Re: usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-08 Thread Polytropon
Allow me an addition: On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 10:13:10 -0700, Charlie Kester corky1...@comcast.net wrote: On Wed 07 Apr 2010 at 00:24:51 PDT Fbsd1 wrote: Why are there RELEASE base files in /usr/bin. I thought /usr was to only contain binaries installed from ports or packages. In many

Re: usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-08 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:21:57 -0400, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com writes: Your wrong. I installed the package of postfix and it installed it self into /usr/bin with out any help from me. Believe it or not, I checked before

Re: How customized can an mfsroot be?

2010-04-08 Thread perryh
Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: In my read-only CD-ROM boot case, /var is created as a MFS device automatically and populated, but a basic directory layout only is used. Nothing from the CD-ROM /var is copied into the MFS /var that is created. I cannot figure out how BSD can do

Re: usage of /usr/bin

2010-04-08 Thread Ross Cameron
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com writes: But that is not true. The postfix port populates /usr/bin. By default, it does not.  You have to enable the Install into /usr and /etc/postfix configuration option

FreeBSD 8 New USB Stack Issues

2010-04-08 Thread Marcel Grandemange
Good Day. I am really hopying someone can assist me here. I have a E620 Huawei PCMCIA 3G card in a PCMCIA-TO-PCI Converter in a Freebsd server for a sms server i run. Now it used to run without issues, however since the change over from 7.2 to 8.0REL it no longer works and there are no entries

Re: FreeBSD 8 New USB Stack Issues

2010-04-08 Thread Aiza
Marcel Grandemange wrote: Good Day. I am really hopeing someone can assist me here. I have a E620 Huawei PCMCIA 3G card in a PCMCIA-TO-PCI Converter in a Freebsd server for a sms server i run. Now it used to run without issues, however since the change over from 7.2 to 8.0REL it no longer

RE: FreeBSD 8 New USB Stack Issues

2010-04-08 Thread Marcel Grandemange
Marcel Grandemange wrote: Good Day. I am really hopeing someone can assist me here. I have a E620 Huawei PCMCIA 3G card in a PCMCIA-TO-PCI Converter in a Freebsd server for a sms server i run. Now it used to run without issues, however since the change over from 7.2 to 8.0REL it no

Re: Kernel Config for NAT

2010-04-08 Thread Robert Huff
Adam Vande More writes: If compiled into the kernel, there's a set of optional settings (VERBOSE, LOG_LINIT, DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT, etc) that can be set there. If using the module, how does one set these? Logging is compiled into the modules and there are a few sysctl's.

Re: Kernel Config for NAT

2010-04-08 Thread Robert Huff
Adam Vande More writes: If compiled into the kernel, there's a set of optional settings (VERBOSE, LOG_LINIT, DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT, etc) that can be set there. If using the module, how does one set these? Logging is compiled into the modules and there are a few sysctl's.

Re: [ HEADS UP ] Ports unstable for the next 10 days

2010-04-08 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Ion-Mihai Tetcu ite...@freebsd.org wrote: On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 07:20:47 -0500 Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote:  [ .. ] === Port directory: /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-kmod         === This port is marked IGNORE         === requires the userland

Re: [ HEADS UP ] Ports unstable for the next 10 days

2010-04-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 07:42:06AM -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Ion-Mihai Tetcu ite...@freebsd.org wrote: On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 07:20:47 -0500 Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote:  [ .. ] === Port directory: /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-kmod  

FreeBSD 8: Postfix policyd-weight not working!!!

2010-04-08 Thread perikillo
Hi people. I'm working in my first spam gateway, using Postfix + policyd-weight. I have 2 jails for this, the jail-A is the mail server, where the mailboxes exist, they are on each user home directory: /home/user-1 /home/user-2 /home/user-3 ... /home/user-N This jail-A have

gdm background picture missing

2010-04-08 Thread Jian Jun Wang
hi all, I am not familiar with Freebsd, I installed 8.0-release, it had been working well. I read one post that USB webcam could be used in Freebsd 8.0 so I tried to install multimedia/webcamd, multimedia/cuse4bsd-kmod from the port. It also upgraded jpeg from 7.0 to 8.0 and a lot of dependency

Re: Kernel Config for NAT

2010-04-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: 1) in /boot/loader.conf: ipfw_load=YES ipdivert_load=YES 2) in the kernel config: #options IPFIREWALL #firewall #options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE #enable logging to syslogd(8) #options

AFS on FreeBSD 8?

2010-04-08 Thread Jan Henrik Sylvester
I tried to get an AFS client on my 8.0-RELEASE (or 8-STABLE) system. What is the status of AFS on FreeBSD? Neither OpenAFS nor Arla seem to be in ports. I found the freebsd-afs mailing list with many posting from 2008/Dec but nothing from 2009 or 2010. The port-freebsd list on openafs.org has

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-04-08 Thread Anoop Kumar Narayanan
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: On 28 March 2010 16:42, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: lets assume if this is h/w problem, then how can other OSes overcome this ?

RE: How customized can an mfsroot be?

2010-04-08 Thread Peter Steele
You might be able to reduce the iso size some by making a tarball of /var (using tar -y or tar -z) instead of keeping /var2 as a tree. Granted you would then need to have tar(1) in the iso, which may cancel out much of the savings if you would not otherwise have needed it. Actually, /var is

Re: gdm background picture missing

2010-04-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Jian Jun Wang wangjian...@gmail.comwrote: Any suggestion on stepsto solve the problem? Follow the steps in /usr/ports/UPDATING when you are updating ports. Another option would be to pkg_delete * and install everything again from ports. There are good

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-04-08 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan anoop...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: On 28 March 2010 16:42, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote:

Unicode support in Free bsd.

2010-04-08 Thread Kotecha, Grishma
Can we name files in freebsd with unicode characters? Also are unicode characters supported in file i/o system calls like open, dllopen, fopen? i.e. can we open a file with unicode pathname? for e.g in windows CreatefileW is used for opening files with unicode pathnames (wide characters). If so

Re: Unicode support in Free bsd.

2010-04-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 8, 2010, at 12:11 PM, Kotecha, Grishma wrote: Can we name files in freebsd with unicode characters? UFS/UFS2 supports 8-bit chars (except NULL), so UTF8 representation for Unicode filenames ought to work OK. Also are unicode characters supported in file i/o system calls like open,

Re: Unicode support in Free bsd.

2010-04-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/04/2010 20:11:15, Kotecha, Grishma wrote: Can we name files in freebsd with unicode characters? Also are unicode characters supported in file i/o system calls like open, dllopen, fopen? i.e. can we open a file with unicode pathname? for e.g

Re: gdm background picture missing

2010-04-08 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Adam Vande More wrote: On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Jian Jun Wang wangjian...@gmail.comwrote: Any suggestion on stepsto solve the problem? Follow the steps in /usr/ports/UPDATING when you are updating ports. Another option would be to pkg_delete * and install everything again from

Re: Unicode support in Free bsd.

2010-04-08 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/04/2010 20:11:15, Kotecha, Grishma wrote: Can we name files in freebsd with unicode characters? Also are unicode characters supported in file i/o system

Re: AFS on FreeBSD 8?

2010-04-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: I tried to get an AFS client on my 8.0-RELEASE (or 8-STABLE) system. What is the status of AFS on FreeBSD? Neither OpenAFS nor Arla seem to be in ports. I found the freebsd-afs mailing list with many posting from 2008/Dec but nothing from 2009 or 2010. The

Re: Kernel Config for NAT

2010-04-08 Thread Gary Dunn
On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 08:10:34 -0400 Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: So ... double-checking I'm doing this right: 1) in /boot/loader.conf: ipfw_load=YES ipdivert_load=YES yes; see NAT HB 31.9.3 2) in the kernel config: IMHO, and according to Adam Vandr More, kernel options are

Does NAT require DNS (named)?

2010-04-08 Thread Gary Dunn
Continuing the saga of building a wireless access point, what is the best way to provide DNS service to the dowstream network? Seems like all I need is a simple pass-through. For that named seems like overkill. Anyone have an /etc/named/named.conf that does that? -- Gary Dunn, Honolulu

Re: Does NAT require DNS (named)?

2010-04-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 8, 2010, at 1:57 PM, Gary Dunn wrote: Continuing the saga of building a wireless access point, what is the best way to provide DNS service to the dowstream network? Run a nameserver? Seems like all I need is a simple pass-through. For that named seems like overkill. Anyone have an

Re: Does NAT require DNS (named)?

2010-04-08 Thread mikel king
On Apr 8, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Gary Dunn wrote: Continuing the saga of building a wireless access point, what is the best way to provide DNS service to the dowstream network? Seems like all I need is a simple pass-through. For that named seems like overkill. Anyone have an

Re: Kernel Config for NAT

2010-04-08 Thread Robert Huff
IMHO, and according to Adam Vandr More, kernel options are no longer required. The original reason I asked was: 30.6.2 Kernel Options It is not a mandatory requirement to enable IPFW by compiling the following options into the FreeBSD

Re: Does NAT require DNS (named)?

2010-04-08 Thread Darek M
Gary Dunn wrote: Continuing the saga of building a wireless access point, what is the best way to provide DNS service to the dowstream network? Seems like all I need is a simple pass-through. For that named seems like overkill. Anyone have an /etc/named/named.conf that does that? I normally

Re: FreeBSD 8: Postfix policyd-weight not working!!!

2010-04-08 Thread Noel Jones
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:29 AM, perikillo periki...@gmail.com wrote:  Hi people.  I'm working in my first spam gateway, using Postfix + policyd-weight.  I have 2 jails for this, the jail-A is the mail server, where the mailboxes exist, they are on each user home directory:  /home/user-1  

Re: FreeBSD 8: Postfix policyd-weight not working!!!

2010-04-08 Thread perikillo
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Noel Jones noeld...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:29 AM, perikillo periki...@gmail.com wrote: Hi people. I'm working in my first spam gateway, using Postfix + policyd-weight. I have 2 jails for this, the jail-A is the mail server, where

Adding a Disk and Changing Mountpoints

2010-04-08 Thread Programmer In Training
Saturday I'll be adding a second 40GB and a tertiary 6GB disk to the system (in favor of adding a CD-RW to a system that already has a DVD super multi-format drive). I'd like to rearrange my mount points a bit. Here is my current fstab. # DeviceMountpoint FStype

Re: Unicode support in Free bsd.

2010-04-08 Thread Yury Michurin
UTF8 works grate here in irssi and tcsh over putty, same goes for filenames. Had no problem with it what so ever, just needed to set in .cshrc: setenv LC_CTYPE he_IL.UTF-8 never checked any X applications though. On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: On Thu,

FreeBSD 8 using VERY LITTLE memory

2010-04-08 Thread Brodey Dover
Hello all, First post to this list! I have an older PII machine that I upgraded from 192MB of ram to 672MB of RAM (512, 32, 128) and upon boot the system's BIOS recognizes all 672MB RAM, FreeBSD also recognizes the 672MB RAM but decides to be nice and cool by using 17MB RAM...bwah? Here is the

Re: perl qstn...

2010-04-08 Thread RW
On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 19:15:05 -0600 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 01:09:54PM +0100, RW wrote: On Tue, 6 Apr 2010 21:07:17 -0600 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 01:20:49PM +0100, RW wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 19:55:44

Re: Does NAT require DNS (named)?

2010-04-08 Thread Gary Dunn
On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 17:05:12 -0400 mikel king mikel.k...@olivent.com wrote: On Apr 8, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Gary Dunn wrote: Continuing the saga of building a wireless access point, what is the best way to provide DNS service to the dowstream network? Seems like all I need is a simple

Re: Does NAT require DNS (named)?

2010-04-08 Thread mikel king
On Apr 8, 2010, at 8:32 PM, Gary Dunn wrote: On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 17:05:12 -0400 mikel king mikel.k...@olivent.com wrote: On Apr 8, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Gary Dunn wrote: Continuing the saga of building a wireless access point, what is the best way to provide DNS service to the dowstream

bandwidth throttling?

2010-04-08 Thread Dan Naumov
Hello folks I have a 8.0 system that has 2 IPs: ifconfig em1 em1: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=19bRXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4 ether 00:25:90:01:32:93 inet 192.168.1.126 netmask 0xff00 broadcast

Re: Does NAT require DNS (named)?

2010-04-08 Thread Brodey Dover
Unfortunately, still 17MB. I am going to play around with the sticks of RAM that I have installed to see if there is a chipset/motherboard issue. On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 8:56 PM, mikel king mikel.k...@olivent.com wrote: On Apr 8, 2010, at 8:32 PM, Gary Dunn wrote: On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 17:05:12

Re: FreeBSD 8 using VERY LITTLE memory

2010-04-08 Thread Brodey Dover
Fixed. The 440BX is not friendly to 512MB SDR sticks. Works like a charm with 3x256MB'ers! Thank you, Brodey Dover On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 8:43 PM, Brodey Dover dover...@gmail.com wrote: I was under the impression that the  avail memory was memory that was released from BIOS. Top indicates

USB Powered Speakers

2010-04-08 Thread Programmer In Training
I have acquired a pair of Compaq USB /powered/ speakers. On my parents XP machine they don't seem to cause any problems, but when I hook it up to listen on my FreeBSD box I have absolutely nothing but problems with the speakers (even when turned off but still plugged in) interrupting the normal

Re: USB Powered Speakers

2010-04-08 Thread Antonio Olivares
On 4/8/10, Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: I have acquired a pair of Compaq USB /powered/ speakers. On my parents XP machine they don't seem to cause any problems, but when I hook it up to listen on my FreeBSD box I have absolutely nothing but problems with the speakers

Re: USB Powered Speakers

2010-04-08 Thread Programmer In Training
On 04/08/10 21:29, Brodey Dover wrote: I believe a call to iostat (there is something similar) you should see a large amount of interrupts to your USB keyboard driver, at least that is my assumption. That is my assumption, too. Unfortunately, I do not have USB powered speakers for me to test

Re: USB Powered Speakers

2010-04-08 Thread Programmer In Training
On 04/08/10 21:34, Antonio Olivares wrote: snip Is your keyboard a usb keyboard? Sorry, yes. Could be a permissions problem? I don't know what could be the problem. I have a USB mouse, keyboard, and web cam all plugged into the same USB PCI card and I've not had any problems until I plugged

Re: USB Powered Speakers

2010-04-08 Thread Programmer In Training
On 04/08/10 23:23, Brodey Dover wrote: Now that I think about it and have more context as to how things are working. lshal output could be useful here as well. On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 12:21 AM, Brodey Dover dover...@gmail.com wrote: Can you provide some dmesg output please? snip

Re: Adding a Disk and Changing Mountpoints

2010-04-08 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:38:03 -0500, Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: Saturday I'll be adding a second 40GB and a tertiary 6GB disk to the system (in favor of adding a CD-RW to a system that already has a DVD super multi-format drive). I'd like to rearrange my mount points