Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-14 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 14 September 2006 01:21, Kevin Brunelle wrote: As for the GNU tools, yes most sysadmins use some of them (although not always).  I know that BSD tar handles gzip and bzip2 just fine ( -z and -j respectively).  So I know I wouldn't download gtar just for that feature. In fact, as I

Re: Slow install of Ruby 18 from ports

2006-09-14 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 9/14/06, Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know why. I'm running DNS server on old Celeron 400Mhz with 96MB RAM just fine. Why do you think you need Xeon dual core for that? Of course I don't, and won't. I was just replying to the guy that told me that I am using archaic

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-14 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Sep 14, 2006, at 12:29 AM, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Thursday 14 September 2006 01:21, Kevin Brunelle wrote: As for the GNU tools, yes most sysadmins use some of them (although not always). I know that BSD tar handles gzip and bzip2 just fine ( - z and -j respectively). So I know I

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-14 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 14 September 2006 08:40, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Sep 14, 2006, at 12:29 AM, Jonathan McKeown wrote: In fact, as I discovered a few days ago (after all, how often does one read tar(1)'s manpage?), you only need to use -z and -j when creating a tar archive.

Nanobsd and CF geometry

2006-09-14 Thread Philippe Lang
Hi, I'm trying to flash Nanobsd on a Compact Flash which is not listed in /usr/src/tools/tools/nanobsd/FlashDevice.sub. Does anyone know how to calculate NANO_MEDIASIZE, NANO_HEADS and NANO_SECTS for a specific CF, in my case a Transcend 512 MB CF? I found a datasheet, but I'm not sure what

RE: apache 1.x and 2.x on same server

2006-09-14 Thread Philippe Lang
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any options I can use when installing apache 2.x from the ports tree so it won't overwrite apache 1.x? Hi, Yes, you have one option: use jails in your server. http://docs.freebsd.org/44doc/papers/jail/jail.html Cheers, --- Philippe Lang Attik

mount_ext2fs returning ENODEV on 6.1

2006-09-14 Thread Perry Hutchison
What am I doing wrong? # ll /dev/ad0s7 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 93 Sep 4 02:30 /dev/ad0s7 # file -s /dev/ad0s7 /dev/ad0s7: Linux rev 1.0 ext2 filesystem data # grep -w ad0s7 /etc/fstab /dev/ad0s7 /linux ext2fs ro 0 0 # ll -d /linux drwxr-xr-x 2 root

nocona CPU

2006-09-14 Thread RJ45
Hello I wanted to buildworld and kernel on FReeBSD 6.1 since I have Xeon cpu, I Wanted to rebuild it with CPUTYPE=nocona when I put the oprion in /etc/make.conf upon compilation instead of -march=nocona is used -march=prescott I also fixed bsd.cpu.mk but it does not work, alwaus

Re: Top not showing cpu usage even remotely accurately

2006-09-14 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-09-14 00:48, Tamouh H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think TOP and load averages are no longer accurate on FBSD 5.x and 6.x with SMP kernel. As far as I've seen. Load averages hit sometimes 8.0 without a noticable degradation in

Re: FreeBSD not popular in Asia?

2006-09-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
Check out http://www.bsdstats.org ... Republic of Korea is about to push the US out of first place, but there are *zero* FreeBSD boxes reporting from there ... DragonFly is first, then NetBSD and then OpenBSD ... 6 days later: Thailand jumped from 12 machines to 110... ahead of France and

memory problem

2006-09-14 Thread RJ45
Hello, I am running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p6 build with buildworld. THe system has exactly 4GB of memory but the memory is not complitely seen by the system. At boot thime I Get this warning 524288Kb of memory above 4GB ignored and then if I check real memory = 3757965312 (3583 MB) avail

Re: apache 1.x and 2.x on same server

2006-09-14 Thread snacktime
On 9/13/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On September 13, 2006 5:05:17 PM -0700 snacktime [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any options I can use when installing apache 2.x from the ports tree so it won't overwrite apache 1.x? Sure. Just like any other port. Just choose

Re: FreeBSD not popular in Asia?

2006-09-14 Thread Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg
Olivier Nicole wrote: Check out http://www.bsdstats.org ... Republic of Korea is about to push the US out of first place, but there are *zero* FreeBSD boxes reporting from there ... DragonFly is first, then NetBSD and then OpenBSD ... 6 days later: Thailand jumped from 12 machines to

Re: memory problem

2006-09-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
RJ45 wrote: THe system has exactly 4GB of memory but the memory is not complitely seen by the system. At boot thime I Get this warning 524288Kb of memory above 4GB ignored A normal 32bit OS can only address 4GB RAM -- but your system has various L2 and other caches built into the CPUs,

Re: memory problem

2006-09-14 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 09:55:09AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: RJ45 wrote: THe system has exactly 4GB of memory but the memory is not complitely seen by the system. At boot thime I Get this warning 524288Kb of memory above 4GB ignored A normal 32bit OS can only address 4GB RAM

Re: Using PC as serial terminal on running system

2006-09-14 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 14:59, Jonathan McKeown wrote: I'm using my laptop and tip(1) as a serial terminal. This is working well when a machine is booted with the laptop connected to its serial port. However, I need to be able to connect the laptop to a machine which was booted without

Network connectivity between FreeBSD and Linux

2006-09-14 Thread Arindam
I have FreeBSD 6.1 installed on one machine and Fedora Core 2 on another. I dual boot the FreeBSD 6.1 machine with a RedHat EL 4.3 installation. I have assigned the same static IP address and hostname to this machine for both the FreeBSD and RHEL installations. While my RHEL installation is

Re: Slow install of Ruby 18 from ports

2006-09-14 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
On 14/09/2006 04:05, Olivier Nicole wrote: I don't know why. I'm running DNS server on old Celeron 400Mhz with 96MB RAM just fine. Why do you think you need Xeon dual core for that? Of course I don't, and won't. I was just replying to the guy that told me that I am using archaic hardware

Re: Network connectivity between FreeBSD and Linux

2006-09-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sep 14, 2006, at 7:49 PM, Arindam wrote: I have FreeBSD 6.1 installed on one machine and Fedora Core 2 on another. I dual boot the FreeBSD 6.1 machine with a RedHat EL 4.3 installation. I have assigned the same static IP address and hostname to this machine for both the FreeBSD and RHEL

Re: pci modem question

2006-09-14 Thread Watanabe Kazuhiro
Hi. At Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:05:07 +0800, musashi miyamoto wrote: FreeBSD mori.ranmaru 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Tue Sep 5 02:09:57 PHT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/SHOGUN i386 is there a dialup pci modem that is compatible with FreeBSD? Lucent(Agere) Mars

Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror?

2006-09-14 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
At Fri, 1 Sep 2006 09:54:02 -0400, David Robillard wrote: Sounds like a good idea indeed. I've always followed Ralf S. Engelschall's instructions at http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ which involves using dump(8) to transfer the data onto the second disk once it's setup as a gmirror

Re: Thinkpad

2006-09-14 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
At Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:24:32 +0400, gb wrote: Got hold of an old IBM X21 Thinkpad. Anyone out there have any recommendations for a good kernel config or whatever to squeeze the most of this little fellow? a good starting point:

Re: Network connectivity between FreeBSD and Linux

2006-09-14 Thread Arindam
I have FreeBSD 6.1 installed on one machine and Fedora Core 2 on another. I dual boot the FreeBSD 6.1 machine with a RedHat EL 4.3 installation. I have assigned the same static IP address and hostname to this machine for both the FreeBSD and RHEL installations. While my RHEL installation

Re: Network connectivity between FreeBSD and Linux

2006-09-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sep 14, 2006, at 8:15 PM, Arindam wrote: I have FreeBSD 6.1 installed on one machine and Fedora Core 2 on another. I dual boot the FreeBSD 6.1 machine with a RedHat EL 4.3 installation. I have assigned the same static IP address and hostname to this machine for both the FreeBSD and

boot without loader(8) - BTX halted

2006-09-14 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I can boot fine with loader(8). However if I try to load kernel directly from boot(8) I always get BTX halted no matter which kernel and options I choose. The only command that works is the loader itself, /boot/loader. Why? man 8 loader says that BTX client is the name of the loader on i386. So

OT: awk/sed: how to use a variable in an address range?

2006-09-14 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. This might be OT in FreeBSD list, but hopefully some of yours is involved in sophisticated AWK programming. To keep a small shell script portable I use awk for separating an ASCII file from a home brewn scientific model software. The datasets of the output is enclosed by

fortune in English or Spanish

2006-09-14 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hi, I'm missing somehow the classic 'fortune' command and files in the ports, the are Italian and Russian ones, but don't see the fortune itself. If there is a Spanish one a pointer would be nice too. Thx matthias Linux es para gente que odia Micro$soft, FreeBSD es para los amantes de

Re: Using PC as serial terminal on running system

2006-09-14 Thread Watanabe Kazuhiro
Hi, At Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:40:13 +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: On Wednesday 13 September 2006 14:59, Jonathan McKeown wrote: I'm using my laptop and tip(1) as a serial terminal. This is working well when a machine is booted with the laptop connected to its serial port. However, I need to

Re: fortune in English or Spanish

2006-09-14 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Matthias Apitz wrote: Hi, I'm missing somehow the classic 'fortune' command and files in the ports, the are Italian and Russian ones, but don't see the fortune itself. If there is a Spanish one a pointer would be nice too. Thx Fortune is part of the base system.

Re: fortune in English or Spanish

2006-09-14 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, September 14, 2006 a las 02:50:56PM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze escribió: Matthias Apitz wrote: Hi, I'm missing somehow the classic 'fortune' command and files in the ports, the are Italian and Russian ones, but don't see the fortune itself. If there is a Spanish one a

Re: fortune in English or Spanish

2006-09-14 Thread Bob M.
On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 15:21 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Thursday, September 14, 2006 a las 02:50:56PM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze escribió: Matthias Apitz wrote: Hi, I'm missing somehow the classic 'fortune' command and files in the ports, the are Italian and Russian ones, but

BSDStats project, interesting returns from OpenBSD

2006-09-14 Thread Doug Poland
I just glanced at the latest statistics on www.bsdstats.org. In the last week or so OpenBSD has overtaken FreeBSD in the USA. Should one conclude that OpenBSD admins have enthusiastically embraced this project and FreeBSD admins have not; or, is OpenBSD really more widely deployed than FreeBSD?

Re: fortune in English or Spanish

2006-09-14 Thread Reko Turja
From: Matthias Apitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [LoN]Kamikaze [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org I'm missing somehow the classic 'fortune' command and files in the Fortune is part of the base system. Maybe I'm stupid, but I don't see it: man fortune FILES

Re: fortune in English or Spanish

2006-09-14 Thread Gerard Seibert
Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Thursday, September 14, 2006 a las 02:50:56PM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze escribió: Matthias Apitz wrote: Hi, I'm missing somehow the classic 'fortune' command and files in the ports, the are Italian and Russian ones, but don't see the fortune itself.

Re: fortune in English or Spanish

2006-09-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Thursday, September 14, 2006 a las 02:50:56PM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze escribió: Matthias Apitz wrote: Hi, I'm missing somehow the classic 'fortune' command and files in the ports, the are Italian and Russian ones, but don't see the fortune itself. If there

Re: fortune in English or Spanish

2006-09-14 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, September 14, 2006 a las 03:06:48PM +0100, Alex Zbyslaw escribió: Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Thursday, September 14, 2006 a las 02:50:56PM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze escribió: Matthias Apitz wrote: Hi, I'm missing somehow the classic 'fortune' command and

Re: fortune in English or Spanish

2006-09-14 Thread Gerard Seibert
Reko Turja wrote: From: Matthias Apitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [LoN]Kamikaze [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org I'm missing somehow the classic 'fortune' command and files in the Fortune is part of the base system. Maybe I'm stupid, but I don't see it: man

Re: Top not showing cpu usage even remotely accurately

2006-09-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 14), Ian Smith said: I still can't fathom what top tells me on a UP 5.5-STABLE system (300MHz Celeron if speed's relevant). I initiated this thread (weeks ago :) re seeing 0.0% idle (as expected) during buildworld but not seeing anything add up to anything like 100%,

FTP server behind router/gateway

2006-09-14 Thread billgg
I have a FreeBSD 6.1 box running behind a router/gateway. When it tries to go into passive mode, it returns it's internal 192.168. ip address to the client which the client stupidly uses to try to connect to. I've confirmed this by tyring to FTP from several external systems (windows linux).

Upgrading our mail server

2006-09-14 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello Our mailhub is actually a HP DL360 with one processor (Xeon 2.8 ghz) with 2 Gb RAM and 120 Gb disks, it is 3 years old. It runs Postfix + imap + imaps + pop3 + pop3s + squirrelmail + vexira antivirus + postgrey and some small auxiliary services. We have approx 2500 users / mailboxes and

Re: FTP server behind router/gateway

2006-09-14 Thread Derek Ragona
That is more a matter for your router. Your router should be wrapping the internal address with a public one. Be sure you are forwarding all the ports needed for ftp. -Derek At 09:40 AM 9/14/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a FreeBSD 6.1 box running behind a router/gateway.

Re: memory problem

2006-09-14 Thread Derek Ragona
Since the BIOS reports the memory as ignored, I'd say it is your motherboard causing the issue. You should check the manufacturer's specs on the board and see if this is a limit to the board for the memory you are using. Many system boards have different memory limits based on the actual

Re: Upgrading our mail server

2006-09-14 Thread Gerard Seibert
Frank Bonnet wrote: [...] I need SCSI Disks of course , budget is around 10K$ Why the insistence on SCSI? Is there any reason that SATA or RAID with SATA is not acceptable? Just curious. -- Gerard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Newbie Question - what does the ...-p6 mean?

2006-09-14 Thread ograbme
Hello All. Thursday, September 14, 2006, 4:24:43 AM, RJ45 wrote in regards to his message titled Memory problem: snip R I am running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p6 build with buildworld. snip What does the -p6 nomenclature represent in the above statement? I've noticed some messages have contained

Re: Upgrading our mail server

2006-09-14 Thread Odhiambo Washington
* On 14/09/06 16:51 +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote: | Hello | | Our mailhub is actually a HP DL360 with one processor (Xeon 2.8 ghz) | with 2 Gb RAM and 120 Gb disks, it is 3 years old. | | It runs Postfix + imap + imaps + pop3 + pop3s + squirrelmail + vexira | antivirus + postgrey | and some small

Re: Newbie Question - what does the ...-p6 mean?

2006-09-14 Thread Bill Moran
In response to ograbme [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello All. Thursday, September 14, 2006, 4:24:43 AM, RJ45 wrote in regards to his message titled Memory problem: snip R I am running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p6 build with buildworld. snip What does the -p6 nomenclature represent in the

Re: Upgrading our mail server

2006-09-14 Thread Frank Bonnet
Gerard Seibert wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: [...] I need SCSI Disks of course , budget is around 10K$ Why the insistence on SCSI? Is there any reason that SATA or RAID with SATA is not acceptable? Just curious. Because I want it -- Cordialement Frank Bonnet

Re: FTP server behind router/gateway

2006-09-14 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:40:18 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a FreeBSD 6.1 box running behind a router/gateway. When it tries to go into passive mode, it returns it's internal 192.168. ip address to the client which the client stupidly uses to try to connect to. I've confirmed this by

SCSI vs. SATA (was Re: Upgrading our mail server)

2006-09-14 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Frank Bonnet [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gerard Seibert wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: [...] I need SCSI Disks of course , budget is around 10K$ Why the insistence on SCSI? Is there any reason that SATA or RAID with SATA is not acceptable? Just curious. Because I want it

Re: BSDStats project, interesting returns from OpenBSD

2006-09-14 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, September 14, 2006 08:40:21 -0500 Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just glanced at the latest statistics on www.bsdstats.org. In the last week or so OpenBSD has overtaken FreeBSD in the USA. Should one conclude that OpenBSD admins have enthusiastically embraced this

Re: mount_ext2fs returning ENODEV on 6.1

2006-09-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 12:27:11AM -0700, Perry Hutchison wrote: What am I doing wrong? # ll /dev/ad0s7 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 93 Sep 4 02:30 /dev/ad0s7 # file -s /dev/ad0s7 /dev/ad0s7: Linux rev 1.0 ext2 filesystem data # grep -w ad0s7 /etc/fstab /dev/ad0s7 /linux

Re: BSDStats project, interesting returns from OpenBSD

2006-09-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 08:40:21AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: I just glanced at the latest statistics on www.bsdstats.org. In the last week or so OpenBSD has overtaken FreeBSD in the USA. Should one conclude that OpenBSD admins have enthusiastically embraced this project and FreeBSD admins

Which process is hogging my drives?

2006-09-14 Thread Kirk Strauser
Some process on my system is really slamming my gstripe volume (so says systat -iostat and gstat). Is there a relatively easy way to see which processes are responsible? -- Kirk Strauser pgpJ2aFH5pyri.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: SCSI vs. SATA (was Re: Upgrading our mail server)

2006-09-14 Thread White Hat
--- Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Frank Bonnet [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gerard Seibert wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: [...] I need SCSI Disks of course , budget is around 10K$ Why the insistence on SCSI? Is there any reason that SATA or RAID with SATA is

Re: Upgrading our mail server

2006-09-14 Thread DAve
Frank Bonnet wrote: Gerard Seibert wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: [...] I need SCSI Disks of course , budget is around 10K$ Why the insistence on SCSI? Is there any reason that SATA or RAID with SATA is not acceptable? Just curious. Because I want it I have yet to have a SATA drive last

Re: SCSI vs. SATA (was Re: Upgrading our mail server)

2006-09-14 Thread Derek Ragona
SATA is still quite limited. To go beyond those limits use SAS, but SAS costs even more than SCSI and is brand new technology. -Derek At 10:46 AM 9/14/2006, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Frank Bonnet [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Gerard Seibert wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: [...] I

Re: SCSI vs. SATA (was Re: Upgrading our mail server)

2006-09-14 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Sep 14, 2006, at 10:28 AM, Derek Ragona wrote: SATA is still quite limited. To go beyond those limits use SAS, but SAS costs even more than SCSI and is brand new technology. Get a 12 or 16 or 24 port Areca card and have a few hot spares and you will see SATA fly for less money than

Re: Upgrading our mail server

2006-09-14 Thread Greg Groth
On 9/14/2006 10:32 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: * On 14/09/06 16:51 +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote: | Hello | | Our mailhub is actually a HP DL360 with one processor (Xeon 2.8 ghz) | with 2 Gb RAM and 120 Gb disks, it is 3 years old. | | It runs Postfix + imap + imaps + pop3 + pop3s +

Re: BSDStats project, interesting returns from OpenBSD

2006-09-14 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Thursday 14 September 2006 12:09, Kris Kennaway wrote: One should not conclude anything until the numbers are much larger than they are now, because small fluctuations from e.g. regional promotion of bsdstats in one country but not another, or one large company deploying it on all machine,

Re: Upgrading our mail server

2006-09-14 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, September 14, 2006 11:45:49 -0500 Greg Groth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are any of the major server brands more FreeBSD friendly than others? I'm looking to purchase a server for some web apps. Our current config is running on a 6 year old Dell PowerEdge machine with SCSI RAID 5,

Re: Which process is hogging my drives?

2006-09-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 14), Kirk Strauser said: Some process on my system is really slamming my gstripe volume (so says systat -iostat and gstat). Is there a relatively easy way to see which processes are responsible? You can try top in I/O mode. Run top, hit m, then enter ototal. --

cvs question

2006-09-14 Thread Michael Grant
I'm being driven slowly mad by cvs... I have 3 boxes, one is acting as a cvs server. The cvs clients (for lack of a better term) are running 6.1 and should be configured the same. Yet, one machine lets me do a cvs login, the other requires I use cvs -d :psserver:.. with each cvs command. I do

Re: cvs question

2006-09-14 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Michael Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm being driven slowly mad by cvs... I have 3 boxes, one is acting as a cvs server. The cvs clients (for lack of a better term) are running 6.1 and should be configured the same. Yet, one machine lets me do a cvs login, the other requires I

Re: BSDStats project, interesting returns from OpenBSD

2006-09-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 12:53:04PM -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote: On Thursday 14 September 2006 12:09, Kris Kennaway wrote: One should not conclude anything until the numbers are much larger than they are now, because small fluctuations from e.g. regional promotion of bsdstats in one

Re: cvs question

2006-09-14 Thread Michael Grant
Yes, I'm su'ed on both machines: uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel), 5(operator) -Mike On 9/14/06, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Michael Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm being driven slowly mad by cvs... I have 3 boxes, one is acting as a cvs server. The cvs

Re: Problem with sqlite3 and python

2006-09-14 Thread Fred C!
On Sep 13, 2006, at 7:17 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 13, 2006, at 3:48 PM, Fred C! wrote: Hello I have a problem with Python + sqlite3. My main machine is a FreeBSD 6.1 I have also try on an old machine running FreeBSD 5.5 and it doesn't work either. I join to this email some

Re: BSDStats project, interesting returns from OpenBSD

2006-09-14 Thread Andy Greenwood
What about making it a sysinstall option? Not in the base install, but the option is presented when setting up a new box. On 9/14/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 12:53:04PM -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote: On Thursday 14 September 2006 12:09, Kris Kennaway wrote:

Re: Upgrading our mail server

2006-09-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 11:56:24AM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Thursday, September 14, 2006 11:45:49 -0500 Greg Groth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are any of the major server brands more FreeBSD friendly than others? I'm looking to purchase a server for some web apps. Our current config

Syslog: all except?

2006-09-14 Thread Atom Powers
Is it possible to tell syslog to log everything *except* some facility? I have a very noisy service (openldap) that I don't want to log into my all.log; but I still want all.log to catch everything else. Something like this maybe? *.*,!local4.* all.log -- -- Perfection is just a word I use

Re: BSDStats project, interesting returns from OpenBSD

2006-09-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 01:29:38PM -0400, Andy Greenwood wrote: What about making it a sysinstall option? Not in the base install, but the option is presented when setting up a new box. That's not ruled out, if someone does the work. Kris pgpIrJBp4JQSq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Problem with sqlite3 and python

2006-09-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 14, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Fred C! wrote: As I told you in my previews emails all the python tests went with no errors. Yes. This probably means the problem is not with the basic Python installation and may not be specific to FreeBSD. In other words, you might obtain better results

Re: nocona CPU

2006-09-14 Thread Martin Cracauer
RJ45 wrote on Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 01:47:28AM -0600: Hello I wanted to buildworld and kernel on FReeBSD 6.1 since I have Xeon cpu, I Wanted to rebuild it with CPUTYPE=nocona when I put the oprion in /etc/make.conf upon compilation instead of -march=nocona is used -march=prescott

Re: memory problem

2006-09-14 Thread Martin Cracauer
RJ45 wrote on Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 02:24:43AM -0600: Hello, I am running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p6 build with buildworld. THe system has exactly 4GB of memory but the memory is not complitely seen by the system. At boot thime I Get this warning 524288Kb of memory above 4GB ignored

Re: Which process is hogging my drives?

2006-09-14 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 14 September 2006 12:01 pm, Dan Nelson wrote: You can try top in I/O mode. Run top, hit m, then enter ototal. That was exactly it. Thanks! -- Kirk Strauser pgpv29LbwLcuV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: SCSI vs. SATA (was Re: Upgrading our mail server)

2006-09-14 Thread Skylar Thompson
Bill Moran wrote: Has anyone every verified whether or not SATA has the problems that plagued ATA? Such as crappy quality and lying caches? Personally, I still demand SCSI on production servers because it still seems as if: a) The performance is still better b) The reliability is still

Squid +pf +if_bridge

2006-09-14 Thread Jeff Palmer
Hello all, I'm using freebsd 6.1 as a bridge (if_bridge) The interfaces are vr0 (plugged into the DSL modem) and rl0 (plugged into the switch, to the rest of the network On the bridge, I'm attempting to use pf to rdr all http requests from my lan, to squid (actually dansguardian) I have

Re: BSDStats project, interesting returns from OpenBSD

2006-09-14 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Thursday 14 September 2006 13:29, Andy Greenwood wrote: What about making it a sysinstall option? Not in the base install, but the option is presented when setting up a new box. On 9/14/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 12:53:04PM -0400, Gerard Seibert

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 shutting down.

2006-09-14 Thread Marwan Sultan
hello Lowell, thank you for your reply, i wish you could find some solution for me i tried to google the net, and found many results for atapci1: failed to enable memory mapping! but most with no solutions. here is the dmesg, Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 shutting down.

2006-09-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 07:29:13PM +, Marwan Sultan wrote: hello Lowell, thank you for your reply, i wish you could find some solution for me i tried to google the net, and found many results for atapci1: failed to enable memory mapping! but most with no solutions. I doubt it's

Re: Under Attack: Bandwidth throttling on 5.2.1?

2006-09-14 Thread Panagiotis
Chris wrote: This is probably going to tax the memory. I'm sorry in advance. We observed 2 hangs and 3 crashes in the last 5 hours and finally after looking at the nature of the traffic, it appears to be little infested windows spybots from all over targeting our forums to attempt to

Re: Under Attack: Bandwidth throttling on 5.2.1?

2006-09-14 Thread Chris
On Sep 14, 2006, at 12:53 PM, Panagiotis wrote: Chris wrote: ...system, we could come back up I think and try ride out the attack. I've never done this before but in an earlier thread I saw where you configure a pipe such as: ipfw pipe 1 config bw 256Kbit/s ipfw add pipe 1 tcp from

Re: Syslog: all except?

2006-09-14 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Is it possible to tell syslog to log everything *except* some facility? I have a very noisy service (openldap) that I don't want to log into my all.log; but I still want all.log to catch everything else. Something like this maybe? *.*,!local4.* all.log *.*,local4.none all.log

Re: FreeBSD not popular in Asia?

2006-09-14 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: Olivier Nicole wrote: Check out http://www.bsdstats.org ... Republic of Korea is about to push the US out of first place, but there are *zero* FreeBSD boxes reporting from there ... DragonFly is first, then NetBSD and then OpenBSD ... 6

Cannot route mail through an internal Exch5.5 SMTP server

2006-09-14 Thread Scott I. Remick
I am at my wits end with this... help please! FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE Sendmail 8.13.6 (base) I'm trying to accomplish what should be simple: 1) all outgoing From: email addresses should be stamped @ourdomain.com and not @server.corpdomain.com 2) All emails should be routed through the corp SMTP

Re: mount_ext2fs returning ENODEV on 6.1

2006-09-14 Thread Perry Hutchison
# ll /dev/ad0s7 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 93 Sep 4 02:30 /dev/ad0s7 # file -s /dev/ad0s7 /dev/ad0s7: Linux rev 1.0 ext2 filesystem data # grep -w ad0s7 /etc/fstab /dev/ad0s7 /linux ext2fs ro 0 0 # ll -d /linux drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel

Re: mount_ext2fs returning ENODEV on 6.1

2006-09-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Perry Hutchison) writes: # ll /dev/ad0s7 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 93 Sep 4 02:30 /dev/ad0s7 # file -s /dev/ad0s7 /dev/ad0s7: Linux rev 1.0 ext2 filesystem data # grep -w ad0s7 /etc/fstab /dev/ad0s7 /linux ext2fs ro 0 0

Re: mount_ext2fs returning ENODEV on 6.1

2006-09-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 02:07:56PM -0700, Perry Hutchison wrote: # ll /dev/ad0s7 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 93 Sep 4 02:30 /dev/ad0s7 # file -s /dev/ad0s7 /dev/ad0s7: Linux rev 1.0 ext2 filesystem data # grep -w ad0s7 /etc/fstab /dev/ad0s7 /linux ext2fs

Firefox+Flash

2006-09-14 Thread White Hat
FreeBSD 6.1 I have been trying to get a few of my friends to try FBSD on their PCs without much success. One of the major problems is the inability to get flash to work properly to display videos available on Google. I know that the linux-flash port is marked broken, so that it out. How else can

Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-14 Thread Peter
--- White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD 6.1 I have been trying to get a few of my friends to try FBSD on their PCs without much success. One of the major problems is the inability to get flash to work properly to display videos available on Google. I know that the linux-flash port

Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote: Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer. It is best *not* to show your friends that when you introduce them to FBSD. Why? Is there some reason that you or they want to watch ads? I can't think of a single site that I use that needs Flash; I don't

Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-14 Thread michael johnson
On 9/14/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD 6.1 I have been trying to get a few of my friends to try FBSD on their PCs without much success. One of the major problems is the inability to get flash to work properly to display videos available

Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-14 Thread White Hat
--- michael johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, assuming I remove Firefox and install linux-firefox, which what version of flash in the ports tree am I suppose to install to make it all work? -- White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!?

Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-14 Thread michael johnson
On 9/14/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- michael johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, assuming I remove Firefox and install linux-firefox, which what version of flash in the ports tree am I suppose to install to make it all work? Don't deinstall firefox. just install linux-firefox

Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-14 Thread Jona Joachim
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote: Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer. It is best *not* to show your friends that when you introduce them to FBSD. Why? Is there some reason that you or they want to watch ads? I can't think of a single site that I use that

Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-14 Thread ajm
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 06:56:30PM -0400, michael johnson wrote: On 9/14/06, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD 6.1 I have been trying to get a few of my friends to try FBSD on their PCs without much success. One of the major problems is

Re: Slow install of Ruby 18 from ports

2006-09-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
Just out of curiosity I tried ruby port on two machines - fast one (1.6GHz Athlon with 1GB RAM) and small one (400MHz with 96MB RAM). Fast one has no problems with ruby, it builds and installs in few minutes. The slow one is another story, however. There is definitely something in teh

Re: Upgrading our mail server

2006-09-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
| Our mailhub is actually a HP DL360 with one processor (Xeon 2.8 ghz) | with 2 Gb RAM and 120 Gb disks, it is 3 years old. | It runs Postfix + imap + imaps + pop3 + pop3s + squirrelmail + vexira | antivirus + postgrey | and some small auxiliary services. Your server is good enough to

Poutupgrade unsafe

2006-09-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I know the mistake was on my side, I was not carefull enough when using portupgrade on a production machine but... Yesterday I froze our system for about one hour when I used portupgrade to upgrade Samba. It was a very minor upgrade (from 3.0.10 to 3.0.23c,1 I think), but it happens that in

Re: Poutupgrade unsafe

2006-09-14 Thread Pete Slagle
Olivier Nicole wrote: I know the mistake was on my side, I was not carefull enough when using portupgrade on a production machine but... Yesterday I froze our system for about one hour when I used portupgrade to upgrade Samba. It was a very minor upgrade (from 3.0.10 to 3.0.23c,1 I think),

Re: mount_ext2fs returning ENODEV on 6.1

2006-09-14 Thread Perry Hutchison
# ll /dev/ad0s7 crw-r- 1 root operator0, 93 Sep 4 02:30 /dev/ad0s7 # file -s /dev/ad0s7 /dev/ad0s7: Linux rev 1.0 ext2 filesystem data # grep -w ad0s7 /etc/fstab /dev/ad0s7 /linux ext2fs ro 0 0 # ll -d /linux drwxr-xr-x 2 root

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