Re: ports

2008-07-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jul 8, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Mel wrote: On Tuesday 08 July 2008 19:07:02 Matthew Seaman wrote: You can configure named to always send packets using a fixed port number (which can be helpful for firewalling) Purely outof interest, which (useful) firewall/nat rules cannot

Install Linux in FreeBSD

2008-07-09 Thread Ruel Luchavez
Hi again list, Is it possible to run a VM machine in your freebsd server in which inside that VM you are running on it a Linux environment? coul it be? You would rather want to know why do I want that set up? Simply because I want to install a Quickbooks Enterprise solutions Database manager in

A sed question

2008-07-09 Thread Unga
Hi all I want to translate following GNU sed lines to FreeBSD sed: 1. sed -e '/\*address:/{n;[EMAIL PROTECTED]@replaceText @}' 2. sed -e '/\*address:/{n;[EMAIL PROTECTED]@ [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Appreciate if someone could help with it. Is there a good documentation about FreeBSD sed other than

Re: Install Linux in FreeBSD

2008-07-09 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 09 July 2008 08:46, Ruel Luchavez wrote: Hi again list, Is it possible to run a VM machine in your freebsd server in which inside that VM you are running on it a Linux environment? coul it be? You would rather want to know why do I want that set up? Simply because I want to

Re: Can't run WindowMaker. Fatal server error:

2008-07-09 Thread pedro alves
I have recompiled the kernel and no change what so ever. I have also upgraded windowmaker to windowmaker-0.92.0_4. Current Xorg is xorg-7.3_2 On 06-juil.-08, at 21:31, Luke Dean wrote: On Sun, 6 Jul 2008, Pedro Alves wrote: Hello I have a serious problem with windowmaker. Every time I

Re: Load balance for POP3

2008-07-09 Thread Vince Hoffman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Vince, On Mon, 30 Jun 2008, Vince Hoffman wrote: | | I need to switch the users connections between two POP3 servers based on | | login information. | | Since the login is part of the pop3 handshake, I'm stuck on how to | | transfer the connection

Re: Load balance for POP3

2008-07-09 Thread Owen Garrett
I'm afraid not, I looked into it a little but management ended up deciding we would be using zxtm load balancers (http://www.zeus.com/products/zxtm/) which were better suited for us overall. Vince, With a little TrafficScript, you can do exactly this with ZXTM, so perhaps management made a

problem with sendmail and su

2008-07-09 Thread Nicolas Letellier
Hello. I use FreeBSD 7 with sendmail. I have a problem for sending email. More precisely, with the sender of the mail. When I'm logged to my machine in root, the mail is sent with [EMAIL PROTECTED] with sender. OK, no problems. When I'm logged to my machine in nicolas, the mail is sent with

Re: A sed question

2008-07-09 Thread Bertram Scharpf
Hii, Am Mittwoch, 09. Jul 2008, 00:35:32 -0700 schrieb Unga: I want to translate following GNU sed lines to FreeBSD sed: 1. sed -e '/\*address:/{n;[EMAIL PROTECTED]@replaceText @}' 2. sed -e '/\*address:/{n;[EMAIL PROTECTED]@ [EMAIL PROTECTED]' An obvious problem is that a semicolon is

Re: ports

2008-07-09 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 08 July 2008 23:07:58 Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jul 8, 2008, at 11:04 AM, Mel wrote: On Tuesday 08 July 2008 19:07:02 Matthew Seaman wrote: You can configure named to always send packets using a fixed port number (which can be helpful for firewalling) Purely outof interest,

Re: quota and sendmail accepts 10k mail size

2008-07-09 Thread lyd mc
Hi Derek, It is good to hear from you. You are right about sendmail has only global option to limit mail size. However, my company wants to have 20meg mbox space per user. If the User exceeds, he/she should not recieved any mail. So, I use system quota to prevent sendmail from writing to

(un)mounting usb disk as non root user

2008-07-09 Thread DSA - JCR
Hi all FreeBSD 6.2 I have made a copy system with USB disk and GELI for crypto. Now, I would like that one non root user can login run a shell form unmount the disk and change it, and then mount the new usb disk. I have the shell script done, but only works if it runs under root. When I tried

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and RAM limit

2008-07-09 Thread N. Raghavendra
At 2008-07-05T13:04:19+02:00, Robert Heron wrote: FreeBSD 7.0-R on i386 server with motherboard S5000VSA and 6GB RAM onboard. BIOS version - 88 (the latest) Kernel includes: options MAXMEM=(6*1024*1024) And FreeBSD reports only: real memory = 2680160256 (2556 MB) avail

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and RAM limit

2008-07-09 Thread David Gurvich
Hello, You might try the 64bit FreeBSD, I think your system is 64bit capable. That has much higher limits on memory addressing and should get around the issue. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Image metadata - reading writing

2008-07-09 Thread David Southwell
Hi Does anyone know of a uitlity that for metatdata stored in raw image files (especially canon *.CR2) would enable me to: 1. Read the data from a file 2. Write new information into the file I want to extract the metadata, use it in a mysql database and update the metadata from the mysql

Re: A sed question

2008-07-09 Thread Unga
--- On Wed, 7/9/08, Bertram Scharpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Bertram Scharpf [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A sed question To: Unga [EMAIL PROTECTED], freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2008, 6:52 PM Hii, Am Mittwoch, 09. Jul 2008, 00:35:32 -0700 schrieb Unga:

Re: (un)mounting usb disk as non root user

2008-07-09 Thread Anders Troback
On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 11:29:22 - (GMT) DSA - JCR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all FreeBSD 6.2 I have made a copy system with USB disk and GELI for crypto. Now, I would like that one non root user can login run a shell form unmount the disk and change it, and then mount the new usb

Re: How do I install openoffice from packages?

2008-07-09 Thread Kevin Monceaux
/Andreas, On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Andreas Davour wrote: I've tried and it just wont work. It look like the packages don't reside on the server but I can't change ftp.freebsd.org so how do I get it? From the Googling I did on the subject recently there is no official binary packages for

Re: How do I install openoffice from packages?

2008-07-09 Thread David Gurvich
You could try one of the packages from the openoffice.org site http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/#obtain . I only see packages for 6.2 and there may be issues. Otherwise you need to build from the ports. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Image metadata - reading writing

2008-07-09 Thread Pietro Cerutti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 David Southwell wrote: | Hi | | Does anyone know of a uitlity that for metatdata stored in raw image files | (especially canon *.CR2) would enable me to: | 1. Read the data from a file | 2. Write new information into the file You may want to give

gvinum rename doesn't work on drive objects

2008-07-09 Thread David Adam
I have been struggling with gvinum over the last few days, and have recently hit an interesting problem: the 'rename' command in gvinum doesn't appear to work on drive objects in 7.0-RELEASE. I initially created three drive objects to support my RAID-5 gvinum setup, named 'r0', 'r1' and 'r2'.

Re: (un)mounting usb disk as non root user

2008-07-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
This is a Frequently Asked Question. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOPPYMOUNT -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___

Which VIA CPUs have hardware RNG support?

2008-07-09 Thread Joseph Gleason
I am trying to figure out which VIA CPUs support hardware RNG under recent FreeBSD. I've been looking at things on 7.0-RELEASE-p2. If there is something that else I should be looking at, please let me know. Based on 'man 4 random' I see: The only hardware implementation currently is for the

ia-64 Floppies

2008-07-09 Thread John William Blyth
Please help: I am trying to install Free BSD ia-64 architecture but cannot find floppies. Will the 386 floppies work? My cdrom will not boot from ia-64 live. I had a i386 installation but wanted to replace it. Thanks, John William Blyth (newbie) [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL

Re: ia-64 Floppies

2008-07-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
John William Blyth wrote: Please help: I am trying to install Free BSD ia-64 architecture but cannot find floppies. Will the 386 floppies work? My cdrom will not boot from ia-64 live. I doubt that you have an ia64. Are you absolutely certain you don't mean amd64? Kris

Re: ia-64 Floppies

2008-07-09 Thread Brad Mettee
To clarify Kris' response: amd64 = AMD/Intel 64bit capable CPUs ia64 = Intel Itanium So if you're looking for an x86 compatible install CD, then you'll be wanting the amd64 version. (sorry for the direct reply Kris, I'm not used to mailing lists that don't do proper reply-to) At 12:13 PM

ports/ImageMagick - Magick++ - 2 tests fail on FBSD 6.3 alpha

2008-07-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
Two ImageMagick tests fail with core dumps on my FBSD 6.3 alpha: FAIL: Magick++/tests/exceptions.sh FAIL: Magick++/tests/attributes.sh They pass on my FBSD 7.0 i386. exceptions.cpp actually warns: %vi exceptions.cpp [skip] 22 23 cout Checking for working exceptions (may crash)

bind94 security update (UNOFFICIAL)

2008-07-09 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
Hi, For anyone looking to update the bind94 port due to the recent frenzy, you can : 1) Update the Makefile : From : PORTREVISION= 1 To : PORTREVISION= 2 From : ISCVERSION= 9.4.2 To : ISCVERSION= 9.4.2-P1 2) Drop this into distinfo : MD5 (bind-9.4.2-P1.tar.gz) =

snippet of configure script - explain please

2008-07-09 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I get errors building ports/graphviz on FBSD 6.3 on alpha. It seems the error is due to configure script erroneously deciding that there is no strncasecmp function on OS. Based on config.log: configure:9333: result: no configure:9253: checking for strncasecmp I think the following configure

Re: bind94 security update (UNOFFICIAL)

2008-07-09 Thread David Alanis
For those like me who don't know any better. How can I confirm your suggestion will not be introducing addition problems or people into the equation? Thanks, David Quoting Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, For anyone looking to update the bind94 port due to the recent

Re: bind94 security update (UNOFFICIAL)

2008-07-09 Thread Outback Dingo
because the source download comes from ISC, he is correct in the proceedure, and I trust him :) On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:29 AM, David Alanis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those like me who don't know any better. How can I confirm your suggestion will not be introducing addition problems or

Re: [freebsd-questions] Re: bind94 security update (UNOFFICIAL)

2008-07-09 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
David, You are very wise to ask If you look at the changes, there are NO changes to what FTP site the binary is picked up from, there are NO additional files inserting patches, etc. I have only changed the PORTREVISION so that portupgrade and the likes will notice it, and the

Re: bind94 security update (UNOFFICIAL)

2008-07-09 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
Hi, But Dingo, can YOU be trusted to trust me? ;) BTW: There are 2 ways to tell if your DNS is vulnerable : 1) I PREFER the command line written by Michael C. Toren : http://michael.toren.net/code/noclicky/ Though you need per, Net::DNS and LWP. 2) If you can use a GUI

PAE Compilation Error

2008-07-09 Thread David Alanis
Good Day, I suppose now I am paying for questioning TUC's credibility huh?!?!? (jk) In the process of building an older server running 7.0-RELEASE :/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SERVER i386 on a HP Proliant D380 G3 (CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.40GHz (2387.05-MHz 686-class CPU). After some

Re: Which VIA CPUs have hardware RNG support?

2008-07-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Joseph Gleason wrote: I am trying to figure out which VIA CPUs support hardware RNG under recent FreeBSD. I've been looking at things on 7.0-RELEASE-p2. If there is something that else I should be looking at, please let me know. Based on 'man 4 random' I see: The only hardware implementation

Re: problem with sendmail and su

2008-07-09 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:44 AM 7/9/2008, Nicolas Letellier wrote: Hello. I use FreeBSD 7 with sendmail. I have a problem for sending email. More precisely, with the sender of the mail. When I'm logged to my machine in root, the mail is sent with [EMAIL PROTECTED] with sender. OK, no problems. When I'm logged to

Re: How do I install openoffice from packages?

2008-07-09 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Wednesday 09 July 2008 12:39:06 Andreas Davour wrote: On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Kevin Monceaux wrote: /Andreas, On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Andreas Davour wrote: I've tried and it just wont work. It look like the packages don't reside on the server but I can't change ftp.freebsd.org so how do I

Set up keymap

2008-07-09 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
Hi: I have installed XFCE on my freebsd but i dont know why my X keymap is wrong. I need latam on a normal console works but not in X how can i change the keymap? Thanks -- mmm, interesante. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Set up keymap

2008-07-09 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Wednesday 09 July 2008 22:33:29 Diego F. Arias R. wrote: Hi: I have installed XFCE on my freebsd but i dont know why my X keymap is wrong. I need latam on a normal console works but not in X how can i change the keymap? Thanks ls /usr/share/syscons/keymaps/ Pick the one you need and

User properties and how to make files with a specific group owner

2008-07-09 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I've not had to set this up and so far my efforts have proven less than successful. I'm working on a web project with my father and one other developer. I need to have it so that our user id's, when creating files in the directory we share the source code in, create the files with the

Locate command

2008-07-09 Thread Rem P Roberti
Whenever I do a locate command on a new installation I get this message: locate: database too small: /var/db/locate.database Can someone give me a heads up on how to fix this? Thanks, Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Locate command

2008-07-09 Thread Paul Procacci
Rem P Roberti wrote: Whenever I do a locate command on a new installation I get this message: locate: database too small: /var/db/locate.database Can someone give me a heads up on how to fix this? Thanks, Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Locate command

2008-07-09 Thread Rem P Roberti
Whenever I do a locate command on a new installation I get this message: locate: database too small: /var/db/locate.database Can someone give me a heads up on how to fix this? Thanks, Run this shell script: /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate Thank you! Rem

Re: Locate command

2008-07-09 Thread Paul Procacci
Rem P Roberti wrote: Whenever I do a locate command on a new installation I get this message: locate: database too small: /var/db/locate.database Can someone give me a heads up on how to fix this? Thanks, Run this shell script: /etc/periodic/weekly/310.locate Thank you! Rem

Re: Locate command

2008-07-09 Thread Doug Poland
Rem P Roberti wrote: Whenever I do a locate command on a new installation I get this message: locate: database too small: /var/db/locate.database Can someone give me a heads up on how to fix this? create the locate database via: man locate.updatedb(8) man locate(1) -- Regards, Doug

Re: User properties and how to make files with a specific group owner

2008-07-09 Thread Sahil Tandon
Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've not had to set this up and so far my efforts have proven less than successful. I'm working on a web project with my father and one other developer. I need to have it so that our user id's, when creating files in the directory we share the

freeBSD kernel-current

2008-07-09 Thread rakhmadian
Dear, I want to know how to install freeBSD on XEN on LInux. And i've read this documentation http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/virtualization-guest.html But, i get trouble...I cann't found file krenel-current because thereis broken link. Could tell me, where i can download it ?

Re: snippet of configure script - explain please

2008-07-09 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:55 am, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I get errors building ports/graphviz on FBSD 6.3 on alpha. It seems the error is due to configure script erroneously deciding that there is no strncasecmp function on OS. Based on config.log: configure:9333: result: no This probably

ntpd(8) - bind only to specified interfaces?

2008-07-09 Thread Fraser Tweedale
Having read the man page (also, ntp.conf(5)), it is not apparent that there is a way to tell it to bind only to a particular interface (or particular interfaces). It would be nice if there is actually such a feature, so I figured I'd ask. Definitely not a major problem is this isn't possible

Re: ntpd(8) - bind only to specified interfaces?

2008-07-09 Thread David Allen
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Fraser Tweedale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having read the man page (also, ntp.conf(5)), it is not apparent that there is a way to tell it to bind only to a particular interface (or particular interfaces). It would be nice if there is actually such a feature, so