KDE 3.2.1

2004-03-19 Thread Chris
Is it me? Or does KDE 3.2.1 seem to run much faster then 3.2.0?


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Re: Top posting

2004-03-19 Thread Chuck McManis
At 03:24 PM 3/19/2004, you wrote:
Top-posting may be an opinion, but RFC 1855 makes it _standard_ opinion.
Let's get serious for a minute here. Just because someone wrote up an 
INFORMATIONAL RFC does NOT make it STANDARD. It makes it INFORMATIONAL. Big 
difference. Go look up RFC 2026 for what it takes to become a standard.

I wonder what it would be like if you went to a cocktail party and before 
you could say anything in a conversation you first had to say everything 
that everyone else had said. I suppose you could turn it into a drinking 
game (if you missed some bit you would be forced to take a drink) but it 
would only be entertaining for a short time.

Netiquette guidelines are like C coding styles, subject to great rip 
roaring debates. My personal pet peeve is 600 lines of included text only 
to get to the bottom line which adds "This is how I feel about it too." I 
loved tin(1)'s filter that popped back and said "Hmm, more than 50% 
included text, perhaps you want to either add more content or delete some 
of the text." Only to have complete morons who would add 20 lines of "-- 
filler text to main tin happy --" lines! Can you believe how stupid that 
is? No, I didn't think so. But its true.

And top posting or bottom posting just including all that text is a 
complete waste on an archive list like this one since anyone who "doesn't 
get it" need only go to the archive to "figure it out." Instead a thread 
like this has easily 10x the character count of the actual characters used 
in new text. Even good text compression can help that much. So you end up 
with the servers that archive this for posterity (Hi Mom!) overflowing with 
redundant information. If you could somehow mandate top posting and train 
people who want to catch up to read from the bottom up on the first message 
of the thread they read, then you could archive the entire thread and chop 
off the messages as soon as you got to a line of included text and the 
archived version would be completely readable from front to back for posterity.

But no one seems to have these sorts of "deep thoughts" and what we get is, 
well whatever someone things is best. And as we can see reading this 
thread, some think one way and some think another. That's my working 
definition of "difference of opinion." :-) That's why generally I scan 
through the text and extract the content. My comment was merely a 
counterpoint in the harmony of discussion.

--Chuck

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Re: Mail readers

2004-03-19 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
wrote Bart Silverstrim thusly...
>
> According to the FAQ, it (f=f) was developed (IIRC) by Qualcomm to

Anybody still interested in this, should not miss ...

  RFC 3676, The Text/Plain Format and DelSp Parameters, Feb 2004
  ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3676.txt


... which supersedes RFC 2646.  "What does that superseding
actually translates to?", i do not know.


> not solve any problem in particular.

Actually both RFCs do try to.


  - Parv

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Sparc Ultra 10 & X

2004-03-19 Thread Eduardo Viruena Silva

Saludos, FreeBSD gurus!

I'm trying to configure X in an old sparc ultra 10.

I tried  without modifying GENERIC kernel, and I got:

Fatal server error:
xf86OpenConsole: No console driver found
Supported drivers: syscons
Check your kernel's console driver configuration and /dev entries


Now, in my kernel configuration the only thing that I found
about graphics cards is:

#device   creator # Creator graphics cards
#device   splash  # Splash screen and screen saver

But I do not know if I have a "creator" graphics card.

I uncommented this lines and recompile again.
The result was the same.

I found "vga" in man pages.  According to this page,
you can add:

device  vga

in your kernel configuration, but when I try it says:

UltaMan:/usr/src/sys/sparc64/conf# config evs
config: Error: device "vga" is unknown
config: 1 errors


Have you installed (and ran) X in this kind of computers?
Does it work?
Is there any trick I have to learn?

Thanks in advance.

Eduardo.
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Starting a new thread (was Re: drive / IDE controller questions)

2004-03-19 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
wrote Joey Mingrone thusly...
>
> On March 19, 2004 18:37, Parv wrote:
> > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > wrote Joey Mingrone thusly...
> >
> > > I've been having problems with my western digital drive
> >
> > What that has to do w/ the thread discussing wget & proxy
> > problem?
...
> > People, kindly do not hijack a thread; start a new one.  Thanks
> > for your cooperation in future.
> 
> Sorry about that.  I think I got lazy and just replied to a
> message and changed the subject

Appreciate the acknowledgment.


> instead of typing [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the To: field.
> ..didn't realize the messages were threaded on the list.

It is not the 'list' where the messages are threaded per se.
'References:' and/or 'In-Reply-To:' headers[0] contained in a message
posses the information that allows for threading of messages by a
mail reader, mutt in my case.

Ergo, just a change in the 'To:' header will not make any
difference, unless you also /remove/ the 'References:' and
'In-Reply-To:' headers.

That assumes that you want to create a new & separate thread by
replying to another message, which is more time consuming than
starting a new thread from scratch, no?


[0] RFC 2822, 3.6.4 Identification fields...
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc2822.html#sec-3.6.4


  - Parv

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RE: KLD and UID

2004-03-19 Thread Simon Timms

>What version of FreeBSD are you trying this on?

>You might want to look at this thread on hackers@, it's very similar to
>what you're trying to do, I think:

Yes, I think I found that thread yesterday.  I am trying it on the 5.x
series and I notice that the proc pointer argument of a syscall has
become a thread pointer.  That would, of course, explain the horrible
crashes.  It is just a shame that I discovered that after my assignment
was handed in, ah well such is life.  

Thanks for your help,
Simon


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Re: The clock is running too fast

2004-03-19 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Dan,

The system clock has been running correctly more than 16 hours.

> I'm sorry, I don't know what 'ntc' is.  Do you mean 'ntp'?  You can use ntp
> or not ... if your timing hardware is off, ntp will constantly try to slew
> the time back to where it should be, which will a) mean your systems
> concept of time is very non-linear and b) fill the log with warning
> messages.  It's actually a good check to see if the timer's good (although
> an slmost equally good check is to sit there and look at the clock).

Oh sorry for my typing mistake.  Yes I meant 'ntp'.  It synchronyses the 
system clock.  Even if the PC is not running round the clock.  Whenvever you 
turn on the PC, it checkes the time and corrects it.  I have it setup on a 
Debian PC.;

> I forgot to mention that besides changing /etc/sysctl.conf, you have to
> reboot.  If you don't want to reboot, you will have to do "sysctl
> kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254" at a prompt.  But I'm not sure if that's a
> value that can be set after the system boots.

I have to reboot the PC otherwise the system clock will not be adjusted, still 
running on double speed.

> I suggested "i8254" because it's the only device that was supplying good
> time values on my system.  If you have trouble with that device, you might
> also want to try "TSC".

$ dmesg.Thetimeclock
dmesg.Thetimeclock: not found
$ dmesg | grep Timecounter
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 350796390 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec

What are their difference in function between i8254/ACPI-safe/TSC

B.R.
Stephen


> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Liu
> Sent: March 19, 2004 01:12
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: The clock is running too fast
>
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> Thanks for your advice.
>
> > I had a similar problem on one of the machines at work.  Here is a memo I
> > made to myself to remind me of how to fix the problem in the future:
> >
> > The "ACPI-safe" Timecounter does not work (it is way, WAY too fast).  To
> > get around this, add the following line to /etc/sysctl.conf:
> >
> > kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254
>
> Added above line to /etc/sysctl.conf
>
> $ cat /etc/sysctl.conf
> vfs.usermount=1
> kern.timecounter.hardware=i8254
>
> Now only 2 lines in this file.
>
> I have adjusted the clock thereafter and will check it again later
>
> > There are multiple pieces of hardware capable of supplying timing
> > information to the OS.  "dmesg | grep Timecounter" should give you a list
> > of all such devices.
> >
> > I think this is an ACPI-related problem, since that is the technology I
> > understand the least at the moment.
>
> $ dmesg | grep Timecounter
> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
> Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
> Timecounter "TSC" frequency 350797051 Hz quality 800
> Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
>
> Shall I run 'ntc' to synchronize the clock.
>
> B.R.
> Stephen
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stephen Liu
> > Sent: March 18, 2004 21:47
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: The clock is running too fast
> >
> >
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > AMD CUP
> > FreeBSD 5.2
> >
> > The clock on KDE desktop is running on double speed compelling me to
>
> adjust
>
> > it
> > periodically.  Kindly advise how to fix this problem.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > B.R.
> > Stephen Liu

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Re: Top posting

2004-03-19 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Mar 20, 2004, at 07:24, Tillman Hodgson wrote:

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:35:06PM -0500, Al Johnson wrote:
I'm with you... Top-posting makes the most sense for me.
It comes down to opinion I think
My standard response to top-posting:

 A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 Q: Why is putting a reply at the top of the message frowned upon?
 A: Top-posting.
 Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
Top-posting may be an opinion, but RFC 1855 makes it _standard_ 
opinion.

Best regards,

-T
Second sentence of RFC1855 - "This memo does not specify an Internet 
standard of any kind."  So much for that.

People who abhor top posting feel very strongly about it.  People who 
don't, usually don't.  This falls firmly into my general life 
philosophy:  I generally agree with the opinions of people minding 
their own business.  I generally disagree with the opinions of people 
minding my business.

My strongest opinion on top-posting is that I don't want to see endless 
threads about it in the lists I'm reading - like this one.

KeS

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sendmail off - no more accounting message to root

2004-03-19 Thread epilogue

that ought to do the trick.  many thanks for your help, matthew.


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On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 00:44:07 +
Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 12:39:42AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 06:58:23PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 
> > > because i'm only running a desktop and sylpheed has it's own mail
> > > transport system, i shut down sendmail.  however, since making this
> > > change, i've noticed that the root account is no longer receiving the
> > > daily accounting digest.
> > > 
> > > i've had a look at the 310.accounting file in periodic, but am not
> > > sure what to change to get the accounting back.  is sendmail an
> > > absolute requirement for this service or is there some other way one
> > > of you might now about?
> > 
> > Try looking at /etc/defaults/periodic.conf instead -- it's a lot
> > clearer in there how to make the daily/weekly/monthly jobs write their
> > output to a log file rather than in an e-mail.
> > 
> > Nb. Don't edit /etc/defaults/periodic.conf -- just create
> > /etc/periodic.conf and put in there the settings you wish to override.
> 
> Bah! I'll forget me own head next.  I meant to say that if you set the
> output to log files like so:
> 
> daily_output="/var/log/daily.log"
> weekly_output="/var/log/weekly.log"
> monthly_output="/var/log/monthly.log"
> 
> then the default /etc/newsyslog.conf is already setup to cycle those
> logfiles neatly.
> 
>   Cheers,
> 
>   Matthew
> 
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Re: raid-1, Vinum

2004-03-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 19 March 2004 at 17:22:17 -0800, Me wrote:
> I'm using vinum Raid-1.
>  I have figured out how to recover from a failed disk.
>  Does any one know what to do if the disk that has the
>  vinum configuration/OS fails?

All Vinum drives have two copies of the configuration.  They would all
have to fail before you lose the configuration.

>  lets say I have a disk with a vinum partition on it and I want to
>  create a mirror out of it on an entire new system. how do i
>  accomplish this.

Can you be a bit more specific?  Are you trying to move data from one
system to another?  "Vinum partitions" are not the way to look at
things: a vinum partition doesn't need to have any Vinum data on it,
for example.

> I've search quite a bit but most senarios only show how to recover a
> failed drive that doesnt contain the OS.

I suppose you mean the root file system.  There shouldn't be any
difference, but that depends on exactly what you want to do.  Can you
explain in terms of volumes and plexes?

Greg
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Re: DVD R/W in FreeBSD?

2004-03-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
Ed Alley wrote:
Does FreeBSD support ATA DVD writers the same way that it
supports CD writers? I have been to SOS's web page, and
have looked at hardware support info, but have found no hint at
whether ATA DVD writers are supported under FreeBSD.
Yes-- consider using "device atapicam" + the sysutils/dvd+rw-tools port.

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Re: drive / IDE controller questions

2004-03-19 Thread Mark Terribile
[Jerry McAllister]
>[Joey Mingone]
>> [Jerry McAllister]
>>> Another early guess might also be overheating problems.  I am not sure
>>> how you would check other than trying to make it cooler.
 
>> Could be.. although I have almost always had the case open and I have
>> two case fans.  The CPU temp is usually in the 40s or 50s C (not too bad
>> for a 1.6GHz Athlon) and the memory is usually around 25C.  ..but maybe
>> I'll try pointing a fan at it.

The case fans won't help much with the case open.

> Actually, I mean the disk overheating.  They do that and they get worse
> at it as they age too.

> Also, some cases are designed to aid in the cooling and so with
> the case open, the airflow is either not properly directed or it
> doesn't get enough of a Bernouli or hydraulic effect...  Of course, 
> if it is a generic case that is probably not a consideration.

Well, my tower box doesn't have any special baffles (yet) but if I operate it
with both side panels off and push the CPU hard it will reset, and if I check
the CPU heat sink I find it unusually warm.  Without the forced circulation
from either the exhaust fans above and to the rear or the inlet fan that I
have on my disk drives, the CPU fan appears to draw back too much of the warm
air it ejects below, hence the trend toward putting a side inlet vent on the
machine -- a very bad idea, since it means that you can't place the machine
up against another one.  (The new BTX spec addresses this, but it looks like
it introduces other problems.)

I suggest that Joey check the temperature of the drive as he usually runs it,
then again after running with the box closed.

Mark Terribile


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Re: Top posting

2004-03-19 Thread Mark Ovens
Jerry McAllister wrote:

I'm with you... Top-posting makes the most sense for me.
No, it is like reading all the answers and then being handed
the questions.   I know some college students like to function
A. Top posters
Q. What's the most annoying thing on Usenet?
QED

Mark

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Re: which 8-port 10/100 hub is best?

2004-03-19 Thread Mark Terribile

[Greg Lehey]
> [W. D.]
>> [Gary Kline]

>>> I'm upgrading my hub from a 5-port hub and thought I would check
>>> with this list ...
>> If there is a possibility that you will have some heavy traffic
>> at times, the best hub is a switch!  You are likely to have
>> less bandwidth wasting collisions during high traffic periods.

> ... hubs are obsolete.  You can find switches for almost nothing nowadays;
> don't buy hubs.

> ... I've never had problems with cheap switches, so I would tend to
> buy by price.

About five years ago, when miniature hubs came out, I did have a bad
experience with one.  When the load neared 100 MBit/sec and stayed that
high for half a minute or so, it would reset, taking at least half a minute
to start up again.

If you really mean to put it under load, be sure you can get a refund.

Mark Terribile


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Re: deleting directories with ??? in name

2004-03-19 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
wrote Walter thusly...
>

I apologize for the late reply.


> Parv wrote:
> 
> >  # find . \( -inum  -o -inum  \) -print0 \
> >  # | xargs -0 rm -rfv
> >
> 
> Thanks, but when I did:
> ls -i
> and then typed in the inode in the command (saved in an old List
> e-mail):
> find . -inum  -delete
> it didn't delete them.  Do you think your way would work where
> manual command wouldn't?  But, they are gone now, so I can't try
> it anyway.

My _speculation_ is that if '-delete' option did not work from w/in
find(1), i doubt that above quoted command chain would cause any
difference.  I suppose, you also guessed the same.  OTOH, the
description of -delete option does say...

  -delete
  ... It will not attempt to delete a filename with a ``/''
  character in its pathname relative to ``.'' for security
  reasons.


...that is one thing to consider.


It would have been fun to experiment w/ the offending directory
structure.  Next time it happens, send me a sample/small tar'd copy,
will you?


  - Parv

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Re: Rxvt replacement?

2004-03-19 Thread Scott W
Peter Schuller wrote:
Is there any other xterm replacement which is small like rxvt? Or at least
smaller than xterm.


Grepping around the ports tree i found 'wterm' which is supposedly a 
fork/branch of rxvt (haven't tried it yet). There's also aterm (also forked 
off rxvt apparantly).

aterm is great- half the footprint or better of XTerm, with working 
transparency/shading if that's your thing.  I _think_ wterm is also an 
rxvt derivative, so either one should be close in footprint...

Scott

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Re: drive / IDE controller questions

2004-03-19 Thread Joey Mingrone
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On March 19, 2004 18:37, Parv wrote:
> in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> wrote Joey Mingrone thusly...
>
> > I've been having problems with my western digital drive
> > (http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=24) for about a
> > year.
>
> What that has to do w/ the thread discussing wget & proxy problem?
> Above message was a *reply* to one of the messages in that thread.
> It was quite a rude surprise.
>
> People, kindly do not hijack a thread; start a new one.  Thanks for
> your cooperation in future.
>
>
>   - Parv

Sorry about that.  I think I got lazy and just replied to a message and 
changed the subject instead of typing [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the 
To: field.  ..didn't realize the messages were threaded on the list.

joey
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RE: which 8-port 10/100 hub is best?

2004-03-19 Thread Kurt
Sayeth Volpes:

I would suggest advoiding hubs, as switches are uber cheap nodays and
give better performace... multiple collision zones and traffic is not
broadcast to everyone.

I am currently using a Zonet ZFS3008... it is cheap and works
nicely... had one die on me from over heating thought... this on runs
a lot cooler thought. Forget what model the one that died after a year
was, but it had the LEDs on top and the power plug on the opasite side
the the RJ45 connectors.



I have a small nit to pick. There are times when a hub is just the
thing. NTOP and ETHEREAL are my favorite examples for this (especially
in a small environment, when management won't spend for a managed switch
that can mirror/span ports) but there are other reasons as well when you
might want a machine to see all of the traffic coming across the wire.

Kurt

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raid-1, Vinum

2004-03-19 Thread Me
I'm using vinum Raid-1.
 I have figured out how to recover from a failed disk.
 Does any one know what to do if the disk that has the
 vinum configuration/OS fails?
 lets say I have a disk with a vinum partition on it
 and I want to create a mirror out of it on an entire
 new system. how do i accomplish this. I've search
 quite a bit but most senarios only show how to
recover
 a failed drive that doesnt contain the OS.

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RE: Impact of running pkgdb -fu

2004-03-19 Thread Dan MacMillan
Kris Kennaway Sent: March 19, 2004 18:06
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:56:08PM -0700, Dan MacMillan wrote:
> > Kris Kennaway Sent: March 19, 2004 17:46
> > > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:34:38PM -0700, Dan MacMillan wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I have a question about the effect of running "pkgdb -fu",
> > > > besides making me laugh because of its whimsically profane
> > > > command-line options.
> > > >
> > > > Suppose I have been running "pkgdb -F" as suggested by
> > > > portupgrade, and I accidentally delete a stale dependency
> > > > that should have been handled in another way.  Will
> > > > rebuilding the package database with "pkgdb -fu" restore
> > > > this dependency to its pristine, correct state?
> > >
> > > No, the dependency was removed from the installed package.  You need
> > > to explicitly restore it, e.g. by reinstalling it.
> > 
> > Thanks for your reply ... but now I'm a little confused.  The 
> > dependencies are stored in the packages themselves?  Would that be in
> > the tarball in the /usr/ports/distfiles directory?  Where can I go to
> > learn more about this, specifically the anatomy of a binary package
> > and the structure of the package database?
> 
> Packages register themselves in /var/db/pkg when installed.  Read the
> pkg_create and related manpages for more details.

Excellent.  Thank you for your kind attention.

-Dan
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Re: which 8-port 10/100 hub is best?

2004-03-19 Thread jdunham
On 20 Mar 2004 at 9:01, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:

> On Thursday, 18 March 2004 at 22:54:49 -0600, W. D. wrote:
> >
> > If there is a possibility that you will have some heavy traffic
> > at times, the best hub is a switch!  You are likely to have
> > less bandwidth wasting collisions during high traffic periods.
> 
> I'd put it more forcibly than that: hubs are obsolete.  You can find
> switches for almost nothing nowadays; don't buy hubs.
> 
> And yes, I haven't checked whether the EFAH08W is a switch or a hub.
> But I've never had problems with cheap switches, so I would tend to
> buy by price.

I have had problems with a cheap TrendNet switch.  I no longer recall 
the details (except that backups that went through it tended to die), 
but it was in a high-traffic location and the problems were fixed by 
replacing it with a not-quite-as-cheap D-Link switch.  I compared notes 
with another sysadmin at a different local company and found he'd had a 
similar experience with the same switch.  I have a different model of 
cheap TrendNet switch in a low-traffic location and have had no trouble 
with it.

YMMV.


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Re: which 8-port 10/100 hub is best?

2004-03-19 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 19:45:12 -0800
Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
>   People,
> 
>   I'm upgrading my hub from a 5-port hub and thought I would
>   check with this list to see if the Linksys EFAH08W is still a
>   good deal.  If there is somethng other that would work equally
>   well on my FreeBSD netwrk, please le me know.  (I've had good
>   luck with Linksys, but have read some negative comments.)

I would suggest advoiding hubs, as switches are uber cheap nodays and
give better performace... multiple collision zones and traffic is not
broadcast to everyone.

I am currently using a Zonet ZFS3008... it is cheap and works
nicely... had one die on me from over heating thought... this on runs
a lot cooler thought. Forget what model the one that died after a year
was, but it had the LEDs on top and the power plug on the opasite side
the the RJ45 connectors.
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pkgtools.conf strangeness

2004-03-19 Thread jimmie james
It seems I can't get portupgrade -arR (or -f) to honor
pkgtools.conf.  I've run portsdb -Uu, 

I've rebuild mozilla almost a dozen times over the
past few days trying to work this out, google and the
lists gave some pointers, but they don't see to be
working.  Everytime I build it, it's using the default
options in the www/mozilla/Makefile and not what's in
pkgtools.conf.  Any advice would help out.

FreeBSD fortytwo.zapto.org 4.9-STABLE FreeBSD
4.9-STABLE #0: Thu Mar  4 04:07:58 EST 2004
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FORTYTWO 
i386

portupgrade-20040208 FreeBSD ports/packages
administration and management tool

  MAKE_ARGS = {
'graphics/gimp-devel' => [
  'WITH_PYTHON=1',
  'WITHOUT_PRINT=1',
 ],
'net/gaim' => [
  'WITHOUT_GTKSPELL=1',
  'WITHOUT_AUDIO=1',
  'WITH_GNUTLS=1',
  'WITH_NSS=1',
],
'www/firefox' => [
  'WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=1',
],
'x11-toolkits/open-motif-*' => [
  'WITHOUT_OPENMOTIF_DEMOS=1',
],
'multimedia/mplayer' => [
  'WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=1',
  'WITHOUT_RUNTIME_CPUDETECTION=1',
  'WITHOUT_MEMCODER=1',
  'WITH_GUI=1',
],
'irc/xchat2' => [
  'WITH_PYTHON=1',
],
'www/mozilla/' => [
  'WITHOUT_MAILNEWS=1',
  'WITHOUT_LDAP=1',
  'WITHOUT_CHATZILLA=1',
  'WITHOUT_COMPOSER=1',
  'WITHOUT_CALENDAR=1',
  'WITH_OPTIMIZED_CFLAGS=1',
],
'mail/mutt' => [
  'WITHOUT_NLS=1',
],
'mail/postfix' => [
  'POSTFIX_OPTIONS=SASL2 IPv6TLS DB41',
  'BATCH=yes'
],
'net/nicotine' => [
  'WITH_VORBIS=1',
],
'www/bluefish' => [
  'WITH_AUTO_COMPLETE=1',
], 
  }


Full pkgtools.conf, make.conf, and pkg_info at
www.geocitites.com/h2g2_jimmiejaz/pkg_info.txt and 
www.geocities.com/mac13631/pkg_info.txt

=
-BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-
Version: 3.12
GMU dpu s+:+ a? C UB P+++ L E--- W+++ N+++ o K+ w---
O+++ M- V-- PS+++ PE+++ Y++ PGP+++ 5-- X+ R* !tv b DI D
G++ e* h* r+ z**
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Re: Impact of running pkgdb -fu

2004-03-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:56:08PM -0700, Dan MacMillan wrote:
> > Kris Kennaway Sent: March 19, 2004 17:46
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:34:38PM -0700, Dan MacMillan wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a question about the effect of running "pkgdb -fu",
> > > besides making me laugh because of its whimsically profane
> > > command-line options.
> > >
> > > Suppose I have been running "pkgdb -F" as suggested by
> > > portupgrade, and I accidentally delete a stale dependency
> > > that should have been handled in another way.  Will
> > > rebuilding the package database with "pkgdb -fu" restore
> > > this dependency to its pristine, correct state?
> >
> > No, the dependency was removed from the installed package.  You need
> > to explicitly restore it, e.g. by reinstalling it.
> >
> 
> Thanks for your reply ... but now I'm a little confused.  The dependencies
> are stored in the packages themselves?  Would that be in the tarball in the
> /usr/ports/distfiles directory?  Where can I go to learn more about this,
> specifically the anatomy of a binary package and the structure of the
> package database?

Packages register themselves in /var/db/pkg when installed.  Read the
pkg_create and related manpages for more details.

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Re: CMS on FreeBSD

2004-03-19 Thread Matt Staroscik
At 04:39 PM 3/19/2004, Dan Rue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Umm..  I don't know what other people think about this - but I really
never run any PHP stuff from ports.  It is easier, imo, to just download
the tgz and unzip it to the directory you want it in.
Yes, exactly. You can download the latest PHP-Nuke sources and have a test 
installation up very quickly.

As far as which cms to use, I'm currently undecided as well.
Ditto.

After some googling and testing I settled on Geeklog, and it is doing the 
job for my small-time personal site, but I am not married to it. 
(geeklog.net) It is probably not robust enough if you need a very flexible, 
generalized CMS. It's more a weblog/portal with plugins for other stuff 
like file management.

  My boss
really likes drupal, and forces me to use it :)  Check out
opensourcecms.com - they showcase dozens of php cms' and let you try
them out.
If Scott or anyone else draws any conclusions from their own testing, 
please post!

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"The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda

2004-03-19 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page
or any other online documentation.  The result is that most leading edge
computer books are out of date almost before they are printed.  Unfortunately,
The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.  Inevitably, a
number of bugs and changes have surfaced.

"The Complete FreeBSD" has been through a total of five editions, including its
predecessor "Installing and Running FreeBSD".  Two of these have been reprinted
with corrections.  I maintain a series of errata pages.  Start at
http://www.lemis.com/errata-4.html to find out how to get the errata
information.

Have you found a problem with the book, or maybe something confusing?  Please
let me know: I'm constantly updating it.

Greg
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How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2004-03-19 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions.
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RE: Impact of running pkgdb -fu

2004-03-19 Thread Dan MacMillan
> Kris Kennaway Sent: March 19, 2004 17:46
>
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:34:38PM -0700, Dan MacMillan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a question about the effect of running "pkgdb -fu",
> > besides making me laugh because of its whimsically profane
> > command-line options.
> >
> > Suppose I have been running "pkgdb -F" as suggested by
> > portupgrade, and I accidentally delete a stale dependency
> > that should have been handled in another way.  Will
> > rebuilding the package database with "pkgdb -fu" restore
> > this dependency to its pristine, correct state?
>
> No, the dependency was removed from the installed package.  You need
> to explicitly restore it, e.g. by reinstalling it.
>

Thanks for your reply ... but now I'm a little confused.  The dependencies
are stored in the packages themselves?  Would that be in the tarball in the
/usr/ports/distfiles directory?  Where can I go to learn more about this,
specifically the anatomy of a binary package and the structure of the
package database?

-Dan

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Re: Impact of running pkgdb -fu

2004-03-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:34:38PM -0700, Dan MacMillan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a question about the effect of running "pkgdb -fu", besides making me
> laugh because of its whimsically profane command-line options.
> 
> Suppose I have been running "pkgdb -F" as suggested by portupgrade, and I
> accidentally delete a stale dependency that should have been handled in
> another way.  Will rebuilding the package database with "pkgdb -fu" restore
> this dependency to its pristine, correct state?

No, the dependency was removed from the installed package.  You need
to explicitly restore it, e.g. by reinstalling it.

Kris


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Re: Vinum, replaced disk -- fsck error.

2004-03-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 20 March 2004 at  0:23:11 +, Lewis Thompson wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 08:57:38AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> On Friday, 19 March 2004 at  3:03:34 +, Lewis Thompson wrote:
>>> In a reply to my original question you stated that ``dd if=ad3 of=ad1
>>> bs=8192 conv=noerror'' ``may or may not work, depending on details you
>>> haven't reported.''  Do these detailed errors help at all?
>>
>> A little.  They tell me that the drive is flaky.  I'd expect to see
>> the error messages in /var/log/messages, though.
>
> Right.  I've just written a full-blown reply to this message but on the
> very last thing I did some looking into dd.  After some searching I
> found somebody that said:
>
> ``One must specify conv=noerror,sync when copying raw disks with bad
> sectors to ensure dd stays synchronized''
>
>   I'm feeling sheepish now.  I've only used conv=noerror.  This would
> probably explain something (i.e. I can read the config from the disk
> because it's synched at the beginning).

Possibly.  It's also possible that the bad sectors contained crucial
data; that's what I had expected.

>   I'm going to re-dd the disk on Monday (I'm away for the weekend).
> I'll tell you how I get on then.

I still don't understand why you're using dd.

Greg
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Re: sendmail off - no more accounting message to root

2004-03-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 12:39:42AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 06:58:23PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 
> > because i'm only running a desktop and sylpheed has it's own mail transport
> > system, i shut down sendmail.  however, since making this change, i've
> > noticed that the root account is no longer receiving the daily
> > accounting digest.
> > 
> > i've had a look at the 310.accounting file in periodic, but am not sure
> > what to change to get the accounting back.  is sendmail an absolute
> > requirement for this service or is there some other way one of you might
> > now about?
> 
> Try looking at /etc/defaults/periodic.conf instead -- it's a lot
> clearer in there how to make the daily/weekly/monthly jobs write their
> output to a log file rather than in an e-mail.
> 
> Nb. Don't edit /etc/defaults/periodic.conf -- just create
> /etc/periodic.conf and put in there the settings you wish to override.

Bah! I'll forget me own head next.  I meant to say that if you set the
output to log files like so:

daily_output="/var/log/daily.log"
weekly_output="/var/log/weekly.log"
monthly_output="/var/log/monthly.log"

then the default /etc/newsyslog.conf is already setup to cycle those
logfiles neatly.

Cheers,

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Impact of running pkgdb -fu

2004-03-19 Thread Dan MacMillan
Hi,

I have a question about the effect of running "pkgdb -fu", besides making me
laugh because of its whimsically profane command-line options.

Suppose I have been running "pkgdb -F" as suggested by portupgrade, and I
accidentally delete a stale dependency that should have been handled in
another way.  Will rebuilding the package database with "pkgdb -fu" restore
this dependency to its pristine, correct state?

On a related note ... I recently ran "portupgrade -rRa", as is my wont, and
it suggested I run "pkgdb -F".  So I did.  It reported as stale dependencies
packages that were never installed on my system.  Is this normal?  I haven't
seen it before.  For example it reported as a stale dependency of one of the
kde* packages the x11/nvidia driver.  Although I have that driver installed,
I downloaded and installed it by hand from the nVidia web site (I didn't
know it was available as a port).

Hence my question.  I accidentally said, "remove this dependency" to
"pkgdb -F".  After realizing that the dependencies "pkgdb -F" was reporting
as stale were actually not installed, I built each of those ports which made
"pkgdb -F" stop complaining about them.  I also subsequently built the
x11/nvidia port, but it's the removal of that first dependency that's
keeping me up at night.  Hence my question regarding "pkgdb -fu".  Does it
restore everything to its neat-and-tidy state?  Or am I cursed to live out
my days with a besmirched (or befouled, your choice) package database?

-Dan MacMillan

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Re: sendmail off - no more accounting message to root

2004-03-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 06:58:23PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> because i'm only running a desktop and sylpheed has it's own mail transport
> system, i shut down sendmail.  however, since making this change, i've
> noticed that the root account is no longer receiving the daily
> accounting digest.
> 
> i've had a look at the 310.accounting file in periodic, but am not sure
> what to change to get the accounting back.  is sendmail an absolute
> requirement for this service or is there some other way one of you might
> now about?

Try looking at /etc/defaults/periodic.conf instead -- it's a lot
clearer in there how to make the daily/weekly/monthly jobs write their
output to a log file rather than in an e-mail.

Nb. Don't edit /etc/defaults/periodic.conf -- just create
/etc/periodic.conf and put in there the settings you wish to override.

Cheers,

Matthew

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Re: Top posting

2004-03-19 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:24:59PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:35:06PM -0500, Al Johnson wrote:
> My standard response to top-posting:
> 
>  A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>  Q: Why is putting a reply at the top of the message frowned upon?
>  A: Top-posting.
>  Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

.siht ekil I  .doog si sihT

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Re: Vinum, replaced disk -- fsck error.

2004-03-19 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 08:57:38AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Friday, 19 March 2004 at  3:03:34 +, Lewis Thompson wrote:
> > In a reply to my original question you stated that ``dd if=ad3 of=ad1
> > bs=8192 conv=noerror'' ``may or may not work, depending on details you
> > haven't reported.''  Do these detailed errors help at all?
> 
> A little.  They tell me that the drive is flaky.  I'd expect to see
> the error messages in /var/log/messages, though.

Right.  I've just written a full-blown reply to this message but on the
very last thing I did some looking into dd.  After some searching I
found somebody that said:

``One must specify conv=noerror,sync when copying raw disks with bad
sectors to ensure dd stays synchronized''

  I'm feeling sheepish now.  I've only used conv=noerror.  This would
probably explain something (i.e. I can read the config from the disk
because it's synched at the beginning).

  I'm going to re-dd the disk on Monday (I'm away for the weekend).
I'll tell you how I get on then.

  Thanks again for all the help,

-lewiz.

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sendmail off - no more accounting message to root

2004-03-19 Thread epilogue
hello all,

because i'm only running a desktop and sylpheed has it's own mail transport
system, i shut down sendmail.  however, since making this change, i've
noticed that the root account is no longer receiving the daily
accounting digest.

i've had a look at the 310.accounting file in periodic, but am not sure
what to change to get the accounting back.  is sendmail an absolute
requirement for this service or is there some other way one of you might
now about?

hoping to be pointed in the right direction.


thanks,
epi
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OT: Quiet SCSI drives?

2004-03-19 Thread Goodleaf, John M
I'm going to be doing some development work with a few databases in a
regulated environment. Needless to say, I need some serious storage for
running test versions. But for the reasons I won't bore you with, I'll want
them just to run on my workstation. So I need an oomph workstation with a
fair amount of storage. I'll build it myself so I can have my choice of
components. (I'm looking at dual Opteron!) 

Here's the thing. I'd prefer SCSI drives for their performance and
reliability but I can't stand the noise they tend to generate. Is anyone out
there acquainted with a SCSI model that runs fairly quietly? It doesn't have
to be the most blazingly fast model out there; I'm willing to sacrifice some
performance (though not reliability) for quiet. I do have to work near the
thing. Some noise is fine. It's the high-pitched squeal I get from the
drives in the server room that kills me.

Failing that, does anyone have experiences, positive or negative, with the
various drive-noise dampeners on the market?

Thanks,
J


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drive / IDE controller questions

2004-03-19 Thread Mark Terribile

[Jerry McAllister writes]
> {Joey Mingrone writes]

>> I've been having problems with my western digital drive ...
>> The problem started out when I would randomly hear the drive restarting.  It

>> would make a high pitch sound... (The same sound the drive makes when you 
>> power on the system).  ... Eventually they would happen over and over ...
>> So now, I'm guessing the problem may lie with the controller on the main
>> board 

>Another early guess might also be overheating problems.  I am not sure how
>you would check other than trying to make it cooler.

One way to check heating is to take the cover off and put your hand on the
drive.  If it's too hot for your comfort, it's probably too hot for the drive's
comfort.  You want to let the machine run and then remove the cover and check
it quickly; airflow changes when you take the cover(s) off.  If that's the
problem, an extra fan in the right place can work wonders.

Don't exonorate cables too quickly; they can block airflow, especially if they
sag over time, or get pulled about by airflow.

I'm not familiar with the WD utilities; do they do surface scans?  If not,
is it possible that there are problems that either the controllers or FreeBSD
cannot handle, and that these are occurring as certain blocks are put into
service?  (But that wouldn't explain the failure on two drives?)

Mark Terribile


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Re: Top posting

2004-03-19 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:35:06PM -0500, Al Johnson wrote:
> I'm with you... Top-posting makes the most sense for me.
> > It comes down to opinion I think

My standard response to top-posting:

 A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 Q: Why is putting a reply at the top of the message frowned upon?
 A: Top-posting.
 Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

Top-posting may be an opinion, but RFC 1855 makes it _standard_ opinion.

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Re: Top posting

2004-03-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 19 March 2004 at 17:53:09 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 19, 2004, Charles McManis clacked the keyboard to produce:
>>> Perhaps it isn't "logical", if you've read all the email then the quoted
>>> thread is just reference anyway. This is the "new stuff". I love being able
>>> to read mail in the preview-pane vs "next message" , jump to the bottom,
>>> "next message" jump to the bottom.
>
> Maybe, if you only have one thread to deal with.  But in any given
> day I am seeing hundreds of messages from scores of threads.  Some
> precious but out of context tidbit is easily orphaned and becomes
> meaningless.

Of course, leaving extraneous text behind doesn't help either.
This message had 12 lines of relevant text and 70 of irrelevant text
(exceptionally, left behind as evidence; there's nothing below of any
further interest).  This makes people scroll all the way down just to
discover there's nothing there.

Greg

>
> jerry
>
>>>
>>> It comes down to opinion I think
>>> --Chuck
>>>
>>>
>>> On Friday 19 March 2004 09:46, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
 On 03/19/04 09:21 AM, Joshua Lokken sat at the `puter and typed:
> http://www.google.com/search?q=rfc+top+posting&sourceid=mozilla-search&st
> art=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
>
>
>
> Wow, almost every single reply to the list today was top posted.
> People, please know (and you must, you have to read them, too)
> that posting replies to the top of an email is, well, counter-
> intuitive, hard to follow, and goes against the general grain of
> RFC 1855.  Please, it has been requested from many users of this
> list, do not top post replies, but don't stop sending them ;)

 Yes, it has been requested from many users, and quite a few have flat
 out refused to follow this logical norm.  Others simply follow the
 precedent set in any given thread, and some few will go so far as to
 delete the trailing messages and try to herd an already errant thread
 in the right direction.  For my part, my reply behavior depends on the
 audience.  One would think that a company with so many geeks (from
 developers to SW architects) would tend to do this right, but not so.

 Bottom line, don't hold your breath.  Unfortunately, many mail clients
 don't show the replied email during reply composition but place it
 below the response, and most default to replying at the top anyway.
 Most users just don't bother to correct it when the option is there.

 I feel your pain dude.

 Lou
>>>
>>
>> [format broken, see above and then back down to here]
>>
>> No, it is not logical. If everyone top-posts, the email must be read in
>> reverse to recapture thoughts of others or points made. If twleve people
>> reply properly and you reply the way your `opinion' tells you too, you
>> have broken the path or reading, by forcing people to jump to the bottom
>> to refresh the last message and then back to the top to get the latest
>> thoughts or info. It is also quite obnoxious to review such top-posters
>> threads that are intermixed when looking through the archives.
>>
>> Finally, as pointed out previously, it does not follow convention. It is
>> much like Microsft `enhancing' an industry standard, which actually
>> breaks the standard.
>>
>> --
>> Bob
>>
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>> properly structured in a developmental program, children can blossom."
>> -Bob Keeshan aka `Captain Kangaroo'
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Re: Top posting

2004-03-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html]

RFC 1855 violation, reordered.
Mutilated IRL.

On Friday, 19 March 2004 at 14:28:24 -0800, Charles McManis wrote:
> On Friday 19 March 2004 09:46, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
>> On 03/19/04 09:21 AM, Joshua Lokken sat at the `puter and typed:
>>> http://www.google.com/search?q=rfc+top+posting&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
>>>
>>> Wow, almost every single reply to the list today was top posted.
>>> People, please know (and you must, you have to read them, too)
>>> that posting replies to the top of an email is, well, counter-
>>> intuitive, hard to follow, and goes against the general grain of
>>> RFC 1855.  Please, it has been requested from many users of this
>>> list, do not top post replies, but don't stop sending them ;)
>>
>> Yes, it has been requested from many users, and quite a few have flat
>> out refused to follow this logical norm.
>
> Perhaps it isn't "logical", if you've read all the email then the
> quoted thread is just reference anyway.

I suppose it depends on your attention span.  There were three
paragraphs in this message, and I had to search for the relevant
section.  If you get 2,500 mail messages a day, you don't need this
extra work.  If you don't get 2,500 mail messages a day, you still
don't need this extra work.

In any case, I frequently see messages where the relationship between
the original and the reply is tenuous at best.  It seems that people
who use top-posting often don't go to the trouble to compare the reply
to what they are replying to (not surprising, since it's not nearby).
The result is that top-posted replies often miss the point.

>> Others simply follow the precedent set in any given thread, and
>> some few will go so far as to delete the trailing messages and try
>> to herd an already errant thread in the right direction.  For my
>> part, my reply behavior depends on the audience.  One would think
>> that a company with so many geeks (from developers to SW
>> architects) would tend to do this right, but not so.

Note that this paragraph is completely irrelevant to your reply (but
not to the thread).  Why leave it in to muddy the waters?

>> Bottom line, don't hold your breath.  Unfortunately, many mail clients
>> don't show the replied email during reply composition but place it
>> below the response, and most default to replying at the top anyway.
>> Most users just don't bother to correct it when the option is there.
>

> This is the "new stuff". I love being able to read mail in the
> preview-pane vs "next message" , jump to the bottom, "next message"
> jump to the bottom.

Sorry, I don't understand this.

> It comes down to opinion I think

I suppose it comes down to attention to detail and an interest in
accurate communication.

>> I feel your pain dude.

Tell me about it.

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Re: problem with MySon Ethernet Nics

2004-03-19 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, GiTi wrote:

> On Thursday 18 March 2004 18:09, Olaf Hoyer wrote:
>
> > Ok, do you have any Information about the chipset used on these?
> >
> > What is needed, is the dmesg output, at least those lines where the nic
> > is probed.
> >
> > should read something like:
> >
> > pci2:  foo bar
>
> dmesg print out something like:
>
> pci2:
>
>
> My Nics is:
> SURECOM EP-320X-S 100/10M Ethernet PCI Adapter
>
> i have tried to rebuilded the kernel and compiled its driver (basing on the
> instruction) into kernel several times but I have not succeeded
>
> It is said that freebsd 5.2 supported MySon Ethernet Nics and ... i am
> surprized . Maybe I have missed somthing?
> Please help me to solve this problem
>

Hi!

Well, do you mean with "compiled its driver" that they provide some own
driver?

Ok, in order to be able to help you, we  need at least a dmesg with the
card, and the _exact_ message, and also a pciconf -lv will be helpful.
Because of rebranding of network chips one can never be sure what
chip-revision you get with those relabelled products.

Please boot a kernel.GENERIC and post that dmesg.

HTH
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Emachines M6805

2004-03-19 Thread finnegan
Hello,
I was wondering if there are any patches or plans to include support for the
emachines m6805 with the mobile amd76 processor?
I have tried installing via cd, but can't get passed boot, however I was
able to install gentoo.  Thankyou for your time.

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Re: Top posting

2004-03-19 Thread Chris
On Friday 19 March 2004 04:28 pm, Charles McManis wrote:
> Perhaps it isn't "logical", if you've read all the email then the quoted
> thread is just reference anyway. This is the "new stuff". I love being able
> to read mail in the preview-pane vs "next message" , jump to the bottom,
> "next message" jump to the bottom.
>
> It comes down to opinion I think
> --Chuck


You top poster, you


> On Friday 19 March 2004 09:46, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> > On 03/19/04 09:21 AM, Joshua Lokken sat at the `puter and typed:
> > > http://www.google.com/search?q=rfc+top+posting&sourceid=mozilla-search&;
> > >st art=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Wow, almost every single reply to the list today was top posted.
> > > People, please know (and you must, you have to read them, too)
> > > that posting replies to the top of an email is, well, counter-
> > > intuitive, hard to follow, and goes against the general grain of
> > > RFC 1855.  Please, it has been requested from many users of this
> > > list, do not top post replies, but don't stop sending them ;)
> >
> > Yes, it has been requested from many users, and quite a few have flat
> > out refused to follow this logical norm.  Others simply follow the
> > precedent set in any given thread, and some few will go so far as to
> > delete the trailing messages and try to herd an already errant thread
> > in the right direction.  For my part, my reply behavior depends on the
> > audience.  One would think that a company with so many geeks (from
> > developers to SW architects) would tend to do this right, but not so.
> >
> > Bottom line, don't hold your breath.  Unfortunately, many mail clients
> > don't show the replied email during reply composition but place it
> > below the response, and most default to replying at the top anyway.
> > Most users just don't bother to correct it when the option is there.
> >
> > I feel your pain dude.
> >
> > Lou
>
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Re: Top posting

2004-03-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
> 
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2004, Charles McManis clacked the keyboard to produce:
> > Perhaps it isn't "logical", if you've read all the email then the quoted 
> > thread is just reference anyway. This is the "new stuff". I love being able 
> > to read mail in the preview-pane vs "next message" , jump to the bottom, 
> > "next message" jump to the bottom.

Maybe, if you only have one thread to deal with.  But in any given day
I am seeing hundreds of messages from scores of threads.   Some precious
but out of context tidbit is easily orphaned and becomes meaningless.

jerry

> > 
> > It comes down to opinion I think
> > --Chuck
> > 
> > 
> > On Friday 19 March 2004 09:46, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> > > On 03/19/04 09:21 AM, Joshua Lokken sat at the `puter and typed:
> > > > http://www.google.com/search?q=rfc+top+posting&sourceid=mozilla-search&st
> > > >art=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Wow, almost every single reply to the list today was top posted.
> > > > People, please know (and you must, you have to read them, too)
> > > > that posting replies to the top of an email is, well, counter-
> > > > intuitive, hard to follow, and goes against the general grain of
> > > > RFC 1855.  Please, it has been requested from many users of this
> > > > list, do not top post replies, but don't stop sending them ;)
> > >
> > > Yes, it has been requested from many users, and quite a few have flat
> > > out refused to follow this logical norm.  Others simply follow the
> > > precedent set in any given thread, and some few will go so far as to
> > > delete the trailing messages and try to herd an already errant thread
> > > in the right direction.  For my part, my reply behavior depends on the
> > > audience.  One would think that a company with so many geeks (from
> > > developers to SW architects) would tend to do this right, but not so.
> > >
> > > Bottom line, don't hold your breath.  Unfortunately, many mail clients
> > > don't show the replied email during reply composition but place it
> > > below the response, and most default to replying at the top anyway.
> > > Most users just don't bother to correct it when the option is there.
> > >
> > > I feel your pain dude.
> > >
> > > Lou
> > 
> 
> [format broken, see above and then back down to here]
> 
> No, it is not logical. If everyone top-posts, the email must be read in
> reverse to recapture thoughts of others or points made. If twleve people
> reply properly and you reply the way your `opinion' tells you too, you
> have broken the path or reading, by forcing people to jump to the bottom
> to refresh the last message and then back to the top to get the latest
> thoughts or info. It is also quite obnoxious to review such top-posters
> threads that are intermixed when looking through the archives.
> 
> Finally, as pointed out previously, it does not follow convention. It is
> much like Microsft `enhancing' an industry standard, which actually
> breaks the standard.
> 
> -- 
> Bob
> 
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> properly structured in a developmental program, children can blossom."
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Re: Top posting

2004-03-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
> 
> I'm with you... Top-posting makes the most sense for me.

No, it is like reading all the answers and then being handed
the questions.   I know some college students like to function
that way, but...
Top posting doesn't fit in to a naturally conversational style.

I occasionally top post when me response is a general comment and
not specific to any part of the question, but mostly responses in
where they make the most sense (hopefully).

jerry

> I was born to top-post.
> 
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 02:28:24PM -0800, Charles McManis wrote:
> > Perhaps it isn't "logical", if you've read all the email then the quoted 
> > thread is just reference anyway. This is the "new stuff". I love being able 
> > to read mail in the preview-pane vs "next message" , jump to the bottom, 
> > "next message" jump to the bottom.
> > 
> > It comes down to opinion I think
> > --Chuck
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Re: Top posting

2004-03-19 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Bob Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-19 14:33]:
> > 
> > It comes down to opinion I think
> > --Chuck
> > 
> > 
> > On Friday 19 March 2004 09:46, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> > > On 03/19/04 09:21 AM, Joshua Lokken sat at the `puter and typed:
> > > >
> > > > RFC 1855.  Please, it has been requested from many users of this
> > > > list, do not top post replies, but don't stop sending them ;)
> > >
> > >
> > > I feel your pain dude.
> > >
> > > Lou
> > 
> 
> [format broken, see above and then back down to here]
> 
> No, it is not logical. If everyone top-posts, the email must be read in
> reverse to recapture thoughts of others or points made. If twleve people
> reply properly and you reply the way your `opinion' tells you too, you
> have broken the path or reading, by forcing people to jump to the bottom
> to refresh the last message and then back to the top to get the latest
> thoughts or info. It is also quite obnoxious to review such top-posters
> threads that are intermixed when looking through the archives.
> 
> Finally, as pointed out previously, it does not follow convention. It is
> much like Microsft `enhancing' an industry standard, which actually
> breaks the standard.
> 
> -- 
> Bob

Indeed.  Chuck, I'm not saying I'm going to stop reading your posts
because you don't want to follow convention/etiquette, but it appears
that the community at large does not feel the way you do.

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Re: drive / IDE controller questions

2004-03-19 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
wrote Joey Mingrone thusly...
>
> I've been having problems with my western digital drive 
> (http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=24) for about a year.  

What that has to do w/ the thread discussing wget & proxy problem?
Above message was a *reply* to one of the messages in that thread.
It was quite a rude surprise.

People, kindly do not hijack a thread; start a new one.  Thanks for
your cooperation in future.


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Re: Top posting

2004-03-19 Thread Al Johnson
I'm with you... Top-posting makes the most sense for me.

I was born to top-post.

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 02:28:24PM -0800, Charles McManis wrote:
> Perhaps it isn't "logical", if you've read all the email then the quoted 
> thread is just reference anyway. This is the "new stuff". I love being able 
> to read mail in the preview-pane vs "next message" , jump to the bottom, 
> "next message" jump to the bottom.
> 
> It comes down to opinion I think
> --Chuck
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Re: which 8-port 10/100 hub is best?

2004-03-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 18 March 2004 at 22:54:49 -0600, W. D. wrote:
> At 21:45 3/18/2004, Gary Kline, wrote:
>>
>>  People,
>>
>>  I'm upgrading my hub from a 5-port hub and thought I would check
>>  with this list to see if the Linksys EFAH08W is still a good
>>  deal.  If there is somethng other that would work equally well
>>  on my FreeBSD netwrk, please le me know.  (I've had good luck
>>  with Linksys, but have read some negative comments.)
>
> If there is a possibility that you will have some heavy traffic
> at times, the best hub is a switch!  You are likely to have
> less bandwidth wasting collisions during high traffic periods.

I'd put it more forcibly than that: hubs are obsolete.  You can find
switches for almost nothing nowadays; don't buy hubs.

And yes, I haven't checked whether the EFAH08W is a switch or a hub.
But I've never had problems with cheap switches, so I would tend to
buy by price.

Greg
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Re: Top posting

2004-03-19 Thread Bob Collins
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004, Charles McManis clacked the keyboard to produce:
> Perhaps it isn't "logical", if you've read all the email then the quoted 
> thread is just reference anyway. This is the "new stuff". I love being able 
> to read mail in the preview-pane vs "next message" , jump to the bottom, 
> "next message" jump to the bottom.
> 
> It comes down to opinion I think
> --Chuck
> 
> 
> On Friday 19 March 2004 09:46, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> > On 03/19/04 09:21 AM, Joshua Lokken sat at the `puter and typed:
> > > http://www.google.com/search?q=rfc+top+posting&sourceid=mozilla-search&st
> > >art=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Wow, almost every single reply to the list today was top posted.
> > > People, please know (and you must, you have to read them, too)
> > > that posting replies to the top of an email is, well, counter-
> > > intuitive, hard to follow, and goes against the general grain of
> > > RFC 1855.  Please, it has been requested from many users of this
> > > list, do not top post replies, but don't stop sending them ;)
> >
> > Yes, it has been requested from many users, and quite a few have flat
> > out refused to follow this logical norm.  Others simply follow the
> > precedent set in any given thread, and some few will go so far as to
> > delete the trailing messages and try to herd an already errant thread
> > in the right direction.  For my part, my reply behavior depends on the
> > audience.  One would think that a company with so many geeks (from
> > developers to SW architects) would tend to do this right, but not so.
> >
> > Bottom line, don't hold your breath.  Unfortunately, many mail clients
> > don't show the replied email during reply composition but place it
> > below the response, and most default to replying at the top anyway.
> > Most users just don't bother to correct it when the option is there.
> >
> > I feel your pain dude.
> >
> > Lou
> 

[format broken, see above and then back down to here]

No, it is not logical. If everyone top-posts, the email must be read in
reverse to recapture thoughts of others or points made. If twleve people
reply properly and you reply the way your `opinion' tells you too, you
have broken the path or reading, by forcing people to jump to the bottom
to refresh the last message and then back to the top to get the latest
thoughts or info. It is also quite obnoxious to review such top-posters
threads that are intermixed when looking through the archives.

Finally, as pointed out previously, it does not follow convention. It is
much like Microsft `enhancing' an industry standard, which actually
breaks the standard.

-- 
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Re: Vinum, replaced disk -- fsck error.

2004-03-19 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 19 March 2004 at  3:03:34 +, Lewis Thompson wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 01:26:02PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 16 March 2004 at 17:25:26 +, Lewis Thompson wrote:
>>> I can't think of anything else.  Originally I ran dd without the
>>> conv=noerror and it stopped at around 25GB (the disk is a 100GB).  The
>>> destination disk is 123GB but to my knowledge that is acceptable for dd.
>>>
>>>   During the process a number (maybe eight to ten) I/O errors were
>>> reported.
>>
>> But not to me.
>
> I've included more detailed errors neared to the end of this email :)
>
>> I was really thinking of "What to do if you have problems with Vinum"
>> at http://www.vinumvm.org/vinum/how-to-debug.html.
>
> Okay, I did actually do my best to follow this but maybe got
> sidetracked.  I'm just going to bullet point these now so I don't miss
> any of them out.
>
> * Problems: ``dd'' cloned disk ``does not work'' (i.e. gstat shows no
>   activity on the cloned disk during reading of files).

What command did you enter?  What happened on the command line?

> Also see previous emails.

You can't really expect me to go digging for them.

> * Changes to system: Originally vinum ran on 4.9-STABLE.  This worked
>   but had periodic ``disk crashes'' (i.e. vinum states disk as offline).
>   I don't think this is the problem as the same behaviour happens with
>   5.2.1-p1 using the original dodgy disk (only GEOM removes it instead
>   of vinum).

It looks like part of the problem to me.  It seems that you have a
flaky disk.  Is that correct?

> * Vinum list (excuse lack of wrapping).

On the contrary, it shouldn't be wrapped.

I don't see anything in this list that hasn't started.  Is it correct
that volume "data" only has one plex?

> * /var/log/messages extract.  I originally started vinum a long while
>   before, I included this entry too (excuse wrapping):
>
> Mar 17 23:33:57 amnesia kernel: vinum: loaded
> Mar 17 23:34:00 amnesia kernel: vinum: reading configuration from /dev/ad1s1h
> Mar 17 23:34:00 amnesia kernel: vinum: updating configuration from /dev/ad2s1h
> Mar 17 23:34:00 amnesia kernel: vinum: updating configuration from /dev/ad3s1h
> Mar 19 02:49:26 amnesia kernel: WARNING: /mnt/data was not properly dismounted
> Mar 19 02:52:15 amnesia kernel: vinum: null rqg
>
>   This seems a little odd to me -- previously I had not had a null rqg
> error.

This is certainly an interesting one.

> I think maybe I didn't test it enough.  Since these are mostly avi
> files I can tell if they are broken on not by seeing if they have an
> index -- last time they all played but many without indexes.
> Nothing has changed since then; maybe I wasn't being thorough
> enough?

I'm wondering if the problem isn't at least partially due to the flaky
disk.  The "null rqg" message indicates that a request couldn't be
mapped.  I'd really need a dump from this point, if the problem is
repeatable.  Let me know and I'll send you a patch.

>>>   During the process a number (maybe eight to ten) I/O errors were
>>> reported.
>
> These were dd errors.  I didn't write these down at the time (silly of
> me) and I'm not sure they even go into any log files.  However, I have
> found the exact error messages I got (although the offsets are wrong).
> If required I will re-run dd and provide the full errors.
>
>   The messages were:
>
> dd: reading `/dev/ad3': Input/output error

Hmm.  Why are you running against /dev/ad3?  Why are you using dd at
all?  In any case, I would expect error messages in /var/log/messages
at this point.

> In a reply to my original question you stated that ``dd if=ad3 of=ad1
> bs=8192 conv=noerror'' ``may or may not work, depending on details you
> haven't reported.''  Do these detailed errors help at all?

A little.  They tell me that the drive is flaky.  I'd expect to see
the error messages in /var/log/messages, though.

> I just read a thread[1] about dd that makes me wonder whether it
> would have been.

The only reference I see there is to the current thread.  At least it
gave me the background.

>   I think that's everything.  I'm just going to include some other stuff
> from earlier emails that has been chopped earlier.  Maybe it has some
> relevance:
>
> = fsck_ufs /dev/vinum/data gives the following message:
> = ** /dev/vinum/data
> = cannot alloc 4316869296 bytes for inphead

Yes, this is almost certainly due to incorrect copying.  Probably the
conv=noerror is to blame for that.

I suspect that, unless you can read the sections of the volume that
appear to be causing the fsck problems, you may be out of luck.  About
the only thing you could try is to mount the volume read-only without
fsck, and then copy what data you can elsewhere.

Greg
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Re: Top posting

2004-03-19 Thread Charles McManis
Perhaps it isn't "logical", if you've read all the email then the quoted 
thread is just reference anyway. This is the "new stuff". I love being able 
to read mail in the preview-pane vs "next message" , jump to the bottom, 
"next message" jump to the bottom.

It comes down to opinion I think
--Chuck


On Friday 19 March 2004 09:46, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> On 03/19/04 09:21 AM, Joshua Lokken sat at the `puter and typed:
> > http://www.google.com/search?q=rfc+top+posting&sourceid=mozilla-search&st
> >art=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
> >
> >
> >
> > Wow, almost every single reply to the list today was top posted.
> > People, please know (and you must, you have to read them, too)
> > that posting replies to the top of an email is, well, counter-
> > intuitive, hard to follow, and goes against the general grain of
> > RFC 1855.  Please, it has been requested from many users of this
> > list, do not top post replies, but don't stop sending them ;)
>
> Yes, it has been requested from many users, and quite a few have flat
> out refused to follow this logical norm.  Others simply follow the
> precedent set in any given thread, and some few will go so far as to
> delete the trailing messages and try to herd an already errant thread
> in the right direction.  For my part, my reply behavior depends on the
> audience.  One would think that a company with so many geeks (from
> developers to SW architects) would tend to do this right, but not so.
>
> Bottom line, don't hold your breath.  Unfortunately, many mail clients
> don't show the replied email during reply composition but place it
> below the response, and most default to replying at the top anyway.
> Most users just don't bother to correct it when the option is there.
>
> I feel your pain dude.
>
> Lou

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Re: CMS on FreeBSD

2004-03-19 Thread David Bear
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 01:53:04PM -0500, Scott I. Remick wrote:
> I'm thinking about setting up a FreeBSD-based CMS/intranet and wanted to
> know what other people were doing.

you should at least read through some of the material on zope. its
well maintained in the ports collection -- take a look at the zope cmf
and plone material

> I'm also concerned about Plone using its own webserver. I feel very good
> using Apache as I've a lot of experience with it, and I like the idea of
> delegating components to groups with that strength. I also don't know
> Python, but could try and learn if Plone was worth it.

most people run zope/cmf/plone in back of apache with mod_proxy and
rewrite..

> 
> What are other people doing for CMS on FreeBSD? Just how different is Plone
> from the *Nukes? Are there fundamental differences I need to understand?
> Can I do everything I want to with Plone without having to become a Python
> expert, code my own modules, etc? 

don't know anything about Nukes but Plone is very good.

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Re: CMS on FreeBSD

2004-03-19 Thread Dan Rue
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 03:25:17PM -0500, Scott I. Remick wrote:
> Drupal looks really nice. Do you have any thoughts on Drupal vs. Mambo?
I've used both, but neither very much.  I can only tell you that my boss
went from Mambo to Drupal - I guess he found it easier to hack on.
That's the thing - if you can find one you really like, and learn the
internals, you can use it for many differnet things.  It's so nice to be
able to throw up a fully functional website in an evening.

> Hmmm it occurred to me that one module/component I'd really be interested
> in is some sort of organized (hierarchy) knowledgebase that is also
> searchable.
This sounds like a wiki..
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki
http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/

Enjoy!
dan
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Pango/freetype

2004-03-19 Thread brad harder


  Sorry if this has been discussed before (I'd be surprised if it hasn't).

  I'm trying to build pango on my system (up-to-date 5.2.1), but it's choking (see 
below)... I see on archived mailing lists, people are discussing Freetype and Pango, 
and how _something_ isn't working, but I see no solutions for a fix.  Is there a fix 
for this?


"make" output in pango port:

gmake[3]: Entering directory 
`/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/pango/work/pango-1.2.5/pango/opentype'
/bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=compile cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. 
-DPANGO_ENABLE_ENGINE -DSYSCONFDIR=\"/usr/X11R6/etc\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/X11R6/
ib\" -DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -DG_DISABLE_CAST_CHECKS -D_THREAD_SAFE 
-I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include   -I/usr/X11R6/in
lude   -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include 
-I../..  -I/usr/local/include/freetype2  -I/usr/local/include/glib-2
0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include   -I/usr/local/include  -I/usr/X11R6/include  -O 
-pipe -march=pentiumpro -Wall -c pango-ot-info.c
 cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -DPANGO_ENABLE_ENGINE 
-DSYSCONFDIR=\"/usr/X11R6/etc\" -DLIBDIR=\"/usr/X11R6/lib\" -DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED 
-DG_DIS
BLE_CAST_CHECKS -D_THREAD_SAFE -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 
-I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 -
/usr/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I../.. -I/usr/local/include/freetype2 
-I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/us
/local/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -O -pipe -march=pentiumpro -Wall -c 
pango-ot-info.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/pango-ot-info.o
pango-ot-info.c:25:31: freetype/ftmodapi.h: No such file or directory
gmake[3]: *** [pango-ot-info.lo] Error 1
gmake[3]: Leaving directory 
`/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/pango/work/pango-1.2.5/pango/opentype'
gmake[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/pango/work/pango-1.2.5/pango'
gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/pango/work/pango-1.2.5'
gmake: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
*** Error code 2

Stop in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/pango.


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DVD R/W in FreeBSD?

2004-03-19 Thread Ed Alley
Does FreeBSD support ATA DVD writers the same way that it
supports CD writers? I have been to SOS's web page, and
have looked at hardware support info, but have found no hint at
whether ATA DVD writers are supported under FreeBSD.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Ed Alley



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Re: CMS on FreeBSD

2004-03-19 Thread Scott I. Remick
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 14:05:45 -0600, Dan Rue wrote:
> 
> Umm..  I don't know what other people think about this - but I really
> never run any PHP stuff from ports.  It is easier, imo, to just download
> the tgz and unzip it to the directory you want it in.  Since there's no
> compiling, usually very little setup, it's just _easier_ and gives you
> more control if you just do it yourself.  Of course, the cruddy thing
> about that is updating.  
> 
> Therefore, the reason why I think the cms' in ports are old is because
> most people don't port install them - it's just not worth it.  

Ahh, I see. That would explain a lot, then. Makes sense.

> As far as which cms to use, I'm currently undecided as well.  My boss
> really likes drupal, and forces me to use it :)  

Drupal looks really nice. Do you have any thoughts on Drupal vs. Mambo?

> Check out
> opensourcecms.com - they showcase dozens of php cms' and let you try
> them out.  

Beat ya to it... I already stumbled across it just a short while ago and am
currently playing around. :)

Hmmm it occurred to me that one module/component I'd really be interested
in is some sort of organized (hierarchy) knowledgebase that is also
searchable.

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Re: Zope

2004-03-19 Thread Chad Gross

I ran ./start -u root and that is the only way it
works. If I use any other user it gives permission
denied errors in the browser (when accessing on port
8080 and 8080/manage) or the following output on the
command line (when accessing the normal website on
port 80 which apache is rewriting for):

--
2004-03-19T15:11:37 ERROR(200) DirectoryView Error
during prepareContents:
Traceback (innermost last):
  File
/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/Products/CMFCore/DirectoryView.py,
line 198, in getContents
  File
/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/Products/CMFCore/DirectoryView.py,
line 215, in prepareContents
  File
/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/Products/CMFCore/DirectoryView.py,
line 47, in _filtered_listdir
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/lib/python/Products/CMFDefault/skins/Images'
--
2004-03-19T15:11:37 ERROR(200) DirectoryView Error
during prepareContents:
Traceback (innermost last):
  File
/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/Products/CMFCore/DirectoryView.py,
line 198, in getContents
  File
/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/Products/CMFCore/DirectoryView.py,
line 215, in prepareContents
  File
/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/Products/CMFCore/DirectoryView.py,
line 47, in _filtered_listdir
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/lib/python/Products/CMFDefault/skins/control'
--
2004-03-19T15:11:37 ERROR(200) DirectoryView Error
during prepareContents:
Traceback (innermost last):
  File
/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/Products/CMFCore/DirectoryView.py,
line 198, in getContents
  File
/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/Products/CMFCore/DirectoryView.py,
line 215, in prepareContents
  File
/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/Products/CMFCore/DirectoryView.py,
line 47, in _filtered_listdir
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/lib/python/Products/CMFDefault/skins/generic'
--
2004-03-19T15:11:37 ERROR(200) DirectoryView Error
during prepareContents:
Traceback (innermost last):
  File
/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/Products/CMFCore/DirectoryView.py,
line 198, in getContents
  File
/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/Products/CMFCore/DirectoryView.py,
line 215, in prepareContents
  File
/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/Products/CMFCore/DirectoryView.py,
line 47, in _filtered_listdir
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/lib/python/Products/CMFDefault/skins/content'
--
2004-03-19T15:11:37 ERROR(200) DirectoryView Error
during prepareContents:
Traceback (innermost last):
  File
/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/Products/CMFCore/DirectoryView.py,
line 198, in getContents
  File
/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/Products/CMFCore/DirectoryView.py,
line 215, in prepareContents
  File
/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/Products/CMFCore/DirectoryView.py,
line 47, in _filtered_listdir
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/lib/python/Products/CMFCalendar/skins/calendar'
--
2004-03-19T15:11:37 ERROR(200) DirectoryView Error
during prepareContents:
Traceback (innermost last):
  File
/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/Products/CMFCore/DirectoryView.py,
line 198, in getContents
  File
/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/Products/CMFCore/DirectoryView.py,
line 215, in prepareContents
  File
/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/Products/CMFCore/DirectoryView.py,
line 47, in _filtered_listdir
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/lib/python/Products/CMFTopic/skins/topic'
--
2004-03-19T15:11:37 ERROR(200) DirectoryView Error
during prepareContents:
Traceback (innermost last):
  File
/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/Products/CMFCore/DirectoryView.py,
line 198, in getContents
  File
/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/Products/CMFCore/DirectoryView.py,
line 215, in prepareContents
  File
/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/Products/CMFCore/DirectoryView.py,
line 47, in _filtered_listdir
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/lib/python/Products/CMFDefault/skins/zpt_control'
--
2004-03-19T15:11:37 ERROR(200) DirectoryView Error
during prepareContents:
Traceback (innermost last):
  File
/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/Products/CMFCore/DirectoryView.py,
line 198, in getContents
  File
/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/Products/CMFCore/DirectoryView.py,
line 215, in prepareContents
  File
/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/Products/CMFCore/DirectoryView.py,
line 47, in _filtered_listdir
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/lib/python/Products/CMFDefault/skins/zpt_generic'
--
2004-03-19T15:11:37 ERROR(200) DirectoryView Error
during prepareContents:
Traceback (innermost last):
  File
/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/Products/CMFCore/DirectoryView.py,
line 198, in getContents
  File
/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/Products/CMFCore/DirectoryView.py,
line 215, in prepareContents
  File
/usr/local/www/Zope/lib/python/Products/CMFCore/DirectoryView.py,
line 47, in _fi

Re: drive / IDE controller questions

2004-03-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
> 
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> 
> >
> > Another early guess might also be overheating problems.  I am not sure how
> > you would check other than trying to make it cooler.
> >
> > jerry
> >
> 
> 
> 
> Could be.. although I have almost always had the case open and I have two case 
> fans.  The CPU temp is usually in the 40s or 50s C (not too bad for a 1.6GHz 
> Athlon) and the memory is usually around 25C.  ..but maybe I'll try pointing 
> a fan at it.

Actually, I mean the disk overheating.  They do that and they get worse
at it as they age too.

Also, some cases are designed to aid in the cooling and so with
the case open, the airflow is either not properly directed or it
doesn't get enough of a Bernouli or hydraulic effect, either of which 
is used to increase the air flow speed in critical areas.   Of course, 
if it is a generic case that is probably not a consideration.

jerry

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> joey
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Re: drive / IDE controller questions

2004-03-19 Thread Joey Mingrone
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>
> Another early guess might also be overheating problems.  I am not sure how
> you would check other than trying to make it cooler.
>
> jerry
>



Could be.. although I have almost always had the case open and I have two case 
fans.  The CPU temp is usually in the 40s or 50s C (not too bad for a 1.6GHz 
Athlon) and the memory is usually around 25C.  ..but maybe I'll try pointing 
a fan at it.

Thanks,

joey
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Re: CMS on FreeBSD

2004-03-19 Thread Dan Rue
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 01:53:04PM -0500, Scott I. Remick wrote:
> I'm thinking about setting up a FreeBSD-based CMS/intranet and wanted to
> know what other people were doing.
> 
> I have a tiny bit of experience with PHP-Nuke because my webhost uses it.
> Although I have no real complaints about it, I am not wedded to it.
> 
> PHP-Nuke is in ports and was recently upgraded to 6.9 after stagnating at
> 6.0 for a long time. This makes me concerned that if I invested in it, and
> the need for an update came, I might be SOL for a while due to lack of a
> maintainer. As it is right now, it is marked FORBIDDEN due to a
> vulnerability with versions below 7.1.
> 
> Also, there seems to be a lot of hatred towards PHP-Nuke. I don't claim to
> understand it, but I can accept they might know something I don't. I do
> know that PHP is rather easy for me to work with, as I've tweaked many
> pages on my hosted site. I am also not turned away by the fact that
> PHP-Nuke depends on MySQL as I have used it with Bugzilla and it doesn't
> scare me.
> 
> Looking at other options, there comes Postnuke. Seems a pretty-popular
> close-relation to PHP-Nuke, however the version in ports seems 2+ years
> old. So there is the maintainership issue again. And a lot of people hate
> BOTH *Nukes, for perhaps good reasons I don't totally grasp, so there's
> that too.
> 
> Diverging a bit, I noticed Drupal. Currently in ports but broken.



Umm..  I don't know what other people think about this - but I really
never run any PHP stuff from ports.  It is easier, imo, to just download
the tgz and unzip it to the directory you want it in.  Since there's no
compiling, usually very little setup, it's just _easier_ and gives you
more control if you just do it yourself.  Of course, the cruddy thing
about that is updating.  

Therefore, the reason why I think the cms' in ports are old is because
most people don't port install them - it's just not worth it.  

Just follow the instructions that come with the PHP app - usually you'll
have to create a database in mysql for it to use.  The instructions are
usually really good with that stuff.  

As far as which cms to use, I'm currently undecided as well.  My boss
really likes drupal, and forces me to use it :)  Check out
opensourcecms.com - they showcase dozens of php cms' and let you try
them out.  

Good Luck - 
Dan
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Re: drive / IDE controller questions

2004-03-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been having problems with my western digital drive 
> (http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=24) for about a year.  
> I've posted messages about this before, but I have some new information that 
> may be relevant.  
> 
> The problem started out when I would randomly hear the drive restarting.  It 
> would make a high pitch sound that would increase in pitch and last a second 
> or two (The same sound the drive makes when you power on the system).  
> Messages similar to the ones below would also appear in /var/log/messages:
> 
> ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
> /kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. ata0-slave: ATA identify retries exceeded
> 
> ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
> 
> At first, these drive resets would only happen once or twice and everything 
> would go back to normal.  Eventually they would happen over and over until 
> the system became unusable and wouldn't boot up even after running fsck in 
> singal user mode with all the partitions unmount or mounted read only.  I 
> found a temporary solution was to run the western digital diagnostic tools 
> and then run fsck.  I would usually have a small amount of data 
> corruption/loss but the system would be usable again.  Things would be fine 
> for a week or longer, but the problem would eventually reappear.  Finally I 
> contacted WD and they sent me a replacement drive (It was the same model, but 
> a refurbished drive that I'm guessing was sent back by someone else).  After 
> a few tries I managed to get dd to copy the contents of the old drive to the 
> new drive and for quite some time everything was great.  But, the other day 
> the new drive began to have the same problem as the old one.
> 
> So now, I'm guessing the problem may lie with the controller on the main board 
> (http://usa.asus.com/mb/socketa/a7v266-e/overview.htm).

Another early guess might also be overheating problems.  I am not sure how
you would check other than trying to make it cooler.

jerry

> 
> My main board has the optional raid controller.  Would it be possible to use 
> that controller with my current drive, or would the secondary controller be a 
> better solution?
> 
> Other notes:
> 
> I've tried a few different IDE cables.
> I don't think it has anything to do with the OS since the resets have happened 
> before the OS starts to boot and in the BIOS.
> 
> I've included a uname -a, dmesg output and my kernel config file below.  Any 
> tips would be much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Joey
> 
> uname -a: 
> FreeBSD *hostname* 4.9-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p2 #0: Mon Feb  9 
> 03:08:50 AST 2004 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KERNEL_CONFIG_2004-02-09  i386
> 
> dmesg:
> Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project.
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
> The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p2 #0: Mon Feb  9 03:08:50 AST 2004
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/2004-02-09
> Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
> CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP1600+ (1410.21-MHz 686-class CPU)
>   Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x662  Stepping = 2
>   
> Features=0x383f9ff
>   AMD Features=0xc048
> real memory  = 536788992 (524208K bytes)
> avail memory = 518852608 (506692K bytes)
> Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0364000.
> Preloaded userconfig_script "/boot/kernel.conf" at 0xc036409c.
> Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
> md0: Malloc disk
> Using $PIR table, 10 entries at 0xc00f1480
> apm0:  on motherboard
> apm0: found APM BIOS v1.2, connected at v1.2
> npx0:  on motherboard
> npx0: INT 16 interface
> pcib0:  on motherboard
> pci0:  on pcib0
> agp0:  mem 0xf800-0xfbff at device 0.0 
> on pci0
> pcib1:  at device 1.0 on pci0
> pci1:  on pcib1
> pci1:  at 0.0 irq 11
> atapci0:  port 
> 0xb400-0xb43f,0xb800-0xb803,0xd000-0xd007,0xd400-0xd403,0xd800-0xd807 mem 
> 0xf380-0xf381 irq 5 at device 6.0 on pci0
> ata2: at 0xd800 on atapci0
> ata3: at 0xd000 on atapci0
> pcm0:  port 0xb000-0xb01f irq 10 at device 15.0 on pci0
> pcm0: 
> rl0:  port 0xa400-0xa4ff mem 0xf300-0xf3ff 
> irq 5 at device 16.0 on pci0
> rl0: Ethernet address: 00:e0:4c:00:30:22
> miibus0:  on rl0
> rlphy0:  on miibus0
> rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> isab0:  at device 17.0 on pci0
> isa0:  on isab0
> atapci1:  port 0xa000-0xa00f irq 0 at device 17.1 
> on pci0
> ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci1
> ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci1
> uhci0:  port 0x9800-0x981f irq 5 at device 17.2 on 
> pci0
> usb0:  on uhci0
> usb0: USB revision 1.0
> uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
> uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
> uhci1:  port 0x9400-0x941f irq 5 at device 17.3 on 
> pci0
> usb1:  on uhci1
> usb1: USB revision 1.0
> uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
> uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
> uhci2:  p

RE: 5.1 & mysql problem - solved

2004-03-19 Thread Darryl Hoar
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: 5.1 & mysql problem
> 
> 
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 
> > >I installed Freebsd 5.1-release.
> > >
> > >I then installed lynx from the ports system
> > >without problem.
> > >
> > >I then installed apache13 from ports without
> > >problem.
> > >
> > >When I tried to install mysql323-client.  I did
> > >this by cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql323-client.
> > >I then did a make.  It trundled away for a while,
> > >and eventually errored out.
> > >
> > >configure: error: Your compiler cannot convert a 
> > >longlong value to a float!
> > >
> > >I tried to install mysql323-server but it errored
> > >out the same way.
> > >
> > >Any ideas why it won't compile ?  I checked the
> > >version of gcc the system is using, and the 
> > >man page say gcc-3.2.1.
> > >  
> > >
> > Do you have to use mysql323-client? Did you tried the newest mysql 
> > client from the newest port tree?
> > 
> I was trying to install mysql323-client on a machine.  I 
> wanted the same
> mysql version as what is on my production box.  So, I'd prefer not to
> install mysql40-client.
> 
> thanks,
> Darryl

After some googling, I found the following solution:
1.  cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql323-client
2.  rm -rf work
3.  make extract
4.  vi work/mysql-3.23.56/config
find longlong.
in the function that follows, change close to fclose.
save file.
5.  make
6.  make install

works like a champ.  Seems to be a bug in the config script.

thanks,
Darryl
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drive / IDE controller questions

2004-03-19 Thread Joey Mingrone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1

Hi,

I've been having problems with my western digital drive 
(http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=24) for about a year.  
I've posted messages about this before, but I have some new information that 
may be relevant.  

The problem started out when I would randomly hear the drive restarting.  It 
would make a high pitch sound that would increase in pitch and last a second 
or two (The same sound the drive makes when you power on the system).  
Messages similar to the ones below would also appear in /var/log/messages:

ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting
/kernel: ata0: resetting devices .. ata0-slave: ATA identify retries exceeded

ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting

At first, these drive resets would only happen once or twice and everything 
would go back to normal.  Eventually they would happen over and over until 
the system became unusable and wouldn't boot up even after running fsck in 
singal user mode with all the partitions unmount or mounted read only.  I 
found a temporary solution was to run the western digital diagnostic tools 
and then run fsck.  I would usually have a small amount of data 
corruption/loss but the system would be usable again.  Things would be fine 
for a week or longer, but the problem would eventually reappear.  Finally I 
contacted WD and they sent me a replacement drive (It was the same model, but 
a refurbished drive that I'm guessing was sent back by someone else).  After 
a few tries I managed to get dd to copy the contents of the old drive to the 
new drive and for quite some time everything was great.  But, the other day 
the new drive began to have the same problem as the old one.

So now, I'm guessing the problem may lie with the controller on the main board 
(http://usa.asus.com/mb/socketa/a7v266-e/overview.htm).

My main board has the optional raid controller.  Would it be possible to use 
that controller with my current drive, or would the secondary controller be a 
better solution?

Other notes:

I've tried a few different IDE cables.
I don't think it has anything to do with the OS since the resets have happened 
before the OS starts to boot and in the BIOS.

I've included a uname -a, dmesg output and my kernel config file below.  Any 
tips would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Joey

uname -a: 
FreeBSD *hostname* 4.9-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p2 #0: Mon Feb  9 
03:08:50 AST 2004 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KERNEL_CONFIG_2004-02-09  i386

dmesg:
Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p2 #0: Mon Feb  9 03:08:50 AST 2004
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/2004-02-09
Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP1600+ (1410.21-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x662  Stepping = 2
  
Features=0x383f9ff
  AMD Features=0xc048
real memory  = 536788992 (524208K bytes)
avail memory = 518852608 (506692K bytes)
Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0364000.
Preloaded userconfig_script "/boot/kernel.conf" at 0xc036409c.
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
md0: Malloc disk
Using $PIR table, 10 entries at 0xc00f1480
apm0:  on motherboard
apm0: found APM BIOS v1.2, connected at v1.2
npx0:  on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
pcib0:  on motherboard
pci0:  on pcib0
agp0:  mem 0xf800-0xfbff at device 0.0 
on pci0
pcib1:  at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1:  on pcib1
pci1:  at 0.0 irq 11
atapci0:  port 
0xb400-0xb43f,0xb800-0xb803,0xd000-0xd007,0xd400-0xd403,0xd800-0xd807 mem 
0xf380-0xf381 irq 5 at device 6.0 on pci0
ata2: at 0xd800 on atapci0
ata3: at 0xd000 on atapci0
pcm0:  port 0xb000-0xb01f irq 10 at device 15.0 on pci0
pcm0: 
rl0:  port 0xa400-0xa4ff mem 0xf300-0xf3ff 
irq 5 at device 16.0 on pci0
rl0: Ethernet address: 00:e0:4c:00:30:22
miibus0:  on rl0
rlphy0:  on miibus0
rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
isab0:  at device 17.0 on pci0
isa0:  on isab0
atapci1:  port 0xa000-0xa00f irq 0 at device 17.1 
on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci1
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci1
uhci0:  port 0x9800-0x981f irq 5 at device 17.2 on 
pci0
usb0:  on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1:  port 0x9400-0x941f irq 5 at device 17.3 on 
pci0
usb1:  on uhci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci2:  port 0x9000-0x901f irq 5 at device 17.4 on 
pci0
usb2:  on uhci2
usb2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
orm0:  at iomem 0xcc000-0xc on isa0
pmtimer0 on isa0
fdc0:  at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes thr

Best port for mail stats

2004-03-19 Thread Leo Lapousterle
Hi all :)

I'm using mailgraph-1.7 actually, and I was wondering if there was a better
port to elaborate that kind of statistics, because I found mailgraph weird
and not easily readable... maybe too complex.

Every advice would be welcome :)


-- 
Léo Lapousterle - Paris, France.
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Re: ld-elf, libkvm out of sync, can't build ports

2004-03-19 Thread mario

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>  I looked over my supfile and it is absolutly generic, but just to be
> sure
> I'm going to get the latest one in /usr/share. The one I have been using
> is included below.

> # IMPORTANT: Change the next line to use one of the CVSup mirror sites #
> listed at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/mirrors.html.
> *default host=cvsup13.FreeBSD.org
i'm not sure whether this just affected me, but i remember having
problems with cvsup13 a while ago and switched to another one.


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Re: ipfw question...

2004-03-19 Thread W. D.
At 12:40 3/19/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote:
>If you would
>like I can post my IPFW rules.  They are extemly simple for my SSH, POP3,
>SMTP, NTP, IMAP, BIND8 setup...

Please do!  Could you also include plain English comments as well?
There are a number of people that find these rules confusing.  Some
well documented descriptions would be very helpful.

Thanks!

Start Here to Find It Fast!™ -> http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/

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Re: ld-elf, libkvm out of sync, can't build ports

2004-03-19 Thread knowtree
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 03:13:42PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Running 4.9 STABLE, fresh cvsup of src and ports. Kernel builds and
> > installs fine, but none of my ports will build. gkrellm and postgresql,
> > just to name a couple.
> > 
> > Linking stops with error message:
> > 
> > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/lib/libkvm.so.2: Undefined symbol
> > "__stderrp"
> > 
> > It looks as if I need to update or rebuild libkvm, but I can't find
> > anything that explains how.
> > 
> > How can I fix this?
> 
> Looks like you dont in fact have an up-to-date 4.9-STABLE system; that
> symbol is in libc (and has been for a long time now):
> 
> > objdump -T /usr/lib/libc.so.4 | grep stderrp
> 0008797c gDO .data  0004 __stderrp
> 
> Post your cvsupfile if you need additional help figuring out what went
> wrong with your upgrade.

Thanks, Kris!

 I looked over my supfile and it is absolutly generic, but just to be sure
I'm going to get the latest one in /usr/share. The one I have been using is
included below.

I did that objdump command on my system and got this:

0008567c gDO .data  0004 __stderrp

and the dir listing is:

-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  580540 Mar 18 11:54 /usr/lib/libc.so.4

so it appears to have been built yesterday, the last time I built my kernel.

Why does the complaint come from libkvm if the symbol is in libc? Is my C
compiler out of whack?

Here's my supfile:

# $FreeBSD: src/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile,v 1.19.2.4 2000/08/18
18:50:21 jkh Exp $
#
# This file contains all of the "CVSup collections" that make up the
# FreeBSD-stable source tree.
#
# CVSup (CVS Update Protocol) allows you to download the latest CVS
# tree (or any branch of development therefrom) to your system easily
# and efficiently (far more so than with sup, which CVSup is aimed
# at replacing).  If you're running CVSup interactively, and are
# currently using an X display server, you should run CVSup as follows
# to keep your CVS tree up-to-date:
#
#   cvsup stable-supfile
#
# If not running X, or invoking cvsup from a non-interactive script, then
# run it as follows:
#
#   cvsup -g -L 2 stable-supfile
#
# You may wish to change some of the settings in this file to better
# suit your system:
#
# host=CHANGE_THIS.FreeBSD.org
#   This specifies the server host which will supply the
#   file updates.  You must change it to one of the CVSup
#   mirror sites listed in the FreeBSD Handbook at
#   http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/mirrors.html.
#   You can override this setting on the command line
#   with cvsup's "-h host" option.
#
# base=/usr
#   This specifies the root where CVSup will store information
#   about the collections you have transferred to your system.
#   A setting of "/usr" will generate this information in
#   /usr/sup.  Even if you are CVSupping a large number of
#   collections, you will be hard pressed to generate more than
#   ~1MB of data in this directory.  You can override the
#   "base" setting on the command line with cvsup's "-b base"
#   option.  This directory must exist in order to run CVSup.
#
# prefix=/usr
#   This specifies where to place the requested files.  A
#   setting of "/usr" will place all of the files requested
#   in "/usr/src" (e.g., "/usr/src/bin", "/usr/src/lib").
#   The prefix directory must exist in order to run CVSup.
#
###
#
# DANGER!  WARNING!  LOOK OUT!  VORSICHT!
#
# If you add any of the ports collections to this file, be sure to
# specify them like this:
#
#   ports-all tag=.
#
# If you leave out the "tag=." portion, CVSup will delete all of
# the files in your ports tree.  That is because the ports collections
# do not use the same tags as the main part of the FreeBSD source tree.
#
###

# Defaults that apply to all the collections
#
# IMPORTANT: Change the next line to use one of the CVSup mirror sites
# listed at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/mirrors.html.
*default host=cvsup13.FreeBSD.org
*default base=/usr
*default prefix=/usr
# The following line is for 4-stable.  If you want 3-stable or 2.2-stable,
# change "RELENG_4" to "RELENG_3" or "RELENG_2_2" respectively.
*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4
*default delete use-rel-suffix

# If your network link is a T1 or faster, comment out the following line.
*default compress

## Main Source Tree.
#
# The easiest way to get the main source tree is to use the "src-all"
# mega-collection.  It includes all of the individual "src-*" collections.
# Please note:  If you want to track -STABLE, leave this uncommented.
src-all

# These are the individual collections that make up "src-all".  If you
# use these, be sure to comment out "src

atacontrol addspare missing in -stable

2004-03-19 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Hi all,

how do I rebuild a degraded RADI1 in -stable? I have a HighPoint 372 
Controller and yesterday had one drive failed (wich it does regularly and 
comes back fine after reboot).
"atacontrol status ar0" reported only one disk (ad4) and degraded (of course).
In -current with a SIL0680 I usually issue "atacontrol detach $failedchannel 
&& atacontrol attach $failedchannel && atacontrol addspare $faileddrive ar0 
&& atacontrol rebuild ar0"

Please give me an idea how things should work under -stable (from ~3 weeks 
ago).

Thanks,

-Harry


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Re: CMS on FreeBSD

2004-03-19 Thread Jack Raats
Hi Scott,

> I'm thinking about setting up a FreeBSD-based CMS/intranet and wanted to
> know what other people were doing.

I'm running an intranet site on a Pentium 1, 80 MB RAM, 120 MHz and a 30GB
Harddisk.
I'm using Mambo 4.5, which can be downloaded at
http://www.mamboserver.com or with a lot of templates at
http://www.mamboportal.com. It only uses Apache, MySQL ann d PHP4

Jack

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lpt0 stopped working after upgrading

2004-03-19 Thread Markie
Hello,

I recently upgraded to the latest -CURRENT and afterwards my printer would
no longer print over Samba via CUPS. At first I thought it was a CUPS/Samba
problem so I deinstalled and recompiled both of those but the problem still
remains.

CUPS recieves the print jobs ok and tries to print but in the web interface
it says something along the lines of "parallel port busy, retrying in 30
seconds..." and indeed trying echo hello > /dev/lpt0 says device busy. I
deleted the printer from CUPS yesterday to discover that lpt0 is no longer
in the drop down list where you select where the printer is attached (serial
0 and 1, parallel etc). I have unplugged the printer lead and tried too and
I get the same device busy, but maybe that's supposed to happen if there's
nothing plugged in? Also on boot the printer gets recognised properly with
the lead in.

I have also tried disabling ACPI in BIOS as I read somewhere that this may
solve the problem, but it's the same :o)

Can anyone help me? Should I post this to the current list instead?
Thanks

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CMS on FreeBSD

2004-03-19 Thread Scott I. Remick
I'm thinking about setting up a FreeBSD-based CMS/intranet and wanted to
know what other people were doing.

I have a tiny bit of experience with PHP-Nuke because my webhost uses it.
Although I have no real complaints about it, I am not wedded to it.

PHP-Nuke is in ports and was recently upgraded to 6.9 after stagnating at
6.0 for a long time. This makes me concerned that if I invested in it, and
the need for an update came, I might be SOL for a while due to lack of a
maintainer. As it is right now, it is marked FORBIDDEN due to a
vulnerability with versions below 7.1.

Also, there seems to be a lot of hatred towards PHP-Nuke. I don't claim to
understand it, but I can accept they might know something I don't. I do
know that PHP is rather easy for me to work with, as I've tweaked many
pages on my hosted site. I am also not turned away by the fact that
PHP-Nuke depends on MySQL as I have used it with Bugzilla and it doesn't
scare me.

Looking at other options, there comes Postnuke. Seems a pretty-popular
close-relation to PHP-Nuke, however the version in ports seems 2+ years
old. So there is the maintainership issue again. And a lot of people hate
BOTH *Nukes, for perhaps good reasons I don't totally grasp, so there's
that too.

Diverging a bit, I noticed Drupal. Currently in ports but broken.

Most promising seems Plone, which is based upon Zope. But it seems to be
tremendously different from *nuke. The ports version is current and appears
to work, but poking around the Plone site I wasn't able to get a feel for
whether it truly can provide all the stuff I'm looking for. These are
things such as:

- Discussion forums
- 3rd-party themes (I'm not looking to develop my own themes... I'm looking
to get this up fast. Instead I'm looking for an established community of
Plone-theme creators who like to create custom themes available for
download, so I can pick one that appeals to me)
- Polls
- a variety of other modules/blocks (strength of the *nukes, but couldn't
find a similar following for Plone).

I'm also concerned about Plone using its own webserver. I feel very good
using Apache as I've a lot of experience with it, and I like the idea of
delegating components to groups with that strength. I also don't know
Python, but could try and learn if Plone was worth it.

This would be for an intranet site for about 100 employees. Looking to
replace the mass-mailed MS Word "newsletter", as well as provide a place to
centrally discuss topics without having to try and hold meetings (and
leaving things unaddressed because you're unable to pull a meeting
together), give people a "classifieds" board, etc.

What are other people doing for CMS on FreeBSD? Just how different is Plone
from the *Nukes? Are there fundamental differences I need to understand?
Can I do everything I want to with Plone without having to become a Python
expert, code my own modules, etc? 

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Re: Building Packages - Links to Tutorials?

2004-03-19 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 3/7/2004 1:15 PM Remko Lodder wrote:

I am not sure but perhaps after the make -DCLIENT_ONLY=yes stuff
you can do make package, this should in my opinion make the package
you can install everywhere you wish (freebsd ofcourse).
Note that i did not read any explaination about this, and i just assume
this when i  "decode" the command into explaination.
 

Just to inform you, I tried these steps but the package still wants to 
be installed.  First I did "make -DWITH_CLIENT_ONLY=YES build".  Then I 
did "make package" and got an error about deinstalling the package 
before installing again.

Thanks for your help.

Drew

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Drew Tomlinson
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Onderwerp: Re: Building Packages - Links to Tutorials?
Sean Ellis told a big fish story including the following on 3/6/2004
12:51 PM:
 

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 01:34:20PM -0800, Drew Tomlinson wrote:

   

I have a "faster" machine that I'd like to use to build packages and
then install those packages on my "slower" machine.  I'm looking for
links to info describing this process and some best practices.  I'm
familiar with using portupgrade to build and install ports.  I've read
the portupgrade man pages and see options to build and install packages
but am not understanding how to put it all together.
 

Check this out.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/08/07/FreeBSD_Basics.html

.. under "Making a Package Repository".

   

Thanks, that helps.  Now, is there any way to make a package without
installing it?  For example, on my build machine I have the full version
of bacula installed.  However, I'd like to make a package that is built
with the "CLIENT_ONLY=YES" option.  So do I really have to build and
install it "wrong" on the build machine and then rebuild and install it
"right" just to get the package I want to install on another machine?
Seem like there would be a better way.
Thanks,

Drew

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Re[2]: 5.2(x)-RELEASE panic booting

2004-03-19 Thread Guy Harrison

Hi Guy Harrison,
you wrote.
>> Do you get the same result if booting without ACPI?

GH> Yes. I'm assuming here that the [default] boot option does not have ACPI
GH> enabled (if so, how to disable it?). The boot results are identical to
GH> when I select option 2 to boot with ACPI enabled.

> I too get a page fault when trying to boot from that ISO on a P3 1GHZ
> with SiS 630 chipset. I think my memory is fine as it ran through 10 memtest 
runs
> without a single problem (my original motivation was to install 5.2.1
> on that box to check whether the weird MySQL issue really doesn't
> exist on Intel CPUs).
> 
> 
> It is fine on an Athlon XP2400 using VIA KT400 based mainboard though.

Not my month this - you name it, and its gone wrong, packed up, vanished or 
plonked itself nicely into the bizarre category.

Fwiw, it appears I have a cheap Alladin V clone. Booting can be achieved by 
disabling power management in the BIOS *plus* fiddling with an IRQ3 option 
that I don't fully understand (can't get a decent bios manual). That'll get 
the machine to boot.

Next problem manifests itself as dodgy ram - gcc & bz2 failures. Default CS 
latency is "Auto" but setting it specifically to match the ram (CS=2) 
improves things greatly. The north/south bridge chips don't match any 
datasheet - iirc it appears one is off one particular release series, the 
other off the next mobo release.

Finally nailed the remaining reliability problem down to UDMA. Moment I turned 
it off, spurious faults went away and haven't re-occurred since. Obviously 
this mobo is a pile of junk. On the off-chance there's useful info to be had, 
here's how it fires up currently...

Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Feb 23 20:45:55 GMT 2004
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
Preloaded elf kernel "/boot/kernel/kernel" at 0xc09e3000.
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (350.80-MHz 586-class CPU)
  Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x580  Stepping = 0
  Features=0x8001bf
  AMD Features=0x8800
real memory  = 201326592 (192 MB)
avail memory = 185921536 (177 MB)
npx0: [FAST]
npx0:  on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
pcibios: BIOS version 2.10
Using $PIR table, 7 entries at 0xc00f7dd0
pcib0:  at pcibus 0 on motherboard
pci0:  on pcib0
pci_cfgintr: 0:14 INTA BIOS irq 11
pci_cfgintr: 0:16 INTA BIOS irq 10
pci_cfgintr: 0:18 INTA BIOS irq 9
agp0:  mem 0xe000-0xe3ff at device 0.0 
on pci0
pcib1:  at device 1.0 on pci0
pci1:  on pcib1
pci1:  at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
isab0:  at device 7.0 on pci0
isa0:  on isab0
pci0:  at device 14.0 (no driver attached)
atapci0:  port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device 
15.0 on pci0
ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
ata0: [MPSAFE]
ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
ata1: [MPSAFE]
vr0:  port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem 
0xdf00-0xdfff irq 10 at device 16.0 on pci0
vr0: Ethernet address: 00:40:f4:8c:7d:f8
miibus0:  on vr0
ukphy0:  on miibus0
ukphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
ahc0:  port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 
0xdfffd000-0xdfffdfff irq 9 at device 18.0 on pci0
aic7860: Ultra Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/253 SCBs
orm0:  at iomem 0xc8000-0xc87ff,0xc-0xc7fff on isa0
pmtimer0 on isa0
atkbdc0:  at port 0x64,0x60 on isa0
atkbd0:  flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
psm0:  irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3
fdc0:  at port 
0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
ppc0:  at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppbus0:  on ppc0
plip0:  on ppbus0
lpt0:  on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0:  on ppbus0
sc0:  at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0x10
sio1: port may not be enabled
sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
sio1: type 16550A
vga0:  at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0
unknown:  can't assign resources (port)
unknown:  can't assign resources (port)
unknown:  can't assign resources (port)
unknown:  can't assign resources (port)
unknown:  can't assign resources (port)
unknown:  can't assign resources (port)
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 350796635 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
GEOM: create disk ad0 dp=0xc26d6160
ad0: 114473MB  [232581/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA33
acd0: DVDROM  at ata0-slave PIO4
GEOM: create disk ad2 dp=0xc2733560
ad2: 6149MB  [13328/15/63] at ata1-master UDMA33
acd1: CDRW  at ata1-slave PIO4
Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s4a
[snip]

I wouldn't mind a hint on the audio side? Card used to work fine in another 
machine running 4.7-REL (Ensoniq AudioPCI). I'm a bi

Re: Problems using ppp as a server

2004-03-19 Thread Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 17:34:16 +0300 (MSK)
"ejff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> probably wrote:

> Hello, i have a problem using ppp as a server.
> When i start it like this:
> 
> root # ppp -direct server
> 
> it prints out a garbage:
> 
> ~Ъ}#ю!}!}!} }=}(}"}'}"}"}&} } } } }!}$}%э}%}&?Е3i}#}%б#}%Cц~~Ъ}#ю!}!}!} 
> }=}(}"}'}"}"}&} } } } }!}$}%э}%}&?Е3i}#}%б#}%Cц~~Ъ}#ю!}!}!} }=}(}"}'}"}
> "}&} } } } }!}$}%э}%}&?Е3i}#}%б#}%Cц~~Ъ}#ю!}!}!} }=}(}"}'}"}"}&} } } }
>  }!}$}%э}%}&?Е3i}#}%б#}%Cц~~Ъ}#ю!}!}!} }=}(}"}'}"}"}&} } } } }!}$}%э}%
> }&?Е3i}#}%б#}%Cц~

It doesn't work this way. ppp's standard  input and output should be
directed to the device.

> THE MAIN PROBLEM IS THAT I CAN NOT MAKE MY MODEM TO ANSWER TO THE
> CONNECTION REQUEST AUTOMATICALLY. 

Find the section RECEIVING INCOMING PPP CONNECTIONS in

$ man ppp

FWIW I'm using method No2.

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Re: using wget for FETCH_CMD

2004-03-19 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 19), Brady Montz said:
> Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > In the last episode (Mar 19), Brady Montz said:
> >> The problem is, that I while I fetch does seem to be able to
> >> download HTTP urls, I can't get it to download FTP urls through
> >> the proxy.
> >> 
> >> I've tried various combinations of FTP_PROXY and FTP_PASSIVE_MODE.
> >> Is there anything else I can set?
> >
> > Setting FTP_PROXY to http://proxyserver:port/ works for me and a
> > squid proxy.  If it's using a proxy, I don't think FTP_PASSIVE_MODE
> > is checked.
> 
> Sadly, it doesn't work for me. And, as much as I hate this proxy
> server, it is what I have to go through.

What doesn't work, exactly?  Try comparing the output of 
"fetch -vv ftp://ftp.netscape.com/Welcome"; and 
"wget -d ftp://ftp.netscape.com/Welcome";.

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Re: Downgrading 4.9-stable to 4.9-release-p3

2004-03-19 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 19 March 2004 06:48 am, Toomas Aas wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Kent Stewart wrote:
> > My question is how is the typical sysadmin going to tell which ones
> > were built dynamically.
>
> file /path/to/program
>

That tells you whether the program is static or dynamic but it doesn't 
tell you if it used one of the openssl libraries. I think you are going 
to have to read a number of Makefiles to figure that out. A clever 
script person could automate it with find and exec but the quantity of 
information that you would still have to look at could be huge. Would 
it be worth the effort.

I can rebuild my userland and kernel and be running it in around 30 
minutes. You can't lookup very many programs, build the static ones 
that use openssl, and install them in that amount of time. 

Kent

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Re: ipfw question...

2004-03-19 Thread whizkid
> Hi list, I've this network configuration:
>
> router (169.158.120.177)
> server1 (169.158.120.178) running bind (named), tacacs+, exim, and a pop3
> server
> server2 (169.158.120.179) running squid, apache2, mysql, proftpd (is
> acting
> as a GATEWAY)
>
> I've a LAN (192.168.1.0/24) and a breaking apart "LAN" (192.168.2.0/8,
> 192.168.2.8/8, 192.168.2.16/8), my question is: I want to protect my LAN,
> "LAN" and servers from the outside, I want to use ipfw, I have compiled a
> kernel in server2 (FreeBSD-4.8 on both servers) and I'm blocked (in &
> out),
> I've some doubts about adding rules 'cause I've been seeing so many
> samples
> on the net and I'm a little bit confused...any suggestion about
> configuration ???

one thing that I learned was to make sure when you start opening ports (IE
you have DENY ALL as default) that you start with the lowest port number..
 I for the life of me could not get SMTP working, so I moved it from the
bottom of my IPFW rules to the top, and walla it worked.  If you would
like I can post my IPFW rules.  They are extemly simple for my SSH, POP3,
SMTP, NTP, IMAP, BIND8 setup...
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ipfw question...

2004-03-19 Thread Xpression
Hi list, I've this network configuration:

router (169.158.120.177)
server1 (169.158.120.178) running bind (named), tacacs+, exim, and a pop3
server
server2 (169.158.120.179) running squid, apache2, mysql, proftpd (is acting
as a GATEWAY)

I've a LAN (192.168.1.0/24) and a breaking apart "LAN" (192.168.2.0/8,
192.168.2.8/8, 192.168.2.16/8), my question is: I want to protect my LAN,
"LAN" and servers from the outside, I want to use ipfw, I have compiled a
kernel in server2 (FreeBSD-4.8 on both servers) and I'm blocked (in & out),
I've some doubts about adding rules 'cause I've been seeing so many samples
on the net and I'm a little bit confused...any suggestion about
configuration ???

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Re: Top posting

2004-03-19 Thread whizkid
>
>etiquetteetiquette
> http://www.google.com/search?q=rfc+top+posting&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
>
>
>
> Wow, almost every single reply to the list today was top posted.
> People, please know (and you must, you have to read them, too)
> that posting replies to the top of an email is, well, counter-
> intuitive, hard to follow, and goes against the general grain of
> RFC 1855.  Please, it has been requested from many users of this
> list, do not top post replies, but don't stop sending them ;)
>
> Thanks, folks.
>

It is amazing how people just do not care.  I was reading a few postings
on Yahoo's Finance pages (looking at people talking about the company I
work for) and there is this one character who has been told many many many
times, be he still insists on top posting and POSTING IN ALL CAPS... 
Someone should create a script that will bounce the message if all the
words are in CAPS and if the message is top posted, with a reply on proper
posting etiquette..  ;)
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RE: Top posting

2004-03-19 Thread flowers
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joshua Lokken
> Sent: March 19, 2004 10:22
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Top posting
>
> Wow, almost every single reply to the list today was top posted.
> People, please know (and you must, you have to read them, too)
> that posting replies to the top of an email is, well, counter-
> intuitive, hard to follow, and goes against the general grain of
> RFC 1855.  Please, it has been requested from many users of this
> list, do not top post replies, but don't stop sending them ;)
>
> Thanks, folks.

My apologies.  I saw the requests not to "top post" but didn't understand
what that meant.  I think my "Outlook 2000" comment explains why.  :)

-Dan

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Re: using wget for FETCH_CMD

2004-03-19 Thread Brady Montz
Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> In the last episode (Mar 19), Brady Montz said:
>> The problem is, that I while I fetch does seem to be able to download
>> HTTP urls, I can't get it to download FTP urls through the proxy.
>> 
>> I've tried various combinations of FTP_PROXY and FTP_PASSIVE_MODE. Is
>> there anything else I can set?
>
> Setting FTP_PROXY to http://proxyserver:port/ works for me and a squid
> proxy.  If it's using a proxy, I don't think FTP_PASSIVE_MODE is
> checked.

Sadly, it doesn't work for me. And, as much as I hate this proxy
server, it is what I have to go through. 

So, is there any way to get back to using wget? I have my doubts that
fetch is going to be able to do the job.

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Re: using wget for FETCH_CMD

2004-03-19 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 19), Brady Montz said:
> The problem is, that I while I fetch does seem to be able to download
> HTTP urls, I can't get it to download FTP urls through the proxy.
> 
> I've tried various combinations of FTP_PROXY and FTP_PASSIVE_MODE. Is
> there anything else I can set?

Setting FTP_PROXY to http://proxyserver:port/ works for me and a squid
proxy.  If it's using a proxy, I don't think FTP_PASSIVE_MODE is
checked.

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RE: How to get an overview of the installed ports

2004-03-19 Thread Dan MacMillan
pkg_tree is also available in the ports collection at
/usr/ports/sysutils/pkg_tree

-Dan

-Original Message-
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Sent: March 19, 2004 02:47
To: Ronald Hoellwarth
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How to get an overview of the installed ports


Ronald Hoellwarth wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I've installed some apps and deinstalled them  again because I didn't
>like them. While installing them other software was installed too but
>I think it wasn't removed when I removed the unwanted programms.
>
>Is there a possibility to get an overview which ports are installed and
>how they are linked? something like this:
>
>appA
>needs appB appC
>needed by appD appE appF
>
>appB
>needs -none-
>needed by appA
>
>...
>
>Then I could go through the list and see which programms I have to
>remove in order to get a cleaner system.
>
>greetings from crailsheim, germany
>ronald höllwarth
>
>
>
Try this app pkg_tree from page
http://www.mavetju.org/unix/general.php

Maybe help.



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RE: Mail readers

2004-03-19 Thread Dan MacMillan
It's not just terminal mail readers that had the problem ... I'm using MS
Outlook 2000 and your problem messages also appeared screwy to me.  I don't
have any suggestions to contribute, just this observation.

-Dan

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Sent: March 19, 2004 04:54
To: FreeBSD-questions Mailing List
Subject: Re: Mail readers



On Mar 19, 2004, at 2:49 AM, Gary W. Swearingen wrote:

> Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> No. Nothing. Format=flowed applies solely to plain-text messages. HTML
>> messages already have something functionally equivalent to f=f: the
>>  attribute, which... um... quotes blocks of text. When f=f
>> mailers that also can handle HTML encounter  text, it’s
>> usually marked up with the same excerpt bars we’re familiar with from
>> f=f. Format=flowed isn’t actually at work there, but since
>>  text flows nicely when you resize a window, the effect is
>> the same.
> I've never heard of this f=f stuff and don't have time just now to
> investigate, but I'll keep typing anyway.  I think the problem is
> the same but worse.  f=f is probably spec'd in a new draft RFC and
> many mail readers don't support it, so your correspondents on a list
> list this can't handle it well.
>

According to the FAQ, it (f=f) was developed (IIRC) by Qualcomm to not
solve any problem in particular.  However, this form of formatting
would allow text to be easily formatted into columns readable by any
kind of simple display...i.e., PDAs and cellphones with text messaging
and email, etc. and at the same time it would easily scale to larger
(PC) displays with pretty formatting and proper wrapping.  Older
readers would just ignore the formatting characters and mangle it
accordingly.

Oddly enough (if my current theory holds) where the invisible f=f
formatting is inserted in an Apple app is dependent on the width of the
composition window...which on my iBook really sucks because this window
looks so NARROW compared to what I'm used to, hoping that other
people's mail readers work a little better with reading my posts to the
list.  I haven't heard other people complaining as much about my mail
wrapping at the 120 mark, so I'm hoping that maybe this will make it
easier for others...

It shouldn't be that hard for terminal mailers to adopt f=f, if I'm
understanding it properly...just be a matter of time.

-Bart

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Re: Top posting

2004-03-19 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-03-19T17:53:31Z, "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Now, it's Almost certain that i'm VEry "out of it" whEN it comes to
> Netiquette, but "Almost eVEry singlE reply" might be too stroNg a
> statement; however, i thiNk thAt it is most obVious that you ExcEl iN
> matters of tact!

Do you AgRee that it's Not limited to techNical nEWsgroups, having Been In
othEr forumS as well?
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 94 outdated ports.
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Re: Playing DVDs with xine

2004-03-19 Thread Andrew Elmore
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 06:39:00PM -0600, Michael Madden wrote:
> Has anyone gotten xine to play DVDs? I have installed
> it from /usr/ports/multimedia/xine and setup /dev/dvd,
> but I keep getting this error:
> 
> This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.9.23.
> (c) 2000-2003 The xine Team.
> libdvdnav: Using dvdnav version 1-rc3a from http://xine.sf.net
> libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.8 for DVD access
> libdvdread: Could not open /dev/dvd with libdvdcss.
> libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading
> libdvdnav: vm: faild to open/read the DVD
> 
> ls -l /dev/dvd /dev/cd0
> 
> crw-rw-rw-  1 root  operator4,  20 Mar 18 07:47 /dev/cd0
> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel3 Mar 18 17:51 /dev/dvd -> /dev/cd0


Despite the error message, you probably need to make sure your userid
can write to the dvd device.

A good tool to use for solving this kind of problem is truss or
ktrace.  That will show you what the program is *really* doing!

regards,
Andrew
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Re: Top posting

2004-03-19 Thread Joshua Lokken
* Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-19 09:55]:
> Joshua Lokken wrote:
> 
> >http://www.google.com/search?q=rfc+top+posting&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
> >
> >
> >
> >Wow, almost every single reply to the list today was top posted.
> >People, please know (and you must, you have to read them, too)
> >that posting replies to the top of an email is, well, counter-
> >intuitive, hard to follow, and goes against the general grain of
> >RFC 1855.  Please, it has been requested from many users of this
> >list, do not top post replies, but don't stop sending them ;)
> >
> >Thanks, folks.
> > 
> >
> 
> Now, it's Almost certain that i'm VEry
> "out of it" whEN it comes to Netiquette,
> but "Almost eVEry singlE reply" might be
> too stroNg a statement; however, i thiNk
> thAt it is most obVious that you ExcEl iN
> matters of tact!
> 
> KDK
> 

Your wit is absolutely refreshing ;)


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using wget for FETCH_CMD

2004-03-19 Thread Brady Montz
Hello, I've been using wget as my FETCH_CMD in /etc/make.conf for some
time now, as it's the only thing I've been able to use to reliably get
through the microsoft proxy server.

Now, when I "make fetch", I get this error:

wget: illegal option --

and according to the thread "/etc/make.c & wget..." on this list, a
couple weeks back it appears that a recent change to /usr/ports/Mk/*
broke this, and now FETCH_CMD needs to use fetch.

The problem is, that I while I fetch does seem to be able to download HTTP
urls, I can't get it to download FTP urls through the proxy.

I've tried various combinations of FTP_PROXY and FTP_PASSIVE_MODE. Is
there anything else I can set? 

Finally, is there any way I can get it to use wget again?

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Re: Top posting

2004-03-19 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Joshua Lokken wrote:

http://www.google.com/search?q=rfc+top+posting&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8



Wow, almost every single reply to the list today was top posted.
People, please know (and you must, you have to read them, too)
that posting replies to the top of an email is, well, counter-
intuitive, hard to follow, and goes against the general grain of
RFC 1855.  Please, it has been requested from many users of this
list, do not top post replies, but don't stop sending them ;)
Thanks, folks.
 

Now, it's Almost certain that i'm VEry
"out of it" whEN it comes to Netiquette,
but "Almost eVEry singlE reply" might be
too stroNg a statement; however, i thiNk
thAt it is most obVious that you ExcEl iN
matters of tact!
KDK

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Re: Top posting

2004-03-19 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 03/19/04 09:21 AM, Joshua Lokken sat at the `puter and typed:
> 
> 
> http://www.google.com/search?q=rfc+top+posting&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
> 
> 
> 
> Wow, almost every single reply to the list today was top posted.
> People, please know (and you must, you have to read them, too)
> that posting replies to the top of an email is, well, counter-
> intuitive, hard to follow, and goes against the general grain of
> RFC 1855.  Please, it has been requested from many users of this
> list, do not top post replies, but don't stop sending them ;)

Yes, it has been requested from many users, and quite a few have flat
out refused to follow this logical norm.  Others simply follow the
precedent set in any given thread, and some few will go so far as to
delete the trailing messages and try to herd an already errant thread
in the right direction.  For my part, my reply behavior depends on the
audience.  One would think that a company with so many geeks (from
developers to SW architects) would tend to do this right, but not so.

Bottom line, don't hold your breath.  Unfortunately, many mail clients
don't show the replied email during reply composition but place it
below the response, and most default to replying at the top anyway.
Most users just don't bother to correct it when the option is there.

I feel your pain dude.

Lou
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Re: Rxvt replacement?

2004-03-19 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Peter Schuller wrote:

> > Is there any other xterm replacement which is small like rxvt? Or at least
> > smaller than xterm.
>
> fork/branch of rxvt (haven't tried it yet). There's also aterm (also forked
> off rxvt apparantly).

Went with aterm. It's size is just a few KBs more than Rxvt.
Working nicely so far.

Thanks for reference.
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Top posting

2004-03-19 Thread Joshua Lokken


http://www.google.com/search?q=rfc+top+posting&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8



Wow, almost every single reply to the list today was top posted.
People, please know (and you must, you have to read them, too)
that posting replies to the top of an email is, well, counter-
intuitive, hard to follow, and goes against the general grain of
RFC 1855.  Please, it has been requested from many users of this
list, do not top post replies, but don't stop sending them ;)

Thanks, folks.



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-- the living and the dying.
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Re: problem with MySon Ethernet Nics

2004-03-19 Thread GiTi
On Thursday 18 March 2004 18:09, Olaf Hoyer wrote:

> Ok, do you have any Information about the chipset used on these?
>
> What is needed, is the dmesg output, at least those lines where the nic
> is probed.
>
> should read something like:
>
> pci2:  foo bar

dmesg print out something like:

pci2:


My Nics is:
SURECOM EP-320X-S 100/10M Ethernet PCI Adapter

i have tried to rebuilded the kernel and compiled its driver (basing on the
instruction) into kernel several times but I have not succeeded

It is said that freebsd 5.2 supported MySon Ethernet Nics and ... i am
surprized . Maybe I have missed somthing?
Please help me to solve this problem


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SUDO and adduser... not allowing group of wheel

2004-03-19 Thread Eric Six
Hi all,

I have an admin question regarding sudo. I want a user to be able to use sudo with 
adduser, but not be able to add users to the group wheel. How would I go a bout doing 
this?

Cmnd_Alias  NOWHEEL = !/usr/sbin/adduser -group wheel

I tried the above and that doesn't seem to do it..

TIA
Eric

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lsmod

2004-03-19 Thread Brian Henning
Greetings:
I am trying to run cisco vpn software on Freebsd. It is a linux binary so, I
turned on emulation. I am running into the following problem, is there a way to
install lsmod?

thanks,
brian

 /home/henninb/vpn/vpnclient> ./vpnclient_init start
Starting @VPNBINDIR@/vpnclient: ./vpnclient_init: /sbin/lsmod: not found
module directory /lib/modules/4.9-STABLE/CiscoVPN not found.
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Re: php installation problems; now mysql connection problems

2004-03-19 Thread samy lancher
I tried to installed PHP with MySQL but I could not successfully install it. I got an 
error which says "MySQL is already installed in your system, please uninstall mysql 
first."
Is there a way to install php without actually uninstalling mysql?

Matt Emmerton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
When you chose "install php without mysql", what you really did is install
PHP without mysql _support_. This is why you can't connect.
Reinstall PHP *with* mysql support and you will be fine.

Matt

- Original Message - 
From: "samy lancher" 
To: "Jorn Argelo" 
Cc: 
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: php installation problems; now mysql connection problems


> This morning I decided to install php4.4.2.2 back. In
usr/ports/www/mod_php4 I gave "make clean". It cleared work directory. Than
I gave "make install" command. I chose the option of installing php without
mysql since i already have mysql in my system. Installation went on fine but
now php is not able to connect to mysql. Any clues?
>
> Thanks,
> Naveen.
> Jorn Argelo wrote:
>
> Why don't you use portupgrade instead? You can install it via
> /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade if you don't have it. Though I am not
> certain if it works or even exists for FreeBSD 4.5
>
> Anyway, if you do have it, try this:
>
> pkg_info | grep php
> portupgrade -Rr
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jorn
>
> On 3/19/2004, "samy lancher" wrote:
>
> >
> >Hello All,
> >
> >I have FreeBSD 4.5, apache 1.3.26_3 and mod_php4-4.2.2 . i wanted to
upgrade php to php4-4.3.3.1 so i downloaded php4-4.3.3,1.tgz to
usr/ports/distfiles and gave the command
> >
> >port_update -r mod_php4-4.2.2 php4-4.3.3,1.tgz
> >
> >I noticed that php old version got uninstalled and the new one did not
get installed. Then in usr/ports/distfiles when i gave the command "pkg_add
php4-4.3.3,1.tgz" i got an error
> >
> >read_plist: bad command '@conflicts php4-4*'
> >
> >I guess it is something to do with package version and their dependencies
but I am not sure what exactly the problem is.
> >
> >I would also like to know if there is a way i can find out all the
dependencies for a particular package before actually installing it.
> >
> >I would appreciate if some one could help me.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Naveen.
> >
> >
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Re: Rxvt replacement?

2004-03-19 Thread Peter Schuller
> Is there any other xterm replacement which is small like rxvt? Or at least
> smaller than xterm.

Grepping around the ports tree i found 'wterm' which is supposedly a 
fork/branch of rxvt (haven't tried it yet). There's also aterm (also forked 
off rxvt apparantly).

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dump/restore issue

2004-03-19 Thread David Bear
My tape unit has been giving me problems on one server.  So I did a
dump over ssh to another box with a working tape like this:

  dump -0u -a -b 64 -f - /dev/da1s1e | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] dd of=/dev/nrsa0 

Then to check the dump on srv2 I did

  restore -i -f /dev/nrsa0

which came back and said the tape block size was different than the
dump block size or something like that.

>From my reading of the dump man page the -b parm controlled the block
size of the chunks that dump wrote, but was NOT connected to the
actual block size of the tape.  Since this tape is a variable block
device, I went ahead and set -b to the max...

But now what do I do about restore? 

Is there a better way to control tape block size when piping through
ssh?  ie, dd of=/dev/nrsa0 bs=512??  But then what meaning does the -b
parm have in dump?

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