freebsd-update 7.0-7.4 problem: rmdir Directory not empty

2011-06-03 Thread Brent Bloxam
I'm going through the freebsd-update process to move from 7.0 to 7.4. I followed the handbook, rebooted to GENERIC and followed up with `freebsd-update install` and got the following output: # freebsd-update install Installing updates...rmdir: ///usr/share/man/ja: Directory not empty rmdir:

Re: Mother board compatibility and CF card usage as main storage device for small DNS server

2010-09-30 Thread Brent Bloxam
Kaya Saman wrote: From what you mention it sounds like a bad idea as the system disk will have many R/W's going through it it seems as /tmp and Swap get written to all the time. You can skip swap altogether and use MFS (memory filesystem) like Brian mentioned for other high write

Re: phpscheduleit not allowing login

2009-10-20 Thread Brent Bloxam
Noah wrote: Hi there, I just installed 1.2.11 and running apache I get the Log in screen and I am able to register. As soon as I enter my account information at the main Login page i am sent right back to the page and the error message is You are not logged in! Nothing is appearing in the

Building Ghostscript from source on FreeBSD

2009-10-19 Thread Brent Bloxam
I'm having trouble building Ghostscript 8.70 from source on FreeBSD 7.0. I cannot use the version in the ports tree for various reasons. I've looked at the .mak patches in ./files/ for the ports tree however to try to suss out any differences but they elude me. My configure line: ./configure

Re: Building Ghostscript from source on FreeBSD

2009-10-19 Thread Brent Bloxam
Brent Bloxam wrote: I'm having trouble building Ghostscript 8.70 from source on FreeBSD 7.0. I cannot use the version in the ports tree for various reasons. I've looked at the .mak patches in ./files/ for the ports tree however to try to suss out any differences but they elude me. My

Re: ipfw - TRAFFIC SHAPER

2009-10-09 Thread Brent Bloxam
alexus wrote: I'm trying to fight with ipfw and unfortunately unsuccessfully... I created following rules ipfw pipe 1 config bw 1Mbit/s ifpw add 8080 pipe 1 tcp from any to any src-port www ifpw add 8080 pipe 1 tcp from any to any dst-port www yet I see peaks of my traffic is way higher them

Re: Device naming on scbus using isp

2009-09-22 Thread Brent Bloxam
Brent Bloxam wrote: I'm wondering about how device names are assigned on scbus, specifically when using the isp driver. It seems to me that there's potential when an HBA has access to multiple LUNs that on boot the scbus will have entries in /dev scrambled compared to the previous run (thus

Re: Device naming on scbus using isp

2009-09-22 Thread Brent Bloxam
Dan Nelson wrote: If you're mounting UFS filesystems, you can label them and mount them by label (see the tunefs and glabel manpages for more info). ZFS should find its pool devices automatically, but you can always manually label devices with glabel and refer to the label instead of the da##

Re: toaster or do-it-myself?

2009-08-10 Thread Brent Bloxam
Roland Smith wrote: There are several webmail apps available in ports. E.g. mail/squirrelmail, which has a lot of plugins available. Squirrelmail's webserver was recently hacked, and plugins were compromised: http://secunia.com/advisories/36087/

FreeBSD FIBs (setfib) - How to modify?

2009-07-16 Thread Brent Bloxam
The documentation on FIBs is pretty slim unless I've been looking in the wrong places, all I've seen are a few mentions in errata and release notes. setfib(1) doesn't offer much in the way of associated commands, and definitely doesn't explain how to actually work with a FIB. I'm curious if

Re: FreeBSD FIBs (setfib) - How to modify?

2009-07-16 Thread Brent Bloxam
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Brent Bloxam wrote: The documentation on FIBs is pretty slim unless I've been looking in the wrong places, all I've seen are a few mentions in errata and release notes. setfib(1) doesn't offer much in the way of associated commands, and definitely doesn't explain how

Re: FreeBSD FIBs (setfib) - How to modify?

2009-07-16 Thread Brent Bloxam
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Just start a shell in FIB 10 and every command forked from that shell will be bound to FIB 10. setfib 10 csh ... do some work exit you're back in FIB 0. HTH, Nikos Thanks Nikos, I didn't want to assume setfib was the only method of modifying them (whether through

Re: FreeBSD FIBs (setfib) - How to modify?

2009-07-16 Thread Brent Bloxam
Mel Flynn wrote: I guess the main question here is what is 10? or what is an FIB?. How does one create such an FIB id (which I can't find in docs either). For example, on my system if I do: % setfib 2 fetch http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html setfib: 2: invalid FIB (max 0) I would expect to

Re: 7.0-RELEASE Upgrade problems

2009-07-16 Thread Brent Bloxam
Rob wrote: I'm new to FreeBSD and installed a base 7.0-RELEASE system and have been running it for a while with ZFS and gmirror partitions. I've never updated since install, so I'm attempting to do so now, but I'm having no luck. I'm following the upgrade instructions in the 7.2-RELEASE

Re: FreeBSD for a high school class? (long)

2009-07-09 Thread Brent Bloxam
Chris wrote: The course is HTML. Mouse button operations should be close, a window that gives a simple file directory and a text editor that doesn't require learning a character command set would be the target. Hi Chris, Maybe look at using Xfce, which is a lightweight window manager based

Re: serial modem

2009-06-29 Thread Brent Bloxam
kalin m wrote: hi all... my first time using serial ports and modems. the modem is hooked up using RS-232 cable... modem specs: • Baud Rate: 115.2kbps • Bits: 8 • Stop Bits: 1 • Parity: none • Hardware Handshaking: Yes my /etc/ttys: ttyd0 /usr/libexec/getty std.115200 dialup on ttyd1

Re: DHCP using ral

2009-06-29 Thread Brent Bloxam
Robert Hall wrote: ifconfig ral0 inet 192.168.1.104 netmask 255.255.255.0 assigns the specified values. Ping no longer tells me that there's no route to the host, but I'm getting about 95% packet loss. netstat -r now shows that link1 (ral0) is the gateway to 192.168.1.0. I still don't have a

Device naming on scbus using isp

2009-06-26 Thread Brent Bloxam
I'm wondering about how device names are assigned on scbus, specifically when using the isp driver. It seems to me that there's potential when an HBA has access to multiple LUNs that on boot the scbus will have entries in /dev scrambled compared to the previous run (thus messing up mounts). My

Re: my kernel is not build/install

2009-06-26 Thread Brent Bloxam
fo...@pisem.net wrote: When I make my kernel (make kernel KERNCONF=KERNEL) it stop whith Error code 1 According to Chapter 8.5 of the handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html): 1. Change to the /usr/src directory: #

Re: ~/.ssh directory permissions

2009-06-24 Thread Brent Bloxam
Chris Rees wrote: Although I think it's not a big deal, as long as your id_?sa has permissions 600 like mine, or even 400. Chris The man page for ssh(1) provides a lot of detail about the sensitivity of the various files related to ssh. To quote it regarding a few of them: ~/.ssh/

Re: bannerfiltering

2009-06-17 Thread Brent Bloxam
Dave wrote: Hello, I've got a freebsd 7.2 machine that i need to use for banner filtering, addzapping and filtering out all the junk that comes along with adds windows viruses trojans things like that before they can get to my internal clients. Previously i used squid and dansguardian

Re: HandbooK-Free BSD

2009-06-02 Thread Brent Bloxam
Rafael E Garcia wrote: Gentlemen Please How I can copy the Free BSD Handbook in my computer? Any Sugestion will be apreciate. Thank you Rafael E Garcia ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/handbook/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Multiple instances of MySQL

2009-04-09 Thread Brent Bloxam
Mel Flynn wrote: Any reason a jail can't be used? This would allow sharing the binary using null or union fs, little overhead, yet seperated from host install and no maintenance of port installed files, like rc.d/mysql-server. Unionfs, unix sockets and flush operations don't like each other