On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 10:51:06AM -0500, Richard Lynch wrote:
Thanks to the fine folks here, I've gotten periodic.conf to only
output messages I need to know, *except* for this one:
Security check:
(output mailed separately)
I've looked through /et/defaults/periodic.conf, Google
On Sun, July 1, 2007 2:25 pm, kalin mintchev wrote:
and which port do i exactly install to be able to whach flash video?
i did the /usr/ports/www/flashplugin-mozilla - didn't work. the other
one
is marked as broken...
now that cnn moved to that i can't watch it anymore and i have never
been
Thanks to the fine folks here, I've gotten periodic.conf to only
output messages I need to know, *except* for this one:
Security check:
(output mailed separately)
I've looked through /et/defaults/periodic.conf, Google a fair amount,
and am still coming up empty with a setting to suppress
On Sun, June 10, 2007 7:49 pm, James liu wrote:
i use ports to default setup...
web£ºlighttpd
php: php5+php5-extensions
cp /usr/local/etc/php.ini-recommended /usr/local/etc/php.ini
restart lighttpd and phpinfo don't know php.ini.
now i wanna config php moudel, but if no php.ini, i will
On Fri, June 8, 2007 2:10 am, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
On Thursday 07 June 2007 20:26, Richard Lynch wrote:
Or some way to get periodic to only tell me stuff I *need* to know,
instead of telling me every time it cleans the damn toilet.
Have you looked at the manpage for periodic.conf(5
So, I found it in 'man hier' as for historical reasons but just what
is /var/preserve and why is it getting cleaned out every day and why
am I getting yet another line in a too-long email about it?...
I'm also looking at doing something like this:
http://www.oreilly.com/pub/h/5238
but wondering
On Thu, March 1, 2007 3:35 pm, Ivan Voras wrote:
Steve Franks wrote:
How come I never hear defrag come up as a topic, and can't find
anything related to defrag in the ports tree? Is it really not an
issue on UFS? Can someone point me to an explantion if so?
I've been told that most modern
[I've tried to snip away a lot of stuff, without losing any context...]
On Tue, February 6, 2007 2:50 am, Ian Smith wrote:
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 164, Issue 1
At Message: 19
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 01:13:31 -0600 (CST) Richard Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Tue, January 16, 2007 3
I thought the security/denyhosts port looked good, even if just to
slim down that report I get every day about the hundreds of SSH
attempts...
And, hey, reporting back to denyhosts HQ and letting them notify the
sysadmins of hacked boxen is a lot better than me doing it by hand.
Only problem is,
On Sun, February 4, 2007 2:47 pm, Chris wrote:
Heya folks -
Every 6 months (sometimes longer) I ask about either a port, or a
Wine
config that allows the playing of iTune-purchased music.
Last I seen, Banshee comes close (Under Linux) and of course I opted
to
give Wine a shot.
On Sun, February 4, 2007 3:53 pm, Aloha Guy wrote:
Thanks for the input. You do have good points. The only issue with
swap partitions is that it seems like you need to increase it
everytime you increase the physical memory. Is there a swap partition
size limit that pretty much will handle
On Sun, February 4, 2007 12:45 am, Gary Kline wrote:
This is getting sranger and strangr. (BTW, I'll check the
pkg-plist files; I forgot that; thanks.)
On my ThinkPad, I have cloned my web files and php works.
There is a different apache/httpd.conf file on my laptop,
On Tue, January 16, 2007 3:21 pm, Chuck Swiger wrote:
On Jan 16, 2007, at 1:13 PM, Richard Lynch wrote:
I know the messages below mean the hard drive or IDE cards are
having
problems. But is this like RED ALERT or more like YELLOW or what?
...
+ad1: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA48 retrying (1 retry
Sounds like flaky/cheap network card to me...
[But I'm no expert]
Perhaps, however, just doing a cron job every day to do the ifconfig
down/up would be a simple work-around.
On Sun, January 21, 2007 9:12 pm, David Schulz wrote:
Hello all,
every once in a while i have a machine (6.1) that out
I know the messages below mean the hard drive or IDE cards are having
problems.
But is this like RED ALERT or more like YELLOW or what?
And what do I do about it?
umount and fsck everything a lot?
swap cards/drives around until it stops?
Ignore it and pray?
All the content is already copied
On Thu, January 4, 2007 1:42 am, Beech Rintoul wrote:
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 22:20, Richard Lynch wrote:
Due to some hardware issues (not really relevant here) I've
re-installed FreeBSD about 6 times in the last couple days.
On one of those occasions, I managed to go through a sequence
On Thu, January 4, 2007 12:56 pm, Peter aka SweetPete wrote:
I think that more specifically, I would like and lots of users in the
*nix
community probably would not mind, if sysinstall could handle
installing to
a partially used HDD. Can sysinstall do that? *naive looks*
I have heard o'
On Thu, January 4, 2007 10:46 am, Stan Halprin wrote:
What is a snapshot? I could just make a backup copy of it, which is
what I was thinking of doing, and revert if necessary. Of course, that
supposes I remember to do that :/ I was hoping for some program
smarter than me.
Jumping into the
PS
I found the Release Notes for 6.1 with this being a known issue that
was FIXED:
http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/relnotes/6.1-RELEASE/relnotes-i386.html
Doesn't seem fixed here...
I'm happy to help debug, alter C code, and run trials, etc...
Or perhaps I've just been really stupid and missed
Hello again!
I am having an issue with FreeBSD 6.1 on a laptop, a Dell Inspiron 700m.
You may remember me from Autumn of 2004 trying this with 5.2.1 and
having troubles... Or not.
Anyway, I was told that 6.x was working on this hardware, and I tried
it, and it was great!
Until I put in the
Due to some hardware issues (not really relevant here) I've
re-installed FreeBSD about 6 times in the last couple days.
On one of those occasions, I managed to go through a sequence not
unlike this:
1. Standard fdisk/label stuff.
2. Custom install of base, kernel, ports tree (only)
3. Choose
Malcolm Kay wrote:
On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 06:53 am, Richard Lynch wrote:
I have a situation where NIC code printf's out stuff.
I'd *LIKE* to collect that output.
Under Linux, I'd use 21
I think (hope) you mean 21
According to man bash both should work, though one is preferred.
Both work
I have a situation where NIC code printf's out stuff.
I'd *LIKE* to collect that output.
Under Linux, I'd use 21
I read somewhere that under FreeBSD, I could do:
(xxx log.out) log.err
This works fine for xxx == make buildkernel
If fails miserably for xxx == ifconfig, however.
I can sorta
Alan Curtis wrote:
7. followed the instructions at
http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
and added
foreach ($_REQUEST as $k = $v) $$k = $v;
At this point, you might as well use .htaccess to turn register_globals
back ON for phpwiki, since you have effectively
John Oxley wrote:
has gallery setup on his webpage and the albums directory is chmod
707'd so that httpd can write to it.
Does that user realize that everybody else on the server can use PHP to
write web content to that directory?...
Perhaps if a defacement example were demonstrated, he'd move
Brian McCann wrote:
Hi all...I'm having a conceptual problem I can't get around and
was hoping someone can change my focus here. I've been backing up
roughly 6-8 million small files (roughly 2-4k each) using dump, but
restores take forever due to the huge number of files and directories.
Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote:
Hi,
I wan't to access my pc at work from home through
freebsd's sshd. Is it possible?, knowing that it
doesn't have a public ip address? That workstation of
mine is only gaining internet access through LAN
servers and routers. Will it help if I know the
gateway
Jason Barnes wrote:
While running an mpirun job on my dual-processor SMP system
(FreeBSD 4-STABLE from August 28), my program (initiated with the command
line 'mpirun -np 2 ../sphagr') periodically dies, leaving a process that I
can't kill -9. Here's the top:
The 550 process I
Gary Schenk wrote:
I cannot print from either X or the command line. It was working
fine until a few hours ago. Any suggestions on where to start
on this would be much appreciated.
Here is an example:
bash-2.05b$ lpr test.txt
/usr/bin/lpr: line 12: */5: No such file or directory
Newton wrote:
Dear Friends : I'm having problems, with a 5.21 version install. After
XFree86 troubles, finally I could see KDE. All, except internet , it's
OK. My system is an Atlhon 1000 (T-Bird), Soyo K7-VTA-B, 256 Mb RAM, 32
Mb Savage 4 (Savage Generic driver), Sound Blaster Live, Realtek
Nico Meijer wrote:
Hey Bill,
Are you saying that it's better for users not to know that their mail
has been delayed?
Unfortunately, yes. That is what I am saying.
On a technical level, I totally disagree with myself. On a practical,
day-to-day operations level I have to admit I'd rather
Since so many people gave me on -mobile and -questions gave me so much
help, I'd like to *TRY* to continue working on adding support for the
Broadcom 4401-B0 to FreeBSD.
Here's where I came from:
None of my CardBus, NIC, WiFi, etc devices were getting register memory:
Joseph Koening (jWeb) wrote:
I got up this morning and discovered that someone sent some spam through
one of my servers. The messages were sent from the 'www' user on
localhost, which is leading me to think somewhere someone has an insecure
php or perl script that is allowing someone to
kinux wrote:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: preg_replace() in
/usr/local/www/acid/acid_signature.inc on line 194
You have managed to install PHP *without* the PCRE module (module of PHP).
http://php.net/pcre
should lead you to something useful about how/where to get PCRE.
Andrew wrote:
I have a production FreeBSD box. My friend is starting to learn Unix
essentials and is asking me for an account. He doesn't require any
special rights, but he certainly wants to be able to use shell and read
most manual pages. He'll access the server via Internet, SSH.
A
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You installed the CGI port.. You need to install the apache module. CGI
doesn't allow embedded php in the page.
Just for the record:
Unless the FreeBSD port does something really really really bogus, the
above statement is 100% wrong. :-)
Perhaps you are thinking of
alden.pierre wrote:
/etc/rc.conf contains the following:
ntpdate_enable=YES
ntpdate_flags=timex.cs.columbia.edu
xntpd_enable=YES# Run ntpd Network Time Protocol
/etc/ntpd.conf contains the following:
driftfile/etc/ntp/drift
server 65.211.109.1
server 65.211.109.11
server
susmit sarkar wrote:
I know that the question I am asking might sound very stupid. But it has
me really perplexed. It relates to Unix mail. I use the d command to
delete mails. Like
d message_number
or
d message-list
But sometimes I find that the mails get deleted and sometimes not. I want
Glenn Sieb wrote:
But I'm having a dickens of a time finding something that will let me
author DVDs. Any pointing in directions or help would be greatly
appreciated!
By 'author' you mean 'burn', right?...
Or are you talking about compiling your mpeg files into a DVD file system?
I *THINK*
Richard Lynch wrote:
I have installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 on a Dell Insprion 700 m, dual boot with
the existing XP Home Edition (blech).
Have begun posting my experience at
http://phpbootcamp.com/articles/inspiron700m.htm
The built-in LAN NIC is a Broadcom 440x.
It works well enough under
Anthony Philipp wrote:
Well I did insert the paper clip into the drive,
Sometimes, you have to bend that clip a bit, in order to hit the trigger.
You'll also often meet considerable resistance -- It's a manual over-ride,
and you gotta push way harder than you might think...
About as hard as
Choy Kho Yee wrote:
On 2004/09/15, at 12:58, esmaeel pashapouri wrote:
Now as in subject line, have to figure a way to split
the hard drive which short sitedly by the hp was
patitioned in 1 big chunk and formated in ntfs
format.
According to freebsd docs I am out of lock for now,
unless
Kenneth A. Bond wrote:
I am trying to update my source using CVS, as CVSup is not an option in my
current environment. I am running FreeBSD 4.10.
Below are the commands that I am entering in order to perform the update,
but for some reason, I am getting the following error when attempting to
Ryan Sommers wrote:
First problem I ran into. I'm attempting to send the mail via `which
mail`. I first was going to attempt to concatenate the message via
message=${message}$'\n'other line However, this strips the newlines
out of the variable (both sh and bash). I then tried using the string
also when KDE first starts up, although my Starting
KDE system event sound is clearly cut short. Beyond
that, no sound works either from X or from the
console.
Just for fun, turn *OFF* the KDE sound effects.
Perhaps, just maybe, whatever sound effect is getting played has some kind
of odd
FreeBSD 5.2.1
I am attempting to add support for the built-in network device in my
laptop, a Dell Inspiron 700m, by altering the C source code in /usr/src/
Bear with me -- This is roughly equivalent to a plumber doing brain
surgery :-)
Windows reports this device as a Broadcom 440x, and the
Subhro wrote:
#1. How do I test that bfe (man bfe) is built-in to the kernel versus
loaded as a module?
Check the config file. I believe the GENERIC kernel has it built in.
This is gonna sound stupid, but I spent a good 10 minutes using locate and
find and whatnot trying to find something
Mark wrote:
MS/Windows98. After F1 key win98 boot just hung there doing nothing.
Forgive me if this is silly, but...
In *MY* setup, F1 points to a teeny tiny partition that Windows XP Home
Edition created with, err, looks like some kind of boot-strapping stuff in
it.
And *F2* is what gets me
Christophe Asselin wrote:
I want to install FreeBsd 5.2.1 but when i boot from the install i386 cd
an error occur.
Some text appear and it froze (stuck at these lines)
pcibo:acpi host-pci bridge port oxcf8-oxcff on acpi0
pci0:acpi pci bus on pcibo
pcibo: slot 2 INTA is routed to irq 10
So, I'm having trouble because my laptop is not recognizing the built-in
LAN/NIC during boot.
I've been reading manuals furiously, but I'm at the stage where I have a
laundry list of things to try, but am not running across the docs on how
to do them...
Of course, sometimes it's that I can't
FreeBSD Mail Lists wrote:
Richard,
Thanks for your reply. I thought there was something terribly wrong with
that logic. So I thought I would ask in this mail list since people have
been great here in the past about everything else I wanted to know.
Are there any security lists in relation
FreeBSD Mail Lists wrote:
I would like to see how other people are updating backend databases
(postgresql on FreeBSD, internal network) from a webserver (apache,php on
FreeBSD, dmz network) through a firewall. Pretty much what I am trying to
learn is how to take private information (credit
I originally posted to -hardware, but no response yet...
The Broadcom 440x NIC in my new Dell Inspiron 700m is not being recognized
during boot.
FreeBSD 5.2.1 downloaded several days ago.
Install was pretty straightforward, though the post-installation only lets
me configure ppp and slip, and
Subhro wrote:
Could I have a look at your whole dmesg?
http://phpbootcamp.com/articles/inspiron700m/
Also tell us something about your other hardware. Did you try popping
out the NIC and fixing it in another slot?
It's a Dell laptop...
I'm not unwilling to open her up and poke at it, but
cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 2.00.3 (I386 .
cdrecord: Operation not permitted. Error opening /dev/pass0 Cam error
'camreal_
opendevice: coundn't open passthr. Cannot open SCSI driver.
I dunno about all this other stuff, but to me, *THIS* looks like you don't
have the IDE-SCSI module
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