Re: 5000' ethernet?

2009-07-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
mode DTEs do not implement the CSMA/CD algorithms traditionally used to arbitrate access to shared-media LANs. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd

Re: Hacker problem...Takes down apache?

2009-07-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
may be enough. You might be able to clean up the hack by reverse-engineering it, but you'll never be able to be sure you got everything. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: firefox 3.5 exited on signal 12

2009-07-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
1001: exited on signal 12 (core dumped) Do others experience it? Is there a fix for this? You may need sem(4) loaded. It's a module, so you can try it out without rebuilding your kernel. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org

Re: update from 7.0 to 7.2?

2009-06-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 To something newer? (like 7.2 stable) Would there be any noticeable benefit from an update? At *least* make sure you get the security updates... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org

Re: Adding data to existing CD/DVD

2009-06-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
cannot get a handle on how to do it on FreeBSD. Maybe I need a different program? Certainly the sysutils/k3b port makes it much simpler. But the command line is quite easy too, now that I have a working script written down. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: Untrusted X11 forwarding setup failed

2009-06-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
authentication data for X11 forwarding. When I log in to the same servers from my Ubuntu machines, I do NOT get that message. What's wrong here? See the ssh(1) manual for information on the -X and -Y options, and ssh_config(5) for information on ForwardX11Trusted. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking

Re: kern.securelevel

2009-06-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
is that it only helps if you are sure you will know if the system reboots. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Cannot login as root, exited on signal 11

2009-06-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
think that would be /etc/profile, /root/.profile, anything that ENV might be set to. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: python2.5-2.6 and mailman(python2.5)

2009-06-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
hardcoded in many, many scripts, cron etc... How to solve this in the most clean manner? I just shut mailman down and did a full rebuild of it (portupgrade -f mailman). -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: python2.5-2.6 and mailman(python2.5)

2009-06-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org writes: I just shut mailman down and did a full rebuild of it (portupgrade -f mailman). and submitted a PR to add it to the upgrade-site-packages target. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: Make Question

2009-06-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
problems (missing distfiles and so on). But is worth trying if you must stay with 5.X for whatever reason. One thing it won't do is get you any of the bug fixes to the ssh port. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: Problem with burncd

2009-06-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
to burn onto the CD. I find it very unlikely that you really want to burn a text file directly. I suggest you start by reading the documentation on the subject: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer

Re: tcllib error while installing tcllib on amd64 system running freebsd 7.0

2009-06-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: JDK US DST Timezone Update Tool - 1.3.12

2009-06-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Kyle Grieb kyle@gmail.com writes: I get a dead link from [http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp] to download the required file [tzupdater-1_3_12-2009a.zip]. It's up to /usr/ports/distfiles/tzupdater-1_3_15-2009g.zip now. You need to update your ports. -- Lowell Gilbert

Re: HandbooK-Free BSD

2009-06-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
are directions for downloading the Handbook in a variety of formats. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: portupgrade jails

2009-05-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
/xserver/var/db/ports viper:~$ viper:~$ sudo portupgrade -narR It sounds like PREFIX is the one you're not picking up. Perhaps it's being overridden by one of your makefiles, or by portupgrade's configuration files? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: Do not copy kernel to kernel.old

2009-05-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
of investigation led me to think that reinstallkernel was what you were looking for. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: How to recover disk space after filesystem full

2009-05-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Luke Dean lu...@pobox.com writes: Yes, it sounds like a stupid question, but let me tell the story. The log for my dhcp server filled up /var last night, which meant that dhcpd was also unable to hand out new leases, which meant that I had effectively been DOSed. I'll have to look into

Re: suitesparse - error when compiling from ports

2009-05-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
there's a missing dependency on math/libgmp4. That's puzzling, though, because the FreeBSD build cluster built it fine just a couple of days ago. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: Unable to compile Hal

2009-05-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
hal; I get an error message /usr/local/lib/libpolkit.so: undefined reference to 'strn...@fbsd_1.1'. Any suggestions would be welcome. Please post the entire message, and any relevant lines leading up to it. Also, as is usually the case, the output of uname -a would be a good idea. -- Lowell

Re: cups-base upgrade failure

2009-05-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
, and everything was happy afterwards... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Run script on boot, as ordinary user

2009-05-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com writes: Seems that @reboot in cron is what I need. It's too bad that there's no straightforward shutdown hook. If you really want an rc-style system available to users, it should only be ten minutes work to write something simple... -- Lowell Gilbert

Re: ReturnCode Checking for FTP

2009-05-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
of them. The native ftp(1) programs are quite different on all three of those platforms are quite different. I hear ncftp is nice. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: ReturnCode Checking for FTP

2009-05-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
don't understand your question. Are you looking for an FTP client that will provide specific return codes for specific errors? Are you looking for the error codes for a specific FTP client? Are you looking for help scripting your use of an FTP client? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software

Re: Dump snapshot issue...

2009-05-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
they are supposed to be unlinked when the dump starts anyway, so they shouldn't be sticking around. Also, look for file flags on the directories, or ACLs, etc. And consider the permissions you're running dump with. Good luck. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: ReturnCode Checking for FTP

2009-05-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
. I've never used return codes with ftp(1), but I have used them with fetch(1), which is also part of the base system. Have you tried fetch? If it doesn't meet your needs, can you explain why? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http

Re: Problem with make config and OPTIONS

2009-04-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
you typed? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Chicken and egg

2009-04-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
the dependency came from on your system, it would be a start towards other people being able to provide advice. Good luck. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Chicken and egg

2009-04-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
of this problem before, I can't see any direct dependency of either libdrm or cairo on the other. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: write_dma error

2009-04-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
a bit with different installs (i.e. whether i see the error or not) Hmm. ICRC errors are about the controller talking to the disk electronics. They don't generally have anything to do with the magnetic medium itself. Try replacing the cable. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software

Re: java using 100% CPU

2009-04-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
installed the plugins, but with native firefox-3.0.8,1 and native jdk-1.6.0.3p4_10, I don't have this problem. I installed the plugins with links in my home directory, as described in the 20090109 entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: IPFW missing feature

2009-04-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
that lookup before you do a setfib action. On the other hand, I don't see any point in doing that, because there can only be one result for a given address in your table(X), so there's no reason to have more than one FIB. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: Question about amd64 tier1 status.

2009-04-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
that might be conceivably be useful on more than one platform would have to build on all Tier 1 platforms. This probably won't ever be possible again on *any* platform, so it isn't really a useful standard to apply. I am redirecting the question to -docs... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking

Re: IPFW missing feature

2009-04-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
with setfib? Because tables are a feature of IPFW, and the FIB isn't. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: IPFW: table approvement

2009-04-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
there would be more data structure traversal on every packet. Probably better would be to stick to the current scheme in the value itself, and hash out of it. A big advantage of open source, of course, is that you can try your ideas out yourself, and see how they work. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded

Re: combining network interfaces

2009-04-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
that directly. One idea might be to run a firewall to choose the packets and to forward a copy to a dummy interface that can be monitored. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: Copying files without scp

2009-04-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
, but if the data consists of a lot of different files, using tar on both ends of a pipe will probably be much faster. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Recovering loss of /var/db/pkg ?

2009-04-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
the ports to a non-standard PREFIX, and use the results of that to tell you which ports need to be reinstalled to the standard PREFIX. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: non-root user able to burn CD

2009-03-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
and i get associated icon on my desktop Where do i set who has permissions to burn with the CD drive? See the Creating and Using Optical Media (CDs) chapter of the FreeBSD Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded

Re: bash suddenly doesn't like $() syntax

2009-03-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
, the port needs to be built with bison instead of the system yacc. The port has been updated to do this; make sure you have version 1.111 of the port's Makefile. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: bash suddenly doesn't like $() syntax

2009-03-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
compatibility mode now? It's a bug in bash 4. It was discussed here a few days ago. I would deinstall v.4 and install shells/bash3 until the bug's fixed. Which happened a week ago. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: bash suddenly doesn't like $() syntax

2009-03-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
or in the bash build assuming Gnuisms from bison, but bash really was broken for a while on $(...) formulations. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Physical location of cvsup servers

2009-03-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
the machine hosting one gets retired. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Finding Dependencies

2009-03-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
that information. Yes, it does. With the '-R' option. The manual is our friend... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: MSI nettop supported?

2009-03-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
to evaluate, because that web page doesn't list any details about the hardware. Flash disks are no big deal, especially if they will already be inserted at boot time. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: the pause that removes

2009-03-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
instantaneous to remove on any filesystem. I haven't done any benchmarks, either, though. I'm not going to accept it as a real FreeBSD advantage unless I saw some solid benchmarks... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org

Re: port nasm wont upgrade

2009-03-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
in the first place. Besides, if you have a missing (or corrupted) file in your ports tree, there may be others. If you update your ports tree regularly anyway, I would recommend removing that directory and updating. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system

2009-02-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
now that you mention it especially in light of reading your further comments below. Note that it should probably be using the newly-built touch(1) at that point, so one possibility is that make(1) is confused, possibly by an incorrect clock. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software

Re: Problem when uploading files with Apache

2009-02-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
are uploading into should be owned by the group you want the files to have. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: gtkpod permissions problem

2009-02-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
on that file, and the directory containing it, and the mount point. I'm sure at least one of them isn't sufficiently permitted to the user running gtkpod. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: Playing audio CDs

2009-02-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
in FreeBSD? See the entry in the FreeBSD FAQ titled Why can I not mount an audio CD? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#MOUNT-AUDIO-CD -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: Power off and network apcupsd

2009-02-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
. Any experience with that will be of high interest to me. I use the apcupsd port on a couple of FreeBSD machines, with both powered by my APC UPS. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: x11/libXrandr, x11-toolkits/libXmu, graphics/jasper fails to build

2009-01-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
*. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Buildworld error

2009-01-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
error: in find_idf, If the errors are different each time, it's probably not a software problem. Test your RAM. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Start-up of freeBSD need help with one question.

2009-01-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
it? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: x11-toolkits/linux-gtk2 problem/question.

2009-01-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
printed out when you installed one of the linux_base ports, telling you how to configure it. I think the fc4 version is the default these days; if that is what you are using, the message is in the file /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-fc4/pkg-message -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software

Re: old cruft after source upgrading --- clean install?

2009-01-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
generally no need to do anything. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: old cruft after source upgrading --- clean install?

2009-01-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
.) should not orphan any libraries (occasionally there is a bug in a port that does, but it's rare). As far as the base system, remember the make delete-old step, which is part of the official UPDATING instructions. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: 'top' shows wrong CPU usage

2009-01-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
% dummynet -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Cannot perform user mounts after upgrade

2009-01-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
it. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: DUMP: read error: Bad address

2009-01-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
the disk firmware for *its* opinion? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Port 7070

2009-01-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
to let through. Nothing is actually listening on that port on the server, though, which is why you don't see anything in sockstat et. al. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: Logs from wireless routers disclosing L2/MAC info?

2009-01-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
the brand name is included in the email,) and, the MAC address of the cable modem's router port. Was I potty trained wrong, or is this risky. It could be, but isn't necessarily. Depends on other details of how the network is set up. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston

Re: RAM/Memory resources on 7 STABLE

2009-01-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
, 1447M Free Swap: 2014M Total, 2014M Free See the FreeBSD FAQ entry titled Why does top show very little free memory even when I have very few programs running?. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: newbie: does irq setting in device.hints work?

2009-01-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Zhang Weiwu zhangwe...@realss.com writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Have you checked what happens if you disable your APIC? You mean ACPI? No, I meant the APIC, the interrupt controller. But I don't think you can do that without compiling a special kernel for it, so it may not be worth

Re: kernel panic

2009-01-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
the loader.old Could anyone please help me? Can you boot from a CD to fix things up? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: 7.1 : watchdog bge0 timeout ?

2009-01-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
be hardware trouble, I suppose. The whole point of a watchdog is to let the driver recover after the hardware has locked up. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd

Re: wiping a drive with dd

2009-01-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
gpeel gp...@thenetnow.com writes: When dd is used like: dd if=/dev/0 of=/dev/da1 bs=1024 Does it completely wipe the drive INCLUDING the boot sectors etc? (i.e. does it start right at secor 0 of the disk and continue to the last sector?). Assuming you mean /dev/zero, yes. -- Lowell

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386 will changing root shell break anything?

2009-01-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
, anyone who cares what shell root runs is probably spending too much time running as root -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground

2009-01-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Login accounts don't work after update to 7.1

2009-01-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
machine, so we can understand it better. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: ports tree build ignores /etc/make.conf

2009-01-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
makefile. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: how to use the MFS ?

2009-01-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
could well end up making your builds *slower* with the MFS than they would have been without it. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: newbie: does irq setting in device.hints work?

2009-01-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
interrupt if you can, not because it necessarily generates a lot of them, but because it can spend a lot of time handling each one... Have you checked what happens if you disable your APIC? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http

Re: Login accounts don't work after update to 7.1

2009-01-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
if I can use it to repair the main system. I sure hope that won't help. That would defeat the point of jails, wouldn't it? ;-) -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: some doubts..

2009-01-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
/local/include/sasl -DSASL SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib SENDMAIL_LDADD=-lsasl2 could be wrong am no expert, .. Not only are you right, but the English version does say make.conf. I suggest you check with the Dutch translation team... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer

Re: Upgrade a USB-stick contained system

2009-01-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
places for this application. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: some doubts..

2009-01-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Wouter Snels nos...@ofloo.org writes: Lowell Gilbert schreef: Wouter Snels nos...@ofloo.org writes: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/nl/books/handbook/smtp-auth.html i think there is a problem on that page, i've noticed that you are supposed to add following in rc.conf, however i remember

Re: During install: device Probe freezes after detecting Ethernet address

2009-01-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
and not a master. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: obsolete /usr/share/doc/handbook ?

2008-12-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
sites. Every document includes a suggestion to do so from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/ -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: ssh and X11 problem

2008-12-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
error message are indicating the problem, but I don't know what they're telling us. The hostname should probably be localhost, and sshd_config is set up to do that by default. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: running shell command through ssh tunnel

2008-12-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
noah:noah /shares/internal/Music/' Maybe I haven't had enough coffee yet, but wouldn't that just be ssh n...@192.168.1.20 'chown -R noah:noah /shares/internal/Music/' ? You might even want to use '-n' as an option to the ssh command. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: SMP and ACPI problem ??

2008-12-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
have caused this and what I can do to get it back to the way it was. I wouldn't be surprised if it were a hardware problem, which can be tricky to trace down from the software side. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: Having issues with the nvidia driver on my box

2008-12-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
for? If find that the open-source nv driver works just fine for most things (I, too, do not play games on my desktop computer). Until I installed Google Earth, the proprietary driver was completely unnecessary for me. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: nat and ipfw, port forwarding

2008-12-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
/books/handbook/network-natd.html -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: EOIP Tunnels

2008-12-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
info? I'd look at the manuals for netgraph's Ethernet nodes, and perhaps the GIF source code. But I'd *really* recommend you tunnel IP rather than ethernet if you can. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: how can i be certain that a file has copied exactly?

2008-12-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
it will be comparing against the cache of the file's buffers, not against what is really on disk, so if you suspect an operating system or hardware-write bug, you won't spot it immediately. What, precisely, would you like to protect against? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer

Re: how can i be certain that a file has copied exactly?

2008-12-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
the names just like you would on the command line (modulo escaping for C's special characters), it should work fine. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions

Re: how can i be certain that a file has copied exactly?

2008-12-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes: On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 08:32:45PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org writes: is there a way i can be sure that my little C program has copied a dos/win file named, say, foo.htm\;7 to simply foo.htm? my program uses

Re: strange fsck results

2008-12-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
filesystem it mounts. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD 7.0

2008-12-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
. Does anyone have a clue where to find the solution? According to my quick look at the code, that message isn't necessarily a hint to the problem. Do you have a RAID array in the machine? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org

Re: empty root password

2008-12-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
chpass(1) *should* work. Since it didn't, I suggest looking at the password file. Use vipw(8) for that, and see if there is anything in the password field for the root password. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: Network Stack Code Re-write (Possible motivations...?)

2008-12-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com writes: On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:54:24 -0500 Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: However, commercial routers generally do not use their OS kernel this way -- it is far more common that the kernel does send and receive packets within its

Re: Network Stack Code Re-write (Possible motivations...?)

2008-12-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
a more specific set of questions to investigate. If you're looking for more of an overview, the usual suspects (books by Comer, Stevens, Tanenbaum, etc.) will be a good start. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

Re: Network Stack Code Re-write (Possible motivations...?)

2008-12-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
in the router still uses the native stack for its own communications. I apologize if this message isn't clear; I was avoiding any information specific to the systems I currently work on, and I may have fuzzed things out a bit too much. Be well. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer

Re: dump and soft-updates question

2008-12-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
to /dev/rmt because you failed to supply an alternative destination? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Network Stack Code Re-write (Possible motivations...?)

2008-12-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
into your system from the ground up. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Network Stack Code Re-write (Possible motivations...?)

2008-12-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
with the entity managing the routing data, although sometimes the management is done completely out-of-band, in which case the kernel's forwarding data need not have any connection with the data driven into the forwarding hardware. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: can not start SVNserve

2008-12-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
be used in scripts that are part of the base system. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Extracting changed files list from snapshot

2008-12-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
be to generate an mtree(1) description for each snapshot, and using that to compare against other snapshots. You have to mount the snapshot for that, though... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell

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