Re: Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-13 Thread Joshua Isom
On Dec 14, 2007, at 1:12 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: For the record . . . title changes for new editions like that annoy me. It can make it pretty difficult at times trying to determine whether or not I'm about to buy a duplicate. The switch from Learning Perl Objects, References, and Modules to In

Re: Promise SuperTrak EX12350 don't get detected under FreeBSD 6.2

2007-12-13 Thread Göran Nilsson
This is a FreeBSD 32 bit system. On Dec 14, 2007 5:46 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is this FreeBSD 64 or FreeBSD 32 bit? > > Ted > > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Göran Nilsson > > Sent: Thursday, December 1

Re: Memory leak with conky, anyone else?

2007-12-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:56:25PM -0700, Modulok wrote: > I get the feeling Conky 1.4.8 (the sysutil), or one of the libs it > links against, has a memory leak. I do not have any hard evidence yet > (like a patch to fix it), but the memory consumption slowly climbs to > what appears to be excessiv

Re: Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-13 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:40:23PM -0500, Michael S wrote: > Good evening all, > > I was wondering if anyone bought M. Lucas' new FreeBSD > book. How would you rate it? > I already have the first edition, is it worth the > money buying the second one? Is the first edition Lucas' "Absolute BSD", o

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-13 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 07:42:35PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Chad Perrin wrote: > > >I ran across this today: > > > > http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ > > > >Title: > > Csh Programming Considered Harmful > > > >I wonder what responses I might get here, an

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-13 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 04:25:30AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2007-12-13 18:05, Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I ran across this today: > > > > http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ > > > > Title: > > Csh Programming Considered Harmful > > > > I wonder wha

Re: mailing lists

2007-12-13 Thread Jason C. Wells
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Brian wrote: The fact that each mailing list exists as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] makes me need to make 2 filters for each list I subscribe to. Can I suggest that if this is going to continue, that the server shows one format for all the messages that go ou

Lost FreeBSD slices (labels?) after NetBSD install -- please help!!

2007-12-13 Thread Snow Mountains
Hi, People, I have FreeBSD install on 80G disk that looked like this: ad1s1 ~ 2.4G ad1s2 ~23.0G ad1s3 ~19.1G ad1s4 ~38.0G, FreeBSD partition, sliced like this: ad1s4a / (507630 1K-blocks) ad1s4b swap ad1s4d /var ad1s4e /tmp ad1s4f /usr First three partitions are form

RE: Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-13 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael S > Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 6:40 PM > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > Subject: Absolute FreeBSD > > > Good evening all, > > I was wondering if anyone bought M. Lucas' new FreeBSD > book. How

RE: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-13 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Jeays > Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 5:13 PM > To: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful. > > > Bash has all the features one is likely to need for

RE: Webmail

2007-12-13 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Satria Bramana > Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 6:45 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Webmail > > > Can anyone who had experience running a web-based e-mail give > suggestion what pack

RE: Webmail

2007-12-13 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Beech Rintoul > Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 8:45 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Cc: Satria Bramana > Subject: Re: Webmail > > > On Thursday 13 December 2007, Satria Bramana said: > > Can a

RE: How to configure FreeBSD machine as a bridged router?

2007-12-13 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jake Conk > Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 8:14 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: How to configure FreeBSD machine as a bridged router? > > > Hello, > > I have 2 nic cards in my machine

RE: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-13 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rob > Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:42 AM > To: Andrew Falanga > Cc: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Re: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use > > > Andrew Falanga wrote: > > sounds l

Re: mailing lists

2007-12-13 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Brian wrote: Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Brian wrote: The fact that each mailing list exists as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] makes me need to make 2 filters for each list I subscribe to. Can I suggest that

Re: How to configure FreeBSD machine as a bridged router?

2007-12-13 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Jake Conk wrote: Hello, I have 2 nic cards in my machine and I want to place this machine between my internet connection and my router without it looking like another router between the 2 networks (internet and my network). I want to connect the internet line in the first nic card and the li

Memory leak with conky, anyone else?

2007-12-13 Thread Modulok
I get the feeling Conky 1.4.8 (the sysutil), or one of the libs it links against, has a memory leak. I do not have any hard evidence yet (like a patch to fix it), but the memory consumption slowly climbs to what appears to be excessive. I did read the manual page about: "Conky is generally very

Re: mailing lists

2007-12-13 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Brian wrote: Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Brian wrote: The fact that each mailing list exists as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] makes me need to make 2 filters for each list I subscribe to. Can I suggest that if this is going to continue, that the

RE: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-13 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gerard Seibert > Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 9:46 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use > > > > On December 13, 2007 at 11:40AM

RE: Promise SuperTrak EX12350 don't get detected under FreeBSD 6.2

2007-12-13 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Is this FreeBSD 64 or FreeBSD 32 bit? Ted > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Göran Nilsson > Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 10:39 AM > To: Göran Nilsson; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Promise SuperTrak EX12350 don't get

Re: Webmail

2007-12-13 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Thursday 13 December 2007, Satria Bramana said: > Can anyone who had experience running a web-based e-mail give > suggestion what package to use? I will only use it for study > purpose, so I need one that easy to configure and help me > understand the big picture about mailserver.. Thank you ver

RE: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-13 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
We run large mailservers with uw-imap quite well. uw-imap has no problems dealing with 500MB mailboxes with 15,000 or more messages in them. Ted > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andrew Falanga > Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 12:31

RE: NIC "crashes" on heavy compile or HD action!

2007-12-13 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
file a PR Ted > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Coen > Watstaatervoor > Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 7:55 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: NIC "crashes" on heavy compile or HD action! > > > I'm running a Supermicro w

How to configure FreeBSD machine as a bridged router?

2007-12-13 Thread Jake Conk
Hello, I have 2 nic cards in my machine and I want to place this machine between my internet connection and my router without it looking like another router between the 2 networks (internet and my network). I want to connect the internet line in the first nic card and the line to my netw

Re: Webmail

2007-12-13 Thread Peter Boosten
- Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:44:54 -0800 (PST) From: Satria Bramana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Satria Bramana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Webmail To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Can anyone who had experience running a web-based e-m

Webmail

2007-12-13 Thread Satria Bramana
Can anyone who had experience running a web-based e-mail give suggestion what package to use? I will only use it for study purpose, so I need one that easy to configure and help me understand the big picture about mailserver.. Thank you very much..

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-13 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-13 21:59, Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> On 2007-12-13 18:05, Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I ran across this today: >>> >>> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ >>> >>> Title: >>> Csh Programming Considered Harmful > >

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-13 Thread Matt LaPlante
On Dec 13, 2007 9:59 PM, Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > On 2007-12-13 18:05, Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I ran across this today: > >> > >> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ > >> > >> Title: > >> Csh Programming Considered

Re: mailing lists

2007-12-13 Thread Brian
Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Brian wrote: The fact that each mailing list exists as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] makes me need to make 2 filters for each list I subscribe to. Can I suggest that if this is going to continue, that the server shows one format for all the

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-13 Thread Chuck Robey
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-12-13 18:05, Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I ran across this today: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ Title: Csh Programming Considered Harmful That was written sometime last millenium, I mean, it's REALLY old. The question is

Re: mailing lists

2007-12-13 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Brian wrote: The fact that each mailing list exists as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] makes me need to make 2 filters for each list I subscribe to. Can I suggest that if this is going to continue, that the server shows one format for all the messages that go out?

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-13 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Chad Perrin wrote: I ran across this today: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ Title: Csh Programming Considered Harmful I wonder what responses I might get here, and how much of this applies to tcsh as well (I'm still not exactly a tcsh expert). I li

Absolute FreeBSD

2007-12-13 Thread Michael S
Good evening all, I was wondering if anyone bought M. Lucas' new FreeBSD book. How would you rate it? I already have the first edition, is it worth the money buying the second one? Thanks in advance, Michael Michael Sherman http://msherman77.blogspot.com/

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-13 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-12-13 18:05, Chad Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I ran across this today: > > http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ > > Title: > Csh Programming Considered Harmful > > I wonder what responses I might get here, and how much of this applies > to tcsh as well (I'm sti

mailing lists

2007-12-13 Thread Brian
The fact that each mailing list exists as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] makes me need to make 2 filters for each list I subscribe to. Can I suggest that if this is going to continue, that the server shows one format for all the messages that go out? Brian ___

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-13 Thread Rob
Jerry McAllister wrote: Bash has all the features one is likely to need for interactive use as well, and one could make a good case for it being the 'standard' shell now. Yeah, right... when Penguins Fly (hahahaha) [that was intended as a joke and dumb linux reference] I find bash to be u

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-13 Thread Rob
Chad Perrin wrote: I ran across this today: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ Title: Csh Programming Considered Harmful I wonder what responses I might get here, and how much of this applies to tcsh as well (I'm still not exactly a tcsh expert). If you really want to troll,

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 08:12:32PM -0500, Mike Jeays wrote: > On December 13, 2007 08:05:42 pm Chad Perrin wrote: > > I ran across this today: > > > > http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ > > > > Title: > > Csh Programming Considered Harmful > > > > I wonder what responses I mig

Re: Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-13 Thread Mike Jeays
On December 13, 2007 08:05:42 pm Chad Perrin wrote: > I ran across this today: > > http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ > > Title: > Csh Programming Considered Harmful > > I wonder what responses I might get here, and how much of this applies to > tcsh as well (I'm still not exac

Apparently, csh programming is considered harmful.

2007-12-13 Thread Chad Perrin
I ran across this today: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ Title: Csh Programming Considered Harmful I wonder what responses I might get here, and how much of this applies to tcsh as well (I'm still not exactly a tcsh expert). -- CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apo

Re: ntpd configuration file changes

2007-12-13 Thread jekillen
On Dec 12, 2007, at 9:57 PM, N.J. Thomas wrote: * jekillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-12 20:42:47-0800]: Q: When making changes to ntp.conf it is necessary to restart the server? According to the ntpd docs, yes. The ntpd configuration docs say this: Ordinarily, ntpd reads the ntp.conf

Re: (no subject)

2007-12-13 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:13:12 -0800 Bin Cheng wrote: > System can't boot from 7.0-BETA4-i386-bootonly cd-rom. I downloaded Are you sure you want to bbot from -bootonly CD? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-diff-media.html#AEN3258 How did you burn the CD? The common

Re: will freebsd run on apple intel xserve

2007-12-13 Thread Jason Joines
George Hartzell wrote: Jason Joines writes: > I'm a Linux guy who has inherited some apple xserve boxes. > Surprisingly I've discovered that I really hate os x. For the intel > xserve boxes, Linux isn't an option. The CPUs are amd64 architecture. > The EFI capable Linux bootloader,

Re: PF blocking even if set to pass all

2007-12-13 Thread Erik Norgaard
RW wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:17:09 +0100 Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think it is possible to set a default rule, which for security should be block, which means that any packet that falls through your rule set will be blocked. I'm not aware that there is, the FAQ suggests

Re: what is /dev/xpt0/

2007-12-13 Thread Bruce Cran
Gary Kline wrote: this probably is irrelevant to 90% of the list, but it's got me wondering. can anybody 'splain what kind of SCSI device xpt0 is? Is there a /dev/xpt1 if you're running a second optical drive/ thanks, gary It's the CAM transport layer d

Re: cron pile up! Lot's of "cron: running job (cron)"

2007-12-13 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Rudy wrote: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 03), Support (Rudy) said: Below is part of the cron... Seems like any random cronjob can get clogged up... load varies from 0.2 to 1.0 on this dual-core box. I rebooted the box -- cron's continue to slowly pile up. One of the cronjobs th

Re: PF blocking even if set to pass all

2007-12-13 Thread RW
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:17:09 +0100 Erik Norgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it is possible to set a default rule, which for security > should be block, which means that any packet that falls through your > rule set will be blocked. I'm not aware that there is, the FAQ suggests having

Re: what is /dev/xpt0/

2007-12-13 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Gary Kline wrote: this probably is irrelevant to 90% of the list, but it's got me wondering. can anybody 'splain what kind of SCSI device xpt0 is? Is there a /dev/xpt1 if you're running a second optical drive/ thanks, gary man xpt

Re: will freebsd run on apple intel xserve

2007-12-13 Thread George Hartzell
Jason Joines writes: > I'm a Linux guy who has inherited some apple xserve boxes. > Surprisingly I've discovered that I really hate os x. For the intel > xserve boxes, Linux isn't an option. The CPUs are amd64 architecture. > The EFI capable Linux bootloader, has had beta support for

what is /dev/xpt0/

2007-12-13 Thread Gary Kline
this probably is irrelevant to 90% of the list, but it's got me wondering. can anybody 'splain what kind of SCSI device xpt0 is? Is there a /dev/xpt1 if you're running a second optical drive/ thanks, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought

Re: PF blocking even if set to pass all

2007-12-13 Thread Erik Osterholm
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:19:03AM -0200, Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto wrote: > Hi guyz, like I've said in other topic, I'm building a BSD box that'll act > as a gateway between three private networks and the internet. I want that > each private network can ping to each other, and I can do that t

Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-13 Thread Cesar Amaya
Be sure to make a backup of /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. Then, should be able to add the line to /etc/mail/freebsd.mc, run make, and copy /ett/mail/freebsd.cf to /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. o.k. it seems it worked, hope don´t get that messages anymore. thank you very much. regards!!!

Re: (postfix) SPAM filter?

2007-12-13 Thread Sten Daniel Soersdal
Rudy wrote: Steve Bertrand wrote: * Once it is setup then it would require no additional maintenance. * Potential spam messages are marked with a special header that can be filtered on user discretion on their local mail client software. Yes, one recommendation for sure. Give up on your first

Re: FreeBSD and WiFi with captive portal

2007-12-13 Thread Peter Boosten
- Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:59:33 -0500 From: Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: FreeBSD and WiFi with captive portal To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Hello, I'm looking to set up a WiFi gateway wi

FreeBSD and WiFi with Captive portal, correction

2007-12-13 Thread Dave
Hello, In my last msg i posted on captive portal, i mentioned iptables i meant pf, i was thinking about a reinstallation of a CentOS box that came up, while i was writing and transposed iptables with pf. As i said i've seen docs on this but nothing saying how to link it all together. Tha

FreeBSD and WiFi with captive portal

2007-12-13 Thread Dave
Hello, I'm looking to set up a WiFi gateway with two nics, and iptables. The catch is i have to use a captive portal as well to ensure all traffic goes to a single destination. I've read about several packages, but haven't seen any docs that say how to integrate everything. If anyone has thi

Re: Promise SuperTrak EX12350 don't get detected under FreeBSD 6.2

2007-12-13 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 07:39:21PM +0100, Göran Nilsson wrote: > I have come a bit further. It seems that if I create a 2TB drive it all goes > good. But it doesn't seems to work when doing a large 5TB drive. > Is there some limitations on fdisk, and the size on partitions? Can't it > exceed 2TB? T

Re: cron pile up! Lot's of "cron: running job (cron)"

2007-12-13 Thread Rudy
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 03), Support (Rudy) said: Below is part of the cron... Seems like any random cronjob can get clogged up... load varies from 0.2 to 1.0 on this dual-core box. I rebooted the box -- cron's continue to slowly pile up. One of the cronjobs that is 'stuck'

Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-13 Thread Trix Farrar
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:35:57AM -0600, Cesar Amaya wrote: > Do I create the sendmail.mc file from scratch because I don´t have any? > I just have a freebsd.mc file. > Be sure to make a backup of /etc/mail/sendmail.cf. Then, should be able to add the line to /etc/mail/freebsd.mc, run make, a

Re: Mounting Western Digital USB drive?

2007-12-13 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 03:54:44PM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > Patrick Baldwin wrote: >> Tsetsbold Narantungalag wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> have you tried this before: >>> >>> #mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usb >>> >> I hadn't initially, but I have now: >> # mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdri

Re: PF blocking even if set to pass all

2007-12-13 Thread Erik Norgaard
Ghirai wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 09:19:03 -0200 "Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi guyz, like I've said in other topic, I'm building a BSD box that'll act as a gateway between three private networks and the internet. I want that each private network can ping to each

Re: How do I use my USB microphone and motherboard audio out?

2007-12-13 Thread Rudy
Watanabe Kazuhiro wrote: Hi. At Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:16:58 -0800, Rudy wrote: After reading some more man pages, I am still stumped but can better phrase my question: how do I set dsp0.0 as the default OUPUT and dsp1.1 as the default INPUT? ... Audacity will be able to specify a different

Re: em driver for FreeBSD 6.0

2007-12-13 Thread Support (Rudy)
Using 3rd party drivers is usually a DRAG. Just update your OS! Looks like the 6-STABLE (aka 6.3-RC1) has a newer driver. char em_driver_version[] = "Version - 6.7.3"; Rudy Jay Aikat wrote: Hi, I am trying to install the em-6.6 driver (downloaded from the Intel site) into my FreeBSD 6

Re: cdrtools versions and hal

2007-12-13 Thread Joerg Schilling
>I recently removed sysutils/cdrtools and installed cdrtools-devel >instead because cdrecord in cdrtools doesn't have prodvd included and >cdrtools-devel does (helped by a recent post from the author pointing >out that cdrecord from cdrtools is quite old). FreeBSD uses an extremely outdated cdr

em driver for FreeBSD 6.0

2007-12-13 Thread Jay Aikat
Hi, I am trying to install the em-6.6 driver (downloaded from the Intel site) into my FreeBSD 6.0 kernel. I followed their instructions. After running 'make cleandepend', when I run 'make depend' I get the following (working directory is /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/mykernel): ../../../dev/em/if

Re: How to install FreeBSD remotely from Debian Linux Environment?

2007-12-13 Thread David Robillard
>> Maybe you can get some ideas from this (now outdated) script I used >> for this >> purpose years ago: >> >> http://www.bzerk.org/files/mk-livecd > > thank you - this is what I've been looking for. Not a complete > solution - but a base to avoid figuring out those nasty hacks by > myself :) Say

Re: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-13 Thread Rob
Andrew Falanga wrote: sounds like everyone is sold on dovecot. Great!. I've a few questions. anyone explain to me what problems they have with mail clients attaching? See http://wiki.dovecot.org/Clients . This shows some interesting problems The developer is very adamant about writing d

Re: login.conf password options

2007-12-13 Thread James Harrison
On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 19:51 +0100, Peter Boosten wrote: > Quoting Daniel Bye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 07:30:21PM +0100, Peter Boosten wrote: > >> Quoting James Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > >> >:passwordtime=150d:\ > >> >:warnpassword=150d: > >> > >

Re: login.conf password options

2007-12-13 Thread James Harrison
On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 19:30 +0100, Peter Boosten wrote: > Quoting James Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > :passwordtime=150d:\ > > :warnpassword=150d: > > Is it me, or did you forget the backslash here? > > Peter It's you; the last option doesn't receive a backslash. Here's on

Re: login.conf password options

2007-12-13 Thread Daniel Bye
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 07:51:48PM +0100, Peter Boosten wrote: > Quoting Daniel Bye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 07:30:21PM +0100, Peter Boosten wrote: > >>Quoting James Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > >>>:passwordtime=150d:\ > >>>:warnpassword=150d: > >>

Re: login.conf password options

2007-12-13 Thread Peter Boosten
Quoting Daniel Bye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 07:30:21PM +0100, Peter Boosten wrote: Quoting James Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >:passwordtime=150d:\ >:warnpassword=150d: Is it me, or did you forget the backslash here? No, that's correct. It's the last lin

Re: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-13 Thread Support (Rudy)
Andrew Falanga wrote: Hi, I'm working on setting up a server for both WWW and e-mail. We're using apache 2.2 w/PHP support (for phpWebSite) and for e-mail I'd like to stay with sendmail for the MTA, but I've not used any servers that will allow for POP and IMAP. What in the ports would be good

Re: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-13 Thread Eric Crist
On Dec 13, 2007, at 12:36 PM, Daniel Bye wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:40:50AM -0700, Andrew Falanga wrote: sounds like everyone is sold on dovecot. Great!. I've a few questions. I went and looked it up on freshports.org and found the main web site. Can anyone explain to me what prob

Re: login.conf password options

2007-12-13 Thread Daniel Bye
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 07:30:21PM +0100, Peter Boosten wrote: > Quoting James Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >:passwordtime=150d:\ > >:warnpassword=150d: > > Is it me, or did you forget the backslash here? No, that's correct. It's the last line of a class definition. The back

Re: Promise SuperTrak EX12350 don't get detected under FreeBSD 6.2

2007-12-13 Thread Göran Nilsson
I have come a bit further. It seems that if I create a 2TB drive it all goes good. But it doesn't seems to work when doing a large 5TB drive. Is there some limitations on fdisk, and the size on partitions? Can't it exceed 2TB? The machine is a ordinary Core 2 duo 6750 with 4GB of ram. /Regards Gor

cdrtools versions and hal

2007-12-13 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi, I recently removed sysutils/cdrtools and installed cdrtools-devel instead because cdrecord in cdrtools doesn't have prodvd included and cdrtools-devel does (helped by a recent post from the author pointing out that cdrecord from cdrtools is quite old). Anyway, I just csupped my ports and

Re: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-13 Thread Daniel Bye
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 09:40:50AM -0700, Andrew Falanga wrote: > sounds like everyone is sold on dovecot. Great!. I've a few questions. I > went and looked it up on freshports.org and found the main web site. Can > anyone explain to me what problems they have with mail clients attaching? > See

Re: NIC "crashes" on heavy compile or HD action!

2007-12-13 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Coen Watstaatervoor wrote: I'm running a Supermicro webserver with a fresh install op FreeBSD 6.2-P9. With these hardware specs: Supermicro Superserver 5014CT P4 SATA 1x Intel Pentium 631 3.0Ghz SKT775 FSB800 2MB 2x Kingston 512MB DDR2 667 PC5300 2x Seagate 80GB SATA 1x 3ware 8006-2LP SATA R

Re: login.conf password options

2007-12-13 Thread Peter Boosten
Quoting James Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: :passwordtime=150d:\ :warnpassword=150d: Is it me, or did you forget the backslash here? Peter -- htp://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

login.conf password options

2007-12-13 Thread James Harrison
Hi folks, I've slowly been setting up some options for the default class in login.conf such that passwords will expire after 150 days. To test whether this functionality was working, I have a warning appear on the first day, so that if I set a password and log in , I ought to be warned that my pas

Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.

2007-12-13 Thread cpghost
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 13:28:23 -0600 "Mark Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this program seems to have the same issues with it. [Please don't top post.] Of course, if "ls -lf" has those issues, "sortls.py" will have them too, because it just runs it and sorts its output externally with another

Re: Realtek ALC262 and Via ENVY24 sound cards for rel. 6.2

2007-12-13 Thread Andrey Slusar
Wed, 12 Dec 2007 18:10:11 -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: > Lee Shackelford wrote: > > Good afternoon, FreeBSD enthusiasts. For FreeBSD release 6.2, does anyone > > know if there is any simpler way of using sound cards containing either a > > Realtek ALC262 chip or a Via ENVY24 chip than installi

Re: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-13 Thread Gerard Seibert
> On December 13, 2007 at 11:40AM Andrew Falanga wrote: [ snip ] > Second, how do programs like dovecot manage users? Does each user of the > e-mail system need to be a user of the FreeBSD system (installed locally)? No, Dovecot can handle virtual users just fine. I use it in conjunction with P

Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-13 Thread Cesar Amaya
I think you want to put it in sendmail.mc and then run the make in /ec/sendmail rather than modify sendmail.cf directly. Do I create the sendmail.mc file from scratch because I don´t have any? I just have a freebsd.mc file. ___ freebsd-questions

Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:10:33AM -0600, Cesar Amaya wrote: > > > > >Huh??? Where else would you put it? > > > > > > > In /etc/mail/sendmail.cf I think you want to put it in sendmail.mc and then run the make in /ec/sendmail rather than modify sendmail.cf directly. jerry ___

Re: How to install FreeBSD remotely from Debian Linux Environment?

2007-12-13 Thread Yves Vogl
Hi, On 13.12.2007, at 16:10, Ruben de Groot wrote: Best way would be to create your own custom bootable cd. This is quite easy. Maybe you can get some ideas from this (now outdated) script I used for this purpose years ago: http://www.bzerk.org/files/mk-livecd thank you - this is what

Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-13 Thread Cesar Amaya
Huh??? Where else would you put it? In /etc/mail/sendmail.cf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-13 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Dec 13, 2007 9:27 AM, Monah Baki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll 3rd it too, been using it for 2 years, amazing. > > > > Daniel Bye wrote: > >>> with sendmail for the MTA, but I've not used any servers that will > >>> allow for > >>> POP and IMAP. What in the ports would be good suggestions

Re: Promise SuperTrak EX12350 don't get detected under FreeBSD 6.2

2007-12-13 Thread Göran Nilsson
On the controller there it says that it supports freebsd 6.1. And yes there is documentation on how to install freebsd 6.1 on the raid. But for now i have installed freebsd on a RAID1 system, and i have problem getting the card detcted, i run a 5TB RAID 6 on this card. Didn't thought that it could

Re: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-13 Thread Monah Baki
I'll 3rd it too, been using it for 2 years, amazing. > Daniel Bye wrote: >>> with sendmail for the MTA, but I've not used any servers that will >>> allow for >>> POP and IMAP. What in the ports would be good suggestions from those >>> here >>> who've used them? >> >> dovecot is excellent - easy

NIC "crashes" on heavy compile or HD action!

2007-12-13 Thread Coen Watstaatervoor
I'm running a Supermicro webserver with a fresh install op FreeBSD 6.2-P9. With these hardware specs: Supermicro Superserver 5014CT P4 SATA 1x Intel Pentium 631 3.0Ghz SKT775 FSB800 2MB 2x Kingston 512MB DDR2 667 PC5300 2x Seagate 80GB SATA 1x 3ware 8006-2LP SATA RAID When I try to instal

Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:08:08AM -0600, Cesar Amaya wrote: > > >You should add something like this to your sendmail.mc config: > > > > define(`confMAX_MESSAGE_SIZE', `2100')dnl > > > >...which will set a maximum message size that your SMTP server is > >willing to accept. The recommended

Re: /tmp: filesystem full

2007-12-13 Thread Cesar Amaya
You should add something like this to your sendmail.mc config: define(`confMAX_MESSAGE_SIZE', `2100')dnl ...which will set a maximum message size that your SMTP server is willing to accept. The recommended max size in the RFCs was something like 10 MB, but season to taste. Do I have t

Re: Mounting Western Digital USB drive?

2007-12-13 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:53:38AM -0500, Patrick Baldwin wrote: > Yi Wang wrote: > >Try mount_ntfs /dev/da0 /mnt > > > >some usb disk doesn't have s1 postfix. > > I get: > > webmail# mount_ntfs /dev/da0 /mnt/usbdrive > mount_ntfs: /dev/da0: Invalid argument > > I'm wondering if I need to form

Re: Suggestions please for what POP or IMAP servers to use

2007-12-13 Thread Rob
Daniel Bye wrote: with sendmail for the MTA, but I've not used any servers that will allow for POP and IMAP. What in the ports would be good suggestions from those here who've used them? dovecot is excellent - easy setup, stable and reliable, provides IMAP I'll 2nd Dovecot. Been running it

Re: Mounting Western Digital USB drive?

2007-12-13 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Patrick Baldwin wrote: Tsetsbold Narantungalag wrote: Hi, have you tried this before: #mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usb I hadn't initially, but I have now: # mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument And dmesg: umass0: Western Digital External H

Re: Mounting Western Digital USB drive?

2007-12-13 Thread Patrick Baldwin
Tsetsbold Narantungalag wrote: Hi, have you tried this before: #mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usb I hadn't initially, but I have now: # mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument And dmesg: umass0: Western Digital External HDD, rev 2.00/1.04, addr

Re: Mounting Western Digital USB drive?

2007-12-13 Thread Patrick Baldwin
Yi Wang wrote: Try mount_ntfs /dev/da0 /mnt some usb disk doesn't have s1 postfix. I get: webmail# mount_ntfs /dev/da0 /mnt/usbdrive mount_ntfs: /dev/da0: Invalid argument I'm wondering if I need to format the USB drive for use with FreeBSD? On 12/12/07, Patrick Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How to install FreeBSD remotely from Debian Linux Environment?

2007-12-13 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 07:11:01PM +0100, Yves Vogl typed: > Hi, > > I tried to install FreeBSD from an existing Debian 4.0 Linux > installation with "Depenguinator 1.1". > Depenguinator failed due to a wide range of incompatibilities caused > by gcc-4.0 and the beta code used in Depenguinator

Re: Where is the next uid from adduser pulled from?

2007-12-13 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 12 December 2007 20:04, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 12:00:06PM -0500, Francisco Reyes wrote: > > I have scripts to add new users. However, after that any port that > > installs a user creates it with a UID after the ones I made. > > > > For example I want all emp

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