The FreeBSD Diary: 2005-12-18 - 2006-01-07

2006-01-08 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Re: Extremly interesting df output. Help, please.

2006-01-08 Thread Александр Деревянко
-Original Message- From: Александр Деревянко [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 11:19:30 +0300 Subject: Extremly interesting df output. Help, please. Hello All ! I'm using FreeBSD 5.4. Today i have received daily output from my home

Re: freebsd.org email

2006-01-08 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 03:16:33PM +0500, Imran Imtiaz wrote: Can I get an email address on @freebsd.org ? Sure! You just need to submit enough good code of quality. -- Jonathan Chen | To do is to be -- Nietzsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To be is to

multi port modem cards for FreeBSD

2006-01-08 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
Hi, I will install a fax server using hylafax on FreeBSD. This fax server must handle at least 8 fax-modem attached to it. For this I think I need a serial port multiplier or PCI based fax-modem cards which has at least 8 ports fax-modem chip. For FreeBSD 6.0 which hardware do I have to use

Re[2]: freebsd 6 - amount of total visible memory is decreasing constantly

2006-01-08 Thread Ilya E Veretenkin
Problem: Total amount of visible memory is decreasing constantly [ ... ] As you can see, memory which was visible using top utility decreased from 3224 to 3195 Megabytes in less than 2 hours. And this process will continue to the point, where swapping begins. Server during this monitoring

Re: Spamcop listed - need help to diagnose why

2006-01-08 Thread Ceri Davies
On 8 Jan 2006, at 05:03, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert Slade Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 11:24 PM To: David Banning Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Spamcop listed - need help to diagnose why

saving wireless setting

2006-01-08 Thread Imran Imtiaz
How can I save the setting of my wireless lan card e.g ip, ssid etc cause every time i reboot my system i have to reconfigure my system. regards, Imran Imtiaz ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: good blogging port?

2006-01-08 Thread Reko Turja
- Original Message - From: Derek Musselmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 8:47 PM Subject: Re: good blogging port? The best blogging software for php/pgsql in my opinion is Serendipity. It has a great plugin

Re: internet on two lan cards

2006-01-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Imran Imtiaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have three lan cards on my system on which two lan cards have the alive ip now what i want is that how can i gave them different gateways cause i want some traffic to be passed from one lan card (one internet connection of isp) and some other traffic

Re: turning off IPv6 in kernel

2006-01-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
fbsd_user [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: if I comment out the ipv6net statement in the kernel source and recompile, how do I tell ipfilter and the ports not to include ipv6 support? make.conf(5) has a knob for this, but individual ports may have their own separate knobs. -- Lowell Gilbert,

Re: good blogging port?

2006-01-08 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 19:44:29 +0100 Kristian Vaaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: www.textpattern.com -- by far the best CMS. True! But as you may well know, textpattern is far more than blog software. It's what the name says: content management system. It does a great job though. I dropped wordpress

RE: Sparc vs i386 architecture

2006-01-08 Thread Danial Thom
--- Robert Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 04:51, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: What machine code exploits currently exist for FreeBSD on the i386 other than the F00F bug, which has already been patched out? I wasn't aware of any. Ted -Original

Re: Programming Book(s)

2006-01-08 Thread JD Arnold
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-01-07 15:25, JD Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Danial Thom wrote: --- Nicolas Blais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On January 2, 2006 04:52 pm, Sean wrote: Sean wrote: Looking for recommendations on any Unix programming books. I have been out of things for a

Re: Programming Book(s)

2006-01-08 Thread JD Arnold
Danial Thom wrote: --- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07/01/06 Jorge Biquez said: Hello all. Very interesting comments and suggestions. I hope my question does not seems too off topic. Do you think the path to follow for developing applications for the new PDA,

Re: multi port modem cards for FreeBSD

2006-01-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I will install a fax server using hylafax on FreeBSD. This fax server must handle at least 8 fax-modem attached to it. For this I think I need a serial port multiplier or PCI based fax-modem cards which has at least 8 ports fax-modem chip. For FreeBSD 6.0 which hardware do I have to use for not

Re: FreeBSD ftpd Windows compatibility

2006-01-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
are there any solutions? As this is a FreeBSD list, you may not get useful answers to questions about how to use various third-party Windows applications. Maybe asking the companies that sold you the i do not want to get answer about windows. i just would like what's the difference between

Re: Sparc vs i386 architecture

2006-01-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hi group, I was just wondering if there's an advantage to running FreeBSD on a SPARC than compared with a regular PC. Obviously the architecture is different (CISC vs RISC). How ever you can purchase a higher powered PC box for less money than it would cost for a SPARC. user Opteron/Athlon64 -

Re: Sparc vs i386 architecture

2006-01-08 Thread Gerard Seibert
Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frankly, people who spend $9000. worth of time dicking around with some old piece of junk to avoid buying a $400. computer crack me up. :) Yes, it is amassing. I have a friend who has spent thousands of dollars keeping his old car running. He could have purchased

Re: Sparc vs i386 architecture

2006-01-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Yes, it is amassing. I have a friend who has spent thousands of dollars keeping his old car running. He could have purchased a new one with a new warranty, etc. and have saved all that money, but he refused. For some individuals, the challenge is the real thrill that they crave. and SUN itself

Which is the best open source C/C++ IDE out there?

2006-01-08 Thread Kiffin Gish
I've played around with Anjuta and Code::Blocks and was wondering what is the preferred open source C/C++ IDE available for advanced users. Pros and cons etc. would be greatly appreciated. -- Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

rshd, rlogind, .rhosts question

2006-01-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i use this widely with NetBSD and now try with FreeBSD rlogin/rlogind works the same - all OK. if host is entered in .rhosts then it logs in without password rsh -l login host command worked fine too in NetBSD same way - no asking for password if .rhosts consist of my host and user name.

Re: Server vendor specific mailing lists ...

2006-01-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
Marc G. Fournier wrote: Not sure who best to send this to, but figured I'd send it publicly to see also if others think this idea might have merit ... Basically, I'm just about to take possession of my first HP server ... my biggest 'fear' is that HP doesn't support FreeBSD, but from posts

Re: rshd, rlogind, .rhosts question

2006-01-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
Wojciech Puchar wrote: i use this widely with NetBSD and now try with FreeBSD rlogin/rlogind works the same - all OK. if host is entered in .rhosts then it logs in without password rsh -l login host command worked fine too in NetBSD same way - no asking for password if .rhosts consist of my

Re: Which is the best open source C/C++ IDE out there?

2006-01-08 Thread Ross Lonstein
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 04:43:49PM +0100, Kiffin Gish wrote: I've played around with Anjuta and Code::Blocks and was wondering what is the preferred open source C/C++ IDE available for advanced users. *cough* xemacs *cough* Pros and cons etc. would be greatly appreciated. Flame away :) -

Re: hyperactive dhclient?

2006-01-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Normally, I expect dhclient to run at startup and then disappear into the background. Today - in the process of diagnosing other troubles - I ran into this from top: last pid: 48344; load averages: 3.30, 2.85, 2.46up 0+19:50:53

Re: Which is the best open source C/C++ IDE out there?

2006-01-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 08/01/06 Ross Lonstein said: *cough* xemacs *cough* Great OS, but he wanted an editor. ;-) Flame away :) Hey, you asked for it. :) Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of

premission denied executing a script

2006-01-08 Thread RJ
Hi, I'm testing a program that wasn't installed from ports, Xweb from sourceforge. Anyway, whenever I try to execute the script using /bin, ./bin, /full path/bin I get permission denied even if I chown -R root:wheel. Where or, does the system log what the script is trying to do? I

Re: Which is the best open source C/C++ IDE out there?

2006-01-08 Thread Kiffin Gish
On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 12:26 -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 08/01/06 Ross Lonstein said: *cough* xemacs *cough* Great OS, but he wanted an editor. ;-) Flame away :) Hey, you asked for it. :) Mike Yes please: an editor plus integrated compile/build and debugger. -- Kiffin

Re: premission denied executing a script

2006-01-08 Thread Ceri Davies
On 8 Jan 2006, at 17:09, RJ wrote: Hi, I'm testing a program that wasn't installed from ports, Xweb from sourceforge. Anyway, whenever I try to execute the script using /bin, ./bin, /full path/bin I get permission denied even if I chown -R root:wheel. The script probably doesn't

Re: rshd, rlogind, .rhosts question

2006-01-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
what's the difference? how to fix it? FreeBSD's rsh may really be ssh? In any event, use ssh-keygen to set up some keys, and copy them to authorized_keys, and use that to permit password-less login between machines securely. NO I MEAN RSH not ssh. and i DO use rsh/rlogin not ssh ssh works

Re: premission denied executing a script

2006-01-08 Thread RJ
Thanks Ceri but, it didn't solve my problem. The script starts with #!/usr/src/bin/sh and I've tried changing it to #!/bin/sh (no quotes). The end result is still permission denied. Does the system log what the script is trying to do? I can't find anything so far. - Original Message -

Re: Which is the best open source C/C++ IDE out there?

2006-01-08 Thread Frank Staals
Kiffin Gish wrote: I've played around with Anjuta and Code::Blocks and was wondering what is the preferred open source C/C++ IDE available for advanced users. Pros and cons etc. would be greatly appreciated. What would be the best IDE can I nor anybody else on this list tell you, it's a

Re: pkg_add question

2006-01-08 Thread László Nagy
Andrew P. wrote: On 1/5/06, László Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I tried to install the Xorg server and xfce4 from the binary distribution, using pkg_add -r I could setup the Xorg server, but I cannot use xfce. When I run startxfce4 then I get the following message:

dns lookups lagging server

2006-01-08 Thread Steve
Hello, I've been running FreeBSD 5.3 on an Intel Celeron server at home for about a year flawlessly. The server is behind a linksys router on a Speakeasy DSL connection. The server is used for internal network backups and do a small amount of web/email hosting. Just yesterday afternoon

Userland PPP MSS miscalculation?

2006-01-08 Thread Steve Bernacki
I think that I've stumbled upon a miscalculation that userland-PPP makes when mssfixup is enabled and I wanted to run it by a larger audience before I submitted a problem report. By default, FreeBSD calculates the TCP MSS value of a new TCP connection by taking the MTU of the egress interface and

Re: Which is the best open source C/C++ IDE out there?

2006-01-08 Thread Luke Bakken
*cough* xemacs *cough* Great OS, but he wanted an editor. ;-) Flame away :) Hey, you asked for it. :) Mike Yes please: an editor plus integrated compile/build and debugger. vim, emacs + make + gcc is all you need. ___

Problem installing gmake

2006-01-08 Thread apix
Hello. While installing qmake ( dependancy for gcc-3.4 ) the make exited with an error while compiling the file glob.c in the make /usr/ports/devel/gmake/work/make-3.80/glob derectory. The output form the make, including the error is: if cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I..-I/usr/local/include

Re: premission denied executing a script

2006-01-08 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 01:11:07PM -0500, RJ wrote: Thanks Ceri but, it didn't solve my problem. The script starts with #!/usr/src/bin/sh and I've tried changing it to #!/bin/sh (no quotes). The end result is still permission denied. Does the system log what the script is trying to do? I

Re: Sparc vs i386 architecture

2006-01-08 Thread Danial Thom
--- Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, I was just wondering if there's an advantage to running FreeBSD on a SPARC than compared with a regular PC. Obviously the architecture is different (CISC vs RISC). How ever you can purchase a higher powered PC box for less money

Re: Which is the best open source C/C++ IDE out there?

2006-01-08 Thread Danial Thom
--- Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've played around with Anjuta and Code::Blocks and was wondering what is the preferred open source C/C++ IDE available for advanced users. Pros and cons etc. would be greatly appreciated. This is obviously a trick question, because real

RE: /dev/eth0 question [FC4]

2006-01-08 Thread Peter Leftwich
On Sat, 7 Jan 2006, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: He probably thinks the competence level on this list is higher. Kind of makes you wonder why he's running their OS. ;-) Ted Bingo! *grins* I would really truly rather be running FreeBSD right now, but the SUPER extra EASY GUI installer for FC4

Re: System segfaulting / panicking a lot after kernel upgrade

2006-01-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
Figured out what it was. It was just a stick of RAM that went south. -Garrett On Jan 7, 2006, at 11:19 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: Hello again, I've reinstalled FreeBSD 6.0 on my celeron box recently, and after a kernel upgrade my system seems to be segfaulting a lot during

Re: Which is the best open source C/C++ IDE out there?

2006-01-08 Thread Vladimir Tsvetkov
This is obviously a trick question, because real programmers don't use IDEs. Case Closed. I'm not a real programmer, but UNIX is a great developer environment. It's a tool based environment. Small tools, strong cohesion in what they are designed for, easy ways to combine them to form more

adding virtual webmail users, freebsd6

2006-01-08 Thread Dave
Hello, I'm setting up a webmail solution on freebsd6. So far i've got the underlying MTA Postfix working. I've installed Squirrelmail from ports so far all of this installed fine. Now i want to give another user an administrative function, adding virtual users, so that i won't have to

Re: Server vendor specific mailing lists ...

2006-01-08 Thread lars
Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: Not sure who best to send this to, but figured I'd send it publicly to see also if others think this idea might have merit ... Basically, I'm just about to take possession of my first HP server ... my biggest 'fear' is that HP

Re: Which is the best open source C/C++ IDE out there?

2006-01-08 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 08/01/06 Vladimir Tsvetkov said: To me the ideal IDE is actually a toolkit: I believe Unix's original name was PTB, the Programmer's ToolBox. Hence why Unix usually _is_ my IDE. Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It

Extremely slow authentication via SSH on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-01-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
I'm having a hard time authenticating after upgrading the kernel and some packages, and I was wondering if someone could help me out with this issue. I marked the trouble points and included my sshd_config. Output: shiina:~ gcooper$ ssh -v hoover OpenSSH_3.8.1p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7i 14 Oct 2005

Re: how do you install wx-config in FreeBSD?

2006-01-08 Thread JD Arnold
bob self wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 and have installed wxgtk2-2.6.2_1 and wxgtk2-common-2.6.2. VLC runs fine so I know that wxwidges is installed correctly. But I want to install the wxsamples and compile them. I copied wxsamples manually and try to compile using a script from an older

5.4, /etc/default/make.conf

2006-01-08 Thread Thiago Esteves
Hi, I' from Brazil. Why isn't there /etc/default/make.conf on FreeBSD 5.4 ? ThanksThiago - Yahoo! doce lar. Faça do Yahoo! sua homepage. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

portmanager core dumps

2006-01-08 Thread Robert Marella
Good Afternoon At times when in a hurry or not thinking as fast as my fingers, I try to run portupgrade -s | grep OLD from a regular user account instead of sudo portupgrade -s | grep OLD. I would expect portupgrade to insult my intelligence and question my heritage or is that question my

Re: Server vendor specific mailing lists ...

2006-01-08 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, lars wrote: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: Not sure who best to send this to, but figured I'd send it publicly to see also if others think this idea might have merit ... Basically, I'm just about to take possession of my first HP server ...

Re: adding virtual webmail users, freebsd6

2006-01-08 Thread Derek Musselmann
Yes, it is doable with postfix and it's not too complicated. You'll basically need a database for the backend (mysql, postgresql) and a few config changes to postfix. There are several tutorials available on the postfix website: http://www.postfix.org/docs.html - Derek Musselmann

Re: Extremely slow authentication via SSH on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-01-08 Thread Derek Musselmann
On Jan 8, 2006, at 7:21 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: I'm having a hard time authenticating after upgrading the kernel and some packages, and I was wondering if someone could help me out with this issue. I marked the trouble points and included my sshd_config. I noticed in your sshd_config

Setting up a FreeBSD gateway (more detail) and IPFW

2006-01-08 Thread Brian Bobowski
Thanks to those who replied to my previous call for help. Now I think it's time I actually provide some relevant detail. I've got two computers - one is my workstation, one is my server / gateway-to-be. My outside connection is via a hub to a cable modem; currently I have my workstation

Where do I find libm.so.2

2006-01-08 Thread wbs
I am interested in running a+ (from www.aplusdev.org). They have a FreeBSD binary. But when I try to run it I get an error message about being unable to find libm.so.2. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

notebook keyboard configuration under Xorg

2006-01-08 Thread wbs
When I type - either in generic X oor Gnome - I sometimes get duplicate letters showing up. I haven't a clue where to turrn. My notebook is a Toshiba Satelite Pro 6100. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: portmanager core dumps

2006-01-08 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Sunday 08 January 2006 18:30, Robert Marella wrote: Good Afternoon At times when in a hurry or not thinking as fast as my fingers, I try to run portupgrade -s | grep OLD from a regular user account instead of sudo portupgrade -s | grep OLD. do you mean portmanager -s | grep OLD by any

Re: Where do I find libm.so.2

2006-01-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-01-08 22:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am interested in running a+ (from www.aplusdev.org). They have a FreeBSD binary. But when I try to run it I get an error message about being unable to find libm.so.2. This is an older version of the libm.so library. You can get a copy of it by

Cannot remove old log files

2006-01-08 Thread Paulino Calderon
Hello. I am currently moving to a new log administration policy, the problem is that there are some old logs that I would like to delete but I can't, the error is the typical Operation not permitted although I am trying to do this as root, the file's permissions are ok and there are no special

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2006-01-08 Thread n-n
It is hoped that FreeBSD becomes a system like HP-UX. -- Yahoo! Mail - supported by 10million people http://pr.mail.yahoo.co.jp/mail_pr/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

adjkerntz in a jail

2006-01-08 Thread Dave
Hello, I'm running apache in a jail on 6.0. Cron is sending me output like: adjkerntz[33405]: sysctl(put_wallclock): Operation not permitted Is this entry needed in a jail's crontab to run adjkerntz and if so what setting do i have to alter on the host system to make it work? Thanks. Dave.

Will VMWare 5.5 run on FreeBSD 6.x ?

2006-01-08 Thread Xn Nooby
I notice VMWare 5.5 worked with Redhat 8, and FreeBSD 6 uses Redhat 8 for its linux emulation. Does the Linux version of VMWare 5.5 work on FreeBSD 6.x ? I saw the VM 5.5 toolbox and some kind of guest daemon in the ports tree, but it didn't look like VMWare 5.5 itself was in there. I bought

Re: Cannot remove old log files

2006-01-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-01-08 21:57, Paulino Calderon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I am currently moving to a new log administration policy, the problem is that there are some old logs that I would like to delete but I can't, the error is the typical Operation not permitted although I am trying to do this

Re: (no subject)

2006-01-08 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-01-09 15:01, n-n [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is hoped that FreeBSD becomes a system like HP-UX. Hopefully not. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

php_XML_ParserCreate error

2006-01-08 Thread Mike Sacauskis
Hi I'm trying to install mambo on a 5.4 release. I'm running into a problem with the mambo editor. I've traced it to an error in the apache log: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/php/20020429/xml.so: Undefined symbol php_XML_ParserCreate I did an nm on the xml.so library and the

Re: 5.4, /etc/default/make.conf

2006-01-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
Thiago Esteves wrote: Why isn't there /etc/default/make.conf on FreeBSD 5.4 ? Because there's a /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf instead. It was moved because unlike the other inhabitants of /etc/default it had no effect whatsoever on invocations of make(1). Cheers,

speccing an NFS server -- smp good or bad?

2006-01-08 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
For a FBSD (or Solaris 10) based server that is only acting as an NFS server and nothing else, is there any advantage to using an SMP machine? Any disadvantage? Does CPU speed play any great factor (ie, use a 1.8ghz opteron instead of a 2.2ghz opteron for example)? I am planning for a

Re: Extremely slow authentication via SSH on FreeBSD 6.0

2006-01-08 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Jan 8, 2006, at 9:10 PM, Derek Musselmann wrote: On Jan 8, 2006, at 7:21 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: I'm having a hard time authenticating after upgrading the kernel and some packages, and I was wondering if someone could help me out with this issue. I marked the trouble points and

FTP stopped working

2006-01-08 Thread Jay O'Brien
I'm embarassed to say that FreeBSD was working so good for me that I forgot how to make it work. It was up for over 300 days when I rebooted today. All of a sudden I cannot access the computer via ftp. I have been able to do so using WS_FTP Pro on my Windows CP Pro computer, but now it