Re: Small Redundant web/mail setup

2006-10-24 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: Damian Wiest [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 1:00 PM Subject: Re: Small Redundant web/mail setup On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:57:04PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From:

Re: GRE to Cisco

2006-10-24 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 10/24/06, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anyone has used GRE tunnel extensively. I'm trying to connect a FreeBSD system to a Cisco router. For testing ONLY I'm trying to do it to two devices on the same subnet. When I bring the gre up, I can't ping

Re: ACL: Default and other problems

2006-10-24 Thread Patrik Jansson
Looks like noone is really using ACLs (and default ACLs) on fbsd. classic unix uid/gid is simplest and enough for MOST (or every - i think) cases. it just needs to be used right Please imagine this. We're running a web server and want each user to be able to modify/delete files created

Re: ACL: Default and other problems

2006-10-24 Thread Nico -telmich- Schottelius
Wow, sombody even reads this thread! Wojciech Puchar [Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 07:43:47PM +0200]: posted a question about ACLs because I'm having difficulties setting up default ACLs. My question was posted 11/10 but I haven't got an answer yet. Looks like noone is really using ACLs (and

eclipse CDT remote to FreeBSD

2006-10-24 Thread ke han
I would like to use Eclipse's C++ CDT on OS X to remote debug apps on FreeBSD 6.1. Does anyone have experience with this? Is there any problem with the GNU compiler toolchain as it may differ in setup from a standard Linux one? Any other pointers to remote dev/debugging on FreeBSD? thanks,

Re: Nvidia on CURRENT...

2006-10-24 Thread Anders Troback
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:14:38 +0200 Tore Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anders Troback wrote: On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:25:05 +0400 Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have it working fine on my current. Have you disabled agp in kernel config? No, should I? Running on GENERIC!

Re: Small Redundant web/mail setup

2006-10-24 Thread Rajkumar S
On 10/18/06, Martin Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have a look at how Cambridge University (UK) have setup their email. Any URLs? I did not find any in the Engineering dept wesite of Cambridge University raj ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: SunFire V210/V240 (UltraSparc IIIi) and FreeBSD

2006-10-24 Thread Alexandre Vieira
On 10/24/06, Josh Paetzel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 23 October 2006 11:14, Alexandre Vieira wrote: Hello, I'm unable to boot 6.2-BETA2 on a SunFire V210. It stalls in the start of kernel boot: Right. It has an UltraSparc III CPU which just isn't supported. -- Thanks, Josh

Re: building rdiff-backup 1.1.15

2006-10-24 Thread Vince
Noah wrote: Hi there, I am wondering if somebody can help me here. I am attempting to build rdiff-backup 1.1.15 on my freebsd server. anybody had any success or provide a hand into figuring out how to get it installed? install the ports tree if you havent, update it to the latest if you

Re: Nvidia on CURRENT...

2006-10-24 Thread Tore Lund
Anders Troback wrote: On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 15:14:38 +0200 Tore Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anders Troback wrote: On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:25:05 +0400 Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have it working fine on my current. Have you disabled agp in kernel config? No, should I?

how to use the freebsd help

2006-10-24 Thread shonbir singh tomar
hello, i have installed the freebsd but i dont know how to use it after installation a black scrren comes prompting for login and password after login by root or user a # or $ sign appears its the console mode how i want to use window mode how can i use it plz help me i am a new user to

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-24 Thread David Schulz
i guess this is kind of interesting and relating to the subject, at least i have found it a good read : http://www.over-yonder.net/ ~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: building rdiff-backup 1.1.15

2006-10-24 Thread Noah
thanks I found it Vince. cheers, Noah Vince wrote: Noah wrote: Hi there, I am wondering if somebody can help me here. I am attempting to build rdiff-backup 1.1.15 on my freebsd server. anybody had any success or provide a hand into figuring out how to get it installed? install

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-24 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Schulz wrote: i guess this is kind of interesting and relating to the subject, at least i have found it a good read : http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php That's been around the list at least a few times since

Re: GRE to Cisco

2006-10-24 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
On 10/24/06, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anyone has used GRE tunnel extensively. I'm trying to connect a FreeBSD system to a Cisco router. For testing ONLY I'm trying to do it to two devices on the same subnet. When I bring the gre

Re: how to use the freebsd help

2006-10-24 Thread Bob M.
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 14:21 +0100, shonbir singh tomar wrote: hello, i have installed the freebsd but i dont know how to use it after installation a black scrren comes prompting for login and password after login by root or user a # or $ sign appears its the console mode how i want to

Re: how to use the freebsd help

2006-10-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 02:21:19PM +0100, shonbir singh tomar wrote: hello, i have installed the freebsd but i dont know how to use it after installation a black scrren comes prompting for login and password after login by root or user a # or $ sign appears its the console mode how i

Re: freebsd

2006-10-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 01:17:25AM +0100, layla wrote: my name is layla, i am from the uk, im loading up, freebsd operating system and would like to run a server from it, i would like to know what the best webhosting control panal would be for this and if there is a free one that you

Copying binaries to new server

2006-10-24 Thread James Smallacombe
A couple of months ago, I spent a couple of weeks compiling and configuring the latest FBSD, apache, perl, qmail and the bazzilion modules, patches and addon apps that go with all of it on an existing server, and ironing out all the upgrade issues that entailed. Since then, due to apparent

Running a FreeBSD guest with qemu on a FreeBSD host

2006-10-24 Thread Jeremie Le Hen
Hi, (Please Cc: me in your replies.) I'm trying to run TinyBSD in Qemu, using the -nographic mode. Thus I need to configure FreeBSD to use a serial console. % # cat /mnt/md/boot.config % -h % # cat /mnt/md/boot/loader.conf % console=comconsole % boot_serial=YES When I run Qemu with this

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-24 Thread David Schulz
yeah. just trying to please ya... On Oct 24, 2006, at 10:15 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Schulz wrote: i guess this is kind of interesting and relating to the subject, at least i have found it a good read :

Re: Copying binaries to new server

2006-10-24 Thread Eric
James Smallacombe wrote: A couple of months ago, I spent a couple of weeks compiling and configuring the latest FBSD, apache, perl, qmail and the bazzilion modules, patches and addon apps that go with all of it on an existing server, and ironing out all the upgrade issues that entailed. Since

Re: Copying binaries to new server

2006-10-24 Thread Robert Joosten
Hi, Is there any reason I shouldn't just copy all of /usr and /var from the old server, or do I really need to compile everything anew and sort out any simlinks to other file systems? why not just a dump/restore of the file systems in question? He could also fire up nfsd, mount /usr/src and

Re: ACL: Default and other problems

2006-10-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 24, 2006, at 1:32 AM, Nico -telmich- Schottelius wrote: Situation: - git running on fbsd 5.3. - 4 people work on the same project - git is used over ssh (aka git+ssh://) - when new objects are created, they belong to the creating user - normal umask is 077 (we are all

process stopped

2006-10-24 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi everyone, I'm trying to pinpoint what made my clamav process crap out last night, I see in the paniclog that when it failed. My two questions are Why did it fail , and can I be alerted to such a failure, we did not receive outside mail from last night till this morning when I came in

Re: Copying binaries to new server

2006-10-24 Thread James Smallacombe
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Eric wrote: James Smallacombe wrote: A couple of months ago, I spent a couple of weeks compiling and configuring the latest FBSD, apache, perl, qmail and the bazzilion modules, patches and addon apps that go with all of it on an existing server, and ironing out all

Re: Question

2006-10-24 Thread abedini
- Original Message - From: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2006 5:31 PM Subject: Re: Question On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:02:19 +0330 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all dear in freebsd project Default

Re: [fbsd] Running a FreeBSD guest with qemu on a FreeBSD host

2006-10-24 Thread Jeremie Le Hen
Hi, On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 05:43:44PM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: Hi, (Please Cc: me in your replies.) I'm trying to run TinyBSD in Qemu, using the -nographic mode. Thus I need to configure FreeBSD to use a serial console. % # cat /mnt/md/boot.config % -h % # cat

Re: Question

2006-10-24 Thread Bill Moran
In response to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: - Original Message - From: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 16:02:19 +0330 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all dear in freebsd project Default FreeBSD kernel not support any ability and compile kernel take any time. I

linux programs accessing non-linux programs

2006-10-24 Thread Giuseppe Pagnoni
Hi all, I have been having trouble figuring out how to make linux programs (installed and running under /compat/linux) access other FreeBSD binaries that are *not* located under /compat/linux. For instance, I am running linux-thunderbird and when I want to open a *.doc file attachment,

Re: linux programs accessing non-linux programs

2006-10-24 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 24), Giuseppe Pagnoni said: I have been having trouble figuring out how to make linux programs (installed and running under /compat/linux) access other FreeBSD binaries that are *not* located under /compat/linux. For instance, I am running linux-thunderbird and when I

clean old portsnap snapshots?

2006-10-24 Thread Joe Auty
Hello, What is the best mechanism for deleting old portsnap shots to free up some space? Or, is this supposed to be handled automatically? --- Joe Auty NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians http://www.netmusician.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Copying binaries to new server

2006-10-24 Thread James Smallacombe
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Eric wrote: James Smallacombe wrote: A couple of months ago, I spent a couple of weeks compiling and configuring the latest FBSD, apache, perl, qmail and the bazzilion modules, patches and addon apps that go with all of it on an existing server, and ironing out all

Re: Copying binaries to new server

2006-10-24 Thread Eric
James Smallacombe wrote: On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Eric wrote: James Smallacombe wrote: A couple of months ago, I spent a couple of weeks compiling and configuring the latest FBSD, apache, perl, qmail and the bazzilion modules, patches and addon apps that go with all of it on an existing server,

Re: Copying binaries to new server

2006-10-24 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 24), James Smallacombe said: Here's another issue I just ran into while trying to do just that, using tar: su-2.05b# tar xpPvfz snip thousands of lines x /usr/lib/libypclnt.so x /usr/lib/libalias.a x /usr/lib/libalias.so x /usr/lib/libarchive.a x

Re: Copying binaries to new server

2006-10-24 Thread James Smallacombe
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Oct 24), James Smallacombe said: Here's another issue I just ran into while trying to do just that, using tar: su-2.05b# tar xpPvfz snip thousands of lines x /usr/lib/libypclnt.so x /usr/lib/libalias.a x

Escaping From

2006-10-24 Thread Bob
Hi: I am running a new install of FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 and went through the entire buildworld process. So I know this system is up to date as of a few days ago. This is a fairly new install replacing Linux. My MTA is Sendmail and I configured it with procmail as the delivery agent. Here

ndis on startup

2006-10-24 Thread Mark Busby
I've got a encore enlwi-g pci wireless network card that has a marvel chipset that is not supported by the current drivers. The ndis driver will run the card just fine. But if I try to load the ndis driver from loader.conf the card errors out and cannot be recovered until you reboot the computer.

Re: Copying binaries to new server

2006-10-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 01:14:16PM -0500, Eric wrote: James Smallacombe wrote: On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Eric wrote: James Smallacombe wrote: A couple of months ago, I spent a couple of weeks compiling and configuring the latest FBSD, apache, perl, qmail and the bazzilion modules, patches

Some old fashioned assistance requested, and some oppinions wanted.

2006-10-24 Thread Jim Stapleton
Ok, to start this off, and so you know where I'm coming from - I do a lot with comptuers and I'm visually impared. This makes notebooks a royal pain in the posterior - to the point where I NEED a few features in KDE/Gnome,a nd cannot use Windows. However, add to that a lot of manufacturers don't

Re: Copying binaries to new server

2006-10-24 Thread James Smallacombe
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Jerry McAllister wrote: True, but I think the poster was suggesting that dump/restore is a better way than using tar. I'm not as familiar with BSD dump...does it compress well? Also, what's this? su-2.05b# dump -0L -f ns1.usr.dump /usr DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump:

Re: Copying binaries to new server

2006-10-24 Thread Eric
James Smallacombe wrote: On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Jerry McAllister wrote: True, but I think the poster was suggesting that dump/restore is a better way than using tar. I'm not as familiar with BSD dump...does it compress well? Also, what's this? su-2.05b# dump -0L -f ns1.usr.dump /usr DUMP:

uvscan

2006-10-24 Thread justin
Hello, Does anyone know or can give me a hint about this command line scanner. I`ve red the manual page but i still got trouble in starting this virusscanner. i`ve got the message:: invalid switch or incorrect usage or: A target has not been specified for scanning! I`ve tryed for hours to

Slow boot from btx load to kernel.

2006-10-24 Thread Patrick Bowen
Second try... I have a triple boot setup ( WinXP, FreeBSD, and Ubuntu Linux) on which I upgraded the Ubuntu from 6.06 to 6.10. Now, when I boot the FreeBSD slice, it will take tens of seconds to load /boot/loader and the sound modules I use. It used to go by so fast I couldn't even see what

Re: Copying binaries to new server

2006-10-24 Thread James Smallacombe
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Eric wrote: James Smallacombe wrote: On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Jerry McAllister wrote: True, but I think the poster was suggesting that dump/restore is a better way than using tar. I'm not as familiar with BSD dump...does it compress well? Also, what's this? Take

Re: Copying binaries to new server

2006-10-24 Thread James Smallacombe
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, James Smallacombe wrote: On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Eric wrote: James Smallacombe wrote: On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Jerry McAllister wrote: True, but I think the poster was suggesting that dump/restore is a better way than using tar. I'm not as familiar with BSD

QEMU crash

2006-10-24 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Hi List, I just had a crash in QEMU while trying to boot a Xubuntu installation QEMU was launched with this script #!/bin/sh kldload snd_driver kldload bridge kldload kqemu sysctl net.link.ether.bridge_cfg=re0,tap0 sysctl net.link.ether.bridge.enable=1 qemu -net nic,model=rtl8139 -net tap

[OT] a mysql question

2006-10-24 Thread Jonathan Horne
typical OT thread apologies, but the truth *really* is that this is the best and most intelligent list i read. so... i use veritas netbackup 5.1 to backup my bsd machines, and i would like to restore some mysql databases onto another machine. is restoring any mysql database, as simple as

Re: [OT] a mysql question

2006-10-24 Thread Philip Hallstrom
typical OT thread apologies, but the truth *really* is that this is the best and most intelligent list i read. so... You're really going to get better answers from the mysql lists... really. :) i use veritas netbackup 5.1 to backup my bsd machines, and i would like to restore some mysql

Re: Copying binaries to new server

2006-10-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 03:57:53PM -0400, James Smallacombe wrote: On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Jerry McAllister wrote: True, but I think the poster was suggesting that dump/restore is a better way than using tar. I'm not as familiar with BSD dump...does it compress well? Also, what's this?

Re: two NIC and nfs

2006-10-24 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Jeff Mohler wrote: Well..the right way to do this is with a switch that can etherchannel the NICs together, im not sure if Fbsd can do that..of course. FreeBSD supports EthernetChannel, 802.1ad, etc. So does NetBSD. I's LACP that needs work.

mapserver in ports error

2006-10-24 Thread jason
hey folks, im trying to install this from ports on a 4.11 box and get the dreaded message about configure: error: !!! You PHP was compiled with PHP's bundled regex library. !!! !!! In this case MapServer and PHP MapScript must also be compiled !!! !!! using the same copy of

Re: Wireless Inspiron 6400 anyone?

2006-10-24 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 07:30:26 -0500 Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 22 October 2006 01:21, Scott Bennett wrote: On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:06:36 -0500 Patrick Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lane wrote: Hello, I've a new inspiron 6400 running FreeBSD 6.1 and I can't get

Re: uvscan

2006-10-24 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On October 24, 2006 8:16:42 PM + justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Does anyone know or can give me a hint about this command line scanner. I`ve red the manual page but i still got trouble in starting this virusscanner. i`ve got the message:: invalid switch or incorrect usage or: A

Re: Some old fashioned assistance requested, and some oppinions wanted.

2006-10-24 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:36:41 -0400 Jim Stapleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) If Toshiba were to provide open source drivers for it's weirdities, would you purchase their machines? Yes 2) If yes to #1, would you join me in a snail-mail writing campaign to them to request they provide

Re: [OT] a mysql question

2006-10-24 Thread jan gestre
On 10/25/06, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: typical OT thread apologies, but the truth *really* is that this is the best and most intelligent list i read. so... i use veritas netbackup 5.1 to backup my bsd machines, and i would like to restore some mysql databases onto another

Re: Copying binaries to new server

2006-10-24 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:37:29 -0400 (EDT) James Smallacombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any reason I shouldn't just copy all of /usr and /var from the old server, or do I really need to compile everything anew and sort out any simlinks to other file systems? why not use packages? from

a simple questions about sshd and PasswordAuthentication

2006-10-24 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Is there anything inherintaly dangerous or wrong about enabling PasswordAuthentication in sshd_config ? I understand how public keys are better and everything else. And I do use them. I'm just curious. Jeff. -- Unless otherwise indicated, anything I write is either garnered from experience or

Re: a simple questions about sshd and PasswordAuthentication

2006-10-24 Thread Juha Saarinen
On 10/25/06, Jeff MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anything inherintaly dangerous or wrong about enabling PasswordAuthentication in sshd_config ? I understand how public keys are better and everything else. And I do use them. I'm just curious. Probably not, if you have strong

Re: a simple questions about sshd and PasswordAuthentication

2006-10-24 Thread Peter
--- Juha Saarinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/25/06, Jeff MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anything inherintaly dangerous or wrong about enabling PasswordAuthentication in sshd_config ? I understand how public keys are better and everything else. And I do use them. I'm

Re: a simple questions about sshd and PasswordAuthentication

2006-10-24 Thread Atom Powers
On 10/24/06, Jeff MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anything inherintaly dangerous or wrong about enabling PasswordAuthentication in sshd_config ? I understand how public keys are better and everything else. And I do use them. I'm just curious. There are many arguments for and

Re: a simple questions about sshd and PasswordAuthentication

2006-10-24 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Tuesday 24 October 2006 21:54, Atom Powers wrote: On 10/24/06, Jeff MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anything inherintaly dangerous or wrong about enabling PasswordAuthentication in sshd_config ? I understand how public keys are better and everything else. And I do use

Re: a simple questions about sshd and PasswordAuthentication

2006-10-24 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Tuesday 24 October 2006 21:49, Juha Saarinen wrote: On 10/25/06, Jeff MacDonald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anything inherintaly dangerous or wrong about enabling PasswordAuthentication in sshd_config ? I understand how public keys are better and everything else. And I do use

Re: Python memory allocator: Free memory (fwd)

2006-10-24 Thread Kay Abendroth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 How can you verify that the problem still exists? Nguyen Tam Chinh wrote: Hello, I really don't know whether this is a good idea to forward this message to ports@ and [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wrote to freebsd-python@ but there's no reply so

Reading /dev/klog / log(9)

2006-10-24 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
/dev/klog seems to be special in that, even in O_NONBLOCk, it: *) Never blocks, but does(?) *) Always returns read(2) = 0 *) Never returns EOF I'm trying to read out the contents silently via a shell script prior to starting syslog-ng. I.e., drain it. One would think any I/O manipulation

Re: Copying binaries to new server

2006-10-24 Thread David King
Ugh...my ssh session to the new (remote) server was killed, presumably when restore overwrote something sshd needed. I was able to telnet back in, restart sshd and get back in, but since I was doing the restore interactively, and not in the background, was the restore interrupted? I

Re: Problems booting on a Compaq DL360 (P21 version)

2006-10-24 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Then you have a hardare revision difference on the controller or motherboard. I think the raid cards are in slots on that server, try exchanging them. If the problem follows the card you can probably pick up a replacement card from Ebay. Otherwise, install Windows on the server and sell it on