Emacs on 5.1 CURRENT

Hi, I tried to install Emacs from ports on a 5.1 Current box, but it cores dump when starting. The box was installed without X support, so when installin /usr/ports/editors/emacs, il will also install X from the ports. Install goes OK, but when trying to start Emacs, in a X environment, it

ipfilter on 5.1 CURRENT

Hi, I'd like to run ipfilter on a 5.1 CURRENT box but my problems are many. 1) I discovered that /sys/i386/conf/LINT has disappeared 2) I find no mention of any IPFILETER, ipfilter, ip-filter or whatsoever option to add to the kernel 3) I guessed that it may have been automatically build

Re: killing sendmail, using exim

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Re: Firewall/DMZ routing

08:33:08.160246 arp who-has A.B.C.154 tell A.B.C.145 It looks to me as if your ISP does not know you've subnetd your subnet. If it knew, it should never try to do an arp for the subnet A.B.C.152/29 but route the ICMP to A.B.C.146 and that's it. So the router of your ISP genuinely beleive that

Hardware for 100Mbps bridge

Hi, I am considering buying a new box to run FreeBSD and brige+ipfilter. Would anyone has a recommendation on what kind of mother board/NIC to use? For the moment I am using a P4 1.5 GHz and 3com 905B, but they may not be able to support full load of 100Mbps. Best regards, Olivier

Re: directv satellite internet conection

will it work?? Your question needs some more explanations. Internet over satellite work. Olivier ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: irritating beep

I got a problem with a server, FreeBSD hostname 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #0: Mon Aug 5 14:00:59 CEST 2002 n/a:/usr/src/sys/compile/APPLESHARE i386 running on a PU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (933.08-MHz 686-class CPU). You did not mentionned how old is tha machine? But if you

ipfw and statefull rules

Hi, I am trying to install a standalone firewall between my LAN and my router to outside world. Machine is a Pentium 4, 1.5 GHx, 128MB ram, 2 ethernet 3com 905B without IP defined (and one cheap ethernet card to allow to monitor the machine). Bridge and ipfw2 are enabled. I'd like to have all

Re: mysql root user

Does anyone know if there is a special trick to setting the mysql root user's password after installing mysql323-server on FreeBSD? I've done like the manuals say (mysqladmin -uroot password xyz), but all mysqladmin -u root --password=* reload should be the correct syntax (well work for

Re: Mysql

I want to remove my mysql installation and re-install from scratch. Now the problem. I have 6 active databases. How can i make sure that i dont loose those. And that when i have re-installed, that they work immediatilly ?? I'd think mysql dump and restore would be the safest way and would

Re: PHP question

I have just re-installed apache, then mod_php4. I kept my old httpd.conf, put it back, fired up apache, checked the website, and it displays all the php code. I guess that you need to tell somewhere that the .php .html files should go throu PHP. AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

Re: Silly question - Name Served?

Ok, either I'm getting senial, or it's too late at night. Had a gentleman ask me today to setup some stuff on his box and he said that it would be best if it was nameserved. What was he talking about? Was he saying I should install bind on it or that it just needs an entry in DNS

Re: ipfw and statefull rules

For the max in firewall protection you should use IPFILTER/IPNAT the other Firewall that is included with FBSD. IPFW2 is over bloated with functions which are so special purpose that no one uses. I know the FBSD manual kind of infers that ipfw is the preferred firewall but it really is not,

Re: secure pop server

Noah, I am looking to set up a secure pop server on one of my FreeBSD 4.8 Stable It depends on other requierements you have. I wanted APOP authentication as well as SSL, so I choosed WU-IMAP. But if I had wanted maildir format of inboxes, I'd have looked at courrier-imap. Now that was some

Re: secure pop server

yeah lets get some details in there. the users of this application are windows outlook users wanting to download their email while they travel - so I think my options are to go for mbox support, no? That is unrelated. This is a matter of choice, whether your MDA does mbox or maildir (are all

Re: Multicast Routing Table Modification

1. pick up the multicast packets before they are routed in the kernel That would not be a clean way to do it, but if you want to concentrate on your routing module, why not using a firewall to do the pick-up/redirection of the packets? I read that IPF has a way to write rules that will redirect

Re: Changes to hosts.allow do no affect to inetd daemons some times

Sometimes when I change my /etc/hosts.allow and kill and start again inetd, there is no difference. It's like I haven't edited /etc/hosts.allow. If I continue making changes and stop/start inetd there are no affections to the inetd daemons, they allow or deny as /etc/hosts.allow isn't

fwbuilder and aclocal

To answer a question I saw this morning, about building fwbuilder port and it does not find aclocal, aclocal is part of GNU automake, which is not in the dependencies of fwbuilder. So first build /usr/ports/devel/automake then you can make fwbuilder. Olivier

Re: Multicast Routing Performance

Does any one have any experience of using a FreeBSD Box as a multicast router? I have a PIII 800Mhz with two 100Mbps NICS, what kind of throughput can I expect to get out of this setup? We have been doing that for years. But don't expect too much speed with a PIII 800, we usually have

Re: How can I recover the password for root in FreeBSD 4.4

I changed yesterday the password for root on my server because I found it too s If you have access to the concole, boot as single user and remove the password from /etc/master.password Olivier ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Converting Linux passwd to FreeBSD

Is anyone familiar with a tool to convert my Linux passwd files to FreeBSD so I don't have to manually recreate the accounts? I'd say, as the passwords are cripted with a non reversible function, either both systems use the same function and you don't have to convert anything, else you're dead.

Re: nutball video question

I have one of the older Happauge WinTV boards (that is supported by FreeBSD). Unfortunately, the only machine with an open PCI slot is my headless server. I have a number of IBM netstations attached to this server via a 100Mbps switched ethernet LAN. Currently, I am using KDE as my desktop

Simple client/server

Hi, I'd like to find an example of C programming for an Internet server (client I have done already). The idea is to write a tool that could jam the network with packets between client and server to check the maximum load a firewall can handle. Best regards, Olivier

Proxy to load the ports

Hi, Since I installed a firewall the incoming ftp have to go through a proxy. Where in the mport making mechanism can I configure a proxy? Olivier ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: * FreeBSD AntiVirus Solutions *

i am using the norton av eval version with auto updates works fine so far, i will let you know when i finish evaluating it. The debate may become OT, but problem with Norton and other McAfee is that updates are committed at a very low frequency (few days?) which leave you with a large risk

Re: * FreeBSD AntiVirus Solutions *

Sophos (from what they claim) and Kaspersky (to a lesser extend) will provide updates on the hour basis (I do automatic update every other hour). That makes a huge difference on th einsecure window. I can vouch for Sophos doing this. I got an email about the Bugbear-B from Sophos

Re: How to close port 22 ?

Khun Jarungwit, The file /etc/services tells you what is the port number for some known services. The file /etc/services is not the file that start the services. In the file /etc/rc.conf you must put a line: sshd_enable=NO to remove SSH. But I strongly suggest that you use SSH instead of

Re: nutball video question

What is the video resolution which consumes almost 100Mbps? I have no answer about the card, but full digital television, without compression, needs 36 Mbps according to some experiements run by Japanses. Olivier ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: nutball video question

only the original Matrox Meteor is supported, and it cannot run on modern PCI buses without locking up. I am sorry to say, but I have been using a cheap card build on brooktree chip and it is working fine (at least for still captudes) Oliier ___

HP Netserver 60 will not boot

Hi, I installed 4.10 RELEASE on an IDE disk on a HP Netserver 60. This isa fresh/default install. Installing was no problem, but whe I try to boot, the machine freeze after the line: pcic0: Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge on motherboard pci0: PCI bus on pcib0 agp0: Intel 82443BX

Re: HP Netserver 60 will not boot

Yesterday I wrote: I installed 4.10 RELEASE on an IDE disk on a HP Netserver 60. This isa fresh/default install. Installing was no problem, but whe I try to boot, the machine freeze after the line: pcic0: Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge on motherboard pci0: PCI bus on

Re: Hosts.allow and netatalk/cups

To my knowledge, the effects in /etc/hosts.allow are immediate as soon as you save the modified file. And I have been using it that way for many years. No need to killall -HUP inetd, no need to reboot. If after a change the service is still not available: - you did not allow the right thing -

CVSup the port collection

Hi, I was trying to cvsup the port collection, but all it did was deleting some ports, and never replaced them with new ones. I would have thought that the following configuration file would do the trick, but it did not. What have I wrong? TIA Olivier *default tag=RELENG_5_3 #*default

Re: SA, Bayes, and You (erm, Me)

However, when I read the headers of any messages, I notice that they ALL say 'autolearn=no', even though I've enabled autolearn in local.cf (bayes_auto_learn 1). There is something with the threshold for auto learning. olivier ___

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

I'm personally unclear why it'd be necessary to disable HTT in the BIOS if you're using a non-SMP kernel on a uniproc box. Maybe for the same reason you should better not use a non-SMP kernel if you have 2 CPU in your box. Try to keep hardware (BIOS) and OS consistent, even if they are

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

Is a hyperthreading CPU identical to a second CPU from the software's standpoint? If not, what are the differences? I am not sure, but it is some how detected as 2 CPUs FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 6

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

An AMD processor will also melt or catch fire if the CPU fan fails, whereas an Intel processor won't. I found this out the hard way, and so Not always true, I had a P4 1.5 die on me for lack of fan. Now what was tha company selling a new box with no fan on the CPU is another story... Olivier

ACPI error at boot

Hi, When the machine boots, I get those messages about ACPI. I am clueless about the meaning/gravity. Machine is a SE7501WV2 from Intel, with dual Xeon. Help please. Bests, Olivier Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992,

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

Did it start up when you replaced the fan, or was it gone for good? It was dead for good, well it is still dead as a matter of fact :) I thought all the boxed P4 processors came with their own fan, so there should never be a case in which a PC is sold with a P4 but no CPU fan. So did I, so

Cut and paste in Emacs

Hi, There is that strange and annoying behaviours that I have noticed with Emacs 21.3.1. Other versions I used to use were in the 19ish and had no problem. When I select some text with the mouse in Emacs, i can copy it into another X window application, but I cannot copy it in a Win2K

Re: Hyperthreading hurts 5.3?

The other AMD processor, on my server, dramatically overheated for 8-12 hours at a time (process stuck in a loop--I never found out why). It damaged something that failed intermittently at first (segment violations in the kernel and in daemons that should never have such problems), then got

Re: Cut and paste in Emacs

When I select some text with the mouse in Emacs, i can copy it into another X window application, but I cannot copy it in a Win2K application. It would be helpful to know how you access the win2k application (rdesktop, vmware, ...). Sorry, I should have mentionned it. Xwin-32 6.1. My

Re: Cut and paste in Emacs

I, personally, still don't completely understand the entire unix/X cut buffer system. First, there is more than one cut buffer, but I doubt that that's your problem. Second, there is select-to-copy and select+right click.../ctrl+c/... to copy. These use two different X11 cutpaste is

firefox in 5.3

Hi, I have installed firefox from the ports, I try to launch it from an xterm, where the $DISPLAy is defined, but nothing happens. The command silently exit after one second. Any clue? TIA Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: /var is lack of space!!

Thanks all of you,with your instruction,i found that it's /var/spool/clientmqueue use almost all of my disk space!!And i delete this directory,every thing is ok! But which program produce those rubish?and how can i stop that program? That would be sendmail.

Re: A simple CGI question

If a cgi script is in my /usr/local/www/cgi-bin directory, what url would i use to access the cgi from the web. Would i need to copy the cgi into my data directory? - i tried this and the browser treated it as a download. I think we need a bit of your Apache configuration file to reply.

Re: Witch apache, mysql and php do i need ?

Also can everybody make a ssl connection or do you have to register a key or something ? You can make self signed certificate, that means that when accessing your site, a user will be prompted to accept your certificate, saying that no known authority has signed it. Hopefully, he will save the

Re: spamassassin

pass out quick on rl0 proto tcp from any to any port = 2703 flags S keep state Yes, here I have: pass in log first quick proto tcp from x.x.x.x to any port = 2703 flags S keep state group 200 Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Openoffice 1.1 - compile errors even without Java

Has anybody sucessfully built OO 1.1.4 from ports - either with our without Java? I am not sure about java (all default), but building OO from the ports was almost painless. I think I had installed Java beforehand anyway. Olivier ___

Re: Dumb question about ports/packages

How would I upgrade just one package part of the core like that? Or multiple ones for that matter. Can you use the ports/packages system? Or do you have to do an entire system upgrade (i.e. 4.10 to 4.11). I'd say, given that ssh is part of the ports (/usr/ports/security/ssh), you could ust

Re: Valid statement in hosts.allow

Is this valid in hosts.allow: ALL : 151.103.xxx.xxx-151.103.xxx.xxx : allow Not that I know. i ue the configuration net-address/netmask would be: allow a range of ip's like 192.168.0.1-192.168.64.254. 192.168.0.0/255.255.192.0 for the range 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.63.255

Re: vinum in 4.x poor performer?

and it performs worse then any of my other servers, and I have less running on it then the other servers ... What are you other servers? What RAID system/level? Of course a software RAID5 is slower than a plain file system on a disk. Olivier ___

Re: vinum in 4.x poor performer?

All servers run RAID5 .. only one other is using vinum, the other 3 are using hardware RAID controllers ... Come on, of course a software solution will be slower than an hardware solution. What would you expect? :)) (Given it is same disk type/speed/controler...) Olivier

Libtool15 missing --tag

Hi, I am trying to compile mysql40-client on FreeBSD 5.3 p4 It hangs with the error message: Making all in libmysql_r if /usr/local/bin/libtool15 --preserve-dup-deps --mode=compile gcc -DDEFAULT_CHARSET_HOME=\/usr/local\ -DDATADIR=\/var/db/mysql\ -DSHAREDIR=\/usr/local/share/mysql\

Re: raid 1 hotswap on freebsd

I have on-board hardware that supports RAID 1, hotswap. How do I install it on FreeBSD 4.10 as in, during installation Since you use hardware RAID, your OS sees only one disk, it ignores that there is multiple physical disks. So you just go and install the usual way, as with no RAID. Olivier

Re: Libtool15 missing --tag

Try updating your ports via cvsup. In my experience if something works when done by hand but doesn't work from make install that's a good place to start.=20 I'll try, but ports are cvsup'ed from less than 24 hours ago. Olivier ___

Perl modules

Hi, Are you aware of any magical formula that would list the Perl modules installed in a configuration? I have to set-up a new machine and would need to re-install (newer version of) all themodules used on the old machine. Olivier ___

Re: Perl modules

Thanks it seems to do the trick. olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Apache + modssl + mod_php4 +++

Hi, I am loston the procedure to install php4 with some extension and apache 1.3 with modssl and mod_php4. I found in the ports: lang/php4 lang/php4-extension www/mod_php4 www/apache13-modssl There must be a specific order to build/install these, but i cannot figure it out. TIA olivier

Re: Apache + modssl + mod_php4 +++

lang/php4 lang/php4-extension www/mod_php4 www/apache13-modssl There must be a specific order to build/install these, but i cannot figure it out. OK, php4 can pull in Apache. You want to install apache13-modssl. I'd install apache, then install php4-extensions, then install

Re: Channel Bonding on FreeBSD without peer support

However, these approaches require support from the other peer (the ISP), which is not possible in my situation. I would say that no solution exist that do not have the colaboration of the other part. You can do as much load balancing on your end, but that is your ISP that will decide to send

Testing/repairing IDE drive

Hi Hi have an IDE drive (bit old) that is starting to develop bad blocks. Is there a tool to scan the disk and reassign/block (I don't care loosing some space on that disk) the bad bocks? Best regards, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

True Type fonts

Hi, Is there any free source for True Type fonts (the common ones like Times and etc) in order to use them with PDFLib. TIA Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: SPAM Filter

I'm installing an old laptop with freeBSD 5.4. It's going to be my mail server (postfix) and a simple ftp Server. I need some suggestions for a spam filter. SpamAssassin (.org) Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Fast diff command for large files?

We do the mirroring by running a program that dumps the FoxPro tables out as tab-delimited files. Thus far, we'd been using PostgreSQL's copy from command to read those files into the database. In reality, though, a very, very small percentage of rows in those tables actually change. So, I

Re: Antivir for mail server

I'm doubting about to install CLAM or DR.WEB antivir in the mail server. Install both :) Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Slow file transfer

Hello, I am suffering from slow file transfer on a FreeBSD machine. The set-up is as follow: Router1 is connected to Router2 that is connected to sFTP server Router1 and Router2 are the same motherboard, same BIOS configuration, same CPU, both have same type hard disk (Seagate ATA 10 and 20

Re: Fast diff command for large files?

Don't underestimate the strength of the word legacy. To be honest, if we= had the manhours to rewrite it, we'd take the opportunity to run it=20 directly against the PostgreSQL server. What we're gaining out of this system is the ability to migrate our old=20 applications at our leisure,

Re: Slow file transfer

Could be a duplex mismatch. Look for collision statistics. I checked that already, and as router1 must cross router2 to reach the FTP server, if there was a network issue between router2 and the FTP server, both transfer would be slow, not only the on from router2. Thanks, Olivier

SSH X11 forwarding fail

Hi, I am SSH'ing to a FreeBSD machine and enable X11 forwarding. Everything was working fine untill I rebooted this morning. Since then: # xterm X Error of failed request: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) Major opcode of failed request: 20 (X_GetProperty) Atom id in failed request: 0x17

Re: SSH X11 forwarding fail

I am SSH'ing to a FreeBSD machine and enable X11 forwarding. Everything was working fine untill I rebooted this morning. Since then: # xterm X Error of failed request: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) Bad me to reply to my own question... I need to add ForwardX11Trusted yes in SSH

Re: Network strangeness only with incoming email

Only during _incoming_ email there are a lot of network errors/pauses, including 'tcp retransmission' errors. This seems to cause sendmail Do you receive your email straigh from internet, or do you receive email from a gateway, say at your ISP? If there is a mail server that is in charge of

Re: RAS

Can freeBSD be used as RAS server for windows boxes? Yes I used to do that, having pluged in an interface card with 2 serial ports (for a total of 4 ports and 4 modems) The thing was to configure PPP to use Chap authentication (but you need to keep clear text password on your RAS machine).

Building Perl 5.8.7

Hi, I am trying to build perl 5.8.7 from the ports. On some machines it goes OK. On my 5.3 machines I get: BSDPAN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -O -pipe -Wall `sh cflags optimize='-O -pipe' toke.o` -fpic toke.c CCCMD = gcc -DPERL_CORE -c

SCSI problem?

Hi, How to read this error message? It happens more and more lately :(( This machine is running 5.4 with one hard disk SCSI 72 MB TIA Olivier Nov 22 17:42:50 ufo kernel: Copied 18 bytes of sense data offset 12: 0xf1 0x0 0x3 0x0 0x51 0x3b 0x9f 0xa 0x0 0x0 0x0 0x0 0xc 0x0 0xd3 0x80 0x0 0x18

Re: Bacula vs. Amanda vs. whatever ...

I have a home network with two FreeBSD servers (web- and file-server), a = number of Windows desktops and a wireless FreeBSD laptop all connected to o= ne another using Samba.=20 Advantage of Amanda, if I understand well, is that you don't need to install anything on your Windows machines. I

Re: Bacula vs. Amanda vs. whatever ...

This information is very important, but you only say windows, but i like to know wich one...? All...? Because i want to try bacula+mysql-5 to backup 1 win2k3, 2 WinNT4 and 1 Linux box. I try once bacula on freebsd 5.4-p8 with bacula using some simple tape drive and backup the win2k3

Re: PAM and OPIE and su

This would probably require modifications to either telnetd or sshd, as most of the playing I've done with PS to make a proof-of-concept shows both daemons as listing their terminals as ??, as opposed to showing the terminalid's being used. If I am not wrong, ssh do not use the same library as

Re: webmail solution

I'm looking for experiences with a webmail solution. I want to use postfix as my mta and on a freebsd6 machine. The users who will be using the server probably would do better with a webmail package so they can get to it from anywhere. The box already has apache and php so i don't think

How to know that make buildworld finished

Hi, For testing purposes, I am trying to build a quite old (read slow) machine. It happens that every time I start a buildworld, I will have to leave before the end. And next morning the shell I was using to run the buildworld will have terminated for some reason. So I cannot see if the make did

Re: How to know that make buildworld finished

Is there a way to check that make buildworld did finished successfully? Use a Short-Circuit List Operator: '' make buildworld mail -s Buildworld successful! [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Thanks, I should have thought about that myself :(( Olivier

Kernel dump then what

Hi, Now I managed to get a kernel dump. I even got two of them, with different panic, both page fault, one on read, one on write. The machine had been runing fine for a year when it started to panic on heavly load. I updated the kernel but not to avail. I tried all the hardware monitoring in

Authentication with auto replication

Hi, I have a system that needs user authentication. Right now I am using NIS to share the users password between all the machines that need it: one machine is the primary server, others clients are also running a secondary server: so would a machine get isolated, it could still do authentication

What process is LOISTENingon a given port

Hi, In 5.4, who to know what process is LISTENing on a given TCP or UDP port? Bestregards, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

How to keep the options with potupgrade

Hi, I usually build my Apache server with the option WITH_APACHE_SUEXEC=yes defined. How/where/what to configure to make sure that a portupgrade -R apache13-modssl will use the same option when rebuilding? Best regards, Olivier ___

Re: Open Source and 3rd world countries

I'm writing this thesis on the benefits of integrating open source software into third world countries to boost their economies and the knowledge of their people. Certainly not the answer you are expecting, but I am afraid it is the reality, developping countries do not really care about open

Re: Open Source and 3rd world countries

Sorry Nicole, but here in Brazil our government does not use pirated software, and yes, they're changing to Open Source. That only means Brazil is not much a 3rd world country anymore... guess this may be coming to an end, or not expanding, since the new cheap computer for the poor people

Re: hosts.allow ?

I'm not sure this is correct. If you read sshd(8), you'll see in the FILES section that sshd will read /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny on its own (i.e. it's compiled/linked with libwrap). Looking at /usr/src/crypto/openssh/Makefile.in for the sshd target verifies this. That and sshd

Re: How do you keep users from stealing other user's ip??

1. Users when they want to plug a machine to the network... let's 1. say their own testbeds, they will choose whatever ip they want 1. possibly stealing used ip's. Use DHCP, then users do not have to choose an IP, it is given to them. Plus it gives them all parameterstheyneed to configure

Re: Oops: Deleted /var/named

devfs rule: ioctl DEVFSIO_RAPPLY: Inappropriate ioctl for device devfs rule: ioctl DEVFSIO_RAPPLY: Inappropriate ioctl for device devfs rule: ioctl DEVFSIO_RAPPLY: Inappropriate ioctl for device I can only assume that it has something to do with the files in /var/named/dev/ that I

Re: Need some tips in reorganizing our LAN.

Jay, If you have any Network Transition plan that you may want to share to me, please do so. Even if we don't have that much similarities in our network setup, at least the non technical part like planning etc... It really depends of the goals you want to reach, the services you plan to

getop.h conflict when building audio/akode

Hi, I try to portinstall audio/akode (needed by kde) and I get the following error: labtoproot52: /usr/local/sbin/portinstall audio/akode [...] then mv -f .deps/akodeplay.Tpo .deps/akodeplay.Po; else rm -f .deps/akodeplay.Tpo; exit 1; fi In file included from akodeplay.cpp:29:

Re: ipfw secure setup for ssh bruteforcers

admin said that doing this can be bad, especially when the kiddy is connected to a large network like a company or university; I may block other people who aren't guilty of the act. (which makes sense) I know I have no problem with blocking one IP from a larger network, nor even blocking the

Re: freebsd log files

What log file stors things like system shutdown notices and that, I want to It may depend on your setting, in my /var/log/messages I see things like: Mar 23 11:07:00 machine reboot: rebooted by root Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: getop.h conflict when building audio/akode

Deinstall the libgnugetopt port - it's only needed on FreeBSD releases earl= ier=20 than 5.x and causes buildtime errors on later versions (as you found out). Thanks. After I managed to rebuild audio/akode, it seems that it was not depending on libgnugetopt anymore. I cannot get rid of

Re: How to recover /usr and /home directory

I have a previous 40GB HDD which crashed during power outage and now no longer repairable. Before I installed a new HDD, I can still see the contents of that defective hard disk when booting from a single user mode. Now, I set it up as slave and installed a new FreeBSD on the new master HDD.

How to read a damaged tape

Hi, I have a SLR 100 tape drive (SCSI interface) and a tape cartridge with 4 files. The first file is damaged so I cannot mt fsf over that file to read the others. Is there a secret way to to advance the tape by a certain number of meters, or by a certain number of seconds or something. I know

Re: Simluating a satellite connection using dummynet?

I've been reading up on it and best I can tell I'm looking at 1000ms round trips... at *best*. Most of what I do I can do on servers at home, but there will be the occasional ssh, etc. Supposedly, the round trip should be only 500 ms: the time for the signal to go from earth to the

Re: FreeBsd

Try http://www.de.freebsd.org/de/mailinglists.html for FreeBSD German http://liste.gufi.org/ for FreeBSD Italian I see no mailing list in Romanian Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: xhost does not work as expected

Franck, I am at 6.0 with xorg and I cannot remotely use a GUI backup software ( netvault) because I am not able to use properly the xhost command. It is not clear what you can client and what you call server, are you talking about your backup software: the server is the machine with the tape

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