Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-11 Thread Bill-Schoolcraft
At Thu, 11 Jan 2007 it looks like Nikolas Britton composed: > On 1/10/07, Jeff Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I dunno..Linux got _somewhere_ before big money came into it. > > > > Like I said..when Fbsd 2.5 was light _years_ ahead of Linux..sometime > > after that, focus was lost. > > > >

Re: java plugin for firefox

2007-01-11 Thread Peter Nyamukusa
On Thursday 11 January 2007 00:51, eoghan wrote: > On 10 Jan 2007, at 22:26, Vince Hoffman wrote: > > eoghan wrote: > >> Hi > >> Does anyone have a guide or advice for getting java plugin working > >> for firefox? Im running 6.1 on amd. > >> I have installed: > >> diablo-jdk-5.0 > >> diablo-jre1.5.

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-11 Thread perryh
Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:59:20PM -0800, Jeff Mohler wrote: > > > Not all of us can program..but let me ask this question. > > > > Linux is all volunteer, how did it get so far ahead? > > It isn't. People in the know like FreeBSD as a server which >

Strange Emacs autoloaded library

2007-01-11 Thread a
> I have removed the files > menu-bar.el.gz > menu-bar.elc > from /usr/local/share/emacs/22.0.50/lisp. > But load-history variable still shows me > /usr/local/share/emacs/22.0.50/lisp/menu-bar.elc > loaded and menu-bar appeared at emacs startup. > > What is this? > > Any other library from /usr/l

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-11 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 1/11/07, Bill-Schoolcraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At Thu, 11 Jan 2007 it looks like Nikolas Britton composed: > On 1/10/07, Jeff Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I dunno..Linux got _somewhere_ before big money came into it. > > > > Like I said..when Fbsd 2.5 was light _years_ ahead of

Is there a way to get List of Only those files in a filesystem which are modified on a specifict date?

2007-01-11 Thread VeeJay
Hi Is there a way to get List of Only those files in a filesystem which are modified on a specifict date? -- Thanks! BR / vj ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, sen

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-11 Thread Howard Jones
Nikolas Britton wrote Well that's just it... No way we could afford full rates, If we could we would hire someone off the street to program x, y, and z to are liking. I was talking about supporting someone who is already working on x, y, and z because they have an itch to scratch... To help them

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-11 Thread Freminlins
On 10/01/07, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A reason why you have less problems is I expect you using premium hardware such as scsi, currently I am lucky enough to not be using realtek lan cards although I am still having problems with intel nics. I wouldn't term SCSI as premium. Maybe it

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-11 Thread Freminlins
On 11/01/07, Jeff Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The basic reason is that a ../.. walk invalidates cached metadata, and you end up with a pipe full of getattr's all of the time. Freebsd-fs has discussed this a bit, but no fixing is coming soon. We use linux to compile builds, we'd like to

Re: Why is sysinstall considered end-of-life?

2007-01-11 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Jay Chandler wrote: Apart from that, I used to be able to sysinsall a machine booting via PXE. This doesn't work anymore in recent versions :-( Or maybe it is just my incompetence, but then, if someone managed this, I'd like to hear about it. This definitely works with 6.1-RELEASE, as I've

Re: Is there a way to get List of Only those files in a filesystem which are modified on a specifict date?

2007-01-11 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 11 January 2007 10:45, VeeJay wrote: > Hi > > Is there a way to get List of Only those files in a filesystem which are > modified on a specifict date? > Yes, read find(1) man. In short: find ${DIRECTORY} -mtime 8 This will give you the files which were modified 8 days before in dire

Re: /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/All

2007-01-11 Thread Mark Linimon
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 02:00:08AM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 05:57:56PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > > Hi Kris, > > > > I know things must be pretty busy with 6.2, but is there any chance that > > the 5.5-STABLE packages can be updated soon? I just checked again, and > >

[SOLVED] re(4) incorrect checksum

2007-01-11 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Hi lists, ifconfig re0 -txcsum -rxcsum solved the problem Anyway, is this a bug in the driver or in the interface itself? Thanx, regards -- Forwarded message -- From: Pietro Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jan 11, 2007 11:29 AM Subject: re(4) incorrect checksum To: freebsd

re(4) incorrect checksum

2007-01-11 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Hi lists, FreeBSD gahrtop.localhost 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #1: Tue Jan 9 19:34:13 CET 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GAHRTOP i386 CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7200 @ 2.00GHz (2000.15-MHz 686-class CPU) Cores per package: 2 re0: port 0xc800-0xc8ff mem 0xf

Re: Is there a way to get List of Only those files in a filesystem which are modified on a specifict date?

2007-01-11 Thread George Vanev
Here is an example with todays date find / -exec stat -f "%N %Sm" -t "%m-%d-%Y" {} \; | grep 01-11-2007 | cut -d' ' -f1 On 1/11/07, VeeJay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Is there a way to get List of Only those files in a filesystem which are modified on a specifict date? -- Thanks! BR / vj

Fwd: [SOLVED] re(4) incorrect checksum

2007-01-11 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On 1/11/07, Bernd Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 11:51:51AM +0100, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > Hi lists, > ifconfig re0 -txcsum -rxcsum solved the problem > > Anyway, is this a bug in the driver or in the interface itself? That is how checksum offloading works. tcpdump

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-11 Thread Oliver Fromme
Just a few small notes ... Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > realtek isnt great hardware but is that a good reason for realtek > performing significantly worse then on linux, shouldnt it be on par? Mu old notebook (2001) has a realtek rl(4) card. It's not rocket fast, but it just works with F

Re: [SOLVED] re(4) incorrect checksum

2007-01-11 Thread Bernd Walter
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 11:51:51AM +0100, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > Hi lists, > ifconfig re0 -txcsum -rxcsum solved the problem > > Anyway, is this a bug in the driver or in the interface itself? That is how checksum offloading works. tcpdump can't see a correct checksum, because it is not calc

Re: /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/All

2007-01-11 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 at 04:17:21 -0600, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 02:00:08AM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 05:57:56PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > > > Hi Kris, > > > > > > I know things must be pretty busy with 6.2, but is there any chance that > > >

Re: Why is sysinstall considered end-of-life?

2007-01-11 Thread Niek
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 08:21, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > 3) The largest complaint about sysinstall is that it's not graphical. The > problem is that a graphical installation program has some -severe- > constraints on it. First, it has to work in ALL instances. That means, > 640x480x16 co

help

2007-01-11 Thread lekshmanan prabhakaran
hi my name is lekshman i did a fresh installation of FreeBSD 6.1 on my Travelmate laptop 2420, the installation was fine but i am getting these errors on TTY0 console . --- kernel: ACPI-1304: **

Re: [SOLVED] re(4) incorrect checksum

2007-01-11 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 11:51:51AM +0100, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > Hi lists, > ifconfig re0 -txcsum -rxcsum solved the problem > In if_re.c, rev 1.46.2.18 wpaul@ fixed a long standing checksum offload issue by padding. Does re(4) work when you disable only Tx checksum offload?(i.e. ifconfig

Re: Why is sysinstall considered end-of-life?

2007-01-11 Thread Nejc Škoberne
Hey, Please leave that to the desktop oriented BSD distributions. I wonder how many server admins would like to see an X based installer. Not me. Bye, Nejc smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

RE: unable to load kernel

2007-01-11 Thread Brian Levie
Many thanks, that solved the problem Brian -Original Message- From: Pieter de Goeje [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 January 2007 07:01 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Brian Levie Subject: Re: unable to load kernel On Monday 08 January 2007 16:47, Brian Levie wrote: > After ins

Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-11 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Jeff MacDonald wrote: > Hi, > > I put a fresh install of 6.1-RELEASE on a dell poweredge 1950 server. > It's configured with 4 gigs of ram. > > However when I boot i get the following right before DMESG > > 786432k above 4GB ignored > > Which is strange, but then dmesg shows this > > real memory

Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-11 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Jeff MacDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Jeff MacDonald wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I put a fresh install of 6.1-RELEASE on a dell poweredge 1950 server. > > > It's configured with 4 gigs of ram. > > > > > > However when I boot i get the following right before DMESG > > > > > > 786

Re: How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box?

2007-01-11 Thread Nathan Vidican
James Long wrote: Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:47:52 -0800 From: Jay Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box? To: Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions ,VeeJay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-11 Thread Jeff MacDonald
> Well I hate when people say this, but I'm going to say it.. :) > > When I did a default install of ubuntu, it saw all 4 gigs without a > hitch. So does that mean it already includes PAE, or something else ? One of those two. You sure you didn't install a 64-bit version of Ubuntu? Fairly sure

Re: general question about packages and ports working together

2007-01-11 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 8:38 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 03:30:18AM +0100, Stevan Tiefert wrote: > > Fetching > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/All/k > > delibs-3.5.1_1.tbz... Done. > > pkg_add: package 'kdelibs-3.5.1_1' conflicts wit

Re: Strange Emacs autoloaded library

2007-01-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> I have removed the files >> menu-bar.el.gz >> menu-bar.elc >> from /usr/local/share/emacs/22.0.50/lisp. >> But load-history variable still shows me >> /usr/local/share/emacs/22.0.50/lisp/menu-bar.elc >> loaded and menu-bar appeared at emacs startup. >> >> What is this

Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-11 Thread Ivan Voras
Jeff MacDonald wrote: > When I did a default install of ubuntu, it saw all 4 gigs without a > hitch. So does that mean it already includes PAE, or something else ? Yes, AFAIK some newer Linuxes (and Windows SP2) include PAE by default. ___ freebsd-ques

Re: Why is sysinstall considered end-of-life?

2007-01-11 Thread Oliver Fromme
Niek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > > > > > 3) The largest complaint about sysinstall is that it's not graphical. > > > The > > > problem is that a graphical installation program has some -severe- > > > constraints on it. First, it has to work in ALL instance

Re: general question about packages and ports working together

2007-01-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 07:58:08AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Wednesday 10 January 2007 8:38 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 03:30:18AM +0100, Stevan Tiefert wrote: > > > > Fetching > > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.1-release/All/k > > > delib

Re: How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box?

2007-01-11 Thread Oliver Fromme
Nathan Vidican wrote: > James Long wrote: > > Yeah, and even a user with no account or password, a screwdriver, and > > a Mountain Dew. > > Gotcha all beat, screw the 'standard user' issue... I had a client call > me once cause the office cat peed onto/into the server; no technical > expe

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 07:52:29PM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 1/10/07, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 10/01/07, Josef Grosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:44:36AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > >> > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 12:01:51AM -0600, Nikolas Br

Re: Porting Acrobat 9 to FBSD Mozilla / Opera and OT: installer promotion (was "Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?")

2007-01-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:07:04PM -0500, Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: > I think it is about time that FREEBSD OS gets the act together by > integrating all the plugins for firefox. > > I have been trying to make these plugins work, Really, isnt't that a Firefox/Mozilla thing, plus possibly the cr

Re: Laptop speaker vs earphone

2007-01-11 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:29:45AM -0500, Lion G. wrote: > Hi all, I have a weird question. > > In my previous many laptops, whenever I plug in > the earphone, the laptop speaker would stop > (and I would only hear music through the earphone) > > With my newest laptop (Acer Aspire 5050), > the l

Re: Laptop speaker vs earphone

2007-01-11 Thread Vince
Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 12:29:45AM -0500, Lion G. wrote: > >> Hi all, I have a weird question. >> >> In my previous many laptops, whenever I plug in >> the earphone, the laptop speaker would stop >> (and I would only hear music through the earphone) >> >> With my newest l

Re: [SOLVED] re(4) incorrect checksum

2007-01-11 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On 1/11/07, Pyun YongHyeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In if_re.c, rev 1.46.2.18 wpaul@ fixed a long standing checksum offload issue by padding. Does re(4) work when you disable only Tx checksum offload?(i.e. ifconfig re0 -txcsum) yes, because -txcsum also disables Rx checksum on my NIC. # ifco

RE: SuperMicro 2U servers?

2007-01-11 Thread Philippe Lang
I wrote: > Hi, > > Is anyone using FreeBSD 6.X in production on SuperMicro 2U servers? > > http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/2U/ More specifically: The motherboard of the server I'm interested in is: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon1333/5000P/X7DBE.cfm In the OS co

RESOLVED (RE: Laptop speaker vs earphone)

2007-01-11 Thread Lion G.
Thanks everyone, and especially a big thank to awesome Ariff Abdullah who solved it and confirmed it was software-based on this laptop! Lion Tanker wrote: In my previous many laptops, whenever I plug in the earphone, the laptop speaker would stop (and I would only hear music through the earphon

4.10-stable nameserver strange behavior

2007-01-11 Thread Ken Cochran
Hi: How I "refresh" a system binary? More specifically, I think I may have a compromised(?) named in /usr/sbin but what I have in /usr/obj should be fine; if not I still have it in /usr/src and can rebuild/reinstall it. So how would I do the "named only" part of an installworld? Or, to take it

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-11 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
yOn Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 05:24:26AM -0500, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, John Nielsen wrote: Apologies for top-posting. I've made some progress with this, but as I suspected, I'm screwed on "namespace collision". I.e. I am unab

4.10-stable nameserver strange behavior

2007-01-11 Thread Robert Huff
Ken Cochran writes: > How I "refresh" a system binary? Assuming your source tree is the same version as installed system ... I have been able to just go to the appropriate directory, type "make && make install". This _not_ the canonical way, and I wouldn't bet the rent money on

How to clear strage route in routing table?

2007-01-11 Thread Patrick Dung
Hi Suppose I have mistype a command: # route add 192.168.3.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.3.1 There is a strange routing table and I am unable to remove it unless reboot: 192.168.0&0xc0a80301 255.255.255.0 UGS 0 86 fxp0 Any ideas? __

How to clear strage route in routing table?

2007-01-11 Thread Patrick Dung
Hi Suppose I have mistype a command: # route add 192.168.3.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.3.1 There is a strange routing table and I am unable to remove it unless reboot: 192.168.0&0xc0a80301 255.255.255.0 UGS 0 86 fxp0 Any ideas? __

Re: 4.10-stable nameserver strange behavior

2007-01-11 Thread Armin Arh
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:44:38 -0500 (EST) Ken Cochran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi: > > How I "refresh" a system binary? > > More specifically, I think I may have a compromised(?) named > in /usr/sbin but what I have in /usr/obj should be fine; > if not I still have it in /usr/src and can rebu

Re: How to clear strage route in routing table?

2007-01-11 Thread Armin Arh
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:01:14 -0800 (PST) Patrick Dung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Suppose I have mistype a command: > # route add 192.168.3.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.3.1 > What is the output of "netstat -nrf inet" ? Does "route delete 192.168.3.0" help? Armin -- PUBBOX Postmaster + spam-

Re: /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/All

2007-01-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 02:00:08AM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 05:57:56PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > > Hi Kris, > > > > I know things must be pretty busy with 6.2, but is there any chance that > > the 5.5-STABLE packages can be updated soon? I just checked again, and > >

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-11 Thread Jeff Mohler
Yes, they dont solve this whatsoever. Its a severely broken code issue in the attr caching mechanism. Honest..give it a shot. Even with very very slow ATA, local builds of the kernel or world are faster than over 1G NFS to an F6000 series filer, and the filer will still thrash on WAFL metadata

Re: How to clear strage route in routing table?

2007-01-11 Thread Oliver Fromme
Patrick Dung wrote: > Suppose I have mistype a command: > # route add 192.168.3.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.3.1 So you swapped gateway and netmask. Nasty mistake. :-) It's usually better to use CIDR notation (with a slash followed by the number of network bits), to avoid any confusion. It's also

Re: /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/All

2007-01-11 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: > OK, I've uploaded the packages now and they'll begin propagating out > to the mirrors. Thanks again. Now I'm right out of excuses, eh? Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lis

Re: general question about packages and ports working together [solved]

2007-01-11 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 04:13 schrieb Kris Kennaway: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 04:10:59AM +0100, Stevan Tiefert wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007 04:05 schrieb Kris Kennaway: > > > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 03:47:34AM +0100, Stevan Tiefert wrote: > > > > Am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2007

Kernel Config Recommendations for AMD Chip

2007-01-11 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
Hello All: I've spent my entire FreeBSD life in /sys/i386 using Intel chips. We have a new server with the AMD processor listed below and I'm wondering if: 1) I should stay in /sys/i386 with different configuration variables; or 2) Compile out of /sys/amd64 Any insights would be greatly appreci

Improvement to IPFilter / nfsd in FBSD (6.2+?)

2007-01-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
Just wondering if anyone has IPFilter / nfsd setup properly on their boxes with any beta versions of FBSD. I am having loads of issues transferring large files (~300MB apiece) or issues transferring a large number of smaller files (3MB ~ 10MB apiece) from a FBSD 6.1 client to a FBSD 6.1 server

Re: Fatal trap 30: reserved (unknown) fault while in kernel mode

2007-01-11 Thread John Baldwin
On Sunday 17 December 2006 23:17, Ma wrote: > I'm using the newest FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE on our web server (compiled at > last friday, 06-12-15). But it always crashes these days. > The following information displayed on the screen with system crashed. > ===

Use of CVS

2007-01-11 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a medium sized application where the source is all in a CVS repository. Basically it works great as I am able to retrieve any previous version of a module when needed. Most of the changes to the application are quickly resolved, CVS committed and the production system updated in le

Which build to use for Intel Core 2 Duo 64-bit?

2007-01-11 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Which build should I use to build a native 64-bit installation on an Intel Core 2 Duo (E6600)? Can I use the AMD64 build? Is there anything I should be careful when rebuilding from source after a cvsup? Can I just use the AMD64 build and CPUTYPE=nocona in /etc/make.conf ? Thanks in advance,

Re: Kernel Config Recommendations for AMD Chip

2007-01-11 Thread Peter Giessel
On Thursday, January 11, 2007, at 10:20AM, "Michael K. Smith - Adhost" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello All: > >I've spent my entire FreeBSD life in /sys/i386 using Intel chips. We >have a new server with the AMD processor listed below and I'm wondering >if: > >1) I should stay in /sys/i386 wi

EDT time zone change in 2007

2007-01-11 Thread Paul Khavkine
Hi. There's has been changes to how Daylight Saving Time is observed in eastern canada in 2007: http://www.timetemperature.com/tzca/daylight_saving_time_canada.shtml Is there anything that needs to be done to FreeBSD to reflect the changes ? Thanx Paul ___

Re: Use of CVS

2007-01-11 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 1/11/07, Doug Hardie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: one for the new development or the other way around. Will it be easier to merge the fixes to the production branch back in to the new system later or should those fixes be made to both branches at the same time? Any suggestions on these approac

Re: Improvement to IPFilter / nfsd in FBSD (6.2+?)

2007-01-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 11, 2007, at 10:58 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: Just wondering if anyone has IPFilter / nfsd setup properly on their boxes with any beta versions of FBSD. It is typically not useful to implement firewall rules between NFS servers and legitimate NFS clients. The large number of RPC serv

Firewalls and RPC (was "Re: Improvement to IPFilter / nfsd in FBSD (6.2+?)")

2007-01-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 11, 2007, at 10:58 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: Just wondering if anyone has IPFilter / nfsd setup properly on their boxes with any beta versions of FBSD. It is typically not useful to implement firewall rules between NFS servers and legitimate NFS clients. The large

Re: Firewalls and RPC (was "Re: Improvement to IPFilter / nfsd in FBSD (6.2+?)")

2007-01-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 11, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: It is typically not useful to implement firewall rules between NFS servers and legitimate NFS clients. The large number of RPC services using randomly assigned ports needed by NFS and the fact that machines which trust each other enough t

Re: Firewalls and RPC (was "Re: Improvement to IPFilter / nfsd in FBSD (6.2+?)")

2007-01-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck Swiger wrote: > > Actually, no. While rpcbind/portmap/portmapper is assigned to 111/tcp & > udp, most other RPC services get assigned high port numbers in the 327xx > range, but that varies considerably from platform to platform. True. NFS is p

Re: Firewalls and RPC (was "Re: Improvement to IPFilter / nfsd in FBSD (6.2+?)")

2007-01-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 11, 2007, at 1:50 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: Actually, no. While rpcbind/portmap/portmapper is assigned to 111/ tcp & udp, most other RPC services get assigned high port numbers in the 327xx range, but that varies considerably from platform to platform. True. NFS is port 2049 by defau

Re: Firewalls and RPC (was "Re: Improvement to IPFilter / nfsd in FBSD (6.2+?)")

2007-01-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck Swiger wrote: > You really don't want to mix machines which are trusted with machines > which are not trusted on the same subnet. If you can't control which > client machines get which IPs, you pretty much cannot use firewall rules > to restr

Re: Which build to use for Intel Core 2 Duo 64-bit?

2007-01-11 Thread Ivan Voras
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > Which build should I use to build a native 64-bit installation on an > Intel Core 2 Duo (E6600)? AMD64 kernel, SMP variant. Specific compiler optimizations will not yield high enough benefits to be generally useful but it probably[*] won't hurt you. [*] There was a

Re: vpnc problem

2007-01-11 Thread Jeremie Le Hen
Hi Vishal, First of all you should avoid cross-posting. Additionaly, I don't think this is a question for [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 08:50:26PM -0500, Vishal Patil wrote: > I have found the answer to this question. I basically had to edit the > vpnc-script and replace the body of

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-11 Thread Nuno Henriques
Oliver Iberien wrote: At least this thread got me (desktop user, not especially technically sophisticated) to go make a little donation to the FreeBSD Foundation, as it is the one way I can help out, and show that I'm grateful for FreeBSD. On Wednesday 10 January 2007 08:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Use of CVS

2007-01-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-01-11 11:35, Doug Hardie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a medium sized application where the source is all in a CVS > repository. Basically it works great as I am able to retrieve any > previous version of a module when needed. Most of the changes to the > application are quickly res

Re: vpnc problem

2007-01-11 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
I am successfully using vpnc that came with freebsd 6.1able to connect into cisco 3000 concentrator all i had was vpnc.conf file On 1/11/07, Jeremie Le Hen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Vishal, First of all you should avoid cross-posting. Additionaly, I don't think this is a question for

Re: How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box?

2007-01-11 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
this is a funny thread. On 1/10/07, VeeJay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box? -- Thanks! BR / vj ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Re: How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box?

2007-01-11 Thread James Long
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 08:52:44AM -0500, Nathan Vidican wrote: > > > > > How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box? > > > > Depending on local setup, this could range from 'not at all' to > > > > 'extremely'. Do you have a *specific* setup in mind? > > > Standard user with the ro

ezjail and ports

2007-01-11 Thread Dave
Hello, I've created three jails with ezjail on a 6.1 machine. When i did so i did not need ports, now i do in one of the jails. I've tried nullfs mounting the host system's /usr/ports tree, but it didn't automount on jail startup. So, i fetched a new copy of the ports tree in to /var/ports,

Re: help

2007-01-11 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
just your devices attached for power management module is not responding, this may not bring down anything. On 1/11/07, lekshmanan prabhakaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi my name is lekshman i did a fresh installation of FreeBSD 6.1 on my Travelmate laptop 2420, the installation was fine but

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-11 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 1/12/07, Nuno Henriques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I bought a FreeBSD Subscription (http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/bsdsub6.2?id=Ja6Hth8u&mv_pc=70) and the FreeBSD Handbook Set (http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/bsdhandbk3.set?id=Ja6Hth8u&mv_pc=187), and to this day, I'm still patien

Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-11 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Thursday 11 January 2007 07:55, Jeff MacDonald wrote: > > > Well I hate when people say this, but I'm going to say it.. :) > > > > > > When I did a default install of ubuntu, it saw all 4 gigs > > > without a hitch. So does that mean it already includes PAE, or > > > something else ? > > > > One

Re: Use of CVS

2007-01-11 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
afaik, branching off for the minor changes would be thest way to go. so you could merge back these changes into main line easily. that is the way normal devel cycle or you could establish minor and major and merge them upon completion. On 1/11/07, Doug Hardie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have

Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-11 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 19:46, Jay Chandler wrote: > > On a related note for this hardware platform, has anyone gotten > past the "randomly decides not to reboot when told to" issue? > Requires a hard shutdown by hand, as the console becomes completely > non-responsive. I've heard of this

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-11 Thread Nuno Henriques
Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 1/12/07, Nuno Henriques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I bought a FreeBSD Subscription (http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/bsdsub6.2?id=Ja6Hth8u&mv_pc=70) and the FreeBSD Handbook Set (http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/bsdhandbk3.set?id=Ja6Hth8u&mv_pc=187), and

Re: Laptop speaker vs earphone

2007-01-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-01-11 00:29, "Lion G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, I have a weird question. > > In my previous many laptops, whenever I plug in the earphone, the > laptop speaker would stop (and I would only hear music through the > earphone) Which is what *should* happen. After all, when you p

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-11 Thread Dak Ghatikachalam
Hi FreeBSD I am looking to know how to use perform the dialup using the chatscript for the wireless card Ac850. Is t this right place to ask this question. Wow this is longest thread I have seen in my entire life about 73 people replying about same topic and nearly he the same email. over and

Re: How dangerous a Standard User could be to a FreeBSD box?

2007-01-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 08:52:44AM -0500, Nathan Vidican wrote: Gotcha all beat, screw the 'standard user' issue... I had a client call me once cause the office cat peed onto/into the server; no technical expertise required whatsoever, no password, no re-wiring of network, heck no opposable dig

cvsup'dating several machines

2007-01-11 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I will soon update FreeBSD on several machines from 4.11 to 5.5, they are all at the same level of 4.11. I would like to save network bandwidth, would it be OK/enough if I cvsup one machine and then copy /usr/src from that opne to the others? Best regards, Olivier __

startup script for poppassd

2007-01-11 Thread Joe Auty
Hello, Does anybody have a startup script or experience with how to get the poppassd port to listen on port 106? --- Joe Auty NetMusician: web publishing software for musicians http://www.netmusician.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP.sig Description: This is a digitally signed messag

Re: Use of CVS

2007-01-11 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:35:38 -0800 Doug Hardie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any suggestions on these approaches will be appreciated. > Thanks, I suggest you read the CVS Red book, in particular the section on branch management and merging. http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/cvsbook.html I agree wit

Re: startup script for poppassd

2007-01-11 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 11 January 2007 21:26, Joe Auty wrote: > Does anybody have a startup script or experience with how to get the > poppassd port to listen on port 106? You run it from inetd, so all you have to do is add a line to /etc/inetd.conf (and enable inetd if it isn't already). There are example

Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram

2007-01-11 Thread Bill Moran
Josh Paetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 January 2007 19:46, Jay Chandler wrote: > > > On a related note for this hardware platform, has anyone gotten > > past the "randomly decides not to reboot when told to" issue? > > Requires a hard shutdown by hand, as the console becomes

Re: startup script for poppassd

2007-01-11 Thread Joe Auty
Thank you! Works great On Jan 11, 2007, at 9:29 PM, John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 11 January 2007 21:26, Joe Auty wrote: Does anybody have a startup script or experience with how to get the poppassd port to listen on port 106? You run it from inetd, so all you have to do is add a line

Re: cvsup'dating several machines

2007-01-11 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 12), Olivier Nicole said: > I will soon update FreeBSD on several machines from 4.11 to 5.5, they > are all at the same level of 4.11. > > I would like to save network bandwidth, would it be OK/enough if I > cvsup one machine and then copy /usr/src from that opne to the >

Re: Use of CVS

2007-01-11 Thread Doug Hardie
On Jan 11, 2007, at 18:28, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:35:38 -0800 Doug Hardie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any suggestions on these approaches will be appreciated. Thanks, I suggest you read the CVS Red book, in particular the section on branch management and merging.

Re: UDP ok but TCP delayed

2007-01-11 Thread bobmc
Hi Ian: (I post to the list because your's bounced? The Postfix program <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host gaia.nimnet.asn.au[203.41.52.131] said: 550 Access denied (in reply to MAIL FROM command) Thanks for your reply. Compared to Linux tcpdump, FreeB

Re: Easier way to install on 3ware 9550 card?

2007-01-11 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Peter Giessel wrote: On Wednesday, January 10, 2007, at 01:22AM, "Dan Mahoney, System Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am unable to load a version of twa.ko that supports my 3ware card because a previous version of twa.ko that does not support it is already in the gene