Re: Binary upgrade from legacy version + ports

2008-07-27 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: I want to upgrade two freebsd machines I have from 6.1-SECURITY and 5.3-RELEASE respectively, to the latest 7.0 release of FreeBSD. I don't want to cvsup and build, but prefer to use prebuilt binaries. Also I'd like to avoid wiping the systems, and starting

Re: Root boot/mount Password?

2008-07-27 Thread DSA - JCR
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 05:31:23PM -, DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all FreeBSD 6.2 I would like to put a password when booting/mounting mi Freebsd box. is it possible? How? Yes. Use geli(8) encryption. is for protecting the system from unauthorized users Disk encryption also protects your data

Re: Binary upgrade from legacy version + ports

2008-07-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: The 6.1 system seem to be running 7.0-p2 now, though. Thanks! It is still upgrading ports. Fortunately this box does nothing important, and is just my personal playground. If something gets messed up, noe problem. I'm trying to upgrade the ports binary as well,

Re: malloc options

2008-07-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
Doug Hardie wrote: On Jul 26, 2008, at 19:03, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: While that's understandable, the current malloc() has undergone quite extensive testing by Jason Evans and a lot of people who use it in FreeBSD 7.X or later. Its ability to expose bugs in this way was deemed important

Re: Root boot/mount Password?

2008-07-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 09:47:44AM -, DSA - JCR wrote: On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 05:31:23PM -, DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all FreeBSD 6.2 I would like to put a password when booting/mounting mi Freebsd box. is it possible? How? Yes. Use geli(8) encryption. is for protecting the

Deinstalling X and all dependencies

2008-07-27 Thread bsd
Hello, I have just received a new system that's planned to be a large scale DNS server. I have asked the guy who has setup the hardware not to install X… This has been useless!! I am now ending up with 250 apps in the port tree!! Is there a good way to get rid of all these useless apps

7.0-make.conf

2008-07-27 Thread JD Bronson
Has this been removed or is it still supported? It does not appear in the man page or examples... NO_BIND=true -JD ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Deinstalling X and all dependencies

2008-07-27 Thread N. Raghavendra
At 2008-07-27T12:52:56+02:00, bsd wrote: Is there a good way to get rid of all these useless apps without breaking the system… What would you suggest? One way is to use the `ports-mgmt/pkg_cutleaves' port to iteratively remove the superfluous leaves of your package tree. It can also be done

Re: Deinstalling X and all dependencies

2008-07-27 Thread Bernt Hansson
bsd : Hello, I have just received a new system that's planned to be a large scale DNS server. I have asked the guy who has setup the hardware not to install X… This has been useless!! Better doing it your self. I am now ending up with 250 apps in the port tree!! Is there a good way to

Re: Deinstalling X and all dependencies

2008-07-27 Thread RW
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:52:56 +0200 bsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have just received a new system that's planned to be a large scale DNS server. I have asked the guy who has setup the hardware not to install X___ This has been useless!! I am now ending up with 250 apps in the

Re: 7.0-make.conf

2008-07-27 Thread JD Bronson
At 03:03 PM 7/27/2008 +0300, Reko Turja wrote: make.conf has been split into two, the actual make.conf which has variables for the make process and generic make environment and src.conf which controls the building of add-on software. Check src.conf for details. -Reko so something like this

Re: 7.0-make.conf

2008-07-27 Thread Reko Turja
Has this been removed or is it still supported? It does not appear in the man page or examples... NO_BIND=true make.conf has been split into two, the actual make.conf which has variables for the make process and generic make environment and src.conf which controls the building of add-on

Re: 7.0-make.conf

2008-07-27 Thread Reko Turja
WITHOUT_SENDMAIL=true I am not sure of the need for the 'true' or not. it seems it is not required but should work either way? From the manpage: The values of variables are ignored regardless of their setting; even if they would be set to ``FALSE'' or ``NO''. Just the existence

Re: Deinstalling X and all dependencies

2008-07-27 Thread andrew clarke
On Sun 2008-07-27 12:52:56 UTC+0200, bsd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have just received a new system that's planned to be a large scale DNS server. I have asked the guy who has setup the hardware not to install X? This has been useless!! I am now ending up with 250 apps in the port

Re: Deinstalling X and all dependencies

2008-07-27 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 23:17:44 +1000, andrew clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun 2008-07-27 12:52:56 UTC+0200, bsd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have just received a new system that's planned to be a large scale DNS server. I have asked the guy who has setup the hardware not to install

pptp and routing

2008-07-27 Thread Andrew D
G'Day all, got a freebsd Box FreeBSD gw.ade.eltrak.com.au 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Wed Jul 9 03:46:03 CST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ELKERN i386 that has a poptop server on it. When a client logs in they get authed fine and get issued an IP. However when

Re: graid3

2008-07-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
why it can't be say 5 disks+parity? The reason is in the definition on RAID 3, which says the updates to the RAID device must be atomic. In some ideal universe, RAID 3 is implemented in hardware and on individual bytes, but here we cannot write to the drives in units other than sectorsize

Re: SATA300

2008-07-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ad5: 476940MB MAXTOR STM3500630AS 3.AAE at ata2-slave SATA150 ad6: 305245MB Hitachi HDT725032VLA360 V54OA7EA at ata3-master SATA150 Does this mean I'm only getting half the throughput I could be getting? still more that actually drive can get from media (about 100MB/s)

Re: malloc options

2008-07-27 Thread Ivan Voras
Doug Hardie wrote: On Jul 26, 2008, at 19:03, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: While that's understandable, the current malloc() has undergone quite extensive testing by Jason Evans and a lot of people who use it in FreeBSD 7.X or later. Its ability to expose bugs in this way was deemed important

Re: malloc options

2008-07-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
/etc/malloc.conf. The default for that file is to not exist. The man page does not indicate which settings are used in that situation. After reading through it I get the feeling that the default settings for D and M are 'dM'. Hence, to return to the older malloc aproach to see if the

Re: Sendmail local LAN delivery

2008-07-27 Thread Bruno Joho
Hi Derek thanks for the reply. My intention was to deliver the mails between the workstations on the LAN directly. Every Workstation on the LAN would have an appropriate cf file which forwards mails with a destination on the WAN - to the WAN-Smarthost, any mail going to a destination from inside

Re: {Spam?} Re: Sendmail local LAN delivery

2008-07-27 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:49 PM 7/27/2008, Bruno Joho wrote: Hi Derek thanks for the reply. My intention was to deliver the mails between the workstations on the LAN directly. Every Workstation on the LAN would have an appropriate cf file which forwards mails with a destination on the WAN - to the WAN-Smarthost,

Algis Kimbaras is out of the office.

2008-07-27 Thread a . kimbaras
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freebsd networking issues

2008-07-27 Thread gahn
hello: i have two interfaces installed on my freebsd machine (desktop); one is wireless (ath0, facing the internet, 192.168.1.10/24) and another is internal (fxp0, 192.168.2.1/24). the internet facing interface of the freebsd works fine: from my xp laptop (192.168.1.2), i can ping the

Re: malloc options

2008-07-27 Thread Karl Vogel
On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:36:35 -0700, Doug Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: D The program has worked under considerable load for many years with versions D 3.7 to 6.2. Problems only occur with 7.0. The program is quite complex D and big. It uses probably hundreds of mallocs in a typical use.

Re: malloc options

2008-07-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 21:55:39 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl Vogel) wrote: On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 17:36:35 -0700, Doug Hardie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: D The program has worked under considerable load for many years with D versions 3.7 to 6.2. Problems only occur with 7.0. The program is