Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Peter Boosten
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Re: small fanless mini-pc for home router/firewall?

2013-05-08 Thread Peter Boosten
Op 8 mei 2013 om 16:24 heeft C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws het volgende geschreven: On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 4:10 PM, firm...@gmail.com firm...@gmail.com wrote: What is the best option out there for a mini-pc to run FreeBSD as a home router/firewall? (needs to have 2 nic's) I had some

Re: Upgrade devel/py-setuptools

2013-03-27 Thread Peter Boosten
On 27-3-2013 17:37, Loic Capdeville wrote: I use portupgrade regularly to upgrade my ports, and usually everything goes right. If fails only with that particular operation (or these portupgrade options) Do I have to install devel/py-distribute separately, or should the portupgrade -fo command

Re: Blender port

2012-09-28 Thread Peter Boosten
On 28 sep. 2012, at 17:26, Shane Ambler free...@shaneware.biz wrote: On 17/08/2012 04:47, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:33:22 +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: So I did a ktrace, and it seems to stumble

Re: Sharing COM ports to Windows hosts

2012-09-03 Thread Peter Boosten
On 3-9-2012 5:02, Victor Sudakov wrote: Colleagues, There is a FreeBSD box with several RS232 ports. Can those ports be accessed by Windows hosts over the network? Actually, does anyone have a success story for such a scenario? There is some software like comms/serialoverip, comms/tits etc but

Blender port

2012-08-16 Thread Peter Boosten
to be found on my system, nor in the ports repository. Does anyone know what this library is for, and where would I find that library? -- Peter Boosten ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Blender port

2012-08-16 Thread Peter Boosten
On 16 aug. 2012, at 21:17, Fernando Apesteguía fernando.apesteg...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:33:22 +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: So I did a ktrace, and it seems to stumble on a library it cannot find

Re: Securituy - logging of user commands

2012-07-25 Thread Peter Boosten
Have you ever considered the audit function of FreeBSD? Peter Boosten On 25 jul. 2012, at 13:47, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: Hello list, We're currently working towards the PCI DSS certification (Payment Card Industry) for a project at work. One of the prerequisites

slapd won't start anymore

2012-04-25 Thread Peter Boosten
/ results in the same error message (in the log, it doesn't report something wrong on the command line). -- Peter Boosten http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: /usr/ports/textproc/flex port didn't replace existing flex install

2011-07-18 Thread Peter Boosten
On 18-7-2011 17:49, Jeff Hamann wrote: I'm running: FreeBSD freebsd-82-amd64.localdomain 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Thu Feb 17 02:41:51 UTC 2011 r...@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 I need to update flex for building postgresql-9.0.3 from source.

Re: Soekris net4801 running 8.2-R-p1 crashdumps

2011-03-21 Thread Peter Boosten
On 21-3-2011 16:30, Esa Karkkainen wrote: Hi, My pf firewall running on net4801 has crashed twice this year. When the net4801 is handling more than 10Mbit/s of network traffic, the box seems to crash. That's not only for 8.2, I had M0n0 installed on my 4801, and it would

Re: syslog-ng logging stopped

2011-03-12 Thread Peter Boosten
That probably means that it's not syslog-ng causing the problems. Maybe some firewall rule? Peter -- HTTP://www.boosten.org On 12 mrt 2011, at 22:40, Len Conrad lcon...@go2france.com wrote: -- Original Message -- From: Iñigo Ortiz de Urbina

Re: Updating glib from 2.24.2 to 2.26.1_1 fails

2011-01-18 Thread Peter Boosten
of zlib.h and zconf.h could be in /usr/local/include. Thanks for the suggestion anyway. -- Peter Boosten http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Updating glib from 2.24.2 to 2.26.1_1 fails

2011-01-17 Thread Peter Boosten
On 14 dec 2010, at 09:12, Peter Boosten wrote: Hi all, In an attempt to update glib on my 8.0-machine, portupgrade stops with this message: gnome-libtool: compile: cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\GLib-GIO\ -I.. -I../glib -I../glib -I.. -I../gmodule

Re: Updating glib from 2.24.2 to 2.26.1_1 fails

2011-01-17 Thread Peter Boosten
machine. I'm going to search for other duplicates... -- Peter Boosten http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Updating glib from 2.24.2 to 2.26.1_1 fails

2011-01-17 Thread Peter Boosten
On 17 jan 2011, at 21:07, Peter Boosten wrote: On 17 jan 2011, at 19:59, Michael Powell wrote: don't think I have any magic answer here. Just did a 'make' for this port on a 8.1-Release box and it built just fine. Only a couple of things come to mind for me. Take out the -march

Updating glib from 2.24.2 to 2.26.1_1 fails

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Boosten
Hi all, In an attempt to update glib on my 8.0-machine, portupgrade stops with this message: gnome-libtool: compile: cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -DG_LOG_DOMAIN=\GLib-GIO\ -I.. -I../glib -I../glib -I.. -I../gmodule -DG_DISABLE_CAST_CHECKS -DG_THREADS_MANDATORY -DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED

Re: Updating glib from 2.24.2 to 2.26.1_1 fails

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Boosten
for gzip. gzlibcompressor.c however tries to include zlib.h, and it might or might not expect something that's in FreeBSD 8.1, but not in 8.0, however I cannot tell for sure. Anyone can confirm this? btw. Please reply to all to keep it in the list -- Peter Boosten http://www.boosten.org

Re: Updating glib from 2.24.2 to 2.26.1_1 fails

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Boosten
On 14 dec 2010, at 09:12, Peter Boosten wrote: Okay, did some source code digging, and I believe the actual error starts here: gzlibcompressor.c:68: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'gz_header' which, if I interpret all correctly, means that gz_header is no typedef

Re: Updating glib from 2.24.2 to 2.26.1_1 fails

2010-12-14 Thread Peter Boosten
On 14 dec 2010, at 19:40, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Dec 14, 2010, at 10:22 AM, Peter Boosten wrote: gzip is in the base system, and there are, AFAICT, no header files for gzip. I regret to disagree :-), but: % head -2 /usr/include/zlib.h /* zlib.h -- interface of the 'zlib' general

Re: ultimate backup choice

2010-12-11 Thread Peter Boosten
/rsync/ -- Peter Boosten http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Is ZFS ready for prime time?

2010-11-15 Thread Peter Boosten
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Re: removing files

2010-11-08 Thread Peter Boosten
On 9-11-2010 6:57, Eitan Adler wrote: If you really want to delete all the .chk files extension files at a time find path -name '*.chk' -print -prune -exec rm -rf {} + \; And more efficient: find path -name '*.chk' -delete Peter -- http://www.boosten.org

Re: OT: Apache as reverse SSL proxy

2010-10-04 Thread Peter Boosten
On 5-10-2010 5:53, Doug Poland wrote: On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 09:19:52PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: The documentation for www/pound indicated HTTPS does not allow virtual hosting. I seem to recall bumping into this issue in the past that one cannot do named-based vhosts on HTTPS. Look

Re: /var/log/maillog

2010-09-26 Thread Peter Boosten
On 27-9-2010 7:16, kline wrote: On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 13:54 +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: Gary Kline kl...@magnesium.net writes: Here is a snippet of maillog. mutt still exiting with an 'Exec Error' Sep 26 11:13:47 ethic dovecot: imap-login: Login: user=kline, method=PLAIN,

Re: Filesystems

2010-09-25 Thread Peter Boosten
On 24-9-2010 23:13, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 24/09/2010 21:05:45, Derek Funk wrote: There was a post some time ago someone was complaining that FreeBSD still uses and archaic filesystem and not a new FS like ext4. Some replied, seeming like a code contributor, with a very sounded reply.

Re: Filesystems

2010-09-25 Thread Peter Boosten
On 25 sep 2010, at 09:45, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 25/09/2010 08:32:58, Peter Boosten wrote: On 24-9-2010 23:13, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 24/09/2010 21:05:45, Derek Funk wrote: There was a post some time ago someone was complaining that FreeBSD still uses and archaic filesystem

Re: Unable to find device node for ./dev/ad4s1b in /dev

2010-09-18 Thread Peter Boosten
On 18 sep 2010, at 22:15, Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote: This morning I downloaded and burned the latest CD for 8.1. Then I took a brand new laptop, an ACER, model ASPIRE-7741Z-5731, and tried to install FreeBSD. (It had a copy of windoz on it. goodbye and good riddance.) My

Re: Problems with upgrade - lost partition

2010-09-18 Thread Peter Boosten
Ping... -- HTTP://www.boosten.org On 27 aug 2010, at 11:19, Peter Boosten pe...@boosten.org wrote: Hi, I recently updated a machine (running on VMWare) from 7.2 to 8.1. This machine has two (virtual) disks. While the upgrade went rather smooth ('make buildworld, make buildkernel, make

Re: How to prevent system to launch interactive fsck after improper shutdown and reboot?

2010-09-15 Thread Peter Boosten
On 15-9-2010 8:53, Matthias Apitz wrote: echo 16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlb xq | dc LOL, only worked with quotes, btw ;-) Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: How to prevent system to launch interactive fsck after improper shutdown and reboot?

2010-09-15 Thread Peter Boosten
On 15-9-2010 9:07, Matthias Apitz wrote: $ sh $ echo 16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlb xq | dc RTFM $ bash g...@current:/usr/home/guru echo 16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlb xq | dc RTFM which shell you used? zsh. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org

Re: CNID DB vs afp

2010-09-10 Thread Peter Boosten
On 10-9-2010 10:11, Dánielisz László wrote: Hi, I having the following problem on my afpd share: something wrong witht he volume's CNID DB, using temporary CNIDB DB insted. Check server messages for details. Switching to read-only mode. I am using FreeBSD 8.0 for the afpd and OS-X

Re: Regex Help For Procmail

2010-09-06 Thread Peter Boosten
On 7-9-2010 3:51, Frank Shute wrote: [snip] I additionally don't like the look of your Maildir. It's quoted, you should set MAILDIR in procmailrc, you should get rid of the space and it should end in new. Result: :0 * ^From:.*famous-smoke\.com .Shopping/Famous_Smoke/new I've actually

Re: ports database

2010-08-29 Thread Peter Boosten
On 29-8-2010 0:59, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: tar -cf ports.tar /usr/port It should be, better suited: # cd /usr # tar cf ports.tar ports So one could do tar xf ports.tar in the target machine's /usr ... Better put the created

Problems with upgrade - lost partition

2010-08-27 Thread Peter Boosten
Hi, I recently updated a machine (running on VMWare) from 7.2 to 8.1. This machine has two (virtual) disks. While the upgrade went rather smooth ('make buildworld, make buildkernel, make installkernel, reboot into single user, mergemaster -p, make installworld, mergemaster, reboot), I lost the

Re: Upgrading Apache fails - Solved

2010-07-28 Thread Peter Boosten
On 28-7-2010 7:53, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, I had to pkg_delete both apache22 and apr1, pkgdb -F, then reinstall apache22, but all is well now. I followed the original suggestions from UPDATING 1. pkg_delete -f apache-2.\* 2. portupgrade -f -o devel/apr1 devel/apr 3. portinstall

Re: Install Apache in qjail?

2010-07-21 Thread Peter Boosten
On 22-7-2010 2:10, Aiza wrote: If this apache jail is going to use the standard port 80 to listen on, then the host and any other jails can not use that port number. Nonsense! Since the IP address assigned to the jail is the only one the jail is seeing, Apache will only bind to that IP

Observations during upgrade 7.2 - 8.0

2010-07-18 Thread Peter Boosten
Hi all, I recently upgraded several machines from 7.2 to 8.0 and I made a few observations: Two machines run on an ESX vmware server, and while interfaces started counting at 0 (ie le0, le1, etc), now these interfaces start at 1 (le0 - le1, le1 - le2). Is there any reason for 8.0 doing this,

Re: Local cvs repository

2010-07-15 Thread Peter Boosten
On 14-7-2010 7:51, Tim Judd wrote: On 7/12/10, Peter Boosten pe...@boosten.org wrote: Hi all, I run a local cvs repository for year now, but since a couple of days I get these on the clients: Server message: Unknown collection src-all Server message: Unknown collection ports-all But you

Re: Local cvs repository

2010-07-15 Thread Peter Boosten
On 15 jul 2010, at 14:24, Peter Boosten wrote: On 14-7-2010 7:51, Tim Judd wrote: On 7/12/10, Peter Boosten pe...@boosten.org wrote: Hi all, I run a local cvs repository for year now, but since a couple of days I get these on the clients: Server message: Unknown collection src-all

Re: Help with ezjail-admin create command

2010-07-14 Thread Peter Boosten
of what will be my jailed Apache? Why does it do that? Did I goof something else up, or is that normal? Those are probably symlinks... Peter -- Peter Boosten http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Help with ezjail-admin create command

2010-07-14 Thread Peter Boosten
dependencies yourself. -- Peter Boosten http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Help with ezjail-admin create command

2010-07-14 Thread Peter Boosten
, and which you are planning to run in the jail. In my case it was: sshd, openldap, apache, syslog-ng, postfix, nfs, netatalk, samba. -- Peter Boosten http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Local cvs repository

2010-07-12 Thread Peter Boosten
Hi all, I run a local cvs repository for year now, but since a couple of days I get these on the clients: Server message: Unknown collection src-all Server message: Unknown collection ports-all The result is that neither the source nor the ports will get updated. The update script on the

Re: ezjail -vs- Do it yourself jail?

2010-07-09 Thread Peter Boosten
On 9-7-2010 17:13, Adam Vande More wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Ed Flecko edfle...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to set up a FreeBSD 8.0 server to run Apache that will be facing the nasty and unforgiving WWW. I have several good books on Apache that describe how to set up the jail,

{Spam?} Re: VLANs is this right?

2010-07-05 Thread Peter Boosten
interfaces will. You can/must keep the two networks apart with a firewall (pf for instance). Peter -- Peter Boosten http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: VLANs is this right?

2010-07-05 Thread Peter Boosten
separates the two. Peter -- Peter Boosten http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: move back to preceding ports ?

2010-06-29 Thread Peter Boosten
On 29-6-2010 13:19, Frank Bonnet wrote: ok thanks a lot I noticed in an earlier post that you manually upgrade openldap. How do you maintain other ports, like dependencies? Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: move back to preceding ports ?

2010-06-29 Thread Peter Boosten
-2.4.22 Information for openldap-sasl-server-2.4.22: Depends on: Dependency: cyrus-sasl-2.1.23 Dependency: openldap-sasl-client-2.4.22 Dependency: libltdl-2.2.6b Dependency: db46-4.6.21.4 Peter -- Peter Boosten http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd

Re: slapd crash the HP proliant DL360 at 8.0

2010-06-28 Thread Peter Boosten
On 28-6-2010 9:50, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I had BIG trouble saturday morning with a HP proliant DL360 that runs our directory server ( OpenLDAP ) Tha machine had crashed ... Anyone had the same trouble running slapd at 8.0 ? No, you can eliminate that factor. Runs fine on my

Re: slapd crash the HP proliant DL360 at 8.0

2010-06-28 Thread Peter Boosten
On 28 jun 2010, at 11:56, Frank Bonnet f.bon...@esiee.fr wrote: Argh !!! I upgraded slapd to 2.4.22 and it does not start anymore !!! some symbol cannot be found anymore I had to revert to 2.3.4x to have a working slapd !!! What's wrong with 2.4.22 folks ? Just checked: I'm running

Re: slapd crash the HP proliant DL360 at 8.0

2010-06-28 Thread Peter Boosten
On 28 jun 2010, at 17:46, Frank Bonnet wrote: On 06/28/2010 05:40 PM, Peter Boosten wrote: On 28 jun 2010, at 11:56, Frank Bonnet f.bon...@esiee.fr wrote: Argh !!! I upgraded slapd to 2.4.22 and it does not start anymore !!! some symbol cannot be found anymore I had to revert

Re: utility to all ALL strings?

2010-06-18 Thread Peter Boosten
On 18-6-2010 22:56, Gary Kline wrote: this goes back a few years, but is there, somewhere in ports, a utility that goes thru the entire system and collects either all file names or all strings---i do not think this operated on binaries [:-)]--- and hashed and compressed everything? i

Re: Ownership of /var/named Changes on Reboot.

2010-06-16 Thread Peter Boosten
On 17-6-2010 4:58, Robert Huff wrote: Martin McCormick writes: Is there a way to keep /var/named owned by bind across reboots? Yes. I had this happen for a long time. The bad news is it had been years since I fixed it, and I no longer remember exactly what I did. I

Re: why so many errors with ports??

2010-06-06 Thread Peter Boosten
On 6 jun 2010, at 00:39, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas terie...@gmail.com wrote: hello, i am coming from the linux world i was a gentoo user and i have install on my second machine FBSD,i have made many formats but every time i try to install a graphical enviroment (such as xfce,kde) many many

Re: Strange diskspace loss

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Boosten
On 4-5-2010 8:11, Антон Клесс wrote: And logs rotation is set up properly. Try to find open files with fstat Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: dhcpd doesn't sent route information

2010-04-24 Thread Peter Boosten
On 23-4-2010 17:22, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 23, 2010, at 6:14 AM, Onur Aslan wrote: I am using isc-dhcp30-server-3.0.7_5 in FreeBSD 7.2. When I run dhclient in a client machine, this machine doesn't get gateway from dhcp server. I configured dhcpd server as described in FreeBSD handbook.

Re: dhcpd doesn't sent route information

2010-04-24 Thread Peter Boosten
option domain-name-servers ns1.example.com; option domain-name example.com; A fqdn for a name server? That'll give you a chicken and egg problem, don't you think? Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: dhcpd doesn't sent route information

2010-04-24 Thread Peter Boosten
On 24 apr 2010, at 23:07, Erik Norgaard wrote: On 24/04/10 17:41, Peter Boosten wrote: option domain-name-servers ns1.example.com; option domain-name example.com; A fqdn for a name server? That'll give you a chicken and egg problem, don't you think? No, the dhcpd server

Re: Syslog to log remote nodes

2010-04-10 Thread Peter Boosten
On 10-4-2010 18:54, Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi: I want my syslog to log remote nodes, in particular my access point and router, which authenticates users against my freeradius server. In /etc/rc.conf I've got: syslogd_flags=-C -a 192.168.0.0/23 -a 172.16.0.0/23 -vv In /etc/syslog.conf

Re: request

2009-12-20 Thread Peter Boosten
Isn't Iran one of the countries US does not export to? That could explain the unability to download... Peter -- HTTP://www.boosten.org On 20 dec 2009, at 06:38, Marwan Sultan dead_l...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello Akbar, Before submitting a question, make sure its a proper question!

Re: Remote ssh tunnel in background or script?

2009-11-09 Thread Peter Boosten
On 9 nov 2009, at 20:36, patrick wrote: Check out /usr/ports/security/autossh autossh is a program to start a copy of ssh and monitor it, restarting it as necessary should it die or stop passing traffic. The original idea and the mechanism were from rstunnel (Reliable SSH Tunnel). With this

Re: Accessing LDAP via web

2009-10-18 Thread Peter Boosten
Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi Carmen, I have email clients on my laptops that can access the LDAP server when connected via my LAN. When traveling that is not readily possible (is it)? Therefore, how can I accomplish this or is it not possible? Remember, I am not attempting to administer the

Re: pf, ssh related question

2009-10-17 Thread Peter Boosten
On 17 okt 2009, at 11:53, Dánielisz László laszlo_daniel...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, I have the following annoying thing: all the time I runpfctl -F all - f /etc/pf.conf I got disconnected from my remote machine. Do you have any idea how can I avoid this? You cannot avoid when you

Re: CMS

2009-10-15 Thread Peter Boosten
Paul Schmehl wrote: I manage a couple of FreeBSD servers for a friend. He's gotten all excited about content management and thinks that's the way to go. The system he's familiar with is Windows only. I've done a little research, but I'm wondering if anyone reading the list has experience

Re: measuring mysql usage

2009-08-31 Thread Peter Boosten
John Almberg wrote: Anyone know of a tool that can measure mysql usage per mysql user? My database is getting hammered by something, but I'm having a hard time figuring out what. It seems to come and go. Perhaps I have one or two websites that are just getting a lot of traffic, and maybe

Re: eclipse install

2009-08-05 Thread Peter Boosten
Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:00:08 +0200, Coert Waagmeester lgro...@waagmeester.co.za wrote: Hello all, What is the best way to install eclipse on FreeBSD 7.2? On Linux I installed java, and downloaded the newest eclipse. On FreeBSD, you don't need to download things

Re: Secure password generation...blasphemy!

2009-08-04 Thread Peter Boosten
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 09:52:21AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 08:28:52PM -0600, Modulok wrote: I need a way to generate a lot of secure passwords. So, I read all about it. Either people are getting way carried away, or I'm missing something...

Re: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?

2009-07-24 Thread Peter Boosten
Daniel Bye wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, Updating one of my sytems I followed /usr/ports/UPDATING and did a pkg_delete -r jpeg-6b_7 - only to discover that everything that Au contraire, Blackadder. UPDATING says to run either of portmaster -r

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-14 Thread Peter Boosten
Ruben de Groot wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 12:46:43AM -0400, Steve Bertrand typed: John Almberg wrote: On Jul 13, 2009, at 6:27 PM, Karl Vogel wrote: You can fix the security problems by dumping Bind and using djbdns. What security problems? This one ? :)

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-14 Thread Peter Boosten
Steve Bertrand wrote: I like whatever works in regards to the situation I'm facing ;) And that's the best possible reason one could have! ;-) Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: configuring and ssh tunneling xorg from a headless FreeBSD machine

2009-06-29 Thread Peter Boosten
Dan Naumov wrote: Hello list. I have the following setup: a Windows Vista x64 SP1 machine (my primary desktop) and a FreeBSD 7.2/amd64 running on a home NAS system that's relatively powerful (Intel Atom 330 dualcore, 2gb ram). I would like to be able to run xorg and a simple desktop on the

Re: Problem starting slapd

2009-06-23 Thread Peter Boosten
On 23 jun 2009, at 16:39, Carmel NY carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: FreeBSD-7.2 openldap-server-2.4.16_1 I just installed this port. For some reason it will not start correctly. I have all of the information entered in the /etc/rc.conf file and the slapd.conf and ldap.conf files are configured

Re: ~/.ssh directory permissions

2009-06-23 Thread Peter Boosten
On 23 jun 2009, at 16:06, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote: Looking at my ~/.ssh directory, I see the following permissions: -rw-r--r-- Which I understand to be equivalent to 644. I read here http://sial.org/howto/openssh/publickey-auth/ that ~/.ssh ought to have permissions

Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX

2009-06-06 Thread Peter Boosten
Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:46:36PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: Having trouble mounting the ISO: [dan...@bsdbox ~]$ sudo mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode -f ./texlve2008.iso` ./mount/ mdconfig: open(/dev/mdctl): Permission denied Regular users don't have

Re: Installing latest version of LaTeX

2009-06-06 Thread Peter Boosten
Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 08:04:19PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:46:36PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: Having trouble mounting the ISO: [dan...@bsdbox ~]$ sudo mount_cd9660 -o ro /dev/`mdconfig -a -t vnode -f ./texlve2008.iso

Re: Customize .vacation.msg to include subject, sender, etc?

2009-05-29 Thread Peter Boosten
Kelly Jones wrote: Woops, that's not quite what I meant, sorry. I meant something like: From: some...@somewhere Subject: Re: {subject of message you sent} Dear {email address of person who sent message}, You recently sent an email to {to address of messages}... and so on. I realize

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Peter Boosten
Wojciech Puchar wrote: no longer use FreeBSD. Just about everything in these mailing lists turns If you stopped using FreeBSD BECAUSE OF FORUM, congratulations ;) This means that OS functionality is not important for you at all! Well, that certainly doesn't follow. exactly does. i just

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Peter Boosten
Wojciech Puchar wrote: exactly does. i just don't catch why he - while stopping using it because of forum - still read and posts here. None of your concern: this is just what everybody is writing about. Whether someone is using FreeBSD or not, and reading here or not, is irrelevant to most

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-25 Thread Peter Boosten
Chris Rees wrote: 2009/5/25 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl: first - says that it's measure of CPU load then - or waiting for short-term events such as disk I/O - which is NOT measure of CPU load. Er, what? Of course it is! amount of disk I/O is a measure of CPU load? seems

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-25 Thread Peter Boosten
On 25 mei 2009, at 19:12, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I think Wojciech means '...which is NOT measure of CPU _utilization_' exactly what i said. Regardless from what you said: you _wrote_ CPU _load_, not cpu _utilization_, which are two completely different thingemies. The load averages

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-25 Thread Peter Boosten
On 25 mei 2009, at 21:08, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Regardless from what you said: you _wrote_ CPU _load_, not cpu what's a difference for you between CPU load and CPU utilization? i mean CPU load not system load. The CPU will perform the same, whether at 10% utilization, or at 100%

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-25 Thread Peter Boosten
On 25 mei 2009, at 21:24, Wojciech Puchar wrote: The CPU will perform the same, whether at 10% utilization, or at 100% utilization, the system however won't. That's the difference between load and utilization. still don't understand you. CPU will not perform the same at 10% utilization,

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-25 Thread Peter Boosten
On 25 mei 2009, at 21:37, Wojciech Puchar wrote: The CPU = Central Processing Unit will perform it's calculations at so many megahertz while at 10% utilization or at 100% utilization. The entire machine no. it will not. all today x86 CPUs reacts on HLT command and doesn't do anything

Re: clear old output in login screen?

2009-05-03 Thread Peter Boosten
On 3 mei 2009, at 21:48, gabe g wrote: Hey John, In order to achieve this, there are two methods that I know of, however, they are only tested in the Bourne and Bourne Again shells. clear logout # Bourne Again (Bash) Shell clear exit # Bourne (sh)

Re: Disk usage analysis

2009-04-22 Thread Peter Boosten
On 22 apr 2009, at 10:01, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl it's just stupid to pursue windoze/maclame naming It's just stupid to start another flame war about the superiority of one or another OS. Peter ___

Re: ntp problem

2009-04-20 Thread Peter Boosten
Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, Running FreeBSD 5.3 IN /etc/ntp.conf I have: server time.nist.gov prefer server tock.gpsclock.com driftfile /etc/ntp.drift logfile /var/log/ntp.log If I run ntpdate from a prompt, I get the following error message: # ntpdate 20 Apr 12:02:08 ntpdate[50109]:

Re: How to find out which ports contains a specified command.

2009-04-06 Thread Peter Boosten
On 6 apr 2009, at 01:33, Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: --On April 5, 2009 6:13:57 PM -0400 ill...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/4/5 Peter Wang peterw...@vip.qq.com: for example, after i installed pfsense, which is based on freebsd release 7.1, i found adduser command is missing.

Re: root's crontab and mysqldump

2009-02-23 Thread Peter Boosten
Joseph Simmons wrote: I'm running a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE system and am trying to run a mysqldump as root. I've written a very simple script that does the dump, it works fine when I run it manually, but when I include it in the root's crontab (crontab -e) or in the system's crontab

Re: root's crontab and mysqldump

2009-02-23 Thread Peter Boosten
Joseph Simmons wrote: I added the full path and the result didn't change. I can still see it running in the log but the script doesn't appear to be doing anything. I have the following variables set in the root's crontab SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin

Re: mail question

2009-02-19 Thread Peter Boosten
Valentin Bud wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Valentin Bud valentin@gmail.comwrote: Hello community, I have a special question. If a client sends an email through my server how can i stop the mail for being delivered so i can process the mail and change some things and

Re: Wordpress Port Question

2009-02-12 Thread Peter Boosten
Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I have a question regarding Wordpress and Wordpress-mu ports. I want to install wordpress on my personal webserver (apache2, mysql, etc). I have several virtual hosts all with legitimate individual domain names. IE, www.mydomain.com,

Re: /usr and /var was not properly dismounted...!

2009-01-31 Thread Peter Boosten
On Jan 31, 2009, at 10:30, thanos trompoukis atr0...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I am NEW here and I do not know anything about unix sytems... :D But i'd like to learn! When I start my freebsd system I can see this: WARNING: /usr was not properly dismounted...! WARNING: /usr was not

Re: Backup to spare drive (rsync / crontab)

2009-01-30 Thread Peter Boosten
drc...@yahoo.com wrote: I am using rsync and crontab to perform scheduled backups on FreeBSD AMD64 Rel. 7.0 I am following process described here for rsync : http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/examples.html I have a backup script's created for daily, weekly, monthly. This is one example -

Re: Backup to spare drive (rsync / crontab)

2009-01-30 Thread Peter Boosten
Peter Boosten wrote: path in the script, of add /usr/local/bin to your crontab. ^^ or Sometimes the Dutch language emerges :-) -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Backup to spare drive (rsync / crontab)

2009-01-30 Thread Peter Boosten
On Jan 30, 2009, at 22:28, Eric Zimmerman e...@mikestammer.com wrote: On Fri, January 30, 2009 11:37 am, drc...@yahoo.com wrote: I am using rsync and crontab to perform scheduled backups on FreeBSD AMD64 Rel. 7.0 I am following process described here for rsync :

Re: Upgrade 6.1 to 7.1 remotely?

2009-01-29 Thread Peter Boosten
Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: I have a remote system with no access to boot info. I can get someone to reset, look at screen, etc. The server is 6.1-RELEASE-p15 and wondering if there is a path to upgrade to 7.1 remotely. Would it be possible to do something like this for getting the box to 6.4...

Re: X11 forwarding through SSH: Can't open display

2009-01-25 Thread Peter Boosten
sk89q wrote: Hello, I am using FreeBSD 6.2 and I have been trying to get X11 forwarding through SSH to work. I've gotten to the point where the environment variable DISPLAY is set, but I get a Can't open display error when I attempt to run an X application. The remote server in question

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 246, Issue 44

2009-01-22 Thread Peter Boosten
[SNIP very big digest] can someone *please* FIX the aebc support autoreplys?! surely there is a list owner who can unsubscribe that address? having the entire digest repeated by the autoreply in every following digest is a royal pain. Not quoting properly also is... Peter --

Re: jdk16

2009-01-22 Thread Peter Boosten
Brian McQueen wrote: I can't seem to find the files listed in the jdk16 port. What are folks doing to get java going? The urls listed in the port are not right, so the manual download step does not work. I use this one: ra% pkg_info -o diablo-jdk-1.6.0.07.02_3 Information for

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