Re: Inode numbering

2008-10-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Because I didn't find sufficient informations and try and error would be incomplete (and insecure regarding the result), I'd like to ask the following question: Let's assume we have a directory D with an inode number i(D). It contains a file F with its inode number i(F). May I state that i(D)

Re: Installing Samba : FreeBSD Vs Linux ?

2008-10-20 Thread Frank Bonnet
Charles Mason wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am very interrested by feedback of real world samba admins running it with FreeBSD or Linux , my boss push hardly to use Linux but I would much prefer FreeBSD do what your boss wants. it's his

Re: Installing Samba : FreeBSD Vs Linux ?

2008-10-20 Thread Valentin Bud
hello list, a little story about samba and FreeBSD. I had to make a file server for a company that uses a program for accounting. that software works with lots of files to do the job. the software admin told me that the permissions should be very open on the directories and files so i made them

Re: Installing Samba : FreeBSD Vs Linux ?

2008-10-20 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Valentin Bud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello list, a little story about samba and FreeBSD. I had to make a file server for a company that uses a program for accounting. that software works with lots of files to do the job. the software admin told me that the

Re: Installing Samba : FreeBSD Vs Linux ?

2008-10-20 Thread Valentin Bud
Hello list, On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Odhiambo Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Valentin Bud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello list, a little story about samba and FreeBSD. I had to make a file server for a company that uses a program for

Re: DHCP release/renew lease - elegant solution?

2008-10-20 Thread Mel
On Friday 17 October 2008 23:24:00 Nerius Landys wrote: I have an always-on FreeBSD box which is connected to the internet. My ISP is some cable company and the IP address is determined via DHCP; I used to always get the same IP address but recently the address seems to be changing very

Re: Disable kontact/kmail automatic activation

2008-10-20 Thread Mel
On Saturday 18 October 2008 17:49:26 Benzi Mizrahi wrote: Hello all, I am running FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #2 with KDE: 3.5.10. A few *PORTUPGRADEs* ago , I can't recall when, I noticed that when KDE is started, usually after system startup , kontact application

Re: mounting an MP3 player?

2008-10-20 Thread Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach
Hello, Message: 3 Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:57:43 +0100 From: dgmm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mounting an MP3 player? [...] Have you tried just mounting da0 etc? The may not be any slices. yes, I tried all /dev/da*; in each case the result was mount: /dev/da...: Device not

Re: mounting an MP3 player?

2008-10-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 03:51:20PM +0200, Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach wrote: Hello, Message: 3 Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:57:43 +0100 From: dgmm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mounting an MP3 player? [...] Have you tried just mounting da0 etc? The may not be any slices. yes, I

Re: DHCP release/renew lease - elegant solution?

2008-10-20 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 03:26:39PM +0200, Mel wrote: On Friday 17 October 2008 23:24:00 Nerius Landys wrote: I have an always-on FreeBSD box which is connected to the internet. My ISP is some cable company and the IP address is determined via DHCP; I used to always get the same IP address

Re: Disable kontact/kmail automatic activation

2008-10-20 Thread Mike Clarke
On Saturday 18 October 2008, Benzi Mizrahi wrote: Hello all, I am running FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #2 with KDE: 3.5.10. A few *PORTUPGRADEs* ago , I can't recall when, I noticed that when KDE is started, usually after system startup , kontact application is started

custom freebsd cd

2008-10-20 Thread Valentin Bud
Hello list, I have a FBSD box that runs as a web/mail server to provide access to a web based application. I want to build a custom FBSD 7.0 installation disk. By custom I mean: 1. automatic disk partition based on a scheme i provide. 2. automatic installation of the needed packages as well as

Re: bsdlabel partiton c error message on new install

2008-10-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 05:22:07AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 02:13:45PM +0200, andys wrote: Hi, on a newly installed FreeBSD 7.0 system on a dell 1950 server I see the following error from bsdlabel. Is there any known issues with this or is the only

Re: bsdlabel partiton c error message on new install

2008-10-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 03:31:07PM +0100, Andy Smith wrote: Hi Jerry, ok thanks for the answer, its not very good news for me ;( as Ive already done alot of config and installed alot of apps, but anyway thats my problem now! cheers Andy! Interesting, you seemed to have

Re: mounting an MP3 player?

2008-10-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 06:37:50AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 03:51:20PM +0200, Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach wrote: Hello, Message: 3 Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:57:43 +0100 From: dgmm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mounting an MP3 player? [...]

RE: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimatebounce messages

2008-10-20 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
The term coined for this type of mail is backscatter. There is no easy solution for this. The backscatter article on postfix.org, for example, caused our mail servers to start rejecting mail that was generated from PHP scripts and CGIs on our own systems, which makes no sense. The

Re: Installing Samba : FreeBSD Vs Linux ?

2008-10-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
the software admin told me that the permissions should be very open on the directories and files so i made them 0777. the software worked like a charm for about 2 months but after that at some point the client couldn't access the files on the samba server. if it could work for 2 months and then

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimatebounce messages

2008-10-20 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Monday 20 October 2008, Michael K. Smith - Adhost said: The term coined for this type of mail is backscatter. There is no easy solution for this. The backscatter article on postfix.org, for example, caused our mail servers to start rejecting mail that was generated from PHP scripts

High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster

2008-10-20 Thread Gerardo Paredes
Hello, i am interested in setting up a small cluster, of about 5 machines to show how this can work on a university environment. Its kind of a pitch to university authorities to show them how this work so they can think on investing top dollars on it. We have a bunch of workstations running

Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-20 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 13:16 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 03:50:01PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I took a working 5.4-i386 server and trying to convert its RAID 5 to RAID 10 and load 7.0 amd64. I kept getting BTX halted even after flashing the latest bios and

Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:07:17PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 13:16 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 03:50:01PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I took a working 5.4-i386 server and trying to convert its RAID 5 to RAID 10 and load 7.0

RE: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimatebounce messages

2008-10-20 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Monday, October 20, 2008 10:24:28 -0500 Michael K. Smith - Adhost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me know if you do find a reliable, decent solution that does not involve SPF or postfix header_checks or body_checks. The following doesn't fix the problem but it does help mitigate the

RE: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster

2008-10-20 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:19:28 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster Hello, i am interested in setting up a small cluster, of about 5 machines to show how this can work on a university environment. Its kind of a

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimatebounce messages

2008-10-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:16:31AM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Monday, October 20, 2008 10:24:28 -0500 Michael K. Smith - Adhost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let me know if you do find a reliable, decent solution that does not involve SPF or postfix header_checks or body_checks. The

Re: Freebsd7 mingw32 compilation utilities missing.

2008-10-20 Thread Benoit
Roland Smith a écrit : On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 12:18:47PM +0200, Benoit wrote: Hello, i don't know if it's the good section to talk about it... Yesterday, i want to cross-compile an old windows program, so i installed mingw32-bin-msvcrt-r3.12.a3.9 but i can't compile because the compiler

disappearing mouse pointer

2008-10-20 Thread Robert
Greetings FreeBSD When running XFCE4 I will lose the mouse pointer at times. This will only happen when I have the driver set to nv in xorg.conf. The mouse will still work as I can see where it is when I pass over icons and watch them highlight. If I can stop on an icon, I can click and it works.

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimatebounce messages

2008-10-20 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Monday, October 20, 2008 10:11:36 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:16:31AM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: The best solution *by far* that I have found for spam (using Postfix) is mail/postfix-policyd-weight. It routinely rejects 50 to 70% of

Updating openssl

2008-10-20 Thread Jerry
I presently have the base version of 'openssl' installed. If I wanted to install the ports' version, is there anything special I have to do? I presently have: WITH_OPENSSL_BASE=yes in the /etc/make.conf file. I assume I should remove that prior to build the port. Does the port version replace the

Right way to mount/edit dd of a disk?

2008-10-20 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
Hi, I have a Linux dd file thats an image of the entire disk. If I use the fdisk-linux and do : # fdisk -ul some-big-3.5.0_Update_2-103909.i386.dd You must set cylinders. You can do this from the extra functions menu. Disk some-big-3.5.0_Update_2-103909.i386.dd: 0 MB, 0 bytes 64 heads,

Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-20 Thread John Baldwin
On Monday 20 October 2008 12:32:37 pm Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Forgot to mention I added memory to this server as well, took it from 2GB it was using under 5.4-RELEASE up to 6GB filling all slots, that is why I wanted to load amd64. I reduced down to 4GB and now am able to install

Re: mysql connection through ssl tunnel

2008-10-20 Thread John Almberg
On Sep 23, 2008, at 10:09 AM, Vincent Hoffman wrote: John Almberg wrote: I have two FreeBSD machines. One is a application server, the other a database server running mysql. These machines are in two different locations. I'd like to allow the application server to access mysql through an SSH

RE: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster

2008-10-20 Thread Gerardo Paredes
--- On Mon, 10/20/08, Sean Cavanaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Sean Cavanaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Monday, October 20, 2008, 9:52 AM Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008

Re: mysql connection through ssl tunnel

2008-10-20 Thread Peter Boosten
John Almberg wrote: On Sep 23, 2008, at 10:09 AM, Vincent Hoffman wrote: John Almberg wrote: I have two FreeBSD machines. One is a application server, the other a database server running mysql. These machines are in two different locations. I'd like to allow the application server to

Re: Installing Samba : FreeBSD Vs Linux ?

2008-10-20 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Valentin Bud wrote: hello list, a little story about samba and FreeBSD. I had to make a file server for a company that uses a program for accounting. that software works with lots of files to do the job. the software admin told me that the permissions should be very open on the directories and

Re: how to break portsnap

2008-10-20 Thread Steve Franks
On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:25 AM, Barry Byrne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Franks Sent: 07 October 2008 21:57 I've googled high low but I cannot find much other that this cannot happen replies. I've got a dual boot to amd64 and

Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster

2008-10-20 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Gerardo Paredes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sean, the link you provided does a good job of helping someone understand the process involved in setting up a cluster, even if it doesn't provide detailed information in a HOW-TO like fashion. Then i guess is up to me

Fwd: mysql connection through ssl tunnel

2008-10-20 Thread John Almberg
After a few hours of work today, I have all this working perfectly. I'm using autossh to automatically create and monitor the ssh tunnel, and I can make mysql connections through the tunnel with no problems. Very cool. And that's through PF firewalls on both machines, which added

Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster

2008-10-20 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:17:11 -0400 Maxim Khitrov wrote: I would be very interested in any documentation you can come up with as you go forward with this project. I currently work in a bioinformatics organization that uses external HPC clusters, and I'd love to setup a small local cluster of

Re: error installing kmymoney2 on amd64 system running freebsd 6.3

2008-10-20 Thread mv
Hello Greg, When I tried to upgrade kmymoney2 on my amd64 6.4-PRERELEASE using portmaster I also received the same error message as Dino. However, after I amended the Makefile as you had suggested portmaster worked as it should. Just wanted to let you know that you seem to be on the right

Re: mysql connection through ssl tunnel

2008-10-20 Thread John Almberg
On Oct 20, 2008, at 4:50 PM, John Almberg wrote: After a few hours of work today, I have all this working perfectly. I'm using autossh to automatically create and monitor the ssh tunnel, and I can make mysql connections through the tunnel with no problems. Very cool. And that's

Re: mysql connection through ssl tunnel

2008-10-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 03:25:23PM -0400, John Almberg wrote: On Sep 23, 2008, at 10:09 AM, Vincent Hoffman wrote: John Almberg wrote: I have two FreeBSD machines. One is a application server, the other a database server running mysql. These machines are in two different locations. I'd like

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimatebounce messages

2008-10-20 Thread Peter Clark
Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Monday, October 20, 2008 10:11:36 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:16:31AM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: The best solution *by far* that I have found for spam (using Postfix) is mail/postfix-policyd-weight. It routinely rejects

Re: mysql connection through ssl tunnel

2008-10-20 Thread John Almberg
On Oct 20, 2008, at 5:21 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 03:25:23PM -0400, John Almberg wrote: On Sep 23, 2008, at 10:09 AM, Vincent Hoffman wrote: John Almberg wrote: I have two FreeBSD machines. One is a application server, the other a database server running mysql.

Re: Right way to mount/edit dd of a disk?

2008-10-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
mount -t msdos /dev/md0s5 /mnt to be able to get the dd5 on /mnt. I then edited the files I wanted, replaced them, and copied back to /mnt. I did umount /mnt and copied the dd file back to where it needed to be. did you mdconfig -d before copying image?

Re: [freebsd-questions] Re: Right way to mount/edit dd of a disk?

2008-10-20 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
mount -t msdos /dev/md0s5 /mnt to be able to get the dd5 on /mnt. I then edited the files I wanted, replaced them, and copied back to /mnt. I did umount /mnt and copied the dd file back to where it needed to be. did you mdconfig -d before copying image? Well, turns

Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-20 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 13:45 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: i386 cannot address more than 4GB unless the kernel is built with PAE mode enabled. This isn't enabled in GENERIC for many (justified) reasons. If you have more than 4GB, you should be using amd64, so you made the right decision

Re: mysql connection through ssl tunnel

2008-10-20 Thread Peter Boosten
John Almberg wrote: I tried this, and not surprisingly, it didn't work. Now I'm trying to debug it... Maybe some mixup in the keys? In my example ssh tries to read the private key of root on the connecting server, so the server where the database is located, because init is run as root. If

Apache aliased directory invisible

2008-10-20 Thread David Karapetyan
FreeBSD office19.resnet.nd.edu 7.0-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p5 #0: Wed Oct 1 10:10:12 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Hello all. I would like to make aliased directories in apache visible from the directory root. An example: When I visit

Re: mysql connection through ssl tunnel

2008-10-20 Thread Peter Boosten
Peter Boosten wrote: John Almberg wrote: I tried this, and not surprisingly, it didn't work. Now I'm trying to debug it... Maybe some mixup in the keys? In my example ssh tries to read the private key of root on the connecting server, so the server where the database is located, because

Re: Fwd: mysql connection through ssl tunnel

2008-10-20 Thread Peter Boosten
John Almberg wrote: Where 'admin' is the user I am logging into on the remote machine, and 'example.com' is the hostname of the remote machine. I guess equivalent to the following? ttyv7 /usr/bin/ssh -nNTx -R 3306:127.0.0.1:33006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null 21unknown on Port

gjournal: journaled slices vs. journaled partitions

2008-10-20 Thread Carl
My goal is to build a 2-disk server configured with gmirror and gjournal for maximum reliability. There will never be a second operating system on the system, but I prefer not to freak out any non-FreeBSD repair tools that might be used, so I will use compatibility instead of dangerously

Re: gjournal: journaled slices vs. journaled partitions

2008-10-20 Thread Laszlo Nagy
So how do I achieve per-slice journaling instead of per-partition? The docs only says this: gjournal only supports UFS2. It does not specifically say that you cannot have per-slice journaling. However, since you could have other filesystems on your slice, I bet that slice based journaling is