Re: Future development of Jail

2008-01-03 Thread Mahlon E. Smith
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007, Karl Triebes wrote: I would like to see per-jail quotas such as the ones Andy mentions, and would like to hear if anyone would be interested in doing it for the right price. You may contact me via this list or in private. It may not be optimal, but you can always

Re: Swap partition

2008-01-03 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Eugen Udma wrote: Hello, I have FreeBSD installed on my desktop, with 2 GB of RAM and 4 GB swap partition and this swap partition is very seldom touched by the system and then only 2-3% used. I want to install FreeBSD on a laptop with 4 GB of RAM and a hard disk of 100 GB. Should I

Re: Question about a patch

2008-01-03 Thread Valerio Daelli
Just send in the 'diff -Nur' output, but make a note in your PR that the filename has been changed. The committer will be able to make it all right in CVS. Thanks a lot for your help. Bye Valerio Daelli ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

console server using a modern 1U box

2008-01-03 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
What are the options? Should we go the USB-RS232 way or are there PCI Express or PCI-X multiport cards supported by FreeBSD? This is a telecom-ish environment, so ease of rackmounting is a plus (consumer USB stuff is thus a PITA for us). Any comment will be appreciated!

Re: Asus eee (was Re: G4 Quicksilver as Web Server?)

2008-01-03 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 09:14:19AM -0500, Ed Maste wrote: On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 06:20:22PM +, James Jeffery wrote: Before i end the toipic, anyone got any feeback on the Asus Eee (mini laptops) with FreeBSD? It works, but no drivers exist for the wireless or wired Ethernet ports.

Re: console server using a modern 1U box

2008-01-03 Thread Daniel Ponticello
Hello Andrew, i know PCI Express Moxa cards are supported on freebsd (they provide proprietary drivers): http://www.moxa.com/product/CP-104EL.htm Anyway, i'm only using the ethernet to RS232 devices from Moxa, and they work pretty well. Cheers, Daniel Andrew Pantyukhin ha scritto: What

Re: console server using a modern 1U box

2008-01-03 Thread Jacques Marneweck
Hi, Take a look at the Lantronix console servers. Regards --jm On 03 Jan 2008, at 11:08 AM, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: What are the options? Should we go the USB-RS232 way or are there PCI Express or PCI-X multiport cards supported by FreeBSD? This is a telecom-ish environment, so ease of

console server using a modern 1U box

2008-01-03 Thread Philip Brown
have a look at xyplex 1600 console server, which is a standalone comm server accesed via a network. you can the also run comserv on your bsd box which will the connect the 16 ports of the console server as directly connected serial ports giving you the use of ports as device files tip etc.

Sendmail: sub-domain masquerade as top level

2008-01-03 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
Hello, I'm having an issue with getting sendmail to masquerade as the top level domain when the host is a sub domain. For example I want server.exmaple.com to send mail as [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than [EMAIL PROTECTED], how ever the masquerade options don't seem to work for this.. It works

Porting from linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-03 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
Hi all, First of all, Happy New Year. I have a question about porting an application from Linux to FreeBSD. The application I want to port, makes an extensive use of the procfs in Linux. It gathers a lot of information from those files (cpuinfo, meminfo, devices, filesystems, modules, etc...)

Porting from linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-03 Thread Robert Huff
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?= writes: First of all, Happy New Year. And to you, The application I want to port, makes an extensive use of the procfs in Linux. It gathers a lot of information from those files (cpuinfo, meminfo, devices, filesystems, modules, etc...)

Re: Porting from linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-03 Thread Ivan Voras
Fernando Apesteguía wrote: 1 - Try to rely the porting on the compatibility procfs from FreeBSD 2 - Do the things in a completely different way (which one is this? Invoking sysctl system call?) I would like to know from you which one is the best approach. The best way to do it is to

Re: Sendmail: sub-domain masquerade as top level

2008-01-03 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 03 January 2008 12:04, Jerahmy Pocott wrote: Hello, I'm having an issue with getting sendmail to masquerade as the top level domain when the host is a sub domain. For example I want server.exmaple.com to send mail as [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than [EMAIL PROTECTED], how ever the

RE: Sendmail: sub-domain masquerade as top level

2008-01-03 Thread Barry Byrne
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerahmy Pocott I'm having an issue with getting sendmail to masquerade as the top level domain when the host is a sub domain. For example I want server.exmaple.com to send mail as [EMAIL

Re: corporate backers of freebsd

2008-01-03 Thread FreeBSD WickerBill
Check out the BSDMall - iXSystems: http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/community.html?id=QcQ8NEb5mv_arg=mv_argmv_pc=3 They provide all you are looking for in both products and support of the community. On Jan 2, 2008 10:50 AM, Gary Smithe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 2, 2008 4:56 AM, Ted

Re: sendmail is broken, how do I fix

2008-01-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: While you think there is nothing on that port something is running not letting that socket connection. Try rebooting the system and see if the problem is still there. -Derek I did try that too. Didn't work. Ask sockstat(1).

Re: Swap partition

2008-01-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 05:13:28PM -0800, Eugen Udma wrote: Hello, I have FreeBSD installed on my desktop, with 2 GB of RAM and 4 GB swap partition and this swap partition is very seldom touched by the system and then only 2-3% used. I want to install FreeBSD on a laptop with 4 GB of RAM

Re: Porting from linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-03 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On Jan 3, 2008 2:47 PM, Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Apesteguía wrote: 1 - Try to rely the porting on the compatibility procfs from FreeBSD 2 - Do the things in a completely different way (which one is this? Invoking sysctl system call?) I would like to know from you

Re: Porting from linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-03 Thread Ivan Voras
On 03/01/2008, Fernando Apesteguía [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that's my problem. In Linux I can get from /proc/cpuinfo for example: name, model, stepping, cache size, clock speed, supported extensions, etc... But using sysctl in FreeBSD (sysctl -a) I can only see name and vendor for the

Re: Porting from linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 02:14:57PM +0100, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: Hi all, First of all, Happy New Year. I have a question about porting an application from Linux to FreeBSD. The application I want to port, makes an extensive use of the procfs in Linux. It gathers a lot of

Re: Swap partition

2008-01-03 Thread Robert Huff
Jerry McAllister writes: But, note that you are talking only a small percentage of your Hd space, so it is hardly worth quibbling about. In most places, disk space is dirt cheap. If you're really worried, find a 5-10 gbyte drive used and make it a dedicated swap disk.

Re: Porting from linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-03 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 05:16:42PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: On 03/01/2008, Fernando Apesteguía [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that's my problem. In Linux I can get from /proc/cpuinfo for example: name, model, stepping, cache size, clock speed, supported extensions, etc... But using

mounting geom partition

2008-01-03 Thread John Clement
Quite some time ago I setup a machine with a couple of 250GB disks in that were mirrored using geom, although I can't remember if I mounted it as 1x 250GB partition or several smaller ones. The machine they were in died, and I kept hold of one of the two disks so I could restore the data. I'm

Re: mounting geom partition

2008-01-03 Thread John Nielsen
Quoting John Clement [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quite some time ago I setup a machine with a couple of 250GB disks in that were mirrored using geom, although I can't remember if I mounted it as 1x 250GB partition or several smaller ones. The machine they were in died, and I kept hold of one of the two

Migrate FreeBSD 7.0RC1 from i386 to amd64

2008-01-03 Thread Christian Walther
Hi folks, yesterday morning my server at home broke down. It crashed but was unable to reboot. I blamed either one of my DIMMs or the memory banks on the mainboard. I removed one DIMM, powered up the machine and the mainboard started to die a most smelly death. I didn't needed long to come to

Re: console server using a modern 1U box

2008-01-03 Thread Fred C
Do you know where I can find more information about comserv. In the port directory the pkg-descr file point to http://www.bsdhome.com/comserv/ which return a 404 error and the website is about bats homes. -fred- On Jan 3, 2008, at 3:38 AM, Philip Brown wrote: have a look at xyplex 1600

Re: Migrate FreeBSD 7.0RC1 from i386 to amd64

2008-01-03 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 06:44:45PM +0100, Christian Walther wrote: [...] I searched the net for some information on migrating from i386 to amd64. I'd like to build a new kernel for amd64, reboot. Do a buildworld and installworld and a portupgrade -afk --batch afterwards. The approach that I

Re: console server using a modern 1U box

2008-01-03 Thread Brian
Fred C wrote: Do you know where I can find more information about comserv. In the port directory the pkg-descr file point to http://www.bsdhome.com/comserv/ which return a 404 error and the website is about bats homes. -fred- On Jan 3, 2008, at 3:38 AM, Philip Brown wrote: have a look

Hardware compatibility question

2008-01-03 Thread Darryl Hoar
Greetings, I am looking at buying a used Dell PowerEdge 2650. It has (2) Xeon 2.8Ghz with 512kb cache 6 GB ECC Ram (5) 36 GB 10k SCSI hard drives Perc/3 raid controller. dual 10/100/1000 ethernet dual power supplies. will I have any problem using Freebsd on this hardware ? Going to be LAMP

Re: Hardware compatibility question

2008-01-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:29:44PM -0600, Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I am looking at buying a used Dell PowerEdge 2650. It has (2) Xeon 2.8Ghz with 512kb cache 6 GB ECC Ram (5) 36 GB 10k SCSI hard drives Perc/3 raid controller. dual 10/100/1000 ethernet dual power supplies. will I

Re: Hardware compatibility question

2008-01-03 Thread Eric Crist
On Jan 3, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I am looking at buying a used Dell PowerEdge 2650. It has (2) Xeon 2.8Ghz with 512kb cache 6 GB ECC Ram (5) 36 GB 10k SCSI hard drives Perc/3 raid controller. dual 10/100/1000 ethernet dual power supplies. will I have any problem

install FreeBSD from isos on USB hard-drive partition

2008-01-03 Thread Simeon Nifos
Dear FreeBSD users, We all know that installing any OS from DVD isos and/or CD isos takes time. Especially FreeBSD still doesn't provide even a DVD iso and it is hard to change CDs during the installation. Even if a DVD iso is provided it takes time to install. I was wondering if anyone of you

outgoing mail STOPPED.

2008-01-03 Thread Gary Kline
I stumpped. I get incomiing ail, but nothing gets out from my private networked servers. Anybody know where to start figuring out why?? gary -- Gary Kline Seattle BSD Users' Group (seabug) | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thought Unlimited Org's Alternate

Re: Hardware compatibility question

2008-01-03 Thread Jack Barnett
Eric Crist wrote: On Jan 3, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I am looking at buying a used Dell PowerEdge 2650. It has (2) Xeon 2.8Ghz with 512kb cache 6 GB ECC Ram (5) 36 GB 10k SCSI hard drives Perc/3 raid controller. dual 10/100/1000 ethernet dual power supplies. will I

Re: outgoing mail STOPPED.

2008-01-03 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I stumpped. I get incomiing ail, but nothing gets out from my private networked servers. Anybody know where to start figuring out why?? Have you checked /var/log/maillog? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com

FreeBSD 7.0-PRE/AMD64: missing f77/Fortran compiler ...

2008-01-03 Thread O. Hartmann
Sorry about the noise, but I miss g77 or f77 on my FreeBSD 7.0-PRE box. Where is it? Hasn't gcc 4.2 as incorporated in FreeBSD as the native compiler also a native fortran 90 compiler? Regards, Oliver ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: outgoing mail STOPPED.

2008-01-03 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 05:06:49PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I stumpped. I get incomiing ail, but nothing gets out from my private networked servers. Anybody know where to start figuring out why?? Have you checked

Re: outgoing mail STOPPED.

2008-01-03 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 05:06:49PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I stumpped. I get incomiing ail, but nothing gets out from my private networked servers. Anybody know where to start figuring out why?? Have you checked

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-PRE/AMD64: missing f77/Fortran compiler ...

2008-01-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
O. Hartmann wrote: Sorry about the noise, but I miss g77 or f77 on my FreeBSD 7.0-PRE box. Where is it? Hasn't gcc 4.2 as incorporated in FreeBSD as the native compiler also a native fortran 90 compiler? No, you need to install the gfortran port. This is presumably documented in the release

Re: install FreeBSD from isos on USB hard-drive partition

2008-01-03 Thread Jay Chandler
Simeon Nifos wrote: Dear FreeBSD users, We all know that installing any OS from DVD isos and/or CD isos takes time. Especially FreeBSD still doesn't provide even a DVD iso and it is hard to change CDs during the installation. Even if a DVD iso is provided it takes time to install. I was

Re: outgoing mail STOPPED.

2008-01-03 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 05:06:49PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I stumpped. I get incomiing ail, but nothing gets out from my private networked servers. Anybody know where to start figuring out why?? Have you checked

testing from sage|ns1.thought.org

2008-01-03 Thread Gary Kline
Let's see ifthis gets out.. -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: outgoing mail STOPPED.

2008-01-03 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 05:06:49PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I stumpped. I get incomiing ail, but nothing gets out from my private networked servers. Anybody know where to start

Re: outgoing mail STOPPED.

2008-01-03 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 05:48:06PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 05:06:49PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I stumpped. I get incomiing ail, but nothing gets out

Re: Sendmail: sub-domain masquerade as top level

2008-01-03 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
On 04/01/2008, at 12:59 AM, Barry Byrne wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerahmy Pocott I'm having an issue with getting sendmail to masquerade as the top level domain when the host is a sub domain. For example I want

Re: install FreeBSD from isos on USB hard-drive partition

2008-01-03 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Jay Chandler wrote: Simeon Nifos wrote: Dear FreeBSD users, We all know that installing any OS from DVD isos and/or CD isos takes time. Especially FreeBSD still doesn't provide even a DVD iso and it is hard to change CDs during the installation. Even if a DVD iso is provided it takes time to

VACANCY AND REQUIREMENT

2008-01-03 Thread Mrs Jenny
Am Mrs.jenny Linda Sheila, The owner of the Plaza mayor hotel,How are you doing there? Hope all is going well and systematically if so doxology, surely am in need of 12people who are willing to manage an hotel for me in uk (london) and I will be very Glad if you can be able to find me Honest,

Re: Porting from linux to FreeBSD (procfs question)

2008-01-03 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:14:57 +0100, Fernando Apesteguía [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : As I know, FreeBSD has some kind of procfs but more limited in terms of information. My questions is how should I proceed now? I see two options. 1 - Try to rely the porting on the compatibility procfs from

Re: outgoing mail STOPPED.

2008-01-03 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 05:06:49PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I stumpped. I get incomiing ail, but nothing gets out from my private networked servers. Anybody know where to start figuring out why?? Have you checked

Finally, Flash seems to be working for Me :)

2008-01-03 Thread Rudy
Steps to watch YOUTUBE videos: # Run these commands as root: sysctl compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.20 cd /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-f7 make pkg_delete linux_\* make install rm /usr/ports/distfiles/flashplugin/fp7_archive.zip pkg_delete linux-flashplugin\* cd

How to patch the kernel?

2008-01-03 Thread Lyle Scott III
I don't have much experience patching anything, really. I was told by the port security/ipsec-tools to patch the kernel if i wanted to use nat-transversals. they provide me with http://vanhu.free.fr/FreeBSD/patch-natt-freebsd6-2007-05-31.diff, but I am now sure how to patch up the kernel so I

Re: Finally, Flash seems to be working for Me :)

2008-01-03 Thread Rudy
I forgot to mention, my post is for FreeBSD 7... here is my uname: FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE #2: Thu Jan 3 15:59:14 PST 2008 Rudy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: how to suspend/wake-up a FreeBSD machine?

2008-01-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:51:41 +0100 Henrik Brix Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That depends largely on the hardware - on e.g. ThinkPads you need to press the 'Fn' button to wake up the laptop after sleep. hmm i think it's not so much the Fn key, u need to do anything that triggers an ACPI

Re: how to suspend/wake-up a FreeBSD machine?

2008-01-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:51:41 +0100 Henrik Brix Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That depends largely on the hardware - on e.g. ThinkPads you need to press the 'Fn' button to wake up the laptop after sleep. hmm i think it's not so much the Fn key, u need to do anything that triggers an ACPI

RE: FreeBSD question

2008-01-03 Thread takhoos
Hello I am Polish FreeBSD system administrator, I would like to participate in the course and get a certificate of achievement of FreeBSD system and in the future, if possible, I would like to become a trainer of FreeBSD. What do I have to do to

Re: outgoing mail STOPPED.

2008-01-03 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Thursday 03 January 2008 06:22:38 pm Gary Kline wrote: This is from my OLD tao: 2 drwxrwx---  2 smmsp  smmsp   512 Jan  3 15:59 clientmqueue possible chmod 770 the clientmqueue on the new? seems like i had a similar trouble when i migrated my sendmail server into a jail a while back. (and

Re: outgoing mail STOPPED.

2008-01-03 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Thursday 03 January 2008 08:55:44 pm Jonathan Horne wrote: On Thursday 03 January 2008 06:22:38 pm Gary Kline wrote: This is from my OLD tao: 2 drwxrwx---  2 smmsp  smmsp   512 Jan  3 15:59 clientmqueue possible chmod 770 the clientmqueue on the new? seems like i had a similar trouble

RE: outgoing mail STOPPED.

2008-01-03 Thread Mark
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Kline Sent: vrijdag 4 januari 2008 1:23 To: Bill Moran Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: outgoing mail STOPPED. 2 drwxr-x--- 2 smmsp smmsp 512 Jan 3 14:33 clientmqueue Seems to me

Re: Finally, Flash seems to be working for Me :)

2008-01-03 Thread Xn Nooby
Why not just use gnash to watch youtube videos? It works fine for me, with my user account. However, if I use Firefox+gnash as root, it makes my system unstable, I lose /dev/null, and the system gets weird. I guess gnash will kill your system if you run it as root. On Jan 3, 2008 8:23 PM,

Re: Finally, Flash seems to be working for Me :)

2008-01-03 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 1/4/08, Xn Nooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not just use gnash to watch youtube videos? It works fine for me, with my user account. However, if I use Firefox+gnash as root, it makes my system unstable, I lose /dev/null, and the system gets weird. I guess gnash will kill your system if

Re: Finally, Flash seems to be working for Me :)

2008-01-03 Thread Rudy
Xn Nooby wrote: Why not just use gnash to watch youtube videos? It works fine for me, with my user account. I tried it a couple of years ago and most websites (with falsh content) didn't work... you say it works now days? I'll give it a try. I do do more than watch youtube videos, but

Re: How to patch the kernel?

2008-01-03 Thread RW
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 19:53:18 -0500 Lyle Scott III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have much experience patching anything, really. I was told by the port security/ipsec-tools to patch the kernel if i wanted to use nat-transversals. they provide me with

Re: Finally, Flash seems to be working for Me :)

2008-01-03 Thread Robert Huff
Rudy writes: I do do more than watch youtube videos, but people send me links and I'm always bummed if I have to reboot into Ubuntu just to see a stupid video :) What you need is www/youtube-dl. Deposits the content in a form that can be played by mplayer (and presuably

Re: Finally, Flash seems to be working for Me :)

2008-01-03 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 1/4/08, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rudy writes: I do do more than watch youtube videos, but people send me links and I'm always bummed if I have to reboot into Ubuntu just to see a stupid video :) What you need is www/youtube-dl. Deposits the content in a

Re: How to patch the kernel?

2008-01-03 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 1/4/08, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 19:53:18 -0500 Lyle Scott III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have much experience patching anything, really. I was told by the port security/ipsec-tools to patch the kernel if i wanted to use nat-transversals. they provide

mount vs mount_msdosfs - invalid file mode

2008-01-03 Thread Ben Williams
Hi all, I'm trying to mount a fat32 drive with the permissions so the right users (in the group mine) can read write to it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] /mnt]# l total 8 drwxrwxrwx 19 ben mine 4.0K Jan 1 13:21 downloads/ drwxrwxr-x 2 ben mine 512B Jan 1 17:31 drive/ The one I want to