Re: kern.hz=100 stops high-pitched whine

2007-07-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
Jack Stone wrote: [ ... ] A while ago, I noticed someone's kernel config that included: hertz=2000 which made me wonder where this setting info comes from? I've been using hertz=1000 however, with my much faster boxes, is this appropriate now? It depends on what you are doing: it is most

Re: kern.hz=100 stops high-pitched whine

2007-07-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
cpghost wrote: Are there any reasons NOT changing kern.hz from the default 1000 back to 100? With my typical mix of desktop apps (EPIA) and networking / server (Soekris), everything seems to be running just as smoothly with 100 Hz than with 1000 Hz (testing now for two weeks without problems).

Re: large pages

2007-07-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
Wojciech Puchar wrote: does FreeBSD {can,will,patch exist} supports using huge pages? i mean 2M pages on AMD64 and 2/4M pages on i386 I believe so, yes-- isn't this what the PAE kernel option does? i need freebsd just for running one program needing about 1280 megs of data space (+1-2 meg of

Re: freebsd / gateway / parental control

2007-06-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 28, 2007, at 4:07 PM, zigniew szalbot wrote: I use squid and dansguardian. Very easy to setup. /usr/ports/www/dansguardian I have never tried squid but it seems quite a big package. I have also seen oops but not sure which to choose. Basically, will squid not be an overkill

Re: patches for the 6.2-RELEASE kernel

2007-06-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 26, 2007, at 10:40 AM, Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez wrote: I am FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE user. i'm learning FreeBSD. Some times, i see people have a system named 6.2-RELEASE-pxx, where xx is a number. I know that -pxx are security patches, or not only security and too are patches for solve

Re: stopping connect attacks in apache

2007-06-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 15, 2007, at 7:49 PM, Bob wrote: Every time my apache server slows down or has denial of service the access log is full this 61.228.122.220 - CONNECT 66.196.97.250:25 HTTP/1.0 200 7034 - - 61.228.122.220 - CONNECT 216.39.53.3:25 HTTP/1.0 200 7034 - - 61.228.122.220 - CONNECT

Re: Problem after upgrade, please help

2007-06-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 15, 2007, at 8:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did an upgrade via Boot CD, from FBSD 5.4 to 6.1 that finished without errors. But after the reboot, I discovered that the disk partition has gone. The original disk had two partitions, one DOS (20GB) and the other FBSD (60 GB),

Re: OK - I'm fairly clueless on this...

2007-06-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 15, 2007, at 1:14 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: traceroute to www.freebsd.org (69.147.83.33), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 www.freebsd.org (69.147.83.33) 1.050 ms 0.970 ms 2.110 ms very short times suggest that the router (possibly NAT machine as 192.168 suggest) is doing strange

Re: pf(4) + fetch(1) + http://ftp.gnu.org

2007-06-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 14, 2007, at 1:36 PM, Vlad GURDIGA wrote: There is one strange thing going on with this combination. I saw this many times by now: when fetch(1) is trying to download something from http://ftp.gnu.org, it is hanging after a very small amount of data; sometimes on 0%. After disabling

Re: Ethernet Card Limitations to Number of Connections?

2007-06-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 13, 2007, at 10:14 AM, Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: Are there any physical limitations to the number of connections (TCP/UDP) that are determined by the physical interface itself? Sure. Divide the interface speed by the size of the smallest packets one can send including ethernet

Re: Muti Gateways

2007-06-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 13, 2007, at 3:08 PM, ossama abdel-haleem wrote: we going to design new concept in my company which built on the redundant solutions for this we've two WAN connections from two different providers so the question here is : How can I configure My FreeBSD server to accept and play with

Re: FreeBSD box/ADSL link config

2007-06-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 12, 2007, at 2:49 AM, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: The DSL router in question is a Thomson Speedtouch 546v6. Speedtouch routers had as factory default bridging mode. A simple revert to factory defaults will probably enable you to use PPPoE from your FreeBSD box. Just a note of caution

Re: Apache access log shows these attack requests

2007-06-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 12, 2007, at 1:54 PM, Bob wrote: Running FBSD 6.2 + apache 13. In the apache access log I see these log records. To me it looks like my apache server is servicing connect requests and get requests to other URL's. Is there some configuration option I can turn on to stop my server

Re: sendmail startup problem

2007-06-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 12, 2007, at 1:41 PM, Charlie McElfresh wrote: I have sendmail disabled in rc.conf, but it starts up anyway. Any hints what might be starting it up? By default sendmail is available for handling outgoing mail, but is not listening as an MTA for external connections. You can set:

Re: sendmail startup problem

2007-06-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 12, 2007, at 2:43 PM, Mikhail Goriachev wrote: How have you disabled it? It is not enough to do 'sendmail_enable=NO'. To completely disable sendmail you shoud use 'sendmail_enable=NONE'. sendmail_enable=NO and sendmail_enable=NONE are the same and the first one is already present

Re: FreeBSD box/ADSL link config

2007-06-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 12, 2007, at 3:30 PM, Erik Norgaard wrote: Just a note of caution about this specific point, against an admirable detailed reply-- from what I understand from another mailing list is that the newer versions of the Speedtouch DSL modems no longer have the capability of acting in

Re: Apache access log shows these attack requests

2007-06-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 12, 2007, at 2:58 PM, Bob wrote: I all ready have Apache mod_proxy commented out in httpd.conf and there is no php stuff installed in system. Your logfile lines seemed to be oddly truncated, so it's a bit hard to tell, but it sure seemed like some of the requests you showed were

Re: Shorten delay in sending mail to SMTP

2007-06-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jun 10, 2007, at 7:26 PM, Foo JH wrote: I'm using inetd + qmail to implement a mail server. The combo works, but usually sending a mail takes some 5-10 seconds. I suspect it's largely because inetd or qmail is trying to do some dns lookup or something, before letting it through. Is

Re: dhclient: Can't update forward map bogus ... timed out

2007-06-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 11, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Noah wrote: I recently added firewall filters to my home linux box, and now I am experiencing named errors. I am running DDNS that sends out updates for my dynamically assigned IP address for the router/linux box at the edge of my home network. It appears

Re: Is there a way to undelete?

2007-06-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 11, 2007, at 1:24 PM, Kyrre Nygård wrote: I'm just curious if there's a way to undo a rm -rf. Yes. Restore the deleted files from the backups you previously took. There has to be something eq[u]ivalent in FreeBSD to all those recovery tools? Oh, there is. There's the Coroner's

Re: How to solve mysterious system lockups?

2007-06-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 4, 2007, at 8:49 PM, N. Harrington wrote: Hi Garret Here is the driver info. -- SATA atapci0: SiI 3114 SATA150 controller port 0xbc00-0xbc07,0xb400-0xb403,0xb000-0xb007,0xac00-0xac03,0xa800-0xa80f Ah-- regrettably, the Silicon Image 3112 3114 chips have some significant hardware

Re: Can a Cisco Device use RSA authentication for SSH

2007-06-05 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 5, 2007, at 12:46 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: A person in our group is trying to scp files from a Cisco IOS device to a FreeBSD work station. The Cisco box uses an RSA key and sshd on the FreeBSD system won't recognize the algorithm. The error message on the Cisco side of things looks

Re: Help with Bind config syntax for reverse DNS on subnet

2007-05-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
Rob wrote: Hi, was hoping someone could help me with the correct syntax in my named.conf for reverse DNS on a small subnet. Say I have 10.0.0.0/27, such that actual addresses are 10.0.0.0 through 10.0.0.31 -- If I add a zone like: zone 0.0.10.in-addr.arpa { type master; file

Re: PS is not showing all processes owned by a user

2007-05-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
Ofloo wrote: Can someone explain me this !? spark# ps aux | grep psybnc | grep s00p s00p8777 0.0 0.3 43096 5716 p1- SFri06PM 4:30.25 ./psybnc spark# su s00p -([EMAIL PROTECTED])-(19:56:45) -(~/)- ps aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ

Re: wall-clock time profiling

2007-05-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
Akihiro KAYAMA wrote: Hi all. What is the right way to measure wall-clock time in profiling on FreeBSD? The time shell builtin command or /usr/bin/time -l _program_? The latter variant displays the rusage struct (ie, from man getrusage)? -- -Chuck

Re: PS is not showing all processes owned by a user

2007-05-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
Ofloo wrote: [ ... ] No hacker would want to hide a process from a user it might want to hide a process from root user. Well, from all users-- agreed. Also if the hacker was able to hide a process from a user, it would of needed access to ps binary or freebsd source tree on that system,

Re: How does FreeBSD handle tcp checksum offloading

2007-05-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 24, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Andrew Falanga wrote: I'm curious as to how FreeBSD handles checksum offloading for TCP packets. Is this on by default? If a particular NIC supports checksum offloading, it is typically enabled by default. It seems that it's only relevant for specific drivers

Re: looking for ethernet errors, collisions

2007-05-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 23, 2007, at 4:25 PM, RW wrote: Well, there are plenty there on my sis0 interface (internal). [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ netstat -i NameMtu Network Address Ipkts IerrsOpkts Oerrs Coll sis0 1500 Link#1 00:0a:e6:4a:56:c2 37989565 3980 36808783 5749 6492857

Re: Sendmail ignores hosts.allow

2007-05-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 22, 2007, at 1:21 PM, Maxim Khitrov wrote: Do you know if there is a reason they chose to do it this way? Accept the connection, but don't allow the client to do anything with it? There is some advantage to getting enough info from attempted spam to produce useful logging messages,

Re: sendmail init error: Can't assign requested address

2007-05-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 15, 2007, at 9:06 AM, Ernest Sales wrote: [ ... ] Honestly, I don't understand what each of this four daemons is supposed to do. I just want the minimal working sendmail config in a NATed host, the /etc/defaults/rc.conf reads as your sample, and init says sendmail_outbound_enable is

Re: File System errors

2007-05-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 15, 2007, at 11:15 AM, Ross Penner wrote: [ ... about fsck... ] It seems to my unexperienced eye that their are problems in some of the filesystems, but they arn't being resolved. I tried running fsck -y and nothing changed. What am I doing wrong? How can I resolve these issues? Thanks

Re: Make a jail visible in different networks

2007-05-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On May 14, 2007, at 10:30 AM, Juan Sosa wrote: I have a freebsd server (192.168.1.5) running a NATed jail (192.168.1.10). I set up mpd4 on this server in order to allow M$ clients access our 10.5.1.0/24 vpn. Since jails can´t have more than one ip address, is there a way to make

Re: what's the easiest way to de-html-ize files?

2007-05-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 12, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Gary Kline wrote: This is for those of us who appreciate ASCII or straight ISO_8859-15 rather than marked up files. I have slapped together a crude C program that does scotch (or *cleanse*) text of B/B and so on. Still... is there some

Re: Make a jail visible in different networks

2007-05-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 14, 2007, at 12:09 PM, Juan Sosa wrote: There are a number of approaches: the simplest involve either adding static routes between your 10.5.1/24 subnet and your 192.168.1/24 subnet, or setting up additional VPN endpoint on the 192.168.1/24 network, or using NAT to map the jail IP

Re: sendmail init error: Can't assign requested address

2007-05-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 14, 2007, at 2:25 PM, Ernest Sales wrote: Well, actually not so (sendmail_outbound_enable is supposed to be set to YES, as per defaults, but init says otherwise -- and I don't know what that means). But it starts without delays and can send/receive mail (even internet mail, wow!).

Re: Can't get the syntax correct for my tcpdump command

2007-05-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 10, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Andrew Falanga wrote: I want to capture only the IPv6 UDP traffic from my FreeBSD box to a host I'm trying to mount through NFS. A couple of days ago, I got it, but I had to kill that terminal session abnormally and the commands aren't in my history. So, I have

Re: How to make Apache (2.2.4) less greedy, or Sendmail less polite? [semi-solved]

2007-05-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 8, 2007, at 5:51 AM, Olaf Greve wrote: [ ... ] -Can anyone recommend me proper anti spam authorities to whom I can report the IP addresses that caused the issues on my machine? Try doing a WHOIS lookup on the IP address, and send a report containing sample httpd-access log lines or

Re: Time Synchronizing Between Two Servers

2007-05-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 4, 2007, at 9:10 AM, RW wrote: On Thu, 03 May 2007 11:07:34 -0400 Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sun SPARC machines have good HW clocks, and also some of the newer Macs also seem to have consistently low values in ntp.drift and handle timekeeping well. Does that matter? A good

Re: NFS server not responding/is alive again

2007-05-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- Janos Dohanics wrote: I have a FreeBSD 4.11 machine which mounts a volume from a Netapp ONTap. The FreeBSD machine also acts as a Samba PDC. The Samba volumes are in the NFS-mounted volume. There are about a dozen Win2K workstations on the network served by the Samba server. Lately I have

Re: scp/sftp without interactive shell?

2007-05-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
Ewald Jenisch wrote: [ ... ] Giving the user a shell of /bin/true or something similar on the target machine is not an option since scp doesn't seem to work in this case. Any ideas how this could be accomplished? Take a look at /usr/ports/shells/scponly, or rsh for restricted shells, more

Re: Time Synchronizing Between Two Servers

2007-05-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ ... ] It may very well be noisier than just serving out ntp to the local network, what with talk about elections and such every 4 minutes, but generally everything is kept within 0.050 seconds (and running ntpd on all of the local machines feels like serious overkill).

Re: A good quiet power supply?

2007-04-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
Bill-Schoolcraft wrote: Just got a new PC at home, it's noisy and was wondering if anyone can share some experience here. I just read about a fanless power-supply and then realized I needed some input. It's possible to run systems which don't use enough power to need fans, but you have to

Re: 5.5 hardware support

2007-04-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 29 April 2007 at 17:56:23 -0800, Harry Veltman wrote: Does 5.5 support my ELSA GLoria Synergy 8 MByte, Driver version 5.36.00.382, OpenGL version 1.1 2.01.14.128 video card? I purchased and installed version 4.8 several years ago, but it didn't seem to

Re: PF NAt

2007-04-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 26, 2007, at 11:35 AM, Miguel Alcántara wrote: /etc/rc.conf gateway_enable = YES ifconfig_vr0=inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig_xl0=inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 0x squid_enable=YES You're not going to have much luck trying to do NAT if both interfaces are on the

Re: Digital signed mail- certificate issuing

2007-04-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 25, 2007, at 9:10 AM, David Southwell wrote: Can anyone please tell me the simplest way I can issue my customers a means of digitally signing emails they transmit to us via our server. I need the chosen method to be compatible with most popular email clients and popular webmail

Re: Invalid Global DNS name and sendmail

2007-04-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 23, 2007, at 12:19 PM, Andrew Fremantle wrote: With all the configurations I've tried, emails are rejected by my smarthost with an error like sender address [EMAIL PROTECTED] invalid; domain does not exist. What I'd like to do is find a way to alter sendmail's perception of my

Re: Invalid Global DNS name and sendmail

2007-04-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 23, 2007, at 4:48 PM, Andrew Fremantle wrote: Are you aware of any way of doing this stuff in the .mc file? Should the .cf ever be remade, these changes would be blown away Right-- seems to be for the .mc file (from /usr/share/sendmail/cf/ README): There are always users that

Re: SMP only detects one CPU - help?

2007-04-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 20, 2007, at 9:14 AM, Adam J Richardson wrote: Finally, mptable shows what's really going on: MP Config Base Table Entries: -- Processors: APIC ID Version StateFamily Model Step Flags 3 0x11BSP, usable 6 8 30x387fbff 0 0x11

Re: Linking error with __float128 conversions

2007-04-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 20, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Hyo geol, Lee wrote: I had problem in linking error with __float128 conversion functions. I am using FreeBSD/amd64 -current and test code is below. [ ... ] When I build above code, I got linking error. Is this just unsupported functions or something missing in

Re: Make Options -- just checking

2007-04-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 19, 2007, at 4:39 AM, David Southwell wrote: In my current state of confusion I need to double check the way in which options are given for make before delving deeper into the problem. if there is an option define as: '--with-abc=def' what is the correct command line? #[correct

Re: random hangs/reboots with Dell servers

2007-04-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 19, 2007, at 3:54 AM, Dimitris Zilaskos wrote: Over the last 3 year we have installed freebsd 5.x and 6.x, with currently deployed version being 6.1, to a variety of of Dell rack mounted systems. The Dell systems used so far are Poweredge 1750, 2950 (both scsi), and sc1425 (sata).

Re: ftpd and chmod

2007-04-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 18, 2007, at 9:54 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: manual page says that ftpd do support SITE CHMOD. what's wrong? From the manual: Note: SITE requests are disabled in case of anonymous logins. thanks. no way to change it? Permitting anonymous remote users to change permissions seems

Re: program/binary ip filtering

2007-04-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 18, 2007, at 12:17 PM, Kevin Hunter wrote: At 2:42p -0400 18 Apr 2007, Bill Moran wrote: We are in the process of setting up a bastion host. One of the things we'd like to do is to filter packets not only at the ip layer, but by what program is listening on a particular port. Is

Re: Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors

2007-04-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 18, 2007, at 12:37 PM, Doug Poland wrote: I just used the Drive Fitness Test for IBM ATA drives on a particular disk and it finished without detecting errors. However, I see messages like this: Apr 16 22:51:44 seth kernel: ad3: WARNING - WRITE_DMA UDMA ICRC error (retrying

Re: BSD make vs. GNU make

2007-04-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 17, 2007, at 9:28 AM, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: This might be a dumb question, but would like get a clear idea about the differences between BSD make and GNU make. Why do I have to do 'gmake' in some cases instead of just plain 'make'? Because people write more complex makefiles using syntax

Re: Exercising ATA disks in hopes of revealing errors

2007-04-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 17, 2007, at 9:56 AM, Doug Poland wrote: I've just come into possesion of a bunch of 80GB ATA drives. I'd like to quickly and efficiently test each drive to see if it's free of errors and suitable for deployment in non-critical workstations. Using FreeBSD 6.x as a testing platform, what

Re: I like Ubuntu

2007-04-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 13, 2007, at 10:21 AM, Claude Menski wrote: Why is freebsd better then ubuntu? It may or may not be-- people have different requirements and different opinions and preferences. http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php ...might give you some more

Re: Mysql Hogging all system resources

2007-04-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 12, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Don O'Neil wrote: [ ... ] Is there a way to prioritize or set the amount of resources that MySQL is allowed to have? Do I need to set it up as a jailed process maybe? I've never done that before, so I'm not sure if it's the right approach or not. Um, didn't

Re: Mysql Hogging all system resources

2007-04-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 13, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Don O'Neil wrote: Is there a way to set a 'nice' priority for a particular user? Why, yes-- see /etc/login.conf and the priority keyword. Some shells also let you adjust the priority levels for various users. Also, when I run this: nice -n 5 /usr/bin/spamd -d -c

Re: Two firefoxes, 1.5 and 2.0, script keeps running 1.5 instead of 2.0

2007-04-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 11, 2007, at 8:54 PM, Oliver Iberien wrote: bsd# cd /usr/ports/www/firefox15/ bsd# make deinstall === Deinstalling for www/firefox15 === firefox not installed, skipping Deinstalling any other way gets rid of 2.0 instead of 1.5. /usr/local/bin/firefox starts up 1.5 instead of 2.0

Re: Mysql Hogging all system resources

2007-04-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 12, 2007, at 4:18 PM, Don O'Neil wrote: This isn't exactly what I want to do. According to the FreeBSD Handbook, by defining a CPU limit it will just kill any process that uses more than the limit. What I want to do is effectively throttle the process so it doesn't use up more than a

Re: Proper list server? (was Re: Automatic means for spinning down disks available?)

2007-04-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, L-- On Apr 11, 2007, at 12:14 PM, L Goodwin wrote: 1) I get all email posted to freebsd-questions in my inbox (actually, some end up in bulk mail folder). That's a lot of mail to wade through. I'm trying to get a system up and running so I can move on to the next task. I suppose I

Re: Automatic means for spinning down disks available?

2007-04-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 11, 2007, at 3:32 PM, Gary Kline wrote: Some things to consider (besides powering -down or -off drives) are battery backup system. Don't most UPS systems isolate your servers from the wall-socket? The better grade of UPSes do exactly that-- they provide galvanic

Re: adding keyboard after reboot with no keyboard ...

2007-04-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 10, 2007, at 7:55 AM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: I hate it when a subject doesn't easily present itself ... but ... Is there something that I'm missing, such that if I add a keyboard to a server *after* rebooting it with no keyboard, that will have that keyboard recognized? Basically,

Re: Receiver (To/CC envelope fields) addresses verification against LDAP/Active Directory in sendmail

2007-04-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
Christopher Martin wrote: Spam with randomly generated recipient addresses is draining our mail system's life away, and it seems the easiest way would be to verify the receiving party's/parties' address against Active Directory and then TEMPFAIL any mails that don't have any valid internal mails

Re: Devstart/FreeBSD

2007-04-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
Blake Dondlinger wrote: Hi I am trying to get in contact with the Marketing/Sales team. Could you please send me their email address Thank you have a nice day. FreeBSD is a volunteer project which doesn't have a marketing or sales team, but I suppose that the freebsd-advocacy mailing list is

Re: Network Filesystem for BSD / Linux environment

2007-04-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
Tommy Scheunemann wrote: I'm running 2 server, one with FreeBSD and one with Linux. Now I want to synchronize data between the 2 servers, over the internet so using NFS isn't a solution at all. Are there other possible ways of doing it ? AFS still seems in a development state and Rsync over

Re: interpreting uptime output

2007-03-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 29, 2007, at 11:00 AM, Laszlo Nagy wrote: [ ...about the uptime command... ] This is great, except that it does not tell me what 0.5 means? Example: 1:41PM up 5 days, 2:22, 4 users, load averages: 0.36, 0.42, 0.51 The only referenced material in the man page is w(1) which tells

Re: interpreting uptime output

2007-03-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 29, 2007, at 11:11 AM, Laszlo Nagy wrote: A job is a runnable process. The run queue is a list containing the processes which are runnable at a particular time. Lower numbers indicate lower CPU load. From man getloadavg: Hmm. Somebody could modify the man page of uptime and add a

Re: About file systems and formats

2007-03-29 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 29, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Andrew Falanga wrote: Both drives are similar in capability. They are both 7200 rpm drives, etc. So what is so much different about NTFS from FFS? All sorts of things. :-) Are the file systems really that different that MS's system is simply dog slow, or is

Re: Time changed back to old daylight savings

2007-03-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 28, 2007, at 11:53 AM, Don O'Neil wrote: So it looks like my zone info files are correct... could the ntp pool be off for some reason, or does ntpdate need to be updated? 28 Mar 10:53:51 ntpdate[90706]: ntpdate 4.2.0-a Mon Aug 7 17:44:27 UTC 2006 (1) Nope, the NTP protocol uses

Re: mdconfig device no faster then direct disk ...

2007-03-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 26, 2007, at 6:55 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote: 45 processes: 1 running, 44 sleeping CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.4% system, 0.4% interrupt, 99.2% idle Mem: 35M Active, 285M Inact, 271M Wired, 44K Cache, 111M Buf, 402M Free Swap: 2007M Total, 2007M Free I just did:

Re: FIPS 140-2 for government use

2007-03-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 26, 2007, at 10:01 AM, Lorraine Chin wrote: Does anyone know if FreeBSD supports any hardware security module (cryptoprocessor) certified for FIPS 140-2 or know if there are future plans to do this? My company has a product based on FreeBSD that wants to incorporate a FIPS 140-2

Re: sample cds

2007-03-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 26, 2007, at 3:25 PM, stefan broos wrote: I'm organising a linux/opensource day in my school. Is it possible to get some saple freeBSD cds for those who want to try it? Have fun. You're welcome to download and burn the FreeBSD ISO images yourself:

Re: Upgrade suggestion

2007-03-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 26, 2007, at 4:40 PM, Gary Kline wrote: Hi Folks, Last night it struck me that one reason I constantly find new ports to upgrade is that with ~17K ports, if you're running one of the more common desktop managers and several popular apps, there are

Re: Split a PDF page

2007-03-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 23, 2007, at 7:08 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Acrobat, maybe? /usr/ports/print/acrobatviewer Hm, when I try and start it I get: %AcrobatViewer expr: illegal option -- r usage: expr [-e] expression Does doing a: Please advise all your users intended to use Acrobat Viewer to create

Re: TCP conection problems IBM VM - FreeBSD

2007-03-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 23, 2007, at 10:16 AM, Torbjorn Granlund wrote: These are the ones the correspond. They come in bursts like that. If I let it run a little longer, I get output like this: 19:45:56.939958 IP vm.se.lsoft.com.58679 bang.swox.se.smtp: S 678305700:678305700(0) win 8192 mss 1420,wscale

Re: how utilize several IP's on one line

2007-03-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 23, 2007, at 9:40 AM, David Banning wrote: I just spoke with my DSL supplier and they said that they could give me 5 IP addresses with a DSL line. I am used to only one IP address per phone line - how are the other IP addresses from the same DSL line utlilized and routed to different

Re: how utilize several IP's on one line

2007-03-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 23, 2007, at 11:47 AM, David Banning wrote: Connect the DSL modem to a switch or hub, and connect several machines to that, each configured statically to use the /29 subnet which your ISP is making available to you. This is assuming your DSL modem deals with any PPPoE/PPPoA login stuff

Re: Ports: Cannot compile CURL

2007-03-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 23, 2007, at 2:48 PM, Amardeo Sarma wrote: When I try an run make install for CURL (/usr/ports/ftp/curl), I get the message: === curl-7.16.1 does not suport both c-ares and IPv6 - disable one of them ** Error code 1 How do I disable them (c-ares and / or IPv6)? Where are these

Re: TCP conection problems IBM VM - FreeBSD

2007-03-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 21, 2007, at 5:03 PM, Torbjorn Granlund wrote: When vm attempts to make a TCP connection (e.g., on port 25) to smtp.swox.se I see the following traffic on the router: 22:46:27.015389 IP vm.se.lsoft.com.47218 smtp.swox.se.smtp: S 27523124:27523124(0) win 8192 mss 1420,wscale

Re: Updating GCC

2007-03-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 22, 2007, at 11:55 AM, White Hat wrote: The installed version is gcc-3.4.6, while the ports have version 4.3.0 available. If I install the newer version will it replace the older version? Nope. If not and I don't think it will, how do I force the use of the newer version of Gcc when

Re: TCP conection problems IBM VM - FreeBSD

2007-03-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 22, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Torbjorn Granlund wrote: The second line should have been smtp.swox.se.smtp SYN+ACK'ing the ISN of 27523124. vm is sending a RST to that because the sequence #'s don't match. It's also odd that the set of options being listed don't correspond at all...if

Re: Split a PDF page

2007-03-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 22, 2007, at 2:52 PM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: I've got a PDF document with two side-by-side pages in A3 format. Is there a way I can get the two single A4 pages, either as subsequent pages of a new document or as different new documents? Anything in the port tree? Acrobat, maybe?

Re: SOLVED: Re: Problems with burncd - cannot mount result on unix or windows

2007-03-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 22, 2007, at 4:16 PM, UCTC Sysadmin wrote: In looking at the documentation for cdrecord, the examples showed a two-step process of making an ISO image then burning it. Here's my deal: NEVER HAVING BURNED a CD or DVD on FreeBSD before - I go to the documentation to FIND OUT HOW and

Re: Mysql Unlinked Files

2007-03-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 21, 2007, at 7:24 AM, Jim Flowers wrote: On startup of mysql-server 5.0.12 on FBSD 5.4-RELEASE my server always has 3 0-size unreferenced files with 69 links reported by lsof +L1. 23 groups of: mysqld 6179 mysql6u VREG 4,170 09 /var (/ dev/aacd0s1d) mysqld

Re: creating rc.d scripts

2007-03-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 21, 2007, at 10:52 AM, Jim Stapleton wrote: I created a script in my /usr/local/etc/rc.d directory, but for some reason it doesn't auto start when I start my machine. I added entries to the rc.conf that I thought should work, but they did not. On a related not, my rc.conf file doesn't

Re: OT: how to read BIND's debug file (named.run)

2007-03-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, Doug-- On Mar 21, 2007, at 11:17 AM, Doug Poland wrote: [ ...named logs... ] I trimmed out date/time stamp and it's obvious what the client, IP#port, query: name are for. Also, I get what the: IN A MX SOA PTR flags are. But what do the following characters mean? - + - + -E I

Re: Tracking down memory leaks

2007-03-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 21, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Don O'Neil wrote: My setup seems to have a memory leak of some kind and I'm not sure how to track it down When I first start up the system and all the processes start the machine has 1GB in free memory... After running for 20-30 minutes the free memory

Re: Sendmail ignores SmartHost directive

2007-03-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 20, 2007, at 10:32 AM, Vincent Bolinard wrote: I use : # cd /etc/mail # make to generate a `hostname`.mc file. I edit it, and add : define(`SMART_HOST', `[192.168.1.6]') (I tried without brackets, and with names) then : # make install # make restart-mta I use # date | sendmail -v

Re: pwd.db too big for / partition

2007-03-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 19, 2007, at 7:54 AM, Marcelo Maraboli wrote: my / partition has only 73.196 Mbytes available and since I have 22.000 users, I now cannot change anyone´s password.. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ passwd marcelo.maraboli Changing local password for marcelo.maraboli New Password: Retype New

Re: pthread usage

2007-03-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 19, 2007, at 11:30 AM, Jules Gilbert wrote: I need help making pthread work, as I need to enqueue and dequeue logical resource names, so that I can lock and unlock events and physical resources. Does anyone have examples of pthread code that is known to work under FreeBSD 6.1?

Re: pwd.db too big for / partition

2007-03-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 19, 2007, at 1:49 PM, Tamouh H. wrote: Well, I had a VM laying around so thought to fire it up and do some testing. I know this is absurd abit but I wanted to see the effect of doing symlinks with pwd.db files. - I was able to copy /etc/pwd.db /etc/spwd.db to /var/etc/ - Then I

Re: Shared object libintl.so.6 not found

2007-03-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 19, 2007, at 3:04 PM, Gerard Seibert wrote: After booting up my system, I receive an error message: Shared object libintl.so.6 not found This file should be in /usr/local/lib, but it isn't. I have no idea why. I can now only log in as root. Since I am not sure where this file even

Re: Fixing DST manually on rel4 rel5

2007-03-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 16, 2007, at 12:56 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: The use of ln -s will work just fine as written. I don't know why tzsetup makes a copy of the zoneinfo file rather than setting up a symlink, but making a copy simply allows the file in /etc to become out-of-sync if one updates the files

Re: Fixing DST manually on rel4 rel5

2007-03-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 14, 2007, at 10:29 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: echo ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/PST8PDT /etc/localtime [ ... ] I think the ln-s line is backwards, I didn't check it. I think it's been a while since they used softlinks for localtime The use of ln -s will work just fine as written. I

Re: sendmail not working?

2007-03-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 15, 2007, at 6:15 AM, Nagy László Zsolt wrote: I know it is not the newest, but should work. I rebooted the machine, but it did not help. By the way, I do NOT want postfix to listen on TCP/25. I have to use an ssh tunnel. But I would like to be able to deliver e-mail messages

Re: NAT

2007-03-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 15, 2007, at 2:44 PM, neo neo wrote: i want to do NAT with my FreeBSD. How can i do that ? thankz for reply. How to configure Gateway ? How to configure DNS ? How to configure NAT ? There's a friendly manual available for you to read:

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 13, 2007, at 8:37 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Address verification callbacks take various forms, but the way exim does it by default is to attempt to start a DSN delivery to the address and if the RCPT TO is accepted it is affirmative. It is not usually use VRFY. Most

Re: sound drivers

2007-03-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 14, 2007, at 3:56 PM, freenity wrote: Thanks for answers. kldload snd_driver didnt help. and pciconf -vl | grep -B 4 audio doesnt output anything. That implies that nothing recognized as an audio device has been configured by your BIOS. You might want to double-check your BIOS

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