Re: file harvest

2008-11-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:59:58AM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Since I cannot ssh into the snap, can I mount it to my BSD box and run some of those utilities? It seems that SnapOS uses a modified UFS. See

Re: FreeBSD and USBmemorystick

2008-11-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 09:04:13PM -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: On Tuesday 11 November 2008 5:39:02 pm Pieter Donche wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 08:25:51PM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: If I insert a USB memory stick in my laptop with FreeBSD

Re: Sheer panic and blissful ignorance.

2008-11-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 01:44:58PM -0600, Trevor Hearn wrote: Anyone that can help, I would appreciate it a lot. I have a Dell 1950 1U server running FreeBSD 6.3. It's connected to 2.5tb of RAID 6 storage via Fibre Channel. I have setup some 2 tb slices on this How does one fit more than

Re: file harvest

2008-11-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 12:53:38PM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I have a SNAP 4100 appliance that lost 2 directories, no backup , I sent it out to a DR service and they have told me that all they can do is file harvest, where I would get a list of files such as file0001.xls

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 10:47:11AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 10:35:21 +0100, Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Note that this does not limit the number of files you can have in a single directory, since normal files do not contain hardlinks to the parent directory,

Re: Port Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD?

2008-11-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:52:08PM -0800, Mike Price wrote: Hello guys, Is there a port like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD? I would like to move to FreeBSD as soon as possible. You could try the gimp for manipulating bitmap images. For creating vector images, try either

Re: Port Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD?

2008-11-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 09:33:36AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:52:08PM -0800, Mike Price wrote: Hello guys, Is there a port like Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for FreeBSD? I would like to move to FreeBSD as soon as possible. You could try the gimp for

Re: what is your programming language on freebsd?

2008-11-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 12:10:41AM +0800, Foo JH wrote: Hi there, Earlier I was asking for some help getting XSP/ mod_mono on FreeBSD. I may be asking in the wrong mailing list, but my impression is that mono on FreeBSD is generally not a popular idea. As a re-implementation of microsofts

Re: console locked again:: load over 2.00

2008-11-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 11:45:10AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Hey guys, Any ideas *why* my load is so high when my desktop wasn't touched for 9, 10 hours? I was running mostly KDE3 konsoles, and had a few other processes going, the apps iconisized. The server is still running; I've killed

Re: migrate server on freebsd amd64

2008-10-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:10:19AM +0100, Valentin Bud wrote: Hello list, I want your opinion about migrating a freebsd server to amd64. I have the following configuration: Motherboard: Intel S5000VSA CPU: Intel Xeon E5335 @ 2Ghz RAM: 2 x 1Gb DDR2 FB-DIMM 667Mhz HDD: 2 x 320 Gb SATA II +

Re: restrict FreeBSD users to their home directory

2008-10-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:13:17PM +0800, FBSD1 wrote: How do it configure FreeBSD to restrict users to their home directory? You can give the users rbash as their shell. This will restrict them to their home directory. But this can be easily broken out of if the user starts another shell! So

Re: restrict FreeBSD users to their home directory

2008-10-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 08:19:51PM +0800, joeb wrote: snip I don't want them to be able see any system directories or other users? User directories are by default both owned by the user and belong to the user's group. So you can set the umask for every user so that their files are not

Re: the age old 3D hardware question

2008-10-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 08:48:58AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I'm looking to buy a new workstation that needs to be able to run in 64-bit (long) mode (working with large data sets). What are my options for 3D acceleration without binary drivers? My needs are quite minimal, I'm

Re: mounting an MP3 player?

2008-10-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 04:05:24PM +0200, Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach wrote: Hello, Roland Smith wrote: $ file -s /dev/da* /dev/da1: writable, no read permission /dev/da2: writable, no read permission /dev/da3: writable, no read permission /dev/da4: writable, no read

Re: mounting an MP3 player?

2008-10-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 06:37:50AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 03:51:20PM +0200, Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach wrote: Hello, Message: 3 Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:57:43 +0100 From: dgmm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mounting an MP3 player? [...]

Re: mounting an MP3 player?

2008-10-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:32:37AM +0200, Johannes-Maria Kaltenbach wrote: Hello, can anyone tell me how to mount an MP3 player (usb)? I seem to be too stupid to figure it out by myself. I thought it would be as easy as mounting a usb memory stick which I can mount with a device file of

Re: Freebsd7 mingw32 compilation utilities missing.

2008-10-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 12:18:47PM +0200, Benoit wrote: Hello, i don't know if it's the good section to talk about it... Yesterday, i want to cross-compile an old windows program, so i installed mingw32-bin-msvcrt-r3.12.a3.9 but i can't compile because the compiler and others tools are

Re: continuous backup solution for freebsd?

2008-10-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 12:58:30PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: Hello, Is there a known continuous backup solution similar to r1soft backup for FreeBSD? I googled a lot but couldnt find anything. I don't think so. The closest thing I know of is rsnapshot (http://www.rsnapshot.org/). My

Re: TRUE realtime priority

2008-10-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 10:21:01PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: is it possible on FreeBSD No, I think. i run asterisk with realtime priority. it works perfectly no matter how much CPU is loaded by other non-telephony tasks. but with lots of VM pressure it starts to so... like like

Re: Cant remove /var, in relocating /var to a symbolic link

2008-10-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 03:31:42PM -0700, jaymax wrote: I am attempting to relocate /var to avoid files system full issues. Using a - mkdir /usr/var cd /var tar cf - . | (cd /usr/var; tar xf - ) cd / rm -rf /var ln -s /usr/var /var approach at the

Re: Canon Pixma iP4500 - problem with colours

2008-10-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 04:04:47PM +0100, Mike Clarke wrote: On Thursday 02 October 2008, Roland Smith wrote: Gimp uses Gutenprint doesn't it? So you could try using the gutenprint driver? That's the odd thing, CUPS is (supposed to be) using the gutenprint driver. Here's a list

Re: Canon Pixma iP4500 - problem with colours

2008-10-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 11:59:04AM +0100, Mike Clarke wrote: On Wednesday 01 October 2008, Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 03:46:29PM +0100, Mike Clarke wrote: I've just installed a Canon Pixma iP4500 on a 6.3 system using CUPS and gutenprint. Black printing is fine but I've

Re: built-in samba mount

2008-10-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 12:43:01PM +0300, EforeZZ wrote: I'm able to mount only //pc/share (not //pc/share/folder) and I do not have read access to read contents of //pc/share and FreeBSD does not let me to change the directory to //pc/share/folder. Windows allows to mount

Re: Scanner

2008-10-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 07:28:29PM +0300, John Vliouras wrote: I wonder if this is the right place to ask a question regarding FreeBsd7 and the Handbook. snip The problem is my scanner a Canon Lide 60. Running #scanimage -L I get device `genesys:libusb:/dev/usb1:/dev/ugen0' is a Canon Lide 60

Re: Updating and Ports

2008-10-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 04:15:20PM -0400, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I have heard people chattering occasionally about /etc/make.conf. In a few days, I will be updating from 6.2, and 6.3, to RELENGE_6_3 and am curious how I can use / modufy /etc/make.conf so that I dont need to install

Re: Canon Pixma iP4500 - problem with colours

2008-10-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 03:46:29PM +0100, Mike Clarke wrote: I've just installed a Canon Pixma iP4500 on a 6.3 system using CUPS and gutenprint. Black printing is fine but I've got problems with colours. The colour wheel on the CUPS test page comes out as a psychedelic collection of

Re: built-in samba mount

2008-09-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 07:18:32PM +0300, EforeZZ wrote: Hello all, Is it possible to mount the samba share //pc/share/folder? It should be. I have troubles in FreeBSD: I'm able to mount only //pc/share (not //pc/share/folder) and I do not have read access to read contents of //pc/share

Re: Mouse not working

2008-09-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 02:49:04PM -0700, zill wrote: Moused recognizes my mouse and the Xorg -configure test also recognizes my mouse, but when I run startx it does not recognize my mouse. I have a Microsoft wireless optical mouse that plugs into a USB port. Does anyone know how to work

Re: ScreenCapturing tool for FreeBSD-7.0 Release

2008-09-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 09:09:23AM +, dhaneshk k wrote: HI all ; Can anyone recommend a working screencapturing tool such as XvidCap for FreeBSD-7.0 , I installed XvidCap but its not working any other tools OR Solutions for doing screen Capturing .. It will be useful for demo

Re: how can i use ISO-8859-1??

2008-09-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 04:08:40PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 12:39:41AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 03:16:08PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Because it is a hiddeous waste for most readers and writers of English and other European languages

Re: how can i use ISO-8859-1??

2008-09-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 09:35:07PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, This is one of the I've-been-meaning-to-ask questions; but other things keep happening that took precedence. Now it's time to ask what are the voodoo commands to set up in my ~/.zshrc or other

Re: how can i use ISO-8859-1??

2008-09-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 02:47:34PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I installed the rxvt-unicode terminal emulator because it's a lot lighter then xterm, although both should handle UTF-8. You should use a unicode font though. I put the following in my ~/.Xresources: I had something like

Re: how can i use ISO-8859-1??

2008-09-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 03:16:08PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Because it is a hiddeous waste for most readers and writers of English and other European languages. I also argured that utf-8 was a waste of a whole byte per char for most of us. That's not true. UTF-8 is a

Re: Ports and 64-bit Processors

2008-08-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 08:48:24PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: AFAIK, it is not as much a question of ports being broken, but there are some ports that have 'ONLY_FOR_ARCHS=i386' set, e.g. because they are binary-only ports (e.g. flash plugin, nvidia driver) or because they contain

Re: complete listing of CPUTYPES

2008-08-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 07:55:11AM -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I just switched from amd64 to i386 8-current on a machine and was using CPUTYPE?=nocona but want to know: a) Is this still correct for a intel dual core e6850 (3.0GHz) I think it should be CPUTYPE?=prescott on i386,

Re: Ports and 64-bit Processors

2008-08-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 10:44:10AM -0400, FreeBSD Questions wrote: FreeBSD has supported 64-bit architectures for a while now... Alpha and UltraSPARC come to mind--even if Alpha is no longer a Tier 1 architecture. I'm surprised to hear so many of you say that certain ports are broken on

Re: souce code for the halt program.

2008-08-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:47:53PM -0700, Christopher Joyner wrote: How can I get the source code for the /sbin/halt program? Look at /usr/src/sbin/reboot/reboot.c. /sbin/reboot is linked to fasthalt, fastboot and halt. See /usr/src/sbin/reboot/Makefile I found this out like this: # ls -l

Re: THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ

2008-08-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 03:24:30PM +0200, Marcel Grandemange wrote: On a different dilemma, I have a FreeBSD proxy server with what looks like a failing drive. It seem that no matter how many times I run fsck it still comes up with same result, is there a way to isolate the bad sectors and

Re: Formatting a harddisk with defective sectors

2008-08-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 06:31:09PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: Hi! I have an 8 GB harddisk that I want to use in a Intel P1 / 150 MHz with 128 MB EDO-RAM system. Yes, that's for real. This harddisk has one defective sector which causes the installation that's already on this disk to complain

Re: Auto Mount USB

2008-08-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:06:38PM -0400, Brian Miller wrote: All, Not sure how to word all of this. I am trying to auto mount my USB tumb drive in FreeBSD (The version that comes with PFSense) I believe most of my troubles are related to lack of knowledge. I can mount the drive just fine

Re: Auto Mount USB

2008-08-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 04:21:41PM -0400, Brian Miller wrote: Not a big deal. I will be sure to just mount and dismount the USB drives manually. They are just there to store a config and log backup on the firewall. If an attacker has gained access to the system, anything mounted locally should

Re: ext3 to ufs: filename character encoding woes

2008-08-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 01:26:21AM -0700, Colin Brace wrote: Using rsync, I copied a collection of MP3s from an ext3 partition on my Linux F9 box to a UFS partition my FreeBSD 7 box. Many of the song titles had accented characters, which are now displayed as two question marks (??) on my

Re: Recover Deleted File FreeBSD 7.0

2008-08-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 04:55:37PM +0800, Ruel Luchavez wrote: Hi List, Do you have an idea how to recover a deleted directory or files in freebsd 7.0? For starters, you should remount the filesystem that contains the directory as read-only _immediately_ after the accident. Otherwise the

Re: ATi Intel graphics

2008-08-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 02:03:38PM -0400, Jim wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The last ATI chip with full open-source 3D accelleration support is the 2950 (RV280), but 3D and accelleration support for newer chips is actively being worked

Re: ATi Intel graphics

2008-08-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 02:20:45PM -0400, Jim wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 2:06 PM, John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 13 August 2008, Jim wrote: At some point fairly soon, I'll be rebuilding my computer, and I want three things. 64 Bit for more memory, maybe a bit of

Re: ATi Intel graphics

2008-08-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:17:23PM -0400, Jim wrote: Has anyone had much experience with a 3600 series ATi card, it's the best in the discreet-video category for my target price/performance, but not listed in the man pages for the Radeon (non-HD) - only the 3400s and the 3800s). Aside from

Re: ATi Intel graphics

2008-08-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:25:48PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIRC, all the libraries that WINE depends on also need to be available in 32 bits. While not impossible nobody has spent any affort on this because it's

Re: sound jitter with snd_via8233 and freebsd 7

2008-08-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 12:29:41PM +0100, Craig Butler wrote: Hi All I am experiencing sound jitter when watching video or listening to music. I have tried many players (vlc, mplayer, xine ... etc) with different cache settings -- same result. It jitters even if the computer is not busy.

Re: Rsync

2008-08-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 09:01:36PM +0200, Jos Chrispijn wrote: I have server1 of which I would like to backup some slices/directories to a backup server2 that in fact is a mirror of the one that I want to backup. I don't allow root logon from prompt on Server2. Can someone tell me how I

Re: changing architecture from i386 to amd64

2008-08-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 10:55:30PM +0300, Ivo Karabojkov wrote: Hi! I have machine working with i386 version of FreeBSD 7.0 Release (after several source updates from 6.0 during the years). Is it possible to re-build kernel and world with another architecture, in my case AMD64? Yes, but

Re: general questions about 7.0 and computer efficiency......

2008-08-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 01:45:28PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 02:24:06PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 11:56:12AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: the datasheets for the 40G drives are lost lost. Oh, come now! If you still know what make and model

Re: general questions about 7.0 and computer efficiency......

2008-08-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 05:07:08PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: This brings me to my next question which is:: It it better to buy a proprietary make like Dell or HP or stick to something more generic? Let's assume that i could handle the hardware end myself. what

Re: GEOM + mount_msdosfs usb flash stick

2008-08-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 02:12:09PM +0800, joeb wrote: On 7.0 release of FBSD trying to mount a usb flash memory stick. The stick has a msdos file system on it and has been loaded with files using windows xp. When I plug the stick into my FBSD 7.0 box I get Geom console msg 'GEOM_LABEL:Label

Re: keyboard!!

2008-08-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 02:41:22AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:34:15 -0400, Chess Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use an original model M made in the mid 1980's and love it. Same here, too. I'm actually typing this on it (black logo, detachable HIL cable). You

Re: secure access to AS/400 ?

2008-08-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 09:27:12AM -0400, B. Cook wrote: Hello All, Seems OT, but I have been asked to give someone remote access to an AS/ 400 we have here. snip Is there some terminal emulator that I would have to give them? Try x11/x3270 Roland -- R.F.Smith

Re: keyboard!!

2008-07-31 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 01:39:17PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: hi people, a friend gave me two of his old dell keyboards; one of which has worked pretty well. trouble is that is it very large-- std?? travel-time is just that much moresince i am using only my

Re: Compile firefox with debug symbols

2008-07-31 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 09:00:53PM +0200, Martin Laabs wrote: Hi, I have some problems with firefox (it just don't start - as well as openoffice.) I think it is a broken lib - but though I recompiled all the libs it still does not work. It might not be necessary to trot out gdb just yet.

Re: difficulty building a cross-compiler with a fresh install

2008-07-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 08:47:42PM -0400, Wyatt Neal wrote: greetings, i've been running with a freebsd 6.1 system for a few days and i'm having some oddities when trying to build a cross compiler on the system. You don't say _what_ kind of cross-compiler you want. Use the available

Re: protecting my FreeBSD system

2008-07-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 09:38:26AM -, DSA - JCR wrote: HI all again I would like to know if there is a method to know how well protected is my system (FreeBSD 6.2) in order to not permit a user to enter as root. I need it because I have intellectual propierty in that box, and I know

Re: valgrind

2008-07-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 05:12:39PM +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote: ** Port marked as IGNORE: devel/valgrind: is only for i386, while you are running amd64 ** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed) - devel/valgrind Same holds for valgrind-snapshot.

Re: tex, teTex, LaTeX help

2008-07-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 06:45:18PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:00:00 -0300 Joey Mingrone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a guide for getting all this set up, or can some kind soul suggest a installation method that works well for them? Install from the TeX

Re: question about new monitor...

2008-07-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 06:46:33PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I've changed my mind:: if I go to 20 i can get widescreen with 1680x1050, so my current 1284x1024 would fit. IFF xorg know what kind of beast this is:-) Xorg can talk to modern monitors

Re: tex, teTex, LaTeX help

2008-07-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 07:17:26PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:05:59 +0100, Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joey Mingrone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: fonts, but it seems they are in the teTex port, but that port conflicts with the tex port and it seems teTex is

Re: question about new monitor...

2008-07-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 08:26:45PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 06:29:01PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 06:46:33PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I've changed my mind:: if I go to 20 i can get widescreen with 1680x1050, so my

Re: Group Limits

2008-07-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 07:32:23AM +1000, Michael Christie wrote: Hi there, I am running webmin and virtualmin on freebsd 7.0, I have found when i add a number of domains using virtualmin and restart apachie i get the following error. [alert] (22)Invalid argument: initgroups:

Re: Cleaning data off a remote machine

2008-07-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 05:23:04PM +0100, Chris Hastie wrote: I'm about to give up a FreeBSD dedicated server and would like to make sure I don't inadvertantly leave any bits of sensitive data on it. What is the best way to remove all data from the hard drive? Remove the harddive and move a

Re: Root boot/mount Password?

2008-07-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 09:47:44AM -, DSA - JCR wrote: On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 05:31:23PM -, DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all FreeBSD 6.2 I would like to put a password when booting/mounting mi Freebsd box. is it possible? How? Yes. Use geli(8) encryption. is for protecting the

Re: Root boot/mount Password?

2008-07-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 05:31:23PM -, DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all FreeBSD 6.2 I would like to put a password when booting/mounting mi Freebsd box. is it possible? How? Yes. Use geli(8) encryption. is for protecting the system from unauthorized users Disk encryption also protects your

Re: Root boot/mount Password?

2008-07-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 01:53:27PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all FreeBSD 6.2 I would like to put a password when booting/mounting mi Freebsd box. is it possible? How? What I want is that if the system is

Re: Root boot/mount Password?

2008-07-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 09:58:53PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: What I want is that if the system is rebooted or shutdown, somebody must enter a password to boot and/or mounting / Next to the usual means of access control (no automated login, no users without password), there would be an

Re: optimal CPUTYPE / arch for Intel T5600 ?

2008-07-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 09:45:40AM +0200, Rene Ladan wrote: Hi, I have an Asus A6JE laptop which has an Intel T5600 CPU. It is currently configured as i386 with CPUTYPE=prescott. But after reading wikipedia, I get the idea that I have slightly underconfigured my box, i.e. that a better

Re: optimal CPUTYPE / arch for Intel T5600 ?

2008-07-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:16:02AM +0200, Rene Ladan wrote: CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5600 @ 1.83GHz (1828.77-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x6f6 Stepping = 6

Re: Motherboard FAN Speed control

2008-07-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 03:44:12PM +0200, Vonarburg, David wrote: Hi friends, I have a motherboard for Intel Core2Duo CPU using the Q35 chipset. How can I read out the speed of the Fan's connected to the Motherboard and control the speed? You can read it with the sysutils/mbmon port. I don't

Re: what is hostuuid, hostid (for)?

2008-07-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 04:26:21PM +0200, Sandra Kachelmann wrote: I just setup a new server with 7.0-RELEASE and saw the following lines for the fist time when booting the system: Setting hostuuid: 2231232f-4000--2333-aafbb88a88ca. Setting hostid: 0x89e3310b. What exactly are those

Re: optimal CPUTYPE / arch for Intel T5600 ?

2008-07-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 06:03:46PM +0200, Rene Ladan wrote: Hmm, according to CPU pages the T5600 is 64-bit capable (see http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=29threadid=2067695enterthread=ySTARTPAGE=2), but according to the 7.0 hardware notes it is not: ... * Intel

Re: Firefox3 port problem

2008-07-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 03:53:08PM +0200, Robby Balona wrote: Hi Guys I have been tring to port firefox3 on freebsd 7 for a week now. I keep coming up against this error Why are you trying to port it? It is allready in ports: www/firefox3 gmake:***[libgiofam.la] Error 1 I have done a

Re: Port Management on a larger scale

2008-07-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:41:46AM -0400, Derek Belrose wrote: What is the recommended way of doing port management? There doesn't seem to be a single standard way of doing this. There are several things you could do, assuming that all servers use identically configured software. Probably the

Re: system hangs on boot up if no internet available

2008-07-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 03:04:15PM -0700, Dave Abouav wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jul 23, 2008, at 2:25 PM, Dave Abouav wrote: I setup a FreeBSD server (v 6.1) for my company as a simple Samba server. It works fine. Except once in awhile our access to the outside internet goes out

Re: mirror update

2008-07-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 08:57:59AM +, AN wrote: Is there a way to get a mirror to sync up with the latest packages? No. You should _ask_ the people who maintain those mirrors to do that. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text

Re: tips about saving text in Easy Editor

2008-07-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 02:05:39PM +0545, Prakash Poudyal wrote: Hello Everybody Here I want to know some tips of the Easy Editor. Can any body say the Key word that will save the text of Easy Editor. You should read the manual page before asking questions. Type 'man ee' in a shell or xterm

Re: How to divide up?

2008-07-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 05:23:48PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, Is there an easyy way of splitting yp these tags into one-per-line? I'm not obcessive [[?, :)]], but for what I've got in mind, the tags and stuff would look better to my eyes? the outcome of this will go ino a special

Re: Sendmail rulesets [OFFTOPIC]

2008-07-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 01:18:53PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hola, Efren-- On Jul 18, 2008, at 12:02 PM, Efren Bravo wrote: Someone can tell me where can I find a dedicated book or material of sendmail's rulesets? http://www.sendmail.org/documentation/books The O'Reily

Re: dump and restore

2008-07-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:21:26PM +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: Hi all, My harddisk was failing and I wanted the data copied to another disk, but since my original wouldn't boot, I installed a minimal FreeBSD on the new disk, mounted the old partitions under /mnt and copied from the

Re: X won't play

2008-07-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 08:50:53AM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: I'm kind of new to this, so would appreciate a hand. I just got through configuring a custom kernel. Both makebuild and installbuild take place with no problems and the kernel boots just like it's supposed to. But when I try to

Re: X won't play

2008-07-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 09:46:09AM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: I'm kind of new to this, so would appreciate a hand. I just got through configuring a custom kernel. Both makebuild and installbuild take place with no problems and the kernel boots just like it's supposed to. But when I

Re: X won't play

2008-07-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:47:38AM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: Problem solved. Somehow I didn't just comment out, I actually deleted this line: options INET6 # IPv6 communications protocols Weird. Anyway, I reinserted the line, and now everything works fine. I

Re: Problem with enabling DRI on ATI Mobility Radeon X1350

2008-07-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 01:27:51PM +0300, gelraen wrote: Hi, I have notebook HP Compaq 6820s with ATI Mobility Radeon X1350 videocard and FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p2 installed. Videocard recognized by xf86-video-ati-6.9.0: Xorg.0.log: (--) Chipset ATI Mobility Radeon X1350 found But:

Re: Problem with enabling DRI on ATI Mobility Radeon X1350

2008-07-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 05:38:35PM +0300, gelraen wrote: Check if the pci ID for this card is in the file /usr/src/sys/dev/drm/drm_pciids.h. If not you could try and add it. I don't have a clue what happens if you do. It might crash your machine. Roland

Re: Problem with enabling DRI on ATI Mobility Radeon X1350

2008-07-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 07:05:15PM +0300, gelraen wrote: 2008/7/16 Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: And X.org reports something about chip R500 So, i can only wait until it will be supported? That would probably be best. You should probably ask on the Xorg/Freedesktop mailing list

Re: Printer Installation

2008-07-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:45:58PM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: This has been an ongoing problem for me because of my lack of knowledge about the processes involved. I have a postscript printer which was installed using CUPS via the KDE printer wizard. The printer works fine when printing

Re: mount USB on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-07-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 06:07:32PM +0300, Тарас wrote: I need to mount USB on FreeBSD 7.0 # mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usb mount: Using -t msdosfs, since -t msdos is deprecated. mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: : Operation not permitted what must I do? - make sure you have read/write access to

Re: compile agp kernel support

2008-07-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 08:48:35PM +0100, Max Russell wrote: I need to compile nvidia agp support in to my kernel. I can work through the handbook and have previously compiled a kernel, but if anyone has previously add the agp support, could they give me sime pointers? The agp driver is

Re: Development (Linux) and production (freeBSD) servers?

2008-07-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 04:17:06PM +0300, Gintautas Simkus wrote: Hello, I have a freeBSD AMP web server running on an old desktop, while on my laptop I am running Ubuntu and Windows OSes. My main concern is this: is it possible backup my production server data with rsync for instance and keep

Re: Portupgrade

2008-07-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 02:07:45PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran the command 'portupgrade -all' yesterday and now I have some questions about the way the command works. Building of numerous packages was preceeded by a graphical menu of build options for the package to be built. In

Re: mounting ext2fs partitions on FBSD7 ( third time a charm?)

2008-07-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 05:46:09AM -0300, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: On Saturday 05 July 2008 03:24:53 Nejc Škoberne wrote: Hey, Have you, by any chance, tried and suceded at mounting ext2fs on FBSD7? If you did, at least I'd know that it _is_ possible :s It is possible, although I

Re: Firefox 3 for FreeBSD 7.0 release

2008-07-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 02:27:42PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded the firefox*gz file from devel but it doesn't make for 64-bit. Is Firefox 3 available for 64-bit AMD FreeBSD 7.0? It builds fine from ports on amd64 7-STABLE. Use the port www/firefox3. Roland -- R.F.Smith

Re: multi-platform dump and restore?

2008-07-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 10:59:27AM -0400, Mark B. wrote: If I dump on amd64 should I be able to extract files from the dump on i386? Yes. If so, should it be possible to restore a FreeBSD amd64 dump on OpenBSD i386? Probably. OpenBSD 4.2 supports UFS2. Note there is ticket that may be

Re: Data recovery

2008-07-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 05:27:41PM -0400, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I'm throwing this out to this list because our SNAP drive has a *nix kernel- One of the folders mysteriously lost a large portion of its data today, Oops. Am I correct in assuming that you have a NetApp appliance that

Re: filesystem information

2008-06-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 12:30:38PM -0400, Jim wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have a computer that is in a situation where it is losing power occasionally. All but one of the filesystems are going along

Re: filesystem information

2008-06-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 07:05:51PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Ans set 'hw.ata.wc=0' in /boot/loader.conf to stop the drives from caching writes. it will GREATLY reduce write performance. not just a bit, but many times. Of course. And mounting filesystems with sync will also reduce

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