Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-21 Thread Tim Judd
On 7/20/10, Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:03:55 +0300 Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com articulated: On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman

Are kernel stress test results displayed online?

2010-07-21 Thread Yuri
Before one of the releases, I remember, kernel stress tests results were online. Now I can't find them. Are they run? (I guess they must be.) Particularly would be interesting to see tests for FreeBSD 8.1-RC2, FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE and FreeBSD-9.0. Also does stress test only cover kernel or

Re: system hangs on; Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)...

2010-07-21 Thread Thomas Mueller
Any ideas anyone ? I'm stuck. Cannot install FreeBSD on my computer. Every other OS besides FreeBSD boots up and installs. What else can I check? I offered my admittedly cumbersome force-fitting suggestion. Maybe start with a minimal installation, possibly base and etc only, or as little as

Re: new jail utility is available. announcement.

2010-07-21 Thread krad
On 20 July 2010 21:36, Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net wrote: On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:45:37 +0800 Aiza aiz...@comclark.com articulated: There has been the normal pre RELEASE freeze on since xmas, that is why no port activity is occurring right now.

Re: new jail utility is available. announcement.

2010-07-21 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 21/07/2010 10:08, krad wrote: Anyone tried using it yet? Not much info out there apart from the announcments it seems. In my quick play with it this morning, it didnt seem to be binding the ips to the jails. Not sure if you are supposed to have the ip bound to the box before you use the

Strange filesystem problems

2010-07-21 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I'm experiencing a strange problem on a 7.2p8/i386 box. This is not critical, since I have a workaround, but it's annoying and I'm also curious :-) Let's say I have directory foo; under foo I have bar which keeps thousands of files (in several subdirectories). I do: %cd /xyzzy/foo

Re: new jail utility is available. announcement.

2010-07-21 Thread krad
On 21 July 2010 10:15, Vincent Hoffman vi...@unsane.co.uk wrote: On 21/07/2010 10:08, krad wrote: Anyone tried using it yet? Not much info out there apart from the announcments it seems. In my quick play with it this morning, it didnt seem to be binding the ips to the jails. Not sure if

Re: new jail utility is available. announcement.

2010-07-21 Thread Fbsd8
krad wrote: Anyone tried using it yet? Not much info out there apart from the announcments it seems. In my quick play with it this morning, it didnt seem to be binding the ips to the jails. Not sure if you are supposed to have the ip bound to the box before you use the jail. Would make sense if

Re: new jail utility is available. announcement.

2010-07-21 Thread Aiza
i have only done preliminary tinkering and it looks ok so far (i did have to pre bind the jail ip). Might have to find a box to put freebsd 9 on and see how it works with the network stack virtualization. Please explain what you mean by pre-bind the jail ip address. I think you skipped over

Re: new jail utility is available. announcement.

2010-07-21 Thread Aiza
Not yet, when I have a spare box I might, although I quite like using zfs for jails as you can limit the disk usage dynamically per zfs filesystem and I didnt see any support there yet, even basic support like there is with ezjail would be nice. Zfs was left out because its over kill. Sparse

Unabel to download Java Patch from http://www.eyesbeyond.com/

2010-07-21 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello Since some days I tried to download the latest Java patch from http://www.eyesbeyond.com/. But the site is not reachable. I tried it from a europe and from us server but no luck. Do you have any ideas? Regards, -- Martin Schweizer off...@pc-service.ch PC-Service M. Schweizer GmbH;

Re: new jail utility is available. announcement.

2010-07-21 Thread krad
On 21 July 2010 10:46, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: i have only done preliminary tinkering and it looks ok so far (i did have to pre bind the jail ip). Might have to find a box to put freebsd 9 on and see how it works with the network stack virtualization. Please explain what you mean

Re: Are kernel stress test results displayed online?

2010-07-21 Thread b. f.
Yuri wrote: Before one of the releases, I remember, kernel stress tests results were online. Now I can't find them. Are they run? (I guess they must be.) Particularly would be interesting to see tests for FreeBSD 8.1-RC2, FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE and FreeBSD-9.0. Also does stress test only cover kernel

Re: system hangs on; Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)...

2010-07-21 Thread Dave
On 20 Jul 2010 at 23:46, Bruce Cran wrote: On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:59:04 -0700 (PDT) Rich rl...@pacbell.net wrote: Any ideas anyone ? I'm stuck. Cannot install FreeBSD on my computer. Every other OS besides FreeBSD boots up and installs. What else can I check? It looks like it's

Re: new jail utility is available. announcement.

2010-07-21 Thread Valentin Bud
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: Not yet, when I have a spare box I might, although I quite like using zfs for jails as you can limit the disk usage dynamically per zfs filesystem and I didnt see any support there yet, even basic support like there is with

Re: system hangs on; Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)...

2010-07-21 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:56:50 +0100 Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote: Hi, I'm not a developer (of OS's at least) but from that DEBUG: list, it almost looks like it thinks it can see just about every hardware device it knows about, existing or not, and is trying to use them all. The debug

Re: new jail utility is available. announcement.

2010-07-21 Thread Aiza
Valentin Bud wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: Not yet, when I have a spare box I might, although I quite like using zfs for jails as you can limit the disk usage dynamically per zfs filesystem and I didnt see any support there yet, even basic support

Re: Strange filesystem problems

2010-07-21 Thread A. Wright
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Let's say I have directory foo; under foo I have bar which keeps thousands of files (in several subdirectories). I do: %cd /xyzzy/foo %pwd xyzzy/foo %rm -fR bar %pwd pwd: .: Permission denied At this point, I would suspect that you may have the

Re: new jail utility is available. announcement.

2010-07-21 Thread krad
On 21 July 2010 12:37, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: Valentin Bud wrote: On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: Not yet, when I have a spare box I might, although I quite like using zfs for jails as you can limit the disk usage dynamically per zfs filesystem

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-21 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:54:44 +0300 Odhiambo Washington odhia...@gmail.com articulated: I doubt anyone makes a choice on an MTA (or any other software) based on it's RFC-compliance. In my experience, it's normally boils down to: 1. It has the features that I want 2. I can swim with it in

Re: getpwent bug?

2010-07-21 Thread Jens Rehsack
On 07/16/10 18:13, Dan Nelson wrote: Hi Dan, In the last episode (Jul 16), Jens Rehsack said: On 07/16/10 15:07, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 16), Jens Rehsack said: Could you please take a look to my other mail (getgrent related) - there seems another bug ... Do you have

Re: Strange filesystem problems

2010-07-21 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Il 07/21/10 14:00, A. Wright ha scritto: On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Let's say I have directory foo; under foo I have bar which keeps thousands of files (in several subdirectories). I do: %cd /xyzzy/foo %pwd xyzzy/foo %rm -fR bar %pwd pwd: .: Permission denied At this

Re: Are kernel stress test results displayed online?

2010-07-21 Thread Yuri
On 07/21/2010 07:56, Peter Holm wrote: There's not much to report, but if you have spare time you could run the test your self. Different HW is always a good test parameter. Does this mean that there were no failures at all for years? The reason why I asked was because I started getting

Re: WLAN stops working when idle

2010-07-21 Thread Paul B Mahol
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Leonardo M. Ramé martinr...@yahoo.com wrote: I have noted that my wlan stops responding when the O.S. does not use the network for a while (10 minutes aprox), and I have to do ifconfig wlan0 down ifconfig wlan0 up dhclient wlan0 to reconnect. The network

Bash logging: two questions

2010-07-21 Thread jimbob palmer
Hello, I would like to run a bash script but to log output and exit codes. Essentially I would like to run the script with bash -x, but for that output to the log to go to a file, and the normal output as from running a normal script to go to the terminal. That's my first question :) My second

Re: Are kernel stress test results displayed online?

2010-07-21 Thread Peter Holm
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 01:01:26AM -0700, Yuri wrote: Before one of the releases, I remember, kernel stress tests results were online. Now I can't find them. I do not update that list any more, because there is no need IMHO. Are they run? (I guess they must be.) Oh, yes. All of the time.

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-21 Thread Cristiano Deana
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: I am a consultant and was retained by my client to setup qmail or exim on a VPS running 8.0-STABLE (i386). After setting up the DNS (A record and MX record) we have been unable to send or receive mail. steps:

Re: system hangs on; Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)...

2010-07-21 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:04:53 + Thomas Mueller mueller6...@bellsouth.net wrote: I wonder if FreeBSD is the only OS with Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... Nothing like this occurs in NetBSD or Linux; I've also installed various DOSes (MS-DOS 4.01 and upgrade to 5;

Re: Unabel to download Java Patch from http://www.eyesbeyond.com/

2010-07-21 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Wednesday 21 July 2010 10:37:54 Martin Schweizer wrote: Since some days I tried to download the latest Java patch from http://www.eyesbeyond.com/. But the site is not reachable. I tried it from a europe and from us server but no luck. Do you have any ideas? I can recommend installing

Re: system hangs on; Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)...

2010-07-21 Thread Rich
From: Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk To: Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wed, July 21, 2010 3:56:50 AM Subject: Re: system hangs on; Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... On 20 Jul 2010 at 23:46, Bruce

Re: Bash logging: two questions

2010-07-21 Thread Anonymous
jimbob palmer jimbobpal...@gmail.com writes: Hello, I would like to run a bash script but to log output and exit codes. Essentially I would like to run the script with bash -x, but for that output to the log to go to a file, and the normal output as from running a normal script to go to the

Re: Are kernel stress test results displayed online?

2010-07-21 Thread Peter Holm
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:02:21AM -0700, Yuri wrote: On 07/21/2010 07:56, Peter Holm wrote: There's not much to report, but if you have spare time you could run the test your self. Different HW is always a good test parameter. Does this mean that there were no failures at all for

Re: Are kernel stress test results displayed online?

2010-07-21 Thread Yuri
On 07/21/2010 09:55, Peter Holm wrote: I urge you to build a debug kernel and report the details of the problem. If you have a specific test scenario I'd be happy to try and reproduce it. I just updated the kernel to RC2, if I get one more freeze I will rebuild and run it as debug. BTW

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-21 Thread krad
On 21 July 2010 16:24, Cristiano Deana cristiano.de...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:26 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: I am a consultant and was retained by my client to setup qmail or exim on a VPS running 8.0-STABLE (i386). After setting up the DNS (A

Re: system hangs on; Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)...

2010-07-21 Thread Randi Harper
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Rich rl...@pacbell.net wrote: From: Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk To: Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wed, July 21, 2010 3:56:50 AM Subject: Re: system hangs on; Probing devices, please

Re: Emacs splash screen went to textmode only

2010-07-21 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Quoting Ashish SHUKLA ash...@freebsd.org: And please also evaluate following functions in Emacs (in X11) and paste their output: This is the output from 23.2.1, i.e. the one which doesn't show the fancy splash screen: (use-fancy-splash-screens-p) nil (display-graphic-p) t

Re: getpwent bug?

2010-07-21 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 21), Jens Rehsack said: On 07/16/10 18:13, Dan Nelson wrote: Hi Dan, In the last episode (Jul 16), Jens Rehsack said: On 07/16/10 15:07, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 16), Jens Rehsack said: Could you please take a look to my other mail (getgrent

Re: Emacs splash screen went to textmode only

2010-07-21 Thread Ashish SHUKLA
Markus Hoenicka writes: Quoting Ashish SHUKLA ash...@freebsd.org: And please also evaluate following functions in Emacs (in X11) and paste their output: This is the output from 23.2.1, i.e. the one which doesn't show the fancy splash screen: (use-fancy-splash-screens-p) nil #v+

Re: Emacs splash screen went to textmode only

2010-07-21 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Quoting Ashish SHUKLA ash...@freebsd.org: Well I use a tiling WM (Xmonad), and to reproduce your issue, I started 12 instances of 'xterm' and then started an Emacs instance with '-q -no-site-file' which caused Emacs to start with a smaller window where I got a non-fancy splash screen. Try

Strip high bit from text?

2010-07-21 Thread David Kelly
I regularly get email from a Blackberry user which my ISP then adds this header, X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit. So far so good but the result always contains a number of 0xa0's in places a plain old space belongs. Mutt/vim renders these as ? making a complete mess of things.

Install Apache in qjail?

2010-07-21 Thread Ed Flecko
Hi folks, I'm using the new qjail, and I've created a new jail named webserver, but I don't see how you install a package (in this case, Apache 2.2.15) inside the jail? I know qjail is pretty new; is the best source of documentation at the moment the man pages? Thank you, Ed

Re: Strip high bit from text?

2010-07-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, all-- On Jul 21, 2010, at 3:34 PM, David Kelly wrote: I regularly get email from a Blackberry user which my ISP then adds this header, X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit. So far so good but the result always contains a number of 0xa0's in places a plain old space belongs.

rmconfig from all ports tree

2010-07-21 Thread claudiu vasadi
hello guys, is there a way to do make rmconfig for all ports at once ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: rmconfig from all ports tree

2010-07-21 Thread claudiu vasadi
one solution I just created would be: for i in `find /usr/ports/ -type directory -print`; do `cd $i make rmconfig`;done but I am wondering if there is a official way. man portsclean did not give me any options to do it. Another thing would be to make rmconfig in all dir's that are required to

Re: Install Apache in qjail?

2010-07-21 Thread Aiza
Ed Flecko wrote: Hi folks, I'm using the new qjail, and I've created a new jail named webserver, but I don't see how you install a package (in this case, Apache 2.2.15) inside the jail? I know qjail is pretty new; is the best source of documentation at the moment the man pages? Read the

Re: rmconfig from all ports tree

2010-07-21 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 claudiu vasadi wrote: one solution I just created would be: for i in `find /usr/ports/ -type directory -print`; do `cd $i make rmconfig`;done but I am wondering if there is a official way. man portsclean did not give me any options to do it.

Re: rmconfig from all ports tree

2010-07-21 Thread Benjamin Lee
On 07/21/2010 04:38 PM, claudiu vasadi wrote: hello guys, is there a way to do make rmconfig for all ports at once ? The fastest way is: rm -rf /var/db/ports/* but this breaks the abstraction. The right thing to do would be to make rmconfig in each port directory. -- Benjamin Lee

Re: rmconfig from all ports tree

2010-07-21 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hi Greg, Thanks for the rmconfig-recursive. I did not know about it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Strange filesystem problems

2010-07-21 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 21 July 2010 05:20, Andrea Venturoli m...@netfence.it wrote: Hello. I'm experiencing a strange problem on a 7.2p8/i386 box. This is not critical, since I have a workaround, but it's annoying and I'm also curious :-) Let's say I have directory foo; under foo I have bar which keeps

Re: rmconfig from all ports tree

2010-07-21 Thread claudiu vasadi
in the meantime I wrote the following quick script: #!/bin/sh # Create a list of all dir's find /usr/ports/ -depth 2 -type directory -print ports_structure # for each discovered dir, cd into it and do rmconfig file=ports_structure while read dr1 do cd $dr1;make rmconfig done$file very

Re: rmconfig from all ports tree

2010-07-21 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth claudiu vasadi on Thursday, 22 July 2010: in the meantime I wrote the following quick script: #!/bin/sh # Create a list of all dir's find /usr/ports/ -depth 2 -type directory -print ports_structure # for each discovered dir, cd into it and do rmconfig file=ports_structure

Re: new jail utility is available. announcement.

2010-07-21 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:52 AM, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: Not yet, when I have a spare box I might, although I quite like using zfs for jails as you can limit the disk usage dynamically per zfs filesystem and I didnt see any support there yet, even basic support like there is with

Re: Install Apache in qjail?

2010-07-21 Thread Ryan Coleman
Wow man, way to be a dick. On Jul 21, 2010, at 19:10, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: Ed Flecko wrote: Hi folks, I'm using the new qjail, and I've created a new jail named webserver, but I don't see how you install a package (in this case, Apache 2.2.15) inside the jail? I know qjail is

Re: Install Apache in qjail?

2010-07-21 Thread Peter Boosten
On 22-7-2010 2:10, Aiza wrote: If this apache jail is going to use the standard port 80 to listen on, then the host and any other jails can not use that port number. Nonsense! Since the IP address assigned to the jail is the only one the jail is seeing, Apache will only bind to that IP

remote syslog program specification question

2010-07-21 Thread Dave Berg
Hi, I've set up remote syslog, and want to have a program specification that will send some messages to the remote server. Right now, I've got the usual 'send everything to the loghost' in syslog.conf: *.*@loghost and what I want to do is: send everything from any facility.level

Re: remote syslog program specification question

2010-07-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
send everything from any facility.level to the loghost EXCEPT things from $program that's level .info or lower. (so anything that's from $program.notice *.notice @loghost If your program logs to a give facility, for example your program logs to local7: local7.notice @loghost anything

Eclipse build fails

2010-07-21 Thread Caleb Stein
the last lines of the output can be found here: http://pastebin.com/8VAdvEjH How should I fix this? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Emacs splash screen went to textmode only

2010-07-21 Thread Ashish SHUKLA
Markus Hoenicka writes: Quoting Ashish SHUKLA ash...@freebsd.org: Well I use a tiling WM (Xmonad), and to reproduce your issue, I started 12 instances of 'xterm' and then started an Emacs instance with '-q -no-site-file' which caused Emacs to start with a smaller window where I got a

Is software update in a working state yet?

2010-07-21 Thread Jeff Molofee
I've noticed software update pop up on the screen quite a bit lately. Initially it popped up and did nothing. Now in 8.1-RC2 it pops up and shows me that I actually have updates. When I click update, it seems like it's actually attempting to upgrade the listed packages, but the entire