Re: firewall high-load performance

2008-06-11 Thread Ian Smith
Woj, another of the few joys of -digests: two birds with one stone: is there a way to check on running system how much CPU time is used to perform firewalling/traffic manager - be it pf or ipfw? Sure, compare ping times / traffic throughput with firewall turned off and on? I recall that a

Re: Grep Guru

2008-06-11 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:44:36 +1000 (EST), Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:07:12 -0700 Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2008, Raphael Becker wrote: On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:15:50PM +0200

Re: Grep Guru

2008-06-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:07:12 -0700 Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jun 09, 2008, Raphael Becker wrote: On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:15:50PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: find . -type f -print0|xargs -0 grep grepoptions text to search There's no more need for find | xargs

Re: change the file date and time

2008-06-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:25:41 +0300 Georgi Tyuliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. How to mount Sony Ericsson k750i mobile phone with FreeBSD 7.0 ? No idea. 2. How to change automatically the file attributes (for example 'date') of large number of files? For modification and/or access times,

Re: error mounting USB disk: Invalid argument

2008-05-31 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 31 May 2008 13:29:26 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then: # mount /dev/da0s1c /media/disk6 mount: /dev/da0s1c : Invalid argument mount_msdosfs ? Maybe. But then it'd likely be /dev/da0s1 .. Even if it's UFS, you wouldn't want to mount the 'c'

Re: brindging ath0 with re0 working, kinda, almost

2008-04-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:05:47 +0100 (BST) Reinhold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # block some known-bad ports without logging # block return-rst in quick on $ext_if1 proto tcp from any to any port { 111, 445, 1080, 6000, 6667 } block return-icmp in quick on $ext_if1 proto udp from any to any

Re: Limiting apache's upload speed?

2008-04-15 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 211, Issue 1 On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (quoting 2 separate messages, one of the occasional joys of digests :) ADSL modems (at least this used by polish telecom) tend to choke when upload bandwidth is near max. delays gets

Re: Limiting apache's upload speed?

2008-04-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:41:02 +0100 Patsy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, I am running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (GENERIC), I am running Apache 2.2.6_2 and hosting a small website with a few relatively small (500kB-900kB) photographs. I am doing so from a home ADSL connection in the UK

Re: /var/named Changes Ownership to Root on Boot

2008-03-22 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 207, Issue 18, Message: 6 On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:54:36 -0500 Martin McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I fixed it but I am not sure I would have figured it out quickly without the help from the list. It seems that FreeBSD defaults to

Re: mpd pptp server?

2008-03-19 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:43:58 +0100 Jon Theil Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried some different ways to make a working VPN server on FreeBSD 7.0. The main goal is to make it possible for Windows clients to access their Samba home shares. I'm not sure if mpd is the best solution,

Re: ARP(4) spoofing?

2008-03-17 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 207, Issue 2 On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:29:04 -0600 Modulok [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would this be ARP(4) spoofing, or is it just me? How would I confirm it? arp: 192.168.1.1 is on lo0 but got reply from xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx on em1 This is on a FreeBSD

Re: IPFW with user-ppp's NAT

2008-03-16 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:16:12 -0500 Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the last episode (Mar 16), Razmig K said: With IPFW enabled in the kernel, I'd like to use the NAT functionality of user-ppp instead of natd. Do I need the IPDIVERT option in the kernel and the special

Re: IPFW with user-ppp's NAT

2008-03-16 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:20:12 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what's wrong in userland natd? Performance. With userland natd, every packet that passes through natd must pass from kernel to userland (causing one context switch) and back again (causing another

Re: Adobe Flashplayer

2008-02-25 Thread Ian Smith
- Original Message From: herbert langhans [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 6:48:08 AM Subject: Adobe Flashplayer Hi Daemons, anybody has some experience what flashplayer to use for Firefox 2.0 on BSD 7.0 RC2? I checked in the ports

Re: Error in the Handbook

2008-02-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:58:33 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2008-02-11 21:01, Peter Rosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, there is an error in the handbook, section 28.6.5.7 An Example NAT and Stateful Ruleset. On the bottom are two examples, 1st with

Re: Unlock /dev/dsp?

2008-02-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 20:17:48 +0100 (CET) Andreas Davour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have begin to find it annoying that when I have a Firefox running with a page with a youtube link it it, I can't at the same time play a mp3 file with mplayer. When I try I get an error saying that /dev/dsp

Re: ipfw(8) doc bug?

2008-01-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:07:19 +0100 Daniel Gerzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Monday, January 21, 2008, 2:42:53 PM, you wrote: I was just browsing various versions of ipfw(8) such as: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfwapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-stableformat=html

ipfw(8) doc bug?

2008-01-21 Thread Ian Smith
I was just browsing various versions of ipfw(8) such as: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfwapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-stableformat=html and noticed that (and 6.3-RELEASE) manuals sport 'FreeBSD 7.0' footers, however the proper FreeBSD 7 manual includes the new 'ipfw nat'

Re: Throttle the CPU when the system is idle

2008-01-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:54:44 +0100 Tijl Coosemans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 21 January 2008 16:13:36 Andreas Davour wrote: On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Tijl Coosemans wrote: Throttling still made a huge difference on my systems. On my old two-speed Thinkpad, powerd nearly halves total

Re: ports download speed!

2008-01-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:26:45 + RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:59:04 + Dead Line [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello People.. I recently have noticed something! Im installing FreeBSD 6.2R fresh install, When im downloading anything using

Re: mail from: field question

2008-01-10 Thread Ian Smith
Jan 2008 13:42:15 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: boo hoo Note 'received from [EMAIL PROTECTED]' but 'envelope-from smithi'. Also note I'm not using domain masquerading here, as I don't actually mail out from this box

Re: [HOW-TO] cvsup for ports -- Re: compact portsnap db

2008-01-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 22:31:29 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rudy wrote: Michael Lednev wrote: Hello. Is there any way to compact /var/db/portsnap other than deleting it and doing postsnap fetch? Not really. /var/db/portsnap/files contains one file for each port,

Re: [HOW-TO] cvsup for ports -- Re: compact portsnap db

2008-01-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: If you don't have cvsup installed, run this command: # pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui It is better to use all ports or all packages so either do: Why do you say that? Do you know of unresolved issues regarding the

Re: how to suspend/wake-up a FreeBSD machine?

2008-01-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:51:41 +0100 Henrik Brix Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That depends largely on the hardware - on e.g. ThinkPads you need to press the 'Fn' button to wake up the laptop after sleep. hmm i think it's not so much

Re: how to suspend/wake-up a FreeBSD machine?

2008-01-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 19:13:20 +1100 (EST) Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] On my T23 I have suspend/wake on lid switch off (in BIOS), preferring to have to use the Fn key to wake. No other keys do that on mine including the ThinkPad

Re: how to suspend/wake-up a FreeBSD machine?

2008-01-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, John Baldwin wrote: On Friday 04 January 2008 03:13:20 am Ian Smith wrote: On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:51:41 +0100 Henrik Brix Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That depends largely on the hardware - on e.g

Re: IPFW: Blocking me out. How to debug?

2007-12-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, W. D. wrote: At 08:49 12/22/2007, Ian Smith wrote: Warning: overlong message. W. D. wrote: [.. slashing mercilessly ..] Ok, so your nameserver will be making upstream requests too, and you'll need to do TCP 53 traffic with your secondary nameserver/s as well

Re: removing ipfw rules

2007-12-28 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:21:54 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-12-27 15:47, Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have two ipfw rules that I want to remove. They are viewable with the ipfw show command --- snip --- 06600 0 0 allow ip

Re: Problem setting up DNS

2007-12-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 03:39:31 -0300 Sd?vtaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, im using FBSD 6.2 I got 2 domains registered in the local nic and I could get one working but the second one doesnt :-/ This is my first attemp to set up a real DNS, so im pretty sure i did something wrong,

Re: IPFW: Blocking me out. How to debug?

2007-12-22 Thread Ian Smith
:11 -0600 From: W. D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Never been to Uzbekistan and don't know this bloke :) At 05:45 12/20/2007, Ian Smith, wrote: Thanks for your reply Ian. This is the kind of information I am looking for. Firstly

Re: (no subject)

2007-12-19 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:30:32 +0200 Baxton Mabhande [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1)What are the three basic types of handheld devices? I give up, what? :) 2)Which device is used in an environment that needs extended coverage but backbone access is not practical or is unavailable? Depends on

Re: cron pile up! Lot's of cron: running job (cron)

2007-12-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:18:31 -0600 Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rudy wrote: The thing is, sometimes it runs fine, other times it backlogs (It may complete at a latter date... the PID 82253 is still waiting ... Gonna see it it completes instead of killing all the stuck

Re: Connecting networks

2007-12-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto wrote: 2007/12/12, Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Should be 'defaultrouter', but then it's a route to an apparent local router, whereas your em0 appears to be your public internet connection? Yes, it's default router, like I said I

Re: Connecting networks

2007-12-11 Thread Ian Smith
Re-copying the various contributors .. On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:00:56 -0200 Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/12/11, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: out of curiosity, are you pinging from the 4-interfaced-connected BSD box, or some other workstation that

Re: copying DVD material :: somewhat OT.

2007-12-08 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:18:25 -0700 Predrag Punosevac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Folks, IFF k3b works, and I think it might, I'll put up a howto on my bsd virtual site. Make this domain more useful. The help from this group has been outstanding, but

Re: [OT] who wrote this

2007-11-26 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:03:30 -0600 eBoundHost: Artur [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lets also remember that history is written by the victors, which means they LIE! neal. Wow neal, that's very nice of you. are you saying that hitler didn't do any of these things? I'm not even going

Re: routing problem

2007-11-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto wrote: 2007/11/24, Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No I didn't mean that; use your own favourite packet filter, any of them can handle what you've described. Bill suggested pf - lots of people seem to like it a lot - and I use ipfw

Re: routing problem

2007-11-24 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto wrote: 2007/11/24, Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ipfw works fine too for these sorts of network policy separation :) So ipfilter is not recommended by you guyz? No I didn't mean that; use your own favourite packet filter, any

Re: routing problem

2007-11-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:33:26 -0200 Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/11/23, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] em0 external world XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX rl0 adm 192.168.1.80 rl1 acad

Re: is this IT or not/

2007-11-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:22:37AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:25:35 -0800 Gary Kline wrote: [..] Which brings me to your earlier (unresolved?) question about missing sound on playing audio CDs .. first assuming your CD drive

Re: is this IT or not/

2007-11-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:25:35 -0800 Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 06:23:29PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:12:50AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: guys, one last thing before i call it a days; i just tried kmidi and tried to configure the audio.

One (FreeBSD?) Laptop Per Child

2007-11-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:15:42 -0500 Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] Have you read the articles on OLPC? They're made to run on very low power. They have batteries that can be crank-charged quickly, or run off small solar panels. Somehow I don't think they're short on

Re: OT: Looking for some inpiration with UPS setup

2007-11-10 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:33:34 + Christopher Key [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've a FreeBSD fileserver, a solid state router (Linksys box running OpenWRT) and a couple of gigabit switches that I'd like to move onto a UPS (I'm primarily looking at the APC Smart-UPS line). The

Re: IPFW show format question...

2007-11-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, everything I've read says that ipfw show displays rule number, packets caught, bytes matched, and rule. The problem I'm having is that it seems that the bytes, at least on some rules, is way out of whack. I'm capturing

Re: ipfw rule question ... all possible interfaces ?

2007-11-05 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 00:22:00 + RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 16:10:12 -0800 (PST) Juri Mianovich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to tell ipfw: all interfaces currently configured on this system ? ... So if I have a rule like:

Re: USB-Serial adapter, how to make /dev/cuad* appear?

2007-10-24 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:06:08 +0200 Benjamin Lutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've bought an USB-Serial adapter in order to use an old serial 33.6k modem. I've loaded the uplcom and ucom modules, but am unsure how to proceed from here. The system runs FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p8. When

Re: 7.0 and 6.3

2007-10-24 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:17:12 +0200 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] David J Brooks wrote: Bill Moran wrote: Note also that a ports freeze is starting soon for 7.0 and 6.3 release. What are the differences between 6.3 and 7.0? Which should be considered the standard upgrade

Re: Odd PF Denied Message

2007-10-19 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On Friday 19 October 2007 07:06:35 Ian Smith wrote: On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:36:27 +0300 Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: .. I think log_in_vain can be used when configuring a firewall. Just to see quickly if your firewall works as expected

Re: Odd PF Denied Message

2007-10-18 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:36:27 +0300 Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On Thursday 18 October 2007 18:39:56 Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: Thank you for the clue! We are using log in vain as part of our security logging for this particular box, but this is the only message I've ever seen so I'm

Re: FreeBsd e-mail question

2007-10-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:30:54 -0400 Lisa Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem comes in when a customer cancels his account. We remove users by rmuser username. That command removes the user from the password file, removes his home directory and removes the mailspool. What it doesn't

Re: FreeBsd e-mail question

2007-10-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 04:56:35PM +1000, Ian Smith wrote: On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:30:54 -0400 Lisa Casey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem comes in when a customer cancels his account. We remove users by rmuser username

Re: determining the space used in / partition

2007-10-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 08:03:00 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/10/2, Duane Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 at 07:36 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: [..] For the record. During the backup, the file system is dumped to a dir on a USB drive called

Re: Security report question

2007-09-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:41:00 -0700 Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/30/07, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kurt Buff wrote: [ ... ] +Limiting closed port RST response from 283 to 200 packets/sec I don't know what this means, though I suspect it could mean that I'm

Re: php failing to produce phpinfo()

2007-09-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:52:58 -0600 bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My business has been using PHP for years. Mysql outputs to my browser, where I can print invoices, bills and any business statitic. Suddenly, my browser started acting funny. I don't know how to use the repair disk to

Re: Dumb IPFW Question

2007-09-27 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:46:29 +0100 Chris Yocum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to explain a bit, I have installed a FreeBSD 6.2 system on a machine to act as a natd router. I turned on the firewall and set the firewall rule script to the one from the handbook

Re: Mpd (3.x) mpd4 config and differeces in reconnect/dial behaviour ?

2007-09-24 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:25:32 +0300 Alan Tamm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since upgrade from 3.x to 4.x I have to manually (re) open the bundle PPPoE but I can't afford this system to be offline/needing manual intervention from now on. When the connection times out mpd4 just won't reconnect..

how to use iic(4)

2007-09-14 Thread Ian Smith
I don't know where else to post this, so I'm hoping someone here can spare me a clue. We're building a small board with two AVR Tiny MCUs chatting to each other over an opto-isolated I2C-compatible bus, hopefully at 400kHz. I hope to use the iicbb(4) on lpbb(4) parallel port interface to talk

Re: php5-5.2.3_1 / website behaves as if not enabled in httpd.conf

2007-09-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:23:19 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: 2007/9/12, Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:19:32 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: [..] No, it wasn't in there but I moved it to this section. There is no difference. I cannot start apache. [..] And check

Re: php5-5.2.3_1 / website behaves as if not enabled in httpd.conf [SOLVED]

2007-09-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:45:29 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Actually, maybe my description should be corrected - that is when I want to access a directory where index.php resides, apache will just display this directory content. But when I click (not reload) the php file, page

php5-5.2.3_1 / website behaves as if not enabled in httpd.conf

2007-09-11 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:19:32 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: I decided to upgrade my home machine to php5.2.3 from 4.4.7. All went fine. I had one error about hash extension already loaded which I solved by deleting a duplicated entry from extensions.ini. The curious thing is that once

Re: loopback won't enable automatically

2007-09-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 01:47:47 + Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to manually set the loopback interface after each reboot on one machine (it is a laptop): ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 Then everything is fine. I added ifconfig_lo0=127.0.0.1 netmask

Re: g_vfs write error = 28, bad memory?

2007-09-03 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:34:41 +0200 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: [..] amavisd_enable=YES amavisd_ram=512m and the line in rc.d/amavisd mdmfs -M -s ${amavisd_ram} -w

Re: g_vfs write error = 28, bad memory?

2007-09-03 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: Ian Smith wrote: [..] But is running out of memory with swap-backed md (with no swap) likely to be any prettier than the panics from (unreserved) malloc backing? Probably not. No worse though. Couldn't be :) By 'ideally' I guess you mean

Re: g_vfs write error = 28, bad memory?

2007-09-01 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:34:41 +0200 Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: I use a memory file system for some tmp files and last night I saw this, followed

Re: Configuring FreeBSD 6.2 to use sendmail for sending only

2007-08-31 Thread Ian Smith
for Ian Smith Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: subsbot v0.9 beta 8.90 :) Hello Ian Smith, [..] HTH, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 192, Issue 16

2007-08-31 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:55:49 -0500 Reid Linnemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Written by Nélio Mesquita on 08/31/07 06:44 On 8/30/07, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nélio Mesquita [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello to all! Just for curiosity, why the FreeBSD logo is a little devil? Is

Re: lpt attachment problem

2007-08-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:07:54 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when i set in BIOS my parallel port (it's IBM thinkpad T23 if it matters) to standard paraller port it is detected fine ppc0: Standard parallel printer port port 0x3bc-0x3be irq 7 on acpi0 ppc0: Generic

Re: lpt attachment problem

2007-08-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Only that it works fine on my T23 .. ppc0: ECP parallel printer port port 0x378-0x37f,0x778-0x77f irq 7 drq 0 on acpi0 ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold ppbus0:

Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot

2007-08-24 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:49:30 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am unable to boot from 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso. I have downloaded it and burned it three times without success. See (4) I am currently running Win98SE and FreeBSD 5.4 on a dual boot. I had decided to reformat

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Chris wrote: If its bad to run fsck on a mounted read,write then why does background fsck do it? or you talking about foreground fsck only? Well I was referring to foreground fsck, and I still

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Chris wrote: If its bad to run fsck on a mounted read,write then why does background fsck do it? or you talking about

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: Ian Smith wrote: My knowledge of this is thin, despite reading McKusick's paper through several times, but we're told that background fsck runs on a snapshot of the fs concerned. How any bg fsck corrections are woven back into the live fs

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Chris wrote: On 20/08/07, Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the repeat post folks, but I goofed last time, leaving out the subject line while replying to the digest. Still curious .. Ian === On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:32:28 +0200 Erik Trulsson

Re: Trying to move /usr

2007-08-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Michael S wrote: Thanks for your help Ian, I got it fixed. Had to remove /home and recreate it once again. Good to hear, Michael! --- Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [blah] Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Trying to move /usr

2007-08-20 Thread Ian Smith
Michael, firstly let me quote the head of your original message, just so I/we don't get too confused, especially by all the gratuitous re-quoting of subsequent 'relative irrelevancies' like your dmesg .. I am trying to migrate my /usr to a newly installed SCSI drive. Up until yesterday I had /,

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-19 Thread Ian Smith
Sorry for the repeat post folks, but I goofed last time, leaving out the subject line while replying to the digest. Still curious .. Ian === On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:32:28 +0200 Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 08:21:42PM +0100, Christopher Key wrote: Hello,

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2007-08-18 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:32:28 +0200 Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 08:21:42PM +0100, Christopher Key wrote: Hello, I'm having some rather strange behaviour with fsck. When I boot the system, it asserts that all the file systems are clean, but

Re: Bizzare routing table entry.

2007-08-08 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 15:37:50 -0700 Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 7, 2007, at 3:13 PM, Adam J Richardson wrote: Modulok wrote: 00xc0a80132 link#1 UCS 00 bge0 snip 1. The first entry, it's not IPv4, IPv6 or a MAC address that I've

Re: what to do with this..?

2007-08-08 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 07:35:42 -0400 Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have a serial files named as 1.zip, 2.z01, 3.z02, etc. what to do with this? I tried unzip but have trouble, thansk!! assuming that you have installed port or package archivers/unzip .. You can 'unzip 1' for

Re: logging system load

2007-08-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 12:52:20 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 13:44:33 +0300, Nikos Vassiliadis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 25 July 2007 20:50, Momchil Ivanov wrote: На Wednesday 25 July 2007 19:38:41 Zbigniew Szalbot написа: Dear

Re: USB Mouse not Working

2007-07-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:58:39 +0100 Adam J Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I beleive in the past I have checked with #cat /dev/ums0 and if things are working corectly, cat display binary garbage on the screen when you wiggle the mouse. Try this after killing moused (moused

fsck to fix HD problem

2007-07-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:27:27 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got a Charlie report: +WARNING: / was not properly dismounted +WARNING: /var was not properly dismounted +/var: mount pending error: blocks 8200 files 43 +/usr: mount pending error: blocks 4552 files 6

Re: Installing in a logical partition

2007-07-14 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:44:57 +0200 h p [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I try to install FreBSD 6.2 as third OS on my laptop (after Windows XP and Gentoo Linux). I only have a logical partition left for it. sysinstall only shows four slices on my hard drive, ad4s1 - ad4s4. ad4s4 is correctly

Re: Adding a new command

2007-07-08 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 16:20:53 -0500 Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On Jul 7, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Peter Boosten wrote: It's more obvious to put local scripts in /usr/local/bin, IMHO. Let me add to this (as someone who recently moved from linux to FreeBSD). Unlike Linux, FreeBSD isn't just a

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

2007-07-01 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:12:28 +0200 cpghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using fan-less Soekris (266 MHz) and EPIA (500 MHz) boards with -STABLE. Those boards have been emitting a very high pitched annoying whine, similar to a dog whistle. Not everyone I asked could hear it, but I was,

Re: Verifying PHP support

2007-06-27 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:49:51 -0400 (CLT) Daniel Molina Wegener [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El Mar, 26 de Junio de 2007, 10:38, Darryl Hoar escribió: Greetings, I have a machine with 6.2 release installed on it. I have apache 1.3.37 installed and am using it for my personal website.

Re: Fresh install won't compile requirement libraries for cvsup

2007-06-14 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Andrew Falanga wrote: On 6/13/07, Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:02:38 -0600 Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a hard hang. Nothing worked. I could not even Alt+num to a different pseudo terminal. The system just hard

Re: Apache access log shows these attack requests

2007-06-14 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:50:20 -0400 Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Bob, please learn how to quote in a reply to a message - it's pretty hard to figure out who's written what otherwise. So much so, it's easier to respond to Bob via yours

Re: Fresh install won't compile requirement libraries for cvsup

2007-06-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:02:38 -0600 Andrew Falanga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a hard hang. Nothing worked. I could not even Alt+num to a different pseudo terminal. The system just hard hanged. I rebooted and tried the install again with the same result. At the same place? If so, I'd tend

Re: Apache access log shows these attack requests

2007-06-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:54:47 -0400 Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: Php5 port and Apache Module

2007-06-10 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 21:45:03 -0400 Christopher Hilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan Horne wrote: Bob wrote: The php4 php5 port apache module used to be default before FBSD 6.0. Around 6.0 may have been the timeline for this change, but it affected users of 5.4 and 5.5 too; one

Re: Php5 port and Apache Module

2007-06-10 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Matthew Seaman wrote: Ian Smith wrote: Around 6.0 may have been the timeline for this change, but it affected users of 5.4 and 5.5 too; one 5.5-STABLE here. I ran into this updating phpMyAdmin last year, which also enforced upgrading from php4 to php5

Re: Php5 port and Apache Module

2007-06-10 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Matthew Seaman wrote: Ian Smith wrote: Anyway, water under the bridge; phpMyAdmin 2.9.1 works fine, and I soon have another big upgrade to do (patiently awaiting xorg 7 packages :) I take it you are aware of: http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page

Re: fbsd 6.2 pf starts -- but not on boot

2007-06-05 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:37:25 -0700 snowcrash+freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: cat /etc/ppp/ppp.conf default: set device PPPoE:sis1: set speed sync set ctsrts off set dial

Re: fbsd 6.2 pf starts -- but not on boot

2007-06-05 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, snowcrash+freebsd wrote: well, per Ian's catch/suggestion, removing the 'blank line' from my ppp.conf, and moving, add default HISADDR to the ppp1: connection stanza seems to have done the trick! pf loads properly on reboot. swithc it back, and it does

Re: fbsd 6.2 pf starts -- but not on boot

2007-06-04 Thread Ian Smith
On 4 Jun 2007 14:03:20 -0700 snowcrash+freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on boot, pf is, apparently, not starting. but, if i exec /etc/rc.d/pf start immediately after boot to prompt is done, then all's OK. the only related (?) messages -- error or otherwise -- i've found

Re: COM1 problems

2007-06-03 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 01:01:38 -0700 (PDT) Tim Judd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, new installation, 6.2-STABLE. I have a Belkin UPS on COM1 and sysutils/nut is trying to talk with it. I know it talks with it, because it has in the past. The problem I'm getting is that NUT is just

Re: Restore UFS snapshot

2007-05-28 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 27 May 2007 11:01:53 -0400 Maxim Khitrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/27/07, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 07:08:31PM -0400, Maxim Khitrov wrote: I don't think he is talking about that. From what I understand about the snapshot system

gstat [was: raid or not raid]

2007-05-25 Thread Ian Smith
Hey Beto, On Fri, 25 May 2007 19:55:47 +1000 Norberto Meijome wrote: replying to your email down the thread...but using this content... hijacking the thread almost entirely off to the side .. 0 6 66278.5 0 00.05.0| ad4s1g the g partition in

Extended partition

2007-05-24 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 23 May 2007 17:30:29 +0330 Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I have 1 freebsd partiotion 4 other partitions: 1.Etended DOS (Primary) 2.ext3 logical under 1 3.ext3 logical under 1 4.solaris swap (primary) When i mount ext3 partitions, i receive invalid

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