Re: sendmail not starting at boot

2005-10-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
Annelise Anderson wrote: On 5.4-STABLE as of October 1, sendmail doesn't start on reboot. I have to either do it by hand or run sh rc.sendmail (which does start it). There's no sendmail.sh in /usr/local/etc/rc.d. Sendmail is part of the FreeBSD base system by default, and not something in

Can't get Mailman to work

2005-10-06 Thread Sasa Stupar
Hi! I have installed Mailman 2.1.6 from the ports collection on FBSD 5.4. Now I have configured apache to have web access and it is working. I have even created a list and that worked too. My problem is that when I sent a message to the list I get back: -- Failure to find group

Question

2005-10-06 Thread sulie halim
Hi there, how can we view/open files in freebsd? e.g write.doc, write.txt or write.ppt? __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Can't get Mailman to work

2005-10-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
Sasa Stupar wrote: [ ... ] I have sendmail configured and running just fine. And the group mailnull DOES exist on my system. I have even tried to ciompile Mailman with different mail_gid but I get allways the same error. Looks like this is connected to the execution of the smrsh. Does anyone

Re: Question

2005-10-06 Thread Yuan Jue
On Thursday 06 October 2005 14:39, sulie halim wrote: Hi there, how can we view/open files in freebsd? e.g write.doc, write.txt or write.ppt? Try OpenOffice. Good luck! -- Best Regards. Yuan Jue ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Question

2005-10-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
sulie halim wrote: how can we view/open files in freebsd? e.g write.doc, write.txt or write.ppt? See the OpenOffice port at /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-1.1, or at: WWW: http://www.openoffice.org/ http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/ ...except for the .txt files, which can be viewed

Re: how to recompile a port in a clean maneer?

2005-10-06 Thread John Oxley
Sorry, I lost the beginning of this thread, On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 06:50:40PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: Eric Devolder wrote: [ ... ] My specific questions are: * how to fetch the source code of a port? and especially from another release? Look in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk There are

save file

2005-10-06 Thread sulie halim
hi again, how to take a file from the system, and save it into the desktop (in Windows environment)? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: save file

2005-10-06 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-10-05 23:57, sulie halim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi again, how to take a file from the system, and save it into the desktop (in Windows environment)? Please provide more details... as in ``what desktop''? Are you asking about a single system, which multiboots either in Windows or in

Re: bruteforceblocker + PF

2005-10-06 Thread Enrique Ayesta Perojo
El Miércoles, 5 de Octubre de 2005 21:53, Noel Jones escribió: I'm going to assume this is just a small part of your pf.conf, because the part you show doesn't allow any internet access. Maybe you should show us your entire pf.conf. Yes, it was a small part of my pf.conf. Anyway i'm trying

Re: Can't get Mailman to work

2005-10-06 Thread Sasa Stupar
--On 6. oktober 2005 2:46 -0400 Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grep DefaultUser /etc/mail/sendmail.cf 9# grep DefaultUser /etc/mail/sendmail.cf O DefaultUser=8:12 Sasa pgp681TIfPzFI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: how to recompile a port in a clean maneer?

2005-10-06 Thread Eric Devolder
Thank you Chuck, now I better understand what's behind this. Maybe just a side question: Can I refresh the files contained in /usr/ports with the one of an older release? for example, I would like to use ports from 4.3 while I'm running a 4.11 for now. Of course, my /usr/ports reflects only ports

Re: how to recompile a port in a clean maneer?

2005-10-06 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/6/05, Eric Devolder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you Chuck, now I better understand what's behind this. Maybe just a side question: Can I refresh the files contained in /usr/ports with the one of an older release? for example, I would like to use ports from 4.3 while I'm running a 4.11

RE: Hidden spot on hard drives?

2005-10-06 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jonathon McKitrick Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 11:45 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Hidden spot on hard drives? the company where I work (with Windows) is evaluating a copy protection

Re: Question

2005-10-06 Thread Christopher Illies
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 11:39:19PM -0700, sulie halim wrote: how can we view/open files in freebsd? e.g write.doc, write.txt or write.ppt? To just view .doc files from the commandline, you can also try textproc/catdoc. Abiword (editors/abiword) can also edit Word files, but has difficulties

RE: Hidden spot on hard drives?

2005-10-06 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jonathon McKitrick Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 11:57 AM To: Joe S Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hidden spot on hard drives? On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 11:55:18AM -0700, Joe S wrote: :

Core Dump using portversion

2005-10-06 Thread bsd
Hello, We have one of our server that core dumps when we are trying to use portversion ns2# portversion -l [Updating the pkgdb format:bdb1_btree in /var/db/pkg ... - 168 packages found (-1 +1) (...). done] [Failed `Inappropriate file type or format'] [Updating the portsdb

Re: Can I disable HyperThreading in OS?

2005-10-06 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/6/05, hshh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/2/05, Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/1/05, hshh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a dual XEON smp box. There is option about disable HTT in bios, but it can't work. It's still display 4 cpu in my OS. Can I disablt HTT

Re: Core Dump using portversion

2005-10-06 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/6/05, bsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, We have one of our server that core dumps when we are trying to use portversion ns2# portversion -l [Updating the pkgdb format:bdb1_btree in /var/db/pkg ... - 168 packages found (-1 +1) (...). done] [Failed `Inappropriate file type or

Re: Apsfilter FBSD 5.4

2005-10-06 Thread Kiffin Gish
E. J. Cerejo wrote: I could print perfectly using apsfilter before I did a clean FreeBSD instalation and now something is not right, when I go through the setup program and I finally test a page the sheet of paper gets fed and looks like it starts printing and then everything freezes on my

Re: Multilanguange

2005-10-06 Thread Igor Robul
Owen Jeremiah wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but from the documentation I read this means change the WHOLE programs (e.g.: gnome etc.) default language into the other language. What I want is the ability to change language on the fly, like when I create a presentation, I want to be able to

Re: Core Dump using portversion

2005-10-06 Thread bsd
This has not solved my issue : ns2# pkgdb -fu --- Updating the pkgdb [Rebuilding the pkgdb format:bdb1_btree in /var/db/pkg ... - 168 packages found (-0 +168)

Port perl 5.8.7 on FreeBSD 4.10

2005-10-06 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I have been trying to install theport of perl 5.8 on a FreeBSD machine 4.10 RELENG. Every time I try to execute the new perl I get: /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: perl: Undefined symbol PL_exit_flags This happens on 2 different machines, both 4.10 FreeBSD fw2.cs.ait.ac.th 4.10-RELEASE-p16

cvsup upgrade from 4.7 to 5.4

2005-10-06 Thread Gobbledegeek
Hello I'm upgrading from 4.7 to 5.4 using cvsup and I see that with src-all, files specific to s390, sparc, ppc are also being downloaded. How can I prevent this from happening? I only want to download i386 files... TIA -- Nonchalantly yours GobbledeGeek [Every thing but Gobbledegook.. !!]

Re: Feedback for a closed PR?

2005-10-06 Thread Csaba Henk
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 04:14:40PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Either submit a followup to the PR requesting that it's reopened and adding your feedback at the end of the followup, or submit a new PR (with a reference to the old one, if you feel that's appropriate). Thanks, I submitted a

Re: Port perl 5.8.7 on FreeBSD 4.10

2005-10-06 Thread Vladimir Tsvetkov
-- Forwarded message -- From: Vladimir Tsvetkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005-10-6 13:46 Subject: Re: Port perl 5.8.7 on FreeBSD 4.10 To: Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005/10/6, Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What kind of script are you trying to execute? No script,

Re: Port perl 5.8.7 on FreeBSD 4.10

2005-10-06 Thread Vladimir Tsvetkov
-- Forwarded message -- From: Vladimir Tsvetkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005-10-6 14:05 Subject: Re: Port perl 5.8.7 on FreeBSD 4.10 To: Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does this fix the problem? It does, now I have to figure out what is the problem in the library. Both

Fwd: Port perl 5.8.7 on FreeBSD 4.10

2005-10-06 Thread Vladimir Tsvetkov
-- Forwarded message -- From: Vladimir Tsvetkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2005-10-6 13:57 Subject: Re: Port perl 5.8.7 on FreeBSD 4.10 To: Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2005/10/6, Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED]: fw2on: env | grep LIBRA

How often cvsup the ports?

2005-10-06 Thread Mikael Backman
Hi. I use Portupgrade to install apps every now and then. How often should I cvsup the ports? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can't get Mailman to work

2005-10-06 Thread Sasa Stupar
--On 6. oktober 2005 9:26 +0200 Sasa Stupar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On 6. oktober 2005 2:46 -0400 Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grep DefaultUser /etc/mail/sendmail.cf 9# grep DefaultUser /etc/mail/sendmail.cf O DefaultUser=8:12 Sasa OK, I have my sendmail now to run

Re: Can't get Mailman to work [SOLVED]

2005-10-06 Thread Sasa Stupar
--On 6. oktober 2005 13:43 +0200 Sasa Stupar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On 6. oktober 2005 9:26 +0200 Sasa Stupar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On 6. oktober 2005 2:46 -0400 Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grep DefaultUser /etc/mail/sendmail.cf 9# grep DefaultUser

Re: How often cvsup the ports?

2005-10-06 Thread Benjamin Lutz
Mikael Backman wrote: Hi. I use Portupgrade to install apps every now and then. How often should I cvsup the ports? As often as you like/need. I usually do it manually every 1-3 days. Cvsup is quite efficient, so you shouldn't have to worry about overloading the cvsup servers if you do it

How to properly mount a DVD-R/W drive and how to use it from the command line?

2005-10-06 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi, This'll surely be a really novice question, but I'd like to get it right in one go, and RTFM-ing using Google somehow didn't produce uniform enough results for my likings. :) The situation: I just installed FreeBSD 5.4-Release AMD64 on my new machine (though the question is most likely

Installing zebra on minimal setup

2005-10-06 Thread Gobbledegeek
Hello I did a minimal setup on a 500mb hdd - no ports, developer tools.. 4.7 bsd. Now I need to install zebra and zebra only without other ports. Its not on the install cd, So I need a binary image from where. Can I download a binary from somewhere that will unzip itself? Or Will someone

VPN server ?

2005-10-06 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello I need some infos on FreeBSD baed VPN server links/experiences welcome thanks a lot -- Cordialement/Regards Frank Bonnet ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: Installing zebra on minimal setup

2005-10-06 Thread Gobbledegeek
PS: I need to add this to multiple machines without internet connection. rgrds On 10/6/05, Gobbledegeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I did a minimal setup on a 500mb hdd - no ports, developer tools.. 4.7 bsd. Now I need to install zebra and zebra only without other ports. Its not

Re: How often cvsup the ports?

2005-10-06 Thread David Kelly
On Oct 6, 2005, at 6:24 AM, Mikael Backman wrote: Hi. I use Portupgrade to install apps every now and then. How often should I cvsup the ports? How often do you *need* updated ports? How often do you *need* an updated FreeBSD? Or is it just a matter of *want*. -- David Kelly N4HHE,

Re: How to properly mount a DVD-R/W drive and how to use it from the command line?

2005-10-06 Thread Benjamin Lutz
Olaf Greve wrote: [...] Now, this is where the issue lies. When putting a CD-ROM in the drive, and trying to access it through the /cdrom mountpoint I get an empty directory listing (not correct) and when manually trying to do the following: mount /dev/acd0 /cdrom I get the error (on all

Re: broken ports

2005-10-06 Thread Toomas Aas
Reinhard Weismann wrote: does anybody know where to report broken ports, or, where to get information if/why a port currently is broken. From your description I am not at all sure that the port is broken in this case. But since you asked... If you are sure that the port really is broken,

Re: VPN server ?

2005-10-06 Thread Benjamin Lutz
Frank Bonnet wrote: I need some infos on FreeBSD baed VPN server links/experiences welcome I'm using OpenVPN (http://www.openvpn.org), and I'm very happy with it. It's simple to set up (*much* simpler than IPSEC), and it has so far been reliable for me. Since it uses SSL for encryption, it is

Re: How to properly mount a DVD-R/W drive and how to use it from the command line?

2005-10-06 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Olaf Greve wrote: Hi, This'll surely be a really novice question, but I'd like to get it right in one go, and RTFM-ing using Google somehow didn't produce uniform enough results for my likings. :) The situation: I just installed FreeBSD 5.4-Release AMD64 on my new

Re: How often cvsup the ports?

2005-10-06 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/6/05, Mikael Backman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I use Portupgrade to install apps every now and then. How often should I cvsup the ports? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: broken ports

2005-10-06 Thread Reinhard Weismann
Thank you very much for the info's in the meanwhile, the problem got solved, after upgrading p5-Mail-DomainKeys-0.23 to 0.80 yesterday, p5-Mail-SpamAssassin upgrade also worked. The reason I'm asking is that segmentation faults are often caused by failing hardware (faulty memory chip,

Re: How to properly mount a DVD-R/W drive and how to use it from the command line?

2005-10-06 Thread O. Hartmann
Olaf Greve wrote: Hi, This'll surely be a really novice question, but I'd like to get it right in one go, and RTFM-ing using Google somehow didn't produce uniform enough results for my likings. :) The situation: I just installed FreeBSD 5.4-Release AMD64 on my new machine (though the

Re: Problems with Acroread7 port

2005-10-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Vladimir Tsvetkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now acroread7 runs, but during start it prints in an error-message dialog the following message: There was an error while loading the plug-in 'PPKLite.api.' The plug-in failed to initialize. Oddly, this message is shown only when I start

Re: how to recompile a port in a clean maneer?

2005-10-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
Eric Devolder wrote: Thank you Chuck, now I better understand what's behind this. Maybe just a side question: Can I refresh the files contained in /usr/ports with the one of an older release? for example, I would like to use ports from 4.3 while I'm running a 4.11 for now. Of course, my

Re: cvsup upgrade from 4.7 to 5.4

2005-10-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
Gobbledegeek wrote: I'm upgrading from 4.7 to 5.4 using cvsup and I see that with src-all, files specific to s390, sparc, ppc are also being downloaded. How can I prevent this from happening? I only want to download i386 files... You've already asked this question. This isn't a problem

Re: How often cvsup the ports?

2005-10-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
Mikael Backman wrote: I use Portupgrade to install apps every now and then. How often should I cvsup the ports? Install portaudit. Pay attention to your nightly email. When you notice portaudit reporting that you have ports installed with known security vulnerabilities, it's a good time

Re: Best Way to Install FreeBSD on Gateway G6-400

2005-10-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello, Could you please offer some advice on how I can remove Windows XP Pro from an old and slow Gateway 400 Mhz computer, and install FreeBSD? You don't have to do anything to remove XP. When you install FreeBSD over the top of it, that will get rid of XP. So, just follow the

Re: OT: New design

2005-10-06 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 10:43 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote: I like the idea, but the rendering is lacking in some browsers. This screenshot comes from Konqueror 3.4.2 on a FreeBSD 6.0-BETA4 machine: I think I found the problem. I sit a few feet away from a 19 monitor, and have my minimum

Re: Problems with Acroread7 port

2005-10-06 Thread Vladimir Tsvetkov
06 Oct 2005 08:58:34 -0400, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Vladimir Tsvetkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now acroread7 runs, but during start it prints in an error-message dialog the following message: There was an error while loading the plug-in 'PPKLite.api.' The plug-in failed to

Re: [freebsd-questions] PID 0

2005-10-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Duncan Drury [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am having a problem with Apache/PHP that results in Apache running as PID 0, which I cannot kill without restarting the server (or rather I don't know how else to do it). I am running FreeBSD 5.2, with Apache 1.3.33 and PHP5.0.5. Firstly does

Re: How to properly mount a DVD-R/W drive and how to use it from the command line?

2005-10-06 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi all, Thanks for the excellent replies regarding this! Regarding the mounting: indeed I do have a proper /etc/fstab, so I'll use mount /cdrom then. Tnx for explaining about the need to mount it in ISO-9660 format, and that the 'ro' flag is correct after all. :) So, the remaining thing

Re: How often cvsup the ports?

2005-10-06 Thread Bob Johnson
On 10/6/05, Mikael Backman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I use Portupgrade to install apps every now and then. How often should I cvsup the ports? I usually cvsup the ports every time I install a port. That way I know I'm getting the latest available ports. There's not much point in running

Re: Installation problem - device node

2005-10-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
peter bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to install freebsd on a computer with 2 hard disks. This message comes up when it tries to start creating the file system: Unable to find device node for /dev/X in /dev. Install then fails. That kind of depends on what X is. If you mean

Realtek High Definition Soundcard

2005-10-06 Thread Berk Gulenler
Is there any way to install Realtek high definition soundcard? I try the open sound system program(lastest version). But it doesnt work. Help needed.By the way i am using version 5.4. Thks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Hidden spot on hard drives?

2005-10-06 Thread Norberto Meijome
Gary W. Swearingen wrote: Jonathon McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1. Any idea where this info could be stored? The obvious place is the end of the first track between the boot sector(s) and the first partition. But that's probably too easy and well-known. As others have noted, Unix

passwd file corrupted

2005-10-06 Thread Efren Bravo
Hi, How can I check /etc/passwd file integrity because I think it is corrupted. When I try to execute vipw efrenba or root it doesn't works. Also check /etc/master.passwd file... Thanks... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: passwd file corrupted

2005-10-06 Thread Will Maier
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:31:32AM -0500, Efren Bravo wrote: How can I check /etc/passwd file integrity because I think it is corrupted. When I try to execute vipw efrenba or root it doesn't works. Can you explain how vipw 'doesn't work'? What does it say? Is your $EDITOR variable set

Re: How often cvsup the ports?

2005-10-06 Thread Robert Huff
Benjamin Lutz writes: I use Portupgrade to install apps every now and then. How often should I cvsup the ports? As often as you like/need. I usually do it manually every 1-3 days. I upgrade the ports tree every night. Building the ports depends on the number and

Setting mount_nfs options in /etc/fstab

2005-10-06 Thread Brian Candler
I am reading large log files via NFS, and I find that if I mount them with mount_nfs -a 4 then performance is improved. My question is: is there any way to set the option '-a 4' in /etc/fstab? Or am I forced to mount the filesystems the manual way in /etc/rc.local? mount_nfs supports a number of

Re: How often cvsup the ports?

2005-10-06 Thread Colin Percival
Andrew P. wrote: On 10/6/05, Mikael Backman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use Portupgrade to install apps every now and then. How often should I cvsup the ports? If you like being up-to-date, you should consider using portsnap, which is much more efficient than cvsup. You can update every other

Re: passwd file corrupted

2005-10-06 Thread Efren Bravo
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:31:32AM -0500, Efren Bravo wrote: How can I check /etc/passwd file integrity because I think it is corrupted. When I try to execute vipw efrenba or root it doesn't works. Can you explain how vipw 'doesn't work'? What does it say? Is your $EDITOR variable set

(no subject)

2005-10-06 Thread Gleb Romanyuk
Hello! Whether probably to adjust ZyXEL ADSL USB modem on FreeBSD? Any information on adjustment of ADSL USB modems interests. -- Best regards, Gleb mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: passwd file corrupted, solved, sorry

2005-10-06 Thread Efren Bravo
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:31:32AM -0500, Efren Bravo wrote: How can I check /etc/passwd file integrity because I think it is corrupted. When I try to execute vipw efrenba or root it doesn't works. Can you explain how vipw 'doesn't work'? What does it say? Is your $EDITOR variable set

sendmail/postfix ports question

2005-10-06 Thread Matt Singerman
Hello all, I have a server running FreeBSD 5.2.1 that provides (amongst other things) MTA services to our office via sendmail. For a variety of a reasons, I would like to move away from sendmail to postfix. However, the postfix package cannot, as I am sure you know, simply install with sendmail

Re: Setting mount_nfs options in /etc/fstab

2005-10-06 Thread Brian Candler
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:10:14AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: Here's an fstab entry of mine for an nfs mount. fs:/data /data nfs -3,-R=3,-b,-i,-s,-r=32768,-w=32768,rw 0 0 Your options and milage may vary... That works for me, thank you. Perhaps the fstab(5) page

Re: correct syntax for openssl 0.9.8 in port

2005-10-06 Thread Alistair Sutton
On 30/07/05, J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:57 PM 7/30/2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 12:46:37PM -0500, J.D. Bronson wrote: I update my port tree on 5.4 to the latest and I am trying to figure out what steps I need to build openssl 0.9.8 in

dump/restore puzzle

2005-10-06 Thread Freminlins
I have a puzzling problem with dump and restore. I'm looking to implement a dump and restore pipe to automatically make copy of a file system onto another system completely. I've used / only as an example (because it's small) and I'm not overwriting /. I do the following: 1. Level 0 dump and

vsftpd watch problem

2005-10-06 Thread Yuan Jue
Hi all Here is a pragmatic problem. I used vsftpd to setup a ftp server. And as a result, some guys start to download something from my ftp server. I do want to know the downloader's IP and the speed he/she download from me, just as a status-watching for my notebook. Can anyone give me some

Re: Which MySQL version best to use and with/without linux threads?

2005-10-06 Thread Peter Giessel
On Thursday, October 06, 2005, at 07:22AM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *** MySQL Log 4.1.14 *** 051002 17:41:47 1 Connect Access denied for user 'abbc'@'localhost' (using password: YES) This is the same authentication problem seen from the other side. 051002

Re: sendmail/postfix ports question

2005-10-06 Thread David Kelly
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 11:16:50AM -0400, Matt Singerman wrote: Hello all, I have a server running FreeBSD 5.2.1 that provides (amongst other things) MTA services to our office via sendmail. For a variety of a reasons, I would like to move away from sendmail to postfix. However, the

Fwd: cvsup upgrade from 4.7 to 5.4

2005-10-06 Thread Gobbledegeek
See below Ps: I joined the list only for this answer... -- Forwarded message -- From: Gobbledegeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Oct 6, 2005 9:02 PM Subject: Re: cvsup upgrade from 4.7 to 5.4 To: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] There isn't a a category to refuse under src-* for

FreeBSD Support (Commerical)

2005-10-06 Thread Ansar Mohammed
Does the FreeBSD project offer commercial support? I notice that the FreeBSD mall offers commercial support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: twa kernel panic under heavy load

2005-10-06 Thread Dan Rue
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 09:27:53AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Dan Rue [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Greetings, I am running a 3ware 9500 SATA raid card in a 12x300GB raid 50 configuration. Too often, I am seeing reboots during high I/O (rsync) operations. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

Nessus no longer open source

2005-10-06 Thread Gayn Winters
One of the highest rated open source security programs, nessus, will no longer be open source. Quoting from an email from Renaud Deraison [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nessus 3 will be available free of charge, including on the Windows platform, but will not be released under the

Re: passwd file corrupted

2005-10-06 Thread Norberto Meijome
Efren Bravo wrote: On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:31:32AM -0500, Efren Bravo wrote: How can I check /etc/passwd file integrity because I think it is corrupted. When I try to execute vipw efrenba or root it doesn't works. Can you explain how vipw 'doesn't work'? What does it say? Is your

Re: FreeBSD Support (Commerical)

2005-10-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Ansar Mohammed wrote: Does the FreeBSD project offer commercial support? I notice that the FreeBSD mall offers commercial support. It's a fine question, but it's well documented on the Project's web site: http://www.freebsd.org/support.html Kevin Kinsey

Re: Nessus no longer open source

2005-10-06 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 06 October 2005 11:04, Gayn Winters wrote: [...] under the GPL the AUTHOR of the code is not bound by the same restrictions that the users are. I don't think that's completely true. The author has copyright over the work that they themselves wrote, but it's my understanding that

Re: Setting mount_nfs options in /etc/fstab

2005-10-06 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 03:45:32PM +0100, Brian Candler wrote: I am reading large log files via NFS, and I find that if I mount them with mount_nfs -a 4 then performance is improved. My question is: is there any way to set the option '-a 4' in /etc/fstab? Or am I forced to mount the

Re: Hidden spot on hard drives?

2005-10-06 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where does HPA(Host protected Area) sit in all this? is this the 'boot sector' trick? I don't know. I just heard that some computer makers are somehow reserving as much as half the HDD for a full copy of the OS to recover from when the normal one

Re: FreeBSD Support (Commerical)

2005-10-06 Thread Ansar Mohammed
I guess I am interested in finding out if there is support that is offered by the FreeBSD project, not from third party vendors. On 10/6/05, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ansar Mohammed wrote: Does the FreeBSD project offer commercial support? I notice that the FreeBSD mall offers

Abit AW8 / Pentium D and 3ware raid cards compatibility

2005-10-06 Thread Gerald de la Pascua
I posted a few weeks back regarding problems making the aw8 board, work with a 3ware card 7006-2, the system wouldn't boot at all, after much discussion with 3ware they said, sorry nothing we can do, cannot offer an alternative suggested card, so I was about to change the mother board, infact

Re: Hidden spot on hard drives?

2005-10-06 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/6/05, Gary W. Swearingen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where does HPA(Host protected Area) sit in all this? is this the 'boot sector' trick? I don't know. I just heard that some computer makers are somehow reserving as much as half the HDD for

Re: Realtek High Definition Soundcard

2005-10-06 Thread Jakob Breivik Grimstveit
Berk Gulenler wrote on Thu, 06 Oct 2005 17:01: Is there any way to install Realtek high definition soundcard? I try the open sound system program(lastest version). But it doesnt work. What didn't work? It's impossible to help unless you provide more information than this... -- Jakob Breivik

Re: FreeBSD Support (Commerical)

2005-10-06 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/6/05, Ansar Mohammed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess I am interested in finding out if there is support that is offered by the FreeBSD project, not from third party vendors. FreeBSD offers non-commercial support through mailing-lists and doc-project (FAQs and Handbooks) which is probably

Re: md device backing files on nfs mounts?

2005-10-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can the files that back an md device be resident on an nfs mount? I run some jails with each having its own root based on an md device. I am thinking of having a backend nfs server have all the storage and serve it to various front end

burning multisession cd's and bootable windows isos

2005-10-06 Thread Dave
Hello, I've got two questions on burning cdr/cdrw disks. I'm using freebsd 5.4-p6 and using cdrtools for cdr/rw and dvd+rw-tools for dvdr/rw burning. My first question has to do with multisession disk burning, burn some, take it out, go back later and write more to the disk until it's full.

Re: FreeBSD Support (Commerical)

2005-10-06 Thread Christian Kuhtz
Yeah, but also the most irrelevant when it comes to supply chain folk. On Oct 6, 2005, at 12:45 PM, Andrew P. wrote: On 10/6/05, Ansar Mohammed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess I am interested in finding out if there is support that is offered by the FreeBSD project, not from third party

Re: md device backing files on nfs mounts?

2005-10-06 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Oct 6, 2005, at 10:51 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can the files that back an md device be resident on an nfs mount? I run some jails with each having its own root based on an md device. I am thinking of having a backend nfs server

Re: burning multisession cd's and bootable windows isos

2005-10-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I've got two questions on burning cdr/cdrw disks. I'm using freebsd 5.4-p6 and using cdrtools for cdr/rw and dvd+rw-tools for dvdr/rw burning. My first question has to do with multisession disk burning, burn some, take it out, go back later and

Re: Hidden spot on hard drives?

2005-10-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where does HPA(Host protected Area) sit in all this? is this the 'boot sector' trick? I don't know. I just heard that some computer makers are somehow reserving as much as half the HDD for a full copy of the OS to recover from when the

re: Enabling cgi scripts in apache

2005-10-06 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Oct 5, 2005, at 9:41 PM, Glenn Dawson wrote: At 09:31 PM 10/5/2005, Garrett Cooper wrote: Hi, Just having problems again enabling cgi script execution in apache. The script exists, it's the right set of permissions, and the perl interpreter is reference correctly, as well as the

Re: FreeBSD Support (Commerical)

2005-10-06 Thread Foo JH
FreeBSD offers non-commercial support through mailing-lists and doc-project (FAQs and Handbooks) which is probably the most comprehensive, active and effective support there is. It's a blame game as much as it is a genuine need for commercial help. As much as mailing lists and community

RE: Here's the proof.

2005-10-06 Thread Joshua Weaver
[mailer daemon - original message truncated] It appears you are right. I guess the Gates foundation does have a controlling interest in FreeBSD. I wonder what direction Microsoft will take when the complete the merger? -Josh ___

Re: FreeBSD Support (Commerical)

2005-10-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
I guess I am interested in finding out if there is support that is offered by the FreeBSD project, not from third party vendors. Basically FreeBSD support is what you see on the web page. In some sense, you could say that all of FreeBSD- development and support - is by third party sources or

Re: xine / kaffeine core dumps with bus error

2005-10-06 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Wednesday 05 October 2005 01:45, Ian Moore wrote: On Wednesday 05 October 2005 00:44, Brian John wrote: I think I'm having a similar problem with totem (which uses xine) and vlc. Can you try installing /usr/ports/multimedia/vlc and see what that does? If that gives a bus error as well

Re: FreeBSD Support (Commerical)

2005-10-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 12:10:58PM -0400, Ansar Mohammed wrote: I guess I am interested in finding out if there is support that is offered by the FreeBSD project, not from third party vendors. Not commercial support, since FreeBSD isn't a commercial project. Kris pgpOutCgq3qeA.pgp

Re: burning multisession cd's and bootable windows isos

2005-10-06 Thread Dave
Hi, Thanks for your reply. I will give your crib sheet a go and if it is as good as it sounds i will like it! Do you have any other info along those lines, not necessarily on that subject but fast tips like that? If so i'd be interested. When you say grab all the tracks do you mean use

Re: md device backing files on nfs mounts?

2005-10-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Oct 6, 2005, at 10:51 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can the files that back an md device be resident on an nfs mount? I run some jails with each having its own root based on

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