Failure to do netinstall

2009-10-30 Thread Vadim Maksimenko
Dear Sirs, I have faced an unpleasant fact that your netinstall ability of 7.2 RELEASE and 8.0-RC2 are dead. My network card is being identified and initialized properly (an old 3com980), it gets DHCP setup (IP, gateway, DNS info is ok), but... That's all that is done properly. When I try

Re: Merging Related Information from 2 Tables

2009-10-30 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 29 October 2009 20:44:12 Martin McCormick wrote: Giorgos Keramidas writes: You should use a Perl or Python script, and a hash... If you show us a few sample lines from the input file and how you want the output to look, it shouldn't be too hard to quickly hack one of those

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-30 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 29 October 2009 21:58:54 Lars Eighner wrote: On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Ruben de Groot wrote: sendmail is NOT a legacy application. It's actively being developed ON FreeBSD. Actually, the maintainer(s) are doing a great job Bullshit. Why does sendmail call up the internet during

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-30 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 282, Issue 14, Message 14 On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:58:54 -0500 (CDT) Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Ruben de Groot wrote: sendmail is NOT a legacy application. It's actively being developed ON FreeBSD. Actually, the

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-30 Thread Randi Harper
MAKE THE PAIN STOP. Seriously, read back in the friggin' mailing list archives. None of y'all are going to say anything that hasn't been said before. Or don't, and just prove how valuable your time isn't by wasting it arguing about something that everyone else is just rolling their eyes at and

Wireless packet loses

2009-10-30 Thread Onur Aslan
Hi. I am currently using FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE. I have a problem with wireless networks. I am using FreeBSD as an access point with wpa encryption. Almost %30 packets are loses when I ping the ap. It's very painfully to use ssh connection with this ap. Do you have any idea about packet loses? My

Re: APACHE/PHP/MYSQL Password Hash

2009-10-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
Monty Pyth wrote: I have inherited a website to work on that users authenticate to using a login and password from a login page. The server is FreeBSD 6.2 running APACHE/PHP/MYSQL. There is a MYSQL table that maintains all of the users. The table has a users name and password. The password is

IPv6-only host and portupgrade

2009-10-30 Thread $witch
Hi, have done a best effort to avoid useless question, am posting after various faq-research and tests. having an IPv6-ONLY (FreeBSD 7.0) host that needs to perform a portsnap fetch there is NO LIST of portsnap-IPv6-capable servers. maybe they don't exists or i am too blind to find them; is

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-30 Thread Lars Eighner
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Ian Smith wrote: Why does sendmail call up the internet during boot? If it needs to know who it is, why can't it look in hosts? See the section: WHO AM I? in /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf/README (assuming you haven't deleted the documentation from your system) Or did

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:15:08 + Freminlins freminl...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, thanks for that. I knew about that file, but don't often read it. There's even more to the saga - Xkblayout doesn't work. This whole HAL thing stinks horribly. IF X is built with HAL basically certain options

Sendmail SMTP server outgoing email rate

2009-10-30 Thread Aflatoon Aflatooni
Hi, Is there a way that I could configure sendmail so that I could control the rate of outgoing emails? For example if there are 2 outbound emails destined for Yahoo.com server then they would be sent one connection at a time so that it is not flooding their server. Also, is there a limit on

Re: Sendmail SMTP server outgoing email rate

2009-10-30 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 09:50:06PM -0700, Aflatoon Aflatooni typed: Hi, Is there a way that I could configure sendmail so that I could control the rate of outgoing emails? For example if there are 2 outbound emails destined for Yahoo.com server then they would be sent one connection at a

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Bruce Cran wrote: On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:15:08 + Freminlins freminl...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, thanks for that. I knew about that file, but don't often read it. There's even more to the saga - Xkblayout doesn't work. This whole HAL thing stinks horribly. IF X is built with HAL

Re: FBSD 7.2, on a CQ60-419WM Presario, about headphones

2009-10-30 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:55:23 -0400, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com a écrit : Hello, How do I get to use the headphones? The speaker works but continues to play when I plug in headphones. If it's not a secret, which sound card and driver? I don't know for the rest.

Re: Sendmail SMTP server outgoing email rate

2009-10-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:50:06 -0700 (PDT), Aflatoon Aflatooni aaflato...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, Is there a way that I could configure sendmail so that I could control the rate of outgoing emails? For example if there are 2 outbound emails destined for Yahoo.com server then they would be sent

issues with email migration

2009-10-30 Thread David Patton
This morning I moved the contents from the server over to an NFS share. This is a freebsd 6.2 server running postfix, courier-imap and squirrelmail. I used rsync to move the data for /www and /mail over to the nfs share. After I made the changed to fstab and rebooted, every thing came up and

Re: breakthru, maybe....

2009-10-30 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 01:31:26PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: [snip] And for my next trick: I'm ordering a UPS. It is only for the DNS server and firefall (pfSense). I'll either refurb the current computer or buy a newer 32-bit for the firewall. I'd like

Re: issues with email migration

2009-10-30 Thread usleepless
Hi David, On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 1:59 PM, David Patton da...@farmington.k12.mo.uswrote: This morning I moved the contents from the server over to an NFS share. This is a freebsd 6.2 server running postfix, courier-imap and squirrelmail. I used rsync to move the data for /www and /mail

NIS users can't login with FTPD

2009-10-30 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello I've installed a nes machine ( 7.2 / 64 bits ) which runs like a charm EXCEPT for the FTP service for NIS users ... Local users ( which are present in /etc/passwd file ) have no problem BUT NIS users cannot log in when using telnet NIS users have no problem to log in ... Thank for any

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Neil Short
--On Thursday, October 29, 2009 16:55:58 -0500 Freminlins freminl...@gmail.com wrote: I know this isn't specifically a FreeBSD problem, HAL being needed by X. But the flipping installer should enable it when I selected X flipping User from the install options. My little upgrade

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Adam Vande More
Far be it from me to pile on when you're already so frustrated, but I run into these sorts of problems myself from time to time. It's usually because I didn't bother to read /usr/ports/UPDATING first, which in this case might have warned you. 20090123: AFFECTS: users of

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Neil Short wrote: 20090123:   AFFECTS: users of x11-servers/xorg-server   AUTHOR: rnol...@freebsd.org I hate to say this; but I carefully read the UPDATING log you quoted and used the solution suggested - which did not work for me. It was a temporary solution to a

Re: Failure to do netinstall

2009-10-30 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 30 October 2009 03:12:29 Vadim Maksimenko wrote: I have faced an unpleasant fact that your netinstall ability of 7.2 RELEASE and 8.0-RC2 are dead. My network card is being identified and initialized properly (an old 3com980), it gets DHCP setup (IP, gateway, DNS info is ok), but...

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Freminlins
I've read the responses and comments here, so don't think I'm ignoring anyone because I haven't responded directly. I rebuilt xorg-server without HAL. I killed hal stone dead and started up the new (i.e. old-skool) xorg. It all works fine. My mouse and keyboard work as specified in the xorg.conf

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Freminlins freminl...@gmail.com wrote: I've read the responses and comments here, so don't think I'm ignoring anyone because I haven't responded directly. I rebuilt xorg-server without HAL. I killed hal stone dead and started up the new (i.e. old-skool)

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:04:18 -0500 Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com replied: On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Freminlins freminl...@gmail.com wrote: I've read the responses and comments here, so don't think I'm ignoring anyone because I haven't responded directly. I rebuilt xorg-server

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Adam Vande More
Once you have to start reading a manual to create a configuration to get basic keyboard to work, things are getting seriously out of hand. A common user should not be required to have a working knowledge of XHTML and obscure directives in order to get a piece of equipment working. What

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, October 30, 2009 10:11:57 -0500 Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: Well that particular entry isn't necessary as noted by the next one in UPDATING. I suppose I should have highlighted this portion of the entry - Server 1.5.3 also really wants to configure its input

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Freminlins
2009/10/30 Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com No my point was top is not accurate measure of HAL's memory usage. HAL has shared library's just like many other applications. Yep, I know all about that. But it is indicative. And indeed born out by the fact that when HAL is not running I

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Freminlins freminl...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/10/30 Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com No my point was top is not accurate measure of HAL's memory usage. HAL has shared library's just like many other applications. Yep, I know all about that. But it is

Re: NIS users can't login with FTPD

2009-10-30 Thread Markiyan Kushnir
what's in /etc/nsswitch.conf ? Markiyan. Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I've installed a nes machine ( 7.2 / 64 bits ) which runs like a charm EXCEPT for the FTP service for NIS users ... Local users ( which are present in /etc/passwd file ) have no problem BUT NIS users cannot log in when using

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Freminlins
2009/10/30 Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com I am unable to replicate this. YMMV. But I did replicate it. I measured before and after. Show us the output of top from your box with the hal processes, as I did for a start. Nowhere have you demonstrated HAL is not working as it's meant

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Neal Hogan
I just saw this on my gentoo list (yes, there are folks complaining about HAL there as well). I don't know anything about this project other than it's intentions are to build a replacement for HAL. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/DeviceKit ___

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Adam Vande More
I was part of this and the x11 mailing list during the period in which most made the switch to hal. I am fully aware of all the complaining which occurred. There was a bug which made the issue difficult. I experienced it, the workaround was available nearly immediately and fixed soon after.

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Friday, October 30, 2009 13:44:07 -0500 Freminlins freminl...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/10/30 Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com I am unable to replicate this. YMMV. But I did replicate it. I measured before and after. Show us the output of top from your box with the hal processes,

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Freminlins
2009/10/30 Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com I was part of this and the x11 mailing list during the period in which most made the switch to hal. I am fully aware of all the complaining which occurred. There was a bug which made the issue difficult. I experienced it, the workaround was

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Freminlins freminl...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/10/30 Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com I was part of this and the x11 mailing list during the period in which most made the switch to hal. I am fully aware of all the complaining which occurred. There was a

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Neil Short
--- On Fri, 10/30/09, Freminlins freminl...@gmail.com wrote: From: Freminlins freminl...@gmail.com Go and Google for hal problems - you will see that this is not an uncommon occurrence. It seems that the purpose of hal is to make things easier. Well it didn't for me - it made them

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Freminlins
You are arrogant because you won't accept that people have problems with your beloved HAL, the Half Arsed Luser program. Some or many in the Linux crowd are planning to move away from it because it doesn't work properly. You don't accept that a 3k config file now needs 18MB of RAM. And doesn't

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Freminlins freminl...@gmail.com wrote: You are arrogant because you won't accept that people have problems with your beloved HAL, the Half Arsed Luser program. Some or many in the Linux crowd are planning to move away from it because it doesn't work properly.

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Freminlins
2009/10/30 Neil Short nesh...@yahoo.com This is comforting for many reasons: notably, that I'm not alone in this experience. Do you know something, it's not comforting. Not really. It just means you are another user for whom a program doesn't work properly. MF.

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Freminlins
2009/10/30 Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com Where's your config files, your errors logs, your stats? I am not going to reply to you after this because you are blinkered. I'm not going to waste my time with you. I've given you more than enough to feed on, but you just can't smell the

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Freminlins freminl...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/10/30 Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com Where's your config files, your errors logs, your stats? I am not going to reply to you after this because you are blinkered. I'm not going to waste my time with you.

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Adam Vande More wrote: On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Freminlins freminl...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/10/30 Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com Where's your config files, your errors logs, your stats? I am not going to reply to you after this because you are blinkered. I'm not going to

Why do I get errors from mountd (can't change attributes for ... bad exports list line ...) ?

2009-10-30 Thread Yuri
I am getting these errors in messages: Oct 30 14:37:20 eagle mountd[4243]: can't change attributes for /usr/local Oct 30 14:37:20 eagle mountd[4243]: bad exports list line /usr/local -maproot Oct 30 14:37:20 eagle mountd[4243]: can't change attributes for /usr/home Oct 30 14:37:20 eagle

Re: Why do I get errors from mountd (can't change attributes for ... bad exports list line ...) ?

2009-10-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Oct 30, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Yuri wrote: I am getting these errors in messages: Oct 30 14:37:20 eagle mountd[4243]: can't change attributes for /usr/ local Oct 30 14:37:20 eagle mountd[4243]: bad exports list line /usr/local -maproot Oct 30 14:37:20 eagle mountd[4243]: can't change

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-30 Thread Brett Glass
At 02:50 AM 10/30/2009, Randi Harper wrote: This bikeshed is old and tired. I don't want to paint it. I want to drown it in lighter fluid and set it on fire. I've never seen a bike shed. Unless perhaps it had a furry seat cover. --Brett Glass ___

FreeBSD 7.2 ia64

2009-10-30 Thread Clayton Wilhelm da Rosa
Hi my name is Clayton Wilhelm da Rosa, I made the dowmload of FreeBSD 7.2 ia64 i wanna know if is normal the files of disc 2 and 3 have only 364Kb size. thank you very much. Veja quais são os

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 ia64

2009-10-30 Thread Tim Judd
On 10/30/09, Clayton Wilhelm da Rosa claytonwilhel...@yahoo.com.br wrote: Hi my name is Clayton Wilhelm da Rosa, I made the dowmload of FreeBSD 7.2 ia64 i wanna know if is normal the files of disc 2 and 3 have only 364Kb size. thank you very much. Yes, that's how it is been released. Disc

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 ia64

2009-10-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Oct 30, 2009, at 3:09 PM, Clayton Wilhelm da Rosa wrote: I made the dowmload of FreeBSD 7.2 ia64 i wanna know if is normal the files of disc 2 and 3 have only 364Kb size. Do you actually have an Itanium processor? They were pretty much only used in high-end multi-CPU enterprise

Re: Why do I get errors from mountd (can't change attributes for ... bad exports list line ...) ?

2009-10-30 Thread Yuri
Chuck Swiger wrote: For one thing, the second line should be: /usr/local -maproot=root,ro -network=10.0.0 -mask=255.0.0.0 For another, you are only supposed to export a given filesystem once; the notion of exporting it multiple times means you are changing the values of the previous

Re: Why do I get errors from mountd (can't change attributes for ... bad exports list line ...) ?

2009-10-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 30, 2009, at 4:17 PM, Yuri wrote: The workaround suggested in this PR eliminates the messages, but causes client to get Permission denied message Because the modified mount points are for different nets. Assuming /usr/diskless, /usr/local, and /usr/home are all on the same / usr

Re: issues with email migration

2009-10-30 Thread Tim Judd
On 10/30/09, usleepl...@gmail.com usleepl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi David, On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 1:59 PM, David Patton da...@farmington.k12.mo.uswrote: This morning I moved the contents from the server over to an NFS share. This is a freebsd 6.2 server running postfix, courier-imap and

freebsd 6.4 can't load kernel after upgrade

2009-10-30 Thread oscar Seo
I'm a beginner in freebsd. my machine consists of freebsd-6.4 + i386 bootstrap loader,+ windowmaker after upgrade freebsd-6.4 using sysinstall then reboot the system, I got an error message as follows +++ Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf Unable to load a

Re: freebsd 6.4 can't load kernel after upgrade

2009-10-30 Thread Manolis Kiagias
oscar Seo wrote: I'm a beginner in freebsd. my machine consists of freebsd-6.4 + i386 bootstrap loader,+ windowmaker after upgrade freebsd-6.4 using sysinstall then reboot the system, I got an error message as follows +++ Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf

Re: Rebuild instructions for amd64 systems

2009-10-30 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/10/29 Richard Gehlbach rdgeh...@gehlbach.com: I am installing FreeBSD 7.2 / amd64 on a new server (HP DL370 G6) with 2 quad Xeon processors and 16GB memory.  I have worked with the i386 versions since version 3.x, but this is the first server large enough to need amd64. I have been