PPP and resolv.conf

2007-04-17 Thread Ansar Mohammed
How can I stop ppp from modifying my /etc/resolv.conf? Everytime I establish a pppoe session, my resolv.conf file gets reconfigured to my ISPs DNS Servers. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: PPP and resolv.conf

2007-04-17 Thread Daniel Marsh
On 4/17/07, Ansar Mohammed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I stop ppp from modifying my /etc/resolv.conf? Everytime I establish a pppoe session, my resolv.conf file gets reconfigured to my ISPs DNS Servers. You could make resolv.conf to what you want it to be and then do: chflags schg

Re[2]: New kernel and jail

2007-04-17 Thread Vladimir
OP On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 09:36:20AM +0400, Vladimir wrote: Hi all. OP Hi Vladimir, I have FreeBSD 5.4 installed. There is a working jail. I am trying to rebuild a kernel to enable quota support. Therefore i?ve added options QUOTA to config file (all other options are from GENERIC). When

Re: lost password caused by drunk admin

2007-04-17 Thread Ghirai
Hello Lewis, Tuesday, April 17, 2007, 4:59:40 AM, you wrote: Hello FreeBSD List, Ok I made a huge mistake (insert laugh here because I know you will). I was working late at home and had more then a few drinks... A lot more. I was working with a PAP2-NA (Analog to VoIP adapter (ATA)) and

Re: GUI to ports collection on FBSD?

2007-04-17 Thread Ivan Carey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Joe Vender wrote: Hi, Is there a GUI interface to the FreeBSD ports collection for use in kde similar to synaptic or adept? Joe Vender That's coming soon. I'd check out the FreeBSD SoC page; Andrew, the developer's listed at the top of the

Re: PPP and resolv.conf

2007-04-17 Thread Ivan Carey
Daniel Marsh wrote: On 4/17/07, Ansar Mohammed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I stop ppp from modifying my /etc/resolv.conf? Everytime I establish a pppoe session, my resolv.conf file gets reconfigured to my ISPs DNS Servers. You could make resolv.conf to what you want it to be and then

Re: GUI to ports collection on FBSD?

2007-04-17 Thread Peter Ankerstål
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Joe Vender wrote: Hi, Is there a GUI interface to the FreeBSD ports collection for use in kde similar to synaptic or adept? Joe Vender That's coming soon. I'd check out the FreeBSD SoC page; Andrew, the developer's listed at the top of the

Re: tproxy on freebsd

2007-04-17 Thread Chris Slothouber
zen wrote: hi, i know it seem out of topic, i recently build a proxy server to serve our small ISP, but i'm facing a big problem. as far as i know FreeBSD didn't support TPROXY like linux had. but i need to build this proxy transparently so only my client ips that visible when browsing. i use

Re: GUI to ports collection on FBSD?

2007-04-17 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
Go for Kports. http://www.freshports.org/ports-mgmt/kports/ -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Re[2]: New kernel and jail

2007-04-17 Thread Oliver Peter
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 10:51:41AM +0400, Vladimir wrote: OP On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 09:36:20AM +0400, Vladimir wrote: Hi all. OP Hi Vladimir, I have FreeBSD 5.4 installed. There is a working jail. I am trying to rebuild a kernel to enable quota support. Therefore i?ve added

PPP and resolv.conf

2007-04-17 Thread Richard Simmonds
How can I stop ppp from modifying my /etc/resolv.conf? Everytime I establish a pppoe session, my resolv.conf file gets reconfigured to my ISPs DNS Servers. It's dhclient, not ppp that's modding the file. Adding this to your dhclient.conf file will fix the problem interface dc0 { prepend

keeping all things up to date

2007-04-17 Thread Michael Grant
Is there some sort of automated way to keep freebsd and all the installed ports/packages up to date automatically? I don't mean just the source, that part is easy. I mean something that actually reinstalls the things ad needed, sort of like windows update or the updater on ubuntu. Michael

Re: tproxy on freebsd

2007-04-17 Thread Chris Slothouber
zen wrote: Chris Slothouber wrote: zen wrote: hi, i know it seem out of topic, i recently build a proxy server to serve our small ISP, but i'm facing a big problem. as far as i know FreeBSD didn't support TPROXY like linux had. but i need to build this proxy transparently so only my client

[Fwd: Re: I like Ubuntu]

2007-04-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Forwarded on behalf of Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:29:43AM +0100, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: How does apt-get compare to something like yum/up2date on FC/RHEL? I.e. is there something that makes apt-get better? It uses a package format that requires more information

Re: problems with Engelschall upgrade toolkit

2007-04-17 Thread Christoph Schug
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007, Charlie McElfresh wrote: Have you tried to go with a clean /var/tmp/temproot by typing 'd' for delete? Yes, I tried all the options, and they all failed. Here is the output when I try d *** Deleting the old /var/tmp/temproot *** Creating the temporary root

Re: keeping all things up to date

2007-04-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 10:12:31AM +0200, Michael Grant wrote: Is there some sort of automated way to keep freebsd and all the installed ports/packages up to date automatically? I don't mean just the source, that part is easy. I mean something that actually reinstalls the things ad needed,

Re: keeping all things up to date

2007-04-17 Thread Christian Walther
On 17/04/07, Chad Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 10:12:31AM +0200, Michael Grant wrote: Is there some sort of automated way to keep freebsd and all the installed ports/packages up to date automatically? I don't mean just the source, that part is easy. I mean

Re[2]: Terabyte harddisks, GELI, AMD64, Samba and Zen...

2007-04-17 Thread Solon Luigi Lutz
CS Solon Luigi Lutz wrote: after some troubleshooting and some hours of memory tests, it finaly seems to be a hardware problem... The machine is based on an ASUS M2N4-SLI (Nforce4) and since the heat-sink on the north/southbridge is rather small and passive, the chip seems to get too hot. I

Re: Terabyte harddisks, GELI, AMD64, Samba and Zen...

2007-04-17 Thread Ivan Voras
Solon Luigi Lutz wrote: Hi again, after some troubleshooting and some hours of memory tests, it finaly seems to be a hardware problem... The machine is based on an ASUS M2N4-SLI (Nforce4) and since the heat-sink on the north/southbridge is rather small and passive, the chip seems to get too

Re[3]: Terabyte harddisks, GELI, AMD64, Samba and Zen...

2007-04-17 Thread Solon Luigi Lutz
Hello Ivan, Tuesday, April 17, 2007, 12:16:04 PM, you wrote: IV Solon Luigi Lutz wrote: Hi again, after some troubleshooting and some hours of memory tests, it finaly seems to be a hardware problem... The machine is based on an ASUS M2N4-SLI (Nforce4) and since the heat-sink on the

Re: keeping all things up to date

2007-04-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 10:12:31AM +0200, Michael Grant wrote: Is there some sort of automated way to keep freebsd and all the installed ports/packages up to date automatically? I don't mean just the source, that part is easy. I mean something that actually reinstalls the things ad needed,

error in find on daily output disk clean

2007-04-17 Thread Dave
Hello, One of my periodic.conf checks is running the daily disk cleaner. When it uses find it is looking in my jail area, which has device files and other virtual items that are not existing. I am getting output from find in the output to that effect. I'd like to tell find in that script

Re: [Fwd: Re: I like Ubuntu]

2007-04-17 Thread n j
Hopefully that helps answer some of your questions. Overall, I find the FreeBSD ports system to be more flexible, but an acceptable runner-up for purposes of binary package-based OSes in my opinion is Debian. Just to add my .02$ to this topic, speaking from a perspective of a FreeBSD lover in

Re: Is FTP install broken?

2007-04-17 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
You probably want to specify debugging flags for the fetch(1) or ftp(1) commands in sysinstall to see what the heck commands its trying to execute. they should get spit out on the emergency tty. ~~BAS On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 04:51 -0700, Philip J. Koenig wrote: I am booting from the 200703

Problem with freebsd-update

2007-04-17 Thread Dmitry
Hello freebsd-questions, I need to update mpd4 binary package via freebsd-update. After installing FreeBSD 6.2 RELEASE I have mpd4-4.0b4. Settings in /etc/freebsd-update.conf: Components src world kernel After running commands freebsd-update fetch, then freebsd-update install I

Re: keeping all things up to date

2007-04-17 Thread Michael Grant
Just as an example that just came up recently: gettext was updated in the ports tree, which required a rebuild of all ports that depend on it. I missed reading /usr/ports/UPDATING before, so I didn't notice this fact. I did an update on my girlfriends laptop which resulted in several applications

Is FTP install broken?

2007-04-17 Thread Philip J. Koenig
For probably the 2nd time in history for me, I am trying an FTP install. It's been a good while since I've done a FBSD install, and I assumed things had gotten more polished since 4.x.. I'm trying to install the 200703 snapshot of 6.2-STABLE, and no matter what server I select, no matter

setting up ntp on 6.2 with jailed hosts

2007-04-17 Thread Dave
Hello, I've got a 6.2 box that i'm running several jails on. I'm trying to get ntpd going so the box can sync it's time with the local lan ntp server. In the host system's rc.conf i have: ntpd_enable=YES ntpd_sync_on_start=YES That second line from my understanding takes away the need to

Re: Execute command upon interface initialization?

2007-04-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 06:02:25PM +0300, Ido Admon wrote: Hello list, I couldn't find any way to execute an arbitrary command upon network interface initialization. My situations is that I have and ethernet card that takes DHCP from a cables provider (not a fixed IP address) and I need to

Re: lost password caused by drunk admin

2007-04-17 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 09:59:40PM -0400, Lewis Joshua wrote: Hello FreeBSD List, Ok I made a huge mistake (insert laugh here because I know you will). I was working late at home and had more then a few drinks... A lot more. I was working with a PAP2-NA (Analog to VoIP adapter (ATA))

Execute command upon interface initialization?

2007-04-17 Thread Ido Admon
Hello list, I couldn't find any way to execute an arbitrary command upon network interface initialization. My situations is that I have and ethernet card that takes DHCP from a cables provider (not a fixed IP address) and I need to update a DynDNS hostname everytime it does (everytime the IP

ezjail / 6.2-RELEASE-p3

2007-04-17 Thread Oliver Peter
Dear, Is there a possibilty to use a self-build release (from source) with ezjail instead of the ftp-RELEASEs ? I didn't find prebuilt binary packages for 6.2-RELEASE-p3 on the ftp sites so I'm thinking about building my own. Maybe it's interesting for -CURRENT and -STABLE users, too. Bye Ollie

Identifying cause of crash

2007-04-17 Thread Robert Huff
Jeffrey Goldberg writes: I had a complete system crash this morning sometime shortly after 17/Apr/2007:08:51:22 -0500. (from my most active apache log). I can't seem to find any information whatsoever about the crash. Is there anything in /var/crash?

jail specific mailinglist?

2007-04-17 Thread Oliver Peter
Dear, According to my previous email (ezjail / 6.2-RELEASE-p3) I would like to ask where to post such messages (for best results :-P ). What's about having a jail secific mailinglist like [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? Bye Ollie -- Oliver PETER, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ# 113969174 Worker bees can

Re: lost password caused by drunk admin

2007-04-17 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Apr 16, 2007, at 8:59 PM, Lewis Joshua wrote: Can anyone help me out? The unit has no reset buttons to reset it to defaults there is nothing online that I can find to bypass the unit. I did a port scan and it appears to only be listening on port 80. Any thoughts out there? Please.

Re: The OX laptop...

2007-04-17 Thread Sergio Lenzi
50 m isn't that much. I was guessing more in the range of one to five km. (Maybe with an outside antenna??) the idea is a child to communicate with another than with another... in a school during normal hour, ther will be about 500 computers XO on and online... so the all

Re: setting up ntp on 6.2 with jailed hosts

2007-04-17 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I've got a 6.2 box that i'm running several jails on. I'm trying to get ntpd going so the box can sync it's time with the local lan ntp server. In the host system's rc.conf i have: ntpd_enable=YES ntpd_sync_on_start=YES That second

lost password caused by drunk admin

2007-04-17 Thread Ian Lord
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ghirai Sent: 17 avril 2007 02:58 To: Lewis Joshua; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lost password caused by drunk admin Hello Lewis, Tuesday, April 17, 2007, 4:59:40 AM, you wrote: Hello

Re: Execute command upon interface initialization?

2007-04-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 06:02:25PM +0300, Ido Admon wrote: Hello list, I couldn't find any way to execute an arbitrary command upon network interface initialization. My situations is that I have and ethernet card that takes DHCP from a cables provider

Re: Is FTP install broken?

2007-04-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 04:51:19AM -0700, Philip J. Koenig wrote: For probably the 2nd time in history for me, I am trying an FTP install. It's been a good while since I've done a FBSD install, and I assumed things had gotten more polished since 4.x.. I'm trying to install the 200703

problem with gcalctool corupt

2007-04-17 Thread freenity
Hi there is a problem with my packages, when I try to upgrade it or do something with it, there is allways this error. WHen trying to install firefox it showed the same error. === Generating temporary packing list === Checking if www/firefox already installed pkg_info: the package info for

Re: Identifying cause of crash

2007-04-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 11:16:17AM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: I had a complete system crash this morning sometime shortly after 17/ Apr/2007:08:51:22 -0500. (from my most active apache log). I can't seem to find any information whatsoever about the crash. It's just that a few hours

Re: jail specific mailinglist?

2007-04-17 Thread Philipp Wuensche
Oliver Peter wrote: Dear, According to my previous email (ezjail / 6.2-RELEASE-p3) I would like to ask where to post such messages (for best results :-P ). What's about having a jail secific mailinglist like [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? For ezjail related questions (and sometimes just jail

Fwd: /dev/gvinum missing, ideas please. .

2007-04-17 Thread Troy Kocher
Fixed it. . Apparently my metadata was corrupt using. . dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=265 of=/dev/da0s1g cleaned it and now I'm up. . Begin forwarded message: Date: April 17, 2007 8:00:20 AM CDT To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Fwd: /dev/gvinum missing, ideas please. . One

Re: Identifying cause of crash

2007-04-17 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Apr 17, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Robert Huff wrote: Jeffrey Goldberg writes: I had a complete system crash this morning sometime shortly after 17/Apr/2007:08:51:22 -0500. (from my most active apache log). I can't seem to find any information whatsoever about the crash. Is there

Re: ezjail / 6.2-RELEASE-p3

2007-04-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 06:19:44PM +0200, Oliver Peter wrote: Dear, Is there a possibilty to use a self-build release (from source) with ezjail instead of the ftp-RELEASEs ? I didn't find prebuilt binary packages for 6.2-RELEASE-p3 on the ftp sites so I'm thinking about building my own.

BSD make vs. GNU make

2007-04-17 Thread Soo-Hyun Choi
Hi, This might be a dumb question, but would like get a clear idea about the differences between BSD make and GNU make. Why do I have to do 'gmake' in some cases instead of just plain 'make'? What's the differences? Thanks, ___

Re: Problem with freebsd-update

2007-04-17 Thread Eric
Dmitry wrote: Hello freebsd-questions, I need to update mpd4 binary package via freebsd-update. After installing FreeBSD 6.2 RELEASE I have mpd4-4.0b4. Settings in /etc/freebsd-update.conf: Components src world kernel After running commands freebsd-update fetch, then freebsd-update

Re: Execute command upon interface initialization?

2007-04-17 Thread Peter Ankerstål
Ido Admon wrote: Hello list, I couldn't find any way to execute an arbitrary command upon network interface initialization. My situations is that I have and ethernet card that takes DHCP from a cables provider (not a fixed IP address) and I need to update a DynDNS hostname everytime it does

Re: error in find on daily output disk clean

2007-04-17 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
The script doesn't grep -v for any user-settable variable to exclude certain paths...it just runs on / with some FS Type exceptions. A quick cheap hack could be put in place to include ! ${user_settable_exclude} ~BAS rc=$(find / \( ! -fstype local -o -fstype rdonly \) -a -prune -o \

sendmail with dovecot with nologin account

2007-04-17 Thread David Banning
I am using dovecot imap and I am having a problem directing mail to go to users in Maildir format when they do not have a login shell. It seems that the .procmailrc file is ignored and the mail is put in mbox format into /var/mail For mail-only users with-out a shell, what is the best way to

Identifying cause of crash

2007-04-17 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
I had a complete system crash this morning sometime shortly after 17/ Apr/2007:08:51:22 -0500. (from my most active apache log). I can't seem to find any information whatsoever about the crash. It's just that a few hours later I noticed that the system was down, and had to power cycle the

Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors

2007-04-17 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've just come into possesion of a bunch of 80GB ATA drives. I'd like to quickly and efficiently test each drive to see if it's free of errors and suitable for deployment in non-critical workstations. Using FreeBSD 6.x as a testing platform, what tools do people use to stress-test disk

Fwd: /dev/gvinum missing, ideas please. .

2007-04-17 Thread Troy Kocher
One other thing I forgot. . bsd# kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 14 0xc040 70794c kernel 21 0xc0b08000 11920geom_vinum.ko 31 0xc0b1a000 59f20acpi.ko Begin forwarded message: From: Troy Kocher tkocher(at)mtadistributors(dot)com Date: April 16, 2007 11:11:13

RE: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 174, Issue 4

2007-04-17 Thread Joshua Lewis
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Re: BSD make vs. GNU make

2007-04-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 17, 2007, at 9:28 AM, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: This might be a dumb question, but would like get a clear idea about the differences between BSD make and GNU make. Why do I have to do 'gmake' in some cases instead of just plain 'make'? Because people write more complex makefiles using syntax

Re: jail specific mailinglist?

2007-04-17 Thread Oliver Peter
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 06:44:29PM +0200, Philipp Wuensche wrote: Oliver Peter wrote: Dear, According to my previous email (ezjail / 6.2-RELEASE-p3) I would like to ask where to post such messages (for best results :-P ). What's about having a jail secific mailinglist like [EMAIL

Re: Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors

2007-04-17 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I've just come into possesion of a bunch of 80GB ATA drives. I'd like to quickly and efficiently test each drive to see if it's free of errors and suitable for deployment in non-critical workstations. Using FreeBSD 6.x as a testing

Re: Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors

2007-04-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 17, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Doug Poland wrote: I've just come into possesion of a bunch of 80GB ATA drives. I'd like to quickly and efficiently test each drive to see if it's free of errors and suitable for deployment in non-critical workstations. Using FreeBSD 6.x as a testing platform, what

Re: lost password caused by drunk admin

2007-04-17 Thread Tom Ierna
On Apr 16, 2007, at 9:59 PM, Lewis Joshua wrote: Can anyone help me out? The unit has no reset buttons to reset it to defaults there is nothing online that I can find to bypass the unit. I did a port scan and it appears to only be listening on port 80. Any thoughts out there? Please.

Re: PPP and resolv.conf

2007-04-17 Thread RW
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:48:25 +0800 Richard Simmonds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I stop ppp from modifying my /etc/resolv.conf? Everytime I establish a pppoe session, my resolv.conf file gets reconfigured to my ISPs DNS Servers. It's dhclient, not ppp that's modding the file. This

Re: BSD make vs. GNU make

2007-04-17 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: Hi, This might be a dumb question, but would like get a clear idea about the differences between BSD make and GNU make. Why do I have to do 'gmake' in some cases instead of just plain 'make'? What's the differences? The gmake program has many

problem with gcalctool corupt

2007-04-17 Thread Robert Huff
freenity writes: Hi there is a problem with my packages, when I try to upgrade it or do something with it, there is allways this error. WHen trying to install firefox it showed the same error. cd /usr/ports/firefox15 make deinstall make distclean cd

Re: Identifying cause of crash

2007-04-17 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Apr 17, 2007, at 11:45 AM, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: Is there some setting I should set so that in future crashes will be dumped there [/var/crash]? Never mind, I've just found what I needed in man rc.conf, I've now set dumpdev and dumpdir in rc.conf and am rebuilding the kernel with

Re: Is FTP install broken?

2007-04-17 Thread Sean Murphy
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 04:51:19AM -0700, Philip J. Koenig wrote: For probably the 2nd time in history for me, I am trying an FTP install. It's been a good while since I've done a FBSD install, and I assumed things had gotten more polished since 4.x.. I'm trying

Re: Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors

2007-04-17 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:56 AM 4/17/2007, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I've just come into possesion of a bunch of 80GB ATA drives. I'd like to quickly and efficiently test each drive to see if it's free of errors and suitable for deployment in non-critical workstations. Using FreeBSD 6.x as a testing platform,

Re: Terabyte harddisks, GELI, AMD64, Samba and Zen...

2007-04-17 Thread Chris Slothouber
Solon Luigi Lutz wrote: CS Solon Luigi Lutz wrote: after some troubleshooting and some hours of memory tests, it finaly seems to be a hardware problem... The machine is based on an ASUS M2N4-SLI (Nforce4) and since the heat-sink on the north/southbridge is rather small and passive, the chip

Re: Execute command upon interface initialization?

2007-04-17 Thread kelvin woods
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 12:35:41PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 06:02:25PM +0300, Ido Admon wrote: Hello list, I couldn't find any way to execute an arbitrary command upon network interface initialization. My situations is

Re: Is FTP install broken?

2007-04-17 Thread Philip J. Koenig
On 17 Apr 2007 at 11:34, Sean Murphy boldly uttered: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 04:51:19AM -0700, Philip J. Koenig wrote: I'm trying to install the 200703 snapshot of 6.2-STABLE, and no matter what server I select, no matter what variant I try of

Re: gimp: install conflicts

2007-04-17 Thread RW
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 07:26:11 -0700 (PDT) White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD-6.2 I have a question regarding gimp-devel, the meta-port for Gimp. ... The problem is that there appears to be a conflict between the two versions of gimp-app being installed. Is this correct, or am I

Re: The OX laptop...

2007-04-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 01:33:14PM -0300, Sergio Lenzi wrote: 50 m isn't that much. I was guessing more in the range of one to five km. (Maybe with an outside antenna??) the idea is a child to communicate with another than with another... in a school during normal

Re: sendmail with dovecot with nologin account

2007-04-17 Thread Vince
David Banning wrote: I am using dovecot imap and I am having a problem directing mail to go to users in Maildir format when they do not have a login shell. It seems that the .procmailrc file is ignored and the mail is put in mbox format into /var/mail For mail-only users with-out a shell,

Re: keeping all things up to date

2007-04-17 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 02:58:34PM +0200, Michael Grant wrote: Just as an example that just came up recently: gettext was updated in the ports tree, which required a rebuild of all ports that depend on it. I missed reading /usr/ports/UPDATING before, so I didn't notice this fact. I did an

Re: Is FTP install broken?

2007-04-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 01:45:44PM -0700, Philip J. Koenig wrote: On 17 Apr 2007 at 11:34, Sean Murphy boldly uttered: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 04:51:19AM -0700, Philip J. Koenig wrote: I'm trying to install the 200703 snapshot of 6.2-STABLE, and no

Re: keeping all things up to date

2007-04-17 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chad Perrin wrote: If you have specific ideas about what parts of the updating process are safe, you might try writing a few shell or Perl scripts that automate those steps -- then share them with the rest of the world. You might also, if writing such scripts is too far outside your expertise,

Migrating from i386 to AMD64

2007-04-17 Thread Don O'Neil
I've currently got a production server in place that I want to do some hardware upgrades on. We're currently running a Dual P3 1.4 GHz and I plan on replacing it with an AMD X2-5200+ cpu/mb. Now.. Can I just use the same SMP kernel I have currently (assuming the correct drivers are loaded) for

Re: Migrating from i386 to AMD64

2007-04-17 Thread Josh Carroll
Now.. Can I just use the same SMP kernel I have currently (assuming the correct drivers are loaded) for the X2 processor if I just want to run it in 32 bit mode? Yes, it should work fine. You may need to update /etc/fstab of course, and any other settings that need to change along with the

Loop/wildcard-like syntax for GNU make?

2007-04-17 Thread Kelly Jones
Here's a Makefile that converts 3 GIFs to JPGs in a given directory: 1.jpg: 1.gif /usr/local/bin/convert 1.gif 1.jpg 2.jpg: 2.gif /usr/local/bin/convert 2.gif 2.jpg 3.jpg: 3.gif /usr/local/bin/convert 3.gif 3.jpg How do I generalize this to apply to ALL the GIFs in a given

dhcp/update of A records on Bind

2007-04-17 Thread J.D. Bronson
Ok...I have DHCP on fxp0 to my ISP (cable) and I have a public DNS server (static IP) off site. I want to be able to update my own public DNS server A records if/when my DHCP IP changes. I am familar with nsupdate and I have used TSIG in the past to do this. Does FBSD 6.2-stable offer any EASY

Re: sendmail with dovecot with nologin account

2007-04-17 Thread David Banning
For mail-only users with-out a shell, what is the best way to direct mail to them in Maildir format within ~/Maildir - maybe directly from .forward? Not an expert but I am just starting to think about moving from mbox to mdir on my home server, so Id be interested in how you get on.

Re: sendmail with dovecot with nologin account

2007-04-17 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 19:55:18 David Banning wrote: For mail-only users with-out a shell, what is the best way to direct mail to them in Maildir format within ~/Maildir - maybe directly from .forward? Not an expert but I am just starting to think about moving from mbox to mdir on my

ACLs in a jail ... not usable?

2007-04-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just want to make sure there isn't something I'm missing, but it apears ACLs aren't settable from within a jail? # setfacl -m g:mail:rwx Login.1 setfacl: acl_get_file() failed: Operation not supported Thanks ... - Marc G. Fournier

Re: ACLs in a jail ... not usable?

2007-04-17 Thread Anish Mistry
On Tuesday 17 April 2007, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Just want to make sure there isn't something I'm missing, but it apears ACLs aren't settable from within a jail? # setfacl -m g:mail:rwx Login.1 setfacl: acl_get_file() failed: Operation not supported ACLs work fine in jails. Are you sure you

Re: Loop/wildcard-like syntax for GNU make?

2007-04-17 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Kelly Jones thusly... Would you mind cutting the number of mailing lists? I think a|any technical list would have been enough. Anyway ... Here's a Makefile that converts 3 GIFs to JPGs in a given directory: 1.jpg: 1.gif /usr/local/bin/convert

Re: ACLs in a jail ... not usable?

2007-04-17 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Tuesday, April 17, 2007 22:38:45 -0400 Anish Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 17 April 2007, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Just want to make sure there isn't something I'm missing, but it apears ACLs aren't settable from within a