Simulating webserver load balancing

2005-02-10 Thread Gerard Samuel
Im looking for suggestions for a port and/or tips that would assist me in setting up a webserver cluster. But the catch is, I only have one physical webserver. I want to simulate an environment to test some code that I wrote. Thanks for anything that you can provide... _

Re: FreeBSD Logo Context (baka context)

2005-02-10 Thread David Gerard
Luís Vitório Cargnini ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050210 23:02]: > For who like the logo, help to save him: > http://www.petitiononline.com/fbsdmsc1/petition.html Argh. What idjit made that petition such that signatures are not verified? - d. ___ freebsd-q

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such asNetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread David Gerard
David Gerard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050210 20:41]: > I'd rather see effort towards some of the really *stupid* bugs in 5.x that > languish for months with a fix included. Like linux-pango being broken, > meaning that by default you can't actually run a lot of recent Linux > b

Re: Please don't change Beastie to another crap logo such asNetBSD!!!

2005-02-10 Thread David Gerard
Anthony Atkielski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050210 20:34]: > Ted Mittelstaedt writes: > > Yep, I was wondering how long it would take before someone figured > > this one out. We know the real rea$on$ that this logo change is > > being contemplated, don't we. > Personally, I wonder how FreeBSD survi

Re: Generating Backtrace on FBSD 5.3

2005-02-08 Thread Gerard Samuel
Miguel Mendez wrote: On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 10:13:32 -0500 Gerard Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Im trying to figure out how to generate a backtrace from a core dump of subversion, to send to subversion developers. What tools are available to read a core dump file, to generate this backtr

Generating Backtrace on FBSD 5.3

2005-02-08 Thread Gerard Samuel
Slightly off-topic. Im trying to figure out how to generate a backtrace from a core dump of subversion, to send to subversion developers. What tools are available to read a core dump file, to generate this backtrace on FreeBSD 5.3? I'm trying to understand gdb, but Im not sure if this is what I'm l

Re: Electricity bill - OT

2005-02-08 Thread David Gerard
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050208 15:29]: > A lot of new-built houses in the US are installing continuous > circulation systems for hot water, which greatly reduces the time the > HW heater is running, since when you turn on the hot water, you get > instantaneous hot water

Re: favor

2005-02-07 Thread David Gerard
Anthony Atkielski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050208 03:53]: > David Gerard writes: > DG> I go to a site called google.com and I enter error messages > DG> verbatim, and often what comes back is a pile of mailing list posts. > DG> They are far superior to nothing. > No doubt, b

Re: favor

2005-02-07 Thread David Gerard
Anthony Atkielski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050208 03:16]: > David Gerard writes: > DG> That would sorta suck. I know I write my questions and answers with > DG> a view to them being searchable on the web maybe months or years > DG> later, as I know how very grateful I am to thos

Re: favor

2005-02-07 Thread David Gerard
Anthony Atkielski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050208 03:08]: > An alternative is to make the archive accessible only to current > members, and to purge posts from any member who leaves the list. > There's still a bit of risk in that but it eliminates most potential > objections. That would sorta suck.

WORKAR?OUND: dhclient problems in 5.3-RELEASE

2005-02-06 Thread David Gerard
David Gerard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050124 05:34]: > This afternoon, I set up a new machine with 5.3-RELEASE. Started with three > 5.3-beta5 floppies, told it I wanted 5.3-RELEASE from a CD-R, installed > minimal base, man pages and ports, created two users. > On reboot, I ran dhc

Re: how do i get freebsd

2005-02-01 Thread David Gerard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050202 01:03]: > hi my name is mark I'm new to freebsd.i was wanting to know how, i can get > it or which one i should get. if some one could help me that would be cool > thanks. Start at http://www.freebsd.org/where.html and go for FreeBSD 5.3, which i

ipfw statefull ruleset problem

2005-01-29 Thread Gerard Meijer
Hi everyone, I have a question regarding my statefull ipfw ruleset. I have the following rules: ---begin--- $cmd 00015 check-state #www $cmd 00200 allow tcp from any to any 80 out via $pif setup keep-state #mail $cmd 00231 allow tcp from any to any 110 out via $pif setup keep-state #ftp $cmd

Re: [Repost] Logging to custom file via syslog [was]: php log to own syslog file

2005-01-27 Thread Gerard Samuel
Ruben de Groot wrote: On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 11:28:06AM -0500, Gerard Samuel typed: <...> This will only log user.info messages coming from the ppp program to /var/log/php.log. Either move the "user.=info" line up or finish the "!ppp" block with a "!*" li

Re: [Repost] Logging to custom file via syslog [was]: php log to own syslog file

2005-01-25 Thread Gerard Samuel
Ruben de Groot wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 12:18:46PM -0500, Gerard Samuel typed: I think this is a FreeBSD problem. It's not. Here is what I have. 1. I removed my initial modification of /etc/syslog.conf, and added -> user.=info /var/log

Re: Scroll whell on FreeBSD 5.3 i386

2005-01-25 Thread David Gerard
Michael Madden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050125 06:34]: > What is the secret to getting my scroll wheel working on FreeBSD 5.3? If have > the following added to /etc/rc.conf: And I'm having ... the same problem with 5.3! And I couldn't get a solution that worked either! http://lists.freebsd.org/pip

[Repost] Logging to custom file via syslog [was]: php log to own syslog file

2005-01-24 Thread Gerard Samuel
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Gerard Samuel wrote: Im trying to figure out how to setup FreeBSD 5.3 to log php events to its own log file via syslog. In /etc/syslog.conf, I added -> # php logs !httpd *.* /var/log/php.log I created a empty file for the

Re: dhclient problems in 5.3-RELEASE

2005-01-23 Thread David Gerard
Hexren ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050124 07:02]: > DG> On reboot, I ran dhclient and it completely failed to get an IP address. > DG> But I know the cable is good and the DHCP server is working, because I > DG> booted the box in question into Windows and it grabbed an IP just fine. So > DG> where do I s

dhclient problems in 5.3-RELEASE

2005-01-23 Thread David Gerard
This afternoon, I set up a new machine with 5.3-RELEASE. Started with three 5.3-beta5 floppies, told it I wanted 5.3-RELEASE from a CD-R, installed minimal base, man pages and ports, created two users. On reboot, I ran dhclient and it completely failed to get an IP address. But I know the cable i

Re: Network Printing - Please put me out of my misery

2005-01-22 Thread Gerard Samuel
gabriel wrote: I'm not sure what you mean by "try the jetdirect," PORT STATE SERVICE 9100/tcp open jetdirect <=== This One Jetdirect is HP's print server ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

Logging to custom file via syslog [was]: [Repost] php log to own syslog file

2005-01-22 Thread Gerard Samuel
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Gerard Samuel wrote: Im trying to figure out how to setup FreeBSD 5.3 to log php events to its own log file via syslog. In /etc/syslog.conf, I added -> # php logs !httpd *.* /var/log/php.log I created a empty file for the

Re: [Repost] php log to own syslog file

2005-01-21 Thread Gerard Samuel
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Gerard Samuel wrote: Im trying to figure out how to setup FreeBSD 5.3 to log php events to its own log file via syslog. In /etc/syslog.conf, I added -> # php logs !httpd *.* /var/log/php.log I created a empty file for the

[Repost] php log to own syslog file

2005-01-21 Thread Gerard Samuel
Im trying to figure out how to setup FreeBSD 5.3 to log php events to its own log file via syslog. In /etc/syslog.conf, I added -> # php logs !httpd *.* /var/log/php.log I created a empty file for the log -> gladiator# touch /var/log/php.log gladiator# ls

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-21 Thread David Gerard
Matthias Buelow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050121 17:21]: > David Gerard wrote: > >So something around 500MHz will happily run Pango and the other > >cutting-edge internationalisation stuff if you fill it with memory. > My experience is that with a 500Mhz Pentium 3 (512K cache, 51

Re: PDF file editor

2005-01-20 Thread David Gerard
E. J. Cerejo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050121 14:58]: > Is there a port that allows you to edit a pdf file or fill it in? It appears not - lots of writers and readers, but no *editors* per se. Write one ;-D - d. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

php log to own syslog file

2005-01-20 Thread Gerard Samuel
Im trying to figure out how to setup FreeBSD 5.3 to log php events to its own log file via syslog. In /etc/syslog.conf, I added -> # php logs !httpd *.* /var/log/php.log I created a empty file for the log -> gladiator# touch /var/log/php.log gladiator# ls

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-20 Thread David Gerard
Anthony Atkielski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050121 02:12]: > Matthias Buelow writes: > MB> Wake up from your pipe dreams. Shipping decommissioned computers to the > MB> 3rd world is not going to solve any development problem. > It helps solve an environmental problem, though. And they need not be >

Open Sound System

2005-01-19 Thread Gerard Seibert
I have seen OSS from opensound.org mentioned here a few times. I have not been able to locate it in the 'ports tree'. Would I be correct in assuming that it is not available there, but rather only by downloading it directly from opensound.org directly? Thanks! Gerard Seibert [EMAIL

Re: FreeBSD I LOVE YOU

2005-01-19 Thread David Gerard
Xian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050119 23:21]: > On Wednesday 19 January 2005 08:17, faisal gillani wrote: > > Well it has been almost a year now since I first tried > > FreeBSD 5.2.1 on my production server :-) " I like > I installed FreeBSD on a machine with an Athlon 3200 that I accident under > cl

Difference between CPUTYPE= in /etc/make.conf

2005-01-18 Thread Gerard Seibert
be between one and four. Does it make a discernable difference? Thanks! Gerard E. Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.' -- Anonymous ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: NFS & File Locking on FBSD 5.3

2005-01-11 Thread Gerard Samuel
Erik Norgaard wrote: Gerard Samuel wrote: Gerard Samuel wrote: Whats needed to enable file locking on FBSD 5.3? I already had NFS running, so I added this to the server's rc.conf file -> rpc_lockd_enable="YES" and rebooted. I just noticed this in the logs -> Jan 11 15:2

Re: NFS & File Locking on FBSD 5.3

2005-01-11 Thread Gerard Samuel
Gerard Samuel wrote: Whats needed to enable file locking on FBSD 5.3? I already had NFS running, so I added this to the server's rc.conf file -> rpc_lockd_enable="YES" and rebooted. Im just checking to see if that is all that I should be doing. Thanks for your time I just n

NFS & File Locking on FBSD 5.3

2005-01-11 Thread Gerard Samuel
Whats needed to enable file locking on FBSD 5.3? I already had NFS running, so I added this to the server's rc.conf file -> rpc_lockd_enable="YES" and rebooted. Im just checking to see if that is all that I should be doing. Thanks for your time ___ freebs

DMA and CDROM Drive

2005-01-08 Thread Gerard Seibert
ng the DMA initiated using the /boot/loader.conf file however. This is my 'loader.conf' file: snd_ess_load="YES" hw.ata.ata_dma=1 hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 hw.ata_wc=1 I have tried using parenthesis around the numbers as well, but the results are the same. I am open to any suggestions. Th

Re: In reference to the "Cheap NAS" inquiry....

2005-01-08 Thread David Gerard
Martes Wigglesworth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050109 04:44]: > I am researching the viability of constructing a Network Access Server > using FreeBSD, and I came across your post(s) from December 2004. What > were you using the acronyme, "NAS," to describe? You seemed to be > describing a network sto

Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-07 Thread David Gerard
Ted Mittelstaedt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050107 17:37]: > David Gerard > > Ted Mittelstaedt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050106 06:29]: > > > It's of course quite legal for end users to download the JDK directly > > > from Sun and compile it on FreeBSD themselves and th

Re[4]: Configuring POSTFIX to use mutiple email accounts

2005-01-06 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Thursday, January 06, 2005 11:17:05 AM Paul Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |>--On Thursday, January 06, 2005 06:57:15 AM -0500 Gerard Seibert |><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |>> |>> Therefore, if I have several email addresses that are through different |>&

Worse is better (was Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java)

2005-01-06 Thread David Gerard
Ted Mittelstaedt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050106 18:26]: > Name of the game with commercialized technology which is filled with example > after > of example of second and 3rd rater products that win the market from 1st > rater > products merely because their marketing is better. Let's see, in automot

Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-06 Thread David Gerard
Anthony Atkielski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050106 12:53]: > Tom Vilot writes: > TV> I prefer to use just about any other tool (except, of course, for > TV> JSP/.NET, etc). Python, Perl, ... any other tool will do the jobs I > TV> need done and I can avoid the sluggishness of Java, the licensing > TV>

Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java

2005-01-06 Thread David Gerard
Ted Mittelstaedt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050106 06:29]: > It's of course quite legal for end users to download the JDK directly > from Sun and compile it on FreeBSD themselves and then use it. The main problem with this approach is that it requires a ridiculous amount of jumping through hoops - f

Re[2]: Configuring POSTFIX to use mutiple email accounts

2005-01-06 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Thursday, January 06, 2005 5:52:25 AM Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |>Gerard Seibert wrote: |>> I am trying to solicit some information on how to configure 'postfix' |>> to accommodate multiple IP addresses. |> |>Postfix normally performs MX l

Configuring POSTFIX to use mutiple email accounts

2005-01-06 Thread Gerard Seibert
e with some first hand knowledge of how this is accomplished. Thanks! Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is much easier to suggest solutions when you do not

Re: ipfw question (FreeBSD 4.11)

2005-01-03 Thread Gerard Meijer
You are so the man! That's it. You have no idea how long I've spend looking for this. Thanks again! - Original Message - From: "Andras Kende" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Gerard Meijer'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Monday, January 03, 2

ipfw question (FreeBSD 4.11)

2005-01-03 Thread Gerard Meijer
I run apache webserver on my server with FreeBSD 4.11 I have a question about ipfw. I have the following rules in my /etc/ipfw.conf: $cmd 00200 allow tcp from any to any 80 out via $pif setup keep-state $cmd 00400 allow tcp from any to any 80 in via $pif setup keep-state (with $pif being my NIC)

Re: 9.3.0 on FreeBSD 5.3

2004-12-31 Thread Gerard Samuel
J.D. Bronson wrote: At 09:07 AM 12/31/2004, Richard Cotrina wrote: Is there any reason for not using bind 9.3.0 that comes with FreeBSD 5.3 ? It can be run chrooted with the same flags you are using. I deleted it by accident. I dont know how to re-make the OEM version that comes with 5.3I po

Networking to WinXP

2004-12-31 Thread Gerard Seibert
wo I mentioned above. Thanks! Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. --Frank Lloyd Wright ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://

CPUTYPE directive options in /etc/make.conf

2004-12-28 Thread Gerard Seibert
tage to using the 'p?' designation over the numeric (i686) designation? Thanks! Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site - Frank Lloyd Wright __

Cheap NAS using FreeBSD - practical considerations?

2004-12-27 Thread David Gerard
Let's say that, as fine as NetApps are, I can't afford their prices. So I set up a FreeBSD box with a whole lot of disk attached and use that as network-attached storage, serving files by NFS, with gigabit ethernet. Setting up such a box is trivially easy. But what are the practical consideration

make.conf file & CPUTYPE?

2004-12-25 Thread Gerard Seibert
ystem. Would I be better off if I just removed it, or changed it to 'CPUTYPE=i686'. I assumed that the '?' was just for the 'buildworld' procedure. Thanks in advance. Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.

'portsdb -Uu' vs 'make fetchindex' vs 'make index'

2004-12-21 Thread Gerard Seibert
f those two proceeding commands. Is that correct? I would assume, that I should run the 'make fetchindex' command immediately after running the 'cvsup' command. Does anyone have any suggestions as to a better way to accomplish this feat? Thanks! Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: IBM Thinkpad R31 - use 4.10 or 5.3?

2004-12-18 Thread David Gerard
Uwe Laverenz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041218 21:39]: > Dave Horsfall wrote: > >So, the question is: should I be running 4.10 (because I track whatever my > >boss uses, and my home server uses it for that reason), or should I take > >the plunge and max-out my ADSL line in downloading 5.3? > You shou

Printing in KDE

2004-12-11 Thread Gerard E. Seibert
e to go from here. I really need this computer to have the ability to print directly to the printer. I welcome any suggestions, Thanks! Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

[Solved] Re: sleepy fxp0

2004-12-11 Thread Gerard Samuel
Chuck Swiger wrote: Gerard Samuel wrote: [ ... ] This box currently uses DHCP to get its IP address. When it boots up, and I log in, and immediately try to initiate any network activity from this box, it takes about 2-3 seconds for said network activity to start. For example, if I were to ping, or

sleepy fxp0

2004-12-11 Thread Gerard Samuel
Im currently using FreeBSD 5.3, using the fxp driver for my network card. $ dmesg | grep fxp0 fxp0: port 0xec00-0xec1f mem 0xdff0-0xdfff,0xdd9ff000-0xdd9f irq 10 at device 8.0 on pci0 This box currently uses DHCP to get its IP address. When it boots up, and I log in, and immediately

Re: Wildcard syntax in newsyslog.conf

2004-12-10 Thread Gerard Samuel
Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Friday, December 10, 2004 09:03:47 AM -0500 Gerard Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it possible to use wildcards in newsyslog.conf? For example, my current apache setup, I have a few virtual hosts logging into their own file. And instead of specifying each f

Re: Wildcard syntax in newsyslog.conf

2004-12-10 Thread Gerard Samuel
Panagiotis Christias wrote: On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 09:03:47 -0500, Gerard Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is it possible to use wildcards in newsyslog.conf? For example, my current apache setup, I have a few virtual hosts logging into their own file. And instead of specifying each f

Wildcard syntax in newsyslog.conf

2004-12-10 Thread Gerard Samuel
Is it possible to use wildcards in newsyslog.conf? For example, my current apache setup, I have a few virtual hosts logging into their own file. And instead of specifying each file in newsyslog.conf, Im trying -> /var/log/httpd-*.logroot:wheel 640 1 *@T00 B /var/run/httpd.ru

Installing jdk-1.4.2p6_7 problem

2004-12-09 Thread Gerard Seibert
ot available at this time. j2skd-1.4.2-06-oth-JPR Is there anyway that I can work around this problem, or do I just have to wait until it is available again. Also, does anyone know if there is a version of Java 5 that is available for FreeBSD 5.3. Thanks! Gerard E. Seibert [EMAIL PROTEC

Re[2]: "Bad Host Name" Error Message

2004-12-08 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Tuesday, December 07, 2004 9:59:53 PM stheg olloydson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |>it was said: |> |>>I continually receive an error message about a bad host name. This is |>the >error message: |>> |>>Starting cron |>>Local package initialization: printerDec 7 21:20:44 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |>>lpd

"Bad Host Name" Error Message

2004-12-07 Thread Gerard Seibert
" lprng_enable="YES" clear_tmp_enable="YES" ntpd_enable="YES" ntpdate_flags=" -b 0.pool.ntp.org" inetd_enable="NO" I have tried different combinations of 'host names', but without success. My ISP is "rcn.com." Thanks in adv

Re: PostgreSQL 8

2004-12-07 Thread Gerard Samuel
Mário Gamito wrote: Hi, I'm running 5.3 and i'm looking for a port of PostgreSQL, even if it is not stable yet. A beta or RC will do the job for now. Does anyone knows where i can find one, or if there's none, what can i do to install it ? Any help would be apreciated. If you're looking for p

Re: "Designed for FreeBSD" stickers

2004-12-07 Thread David Gerard
Haulmark, Chris ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041208 07:22]: > We show our potential clients to our production server rooms whenever > they request for it. They always ask what those (freebsd) servers are > running because there are no logo stickers. I ended up sticking a white > label with black arial f

Handbook copyright license?

2004-12-05 Thread David Gerard
What license is the FreeBSD Handbook under? I want to adapt chunks of it for Wikipedia, which is under the GFDL with no invariant texts. Also, are the man pages under the two-clause BSD license? - d. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.f

Re: Sound & KDE

2004-12-04 Thread Gerard Seibert
: text/plain |> |>On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 17:17 -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote: |>> I have just recently completed a fresh install of FreeBSD 5.3. Upon |>> completion, I built a new 'kernel', which included a sound driver. |>> Everything seems to work correctly.

Sound and KDE

2004-12-03 Thread Gerard Seibert
on. Therefore, nothing from the old version could be the cause of this problem. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks! Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can't help the poor man by destroying the rich. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lis

Re[2]: Deleting Packages

2004-12-01 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Wednesday, December 01, 2004 7:21:39 PM "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |>Gerard Seibert wrote: |> |>> I have a large number of files in the '/usr/ports/packages/All' |>> directory. Since I could use the disk space tha

Deleting Packages

2004-12-01 Thread Gerard Seibert
. Thanks in advance! Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Murphy's Seventh Law: Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Correct Way to Update the Ports

2004-11-30 Thread Gerard Seibert
n the same results? 1) cvsup ports-supfile 2) make fetchindex 3) pkgdb -Fu 4) portupgrade -aDDPRruv I am not clear about this. I have always run the 'portsdb -Uu' command after the 'pkgdb -Fu' program. Thanks! Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Grav

Re: Mp3, Ogg Players on 5.3

2004-11-30 Thread David Gerard
Huw Wynn-Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041201 05:32]: > I'm thinking about buying a portable ogg player for xmas but i can't > seem to get clear info from the various shop sites. > Does anyone know a player which works with FreeBSD 5.3? Can I just buy > anyone I want and then transfer files across

Re: /dev 5.3 vs 4.x, additional rights for user, reboot

2004-11-30 Thread Gerard Samuel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I started to move some of my machines from 4.x to 5.3. Using amanda (www.amanda.org) for backups I ran into a problem: The user operator is used by amanda for all stuff, for example questioning /dev/ch0 to change the tape. 5.3: ls -la /dev/ch0 crw--- 1 root operato

Error message with 'portupgrade'

2004-11-28 Thread Gerard Seibert
t remember what. Could someone kindly assist me? Thanks! Gerard E. Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last. --Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

make arguments and buildworld

2004-11-24 Thread Gerard Seibert
hange this file at all? I was reading the handbook and it mentioned the 'CFLAGGS' entry and a few others. I would welcome any feedback that is available. Thanks! Gerard E. Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist. . . . - Final words

Re: BIND 9.3.0 not restarting

2004-11-19 Thread Gerard Samuel
Cezar Fistik wrote: Hello group, I have a problem with BIND 9.3.0. Everything works just fine until i try to restart the service. When sending to it kill -HUP, named daemon just gets killed and not restarted. Does any body have an idea why this happens? If you're using 5.3 (or at least a version

Virtual IP/DNS test results

2004-11-19 Thread Gerard Samuel
Im trying to setup virtual IPs/DNS/Apache, and it seems to be working within the LAN so far. Box 1: Firewall/Router/DNS/DHCP Server Box 2: Virtual IPs Box 3: DHCP client. This is where Im getting an oddity (see below). If I were to ping a hostname that is using a virtual IP address, or if I pin

Re: List of unofficial 5.3 make.conf options

2004-11-18 Thread Gerard Samuel
Subhro wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerard Samuel Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 20:41 To: freebsd-questions Subject: List of unofficial 5.3 make.conf options Is there a list of *unofficial* make.conf options saved somewhere

Re: Corrupted Disk? [Was: Re: FreeBSD 5.x & CCD]

2004-11-18 Thread Gerard Samuel
Gerard Samuel wrote: Gerard Samuel wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:22:51PM -0500, Gerard Samuel wrote: Well you just burst my bubble. I was hoping I was missing a node. Im trying to figure out a problem Im having -> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questi

List of unofficial 5.3 make.conf options

2004-11-18 Thread Gerard Samuel
Is there a list of *unofficial* make.conf options saved somewhere? For example, "WITHOUT_X11=yes" isn't listed in /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf, and the option seems to work on a box, that I don't want X11 pieces built. Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] m

Corrupted Disk? [Was: Re: FreeBSD 5.x & CCD]

2004-11-18 Thread Gerard Samuel
Gerard Samuel wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:22:51PM -0500, Gerard Samuel wrote: Well you just burst my bubble. I was hoping I was missing a node. Im trying to figure out a problem Im having -> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-November/064

Re: FreeBSD 5.x & CCD

2004-11-17 Thread Gerard Samuel
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 09:22:51PM -0500, Gerard Samuel wrote: Well you just burst my bubble. I was hoping I was missing a node. Im trying to figure out a problem Im having -> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-November/064973.html Thanks J

Re: FreeBSD 5.x & CCD

2004-11-17 Thread Gerard Samuel
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 12:22:57PM -0500, Gerard Samuel wrote: This is to anyone who is successfully running a CCD raid under 5.x. I want to compare your ccd* device nodes under /dev to what I have. This is what I have. hivemind# ls -al /dev/ccd* crw-r- 1 root

FreeBSD 5.x & CCD

2004-11-17 Thread Gerard Samuel
This is to anyone who is successfully running a CCD raid under 5.x. I want to compare your ccd* device nodes under /dev to what I have. This is what I have. hivemind# ls -al /dev/ccd* crw-r- 1 root operator4, 38 Nov 17 10:53 /dev/ccd0 I want to see if Im missing the "ccd0c" node. Thanks

Re: Getting back my CCD Raid

2004-11-17 Thread Gerard Samuel
Gerard Samuel wrote: I had a ccd raid 0 drive setup under 4.10. I did a fresh install of 5.3, with the thought, that I could just reenable the settings for the ccd drive, to bring it back to life with its data intact. 1. Added "device ccd" to the kernel and rebuilt it. 2. Ver

Re: Getting back my CCD Raid

2004-11-16 Thread Gerard Samuel
Olivier Nicole wrote: mount: /dev/ccd0c: No such file or directory hivemind# ls -al /dev/ccd* crw-r- 1 root operator4, 49 Nov 16 19:16 /dev/ccd0 It seems that the device does not exists rather :) You have /dev/ccd0 but not /dev/ccd0C ! First of all I'd try MAKEDEV Im running 5.3 (ma

Getting back my CCD Raid

2004-11-16 Thread Gerard Samuel
I had a ccd raid 0 drive setup under 4.10. I did a fresh install of 5.3, with the thought, that I could just reenable the settings for the ccd drive, to bring it back to life with its data intact. 1. Added "device ccd" to the kernel and rebuilt it. 2. Verified that the disklabels are int

Do I need to worry about these logs?

2004-11-16 Thread Gerard Samuel
This is a fresh install of 5.3 from last week. Granted the script-kiddies has been working to break in via ssh, when I was running 4.10, I've never seen these types of logs before. Any clues, would be appreciated. Thanks. -- snip of /var/logs/auth.log -- Nov 16 09:06:56 hivemind sshd[7611]: reverse

Standard to Minimal FreeBSD 5.3

2004-11-15 Thread Gerard Samuel
Was just wondering if its possible to move from a standard installation, to the minimal installation (as defined by the install process). Just looking to see how small I can get my installation. So far I removed all html files (that alone was about 128M). Currently Im using about 315Mb. Looking fo

DMA: How to get it used by system

2004-11-14 Thread Gerard Seibert
lt into it? Thanks! Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] The difference between Charles Manson and every woman I have dated is that Manson has the decency to look like a nut the first time you meet him. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTE

Installing on two hard drives

2004-11-13 Thread Gerard Seibert
onsideration. I have checked the Hand Book, but I was not able to find exactly what I was looking for. Then again, I am not the most efficient searcher. Thanks! Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] "My girlfriend said to me in bed last night' 'you're a pervert'. I said, '

Re: Out of Office AutoReply: Sex

2004-11-12 Thread Gerard Samuel
Chris wrote: Lea Faso Public Relations Manager Motorola iDEN Subscriber Group 954-723-6333 Part-time; in office Mondays and Tuesdays Why do users do this? Good Gawd. This one ought to be slapped, then reported to his superiors for burning corporate resources... Hmm. (954) is my neck of the

Re: Corrupted Zip Disc

2004-11-12 Thread Gerard Seibert
elf booting disk using FreeDOS as the OS. You can get it here: http://www.grc.com/. You also might want to download the free 'TIP' aka Trouble In Paradise program to see if your ZIP drive is headed south. Good Luck! Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] "My girlfriend said to me in be

Disabling ata device in 5.3?

2004-11-12 Thread Gerard Samuel
I have an ASUS A7V8X that has ATA SATA RAID options. There are no drives hooked up to it. When the box boots it hangs (not for too long) when its probing the SATA interface. I dont remember if there was any options in the bios to disable it, but is it possible to turn it off via a hint or kernel op

Re: Maybe a bug in 5.3 [Was: Re: BIND9 dump file]

2004-11-11 Thread Gerard Samuel
Gerard Samuel wrote: Erik Norgaard wrote: Gerard Samuel wrote: Im getting a bunch of these in the logs -> Nov 10 10:30:48 gatekeeper named[312]: dumping master file: master/tmp-SLtSQEmBBK: open: permission denied So I figured a filesystem permissions problem. I chowned Thanks for any info t

Maybe a bug in 5.3 [Was: Re: BIND9 dump file]

2004-11-11 Thread Gerard Samuel
Erik Norgaard wrote: Gerard Samuel wrote: Im getting a bunch of these in the logs -> Nov 10 10:30:48 gatekeeper named[312]: dumping master file: master/tmp-SLtSQEmBBK: open: permission denied So I figured a filesystem permissions problem. I chowned Thanks for any info that you may prov

Re: /dev/io problem in 5.3

2004-11-11 Thread Gerard Samuel
Nelis Lamprecht wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 23:22:59 -0500, Gerard Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Louis LeBlanc wrote: Just got through buildworld/kernel on 5.3. Strange problem I can't find the solution to. Xorg won't start: Fatal server error: xf86EnableIO: Failed to

Re: /dev/io problem in 5.3

2004-11-10 Thread Gerard Samuel
Louis LeBlanc wrote: Just got through buildworld/kernel on 5.3. Strange problem I can't find the solution to. Xorg won't start: Fatal server error: xf86EnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io for extended I/O Please consult the The x.org Foundation support at http://wiki.X.org for help. Yada Yada Yada. O

Re: BIND9 dump file

2004-11-10 Thread Gerard Samuel
Gerard Samuel wrote: Im getting a bunch of these in the logs -> Nov 10 10:30:48 gatekeeper named[312]: dumping master file: master/tmp-SLtSQEmBBK: open: permission denied So I figured a filesystem permissions problem. I chowned /var/named/etc/namedb/master to bind:wheel. But when the box g

BIND9 dump file

2004-11-10 Thread Gerard Samuel
Im getting a bunch of these in the logs -> Nov 10 10:30:48 gatekeeper named[312]: dumping master file: master/tmp-SLtSQEmBBK: open: permission denied So I figured a filesystem permissions problem. I chowned /var/named/etc/namedb/master to bind:wheel. But when the box gets rebooted, the directory

Re: /usr/src/sys/i386/compile

2004-11-09 Thread Gerard Samuel
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Gerard Samuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Is there a correct way of emptying this directory. I've made a custom kernel, and Im looking to save disk space. rm(1) will work. Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailin

/usr/src/sys/i386/compile

2004-11-09 Thread Gerard Samuel
Is there a correct way of emptying this directory. I've made a custom kernel, and Im looking to save disk space. Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL

Re: FreeBSD DHCP client not working with dynamic DNS

2004-11-08 Thread Gerard Samuel
Emanuel Strobl wrote: Am Montag, 8. November 2004 18:32 schrieb Gerard Samuel: Box 1: Firewall/DHCP Server/DNS (FreeBSD 5.3) Box 2: DHCP Client (FreeBSD 5.3R2) When I boot Box 2, it gets its IP address, but DNS doesn't get updated, so Box 2 is unknown to the LAN via its hostname. If I b

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