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Hi,

I am not an expert in FreeBSD libraries.

I was trying to make Sawmill 8 work on my FreeBSD 7.0 system. In the process I created soft links for some of the .so files to try and fool Sawmill into seeing the correct versions as this had...

We have  Redhat Linux machine and FreeBSD machine also..I am very familiar with Redhat linux but i didnt work on FreeBSD ..i have some questions please  let me know ..

1)In Linux , if we need to restart the service (sendmail )  command is ...

Looking for some utilities to mount a freebsd hard drive to a windows box to pull some data off.

Anyone know of a good one?

Dear experts.

  Can anyone tell me What Command I can use to Open Ports in HP-UX???

Thank you so much!

Hi EE -

I have an OpenBSD router and  I am going to setup DynDNS. I have their "Custon DNS" plan. Once I have it running, I am going to purchase their "Mail Outbound" service. That way when I run scripts that send alerts using mailx, the relay...

How can I check the hardware info in freebsd ?
like whether HyperThreading is on or off states, memory, devicess.. all attachced device.

like prtconf -V and prtdiag -v in solaris, what is the alternative in freebsd ?

I trying to add pdflib to my php on FreeBSD


This is from PHP .net
Step 1: PDFlib http://www.pdflib.com/
   download PDFlib-Lite: http://www.pdflib.com/download/pdflib-family/pdflib-lite-7/
   extract: tar -xzvf...

I am trying to understand how SSH connections and keys work, but I can't seem to work out the logic exactly.  Please read and correct these statements as necessary.

1) It is possible to connect to server via SSH using password authentication,...

Over the weekend, I had an email server RAID5 array fail. After bringing the array back online and running fsck, the entire /usr now how has 1 directory, lost+found. Inside the lost+found are hundreds of directories, of which very few contain...

Hi all,

A simple one here, but a solution will undoubtedly save me some time!

If I am in a certain directory in UNIX then I can delete every file e.g. with extension .phy, from every subdirectory by using this command:

find -type f -name...

I noticed yesterday that when I run an NMAP against the external interface of my OpenBSD firewall it shows ports in the "filtered" state, that I know nothing about.  In the past it would only show the ports that I purposely opened in the PF.CONF...

I have a brand new HP MSL 2024 LTO 4 SAS auto tape library attaching to P212 on my DL180 G6 server running on FreeBSD8 p3.

I have no problem in using the tape drive thru "mt -f /dev/sa0 rewind" or even "tar -cvf /dev/sa0 testing.txt" while...

i have a dual boot asus laptop running XP and freeBSD.  i was trying to install the driver
for sound many times on XP from a cd i got with the puter but the installation hangs.

i would like to know what is going on.  is there a way for me to...

I feel like this should be easy.  I set out to explore how to mount and unmount volumes with TrueCrypt from the Mac OS X (Snow Leopard) Terminal Interface.  The TrueCrypt help file says "For information on command line usage applying to the Linux...

Hello,
    I have the following script in rules file under /data/Main/ConfigFiles/Events/rules/ in a device called Netasq which runs on BSD.

[DHCP_optimisation]
Description="Delete dhcpd.leases~ every 15min"
Start=*
Period=15m...

I need a serial port for development of an embedded system in FreeBSD 5.5. I'm currently running FreeBSD 5.5 in VMware Fusion on OS-X. I have a Keyspan USA-19HS USB to Serial adapter, but if some other USB to Serial device would work more easily,...

Hello,

I'm using FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE amd64 (samba not installed), and want to automatically mount an smb share each time the machine boots up?

The share is password protected so I'm using /etc/nsmb.conf (and /root/.nsmbrc just in case). ...

Hi all,

Short question: what is the easiest way to increase size of a mounted volume to 8GB and what steps are needed.

Being new to FreeBSD I need some hands on step by step instructions, I don't seem to understand the manpages well because...

As the subject says, phpinfo.php returns a blank page.

Contents of phpinfo.php

<? phpinfo(); ?>


OS = FreeBSD (x86)

Partial results of server-status = "Server Version: Apache/2.2.3 (FreeBSD) mod_ssl/2.2.3 OpenSSL/0.9.7e-p1 DAV/2...

I'm running openbsd 4.6 on proxmox/kvm.  It hangs on every restart.  This was upgraded from 4.5.  I followed these directions http://scie.nti.st/2009/10/4/running-openbsd-4-5-in-kvm-on-ubuntu-linux-9-04 to get 4.5 to boot before.  I have done the...

i've tried to install the DesktopBSD but X server don't work,and this is the error :

using config file : "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
nvrm : rminit adapter failed
nvidia0 : nvrm : rm_init_adapter () failed
nvidia : could not open the device file...

On a FreeBSD 6.2 system, my PHP scripts are encountering a 4GB filesize limit when using copy(). The copy process simply fails when 4 gigabytes have been transferred.

The attempted transfer is from a local file to a local file, and the...

I need a simple script to have rsync send failure non failure information to an email. Also, need date and time it occured. Below is the simple rsync script I wrote:

/usr/bin/rsync -azv --delete-after /interface/infnexti/PNEXTI/...

I'm using Mac OSX bash.

From / I'd like to run a command that will recursively delete (rm) all the directories named "New Folder" on my whole system.

Is it something like this?: (obviously haven't tried it)

find New\ Folder | rm -r
...

hello there,
on linux I edit the (/etc/bashrc) so I can see the text with colors like this
http://www.pranadharma.com/images/osx_terminal.png
how can I do the same on freebsd?

I've installed FreeBSD 7.0.
I get to the login and I want to start xwindows, or KDE, or Gnome.

WIth these commands, I get 'command not found' as a reply:
startx
x11
When I try 'startkde', it tells me it cannot connect to X server.

What...

Hello,

I need to use PPP/SLIP, please let me know how can I install wvdial in freebsd7.
I can't find it in /usr/ports though.

Thank you,
Balbir

i hve mounted mounted as 192.168.1.1:/grabs on /tmp/grabs type nfs (rw)


problem is that....

I canot copy a file inside /tmp/grabs to /  i am logined as root.

file size is 4 MB ...its hanging ....

when i checked error log is shows...

Hi Experts,

I have setup the latest version of FreeNAS in one of our servers and turned on CIFS and NFS from the service. Also, I have created a shared folder named home/partimag/. I can access this shared folder from my windows machines....

Hi
Im new to Unix, as part of my learning im creating a hangman game using bash. I am having a problem showing what letters a user has guessed correctly.
So far I have 4 variables $word - that is the word a user is trying to guess, $hidden -...

I have developers in my servers where they have access to development boxes only but recently been approved to have access to production.  Is there a way I can prevent them from copying productions files (via sftp/scp) from production box to...

Hello,

While doing ssh from the putty or cygwin to freebsd box, it takes a lots of time to authenticate and get me a shell. I am not using the public-private key authentication. Please tell me what tweaking I have to do in sshd_config to get...

Hi All,
I need to set the timeout value for ssh to set, I am running script in one of our sysadmin server which will login to many hosts to collect their user information etc, and i am stuck in a place where we need to set up timeout value to...

Hello, I'm trying to get gvinum raid5 running on FreeBSD 7 and have hit a road block, here's the run down.

I have an IDE HD ( 200gb ), which has the freeBSD install on it and 4 500GB hard drives ( exact same hard drives ) connected via sata2....

I'm asking how can I log the zone transfers to a separate log file?  What I'm wanting to do is to determine the status of zone transfers, either success or failure in a log file.  If I can't log the zone transfers to a separate log file. How can...

Is there a patch auditing tool that I could use to scan UNIX based machines? A tool that can do this on most of the flavors of unix would be great to have. Thanks.

Hello,

I will just start with the system details and problem. I have been using a freenas bsd server to store the mailbox database for an exchange 2003 on server 2003 attached via iscsi initiator. The volume detached today from server 2003 and...

Installation of  FreeBSD 7.0 RC1 failed 'cause this error :

freebsd : write failure on transfer ! (wrote -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes)
unable to transfer the generic distribution from acd0

and installation of DesktopBSD 1.6 failed 'cause this...

I am trying to setup an in line proxy server I have a box running FreeBSD 6.2 with 2 NICs.  Our default gateway which is not easily changed is setup via DHCP to point to 192.168.1.5/16.
The First NIC on the server which is plugged into our...

I want to use two USB drives with FAT32 filesystems to backup data, but I have a problem with mounting and dismounting the drives and I am not sure how to fix it.

Attached is my first attempt at a backup script.
I think my problem stems from...

On FreeBSD 6.2, how to I enable logging for FTP? I would like to see entries for successful logins, transfers, and failed attempts. So far, all I can find is "repeated login failures from xxx" in /var/log/xferlog, but nothing for individual login...

Hello,

Is there any up-to-date definitive resource which explains how to get FreeBSD (6.2) to authenticate against Active Directory (in my case Windows 2003 R2 which includes SFU).  There are a few informative articles floating around, but...

Hi, new to unix, going through unix problems by the fistful.

Samba is up and running and shows up on the network, but I can't seem to login. I get the following error when I try to login from an xp machine:

lib/util_sock.c:send_smb(562)...

Hi

I have a strange problem on my OpenBSD box.
localhost seem to be mapped to an incorrect ip address. (or for some
other reason)


# ping localhost
PING localhost.rby.se (85.228.196.87): 56 data bytes
--- localhost.rby.se ping...

using command prompt how can I get the name of my laptop maker ?
also how can I get the serial number and manufacturer details ?
how can i do it in freebsd7/solaris10 ?

I am migrating a server from FreeBSD to Linux (Debian), and I need convert/move all the users.
I have to convert or use a tool to export the master.passwd and passwd file on freeBSD to a passwd and shadow file on Debian - how to I do this?

using backtick in sudoers file for command substitution does not work
Defaults logfile=/var/log/`whoami`.log

what is the correct syntax to insert whoami command here ?

I got some 500+ connection on one specific port.. Is there a network tool using that I can kill all of them at once ?
I am asking coz I cant' identify the application as it runs above > 1024 port.

i want to convert a dvd movie into an avi file. i've used this command :

mencoder dvd://1 -oac mp3lame -lameopts br=192:vbr=2 -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4:vhq:keyint=250 -o output.avi -vop pp lb

with this error :

libdvdread : could...

i'm using FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE (latest freeNAS) booting from a USB drive. the storage is currently 4 drives of 1TB each in Raid 5 attached to an Areca ARC-1220 PCI-Express x8 SATA II Controller (~3TB usable). the controller supports 8 drives and...

Hi

Is there an easy way to make a curl call from a  perl program to fetch a file
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use strict;

my $cmd = `curl http://localhost/entrypoint?arg1=a`;
the above did not work for me

can i get the file fetched in a...

I get

ID 845546 kern.notice] NOTICE: alloc: /opt/IBM/WebSphere: file system full
even when the file system is 70% full. inode usage is about 70%.

When the message occurs , my websphere application hangs.
Any idea why this happens
...

We have an old SUN Workstation (system 5 - release 4.0.1) running Unix.

We are looking to mount a tape onto an old tape drive but we don't recall the command necessary.

Can anyone help us out?

Thanks in advance.

Using FREEBSD 6.1-RELEASE...

The FreeBSD handbook says, in "25.4.4.3.1 Setting Up a NIS Client" to remove all user accounts from /etc/master.passwd and stick +::::::::: into it instead.

Just to clarify... the NIS server uses...

Hello,

On our network, we have a NIS environment which I inherited from my predecessor. The NIS exists side by side with a 2003 AD (Windows) domain (A) which is in direct trust with a mixed domain (B)

Domain (A) houses 98% of our resources...

Ok, so I setup an areca raid volume, when booting up with no peripherals it comes up as

/dev/da0 and my slice is on /dev/da0s1
so I set it up in fstab to mount from there

I plugged an external hard drive up to transfer some files, then...

I inherited an old Sun Sparc20 workstation that is kind of pokey and only has about 300 MB of RAM and an 8 GB hard drive, although it does work and I was able to install OpenBSD 4.3 from CD.  I have X windows installed and running and it looks...

I want to add 10 (perhaps 20) GB of swapspace to /dev/ad0s1a as Swapfiles

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/adding-swap-space.html

The Free BSD help has this:

But I'm not sure how to check this and what to do if the below...

Folks

Running OSX 10.6.2 I see the following entry every 10 sec in my console:

3/1/10 7:05:09 PM      com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[4206]      (UCM[4588]) posix_spawn("/Applications/Unlimited Connection Manager.app/Launcher.app/Contents/MacOS/Launchd...

Anybody know of where I could find a PCI card that will run FreeBSD

I need a computer on a PCI card with its own CPU, RAM & Ethernet.

There is are commercial products which have a hardened Linux Like the Cyberguard SG640
(...

Hello,

How can I configure flash player in firefox in freebsd 7,
I need to use youtube.com in freebsd.
so help me in order to enable to listen song and view video :)

Thank you,
Balbir

We are trying to tighten the authentication on our freebsd production server running openssh. Is there any aforedable one time password solution or two-factor authentication solution that work well with openssh? We are operating a small network...

I want to use Pandora with FreeBSD.

I have firefox installed, but apparently flash is an issue (either getting it installed, or getting the right version installed). I did a "pkg_add -r swfdec" and the restarted firefox, but it still stays...

I'm trying to verify ftp traffic on my pf firewall, but I can't figure out how to specify ftp traffic through the ftp-proxy. Can anyone help me out?

Is it possible to assign a freebsd jail multiple ip's?  I have it working fine when the jail has a single ip.... i can't seem to assign the jail two ips..... ideas?

Short story:

Have a Windows 2003 server with 3 RAID drives.  One is dying.  Have a spare, but it's done in hardware RAID and I think that is screwing up too.  I want to dd the drives so I have good images in case the drives completely go...

Hello,

I'm having an issue with maildir and it is only occurring with virtual
addresses that are configured as "distribution groups", or addresses
that are originally a single address but redirect to addresses of
members of the group. ...

my freebsd7 system reports hat my USB hard disk has some inconsistency in the file system and it needs to be checked, so while booting up it is getting me in single user mode with a shell prompt only. but in single user mode fsck can't find my...

Hi guys,

I need to connect a OpenBSD 4.3 to a switch via console cable how I can do that? I think a can use tty but I need to setup data rate as 115200 baud set the data format to 8 bits 1 stop bit and no parity, flow control to none and vt100...

Hello,

Can anyone tell me if a Quantum SATA DLT-IV Tape Drive will work with FreeBsd 6 or higher?  

Thanks!

I am doing my first portforwarding...: I assume I am using the static ip address of the router(the external ip): it also ask for a 'port range' ; 'public and private' each one has to entry boxes...what do I input in this boxes; what should be the...

I want to get my corp IMAP mails using fetchmail to local machine and want to access all my mails using mail client(thunderbird) by local machine,
How can I make my local machine IMAP server and get all my corp mails from corp IMAP mail server...

I'm having problems getting syslog to start up on boot in "unsecure" mode.  I want to have remote hosts send their logs to this box.  I have everything firewalled and ACL'd, so I'm not worried about running syslog unsecure.

The problem that...

What is 'D' STAT in ps auxwww output in freeBSD? Could someone let me know different types of STAT and it's description please. Thanks!

how can we check in the RAID controller whether the read/write cache  is enabled  in freebsd ?
what is way to check the attached disk in freebsd like SCCI/IDE and supported detailed operation...

Our company has a Dell Poweredge 2600 running Windows 2000 Server.  We were thinking about upgrading, and because of cost issues are considering installing FreeBSD 7 (or other free enterprise-class server product) on this box and using Samba to...

In linux this seems to be working great..

GREP_OPTIONS='--color=auto' ; export GREP_OPTIONS

now sure how to achieve this in freebsd.. can someone help me to get 'color' matched pattern in freebsd

this is what I get in freebsd..

$grep...

I have an HP Pavilion dv5000 with the following hw:
AMD64 processor
Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
ATI Radeon Xpress 200M 5955 (PCIE)

Can BSD be used for this system?
If so which...

I am looking to add on SSL to an existing apache-1.3.39_2 install in FreeBSD. The server is live and I'd prefer to keep this as safe and quick as possible with minimal downtime.

is it fairly safe to build an apache SSL version out of the...

Using FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE...

I receive these errors in syslog of my NIS slave, which only happens because ypserv isn't already started when ypbind starts.

   Feb 13 22:02:07 bsdmachine /usr/sbin/ypbind[6305]: NIS server at 192.168.0.3
   ...

Hi

I am running php on free bsd . I am using curl to make a call to webservice. I want to measure the time it took to get back the response

how do i do it?

I would like to use Mac Snow Leopard's built in FTP server to access files remotely.  I want to restrict access to a particular volume and I can't seem to figure out how to set the permissions correctly.  I used the "Sharing" preferences panel to...

I have an running FreeBSD 8.0 which has been updated to 8.0-RELEASE-p3 using "freebsd-update fetch install" while I have accidentally deleted the /usr/src afterwards.

How can I obtain the /usr/src/ back ?

Hi there I am simulating a real life scenario on VMWare Workstation with FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE i386 installed with express setup from the Boot CD-ROM.

Basically, I am asking how do I find out (from the shell prompt) which device drivers and...

how to make the make the kernel customizable ?

at high load Occasionally I see the syslogd #'s shoot up:


kern.ipc.pipekva: 7139328
kern.nselcoll: 267591
# imapgate:     3219
# syslogd:       28



-bash-3.2$ ps -auxww | grep syslogd
root    31129 10.0  0.0  3900  1208  ??  Rs...

Hey there, we are a Microsoft shop primarily, with a token MAC technician.  One of our customers had a NAS unit (popnetserver 4300) that we changed some mirrored drives out with larger units.  Something did not go right with the larger units, so...

Can some one please explain me the difference between these four file ?
All four looks to set the kernel tunalble parameter!

/boot/loader.conf.local
/boot/loader.conf
/etc/sysctl.conf
/etc/sysctl.conf.local

And the error is

Feb  2 12:42:38 [18904] ERROR:core:sr_load_module: could not open module </usr/local/lib64/opensips/modules/carrierroute.so>: ld.so.1: opensips: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/local/lib64/opensips/modules/carrierroute.so:...

Hi,

i saw this interesting question in one of my friends OS competitive book, and i need a help for this problem from you experts.

I attached the program description and sample input and sample output. Please give me some idea to implement...

I have a server which acts as its own dns server; I set up bind to resolve to my ip :
173.9.127.37...
i have a few other sites and email running on this machine..
when I test with
dig solunatec.org
or dig solunatec.org axfr
all seems to...

I followed these instructions:

http://nixy.dk/2007/10/12/denyhosts-on-freebsd-62/

And now I'm locked out of my own server.  I still have an ssh session running so I can make changes that the experts suggest.  Please help

Say in advance im noob in unix

I have a server #1 running on freebsd
and another server #2 running on redhat linux

i need server #2 to have access to mysql databse on server #1

How can i set this up?

Dear all,

I've now been getting into some problems related TCP retransmissions and in order to investigate the issue, I would like to get any piece of related information of what TCP implementation is used in BSD/OS 4.2. E.g. TCP new reno.
...

Hi all,

I've got an old mail server running FreeBSD 4.8 release. It has a +/- 1Go partio for /var and here are the results of df and du:

mail# df -h
Filesystem    Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a    97M    41M    49M   ...

Using FreeBSD 7.0-p2 I try to install nagios from the ports as root.

Everything is installed but the owner and group settings are all set to root:wheel.  These should be nagios:nagios.  Is there a way to force the owner:group?  The Makefile...

I just set up 2 point to point T1s bonded together with mlppp and cisco 1841s on each side. Since I have cut them over to this their Telnet sessions with a Unix server seem to be dropping frequently to the point that it is making their work...

Hello, I have few hosts which is having filer mount the home cross mounts, but sometimes few mounts gets offline (stale nfs or gets unmounted somehow). Is there a way to monitor it properly and fix it whenever this issues happens using some...