FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel?

2008-11-21 Thread Ian Jefferson
Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel? I've looked around for a definitive discussion on the topic but couldn't find anything on this list or Google at least. I'd like to replace a couple of relatively high power-consuming servers with a couple of Mac Mini Intel's. For my purposes

Re: some ipfw filter does not function under Release 6.3

2008-11-16 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008, Jin Guojun[VFF] wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > > On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Jin Guojun[VFF] wrote: > > > > >I think this is a bug in ipfw because after change the rule order, the > > >problem persists: > > >005662

Re: some ipfw filter does not function under Release 6.3

2008-11-16 Thread Ian Smith
199.36.12200 > 192.168.2.14.80: R > 200244635:200244635(0) win 0 > 05:28:18.099443 IP 221.192.199.36.3362 > 192.168.2.14.80: S > 2422872529:2422872529(0) win 65535 > 05:28:18.352083 IP 221.192.199.36.3362 > 192.168.2.14.80: . ack > 3968474717 win 65535 > 05:28

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Ian
en we hit the 32,768 limit, so I'll start designing something better. Cheers, -- Ian gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Ian
was given to work with and it's worked fine so far, except when I try to list the contents of the directory - that takes ages! All the folders are 7 digit numbers and we are up to approx. 0010500 entries (ie subdirs) so far. I guess it will just be a matter of experimenting to find the op

[SOLVED] Apache environment variables - logical AND

2008-11-08 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 08:24:16PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 05:33:45PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > > > > I know this isn't FreeBSD

Re: Apache environment variables - logical AND

2008-11-05 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 05:33:45PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > > I know this isn't FreeBSD specific - but I am, so crave your indulgence. > > > > Running Apache 1.3.27, using a fairly extensive access.conf to beat off >

Apache environment variables - logical AND

2008-11-04 Thread Ian Smith
$" no_browser I want the equivalent for this (invalid and totally fanciful) match: SetEnvIf (no_browser AND no_referer) go_away Any clues? cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Re: odd problem, system clock stops while power-down

2008-10-29 Thread Ian Smith
e initial > > corrections of several > > seconds usually .. still it's better than having all > > your log timestamps > > screwed after reboot until NTP does its thing. > > > > Richard: are you running UTC or local time in CMOS? If the > >

Re: odd problem, system clock stops while power-down

2008-10-28 Thread Ian Smith
aving all your log timestamps screwed after reboot until NTP does its thing. Richard: are you running UTC or local time in CMOS? If the latter, does the file /etc/wall_cmos_clock exist? cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: mpd - lcp protocol rejects

2008-10-25 Thread Ian Smith
rd protocol rejects to log file and > vpn connection stops working. > > mpd.conf: I can't answer your question, but I'm pretty sure that if you posted your nicely detailed message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] especially if cc'd to [EMAIL PROTECTED] yo

Re: man -t odd page size

2008-10-24 Thread Ian Smith
Gonzalo, please cc those to whom you are responding. I had to dig this out of the digest, which breaks the threading .. On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:35:36 -0200 Gonzalo Nemmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: man -t odd page size

2008-10-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:37:56 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Polytropon: thanks for pdfman script - but does 'pdfman ipfw' work for > > you? Here the 'overprinting' is misaligned in

Re: man -t odd page size

2008-10-23 Thread Ian Smith
of the CCITT Blue Book for the best part of A$500, then convinced it was the way things would go. I was entirely wrong :) but I don't regret that study for ASN.1 alone. > Gretings from Argentina, where A4 is the standard from 1943. > > And yes .. so are the metric sys

Re: Problems moving my jails (mv: Operation not permitted)

2008-10-05 Thread Ian Smith
off with a 'ls -lR /usr/jail > listfile' (if I hadn't made a backup tar) to at least have a full list of what was where, with what user/perms etc .. Also read cp(1) re -R flag carefully .. if there are any hard linked files, as there may well be, then using tar to move these wou

Re: newsyslog and apache

2008-10-03 Thread Ian Smith
chance I'll be on hand to start apache to minimize downtime. Theoretically if it survives an apachectl configtest, you should be good to go - and if it doesn't, neither method will restart apache. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: sound card and freebsd v7.0

2008-09-26 Thread Ian Smith
i find this a bit confusing/interesting, esp given that fresbie > v1.1 aslo sees this as a 120 gb drive ??? just interested in fiding > out what is going on and if this is a pointer to future hardware > mis-identification --- i understand the difference between "real" > gigabytes and "marketing department" gigabytes The fdisk and bsdlabel outputs will tell the true story. If, as you suggested earlier, you did enter a different geometry, you might have lost some real space, so also show us 'fdisk ad0 | grep cylinders' cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Apache 1.3 Problems

2008-09-16 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Annelise Anderson wrote: > On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Ian Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:48:48 +1000 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > From a digest post, trimming a bit .. Tr

Re: Apache 1.3 Problems

2008-09-16 Thread Ian Smith
d DNS look fine. I (also) can traceroute your box this far: 14 bbrb-isp.Stanford.EDU (171.64.1.155) 193.489 ms 193.562 ms 195.603 ms 15 * * * 16 * * * 17 * * * 18 * *^C I don't know whether you allow inbound traceroutes? but the question now is, how many routers between you and and bbrb-isp.Stanford.EDU ? Can you show us a 'traceroute bbrb-isp.Stanford.EDU' from your machine? > This might sound like an odd test, but try configuring it to sit on a port > other than 80 (8080, for example) and seeing if you get the same problem > there. > > Cheers, > Mark If you're thinking what I'm thinking, 8080's just as unlikely to work :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: ThinkPad 3.0GHz: can anybody verify?

2008-09-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 04:09:12PM +1000, Ian Smith wrote: > > > I had no trouble dropping a 120GB Fujitsu into my T23 recently (was > > 30GB), so I expect 160GB would be fine, especially in a much later > > model. And

Re: ThinkPad 3.0GHz: can anybody verify?

2008-09-04 Thread Ian Smith
; Well I certainly wouldn't buy a Thinkpad I didn't have the EXACT model number of, when that reveals the CPU type/speed, HD and RAM originally fitted, CD/CDRW/DVD[RW], screen size, video card, wireless etc options. Maybe you (Gary) could post an URL illustrating one of these machin

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Ian Smith
you'll go 'hmmm ..' and if you look through the sources you'll see whole large slabs of code that are shared between those two implementations, by the same author. I've never tried writing to HPFS volumes, but I did recover many years of work and play from a number

Re: Crontab and adjkerntz.

2008-08-26 Thread Ian Smith
run at boot[1] should adjust for a TZ update occuring overnight, assuming CMOS has local time (ie /etc/wall_cmos_clock exists) [1] actually run when going to multi-user, so with CMOS set to local time, you should remember to run 'adjkerntz -i' when working

Re: Joy stick not being detected!

2008-08-26 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Christopher Joyner wrote: [adding -questions back into the cc list] > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:55:57 + Christopher Joyner wrote: > > > > > I have a Gravis GamePad

Joy stick not being detected!

2008-08-26 Thread Ian Smith
couple of ISA cards. >From memory it only worked right when device joy was compiled into kernel, not kldloaded - but that was way back around FreeBSD 3.3 .. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/

diverting (some) log_in_vain messages

2008-08-25 Thread Ian Smith
as directly as above. Any hints or howtos welcome, even RT(which?)FS, though I'm short of code reading time, what with all the dragons .. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

diverting (some) log_in_vain messages

2008-08-23 Thread Ian Smith
'd like to parse just log_in_vain messages, dumping the trivia to another file yet allowing the unexpected, more interesting stuff to go to /var/log/messages as usual, or to another file if that's a problem. Any hints or howtos welcome, even RT(which?)FS .. cheers, Ian (please cc me, I&

Re: named and its hourly reports

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, jonathan michaels wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 08:27:33PM +1000, Ian Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:22:06 +1000 jonathan michaels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > named now reports hourly > > > >

Re: named and its hourly reports

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Smith
/es to listen on. The default is '*', the addresses associated with each interface, as 'sockstat -4 | grep named' will show. Don't forget to include a 'listen on { 127.0.0.1; }' if you want localhost. > some pointers would be most appreciated .. i've b

Linux for freebsd admins

2008-07-11 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, I am not trying to start a war linux vs freebsd or a long thread on which distribution is best. Just trying to get a quick answer here. I am an inconditional to freebsd and I love it. Unfortunately I have an application that doesn't support freebsd and only run on linux. I tried to run

Re: how to reject all mac addresses except some mac addresses using ipfw?

2008-06-25 Thread Ian Smith
# unknown MAC/IP pairs ipfw add 1500 allow all from any to any # proceed to layer 3 pass .. [..] ipfw add 2000 [.. layer 3 filtering as per usual ..] Note that MAC addresses are specified dst-mac first, then src-mac, and that you will also need to allow, if not check, outgoing layer2 pkts. Compl

Re: sendmail's outgoing IPs

2008-06-15 Thread Ian Smith
t upload limit to maybe 400k, leaving plenty of room for TCP acks? So mail takes a bit longer to send .. You can get fancier with weighted queueing of course, I haven't tried. Works well here anyway, but we're not running a multilink connection. hth, Ian __

Re: Static NAT and PAT on FreeBSD 6.2

2008-06-12 Thread Ian Smith
e > > static'ed one lose routing out of the building. I have tried switching > > the order of the alias_address and redirect_address. > > > > Any help is appreciated. > > > > -Matt On rereading natd(8) and my natd.conf I wondered if you mightn

Re: Grep Guru

2008-06-11 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:44:36 +1000 (EST), Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:07:12 -0700 Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Mon, Jun 09, 2008, Raphael Becker wrote: &

Re: firewall high-load performance

2008-06-11 Thread Ian Smith
ay I hope to do a number on the ipfw section there; it contains out and out factual errors, some misconceptions and poor examples, still the author does declare his familiarity is otherwise, ipf as I recall. BTW I'm not dissing pf in any way, I've just never tried it. ipfw plus dummynet ha

Re: Problems opening mail on this list

2008-06-10 Thread Ian Smith
Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org : Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" : : Wojciech Puchar wrote: [.. content elided ..] : --Jon Radel : : -- next part -- : A non-tex

Re: Grep Guru

2008-06-09 Thread Ian Smith
m]" -exec grep -Hi 'CPUFREQ_[GS]ET' {} \+ 1.651u 3.134s 0:58.39 8.1% 75+267k 7149+0io 10pf+0w (Ignore sloth; poor 300MHz Celeron already busy dumping /usr over nfs :) > FWIW, I have learned about gnu-grep's -r option reading this > thread, which I had not no

Re: change the file date and time

2008-06-07 Thread Ian Smith
nder), > but very often when copying the jpg's the file attributes change. To preserve user/group ownership and modification/access timestamps on files, use cp(1) with the -p flag. Maybe mc doesn't do that correctly on copying, though it should fo

Re: error mounting USB disk: Invalid argument

2008-05-31 Thread Ian Smith
system call returning EINVAL. Quoting from > > mount(2): > > > > [EINVAL] The super block for the file system had a bad magic > > number or an out of range block size. > > > > After partitioning and labeling the disk, did you make filesystem

Re: brindging ath0 with re0 working, kinda, almost

2008-04-25 Thread Ian Smith
unk},3544" # XP home calls home? MS ipV6 'Toredo' ${fwadd} deny log $afew udp from any to any $junk via ${ext_if} Some of the handbook firewall examples are mistaken about port 139 too. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questi

RE: BTX halted

2008-04-25 Thread Ian Lord
-Original Message- From: Ian Lord [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 avril 2008 19:39 To: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Subject: BTX halted Hi, I'm trying to install freebsd 7 AMD64 on a HP Proliant DL380 Server (3gig ram, Dual Xeon 3.06GHZ) All firmware are up to

BTX halted

2008-04-25 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, I'm trying to install freebsd 7 AMD64 on a HP Proliant DL380 Server (3gig ram, Dual Xeon 3.06GHZ) All firmware are up to date, and there is no memory problem or known problem (Based on extended diagnostic of the system) I installed windows 2003 to update the firmware without any problem. Wh

Re: Limiting apache's upload speed?

2008-04-15 Thread Ian Smith
000ms while I'm trying! to work via ssh from outside - but it's nothing to do with your ISP/telco in particular; it's just the nature of A(symmetric)DSL. I'm only using ipfw+dummynet pipes for such so far, but hope to try out WF2Q+ queuing soon to prioritise tr

Re: Limiting apache's upload speed?

2008-04-13 Thread Ian Smith
h pipe/queue management, like Jeff's pf+altq, or ipfw+dummynet, can provide more fine-grained control. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

RE: FreeBSD7 + Intel video chipset 965 + X11R6

2008-04-11 Thread Pitre, Ian (DPS/MSP)
. From: Ghirai [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 2008-04-11 21:25 To: Pitre, Ian (DPS/MSP) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD7 + Intel video chipset 965 + X11R6 On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:57:23 -0300 "Pitre, Ian (DPS/MSP)" <[EMAIL PROT

FreeBSD7 + Intel video chipset 965 + X11R6

2008-04-11 Thread Pitre, Ian (DPS/MSP)
.s. I discovered on X.org that the Intel 965 chipset is 'now' supported in release X11R7.2. Would upgrading X be the smartest thing to do but my question since I'm a total newbie is... how do I do that :) Thanks for any advice Ian ___ fr

gethostbyaddr failure

2008-04-08 Thread Ian Campbell
Hi all, I'm having a problem with reverse DNS on FreeBSD 7.0 (AMD64). Postfix was having problems doing DNS lookups, and I eventually narrowed it down to a failure with gethostbyaddr using the name-addr-test files in the Postfix tarball. You can find the test my machine failed here: http:

Re: /var/named Changes Ownership to Root on Boot

2008-03-21 Thread Ian Smith
s named by default wants to create the named.run file in the default directory (/etc/namedb -> /var/named/etc/namedb) which is of course owned by root, but I'm sure I just need to spend a bit more time with the reference manual: http://127.0.0.1/bind9ref/Bv9ARM.html (where /usr/local

Re: mpd pptp server?

2008-03-19 Thread Ian Smith
re any > obvious errors in the above configuration? Can't help with pptp, I only use pppoe, but have posted this to bring it to Alexander's attention. He'll most likely want to see some logging .. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: ARP(4) spoofing?

2008-03-17 Thread Ian Smith
that might be it. I haven't looked into whether > or not these are replies triggered by requests from the local host (If > only I knew a way to do such a thing.) Logic initially rejects the Again, tcpdump, running in as many terms as needed (here, two) > notion. As why would this box be sending out a gratuitous ARP request > every 10 minutes through the wrong interface for the given address? Smells more like incoming so far, on em1 .. did I mention tcpdump? :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: IPFW with user-ppp's NAT

2008-03-16 Thread Ian Smith
mance boxes but as Erik points out, it may be significant. Just to make it clear, my point was that one reason for deprecating ipfw is out the door, and that its development is ongoing. I see rc.firewall has had a recent facelift too, including a stateful 'workstation' type.

Re: IPFW with user-ppp's NAT

2008-03-16 Thread Ian Smith
mation and some straight up errors, both of principle and usage. Using rc.firewall as a base example (modulo needing to permit appropriate icmp traffic) and a fair study of ipfw(8) should yield a better firewall, with or without NAT - certainly a more comprehensible and flexible one - than the examp

Re: Adobe Flashplayer

2008-02-25 Thread Ian Smith
k and haven't had any problems. It doesn't support every flash function but it's still pretty good - youtube seems to work well. Ian. Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find

Re: Error in the Handbook

2008-02-12 Thread Ian Smith
ng the text, and most of all for taking the > time to report this. [1] Not at all wishing to discourage anyone from reviewing and patching docs, but it's best to prove the theory before firing up send-pr .. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Unlock /dev/dsp?

2008-02-09 Thread Ian Smith
3 Feb 10 15:06 /dev/dsp0.0 If you use the KDE sound setup, you could specify say /dev/dsp0.2 for KDE noises. Other programs (mplayer, xmms ..) will use a free channel, and you can run as many others as you like (if you like cacophony :) You can run 'cat /dev/sndstat'

Re: ipfw(8) doc bug?

2008-01-23 Thread Ian Smith
t explains it, thanks Daniel. Strangely perhaps, the 4.10 online manual did say 4.10, but various others - before and since - say 7.0 .. they all seem to have the original dates in the footers. Saves a PR :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Throttle the CPU when the system is idle

2008-01-21 Thread Ian Smith
# Offline CPU idle state Andreas: Tijl's value of -p 200 (ie poll online status and idle percentage every 200ms instead of default 500ms) should help with concerns about how fast powerd ramps up frequency when load occurs. Copying Wojciech as well, as he seemed to be possibly? unaware of

ipfw(8) doc bug?

2008-01-21 Thread Ian Smith
includes the new 'ipfw nat' section, so is different in at least that respect. Worthy of a docs? or www? PR, or maybe just a transient release glitch? cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: ports download speed!

2008-01-13 Thread Ian Smith
1.2Kbytes/s even on download tests, similarly ~150Kbytes/s @ 1500kbps. So 33Kbytes/s is closer to 64% of maximum, and as you say is not unusual on a heavily loaded site, or over international links. K being 1024, of course, which is what fetch reports, with k (bps, bits/s) being 1000. che

Re: mail from: field question

2008-01-10 Thread Ian Smith
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:42:16 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by paqi.nimnet.asn.au (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id m0B2gFPr059564 for smithi; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:42:15 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from smi

Re: [HOW-TO] cvsup for ports -- Re: compact portsnap db

2008-01-06 Thread Ian Smith
he ports _tree_ and INDEX, which is precisely all that portsnap is designed to do, and does well. Sorry if I sound a bit harsh, but there seems to have been a flurry of deprecation approaching folklore re installing from packages recently, and I can't see that it's based on anything much factual. My last big portupgrade on this 300MHz 5.5-STABLE system began with 'portupgrade -anPP' which fetched the vast bulk of a hundred or so ports as packages, saving me many hours - if not days - of building. YM probably V. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: [HOW-TO] cvsup for ports -- Re: compact portsnap db

2008-01-06 Thread Ian Smith
have very subtle issues that the typical end-user should > not notice but should be aware of... Issues such as? And what other alternatives to c*sup and portsnap exist for ports tree management? ooroo, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: how to suspend/wake-up a FreeBSD machine?

2008-01-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday 04 January 2008 03:13:20 am Ian Smith wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Norberto Meijome wrote: > > > On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:51:41 +0100 > > > Henrik Brix Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > &

Re: how to suspend/wake-up a FreeBSD machine?

2008-01-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 19:13:20 +1100 (EST) > Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] > > On my T23 I have suspend/wake on lid switch off (in BIOS), preferring to > > have to use the Fn key to wake. No other keys do that on

Re: how to suspend/wake-up a FreeBSD machine?

2008-01-04 Thread Ian Smith
ing: # sysctl hw.acpi.lid_switch_state=1 # (or =0) hw.acpi.lid_switch_state: NONE sysctl: hw.acpi.lid_switch_state: Invalid argument which makes sense and was expected .. except that since doing that, closing the lid while awake still just blanks screen, but opening lid no

Re: IPFW: Blocking me out. How to debug?

2007-12-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, W. D. wrote: > At 08:49 12/22/2007, Ian Smith wrote: > >Warning: overlong message. > > > > > >W. D. wrote: [.. slashing mercilessly ..] > >Ok, so your nameserver will be making upstream requests too, and you'll > >need to do T

Re: removing ipfw rules

2007-12-28 Thread Ian Smith
ipfw -q delete 6700 > > This should work too, if I remember well enough the ipfw syntax. You do, but deleting by rule number/s is the only way. ipfw(8): ipfw [-q] {delete | zero | resetlog} [set] [number ...] Of course Noah could fi

Re: Problem setting up DNS

2007-12-25 Thread Ian Smith
okup www.unhost.com.ar > Server: 200.69.193.1 > Address:200.69.193.1#53 > > Non-authoritative answer: > www.unhost.com.ar canonical name = unhost.com.ar. > Name: unhost.com.ar > Address: 190.2.50.197 > > nslookup www.sacrarium.

Re: IPFW: Blocking me out. How to debug?

2007-12-22 Thread Ian Smith
ec 2007 01:30:11 -0600 > From: "W. D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Never been to Uzbekistan and don't know this bloke :) > At 05:45 12/20/2007, Ian Smith, wrote: > > Thanks for your reply

Re: (no subject)

2007-12-19 Thread Ian Smith
and wireless networks. (Please include a descriptive Subject line on messages to FreeBSD lists) Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

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

2007-12-15 Thread Ian Smith
es, 'cron' is a checked and logged argument to ipfwsnap. Various other /etc/crontab entries demonstrate no need to enclose arguments in quotes, except where they'd be necessary anyway - as per examples in crontab(5) Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Connecting networks

2007-12-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto wrote: > 2007/12/12, Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Should be 'defaultrouter', but then it's a route to an apparent local > > router, whereas your em0 appears to be your public internet connection? >

Re: Connecting networks

2007-12-11 Thread Ian Smith
> this trouble. Sounds like you need a very good diagram of your boxes and networks and interfaces so you can easily trace all the paths (and thus the necessary routes) between the various subnets you're wanting to interconnect. You also need to look carefully at which boxes/nets have ro

Re: copying DVD material :: somewhat OT.

2007-12-08 Thread Ian Smith
/home/Pedja/mnt/cdrom cd9660 rw, noauto 0 0 > > > > You do not need HAL for things to work but is not going to heart. > > > Also read > > make showinfo /usr/ports/sysutils/k3b If I ever get a DVD writer and want to try k3b, I'll start here thanks. Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

FreeBSD NFS server & Linux clients

2007-12-04 Thread Ian
apps have stopped responding. Just wondering if anyone has any idea how to fix or even troubleshoot this problem? My rc.conf on the server looks like: portmap_enable="YES" rpcbind_enable="YES" rpc_lockd_enable="yes" rpc_statd_enable="yes" nfs_server_enable=&quo

Re: [OT] who wrote this

2007-11-26 Thread Ian Smith
-- Adolf Hitler If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error. -- John Kenneth Galbraith For all my early exposure, I didn't get laid until I was 17. -- Ted Mittelstaedt Cheers, Ian ___

Re: routing problem

2007-11-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto wrote: > 2007/11/24, Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > No I didn't mean that; use your own favourite packet filter, any of them > > can handle what you've described. Bill suggested pf - lots of peop

Re: routing problem

2007-11-24 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto wrote: > 2007/11/24, Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > ipfw works fine too for these sorts of network policy separation :) > > > So ipfilter is not recommended by you guyz? No I didn't mean that; u

Re: routing problem

2007-11-23 Thread Ian Smith
route and ifconfig can make netmask fatfingering a bit less likely (eg here XXX.XXX.XXX.130/27) I'm not saying this odd netmask explains your problem, nor that I fully understand the effect of non-contiguous netmasks, but it's worth fixing. > ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.1.80 netmask 255.255.255.0" > ifconfig_rl1="inet 192.168.2.90 netmask 255.255.255.0" > ifconfig_rl2="inet 10.10.0.50 netmask 255.255.0.0" > [...] On which machine/s is NAT translation taking place? Eg if 10.10/16 were allowed access to the internet via here, where would they get NAT'd to the external IP? Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: is this IT or not/

2007-11-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:22:37AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:25:35 -0800 Gary Kline wrote: [..] > > Which brings me to your earlier (unresolved?) question about missing > > sound on playing audio CDs .. f

Re: is this IT or not/

2007-11-22 Thread Ian Smith
is properly externally wired to your soundcard(?), check the level on the 'cd' device, in Kmix 'input' tab or if in doubt, good ol' /usr/sbin/mixer: paqi% mixer Mixer vol is currently set to 90:90 Mixer synthis currently set to 0:0 M

One (FreeBSD?) Laptop Per Child

2007-11-13 Thread Ian Smith
way. Seems they've been playing with OLSR and BATMAN and haven't really firmed this aspect up yet, from my hour or so of googling; it's still early days .. So, does anyone know if anyone's looked into porting FreeBSD to OLPC? Cheers, Ian ___

Re: OT: Looking for some inpiration with UPS setup

2007-11-10 Thread Ian Smith
and surges last just a few seconds, sometimes short enough to reset server A while server B sails through, but outages more than a few minutes are much rarer (and are then likely to last perhaps hours). Sometimes power will come back for a few seconds then quit again, and you don't want

Re: IPFW show format question...

2007-11-09 Thread Ian Smith
st for accounting, eg add $n1 count ip from $outthere to $inhere in recv $some_if add $n2 count ip from $inhere to $outthere out xmit $some_if [..] add allow $whatever .. HTH, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: ipfw rule question ... all possible interfaces ?

2007-11-05 Thread Ian Smith
on this system" ? > > > >... > > > > So if I have a rule like: > > > > allow ip from any to any via iwi0 > > > > You don't have to use "via" in a rule. That's true, though you can also

Re: 7.0 and 6.3

2007-10-24 Thread Ian Smith
ople.freebsd.org/~kris/scaling/7.0%20Preview.pdf Very nice at 2x. I particularly enjoyed pp 17 & 18 .. Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: USB->Serial adapter, how to make /dev/cuad* appear?

2007-10-23 Thread Ian Smith
troller D(0x2303), Prolific Technology Inc.(0x067b), rev 4.00 > > I'd expect some device to show up in /dev, cuad1, ucom0, something like > that, but I get nothing. (cuad0 is taken by the onboard serial port, > which, alas, isn't wired

Re: Odd PF Denied Message

2007-10-19 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > On Friday 19 October 2007 07:06:35 Ian Smith wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:36:27 +0300 Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: .. > > > I think log_in_vain can be used when configuring a firewall. > > > Just to see quickl

Re: Odd PF Denied Message

2007-10-18 Thread Ian Smith
working correctly, you shouldn't ever be seeing connection attempts to non-listening ports, especially from outside. log_in_vain messages indicate some attention is needed, either to block or reset those connections, or to provide a listener :) so removi

Re: FreeBsd e-mail question

2007-10-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 04:56:35PM +1000, Ian Smith wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:30:54 -0400 Lisa Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The problem comes in when a customer cancels his account. We remove

Re: FreeBsd e-mail question

2007-10-03 Thread Ian Smith
il file ${file}:"; unlink $file || print STDERR "\n${whoami}: Warning: unlink on $file failed ($!) - continuing\n"; print STDERR " done.\n"; } So I wonder whether it's a bug - or maybe a later popper update? - that has the present version

Re: determining the space used in / partition

2007-10-02 Thread Ian Smith
ce on / (or any other mounted fs), the -x switch prevents du from crossing mountpoints, so something like .. # du -x -d1 / | sort -rn 146341 / 72306 /boot 49252 /root 7262 /rescue 4062/sbin 3278/lib 2356/stand 2266/etc 2114/etc.old 2112/etc.old.0 984 /bin 282

Re: php failing to produce phpinfo()

2007-09-30 Thread Ian Smith
talling php, then install it from lang/php5. Assuming your ports tree is up to date - and it had probably better be regarding dependencies - then install php5 (5.2.something). Make sure to set the apache module on (it's turned off by default, for some bizarre reason, so pkg_add -r php5* i

Re: Security report question

2007-09-30 Thread Ian Smith
? It may help in spotting unwanted stuff getting past your firewall, to either add to /etc/rc.conf: log_in_vain="1" or (coming to the same thing) add to /etc/sysctl.conf: net.inet.tcp.log_in_vain=1 net.inet.udp.log_in_vain=1 You can set the latter two sysctls immediately, of cou

Re: Dumb IPFW Question

2007-09-26 Thread Ian Smith
# XP home calls home? MS ipV6 'Toredo' ${fwadd} deny udp from any to any ${junk} via ${ext_if} > #allow in information from the ISP's DNS > $cmd 361 allow udp from 53 to any in via $pif keep-state > $cmd 362 allow udp from 53 to any in via $pif keep-s

Re: Mpd (3.x) & mpd4 config and differeces in reconnect/dial behaviour ?

2007-09-24 Thread Ian Smith
need work!) # dn: script interface proto authname # later 6/3/7 which works, but we know these anyway .. ah why not .. set ipcp enable req-pri-dns set ipcp enable req-sec-dns open mpd.links (note 'set link type' for 4.1, your 'set phys type' for 4.2) lPPPoE: set link type pppoe set pppoe iface xe0 set pppoe service "" set pppoe disable incoming set pppoe enable originate Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

kernel log messages

2007-09-14 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, In my dailing cron outut, I received this : kernel log messages: +++ /tmp/security.iwonKikI Thu Sep 13 03:02:27 2007 +pid 85092 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11 pid 85097 (httpd), uid +80: exited on signal 11 pid 85099 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 11 +pid 85091 (httpd),

how to use iic(4)

2007-09-14 Thread Ian Smith
ny iicbus slave-mode code I'm all eyes .. Cheers, Ian (please cc me) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: php5-5.2.3_1 / website behaves as if not enabled in httpd.conf [SOLVED]

2007-09-12 Thread Ian Smith
omes to the same thing, in the end): DirectoryIndex index.php index.php3 index.html DirectoryIndex index.php3 index.html DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

Re: php5-5.2.3_1 / website behaves as if not enabled in httpd.conf

2007-09-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:23:19 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > 2007/9/12, Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:19:32 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: [..] > No, it wasn't in there but I moved it to this section. There is no > difference. I cannot st

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