Re: Bizarre behaviour of Linux binary under 7.1

2009-03-14 Thread Michael Powell
Christopher Key wrote: Hello, I recently upgraded from 6.3 (i386) to 7.1p3 (amd64) with a view to experimenting with zfs. Mostly, everything went smoothly, but I am getting some very odd behaviour from a linux utility. The program is very simple, it has two executables, A and B. A is

Re: Perl5 with threads?

2009-03-13 Thread Michael Powell
s0rk wrote: Hello FreeBSD-Team, i got a question about the Perl version in 7.1 release. I needed Perl 5.8.10 but this wasn't available, okay i only need the perl threds but this isn't on in default. I set it in my ports dir in my MAKEFILE on, but wasn't accepted. How can i use

Re: PAE kernel problem on Dell PowerEdge 2950

2009-03-11 Thread Michael Powell
Olivier Nicole wrote: [snip] And I stick to RELENG, not STABLE, because I want to patch security bugs, but I most probably does not need all the new bells and whistles of STABLE: this is a production server, I prefer to modify the machine as least as possible, unless it is expressely needed

Re: PAE kernel problem on Dell PowerEdge 2950

2009-03-11 Thread Michael Powell
Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, why not simply use /amd64? You mean he changes the CPU? All CPUs generally shipped from Dell anymore are 64bit capable. Do you have the original specs (take the service tag, go to dell support - warranty - original system config) and paste that. It gives

Re: acroread error with libgobject-2.0.so.0

2009-03-11 Thread Michael Powell
David Banning wrote: I have installed acroread8 with no errors, however on execution I get the following error; /usr/local/Adobe/Reader8/ENU/Adobe/Reader8/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: error while loading shared libraries: libgobject-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file

Re: acroread error with libgobject-2.0.so.0

2009-03-11 Thread Michael Powell
David Banning wrote: [snip] Please forgive if I seem a trifle dense, but how did you go about installing? If done using the ports system, as part of the process linux_compat and various linux-* ports should have installed as dependencies. Perhaps the install succeeded but left out

Re: Help required for configuring FreeBSD with DHCP

2009-03-10 Thread Michael Powell
manish jain wrote: Hi all, I have a dual boot system (FreeBSD 7.1 + Windows 2000). I am trying out FreeBSD for the first time with an ISP who runs a DHCP server. Until the times of static addresses, everything was so simple in FreeBSD. Now I am forced to ask for help because the ISP is

Re: roundcube security bug

2009-03-09 Thread Michael Powell
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: hello, I strongly advise anyone who has the mail/roundcube port or software installed to be careful as it has a security bug (and I do not know where to report it). It allows people to remotely place a trojan on /tmp and use it. They do it like this: 213.96.25.30

Re: Which install ?

2009-03-09 Thread Michael Powell
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 11:25:06AM -0500, Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I just purchased an older rack mounted supermicro server. It is running CentOS, but I want to install Freebsd on it. The server has (2) Xeon processors. Which download should I use ? i386 ???

RE: Which install ?

2009-03-09 Thread Michael Powell
Darryl Hoar wrote: [snip] After looking at the referenced wiki and my system, I believe I have a supermicro SuperServer 6012L-6. It has (2) Xeon 512K L2 Prestonia processors. They are Installed in a P4DLR+ motherboard which has 603 pin sockets. From this, I believe I should install

Re: freebsd 7.1, building kernel

2009-03-09 Thread Michael Powell
gahn wrote: Hi, all: I am trying to build customized kernel with device carp and followed kernel building procedure of the handbook. unfortunately it is failed: lab1# make buildkernel KERNCONF=lab1 ERROR: Missing kernel configuration file(s) (lab1). *** Error code 1 Stop in

Re: php5 changes in release 8.0

2009-03-05 Thread Michael Powell
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com: Having problems installing php5 in 7.1 so tried 8.0 and see that in release 8.0 php5 in defaulting to apache 22 when apache interface is selected from the make config menu. The config menu should give option to select apache 13

Re: Kernel Compile issue

2009-03-02 Thread Michael Powell
Paige Thompson wrote: Also I wanted to note how I got to this problem: [root@ /usr/src]# make buildkernel config=GENERIC 2 error.log [snip] cd /usr/obj and rm -rf usr before trying again. Then cd /usr/src and do: make buildkernel KERNCONF=nameofsomeconffile another example: make

Re: libpthread not found

2009-03-01 Thread Michael Powell
m.borsat...@alice.it wrote: [snip] thanks ... but ... how? now I don't get the first message; but the second tells me that a library is missing, but it is present. anyway I' prepared a very simple /etc/libmap.conf like this: # /etc/libmap.conf # # candidate mapping #

Re: libpthread not found

2009-03-01 Thread Michael Powell
m.borsat...@alice.it wrote: thanks ... but ... how? now I don't get the first message; but the second tells me that a library is missing, but it is present. anyway I' prepared a very simple /etc/libmap.conf like this: # /etc/libmap.conf # # candidate mapping # libc.so.6

Re: Odd DNS requests

2009-02-28 Thread Michael Powell
Ian Smith wrote: Hi, recently we've had a Mac notebook of some sort on our LAN, that likes to make these DNS queries from time to time, to no avail, as noticed on a filtering bridge between the LAN and the router+DNS at 192.168.0.1: 16:13:05.020397 192.168.0.59.53207 192.168.0.1.53:

Re: A problem about pkg_deinstall

2009-02-28 Thread Michael Powell
lacalling wrote: I have some problems about pkg_deinstall. pkg_deinstall -R deletes packages depended recursively. but it seems to crashes some other packages. for example,i installed pkg A,it depends on pkg b,c,d. pkg_deinstall -R will deletes A,b,c,d. but if b is depended by

Re: RELENG_7 != STABLE?

2009-02-24 Thread Michael Powell
Paul Schmehl wrote: [snip] *default host=cvsup12.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default tag=RELENG_7 *default release=cvs *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress Try a different server further up in the hierarchy. I recently had a similar situation with

Re: kernel compile problems

2009-02-21 Thread Michael Powell
daemon wrote: Hi, I try to build a 7.1 kernel but when i does # make depend make clean depend make shows : make : don't know how to make ../../../dev/agp/agp.c. Stop anyone know anything? Thanks! [snip] Have you tried cd to /usr/src and make buildkernel KERNCONF=yourkernel and

Re: Recommendations for running FreeBSD as a guest OS

2009-02-14 Thread Michael Powell
Bobby Walker wrote: I have a small network at work that, unfortunately, uses Windows 2003. I need a good mail server, but I do not have a budget for purchasing additional software. Exchange requires too many hacks to configure a catchall email account, and Exchange and I do not get along

Re: Apache/php

2009-02-12 Thread Michael Powell
Fbsd1 wrote: I have php code on home page to count how many times it is accessed from the internet. Problem is pages deeper in website can jump back direct to home page and this again gets counted. Is there any way to give the php counter routine intelligent so it will bypass bumping the

Re: Help with high LA

2009-02-12 Thread Michael Powell
sc...@centroin.com.br wrote: Hi All, I need help for some strange problem with one of my servers, that can cost my job. It's a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p5/amd64 running on a Dell PowerEdge III as a Virtual machine of VMware ESXi. There are only two VM in this box, and one of them (basicly a

Re: Samba 3.2 FreeBSD

2009-02-10 Thread Michael Powell
Proskurin Kirill wrote: Odhiambo Washington wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Proskurin Kirill Just wondering - why samba 3.2+ is not in a ports? net/samba3-devel ?? Oh. But why it is devel? Samba 3.3 is officially stable. Look in the subdirectory called files for the port. You

Re: problem mounting dvd ISO

2009-02-06 Thread Michael Powell
cguan wrote: yes, I did. # kldstat -v | grep udf 42 0xc44bd000 7000 udf.ko 419 udf 51 0xc4498000 2000 udf_iconv.ko 423 udf_iconv # mount -t udf /dev/md0 ../iso_mount/w2k8-amd64 mount_udf: /dev/md0: Invalid argument # Is it possible the udf version is too new

Re: having trouble with OpenOffice

2009-02-06 Thread Michael Powell
Andrew Falanga wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Tonight I finally took the bull by the horns and got OpenOffice installed. However, I'm not having a problem that I haven't found an answer to yet but seems

Re: problem mounting dvd ISO

2009-02-05 Thread Michael Powell
cguan wrote: Hi, I'm trying to mount a w2k8 dvd iso image on freebsd 7 using mdconfig and mount -t cd9660. the commands appeared to be working fine but when I look at the mount point I only see a readme.txt file reads: This disc contains a UDF file system and requires an operating

Re: Shuttle for a BSD file server?

2009-01-30 Thread Michael Powell
Maxim Khitrov wrote: Greetings, I'm planning to build a new home file server for myself, starting with about 2TB of RAID6 space, but with room to grow in the future. Most of that will be on SATA drives, but I may throw in two SAS drives in RAID1 for the base OS, hence the SAS raid

Re: Help needed w/ HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE

2009-01-17 Thread Michael Powell
ThinkDifferently wrote: Michael Powell-6 wrote: ThinkDifferently wrote: In my BIOS there is the following... Hard Disk Boot Priority [Press Enter] 1. SCSI-0:: RocketRAID 3120 SATA C 2. Bootable Add-in Cards So what happens when you choose 2. Bootable Add

Re: Help needed w/ HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE

2009-01-17 Thread Michael Powell
ThinkDifferently wrote: [snip] Gigabyte's tech support guy was a whole lot more helpful, but in the end he couldn't get it to work either. His working theory is that since the motherboard has its own RAID controller (even if it's disabled), it may be interfering with the RocketRAID's

Re: Help needed w/ HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE

2009-01-16 Thread Michael Powell
ThinkDifferently wrote: Michael Powell-6 wrote: In your motherboard BIOS is there any entry that controls which controller boots first? If so set it to boot from the add-in card first instead of the onboard controller. In my BIOS there is the following... Hard Disk Boot Priority

Re: kernel configuration

2009-01-15 Thread Michael Powell
Chuck Swiger wrote: [snip] While it is true that you can comment out all but i686 and get a working kernel, you will experience reduced performance. There are a number of low-level assembly routines (cf sys/i386/i386/support.s such as i586_bcopy) that are conditionalized off of I586_CPU

Re: Help needed w/ HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE

2009-01-15 Thread Michael Powell
Jeremy Gagliardi wrote: I'm having trouble with HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE. I have 2 disks on it in a mirror configuration. Everything seems to go swimmingly through the FreeBSD installation, up until the final reboot... 1) Boot from Disc 1. 2) At the Welcome to

Re: updating to 7.1 with a small root slice

2009-01-14 Thread Michael Powell
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 08:13, Zbigniew Szalbot zszal...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I am looking for your advice. Due to a very stupid design decision my / slice is only 256 MB. It seems too little so whenever I compile a Actually it is 242MB I have one

Re: Cannot get ethernet off the ground

2009-01-10 Thread Michael Powell
William Gordon Rutherdale wrote: I have to use paper-sneakernet because - no network connectivity yet - tried plugging in a memory stick; it flashed but nothing showed up with the 'mount' command Here are the last two entries from the 'pciconf -lv' command, which look relevant to the

Re: two ethernet cards

2009-01-02 Thread Michael Powell
Stefan Miklosovic wrote: hi i have two ethernet cards on my box uname -a FreeBSD dexter 7.0-RELEASE Freebsd 7.0-RELEASE #5: Fri Jan 2 21:25:21 CET 2009 r...@dexter:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DEXTER i386 ifconfig rl0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500

Re: local copy of handbook

2009-01-01 Thread Michael Powell
Masoom Shaikh wrote: [snip] wow, am waiting eagerlyHTML is complex, what is SGML :) Stands for Standard Generalized Markup Language, with roots in the printing industry. When authors submit a manuscript for publishing it contains content, but it is up to the typesetter how it will

Re: cannot compile linphone due to compile error message in gio-fam-backend

2008-12-31 Thread Michael Powell
Zhang Weiwu wrote: Hello. I failed to compile linphone on my FreeBSD 6-1 (yes I know it's old but as it has been working well for the last several years I got no motivate to upgrade it unless have to). The last error message says: [from gio-fam-backend ]: cannot find -lgio-2.0 It

Re: How do I configure PHP to use curl?

2008-12-30 Thread Michael Powell
John Almberg wrote: I just ran into something that has me stumped. It's probably a real newbie question, but I can't figure it out... I'm trying to add curl support to my PHP installation, but when I run 'make config' in the /usr/ports/lang/php5 directory, curl is not one of the very small

Re: Having issues with the nvidia driver on my box

2008-12-27 Thread Michael Powell
Lowell Gilbert wrote: af300...@gmail.com writes: For several reasons, one of which was to use the nvidia driver for my board, I switched from amd64 to i386. So, I installed the driver and although things are working I'm getting this on console 0: NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this

Re: [6.3] Missing portdowngrade?

2008-12-20 Thread Michael Powell
Gilles wrote: Hello I need to downgrade a software from the Ports collection because it's buggy on my hardware, but the portdowngrade utility doesn't seem to exist in the 6.3 Ports: = # cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portdowngrade -bash: cd: /usr/ports/sysutils/portdowngrade: No such

Re: skype

2008-12-13 Thread Michael Powell
Glen Barber wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Daniel Leal dl...@webvolution.net wrote: Hi ! Is there a problem if I use skype as root? like sudo skype. Because, if not i will get no sound! You should never run any network-connected software as root, as it is a huge security

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-12 Thread Michael Powell
Chad Perrin wrote: On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 12:05:20PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: So . . . are you saying that increased support for 3D accelerated graphics is not an improvement, and should therefore not be considered a worthy goal? full support of open hardware standards is an

Re: Locked myself out.. AGAIN!!

2008-12-07 Thread Michael Powell
Redd Vinylene wrote: Thanks guys. But I guess I'm all outta luck: $ sudo -s /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libutil.so.5 not found, required by sudo [snip] Don't know if this would help but you might try creating a file called libmap.conf in /etc and place in it: libutil.so.5

Re: Locked myself out.. AGAIN!!

2008-12-07 Thread Michael Powell
Ruben de Groot wrote: [snip] This advise is only helpful if you have root allready =) I've never figured out why people seem to always want to play with the root account the way they do, such as the favorite I wanna use bash for root's shell... Since the OP seems to want to keep playing with

Re: custom kernel

2008-12-06 Thread Michael Powell
PJ wrote: [snip] there was another error in that kernel at the very beginning - the SCHEDULE_4BSD was SCHEDULE_UNO or something like that.. but it was commented out...perhaps these glitches happened through some kind of accidental typos in vi [snip] SCHED_4BSD is being replaced

Re: cups issue, unsupported format

2008-12-06 Thread Michael Powell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm working on getting cups working and I've installed the hplip port and the cups program used that to install the printer. At least, there was an HPLIP in a list in one of the pages during the setup. My printer is an old HP LaserJet 4+ which I've connected

Re: custom kernel

2008-12-05 Thread Michael Powell
PJ wrote: [snip] Read carefully: uvscom.o (.text+0x293): In function 'uvscom_attach' ; :undefined reference to 'ucom_attach' etc. *** Error code 1 See further down at bottom. did I do something wrong? system is still on and functioning but how do I make the custom kernel? The

Re: pf or ipf rules to allow p2p Limewire through

2008-11-28 Thread Michael Powell
Fbsd1 wrote: [snip] The only way i can run limewire is to disable my firewall and that does not make me happy. This is simply not true. I have at one time or another run Limewire on each of the three different firewalls. Currently for a little over one year now it has been pf. The difference

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread Michael Powell
Fbsd1 wrote: [snip] Limewire is a windows only application. So how can you say it runs on solaris which is a flavor Unix? Limewire is a Java program. It will run on any platform which has a working Java run time environment installed. It is definitely not Windows only. -Jason

Re: High Noonn DVD??

2008-11-15 Thread Michael Powell
Gary Kline wrote: Do any of you guys know why the DVD version of HIGH NOON won't play on my computers? I've tried everything I can think of. Zero. I watched the *original* in the theater (I think); then have watched the tape in '98, and the DVD just now. I'm not that nutty to waste a

Re: Server Freezing Solid

2008-11-12 Thread Michael Powell
Chris Maness wrote: [snip] For this reason, I'd advise that either you leave the PC unplugged for 10 minutes or so after you've cleaned it to let any residual moisture dry, or purchase an inline water filter. Should always put a drier on a compressor. You'll learn the hard way if you invest in

Re: virtualbox networking setup

2008-11-12 Thread Michael Powell
Paul Cartwright wrote: I'm new to the group, and I'm new to setting up VirtualBox guest hosts. right now I have a Debian linux box, and I setup Virtual box. I installed FreeBSD on it, but I can't seem to get the networking to work. I tried to rerun sysinstall, but I'm not sure what options to

Re: (no subject)

2008-11-08 Thread Michael Powell
Chad Perrin wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 06:28:07AM -0500, Michael Powell wrote: If you are totally new to Linux/Unix and have zero experience and just want an easy, out of the box something other than XP you might try the latest incarnation of Kubuntu. I know in a FreeBSD list

Re: (no subject)

2008-11-07 Thread Michael Powell
SAM HAYNES wrote: Greetings, O Learned Ones from: Sam Haynes, Pathfinders 2008 I haven't the foggiest as to how you came to be in my favorites list, other than that I probably tagged you in an ongoing search for both or either something to replace Win XP and or build my own personal

Re: pyhton apache

2008-10-31 Thread Michael Powell
tethys ocean wrote: Hi all I have a problem, a freebsd box that is apache22 and python25-2.5.2_3, mod_python-3.3.1_2 after upgrading phyton web site has stoped with this error Internal Server Error [snip] [Fri Oct 31 05:05:15 2008] [notice] Digest: done [Fri Oct 31 05:05:16 2008]

Re: freebsd installation order

2008-10-30 Thread Michael Powell
pwn wrote: [snip] on this page http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html it says: Tip: By default, when you build a custom kernel, all kernel modules will be rebuilt as well. If you want to update a kernel faster or to build only custom modules, you

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (GENERIC) firefox3 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgio-2.0

2008-10-26 Thread Michael Powell
David Christensen wrote: mdh wrote: The answer is to upgrade your devel/glib20 port to the latest version, then try to install or upgrade libgiofam, then install the other software. Thank you for your response. :-) Here's my attempt to carry out your suggestions: 20081026-122203

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (GENERIC) firefox3 /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgio-2.0

2008-10-26 Thread Michael Powell
David Christensen wrote: [snip] devel/glib20 and gio-fam-backend seemed to go okay. I think I got further into firefox3, but it failed: checking for cairo = 1.6.0 freetype2 fontconfig... Requested 'cairo = 1.6.0' but version of cairo is 1.4.10 This is telling you the cairo you have

Re: Breach of Contract Reported for FREEBSD.ORG

2008-10-17 Thread Michael Powell
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: [snip] ICANN requires registrars to verify the domain info once a year. I just went through this with GoDaddy. I think the registrars see this as an opportunity to market services. Different registrars bungle their marketing effort in different ways. GoDaddy sent me

Re: Breach of Contract Reported for FREEBSD.ORG

2008-10-16 Thread Michael Powell
David G Lawrence wrote: Dear Customer, It has been brought to our attention that some or all of the information associated with your domain name FREEBSD.ORG is outdated or incorrect. These types of complaints are brought to our attention in one of two ways. The most common type of

Re: How to get my Dad's Win2k system to access internet through my FreeBSD 6.2 system

2008-10-16 Thread Michael Powell
Da Rock wrote: [snip] I'm assuming the problem with double nat'ing is the confusion in packet traffic. So if the OP is using his ADSL modem to connect to the net, then it could be safe to assume the public IP would be to the modem itself, and not his box (barring the possible use of USB), so

Re: How to get my Dad's Win2k system to access internet through my FreeBSD 6.2 system

2008-10-14 Thread Michael Powell
Manish Jain wrote: Hi, I am poor at networking and need a little bit of help. My dad has a Windows 2000 machine with a network card but does not have a connection to the internet. My freebsd 6.2 box is connected to the internet and has 2 network cards, rl0 and rl1. rl0 connects to the

Re: How to get my Dad's Win2k system to access internet through my FreeBSD 6.2 system

2008-10-14 Thread Michael Powell
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: [snip] Doesn't he need to also set sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding=1 for his box to act as a gateway? Or is this handled by the NAT portion? The gateway_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf sets this. Right, but it wasn't in your /etc/rc.conf example (see your mail), so

Re: How to get my Dad's Win2k system to access internet through my FreeBSD 6.2 system

2008-10-14 Thread Michael Powell
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:55:11AM -0400, Michael Powell wrote: [snip] Next, you will want to configure your FreeBSD machine as a NAT gateway. In your /etc/rc.conf you will want something like gateway_enable=YES and some form of firewall initialization[1

Re: Weird FS behavior tru FTP on CD9660

2008-10-09 Thread Michael Powell
Sdävtaker wrote: Hey, I found a weird situation today, I mounted a DVD with the mount_cd9660 and accessed it through filezilla. I got 2 times every file in the list, go back to the original Pc and checked with ls and they appear only once. :-/ Im using last version Filezilla in MSW, and

Re: php5 segfault

2008-10-08 Thread Michael Powell
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 02:51:00PM +0200, Laszlo Nagy wrote: [snip] So it is using -O2 and -pipe. Is this something that I can disable? If you want. make config in /usr/ports/lang/php5 will give you a menu option for DEBUG; turn it on. I'm not sure what the

Re: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1

2008-10-04 Thread Michael Powell
Don O'Neil wrote: I just swapped out an old 500G disk with a 1TB one and I'm trying to label it and mount it... If I run bsdlabel -w ad4, I get: bsdlabel: Geom not found If I run sysinstall, it tells me that it can't write to the disk. I've tried an old 'bypass': sysctl

Re: Installation Question

2008-09-27 Thread Michael Powell
Ray Madigan wrote: I am trying to move a couple of machines from Suse Linux to FreeBSD and I am having an installation issue on the first machine. I have a 1.8GHZ Pentium on an ASUS mainboard. DUring installation I give the geometry of the drive on the machine, a Western Digital WD8000JB,

Re: sound card and freebsd v7.0

2008-09-26 Thread Michael Powell
jonathan michaels wrote: greetings, freebsd-questions, i recently got a handme-down box, some sort of hp desktop machine ? not sure what it is called, the source was more or less vague about its name/configuration ??? i put in a freebsd v7 cd and these bit fell out, after pluging some

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 BETA and update to RELEASE

2008-09-17 Thread Michael Powell
Fernando Apesteguía wrote: Hi all, I tried to install FreeBSD 7.0 on my computer but my NIC was not supported, so finally I didn't install it. Yesterday I tried 7.1 Beta bootinst and the network card was recognized during the installation. I was planning to install 7.1 Beta now, but I

Re: too little space on /

2008-09-11 Thread Michael Powell
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, Volodymyr Kostyrko: 3. What catalogs are your spacehogs? Examine the output of: find / -type d -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -exec du -hd0 {} \; Searching for bigger dirs turned out that my /boot was bigger than needed 114M/boot So a way to go would

Re: Is the freesbie project dead????????

2008-09-11 Thread Michael Powell
FBSD1 wrote: I can't reach http://www.freesbie.org/ to official site for the project. Has this project disbanded? Usually when an organized project calls it quits they will leave some form of notification up for people to see. In this case I'd bet it's either the server has failed or a

RE: Can't start MySQL 5.0.67

2008-09-08 Thread Michael Powell
Joe Tseng wrote: Yeah that was it... The chown -R mysql:mysql /var/db/mysql was what did it... Thx to all for the help. - Joe [snip] Look in /usr/local/share/mysql for my.cnf examples you can use for tuning your install. One thing that bit me once was the location of the my.cnf

Re: Problems with portsdb -Uu on FreeBSD 6.3

2008-09-08 Thread Michael Powell
perikillo wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/portsnap.html I supposes that portsnap extract have to run just once, latter u have to just run portsnap fetch portsnap update? Sean, u say that I better mix cvsup + portsnap? This is normal? This would not broke

Re: [6.3] Upgrading PHP5?

2008-09-04 Thread Michael Powell
Gilles wrote: Hello I successfully upgraded the Ports collection with csup and then compiled Apache2, but I don't know what to do about PHP5, as it has several Ports available: php5-5.2.6 needs updating (port has 5.2.6_1) This is the main PHP section.

Re: [6.3/Apache22] Right way to compile worker MPM?

2008-09-03 Thread Michael Powell
Gilles wrote: Hello I'm trying to compile the latest ports of Apache22 with support for the worker MPM so that each child process spawns thread. I'd like to see if performance improves compared to the prefork model. Although I checked the THREADS/Enable threads support in APR item in

Re: Segmentation fault Apache-2.2.9

2008-09-03 Thread Michael Powell
Gerard wrote: I continue to see varying amounts of chatter in the 'httpd-error.log' file. This is a snipped of what is being written to the file. ** [Wed Sep 03 06:59:31 2008] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest [authentication

Re: Question on bind page

2008-09-02 Thread Michael Powell
Richard Yang wrote: Dear support, I am trying to follow through http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-dns.html as to setup a dns server When I try /etc/rc.d/named forcestart it always said Starting named When I use ps to check whether it actually started, I can confirm

RE: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE getting terrible throughput using sk0 adapter

2008-08-31 Thread Michael Powell
David Polak wrote: [snip] try setting up speed and duplex options manually I have set the duplex to full-duplex and it has increased the speed to about 200kb/s on the same file. As far as phy support, I guess I really don't know, but the drivers for the chipset have been around for a

Re: IPFW: Is keep/check-state inherent?

2008-08-30 Thread Michael Powell
Steve Bertrand wrote: Hi everyone, I can't recall for certain, but not so long ago, I either read or heard about IPFW having implicit keep-state and check-state. Is it true that I can now omit these keywords in my rulesets? Haven't used IPFW in years so I do not know about IPFW.

Re: defrag

2008-08-27 Thread Michael Powell
prad wrote: something that has puzzled me for years (but i've never got around to asking) is how does *nix get away without regular defrag as with windoze. fsck is equivalent to scandisk, right? so when you delete files and start getting 'holes', how does *nix deal with it? The short

Re: turn on beastie beside the 'Welcome to FreeBSD' boot options menu

2008-08-22 Thread Michael Powell
enom-FBSD1 wrote: Is there a way to reactivate the black and white beastie which used to display to the right of the 'Welcome to FreeBSD' boot options menu? Look at /boot/defaults/loader.conf for the following: #beastie_disable=NO # Turn the beastie boot menu on and off

Re: turn on beastie beside the 'Welcome to FreeBSD' boot optionsmenu

2008-08-22 Thread Michael Powell
Oliver Fromme wrote: [snip] Its good to see my old friend back where he belongs How would you like this one? http://www.secnetix.de/olli/FreeBSD/vloader/screenshot5.png (It's work in progress. See the latest FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report.) Best regards Oliver

Re: Loss of Internet Contivity

2008-08-20 Thread Michael Powell
Warren Liddell wrote: The attachment shows that DNS is unable to find the IP address. This appears to be a DNS resolver issue, not a network issue. Check /etc/ resolv.conf and make sure its correct. Then check the indicated DNS servers using dig. such a simple thing i didnit even think to

Re: How to set TCP parameter?

2008-08-20 Thread Michael Powell
Patrick Mahan wrote: [snip] There is no TCP variable in the FreeBSD implementation to change this (that I know of). There is this: net.inet.tcp.finwait2_timeout: 6 I have seen this happen at times when there is a buggy NAT firewall between you and the server that causes the FIN from

Re: PAE or 64bit?

2008-08-20 Thread Michael Powell
B. Cook wrote: hey all, Looking for opinions.. We are going to be getting a server for drupal, running lighttpd and php, as well as exim and SA with clamav, courier or dovecot, mysql 51.. etc. Right now this setup does about 200G per month (we have two boxes) and were looking at

Re: kde troubles....

2008-08-17 Thread Michael Powell
Gary Kline wrote: AFter a power glitch last night I was able to relogin as room, but # kdm fails with the error: can't create /var/run/kdm.pid. Try deleting that file and reboot if you are starting kdm in ttys. If that by itself doesn't work there are a number of other files to clean as

Re: kde troubles....

2008-08-17 Thread Michael Powell
Gary Kline wrote: [snip] the err message is gone, but KDE creates an /rmpty kdm.pid and does nothing. This is not good. The file should contain a number. [snip] It would also be helpful to know how you are trying to run KDE. There are two ways, the first being to have a line like: ttyv8

Re: RES: RES: Very Slow Samba

2008-08-15 Thread Michael Powell
Mauro Ribeiro - Class Consultoria e Assessoria wrote: Hi Derek, I didn't have any Intel boards here for spare, but i Found a HP PCI-Express 1x Giga Ethernet here. It's a broadcom chipset, I did replace the card but still with the same problem. I also did a very deep research in google

Re: Up_down~up

2008-08-15 Thread Michael Powell
Jos Chrispijn wrote: Just saw this in my security log: +++ /tmp/security.CVzQ19kE2008-08-15 00:04:29.0 +0200 +fxp0: link state changed to DOWN +fxp0: link state changed to UP +fxp0: link state changed to DOWN +fxp0: link state changed to UP +fxp0: link state changed to DOWN

Re: Kernel compile R7.0 i386 GENERIC, fails

2008-08-11 Thread Michael Powell
Peter B wrote: [snip] In previous releases. It was possible to make at leas the generic kernel compile out of the box. As it still is. I just did a make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC on a 7-Release box and it built with no difficulty. -Mike ___

Re: Remote host replies to SYN+FIN

2008-08-07 Thread Michael Powell
kalin m wrote: does anybody have any idea how to resolve this? [snip] Not without a lot more information. But I may be able to fathom some wild guess, generically speaking. Only allow connections to set up like this: pass out quick on $ExtIF inet proto tcp all flags S/SA keep state pass

Re: gemeral questions (noobish)

2008-08-02 Thread Michael Powell
mcassar wrote: [snip] I only tried csup on ports once and wasn't too sure i should since the handbook or somewhere mentioned the ports tree should be empty the first time you run it; and got the impression you should only use either or (csup vs portsnap). I can only speak to cvsup or csup

Re: New harddisk: CANNOT READ BLK Cause?

2008-07-30 Thread Michael Powell
Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: I got a new harddisk for my laptop, attached it via firewire, used dump 0aLf - / | restore xf - (from the FAQ), and swapped it with my internal one. During that, I also migrated /var and /usr to separate bsdlabels. On reboot during fsck (ad0s1f), I got: CANNOT

Re: SCSI RAID on FreeBSD 7.0, where is the array?

2008-07-30 Thread Michael Powell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am fighting the following hardware: MB: ASUS p5b-plus (NON vista edition) Cpu: Core 2 duo 4600 SCSI Card: Adaptec 39320 (Unused Dell OEM bought from ebay) HDDs: 2xSeagate Cheetah 73.4 GB Ultra320 SCSI (posibly Dell OEM) Nb. The MB does not support

Re: FreeBSD and ECC memory?

2008-07-25 Thread Michael Powell
Nejc Škoberne wrote: Hello, I am buying hardware for a FreeBSD server and me and my friend argue about whether or not to by ECC RAM for the server. It is a HP ProLiant ML110 G4 machine and currently it has 2 x 512 HP DDR2 ECC memory. My friend says buying ECC memory is not wise, because

Re: FreeBSD and ECC memory?

2008-07-25 Thread Michael Powell
Michael Powell wrote: [snip] 1. So, what would you base your decision on? Is getting ECC worth losing 1GB of non-ECC memory? Oh - and the other criterion I forgot to mention. If the box in question is only being used by 1 or 2 people and can have downtime to fix defects whenever you want

Re: FreeBSD and ECC memory?

2008-07-25 Thread Michael Powell
Erik Trulsson wrote: [snip] No, non-ECC RAM cannot detect or correct any errors at all. (Old parity-RAM could detect, but not correct, single-bit errors.) Actually quite true. The old parity bit functionality that was removed from RAM and then called non-ECC actually migrated to the memory

Re: calcru went backwards on 7 stable

2008-07-24 Thread Michael Powell
Dimitar Vasilev wrote: Hi, I'm having calcru went backwards issues on a machine with the following config: MB: MSI K8D Master-F 2xOpteron 242 2.2Ghz BIOS - от 2005-та 7-stable areca 1120 8 disks HDD temperature 28-29 for 1st five, 38-39 for the last 3. bios is as of 2005 - ami

Re: Problem in checking machine architecture

2008-07-16 Thread Michael Powell
Eitan Shefi wrote: I have a host with FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (64 bit) installed. How do I check the host's architecture ? When I run: uname -m the output is: amd64 When I run: sysctl -a | less and search for: CPU I see that: hw.model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU5140 @ 2.33GHz

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