating my ancient monitor into submission to do so if and only if it's the only way to achieve a real solution. (Text mode is easier on the eyes.) UserPPP seems to be working fine straight out of the handbook/faq. The same apps (joe editor, lynx, tin, pine, ircII) work fine if I run my own copy here, which I don't want to do. What happens: Whether I use telnet or minicom, it's hopeless. Strange characters dancing all over the screen, bits of display moved to other areas of the screen, typed characters not displaying, deleted characters remaining, and cursor keys, control keys, etc have wildly unpredictable results. This is not at all surprising since my end says it's "cons25" (whatever that is!). But when I changed it to vt100 there was a difference but no improvement. And my local stuff like mc and lynx didn't work right any more. My local stuff does work find with cons25 however. How did I change to vt100? Aaah... I dunno. I read _every_word_ I could find, whether I understood it or not, and did what it said. About a dozen times, different ways. I also logged in as root and answered the question with "vt100" and didn't have success either. I could change some things at the linux end (after another 20 hrs of reading a different set of man pages) but I doubt that'd address the problem. My ISP would help, given a suitably framed request. Could someone please tell me what to do? I've had a fortnight of trying my own half-educated guesses. Now I'd like a recipe that works. [whine, pout] I probably need to understand a bit more about changing terminal emulations and so on too. I can point you to a dozen man pages which I have thoroughly read and claim to tell me different lies about the same things, different commands to achieve the same results but the outcomes worded differently. That must indicate both lack of understanding and need for a starting point, an overview of how this screen stuff is put into effect. RTFM was all I needed for solo DOS and VMS, but here I do the right thing again and freebsd laughs in my face. Maybe I expect more this time around :-) Regards, -*Sue*- Regards, -*Sue*- Internet: sue@welearn.com.au Fidonet: 3:712/404 Modem: +61-2-665-2917 Solids: Sue Blake, PO Box K73, Haymarket NSW 2000, Australia http://www.welearn.com.au/ Learning and teaching together http://www.welearn.com.au/srcc/ Strathfield College From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 09:46:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA00485 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:46:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms1.hinet.net (donny@ms1.hinet.net [168.95.4.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA00473 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:46:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from donny@localhost) by ms1.hinet.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) id AAA12709; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 00:43:19 +0800 (CST) Message-Id: <199610201643.AAA12709@ms1.hinet.net> From: donny@ms1.hinet.net (Donny Lee) To: Nadav Eiron Cc: Donny Lee , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rebuilding a new kernel. What I should take care? Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 00:31:55 -0400 Lines: 27 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -=*> Nadav Eiron wrote: >> 1) Should I comment out those devices or options I don't need in >> MY_KERNEL config file? > Basicly, the answer is yes. Note, however, that you need to be sure of > what you need and what not. Read through LINT (and Installing and Running > FreeBSD if you have that). Some devices (for example ether, loop, npx) > should *not* be removed. Removing things you don't need will make your > kernel smaller. Yes, I'll only remove those hard ware brands specified devices, like ahaX for Adaptec cards, btX for Buslogics, and so on. >> 2) What's good and bad if, for example, I comment out those >> scsi devices except the one fits my scsi card? > Good: The kernel will be smaller and it will not probe for devices you > don't have (though you can get that effect by just disabling the probe on > the devices). This means that you'll have more memory free for useful > stuff, and the machine will boot faster (device probes are very > time-consuming). Key point. > Ugly: When you have to shoot - shoot, don't talk :-) Ha... quite true. :) // Donny From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 09:46:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA00369 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:46:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms1.hinet.net (donny@ms1.hinet.net [168.95.4.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA00355 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:46:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from donny@localhost) by ms1.hinet.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) id AAA12673; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 00:43:01 +0800 (CST) Message-Id: <199610201643.AAA12673@ms1.hinet.net> From: donny@ms1.hinet.net (Donny Lee) To: Nadav Eiron Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to get an IDE CD-ROM work? Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 00:25:07 -0400 Lines: 16 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -=*> Nadav Eiron wrote: >>>>>> I have a Philips ATAPI IDE 8x CD-ROM, which works fine under >> The ATAPI IDE CDROM is the only device connected to my primary IDE >> port, as slave, I have no other IDE devices. I checked /dev, making > I guess it won't work this way. Most of the time FreeBSD wants ATAPI > CDROM's to be the slave of *something* (read as: a hard disk). If you > don't have an IDE disk on your system there are two options: > 1. Get one (it can be any old scrap metal that speaks IDE). I'm not sure about this. If everything fales, I'll take a try. :) > 2. Use a SCSI CDROM (I assume that you're using SCSI for your hard disks Yes, I use 2 SCSI-2 HDes. // Donny From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 09:45:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA00290 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:45:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.zip.com.au (root@mail.zip.com.au [203.12.97.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA00271 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:45:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MYHOSTNAME (aglet14.zip.com.au [203.12.97.173]) by mail.zip.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.5) with SMTP id CAA24865 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 02:44:41 +1000 Message-Id: <199610201644.CAA24865@mail.zip.com.au> Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Sue Blake" Organization: We Learn To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 02:39:24 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: installation doc contributions Reply-to: sue@welearn.com.au Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk There's a few small essential pieces of information that I believe are lacking from the installation reading material. Half a dozen lines that would change the first-time installation from unusable to usable and save hours of angst and silly questions. Who do I tell? Regards, -*Sue*- Internet: sue@welearn.com.au Fidonet: 3:712/404 Modem: +61-2-665-2917 Solids: Sue Blake, PO Box K73, Haymarket NSW 2000, Australia http://www.welearn.com.au/ Learning and teaching together http://www.welearn.com.au/srcc/ Strathfield College From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 09:56:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA01422 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:56:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA01417 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:56:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scully.barcode.co.il (localhost.barcode.co.il [127.0.0.1]) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA13782 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:55:59 +0200 (IST) Message-ID: <326A598B.41C67EA6@barcode.co.il> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:55:39 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Apache won't do CGI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi! I'm running Apache 1.1.1 on two FreeBSD 2.1.5 Release mahines. One works Just Fine, the other will not run any CGI scripts. When I attempt to run a CGI script I get: /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/test-cgi: Can't open /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/test-cgi [Sun Oct 20 17:51:18 1996] access to /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/test-cgi failed for scully.barcode.co.il, reason: Premature end of script headers Working through mod_cgi.c with gdb I got to the following (possibly incorrect :->) conclusions: 1. The child process that should run the script gets spawned O.K. The exec that should execute the script works too (at least it doesn't return). 2. The fgets that the server does to get the output on the script's stdout returnd NULL. 3. Even if I put printf's in the code before the exec, giving output on stdout beforethe script gets exec'ed, the parent doesn't seem to read it. I'm sure it's something trivial (I have a similar configuration working) just don't know what it is. It looks as if the pipe between the parent and child is broken (but the pipe() call does not return any errors). Thanks for any advice anyone might have for me. Nadav P.S. Already tried reinstalling, copying the conf directory from the working machine, fiddling with security settings etc., to no avail. From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 09:58:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA01509 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:58:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.webspan.net (mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA01504 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 09:58:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA28756; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 12:57:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA25021; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 12:56:55 -0400 (EDT) To: sue@welearn.com.au cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: When is a root not a root? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 21 Oct 1996 02:39:25 +1000." <199610201644.CAA24868@mail.zip.com.au> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 12:56:55 -0400 Message-ID: <25019.845830615@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Sue Blake" wrote in message ID <199610201644.CAA24868@mail.zip.com.au>: > But tell me, what am I supposed to be able to do after su? > It seems that if I want to do any real work, su is no good. > I can move to any directory and fiddle with files, but I can't mount > or do a whole lot of other things, so what's the point? > Is there a guide, or a list of what can be done after su and what > requires a root login? Considering that I use `su' daily for remote maintaince, I believe the problem is to do with your configuration. Try using `su -m' instead, and insuring that `/sbin' and `/usr/sbin' are in your path. That'll likely solve your problem. Yours, Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 10:18:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA02571 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 10:18:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from emory.mathcs.emory.edu (uucp@emory.mathcs.emory.edu [199.76.28.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA02554 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 10:18:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by emory.mathcs.emory.edu (5.65/Emory_mathcs.4.0.22) via UUCP id AA15750 ; Sun, 20 Oct 96 13:18:13 -0400 Received: from localhost (jan@localhost) by bagend.atl.ga.us (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA20975 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 13:16:17 -0400 Message-Id: <199610201716.NAA20975@bagend.atl.ga.us> To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: stupid sound card / cdrom question Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 13:16:17 -0400 From: Jan Isley Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have FreeBSD running on my desk at work. I want to be able to play audio CDs on it. It has an IDE CDROM. I have two sound cards at home that I can install in the system, a Sound Blaster 16 (matcd interface) and an Adaptec 1570. Neither of these have an IDE interface. Can I just get an appropriate audio cable to make these sound cards talk to the IDE CDROM to do audio? From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 11:01:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA04937 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 11:01:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (root@cyclone.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA04929 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 11:01:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from neuron (ppp5 [194.95.214.135]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA17112; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 20:02:49 +0100 Message-ID: <326A8380.975@degnet.baynet.de> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:55:30 +0000 From: Darius Moos Reply-To: moos@degnet.baynet.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Song Lining CC: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: named,ppp and reboot problem References: <3269C141.41C67EA6@public.jn.sd.cn> <326A2323.2CCF@degnet.baynet.de> <326A2D05.41C67EA6@public.jn.sd.cn> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk OK, in hosts you define your loopback as localhost or localhost.my.domain . You did not specify a zone-file for my.domain . Now i'll assume you want to have your own domain, say "lining.priv" Then maybe you want a second machine in the near future to be connected to your first, so let's make the thing a little more complete and define a private network for the future. Now i'll give your machine a name and an adress: machine-name: song private domain: lining.priv private adress: 10.1.1.1 Now your hosts-file should look like this: ------------------------------------------ 127.0.0.1 localhost.lining.priv localhost 10.1.1.1 song.lining.priv song Your resolv.conf should look like this: --------------------------------------- domain lining.priv nameserver 10.1.1.1 Your named.boot looks like this: -------------------------------- ; $Id: named.boot,v 1.3 1995/03/23 08:43:02 rgrimes Exp $ ; From: @(#)named.boot 5.1 (Berkeley) 6/30/90 ; boot file for secondary name server ; Note that there should be one primary entry for each SOA record. ; example sortlist config: ; sortlist 128.3.0.0 directory /etc/namedb ; type domain source host/file backup file cache . named.root primary 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA localhost.rev primaty 1.1.10.IN-ADDR.ARPA 10.1.1.rev primary lining.priv lining.priv.zone ; example secondary server config: ; secondary Berkeley.EDU 128.32.130.11 128.32.133.1 ucbhosts.bak ; secondary 32.128.IN-ADDR.ARPA 128.32.130.11 128.32.133.1 ucbhosts.rev.bak ; example primary server config: ; primary Berkeley.EDU ucbhosts ; primary 32.128.IN-ADDR.ARPA ucbhosts.rev ; primary 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa pz/127.0.0 ; primary localhost pz/localhost Above i've assumed you want to have the zone- and rev-files in your /etc/namedb-directory. Next you need the localhost.rev file (BTW, why did you not use -------------------------------------------------------------- "make-localhost" in /etc/namedb for this ?): -------------------------------------------- ; $Id: PROTO.localhost.rev,v 1.1 1995/03/21 16:33:44 wollman Exp $ ; ; This file is automatically edited by the `make-localhost' script in ; the /etc/namedb directory. ; @ IN SOA song.lining.priv. root.song.lining.priv. ( 1 ;serial 360000 ;refresh 300 ;retry 3600000 ;expire 360000 ) ;minimum IN NS song.lining.priv. in hinfo PPro-200 FreeBSD-2.1.5R 1 IN PTR localhost.lining.priv. Next you need the 10.1.1.rev file (i've just copied the comments from --------------------------------------------------------------------- above): ------- ; $Id: PROTO.localhost.rev,v 1.1 1995/03/21 16:33:44 wollman Exp $ ; ; This file is automatically edited by the `make-localhost' script in ; the /etc/namedb directory. ; @ IN SOA song.lining.priv. root.song.lining.priv. ( 1 ;serial 360000 ;refresh 300 ;retry 3600000 ;expire 360000 ) ;minimum IN NS song.lining.priv. in hinfo PPro-200 FreeBSD-2.1.5R 1 IN PTR song.lining.priv. Next you need the lining.priv.zone file (again comments are copied from ----------------------------------------------------------------------- above): ------- ; $Id: PROTO.localhost.rev,v 1.1 1995/03/21 16:33:44 wollman Exp $ ; ; This file is automatically edited by the `make-localhost' script in ; the /etc/namedb directory. ; @ IN SOA song.lining.priv. root.song.lining.priv. ( 1 ;serial 360000 ;refresh 300 ;retry 3600000 ;expire 360000 ) ;minimum IN NS song.lining.priv. in hinfo PPro-200 FreeBSD-2.1.5R song IN A 10.1.1.1 www-cache IN CNAME song.lining.priv. ftp IN CNAME song.lining.priv. ftp-cache IN CNAME song.lining.priv. localhost IN A 127.0.0.1 Now create this files (localhost.rev, 10.1.1.rev and lining.priv.zone) in /etc/namedb. Don't forget to set your hostname (song.lining.priv) in /etc/sysconfig. Send named a HUP. You may want to update your named.root file but i do not believe that there will be any changes. That's all. This should get you running. For further details have a look at "DNS and BIND", Paul Albitz and Cricket Liu, O'Reilly & Associated Inc. Darius Moos. Song Lining wrote: > > The first thing I want to clarify is that I only has a dialup ppp > connection to my ISP and no LAN. > > > > > - Do you have the hosts-file configured ? > > /etc/hosts has no change since first installation, I copied it > following: > > # $Id: hosts,v 1.5.4.4 1996/06/17 09:17:03 jkh Exp $ > # > # Host Database > # This file should contain the addresses and aliases > # for local hosts that share this file. > # In the presence of the domain name service or NIS, this file may > # not be consulted at all; see /etc/host.conf for the resolution order. > # > # > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.my.domain > # > # Imaginary network. > #10.0.0.2 myname.my.domain myname > #10.0.0.3 myfriend.my.domain myfriend > # > # According to RFC 1918, you can use the following IP networks for > # private nets which will never be connected to the Internet: > # > # 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 > # 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 > # 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 > # > # In case you want to be able to connect to the Internet, you need > # real official assigned numbers. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not try > # to invent your own network numbers but instead get one from your > # network provider (if any) or from the Internet Registry (ftp to > # rs.internic.net, directory `/templates'). > # > > > - How did you ifconfig your ethernet-devices (IP or DNS) > > NO ethernet-devices > > > - When do you start your named (after routed/gated ?) > > after routed, I start named by change namedflags from "NO" to "-b > /etc/namedb/named.boot" > > > - How does your resolv.conf look (not really needed for a right > > configured named). > > I copied it as following: > > domain sdjnptt.net.cn > #nameserver 202.102.128.68 > #nameserver 202.96.0.133 > nameserver 127.0.0.1 > > > - How does your named.boot file look > > I copied it as following: > > ; $Id: named.boot,v 1.3 1995/03/23 08:43:02 rgrimes Exp $ > ; From: @(#)named.boot 5.1 (Berkeley) 6/30/90 > > ; boot file for secondary name server > ; Note that there should be one primary entry for each SOA record. > > ; example sortlist config: > ; sortlist 128.3.0.0 > > directory /etc/namedb > > ; type domain source host/file backup > file > > cache . > named.root > primary 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA localhost.rev > > ; example secondary server config: > ; secondary Berkeley.EDU 128.32.130.11 128.32.133.1 > ucbhosts.bak > ; secondary 32.128.IN-ADDR.ARPA 128.32.130.11 128.32.133.1 > ucbhosts.rev.bak > > ; example primary server config: > ; primary Berkeley.EDU ucbhosts > ; primary 32.128.IN-ADDR.ARPA ucbhosts.rev > primary 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa pz/127.0.0 > primary localhost pz/localhost > > > - How does your zone-files look > > /etc/namedb/pz/127.0.0 is: > > $ORIGIN 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA. > @ IN SOA FreeBSD.jn.sd.cn. > hostmaster.FreeBSD.jn.sd.cn. ( > 1 ;serial > 360000 ;refresh > 300 ;retry > 3600000 ;expire > 360000 ) ;minimum > NS ns.FreeBSD.jn.sd.cn. > 1 PTR localhost. > > /etc/namedb/pz/localhost is: > > $ORIGIN localhost. > @ IN SOA FreeBSD.jn.sd.cn. > hostmaster.FreeBSD.jn.sd.cn. ( > 1 ;serial > 360000 ;refresh > 300 ;retry > 3600000 ;expire > 360000 ) ;minimum > NS ns.FreeBSD.jn.sd.cn. > A 127.0.0.1 > > > > > How about more info ? > > I read "DNS HOWTO" for Linux and try to do some changes to the > configuration files but I tried to use named for no more than one day, > so there are so many details for me to study. > > Thanks for your help!!! > > Yours, > > Song Lining > > > > > Darius Moos. > > -- email: moos@degnet.baynet.de From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 11:11:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA05318 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 11:11:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.6.16]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA05249 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 11:11:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA07671; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 20:10:14 +0200 (MET DST) From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199610201810.UAA07671@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: Making a DOS Partition writeable In-Reply-To: <199610201558.RAA13239@freebie.lemis.de> from Greg Lehey at "20. Oct. 96 17:57:43" To: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 20:10:13 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de, questions@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Robert Eckardt writes: > >> I have a 30MB Primary DOS partition on the same HD with FreeBSD. > >> Unfortunately, it is Read-Only. Is it possible to mount a DOS partition > >> that id Read-Write capable? Why is the primary DOS partition Read-Only? > > > > Look into /etc/fstab > > You will find a line like > > /dev/wd0s1 /c msdos ro 0 0 > > This makes it read-only: ^^ > > > > Just change it to > > /dev/wd0s1 /c msdos rw 0 0 > > There's a good reason that DOS file systems get mounted read-only. > The file system code *was* buggy, and a write to an MS-DOS file system > could cause file system corruption. I don't know if it's still the > case--maybe somebody else can comment--but you should know the > potential risks of writing to DOS file systems. Greg, thank you -- that is an important information. I never experienced problems with the DOS-FS since 2.0 (even using from time to time a vnode'd swap space on a file in the DOS partition. :-) I think the problem indeed persists with FIPSed partitions (slices, to be correct). (The mail did not "sound" like FIPS.) Please, anyone correct me, but mounting a DOS-FS could -- under certain circumstances -- corrupt the BSD-FS !?!? Robert -- Robert Eckardt \\ FreeBSD -- solutions for a large universe.(tm) RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de \\ What do you want to boot tomorrow ?(tm) http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte For PGP-key finger roberte@gluon.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 11:41:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA07582 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 11:41:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dfw-ix12.ix.netcom.com (dfw-ix12.ix.netcom.com [206.214.98.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA07576 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 11:41:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Wags23@ix.netcom.com Received: from smtp.netcruiser (ath-ga2-06.ix.netcom.com [205.184.178.70]) by dfw-ix12.ix.netcom.com (8.6.13/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA23735 for questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 11:40:42 -0700 Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 11:40:42 -0700 To: questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <19961020144338141@ix.netcom.com> Subject: General X-Mailer: NETCOMplete v3.0, from NETCOM On-Line Communications, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk If I use FreeBSD on my computer, will I still be able to use my PC as a PC and not just a workstation? I guess I don't truly understand what this program is. I want to know if it is just a program that I can run so that while running it my computer is a unix workstation, and when I don't want to use UNIX, I can still use my computer as a PC (ex-WIN95 and all the programs I already have) Thanks, Steven Wags23@ix.netcom.com From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 11:42:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA07648 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 11:42:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from netcom5.netcom.com (delta1@netcom5.netcom.com [192.100.81.113]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA07642 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 11:42:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (delta1@localhost) by netcom5.netcom.com (8.6.13/Netcom) id LAA16891; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 11:42:50 -0700 Message-Id: <199610201842.LAA16891@netcom5.netcom.com> To: sue@welearn.com.au To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vt100 mysteries Date: Sun, 20 Oct 96 11:42:50 -0700 From: Randall Raemon Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <199610201644.CAA24862@mail.zip.com.au> "Sue Blake" writes > What I want to do: > Telnet (or dial even) in to my shell account and use apps there, > like I used to do from DOS dial-in or win/os2 PPP-telnet. > > What I'm working with: > The ISP runs Linux, I'm set up there as vt100 and that seems > necessary for things like pine, lynx, irc, joe, tin, etc to work. My > shell on the linux system is bash, and here it's tcsh, but I'm happy > to use any shell. I'm not using xwindows at all but would consider > beating my ancient monitor into submission to do so if and only if > it's the only way to achieve a real solution. (Text mode is easier > on the eyes.) UserPPP seems to be working fine straight out of the > handbook/faq. The same apps (joe editor, lynx, tin, pine, ircII) work > fine if I run my own copy here, which I don't want to do. You would remind me of this... I hit exactly the same situation. My dialup ISP is to a Unix shell account, and dialing thru a FreeBSD system causes all sorts of strange display problems. Most notably, editing and fullscreen displays are next to impossible. (The Pine mailer editor "pico" would work, but vi wouldn't.) I found there are two solutions: recompile your kernel to use the pcvt console driver (which gives FreeBSD a vt100 look), or have your dialup speak cons25 thru updating your termcap/terminfo information. At the time, I elected to go the termcap/terminfo route. In retrospect, I'm not sure if this has a lower learning curve than pcvt. No matter, as here is what I did. My ISP is netcom.com, running SunOS. Dialup shell account. I uploaded the termcap entry from my BSD box to netcom. I ran that termcap entry thru "infocmp" (see man pages) to produce a SunOS recognizable terminfo entry. Then use "tic" to compile this terminfo entry. Modify your .profile/.cshrc to have the following: export TERMCAP=$HOME/termcap export TERMINFO=$HOME/tic export TERM=cons25 On your ISP, you should be able to do something reasonable now. You may have to download the man pages to your BSD box in order to be able to look at them (remember, ISP fullscreen apps are hosed). You can look at downloaded manpages with "nroff -man thisfile | less" on your BSD box. This is the termcap entry I'm using on netcom (SunOS): ------------------------------------------------------------------- cons25|ansis|ansi80x25:\ :am:bw:eo:ms:bs:pt:\ :co#80:li#25:kn#5:\ :AL=\E[%dL:DC=\E[%dP:DL=\E[%dM:DO=\E[%dB:IC=\E[%d@:\ :LE=\E[%dD:RI=\E[%dC:SF=\E[%dS:UP=\E[%dA:al=\E[L:\ :bt=\E[Z:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:ch=\E[%i%d`:cl=\E[H\E[J:\ :cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:cv=\E[%i%dd:dc=\E[P:dl=\E[M:ho=\E[H:\ :ic=\E[@:k1=\E[M:k2=\E[N:k3=\E[O:k4=\E[P:k5=\E[Q:\ :k6=\E[R:k7=\E[S:k8=\E[T:k9=\E[U:kb=\b:kd=\E[B:\ :kh=\E[H:kl=\E[D:kr=\E[C:ku=\E[A:nd=\E[C:se=\E[m:\ :so=\E[7m:sr=\E[T:up=\E[A:nl=\E[B:ko=bt,do,nd,up,ho: ------------------------------------------------------------------- This is the terminfo entry (again, SunOS): ------------------------------------------------------------------- cons25|ansis|ansi80x25, am, bw, eo, msgr, npc, cols#80, it#8, lines#25, bel=^G, blink=\E[5m, bold=\E[1m, cbt=\E[Z, clear=\E[H\E[J, cr=\r, cub=\E[%p1%dD, cub1=\b, cud=\E[%p1%dB, cud1=\E[B, cuf=\E[%p1%dC, cuf1=\E[C, cup=\E[%i%p1%d;%p2%dH, cuu=\E[%p1%dA, cuu1=\E[A, dch=\E[%p1%dP, dch1=\E[P, dim=\E[30;1m, dl=\E[%p1%dM, dl1=\E[M, ech=\E[%p1%dX, ed=\E[J, el=\E[K, el1=\E[1K, home=\E[H, hpa=\E[%i%p1%d`, ht=\t, ich=\E[%p1%d@, ich1=\E[@, il=\E[%p1%dL, il1=\E[L, ind=\E[S, indn=\E[%p1%dS, kb2=\E[E, kbs=\b, kcbt=\E[Z, kcub1=\E[D, kcud1=\E[B, kcuf1=\E[C, kcuu1=\E[A, kend=\E[F, kf1=\E[M, kf10=\E[V, kf11=\E[W, kf12=\E[X, kf2=\E[N, kf3=\E[O, kf4=\E[P, kf5=\E[Q, kf6=\E[R, kf7=\E[S, kf8=\E[T, kf9=\E[U, khome=\E[H, kich1=\E[L, knp=\E[G, kpp=\E[I, nel=\E[E, rev=\E[7m, ri=\E[T, rmso=\E[m, sgr0=\E[m, smso=\E[7m, vpa=\E[%i%p1%dd, ------------------------------------------------------------------- There is still something that doesn't work quite right when an application (e.g. lynx) tries to clear the screen. I have to do a ctl-L to force a regenerated display. I think it's a netcom lynx problem rather than a termcap/terminfo problem, but I'm not sure. It's annoying, but liveable. Good luck... -- Randall Raemon delta1@netcom.com From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 12:12:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA08738 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 12:12:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from seagull.rtd.com (root@seagull.rtd.com [198.102.68.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA08732 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 12:12:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dgy@localhost) by seagull.rtd.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA01728; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 12:12:05 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis Message-Id: <199610201912.MAA01728@seagull.rtd.com> Subject: Re: Rebuilding a new kernel. What I should take care? To: donny@ms1.hinet.net (Donny Lee) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 12:12:04 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD questions) In-Reply-To: <199610201433.WAA02360@ms1.hinet.net> from "Donny Lee" at Oct 20, 96 10:04:59 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Since I have to rebuild a new kernel for my IDE CD-ROM, > I'd like to hear you all in some points: Ah, I assume the ATAPI kernel was not available?? Or, is there some other reason?? > 1) Should I comment out those devices or options I don't need in > MY_KERNEL config file? Here, you need to think a bit about what you're doing. The short answer is "YES". In general, having a smaller kernel is better because the extra memory that it *doesn't* consume can then be used to make your applications run slightly faster, etc. Since building kernels is probably not something you *want* to be doing often (since it wastes your time), look through the descriptions of all of the possible devices in the LINT file (/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT). Do NOT alter the contents of this file. Start with a nice NEW file -- for example, "donny"! (don't mess up GENERIC, either!) Remove things that you are probably NEVER going to have -- like maybe a SCSI WORM drive, etc. And, remove other "choices" for things that you already have and aren't likely to change -- like the BusLogic SCSI controller if you've already got an Adaptec. Toss out things that just don't make sense -- like the PCI support if you are running an ISA machine. Then, think about things that you *don't* have but might want to add later (i.e. in the next millenium! :>) and consider adding them to your configuration so that when you *do* buy them, you can rush home from the store and plug it in without having to wait to rebuild a new kernel :> This might include a sound card, SCSI tape (!), etc. Many of the pseudo-devices are "required" (e.g. "loop") and others are significant or TRIVIAL enough that they *should* be included (for example, I include "speaker" even though I have a sound card). If you don't have any SCSI stuff, "scsi" can probably go away and if you aren't running FDDI, "de" can get tossed. It's kinda like a funny game -- on the one hand, you try to tear out everything that you don't need; but, on the other, you add in all the things you *might* need! > 2) What's good and bad if, for example, I comment out those > scsi devices except the one fits my scsi card? That makes good sense -- assuming you aren't using a really lousy (i.e. slow) SCSI host adapter and are planning on upgrading it shortly to one of those *other* devices! Note, also, that if you run FBSD on more than one machine, you *may* want to come up with a kernel that will run on *any* machine (within reason) just to save yourself the hassle of having to build separate kernels. Finally, consider what you will do when/if you have a key hardware failure. If, for example, your SCSI host adapter *dies* and you have a spare adapter -- but possibly a different model, etc. -- stashed away in the closet, you might want to build the kernel to support the new adapter and the *old* adapter! So, if the adapter *does* fail, you can throw in the old adapter and at least have a system that is functioning while you purchase a new adapter, etc. > 3) Will a smaller kernel speed up ay boot time? if so, how to > make a kernel small? Yes. The more stuff you take out of the kernel configuration file, the smaller the kernel will be. Note some things have a bigger effect on the size of the kernel than other things. Also, the size of the kernel (*text* image) is only one aspect of the amount of memory that it will consume. Tweeking other config file settings can alter the amount of memory consumed for buffers, etc. > BTW, thanks for you all. I can't fine many FreeBSD companions > here in Taipei, and worse no FreeBSD related local news groups, > I then have to post every questions here. --don From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 12:15:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA08881 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 12:15:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA08876 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 12:15:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA17857; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 15:15:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA13581; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 15:16:51 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 15:16:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Wags23@ix.netcom.com cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: General In-Reply-To: <19961020144338141@ix.netcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 20 Oct 1996 Wags23@ix.netcom.com wrote: > If I use FreeBSD on my computer, will I still be able to use my PC as a PC and > not just a workstation? I guess I don't truly understand what this program > is. I want to know if it is just a program that I can run so that while > running it my computer is a unix workstation, and when I don't want to use > UNIX, I can still use my computer as a PC (ex-WIN95 and all the programs I > already have) Yup. That's what it is. You'd be wise to refer to it as an `operating system', though, and not a `program'. It is an operating system just as DOS, Windows 95, and OS/2 are operating systems (or, at least, they like to think they are --- in the case of DOS, for example, this is doubtful). You can have the FreeBSD operating system on your computer and when you want to use Win95 you can just reboot the computer to Win95. In fact, this is what I do. -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 12:30:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA09681 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 12:30:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from plethora.cs.wustl.edu (plethora.cs.wustl.edu [128.252.165.113]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA09672 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 12:30:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jxh@localhost) by plethora.cs.wustl.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) id OAA01088; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 14:30:20 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 14:30:20 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199610201930.OAA01088@plethora.cs.wustl.edu> From: James Hu To: Randall Raemon Cc: sue@welearn.com.au, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vt100 mysteries In-Reply-To: <199610201842.LAA16891@netcom5.netcom.com> References: <199610201842.LAA16891@netcom5.netcom.com> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [ Problems with cons25/cons50 and telnet to hosts that don't understand them ] Randall Raemon writes: > In message <199610201644.CAA24862@mail.zip.com.au> > "Sue Blake" writes >> What I want to do: Telnet (or dial even) in to my shell account and >> use apps there, like I used to do from DOS dial-in or win/os2 >> PPP-telnet. > I found there are two solutions: recompile your kernel to use the pcvt > console driver (which gives FreeBSD a vt100 look), or have your dialup > speak cons25 thru updating your termcap/terminfo information. Another alternative is to run a program which emulates vt100 for you: screen. It is available as a package in the misc hierarchy as screen-3.7.1.tgz If you use alot, you will probably want to create a .screenrc which will remap the screen command key to something else. (I remap it to myself). So, you could alias telnet to ``screen telnet'' and things should work. -- James From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 12:49:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA10723 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 12:49:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA10713 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 12:49:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA02502 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 14:49:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 14:49:09 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Recording with NAS Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've been trying to record from a soundblaster 16 using NAS (on freebsd-current). The recording *appears* to work, but I can't play the files because they have three channels in them. Auedit shows three channels too. The auinfo program reports the "stereo" input device as having three channels to. Why might this be? I've tried mixing the channels with sox, but it can't deal with three. Can anyone shed some light on this? -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================ From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 13:21:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA12001 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 13:21:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA11990 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 13:20:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id WAA14933; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 22:20:44 +0200 (IST) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 22:20:44 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: exec won't run interpreted files. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Continuing my Apache saga... I've narrowed down the problem to a failure of exec to run interpreted files. When Apache tries to exec a CGI script, and it's an interpreted file, the shell (presumeably) will give: /usr/local/.../test-cgi: Can't open /usr/local.../test-cgi This also happens if I let Apache run a binary that does a similar exec - the binary will run, but all I get from the script is this error message in the logs (the exec naturaly works perfectly when run from the command line). Are we right in assuming this error is from the shell starting to execute? (the exec seems succssful, as it does not return). What could cause such a behaviour? This is the same for /bin/sh and /usr/bin/perl. TIA Nadav From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 13:44:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA13121 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 13:44:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agt.net (clgrps02.agt.net [198.161.156.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA13113 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 13:44:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james (ltbrpx01-port-20.agt.net [204.209.197.84]) by agt.net (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA29032 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 14:44:00 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <326A8FF2.4F16@agt.net> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 14:47:46 -0600 From: james earl Organization: Abc X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01b1 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netscape setup References: <199610201506.LAA08091@doorman.brann.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John Brann wrote: > > The simplest solution is, probably, to use the port - all of the ancillary > setup is handled for you. Put the netscape tarball in /usr/ports/distfiles > cd to /usr/ports/www/netscape[2,3,301] and do a make all install. When you say "the netscape tarball," do you mean the one I download from Netscape for BSD systems, or do I (/can I) obtain this elsewhere? Is the make command line: "make all install"? Please forgive me for my ignorance, I'm pretty new to FreeBSD. Thanks. From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 13:46:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA13213 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 13:46:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iworks.InterWorks.org (deischen@iworks.interworks.org [128.255.18.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA13203 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 13:46:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by iworks.InterWorks.org (1.37.109.8/16.2) id AA25945; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 15:46:11 -0500 Message-Id: <9610202046.AA25945@iworks.InterWorks.org> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 15:46:11 -0500 From: "Daniel M. Eischen" To: grog@lemis.de, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Missing disk space Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > Where or where did my disk space go? > > Good question. I can think of several possibilities: > > 1. You used it up, and du is lying. > 2. You have a broken file system, and for some reason you haven't > performed an fsck on the file system since it happened. > 3. (Most likely). You have data on the root file system in /usr or > /opt/*. When you mount the corresponding file system, this data > is no longer accessible, but it's still there, and it can been > seen on NFS mounts. > > I'd suggest going into single user mode (only / mounted) and doing an > fsck. Then check with du again. I suspect that you'll find different > results. Arg, #3 was the culprit. I had data in /usr and mounted over it. I had this happen once a long time ago and should have thought of it :( Thanks for the help! Dan Eischen deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 14:15:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA14915 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 14:15:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whorfin.sjca.edu (whorfin.sjca.edu [199.89.180.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA14909 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 14:15:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (skia@localhost) by whorfin.sjca.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA08624 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 17:15:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 17:15:00 -0400 (EDT) From: "Josh Emmons (skia)" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Modem on com1 (sio0) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi... I have an Acer Aspire (I didn't have a choice) 28.8 modem set to com1. Everything works fin on the Windows95 side of things (I have 95 and BSD on the system), but when I go to BSD, the probe never finds sio0 ot the specified address. I'm useing the same addres windows uses to find the modem and still nothing. To make things stranger, it worked once. Only once. I did't change ANYHTING and it worked. I rebooted and it lost it again. haven't gotten it to work after that. Ideas? Josh Emmons...j-emmons@sjca.edu o \o/ \o_ \| \ / |/ _o/ \o/ o /|\ | _/ \_|o \ | / o|_/ \_ | /|\ / \ / \ \ | \ |o\ /o\ /o| / | / / \ / \ CChheecckk yyoouurr dduupplleexx...... From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 14:32:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA15849 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 14:32:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from axis.axisnet.net (ali@axis.axisnet.net [206.54.226.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA15843 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 14:32:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (ali@localhost) by axis.axisnet.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA13728 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 16:34:23 -0500 Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 16:34:22 -0500 (CDT) From: Ali Lomonaco To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: SOCKS Hardware Requirements Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am trying to a proxy server that will handle about 40 windows boxes behind it? I have no idea what I should build it with. Would a P90 with 24mb RAM do good? And would adding SCSI enhance performance? Thank You From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 15:14:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA20478 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 15:14:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from coconut.blueberry.co.uk ([194.70.52.66]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA20459 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 15:14:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nik@localhost) by coconut.blueberry.co.uk (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA22012; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 23:16:12 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199610202216.XAA22012@coconut.blueberry.co.uk> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 23:16:12 +0100 From: nik@blueberry.co.uk (Nik Clayton) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Building a release tape X-Mailer: Mutt 0.48.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Could someone (Jordan?) explain how the files on a release tape should be set up? I realise the method is documented in the INSTALL.TXT file, but scanning the questions archive shows the following message on the subject. And there is no followup indicating whether a) Dennis had the right idea, but gave the wrong args to tar b) He did the right thing, something else is causing his SCSI tape installation to fail c) The instructions in INSTALL.TXT are wrong d) Something else. Any advice gratefully received. N > Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 14:07:21 -0500 (CDT) > From: "Dennis R. Conley" > Subject: how to make the scsi install tape > > Installation from scsi tape always fails. The drive moves the tape around > from quite awhile, so I assume the failure is due to my having made the > tape incorrectly. From INSTALL.TXT: > [...] > | cd /where/you/have/your/dists > | tar cvf /dev/rwt0 (or /dev/rst0) dist1 .. dist2 > > I assume "dist1", "dist2" are directories, e.g. > > % cd /src/tmp/freebsd/2.1.5-RELEASE > % tar c ./bin ./des ./doc ./src > > Unfortunately, this didn't work. Nor did: > > % cd /src/tmp/freebsd/2.1.5-RELEASE > % cd bin ; tar c . > % cd ../des ; tar r . > % cd ../doc ; tar r . > > > So I'm lost: which "files" are tar'd onto the tape ( or, rather, from which > part of the 2.1.5-RELEASE path is the tar performed )? -- --+=[ Blueberry Hill Blueberry New Media ]=+-- --+=[ http://www.blueberry.co.uk/ 1/9 Chelsea Harbour Design Centre, ]=+-- --+=[ WebMaster@blueberry.co.uk London, England, SW10 0XE ]=+-- --+=[ This isn't much of a .sig, but then, that wasn't much of a message ]ENTP From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 16:47:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA02311 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 16:47:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mom.hooked.net (root@mom.hooked.net [206.80.6.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA02303 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 16:47:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hooked.net.hooked.net (also-4.ppp.hooked.net [206.80.9.68]) by mom.hooked.net (8.8.0/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA12148 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 16:47:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <326AB8F8.675D@hooked.net> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 16:42:48 -0700 From: Philip Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD release 2.1.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I recently purchased a cdrom with freebsd release 2.1.5. I tried to install it on my computer, and the first problem i encountered was that the release didn't contain a copy of the atapi.flp file, or the root.flp file. To get around this, I used the 2.1.0 relesae atapi.flp and root.flp file names to install 2.1.5. Should this have worked? If not, where are the support floppies for computer owners with IDE cdroms like myself? Will they be out soon? Can someone direct me to a site with atapi.flp and root.flp for FreeBSD release 2.1.5, or tell me that what i tried shouldn't work? thanks for your time in advance! P.S. I'm operating win95 and winNT on my computer already. I have 3 hard drives. The first drive is split in to two partitions, one for win95, one for winNT. The second drive is Win95. The third drive was supposed to be for this FreeBSD program. When I installed BSD, and booted up my computer, it installed all hd's and cdroms and disk drives and then froze with the A: drive light on. i don't know if that info will help figuring out my disposition. From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 17:02:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA04427 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 17:02:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA04413 for FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 17:02:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 17:02:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Greg Lehey Message-Id: <199610210002.RAA04413@freefall.freebsd.org> To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions (new version) Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. =================================================== Last update 17 October 1996. 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 at least one of the following things was wrong with your message: - You left out a subject line, or the subject line was not appropriate. - You formatted it in such a way that it was difficult to read. - You asked more than one unrelated question in one message. - You sent out a message with an incorrect date, time or time zone. - You sent out the same message more than once. - You sent an 'unsubscribe' message to FreeBSD-questions. If you have done any of these things, there is a good chance that you will get more than one copy of this message from different people. Read on, and your next message will be more successful. ===================================================================== Contents: I: Introduction II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions III: How to submit a question to FreeBSD-questions IV: How to answer a question to FreeBSD-questions I: Introduction =============== This is a regular posting aimed to help both those seeking advice from FreeBSD-questions (the "newcomers"), and also those who answer the questions (the "hackers"). Note that the term "hacker" has nothing to do with break- ing into other people's computers. The correct term for the latter activity is "cracker", but the popular press hasn't found out yet. The FreeBSD hackers disapprove strongly of cracking security, and have nothing to do with it. In the past, there has been some friction which stems from the different viewpoints of the two groups. The newcomers accused the hackers of being arrogant, stuck-up, and unhelpful, while the hackers accused the newcomers of being stupid, unable to read plain English, and expecting everything to be handed to them on a silver platter. Of course, there's an element of truth in both these claims, but for the most part these viewpoints come from a sense of frustration. In this document, I'd like to do something to relieve this frustration and help everybody get better results from FreeBSD-questions. In the following section, I recommend how to submit a question; after that, we'll look at how to answer one. II: How to unsubscribe from FreeBSD-questions ============================================== When you subscribed to FreeBSD-questions, you got a welcome message from Majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG. In this message, amongst other things, it told you how to unsubscribe. Here's a typical message: Welcome to the freebsd-questions mailing list! If you ever want to remove yourself from this mailing list, you can send mail to "Majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG" with the following command in the body of your email message: unsubscribe freebsd-questions Greg Lehey Here's the general information for the list you've subscribed to, in case you don't already have it: FREEBSD-QUESTIONS User questions This is the mailing list for questions about FreeBSD. You should not send "how to" questions to the technical lists unless you consider the question to be pretty technical. Normally, unsubscribing is even simpler than the message suggests: you don't need to specify your mail ID unless it is different from the one which you specified when you subscribed. If Majordomo replies and tells you (incorrectly) that you're not on the list, this may mean that you have changed your mail ID since you subscribed. In this case, you do need to tell Majordomo the correct name, and that's when the welcome message from Majordomo comes in handy. If you have not kept it, all is not lost. Send a message to majordomo asking for the list of the members of the group. In the text of the message, write: who freebsd-questions The names returned in the list are not all individual mail IDs: you'll see a number of names like: freebsd-questions-list@datatec.com freebsd-questions-redist@news.uni-stuttgart.de incoming-freebsd-questions@cisco.com freebsd-questions@clinet.fi freebsd-questions@mcs.anl.gov If you're on one of these lists, you'll have to figure out which one it is and get your name taken off that one. If you're not sure which one it might be, check the headers of the messages you receive from freebsd-questions: maybe there's a clue there. IF ALL ELSE FAILS ----------------- If you've done all this, and you still can't figure out what's going on, send a message to Postmaster@FreeBSD.ORG, and he will sort things out for you. DON'T send a message to FreeBSD-questions: they can't help you. III: How to submit a question ============================== When submitting a question to FreeBSD-questions, consider the following points: 1. Remember that nobody gets paid for answering a FreeBSD question. They do it of their own free will. You can influence this free will positively by submitting a well-formulated question supplying as much relevant information as possible. You can influence this free will negatively by submitting an incomplete, illegible, or rude question. It's perfectly possible to send a message to FreeBSD-questions and not get an answer. In the rest of this document, we'll look at how to get the most out of your question to FreeBSD-questions. 2. Not everybody who answers FreeBSD questions reads every message: they look at the subject line and decide whether it interests them. Clearly, it's in your interest to specify a subject. "FreeBSD problem" or "Help" aren't enough. If you provide no subject at all, many people won't bother reading it. If your subject isn't specific enough, the people who can answer it may not read it. 3. Format your message so that it is legible, and PLEASE DON'T SHOUT!!!!!. We appreciate that a lot of people don't speak English as their first language, and we try to make allowances for that, but it's really painful to try to read a message written full of typos or without any line breaks. A lot of badly formatted messages come from bad mailers. The mailers in the Microsoft world are frequent offenders. If at all possible, use a UNIX mailer. If you must use a mailer under Microsoft environments, make sure it is set up correctly. Try not to use MIME: a lot of people use mailers which don't get on very well with MIME. 4. Make sure your time and time zone are set correctly. This may seem a little silly, since your message still gets there, but many of the people you are trying to reach get several hundred messages a day. They frequently sort the incoming messages by subject and by date, and if your message doesn't come before the first answer, they may assume they missed it and not bother to look. 5. Don't include unrelated questions in the same message. Firstly, a long message tends to scare people off, and secondly, it's more difficult to get all the people who can answer all the questions to read the message. 6. Specify as much information as possible. This is a difficult area, and we need to expand on what information you need to submit, but here's a start: - If you get error messages, don't say "I get error messages", say (for example) "I get the error message 'No route to host'". - If your system panics, don't say "My system panicked", say (for example) "my system panicked with the message 'free vnode isn't'". - If you have difficulty installing FreeBSD, please tell us what hardware you have. In particular, it's important to know the IRQs and I/O addresses of the boards installed in your machine. 7. If you do all this, and you still don't get an answer, there could be other reasons. For example, the problem is so complicated that nobody knows the answer, or the person who does know the answer was offline. If you don't get an answer after, say, a week, it might help to re-send the message. If you don't get an answer to your second message, though, you're probably not going to get one from this forum. Resending the same message again and again will only make you unpopular. To summarize, let's assume you know the answer to the following question. You choose which of these two questions you would be more prepared to answer: Message 1: Subject: (none) I just can't get hits damn silly FereBSD system to workd, and Im really good at this tsuff, but I have never seen anythign sho difficult to install, it jst wont work whatever I try so why don't y9ou guys tell me what I doing wrong. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message 2: Subject: Problems installing FreeBSD I've just got the FreeBSD 2.1.5 CD-ROM from Walnut Creek, and I'm having a lot of difficulty installing it. I have a 66 MHz 486 with 16 MB of memory and an Adaptec 1540A SCSI board, a 1.2GB Quantum Fireball disk and a Toshiba 3501XA CD-ROM drive. The installation works just fine, but when I try to reboot the system, I get the message "Missing Operating System". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IV: How to answer a question ============================ Before you answer a question to FreeBSD-questions, consider: 1. A lot of the points on submitting questions also apply to answering questions. Read them. 2. Has somebody already answered the question? The easiest way to check this is to sort your incoming mail by subject: then (hopefully) you'll see the question followed by any answers, all together. If somebody has already answered it, it doesn't automatically mean that you shouldn't send another answer. But it makes sense to read all the other answers first. 3. Do you have something to contribute beyond what has already been said? In general, "Yeah, me too" answers don't help much, although there are exceptions, like when somebody is describing a problem he's having, and he doesn't know whether it's his fault or whether there's something wrong with the hardware or software. If you do send a "me too" answer, you should also include any further relevant information. 4. Are you sure your answer is correct? If not, wait a day or so. If nobody else comes up with a better answer, you can still reply and say, for example, "I don't know if this is correct, but since nobody else has replied, why don't you try replacing your ATAPI CD-ROM with a frog?". 5. Don't do a group reply; lots of people send messages with hundreds of CCs. Unless there's a good reason to do otherwise, just reply to the person and copy FreeBSD-questions. 6. Trim the original message to the minimum, and use some technique to identify which text came from the original message, and which text you add. I personally find that prepending "> " to the original message works best. Leaving white space after the ">" and leave empty lines between your text and the original text both make the result more readable. Most mailers change the subject line on a reply by prepending a text such as "Re: ". If your mailer doesn't do it automatically, you should do it manually. If the submitter didn't abide by format conventions (lines too long, inappropriate subject line), *please* fix it. In the case of an incorrect subject line (such as "HELP!!??"), change the subject line to (say) "Re: Difficulties with sync PPP (was: HELP!!??)". That way other people trying to follow the thread will have less difficulty following it. In such cases, it's appropriate to say what you did and why you did it, but try not to be rude. If you find you can't answer without being rude, don't answer. If you just want to reply to a message because of its bad format, just reply to the submitter, not to the list. You can just send him this message in reply, if you like. From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 17:19:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA06827 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 17:19:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tpone.telepac.pt (tpone.telepac.pt [194.65.3.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA06820 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 17:19:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.telepac.pt (netpac.telepac.pt [194.65.3.35]) by tpone.telepac.pt (8.6.12/1.0) with ESMTP id BAA17490 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 01:16:27 GMT Received: from host.telepac.pt (coi2_p8.telepac.pt [194.65.32.168]) by mail.telepac.pt (8.7.5/0.0) with ESMTP id QAA16714 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 1996 16:02:13 GMT Message-Id: <199610191602.QAA16714@mail.telepac.pt> From: "Rui Coimbra Lopes" To: Subject: Bootmanager gone Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 16:00:00 +0100 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I had windows95 and freebsd installed on my computer but i had to reinstall windows95 and now the "bootmanager" disapeer and i can=B4t go to freebsd. What can i do? NOTE:Sory my english. E-Mail:rcoimbra@mail.telepac.pt=20 From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 17:32:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA07226 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 17:32:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from salsa.habaneros.com (salsa.habaneros.com [207.34.140.99]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA07200 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 17:31:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jalapeno.habaneros.com (jalapeno [207.34.140.98]) by salsa.habaneros.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA00872 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 17:31:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: by jalapeno.habaneros.com with Microsoft Mail id <01BBBE47.BEA59A20@jalapeno.habaneros.com>; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 05:30:03 -0700 Message-ID: <01BBBE47.BEA59A20@jalapeno.habaneros.com> From: "Neil C. Jensen" To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: strange broadcast gateway on netstat Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 05:30:01 -0700 Encoding: 21 TEXT Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This is on 2.2-961014-SNAP. Doing a "netstat -rn" produces the following for the broadcast address: 207.34.140.127 ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff UHLWb 1 41 ep0 "arp broadcast" produces: broadcast (207.34.140.127) at ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff permanent Why would I be getting "ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff" instead of the proper ethernet address or a link #? This behaviour was not apparent when I had 2.1.5.R; I have kept all system configurations the same while upgrading. Any pointers? TIA Neil Jensen Habaner Studios Ltd. Vancouver, Canada From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 17:53:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA08133 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 17:53:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wedge.its.utas.edu.au (cp_nairn@wedge.its.utas.edu.au [131.217.10.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA08125 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 17:53:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cp_nairn@localhost) by wedge.its.utas.edu.au (8.7.6/8.6.6) id LAA27934; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:53:24 +1100 (EST) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:53:22 +1100 (EST) From: Carey Nairn X-Sender: cp_nairn@wedge.its.utas.edu.au Reply-To: Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au To: Philip Smith cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD release 2.1.5 In-Reply-To: <326AB8F8.675D@hooked.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Philip Smith wrote: > I recently purchased a cdrom with freebsd release 2.1.5. > > I tried to install it on my computer, and the first problem i > encountered was that the release didn't contain a copy of the atapi.flp > file, or the root.flp file. To get around this, I used the 2.1.0 > relesae atapi.flp and root.flp file names to install 2.1.5. Should this > have worked? > 2.1.5 doesn't have a separate floppy image for IDE CDROM drives. Just use the normal boot.flp. Also, there is no root.flp image with 2.1.5. I doubt that installing from a 2.1.0 image would work very well. Cheers, Carey ========================================================================= | Carey Nairn | email : Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au | | Infrastructure Services | phone : (03) 6226 7419 | | Information Technology Services | fax : (03) 6226 7898 | | University of Tasmania. | int'l : (+61 3) | ========================================================================= From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 18:24:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA09437 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:24:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agt.net (clgrps02.agt.net [198.161.156.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA09432 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:24:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from planet.agt.net (ltbrpx02-port-18.agt.net [204.209.197.177]) by agt.net (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id TAA18807 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 19:24:29 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <326A7D51.41C67EA6@agt.net> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 19:28:17 +0000 From: james earl Organization: Abc X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Subject: Ns Navigator Backspace Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Is it possible to change Navigator or XFree86, so that my backspace will delete characters? Currently, when BS is pressed, it inserts a space instead. It happens everywhere in Navigator for instance, even as I write this. From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 18:34:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA09865 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:34:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Rigel.orionsys.com (root@rigel.orionsys.com [205.148.224.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA09856 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:33:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dbabler@localhost) by Rigel.orionsys.com (8.7.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA00209 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:33:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:33:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave Babler To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Harvest port Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Is it just me, or is Harvest one of the most convoluted and unclear systems around? Specifically, after reading everything at the support site (at LEAST twice) I've been able to make it seem to go off and gather data and serve it up. Some not-so-minor points evade me, such as STARTING the thing on rebooting. The only way I've been able to find to start the whole mess up and have it respond is to completely start from scratch every time the system comes up (RunHarvest). There is nowhere that I can find any sort of "this is how you start it" example. Even when started from scratch, it does not ever do what it claims to do: expire data each 12 hours and regather each 24, regardless of what is in the configuration file. Also, the 'examine workload' points to a file which doesn't exist. Heeeeeeeeeeeelllllllllllllpppppppppppppp! -Dave From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 18:36:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA09984 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:36:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from uniqsite.Uniqsite.COM (uniqsite.com [206.14.149.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA09978 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:36:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (nickliu@localhost) by uniqsite.Uniqsite.COM (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA01361 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:35:16 GMT Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:35:15 +0000 () From: Nick Liu To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: sendmail or mh Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I need to set up a mail server (or mail host) to constantly poll the mail for 10 users at uniqsite.com. Can sendmail.cf be modified to do just that. Please respond to my e-mail address. From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 18:45:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA10333 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:45:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Rigel.orionsys.com (root@rigel.orionsys.com [205.148.224.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA10328 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:45:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dbabler@localhost) by Rigel.orionsys.com (8.7.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA00231 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:45:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:45:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Dave Babler Reply-To: Dave Babler To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: New kernel build weirdness Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Just hasn't been my weekend. I'm running 2.1.5-STABLE and have been keeping up with the source changes using CTM. I've been running tc_wrappers for months and decided to rebuild the kernel to incorporate all the CTM changes and add ipfw. The only modification to my existing kernel configuration I did was to add option IPFIREWALL and IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE. After compiling, installing and rebooting, I started noticing some small and not-so-small problems. 1. the login from the console device now prints the user-ID following the prompt, such as: login: cosmo cosmo password: 2. Suddenly, cons25 doesn't understand control keys. In pine, for instance, arrow keys produce the equivalent ansi sequence printed to the screen and ^X (and others) are printed instead of being interpreted as control keys. Booting the old kernel works as it always has. Could I have screwed up the CTM updating process somehow, or missed compiling something that would do this? Any ideas where to start looking? -Dave From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 19:20:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA12291 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 19:20:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obie.softweyr.com (slc93.modem.xmission.com [204.228.136.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA12279 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 19:20:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id KAA04057; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 10:44:38 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 10:44:38 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199610201644.KAA04057@obie.softweyr.com> From: Wes Peters To: BRETT_GLASS@infoworld.com CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Programming question: How to identify owner of a socket? In-Reply-To: <85170681@toto.iv> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk BRETT GLASS writes: > [...] > To do this, the daemon has to verify that the client's IP address > matches that of the local host. It should then verify that the client's IP > port number belongs to a local instance of SLiRP. Finally, it should > identify the user by looking up the owner of the SLiRP process. > > I'm sure all of this is possible. However, since I'm not experienced at > building IP daemons under UNIX, I don't know quite how to do it. What are > the system calls that: > > Let a daemon find the IP address of the connecting client? > > Let it find the IP port number of the connecting client? getpeername(2) returns a sockaddr structure for an open socket connection. In the case of an IP connection, this will actually be a struct sockaddr_in, which contains both the port number (sin_port) and address (sin_addr) of the "other" end of the connection. > Map the IP port number to a process and user on the local machine? As far as I know, the client would have to send this information across the link to the server. You may want to look into the ident library and pidentd server from the package net/pidentd-2.7b3.tgz. > And can these all be called from Perl, so I can do the first draft of the > daemon without coding it in C? I know perl can call getpeername; I haven't looked into the ident protocol used by identd enough to guess there. If nothing else, you could probably just create the request yourself in perl and send it to the identd using sendto. In general, if it can be accomplished in C, you can do it in perl also; the difference is in the details. ;^) > Any help will be much appreciated. Good Luck. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 19:44:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA14028 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 19:44:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spoon.beta.com (root@[199.165.180.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA14009; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 19:44:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spoon.beta.com (mcgovern@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spoon.beta.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA03931; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 22:44:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199610210244.WAA03931@spoon.beta.com> To: questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: 1540CP... Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 22:44:32 -0400 From: "Brian J. McGovern" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I was wondering if the Adaptec 1540CP is currently supported by the 2.2-SNAP releases.... I know some of the earlier cards are, but I'm about to buy one to support my HP 4020i, and I would like to make sure so I don't get to play the pick-it-up, install it, return it blues. I've been playing with a 2842, but my 486 system doesn't seem to fully support VLB the way it should (love bogus hardware), so when I load my soundcard drivers w/windows (under DOS), the 284X stops working. Any help would be appreciated. -Brian From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 19:46:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA14162 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 19:46:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spoon.beta.com (root@[199.165.180.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA14132; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 19:46:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spoon.beta.com (mcgovern@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spoon.beta.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id WAA03953; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 22:45:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199610210245.WAA03953@spoon.beta.com> To: questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: UFS to CD? Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 22:45:53 -0400 From: "Brian J. McGovern" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk One last (more?) question... Is there a proceedure out there for copying UFS (as compared to iso file systems) to CD. the wormcontrol man page shows a ISO format for a plasmon drive. A tutorial, or even something saying "this is how it should work" should be sufficient. thanks. -Brian From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 20:17:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA16216 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 20:17:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA16205 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 20:17:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA08802; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 23:15:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA29795; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 23:17:26 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 23:17:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: james earl cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Ns Navigator Backspace In-Reply-To: <326A7D51.41C67EA6@agt.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, james earl wrote: > Is it possible to change Navigator or XFree86, so that my backspace will > delete characters? Currently, when BS is pressed, it inserts a space > instead. > > It happens everywhere in Navigator for instance, even as I write this. > [copied from the Netscape.README file which comes the the Navigator package distributed by Netscape] * Included with all distributions is a file called XKeysymDB. Without this file, many warnings about "unknown keysyms" will be generated when the program starts up, and most keyboard equivalents won't work. This is a general problem with running Motif programs on systems not configured for Motif, and so will be necessary on most Sun systems. This file is included with all packages because some systems have an older version of this file, so you may still get some warnings. The XKeysymDB file normally goes in /usr/lib/X11/XKeysymDB or /usr/openwin/lib/XKeysymDB, but you can override that with $XKEYSYMDB. From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 20:55:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA17821 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 20:55:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nightmare.dreaming.org (lucid.dreaming.org [204.92.7.47]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA17812 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 20:55:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (mitayai@localhost) by nightmare.dreaming.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA22503; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 23:52:09 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: nightmare.dreaming.org: mitayai owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 23:51:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe To: Greg Lehey cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Microfoft Exchange -> UNIX (FreeBSD-2.1.5) In-Reply-To: <199610201602.SAA13249@freebie.lemis.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Greg Lehey wrote: > Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe writes: > > > > hello! > > > > I was wondering if there was a way to get MS Exchange to use a UNIX box as the mail host. Is there a built-in way for MS Mail to query a UNIX box with Microsoft Networks? I use the Samba server on my FreeBSD-2.1.5 UNIX firewall/gateway for everything else like file and print sharing, if that helps any. As an alternative, is there a freeware/public domain/shareware/cheap SMTP client for Windows 95? I could use a POP mail program, i know, but for long-winded reasons the former best suits my needs. > > > > If there is anything at all you can mention, even docs to look at, i'd much appreciate it. > > Sorry, I don't know. The reason I'm replying to this message is to > suggest that you avoid using mailers that mail in non-standard > formats. I see this message was written with Microsoft Exchange (how > did you get it to the real world?), and your first paragraph came out > as a single line with 500 characters. This happens very frequently > with Microsoft mailers, and like badly transmitted faxes, it makes the > sender look stupid without him necessarily recognizing the fact. > > This may be a configuration problem, but as I said, it happens often > enough. These problems don't seem to happen with UNIX mailers. > > Greg > > *laugh* I used /bin/mail, actually, 'cause i was mailing from a fresh UNIX install and hadn't gotten around to installing Pine yet. :) -Mit From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 21:15:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA18681 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 21:15:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.gf-net.af.mil (server.gf-net.af.mil [132.10.1.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA18673 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 21:15:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from erickson@localhost) by server.gf-net.af.mil (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA21587; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 23:21:39 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 23:21:37 -0500 (CDT) From: Jay E Erickson To: "Timothy P. Layton, Sr." cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP !!! I have a mail hacker. In-Reply-To: <199610190913.JAA07351@global-sol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk To reduce this type of activity I did three things: 1. Installed TCP Wrappers 2. Ran my smtp traffic through TCP Wrappers (three steps) (the wrappers install docs helped me with this) added the next line to my /etc/inetd.conf smtp stream tcp nowait root /usr/libexec/tcpd /usr/sbin/sendmail -bs and added the next two lines to my /etc/crontab for root # Check sendmail queue every 30 minutes */30 * * * * root /usr/sbin/sendmail -q set the sendmail option in the /etc/sysconfig to "no" if you don't want to use crontab you can set the sendmail option in the /etc/sysconfig to "-q30m" 3. in my /etc/sendmail.cf file I set O PrivacyOptions=goaway step 1 is just a good idea step 2 makes sure the IP address = thier long address i.e. 204.216.27.18 = FreeBSD.org and step 3 forces smtp mailers to greet you with hello and doesn't let them expand on any lists or verify any users. this dosen't make you 100% safe but every little bit counts. On Sat, 19 Oct 1996, Timothy P. Layton, Sr. wrote: > Help !!! > > my mail host is receiving a couple thousand messages per night > from a ficticous user at a fake domain. > > I looked in the maillog and found what domain the messages where > coming from. > > Can I reject all mail from a single domain, and can I take it even > further by refusing any type of connection from a domain ?? Yes. TCP wrappers can do this for you Jay Erickson Erickson@server.gf-net.af.mil or Jay@Erickson.gf-net.af.mil From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 21:29:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA19743 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 21:29:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from maya.eagles.bbs.net.au (root@eagis.gw.au [139.130.3.172]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA19736 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 21:28:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sl7.eagles.bbs.net.au (pppS7.eagles.bbs.net.au [203.17.124.17]) by maya.eagles.bbs.net.au (8.6.12/8.6.10) with SMTP id OAA18180 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:28:56 +1000 Message-Id: <199610210428.OAA18180@maya.eagles.bbs.net.au> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 96 14:13:31 -0700 From: james wong X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 16bit) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: (no subject) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dear Sir: Woukd you tell me how to find a copy of of the FreeBSD hand book which I can print it out from my PC please. Thanks Regards James Wong From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 20 22:03:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA22888 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 22:03:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (alpha.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.93]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA22882 for ; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 22:03:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from crevenia.parc.xerox.com ([13.2.116.11]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <15959(1)>; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 22:02:52 PDT Received: from localhost by crevenia.parc.xerox.com with SMTP id <177480>; Sun, 20 Oct 1996 22:02:40 -0700 To: "Neil C. Jensen" cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: strange broadcast gateway on netstat In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 20 Oct 96 05:30:01 PDT." <01BBBE47.BEA59A20@jalapeno.habaneros.com> Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 22:02:31 PDT From: Bill Fenner Message-Id: <96Oct20.220240pdt.177480@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message <01BBBE47.BEA59A20@jalapeno.habaneros.com> you write: >Why would I be getting "ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff" instead of the proper ethernet addr > ess or a link #? ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff *is* the broadcast ethernet address. -current just fills in the entries that 2.1.5 left blank, so that you can tell what ethernet address it is actually using. Bill From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 00:17:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA28496 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 00:17:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from echo2.echonyc.com (root@echo2.echonyc.com [198.67.15.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA28491 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 00:17:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from echonyc.com (benedict@echonyc.com [198.67.15.2]) by echo2.echonyc.com (8.6.12/8.6.10) with ESMTP id DAA28475; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 03:23:04 -0400 Received: (from benedict@localhost) by echonyc.com (8.6.12/echo-relay) id DAA18557; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 03:13:19 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 03:13:19 -0400 (EDT) From: Snob Art Genre To: Robert Eckardt cc: Greg Lehey , roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Making a DOS Partition writeable In-Reply-To: <199610201810.UAA07671@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Robert Eckardt wrote: > > Please, anyone correct me, but mounting a DOS-FS could -- under certain > circumstances -- corrupt the BSD-FS !?!? > Shortly after I installed FreeBSD, I was running two finds on different virtual consoles, with /msdos mounted, and my machine crashed hard. When it came back up, my entire FreeBSD installation was hosed. I can't say it was definitely due to msdosfs, but I suspect it. From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 01:32:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA00525 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 01:32:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from echo2.echonyc.com (root@echo2.echonyc.com [198.67.15.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA00514 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 01:32:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from echonyc.com (benedict@echonyc.com [198.67.15.2]) by echo2.echonyc.com (8.6.12/8.6.10) with ESMTP id EAA28775; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 04:37:46 -0400 Received: (from benedict@localhost) by echonyc.com (8.6.12/echo-relay) id EAA26852; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 04:28:01 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 04:28:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Snob Art Genre To: wb2oyc@cyberenet.net cc: "S(pork)" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: ssh compile problems In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 18 Oct 1996 wb2oyc@cyberenet.net wrote: > Not that particular one, but several that I've tried to get have the > very same problem; checksum error when trying to get the "port" from > the source. rzsz is one. Yes! I'm having a lot of trouble getting rzsz onto my system. I tried downloading rzsz.zip from the MASTER_SITE listed in the Makefile, but I get errors (which seem to change -- will look at this again and upload the specifics if necessary). Does anyone know what I should do? Ben From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 01:42:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA01453 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 01:42:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA01436 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 01:42:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id KAA16025; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:41:33 +0200 (IST) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V1.3) id sma016023; Mon Oct 21 10:41:16 1996 Message-ID: <326B3700.6235@barcode.co.il> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:40:32 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rui Coimbra Lopes CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bootmanager gone References: <199610191602.QAA16714@mail.telepac.pt> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Rui Coimbra Lopes wrote: > > I had windows95 and freebsd installed on my computer > but i had to reinstall windows95 and now the "bootmanager" > disapeer and i can´t go to freebsd. > > What can i do? > > NOTE:Sory my english. > > E-Mail:rcoimbra@mail.telepac.pt Look in the /tools direcrtory on the CD or the ftp site. There's something there called (if I remember correctly) bootinst.exe. Run that *from DOS* (not Win95 in DOS mode) and you'll be done. Nadav From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 01:46:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA01915 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 01:46:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA01898 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 01:46:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id KAA16034; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:45:33 +0200 (IST) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V1.3) id sma016032; Mon Oct 21 10:45:03 1996 Message-ID: <326B37E3.DDF@barcode.co.il> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:44:19 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: james earl CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netscape setup References: <199610201506.LAA08091@doorman.brann.org> <326A8FF2.4F16@agt.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk james earl wrote: > > John Brann wrote: > > > > The simplest solution is, probably, to use the port - all of the ancillary > > setup is handled for you. Put the netscape tarball in /usr/ports/distfiles > > cd to /usr/ports/www/netscape[2,3,301] and do a make all install. > > When you say "the netscape tarball," do you mean the one I download from > Netscape for BSD systems, or do I (/can I) obtain this elsewhere? It refers to the one you got from Netscape. If you won't have it where it is expected, the port make will ftp it from Netscape again for you. You can only get those files from Netscape mirror sites. Netscape is commercial software, and it doesn't just hang around... > > Is the make command line: "make all install"? Please forgive me for my > ignorance, I'm pretty new to FreeBSD. If I rememeber correctly, make install will do it all. You may want to have a look at: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook25.html#27 > > Thanks. Nadav From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 03:59:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA06578 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 03:59:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-2.mail.demon.net (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA06569 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 03:59:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([(null)]) by relay-2.mail.demon.net id ad00499; 21 Oct 96 11:46 BST Received: from blinx.wms.co.uk ([194.159.247.13]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa16205; 21 Oct 96 11:45 BST Received: (from darrylb@localhost) by blinx.lizard.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA05980 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:46:42 +0100 (BST) From: Darryl Bowler Message-Id: <199610211046.LAA05980@blinx.lizard.org> Subject: IRC SERVER binary To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:46:41 +0100 (BST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Is there by any chance a binary of an ircd in packages-2.1.5? Regards Darryl. From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 04:34:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA08041 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 04:34:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms1.hinet.net (donny@ms1.hinet.net [168.95.4.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA08036 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 04:34:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from donny@localhost) by ms1.hinet.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) id TAA15779; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 19:31:51 +0800 (CST) Message-Id: <199610211131.TAA15779@ms1.hinet.net> From: donny@ms1.hinet.net (Donny Lee) To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: My mouse doesn't work. Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:23:10 -0400 Lines: 16 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'd like to, first, thank all the friends here that helped me getting my IDE CD-ROM running. Here is another problem I don't know where to find a way to deal with. My mouse doesn't work, in text mode. My mouse is connected to COM1, or I should say sio0, and I noticed at boot time there are 3 probes messages that might related to this problem: sio0: at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa sio1: at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa : mse0: not found at 0xffffffff Could somebody point me what I shoud do with this? // Donny From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 04:42:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA08315 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 04:42:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from swd.928.com.tw ([203.70.37.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA08231 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 04:39:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from swd.928.com.tw (swd.928.com.tw [203.70.37.40]) by swd.928.com.tw (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA12958 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 19:38:03 +0800 (CST) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 19:38:03 +0800 (CST) From: Charlie ROOT To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: javac vs. ClASSPATH not set ? In-Reply-To: <199610210220.TAA12316@freefall.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Can any one teach me how to set javac CLASSPATH ? I want to use javac in FreeBSD ... thanks .. SWD in nsysus of Taiwan From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 05:02:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA09068 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 05:02:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bsd.tseinc.com ([206.114.206.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA09063 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 05:02:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from JLWEST (ws2.tseinc.com [206.114.206.22]) by bsd.tseinc.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA27928 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 07:02:22 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199610211202.HAA27928@bsd.tseinc.com> From: "Jay L. West" To: Subject: ucd-snmp config on 2.1.5 RELEASE help! Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 06:54:30 -0500 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a question on ucd-snmp. I installed the port and it runs fine but part of it's behaviour I don't understand. When make was running configure, I selected SNMP2AUTH for the type of security desired. I have not, however, created or edited any of the security related files (party, view, etc.). When I queried the bsd box from netguard on a PC, I supplied a community of public and it returned the info. I supplied a community of private and it let me change several variables. I thought if I selected SNMP2AUTH it would reject requests unless things were setup in the config files. Why is it allowing 'public' and 'private' in the first place, and second if it has to be this way where can I change the community names 'public' and 'private'. Also the docs for the config files don't seem to exist (party.conf, view.conf, context.conf, and acl.conf). Does anyone know where I can get more neophyte oriented docs on these files configuration? Lastly, if anyone knows, does netguard support querying via SNMP2 or is it SNMP1 only? Thanks for any pointers! Jay L. West From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 05:22:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA09864 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 05:22:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bureau-de-poste.utcc.utoronto.ca (bureau-de-poste.utcc.utoronto.ca [128.100.132.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA09857 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 05:22:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mainserver ([24.112.2.26]) by bureau-de-poste.utcc.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <795217(4)>; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 08:22:15 -0400 Message-ID: <326B31F5.690F@utoronto.ca> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 04:19:01 -0400 From: Edward Ing Reply-To: edward.ing@utoronto.ca X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: ARP and the ethernet addresses. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk My FreeBSD 2.1 machine is acting as the server to a client running Windows95/WindowsNT. I just swapped out the ethernet cards on the client. But have maintained the same IP addresses. However, the FreeBSD server and the clientsdo not talk to each other. No ping. The cards work because I have tested them with installation software. I have looked at the routing tables on both the server and the client. And they have the right route, i.e., the they route to the proper gateways. The client does not explicilty give a route to the server, but it is implined in the routing to the network over which the server and client talk. The server has an explict route to the client. I suspect that the ARP tables have not been updated. When I do arp [client] I get the response "mainserver.firstmaple.ca (172.20.0.3) at (incomplete). If this is the problem. How do I get the TCP/IP to execute ARP to get the new ethernet address? Besides I though ARP as part of IP did this automatically. If this is not the problem do you have any suggestions? Edward Omg From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 06:21:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA12201 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 06:21:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agt.net (clgrps02.agt.net [198.161.156.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA12195 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 06:21:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james (ltbrpx02-port-35.agt.net [204.209.197.194]) by agt.net (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id HAA08317 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 07:21:42 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <326B79CD.3844@agt.net> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 07:25:33 -0600 From: james earl Organization: Abc X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01b1 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ns Navigator Backspace References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > [copied from the Netscape.README file which comes the the Navigator > package distributed by Netscape] > > * Included with all distributions is a file called XKeysymDB. Without > this file, many warnings about "unknown keysyms" will be generated when > the program starts up, and most keyboard equivalents won't work. This is > a general problem with running Motif programs on systems not configured > for Motif, and so will be necessary on most Sun systems. > > This file is included with all packages because some systems have an older > version of this file, so you may still get some warnings. The XKeysymDB > file normally goes in /usr/lib/X11/XKeysymDB or > /usr/openwin/lib/XKeysymDB, but you can override that with $XKEYSYMDB. I reply to this, since this is the source of the BS problem. I have tried everything I know, to get it to find this file. I have put it in the directories mentioned above, and have also set the env variable $XKEYSYMDB using the command line: set XKEYSYMDB=(/usr/lib/X11), as well as XKEYSYMDB=(/usr/lib/X11/XKeysymDB), most of which produce the same output in the "set" list. Everytime, I get the same result: "...unknown keysyms," and variations. There is also a message produced by Navigator, displayed before the "unknown keysyms" saying that "it appears that $XKEYSYMDB is not set", or something to that affect. From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 06:34:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA12704 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 06:34:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.hsc.wvu.edu (www.hsc.wvu.edu [157.182.105.122]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA12696 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 06:33:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jsigmon@localhost) by www.hsc.wvu.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA06066; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:34:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:34:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Jeremy Sigmon To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: lft ???? where is it? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I searched the mailing lists, but they point me to a place that is not correct. Anyone know where this is? thanks ====================================================================== Jeremy Sigmon B.S. ChE | Web Developer of the Robert C. Byrd Health | Use Sciences Center of West Virginia University | FreeBSD WWW.HSC.WVU.EDU | Now Graduate Student in Computer Science | Office : 293-1060 | From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 06:45:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA13075 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 06:45:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from onyx.interactive.net (root@onyx.interactive.net [208.192.224.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA13069 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 06:45:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from luddite.org (host017.madison.interactive.net [208.192.224.117]) by onyx.interactive.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA12131; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:45:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from sachs@localhost) by luddite.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA00452; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:48:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:48:07 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199610211348.JAA00452@luddite.org> From: Jay Sachs To: james earl CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ns Navigator Backspace In-Reply-To: <326B79CD.3844@agt.net> References: <326B79CD.3844@agt.net> Reply-To: Jay Sachs Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I place XKeySymDB in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/ and all works fine (no environment variable needed). Also, regarding: > set XKEYSYMDB=(/usr/lib/X11), as well as XKEYSYMDB=(/usr/lib/X11/XKeysymDB), These set internal [t]csh variables. Use setenv XKEYSYMDB /usr/lib/X11 to set environment variables. -jay -- Jay Sachs http://www.cs.nyu.edu/phd_students/sachs/ From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 06:48:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA13212 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 06:48:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from frosk.zoo.uib.no (frosk.zoo.uib.no [129.177.64.31]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA13202 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 06:48:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from oystein@localhost) by frosk.zoo.uib.no (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA04147; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 17:44:11 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 17:44:11 +0200 (MET DST) From: Oystein Soreide To: james earl cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ns Navigator Backspace In-Reply-To: <326B79CD.3844@agt.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, james earl wrote: > variable $XKEYSYMDB using the command line: set > XKEYSYMDB=3D(/usr/lib/X11), as well as XKEYSYMDB=3D(/usr/lib/X11/XKeysymD= B), > most of which produce the same output in the "set" list. >=20 > Everytime, I get the same result: "...unknown keysyms," and variations.= =20 > There is also a message produced by Navigator, displayed before the > "unknown keysyms" saying that "it appears that $XKEYSYMDB is not set", > or something to that affect. >=20 I have done the same thing but it works OK: in .cshrc : # Begin setenv XNLSPATH /usr/X11/lib/X11/nls/ setenv XKEYSYMDB /usr/X11/lib/X11/XKeysymDB # I don't know if the following two are necessary setenv LC_CTYPE iso_8859_1 setenv LANG C # End I think this will do the trick. =D8ystein S=F8reide From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 06:51:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA13370 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 06:51:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jmb@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA13361; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 06:51:43 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" Message-Id: <199610211351.GAA13361@freefall.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: lft ???? where is it? To: jsigmon@www.hsc.wvu.edu (Jeremy Sigmon) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 06:51:43 -0700 (PDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Jeremy Sigmon" at Oct 21, 96 09:34:53 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jeremy Sigmon wrote: > > > I searched the mailing lists, but they point me to a place that is > not correct. > Anyone know where this is? i have just placed a copy on freefall.freeebsd.org nonymous ftp to that machine cd to incoming look for lft.tar.gz and lft.README jmb -- Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD--4.4BSD Unix for PC clones, source included. http://www.freebsd.org/ PGP 2.6.2 Fingerprint: 31 57 41 56 06 C1 40 13 C5 1C E3 E5 DC 62 0E FB From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 06:59:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA13668 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 06:59:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from toth.hq.ferg.com (pm1-07.wmbg.widomaker.com [206.161.154.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA13651; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 06:59:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from toth.hq.ferg.com (localhost.hq.ferg.com [127.0.0.1]) by toth.hq.ferg.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA29981; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:59:21 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:59:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Branson Matheson X-Sender: branson@toth.hq.ferg.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: System Admin Tools Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Talking to Jamie this morning.. I realized that we have lots of complete tools for sysadmin work but none of the nifty quickie tools that we each use each day included with the installation. Some examples of these tools are: zap / dkill - kills by process name instead of pid gps - lists by process name And others... Also things like a .cshrc that puts your $cwd in your title bar or command line depending on your TERM. Things like a particularly neat setup for .fvwmrc or scripts for handling xauth neatly. So what I am looking for is all the neat things that you might have available and use on a daily basis that you would be willing to send in for inclusion in a sysadmin.tools.pkg. What I am looking for is the tool, and a short concise and to the point readme explaining what it is, where it goes, and who sent it. I will try to put all the tools that I get together into a package that can be installed on the system. Manpages for some of the more elaborate stuff would be nice. Please send them to ftp://belgrath.widomaker.com/incoming/sysadm-tools I would prefer a tarball with the tools and accompanying readme... and title it somthing like : bransons.tgz Thanks! -branson ============================================================================= Branson Matheson | Ferguson Enterprises | If Pete and Repeat were System Administrator | W: (804) 874-7795 | sittin on a fence and Pete Unix, Perl, WWW | branson@widomaker.com | fell off, who is left? From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 07:00:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA13827 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 07:00:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rpi.edu (root@rpi.edu [128.113.1.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA13821 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 07:00:53 -0700 (PDT) From: hopkik@rpi.edu Received: from rebecca.its.rpi.edu by rpi.edu (4.1/SMHUB41); id AA25773; Mon, 21 Oct 96 10:00:47 EDT for questions@FreeBSD.org Received: (hopkik@localhost) by rebecca.its.rpi.edu (SMI-8.6/8.6.4) id KAA01957 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:00:45 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:00:45 -0400 Message-Id: <199610211400.KAA01957@rebecca.its.rpi.edu> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Mounting my dos partition Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I bought the Walnut Creek FreeBSD 2.1.5 CD and installed the O.S. in a 300 MB disk partition split upautomatically by the softtware install program/ I didn't have any problems installing it, although I have an unsupported CD-Rom drive so I had to copy the files to my hard drive and then install from there. My problem is installing the packages. I have tried copying the packages directory to my dos partition and installing from there, but the installation menu can't seem to find the Index file even though it is there. My dos subdirectory is empty so I suspect that the problem is that my dos partition is not mounted, but I haven't had any luck with the command: mount msdos /dev/wd0s1 /dos or mount msdos /dev/wd0s1 /msdos or mount_msdos /dev/wd0s1 /msdos Please help. Ken From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 07:02:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA13881 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 07:02:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agt.net (clgrps02.agt.net [198.161.156.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA13869 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 07:02:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james (ltbrpx02-port-10.agt.net [204.209.197.169]) by agt.net (8.7.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id IAA17329 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 08:01:54 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199610211401.IAA17329@agt.net> From: "james earl" To: Subject: SOLUTION: Ns Navigator Backspace Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 08:05:39 -0600 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The single thing that fixed everything for me was: setenv XKEYSYMDB /usr/lib/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB Thanks to him or her who gave me that, as well as everyone else for your help! Does anyone care to "was:" the subject and describe to me what the difference between "setenv" and "set" is, and why the above command line worked and not one using "set" (if it's an appropriate topic that is). From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 07:08:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA14264 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 07:08:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from solvalou.sol.cs.ritsumei.ac.jp (solvalou.sol.cs.ritsumei.ac.jp [133.19.22.222]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA14259 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 07:08:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from solvalou.sol.cs.ritsumei.ac.jp by solvalou.sol.cs.ritsumei.ac.jp (8.7.6/3.5W-solvalou) id XAA00228; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:08:24 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199610211408.XAA00228@solvalou.sol.cs.ritsumei.ac.jp> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: PAS16 SCSI and Sound X-Mailer: Mew version 1.06 on Emacs 19.28.1, Mule 2.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:08:23 +0900 From: Koichi MOURI Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I want to use SCSI and Sound functions of PAS16 on 2.2-961014-SNAP. But I do not understand how to describe kernel configration file. Please tell me it. When I write following entries, pas0 device is not probed because of conflict of IRQ. So, I can use SCSI but I can not use Sound function. controller nca0 at isa? port 0x1f88 bio irq 10 vector ncaintr device pas0 at isa? port 0x388 irq 10 drq 6 vector pasintr On the other hand, when I write following entries, both of nca0 and pas0 devices are probed. But I can not use SCSI. controller nca0 at isa? port 0x1f88 bio irq 10 vector ncaintr device pas0 at isa? port 0x388 irq 10 conflicts drq 6 vector pasintr Thanks in advance. ------------ Koichi MOURI <<< http://www.sol.cs.ritsumei.ac.jp/~mouri/ >>> Okubo Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Ritsumeikan University 1916 Noji, Kusatsu Shiga, 525 JAPAN +81-775-66-1111 (Ext. 8863) From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 07:32:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA15415 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 07:32:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sergio.lenzi ([200.247.23.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA15383 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 07:32:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from lenzi@localhost) by sergio.lenzi (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA01715; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:33:13 GMT Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:33:13 +0000 () From: "Lenzi, Sergio" X-Sender: lenzi@sergio To: Ali Lomonaco cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SOCKS Hardware Requirements In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Ali Lomonaco wrote: > > > I am trying to a proxy server that will handle about 40 windows > boxes behind it? I have no idea what I should build it with. Would a P90 > with 24mb RAM do good? And would adding SCSI enhance performance? It depends on the programs you are going to execute on your windows machines. I have a "user" that executes only telnet 3270 for a cics application running on MVS (ibm mainfraimes with tcp). the FreeBSD machine is a 386/dx40 with 200Mb of disk and 8Mb of memory, an ne2000 card and a slip connection to the master site at 38kbps. The machine uses a proxy server (cached) to service http & ftp and a socks5 to server the telnets. This machine has 40 windows in the ethernet side... and performs very well compared to a solution using sna/tcp. The hole "thing" was setted up in 1 week. Sergio Lenzi. Unix consult. From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 07:57:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA16956 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 07:57:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from masternet.it (root@[194.184.65.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA16946 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 07:57:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from masternet.it.masternet.it (ts1port2d.masternet.it [194.184.65.24]) by masternet.it (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA08361 for ; Sat, 21 Oct 1995 16:51:56 +0100 Message-Id: <3.0b35.32.19961021155245.006997e0@masternet.it> X-Sender: gmarco@masternet.it X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0b35 (32) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 15:53:20 +0100 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Gianmarco Giovannelli Subject: Restricted user ftp and shells Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Is possible to restrict the ftp (no anonymous) for the users at their home directory without having them to go here and there taking files ? Or I must chmod all my dirs ? Another thing, Is possible to have a shell with a limited set of command to use as default shell for remote users. I take ssh from the ports, but with 2.1.5 I am not able to compile it. Now I'll try at home with 2.2 -current. Tia to everybody Regards... +-------------------------------------+--------------------+ | Internet: gmarco@masternet.it | ,,, | | Internet: gmarco@nettuno.it | (o o) | | BIX : ggiovannelli@bix.com | ---oo0-(_)-0oo--- | | http://www2.masternet.it/~gmarco | Gianmarco | +-------------------------------------+--------------------+ From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 08:12:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA17684 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 08:12:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aravis.oliverdesign.com (oliverdesign.com.oliverdesign.com [205.179.167.60]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA17679 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 08:12:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tom.oliverdesign.com (tom.oliverdesign.com [205.179.167.58]) by aravis.oliverdesign.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA01843 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 08:12:36 GMT Message-Id: <3.0b33.32.19961021081203.00685f64@oliverdesign.com> X-Sender: tom@oliverdesign.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0b33 (32) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 08:12:04 -0700 To: questions@freebsd.org From: "Thomas B. Fox" Subject: ifconfig syntax Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, Could someone please send me the proper syntax for ifconfig statements in /etc/netstart and /etc/sysconfig? My statements for ep0 and ep1 are the same (obviously some of the information is different but the syntax is the same) and only ep0 is marked up. lo0 is also not marked up. I need to correct this. Thanks. Tom Thomas B. Fox - tom@oliverdesign.com - Webmaster and MIS - Oliver Design, Inc. - 5 Victor Sq. - Scotts Valley, CA 95066 From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 08:28:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA18826 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 08:28:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nero.in-design.com (ehdup-c2-15.rmt.net.pitt.edu [136.142.20.165]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA18817 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 08:28:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by nero.in-design.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA00455; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:28:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:28:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199610220328.XAA00455@nero.in-design.com> To: questions@freebsd.org X-URL: http://www.freebsd.com/support.html X-Mailer: Lynx, Version 2.5FM X-Personal_name: Tamer Ziady From: ziady@in-design.com Subject: PCI ethernet board... Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello all; I installed freebsd on a new system. So far everything is perfect except for one thing, my ethernet card. It is a PCI generic card On startup I get the following message: /kernal pci:0:8: vendor=0x10ec device=0x8029 , class=network (ethernet) int a irq11 [no driver assigned] The card has the following markings on it, 2000RPI 66B1671 CE Function DC0509C1 9605A chip Is there any driver available for this ethernet card, and if yes, where can it be had, and how is it installed (in the kernal or as a seperate module)... I would really apreciate help with this. Thanks Tamer Ziady From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 08:56:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA20118 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 08:56:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms1.hinet.net (donny@ms1.hinet.net [168.95.4.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA20109 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 08:56:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from donny@localhost) by ms1.hinet.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) id XAA17334; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:53:14 +0800 (CST) Message-Id: <199610211553.XAA17334@ms1.hinet.net> From: donny@ms1.hinet.net (Donny Lee) To: hopkik@rpi.edu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Mounting my dos partition Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 15:30:07 -0400 Lines: 22 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -=*> hopkik@rpi.edu wrote: > from there. My problem is installing the packages. I have tried copying > the packages directory to my dos partition and installing from there, but > the installation menu can't seem to find the Index file even though it is > there. My dos subdirectory is empty so I suspect that the problem is that > my dos partition is not mounted, but I haven't had any luck with the > command: > mount msdos /dev/wd0s1 /dos Ken, I just got off from the same problem, and I'm sure it's not because that your DOS partition has been mounted in or not, in my case. It's most likly because of the stupid DOS 8.3 file name format, the install program can't correctly refer to the real file from the packages index file, since most of the .TGZed files are something like 'pine-3.91.tgz'. You can have a look at the packages/index by a simple DOS viewer or editor. The way I solve the problem is making my CD-ROM running. :) // Donny From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 09:06:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA20865 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:06:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fox.klte.hu (csukasl@fox.klte.hu [193.6.140.84]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA20823 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:05:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from csukasl@localhost) by fox.klte.hu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA04061 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 20:10:20 +0200 Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 20:10:20 +0200 From: Csukas Levente Message-Id: <199610211810.UAA04061@fox.klte.hu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: NFS problem Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk My problem is that after I had mounted remote filesystem the response for a 'ls' command in the mounted directory: ls:/mnt: Stale NFS file handle Does anybody know why? NFS is configured in my kernel,sysconfig. Did I make a mistake? Thanks in advance, Levente csukasl@fox.klte.hu From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 09:17:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA21769 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:17:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dilbert.amti.com (dilbert.amti.com [206.205.49.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA21749 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:17:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rgault.amti.com (wolf.amti.com [206.205.49.110]) by dilbert.amti.com (8.7.4/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA08306 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 12:23:41 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <326B9EF8.5532@amti.com> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 12:04:08 -0400 From: Richard Gault Organization: Advanced Management Technology, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Subscription information X-URL: http://www.freebsd.com/mailto.html Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I orderd a subscription for freebsd, to be charged to my AMEX account, and I would like to discontinue that subscription. The CDs are automatically sent to our office in New Delhi, India, not to my local US address. What do I have to do to make this happen? H. Richard Gault Advanced Management Technology, Inc. From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 09:20:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA22010 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:20:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw-fr1.etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA21997 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:20:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ppp-089.cdmo.com (ppp-089.cdmo.com [204.141.95.148]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA15970 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 12:21:17 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 12:21:17 -0400 Message-Id: <199610211621.MAA15970@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: questions@freebsd.org From: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Subject: MiniVend on FreeBSD? Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Is anyone using this program successfully on a FreeBSD system? Thanks, Dennis From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 09:53:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA25894 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:53:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agt.net (clgrps02.agt.net [198.161.156.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA25889 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:53:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james (ltbrpx02-port-18.agt.net [204.209.197.177]) by agt.net (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA09835 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:53:38 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <326BAB6A.4A08@agt.net> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:57:25 -0600 From: james earl Organization: Abc X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01b1 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting my dos partition References: <199610211400.KAA01957@rebecca.its.rpi.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk hopkik@rpi.edu wrote: > > mount msdos /dev/wd0s1 /dos > or > mount msdos /dev/wd0s1 /msdos > or > mount_msdos /dev/wd0s1 /msdos try: mount -t msdos /dev/wd0s1 /[directory] The "-t" stands for type, and expects the partition type to be specified right after. "msdos" => type "/dev/wd0s1" => partition "/[directory]" => mounting location (eg: /dos) Hope that helps. From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 09:54:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA25952 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:54:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-2.mail.demon.net (disperse.demon.co.uk [158.152.1.77]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA25946 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:54:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([(null)]) by relay-2.mail.demon.net id am12970; 21 Oct 96 14:37 BST Received: from blinx.wms.co.uk ([194.159.247.13]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa08568; 21 Oct 96 14:34 BST Received: (from darrylb@localhost) by blinx.lizard.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA06235 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:35:37 +0100 (BST) From: Darryl Bowler Message-Id: <199610211335.OAA06235@blinx.lizard.org> Subject: compiling tin-1.22 To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:35:37 +0100 (BST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Has any met this problem when compiling tin-1.22 Compiling tin v1.22 for BSD/BSDI/DGUX/NeXT/OSF1/Pyramid/SunOS/Ultrix... cc -c -O -DBSD -DNNTP_INEWS_GATEWAY=\"\" -DNNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN=\"\" -DNNTP_DEFAULT_SERVER=\"\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/lib/news\" -DSPOOLDIR=\"/usr/spool/news\" -DNOVROOTDIR=\"/usr/spool/news\" screen.c In file included from tin.h:53, from screen.c:15: /usr/include/sys/param.h:45: warning: `BSD' redefined *Initialization*:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition screen.c: In function `perror_message': screen.c:73: conflicting types for `sys_errlist' /usr/include/stdio.h:244: previous declaration of `sys_errlist' *** Error code 1 Stop. *** Error code 1 Stop. How do I solve this problem?? My knownledge of C is pretty limited, is it a simpile case of just changing the type for `sys_errlist'?? Regards Darryl. From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 09:57:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA26096 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:57:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agt.net (clgrps02.agt.net [198.161.156.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA26091 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:57:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james (ltbrpx02-port-18.agt.net [204.209.197.177]) by agt.net (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA11100 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:57:43 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <326BAC60.21C7@agt.net> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:01:30 -0600 From: james earl Organization: Abc X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01b1 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SOLUTION: Ns Navigator Backspace References: <199610211507.AA113110421@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hr.Ladavac wrote: > > csh derivatives make a distinction yet stronger--it is not possible to > promote a variable; private variables are set with > > set VARIABLE_NAME = variable_value > > syntax, and environment variables with > > setenv VARIABLE_NAME variable_value > > Hope this answers your question. So generally (tell me if I am thinking right?) are local variables only used by the shell, and env. variables used/accessable by everything running under that session? From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 10:06:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA26438 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:06:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agt.net (clgrps02.agt.net [198.161.156.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA26428 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:06:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james (ltbrpx02-port-18.agt.net [204.209.197.177]) by agt.net (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA13692 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:06:32 -0600 (MDT) Message-ID: <326BAE6F.4E86@agt.net> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:10:19 -0600 From: james earl Organization: Abc X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01b1 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ifconfig syntax References: <3.0b33.32.19961021081203.00685f64@oliverdesign.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Thomas B. Fox wrote: > > Hi, > > Could someone please send me the proper syntax for ifconfig statements > in /etc/netstart and /etc/sysconfig? > > My statements for ep0 and ep1 are the same (obviously some of the information > is different but the syntax is the same) and only ep0 is marked up. lo0 > is also not marked up. I need to correct this. > > Thanks. I don't know them off hand, but I remember getting information from the man pages on "ifconfig." From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 11:27:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA02299 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:27:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from hsu@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA02282; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:27:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:27:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeffrey Hsu Message-Id: <199610211827.LAA02282@freefall.freebsd.org> To: hackers, questions, root@swd.928.com.tw Subject: Java CLASSPATH Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The Java interpreter looks for a class using the following algorithm. 1. Take the class name and append '.class' to it to form a filename. Object -> Object.class 2. Take the package of the class, replace the dots with slashes, and prepends that directory to the filename in step 1. Object is in the java.lang package so the class java.lang.Object, gets transformed into the path java/lang/Object.class. If the class doesn't have a package, then it uses the current directory, '.'. 3. For every element in your CLASSPATH, look for the path formed in step 2. % setenv CLASSPATH .:/usr/local/java/classes.zip:/usr/lib/classes This CLASSPATH has 3 elements: 2 directories, . and /usr/lib/classes, and one zip file /usr/local/java/classes.zip. Zip files are collections of files with the full pathname of the files preserved. Given this CLASSPATH, first the Java interpreter looks in . for java/lang/Object.class, then it looks in the zipfile /usr/local/java/classes.zip for java/lang/Object.class, and finally, it looks in /usr/lib/classes for java/lang/Object.class. From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 11:40:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA02997 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:40:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (quackerjack.cc.vt.edu [198.82.160.250]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA02992 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:40:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu (sable.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.30]) by quackerjack.cc.vt.edu (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id OAA17238; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:40:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (jandrese.async.vt.edu [128.173.20.208]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA23207; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:40:16 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:41:36 +0000 () From: Nessus X-Sender: jandrese@localhost To: Darryl Bowler cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: compiling tin-1.22 In-Reply-To: <199610211335.OAA06235@blinx.lizard.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Darryl Bowler wrote: =)Has any met this problem when compiling tin-1.22 =) =)Compiling tin v1.22 for BSD/BSDI/DGUX/NeXT/OSF1/Pyramid/SunOS/Ultrix... =)cc -c -O -DBSD -DNNTP_INEWS_GATEWAY=\"\" -DNNTP_INEWS_DOMAIN=\"\" -DNNTP_DEFAULT_SERVER=\"\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/lib/news\" -DSPOOLDIR=\"/usr/spool/news\" -DNOVROOTDIR=\"/usr/spool/news\" screen.c =)In file included from tin.h:53, =) from screen.c:15: =)/usr/include/sys/param.h:45: warning: `BSD' redefined =)*Initialization*:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition =)screen.c: In function `perror_message': =)screen.c:73: conflicting types for `sys_errlist' =)/usr/include/stdio.h:244: previous declaration of `sys_errlist' =)*** Error code 1 =) =) =)Stop. =)*** Error code 1 =) =)Stop. =) This is a pretty common error when compiling from generic BSD source. Look in /usr/include/stdio for the correct definition. Basically, you have to add the word (const) in there twice: so it reads const char* const syserrlist[] instead char* syserrlist[] I've never run into a problem with this change. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::. . . . . ..:::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :: Jason Andresen :. . . . . . . . . : Running FreeBSD and :: :: jandrese@vt.edu :.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:: loving every minute! :: :.........................: Quote of the day :..........................: If Christianity was morality, Socrates would be the Saviour. -- William Blake :::::::::::.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.........................:.:.:.:.:.:.:.::::::::::: From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 12:28:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA05301 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 12:28:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eccs.com (eccs.com [199.29.50.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA05294 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 12:28:02 -0700 (PDT) From: gippolit@ccsmtp2.eccs.com Received: from tnup.eccs.com by eccs.com (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA20528; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 15:33:31 +0500 Received: from ccsmtp2.eccs.com by tnup.eccs.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA26044; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 15:26:11 -0400 Received: from ccMail by ccsmtp2.eccs.com (SMTPLINK V2.11.01) id AA845926457; Mon, 21 Oct 96 15:18:16 EST Date: Mon, 21 Oct 96 15:18:16 EST Message-Id: <9609218459.AA845926457@ccsmtp2.eccs.com> To: hopkik@rpi.edu, donny@ms1.hinet.net (Donny Lee) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re[2]: Mounting my dos partition Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This is the correct way to mount a dos par!!! mount -t msdos /devicename /mountpoint ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: Re: Mounting my dos partition Author: donny@ms1.hinet.net (Donny Lee) at CCSMTP Date: 10/21/96 12:41 PM -=*> hopkik@rpi.edu wrote: > from there. My problem is installing the packages. I have tried copying > the packages directory to my dos partition and installing from there, but > the installation menu can't seem to find the Index file even though it is > there. My dos subdirectory is empty so I suspect that the problem is that > my dos partition is not mounted, but I haven't had any luck with the > command: > mount msdos /dev/wd0s1 /dos Ken, I just got off from the same problem, and I'm sure it's not because that your DOS partition has been mounted in or not, in my case. It's most likly because of the stupid DOS 8.3 file name format, the install program can't correctly refer to the real file from the packages index file, since most of the .TGZed files are something like 'pine-3.91.tgz'. You can have a look at the packages/index by a simple DOS viewer or editor. The way I solve the problem is making my CD-ROM running. :) // Donny From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 13:21:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA09070 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 13:21:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ftp.com (ftp.ampersand.com [192.156.188.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA09053 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 13:21:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dev.ampersand.com (tick [192.156.188.22]) by ftp.com with ESMTP id QAA09190 (8.6.11/IDA-1.6 for ); Mon, 21 Oct 1996 16:28:34 -0400 Received: from colon.dev.ampersand.com by dev.ampersand.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA13536; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 16:14:00 -0400 Received: by colon.dev.ampersand.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA02002; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 16:18:52 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 16:18:52 -0400 From: jason@ampersand.com (Jason Brazile) Message-Id: <199610212018.QAA02002@colon.dev.ampersand.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: NIS client requires change to getpwent()? Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I was recently trying to setup a FreeBSD 2.1.5 machine as an NIS client to a Solaris 2.5 (NIS+) server. I ended up with the problem that I could "ypcat passwd" a certain entry and "import" it via vipw and it worked fine, but if I just left it in the yp map, then the login would fail. I eventually got it to work by making a 1 line change to getpwent() in the C library. Despite the small change, I have the nagging feeling that I only needed to do it because I misconfigured something or hacked away some intentional security feature. I would be grateful if some knowledgeable person could either: 1) Tell me what I did wrong OR 2) Confirm that this is a bug and submit it as a PR. The essential problem is that _pw_breakout_yp() wasn't filling in the pw_passwd, pw_uid, and pw_gid fields to the struct passwd entry because in __hashpw(), the data returned from the _pw_db->get filled in the pw_fields field in such a way (e.g. I think it was an 0xF) that it failed the tests against _PWF_PASSWD, _PWF_UID, and _PFW_GID). After the one line patch below, logins work fine. Jason ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- *** getpwent.c.orig Sun Oct 20 23:26:20 1996 --- getpwent.c Mon Oct 21 14:42:37 1996 *************** *** 306,311 **** --- 306,312 ---- p += sizeof(time_t); bcopy(p, (char *)&_pw_passwd.pw_fields, sizeof _pw_passwd.pw_fields); p += sizeof _pw_passwd.pw_fields; + _pw_passwd.pw_fields = 0; return(1); } From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 13:23:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA09202 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 13:23:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA09196 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 13:23:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id NAA07878 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 13:22:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA00629; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:21:04 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA08112; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:21:03 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.6/8.6.9) id WAA10694; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:04:00 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610212004.WAA10694@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 1540CP... To: mcgovern@spoon.beta.com (Brian J. McGovern) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:04:00 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199610210244.WAA03931@spoon.beta.com> from "Brian J. McGovern" at "Oct 20, 96 10:44:32 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Brian J. McGovern wrote: > I was wondering if the Adaptec 1540CP is currently supported by the > 2.2-SNAP releases... It's supposed to be. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 13:34:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA10081 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 13:34:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.6.16]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA10019 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 13:34:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA11874; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:33:26 +0200 (MET DST) From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199610212033.WAA11874@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: 1540CP... In-Reply-To: <199610210244.WAA03931@spoon.beta.com> from "Brian J. McGovern" at "20. Oct. 96 22:41:20" To: mcgovern@spoon.beta.com (Brian J. McGovern) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:33:26 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [CC -hackers trimmed] > I was wondering if the Adaptec 1540CP is currently supported by the > 2.2-SNAP releases.... I know some of the earlier cards are, but I'm about Well ... I would think so. I have an AHA-1542CP with an hp4020i and burnt successfully a CD. (^ I think that's floppy support) This was on 2.1.5-RELEASE with Joerg's patches to recognize the 4020i under 2.1.5 as a WORM. This patch is not necessary on 2.2. > to buy one to support my HP 4020i, and I would like to make sure so I don't > get to play the pick-it-up, install it, return it blues. I've been playing > with a 2842, but my 486 system doesn't seem to fully support VLB the way it > should (love bogus hardware), so when I load my soundcard drivers w/windows > (under DOS), the 284X stops working. > > Any help would be appreciated. > -Brian > Robert -- Robert Eckardt \\ FreeBSD -- solutions for a large universe.(tm) RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de \\ What do you want to boot tomorrow ?(tm) http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte For PGP-key finger roberte@gluon.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 14:07:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA11887 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:07:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mom.hooked.net (root@mom.hooked.net [206.80.6.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA11880 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:07:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hooked.net.hooked.net (webe-9.ppp.hooked.net [206.80.9.9]) by mom.hooked.net (8.8.0/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA06091 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:07:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <326BE4B2.37DF@hooked.net> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:01:38 -0700 From: Philip Smith X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: 3 EIDE Hd's and a 6x-TEAC CD-ROM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have installed FreeBSD, to my knowledge, correctly, on my computer. It can't boot up however because of a cannot mount root problem. I have gone through many of the messages under this criteria to see if they could help me, but to no avail so far. I'm wondering if it might be because I have 3 IDE Hd's instead of the usual 2... My hd's load up in this order HardDrive 0 WDC (Serial number) HardDrive 1 WDC (serial number) CD-ROM 1 (some nonsense) HardDrive 2 WDC (serial number) Would this strange array of hd's in an eide atmosphere confuse bsd? or am I, more likely, just being a fool and am not typing the correct string at the boot prompt? i have tried wd(3,a)/kernel wd(3,a)kernel 3:wd(3,a)/kernel 3:wd(3,a)kernel and here's the thing, if i type wd(2,a)/kernel it starts the boot sequence up just fine until it gets to that panic: cannot mount root error message Please help! I don't want to be an Win95/NT/Dos user only! I'd love to learn how to function under a unix type enviroment... besides i'm getting sick of windows Thanks for any help anyone can give me in advance! --Phil From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 15:08:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA17041 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 15:08:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA17030 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 15:08:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA23184; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:07:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA17019; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:09:42 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:09:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Donny Lee cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My mouse doesn't work. In-Reply-To: <199610211131.TAA15779@ms1.hinet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Donny Lee wrote: > Here is another problem I don't know where to find a way to deal > with. My mouse doesn't work, in text mode. My mouse is connected > to COM1, or I should say sio0, and I noticed at boot time there > are 3 probes messages that might related to this problem: > > sio0: at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa > sio1: at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa > : > mse0: not found at 0xffffffff sio0 is COM1, and it is found. mse0 is for a busmouse, which you do not have (you have a serial mouse, since it's plugged into COM1). Unless you're running a -CURRENT from 3 or so months ago to now, you won't have any mouse pointer in text mode at all. The only mousepointer is in X Windows. (X, of course, must be properly configured to use the mouse, but you don't mention that as being a problem). -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 15:14:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA17523 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 15:14:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhost.PII.COM (pii.com [192.77.209.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA17518 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 15:14:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from PII.COM by PII.COM (4.1/SMI-4.4) id AA21847; Mon, 21 Oct 96 15:31:10 PDT Received: by smtp with Microsoft Mail id <326BF5AE@smtp>; Mon, 21 Oct 96 15:14:06 PDT From: Robert Clark To: "'freebsd-questions'" Subject: Advice Needed on SCSI Configuration. Date: Mon, 21 Oct 96 15:12:00 PDT Message-Id: <326BF5AE@smtp> Encoding: 53 TEXT X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Help! I need advice on how to configure SCSI hardware to run Win95 & FreeBSD 2.1.0. System is a P5-150, with an adaptec 2940 scsi controller. Hard disks are Seagate (SCSI-2) 1GB at SCSI ID 0, with Win95. Seagate (SCSI-2) 2.1GB at SCSI ID 1, DOS/Win95. Seagate (SCSI-2) 2.1GB at SCSI ID 2, FreeBSD. Connor (SCSI-1) 100MB at SCSI 3, DOS (OLD). CDROM is Hitachi 4x primary on first IDE channel, then on slave on first IDE channel. (Not seen by BIOS.) Questions: Running view, and then inst_ide from the FreeBSD 2.1.0 disk, doesn't find my IDE CDROM drive. The kernel probe sequence does find it, but the install program doesn't. Is the Hitachi 4x supported? If so, where should it be on the IDE bus? (IDE-1, IDE-2, Primary, Slave?) (I have no IDE hard disk, only CDROM.) The adaptec 2940 only allows one choice for sector translation. In order to use the 2.1GB SCSI disk at ID 1 with DOS / WIN95, I need to turn sector translation on. I read something about being able to put a real geometry in instead of a translated geometry, during FreeBSD's fdisk, etc. What will work? How do I determine the real geometry, without installing DOS, and then reading the geometry off. The 2940, allows drives to be not seen by the BIOS. Does FreeBSD care about the BIOS? The probe finds drives whether they are seen by BIOS or not. I've thought about putting the FreeBSD drives in ahead of the WIN95 drives. I use the front face SCSI select jumpers, so it wouldn't be hard to do. For a DOS disk to be visable to Win95, it has to come after the boot disk. FreeBSD probably doesn't care. Does booting FreeBSD from a drive with a SCSI ID larger than zero, require a kernel rebuild? I seem to remember an entry in the last kernel I rebuilt, spelling out the boot drive's ID. Please feel free to send advice directly to robert.clark@pii.com. Thanks, [RC] From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 16:28:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA22429 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 16:28:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ai2a.net ([206.152.102.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA22399 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 16:28:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ai2a.net.ai2a.net (in41a04.117.ai2a.net [206.152.102.117]) by ai2a.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA29817 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:29:42 -0500 Message-Id: <199610212329.SAA29817@ai2a.net> From: "Andy Smith" To: Subject: Front Page BSDi/OS 2.1 Extensions Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 19:01:59 -0500 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1141 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Is there any news on compatibility with Microsoft's FrontPage server extensions and FreeBSD? Or is there a trick I'm missing to getting BSDi/OS 2.1 binary to run on FreeBSD? Asking Microsoft for source is pointless, of course, and I know you folks can't/don't/won't devote time to the matter except as someone chooses to persue it. But in the spirit of the FreeBSD Open Project, I hope someone has been able to tweek Bill Gates nose and make this thing work anyway. Best wishes, Andy Smith webmaster@ai2a.net From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 17:01:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA25017 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 17:01:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from trogon.kiwi.net (trogon.kiwi.net [207.155.57.66]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA24998; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 17:01:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by trogon.kiwi.net (8.8.0/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA00716; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 17:06:23 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 17:06:23 -0700 (PDT) From: "Christopher H. Taylor" To: Branson Matheson cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: System Admin Tools In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Branson Matheson wrote: > And others... Also things like a .cshrc that puts your $cwd in your > title bar or command line depending on your TERM. Things like a Here is an excerpt from my .cshrc file: #csh .cshrc file set mch = `hostname -s` alias setprompt 'set prompt="[${mch:q}] [${cwd}] % "' setprompt alias cd 'chdir \!* && setprompt' +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+ o Christopher Taylor - Kiwi Computer Services o o VOICE: 909-274-7800 BBS: 909-274-7803 o o *+*+*+* o o Kiwi Internet Services! o o $12.95/mo FLAT RATE PPP Access!! o o Visit: Http://Www.Kiwi.Net o +=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=+ PGP Fingerprint: 0D 47 98 16 74 DC 3D 7E 1E 6E 6C 2B D9 A5 C7 1B Finger 'ctaylor@kiwi.net' for Public Keyring! From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 17:44:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA28012 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 17:44:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mars.genwell.com (mars.genwell.com [157.151.227.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA28007 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 17:44:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mars.genwell.com (localhost.genwell.com [127.0.0.1]) by mars.genwell.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA00382 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 17:44:27 -0700 Message-ID: <326C18EB.41C67EA6@genwell.com> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 17:44:27 -0700 From: Brian Howell Organization: Genwell Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Trying to FTP 2.1.5 from mounted CD-ROM X-URL: http://www.freebsd.org/support.html Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk We've got several FreeBSD machines running. Two of them are equipped with compatible SCSI CD-ROM drives. I want to be able to "sysinstall" additional packages on several of the machines from the distribution CD-ROM mounted remotely--by FTP. I followed the instructions in the CD-ROM's documentation; creating the FTP user using "vipw" and mounting the CD. I've then tried dozens of URL permutations trying to get "sysinstall" on another machine on our subnet to see the CD-ROM. The CD-ROM is there and properly mounted. I can see it outside of "sysinstall." What am I doing wrong? Brian Howell From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 18:37:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA01671 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:37:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA01658 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:37:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA04804; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:36:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:36:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: james wong cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (no subject) In-Reply-To: <199610210428.OAA18180@maya.eagles.bbs.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, james wong wrote: > Woukd you tell me how to find a copy of of the FreeBSD hand book which I > can print it out from my PC please. Thanks An ASCII and PostScript version is available on your installed FreeBSD system in /usr/share/doc/handbook/handbook.html Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 18:40:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA01961 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:40:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA01952 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:40:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA04811; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:40:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:40:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Philip Smith cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 3 EIDE Hd's and a 6x-TEAC CD-ROM In-Reply-To: <326BE4B2.37DF@hooked.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Philip Smith wrote: > I have installed FreeBSD, to my knowledge, correctly, on my computer. > It can't boot up however because of a cannot mount root problem. I have > gone through many of the messages under this criteria to see if they > could help me, but to no avail so far. I'm wondering if it might be > because I have 3 IDE Hd's instead of the usual 2... Hm. :-/ Most BIOSs can only boot the first two disks they find. I don't know if BootEasy or the FreeBSD boot blocks are smart enough to bridge for the third disk. You might try a more complex boot manager such as OS-BS, or try the fbsdboot.exe program to boot FreeBSD from DOS. > and here's the thing, if i type > wd(2,a)/kernel > it starts the boot sequence up just fine until it gets to that > panic: cannot mount root > error message Once you get the kernel recompiled this should go away. You could move your FreeBSD disk onto the primary controller until you get the kernel rebuilt. (there is a 'kernel' line in the config file that lets you set the location of the kernel) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 18:41:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA02136 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:41:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA02131 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:41:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA04815; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:41:29 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:41:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Elias J Mablekos cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: acessing zip In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 18 Oct 1996, Elias J Mablekos wrote: > I cant acess my mac's repmoveable zip drive through file sharing. Does > anyone know why? I heard there was a control panel or something that I > need to do it. Where can I download it? What? This is support for FreeBSD, a UNIX system for PCs. Is this a misdirected mail? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 18:44:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA02355 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:44:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA02346 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:44:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA04819; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:44:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:44:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Robert Clark cc: "'freebsd-questions'" Subject: Re: Advice Needed on SCSI Configuration. In-Reply-To: <326BF5AE@smtp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Robert Clark wrote: > I need advice on how to configure SCSI hardware to run Win95 & FreeBSD > 2.1.0. > > System is a P5-150, with an adaptec 2940 scsi controller. > > Hard disks are > > Seagate (SCSI-2) 1GB at SCSI ID 0, with Win95. > Seagate (SCSI-2) 2.1GB at SCSI ID 1, DOS/Win95. > Seagate (SCSI-2) 2.1GB at SCSI ID 2, FreeBSD. > Connor (SCSI-1) 100MB at SCSI 3, DOS (OLD). > > CDROM is > > Hitachi 4x primary on first IDE channel, then on slave on first IDE > channel. (Not seen by BIOS.) Any reason you couldn't trade this in and go with a SCSI CDROM? > Questions: > > Running view, and then inst_ide from the FreeBSD 2.1.0 disk, doesn't > find my IDE CDROM drive. The kernel probe sequence does find it, but the > install program doesn't. Is the Hitachi 4x supported? If so, where should > it be on the IDE bus? (IDE-1, IDE-2, Primary, Slave?) (I have no IDE hard > disk, only CDROM.) You can't set the cdrom slave since it has nothing to master it. :( If it's not detected in single mode then it ain't gonna work. > Does booting FreeBSD from a drive with a SCSI ID larger than zero, > require a kernel rebuild? I seem to remember an entry in the last kernel I > rebuilt, spelling out the boot drive's ID. FreeBSD doesn't give a hoot. You can specify which disk the kernel is on if it gets confused (spits out "can't mount root") but shouldn't be necessary in most cases. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 18:52:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA02921 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:52:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ffwise.mke.fullfeed.com (ffwise.mke.fullfeed.com [199.201.66.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA02897 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:52:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [199.201.96.1] by ffwise.mke.fullfeed.com (8.6.9/FF-1.1) id UAA10018; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 20:54:57 -0500 X-Sender: wsadler@pop.mke.fullfeed.com Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 20:54:31 -0500 To: questions@FreeBSD.org From: wsadler@mke.fullfeed.com (Walter Sadler) Subject: Installing from Windows 95 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I would like to install FreeBSD on a TI Extensa 565CD from a Walnut Creek FreeBSD 2.1.5 CDROM. The TI came with Windows 95 installed (no backups). My problem: I cannot install from DOS since the CDROM driver is in Windows 95 The CDROM seems to be from Matsushita, Model UJDCD4722. Where can I find a DOS driver or some other work around? Walter Sadler wsadler@mke.fullfeed.com From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 19:08:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA03990 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 19:08:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anugpo.anu.edu.au (anugpo.anu.edu.au [150.203.2.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA03972 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 19:08:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from life.anu.edu.au (life.anu.edu.au [150.203.38.74]) by anugpo.anu.edu.au (8.7.6/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA16419 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:08:00 +1000 (EST) Received: from poty.anu.edu.au (rsbs13.anu.edu.au) by life.anu.edu.au (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA22727; Tue, 22 Oct 96 12:07:59 EST Received: by poty.anu.edu.au (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA01113; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:07:57 +1000 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:07:57 +1000 From: peterm@life.anu.edu.au (Peter A Minogue) Message-Id: <199610220207.MAA01113@poty.anu.edu.au> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: psif script and printf? X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm tring to setup a text filter using the manual documentation on seting up filters using psif and noticed in the bourne script the following; printf "\004" and && What is this printf and &&? printf is not a /bin/sh command how does it work? I'm getting the prinf not found message whe it runs. Thanks. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Minogue Peter.Minogue@anu.edu.au IT and Unix Support, Computer Unit Research School of Biological Sciences Tel: 06 279 8403 or 4436 Australian National University, Canberra Fax: 06 249 4891 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 19:37:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA06904 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 19:37:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soil.quick.net (soil@stanton-1-6.quick.net [205.153.188.106]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA06892 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 19:37:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (soil@localhost) by soil.quick.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA05053 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 19:37:15 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: soil.quick.net: soil owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 19:37:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Josh Gilliam X-Sender: soil@localhost Reply-To: Josh Gilliam To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: underlined text in cons25 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Underlined text does not seem to work in cons25. I have tested with linuxls and ircii. Is this normal behavior? Josh Gilliam -- soil@quick.net From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 20:33:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA12110 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 20:33:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jennifer.pernet.net (jennifer.pernet.net [205.229.0.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA12102 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 20:33:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (neal@localhost) by jennifer.pernet.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA18135 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:30:01 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:30:00 -0500 (CDT) From: Neal Rigney To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Cyclades/pppd Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm having a strange problem with a 2.1.5R system with a Cyclades-16y board in it(actually, two, but it doesn't make any difference). I run pppd from init, and every so often, pppd can't seem to negotiate a connection. It looks like it loses track of the port speed, because it _starts_ to negotiate, but eventually dies with a timeout sending LCP requests message. This problem only appeared recently; however, before this the machines in question would sporadically(about once every 1-7 days) reboot with no panic messages or anything. Every so often the machine will panic and die trying to reboot. It gives a message about being either in tty or net. Anybody have any ideas? Despite it's status as not-for-production, it appears there has been major work done on the cy driver in -current. Would this perhaps help my reboot problem? Any help is greatly appreciated. -- Neal Rigney, PERnet Communications, (409)729-4638 neal@mail.pernet.net From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 21:44:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA16736 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 21:44:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms1.hinet.net (ms1.hinet.net [168.95.4.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA16727 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 21:44:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from donny@localhost) by ms1.hinet.net (8.7.5/8.7.5) id MAA28079; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 12:40:04 +0800 (CST) Message-Id: <199610220440.MAA28079@ms1.hinet.net> From: donny@ms1.hinet.net (Donny Lee) To: Tim Vanderhoek Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My mouse doesn't work. Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 04:28:02 -0400 Lines: 19 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -=*> Tim Vanderhoek wrote: >> to COM1, or I should say sio0, and I noticed at boot time there >> are 3 probes messages that might related to this problem: >> sio0: at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa > sio0 is COM1, and it is found. mse0 is for a busmouse, which you do not > Unless you're running a -CURRENT from 3 or so months ago to now, you won't > have any mouse pointer in text mode at all. The only mousepointer is in X So even the program I used in text mode support mouse, I still can't use mouse function? >Windows. (X, of course, must be properly configured to use the mouse, but >you don't mention that as being a problem). Ohh.. I haven't set a X windows. Thanks for this info. // Donny From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 21:54:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA17429 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 21:54:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA17424 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 21:54:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA04990; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 21:53:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 21:53:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Nadav Eiron cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apache won't do CGI In-Reply-To: <326A598B.41C67EA6@barcode.co.il> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Nadav Eiron wrote: > Hi! > > I'm running Apache 1.1.1 on two FreeBSD 2.1.5 Release mahines. One works > Just Fine, the other will not run any CGI scripts. > When I attempt to run a CGI script I get: > > /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/test-cgi: Can't open > /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/test-cgi > [Sun Oct 20 17:51:18 1996] access to /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/test-cgi > failed for scully.barcode.co.il, reason: Premature end of script headers Perhaps there is some problem with your CGI script crashing before it finishes. Apache picks this up and returns the error. > Already tried reinstalling, copying the conf directory from the working > machine, fiddling with security settings etc., to no avail. Did you check permissions on the script and other files? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 21:56:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA17600 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 21:56:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA17583 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 21:56:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA04998; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 21:56:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 21:56:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Utech cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <326924DD.1F8C@icanect.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 19 Oct 1996, Utech wrote: > I can;t get thge installation diskette to boot up properly. I did the > image, and everything else in the installation guide, and all it says > when I reboot with the FreeBSD disk in the floppy drive is can't find > /kernel This would indicate some sort of problem with the boot disk, or a conflict between the floppy drive and some other device. Try a new disk. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 22:34:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA21231 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:34:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA21223 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:34:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA05032; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:34:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:34:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Peter Kachel cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD <=> BSDI In-Reply-To: <3269459A.1362@earthlink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 19 Oct 1996, Peter Kachel wrote: > Can I run BSDI binaries/cgis on FreeBSD 2.xxxxx? Depends on what version of BSDi the binaries came from. 1.x should run OK on most FreeBSD versions. 2.x requires 2.1.5 or later. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 22:35:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA21332 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:35:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA21325 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:35:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA05039; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:35:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:35:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Utech cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Boot Problems -- Please Help! In-Reply-To: <3268FAF0.6920@icanect.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 19 Oct 1996, Utech wrote: > I downloaded and wrote the image to a blank, formatted floppy disk, like > the installation instructions siad to. Then, i rebooted my computer, > and all it says over and over again is : Cannot find /kernel > I need to install FreeBSD on my system, and I can't get past this > message! If you can respond sometime today, it would be greatly > appreciated. Thank you. Try overriding the boot block auto-detection by typing: fd(0,a)/kernel at the Boot: prompt. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 22:44:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA22193 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:44:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA22171 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:44:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA05046; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:43:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:43:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Dan Janowski cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IDE hard error In-Reply-To: <199610191556.IAA20720@netcom.netcom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 19 Oct 1996, Dan Janowski wrote: > > I have a Seagate 1.2GB IDE (a Conner drive, a la acquisition), > the kernel is generating the following message: > > wd0s1e: hard error reading fsbn 34192 of 34176-34303 (wd0s1 bn 611728; cn 606 tn 13 sn 61)wd0: status 59 error 40 > > This is a bad block, I assume. Are not IDE drives suppoed to > handle badblocks internally? If so, is this driver bad? > If not, what am I supposed to do to mark the badblock? > BTW, This is a brand new drive, the first Conner/Seagate had > a bad controller, yikes! They're SUPPOSED to (or the controller is at least) but the feature can be disabled by external jumpers on some models. You might check cabling and internal temperature. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 22:46:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA22578 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:46:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA22573 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:46:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA05053; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:45:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:45:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Sue Blake cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installation doc contributions In-Reply-To: <199610201644.CAA24865@mail.zip.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Sue Blake wrote: > There's a few small essential pieces of information that I believe > are lacking from the installation reading material. Half a dozen > lines that would change the first-time installation from unusable to > usable and save hours of angst and silly questions. Use the 'send-pr' utility to file bug reports for documentation. If you don't have access to send-pr then send your problem to doc@freebsd.org. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 22:47:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA22634 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:47:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA22628 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:47:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA05057; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:47:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:47:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Walter Sadler cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Installing from Windows 95 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Walter Sadler wrote: > I would like to install FreeBSD on a TI Extensa 565CD from a Walnut Creek > FreeBSD 2.1.5 CDROM. The TI came with Windows 95 installed (no backups). That is borderline illegal. You are required to receive original installation media. Call TI and demand it. > My problem: > I cannot install from DOS since the CDROM driver is in Windows 95 So? You can if Win95 supports the CDROM. Read the INSTALL.TXT file on doing a DOS install. I think you've misunderstood what a DOS install is. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 22:50:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA22963 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:50:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA22958 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:50:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA05061; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:49:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:49:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Thomas B. Fox" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make world procedure In-Reply-To: <3.0b33.32.19961019153219.00699f40@oliverdesign.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 19 Oct 1996, Thomas B. Fox wrote: > Following a make world of current sources what else should I do to > bring my system up to date? Rebuild the kernel, merge new /etc files if necessary. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 22:55:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA23527 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:55:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA23520 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:55:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA05072; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:55:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:55:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Snob Art Genre cc: Robert Eckardt , Greg Lehey , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Making a DOS Partition writeable In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Snob Art Genre wrote: > > Please, anyone correct me, but mounting a DOS-FS could -- under certain > > circumstances -- corrupt the BSD-FS !?!? > > > > Shortly after I installed FreeBSD, I was running two finds on different > virtual consoles, with /msdos mounted, and my machine crashed hard. When > it came back up, my entire FreeBSD installation was hosed. I can't say it > was definitely due to msdosfs, but I suspect it. The primary problem comes when you FIPS a partition and cause the cluster size to change. FreeBSD assumes a perfect world while FIPS cheats -- it SHOULD rewrite all those sectors back down to the smaller clustersize but that takes a while (I had a program that actually did it right!) esp. on big disks. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 23:00:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA24054 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:00:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA24048 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:00:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA05083; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:00:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:00:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Josh Emmons (skia)" cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Modem on com1 (sio0) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Josh Emmons (skia) wrote: > I have an Acer Aspire (I didn't have a choice) 28.8 modem set to com1. > Everything works fin on the Windows95 side of things (I have 95 and BSD on > the system), but when I go to BSD, the probe never finds sio0 ot the > specified address. I'm useing the same addres windows uses to find the > modem and still nothing. > To make things stranger, it worked once. Only once. I did't change > ANYHTING and it worked. I rebooted and it lost it again. haven't gotten > it to work after that. FreeBSD appears to be very picky about internal modems. I see hoards of them on this list that won't probe, while other people swear by them. You might try moving it to COM2 and see what you get. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 23:02:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA24149 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:02:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA24134 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:02:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA05087; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:02:07 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:02:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Gary Kline cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailgroup Subject: Re: mouse//`Pointer' question In-Reply-To: <199610192215.PAA16307@tera.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 19 Oct 1996, Gary Kline wrote: > When I upgraded to the new X11R6 3.1.2, the middle (`put') > button of my mouse quit cooperating. Now, whenever I > capture something in the mouse-buffer, unless I am > *extremely* quick-and-nimble with the middle button, I'll > get several copies of whatever I want to transfer. > > I've tried the xset m N/M K syntax. Nope. In the > ``Pointer section'' of my /etc/XF86Config is a 50ms timeout > value. Still commented. Have you tried uncommenting this and playing with the value? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 23:07:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA24907 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:07:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA24900 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:07:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA05098; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:07:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:07:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Csukas Levente cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NFS problem In-Reply-To: <199610211810.UAA04061@fox.klte.hu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Csukas Levente wrote: > My problem is that after I had mounted remote filesystem the response for a > 'ls' command in the mounted directory: > > ls:/mnt: Stale NFS file handle > > Does anybody know why? For some reason the NFS mount is no longer good. Try dismounting that partition (forcibly if necessary)B and re-mounting it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 23:09:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA25402 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:09:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA25384 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:09:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA05102; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:09:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:09:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: bLaQmYsT cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: partitioning In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19961020014427.006911a4@earthlink.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 19 Oct 1996, bLaQmYsT wrote: > Is there any way to avoid having to repartition my drive? I want to use DOS > and Windows95 on my c drive, and FreeBSD on my d drive. What do you > reccomend I do? 1. Buy a new disk. :-) 2. Use the FIPS utility in /tools. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 23:34:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA02927 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:34:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA02907 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:34:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA05130; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:32:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:32:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Gianmarco Giovannelli cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Restricted user ftp and shells In-Reply-To: <3.0b35.32.19961021155245.006997e0@masternet.it> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > > Is possible to restrict the ftp (no anonymous) for the users at their home > directory without having them to go here and there taking files ? > > Or I must chmod all my dirs ? If the permissions aren't set right then they'll do it anyway by copying the file they want to their home directory then ftp'ing it. You should fix this properly by channging the permissions on everyone's directories. To what, I don't know; 711? I think this is what our University servers use so Web ~/public_html works properly but you can't read what's in someone's directory. > Another thing, Is possible to have a shell with a limited set of command to > use as default shell for remote users. I take ssh from the ports, but with > 2.1.5 I am not able to compile it. Now I'll try at home with 2.2 -current. There is a reduced command set shell I believe. It depends on what you want to do. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 23:35:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA03289 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:35:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA03281 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:35:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA05137; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:35:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:35:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Oliver Wilson cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Silo overflow when running X...what's it mean?? In-Reply-To: <199610200514.BAA15974@Nimbus.CAM.ORG> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Oliver Wilson wrote: > While running X (Xfree86 3.1.2G) on FreeBsd 2.1.5 the following message was > output to the console : > 'Oct 19 22:27:29 Siren /kernel: Sio0: 1 more silo overflow (total 3)' > > Has anyone ever seen this? What does it mean ? It means that more data came in the serial port than could be processed, so data was lost. Under X this is probably your mouse, which is *really* odd since the mouse runs at 1200bps, slow enough for even a 386/16sx with a 16450 to read it w/o dropping characters. (?) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 23:40:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA04202 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:40:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA04191 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:40:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA05148; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:40:27 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:40:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Jan Isley cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: stupid sound card / cdrom question In-Reply-To: <199610201716.NAA20975@bagend.atl.ga.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Jan Isley wrote: > I have FreeBSD running on my desk at work. I want to be able to play > audio CDs on it. It has an IDE CDROM. I have two sound cards at home > that I can install in the system, a Sound Blaster 16 (matcd interface) > and an Adaptec 1570. Neither of these have an IDE interface. Can I > just get an appropriate audio cable to make these sound cards talk to > the IDE CDROM to do audio? Well, actually the ATAPI interface will tell the CD to play and you can pipe the audio out the sound card, or hook up a pair of speakers out the front headphone jack, if you drive has one. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 23:41:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA04260 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:41:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA04252 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:41:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA05152; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:41:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:41:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Richard Gault cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Subscription information In-Reply-To: <326B9EF8.5532@amti.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Richard Gault wrote: > I orderd a subscription for freebsd, to be charged to my AMEX account, > and I would like to discontinue that subscription. The CDs are > automatically sent to our office in New Delhi, India, not to my local US > address. > > What do I have to do to make this happen? Call Walnut Creek directly. They'll take care of it. :-) US Phone # should be on http://www.cdrom.com. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 23:47:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA05084 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:47:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA05078 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:46:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA05163; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:46:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:46:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Brian Howell cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trying to FTP 2.1.5 from mounted CD-ROM In-Reply-To: <326C18EB.41C67EA6@genwell.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Brian Howell wrote: > We've got several FreeBSD machines running. Two of them are > equipped with compatible SCSI CD-ROM drives. > > I want to be able to "sysinstall" additional packages on several > of the machines from the distribution CD-ROM mounted remotely--by > FTP. > > I followed the instructions in the CD-ROM's documentation; creating > the FTP user using "vipw" and mounting the CD. > > I've then tried dozens of URL permutations trying to get "sysinstall" > on another machine on our subnet to see the CD-ROM. > > The CD-ROM is there and properly mounted. I can see it outside of > "sysinstall." What am I doing wrong? Set the FTP failure mode to 'retry' on the sysinstall options page. This isn't exactly documented. This causes sysinstall to try some alternate paths when ftp fails, one of which is the setup for the cdrom. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 23:49:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA05245 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:49:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA05238 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:49:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA05167; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:49:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:49:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Nick cc: questions@freebsd.com Subject: Re: umm In-Reply-To: <199610190400.VAA06103@fletch.fix.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 18 Oct 1996, Nick wrote: > what is motif/ where do i get it??i see it's required for a lot of > ports for X11... You buy it, or you install the package version of the program, which in many cases has motif statically-linked so you don't need it. You can buy Motif from XInside, Inc (http://www.xinside.com). I'll be the third person to bug you about your .sig. It's gigantic. It's sad when your .sig is longer than your messages. Shorten your .sig and make your system much happier. Ad infinitum, ad nauseum. :-) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 21 23:49:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA05282 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:49:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA05277 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:49:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA05171; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:49:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 23:49:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Josh Gilliam cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: underlined text in cons25 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Josh Gilliam wrote: > Underlined text does not seem to work in cons25. I have tested with linuxls > and ircii. Is this normal behavior? Yes, since the PC console doesn't have an underline mode. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 00:04:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA06017 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 00:04:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (root@FLEDGE.RES.CMU.EDU [128.2.89.13]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA06008 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 00:04:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (robert@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.7.5/8.6.10) with SMTP id DAA13779; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 03:04:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 03:04:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson To: ellison4 cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installation In-Reply-To: <326C347E.37DA@erols.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk While I would love to help you, I am not experienced with the System Commander boot program, as I run a dedicated server, not a multi-booting one. I've cc'd a copy of this message (including your request) to questions@freebsd.org, the volunteer-run question answering list for FreeBSD. You may want to follow up with an email to questions@freebsd.org with a more comprehensive description of your hardware, installation process/method, specific "cryptic error message", etc. Thanks, and sorry I couldn't be more helpful. Robert Watson On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, ellison4 wrote: > I was speaking to Dave about my FreeBSD installation problems and he suggested > that I e-mail you. I would greatly appreciate any input which you would have. I > have a multiple boot computer with two hard disks, a 1.2 gig and a 127 meg drive. > My first disk has system commander installed which manages the many operating > systems. On it is Windows NT Server, Windows 95, Windows for Workgroups. I have > didicated the second disk to a minimal install of FreeBSD. Every time I try to > install it, I reboot into it and get the error statement " No bootable > partition". Then I tried uninstalling system commander and using the FreeBSD > boot manager, and it simply gives a more cryptic error and freezes. I have tried > making the first partition of the first drive active, the second drive active, > both drives active, the first sector of the second drive (which is only a few > bytes) active,...What am I doing wrong. More information, I have been trying > to install the files from a dos partition. It is probably as plain as can be, > but I haven't figured it out. Thank you. > Richard > > From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 00:18:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA06797 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 00:18:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from saturn.col.com.hk ([203.83.252.38]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA06791 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 00:18:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost by saturn.col.com.hk; (5.65v3.2/1.1.8.2/23Mar96-1150AM) id AA23820; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 15:21:17 +0800 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 15:21:17 +0800 (HKT) From: Joe Lee To: Brian Howell Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trying to FTP 2.1.5 from mounted CD-ROM In-Reply-To: <326C18EB.41C67EA6@genwell.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Brian Howell wrote: > We've got several FreeBSD machines running. Two of them are > equipped with compatible SCSI CD-ROM drives. > > I want to be able to "sysinstall" additional packages on several > of the machines from the distribution CD-ROM mounted remotely--by > FTP. > > I followed the instructions in the CD-ROM's documentation; creating > the FTP user using "vipw" and mounting the CD. > > I've then tried dozens of URL permutations trying to get "sysinstall" > on another machine on our subnet to see the CD-ROM. > > The CD-ROM is there and properly mounted. I can see it outside of > "sysinstall." What am I doing wrong? > > Brian Howell > Hi, I had similar experience with this. what is suprising is that i can even install via NFS to read the CD. When i enter the ip-address in the URL instead of hostname, then suddenly FTP installation work for me. Who knows what's wrong. From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 00:52:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA08879 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 00:52:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA08793 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 00:51:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id JAA18837; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 09:51:01 +0200 (IST) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V1.3) id sma018829; Tue Oct 22 09:50:48 1996 Message-ID: <326C7CAF.1CB7@barcode.co.il> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 09:50:07 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apache won't do CGI References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doug White wrote: > > On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Nadav Eiron wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > I'm running Apache 1.1.1 on two FreeBSD 2.1.5 Release mahines. One works > > Just Fine, the other will not run any CGI scripts. > > When I attempt to run a CGI script I get: > > > > /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/test-cgi: Can't open > > /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/test-cgi > > [Sun Oct 20 17:51:18 1996] access to /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/test-cgi > > failed for scully.barcode.co.il, reason: Premature end of script headers > > Perhaps there is some problem with your CGI script crashing before it > finishes. Apache picks this up and returns the error. The problem seems to be that it is a script (not a binary). If I use a binary (i.e. a compiled C program) for the script it runs fine, but FreeBSD seems to have trouble with inrterpreted scripts. Even if I run a C program that exec's a shell (or perl) script, the script simply won't start. It seems as if when the interpreter (sh/perl, etc.) gets started it can't find the script it's supposed to run. This really puzzles me. It looks as if Apache does something to break execve/execle, at least as far as interpreted scripts go. > > > Already tried reinstalling, copying the conf directory from the working > > machine, fiddling with security settings etc., to no avail. > > Did you check permissions on the script and other files? Yes. Also, using a compiled program works. See above. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I've already spent a few nights on that :-( > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Nadav From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 00:57:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA09305 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 00:57:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.nation-net.com (www.nation-net.com [194.159.125.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA09296 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 00:56:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mag.nation-net.com (194.159.125.14) by www.nation-net.com with SMTP (Apple Internet Mail Server 1.0); Tue, 22 Oct 1996 08:59:55 +0000 Message-ID: <326C8C56.5BDD@nation-net.com> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 08:56:54 +0000 From: Paul Walsh Organization: NATION-NET is part of the Walsh Simmons Partnership X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org, flexfax@sgi.com Subject: Hylafax consistency with freeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk We are trying to use Hylafax 3.01 in a fax gateway for a commercial web site. The problem is reliability. A large percentage of fax messages bounce back with a multitude of errors, the commonest being: No carrier detected. The fax is USR 28.8 , faxgetty is off, using mode 2.0. I've spent 2 weeks trying to tweak the config settings and enough is enough. Surely other users of Hylafax don't have all this trouble, or is this a problem with freeBSD as a Hyla platform? Any hints to solve this or other software available for freeBSD ( commercial maybe? ) Regards, Paul. -- paul@nation-net.com NATION-NET 0161-839 9337 Manchester, UK (http://www.nation-net.com) From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 01:07:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA10169 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 01:07:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from seagull.rtd.com (root@seagull.rtd.com [198.102.68.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA10164 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 01:07:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dgy@localhost) by seagull.rtd.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA21835; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 01:06:21 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis Message-Id: <199610220806.BAA21835@seagull.rtd.com> Subject: Re: Making a DOS Partition writeable To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 01:06:20 -0700 (MST) Cc: benedict@echonyc.com, roberte@mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de, grog@lemis.de, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Doug White" at Oct 21, 96 10:55:35 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk It seems that Doug White said: > > On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Snob Art Genre wrote: > > > > Please, anyone correct me, but mounting a DOS-FS could -- under certain > > > circumstances -- corrupt the BSD-FS !?!? > > > > Shortly after I installed FreeBSD, I was running two finds on different > > virtual consoles, with /msdos mounted, and my machine crashed hard. When > > it came back up, my entire FreeBSD installation was hosed. I can't say it > > was definitely due to msdosfs, but I suspect it. > > The primary problem comes when you FIPS a partition and cause the cluster > size to change. FreeBSD assumes a perfect world while FIPS cheats -- it > SHOULD rewrite all those sectors back down to the smaller clustersize but > that takes a while (I had a program that actually did it right!) esp. on > big disks. So, how does this result in the FBSD partition being trashed? Or, is that an "ugly rumor"? Is it only applicable to a FBSD partition on the same physical device as a FIPS'ed DOS partition? etc. It sure would be nice if these things were more thoroughly described or qualified ... help reduce some of the "lore" surrounding them. --don From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 02:38:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA17837 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 02:38:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from diablo.ppp.de (diablo.ppp.de [193.141.101.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA17830 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 02:38:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Greg Lehey Received: from freebie.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0vFdAj-000QobC; Tue, 22 Oct 96 10:30 MET Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.de (8.7.6/8.6.12) id LAA00686; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:15:18 +0200 (MET DST) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Message-Id: <199610220915.LAA00686@freebie.lemis.de> Subject: Re: Making a DOS Partition writeable In-Reply-To: <199610220806.BAA21835@seagull.rtd.com> from Don Yuniskis at "Oct 22, 96 01:06:20 am" To: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:15:18 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Don Yuniskis writes: > It seems that Doug White said: >> >> On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Snob Art Genre wrote: >> >>>> Please, anyone correct me, but mounting a DOS-FS could -- under certain >>>> circumstances -- corrupt the BSD-FS !?!? >>> >>> Shortly after I installed FreeBSD, I was running two finds on different >>> virtual consoles, with /msdos mounted, and my machine crashed hard. When >>> it came back up, my entire FreeBSD installation was hosed. I can't say it >>> was definitely due to msdosfs, but I suspect it. >> >> The primary problem comes when you FIPS a partition and cause the cluster >> size to change. FreeBSD assumes a perfect world while FIPS cheats -- it >> SHOULD rewrite all those sectors back down to the smaller clustersize but >> that takes a while (I had a program that actually did it right!) esp. on >> big disks. > > So, how does this result in the FBSD partition being trashed? Or, is that > an "ugly rumor"? Is it only applicable to a FBSD partition on the same > physical device as a FIPS'ed DOS partition? etc. > > It sure would be nice if these things were more thoroughly described or > qualified ... help reduce some of the "lore" surrounding them. Good question. I've been holding back, since I don't use MS-DOS or its file systems, but my understanding was that FIPS leaves some pointers in the file system pointing outside the partition. I'd guess that the FAT is a good candidate here, since you can't shrink it easily. This doesn't seem to worry the native MS-DOS file systems (or I just haven't heard of it happening), but apparently it can cause FreeBSD's msdosfs to write outside in the area which belonged to the file system before it was truncated with FIPS. In the kind of situation we're looking at, where FIPS was used to make space for a FreeBSD file system, this will now be a FreeBSD file system. That's plausible, but I haven't personally seen any evidence that it has happened. If somebody else has, please speak up. Greg From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 02:50:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA18455 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 02:50:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA18449 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 02:50:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id LAA19143; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:46:03 +0200 (IST) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V1.3) id sma019141; Tue Oct 22 11:45:50 1996 Message-ID: <326C97A4.D2D@barcode.co.il> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:45:08 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu CC: Snob Art Genre , Robert Eckardt , Greg Lehey , questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Making a DOS Partition writeable References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doug White wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Snob Art Genre wrote: > > > > Please, anyone correct me, but mounting a DOS-FS could -- under certain > > > circumstances -- corrupt the BSD-FS !?!? > > > > > > > Shortly after I installed FreeBSD, I was running two finds on different > > virtual consoles, with /msdos mounted, and my machine crashed hard. When > > it came back up, my entire FreeBSD installation was hosed. I can't say it > > was definitely due to msdosfs, but I suspect it. > > The primary problem comes when you FIPS a partition and cause the cluster > size to change. FreeBSD assumes a perfect world while FIPS cheats -- it > SHOULD rewrite all those sectors back down to the smaller clustersize but > that takes a while (I had a program that actually did it right!) esp. on > big disks. There is a commercial DOS software package called PartitionMagic (see http://www.powerquest.com) that costs about $50 and can edit partitions without reformatting (it can shrink/expand DOS and HPFS partition and move around many other types of partitions, though not FreeBSD yet - maybe someone shoul talk to them as they support linux and SCO partiotions). I never had a problem with it, and it is highly recommended if you find yourself repartitioning disks often (once a year is often enough for me). It sure beats backing up, formatting and restoring! > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Nadav From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 03:21:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA20449 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 03:21:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.mauigateway.com (www.mauigateway.com [205.166.249.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA20443 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 03:21:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bluelight.mauigateway.com (bluelight.mauigateway.com [205.166.249.11]) by www.mauigateway.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id AAA03839 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 00:32:10 -1000 (HST) Message-ID: <326C1390.5036@mauigateway.com> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 00:21:36 +0000 From: George Fontaine Reply-To: sysop@mauigateway.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Support for Buslogic PCI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have a Micron P166 with a Buslogic PCI-SCSI controller card. Is there any support for this controller? I didn't see it listed in LINT. Many Thanks George Fontaine From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 03:35:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA21109 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 03:35:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-4.mail.demon.net (relay-4.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA21100 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 03:35:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([(null)]) by relay-4.mail.demon.net id ab15733; 22 Oct 96 10:31 GMT Received: from panorama.demon.co.uk ([158.152.25.147]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id aa01490; 22 Oct 96 11:30 BST Received: from pandora.panorama.COM by panorama.demon.co.uk (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07046; Tue, 22 Oct 96 11:22:59 BST Received: by pandora.panorama.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id LAA11530; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:32:11 +0100 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 11:32:11 +0100 From: Ian Edwards Message-Id: <199610221032.LAA11530@pandora.panorama.COM> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Intel EtherExpress PRO 10/100B / Motorola BitSurferPRO ISDN TA Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Two questions : Has anyone used the Intel EtherExpress PRO 10/100B PCI Ethernet card ? (The info on www.freebsd.org says the 100B is OK but the 10B may have problems) The Motorola BitSurferPRO ISDN TA says it supports PPP - is this relevent when the PPP encapsulation is being done by UNIX ? Thanks, Ian. ian@panorama.com From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 03:40:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA21412 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 03:40:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iworks.InterWorks.org (deischen@iworks.interworks.org [128.255.18.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA21404 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 03:40:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: by iworks.InterWorks.org (1.37.109.8/16.2) id AA01739; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 05:39:37 -0500 Message-Id: <9610221039.AA01739@iworks.InterWorks.org> Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 05:39:37 -0500 From: "Daniel M. Eischen" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, nadav@barcode.co.il, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Apache won't do CGI Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/test-cgi: Can't open > > > /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/test-cgi > > > [Sun Oct 20 17:51:18 1996] access to /usr/local/apache/cgi-bin/test-cgi > > > failed for scully.barcode.co.il, reason: Premature end of script headers > > > Perhaps there is some problem with your CGI script crashing before it > > finishes. Apache picks this up and returns the error. > > The problem seems to be that it is a script (not a binary). If I