How to convert ASCII to Hexadecimal format?
for example: ASCII: a test HEX : 61 20 74 65 73 74 Thanks -- Ronggui Huang Department of Sociology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China Department of Public and Social Administration, CityU, HK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Spaces in SSID in /etc/rc.conf
I come across the same problem. and my solution is to use hex instead of normal string. man ifconfig, you will see: ssid ssid Set the desired Service Set Identifier (aka network name). The SSID is a string up to 32 characters in length and may be speci- fied as either a normal string or in hexadecimal when preceded by `0x'. Additionally, the SSID may be cleared by setting it to `-'. If you add the following line to /etc/rc.conf, It will works. ifconfig_ath0 = DHCP ssid 0x6d79206e6574776f726b Hope it helps. 2007/5/20, Gunther Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Christopher Cowart wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:45:48PM +0200, Gunther Mayer wrote: Hi there, I got a low key server who is wirelessly connected to the net using an SSID that contains a space. In rc.conf I define the ifconfig line for configuration of my wireless interface upon bootup, but the entire line reads something like ifconfig_ath0=' inet 192.168.0.1 ssid my network ' No matter how I tweak the quotes (single then double, other way round, with lots of \\) I never get my interface to configure properly upon bootup and I need to get to the console to fix it up. I thought I knew shell syntax but this is beyond me or manpages... What's the right way to do this? One approach would be to navigate the series of function calls defined in /etc/network.subr. I just took a brief look, but it's not immediately obvious how many times you're going to have to escape exactly what to get the behavior you desire. Another option would be to make the file /etc/start_if.ath0, containing the line `ifconfig ... ssid my network`. This file would be sourced when /etc/rc.d/netif starts the network interfaces, before the rc variable ifconfig_ath0 is run. You can then omit the variable ifconfig_ath0 from /etc/rc.conf. For more hints, look in /etc/netif, /etc/network.subr, and /etc/rc.subr. Thanks for all your ideas guys, I really appreciate the help. Finally got some time to try all of your suggestions, though backwhacking (\) the space and/or the quotes makes no difference so I decided in the end to stop fighting the quoting wars and to just use /etc/start_if.ath0 which works perfectly. Not quite as neat as having everything live in /etc/rc.conf but it does the trick. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ronggui Huang Department of Sociology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China Department of Public and Social Administration, CityU, HK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to convert ASCII to Hexadecimal format?
Hi, man hexdump will explain the details. Erich ronggui wrote: for example: ASCII: a test HEX : 61 20 74 65 73 74 Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software RAID5
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 11:50:58PM +0100, Gabriel Dragffy wrote: Hi all Hoping to get some help setting up software RAID5. Guides on the internet seem to be few and far between, and official documentation is a little too technical. Basically I have 3 x 500GB hard drives which I'd like to have in a raid5 configuration, using software, root partition on their too would be a bonus. I'd be grateful for assistance. What you need for RAID5 is gvinum(8), which replaces the older vinum(4) driver. If you google for gvinum you'll find tutorials etc. AFAICT, you can't have the root device on a RAID5 gvinum. Just make a small root partition. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpUGpgeeVXQD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to convert ASCII to Hexadecimal format?
Am Samstag 22 September 2007 09:19:02 schrieb ronggui: for example: ASCII: a test HEX : 61 20 74 65 73 74 A small Python script to do the same (in case you need more control, adapt it as it suits you). --- #!/usr/bin/python from sys import argv for c in .join(argv[1:]).decode(ascii): print hex(ord(c))[2:].upper(), --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ python test.py this is a test 74 68 69 73 20 69 73 20 61 20 74 65 73 74 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ -- Heiko Wundram Product Application Development ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software RAID5
Hoping to get some help setting up software RAID5. Guides on the internet seem to be few and far between, and official documentation is a little too technical. Basically I have 3 x 500GB hard drives which I'd like to have in a raid5 configuration, using software, root partition on their too would be a bonus. I'd be grateful for assistance. only vinum but i'm not sure if it's stable. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software RAID5
and put the kernel on that. Just use fdisk and bsdlabel to write the boot blocks. As long as the kernel has all needed drivers and you specify which root device to use (either via kernel configuration or /etc/fstab), that should allow you to put everything else on the RAID array. This is how I currently do full-disk encryption on my laptop using GELI. Kernel is outside, everything else is encrypted, same idea for RAID. isn't making small 50MB partition for booting easier? /dev/ad0d.eli / ufs rw,noatime 0 1 /dev/ad0a /b ufs ro,noatime 0 2 boot is symlink to /b/boot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software RAID5
If you google for gvinum you'll find tutorials etc. AFAICT, you can't have the root device on a RAID5 gvinum. Just make a small root partition. yes you can ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pre-geom vinum compatibility
I have a 4.11-R box that I'm planning on reinstalling a fresh 6.2-R on. Not an upgrade, but a fresh binary install after newfsing the system partitions. A remaining planning issue is that I have a pre-GEOM vinum data volume on other disks. The handbook mentions gvinum retaining the same disk metadata. Does this mean that I should be able to mount that 4.11 vinum volume after 6.2 and gvinum is installed on the system disk? Anything I should watch out for? to be sure export vinum definitions to file (it includes beginning and ending sector of each subdisk) and if gvinum won't take it itself, just use it file with create ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrate from postfix to qmail
On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 02:47 +0200, Lotfi kecir wrote: hello. i'm newbbie in Unix especially in in FreeBSD. Recently i have setup one mail server with postfix-dovecot and i would like to migrate it to Qmail server. but i didn't know how to do it. Someone can give help me? Thanks. Qmail sucks for IPv6. Qmail sucks for RFC 2821, as well. Actually Postfix is better than qmail. Byung-Hee ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrate from postfix to qmail
On 09/22/2007 11:30 AM, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 02:47 +0200, Lotfi kecir wrote: hello. i'm newbbie in Unix especially in in FreeBSD. Recently i have setup one mail server with postfix-dovecot and i would like to migrate it to Qmail server. but i didn't know how to do it. Someone can give help me? Thanks. Qmail sucks for IPv6. Qmail sucks for RFC 2821, as well. Actually Postfix is better than qmail. Byung-Hee The best MTA is? exim? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrate from postfix to qmail
On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 11:47 +0200, Johan Andersson wrote: On 09/22/2007 11:30 AM, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 02:47 +0200, Lotfi kecir wrote: hello. i'm newbbie in Unix especially in in FreeBSD. Recently i have setup one mail server with postfix-dovecot and i would like to migrate it to Qmail server. but i didn't know how to do it. Someone can give help me? Thanks. Qmail sucks for IPv6. Qmail sucks for RFC 2821, as well. Actually Postfix is better than qmail. Byung-Hee The best MTA is? exim? Yes, the best MTA is Exim because it has not a weakness. Moreover, Exim is deployed by many FOSS communities. I think Postfix is the 2nd-best MTA, not qmail. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrate from postfix to qmail
Hello, 2007/9/22, Byung-Hee HWANG [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 11:47 +0200, Johan Andersson wrote: On 09/22/2007 11:30 AM, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 02:47 +0200, Lotfi kecir wrote: hello. i'm newbbie in Unix especially in in FreeBSD. Recently i have setup one mail server with postfix-dovecot and i would like to migrate it to Qmail server. but i didn't know how to do it. Someone can give help me? Thanks. Qmail sucks for IPv6. Qmail sucks for RFC 2821, as well. Actually Postfix is better than qmail. Byung-Hee The best MTA is? exim? Yes, the best MTA is Exim because it has not a weakness. Moreover, Exim is deployed by many FOSS communities. I think Postfix is the 2nd-best MTA, not qmail. This discussion is rather pointless given that the OP is not asking for opinion. He has to live with qmail set up by his provider. I think he simply wants to know how to move accounts. I cannot help, however, as I have no experience with qmail. Regards, Zbigniew Szalbot ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Xorg impossible problems
Mi fellow freebsd enthousiasts, I have this interesting Xorg problems which I can't seem to eliminate and I therefore hope some of you can guide me in the right direction. On my amd64 system running freebsd 6.2 with a nvidia card using the vesa driver, I'm experiencing Xorg crashes and weirdness ever since the big Xorg upgrade (which I finished successfully I thought) At the moment I'm seeing the following behavior: from time to time, Xorg crashes and won't restart (especially when I'm using firefox) and I have found firefox.core, gnash.core and metacity.core files in my home directory afterwards when Xorg crashes, in the past it would restart X by itself but not anymore. Now I'm seeing messages like Failed to start X server several times in a short time period; disabling display : 0 If I remove gdm_enalbe=Yes from my /etc/rc.conf file and reboot I get into the console. Since after the upgrade I can't startx then to start my desktop because I get errors like no devices found, no screens found in my console, since after the upgrade, I can't do Xorg -configure as root to let it create a Xorg skeleton file which I can use to tailor to my needs. This was also possible in the past So, I hope somebody can help me out? Would it be an option for me to remove all Xorg packages and all of gnome (would like to start with Xfce4 in stead) and then refresh my ports and install the new Xorg 7.3? Would that help me? Some things about my system: pkg_info | grep xorg xorg-7.3_1 X.Org complete distribution metaport xorg-apps-7.3 X.org apps meta-port xorg-cf-files-1.0.2_2 X.org cf files for use with imake builds xorg-docs-1.4,1 X.org documentation files xorg-drivers-7.3X.org drivers meta-port xorg-fonts-100dpi-7.3 X.Org 100dpi bitmap fonts xorg-fonts-7.3 X.org fonts meta-port xorg-fonts-75dpi-7.3 X.Org 75dpi bitmap fonts xorg-fonts-cyrillic-7.3 X.Org Cyrillic bitmap fonts xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps-7.3 X.Org miscellaneous bitmap fonts xorg-fonts-truetype-7.3 X.Org TrueType fonts xorg-fonts-type1-7.3 X.Org Type1 fonts xorg-libraries-7.3_1 X.org libraries meta-port xorg-nestserver-1.4,1 Nesting X server from X.Org xorg-printserver-1.2.0,1 X Print server from X.Org xorg-protos-7.3 X.org protos meta-port xorg-server-1.4,1 X.Org X server and related programs xorg-vfbserver-1.4,1 X virtual framebuffer server from X.Org The end of my Xorg.0.log file after a Xorg -configure as root: No devices to configure. Configuration failed. No devices to configure. Configuration failed. The error I get at the end of Xorg.0.log file after the crashes or when I do a startx at the console Module class: X.Org XInput Driver ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.7 (II) LoadModule: kbd (II) Loading /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/input//kbd_drv.so (II) Module kbd: vendor=X.Org Foundation compiled for 7.2.0, module version = 1.1.0 Module class: X.Org XInput Driver ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 0.7 (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa (WW) xf86EnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io for extended I/O(EE) No devices detected. Fatal server error: no screens found And finally my xorg.conf file: Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section Files RgbPath /usr/local/lib/X11/rgb ModulePath /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ Fontpath /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/ EndSection Section Module Load extmod Load glx Load dri Load dbe Load record Load xtrap Load type1 Load freetype EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/home/rgilaard]$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section Files RgbPath /usr/local/lib/X11/rgb ModulePath /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ Fontpath /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/ EndSection Section Module Load extmod Load glx
Re: migrate from postfix to qmail
On 22 Sep 2007, at 05:29, Lotfi kecir wrote: HI, thank's for your post. to give answer to your answer: i rent a dedicated server (Fedora 6) witch has qmail installed on. and in my old Server witch is in our office turn has Postfix. The new sever has as Admin panel Plesk. I already create all email acounts and now i'm looking to transfert all my user acount mailboxes. and i don't have any idea to do it. Thanks for your help Yeah right. I don't have hands-on experience with any MTA other than Postfix, but I never read a good thing about qmail. Thing is, I work for a design company - we have 3 VPSs two using Plesk and another on extend, I noticed that behind the scenes it is Qmail for all of them. How come it is used by these control panels when it is so poor? Just a small whine from me :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software RAID5
On 22 Sep 2007, at 08:42, Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 11:50:58PM +0100, Gabriel Dragffy wrote: Hi all Hoping to get some help setting up software RAID5. Guides on the internet seem to be few and far between, and official documentation is a little too technical. Basically I have 3 x 500GB hard drives which I'd like to have in a raid5 configuration, using software, root partition on their too would be a bonus. I'd be grateful for assistance. What you need for RAID5 is gvinum(8), which replaces the older vinum (4) driver. Hi, reading the BSD Handbook I did find this out and I've been trying to use it. If you google for gvinum you'll find tutorials etc. I have found a couple of tutorials but like I said it is either too technical, or not descriptive enough and none of them describe root on raid 5 :( AFAICT, you can't have the root device on a RAID5 gvinum. Just make a small root partition. I read in the FreeBSD hanbook that I can have root on raid 5 by doing the following: There is another option as well, to have /boot/loader (Section 12.3.3) load the vinum kernel module early, before starting the kernel. This can be accomplished by putting the line: geom_vinum_load=YES into the file /boot/loader.conf. This was on the following page: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/ en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/vinum-root.html The handbook is good, but it only describes how to do raid 0 and raid 1, it says I can do raid 5 but doesn't describe the process. I also totally stumped at how to make a raid 5 device and install freebsd on it - the sysinstall doesn't allow the configuration of raid arrays and I can only install to a slice. I need access to tools such as gvinum before installation... but how? Oh the pain! best regards gabriel Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/ ~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software RAID5
On 22 Sep 2007, at 01:13, Maxim Khitrov wrote: However, a simple solution to that is to get a 64+ MB USB flash drive and put the kernel on that. Just use fdisk and bsdlabel to write the boot blocks. As long as the kernel has all needed drivers and you specify which root device to use (either via kernel configuration or /etc/fstab), that should allow you to put everything else on the RAID array. This is how I currently do full-disk encryption on my laptop using GELI. Kernel is outside, everything else is encrypted, same idea for RAID. I haven't ever done software RAID in FreeBSD, so can't help you with the practical aspects of it. But I will say that technical or not, man pages are still the best way to learn about these things. From what I can see, RAID 5 is done through vinum, and GEOM offers RAID 3. Someone else here may be able to tell you which one is better to use. It's also worth noting that with software, the performance of RAID 5 is not going to be very good. I generally advise against software RAID 5. If you want good performance and reliability using software RAID, the best bet is RAID 10, but there the utilization is 50%. I think that if you can afford another 500GB drive and performance is important to you, a software RAID 10 using GEOM will perform much better. It is also easier to recover, and you can lose two drives (not any two, but still) without completely losing all the data. Hi, thank you for your post. I read the following in the BSD handbook which lead me to believe I could have root on RADI5: quote There is another option as well, to have /boot/loader (Section 12.3.3) load the vinum kernel module early, before starting the kernel. This can be accomplished by putting the line: geom_vinum_load=YES into the file /boot/loader.conf. /quote That's here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/ handbook/vinum-root.html I appreciate your post about using an alternative system to RAID 5. Many thanks Gabriel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrate from postfix to qmail
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:13:58 +0100, Gabriel Dragffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22 Sep 2007, at 05:29, Lotfi kecir wrote: HI, thank's for your post. to give answer to your answer: i rent a dedicated server (Fedora 6) witch has qmail installed on. and in my old Server witch is in our office turn has Postfix. The new sever has as Admin panel Plesk. I already create all email acounts and now i'm looking to transfert all my user acount mailboxes. and i don't have any idea to do it. Thanks for your help Yeah right. I don't have hands-on experience with any MTA other than Postfix, but I never read a good thing about qmail. Thing is, I work for a design company - we have 3 VPSs two using Plesk and another on extend, I noticed that behind the scenes it is Qmail for all of them. How come it is used by these control panels when it is so poor? Just a small whine from me :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If something is widely used, it doesnt mean its good. I think qmail is easier to configure with virtual users, and i guess someone set the trend to use qmail on a CP. There are some howto's available on the internet if you want to run postfix /w plesk Read this for more info about Qmail and bugs. http://www-dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/qmail-bugs.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrate from postfix to qmail
On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 12:05 +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, 2007/9/22, Byung-Hee HWANG [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 11:47 +0200, Johan Andersson wrote: On 09/22/2007 11:30 AM, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 02:47 +0200, Lotfi kecir wrote: hello. i'm newbbie in Unix especially in in FreeBSD. Recently i have setup one mail server with postfix-dovecot and i would like to migrate it to Qmail server. but i didn't know how to do it. Someone can give help me? Thanks. Qmail sucks for IPv6. Qmail sucks for RFC 2821, as well. Actually Postfix is better than qmail. Byung-Hee The best MTA is? exim? Yes, the best MTA is Exim because it has not a weakness. Moreover, Exim is deployed by many FOSS communities. I think Postfix is the 2nd-best MTA, not qmail. This discussion is rather pointless given that the OP is not asking for opinion. He has to live with qmail set up by his provider. I think he simply wants to know how to move accounts. I cannot help, however, as I have no experience with qmail. Okay, then I will shut up and hold my breath. It might be too long to hold it, though. ;-) At one time, I used for the qmail MTA with FreeBSD. And I know the way to move from Postfix to qmail. But still I do not want to say qmail is better MTA than any other MTA!. Yes, it is just my stupid opinion. Sorry for noise.. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrate from postfix to qmail
Hello, 2007/9/22, Byung-Hee HWANG [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 12:05 +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, 2007/9/22, Byung-Hee HWANG [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 11:47 +0200, Johan Andersson wrote: On 09/22/2007 11:30 AM, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 02:47 +0200, Lotfi kecir wrote: hello. i'm newbbie in Unix especially in in FreeBSD. Recently i have setup one mail server with postfix-dovecot and i would like to migrate it to Qmail server. but i didn't know how to do it. Someone can give help me? Thanks. Qmail sucks for IPv6. Qmail sucks for RFC 2821, as well. Actually Postfix is better than qmail. Byung-Hee The best MTA is? exim? Yes, the best MTA is Exim because it has not a weakness. Moreover, Exim is deployed by many FOSS communities. I think Postfix is the 2nd-best MTA, not qmail. This discussion is rather pointless given that the OP is not asking for opinion. He has to live with qmail set up by his provider. I think he simply wants to know how to move accounts. I cannot help, however, as I have no experience with qmail. Okay, then I will shut up and hold my breath. It might be too long to hold it, though. ;-) BTW - I fully agree with the comments. Myself have been using exim. At some point (to learn more) I also want to try postfix. I would never want to touch qmail. At one time, I used for the qmail MTA with FreeBSD. And I know the way to move from Postfix to qmail. But still I do not want to say qmail is better MTA than any other MTA!. Yes, it is just my stupid opinion. The thing is he is not asking for opinion but for help. I guess this is his ISP responsibility to patch qmail and make it secure for him. Sorry for the noise too as I cannot help here. ZS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?
Just been wondering about this. If you do a standard install of FreeBSD it includes things such as a basic FTP daemon, all the various utilities such as df, ls, etc. SSHD etc. I assum these are all in FreeBSDs core, as developed in the same CVS repo. Having read the mails on this list for several weeks it seems obvious that most people regard Postfix or EXIM to be the best MTAs, so I'm wondering why is sendmail the MTA that is integral to FreeBSD? Wouldn't it be ace to have the default one be Postfix or something? Regards Gabe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?
Sendmail does its job for sending usermail, postfix or exim would be overkill for that. Just my 0.02 tho Matthijs On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:55:51 +0100, Gabriel Dragffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just been wondering about this. If you do a standard install of FreeBSD it includes things such as a basic FTP daemon, all the various utilities such as df, ls, etc. SSHD etc. I assum these are all in FreeBSDs core, as developed in the same CVS repo. Having read the mails on this list for several weeks it seems obvious that most people regard Postfix or EXIM to be the best MTAs, so I'm wondering why is sendmail the MTA that is integral to FreeBSD? Wouldn't it be ace to have the default one be Postfix or something? Regards Gabe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xmms crashing at startup
I believe this started after upgrading to Xorg-7.3: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xmms Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) serial 1492 error_code 8 request_code 72 minor_code 0 Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) serial 1493 error_code 8 request_code 72 minor_code 0 I tried uninstalling and recompiling the port, nothing changed. I also can't find anything meaningful about this in Google. Any ideas? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache22 Port can't find Berkeley DB.
On September 21, 2007 at 09:53AM Aliya Harbouri wrote: Hi! When I ran an upgrade to the Ports tree using the portsnap tool portsnap fetch update I saw an available update available to /usr/ports/www/apache22, but it was immediately followed with an error, IGNORED Unknown Berkeley DB version in the console output. Other ports eventually get updated, but apache22 seems to get skipped as a result. It took me a bit to figure out that the IGNORE is coming from the Port's Makefile.modules, IGNORE= Unknown Berkeley DB version I've read online about use of /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.database.mk /etc/make.conf for build configuration, and have added USE_BDB WITH_BDB_HIGHEST=true WITH_BDB_VER=46 BDB_LIB_DIR=/usr/local/lib/db46 BDB_INCLUDE_DIR=/usr/local/include/db46 to make.conf. If I grok this stuff correctly, Ports should now find use BDB, version 46. Good news! This seems to make all other Ports generally happy. They seem to find/use BDB like I intend. But the apache22 Port still doesn't update, because of the Unknown BDB version. Is there some additional Ports-magic that I'm missing here? Ali I have been having the same problem with the latest version of Berkeley. I was going to contact the maintainer '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; however, I have not gotten around to it yet. Perhaps you might want to inquire of him how to get this problem rectified. -- Ciao Gerard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 11:55:51AM +0100, Gabriel Dragffy wrote: Just been wondering about this. If you do a standard install of FreeBSD it includes things such as a basic FTP daemon, all the various utilities such as df, ls, etc. SSHD etc. I assum these are all in FreeBSDs core, as developed in the same CVS repo. Having read the mails on this list for several weeks it seems obvious that most people regard Postfix or EXIM to be the best MTAs, so I'm wondering why is sendmail the MTA that is integral to FreeBSD? Wouldn't it be ace to have the default one be Postfix or something? Sendmail was originally developed for BSD (the ancestor to FreeBSD). At that time none of the current alternatives (postfix/qmail/exim) existed yet. So the reason Sendmail is included in FreeBSD is mainly historical - it has always been there. If the default MTA were changed many existing users would be quite upset when their working configurations suddenly stopped working - so one should not change the default MTA without a very good reason. For a new user it does not really matter that much which MTA is installed by default, if they are not familiar with any of them. Installing an alternative from ports only takes a couple of minutes anyway. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software RAID5
On 22 Sep 2007, at 12:19, Roland Smith wrote: To elaborate, the loader doesn't know about the RAID layout. It is only usable _after_ the kernel has loaded. I read in the FreeBSD hanbook that I can have root on raid 5 by doing the following: There is another option as well, to have /boot/loader (Section 12.3.3) load the vinum kernel module early, before starting the kernel. This can be accomplished by putting the line: geom_vinum_load=YES into the file /boot/loader.conf. The thing is that vinum is not gvinum! Gvinum is a replacement for vinum using the GEOM framework. I guess nobody has gotten around to update the handbook yet. Did you read the handbook? They say at the beginning of the chapter 20 (20.1): Starting with FreeBSD 5, Vinum has been rewritten in order to fit into the GEOM architecture (Chapter 19), retaining the original ideas, terminology, and on-disk metadata. This rewrite is called gvinum (for GEOM vinum). The following text usually refers to Vinum as an abstract name, regardless of the implementation variant. Any command invocations should now be done using the gvinum command, and the name of the kernel module has been changed from vinum.ko to geom_vinum.ko, and all device nodes reside under /dev/gvinum instead of /dev/vinum. As of FreeBSD 6, the old Vinum implementation is no longer available in the code base. So that makes me think they have updated the handbook. and in the chapter 20.9.1 it says: load the vinum kernel module early, before starting the kernel. This can be accomplished by putting the line: geom_vinum_load=YES into the file /boot/loader.conf. For Gvinum, all startup is done automatically once the kernel module has been loaded, so the procedure described above is all that is needed. The following text documents the behaviour of the historic Vinum system, for the sake of older setups. It seems perfectly clear the handbook has both been updated and is saying i can have root on raid, or am I mistaken? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 11:55:51AM +0100, Gabriel Dragffy wrote: Just been wondering about this. If you do a standard install of FreeBSD it includes things such as a basic FTP daemon, all the various utilities such as df, ls, etc. SSHD etc. I assum these are all in FreeBSDs core, as developed in the same CVS repo. Having read the mails on this list for several weeks it seems obvious that most people regard Postfix or EXIM to be the best MTAs, so I'm wondering why is sendmail the MTA that is integral to FreeBSD? Wouldn't it be ace to have the default one be Postfix or something? At the time sendmail was integrated into FreeBSD other MTA's were pretty much out of the question. Ever since then, the integration has been very well-maintained (thanks to gshapiro) and changing the default MTA to something else is simply not worth the pain that comes with it. Personally I use Postfix wherever I need an MTA, it only takes a few minutes to install it from ports. The benefit of ports is you can configure all the options you need. We can't keep mysql client and dovecot sasl in the base system, most people would have to reinstall Postfix from ports even if it was the default MTA in our base. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?
On 22 Sep 2007, at 12:34, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 11:55:51AM +0100, Gabriel Dragffy wrote: Just been wondering about this. If you do a standard install of FreeBSD it includes things such as a basic FTP daemon, all the various utilities such as df, ls, etc. SSHD etc. I assum these are all in FreeBSDs core, as developed in the same CVS repo. Having read the mails on this list for several weeks it seems obvious that most people regard Postfix or EXIM to be the best MTAs, so I'm wondering why is sendmail the MTA that is integral to FreeBSD? Wouldn't it be ace to have the default one be Postfix or something? At the time sendmail was integrased into FreeBSD other MTA's were pretty much out of the question. Ever since then, the integration has been very well-maintained (thanks to gshapiro) and changing the default MTA to something else is simply not worth the pain that comes with it. Personally I use Postfix wherever I need an MTA, it only takes a few minutes to install it from ports. The benefit of ports is you can configure all the options you need. We can't keep mysql client and dovecot sasl in the base system, most people would have to reinstall Postfix from ports even if it was the default MTA in our base. I see, thank you for the heads-up. It is interesting. Personally I try to use the software that comes with the OS where possible. Especially in the case of FreeBSD, as I find the core software is rock solid and I love that. I think I'll learn how to configure sendmail and try sticking with it. At least it is documented somewhat in the handbook. Many thanks to all Regards gabriel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD
-segmentation fault- press any key to reboot Damn damn damn [EMAIL PROTECTED] said, after restarting his PC and mailer on Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 12:00 . Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 12:48:22 +0100 From: Gabriel Dragffy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD? On 22 Sep 2007, at 12:34, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 11:55:51AM +0100, Gabriel Dragffy wrote: Just been wondering about this. If you do a standard install of FreeBSD it includes things such as a basic FTP daemon, all the various utilities such as df, ls, etc. SSHD etc. I assum these are all in FreeBSDs core, as developed in the same CVS repo. Having read the mails on this list for several weeks it seems obvious that most people regard Postfix or EXIM to be the best MTAs, so I'm wondering why is sendmail the MTA that is integral to FreeBSD? Wouldn't it be ace to have the default one be Postfix or something? Sendmail still is one of the strongest mailers out there. And a great many ISPs still use it. At the time sendmail was integrased into FreeBSD other MTA's were pretty much out of the question. Ever since then, the integration has been very well-maintained (thanks to gshapiro) and changing the default MTA to something else is simply not worth the pain that comes with it. Personally I use Postfix wherever I need an MTA, it only takes a few minutes to install it from ports. The benefit of ports is you can configure all the options you need. We can't keep mysql client and dovecot sasl in the base system, most people would have to reinstall Postfix from ports even if it was the default MTA in our base. I see, thank you for the heads-up. It is interesting. Personally I try to use the software that comes with the OS where possible. Especially in the case of FreeBSD, as I find the core software is rock solid and I love that. I think I'll learn how to configure sendmail and try sticking with it. At least it is documented somewhat in the handbook. Many thanks to all Back when sendmail was a real pain to get running - in the mid-to-late 1980s when I first came across it, I moved to 'smail' as it was easier to run/undrestand. But by the early '90s I moved over to sendmail and have run it for two ISPs. As to handbook, if you want to know more than you ever wanted to know about Sendmail - O'Reilly has a book on it - well over 1200 pages long. Current shipping sendmail in FreeBSD is almost plug-and-play. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?
Hi, 'most people' is a vague term, http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/man.200708/mxsurvey.html if you have a look at this survey, sendmail rules it. So 'most' depends on the context and a mailinglist isn't of much significance in my opionion. Cheers, Oliver On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 11:55:51AM +0100, Gabriel Dragffy wrote: Just been wondering about this. If you do a standard install of FreeBSD it includes things such as a basic FTP daemon, all the various utilities such as df, ls, etc. SSHD etc. I assum these are all in FreeBSDs core, as developed in the same CVS repo. Having read the mails on this list for several weeks it seems obvious that most people regard Postfix or EXIM to be the best MTAs, so I'm wondering why is sendmail the MTA that is integral to FreeBSD? Wouldn't it be ace to have the default one be Postfix or something? Regards Gabe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The state law of Pennsylvania prohibits singing in the bathtub. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?
df, ls, etc. SSHD etc. I assum these are all in FreeBSDs core, as developed in the same CVS repo. Having read the mails on this list for several weeks it seems obvious that most people regard Postfix or EXIM to be the best MTAs, so to be clear most people using postfix or exim as asking questions on FreeBSD list than sendmail users. which doesn't mean that most people use them. it may mean this, but it may mean that postfix or exim problems are more common. or may mean other things. i personally use only sendmail. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?
the software that comes with the OS where possible. Especially in the case of FreeBSD, as I find the core software is rock solid and I love that. I think I'll learn how to configure sendmail and try sticking with it. At least it is documented somewhat in the handbook. just doing make ; make install in /etc/mail does basic configuration, just reading /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README and changing things is enough for much more. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?
'most people' is a vague term, http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/man.200708/mxsurvey.html if you have a look at this survey, sendmail rules it. So 'most' depends on the context and a mailinglist isn't of much significance in my opionion. so we could say sendmail users rarely posts problems/questions to freebsd list ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:26:40 +0200 Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the default MTA were changed many existing users would be quite upset when their working configurations suddenly stopped working - so one should not change the default MTA without a very good reason. Although NetBSD did it. From what I've heard they did it progressively, keeping both in the base for a period. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to downgrade from xorg-7.3 to xorg-7.2 ...
Hi there, Since I recently upgraded to xorg-7.3, I cannot use my laptop because nvidia has not yet provided an upgraded driver. I've tried all the recommended workarounds for tweaking the xorg.conf file but to no avail. My question then is: how can I safely downgrade back to xorg-7.2? Thanks a lot in advance! -- Kiffin Rex Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?
If the default MTA were changed many existing users would be quite upset when their working configurations suddenly stopped working - so one should not change the default MTA without a very good reason. Although NetBSD did it. From what I've heard they did it progressively, keeping both in the base for a period. ___ not because of that reason (it was some time ago) i switched from NetBSD to FreeBSD. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrate from postfix to qmail
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 02:47:09 +0200 Lotfi kecir wrote: hello. i'm newbbie in Unix especially in in FreeBSD. Recently i have setup one mail server with postfix-dovecot and i would like to migrate it to Qmail server. but i didn't know how to do it. Someone can give help me? Why in heaven's name would *anyone* want to do that? I have been using Postfix for years now and before that I used qmail - when it was new. qmail sucked *bigtime*! It was slow, picky about the filesystem it worked on (ReiserFS cause very interresting results), a license that doesn't deserve the name and one mistake in the configuration didn't cause an error message but instead sent incoming mail directly to the happy bit grounds. qmail has not really been maintained by the Author over the last few years and although it is distributed in source, changes to it are not allowed, if you plan to distribute the result. This means that in order for qmail to still work today, there is an insane amount of patches out there that have to be applied. IMHO using qmail instead of Postfix is a gigantic step right back into the stone age. Say hello to the dinos for me! :-) Regards, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrate from postfix to qmail
My experience with Qmail is totally the opposite. It's a great MTA as you can set it up and then forget about it for the next 100 years. Setup isn't really a pain anymore with sites like lifewithqmail and qmailrocks. I've been using Qmail for years and am a very happy mail admin; it's rock solid and runs more stable than any program I've yet encountered. Regards, Oz Christian Baer wrote: On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 02:47:09 +0200 Lotfi kecir wrote: hello. i'm newbbie in Unix especially in in FreeBSD. Recently i have setup one mail server with postfix-dovecot and i would like to migrate it to Qmail server. but i didn't know how to do it. Someone can give help me? Why in heaven's name would *anyone* want to do that? I have been using Postfix for years now and before that I used qmail - when it was new. qmail sucked *bigtime*! It was slow, picky about the filesystem it worked on (ReiserFS cause very interresting results), a license that doesn't deserve the name and one mistake in the configuration didn't cause an error message but instead sent incoming mail directly to the happy bit grounds. qmail has not really been maintained by the Author over the last few years and although it is distributed in source, changes to it are not allowed, if you plan to distribute the result. This means that in order for qmail to still work today, there is an insane amount of patches out there that have to be applied. IMHO using qmail instead of Postfix is a gigantic step right back into the stone age. Say hello to the dinos for me! :-) Regards, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrate from postfix to qmail
Lotfi kecir [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: HI, thank's for your post. to give answer to your answer: i rent a dedicated server (Fedora 6) witch has qmail installed on. and in my old Server witch is in our office turn has Postfix. The new sever has as Admin panel Plesk. I already create all email acounts and now i'm looking to transfert all my user acount mailboxes. and i don't have any idea to do it. The first thing to consider is what format the existing mailboxes use. Then make sure you have support for that format in your qmail installation. If you don't, then decide whether you can install new format support on your server. If you can't, you have to move the existing mailbox files (from the old server) into whatever format the qmail server does support (post again if you get to this point). Is that enough of a guide to get you started? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?
Wojciech Puchar wrote: i personally use only sendmail. Yep... if it works, don't 'fix' it. -- -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ http://robertwittig.net/ http://robertwittig.org/ . ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to downgrade from xorg-7.3 to xorg-7.2 ...
Hi did you start X with startx -- -ignoreABI ? Usually this works like a charm. Cheers, Oliver On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 02:50:25PM +0200, Kiffin Gish wrote: Hi there, Since I recently upgraded to xorg-7.3, I cannot use my laptop because nvidia has not yet provided an upgraded driver. I've tried all the recommended workarounds for tweaking the xorg.conf file but to no avail. My question then is: how can I safely downgrade back to xorg-7.2? Thanks a lot in advance! -- Kiffin Rex Gish Gouda, The Netherlands ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory. -- Benjamin Disraeli ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrate from postfix to qmail
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:29:30 +0200 Lotfi kecir wrote: to give answer to your answer: i rent a dedicated server (Fedora 6) witch has qmail installed on. and in my old Server witch is in our office turn has Postfix. The new sever has as Admin panel Plesk. I already create all email acounts and now i'm looking to transfert all my user acount mailboxes. I hope (for your sake) that the rented server is not only dedicated but also *managed*! If it isn't you will sooner or later have to leave Plesk anyway and do the odd thing or another on foot. It might have been a good idea to look at what's installed on a dediserver before signing the contract. But it isn't my job to lecture you on that. BTW: This isn't a FreeBSD issue. You will probably have more luck finding someone who can help you in one of the newsgroups with this subject. and i don't have any idea to do it. There isn't really a routine to migrate from Postfix to qmail. This is partly because noone usually wants to do it and partly because the whole thing is quite complex. It would IMHO be something for an advanced user or a sysadmin. You could however talk to your ISP where you hired the server. They will usually (for a price) adapt the installation for you - if this isn't a managed server. So you could ask them to change the MTA for you. If you have enough experience, you can also do it yourself. Just remember that you *will* have downtime because of this. Regards Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrate from postfix to qmail
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:47:06 +0200 Johan Andersson wrote: The best MTA is? exim? Not that this is really a subject for this list, I don't really agree. We did some studies on several MTAs a while back and found out (quite by accident) that Exim has some real performance issues. I personally don't really like the monolithic form of Exim and Sendmail, but Exim seems to be pretty secure just the same. However, it was impossible for *any* other MTA to get even close to the performance that Postfix offered on the same basis (OS and Hardware). Every MTA has a weakness, just because a strength is often exclusive and cannot be combined with a different strength. I have been happy with Postfix for years now. And IMHO, all ratings about what is better are just about as useless as OS-wars. Regards Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xmms crashing at startup
Manolis Kiagias writes: I believe this started after upgrading to Xorg-7.3: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xmms Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) serial 1492 error_code 8 request_code 72 minor_code 0 Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) serial 1493 error_code 8 request_code 72 minor_code 0 I tried uninstalling and recompiling the port, nothing changed. I also can't find anything meaningful about this in Google. Any ideas? Same here, with slight variation: Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) serial 2435 error_code 8 request_code 72 minor_code 0 Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Multiple NICs - custom protocol development
Len Gross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First, thanks for the response; It's nice to see some community support. Here is what I am trying to do: I am building a custom MAC protocol for a wireless system that has different software on the head end and the clients. It is not peer-to-peer, While the hardware is being developed I want to use Ethernet as a physical layer. So,I want to use one card running server code and one card running client code initially. Later I will do the checkout with multiple client machines and a single server. If the OS loops a packet back (At the IP layer) before it gets to my MAC layer then I can't test any code. If the client and server are sharing an IP stack, then the packets *should* be looped back at the IP layer. You want separate stacks for testing with IP, and in my earlier message I listed some ways to do that with a single machine. Getting a second PC is always an option too, and often a simple answer. Another option could be to fake (or wrap) the socket calls, but I doubt that's really going to be worthwhile for you. I prefer to never spend more time debugging the testbed than absolutely necessary. Good luck. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrate from postfix to qmail
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:13:58 +0100 Gabriel Dragffy wrote: Yeah right. I don't have hands-on experience with any MTA other than Postfix, but I never read a good thing about qmail. Thing is, I work for a design company - we have 3 VPSs two using Plesk and another on extend, I noticed that behind the scenes it is Qmail for all of them. How come it is used by these control panels when it is so poor? Just a small whine from me :) That question is pretty easy to answer: The qmail-configuration can be read an evaluated *without* a parcer. This makes it easy to read and write the configuration and it also reduces the risk of errors. If you created a configuration tool for an MTA you'd be looking for something that will interact well with you tool and probably you wouldn't look to carefully how well that program does its job as an MTA. Regards Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can't get audio in realvideo
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:03:56 +0200 (CEST) Andreas Davour wrote: I have stumbled upon a realvideo file that I want to play, and mplayer is for some reason not very forthcoming. Anyone care to tell me why this doesn't work? I do have a libm.so.6 on my computer in /usr/compat/linux/lib and have both the newest linux-base_fc4 and the newest mplayer installed. Note that I get video, even if mplayer complains about not finding video decoders. Any hints? Can you give a link (http/ftp) to the result of ktrace -i command? WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apache22 Port can't find Berkeley DB.
Hi Gerard! I have been having the same problem with the latest version of Berkeley. I was going to contact the maintainer '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; however, I have not gotten around to it yet. Perhaps you might want to inquire of him how to get this problem rectified. Sure! Best, I guess, to just forward this :-) Hi Clement, I hope this is the best way to communicate this issue http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-September/158447.html Bye! Ali ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?
i personally use only sendmail. Yep... if it works, don't 'fix' it. same with any other things :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?
On 9/22/07, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i personally use only sendmail. Yep... if it works, don't 'fix' it. same with any other things :) I would prefer to have postfix vs sendmail since it built with security in mind -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrate from postfix to qmail
Am Samstag 22 September 2007 15:48:55 schrieb Christian Baer: snip The qmail-configuration can be read an evaluated *without* a parcer. Sorry, but that's BS (IMHO). Any program interpreting some form of input is called a parser, and the only distinction is the algorithm you need, i.e. whether you need a full-blown stack-machine to interpret the input (think of recursive declarations), or not. The Postfix configuration (/usr/local/etc/postfix/main.cf) simply consists of directives of the form: varname = value where the value can have continuations by indenting the following line with whitespace, but that's about the only thing that's different to the INI-format (besides not having the concept of sections in a Postfix config file). Thus, the Postfix configuration should easily be parseable by about 20-30 lines of C code (with error checking), if you're not willing to use (f)lex to implement the simplistic parser for you. The only thing that makes life a little harder is the ability to reference other items in main.cf by using $itemname (which are basically pure string replacements); these have to be implemented in a semantic phase anyway, which doesn't have anything to do with the parser itself. Last, but not least, Postfix implements most of the actual logic of delivery (including virtual delivery) in so-called maps, which come as KEY whitespace+ VALUE newline files. I wouldn't know how much easier parsing could get for any form of control panel (if it doesn't use Postfix's ability to store a map in a RDBMS anyway). -- Heiko Wundram Product Application Development ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re[2]: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?
On September 22, 2007 at 08:52AM Wojciech Puchar wrote: so we could say sendmail users rarely posts problems/questions to freebsd list More likely, they post questions regarding their product, directly to their products forum. Using postfix myself, I always post on the postfix forum rather than the FreeBSD one. It just seems logical to me. -- Gerard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re[2]: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?
On September 22, 2007 at 09:07AM Robert C Wittig wrote: Yep... if it works, don't 'fix' it. Absolutely! The hell with technological advances. Lets stay with those rock solid 8088 processors. -- Gerard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
stdout -determining size of??
Hi How is the the size of stdout controlled. My query comes about because I had a shell running for ages with unlimited history and found it had gobbled uyp all the space available to stdout!!! So I wonder how stdout is controlled!! david ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:24:54 -0400, Gerard wrote: On September 22, 2007 at 09:07AM Robert C Wittig wrote: Yep... if it works, don't 'fix' it. Absolutely! The hell with technological advances. Lets stay with those rock solid 8088 processors. If it's good enough for NASA, it's good enough for me? -- David Benfell, LCP [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Resume available at http://www.parts-unknown.org/ NOTE: I sign all messages with GnuPG (0DD1D1E3). pgpJ8SBGLxVZN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to downgrade from xorg-7.3 to xorg-7.2 ...
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 02:50:25PM +0200, Kiffin Gish wrote: Hi there, Since I recently upgraded to xorg-7.3, I cannot use my laptop because nvidia has not yet provided an upgraded driver. I've tried all the recommended workarounds for tweaking the xorg.conf file but to no avail. My question then is: how can I safely downgrade back to xorg-7.2? Thanks a lot in advance! Have you tried the nv(4x) driver? Works fine with my nvidia card, although I believe it hasn't got some of the advanced features of the proprietary driver. It's in ports: x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv, if not installed. -- Frank Contact info: http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/misc/contact.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: skype with garbled characters
Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Hello all, I am not able to use skype with FreeBSD 6.2. It installs fine after a CVSup of the ports tree. But whenever I try to run it, I get a screen like this. http://koushikn.fastmail.fm/skype.png All my efforts at resolving failed. Hello Girish, I've had similar problem[1] some time ago and it was solved since then. Anyway, can you check your fonts.conf file? It should output something like this: % $ grep dir /usr/compat/linux/etc/fonts/fonts.conf % !-- Font directory list -- % dir/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/dir % dir~/.fonts/dir In my case fonts are located in /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts. What about your setup? If that's the problem recompiling x11-fonts/linux-fontconfig should take care of it. Regards, Karol [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=110632 -- Karol Kwiatkowski karol.kwiat at gmail dot com OpenPGP 0x06E09309 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Gerard wrote: On September 22, 2007 at 08:52AM Wojciech Puchar wrote: so we could say sendmail users rarely posts problems/questions to freebsd list More likely, they post questions regarding their product, directly to their products forum. Using postfix myself, I always post on the postfix forum rather than the FreeBSD one. It just seems logical to me. I've been hanging out on comp.mail.sendmail recently, and it's noticeable that there is a fairly high proportion of FreeBSD users posting there compared to fora for some similar software packages. But then [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for example) has a relatively large proportion of Debian users. I guess that just reflects the tendency to use what the OS provides if you don't have an overriding reason to use anything else. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG9VlM8Mjk52CukIwRCJmtAJ9lghxAHVnvdtNMbxZJkpva81FUqACfUcKZ GUHbwWiSkn1RMCTQ+bl6xsY= =rR7G -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to downgrade from xorg-7.3 to xorg-7.2 ...
nv(4x) does not support all settups... for example it fails to recognize *ANY* card (pci/agp/pci-e) on a p-35 chipset On 9/22/07, Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 02:50:25PM +0200, Kiffin Gish wrote: Hi there, Since I recently upgraded to xorg-7.3, I cannot use my laptop because nvidia has not yet provided an upgraded driver. I've tried all the recommended workarounds for tweaking the xorg.conf file but to no avail. My question then is: how can I safely downgrade back to xorg-7.2? Thanks a lot in advance! Have you tried the nv(4x) driver? Works fine with my nvidia card, although I believe it hasn't got some of the advanced features of the proprietary driver. It's in ports: x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv, if not installed. -- Frank Contact info: http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/misc/contact.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?
But then [EMAIL PROTECTED] (for example) has a relatively large proportion of Debian users. I guess that just reflects the tendency to use what the OS provides if you don't have an overriding reason to use anything else. in most usage patterns any MTA fits ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: stdout -determining size of??
In the last episode (Sep 22), David Southwell said: How is the the size of stdout controlled. My query comes about because I had a shell running for ages with unlimited history and found it had gobbled uyp all the space available to stdout!!! Could you provide the error message that made you think that stdout has a limit? stdout could be anything: tty, socket, pipe, file, etc. If you have redirected stdout from a script to a file, like ls ls.txt, then it's possible that you filled up a filesystem. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: migrate from postfix to qmail
On 2007-09-22 02:47, Lotfi kecir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello. i'm newbbie in Unix especially in in FreeBSD. Recently i have setup one mail server with postfix-dovecot and i would like to migrate it to Qmail server. but i didn't know how to do it. Someone can give help me? Thanks. Why would you want to do such a silly thing? Postfix is an *excellent* mail server software package :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?
On 2007-09-22 14:52, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'most people' is a vague term, http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/man.200708/mxsurvey.html if you have a look at this survey, sendmail rules it. So 'most' depends on the context and a mailinglist isn't of much significance in my opionion. so we could say sendmail users rarely posts problems/questions to freebsd list That's because there's no such thing as a newbie Sendmail user. Nobody stays a newbie long enough if they configure Sendmail properly :grin: :duck: :run: ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?
On Saturday 22 September 2007 19:27:36 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: That's because there's no such thing as a newbie Sendmail user. Nobody stays a newbie long enough if they configure Sendmail properly That is why I use Postfix. I would not go from Postfix to Sendmail because it would make life difficult. I would not go to qmail because as someone else said, it would be like going back to the stone age :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?
On 2007-09-22 20:12, Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 22 September 2007 19:27:36 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: That's because there's no such thing as a newbie Sendmail user. Nobody stays a newbie long enough if they configure Sendmail properly That is why I use Postfix. I would not go from Postfix to Sendmail because it would make life difficult. Heh, what I wrote was supposed to be a joke, but oh well :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Moused issues?
Or maybe USB; I can't tell. Background: Beginning around 5 PM EDT Sept. 21 I upgraded world and rebuilt my kernel; after rebooting to install the new kernel at about 9 PM, the system panicked and tossed something like this on the console (I'm working from memory; it was late and I was tired): Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode followed by a bunch of other text, no dump device, and then a reboot in fifteen seconds countdown. The process seemed to hang somewhere around initializing or querying the mouse, a Razer USB. I rebooted and chose kernel.old; it works fine; and it looks like the code (I'm working on an uninformed hunch here) for moused.c did change just before the time I upgraded source. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/moused/moused.c.diff?r1=1.70.2.5;r2=1.70.2.6;f=h Again: I'm guessing based on what I see failing in the boot process; and on the things I can find that changed in the source tree: I can see other things that changed at about the same time; for instance, kld.3, kld.c,libutil.h in /usr/src/lib/libutil/; it looks like these things are relevant to loading ums(4) bits. Any clues? If the only way to investigate further is to build a debugging kernel and configure a dump device, I'm afraid I cannot build any sort of debugging kernel; I am pretty sure it would render my machine unusable and given that I've just reinstalled it on June 16, I'd rather not risk it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
gdb question
Hello list, I'm playing with a small nasm executable, is there any way i can get gdb to show me the deadlisting, and allow me to break at a certain offset, without any debugging symbols? Since my code is raw assembly, seeing the sourcecode file or the deadlisting is the exact same. Atm i'm doing like this, and it doesn't seem to work: (gdb) file wp Reading symbols from wp...(no debugging symbols found)...done. (gdb) break 0x8048099 No symbol table is loaded. Use the file command. (gdb) run Starting program: wp warning: shared library handler failed to enable breakpoint Program exited with code 0267. Using gdbtui seems yield the exact same result. What i really want is to see the deadlisting and be able to step through it, seeing what happens with the registers, stack, etc. Can gdb do that? And are there any other usermode debuggers i could use? Thanks for reading. -- Regards, Ghirai. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to downgrade from xorg-7.3 to xorg-7.2 ...
On Saturday 22 September 2007 14:50:25 Kiffin Gish wrote: Hi there, Since I recently upgraded to xorg-7.3, I cannot use my laptop because nvidia has not yet provided an upgraded driver. I've tried all the recommended workarounds for tweaking the xorg.conf file but to no avail. My question then is: how can I safely downgrade back to xorg-7.2? If you still have xorg-7.2 packages this is the fastest: (cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg make all-depends-list)|xargs pkg_delete -f env PKGDIR=/path/to/packages/All pkg_add /path/to/packages/All/xorg-7.2.tbz If not, you need to revert your ports tree to pre-xorg 7.3 AFTER the pkg_delete command, using a reldate in your ports-supfile. Unfortunately since the xorg-modular joy[1] there's no good way to make portupgrade ignore an upgrade via HOLD_PKGS, so you need to go back to manual upgrading, deciding port by port what you can upgrade and don't use -R or -r in case a dep on X is pulled in. [1] I still have to see the advantage of it, cause so far 1 or 2 drivers have been updated independently and the 200+ more paths in /var/db/pkg plus the inability to hold an xorg installation from portupgrade -a outweigh this significantly. /bitchin' -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD Hostap problem
Hi, After battling PPPoE for a day, because HISADDR is a literal and not a value, in addition to all routes needing to be cleared before ppp starts, we finally got a FreeBSD natbox wireless access point and can get rid of the linksys. There's only one problem left to tackle and my lack of wireless network knowledge comes to play. Everything works, except wireless hosts cannot connect to eachother. The only can connect to the wireless host. The only reference I found to this is an old samag article: http://www.samag.com/documents/s=7121/sam0205a/sam0205a.htm # BSS mode, meaning clients must associate with an access point, # and cannot directly connect to one another. This however deals with wi(4) rather then our ath and it also offers no background or solution to letting them interconnect (although I suspect enabling IBSS is the key?). I followed: http://www.freebsdmall.com/~loader/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/wireless/article.html to set this up (and I don't understand why the hostap bits are stripped from this article in the handbook). Relevant config bits: ifconfig_ath0=inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid MYSSID wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:0x0123456789 mode 11g mediaopt hostap ifconfig_ath0_alias0=inet 192.168.1.51 netmask 0x # for DNS server # pciconf -lv|grep -A4 ^ath [EMAIL PROTECTED]:10:0: class=0x02 card=0x7057144f chip=0x0013168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Atheros Communications Inc.' device = 'AR5212, AR5213 802.11a/b/g Wireless Adapter' class = network subclass = ethernet So what's the trick to allow/facilitate connections between two clients? -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dovecot LDA help
On Thursday 20 September 2007 00:58:32 Gerard wrote:
On September 19, 2007 at 03:35AM Peter Pluta wrote:
I'm redoing my mail setup and am having some issues. I'm having dspam
send mail directly to dovecot for delivery. I've read the dovecot wiki
extrensivly and manged to get a config file from a friend that has it
setup this way, but I am still unable to get it working.
Here is my config for dovecot.conf:
socket listen {
master {
path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master
mode = 0660
user = vmail
#group = vmail
}
mail_location = maildir:/usr/local/virtual/%d/%n -- all mail in
/usr/local/virtual is owned by vmail:vmail
The rest is all mostly stock and the usual config.
Here is my dovecot-sql.conf file:
password_query = SELECT password, 1011 AS uid, 1011 AS gid FROM users
WHERE userid = '%u'
user_query = SELECT 1011 AS uid, 1011 AS gid FROM users WHERE userid =
'%u'
1011:1011 is the uid/gid of the user vmail.
Now the question is, what is the problem here. I turned dovecots debug
feature on, and I see this:
Sep 19 02:29:30 pelorus postfix/smtpd[27881]: connect from
py-out-1112.google.com[64.233.166.178]
Sep 19 02:29:30 pelorus postfix/smtpd[27881]: NOQUEUE: filter: RCPT from
py-out-1112.google.com[64.233.166.178]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Recipient address triggers FILTER dspam:unix:/var/run/dspam/dspam.sock;
from=[EMAIL PROTECTED] to=[EMAIL PROTECTED] proto=ESMTP
helo=py-out-1112.google.com
Sep 19 02:29:30 pelorus postfix/smtpd[27881]: 956B36CF82:
client=py-out-1112.google.com[64.233.166.178]
Sep 19 02:29:30 pelorus postfix/cleanup[27923]: 956B36CF82:
message-id=[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sep 19 02:29:30 pelorus postfix/qmgr[27452]: 956B36CF82:
from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=2198, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Sep 19 02:29:30 pelorus dspam[27471]: Delivery agent returned exit code
67: /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The nice thing is that you're able to figure out the error:
# grep 67 /usr/include/sysexits.h
#define EX_NOUSER 67 /* addressee unknown */
--
Mel
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Re: skype with garbled characters
On Thursday 20 September 2007 13:28:54 Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Hello all, I am not able to use skype with FreeBSD 6.2. It installs fine after a CVSup of the ports tree. But whenever I try to run it, I get a screen like this. http://koushikn.fastmail.fm/skype.png All my efforts at resolving failed. Looks like you're missing some fonts or the font doesn't support your character set or your fontpath is incomplete. I'd start with the fontpath myself. Check your xorg.conf. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with Pear-Auth
On Friday 21 September 2007 21:33:29 Derrick wrote: Segmentation fault (core dumped) *** Error code 139 It seems to be less with Pear-Auth, but I'm not sure where to go with this. I bet you did a large upgrade. Move extensions around in /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini then check php -v to see if the core dump is gone. There's some earlier discussions about this on the list (see the archives). Once the core dump is gone, installing Pear/Auth will work. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Netatalk
I've been following several different tutorials on the net for getting netatalk working. I've compiled in the neccessary option to the kernel, installed the port. Added various things to rc.conf, run / usr/local/etc/rc.d/netatalk start and... nothing :( I think the problem is that all the tutorials I have found are years our of date. Does someone know how to get the modern port of netatalk on 6.2 working? Many thanks Gabriel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
disc failure? at least snail snow CPU...
Anybody got suggestions on what kind of hard drive to buy for my new main server--if is *is* the drive? The video board began flaking out recently, and now tao2 is hanging part way up. It crashed about an hour ago and I let fsck finish before doing a shutdown -r now. It took several minutes to boot and is still fsck'ing /. This time the display is very large, but the processor is extremely slow; it reminds me of a 386-33! So a logical question here is, what could cause an otherwise very fast Dell-8200 to switch back to s-l-o-w?? thanks, guys, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SoftMaker missing from ports for any version.
Aloha, Ports seems broken to download SoftMaker. Also cant download from the SoftMaker website either. Is this a viable program or dead? Anybody know or ever used this? Thanks ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + + http://internetohana.org - Supporting - FreeBSD 6.* - 7.* + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others.- Lewis Carrol ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
japanese/samaba3 need help
When I portinstall japanese/samba3 I got following error. My ports are up to date by portsnap. I have no clue to solve this :( Could anyone give me some hints? --- Installing 'ja-samba-3.0.25a,1' from a port (japanese/samba3) --- Building '/usr/ports/japanese/samba3' === Cleaning for ja-samba-3.0.25a,1 === NOTICE: This version of port has changed location of Samba password === NOTICE: (smbpasswd) directory. Files in '/usr/local/private' === NOTICE: have moved to '/usr/local/etc/samba'. === --- === Run 'make config' to (re)configure the port === --- === Extracting for ja-samba-3.0.25a,1 === NOTICE: This version of port has changed location of Samba password === NOTICE: (smbpasswd) directory. Files in '/usr/local/private' === NOTICE: have moved to '/usr/local/etc/samba'. === --- === Run 'make config' to (re)configure the port === --- = MD5 Checksum OK for samba-3.0.25a.tar.gz. = SHA256 Checksum OK for samba-3.0.25a.tar.gz. = MD5 Checksum OK for samba-3.0.25a-i18n-20070614.bz2. = SHA256 Checksum OK for samba-3.0.25a-i18n-20070614.bz2. === Patching for ja-samba-3.0.25a,1 === Applying distribution patches for ja-samba-3.0.25a,1 === Applying FreeBSD patches for ja-samba-3.0.25a,1 1 out of 1 hunks failed--saving rejects to aclocal.m4.rej = Patch patch-aclocal.m4 failed to apply cleanly. = Patch(es) patch-Makefile.in applied cleanly. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/japanese/samba3. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/japanese/samba3. ! japanese/samba3(patch error) --- Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: japanese/samaba3 need help
--On September 23, 2007 3:24:09 PM +0700 vuthecuong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I portinstall japanese/samba3 I got following error. My ports are up to date by portsnap. I have no clue to solve this :( Could anyone give me some hints? --- Installing 'ja-samba-3.0.25a,1' from a port (japanese/samba3) --- Building '/usr/ports/japanese/samba3' === Cleaning for ja-samba-3.0.25a,1 === NOTICE: This version of port has changed location of Samba password === NOTICE: (smbpasswd) directory. Files in '/usr/local/private' === NOTICE: have moved to '/usr/local/etc/samba'. === --- === Run 'make config' to (re)configure the port === --- === Extracting for ja-samba-3.0.25a,1 === NOTICE: This version of port has changed location of Samba password === NOTICE: (smbpasswd) directory. Files in '/usr/local/private' === NOTICE: have moved to '/usr/local/etc/samba'. === --- === Run 'make config' to (re)configure the port === --- = MD5 Checksum OK for samba-3.0.25a.tar.gz. = SHA256 Checksum OK for samba-3.0.25a.tar.gz. = MD5 Checksum OK for samba-3.0.25a-i18n-20070614.bz2. = SHA256 Checksum OK for samba-3.0.25a-i18n-20070614.bz2. === Patching for ja-samba-3.0.25a,1 === Applying distribution patches for ja-samba-3.0.25a,1 === Applying FreeBSD patches for ja-samba-3.0.25a,1 1 out of 1 hunks failed--saving rejects to aclocal.m4.rej = Patch patch-aclocal.m4 failed to apply cleanly. = Patch(es) patch-Makefile.in applied cleanly. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/japanese/samba3. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/japanese/samba3. ! japanese/samba3(patch error) --- Packages processed: 0 done, 0 ignored, 0 skipped and 1 failed The first thing I would try is make distclean and make rmconfig. Then try building the port again. Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
Re: disc failure? at least snail snow CPU...
Hi, Gary Kline wrote: Anybody got suggestions on what kind of hard drive to buy for my new main server--if is *is* the drive? The video board began SCSI? Fujitsu. Else? Any with 5 years of warranty available near your place. I do not bother to buy any other drives anymore. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can't login: no pam_unix.so found
Hi guys, I need your help to fix my FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE system. This is my home server, used mostly for mail (courier) and local file server (samba). It's been up for quite some time with no problems and really fun for me to learn FreeBSD. I've learned lots of things configuring postfix, courier, RAIDs and wireless. But now I have something I can't handle myself. Spent time searching archives, web to no avail. Now, few days ago I started getting the following in the daily security run output: - 8 -=== Checking for packages with security vulnerabilities: su: pam_start: system error - 8 -=== What I see on the console is: - 8 -=== su: in openpam_load_module(): no pam_unix.so found su: pam_start: system error - 8 -=== I can't also login neither through ssh nor on the console - getting same error. Luckily I still have one ssh root session alive (so far!). I have this bad feeling that on disconnect or reboot I will loose the access to the box. Mail server still working no problem, smtp and POP via SSL work and authorize fine. pam_unix.so is in /usr/lib: - 8 -=== # ls -l /usr/lib/pam_unix* lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13 Sep 25 2006 /usr/lib/pam_unix.so - pam_unix.so.3 -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 10240 Feb 19 2007 /usr/lib/pam_unix.so.3 # file /usr/lib/pam_unix.so /usr/lib/pam_unix.so: symbolic link to `pam_unix.so.3' - 8 -=== There is one more thing that is suspiciously close in time to when this started happening. In the same security run output where I first saw this error I found this: - 8 -=== Sep 18 11:11:37 xx su: BAD SU myloginname to root on /dev/ttyp3 Sep 18 11:13:46 xx sshd[45047]: Bad protocol version identification '\377\364\377\375\006quit' from some ip here Sep 18 11:15:08 xx sshd[45056]: Received disconnect from some ip here: 2: Bad packet length 710099706. - 8 -=== I'd appreciate any ideas about what happened and how to get it fixed. Thanks! -- Best regards, Victor ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: skype with garbled characters
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 07:37:42PM +0200, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: Girish Venkatachalam wrote: Hello all, I am not able to use skype with FreeBSD 6.2. It installs fine after a CVSup of the ports tree. But whenever I try to run it, I get a screen like this. http://koushikn.fastmail.fm/skype.png All my efforts at resolving failed. Hello Girish, I've had similar problem[1] some time ago and it was solved since then. Anyway, can you check your fonts.conf file? It should output something like this: % $ grep dir /usr/compat/linux/etc/fonts/fonts.conf % !-- Font directory list -- % dir/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/dir % dir~/.fonts/dir In my case fonts are located in /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts. What about your setup? If that's the problem recompiling x11-fonts/linux-fontconfig should take care of it. Dear Karol, I got it working! Many thanks! The issue was this. # cd /usr/ports/x11-fonts/xorg-fonts # make install I had missed this step. This installed fonts under /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts I guess the default dependency tree for skype does not include this. I wonder how to submit a patch for this. I have always enjoyed using skype under FreeBSD much more than linux. :) That way I don't have to use linux. :) Thanks once again. regards, Girish ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The FreeBSD Diary: 2007-09-02 - 2007-09-22
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the mailing list archives http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists and/or The FreeBSD Diary http://www.freebsddiary.org/. These are the articles posted during this period: 10-Sep : Creating multiple jails When creating more than one jail, these shortcuts might help http://freebsddiary.org/jail-multiple.php?2 -- Dan Langille BSDCan - http://www.BSDCan.org/ - BSD Conference ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
maxima, rlwrap and sbcl
Hello, I have built maxima with sbcl on FreeBSD-7.0 . I would like to add some command line editing functionality by installing rlwrap. When I try to start rmaxima I get rlwrap: error: Could not open master pty: Input/output error Can anyone help? Thanks, Uli. Peter Ulrich Kruppa Wuppertal Germany ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
