Re: Kernel error

2007-03-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
abhishek singh wrote: Hey I am getting this kernel: sis0: Applying short cable fix (reg=e8) kernel error in /var/log/messages what it does mean .I am using FreeBSD 5.4. You can ignore it; it an advisory message only. The chipset used for sis0 needs some different parameters if you use

Re: Kernel error

2007-03-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Garrett Cooper wrote: You can ignore it; it an advisory message only. The chipset used for sis0 needs some different parameters if you use a short cable - I believe these come from the manufacturer. In fact, with an sis0 chipset I always get this message even when using a cable which I

Re: 'nodump' on directories: new contents still dumped

2007-03-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Bram Schoenmakers wrote: Op maandag 19 maart 2007, schreef Alex Zbyslaw: Hi, 1) There is a bug in whatever version of FreeBSD you are running and -h 1 is somehow *not* the default. 6.2 Release? It's a FreeBSD 4.10 (I know, I know, no need to tell me, we're going to migrate

Re: Disappearing files, created from /etc/X11/Xclients

2007-03-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Laszlo Nagy wrote: The strange thing is that, if I login with user 'gandalf' who is in 'wheel', the files are created and saved into /tmp/disklessips/gandalf.txt and /tmp/disklessips/gandalf.history.txt. But if I login with any other user (they are in group 'users'), no files are created,

Re: Disappearing files, created from /etc/X11/Xclients

2007-03-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Please include freebsd-questions on any replies. Laszlo Nagy wrote: If os.getlogin() failed non-fatally and returned, say, and empty string, then you'd be creating a file called .txt, if I read correctly. What does ls -lsa /tmp/disklessips show? Do you in fact have .txt and .history.txt

Re: 'nodump' on directories: new contents still dumped

2007-03-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Bram Schoenmakers wrote: Op vrijdag 16 maart 2007, schreef Alex Zbyslaw: Can you try explicitly putting a -h 0 into your incremental command line and see if that makes a difference? I've done that and now dump behaves like it should. I don't understand why, because the man page says

Re: 'nodump' on directories: new contents still dumped

2007-03-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Bram Schoenmakers wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007 13:57, Bram Schoenmakers wrote: I'm using dump(8) for backing up a FreeBSD 4.10 server. [...] The problem is that new files appearing in the /usr/ports tree (daily portsnap cron) do not have the 'nodump' flag set. But despite

Re: sendmail not working?

2007-03-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Nagy László Zsolt wrote: I'm sorry, I did not paste all lines related to sendmail. Here are the options: messias# cat /etc/rc.conf | grep sendm sendmail_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=NO sendmail_outbound_enable=NO sendmail_msp_queue_enable=NO messias# cat /etc/rc.conf | grep postf

Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!

2007-03-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In case you haven't noticed I am a total FreeBSD n00b ;). How can I solve this error message? Thanks in advance!: Error message login: NVRM: AGP cannot be enabled on this combination of the AMD CPU and OS kernel NVRM: kernel upgrade recommended. Unless I am

Re: Dependency Confusion

2007-03-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Peter Pluta wrote: I'm a bit confused with dependency's. When you have a stale dependency's what does this usually mean? Does that mean that the dependency was already updated and not noted in the pkgdb? Or does it mean the version in the pkgdb is wrong and that I have a newer or older

Re: Problems installing FreeBSD

2007-03-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
s.moyzis wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/6.2 I downloaded all the files to a folder on my 2nd HD (Primary is C: 80 Gb Windows XP SP2, 2nd external 250 Gb HD has 2 partitons, G: which contains the entire C:drive for backup, and a

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jerry McAllister wrote: If you select F5 (maybe F6 or more, I should try that some time) it will instead cause the MBR from that second (maybe third, etc) disk to be loaded and passes control to it. F5 moves to the next disk. From that next disk F5 moves on to the next disk again and so

Re: Effectively detaching 'less' from a pipe

2007-02-27 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Matthew Seaman wrote: Kelly Jones wrote: Once I'm convinced, though, I'd like to get rid of less, and just have the rest of stdout spewed to the terminal (and/or /dev/null and/or to a file I specify). In other words, I want to stop hitting 'space' until my program terminates. Hit F

Re: highpoint hpt372 raid support, or other options?

2007-02-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Joel D. Parker wrote: I keep running into roadblocks... I'm running fbsd 6.1 release, i386 [...] -highpoint's own management software.. After trying atacontrol I figured I'd give highpoint's driver's a try. They say they support freebsd 6.1 so this shouldn't be an issue right? Well I install

Re: Mounting multiple NFS shares to the same point

2007-02-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Tillman Hodgson wrote: If that still holds true in the -current src, the second mount will *definitely* cause me backup problems. I may have to move to keeping the NFS export always mounted, which is not ideal. Could you use something like ssh to transfer the files rather than needing NFS?

Re: Mounting multiple NFS shares to the same point

2007-02-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Tillman Hodgson wrote: Could you use something like ssh to transfer the files rather than needing NFS? (I don't know if you mentioned what the NFS-end box was...). That's a good idea. In this case the NFS-end box is an Infrant appliance so I don't think I can use scp. I'll check deeper

Re: [SOLVED] Help please: how to enable SSH password authentication under FreeBSD 6.2? Solved - but not in an expected way

2007-02-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Olaf Greve wrote: The issue is that PuTTY does not fall back from its SSH2 attempt to SSH1 (with password authentication), as is what I specified in my /etc/ssh/sshd_config Is this what you tried too, or did you use SSH2 (i.e. key authentication, instead of password authentication)?

Re: BBC debate Battle of the operating systems

2007-01-26 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Robin Becker wrote: The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm They want one individual to represent each OS. Apparently they only want Vista, OS X and Linux, but I don't see why we can't press for FreeBSD. I have complained. Last week

Re: FreeBSD Backup

2006-12-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Peter A. Giessel wrote: On 2006/12/12 6:05, probsd org seems to have typed: dump -L -0f - / | ssh -C [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /usr/home/login/root.dump The handbook also suggests something to the effect of: /sbin/dump -0uaL -f - / | gzip -2 | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] dd

SATA server recommendation

2006-12-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Can anyone recommend a server to run FreeBSD with the following features: 1) Supports multiple (say 4 or more) SATA disks (RAID optional) - capacity is more important than speed so SAS disks are overkill. 2) Decent on-site support for the whole machine, so probably from a big-brand

Re: python 2.3 binary package bug

2006-12-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Robin Becker wrote: Gerard Seibert wrote: .. them. If it is a bug what's the reporting mechanism? man send-pr what an awful interface that was ;( made me grumpy using it. Perhaps I've grown too used to these new fangled web applications :) http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html

Re: python 2.3 binary package bug

2006-12-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Robin Becker wrote: more relaxing somehow even though it's really the same info. Perhaps it was the fact that send-pr uses vi rather than my normal vim. All those nice colours would have helped. Thanks for the pointers. If you set $VISUAL in your environment to /usr/local/bin/vim (assuming

Re: display power

2006-12-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: can someone tell me how to stop FreeBSD (4.11) from turning off my monitor (after whatever preset timeout there is)? vidcontrol -t off Unless you're running X, in which case I know it can be done, but can't remember how.

Re: python 2.3 binary package bug

2006-12-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Gerard Seibert wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html You are right Alex. I had forgotten about that never having used it personally. I have a question though. The PC based send-pr captures certain system attributes. Does the web based one function similarly? I don't believe it does.

Re: ssh client affecting fonts?

2006-12-04 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Eric wrote: So what terminal type is set when you use SecureCRT? putty will use something like xterm or vt100 both of which will display make config correctly, but a setting for a dumb terminal or no setting will look more like your screenshot. --Alex i have tried xterm, linux, ansi, etc

Re: Acroread never dies

2006-12-04 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Pietro Cerutti wrote: acroread7-7.0.8,1 acroreadwrapper-0.0.20060221 firefox-2.0_2,1 the Acrobat Reader 7 plugin works just fine, but the acroread process doesn't die even after the Firefox window containing the object visualized by the plugin (a PDF document) has been closed. The process is

Re: Fw: Re: problem with script execution

2006-12-01 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Ray Still wrote: Just out of curiosity: What is the echo * | supposed to do? From my point of view the shell will expand * to the list of files and directories in PWD, so echo * acts like a simple ls in this context. This list is piped to sudo. But what does sudo do with these? sorry, I

Re: Fw: Re: problem with script execution

2006-12-01 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Ray Still wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Ray Still wrote: Just out of curiosity: What is the echo * | supposed to do? From my point of view the shell will expand * to the list of files and directories in PWD, so echo * acts like a simple ls in this context. This list is piped to sudo

Re: ssh client affecting fonts?

2006-12-01 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Eric wrote: hello, for some reason, when i do a 'make config' on a port, the border that used to be solid lines is no longer that way (at least when using SecureCRT). However, when i use putty, it looks as expected (and it used to in SecureCRT) a screen shot is here:

Re: Data Recovery

2006-11-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Christian Walther wrote: I don't think that rsync can cope with hardlinks. yes it can. From the man page: -H, --hard-linkspreserve hard links Slower, but it copes. Best way to do a backup like this is: tar -clf - / | ( cd /ad2 ; tar -xf - ) Only if you want to copy

Re: DUMP + RESTORE

2006-11-29 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I know that if I dump a filesystem (lets say a full dump), that everything says the restore filesystem needs to be at least as big as the one the dump was made from. But I dare ask this question anyway ... If I have a filesystem that is 10 GIG, but because I am

Re: portsdb -Uu hung

2006-11-29 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Are you *sure* it's hung? -U does a make index in /usr/ports which takes *forever* as it has to run a make command in *every single port*. If you've just updated your ports tree with cvsup then consider running make fetchindex from /usr/ports which just grabs the latest pre-built version and

Re: portsdb -Uu hung

2006-11-29 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Are you *sure* it's hung? -U does a make index in /usr/ports which takes *forever* as it has to run a make command in *every single port*. If you've just updated your ports tree with cvsup then consider running make fetchindex from /usr/ports which just grabs the latest

Re: 'seq' at a BSD-like OS?

2006-11-24 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: Hi, If I'm at a Linux machine, I can use 'seq'. (Okay, everyone knows it.) But when I'm at a BSD-like OS, I can't find 'seq' from the coreutils. Does anybody know how I install it over FreeBSD or Mac OS X? Install the sysutils/coreutils port to get gseq (which you can

Re: Upgrade Question

2006-11-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Graham Bentley wrote: You've confused STABLE with RELEASE. 6.2 has not reached RELEASE. 6-STABLE is the latest these changes worked fine in CURRENT (right now, aka 7) and have been MFCed (merged from current) so that more people can try them out, which right now corresponds to the version

Re: sources version file?

2006-11-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-11-23 09:46, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ive searched the archives over the past 2 weeks or so unsuccessfully for this tidbit, which i have seen mentioned here before. so, i re-ask: what is the path/filename of the sources file that says what

Re: Java JRE (latest) | Mozilla 2

2006-11-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
probsd org wrote: Hey group. I'm using the latest Firefox2 (non-linux) and have the latest diablo-jre15 port installed. I'm finding that the plugin for firefox causes firefox to freeze consistently. For example, when accessing myspace, as soon as I click on Myspace's mail link firefox will

Re: Help... Installing from Port

2006-11-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Frank Staals wrote: VeeJay wrote: If I will install Apache2 from the Port, how can I configure to add module or disable modules? If we can configure in Port, so where it could be done and how? and if its in a file, where it would be placed? go to the apache2 dir in your portstree (

Re: Upgrade Question

2006-11-22 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Gerard Seibert wrote: On Tuesday November 21, 2006 at 09:08:42 (PM) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RELENG_6 for whatever 6-STABLE is (6.2 right now but will soon enough be moving on towards 6.3.). I wasn't aware that 6.2 had been released as 'STABLE' yet. Short version: No, the OP

Re: HELP! Installation Questions

2006-11-09 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 06:39:50AM +0100, VeeJay wrote: .Ideal Space required for MySQL DBs: 140GB. (Contents: Many MySQL databases backing name based virtual websites) .Ideal Space required for Virtual Hosted Websites: 140GB (Contents: HTML, PHP, Images, Mail, Logs,

Re: HELP! Installation Questions

2006-11-09 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 05:26:38PM +, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 06:39:50AM +0100, VeeJay wrote: Maximum space required for SWAP to get high performance. If you end up using swap space you will *not* get

Re: tcpwrappers SSH

2006-10-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
òÉÈÁÄ çÁÄÖÉÅ× wrote: A comment in /etc/hosts.allow states that: Wrapping sshd(8) is not normally a good idea Why? Is it because such restrictions should naturally be made using a firewall/PAM/sshd itself/whatever? I think GENERIC sshd wouldn't have been built with libwrap support in the

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The results of your email commands]

2006-10-25 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Gary Kline wrote: Folks, how can I un-sub from the -queestions list that is sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] when the mailer thinks I am NOT a Subscriber??? See my //HERE tag below Once a month you should be getting a reminder from [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject

Re: rm command problem

2006-10-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jonathan Arnold wrote: DAve wrote: director# find . -inum 107763 -exec rm -i {} \; remove ./.rhosts? y Well, that was fun! I was wondering just how many different ways people could come up with deleting the file, but this one has to be crowned the winner of the all important Most Obscure

Re: fstab (local) mount -- FreeBSD Port: sysutils/fusefs-curlftpfs

2006-10-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
martinko wrote: Hello, This is from CurlFtpFS FAQ: # *How can I make CurlFtpFS mount automatically at startup?* You can add it to /etc/fstab. Example: curlftpfs#ftp.host.com /mnt/host fuse rw,uid=500,user,noauto 0 0 However, it does not work on FreeBSD -- mount fails with this complain:

Re: Why csh on Root?

2006-10-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Joerg Pernfuss wrote: /bin/sh is actually an ash. Minimal POSIX sh with a few additions that don't help it anyway near a friendly shell for interactive use. With set -o emacs or set -o vi, and the existence of job control, sh is a perfectly adequate *root* shell, IMHO - though I'm a csh

Re: rm command problem

2006-10-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Efren Bravo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Accidentally I've created a file called -exclude and now I cann't delete it. I tried with: rm -exclude and rm *exclude but it returns this: rm: illegal option -- - usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dIPRrvW] file ... unlink

Re: Why csh on Root?

2006-10-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Martin McCormick wrote: One thing I was trying to accomplish is to have a bell in the root prompt. In the .cshrc file is a string set prompt=\007\!# I have also tried replacing the \007 with the actual Control-G and even a \a. All produce an attempt to render a bell but

Re: Recommended Hardware

2006-10-19 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Wayne wrote: If I was going to build or spec' a system, what subset of the supported hardware is best? I've heard cons, like manufacturer's apathy or negativity towards FreeBSD. I guess Pros would include stable, actively developed drivers, consistency and long term availability of

Re: ntpd not adjusting the clock?

2006-10-18 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Matthew Seaman wrote: That means that anyone can connect to your NTP daemon and poll it for time service or use ntpdc to muck around with your configuration. It's better to use at minimum: restrict default nopeer nomodify restrict localhost You *can* block that kind of unwanted

Re: python-mode in emacs

2006-10-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Emacs doesn't seem to load files in /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp installed by ports. E.g python-mode installs files in this directory, but python-mode is not available in emacs afterwards. I have to manually tell emacs to look in these files. Are there any way

Re: ntpd with flags in rc.conf

2006-10-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: I have a question about ntpd. HOw is the time adjusted? Gradually over time? Because I can see 30-second difference between my pc and FBSD machine. Will it be minimized in the longer run? Thanks! You're best off directing followup questions back to freebsd-questions

Re: ntpd with flags in rc.conf

2006-10-11 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: I read this in the handbook: To ensure the NTP server is started at boot time, add the line ntpd_enable=YES to /etc/rc.conf. If you wish to pass additional flags to ntpd(8), edit the ntpd_flags parameter in /etc/rc.conf. Now, I understand that the additional flag

Re: How to change all /bin/bash at /etc/passwd to /sbin/nologin?

2006-10-10 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would not recommend using vipw [...] to change your users' shells. Why not? --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: cvsup and portupgrade

2006-10-08 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, Armin Pirkovitsch wrote: Well another cvsup won't solve the problem since php hasn't been patched yet. However if you're really sure you need and want this kind of port installed just set the environment variable DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES. However -

Re: port php5 - what I am supposed to do here?

2006-10-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Matt Emmerton wrote: Hello List, Portuadit telles my about the open_basedir Race Condition Vulnerability, OK. By reading the advisory on http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_082006.132.html I can safely say this does not apply to our environment, we don't use open_basedir or safe_mode and

Re: Disaster recovery.

2006-10-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I currently keep file dumps of all filesystems on our servers on a secure raid 5 box, lees of course, the proc and swap dir. These dumps look like this and are done and transfered to a NFS filesystem in the /mnt/ dir. server1-usr-full-dump server1-home-full-dump

Re: Portsnap Update Question

2006-10-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chris wrote: I'm preparing to apply all the recent updates to the production servers I have on 6.1 R P6 tomorrow morning and want to make certain I fully update the servers with the window of I have. I'll cvsup, build and install world and kernel through the normal process. What I've

Re: Couldn't open SMTP server 127.0.0.1:25!

2006-10-05 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Aziz Manas wrote: I'm running Redhat 9 with OpenWebMail installed. When i try to send email it got this error message from OpenWebMail Couldn't open SMTP server 127.0.0.1:25! This is a FreeBSD mailing list. FreeBSD has nothing whatsoever to do with Redhat, I'm afraid. Having a wild guess,

Re: Trouble with Berkeley DB version 4.4.20?

2006-10-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Mark wrote: I have done this upgrade path for BerkeleyDB and Perl several times; from 1.85 - 4.1 - 4.2, and now - 4.4.20. It has always worked well. Even now it compiles just fine. It just isn't stable anymore. If someone out there has an idea, I'd really like to know. I don't have any

Re: Ruby gaining weight?

2006-10-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Pete Slagle wrote: Recent versions of ruby18 seem to take more than 145 MB of virtual memory to build with portupgrade or make install clean. I have several classic boxes running bind and a mail MTA on 4.11 that are memory-limited, but otherwise work well. The main boards are maxed out at 64

Re: Trouble with Berkeley DB version 4.4.20?

2006-09-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Mark wrote: Hello, I realize this is probably not the most flashy issue, but, if possible, I would really like an answer to this question. I compiled BerkeleyDB 4.4.20 with the following in config.in: INCLUDE = /usr/local/include/db44 LIB = /usr/local/lib# also tried /usr/local/lib/db44

Re: minimum requirements

2006-09-29 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 06:13:16PM -0700, Art Mattox wrote: what are the recommended minimum hw requirements for version 6.1? e.g. diskspace, memory, etc I don't know what the current absolute minimum to run values would be. I believe minimum ram is 24Mb

Re: portupgrade: ruby state=swread

2006-09-28 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Pascal Bleyler wrote: There are only 3 ports needing an update, one of this port is ruby. pkg_info means i have ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2 installed and under /usr/ports/distfiles/ruby is ruby-1.8.5.tar.gz (i think it's the update version) All ran fine but since 1hour top shows me the following:

Re: Sync files locally?

2006-09-27 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Paul Schmehl wrote: What's the best way to sync files locally? I'm running rsync over ssh to backup files from a server. Now I'm setting up a new server, so I rsynced to it as well. The files end up in a subdir of my home directory, because my account is being used for the rsync. I've

Re: problem installing on i386

2006-09-26 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Desmond Coughlan wrote: Hi, I hope that I'm not sending this to the wrong list, or that the question hasn't already been answered. This is the right list. If you want to know if something similar has been answered before then try searching the archives which you can find from

Re: Tared by TAR

2006-09-26 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Bob wrote: I went nuts, and got tar'ed and feathered with TAR. I have always used tar with the -M option (--multi-volume) which allows you to span more than one tape on a big ta archiver; but you won't find this -M option in BSD's TAR! Nor will you find a proper man page, for BSD's port of

Re: gmirror HD failure detection

2006-09-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Robin Becker wrote: Dave wrote: Hi, I've got smartd going on a gmirror system, however when smartd starts up it says it can't find the various drives. I've tried both the autodetection line as well as specifying the individual drives. If this does work i'd like to know about it as i

Re: nested labels

2006-09-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
On 9/21/06, Jeffrey Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have hit the limit of 8 disklabels per slice. Supposedly, one can create lables within a label, thus overcoming this limit. I googled everything but could only find references to gpt-- nothing about nested labels or partitions. Can anyone

Re: Default file creation permissions

2006-09-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Aitor San Juan wrote: I have a shell script whose execution is scheduled by CRON. The command scheduled is of the form: 50 23 * * 1-5 /apps/batch/cronjobs/bd_backup.sh /apps/batch/logs/bd_backup.log 21 This shell script runs under the id of root. The file permissions of the log file created

Re: amd ports

2006-09-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
eoghan wrote: Hi Just a general question about the ports for freebsd. I am now running 6.1 on amd64. Got most of what I need, but noticed that some ports are only i386 - like the flock browser and skype. Obviously I can live without these but was just wondering if there is a place I could

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 no inodes left

2006-09-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Philip Radford wrote: Hi All, I am running FreeBSD 5.4 and have recently received the following message on our box for the /var partiton. No inodes left. I have checked the statistics and there was an apache httpd log which was maxing out the usable space. I have since removed this file and

Re: gmirror HD failure detection

2006-09-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Robin Becker wrote: After using Dru Lavigne's excellent article http://tinyurl.com/da66a about Raid-1 I have a full Raid-1 mirror on a new rack server. I'm wondering if anyone can tell me how best to monitor the hardware status to detect imminent failure of one of the disks? Do I use

Re: fortune in English or Spanish

2006-09-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Thursday, September 14, 2006 a las 02:50:56PM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze escribió: Matthias Apitz wrote: Hi, I'm missing somehow the classic 'fortune' command and files in the ports, the are Italian and Russian ones, but don't see the fortune itself. If there

Re: NIC Questions for 6.1 Release

2006-09-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chris wrote: On Sep 12, 2006, at 3:12 PM, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Chris wrote: Is there any single source where one can go to see what has been changed on the various components of the OS. Go to the source :-) http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ Wow! That's an excellent resource

Re: NIC Questions for 6.1 Release

2006-09-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Alternatively you could just try downloading the two files and copying them over your existing ones (after backing them up!) and just try and see if a make buildkernel will compile them. If the changes don't rely on anything outside of these two files, you'd likely

Re: NIC Questions for 6.1 Release - Obtaining changes not in RELEASE

2006-09-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chris wrote: Excellent and detailed information. I read the handbook and Complete FreeBSD but couldn't grasp the relationship between CURRENT, STABLE, and RELEASE and the cvsup tags definitively. This is important when buying new hardware running ahead of RELEASE changes (e.g. the

Re: CLI text editor recommendation

2006-09-13 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Andy Greenwood wrote: I need a CLI text editor I can use over ssh, which does NOT append newlines to the end of files as I save them. I am using this to edit PHP files, and my PHP doesn't like newlines outside the last ?. ee and vi both do so, I tried nano which also does the same. I haven't

Re: Ambiguous output redirect

2006-09-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
bsd wrote: I don't understand why when I execute this script I have an Ambiguous output redirect. ? p0f -l 'tcp dst port 25' 21 | /usr/local/sbin/p0f-analyzer.pl 2345 One answer would be that this is bourne shell syntax and you shell is csh. Try 0f -l 'tcp dst port 25' |

Re: NIC Questions for 6.1 Release

2006-09-12 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Chris wrote: Is there any single source where one can go to see what has been changed on the various components of the OS. Go to the source :-) http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ Especially for changes to limited components like a specific ethernet driver, it quite easy to see if

Re: Making startup order static

2006-09-11 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
White Hat wrote: FreeBSD 6.1 I need to keep several programs starting in a particular order. clamav-clamd clamav-freshclam clamsmtpd saslauthd dovecot postfix fetchmail By default, they do not start in that order. I have modified the rc.d files to force them to start in the order specified

Re: SnapShot Magic

2006-09-10 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Bob wrote: /usr is a 33GB HW/Raid partition, how can it possibly hold 6 33GB snapshots??? If I mount each one of these, they all report to df that they are indeed 33BB file systems! How is this magic achieved? Is there a doc somewhere with an explaination? Snapshots only hold the

Re: Efficacy vs. friendliness [Was: How to fix init - /etc/ttys?]

2006-09-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Pete Slagle wrote: Gary Kline wrote: SOAPBOX Anyway, this is to the entire list: A week or so ago I loaned my 5.3 set to a non-geek friend who had occasionally been using RH. He brought the box of discs back and said it was too hard to install; that

Re: cups 1.2.2 and parallel port printers

2006-09-07 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Robert Huff wrote: Jona Joachim writes: _In my case_, CUPS as ported does not like the permissions on /dev/lpt0*. They default to crw---; setting them to crw-rw-rw- makes the parallel printer appear. There should be a way to tall devfs to change those permissions

Re: can i build more than one world on a buildserver?

2006-09-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jonathan Horne wrote: is it possible to have STABLE and RELENG built on a single build server? or further, is it possible to have 5.5 and 6.1 worlds built from the same machine? Yes. Just slice up your disk and use one of the extra slices to install your other version. AFAIK, you need

Re: can i build more than one world on a buildserver?

2006-09-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
is it possible to have STABLE and RELENG built on a single build server? or further, is it possible to have 5.5 and 6.1 worlds built from the same machine? I realise you may have meant, use one server to build different worlds for different source trees for later installation on other

Re: portversion is part of what?

2006-09-03 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Henry Lenzi wrote: Hi -- Is portversion a part of another big binary? Apparently, I can't just reinstall portversion. $ pkg_info -W `which portversion` /usr/local/sbin/portversion was installed by package portupgrade-20041226_7 --Alex ___

Re: can someone point me to some good and descriptive VPN documentation for my use?

2006-09-01 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jim Stapleton wrote: d'oh, thanks, I was looking for vpn in net and net-mgmt, didn't think of grepping the security directory. cd /usr/ports; make search name=vpn --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: can someone point me to some good and descriptive VPN documentation for my use?

2006-08-31 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jim Stapleton wrote: I'm trying to VPN in to work from home, and the IT group there only supports windows. There are Cisco pre-configured clients for Linux, MacOS X, and Windows available, but not BSD. I tried running the Linux binary, but it wanted to move to a nonexistant driectory, and

Re: include format for /etc/rc.conf

2006-08-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey all, Are there any supported formats for INCLUDES in /etc/rc.conf such that I can drop default configs into /etc/rc.conf and then have files in a certain directory (ala includerc) override them? Basically, I'd like to do mass-updates of several dozen

Re: e-mail from cron

2006-08-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Lisa Casey wrote: # Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance. 1 3 * * * rootperiodic daily 21 | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] 15 4 * * 6 rootperiodic weekly 21 | sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] 30 5 1 * *

Re: devices

2006-08-22 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Vizion wrote: As an experiment I disconnected ad0 and then rebooted from the iso image to see what would be reported. The installation menu reported No disks found! Does anyone have a clue as to what might be going on here and how I might be able to deal with it? It would appear that

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 buildworld segfault on gcc

2006-08-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Mischa Peters wrote: Hi All, Not sure if this is the right list, there are so many... but here it goes. :) Always a good place to start. I am trying to run buildworld on FreeBSD 6.1. Using RELENG_6_1. It segfaults on GCC with the following message: cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 buildworld segfault on gcc

2006-08-17 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Mischa Peters wrote: I am trying to run buildworld on FreeBSD 6.1. Using RELENG_6_1. It segfaults on GCC with the following message: cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -DIN_GCC -DHAVE_CONFIG_H - DPREFIX= \/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr\ -I/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/ src/gnu/

Re: FreeBSD 6.X and postfix/postmap - corrupt maps

2006-08-16 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Darek M wrote: I am unable to use the 'postmap' program under 6.0- or 6.1-RELEASE. Instead of building a valid hash map, it puts in various data from what appears to be my /etc/master.passwd file, complete with crypted password. I believe that this is some type of a library issue. I'm

Re: Stupid question about mountpoints and fstab

2006-08-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hello people, I have never figured out something like this can be done, but today I see it. We have purchased s co-lo server. They have installed it and given me access to do whatever you want with the box, but their fstab has left me thirsty, wanting to know

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-04 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Olivier Nicole wrote: Why not doing the parsing on the server? Is there a limit on the size of an HTTP GET request? Yes. Something like 4k springs to mind. That's what POST is for and would be easy in Perl, but then we can't use that :-( --Alex

Re: pflog0 question

2006-08-04 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Beni wrote: Hi all, Does pflog0 need to get an ip-address from dhcp ? From what I can see in dmesg, pflog0 can't get one (vr0 does) but pflog0 seems to be up and running (same for pf and pflogd). So how do I get an address for pflog0 (if needed) ? I'm using 6.1-STABLE. From dmesg : [...]

Re: watchdog question.

2006-08-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Bill Moran wrote: RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 01 August 2006 20:39, Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, I've a freeBSD box and I've been seeing this message for several months: sis0 watchdog timeout. The box has two ethernet cards, sis0 (100mb) and vr0 (10mb). The messages isn't

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Atom Powers wrote: It's still going to take you at least a release to get it into the base install. But if you can find a way to use the portsnap data and get useful information out of the cvsup data you can probably get numbers now with an error margin as low as 8% to 15%. Hey, I said that

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