From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 00:30:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA03914 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 00:30:11 -0800 (PST) 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 AAA03909 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 00:30:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id KAA05981; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:29:40 +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 sma005979; Sun Nov 24 10:29:22 1996 Message-ID: <32980735.387F@barcode.co.il> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:28:37 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Clayton Carney <72271.3671@CompuServe.COM> CC: support Subject: Re: Can't mount root (3) References: <961123215210_72271.3671_CHU126-1@CompuServe.COM> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Clayton Carney wrote: > > Hi, > > Well, I've made some progress but still have a serious problem. Following one > of the suggestions given, I rebuild the kernel to address the problem of booting > from wd2 (second drive, second controller). The pertinent lines in kernel file > are as follows: > > config kernel root on wd1 > > options ATAPI > > controller wdc0 ... > disk wd0... > device wcd0... > > controller wdc1... > disk wd1... > > This accurately reflects my hardware setup (hard drive and CD on IDE controller > 0/hard drive on IDE controller 1). In fact, as the system boots and probes, it > speeds thru the hardware. Previously, there were considerable pauses occurring > as the drives were being probed. Now however, the following appears after > probing: > > swapon: /dev/wd2s1b: Device not configured > Automatic reboot in progress... > Can't open /dev/rwd2a: Device not configured > /dev/rwd2a: CAN'T CHECK FILE SYSTEM. > /dev/rwd2a: UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. > Automatic file system check failed... help! > > Let me echo that request: Help!!! I kinda understand what's happening here; wd2 > has now become wd1 (due to a problem in the way BIOS numbers drive, or so I > gather) and for some reason the system is looking for its goodies on wd2, right? > Question is: how do I get the system to start looking at wd1 instead?! Let me > perhaps complicate the problem by stating that the shell is the only thing that > seems to work; I can't get into a text editor. The thing you need to do is edit the file /etc/fstab. I take it you did get your old kernel to boot (using the 1:wd(2,a) trick), so I'd suggest you'd boot that to edit the file. This way you'll have your system back (assuming you didn't delete the old kernel this would mean typing: 1:wd(2,a)/kernel.old at the boot: prompt). In /etc/fstab replace all references to wd2 with wd1. If you can't get you system to boot normnally, type -s at the boot: prompt, which will get you to single user mode. >From there, mount /usr manually, and use whatever utiulity you fancy to replace all occurances of wd2 in /etc/fstab with wd1. > > I could use a DETAILED description (please remember, I know DOS and Windows > forward and backwards; but UNIX is completely new to me) of how to go about > correcting this problem. > > Many thanks in advance, especially to the many who have already help me so far. > I realize this is all volunteer support and I would have given up long ago > without the help... > > Thanks :) > > Clayton Carney Nadav From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 00:38:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA04220 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 00:38:04 -0800 (PST) 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 AAA04212 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 00:37:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id KAA05995; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:36:40 +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 sma005993; Sun Nov 24 10:36:24 1996 Message-ID: <329808DB.1972@barcode.co.il> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:35:39 +0200 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aquadynamics Pty Ltd CC: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: X Windows Problem References: <199611230551.NAA01382@pluto.ca.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Aquadynamics Pty Ltd wrote: > > I have just installed FreeBSD. I don't know much about it yet and I have a > problem getting X Windows to work. In the manual it said to type startx to > run the program, this only works if I am in the directory /usr/X11R6/bin > and I type ./startx. Even if I type it there it says that it can't find > xinit, Do you know what the problem is? Any advice you could give me would > be appreciated! Add /usr/X11R6/bin to your PATH. X insists on that! Nadav From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 01:51:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA06867 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 01:51:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from scotty.masternet.it (scotty.masternet.it [194.184.65.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA06860 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 01:51:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from socrate (ts1port11d.masternet.it [194.184.65.33]) by scotty.masternet.it (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA08027 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:51:40 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <3298194F.41C67EA6@scotty.masternet.it> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:45:51 +0100 From: Beck Peccoz Amedeo X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Windows? No, thanks! Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Please answer to me directly as I'm not linked to this mailing list. Tired of windows bugs and brain damaged MS products I'd like to move _definitely_ to FreeBSD, and all I miss are a spreadsheet and a word processing progs. For the spreadsheet I've only found XQuad which is horribly bugous and lacks a lot of functionalities (compared to Excel). Anyoune ever used anything better? I'm sure there are good spreeadsheets and word processing sws for FreeBSD out there! Please help me find them! Thanks in advance -- Beck-Peccoz Amedeo Tel. +39-125-366302 GEA Software S.r.l. Fax. +39-125-366415 gea@scotty.masternet.it GSM +39-347-3837526 From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 02:56:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA09056 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 02:56:45 -0800 (PST) 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 CAA09000 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 02:55:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from diablo.ppp.de (diablo.ppp.de [193.141.101.34]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id CAA07421 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 02:54:24 -0800 (PST) From: Greg Lehey Received: from freebie.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0vRcC0-000QrPC; Sun, 24 Nov 96 11:53 MET Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.de (8.8.3/8.6.12) id LAA00519; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 11:49:55 +0100 (MET) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Message-Id: <199611241049.LAA00519@freebie.lemis.de> Subject: Re: major system screw-up In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19961123234840.00688b04@mail.cei.net> from Jason Hudgins at "Nov 23, 96 05:48:40 pm" To: jasonh@cei.net (Jason Hudgins) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 11:49:55 +0100 (MET) 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 Jason Hudgins writes: > I just installed freebsd2-1.6 to use for my companies web-server..but I > made a booboo. > In the passwd file I changed my root startup shell from /bin/sh to /bin/bash. > Cept the problem is that bash is in /usr/local/bin/bash ... > So now I can't login as root because it can't find bash..and of course > since I can't login as root, then I can't fix my error. Relax, you're not the first. > So I thought I would use the fixit floppy..I mean..that's what its for > right? Well, you don't need the fixit floppy for this one. > How hard could it be? > > So I get the fixit floppy up...mount the hard drive on /mnt and dive into > /mnt/etc..cept there is no editor..not even vi that I can fix the passwd > file with. > So I'm thinking that as long as I have the hard drive mounted, then I can > run the binary off the hard disk..so I cd to /mnt/usr/bin..but there is no > bin directory. Maybe /usr is mounted on a different partition. > /dev/wd0a is mounted on /mnt > /dev/wd0b doesn't exist > /dev/wd0c will not mount .etc.. > > I finally give up... Here's what to do (this is taken from a private message earlier this month to somebody who managed to do exactly the same thing :-) Oh yes: if you really have screwed up your /etc/passwd, and you don't have a root shell still going, you'll have a bit of fun getting back in again. Do this: > 1. Reboot the system: > > shutdown -r now > > If you can't run shutdown, try ctrl-alt-del. If it says > "reboot?", then say yes. Otherwise run sync (three times, a > couple of seconds apart), and push the Big Red Button. > > 2. When the prompt Boot: appears, enter: > > Boot: -s > > This will boot you up in single-user mode. You'll see all this in > CFBSD [Complete FreeBSD], pages 144 and 145. > > 3. Go through the steps at the top of page 145, up to mount /usr. > Before mounting /usr, you'll probably also have to do an fsck on > /dev/rwd0e or /dev/rwd0h if you couldn't run shutdown. >From "The Complete FreeBSD", in case you don't have it: + Sometimes it's inconvenient that multiple users can access the system. + For example, if you're repartitioning a disk, you don't want other + people walking all over the disk while you're doing so. Even if + you're the only user on the system, daemons may be doing things in the + background. In order to avoid this problem, you can stop the boot + process before most of the daemons have been started and enter single + user mode. To do this, specify the -s flag at boot time: + + Boot: -s + + The system startup will be interrupted as soon as the device probes + have been completed, and you will be prompted for a shell. Always + choose sh: some other shells, notably bash, get confused in single + user mode. Only the root file system will be accessible, and it will + be mounted read-only. The reason for this is that the file system may + be damaged and require repair before you can write to it. If you do + need to write to the root file system, you should first check the + consistency of the file system with fsck. + + For example, + + npx0 on motherboard + npx0: INT 16 interface end of the probes (high intensity display) + Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh: hit RETURN + erase ^H, kill ^U, intr ^C + # fsck -y /dev/rwd0a check the integrity of the root file system + ** /dev/rwd0a + ** Last Mounted on / + ** Root file system + ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes + ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames + ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity + ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts + ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups + 1064 files, 8190 used, 6913 free (61 frags, 1713 blocks, 0.4% fragmentation) + # mount -u / remount root file system read/write + # mount /usr mount any other file systems you need + + To leave single user mode and enter multi user mode, unmount any additional file + systems you have mounted and enter CTRL-D: + + # umount /usr + # ^D + Skipping file system checks... + (the rest of the boot sequence) > 4. Copy /usr/bin/tcsh to /bin: > > cp -p /usr/bin/tcsh /bin OK, I lied. This guy used another shell. You need to copy /usr/local/bin/bash to /bin/bash. > 5. Do the rest of the stuff (umount and ^D). > > 6. Before logging off your window, check you can still log in as root > from another virtual screen. > > That'll-teach-you-ing you what > Grog > So I can't get to vi..hrmm what to do next..create a new root user maybe.. > echo "" >> passwd > echo "> master.passwd > > Seemed to work fine..guess I will reboot the server now and login as mojo now. > > When I reboot the machine...the kernel gives me lines of ridiculous errors > chmod after chmod.. > And then it tells me that it can't start a system daemon called "cronblah" > And FINALLY it comes up claiming that its no longer www.dancooks.com ..now > its just (Amnesiac). > > Now if someone could please tell me how APPENDING a line to the passwd and > master.passwd files could TOTALLY screw up my machine..I would be grateful. > If someone could tell me how to fix this TOTALLY screwed up machine I > would be even more greatful. What puzzles me is how you managed to add anything to either file if you weren't root. In any case, you shouldn't write anything in /etc/passwd: to create a new /etc/passwd, you modify /etc/master.passwd and run pwd_mkdb. The easy way to do this is with vipw, which does it for you, but you need to be root to do so. > I admit most of this garbage is probably due to my lack of experience with > FreeBSD...I have used slackware for a long time and never had these kinds > of difficulties..but I wanted to use FreeBSD for its great network stability. You would run into exactly the same problems if you did this to Linux (OK, I believe you *can* edit /etc/passwd on Linux, but it's still not the thing to do). > I really want to get this FreeBSD up, running, & stable as a permanent web > server for my company..I think its a great OS made by great people. But its > just so volatile, that if it breaks..I have a really hard time fixing it. Once you've got your machine up in single user mode, and have /usr mounted, run vipw. You probably want to undo your changes. If there is anything wrong with it, vipw will tell you. You'll need to explicitly set the TERM environment variable to run vipw: TERM=cons25 export TERM If that doesn't help, let me know. Greg From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 02:56:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA09053 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 02:56:46 -0800 (PST) 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 CAA09002 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 02:55:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from diablo.ppp.de (diablo.ppp.de [193.141.101.34]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id CAA07428 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 02:55:09 -0800 (PST) From: Greg Lehey Received: from freebie.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0vRcBz-000QrKC; Sun, 24 Nov 96 11:53 MET Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.de (8.8.3/8.6.12) id LAA00505; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 11:47:37 +0100 (MET) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Message-Id: <199611241047.LAA00505@freebie.lemis.de> Subject: Buslogic Flashpoint To: David.Hedley@bristol.ac.uk Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 11:47:37 +0100 (MET) 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 David Hedley writes: > > I have just acquired a PC with a Buslogic FlashPoint LT PCI SCSI > controller. Currently, FreeBSD doesn't seem to support it (at least the > bt driver doesn't recognise it) and I was wondering if anyone was > developing a driver for it (or even thinking about developing a driver > for it). Join the club. It happened to me just recently, and I sent out a question, the replies to which basically indicated that nobody is working on it. Until recently, specs weren't available. In the meantime, there's a Linux driver available, so if somebody's interested, it might get done. The upgrade that somebody suggested is a good idea: the FP Lite doesn't seem to be the best of controllers. Greg From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 09:44:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA09053 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 02:56:46 -0800 (PST) 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 CAA09002 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 02:55:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from diablo.ppp.de (diablo.ppp.de [193.141.101.34]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id CAA07428 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 02:55:09 -0800 (PST) From: Greg Lehey Received: from freebie.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0vRcBz-000QrKC; Sun, 24 Nov 96 11:53 MET Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.de (8.8.3/8.6.12) id LAA00505; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 11:47:37 +0100 (MET) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Message-Id: <199611241047.LAA00505@freebie.lemis.de> Subject: Buslogic Flashpoint To: David.Hedley@bristol.ac.uk Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 11:47:37 +0100 (MET) 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 David Hedley writes: > > I have just acquired a PC with a Buslogic FlashPoint LT PCI SCSI > controller. Currently, FreeBSD doesn't seem to support it (at least the > bt driver doesn't recognise it) and I was wondering if anyone was > developing a driver for it (or even thinking about developing a driver > for it). Join the club. It happened to me just recently, and I sent out a question, the replies to which basically indicated that nobody is working on it. Until recently, specs weren't available. In the meantime, there's a Linux driver available, so if somebody's interested, it might get done. The upgrade that somebody suggested is a good idea: the FP Lite doesn't seem to be the best of controllers. Greg From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 09:49:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA09056 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 02:56:45 -0800 (PST) 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 CAA09000 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 02:55:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from diablo.ppp.de (diablo.ppp.de [193.141.101.34]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id CAA07421 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 02:54:24 -0800 (PST) From: Greg Lehey Received: from freebie.lemis.de by diablo.ppp.de with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0vRcC0-000QrPC; Sun, 24 Nov 96 11:53 MET Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.de (8.8.3/8.6.12) id LAA00519; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 11:49:55 +0100 (MET) Organisation: LEMIS, Schellnhausen 2, 36325 Feldatal, Germany Phone: +49-6637-919123 Fax: +49-6637-919122 Message-Id: <199611241049.LAA00519@freebie.lemis.de> Subject: Re: major system screw-up In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19961123234840.00688b04@mail.cei.net> from Jason Hudgins at "Nov 23, 96 05:48:40 pm" To: jasonh@cei.net (Jason Hudgins) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 11:49:55 +0100 (MET) 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 Jason Hudgins writes: > I just installed freebsd2-1.6 to use for my companies web-server..but I > made a booboo. > In the passwd file I changed my root startup shell from /bin/sh to /bin/bash. > Cept the problem is that bash is in /usr/local/bin/bash ... > So now I can't login as root because it can't find bash..and of course > since I can't login as root, then I can't fix my error. Relax, you're not the first. > So I thought I would use the fixit floppy..I mean..that's what its for > right? Well, you don't need the fixit floppy for this one. > How hard could it be? > > So I get the fixit floppy up...mount the hard drive on /mnt and dive into > /mnt/etc..cept there is no editor..not even vi that I can fix the passwd > file with. > So I'm thinking that as long as I have the hard drive mounted, then I can > run the binary off the hard disk..so I cd to /mnt/usr/bin..but there is no > bin directory. Maybe /usr is mounted on a different partition. > /dev/wd0a is mounted on /mnt > /dev/wd0b doesn't exist > /dev/wd0c will not mount .etc.. > > I finally give up... Here's what to do (this is taken from a private message earlier this month to somebody who managed to do exactly the same thing :-) Oh yes: if you really have screwed up your /etc/passwd, and you don't have a root shell still going, you'll have a bit of fun getting back in again. Do this: > 1. Reboot the system: > > shutdown -r now > > If you can't run shutdown, try ctrl-alt-del. If it says > "reboot?", then say yes. Otherwise run sync (three times, a > couple of seconds apart), and push the Big Red Button. > > 2. When the prompt Boot: appears, enter: > > Boot: -s > > This will boot you up in single-user mode. You'll see all this in > CFBSD [Complete FreeBSD], pages 144 and 145. > > 3. Go through the steps at the top of page 145, up to mount /usr. > Before mounting /usr, you'll probably also have to do an fsck on > /dev/rwd0e or /dev/rwd0h if you couldn't run shutdown. >From "The Complete FreeBSD", in case you don't have it: + Sometimes it's inconvenient that multiple users can access the system. + For example, if you're repartitioning a disk, you don't want other + people walking all over the disk while you're doing so. Even if + you're the only user on the system, daemons may be doing things in the + background. In order to avoid this problem, you can stop the boot + process before most of the daemons have been started and enter single + user mode. To do this, specify the -s flag at boot time: + + Boot: -s + + The system startup will be interrupted as soon as the device probes + have been completed, and you will be prompted for a shell. Always + choose sh: some other shells, notably bash, get confused in single + user mode. Only the root file system will be accessible, and it will + be mounted read-only. The reason for this is that the file system may + be damaged and require repair before you can write to it. If you do + need to write to the root file system, you should first check the + consistency of the file system with fsck. + + For example, + + npx0 on motherboard + npx0: INT 16 interface end of the probes (high intensity display) + Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh: hit RETURN + erase ^H, kill ^U, intr ^C + # fsck -y /dev/rwd0a check the integrity of the root file system + ** /dev/rwd0a + ** Last Mounted on / + ** Root file system + ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes + ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames + ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity + ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts + ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups + 1064 files, 8190 used, 6913 free (61 frags, 1713 blocks, 0.4% fragmentation) + # mount -u / remount root file system read/write + # mount /usr mount any other file systems you need + + To leave single user mode and enter multi user mode, unmount any additional file + systems you have mounted and enter CTRL-D: + + # umount /usr + # ^D + Skipping file system checks... + (the rest of the boot sequence) > 4. Copy /usr/bin/tcsh to /bin: > > cp -p /usr/bin/tcsh /bin OK, I lied. This guy used another shell. You need to copy /usr/local/bin/bash to /bin/bash. > 5. Do the rest of the stuff (umount and ^D). > > 6. Before logging off your window, check you can still log in as root > from another virtual screen. > > That'll-teach-you-ing you what > Grog > So I can't get to vi..hrmm what to do next..create a new root user maybe.. > echo "" >> passwd > echo "> master.passwd > > Seemed to work fine..guess I will reboot the server now and login as mojo now. > > When I reboot the machine...the kernel gives me lines of ridiculous errors > chmod after chmod.. > And then it tells me that it can't start a system daemon called "cronblah" > And FINALLY it comes up claiming that its no longer www.dancooks.com ..now > its just (Amnesiac). > > Now if someone could please tell me how APPENDING a line to the passwd and > master.passwd files could TOTALLY screw up my machine..I would be grateful. > If someone could tell me how to fix this TOTALLY screwed up machine I > would be even more greatful. What puzzles me is how you managed to add anything to either file if you weren't root. In any case, you shouldn't write anything in /etc/passwd: to create a new /etc/passwd, you modify /etc/master.passwd and run pwd_mkdb. The easy way to do this is with vipw, which does it for you, but you need to be root to do so. > I admit most of this garbage is probably due to my lack of experience with > FreeBSD...I have used slackware for a long time and never had these kinds > of difficulties..but I wanted to use FreeBSD for its great network stability. You would run into exactly the same problems if you did this to Linux (OK, I believe you *can* edit /etc/passwd on Linux, but it's still not the thing to do). > I really want to get this FreeBSD up, running, & stable as a permanent web > server for my company..I think its a great OS made by great people. But its > just so volatile, that if it breaks..I have a really hard time fixing it. Once you've got your machine up in single user mode, and have /usr mounted, run vipw. You probably want to undo your changes. If there is anything wrong with it, vipw will tell you. You'll need to explicitly set the TERM environment variable to run vipw: TERM=cons25 export TERM If that doesn't help, let me know. Greg From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 09:51:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA00736 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 09:51:55 -0800 (PST) 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 JAA00720 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 09:51:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from holonet.net (root@guardian.holonet.net [198.207.169.11]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id IAA08625 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 08:57:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from cybercou (root@localhost) by holonet.net with UUCP id IAA14833; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 08:56:07 -0800 Received: from cybercou by cyber-coupon.com with uucp id D44uU; Sun 24 Nov 1996 11:54:31 -0500 From: gw@cyber-coupon.com (gw) Reply-To: gw@cyber-coupon.com Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 11:54:29 -0500 Priority: Normal X-Reader: UUPlus Lite for DOS 2.01 Subject: question To: questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <9611241154.D44uU@cyber-coupon.com> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Thanks for your previous help. I got another hard drive to make freebsd more at home, got it installed, got it configured to unix, got the basic config installed. Now it will not take my password. Do I have to reinstall. Also what might you suggest for a quuick study on unix? I got the Walnut creek freebsd book, and the Unix Guide for Idiots (HA!). thanks gary woodward From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 09:55:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA01092 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 09:55:12 -0800 (PST) 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 JAA01070 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 09:54:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from tippy2.vnet.net (tippy2.vnet.net [166.82.197.240]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id IAA08440 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 08:06:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (cmadison@localhost) by tippy2.vnet.net (8.8.2/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA22268 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 11:05:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 11:05:10 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Madison To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: socket(), PF_ROUTE, SOCK_RAW question Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello freebsd ppl! I've been trying to understand some of the arp code in relation to why I get the cannot intuit message when adding a host via arp -s. Basically in arp.c, function rtmsg(), a socket is written to and read from. Socket(2) is called with the PF_ROUTE, SOCK_RAW options earlier in the code; contained in function getsocket(). Okay, now I know the buffer being written to the socket contains the correct information in the field that I am interested in, but after the read the info is no longer there. The # bytes written is 108 and the amount read is 128, which is the struct rt_msghdr size. Finally to my question, what goes on when the socket is written to? More specifically is the info processed in any way so that when the read is executed the info should be changed????? Or in short, am I to expect to read something from the socket that I didn't write????? Please respond to me directly b/c I'm not subbed at this time. TIA, Chris From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 10:01:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA01891 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:01:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from access.kuwait.net (root@access.kuwait.net [194.54.234.234]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA01820 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:01:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost(really [199.173.153.182]) by access.kuwait.net via sendmail with smtp (ident shadows using rfc1413) id for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 20:59:28 +0300 (GMT) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #16 built 1996-Aug-3) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 21:01:54 +0200 (GMT) From: Thamer Al-Herbish X-Sender: shadows@localhost To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keeping users from bind'ing to ports In-Reply-To: <199611230016.SAA06854@main.gbdata.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 Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Gary Clark II wrote: > David Langford wrote: > > > > Is there a way of keeping some users from being able to run programs > > that bind to ports over 1024? (i.e. to keep users from running servers) > I don't know any of doing ths except maybe > with IP firewall. Anyone else? A while back I wrote a hack that basically ran netstat for all listening ports, then did a reverse ident query to find out which users where running what on what port. There's one problem there, you only know userX ran something on port xxxx. I realy wouldnt do this, you have to realise there are programs at user level that bind to a port. FTP comes to mind where the client opens up an additional port to get the data from. Ofcourse like I mentioned earlier userX running on port xxx, not a pid number there. Look into pidentd and check their code for FreeBSD, how they query the kernel for the open ports etc. The best solution is to use an ip firewall, run all ftp/http/etc through a proxy. -- Thamer Al-Herbish shadows@whitefang.com shadows@kuwait.net -=WhiteFang UNIX Software Development and Consultancy=- From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 10:03:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA02051 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:03:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from jtnet.com (jtnet.com [165.254.156.252]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA02028 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:02:57 -0800 (PST) Organization: Just The Net (div. of Onesimus Enterprises Int'l Inc) Received: (from root@localhost) by jtnet.com (8.8.3/8.8.3) id NAA02158; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 13:02:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 13:02:53 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199611241802.NAA02158@jtnet.com> To: questions@freebsd.org X-URL: http://www.freebsd.org/support.html X-Mailer: Lynx, Version 2.5FM X-Personal_name: John Chin From: jjchin@onesimus.com Subject: http://www.freebsd.org/support.html Cc: jjchin@onesimus.com Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have 2 Western Digital EIDE 2.5GB drives in my FreeBSD 2.1.5 system. Every so often my second drive generates the following error message. wd: interrupt timeout: wd1: status 58 error 0 wd1: interrupt timeout: wd1: status 50 error 1 What does this mean? BTW, I've tried reversing the two drives and reinstalled everything ... same thing occurs. One more note, the system was originally 2.1.0 and I upgraded the kernel. Does anyone else seem to have this problem? Thanks. -- JC From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 10:05:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA02397 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:05:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from jtnet.com (jtnet.com [165.254.156.252]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA02336 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:04:57 -0800 (PST) Organization: Just The Net (div. of Onesimus Enterprises Int'l Inc) Received: (from root@localhost) by jtnet.com (8.8.3/8.8.3) id NAA02164; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 13:04:56 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 13:04:56 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199611241804.NAA02164@jtnet.com> To: questions@freebsd.org X-URL: http://www.freebsd.org/support.html X-Mailer: Lynx, Version 2.5FM X-Personal_name: John Chin From: jjchin@onesimus.com Subject: http://www.freebsd.org/support.html Cc: jjchin@onesimus.com Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Is there anywhere I can download the kernel source like I can for Linux? Basically all the necessary source files in one tar file? I'm looking to upgrade to 2.1.6 but I don't want to have to buy another copy of FreeBSD on CD. Thanks. PS -- Please reply CC's to me 'cause I'm not on the mailling list, yet. Thanks again. -- JC From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 10:08:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA02686 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:08:04 -0800 (PST) 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 KAA02646 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:07:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (brosenga.st.pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with ESMTP id FAA07876 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 05:01:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA00320; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 04:59:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 04:59:00 -0800 (PST) From: Levels of Indirection Reply-To: benedict@echonyc.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: X looking for /dev/ttyv4 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY="0-1318135558-848840340=:235" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. --0-1318135558-848840340=:235 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII When I attempt to start X, I get the following error: > Fatal server error: > xf86OpenSyscons: Cannot open /dev/ttyv4 (No such file or directory) > > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). I tried cd'ing to /dev and running ./MAKEDEV ttyv4, but I just get > ttyv4 - no such device name Attached is a copy of my ttys file, in case that is significant. Your help would be much appreciated. 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No, thanks! In-Reply-To: <3298194F.41C67EA6@scotty.masternet.it> References: <3298194F.41C67EA6@scotty.masternet.it> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Beck Peccoz Amedeo writes: > Please answer to me directly as I'm not linked to this mailing list. > > Tired of windows bugs and brain damaged MS products I'd like to move > _definitely_ to FreeBSD, and all I miss are a spreadsheet and a > word processing progs. > For the spreadsheet I've only found XQuad which is horribly bugous > and lacks a lot of functionalities (compared to Excel). Anyoune > ever used anything better? > WingZ seems to run nicely under Linux emulation of Freebsd 2.1.5R Pete From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 10:10:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA03110 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:10:43 -0800 (PST) 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 KAA03079 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:10:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from wopr.ife.no ([128.39.4.129]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id DAA07591 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 03:46:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from stein@localhost) by wopr.ife.no (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA16249 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 12:18:44 +0100 Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 12:18:44 +0100 From: "Stein M. Sandbech" Message-Id: <199611241118.MAA16249@wopr.ife.no> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: TI 4000WinDX notebook install, with Q's Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, freebsd'ers. Just a couple of weeks ago I completed a FreeBSD 2.1.5 install on a Texas Instruments TM 4000 WinDX2 50MHz notebook. It has a 810MB AIDE disk and 8MB RAM. It works like charm now, but I had some problems during the install phase that I thought I would share, and some questions arise. 1'st the install phase. I made the boot disk on my Dual Pentium (IX) off the 2.1.5 WC CD. The TI booted OK. I proceeded to configure the disk (all disk space allocated to FreeBSD). In the meantime I had connected the TI to my network, with an interlink cable, to the PPro200 (DUNE). The plan was to access IX over the network, which had the SCSI CD-ROM at the time. I have used this procedure with several other brands of notebooks earlier, with success. I went through the process of configuring the parallel port device (lp0) on the TI with DUNE's IP address and got an instant error message: "Cannot configure device lp0", even if the boot process had reported the parallel port as "TCP/IP capable interface". I tried several times, even doing an "ifconfig lp0 " had no effect. I then proceeded to make the bin floppy distribution on MS-DOS formatted diskettes. After the dismal process of producing the diskettes, I began the installation anew. The TI notebook booted OK, but when I inserted the first floppy, the machine just hung on the floppy disk seek indefinitely. When I released the BIN floppy, I got a prompt reply that the install program had detected that the floppy had been removed. I got NO other error messages on the debug screen, or on the console. I repeated this a couple of times, and checking that all the files was on the floppies and that the catalog structure was right. It was. I must admit that I nearly gave up at the time, but I figured I just test a DOS partition install, which I had not used before. I set the disk up with 50MB and DOS 6.22 and the rest to FreeBSD, loaded the BIN floppies to "C:\FREEBSD\BIN". Proceeded to boot on the same FreeBSD boot floppy, specified a DOS partition install in the MEDIA menu, and presto, I had an operative FreeBSD on the TI notebook! And wonders of wonders, when I tested the "laplink" connection to DUNE, it also worked, so I proceeded to fetch the rest of the distribution with a standard NFS install over lp0. To conclude, the infamous floppy disk on the TI works as a charm now :->>> So, to the questions: 1. Is there something I have missed in the 2.1.5 install procedure related to "laplink" installs over lp ports? (I forgot to mention that all the other "laplink" installs I have done was with FreeBSD 2.0.5 and 2.0) 2. Is there any known problems with floppy disks "going to sleep on you" during the install phase? Comments on this, anyone? Best regards, Stein M. Sandbech steinms@sn.no | stein@wopr.ife.no FreeBSD enthusiast. http://www.sn.no/~steinms/ From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 10:55:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA05202 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:55:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from bighorn.accessnv.com (jca@bighorn.accessnv.com [206.29.25.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA05185 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:55:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jca@localhost) by bighorn.accessnv.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA28480; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:56:11 -0800 Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 10:56:10 -0800 (PST) From: "J.C. Archambeau" To: questions@freebsd.com Subject: 3Com 3C579 and 3C592... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Doug, Do you know anything about how these boards work with FreeBSD? I'm particular interested if one or both of these boards work in enhanced EISA mode under FreeBSD. It has been vaguely mentioned that the 3C579 is supported in a few online supported hardware summaries, but not a whole lot else is mentioned. Locating supported ISA or PCI NICs is not a problem, but EISA boards running in enhanced EISA mode is another story. Thanks, JCA -- /* ** Internet: jca@accessnv.com | Don't blame me, I didn't vote for Clinton. ** jca@anv.net */ From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 11:22:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA06834 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 11:22:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from dyson.iquest.net ([198.70.144.127]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA06827 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 11:22:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.2/8.6.9) id OAA01206; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:21:51 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199611241921.OAA01206@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: http://www.freebsd.org/support.html To: jjchin@onesimus.com Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:21:50 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199611241804.NAA02164@jtnet.com> from "jjchin@onesimus.com" at Nov 24, 96 01:04:56 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8] 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 anywhere I can download the kernel source like I can for Linux? > Basically all the necessary source files in one tar file? > I'm looking to upgrade to 2.1.6 but I don't want to have to buy another > copy of FreeBSD on CD. Thanks. > Try ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src and do a: get sys.tar.gz This will get the current kernel tree (about 6 or so meg)... If you forage around a bit, you can also find the 2.2-ALPHA and 2.1.6 stuff also... John dyson@freebsd.org From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 12:04:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA09080 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 12:04:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from gvr.win.tue.nl (root@gvr.win.tue.nl [131.155.210.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA08991; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 12:04:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from guido@localhost) by gvr.win.tue.nl (8.8.2 with smtp patch/8.8.2) id VAA00708; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 21:03:48 +0100 (MET) From: Guido van Rooij Message-Id: <199611242003.VAA00708@gvr.win.tue.nl> Subject: Re: 3C900 - 3C590 - 3C595 - SMC and PCI ethernet cards ??? In-Reply-To: <199611221456.RAA23985@megillah.demos.su> from "Mikhail A. Sokolov" at "Nov 22, 96 05:56:56 pm" To: mishania@demos.su Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 21:03:48 +0100 (MET) Cc: mango@communique.net, freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org, hardware@freefall.freebsd.org, bag@demos.su 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 Mikhail A. Sokolov wrote: > > Raul Zighelboim wrote: > > > Questions: > > > What PCI Ethernet card is solid and has good support under FBSD? > > > Is it possible to get this 3C900 card working under 2.1.5 ? > There doesn't exist _good_ driver in 2.1.5r, 2.1.6r for 3c590/595, but there > is _good_ and even working driver in -current tree/2.2-ALPHA tree. > Not true. The one in 2.1.6 is the same as the on in -current. The one in 2.1.5 is indeed broken. Therefor I mentioned where to find a replacement,, -Guido From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 12:47:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA10949 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 12:47:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (root@cisigw.coppe.ufrj.br [146.164.2.31]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA10940 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 12:47:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jonny@localhost) by gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA17359; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 18:46:58 -0200 (EDT) From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Message-Id: <199611242046.SAA17359@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.6 is now available. To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 18:46:58 -0200 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <27979.848158993@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Nov 16, 96 07:43:13 am" 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 An old mail isn't it ? :) #define quoting(Jordan K. Hubbard) // FreeBSD 2.1.6 is now available in: // ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.6-RELEASE ... // If you are a commercial user of FreeBSD who would like to take // advantage of recent bug fixes without making the jump to our more // ambitious 2.2 release (or delay that jump until 2.2 has had more time // to mature), or if you're simply looking for the lowest-impact upgrade // from 2.1.5, then 2.1.6-RELEASE is for you. // // Following are the release notes for 2.1.6: // // // RELEASE NOTES // FreeBSD Release 2.1.6 RELEASE // // 0. What is this release? // ------------------------ // FreeBSD 2.1.6R is the follow-on release to 2.1.5R and focuses primarily // on fixing bugs, closing security holes and making the system easier to // install than 2.1.5. // // For more information on our bleeding-edge development, please see // http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/current.html. // // // 1. What's New since 2.1.0-RELEASE? // ---------------------------------- // Quite a few things have changed since the last major release // of FreeBSD. To make it easier to identify specific changes, // we've broken them into several major categories: ... Most of this seens to be copied from 2.1.5-R, and states differences from 2.1.0-R. What are the differences from 2.1.5-R ? The installer is really better (there's still a bug in the dialog menu) but I didn't feel any other difference. Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@gta.ufrj.br +55 21 290-4698 ( Job ) jonny@cisi.coppe.ufrj.br Network Manager UFRJ/COPPE/CISI Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 13:51:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA13734 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 13:51:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from diamond.xtalwind.net (diamond.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA13728 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 13:51:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (slipper15b.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.80]) by diamond.xtalwind.net (8.8.3/8.8.2) with SMTP id QAA22117; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 16:51:01 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 16:51:01 -0500 (EST) From: jack X-Sender: jack@localhost To: jjchin@onesimus.com cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: http://www.freebsd.org/support.html In-Reply-To: <199611241802.NAA02158@jtnet.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, 24 Nov 1996 jjchin@onesimus.com wrote: > I have 2 Western Digital EIDE 2.5GB drives in my FreeBSD 2.1.5 system. > Every so often my second drive generates the following error message. > > wd: interrupt timeout: > wd1: status 58 error 0 > wd1: interrupt timeout: > wd1: status 50 error 1 > > What does this mean? BTW, I've tried reversing the two drives and > reinstalled everything ... same thing occurs. > > One more note, the system was originally 2.1.0 and I upgraded the kernel. > Does anyone else seem to have this problem? Yes. It started for me after I installed the new motherboard. No matter how I set the BIOS or which OS I'm running, FreeBSD, OS/2, or Lose95, the damned APM powers down the drives. Solution? I'm accepting any and all contributions to my SCSI fund. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@onyx.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 14:12:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA14789 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:12:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from inga.augusta.de (root@inga.augusta.de [193.175.23.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA14733 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:11:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from rabbit by inga.augusta.de with uucp (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0vRmiK-004cs5C; Sun, 24 Nov 96 23:07 MET Received: by rabbit.augusta.de (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0vRjRs-000A0GC; Sun, 24 Nov 96 19:38 MET Message-Id: Date: Sun, 24 Nov 96 19:38 MET X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 Organization: Privat Site running FreeBSD References: <199611230551.NAA01382@pluto.ca.com.au> From: shanee@rabbit.augusta.de (Andreas Kohout) Subject: Re: X Windows Problem X-Original-Newsgroups: muc.lists.freebsd.questions In-Reply-To: <199611230551.NAA01382@pluto.ca.com.au> To: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <199611230551.NAA01382@pluto.ca.com.au>, aquadyn@ca.com.au (Aquadynamics Pty Ltd) writes: > run the program, this only works if I am in the directory /usr/X11R6/bin > and I type ./startx. Even if I type it there it says that it can't find > xinit, Do you know what the problem is? Any advice you could give me > would be appreciated! check your PATH: echo $PATH and add /usr/X11R6/bin in your shell startup script (fore example ~/.cshrc or ~/.profile) -- Greeting, Andy running FreeBSD-current --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 14:12:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA14798 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:12:20 -0800 (PST) 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 OAA14744 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:11:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from inga.augusta.de (root@inga.augusta.de [193.175.23.65]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id OAA09106 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:11:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from rabbit by inga.augusta.de with uucp (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0vRmiJ-004cs6C; Sun, 24 Nov 96 23:07 MET Received: by rabbit.augusta.de (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0vRjOs-000A0GC; Sun, 24 Nov 96 19:35 MET Message-Id: Date: Sun, 24 Nov 96 19:35 MET X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 Organization: Privat Site running FreeBSD References: <3295D1FB.5E2E4579@ufr.lirmm.fr> From: shanee@rabbit.augusta.de (Andreas Kohout) Subject: Re: problems with FreeBSD X-Original-Newsgroups: muc.lists.freebsd.questions In-Reply-To: <3295D1FB.5E2E4579@ufr.lirmm.fr> To: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <3295D1FB.5E2E4579@ufr.lirmm.fr>, borki@ufr.lirmm.fr (BORKI) writes: > 1- how can I give a name to my host like: toto.tata.fr and not: > myname.my.domaine ? in /etc/sysconfig # Set to the name of your host - this is pretty important! hostname=rabbit and in /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.augusta.de localhost 127.0.0.1 rabbit.augusta.de rabbit acording to your needs > 2- I wanted to enable the linux emulator and make the kernel reconize my > sound card, so I make a new kernel. The linux emulator works, but for > the sound card, I can read in the startup > > sb0: > sbmid : not found in H330 ( or something like that) > > why sbmid don't works ? is your SB a Plug´n´Play? Or is MIDI raelly configured to 0x330? I use a SB Pro without MIDI, so I can´t check it ... > After that I do: > > /dev/MAKEDEV all I don´t know, in my /dev there is for example brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 0x00020002 19 Okt 15:34 wd0s1 brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 0x00020000 19 Okt 15:34 wd0s1a brw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 0x00020001 19 Okt 15:34 wd0s1b /dev/MAKEDEV all removes oll the old devices, try to start in single user mode, cd to /dev and do a ./MAKEDEV all, then do a ./MAKEDEV wd1s1e and check th devices, than do a ./MAKEDEV snd* ... Take a look at /dev/MAKEDEV ... Hope that helps ... -- Greeting, Andy running FreeBSD-current --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 14:12:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA14817 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:12:29 -0800 (PST) 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 OAA14760 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:12:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from inga.augusta.de (root@inga.augusta.de [193.175.23.65]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id OAA09110 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:11:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from rabbit by inga.augusta.de with uucp (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0vRmiJ-004cs3C; Sun, 24 Nov 96 23:07 MET Received: by rabbit.augusta.de (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0vRjCd-000A0GC; Sun, 24 Nov 96 19:22 MET Message-Id: X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Am I Missing Something? In-Reply-To: <3294E418.5C4D@tiac.net> X-url: http://www.augusta.de/~shanee/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 19:22:51 +0100 From: Andreas Kohout Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, In article <3294E418.5C4D@tiac.net>, kbarker@tiac.net (Keith Barker) writes: > My problem is that I'm trying to install XFree86 which came on the same > CD-ROM as the FreeBSD os (2.1.5). Following the instructions in the book > seems to have put all the files on the disk. However, after following > all the steps to install the software, XFree86 will not start. I've > followed the steps for an "automatic" installation, and I have also > configured XFree86 manually by following the instructions in the book, > with no results. Any suggestions? how do you start X, with startx or xdm? Try startx >& ~/.X.out (csh) and look at X.out. Are there any errors? Do you run xf86config and tried to run X -probeonly, errors? -- Gruß, Andy -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Der Mensch hat die Atombombe erfunden, eine Maus würde niemals eine Mausefalle bauen! shanee@rabbit.augusta.de Zirbelnußtown __________________________________________________________________________ From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 14:13:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA14900 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:13:20 -0800 (PST) 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 OAA14877 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:12:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from inga.augusta.de (inga.augusta.de [193.175.23.65]) by who.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.11) with SMTP id OAA09114 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:12:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from rabbit by inga.augusta.de with uucp (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0vRmiI-004cs0C; Sun, 24 Nov 96 23:07 MET Received: by rabbit.augusta.de (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0vRj30-000A0GC; Sun, 24 Nov 96 19:12 MET Message-Id: Date: Sun, 24 Nov 96 19:12 MET X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 Organization: Privat Site running FreeBSD References: <199611212118.NAA10031@athena.tera.com> From: shanee@rabbit.augusta.de (Andreas Kohout) Subject: Re: finalcial-ware for uNix X-Original-Newsgroups: muc.lists.freebsd.questions In-Reply-To: <199611212118.NAA10031@athena.tera.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <199611212118.NAA10031@athena.tera.com>, kline@tera.com (Gary Kline) writes: > === > > http://www.menet.umn.edu/~clolson/cbb (Curtis L. Olsen) works fine, I use 0.65 > http://www.iesd.auc.dk/~lupus/xfinans.html (Niels C. Larsen) no problem while compiling > Announcing the release of Xinvest 2.2. (v2.2 released on 11nov96) > Xinvest is a personal finance tracking and performance tool. > (Requires Motif.) Perhaps we could port this with Lesstif...? I tried 2.0.1, (with Motif 2.0), no problem ... -- Greeting, Andy running FreeBSD-current --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 14:13:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA14901 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:13:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA14874 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:12:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from inga.augusta.de by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA11626 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:13:30 -0800 Received: from rabbit by inga.augusta.de with uucp (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0vRmiK-004cs7C; Sun, 24 Nov 96 23:07 MET Received: by rabbit.augusta.de (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0vRjZN-000A0GC; Sun, 24 Nov 96 19:46 MET Message-Id: Date: Sun, 24 Nov 96 19:46 MET X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 Organization: Privat Site running FreeBSD References: From: shanee@rabbit.augusta.de (Andreas Kohout) Subject: Re: why can't boot (using 2.1.5-RELEASE) X-Original-Newsgroups: muc.lists.freebsd.questions In-Reply-To: To: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article , root@swd.928.com.tw (SWD in NSYSU Multimedia Lab.) writes: > I had install my Freebsd by CDROM , and install it in a SCSI disk on > AHA 2940 but I find it can't boot after install it sucessfually > but I am sure I had install the boot manage... and if I use osbs to > boot it, it is still can't boot .. > > What is the wrong ????????????? is youre SCSI disk the only one or do you have also a IDE? If so, go to your BIOS and remove it while running FreeBSD, or type at the startup boot: sd(0,a)/kernel check /usr/share/doc/handbook/handbook.[asci,htm]: 2. Installing FreeBSD [...] 4. With the installation disk in the A: drive, reboot your computer. You should get a boot prompt something like this: >> FreeBSD BOOT ... Usage: [[[0:][wd](0,a)]/kernel][-abcCdhrsv] Use 1:sd(0,a)kernel to boot sd0 if it is BIOS drive 1 Use ? for file list or press Enter for defaults Boot: If you do not type anything, FreeBSD will automatically boot with its default configuration after a delay of about five seconds. As FreeBSD boots, it probes your computer to determine what hardware is installed. The results of this probing is displayed on the screen. -- Greeting, Andy running FreeBSD-current --------------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 14:19:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA15187 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:19:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from dira.bris.ac.uk (dira.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA15164 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:18:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from kukini.cs.bris.ac.uk by dira.bris.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Sun, 24 Nov 1996 22:18:48 +0000 Received: from maxx by kukini.compsci.bristol.ac.uk id aa23393; 24 Nov 96 22:18 GMT Received: from localhost by maxx.cs.bris.ac.uk (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id WAA09186; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 22:18:30 GMT To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: broken NIS code in libc.so.2.2 Reply-To: David.Hedley@bristol.ac.uk X-Address: Computer Science Dept., University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K. X-Work-Phone: +44 (117) 954 5106 X-Attribution: Dave Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 22:18:30 +0000 Message-ID: <9185.848873910@maxx> From: David Hedley Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi there, I've just upgraded my system from 2.1.0-RELEASE to 2.1.6-RELEASE (I did a complete reinstall), and I have noticed that the new C library seems to have broken NIS support. The symptoms are as follows: ypbind binds properly and I can ypcat etc no problem. Also 'ls' and friends have no problem converting UIDs to usernames via the NIS maps. However, programs like login, finger etc refuse to use NIS when looking up usernames, and hence noone in the NIS database can log in! After switching to libc.so.2.0, 'finger' worked fine (apart from the ld.so warnings about incorrect version numbers). Is there some cunning option I have to enable in 2.1.6 that I've missed, or is the code truely broken? Does anyone have a (temporary) solution? David -- David Hedley (David.Hedley@bris.ac.uk) finger hedley@cs.bris.ac.uk for PGP key Computer Graphics Group | University of Bristol | UK From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 14:43:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA16392 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:43:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA16385 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:42:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.2/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA03442; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:43:00 -0800 (PST) To: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.6 is now available. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 24 Nov 1996 18:46:58 -0200." <199611242046.SAA17359@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:43:00 -0800 Message-ID: <3439.848875380@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > An old mail isn't it ? :) > > #define quoting(Jordan K. Hubbard) > // FreeBSD 2.1.6 is now available in: > // ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.1.6-RELEASE No, I sent this quite recently.. > Most of this seens to be copied from 2.1.5-R, and states differences from > 2.1.0-R. What are the differences from 2.1.5-R ? The installer is really > better (there's still a bug in the dialog menu) but I didn't feel any other > difference. I don't really know - I've long since lost track of what changed when, and someone with more distance from the problem would probably be able to answer that better. These releases have, for me, become an indistinct blur and I don't even _try_ to answer that question anymore. :-) JOrdan From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 14:52:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA16860 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:52:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay-11.mail.demon.net (relay-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.137]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA16828 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:52:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from ccompute.demon.co.uk ([194.222.50.108]) by relay-10.mail.demon.net id aa1013998; 24 Nov 96 22:32 GMT Message-ID: <8m6x6AAhmMmyEwE2@ccompute.demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 22:18:09 +0000 To: questions@freebsd.org From: "Arthur J. Constantine" Subject: Novice, 2.1.5, 2940Ultra and SNAP disk, help MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Version 1.12 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi I am trying to install freebsd 2.1.5 on my computer with the SNAP disk 2.2-961014 (due to 2940 Ultra disk controller). At Boot I get the following inconsistancy : Boot@0x10000: 640/65472k I have 128K of memory. After booting the Kernel I go into the visual editor and remove all the unwanted drivers leaving (fdc0,lpt0,sio0,sio1,sc0,all PCI, and piix0 an unknown device, which if removed causes a reboot). I then go into the OPTIONS editor and change the Release name from 2.2- 961014-SNAP to 2.1.5-RELEASE and set the Media type to CDROM. then chose the Novice setup and set the geometry to get the C=> Flags, choose BootMgr,and then Auto for the Disk label editor, then minimal dist. and having answered Yes carry on, it then does : newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 /mnt/dev/rsd0 .. and then: extracting bin into / directory ... this get through to: "Saving any boot -c changes to new Kernel ..." at which point I get plastered across the screen "Fatal signal 11 caught! I'm dead .." I have the following Hardware set-up : TMC Motherboard : Pentium 166, 128K EDO RAM, 512K cache. (tried 64K, 256K Cache) AHA - 2940 AU PCI SCSI Controller Soundblaster AWE PnP,(ISA) (Tried removing this). Trident 9000 VGA card.(ISA) Harddrive Micropolis 1991AV 9.1 GB Dos installed on a 1GByte partition. Q. Can you tell me what I am doing wrong? Q. What is fatal signal 11, is this IRQ 11, or is it to do with S/W? Q. What should I do to overcome this problem? Many thanks in advance for any assistance. E-mail: arthur.constantine@ccompute.demon.co.uk -- Arthur J. Constantine From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 15:00:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA17269 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 15:00:12 -0800 (PST) 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 OAA17208 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:59:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA05600; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 23:59:14 +0100 (MET) From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199611242259.XAA05600@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: X looking for /dev/ttyv4 In-Reply-To: from Levels of Indirection at "24. Nov. 96 4:56:52" To: benedict@echonyc.com Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 23:59:13 +0100 (MET) 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 > I tried cd'ing to /dev and running ./MAKEDEV ttyv4, but I just get > > > ttyv4 - no such device name Gotcha ! Use ./MAKEDEV vty5 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 Nov 24 15:10:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA17971 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 15:10:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from dira.bris.ac.uk (dira.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA17965 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 15:10:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from kukini.cs.bris.ac.uk by dira.bris.ac.uk with SMTP (PP); Sun, 24 Nov 1996 23:10:32 +0000 Received: from maxx by kukini.compsci.bristol.ac.uk id aa23617; 24 Nov 96 23:10 GMT Received: from localhost by maxx.cs.bris.ac.uk (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id XAA09202; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 23:10:38 GMT To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: re: Broken NIS code in libc.so.2.2 Reply-To: David.Hedley@bristol.ac.uk X-Address: Computer Science Dept., University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K. X-Work-Phone: +44 (117) 954 5106 X-Attribution: Dave Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 23:10:38 +0000 Message-ID: <9201.848877038@maxx> From: David Hedley Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello again. After further investigation it appears that installing the 2.1.0 compatibility option overwrites /usr/lib/libc.so.2.2 with another version - one with broken NIS code by the looks of things. Re-extracting libc.so.2.2 from the bin distribution cured the problem. David -- David Hedley (David.Hedley@bris.ac.uk) finger hedley@cs.bris.ac.uk for PGP key Computer Graphics Group | University of Bristol | UK p.s. Any idea why stty echoe doesn't work anymore, or is there a more cunning way of getting the current erase character to actually erase on screen instead of just printing loads of ^H/^? From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 15:28:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA19379 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 15:28:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from shaft.unicus.ca ([207.167.211.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA19369 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 15:28:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from quest@localhost) by shaft.unicus.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA02124; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 17:05:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 17:05:45 -0500 (EST) From: Dan McCaffrey To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Script Question Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greetings All! I have a FreeBSD 2.1.5 Box connected by ISDN service to my ISP. Unfortunately my ISPs router is configured to clear connections that have been inactive for 10 minutes. Right now I have set cron to ping a host outside of my network every 5 minutes in order to keep the connection alive. As you could guess my root mailbox gets filled up pretty quick with the results from the ping. Is there a way that I could set up a script that is loaded at startup, runs in the background and pings a host every 5 minutes, without having to involve cron? Thank you in advance! Dan From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 15:40:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA20224 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 15:40:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from mh004.infi.net (mh004.infi.net [198.22.1.119]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA20194 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 15:40:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from default by mh004.infi.net with SMTP (Infinet-S-3.3) id SAA05863; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 18:40:27 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19961124183932.0069d4f0@ekx.infi.net> X-Sender: eggman@ekx.infi.net (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 18:39:37 -0500 To: questions@freebsd.org From: eggman Subject: freebsd Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="=====================_848896777==_" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk --=====================_848896777==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Is it better than linux, I just ordered the attached cdroms.It was too good a deal to passup, if you wanted to try it. 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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA= --=====================_848896777==_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" --=====================_848896777==_-- From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 16:25:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA22517 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 16:25:02 -0800 (PST) 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 QAA22503 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 16:24:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA05765; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 01:23:51 +0100 (MET) From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199611250023.BAA05765@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: Script Question In-Reply-To: from Dan McCaffrey at "24. Nov. 96 17:02:49" To: quest@shaft.unicus.ca (Dan McCaffrey) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 01:23:49 +0100 (MET) 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 > > Greetings All! I have a FreeBSD 2.1.5 Box connected by ISDN service to my > ISP. Unfortunately my ISPs router is configured to clear connections that > have been inactive for 10 minutes. Right now I have set cron to ping a > host outside of my network every 5 minutes in order to keep the > connection alive. As you could guess my root mailbox gets filled up > pretty quick with the results from the ping. Is there a way that I could > set up a script that is loaded at startup, runs in the background and > pings a host every 5 minutes, without having to involve cron? Thank you > in advance! Have a look at the man page ping(8): You can use ping -i 300 This will send every 300s a packet. 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 Nov 24 16:34:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA22961 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 16:34:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from matrix.binary.net (root@matrix.binary.net [205.183.56.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA22953 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 16:34:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from P5-133.binary.net (lnk-ppp-14.binary.net [205.183.56.34]) by matrix.binary.net (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id SAA22461 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 18:37:21 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <3298EABD.4E1C@binary.net> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 18:39:25 -0600 From: Bill Hilburn X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Pre 2.1.5 Installation question Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello Everyone ! I have a brand new computer to install FreeBSD 2.1.5 onto and I am slightly confused. Gateway P-5 166 MHz., 32 MB RAM, EIDE 2.0 GB Hard Drive This Gateway P-5 166 BIOS does not have a selection for LBA/Normal/Auto it does not even have an entry for Cyl./HDs/SPT so I am not sure how or where the 2.0 GB drive is being translated. It is loaded with Win95 only. I have setup a 1.5 GB partition for Win95 and have a 500 MB partition for FreeBSD but FreeBSD is not reccognizing the translation. Any Ideas what I should set where ? Thanks Bill Hilburn billh@binary.net From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 17:02:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA24552 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 17:02:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA24533 for FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 17:02:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 17:02:02 -0800 (PST) From: Greg Lehey Message-Id: <199611250102.RAA24533@freefall.freebsd.org> To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions 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 Nov 24 17:02:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA24558 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 17:02:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA24538 for FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 17:02:02 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 17:02:02 -0800 (PST) From: Greg Lehey Message-Id: <199611250102.RAA24538@freefall.freebsd.org> To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Errata and addenda in "The Complete FreeBSD" Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Since going to press, a number of anomalies have surfaced with the book "The Complete FreeBSD", published by Walnut Creek. The following is a list of modifications which go beyond simple typos. If you have this book, please check this list. If you find a bug or a suspected bug in the book, please contact me (grog@freebsd.org). --- Last change: 20 November 1996 --- Figure 10-4, page 172: The devices in the FreeBSD slice are called /dev/sd1s2a through /dev/sd1s2h, not /dev/sd1s3a through /dev/sd1s3h as shown. Figure 10-6, page 176: The devices in the FreeBSD slice are *still* called /dev/sd1s2a through /dev/sd1s2h, not /dev/sd1s1a through /dev/sd1s1h as shown. (Well, at least the average turned out right :-) The man page section (pages 225 to 766) was sorted by ASCII name of the man page, with the result that the man pages whose names start with upper-case letters come before those whose names start with lower-case letters. Sorry about that. If you're looking for a man page, probably the best place to start is in the Table of Contents on page vi. The man pages are really just excerpts. The total FreeBSD man pages format to some 6,000 pages, far more than I could possibly put in this book. --- Changes: 1 November 1996 --- Major changes: 1. No difference in installation from ATAPI CD-ROM drives. When "The Complete FreeBSD" was written, you still needed a separate installation procedure for installing from ATAPI CD-ROM drives. This is no longer the case. The following modifications to the text come as a result: Page 14, table: Remove references to atapiflp.bat and inst_ide.bat. FreeBSD 2.1.5 no longer has separate boot floppies and installation procedures for ATAPI CD-ROM drives. Page 29: Remove the text "You will also need a different boot disk (/cdrom/floppies/atapi.flp). If you are creating the boot floppy with MS-DOS, you can use the file ATAPIFLP.BAT to create the floppy." The resultant text reads: IDE CD-ROM drives, more properly called ATAPI CD-ROM drives, are a new kind of CD-ROM drive which connect to the same controller as your IDE hard disk. Currently, FreeBSD 2.1.5 support for ATAPI CD-ROM drives is in alpha test. In order to install from an ATAPI CD-ROM, the drive must be jumpered as slave device. The installation may or may not work--please let us know if it doesn't, especially if you can give us some indication about the cause of the trouble. You can also create this boot diskette with the aid of the VIEW program (see Chapter 4, Installing FreeBSD, page 38). Page 35: Remove the points referring to atapi.flp. The text for the third box from the bottom of the page should read: If the direct boot doesn't work, you will need to make a boot floppy, which may be either a 3 1/2" or a 5 1/4" diskette. Create a boot floppy by copying the image /cdrom/boot.flp to diskette. Refer to Chapter 2, Installing FreeBSD, page 39. If you have an IDE (ATAPI) CD-ROM drive, see also the section on this kind of drive in Chapter 2, Installation Concepts, page 29. Page 43, after first example: remove references to ATAPI. The resultant text should read: Don't try this from MS Windows--the installation will fail with the message not enough memory. The boot will progress in the same way as if you had booted from floppy. The advantage of starting VIEW is that you get more documentation: ultimately VIEW will start INSTALL to boot the system. INSTALL doesn't always work. It depends on what drivers or TSRs are in your system. There's no reason to try changing your MS-DOS configuration to get it to work: it's a lot easier just to boot from floppy (see page 38 for further information). 2. Changes to section on installing a second disk. Page 170: The bottom paragraph should read: When the message Three seconds until format begins... appears, you can still change your mind by hitting CTRL-C before the message Formatting... appears. After that, you can't stop the format: most disks can perform a format by themselves, so scsiformat just issues the command to format the disk. Since there is no SCSI bus activity, the disk activity lamp will also not light up, and since the scsiformat program will just be waiting and not using any CPU time, you could easily get the impression the nothing is going on. The disk format can take a long time--depending on the disk, up to 90 minutes. Page 173, after table 10-5: Add the text If you're unlucky, fdisk will give you a completely different idea of the disk geometry from what scsiformat did. Possibly you can decide by examination which program is wrong, or maybe you can look at the dmesg output for a tie-breaker. In all cases I have seen, it has been fdisk that returned the incorrect information, and only when the disk did not have a valid partition table. For example, this happened with a disk formatted for BSD/OS: # scsiformat sd1 MICROP 2112-15MQ1094802 HQ48 Mode data length: 35 Medium type: 0 Device Specific Parameter: 0 Block descriptor length: 8 Density code: 0 Number of blocks: 2051615 Reserved: 0 Block length: 512 PS: 1 Reserved: 0 Page code: 4 Page length: 22 Number of Cylinders: 1760 Number of Heads: 15 Starting Cylinder-Write Precompensation: 0 Starting Cylinder-Reduced Write Current: 0 Drive Step Rate: 0 Landing Zone Cylinder: 0 Reserved: 0 RPL: 0 Rotational Offset: 0 Reserved: 0 Medium Rotation Rate: 5400 Reserved: 0 Reserved: 0 # fdisk sd1 ******* Working on device /dev/rsd1 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=160 heads=256 sectors/track=50 (12800 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=160 heads=256 sectors/track=50 (12800 blks/cyl) Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 0 is: sysid 255,(BBT (Bad Blocks Table)) start 1023744, size 2108293151 (1029440 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 768/ sector 15/ head 147; end: cyl 0/ sector 0/ head 255 The data for partition 1 is: sysid 101,(Novell Netware 3.xx) start 1646292846, size 1814062195 (885772 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 356/ sector 50/ head 0; end: cyl 256/ sector 50/ head 114 The data for partition 2 is: sysid 0,(unused) start 0, size 0 (0 Meg), flag 61 beg: cyl 364/ sector 37/ head 98; end: cyl 0/ sector 0/ head 0 The data for partition 3 is: Looking at the output from dmesg, we see: (aha0:1:0): "MICROP 2112-15MQ1094802 HQ48" type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd1(aha0:1:0): Direct-Access 1001MB (2051615 512 byte sectors) sd1(aha0:1:0): with 1760 cyls, 15 heads, and an average 77 sectors/track In this case, then, you should use the parameters 1760 cylinders, 15 heads, and 77 sectors per track. What's less obvious here is the number of cylinders: fdisk doesn't have an opinion, and scsiformat and dmesg decided it has 2,051,615 sectors. Unfortunately, if you calculate the number according to the formula cylinders x heads x sectors, you'll come up with a different result: in this case 1760 x 15 x 77 = 2,032,800. How come? The disks report the total number of sectors, including spare tracks and such, but you can't use them all. The 2,032,800 is the correct number, and if you try to specify 2,051,615 to disklabel, it will spit out lots of messages about partitions which go beyond the end of the disk. Page 173, middle of page. Change the text after the "no magic" message to: The message no magic doesn't mean that fdisk is out of purple smoke. It refers to the fact that it didn't find the so-called magic number, which identifies the partition table. Since we don't have a partition table yet, this message isn't surprising. It's also completely harmless. Page 173, last example. Remove the first 22 lines, from ******* Working on device /dev/rsd1 ******* to, but not including the next occurrence of this line. Page 177, bulleted list: add the bullet * The total number of sectors in the partition. Calculate the number from the the formula cylinders x heads x sectors, even if you are using the whole disk: the output from dmesg or scsiformat is not correct here. Page 178, middle of page: after # disklabel -w -r /dev/sd1c cdc94161 insert When you do this, expect a kernel message (in high-intensity display) saying ``Cannot find disk label''. Since there isn't any label, it can't be found. This is another harmless chicken and egg problem. Page 182: In the section "Creating the file systems", add the first line to the example: # newfs /dev/rsd1h Further down the page, the last example should also read # newfs /dev/rsd1h 3. Other changes Page 41, after the heading "Installing from an MS-DOS partition". Add the text: It's also possible to install from a primary MS-DOS partition on the first disk. At the moment, it's not possible to install from extended partitions. Page 136, bottom: Add the text If you are changing the root password, be careful: it's easy enough to lock yourself out of the system if you mess things up, which could happen if, for example, you mistyped the password twice in the same way (don't laugh, it happens). If you're running X, open another window and use su to become root. If you're running in character mode, select another virtual terminal and log in as root there. Only when you're sure you can still access root should you log out. Page 152, just before the heading "The online manual". Add: Yes, you really need to run latex three times in order to build the cross-references. Page 199, the end of the multipage table is garbled. It should read: ze0 214 IBM/National Semiconductor PCMCIA ethernet controller zp0 214 3Com PCMCIA Etherlink III Page 205: Change the section titled "lpt0" to: lpt0 through lpt2 are the three printer ports you could conceivably have. Most people don't have three printers: you can comment out the definitions of the printers which you don't have. Page 208, bottom of page: swap the italicized headings "Adaptec 274X controller" and "Adaptec 1274X controller" Many thanks to Paul DuBois and Jerry Dunham for finding many of these bugs. From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 17:30:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA26762 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 17:30:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from central.picker.com (central.picker.com [144.54.31.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA26757; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 17:30:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from ct.picker.com by central.picker.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #3) id m0vRpkm-0004riC; Sun, 24 Nov 96 20:22 EST Received: from elmer.ct.picker.com by ct.picker.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA00846; Sun, 24 Nov 96 20:19:55 EST Received: by elmer.ct.picker.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id TAA06066; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 19:43:58 -0500 Message-Id: Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 19:43:58 -0500 From: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper) To: questions@freebsd.org, sos@freebsd.org Subject: "moused" pasting bug in X X-Mailer: Mutt 0.52 Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Whenever I'm in X and have some text highlighted, if I flip between windows, every so often the text will magically paste itself into the window I'm switching into without my having hit any mouse buttons (?) Here's my config: FreeBSD: 2.2-ALPHA Mouse : Microsoft Serial Mouse 2.0A (2 button) sysconfig: mousedtype=microsoft mousedport=/dev/cuaa0 mousedflags="" XF86Config: Section "Pointer" Protocol "MouseSystems" Device "/dev/sysmouse" Emulate3Buttons #Emulate3Timeout 50 EndSection Is this a result of incorrect configuration on my part, or possibly a bug? Thanks, Randall From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 18:12:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA28302 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 18:12:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from junior.apk.net (root@junior.apk.net [206.183.12.46]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA28295 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 18:12:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from Moose (pm1-6.medina.apk.net [207.54.149.76]) by junior.apk.net (8.8.3/8.8.2) with SMTP id VAA17947 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 21:11:20 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <329900C9.454B@apk.net> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 21:13:29 -0500 From: Mike Hallock Organization: APK Net Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Software Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am running a FreeBSD / WWW Server. I need an editor, cloned from emacs, called ce-4.3 for FreeBSD. Do you know of an area where I can get it? I need it for a mail editor. -- "Light my fire." - Jim Morrison Arachnid mikeh@medina.net Medina, Ohio Mike Hallock APK Net Ltd. http://junior.apk.net/~mikeh/ From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 18:16:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA28447 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 18:16:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from vegemite.Stanford.EDU (vegemite.Stanford.EDU [171.65.76.158]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA28442 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 18:16:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (hlew@localhost) by vegemite.Stanford.EDU (8.7.1/8.6.4) id SAA05513; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 18:16:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 18:16:37 -0800 (PST) From: Howard Lew To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: RA Sound & configuration Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hey guys! All this talk about Real Audio has got my interest into getting this box to play some of the Real Audio files, but my sound card configuration is a little bit screwy I think. Does it work on FreeBSD 2.1.5R? Does anyone have any configuration suggestions? The sound card is a Televideo 3D 16 bit PNP ISA card. It is Sound Blaster Pro and WIndows Sound System compatible. When FreeBSD probes, it sees: sb0 at 0x220 irq 10 drq 1 on isa sb0: sbmidi0 not found at 0x330 opl0 at 0x388 on isa opl0: mpu0 at 0x330 irq 9 drq 0 on isa mpu0: This is a probe from a cold boot, so I did not have MSDOS do anything to the PNP settings. I believe the MPU setting is wrong in the kernel configuration, but from /dev/sndstat it looks like opl0 is also wrong. Does anyone have any ideas? shell: {15} cat /dev/sndstat VoxWare Sound Driver:3.0-beta-950506 (Sun Feb 5 14:38:12 EST 1995 freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com) Config options: ffffffff Installed drivers: Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM Type 5: Roland MPU-401 Type 2: SoundBlaster Card config: SoundBlaster at 0x220 irq 10 drq 1 Roland MPU-401 at 0x330 irq 9 drq 0 OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 irq 65535 drq 4294967295 Audio devices: 0: SoundBlaster 2.1 Synth devices: 0: Yamaha OPL-3 Midi devices: 0: SoundBlaster 1: MPU-401 0.0 Midi interface #1 Timers: 0: System Timer Mixers: From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 18:18:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA28520 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 18:18:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from bort.mv.net (root@bort.mv.net [192.80.84.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA28513 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 18:18:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from logrus.mv.com (knh-1-01.mv.com [207.22.5.21]) by bort.mv.net (8.8.3/mem-951016) with SMTP id VAA00311 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 21:18:46 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1.5.4.32.19961125021413.0067ae80@pop.mv.net> X-Sender: logrus-jv@pop.mv.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 21:14:13 -0500 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Jeff Clough Subject: FreeBSD & Win95 (Yes, Win95) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk To Whom It May Concern: I apologize for sending this out to the FreeBSD gurus, but I just know that if I came knocking on Microsoft's door with this I would be laughed at for ten generations and incur the wrath of the almighty Bill Gates for tampering with the constrictive nature of Win95, and entertaining the foolish thought that UNIX could be better than his unscalable, pseudo-protected-memory, poor-excuse-for-multi-tasking operating system. So, I thank you for bearing with me. =) My machine's guts consist of a Cyrix 686 166MHz CPU, 32 MB RAM, two hard drives (one 1.2 GB Mode 4 as the master and one 1.6 GB Mode 4 as the slave, both IDE) and an 8X CD ROM drive. This machine is running Win95. I decided to take the plunge and install FreeBSD, so I copied my C drive (the 1.2) to a subdirectory of my D drive (the 1.6) and used the FDISK that came with Win95 to delete the old partition and create two new partitions, each 600 MB long. After some futzing, I was able to copy my backed up data from the D drive to the new C drive, and was able to get Win95 to come up without going too haywire. I then installed FreeBSD, with BootMGR so that I could have a dual boot between Win95 and FreeBSD. FreeBSD installed smoothly. I rebooted my machine and was pleased to see BootMGR greet me with "F1 dos, F2 FreeBSD, F3 disk2". FreeBSD came up great. However, Win95 does not like the FreeBSD partition. Utilities which seek out available disk drives (such as Norton Anti-Virus and Norton Navigator) hit the BSD partition and choke, aparrently throwing the system into an infinite loop trying to access the disk. I trimmed back these programs so that they no longer loaded on startup and am able to get Win95 to come up with a small one or two second extra delay. Win95 sets the BSD partition up as drive E:. Whenever the system tries to access this drive (when opening "My Computer", etc) I am once again greeted by the infinite loop. However, if I just stay in DOS, without loading Win95 I have only three non-removable drives listed: C: for my 600 MB DOS drive; D: for my 1.6 GB DOS drive; and E: for my CD-ROM drive. Only under Win95 is there a problem, everything else seems to work great. My question is (and thank you for bearing with me) is there any way I can prevent Win95 from stalling on this partition. Any of the below (plus anything else you can think of) are viable solutions: Somehow hiding the FreeBSD file system from Win95 Installing a driver to allow Win95 to read the FreeBSD file system Changing some setting to allow Win95 to ignore the FreeBSD file system Please, help me. I am already going to be in therapy for years over this, the last thing I need now is rejection. Thank you. Thank you a lot. Sincerely, Jeff Clough +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | If God is love, and love is blind, is Ray Charles God? | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 19:04:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA29836 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 19:04:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from diamond.xtalwind.net (diamond.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA29830 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 19:04:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (pa1dsp6.x31.infi.net [206.27.115.30]) by diamond.xtalwind.net (8.8.3/8.8.2) with SMTP id WAA22890; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 22:04:14 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 22:04:17 -0500 (EST) From: jack X-Sender: jack@localhost To: Dan McCaffrey cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Script 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 Sun, 24 Nov 1996, Dan McCaffrey wrote: > Greetings All! I have a FreeBSD 2.1.5 Box connected by ISDN service to my > ISP. Unfortunately my ISPs router is configured to clear connections that > have been inactive for 10 minutes. Right now I have set cron to ping a > host outside of my network every 5 minutes in order to keep the > connection alive. As you could guess my root mailbox gets filled up > pretty quick with the results from the ping. Is there a way that I could > set up a script that is loaded at startup, runs in the background and > pings a host every 5 minutes, without having to involve cron? Thank you > in advance! Add MAILTO="" near the top of your crontab file then append 2>&1 | sendmail root to any commands that you /want/ the output mailed to root. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Finger jacko@onyx.xtalwind.net or jack@xtalwind.net http://www.xtalwind.net/~jacko/pubpgp.html #include for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 19:55:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA01921 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 19:55:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from cayman.ucs.indiana.edu (cayman.ucs.indiana.edu [129.79.10.63]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA01907 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 19:55:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from nickel.ucs.indiana.edu (mikes@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu [129.79.10.5]) by cayman.ucs.indiana.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3/1.12IUPO) with ESMTP id WAA20985 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 22:54:58 -0500 (EST) Received: (from mikes@localhost) by nickel.ucs.indiana.edu (8.7.6/8.7.Beta.13/1.1clump) id WAA24680 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 22:54:57 -0500 From: michael squires Message-Id: <199611250354.WAA24680@nickel.ucs.indiana.edu> Subject: 2.1.6 Temporarily Unavailable? To: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 22:54:57 -0500 (EST) 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 /pub/FreeBSd/2.1.6-RELEASE on freebsd.cdrom.com is currently set to permissions 700; I assume fix(ex) are being installed? I'm about to update my server system. From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 19:56:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA01990 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 19:56:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from obie.softweyr.com (slc152.modem.xmission.com [204.228.136.152]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA01981 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 19:56:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id UAA00387; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 20:50:55 -0700 (MST) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 20:50:55 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199611250350.UAA00387@obie.softweyr.com> From: Wes Peters To: gw@cyber-coupon.com CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: question Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I got another hard drive to make freebsd more at home, got it installed, > got it configured to unix, got the basic config installed. Now it will > not take my password. Do I have to reinstall. > > Also what might you suggest for a quuick study on unix? I got the Walnut > creek freebsd book, and the Unix Guide for Idiots (HA!). Suggestion: don't buy an Idiot's Guide unless you're an Idiot. My first suggestion is always _Essential System Administration_, AEleen Frisch, O'Reilly and Associates: ISBN 0-937175-80-3. Let's face it, now that you're running FreeBSD on your computer, you've been promoted to UNIX system administrator whether you wanted it or not. The Nemeth, Seebass, et al system administration book has been recommended to me by people I trust, I've never really needed anything beyond the O'Reilly book. If you're going to be administering a TCP/IP network as well, you'll need _TCP/IP Network Administration_, Craig Hunt, O'Reilly and Associates: ISBN 0-037175-82-X. For more detailed networking, their books on both _DNS and BIND_ and _NFS and NIS_ are invaluable. The first will certainly get you off the ground. >From a programming standpoint, see: _Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment_, W. Richard Stevens, Addison-Wesley: ISBN 0-201-56317-7. Mr. Stevens also penned an excellent book on UNIX Network Programming, and the seminal (currently) 3-volume series _TCP/IP Illustrated_, both also published by Addison-Wesley. Richard uses FreeBSD to illustrate advanced topics in TCP/IP development; quite a testimony to the reliability of the networking implementation, I'd say. ;^) If you wish to work on the kernel itself, you will want a copy of _The Design and Implmentation of the 4.4BSD Operating System_ by McKusick et al. It has just recently been published, I saw it on the shelf at my newest Barnes & Noble last Tuesday. That's about 1/40th of my "UNIX library." Feel free to write back if you have a specific topic you wish to learn about, I'll be glad to recommend (or even research) a book or three for you. ;^) -- "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 Nov 24 20:03:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA02253 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 20:03:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from obie.softweyr.com (slc152.modem.xmission.com [204.228.136.152]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA02241 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 20:03:20 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wes@localhost) by obie.softweyr.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id VAA00410; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 21:02:53 -0700 (MST) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 21:02:53 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199611250402.VAA00410@obie.softweyr.com> From: Wes Peters To: quest@shaft.unicus.ca CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Script Question Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dan McCaffrey asked: > Greetings All! I have a FreeBSD 2.1.5 Box connected by ISDN service to my > ISP. Unfortunately my ISPs router is configured to clear connections that > have been inactive for 10 minutes. Right now I have set cron to ping a > host outside of my network every 5 minutes in order to keep the > connection alive. As you could guess my root mailbox gets filled up > pretty quick with the results from the ping. Is there a way that I could > set up a script that is loaded at startup, runs in the background and > pings a host every 5 minutes, without having to involve cron? Thank you > in advance! Look at 'man ping'. Try something like: ping -n -i 300 some.host.some.where.in.ca which will ping the named host every 5 minutes. If your ISP gets clever and disallows ICMP Echo packets (i.e. ping requests) from resetting their timer, use rsh to run this command on *their* system; the output packets coming back to you will look like any interactive session and will fool their watchdog. -- "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 Nov 24 20:54:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA04331 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 20:54:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from ina.com (root@www.ina.com [205.158.4.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA04326 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 20:54:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from 207.88.163.29 ([207.88.163.29]) by ina.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA19003 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 21:09:55 -0800 Message-ID: <3298B67D.26AC@ina.com> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 20:56:29 +0000 From: Alfredo Lusa Reply-To: alfredo@ina.com Organization: INTERNET alfredo LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Your search engine Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk What search engine you use for http://freebsd.org/search.html? -- _______________________________ Alfredo Lusa INTERNET alfredo LLC http://ina.com/alfredo (Disneyland for Websurfers!) open 24hrs: 790-A Brannan Street SF, CA 94103 415.437.3140 T 415.437.3149 F From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 21:47:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA06223 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 21:47:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from ylana.vet.purdue.edu (vet.vet.purdue.edu [128.210.96.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA06215 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 21:47:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from ylana.vet.purdue.edu (localhost.vet.purdue.edu [127.0.0.1]) by ylana.vet.purdue.edu (8.8.2/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA01959; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 22:00:03 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199611250300.WAA01959@ylana.vet.purdue.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: dg@root.com cc: Benjamin Lewis , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ftp.freebsd.org & SLiRP In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 23 Nov 1996 02:16:29 PST." <199611231016.CAA01025@root.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 22:00:02 -0500 From: Benjamin Lewis Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk David- You wrote: > > We're not running the stock "wu-ftpd" on wcarchive. As for what changed, I > >disabled the ability to establish data port connections to privileged ports > >(ports < 1024). I guess my question is: why is slirp trying to do that? > > Oops, I just looked and found that I made my checks a bit too severe. I've > backed out those changes for now; it should work again now. > Thank you! There are a couple other sites that gave the same results; do you distribute your wu-ftpd modifications? -Ben -- Benjamin Lewis - blewis@vet.purdue.edu From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 21:49:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA06303 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 21:49:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from po8.andrew.cmu.edu (PO8.ANDREW.CMU.EDU [128.2.10.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA06298 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 21:49:09 -0800 (PST) Received: (from postman@localhost) by po8.andrew.cmu.edu (8.8.2/8.8.2) id AAA11624 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 00:48:47 -0500 Received: via switchmail; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 00:48:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from unix18.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 00:48:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from unix18.andrew.cmu.edu via qmail ID ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 00:48:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from mms.4.60.Jun.27.1996.03.02.53.sun4.51.EzMail.2.0.CUILIB.3.45.SNAP.NOT.LINKED.unix18.andrew.cmu.edu.sun4m.54 via MS.5.6.unix18.andrew.cmu.edu.sun4_51; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 00:48:28 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 00:48:28 -0500 (EST) From: Robert N Watson To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Burning CD's under 2.1.5+ Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm currently running 2.1.5-RELEASE and plan to upgrade to 2.2-RELEASE when it is available (I'm skipping 2.1.6 and manually patching security problems.) I'm interested in burning CD-ROM's with my system, and after perusing the FreeBSD web site found some conflicting information -- Jordan's picks of ideal systems note the HP1040i writer to be a great choice, but not work on pre-2.2 SCSI code. The 2.1.5 release notes state: Worm driver - it is now possible to burn CDROMs using the Plasmon or HP 4080i CDR drives (see `wormcontrol(1)'). Which is more accurate? The HP seems to be a cheap and reliable (not to mention dev-team recommended! :) drive that is easily available. I've had some trouble locating the CDR550 Phillips drive.. If I get the HP, can Iuse the burn CD script listed in the archive that turns a file tree into a CD-ROM? Does FreeBSD support burning audio tracks? (not a big issue, but as a side thing, it would be nice :). Thanks, Robert Watson rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 22:10:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA06933 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 22:10:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns.kconline.com (ns.kconline.com [207.51.167.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA06928 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 22:10:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (rif@localhost) by ns.kconline.com (8.8.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA23615 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 01:10:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 01:10:24 -0500 (EST) From: Jim Riffle To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: innd's junk directory Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Anyone know if you can configure innd so that it doesn't write all of the "junk" articles to its junk directory? I would like it to either just refuse messages that would be stored there, or just not to save them. Right now I have cron deleting that junk directory on a regular basis. It just seems like a complete waste of resources to write that file, and delete it 30 minutes later when that news drive already gets enough action. Thanks in advance, Jim From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 23:04:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA08681 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 23:04:15 -0800 (PST) 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 XAA08676 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 23:04:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00635; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 23:05:05 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 23:05:04 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: FreeBSD Questions cc: shegonee@ix.netcom.com Subject: kernel gone (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ouch. Looks like the hard disk bit the big one...unfortunately I am not very good with disk recovery. I'm forwarding this on to questions@freebsd.org, someone there may be able to detail the procedure. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 13:41:13 -0800 From: shegonee@ix.netcom.com To: dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu Subject: kernel gone Doug, I re-build my kernel sucessfully and installed it. However, when I re-booted something went wrong. The boot manager works fine, but it keeps looping displaying the *Boot:* prompt. If I hit enter to see the file I can boot from the only file visible is *lost+found* - it looks like all of my old kernels are gone. I can boot from a floppy and use fixit but I can't seem to mount my hard drive. Question: Is there any way to copy a kernel from another machine to the hard drive while using fixit? How do you access the hard drive while using fixit? What utilities are avaliable? Thanks Kirk :) From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 23:07:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA08816 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 23:07:58 -0800 (PST) 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 XAA08811 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 23:07:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from neuron (ppp2 [194.95.214.132]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA09467; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 09:16:05 +0100 Message-ID: <32996037.33A@degnet.baynet.de> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 08:00:39 -0100 From: Darius Moos Reply-To: moos@degnet.baynet.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter da Silva CC: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Replacing sendmail (Re: non-root users binding to ports < 1024 (was: Re: BoS: Exploit for sendmail smtpd bug (ver. 8.7-8.8.2 References: <199611242323.RAA06615@bonkers.taronga.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Peter da Silva wrote: > > > You ever tried to explain to someone how to set up a virtual domain > in sendmail? I've written m4-files for doing this in both directions: masquerading for incoming mail and masquerading headers of outgoing mail Only minor additions to your existing m4-files are needed to enable this feature. Is this already done ? (i'm running 2.1.5) Peter: Interested ? Darius Moos. From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 00:01:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA11537 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 00:01:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from hq.icb.chel.su (hq.icb.chel.su [193.125.10.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA11482; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 00:00:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (babkin@localhost) by hq.icb.chel.su (8.7.5/8.6.5) id MAA12915; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:54:38 +0500 (ESK) From: "Serge A. Babkin" Message-Id: <199611250754.MAA12915@hq.icb.chel.su> Subject: Re: dgb driver with interrupts To: mcgovern@spoon.beta.com (Brian J. McGovern) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:54:38 +0500 (ESK) Cc: questions@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199611240132.UAA13563@spoon.beta.com> from "Brian J. McGovern" at Nov 23, 96 08:32:22 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I was looking over the dgb.c (driver file), and noticed that there is some > skeleton work for using the driver with interrupts. However, its been > effectively commented out with the #ifdef 0. Is it possible to switch this > driver to use interrupts, instead of polled io? And if so, should I expect > it work/what are the changes? No, you can't do it by enabling this part of driver. You anned to add the interrupt support in other parts of driver too. > I'm curious, because I'd like to use 3-4 of these boards in a PC to do > some SLIP and PPP testing, and would be looking for optimal throughput. I think the polling mode may give even better throughput than the interrupt mode under heavy load. The reason is that it takes very short time to check if some port on the cards needs serviceing. But it saves the interrupt overhead. Really the interrupt mode can only improve the answer times. The other problem with polling is that it runs at clock priority and disables other interrupts for this time so interrupts can help here. -SB From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 00:02:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA11609 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 00:02:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from silicon.csci.csusb.edu (silicon.csci.csusb.edu [139.182.38.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA11604 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 00:02:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by silicon.csci.csusb.edu (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA06631; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 00:20:58 +0800 From: jhoover@csci.csusb.edu (Jason A. Hoover) Received: by csci.csusb.edu id AAA17723; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 00:02:08 -0800 (PST) (8.7.1 Berkeley Sendmail) Message-Id: <199611250802.AAA17723@csci.csusb.edu> Subject: installing off a Mutsumi 4x CD-ROM To: freebsd-install@freebsd.com Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 00:02:07 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL20] 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 Greetings, I've been trying to install FreeBSD from a Mitsumi 4x CD-ROM, and I know this is a FAQ, but I couldn't find an answer in the archives so please forgive me for asking again because I couldn't find an answer. The problem is when the install program asks what media type I want to use and I choose CD-ROM. It then reports to me that no CD-ROM is present and I get sent back to the main menu. I've tried it several times, always with the same result. Any help will be greatly appreciated and thank you thank you thank you, Jason jhoover@csci.csusb.edu From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 00:07:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA11783 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 00:07:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from jtnet.com (jtnet.com [165.254.156.252]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA11773 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 00:07:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jjchin@localhost) by jtnet.com (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id DAA05692 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 03:07:40 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 03:07:40 -0500 (EST) From: Johnny J Chin X-Sender: jjchin@jtnet.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: http://www.freebsd.org/support.html (fwd) Message-ID: Organization: Onesimus Enterprises International Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Maybe somewhere in the README or the documentation, there should be included information on how to get updated kernel sources more easily. In other words, something like being able to FTP it (see below). ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 14:21:50 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" To: jjchin@onesimus.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: http://www.freebsd.org/support.html > > Is there anywhere I can download the kernel source like I can for Linux? > Basically all the necessary source files in one tar file? > I'm looking to upgrade to 2.1.6 but I don't want to have to buy another > copy of FreeBSD on CD. Thanks. > Try ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src and do a: get sys.tar.gz This will get the current kernel tree (about 6 or so meg)... If you forage around a bit, you can also find the 2.2-ALPHA and 2.1.6 stuff also... John dyson@freebsd.org From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 02:19:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA03763 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 02:19:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (brosenga.st.pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA03719 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 02:19:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA07762; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 02:19:35 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 02:19:35 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: Jim Riffle cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: innd's junk directory 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, 25 Nov 1996, Jim Riffle wrote: > > Anyone know if you can configure innd so that it doesn't write all of the > "junk" articles to its junk directory? > > I would like it to either just refuse messages that would be stored there, > or just not to save them. Right now I have cron deleting that junk > directory on a regular basis. It just seems like a complete waste of > resources to write that file, and delete it 30 minutes later when that > news drive already gets enough action. > > Thanks in advance, > Jim > > Symlink the junk files to /dev/null. It's a kludge, but it'll work. Ben From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 02:56:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA08109 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 02:56:32 -0800 (PST) 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 CAA08086 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 02:56:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from mag.nation-net.com (194.159.125.14) by www.nation-net.com with SMTP (Apple Internet Mail Server 1.0); Mon, 25 Nov 1996 10:59:35 +0000 Message-ID: <32997AED.7058@nation-net.com> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 10:54:37 +0000 From: Paul Walsh Organization: NATION-NET X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Nvi saved the file 3warks.txt?? References: <199611250955.JAA00450@www.walshsimmons.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I was sent this today. Anyone know what this means. I have never heard of this .txt file and why did nvi take 2 weeks to tell me about it? Regards, Paul Walsh. Nvi recovery program wrote: > > On Wed Oct 30 15:34:54 1996, the user root was editing a > file named 3warks.txt on the machine www.walshsimmons.co.uk, > when it was saved for recovery. You can recover most, if not > all, of the changes to this file using the -r option to nex > or nvi: > > nvi -r 3warks.txt From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 04:23:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA11264 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 04:23:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from al.imforei.apana.org.au (pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au [202.12.89.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA11252 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 04:23:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from pjchilds@localhost) by al.imforei.apana.org.au (beBop) id WAA16549; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:53:24 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:53:24 +1030 (CST) From: Peter Childs Message-Id: <199611251223.WAA16549@al.imforei.apana.org.au> To: SimsS@Infi.Net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iijppp - cannot ping host after connect X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 961020] Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <199611202032.UAA49598@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> you wrote: : The handbook section and FAQ are very dicey regarding iij-ppp; the source : remains my most valuable reference. While the published documents are nice : from a casual users' perspective, (and, in fact, do a nice job of getting : newbies up and connected) they seem to come up somewhere short of : 'definitive' for more sophisticated roles such as the application I have: : running dynamic dial-out in a static-routed, high-availability, : multi-interface role. (Then I complicate it by using RFC-1597 addresses on : the local net side.) The documentation for iijppp is around somewhere translated from the Japanese. Search through the mailing lists and see if you can dig it up. It describes things a little better, including things like using PPP over TCP or TELNET connections etc :) Peter -- Peter Childs --- http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/~pjchilds Finger pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au for public PGP key Drag me, drop me, treat me like an object! From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 04:24:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA11308 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 04:24:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from sdev.usn.blaze.net.au (sdev.usn.blaze.net.au [203.17.53.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA11293 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 04:24:13 -0800 (PST) Received: (from davidn@localhost) by sdev.usn.blaze.net.au (8.8.2/8.6.9) id XAA16484; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:23:50 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:23:50 +1100 From: davidn@sdev.usn.blaze.net.au (David Nugent) To: benedict@echonyc.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X looking for /dev/ttyv4 References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.50 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: ; from Levels of Indirection on Nov 24, 1996 04:59:00 -0800 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Levels of Indirection writes: > When I attempt to start X, I get the following error: > > > Fatal server error: > > xf86OpenSyscons: Cannot open /dev/ttyv4 (No such file or directory) > > > > X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). > > I tried cd'ing to /dev and running ./MAKEDEV ttyv4, but I just get ./MAKEDEV vt4 > > ttyv4 - no such device name > > Attached is a copy of my ttys file, in case that is significant. No, in this case it isn't. BTW, contrary to popular belief it really *won't* hurt you to browse a script file (which is all MAKEDEV is). You may even learn something. :-) MAKEDEV has lots of very helpful comments at the top. Best of luck, David Nugent, Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia Voice +61-3-9791-9547 Data/BBS +61-3-9792-3507 3:632/348@fidonet davidn@blaze.net.au http://www.blaze.net.au/~davidn From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 04:27:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA11435 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 04:27:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from al.imforei.apana.org.au (pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au [202.12.89.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA11424 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 04:27:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from pjchilds@localhost) by al.imforei.apana.org.au (beBop) id WAA16623; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:57:35 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:57:35 +1030 (CST) From: Peter Childs Message-Id: <199611251227.WAA16623@al.imforei.apana.org.au> To: frank@mercynet.edu (Frank Arauz), freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sending Mail (password) X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 961020] Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <1.5.4.16.19961121124727.1397d5a6@mercynet.edu> you wrote: : Hi, I am new on the internet, this site has been up for about 2 : months. We are having problems when sending mail: I can send mail to anybody : using somebody else's account and so anybody. : Can You give me an idea of what product can I use on our server, so : before the message is sent, the password for that account will be required. This is an underlying problem with the internet. To make a point I could have sent this mail say as user "god@heaven.com" or "sam@aa.net". Without the use of some sort of authentication/encryption stuff like PGP you can not be certain where mail came from. The mail "headers" will indicate which sites, but it is impossible to verify users. Peter -- Peter Childs --- http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/~pjchilds Finger pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au for public PGP key Drag me, drop me, treat me like an object! From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 04:34:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA12302 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 04:34:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from al.imforei.apana.org.au (pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au [202.12.89.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA12288 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 04:33:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from pjchilds@localhost) by al.imforei.apana.org.au (beBop) id XAA17369; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:03:32 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:03:32 +1030 (CST) From: Peter Childs Message-Id: <199611251233.XAA17369@al.imforei.apana.org.au> To: shadows@whitefang.com (Thamer Al-Herbish), freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Keeping users from bind'ing to ports X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA release 961020] Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article you wrote: : On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Gary Clark II wrote: : > David Langford wrote: : > > Is there a way of keeping some users from being able to run programs : > > that bind to ports over 1024? (i.e. to keep users from running servers) : > I don't know any of doing ths except maybe : > with IP firewall. Anyone else? : A while back I wrote a hack that basically ran netstat for all listening : ports, then did a reverse ident query to find out which users where : running what on what port. There's one problem there, you only know userX : ran something on port xxxx. I realy wouldnt do this, you have to realise : there are programs at user level that bind to a port. FTP comes to mind : where the client opens up an additional port to get the data from. The call to bind ends up in the kernel. There is some code there that checks that if port < 1024 user-id must be root. You could do another check that if port is in "userland" range group-id == untrusted then fail the bind. Nasty, but effective. As noted above some client type programs would barf at this. I guess you have to decide what the user has access to the machine for. Peter -- Peter Childs --- http://www.imforei.apana.org.au/~pjchilds Finger pjchilds@al.imforei.apana.org.au for public PGP key Drag me, drop me, treat me like an object! From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 05:08:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA13767 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 05:08:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from dyson.iquest.net ([198.70.144.127]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA13753 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 05:08:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.2/8.6.9) id IAA01584; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 08:08:33 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199611251308.IAA01584@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: http://www.freebsd.org/support.html (fwd) To: jjchin@onesimus.com (Johnny J Chin) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 08:08:29 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Johnny J Chin" at Nov 25, 96 03:07:40 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8] 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 > > Maybe somewhere in the README or the documentation, there should be > included information on how to get updated kernel sources more easily. In > other words, something like being able to FTP it (see below). > Actually, if you want more than one snapshot, you can cvsup (or temporarily sup for now) the sources and get every version ever produced. I believe that much of that info is in the handbook. Take a look at sup.sgml (or the equivalent handbook page) for info. We are in the midst of a transition from sup to cvsup (much more efficient, and the use of sup is now greatly discouraged.) If you use cvsup, you'll never want to use sup again. With every distribution of FreeBSD, comes the sources, I just pointed you to some of the unpacked sources. (Did not know how much detail that you wanted.) John From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 05:31:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA15057 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 05:31:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from webb.psych.ufl.edu (webb.psych.ufl.edu [128.227.202.40]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA15051 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 05:31:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from oliver.psych.ufl.edu ([128.227.201.75]) by webb.psych.ufl.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA26742 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 08:30:58 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <32999F9C.CD9@psych.ufl.edu> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 08:31:08 -0500 From: "Ryan R. Oliver" Reply-To: oliver@psych.ufl.edu Organization: University of Florida - Dept. of Psychology X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Error Messages Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I have started to receive the following error message: "ops routed[48]: punt RTM_LOSING without gateway" Does anyone know if this is a serious error and how to fix it? -- =============================================================================== Ryan R. Oliver Systems Programmer Dept. of Psychology phone : 352-336-3979 Bldg. 114 fax : 352-392-7985 Gainesville, FL 32611 e-mail: oliver@psych.ufl.edu WWW : www.afn.org/~roliver/ =============================================================================== From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 05:56:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA17797 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 05:56:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from gate.leissner.se (gate.leissner.se [193.45.192.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA17783 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 05:56:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from leissner.se (uucp@localhost) by gate.leissner.se (8.8.2/8.8.2) with UUCP id NAA27864 for freebsd.org!questions; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:55:33 GMT Received: from lda.leissner.se by lda.leissner.se id aa29691; 25 Nov 96 14:55 SNT Message-Id: <3.0.32.19961125145517.007607a0@lda> X-Sender: pol@lda X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 14:55:17 +0100 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Peter Olsson Subject: Is token ring supported? What cards? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk See subject. I found nothing about this in hardware compatibility list so I guess it's not possible. Thanks for your time! Peter Olsson pol@leissner.se From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 06:54:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA22536 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 06:54:51 -0800 (PST) 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 GAA22504 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 06:54:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.7.5/8.6.12) id QAA09596; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 16:52:22 +0200 (IST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 16:52:22 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron To: Peter Olsson cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is token ring supported? What cards? In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19961125145517.007607a0@lda> 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, 25 Nov 1996, Peter Olsson wrote: > See subject. I found nothing about this in hardware compatibility list > so I guess it's not possible. AFAIK you are currently right. > > Thanks for your time! > > Peter Olsson pol@leissner.se > Nadav From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 07:12:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA24054 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 07:12:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from bbs.mpcs.com (hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com [204.215.226.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA24038 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 07:12:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from hgoldste@localhost) by bbs.mpcs.com (8.8.3/8.8.2/MPCS) id KAA14045; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 10:12:24 -0500 Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 10:12:24 -0500 From: Howard Goldstein Message-Id: <199611251512.KAA14045@bbs.mpcs.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: rif@ns.kconline.com Subject: innd's junk directory In-Reply-To: Reply-To: hgoldste@bbs.mpcs.com Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article , you wrote: : : Anyone know if you can configure innd so that it doesn't write all of the : "junk" articles to its junk directory? : In config.data, set WANT_TRASH to DONT and rebuild. Better yet, preserve bandwidth and loading by asking your feed to mask the groups you don't want. -- Howard Goldstein From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 08:00:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA29129 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 08:00:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA29109 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 08:00:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from squirrel.tgsoft.com (sdts3-62.znet.com) by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA16116 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Mon, 25 Nov 1996 08:01:13 -0800 Received: (from thompson@localhost) by squirrel.tgsoft.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id GAA28287; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 06:29:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 06:29:47 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199611251429.GAA28287@squirrel.tgsoft.com> From: mark thompson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: irq conflicts Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I suppose i must be confused. I have added a soundblaster (clone) card to my ISA-based PC (clone), running 2.1.6R. Here are a couple of lines from my config: device lpt0 at isa? port? tty irq 7 vector lptintr device sb0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 7 conflicts drq 1 vector sbintr This seems to be legal. However, when sound is sent to /dev/audio, i get a burst of static, then silence... and the sound playing never completes. This sounds to me like the interrupts are not happening. Is this really a legal config (i.e. can the lpt and the sb really share an irq)? NB: The lpt works fine... -mark From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 09:23:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA20345 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 09:23:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from horton.iaces.com ([204.147.87.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA20308 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 09:23:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.3/8.7.3) id LAA14388 for questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:23:10 -0600 (CST) From: "Paul T. Root" Message-Id: <199611251723.LAA14388@horton.iaces.com> Subject: Upgrading XFree86 on 2.1.6 To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:23:10 -0600 (CST) X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES X-Phone: (612) 663-1979 X-Fax: (612) 663-8030 X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270 X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100 X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402 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 I've upgraded my 2.1.5 machine to 2.1.6 and would like to upgrade XFree86 to 3.2. How do I go about that? Can I just extract the tar files on top of the old? Paul. -- Paul T. Root E/Mail: proot@iaces.com 200 S. 5th St. Suite 1100 PAG: +1 (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7370 Minneapolis, MN 55402 WRK: +1 (612) 663-1979 NIC: PTR FAX: +1 (612) 663-8030 From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 09:29:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA21737 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 09:29:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from spiff.cc.iastate.edu (spiff.cc.iastate.edu [129.186.142.89]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA21687 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 09:29:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by spiff.cc.iastate.edu with sendmail-5.65 id ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:29:23 -0600 Message-Id: <9611251729.AA23652@spiff.cc.iastate.edu> To: Andrew Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where is tset? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Nov 1996 04:19:38 +1100." Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:29:22 CST From: Kent Vander Velden Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In message , andrew@ ugh.net.au writes: >On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Kent Vander Velden wrote: > >> Where is tset being called from when a person logs into a freebsd box? > >Check you .login and .cshrc files or .profile if your running a sh like >shell. > I have grepped in ~/.* and /etc/* and have not had any luck. Perhaps it is a tcsh thing but I have not seen this on other OS's that I use tcsh. Thanks. --- Kent Vander Velden graphix@iastate.edu From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 10:53:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA00253 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 10:53:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from revelstone.jvm.com (revelstone.jvm.com [207.98.213.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA00229 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 10:53:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from fbsdlist@localhost) by revelstone.jvm.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id NAA13926; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:53:25 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:53:25 -0500 (EST) From: Cliff Addy To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: SCCS 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 was surprised to see that SCCS is not available on fbsd, nor could I find a port. Is it available? From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 11:04:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA01116 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:04:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net (smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net [165.87.194.252]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA01075 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:04:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id TAA84951 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 19:04:10 GMT Message-Id: <199611251904.TAA84951@smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net> Received: from slip166-72-229-80.va.us.ibm.net(166.72.229.80) by smtp-gw01.ny.us.ibm.net via smap (V1.3mjr) id smaLqICKs; Mon Nov 25 19:03:56 1996 Reply-To: From: "Steve Sims" To: Subject: Problem "switching to sd0" Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 14:03:49 -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 Uh oh.... Not being content to leave well enough alone, I decided to cvsup -STABLE onto a 2.1.0-RELEASE box. The system is, basically, a P5/120 with a PCI Adaptec 2940 driving a couple of Seagate 12550N's. No IDE, but it dual-boots into Win'95 or FreeBSD. The system was performing flawlessly under 2.1.0-RELEASE, so I don't know what I was thinking by trying to perform an upgrade %-) Anyway, cvsup ran for a while and completed successfully. A quick 'make world' and I should have been "upgraded". No dice. 'make world' barfed on an error of some flavor or another and I decided I'd just come back to it later; I rebooted the box into Win'95 for a quick game of "Monster Truck Madness" (to which I confess an addiction). After a while I was sufficiently rejuvenated to delve into the `make` failure so I booted (or, rather, tried to boot) into FreeBSD. The kernel spits out its many probes and gets to "switching root device to sd0" (or some such) and hangs. Dead. Frozen. Sucking on the big banana. I tried booting with '-cv', checked the configuration. It looks OK. A lot more probe messages, but everything *looks* OK. Still hangs "switching to sd0". Finally, I booted up with '-s' to go single user. That works. Question is: Whazzup with that? Once I've gone single user, I can mount the /usr partition and I can un-read-only the root partition, but the box won't come up cleanly in multi-user. H E L P! Any ideas? ...sjs... From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 11:51:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA04348 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:51:25 -0800 (PST) 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 LAA04336 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:51:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA01313; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:52:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:52:22 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: OBranchMS@aol.com cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Downloading In-Reply-To: <961123203700_672187256@emout13.mail.aol.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, 23 Nov 1996 OBranchMS@aol.com wrote: > I was told I would be able to download programs from this site. I'm looking > for some computer games to download. Where do you suggest I look??? This is FreeBSD support, not WCArchive support. You would be interested in browsing ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/ for the top of the heirarcy, and http://www.cdrom.com/ for Walnut Creek CDROM information. 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 Nov 25 11:52:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA04392 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:52:08 -0800 (PST) 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 LAA04372 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:52:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA01317; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:53:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:53:01 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Harlan Stenn cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: exmh doesn't see mouse clicks (probably tk problem) In-Reply-To: <17521.848816173@mumps.pfcs.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, 24 Nov 1996, Harlan Stenn wrote: > The problem is that when I run "wish -f exmh.install" mouse clicks > aren't detected. X works fine everywhere else. Is numlock off? 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 Nov 25 11:52:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA04439 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:52:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from inetsrv.wtrt.net (inetsrv.wtrt.net [205.231.181.67]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA04432 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:52:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from allenh.wtrt.net (local2.wtrt.net [205.231.181.228]) by inetsrv.wtrt.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA26566 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:53:25 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199611251953.NAA26566@inetsrv.wtrt.net> From: "Allen Hyer" To: Subject: 2 questions Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:52:32 -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 I have a FreeBSD box running 2.1.5-RELEASE. I have two questions: 1. I have 2 tcp/ip networks on my physical lan. I would like the FreeBSD box to be able to "see" both networks. I do NOT want it to route packets between them, I just want it to have an ip address from both networks. Do I have to put in two ethernet cards even tho the 2 networks are on the same lan? 2. I had an old 4mm DAT drive laying around, so I put it in the FreeBSD box. When I boot, I get the following message; "st0(ahc0:1:0) Sequential-Access st0: WangDat model 1300 is a known rogue" is this bad? If it is, can someone recommend a good tape drive for backing up the system? Thanks, Allen Hyer System Administrator West Texas Rural Telephone From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 11:54:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA04563 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:54:54 -0800 (PST) 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 LAA04558 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:54:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA01324; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:55:57 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:55:56 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: eggman cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19961124183932.0069d4f0@ekx.infi.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, 24 Nov 1996, eggman wrote: > Is it better than linux, I just ordered the attached cdroms.It was too good > a deal to passup, if you wanted to try it. > I heard tht freebsd was better than linux, but how ? In my unabashedly biased opinion, it's ten times more stable and the distribution system makes ten times more sense. :) Other's opinion may vary. 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 Nov 25 11:59:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA04749 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:59:04 -0800 (PST) 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 LAA04744 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 11:58:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA01331; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:00:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:00:06 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Jeff Clough cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD & Win95 (Yes, Win95) In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.32.19961125021413.0067ae80@pop.mv.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, 24 Nov 1996, Jeff Clough wrote: > I decided to take the plunge and install FreeBSD, so I copied my C drive > (the 1.2) to a subdirectory of my D drive (the 1.6) and used the FDISK that > came with Win95 to delete the old partition and create two new partitions, > each 600 MB long. How did you create the new partitions? You should have just left the disk blank and used sysinstall's fdisk manager to make these slices. They must be a special type. Delete those partitions and try installing again. 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 Nov 25 12:03:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA04988 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:03:06 -0800 (PST) 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 MAA04981 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:03:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA01335; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:02:34 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:02:34 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Peter Mutsaers cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Laptops. Is something missing? In-Reply-To: <87iv6xt5ce.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> 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 23 Nov 1996, Peter Mutsaers wrote: > My problem is that I have a laptop without CDROM; I have to install > FreeBSD using the pcmcia ethernet card. > > Alas the PAO floppy doesn't really work. My Megahertz ethernet card is > recognized, I can ifconfig it. But when I try to access the network > (ping or whatever) nothing appears on the net. The laptop thinks it is > sending to the ethernet correctly, but when I look from another > computer with tcpdump I see no activity at all. Please be more specific as to what you did to install. Or is this from the actual floppy? BE AWARE THAT YOU MUST RUN /stand/PAO/PAOsetup TO SET UP THE PCCARD SUPPORT. This will patch and rebuild your kernel for PCCARD. This was on the web site I believe. 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 Nov 25 12:12:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA05607 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:12:45 -0800 (PST) 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 MAA05599 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:12:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA01350; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:13:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:13:13 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Gianmarco Giovannelli cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to make a FreeBSD cdrom under w95 In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19961124030502.00686140@scotty.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 Sun, 24 Nov 1996, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > 1) I created a big tar of all the files I need under FreeBSD 2.2 . (so I > can store long filenames) > 2) I copied this tar in a msdos drive. > 3) I booted in win95 and I uncompressed the tar archive. (the long file > name are see by w95 but the dos name is now 8.3 with ~ inside.) > 4) I did the cdrom using the the joliet file name (win95 names and dos > names) unicode. > FreeBSD see the name with the dos name, so the cdrom is ok if I use w95, > but when I mount it under FreeBSD I only see the name 8 + 3. > 5) Easycd Pro can make the cdrom with the Romeo coding (W95 only file > names). Is perhaps this name coding better for FreeBSD ? > > > Is possible to create an image of the cdrom under FreeBSD and then burn it > in w95 with easycd pro ? > Or if it is not possible is there a way to do this cdrom ? To get the long filenames back, you must encode using ISO9660 and Rock Ridge extensions. The Windows 95 encoding schemes are not currently supported. 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 Nov 25 12:16:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA05728 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:16:01 -0800 (PST) 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 MAA05723 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:15:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA01357; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:17:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:17:01 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Raul Zighelboim cc: "'questions@freefall.freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: if_de.c - is there a patch for the newser cards ? 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 Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Raul Zighelboim wrote: > Hello there! I think the subject says it all. >From what I understand (and this was current as of a week or two ago) the developers have the new cards in their hands and will modify the driver to accept them. I don't have a time frame. Hopefully someone closer to the situation can report. 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 Nov 25 12:22:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA06183 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:22:45 -0800 (PST) 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 MAA06173 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:22:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA01364; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:23:40 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:23:40 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: World Access cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installation combination/w95/dos6.22/linux/freebsd In-Reply-To: <199611231132.MAA10744@tiga.worldaccess.nl> 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, 23 Nov 1996, World Access wrote: > Who is willing to help me solving my installation problem,freebsd 2.1.5 > on scsi(already linux on one partition) and ide HD(w95/dos6.22)as the > mbr partition Well, that depends on how big a problem it is :) Please, ask away. 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 Nov 25 12:27:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA06517 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:27:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from dfw-ix8.ix.netcom.com (dfw-ix8.ix.netcom.com [206.214.98.8]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA06507 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:27:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from nbw-nj10-59.ix.netcom.com (csidwell@nbw-nj10-59.ix.netcom.com [207.94.119.123]) by dfw-ix8.ix.netcom.com (8.6.13/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA19085 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:27:00 -0800 Message-ID: <329A02F5.6C4B@ix.netcom.com> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:35:01 -0500 From: Charles Sidwell X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I; 16bit) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: x configuration Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I've just loaded FreeBDS 2.2 Snapshot and am having problems loading the X windows stuff. when I run /usr/X11R6/bin/x86config I get a message: ld.so failed: Can't find shared library "libgnumalloc.so.2.0". I originally loaded just the X user files, but after getting this message , went back and loaded all X sources from the distribution installation. Any ideas? I've been working on this for a while. I had a lot of trouble getting the duel boot up: I have two hard drives with FreeBDS on the second, shared with a DOS partition. I finally gave up this after my duel boot would not work regardless of what I tried, and partitioned all space on both drives to FreeBSD. I really want to get this thing up. From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 13:14:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA09969 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:14:23 -0800 (PST) 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 NAA09957 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:14:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from crevenia.parc.xerox.com ([13.2.116.11]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <16351(5)>; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:13:38 PST Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by crevenia.parc.xerox.com with SMTP id <177711>; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:13:33 -0800 X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.7 5/3/96 To: Chris Madison cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: socket(), PF_ROUTE, SOCK_RAW question In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 24 Nov 1996 08:05:10 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:13:28 PST From: Bill Fenner Message-Id: <96Nov25.131333pst.177711@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Chris, The code in "arp" that you're looking at does more or less the same thing as "route get" does, so try "route get ip.ad.dr.ess" to see what it has to say. Basically, the "cannot intuit" message means that when arp got the route for the destionation you're trying to set, it got a gateway route and not an interface route, meaning either that destination is not on a local subnet or your routing table is confused. If you want to learn more about routing sockets, I'd suggest "TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 2" by Richard Stevens. Chapters 18, 19 and 20 cover the routing table and routing sockets, and chapter 21 covers ARP. Bill From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 13:23:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA10545 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:23:35 -0800 (PST) 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 NAA10531 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:23:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA01422; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:24:27 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:24:27 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: The ROOT of all Evilz cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPFIREWALL option In-Reply-To: <199611201518.KAA02650@wam2.wamnet.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 Wed, 20 Nov 1996, The ROOT of all Evilz wrote: > I'm running FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE on an intel platform with 20mb of > memory. Im trying to recompile with the options IPFIREWALL added to > the GENERIC config file. Whenever I compile the kernel with this > option the make CRASHES hard.... > Is there a solution for this? I've tried compiling with and > without "pseudo-device bpfilter 1" > please cc waveman@wamnetrunner.com as I am not on the mailing > list for questions. Thanks a lot. Don't forget to create a basic rule for the ipfw option. The default is to deny all, ie disable all net traffic. There is an option in /etc/sysconfig which sets a more resonable default during the boot sequence. 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 Nov 25 13:24:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA10597 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:24:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from taurus.dnaent.com (taurus.dnaent.com [206.50.94.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA10580 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:24:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from taurus.dnaent.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by taurus.dnaent.com (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA00392 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:24:03 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <329A0E73.167EB0E7@dnaent.com> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:24:03 -0600 From: Chuck Kelly Organization: DNA Enterprises, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.6-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Netscape NFS File Locking Problem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am having a problem with netscape on our FreeBSD machines. Currently, we use Sun Sparcstations running Solaris for our file servers. The users are all running FreeBSD and automounting their home directories from the Sun's. A problem is encountered with Netscape. The users can receive their mail just fine. However, when they try send send mail, the get an NFS file locking error. Right now all of the user are popping remote shells from the Sun's and running Netscape. This technique although it works, wastes valuable bandwidth and slows the overall performance of Netscape. Has anyone seen or resolved this problem? Chuck Chuck Kelly Systems Administrator DNA Enterprises, Inc. ckelly@dnaent.com http://www.dnaent.com From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 13:24:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA10619 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:24:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from SNYBUFAA.CS.SNYBUF.EDU (SYSTEM@snybufaa.cs.buffalostate.suny.edu [136.183.34.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA10601 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:24:41 -0800 (PST) From: MENTJA11@SNYBUFAA.CS.SNYBUF.EDU Received: from SNYBUFAA.CS.SNYBUF.EDU by SNYBUFAA.CS.SNYBUF.EDU (PMDF V5.0-3 #8051) id <01IC9PFA0UPW9ATMKM@SNYBUFAA.CS.SNYBUF.EDU> for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 16:25:46 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 16:25:46 -0500 (EST) Subject: help: run a.out To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <01IC9PFA0VO69ATMKM@SNYBUFAA.CS.SNYBUF.EDU> Organization: from SUNY College at Buffalo, NY 14222 X-VMS-To: in%"questions@FreeBSD.ORG" 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 When I compile a c++ program with g++ i get the appropriate a.out file. Any documentation i've found says to simply type a.out to run like normal. Problem: FreeBSD returns "a.out: not found" Clueless From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 13:26:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA10706 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:26:44 -0800 (PST) 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 NAA10688 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:26:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA01429; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:26:19 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:26:19 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: mark thompson cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: irq conflicts In-Reply-To: <199611251429.GAA28287@squirrel.tgsoft.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, 25 Nov 1996, mark thompson wrote: > I suppose i must be confused. I have added a soundblaster (clone) card > to my ISA-based PC (clone), running 2.1.6R. > > Here are a couple of lines from my config: > > device lpt0 at isa? port? tty irq 7 vector lptintr > device sb0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 7 conflicts drq 1 vector sbintr Conflicts are bad. You should consider moving the card to another unused IRQ, or setting the lpt to polled mode by removing it's irq entry. 5 is used by the modern install programs. Make sure you remove the conflicts keyword when you make the change. 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 Nov 25 13:30:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA10973 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:30:47 -0800 (PST) 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 NAA10967 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:30:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA01436; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:31:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:31:08 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Dev Chanchani cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: jiberish 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, 23 Nov 1996, Dev Chanchani wrote: > I recently installed FreeBSD 2.1.6 in a new server. When I run > applications like pine and pico, I get a lot of jibirish on the screen. > Everything else looks fine though. Anyone have any ideas on how to fix > the problem? I would guess that your terminal is being misdetected. Make sure it's being set to 'cons25' for the console. 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 Nov 25 13:39:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA11598 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:39:22 -0800 (PST) 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 NAA11577 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:38:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id NAA01446; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:39:59 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:39:58 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: MDM cc: FreeBSD Support Subject: Re: ld.so and emacs problems In-Reply-To: <53961120211735/0006695923PK1EM@MCIMAIL.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 Wed, 20 Nov 1996, MDM wrote: > I have completed installing FreeBSD 4.4-Lite from the Walnut Creek 2.1.5 > CD-Rom; there are three problems that I need some help with. The proper version number is FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE. You should consider returning this CD and picking up 2.1.6 after it comes out. > 1. EMACS 19.31 will not "start". I get an error message: > ld.so failed: Can't find shared library "libgcc.so.261.0" > I have searched for this file and have found: > /usr/lib/libgcc.a, libgcc_pic.a, libgcc_p.a > /usr/local/lib/libgcc.a > /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/libgcc/libgcc1.c, libgcc2.c Hm, I see a /usr/lib/libgcc.so.261.0. If you're missing it for some reason you can grab mine: ftp://gdi.uoregon.edu/pub/libgcc.so.261.0.gz > 2. What command generates the locate database > /var/db/locate.database ? > The locate man page doesn't tell. Just leave the machine on Friday night, or grab the command line from /etc/weekly. > 3. I "chsh"ed the root shell to Bash (and also of my normal account), but > paths and aliases written in the either the /root/.bashrc ( or the > /usr/home/myhome/.bashrc) do not get "accessed" or read or "used". What's > up? I'm not familiar with Bash, but since it's based on sh I would say it's picking up the .profile in /root and ignoring your .bashrc. The bash man page should show which file(s) it wants. I would HIGHLY recommend changing root back to sh; you won't be able to log in if your /usr partition disappears, while a static version of sh is in /bin. You should use su instead of logging in as root. 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 Nov 25 14:28:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA15022 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 14:28:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from scotty.masternet.it (scotty.masternet.it [194.184.65.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA14974 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 14:27:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from gmarco (ts1port4d.masternet.it [194.184.65.26]) by scotty.masternet.it (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA14570; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:27:35 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19961125232303.00c0f27c@scotty.masternet.it> X-Sender: gmarco@scotty.masternet.it X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:23:07 +0100 To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu From: Gianmarco Giovannelli Subject: Re: How to make a FreeBSD cdrom under w95 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 12.13 25/11/96 -0800, Doug White wrote: >On Sun, 24 Nov 1996, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > >To get the long filenames back, you must encode using ISO9660 and Rock >Ridge extensions. The Windows 95 encoding schemes are not currently >supported. I found the solution on the script makecdfs or similar in the /usr/share/examples/worm. It seem to work quite nice ... Regards... +-------------------------------------+--------------------+ | Internet: gmarco@masternet.it | ,,, | | Internet: gmarco@fi.nettuno.it | (o o) | | | ---oo0-(_)-0oo--- | | http://www2.masternet.it/ | Gianmarco | +-------------------------------------+--------------------+ From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 14:52:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA16970 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 14:52:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from PAbraham-S.mankato.msus.edu (PAbraham-S.Mankato.MSUS.EDU [134.29.16.122]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA16955 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 14:52:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from pabraham@localhost) by PAbraham-S.mankato.msus.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA00571; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:52:09 GMT Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:52:09 +0000 () From: Paul Abraham Mullaseril To: questions@freebsd.com Subject: Buffer 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 the latest version of Free BSD 2.1.5 i believe. The network deamon crashes on and off. This is then solved by rebooting my machine. When the network is not visible to my computer, the output from "ping" states that my buffer isn't large enough. Could it be that when I mail large documents somehow the whatever buffer this is not cleared etc. If yes what command do I give to clear this up or if Not have any one of you come accross this instability in the program. Thankyou Paul Abraham PS: I want to thank all of you out there who answered my many questions before. THANKS A TON!. From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 15:06:56 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA17779 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:06:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from inetsrv.wtrt.net (inetsrv.wtrt.net [205.231.181.67]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA17770 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:06:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from allenh.wtrt.net (local2.wtrt.net [205.231.181.228]) by inetsrv.wtrt.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA28035 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 17:07:31 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199611252307.RAA28035@inetsrv.wtrt.net> From: "Allen Hyer" To: Subject: Re: 2 questions Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 17:06:26 -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 Boy, somedays nothing seems to go right. I posted this message to freebsd-questions, only to realize later that I hadn't subscribed to that list :) I have since subscribed, if there has been any replies, could someone please forward them to me? Thanks, Allen Hyer System Administrator West Texas Rural Telephone ---------- > From: Allen Hyer > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: 2 questions > Date: Monday, November 25, 1996 1:52 PM > > I have a FreeBSD box running 2.1.5-RELEASE. I have two questions: > > 1. I have 2 tcp/ip networks on my physical lan. I would like the FreeBSD > box to be able to "see" both networks. I do NOT want it to route packets > between them, I just want it to have an ip address from both networks. Do > I have to put in two ethernet cards even tho the 2 networks are on the same > lan? > > 2. I had an old 4mm DAT drive laying around, so I put it in the FreeBSD > box. When I boot, I get the following message; "st0(ahc0:1:0) > Sequential-Access st0: WangDat model 1300 is a known rogue" is this bad? > If it is, can someone recommend a good tape drive for backing up the > system? > > Thanks, > Allen Hyer > System Administrator > West Texas Rural Telephone > From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 15:07:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA17819 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:07:59 -0800 (PST) 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 PAA17806 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:07:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA01522; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:08:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:08:40 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: MENTJA11@SNYBUFAA.CS.SNYBUF.EDU cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help: run a.out In-Reply-To: <01IC9PFA0VO69ATMKM@SNYBUFAA.CS.SNYBUF.EDU> 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, 25 Nov 1996 MENTJA11@SNYBUFAA.CS.SNYBUF.EDU wrote: > When I compile a c++ program with g++ i get the appropriate a.out file. > Any documentation i've found says to simply type a.out to run like normal. > Problem: FreeBSD returns "a.out: not found" Your current directory isn't in your PATH. Type './a.out' to run things in the current directory. This isn't included as a security precaution. You can edit ~/.cshrc or whatever to add . to the path line if that really bugs you. If you do, put it at the end; this reduces the chances of you running something in your current directory that you weren't intending. 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 Nov 25 15:16:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA18166 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:16:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from bingnet1.cc.binghamton.edu (bingnet1.cc.binghamton.edu [128.226.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA18154 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:15:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from degobah.core.binghamton.edu (degobah.core.binghamton.edu [128.226.40.205]) by bingnet1.cc.binghamton.edu (8.7.3/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA03124 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 18:15:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from Luke.core.binghamton.edu (luke.core.binghamton.edu [128.226.40.208]) by degobah.core.binghamton.edu (8.7.1/8.6.7) with SMTP id SAA06870 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 18:16:06 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <329A18E5.1755@degobah.core.binghamton.edu> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 18:08:37 -0400 From: Yevgeny Streltsov Reply-To: yevgeny@degobah.core.binghamton.edu Organization: bu X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: ed1 at 0x300 on irq 5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk After installing FreeBSD I couldn't get my network to work with ethernet. When I looked into \var\log\messages I found out that ed1 is trying to use irq 5. My windows95 uses irq 5 at 0x300 succesfully and I would like to change the irq on FreeBSD but don't know how since I just installed it. My ethernet card is NE2000 compatible. Any help will be apriciated. --------------------------------------- Yevgeny Streltsov: yevgeny@degobah.core.binghamton.edu be26434@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 15:19:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA18325 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:19:54 -0800 (PST) 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 PAA18315 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:19:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA01535; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:20:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:20:37 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: JKtheOWL@aol.com cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loading packages In-Reply-To: <961121005017_1150731729@emout08.mail.aol.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 Thu, 21 Nov 1996 JKtheOWL@aol.com wrote: > Thank you, Doug for your help in getting the system up and running. But > now... > > I am trying to get specific packages from FTP6 and install them. The > sysinstall utility does not seem to find anything (INDEX or lynx-2.FM) no > matter where I put them. (In the freebsd directory, packages, etc. -- all DOS > partition.) Here is the problem. The DOS filesystem munges the filenames, and pkg_add gets confused. Once you get the system installed: 1. Mount your DOS partition with: mount -t msdos /dev/wd? /mnt Replace ? with the device number that the DOS partition is on. It may already be mounted on /dos as well; you can just type 'mount' to check. 2. Copy the files from the DOS partition to the FreeBSD partition, restoring the original filename. The original would be something like pine-3.95.tgz, while in DOS it may be PINE-3.95. 3. Run 'pkg_add package.tgz' as root to add the package. > Do you have a straightforward suggestion for getting specific files via ftp > through my DOS client and then installing them on the FreeBSD partition? I'm > especially interested in the HTML browser to aid in reading all the > documentation provided and now on the unix partition. That is more difficult. Once you get lynx installed (through the package) you can view this documentation. To be honest, the same (if not more current) information is available at http://www.freebsd.org/ > The other question is shutting down. I get error messages on boot that tell > me the last session was terminated without clean flags being set. > Suggestions? Are you running 'shutdown -r now'? Never, never just turn off the machine. It plays havoc with the filesystems. > I know this seems rudimentary, but until I can get to the manual pages and > FAQs and get read up (in the O'reilly & Assoc. books -- great suggestion, > thanks) I'm just too rusty to remember all this and really appreciate your > help. You're quite welcome. The books are the single best way to get up to speed on a lot of this. The O'Reilly books are the best I've found and make excellent references. 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 Nov 25 15:28:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA18895 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:28:41 -0800 (PST) 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 PAA18806 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:28:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA01542; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:28:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:28:13 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Gianmarco Giovannelli cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: minor version 0 older than expected 1... In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19961124023603.006860e4@scotty.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 Sun, 24 Nov 1996, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > > I am running 2.2 ALPHA (ctm #0044) and with some programs I obtained this > kind of warnings : > > In example Xgalaga: > > (null): warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6.0: minor version 0 older > than expected 1, using it anyway > (null): warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6.0: minor version 0 older > than expected 1, using it anyway > > What does it means ? And where I can find , i.e libXext.so.6.1 ? It means your libraries are a bit older than the system that the system it was compiled on, in this case a XFree86 3.2 system I would guess. They can be safely ignored. 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 Nov 25 15:31:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA19042 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:31:33 -0800 (PST) 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 PAA19024 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:31:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA01553; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:30:46 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:30:46 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Jon Morgan cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: more on atapi problem In-Reply-To: <9611221042.ZM5256@ws15.elan.af.mil> 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, 22 Nov 1996, Jon Morgan wrote: > Here's the dmesg during boot up: > > wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa > wdc1: unit 0 (atapi): <665A/6.2EH 2>, removable, iordy > wcd0: 878Kb/sec, 120Kb cache, audio play, 255 volume levels, ejectable tray > wcd0: no disc inside, unlocked > > and here's what I get when I try to mount a CD: > > cd9660: /dev/wcd0c: Device not configured I apologize for breaking in, but it looks like your /dev entries are broken. Try cd /dev and run as root './MAKEDEV wcd0' to recreate the device. 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 Nov 25 15:37:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA19560 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:37:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from plains.nodak.edu (tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu [134.129.111.64]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA19536 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:37:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from tinguely@localhost) by plains.nodak.edu (8.8.3/8.8.3) id RAA08615 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 17:37:03 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 17:37:03 -0600 (CST) From: Mark Tinguely Message-Id: <199611252337.RAA08615@plains.nodak.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: NAT and kernel PPP Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I configured NAT a system that uses kernel PPP. Enabling the firewall code code and GATEWAY options on the NAT host. I can see the host translating the packet from ethernet and sending it down the PPP line, but the Cisco 2511 Terminal server that connects to the NAT FreeBSD machine does not seem to forward the packet out to our network. the network administrator did not see packet errors on the terminal server. I remember seeing in one of the freebsd mailing list that people are sucessfully using NAT with user mode PPP (iijppp), has anyone been successful using NAT with kernel mode PPP? or were there any other changes needed to the user mode PPP code to use NAT? thanks. --mark. From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 15:40:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA19690 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:40:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (brosenga.st.pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA19642 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:39:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA16843; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:39:12 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:39:12 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu cc: MDM , FreeBSD Support Subject: Re: ld.so and emacs 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 Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Doug White wrote: > I would HIGHLY recommend changing root back to sh; you won't be able to > log in if your /usr partition disappears, while a static version of sh is > in /bin. You should use su instead of logging in as root. I'm glad to report this isn't the case -- my root shell is /usr/bin/tcsh, but when I start up in single-user mode FreeBSD defaults to sh. > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > Ben From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 15:44:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA19998 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:44:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from tfs.com (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA19967 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:44:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from ppp-lane.tfs.com by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) with SMTP id m0vSAgS-0003wVC; Mon, 25 Nov 96 15:43 PST Message-Id: <2.2.32.19961125234425.006decb4@mailhub> X-Sender: lane@mailhub X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 15:44:25 -0800 To: questions@FreeBSD.org From: Mike Lane Subject: adding additional disk drives Cc: pascal Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm trying to add additional disk drive to an existing FreeBSD machine. It appears the section in the reference manual to add drives has not been completed yet. Can someone please provide the procedure for adding disks? Thanks Mike Lane From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 16:23:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA22326 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 16:23:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from wisdom.psinet.net.au (wisdom.psinet.net.au [203.19.29.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA22316 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 16:22:31 -0800 (PST) From: netnology@psinet.net.au Received: from cyberstein (synapse_5.psinet.net.au [203.19.29.249]) by wisdom.psinet.net.au (8.7/8.7) with SMTP id IAA11594 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 08:21:36 +0800 Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 08:21:36 +0800 Message-Id: <2.2.32.19961126082416.00948718@mail.psinet.net.au> X-Sender: netnology@mail.psinet.net.au X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.2 (32) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Syquet parallel removable cartridges Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi there, I am setting up a freebsd machine to take care of a small office LAN. So far, I can use SAMBA to share freebsd filespace and the office printer and CERN HTTPD proxying for internet access. What I would like to do now is use our syquest drive (parallel interface) to enable backups of data from the pcs. Using SAMBA I can read all of the files, so I was wanting to use tar and/or gzip to write these files to the syquest drive using cron or some such. Using this particular device, the printer daisy chains on the back of it, so if at all possible i would like to be able to still use the printer while i am using the syquest. I have looked through the mailing list archive, but the only mention of syquest devices is the ez135 and this appears to be an ide or scsi device. Regards Craig n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n Reward Consulting Pty. Ltd. ACN: 074 896 638 Trading as _ _ _ _ _ _ | \ | ___ _| |_ | \ | ___ | | ___ ___ _ _ | |/ ._> | | | |/ . \| |/ . \/ . || | | |_\_|\___. |_| |_\_|\___/|_|\___/\_. |`_. | <___'<___' . 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Box 181 _--_|\ phone: (+61-9) 227-5957 Melville 6156 / \ mobile: (+61) 019-110-908 Western Australia \_.--._/ fax: (+61-9) 227-5956 V e-mail: netnology@psinet.net.au Research # Training # Web Authoring # Document Conversion # Network Setup n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n~n From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 16:23:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA22379 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 16:23:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from missentry.el.nec.com (missentry.el.nec.com [192.216.82.86]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA22334 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 16:23:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from misnjourin.el.nec.com (misnjourin.el.nec.com [143.103.4.203]) by missentry.el.nec.com (8.7.1/8.7.1) with SMTP id QAA14533 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 16:20:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from misnjourin by misnjourin.el.nec.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA00538; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 16:22:55 -0800 Message-ID: <329A385F.1F1A@el.nec.com> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 16:22:55 -0800 From: "Nicholas G. Jourin" Reply-To: dhawley@el.nec.com Organization: NEC X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Can't run X86 Windows 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 getting the message, "Fatal Server Error: Cannot open mouse (device not configured)". I have a PS2 mouse that worked just fine before. I understand what's involved in getting it to work... I know how to include psm0 in the kernel (and exclude the other choice). I know how to MAKEDEV psm0 in /dev. I know how to select that mouse during the install (and I did all these things). I know how to run /stand/sysinstall and configure X86... I chose /dev/psm0, I chose "use META characters" (so i could emulate a 3 button mouse). Again I had this all working before. Other facts. I had FreeBSD running just fine on a tiny little IDE drive, but ever since I installed a fast/wide, new, improved, huge SCSI disk, and 4X SCSI CD-ROM, I've been having lots of problems. I managed to resolve all of them, *except* that I can no longer run X86Windows (forgive me I don't remember what you call it). Before the SCSI stuff I had it running, and I configured both twm and fvwm to work. I set things in the BIOS both on and off. I tried NumLock both ways (after reading the FAQ). I turned off IDE in the BIOS. I have installed all this at least 20 times (due to HW configuring problems). I don't know where to turn next. Please Help! Regards, David Hawley 408-588-5388 dhawley@el.nec.com From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 16:51:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA23764 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 16:51:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (brosenga.st.pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA23746 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 16:50:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA17185; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 16:50:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 16:50:50 -0800 (PST) From: Levels of Indirection Reply-To: benedict@echonyc.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: rzsz.zip checksum mismatch Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Whenever I try to build rz/sz from the ports collection, it fetches rzsz.zip, reports a checksum mismatch, and rolls over and dies. What's the problem? I mailed ache@freebsd.org about the problem, since he's listed as the maintainer, but I got no answer. Ben From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 17:09:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA24697 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 17:09:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.ssc.samsung.co.kr ([203.241.151.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA24654 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 17:08:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from davidwei.ssc.samsung.co.kr ([203.241.142.213]) by www.ssc.samsung.co.kr (Netscape Mail Server v1.1) with SMTP id AAA5851 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 10:13:18 +1000 Message-ID: <329A511D.4D88@ssc.samsung.co.kr> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 12:08:29 +1000 From: "David wei" Reply-To: davidwei@ssc.samsung.co.kr Organization: samsung X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FREEBSD INSTALLATION Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk DEAR SIR/MADAM, HOW COULD I GET INFORMATION OR FAQ ABOUT INSTALLATION. THE INSTALLATION GUIDE IS NOT ENOUGH TO SOLVE MY PROBLEM. I USE FTP TO INSTALL THE SYSTEM, BUT IT HANGS AFTER 10MB TRANSFERRING. I NEED TO KNOW WHAT THE PROBLEM IS. I APPRECIATE THAT IF I COULD GET SOME HELP FROM A EXPERIENCED USER OR ADMINISTRATOR. KIND REGARDS, DAVID WEI From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 17:37:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA26011 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 17:37:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from primrose.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (primrose.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp [131.113.82.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA25988 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 17:37:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by primrose.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (8.6.12+2.4W/3.4Wbeta3) with SMTP id KAA09438 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 10:36:49 +0900 X-Authentication-Warning: primrose.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Is this notebook can run X-windows? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-2022-jp" Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 10:36:48 +0900 Message-ID: <9437.848972208@primrose.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp> From: Pornchai LAOHAKULVATHIT Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi everyone, I'm new in this mailing list. Now, I've a plan to buy one notebook to use with 'FreeBSD', but I'm not sure that which model can be use with X-window correctly in 800x600 SVGA(or over). If you known any models that have problems, would you mind to let me know? Of where can I find the list(if has) about 'Using notebook with FreeeBSD' or something like this? Thanks in advance, //pornchai From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 17:39:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA26103 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 17:39:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from MAINE.maine.edu (SMTP2@maine.maine.edu [130.111.39.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA26088 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 17:38:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from eagleaye by MAINE.maine.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R3) with TCP; Mon, 25 Nov 96 20:37:10 EST Message-Id: <3.0.32.19961125203709.0056d278@acadia.umcs.maine.edu> X-Sender: eagleaye@acadia.umcs.maine.edu X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 20:37:15 -0500 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Dave Ainaire Subject: FreeBSD and Windows NT on a system. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am curious how loding FreeBSD onto my system will affect Windows NT and its Boot Loader. If FreeBSD can "see" NT partitions (NTFS) and vice versa. Basically, if there are some www faq pages on this, I have not been able to find them, please direct me, or send me whatever info you have, Thank You. Dave Ainaire, aka Eagle Aye io00905@maine.maine.edu eagleaye@umcs.maine.edu http://gandalf.umcs.maine.edu/~eagleaye From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 17:48:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA26747 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 17:48:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (brosenga.st.pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA26731 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 17:48:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA17296; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 17:48:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 17:48:22 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: Yevgeny Streltsov cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ed1 at 0x300 on irq 5 In-Reply-To: <329A18E5.1755@degobah.core.binghamton.edu> 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, 25 Nov 1996, Yevgeny Streltsov wrote: > After installing FreeBSD I couldn't get my network to work with > ethernet. When I looked into \var\log\messages I found out that ed1 is > trying to use irq 5. My windows95 uses irq 5 at 0x300 succesfully and I > would like to change the irq on FreeBSD but don't know how since I just > installed it. My ethernet card is NE2000 compatible. Boot with the -c option. At the next prompt, type "visual" or just "v" to go to visual mode -- it's pretty straightforward from there. > Any help will be apriciated. > > --------------------------------------- > Yevgeny Streltsov: > yevgeny@degobah.core.binghamton.edu > be26434@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu > Ben From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 18:45:28 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA00458 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 18:45:28 -0800 (PST) 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 SAA00418 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 18:44:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from mainserver ([24.112.2.38]) by bureau-de-poste.utcc.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <795235(4)>; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 21:44:38 -0500 Message-ID: <329A121A.967@utoronto.ca> Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 16:39:38 -0500 From: Edward Ing X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Comment on whether this dual-booting scheme will work, NT/FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am considering installing NT workstation and FreeBSD on one machine. Before I go and do the dual-boot I would like to know whether it is going to work or not, before I crash everything. According to NT installation manuals, NTLDR (NT loader) is run from MBR, which in turn starts the NT loading process, which includes the bit that lets you decide between booting NT and Dos. I was thinking of making booteasy point to NTLDR. Does booteasy modify the MBR so that I can load, amount other things, FreeBSD boot, and NTLDR? Thus, will this plan work? If this plan does not work I am planning to use Richard Brooksby' scheme(questions@, Sep 1995)? In this case where do I find the FreeBSD boot sector? All comments will be appreciated. Edward Ing From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 19:12:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA01815 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 19:12:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from tippy2.vnet.net (tippy2.vnet.net [166.82.197.240]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA01557 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 19:06:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (cmadison@localhost) by tippy2.vnet.net (8.8.2/8.6.9) with SMTP id WAA27388; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:06:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:06:29 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Madison To: Bill Fenner cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: socket(), PF_ROUTE, SOCK_RAW question In-Reply-To: <96Nov25.131333pst.177711@crevenia.parc.xerox.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 Hey Bill, Thanks for the info! This helps in understanding what is going on with my latest attempt to ethernet my boxes:-) I love this stuff, just wish I could keep it up all the time (errr....the path between the boxes, not anything else:). > If you want to learn more about routing sockets, I'd suggest "TCP/IP > Illustrated, Volume 2" by Richard Stevens. Chapters 18, 19 and 20 cover the > routing table and routing sockets, and chapter 21 covers ARP. AARRGGHHHH! I've wanted to get this for sometime! Now is the best time I suppose. Thanks for the * ! Chris From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 20:11:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA05973 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 20:11:00 -0800 (PST) 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 UAA05956 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 20:10:45 -0800 (PST) Received: (from cp_nairn@localhost) by wedge.its.utas.edu.au (8.8.3/8.6.6) id PAA00451; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 15:10:25 +1100 (EST) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 15:10:24 +1100 (EST) From: Carey Nairn X-Sender: cp_nairn@wedge.its.utas.edu.au Reply-To: Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au To: Edward Ing cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Comment on whether this dual-booting scheme will work, NT/FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <329A121A.967@utoronto.ca> 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, 25 Nov 1996, Edward Ing wrote: > I am considering installing NT workstation and FreeBSD on one machine. > Before I go and do the dual-boot I would like to know whether it > is going to work or not, before I crash everything. > I currently have this setup working fine. > According to NT installation manuals, NTLDR (NT loader) is run > from MBR, which in turn starts the NT loading process, which includes > the bit that lets you decide between booting NT and Dos. > > I was thinking of making booteasy point to NTLDR. Does booteasy > modify the MBR so that I can load, amount other things, FreeBSD > boot, and NTLDR? Thus, will this plan work? > I use OS-BS to switch between FreeBSD and NT. Basically I had heard (and read the FAQ) about booting FreeBSD from the NT Boot menu but couldn't get it to work, so I installed OSBS (2.0 beta 8) from the BSD CD. Now when I boot I get OSBS to select BSD or NT/DOS, then use the NT menu to select NT or DOS. I guess its a bit messy but it works. 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 Mon Nov 25 20:30:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA07322 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 20:30:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (brosenga.st.pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA07278 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 20:29:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA17723; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 20:29:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 20:29:32 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: Dave Ainaire cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Windows NT on a system. In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19961125203709.0056d278@acadia.umcs.maine.edu> 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, 25 Nov 1996, Dave Ainaire wrote: > I am curious how loding FreeBSD onto my system will affect Windows NT and > its Boot Loader. If FreeBSD can "see" NT partitions (NTFS) and vice versa. > Basically, if there are some www faq pages on this, I have not been able > to find them, please direct me, or send me whatever info you have, Thank You. > Dave Ainaire, aka Eagle Aye > io00905@maine.maine.edu > eagleaye@umcs.maine.edu > http://gandalf.umcs.maine.edu/~eagleaye The default behavior of Booteasy is to give a choice between FreeBSD and DOS; selected DOS brings up the NT boot loader. FreeBSD cannot read NTFS, I don't know if there are plans to teach it to (my guess is that fixing msdosfs is a higher priority). For information on using the NT boot loader to boot FreeBSD, see http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/FAQ76.html#76 I got there via the "documentation" link on the main page, which leads to a lot of other useful stuff too. Ben From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 20:33:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA07582 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 20:33:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from svpal.svpal.org (mbranch@svpal.svpal.org [204.118.32.56]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA07567 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 20:33:18 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mbranch@localhost) by svpal.svpal.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA26540; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 20:32:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 20:32:47 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Branch Reply-To: Mike Branch Subject: ppp packet filtering To: questions@freebsd.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 hi, what is required to get operational packet filtering at the ppp interface under FreeBSD 2.1? I'm trying to use the rule sets that are in /etc/ppp. Is there a FAQ? thanks, Mike ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;; Michael A. Branch "I turn big problems ;; ;; into little problems." ;; ;; ;; ;; mbranch@swordfish.eecs.berkeley.edu ;; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 20:44:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA08109 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 20:44:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (brosenga.st.pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA08099 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 20:44:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA17775; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 20:44:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 20:44:31 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: Edward Ing cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Comment on whether this dual-booting scheme will work, NT/FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <329A121A.967@utoronto.ca> 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, 25 Nov 1996, Edward Ing wrote: > I am considering installing NT workstation and FreeBSD on one machine. > Before I go and do the dual-boot I would like to know whether it > is going to work or not, before I crash everything. I have this setup. It works. > According to NT installation manuals, NTLDR (NT loader) is run > from MBR, which in turn starts the NT loading process, which includes > the bit that lets you decide between booting NT and Dos. > > I was thinking of making booteasy point to NTLDR. Does booteasy > modify the MBR so that I can load, amount other things, FreeBSD > boot, and NTLDR? Thus, will this plan work? When you choose DOS from booteasy, flexboot comes up. This is assuming you installed WinNT first, as I did. > If this plan does not work I am planning to use Richard Brooksby' > scheme(questions@, Sep 1995)? In this case > where do I find the FreeBSD boot sector? I can't find it right now but I believe the answer to that is somewhere in the docs on the CD. > All comments will be appreciated. > Edward Ing > Ben From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 21:05:37 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA08909 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 21:05:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from narcissus.ml.org (brosenga.st.pitzer.edu [134.173.120.201]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA08901 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 21:05:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ben@localhost) by narcissus.ml.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA00203; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 21:05:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 21:05:22 -0800 (PST) From: Snob Art Genre To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: system lockup with 2.1.5 and a PPro/440FX 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, as noted in the subject, running 2.1.5 on a PPro with the 440FX chipset and 32 megs of RAM. Twice in the last few days, my system has locked up to the point where I had to press the reset button. Both times it has happened when I switched vtys. I just recently compiled support for and created more vtys, going from 4 to 16. Might that have something to do with it? After reading that bounce buffers were for ISA SCSI host adapters, I disabled them, as my SCSI card is PCI. This would mean that the vty-switching thing is a red herring, I guess. Any ideas? TIA. Ben From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 21:36:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA10836 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 21:36:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from Nimbus.CAM.ORG (Nimbus.CAM.ORG [198.168.100.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA10807 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 21:35:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from owilson.HIP.CAM.ORG (owilson.HIP.CAM.ORG [205.151.117.34]) by Nimbus.CAM.ORG (8.8.2/8.8.2) with SMTP id AAA02398 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 00:35:36 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 00:35:36 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199611260535.AAA02398@Nimbus.CAM.ORG> X-Sender: owilson@pop.hip.cam.org X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: FreeBSD-Questions From: owilson@Hydro.CAM.ORG (Oliver Wilson) Subject: Help!! Access control on X with MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am able to sign on as root on Xfree86, which I have configured to use MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 access control. X on my system is configured to use virtual console #4. However when I attempt to sign on using another valid user ID, X rejects the attempt, and writes the following messages in $HOME/.xsession-errors: X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown) Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to server Error: Can't open display: :0 In short, the MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 access control only allows in 'root'. Can more that 1 user sign on to the same display using MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 access control if it has already been generated for root?? I've done some research, which seems to indicate that xdm does generate the unique magic cookie code, however after attempting to sign on as a non root user, the $HOME/.Xauthority file has a zero size, which means that the unique code was not generated. My xdm-config file has the following resource specifications: DisplayManager._0.authorize: true DisplayManager*authorize: false My feeling is that more than 1 user should be allowed, especially if the machine is to be shared. Can anyone supply some answers or advice?? I shall be most greatful Oliver Wilson owilson@sirn.org From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 22:28:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA13576 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:28:10 -0800 (PST) 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 WAA13556 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:28:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA01888; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:29:10 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:29:09 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Mike Lane cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: adding additional disk drives In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19961125234425.006decb4@mailhub> 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, 25 Nov 1996, Mike Lane wrote: > I'm trying to add additional disk drive to an existing FreeBSD machine. It > appears the section in the reference manual to add drives has not been > completed yet. Can someone please provide the procedure for adding disks? Sent via private email. 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 Nov 25 22:29:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA13690 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:29:51 -0800 (PST) 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 WAA13680 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:29:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA01899; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:30:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:30:44 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Paul Abraham Mullaseril cc: questions@freebsd.com Subject: Re: Buffer 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, 25 Nov 1996, Paul Abraham Mullaseril wrote: > I have the latest version of Free BSD 2.1.5 i believe. The > network deamon crashes on and off. This is then solved by rebooting my > machine. When the network is not visible to my computer, the output from > "ping" states that my buffer isn't large enough. It can also mean the interface is down. What ethernet card are you using? > Could it be that when I mail large documents somehow the whatever > buffer this is not cleared etc. If yes what command do I give to clear > this up or if Not have any one of you come accross this instability in > the program. No, not that I'm aware of. You could check this using 'mailq' to look at the mail queue and see if any messages are jamming up. 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 Nov 25 22:31:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA13849 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:31:12 -0800 (PST) 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 WAA13836 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:31:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA01903; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:32:16 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:32:16 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: dhawley@el.nec.com cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Can't run X86 Windows In-Reply-To: <329A385F.1F1A@el.nec.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, 25 Nov 1996, Nicholas G. Jourin wrote: > I'm getting the message, "Fatal Server Error: Cannot open mouse > (device not configured)". I have a PS2 mouse that worked just fine > before. I understand what's involved in getting it to work... > > I know how to include psm0 in the kernel (and exclude the other > choice). I know how to MAKEDEV psm0 in /dev. I know how to > select that mouse during the install (and I did all these things). > I know how to run /stand/sysinstall and configure X86... I chose > /dev/psm0, I chose "use META characters" (so i could emulate a > 3 button mouse). Again I had this all working before. What does your "Pointer" section in /etc/XF86Config read? > I had FreeBSD running just fine on a tiny little IDE drive, but > ever since I installed a fast/wide, new, improved, huge SCSI disk, > and 4X SCSI CD-ROM, I've been having lots of problems. I managed to > resolve all of them, *except* that I can no longer run X86Windows > (forgive me I don't remember what you call it). Before the SCSI > stuff I had it running, and I configured both twm and fvwm to work. > > I set things in the BIOS both on and off. I tried NumLock both > ways (after reading the FAQ). I turned off IDE in the BIOS. This is odd. 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 Nov 25 22:34:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA14160 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:34:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from hera.ecs.csus.edu (hera.ecs.csus.edu [130.86.71.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA14154 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:34:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from gaia.ecs.csus.edu (gaia.ecs.csus.edu [130.86.71.9]) by hera.ecs.csus.edu (8.8.3/8.8.2) with ESMTP id WAA18904; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:34:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from sithoa@localhost) by gaia.ecs.csus.edu (8.8.3/8.8.2) id WAA23838; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:34:12 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:34:12 -0800 (PST) From: Allen Sitho To: Paul DuBois cc: jack , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System Commander 3.0 and FreeBSD 2.1.5 (Boot now!) In-Reply-To: <199611221626.KAA13883@night.primate.wisc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello all, After several emails with folks at V Communication (they make System Commander) I got a hidden trick and got FreeBSD to boot now. The trick is the following: 1. Restart system to get to menu of choices. 2 Highlight FreeBSD and press Alt-S. 3. Highlight Global Option and Press Alt-S (don't press enter) 4. A special menu pops up. Select the Clear Items Option and change it to NO (default should be Memory). 5. Ecs all the way out and boot FreeBSD. Let me know how you did! Hope this help. ooooo ooooo $$$$$$$$o o$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$o$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$ $$$$$ $$$$ Allen Sitho $$$$ "$$$$ $$$$" "$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$" ""$$$$$$$$$$$"" ""$$$$$"" "$" From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 22:44:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA14741 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:44:39 -0800 (PST) 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 WAA14734 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:44:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA01927; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:44:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:44:56 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: David wei cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FREEBSD INSTALLATION In-Reply-To: <329A511D.4D88@ssc.samsung.co.kr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk All capitals are not necessary. On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, David wei wrote: > HOW COULD I GET INFORMATION OR FAQ ABOUT INSTALLATION. THE INSTALLATION > GUIDE IS NOT ENOUGH TO SOLVE MY PROBLEM. > > I USE FTP TO INSTALL THE SYSTEM, BUT IT HANGS AFTER 10MB TRANSFERRING. I > NEED TO KNOW WHAT THE PROBLEM IS. I need to know some info: 1. What version of FreeBSD are you trying to install? 2. What install method are you using? (ftp, cdrom, ??) 3. Relevant output from the ALT-F2 debug console > I APPRECIATE THAT IF I COULD GET SOME HELP FROM A EXPERIENCED USER OR > ADMINISTRATOR. You're asking in the right place. 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 Nov 25 22:47:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA14917 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:47:42 -0800 (PST) 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 WAA14900 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:47:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA01941; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:48:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:48:47 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Snob Art Genre cc: MDM , FreeBSD Support Subject: Re: ld.so and emacs 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 Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Snob Art Genre wrote: > On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Doug White wrote: > > > I would HIGHLY recommend changing root back to sh; you won't be able to > > log in if your /usr partition disappears, while a static version of sh is > > in /bin. You should use su instead of logging in as root. > > I'm glad to report this isn't the case -- my root shell is /usr/bin/tcsh, > but when I start up in single-user mode FreeBSD defaults to sh. I stand corrected, at least by this report :) I can't say I've tried it, but I'm too scared to experiment with root's shell. 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 Nov 25 22:50:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA15142 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:50:30 -0800 (PST) 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 WAA15134 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:50:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA01937; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:47:47 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:47:46 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Pornchai LAOHAKULVATHIT cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is this notebook can run X-windows? In-Reply-To: <9437.848972208@primrose.mt.cs.keio.ac.jp> 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 Tue, 26 Nov 1996, Pornchai LAOHAKULVATHIT wrote: > I'm new in this mailing list. Now, I've a plan to buy one notebook to > use with 'FreeBSD', but I'm not sure that which model can be use with > X-window correctly in 800x600 SVGA(or over). This is tough. Laptop displays aren't standardized yet, so in all cases YMMV. I know it to work on an older Toshiba and a EPS Technologies P133. The EPS Tech I'm not impressed with though. Try asking the mailing list "freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org". > If you known any models that have problems, would you mind to let me know? > Of where can I find the list(if has) about 'Using notebook with FreeeBSD' > or something like this? I don't think such a thing exists yet, at least for XFree86. 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 Nov 25 22:52:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA15262 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:52:24 -0800 (PST) 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 WAA15253 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:52:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA01952; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:53:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:53:03 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Christoph Kukulies cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: mounting locally In-Reply-To: <199611201119.MAA00517@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.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 Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > Is it possible to mount a local filesystem via nfs into another > mountpoint in the local fs? Assumed you have mymachine:/a/XFree86 > and want to mount it into mymachine:~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/XFree86 - > is that possible? I'm getting > > gil# mount gil:/a/XFree86 ~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/XFree86 > nfs: bad MNT RPC: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused > > here. > > --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de Why would you punish yourself that way? I see you're trying to bypass the chroot limitation with it, but man the throughput will not be pleasant. If anything, put /a/XFree86 in ~ftp/pub/FreeBSD/XFree86 and symlink /a/XFree86 to it. (This is how a friend of mine does FTPable CDROMs) 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 Nov 25 22:58:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA15648 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:58:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from orex.oe.net.au ([203.32.138.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA15634 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:57:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from oepc2.oe.net.au by orex.oe.net.au (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA02982; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 16:57:01 +1000 Message-Id: <199611260657.QAA02982@orex.oe.net.au> From: "michael van doren" To: Subject: Installing FreeBSD Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 16:59:07 +1000 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 Hi I am installing FreeBSD for the first time from a MS Dos partition, I have plenty of rom and am wondering which 'DISTS' I should install. Should I use the ports or packages collection and if so, should I replicate the directory structure that exists on the WWW server? Thanks for your help Michael van Doren From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 23:10:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA16415 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:10:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from capella.grayphics.com (root@capella.grayphics.com [207.71.216.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA16410 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:10:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by capella.grayphics.com (8.8.3/8.8.3) with SMTP id XAA17246; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:10:29 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:10:28 -0800 (PST) From: Nick Esborn To: Snob Art Genre cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: system lockup with 2.1.5 and a PPro/440FX 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, 25 Nov 1996, Snob Art Genre wrote: > locked up to the point where I had to press the reset button. Both times > it has happened when I switched vtys. This happened to me at one point. I suspect if you try to telnet in, you will find that the machine works fine, just the console is locked. I solved this using options ASYNCH in my conf file, as is detailed in the FAQ. Hope that works for you. Nick Grayphics http://www.grayphics.com/ From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 23:16:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA16928 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:16:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.umu.se (dns.umu.se [130.239.8.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA16917 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:16:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from [194.218.155.244] ([194.218.155.244]) by mail.umu.se (8.8.2/8.8.2) with SMTP id IAA23158 for ; Tue, 26 Nov 1996 08:16:19 +0100 (MET) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 08:16:19 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199611260716.IAA23158@mail.umu.se> X-Authentication-Warning: kitty.umdc.umu.se: [194.218.155.244] didn't use HELO protocol X-Sender: larsf@freenet.hut.fi X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.3b4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: natad@cryogen.com (Lars Fredriksson) Subject: Running Java Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk HI I'm wondering if the Linux emulations can run Netscape or any other webbrowser that supports Java. If its possible would it be great! Cause I heard that Corel are developing a version of Corel DRAW! for Java, so almost every OS can run it. Thanks, _ ___ _ _ __ _____ __ ==|\=|=/_\==|==/_\=| \===<__| |_ _| |__>== | \| | | | | | |_/ |_| _ |________| |_____ Lars Fredriksson | 0 __ |_ natad@cryogen.com | |__| [] -| From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 25 23:18:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA17032 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:18:15 -0800 (PST) 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 XAA17025 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:18:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA01990; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:19:22 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:19:21 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: "Arthur J. Constantine" cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Novice, 2.1.5, 2940Ultra and SNAP disk, help In-Reply-To: <8m6x6AAhmMmyEwE2@ccompute.demon.co.uk> 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, 24 Nov 1996, Arthur J. Constantine wrote: > I am trying to install freebsd 2.1.5 on my computer with the SNAP disk > 2.2-961014 (due to 2940 Ultra disk controller). > At Boot I get the following inconsistancy : > Boot@0x10000: 640/65472k > I have 128K of memory. I *CERTAINLY* hope you meant to say 128 megabytes and not 128k. The kernel only recognizes the first 64mb on the system by default, once you get the system installed you can build a new kernel that will use the full 128. > After booting the Kernel I go into the visual editor and remove all the > unwanted drivers leaving (fdc0,lpt0,sio0,sio1,sc0,all PCI, and piix0 an > unknown device, which if removed causes a reboot). I'm not familiar with piix0, but leave the PCI stuff alone. > I then go into the OPTIONS editor and change the Release name from 2.2- > 961014-SNAP to 2.1.5-RELEASE and set the Media type to CDROM. > then chose the Novice setup and set the geometry to get the C=> Flags, > choose BootMgr,and then Auto for the Disk label editor, then minimal > dist. and having answered Yes carry on, it then does : > newfs -b 8192 -f 1024 /mnt/dev/rsd0 .. > and then: > extracting bin into / directory ... > this get through to: > "Saving any boot -c changes to new Kernel ..." > at which point I get plastered across the screen > "Fatal signal 11 caught! I'm dead .." This is usually indicitive of a few things: 1. A software bug. Try to be less aggressive about removing uninstalled devices. This is a SNAP after all, it's not perfect. (You might consider the 2.2-ALPHA instead of the SNAP, the ALPHA is newer and probably more stable, relatively) 2. Bad memory or processor cache. Unlikely if it dies in the same place every time. > I have the following Hardware set-up : > > TMC Motherboard : Pentium 166, 128K EDO RAM, 512K cache. > (tried 64K, 256K Cache) > AHA - 2940 AU PCI SCSI Controller > Soundblaster AWE PnP,(ISA) (Tried removing this). > Trident 9000 VGA card.(ISA) > Harddrive Micropolis 1991AV 9.1 GB > Dos installed on a 1GByte partition. Looks OK. The SB is just fine where it is, I have one and it works great. Hope this helps, let us know where 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 Nov 25 23:20:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA17248 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:20:05 -0800 (PST) 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 XAA17182 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:19:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA01997; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:21:18 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:21:18 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Paul Walsh cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Nvi saved the file 3warks.txt?? In-Reply-To: <32997AED.7058@nation-net.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, 25 Nov 1996, Paul Walsh wrote: > Anyone know what this means. I have never heard of this .txt file and > why did nvi take 2 weeks to tell me about it? 1. You hadn't rebooted the machine in two weeks, or it took a couple of cycles to some back up. 2. You rebooted the machine in the middle of a file edit and vi saved the file before it quit. You can run the command, then just :q! to quit and not save the file if you don't care for it. Or save it if you really do want it. > > On Wed Oct 30 15:34:54 1996, the user root was editing a > > file named 3warks.txt on the machine www.walshsimmons.co.uk, > > when it was saved for recovery. You can recover most, if not > > all, of the changes to this file using the -r option to nex > > or nvi: > > > > nvi -r 3warks.txt 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 Nov 25 23:28:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA17667 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:28:33 -0800 (PST) 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 XAA17649 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:28:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA02005; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:29:17 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:29:17 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: JKtheOWL@aol.com cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: packages and associated libraries In-Reply-To: <961123185931_1184632195@emout05.mail.aol.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, 23 Nov 1996 JKtheOWL@aol.com wrote: > In loading emacs, it installs with no error messages but will not run, > failing to locate libXmu.so.6.0. Where is this? Where is emacs (emacs-19.31) > supposed to be? What libraries need to be where? This typifies the problems I > had in loading the software originally. It's looking for an X component. You need to run configure (I think) with --without-x so that it will not try to build for X. See the README for information. > It would help generally if there was an outline of what should be where, and > what adjunct files should be downloaded with something like emacs-19.31. That 14 mb monster is all you need. :) 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 Nov 25 23:35:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA18217 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:35:02 -0800 (PST) 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 XAA18198 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:34:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA02019; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:35:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:35:38 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Victor Manuel Carranza Gonzalez cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please ignore (unless you are the list administrator) 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 Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Victor Manuel Carranza Gonzalez wrote: > I have 1.5 days of NO MAIL from FreeBSD-Questions, so now I want to see if > I receive at least my own posting... Please avoid test messages. If the list wasn't working, then another couple of hundred of us would have noticed and fixed it in a couple of hours :) The problem is 99.99% your ISP or some upstream link. 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 Nov 25 23:35:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA18288 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:35:11 -0800 (PST) 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 XAA18235 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:35:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA02023; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:36:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:36:22 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Victor Manuel Carranza Gonzalez cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Please ignore (unless you are the list administrator) 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 Wed, 20 Nov 1996, Victor Manuel Carranza Gonzalez wrote: > I have 1.5 days of NO MAIL from FreeBSD-Questions, so now I want to see if > I receive at least my own posting... Correction: 50% your ISP, 50% you were removed from the list for some reason. Write to majordomo@freebsd.org with the command 'which' to see which lists you're subscribed to. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://glad