Re: Booting a GELI encrypted hard disk

2007-10-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 08:18:38PM +0200, Fabian Keil wrote: Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 09:04:34AM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: I am voraciously attempting to get a FreeBSD system to boot from a GELI encrypted hard disk, but am having problems

Re: Booting a GELI encrypted hard disk

2007-10-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 11:37:55PM +0200, Mel wrote: Encryption isn't only useful for private data, it also reduces the risk of third parties replacing your binaries with Trojans while your away. If that someone can replace binaries on a running system, you're box has been

Re: Hardware compatible : Marble_Mouse/TrackMan Wheel from Logitech

2007-10-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 08:51:16AM +0800, williamkow wrote: Tahnk you for your reply, may I ask if I to purchase TrackMan Wheel Mouse (Logitech), does it also work and compatible in FreeBSD? Please advise, Thank you.

Re: Hardware compatible : Marble_Mouse from Logitech

2007-10-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 09:05:20PM +0800, williamkow wrote: Can anyboby advice me whether the Marble_Mouse from Logitech, be used and recognized by FreeBSD6.2-Release ? I've used this trackball without problems with Xorg. Here's the relevant part of my xorg.conf; Section InputDevice

Re: Memory ignored

2007-10-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 10:09:17PM +0800, TAJUL AZHAR Mohd Tajul Ariffin wrote: Hi all, i am maybe new to BSD. I had setup my DELL server 2900 to run freeBSD 7.0server but i have seen a message that ignored my 4GB of my memory in my server. Can somebody tell me what is happening and give me

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 10:33:12AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: In the Unix world (such as with FreeBSD), I'd recommend C before C++, too -- though probably long after Ruby or Perl. Too right. But it should be noted that both C and C++ give you enough rope to hang yourself with. My preference

Re: Flashplayer?

2007-10-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 10:26:17AM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: Anyone give me a heads up on what needs to be done to watch YouTube videos using Firefox and FreeBSD 6.2? Not with firefox, but I use www/youtube_dl and multimedia/mplayer. You can also try graphics/gnash, which can work as a

Re: avr-libc port problem

2007-10-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 07:43:23PM +0300, Ivan Dimitrov wrote: Dear list. I found a problem with the port named avr-libc. The reason is ... there is one line of code in the Makefile with the following content: BROKEN= Does not build what can be the reason to checkin an

Re: C++ Compiler On FreeBSD

2007-10-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 08:53:00PM +0100, James Jeffery wrote: Evening to you all (or morning in some parts of the world). Im learning C++ from Sams Teach Yourself C++, now many will call this a dumb method, and the books pointless and stupid, but i have no knowledge of any lower level

Re: FreeBsd e-mail question

2007-10-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 04:30:54PM -0400, Lisa Casey wrote: The problem comes in when a customer cancels his account. We remove users by rmuser username. That command removes the user from the password file, removes his home directory and removes the mailspool. What it doesn't do is to

Re: Spam Filtering

2007-10-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:54:22PM -0500, Jack Barnett wrote: My setup is basically everything gets pumped though procmail and ends up in an Courier imap directories. I'm thinking of going with something like SpamBouncer (procmail filter). Anyone use that before? Any other spam

Re: best spam filter port(s) for postfix?

2007-09-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 03:20:58PM -0500, Joe in MPLS wrote: I'm running 6.2-STABLE with postfix with cyrus-sasl, imap-uw horde for mail. I'd like to stop depending on clients(Thunderbird PDAs) for primary spam control (especially because our PDAs don't do any). AV scanning would be a

Re: Configuring FBSD to use HP Photosmart C6180

2007-09-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 02:12:55PM -0700, White Hat wrote: I just purchased a HP Photosmart C6180 All-in-One printer. It is connected to my network via a wireless network. The FBSD PC is hardwired to the router. The printer works flawlessly from the WinXP machines on the network. I

Re: want to install free bsd

2007-09-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 01:20:14AM -0700, Brian Guest wrote: Dear [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would like to install freebsd 6.2 or 6.0 on my pentium three PC computer. At this moment my pentium three computer has XP installed on it i do not know which files from the freebsd website to

Re: newby needing help

2007-09-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 09:39:50PM +, neal wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 09:11:01PM +, neal wrote: I've checked out all the main functions I want from FreeBSD and had them all working (hehe, but since broke some) so I'm happy it will do the things I want so far

Re: newby needing help

2007-09-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 09:11:01PM +, neal wrote: I've checked out all the main functions I want from FreeBSD and had them all working (hehe, but since broke some) so I'm happy it will do the things I want so far. First question, what is recommended regarding doing updates. Is it best

Re: Software Lojack

2007-09-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 06:33:30PM -0400, Jerry wrote: Hi All, I am wondering if there is already written (in the ports) some utility that would either periodically and/or on boot up, take note of if the machine is connected to the net and if so, send some information to a configured

Re: Software RAID5

2007-09-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 05:59:01PM +0100, Gabriel Dragffy wrote: This sounds good. How exactly did you manage to encrypt discs and then install freebsd there? I can just about setup software raid once freebsd is installed, but by then I am unable to use a hard drive because it already has

Re: FreeBSD on AMD64

2007-09-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 06:39:06PM +0400, Михаил Кипа wrote: I wish to install FreeBSD 6.2 on a computer with processor AMD Athlon64 X2. However I do not know what to me to choose the hardware. What chipsets are at the moment supported among nVidia nForce or ADM, VIA? Speaking solely from

Re: Software RAID5

2007-09-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 11:50:58PM +0100, Gabriel Dragffy wrote: Hi all Hoping to get some help setting up software RAID5. Guides on the internet seem to be few and far between, and official documentation is a little too technical. Basically I have 3 x 500GB hard drives which I'd like to

Re: My experiment which FreeBSD, stuck with wireless card.

2007-09-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 12:29:03PM -0230, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a solution to this issue for PCBDS 1.3? I am using the WN825G on an old IBM TP 600. According to the user guide, this card uses a Broadcom 4306 2050. AFAIK, these chips are not supported under freebsd. Broadcom

Re: Software

2007-09-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 07:17:51PM -0700, Kellen Dale wrote: I was wondering what kind of software freeBSD can support. I am currently a windows user but I would like to switch to a Unix operating system. What you could do is install FreeBSD inside a virtual machine like Qemu, to get some

Re: /dev/random question

2007-09-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 04:56:26PM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi, Could someone on the list point me to a document that explains the functionality of /dev/random in FreeBSD in a little more depth than the man page? In other OS's I've looked at random and urandom are different, here

Re: /dev/random question

2007-09-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 05:31:55PM +0100, RW wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:36:30 +0200 Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 04:56:26PM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi, Could someone on the list point me to a document that explains the functionality

Re: Plz, Help! /usr/sbin/sendmail: No such file or directory

2007-09-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 06:34:25PM +0200, VeeJay wrote: Hi there I have some weird problems in running Postfix. I have installed it on my FreeBSD 6.2 Box. Postfix starts normally as shown from maillog: Sep 13 16:28:37 veejay postfix/postfix-script[18197]: starting the Postfix mail system

Re: Scripting question

2007-09-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:16:40AM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: I'm trying to do some text file manipulation, and it's driving me nuts. I've got a sorted file of SMTP addresses, and want to eliminate the lines that are the same up to a space character within the line. Example: [EMAIL

Re: /dev/random question

2007-09-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 10:57:57PM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 05:31:55PM +0100, RW wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:36:30 +0200 Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 04:56:26PM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi

Re: graphics and freebsd

2007-09-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 12:21:29PM +0300, Burhan Teoman wrote: Hello, Im a newbie to freebsd. I'm a graphic designer and i need profession graphic applications on freebsd. Please send your advice. Look in /usr/ports/graphics for applications that you can automatically install; Read Chapter 4

Re: bootable CDs on FreeBSD-6.1-R amd64

2007-09-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 08:50:21PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sirs Burning CDs is becoming a coastier task to me on FBSD-6.1-R amd64. I've lost five of them...and the question is how to make bootable CDs by using cdrecord? I've already read man cdrecord but the

Re: loopback won't enable automatically

2007-09-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 01:47:47AM +, Pollywog wrote: I have to manually set the loopback interface after each reboot on one machine (it is a laptop): ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 Then everything is fine. I added ifconfig_lo0=127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 to

Re: portupgrade and make options

2007-08-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 02:04:16PM +0100, Adam J Richardson wrote: Michael S wrote: Thanks a lot. By the way, will it attempt to use -j4 for make install? Should do, yes. Robert Huff is correct when he says this will affect everything using make. I can't think why that would be

Re: harassed by mplayer on FreeBSD-6.1-R amd64

2007-08-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 12:33:19PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, everybody...I've downloaded mplayer but there is not a graphical interface... and how do I configure it? It is configured in the default build. It is called 'gmplayer'. But you might want to try building mplayer

Re: Ports build parameters (knobs)

2007-08-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:54:08AM +0200, Gabriel Linder wrote: Hello, During the build of the graphical portion of my new FreeBSD-powered laptop I noticed that some knobs are not listed in /usr/ports/KNOBS and so, I can't add them to make.conf before building the packages. I don't see why

Re: AMD64 vs i386

2007-08-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 08:58:34AM -0400, Arend P. van der Veen wrote: - Will the AMD64 based FreeBSD 6.2 distribution with applications such as Postgresql, Apache, Python, Tomcat and SBCL be able to take advantage of the 64-bit quad processor? Yes, if you compile them natively on AMD64.

Re: Servers Crash every few days

2007-08-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:06:50PM +0800, amin wrote: Hi, I have six servers running FreeBSD 6.2 and all of them have the same config. My servers are configured to run as a socks5 proxy server. Lately the servers are going down without any good reasons. How do I check what are the errors or

Re: Servers Crash every few days

2007-08-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 01:19:10AM +0800, Aminuddin wrote: Thanks. But the servers are dedicated servers rented from a datacenter. Then get their tech support involved. See if they can log in on the console. I'm not sure if it hangs or panic. The provider just keep rebooting when we said

Re: ls there any way to limit the server resource per user?

2007-08-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:34:22PM -0700, ann kok wrote: thank you Can I limit the bandwidth by user what they use any program to download and upload? The pf firewall can do this. Filter packets by user, then assign them to an appropriate queue. Read pf.conf(5). You'll have to rebuild the

Re: Dump + GZIP

2007-08-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 09:10:12AM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 16 August 2007, Grant Peel wrote: Can I safely pump a filesystem dump through gzip during the dumping process?, or di I need to create the dump first then gzip it after? I do it all the time: dump -f - ... | gzip

Re: Real-Time traffic monitor?

2007-08-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 01:03:54PM -0500, Eric F Crist wrote: Hey all, I've got a fairly heavy-duty machine doing firewalling for my network, and the VAST majority of it's processing power is going unused. As such, I'd like to put X on this box, attach a monitor, and display a series of

Re: portupgrade question

2007-08-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 12:40:30AM +0200, Nikola Lecic wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:12:40 +0100 Christopher Key [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've just CVSupped my ports collection and run 'portupgrade -ra'. Hello Christopher, 'portupgrade -a' is just enough, '-r' means nothing

Re: Three things . . .

2007-08-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 12:51:09PM -0700, Mary Evans wrote: 2: I'm now pouring over everything I can find about making a reliable backup I've just gotten FBSD 6.2 installed with the minimum of my favorite utilities and programs. I want to save the configuration as it is so that . . . Very

Re: No updates needed to update system to 6.2-RELEASE-p7?

2007-08-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 10:33:38PM +0400, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: $ freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature from update1.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Inspecting system... done. Preparing to

Re: Wathdog Timeout HELP

2007-08-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 08:46:59AM +1000, Paul Fraser wrote: Narek Gharibyan wrote: Dear All, I recevice about 3-5 times per day xl0 : watchdog timeout, xl1 watchdog timeout. I tried to set BIOS value Plug and Play O/S to yes or no. None of the values help me. I use 3COM nics, I checked all

Re: xf86 madness - stop installing drivers

2007-07-31 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 11:37:36AM -0700, Noah wrote: Hi, I am wondering if there is an easy way to stop installing all of the xf86 input an video drivers listed below. 4 xf86-input-acecad-1.1.0 /x11-drivers/xf86-input-acecad 3 xf86-input-calcomp-1.1.0

Re: Using a Hercules HWGUSB2-54-V2 wifi usb adapter

2007-07-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 03:31:48PM +, beni wrote: Hi, System : 6.2-REL p4. I'm trying to use this usb wifi adapter. It is based on a Ralink RT2500 chipset and should thus be useable with the ural-device according to man ural (actually it speaks of the Hercules HWGUSB2-54, without

Re: Using a Hercules HWGUSB2-54-V2 wifi usb adapter

2007-07-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 07:27:47PM +, beni wrote: Your explanation worked, thanks ! bsdaddict# dmesg -a | grep ural ural0: Ralink 802.11 bg WLAN, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 3 ural0: MAC/BBP RT2570 (rev 0x00), RF unknown ural0: Ethernet address: 00:08:d3:08:31:fd ural0: if_start running

Re: still image grabber

2007-07-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:14:06AM -0400, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi, is there a port on freebsd that generate still images from movie files? like image grabber on windows?? thanks!! The multimedia/mplayer port can do that. If you use the '-vf screenshot' option, you can use the 's' key to

Re: Disklabel, partition d is usable or not ?

2007-07-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 12:44:02PM +0200, Gabriel Linder wrote: Hi, This may sound as a dumb question, but during my 6.2-RELEASE (i386) setup I notice the following in the handbook : Remember [...] that partitions b, c, and d have conventional meanings that you should adhere to. But

Re: freebsd-update question

2007-07-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 01:46:51PM +0200, n j wrote: Hello, while updating my FreeBSD box, freebsd-update reported: Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature from update1.FreeBSD.org... done. ... No updates needed to update system to

Re: daily report

2007-07-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 02:21:25PM -0400, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi everyone, Before rebuilding my 5.5 server to the 6.2 I used to get daily reports emailed from the machine to me security run output daily run output What / where do I need to enable to get this again? You need to put

Re: 4.11 p19 on a hosted web site

2007-07-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 02:15:33PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everyone. I have a domain hosted on a vary large Visa CISP compliant host in the US of A. Right now there software is freebsd 4.11-release p19 mysql 4.0 php4 osCommerce 2.2 ms2. I am wondering if this is something

Re: Developer Questions (glibc i386 style backtraces)

2007-07-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 07:53:35PM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote: Hello Again, Is there a good list to ask developer questions about porting code to FreeBSD? -questions, or maybe -hackers if it gets really complicated. I have a good chunk of code to port and no doubt I will have numerous

Re: Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1100 and FreeBSD

2007-07-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 12:06:52PM +0200, Frank Wissmann wrote: Hello all! I just got a new computer with the above mentioned card in it. What I want to know is if anybody has experience in making it work under FreeBSD. Googling around has brought no results but it should work under Linux

Re: what do you do with daily, weekly, monthly outputs..

2007-07-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 07:57:48AM -0400, B. Cook wrote: Hello All, What do you do with the FreeBSD emails that each server you have sends you every day? If there is nothing in them that warrants investigation, I just delete them. Roland -- R.F.Smith

Re: Making use of a Windows drive

2007-07-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 05:33:52PM +0300, Razmig K wrote: Hello, I double-boot Windows XP and FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, and my disk layout is as follows: Windows drive C in ad1s1, FreeBSD slice in ad1s2 and extended partition containing Windows drive D in ad1s3. I found that I no longer need to

Re: cdrecord on fbsd-6.1-R amd64

2007-07-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 02:07:17PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How to write CDs on amd64? My cd driver is an IDE-ATAPI and needs scsi emulation. cdrecord says it needs some scsi transport emulation like cam... $ cdrecord -v dev=cam:1,1,1 speed=4 something.iso its output

Re: Making use of a Windows drive

2007-07-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 08:57:52PM +0300, Razmig K wrote: On 7/15/07, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you need partitions (bsdlabels) on ad1s3? Or to put it another way, do you want to subdevide it in pieces that you can mount on different mount points? Well that certainly

Re: amd

2007-07-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 05:25:46PM -0400, Michael B Allen wrote: Hello, I'm a C developer. I normally use Linux but I'm trying FreeBSD with limited success. First thing I need to do mount an NFS volume. I was able to mount it manually. Fine. Then I added an entry to amd.map, did 'amd /mnt

Re: Making a mounted ISO image of a CD-ROM writable

2007-07-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 12:38:10PM -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote: Greetings again. I want to make an ISO image of the FreeBSD distribution with a boot.config file that contains /boot/loader -h. I have the ISO image as a file on my hard drive, and have mounted it on /mnt: mdconfig -a -t vnode

Re: external drive

2007-07-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 06:21:35PM -0400, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: There are some files (basically some custom config and cf files) that I would like to copy from the 5.5 drive - So I put it in an external enclosure and needless to say windows wouldn't recognize it - and the MAC OSX though

Re: GELI cripto USB disk and fsck

2007-07-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 10:50:51AM -, DSA - JCR wrote: HI all FreeBSD 6.2 i386 I have an USB disk cryptografied with GELI in order to get external backup copies of an enterprise. All work fine till somebody (not me ;D), reboot the computer (I think so) without unmounting the disk

Re: Correct way to use dump to backup a Samba share

2007-07-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 06:42:20PM -0700, L Goodwin wrote: I have a Samba share on a software RAID 1 array (using gmirror) that I need to backup. I want to create a shell script that does a level 0 backup every time to (alternately) one of two USB drives. I plan to have only ONE USB drive

Re: New FreeBSD installation

2007-07-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 04:16:47PM -0400, Lisa Casey wrote: First, thanks for the help I got from this list when I was having problems getting FreeBSD to install on a new system. Hard drive cabling was the problem - got that fixed. Hardware problems can be a pain. :-) I have FreeBSD up

Re: Problem installing FreeBSD 5.3

2007-07-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 02:10:24PM -0400, Lisa Casey wrote: Hi, I am attempting to install FreeBSD 5.3 (because that's the latest distro I have CD's for) on a brand new system with a 80 G harddrive and 2 G RAM. Since 5.3 is no supported anymore, I suggest that you download 6.2 images. I

Re: Anyone has migrated Xorg from 6.9 to 7.2 with success ?

2007-07-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 04:20:09PM -0400, Tom Grove wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I tried twice starting from a fresh 6.2-R installed machine and followed intructions of the updating file but it failed twice ... Once Xorg has been upgraded I've never been able to start X server again ,

Re: backing up dvds

2007-07-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 05:39:29PM -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: On Saturday 30 June 2007 16:46:36 Dave wrote: Hello, I've got a 6.2 box with a dvd writer in it. I want to back up some dvds to iso files so i can recreate the dvds at a later time should it be needed. I can use dvdbackup

Re: flash

2007-07-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 03:25:14PM -0400, 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

Re: Gradual move to own mail server - strategy for noob

2007-06-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 10:27:56AM +0100, Barnaby Scott wrote: What I _think_ I want to do is this: Install Fetchmail to get mail from my various hosted mailboxes Fetchmail works fine. Configure Sendmail, which I accepted as the default mailer I'd go for postfix. It's much easier to

Re: editing the search path for '#include' preprocessor

2007-06-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 03:35:46PM +0530, sameer gupta wrote: hello, i want to add new search path's for including more directories for header files, for that i need to edit the makefile that my gcc compiler uses, however i cant figure out where to find that file, kindly help..i'm a

Re: Upgrading from an old athlon to a new 64 bit one.

2007-06-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 02:50:30PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just stuck the disks from an old AMD Athlon(tm) (1333.39-MHz 686-class CPU) into a new box with an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+ (2387.78-MHz 686-class CPU). I am still building a daily kernel with the old

Re: Starting again from Scratch

2007-06-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 09:51:16PM +0100, Graham Bentley wrote: audacious - where did the plugins go? The site seems down as do the alternatives. I tried the plugins src from OpenBSD altho slightyly behind by 0.0.1 but cant get any sound? They're in a seperate port now;

Re: Permanent apache patch

2007-06-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 09:01:21PM +1200, Josh wrote: Gidday there, I have my own change to suexec in apache 2.0 from ports. What I want to know is the best way to have my patch applied each time I compile apache, without too much effort from me? The best way is to get the patch

Re: Starting again from Scratch

2007-06-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 03:18:58PM +0100, Graham Bentley wrote: OK, I am fairly new to FreeBSD and returning from a long while away. I am currently working on an install I have performed from the 6.2 release discs I downloaded several days ago. I chose X-Kern-Dev install and have a mixed

Re: Starting again from Scratch

2007-06-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 05:51:44PM +0100, Graham Bentley wrote: So, if I where to start again, I would ; 1) Install 'minimal' distrib from 6.2 rel CD1 2) portsnap fetch extract 3) make install my system The base system and ports are separate. The base system is built from /usr/src, while

Re: Starting again from Scratch

2007-06-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 06:27:11PM +0100, Graham Bentley wrote: snip Is it considered OK to update the ports and build up your worktop *without* bothering with building world? Also, building a kernel but leaving world at release? You only _have_ to rebuild world and the kernel if you have

Re: gimp error

2007-06-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 10:57:10AM -0400, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi, i am using gimp 2.2 on fbsd 6.2, i found that gimp crash when I try to draw a line using tools like brush or pencil, a dot is fine, does anybody have this trouble?? thanks!! This is a bug in libX11. A fix was applied to

Re: Missing /dev/agpgart

2007-06-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 11:07:34PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:18:29 +0200 Alberto Rizzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Norberto Meijome ha scritto: On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:44:12 +0200 Alberto Rizzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a motherboard with a via

Re: Missing /dev/agpgart

2007-06-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 06:44:21PM +0200, Alberto Rizzi wrote: Roland Smith ha scritto: On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 11:07:34PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:18:29 +0200 Alberto Rizzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Norberto Meijome ha scritto: On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:44:12

Re: Missing /dev/agpgart

2007-06-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 10:10:01PM +0200, Alberto Rizzi wrote: Roland Smith ha scritto: On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 06:44:21PM +0200, Alberto Rizzi wrote: Ok I know this, but I want 2D acceleration, but without /dev/agpgart I don't have neither 3D nor 2D. Am I right? Reading radeon(4

Re: Install issue: get root login in GUI

2007-06-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 04:22:42PM +0200, Christian Walther wrote: On 18/06/07, Harriet Severino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am having install isues and can not login as root in the GUI. I have to re-boot and come up in single user mode to work as root. Then when I need to look

Re: Fresh install won't compile requirement libraries for cvsup

2007-06-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 10:02:38AM -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, I just installed a fresh 6.2-RELEASE i386 system last night and was trying to get cvsup-without-gui installed from ports and was having some interesting problems. The install of FreeBSD went flawlessly, and the system

Re: Fresh install won't compile requirement libraries for cvsup

2007-06-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 10:25:38AM -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote: You don't need cvsup-without-gui anymore. A rewrite in C called csup is part of the base system in 6.2. This should be fixed in the handbook, as it still references cvsup. Roland Thank you for this. I was not aware.

Re: sendmail startup problem

2007-06-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 01:41:22PM -0700, Charlie McElfresh wrote: Hi, I have sendmail disabled in rc.conf, but it starts up anyway. Any hints what might be starting it up? How have you disabled it? It is not enough to do 'sendmail_enable=NO'. To completely disable sendmail you shoud use

Re: Is there a way to undelete?

2007-06-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 10:24:07PM +0200, Kyrre Nygård wrote: Hello! I'm just curious if there's a way to undo a rm -rf. There has to be something eqivalent in FreeBSD to all those recovery tools? Unless you've written new data to the disk, the old data is still there. So yes it is

Re: GEOM/GELI Boot Disk Encryption

2007-06-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 08:27:09PM -0400, Bob wrote: What is this virtual machine created with qemu you talk about? http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ especially http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/about.html It is a program that emulates a computer. Using a file as a disk image it can run

Re: GEOM/GELI Boot Disk Encryption

2007-06-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 07:28:48AM -0500, Eric F Crist wrote: Hey folks, I'm trying to take a system that already has a running freebsd system (or I can start over), and make the entire system encrypted. I've found instructions (freebsd manual) for creating secondary disks, but not the

Re: Seeking recommendation for anti-spam software

2007-06-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 12:00:59PM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote: I am running a mail server using Postfix and Dovecot. I would like to hear people's recommendation for which port to use to add server side anti-spam. The problem these days is a richness of choices, so it's hard to know

Re: How to mount USB key

2007-06-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 10:57:57AM -0600, Oscar Chavarria wrote: I want to copy files to it. I introduced the key and was recognized as da0. I did ls dev/da0 == dev/da0 Then mount /dev/da0 /home == incorrect super block. You're trying to mount the drive as a UFS filesystem; this is

Re: Security Run Output Setuid Differences

2007-06-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 04:11:24PM -0700, Peter Pluta wrote: mail.***.net setuid diffs: --- /var/log/setuid.today Mon May 21 03:02:30 2007 +++ /tmp/security.wq6BsVcrSun Jun 3 03:01:48 2007 @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ 377398 -r-sr-xr-x 2 root wheel 5828 Jul 30 16:19:57 2006

Re: Seeking recommendation for anti-spam software

2007-06-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 01:21:58PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: Bogofilter works very well, after you've trained it with some spam ham. You can get a head start by starting from someone else's wordlist. BTW, I'd be happy to share my wordlist. At ≈12MB it's kinda large though. Yes, works very

Re: Registering installation for...

2007-06-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 05:02:03PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On Jun 4, 2007, at 4:08 PM, Roland Smith wrote: This is probably due to the new structure of xorg. On my system, mplayer now depenws on 104 other ports (pkg_info -rx mplayer|grep Dependency:|wc -l). Some dependencies

Re: Registering installation for...

2007-06-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 11:09:39PM +0300, Vlad GURDIGA wrote: Hello, Registering installation for mplayer-0.99.10_9 took about 8 minutes (at 97% CPU-core load) of CPU time on one of the two cores on my Pentium D 820 on a system with 1 GiB of RAM and Barracuda SATA drive. It looks a

Re: COM1 problems

2007-06-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 01:01:38AM -0700, Tim Judd wrote: I'm subscribed to the digest, everyone -- send CC me on every reply please... Hi there, new installation, 6.2-STABLE. I have a Belkin UPS on COM1 and sysutils/nut is trying to talk with it. I know it talks with it, because it has

Re: Recommendations for config file revision control

2007-06-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 03:27:57PM -0400, Maxim Khitrov wrote: Hi everyone, I'm currently setting up a new server, and I'd like to keep track of all changes made to various config files (in /etc, /usr/local/etc, and a few other places perhaps). My first thought was to setup a

Re: See output of local xterm session on remote ssh session.

2007-06-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 07:23:45AM -0400, Jeremy Gransden wrote: Hello, I have been searching Google for a few days for this but have not been coming up with the correct answer. Then again maybe I am asking the wrong question... If I start a process, i.e. compile a kernel, on my desktop,

Re: Flatbed scanners for FreeBSD

2007-06-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 03:15:22PM -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi everybody, What scanners are best used with FreeBSD? I'm hoping for one that I can use in both Windoze and FreeBSD. Preferably, one that is USB. I've never configured a scanner for FreeBSD before and would like

Re: Linksys WMP54G Version 4.1

2007-06-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 09:32:41PM +0200, Christopher Prance wrote: Hey appreciate the info and would love to get mine up and running, but the version of the if_ral_pci.c that I have is 1.2.x.x something. I'm running 6.2 p4. Which cvs tag did you use to get the 1.5 version of the ral

Re: Linksys WMP54G Version 4.1

2007-05-31 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:42:33PM +0200, Christopher Prance wrote: Does anyone know if this card is supported in FreeBSD 7.0? Or if there is a way to get it to work in 6.2. I installed it with the ndisgen. Everything sets up fine, but as soon as it tries to send a packet, the kernel panics.

Re: cant get the damn bandwidth limiter working

2007-05-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:58:50PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW wrote: On Sat, 26 May 2007 16:52:56 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pf and altq are enabled. My ISP allows 16kB/s upload and 128kB/s download. I want to use half of that. What should pf.conf contain, to limit my

Re: Stranges messages in terminal

2007-05-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:55:18AM -, DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all again I had twice strange messages in the terminal of my FreeBSD 6.2 box. The messages are: info:[drm] setting GART location based on old memory map info:[drm] loading R200 Microcode info:[drm] writeback test succeeded

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