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

2007-09-11 Thread Ian Smith
go to apache2 - unless you want to anyway - as this is just a configuration problem I think, and a not too uncommon one either. You could try rebuilding php5 (starting with make clean; make config; to be certain that the non-default apache module is selected). The php5 install should then

Re: loopback won't enable automatically

2007-09-04 Thread Ian Smith
ault localhost configuration, unless you're using rc.local? Otherwise I'd be searching any active scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ for any oddnesses that may hae been installed by some port or other? Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org m

Re: g_vfs write error = 28, bad memory?

2007-09-03 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: [..] > > But is running out of memory with swap-backed md (with no swap) likely > > to be any prettier than the panics from (unreserved) malloc backing? > Probably not. No worse though. Couldn't be :) >

Re: g_vfs write error = 28, bad memory?

2007-09-03 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:34:41 +0200 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Per olof Ljungmark wrote: [..] > > > > amavisd_enable="YES" > > > > amavisd_ra

Re: g_vfs write error = 28, bad memory?

2007-09-01 Thread Ian Smith
_ram="512m" > > > > and the line in rc.d/amavisd > > mdmfs -M -s ${amavisd_ram} -w vscan:vscan md /var/amavis/tmp || true > > for some reason creates a malloc based mfs > > > > Perhaps I should check this with the maintainer... > > > > > > Yes, malloc backing for md should be used in almost no situations. Am I right in thinking such situations would then be limited to diskless / flashdisk / embedded systems having no swap? Seems obvious, but .. 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: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 192, Issue 16

2007-08-31 Thread Ian Smith
y thanks for the help! > > If by chance you feel that the daemon is contrary to your moral or > religious beliefs, you could always take a look at "Jesux" ( > http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Node/4081/ ) =) Thanks Reid, I appreciated a good chuckle for breakfast.

Re: Configuring FreeBSD 6.2 to use sendmail for sending only

2007-08-31 Thread Ian Smith
]; then echo "can't find ${maildir}/${mailrun} .. zipfile not unpacked?" elif [ -f ./mailout.done ]; then echo "'rm ${maildir}/mailout.done' if you wanna repeat mailout?" else umask 27 echo &

Re: lpt attachment problem

2007-08-30 Thread Ian Smith
Here 6.1-RELEASE, and still with a fairly old BIOS. > > > 6.2p7, i will try with 37f My typo .. that's 0x378 as listed. Re T23 BIOS .. do you / does anyone know a windows-free way of arriving at bootable CDs for the BIOS and EC updates t

Re: lpt attachment problem

2007-08-30 Thread Ian Smith
on ppbus0 lpt0: Interrupt-driven port ppi0: on ppbus0 I notice yours is at 0x3bc, LPT2 in DOS-speak; mine's at default 0x37f FreeBSD version? Here 6.1-RELEASE, and still with a fairly old BIOS. Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot

2007-08-24 Thread Ian Smith
his time. Your burned image CD for 6.2 should look pretty much like your 5.4 CD in structure. If that's so and it still won't boot then you can try a copy of everything on it to /dev/null (to test the CD is 100% readable). If that's all good and it still won't boot, show us the error

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > My knowledge of this is thin, despite reading McKusick's paper through > > several times, but we're told that background fsck runs on a snapshot of > > the fs concerned. How any bg fsck corr

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: > > > Ian Smith wrote: > > > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Chris wrote: > > > > > If its bad to run fsck on a mounted read,write then wh

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Chris wrote: > > > If its bad to run fsck on a mounted read,write then why does > > > background fsck do it? or you talking about foreground fsck only? > > > >

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Chris wrote: > On 20/08/07, Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry for the repeat post folks, but I goofed last time, leaving out the > > subject line while replying to the digest. Still curious .. Ian > > === > > > >

Re: Trying to move /usr

2007-08-20 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Michael S wrote: > Thanks for your help Ian, > I got it fixed. Had to remove /home and recreate it > once again. Good to hear, Michael! > --- Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [blah] Cheers, Ian ___

Re: Trying to move /usr

2007-08-20 Thread Ian Smith
home/michael > > > > It looks like there is a file system mounted as > > /home. > > I am guessing that has not changed. But, it is > > telling you > > that it cannot find that directory. Are there some > > links > > messing you up? > &g

Re: Veritas Backup Exec on Freebsd 6.1 (Boon Keng Lee)

2007-08-20 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, Please kindly advise us can the FreeBSD 6.1 being backup via Veritas Backup Exec 11d Server for Windows with the Linux Client agent ? Thank for the help. ~~ Hi, On our side, we didn't manage to make this happen using the regular linux agent that veritas (now Symantec) provi

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-19 Thread Ian Smith
Sorry for the repeat post folks, but I goofed last time, leaving out the subject line while replying to the digest. Still curious .. Ian === On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:32:28 +0200 Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 08:21:42PM +0100, Christopher

(no subject)

2007-08-18 Thread Ian Smith
7;s showing as 'NO WRITE'? I've never had any screwups with it, but then I've always specified -n. Later Bill Moran said: > Don't run fsck on mounted filesystems unless they're mounted read-only. > > Although, it's possible I misunderstood your

RE: Urgent help needed please: pecl-memcache problem after upgrade of php

2007-08-14 Thread Ian Lord
-Original Message- From: B. Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 août 2007 13:54 To: Ian Lord Subject: Re: Urgent help needed please: pecl-memcache problem after upgrade of php Have you tried rebuilding the port? memcache to reflect your current version of php? Thats usually what

pecl-memcache problem after upgrade of php

2007-08-13 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, I just did a portupgrade -a and now memcache doesn't work anymore in php. Here are the version portupgrade installed: pecl-memcache-2.1.2 memcached-1.2.2 php5-5.2.3_1 In php/error.log I can see this error message [13-Aug-2007 10:38:20] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load d

Urgent help needed please: pecl-memcache problem after upgrade of php

2007-08-13 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, I just did a portupgrade -a and now memcache doesn't work anymore in php. Here are the version portupgrade installed: pecl-memcache-2.1.2 memcached-1.2.2 php5-5.2.3_1 In php/error.log I can see this error message [13-Aug-2007 10:38:20] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load d

Re: what to do with this..?

2007-08-08 Thread Ian Smith
s properly, 'unzip -t 2.z01' to test the archive contents, before unzipping for real. If that doesn't help, quote us exactly what you try, and the response. Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: Bizzare routing table entry.

2007-08-08 Thread Ian Smith
there; in my case it was a rogue route added by an ifconfig with an incorrect - as you say, non-contiguous - netmask. In this case it might have been specified/interpreted as 0.0.0.0 netmask 192.168.1.50 ? 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: logging system load

2007-08-02 Thread Ian Smith
would it? With uptime it is nice > to have the current time also recorded and I can compare logs to load by > time. paqi% /bin/echo `/bin/date` `/sbin/sysctl -n vm.loadavg` Fri Aug 3 00:33:13 EST 2007 { 0.04 0.11 0.09 } 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: Linux Compat and freebsd root

2007-07-30 Thread Ian Lord
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Lord Sent: 30 juillet 2007 15:58 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Linux Compat and freebsd root Hi, When I start a deamon running under linux emulation, the root of the filesystem

Linux Compat and freebsd root

2007-07-30 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, When I start a deamon running under linux emulation, the root of the filesystem '/' seems to be in fact '/usr/compat/linux' Is there a way to mount something like "/freebsd" pointing to the real filesystem ? If so, where would I put the mount command so that it is loaded when the de

Re: USB Mouse not Working

2007-07-29 Thread Ian Smith
7 ff ff ff 00 00 00 7f || 0020 87 ff 00 00 00 00 00 7f 87 ff ff 00 00 00 00 7f || 0030 87 ff ff 00 00 00 00 7f 87 ff ff ff 00 00 00 7f |....| 0040 87 ff ff ff 00 00 00 7f 87 ff 00 00 00 00 00 7f || 0050 8

RE: RALUS for Linux - authentication failing

2007-07-26 Thread Ian Lord
On Thursday 26 July 2007 12:18:52 pm John Nielsen wrote: > I'm trying to get the latest Linux remote agent for Backup Exec to run on a > FreeBSD-amd64 machine. The exact version is RALUS-11d.7170.2, although I > suspect any 10.0 - 11d version would be the same. > > After trying a few things (includ

RE: Portupgrade and mysql5-server

2007-07-25 Thread Ian Lord
-Original Message- From: Yuri Pankov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 juillet 2007 11:29 To: Ian Lord Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portupgrade and mysql5-server On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 11:25:54AM -0400, Ian Lord wrote: > Hi, > > > > Just a

Portupgrade and mysql5-server

2007-07-25 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, Just a quick question. When there is a new version of mysql5-server port, I use "portupgrade -a > to update it. Everytime I need to do a "/usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server start" to start it manually after the upgrade. Shouldn't it be done automatically ? Thanks __

fsck to fix HD problem

2007-07-25 Thread Ian Smith
T(S) WRONG IN SUPERBLK > SALVAGE? no > > SUMMARY INFORMATION BAD > SALVAGE? no > > BLK(S) MISSING IN BIT MAPS > SALVAGE? no > > 53119 files, 473457 used, 617845 free (10557 frags, 75911 blocks, 1.0% > fragmentation) If in d

RE: Root access loggin

2007-07-24 Thread Ian Lord
-Original Message- From: John Fitzgerald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 juillet 2007 15:42 To: Tom Grove Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Ian Lord Subject: Re: Root access loggin I may be misunderstanding this, but wouldn't allowing only certain commands with sudo assume tha

Root access loggin

2007-07-24 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, A Zend technician asked me to have a root access on one of my box to troubleshoot something wrong in Zend Platform installation that doesn't work on Freebsd. He will need root access naturally to install and debug remotely. Is there a way to log all the commands he will type and sen

FW: Data corruption with Ide Raid Card

2007-07-17 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, On our dev environnement, we have a clone server with a Promise FastTrak Tx2000 Pata Raid Card When we installed freebsd, it got detected and I didn't do anything special during the installation. Yesterday, a hard drive failed. Freebsd crashed with write errors on screen. I rebooted

Data corruption with Ide Raid Card

2007-07-14 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, On our dev environnement, we have a clone server with a Promise FastTrak Tx2000 Pata Raid Card When we installed freebsd, it got detected and I didn't do anything special during the installation. Yesterday, a hard drive failed. Freebsd crashed with write errors on screen. I rebooted

Re: Installing in a logical partition

2007-07-14 Thread Ian Smith
; (FAT16/32, NTFS and HPFS (r/o), probably ext2fs, and of course UFS), here as ad4s5, ad4s6 .. Are all three of ad4s1 to ad4s3 now in use for XP and Gentoo? Do you have other 'logical drives' already in ad4s4 that can't go elsewhere? Could you maybe

Re: Adding a new command

2007-07-07 Thread Ian Smith
r own scripts are all together. You need to specify full path for any of these where used in a crontab, but that's good practice anyway. If you're using [t]csh, as Lisa appears to be (needing to run 'rehash' to find newly added commands), $HOME/bin is already in the default pat

Re: kern.hz="100" stops high-pitched whine

2007-07-01 Thread Ian Smith
rks well. > Is it okay to stay with 100 Hz with this type of > low-speed CPU/boards? Or are there some compelling > reasons not to? If it's happy, smooth and keeping up, it's fine. Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: Verifying PHP support

2007-06-27 Thread Ian Smith
support for Apache, until either default build options are changed, or a specific "php5-apache" port (thus package) is created. > > thanks, > > Darryl > > Good luck... > > > > > BTW, on a different machine a while ago, I tried

Re: Apache access log shows these attack requests

2007-06-14 Thread Ian Smith
. just 'no browser' is disallowed # SetEnvIf Referer "^$" no_ref=1 SetEnvIf User-Agent "^$" no_bro=1 # (I never did work out how to express 'no_bro AND no_ref' ?) SetEnvIf no_bro 1 go_away # except of course allow local "-" "-"

Re: Fresh install won't compile requirement libraries for cvsup

2007-06-14 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Andrew Falanga wrote: > On 6/13/07, Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:02:38 -0600 Andrew Falanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > a hard hang. Nothing worked. I could not even Alt+ to

Re: Fresh install won't compile requirement libraries for cvsup

2007-06-12 Thread Ian Smith
mory. Your BIOS probably lets you play with wait states and such, but the basic PCI bus speed might be something weird if you've managed to crank the cpu up to 700MHz .. 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 access log shows these attack requests

2007-06-12 Thread Ian Smith
.1" 200 3847 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows NT)" In this case, apache served (200 response) *my* home page (3847 bytes) on all such would-be proxy requests. Not a problem. > 122-124-129-55.dynamic.hinet.net - - [10/May/2007:18:29:38 -0400] "CO

Re: Php5 port and Apache Module

2007-06-10 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > > Anyway, water under the bridge; phpMyAdmin 2.9.1 works fine, and I soon > > have another big upgrade to do (patiently awaiting xorg 7 packages :) > > I take it you are aware of: > > http:

Re: Php5 port and Apache Module

2007-06-10 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > > Around 6.0 may have been the timeline for this change, but it affected > > users of 5.4 and 5.5 too; one 5.5-STABLE here. I ran into this updating > > phpMyAdmin last year, which also enforced upg

Re: Php5 port and Apache Module

2007-06-10 Thread Ian Smith
uestion. Colour me curious too. It appears more like a personal preference than engineering as such. It might also reflect the relative disrepute that installing from packages has fallen into, as those having leading edge hardware tend to forget the convenience and speed of packag

RE: Whats eating my cpu ?

2007-06-07 Thread Ian Lord
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nikos Vassiliadis Sent: 7 juin 2007 04:24 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Ian Lord Subject: Re: Whats eating my cpu ? On Thursday 07 June 2007 11:16, Ian Lord wrote: > -Original Message- >

RE: Whats eating my cpu ?

2007-06-07 Thread Ian Lord
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Lord Sent: 7 juin 2007 04:14 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Whats eating my cpu ? Isnt top suppose to show all the process eating cpu ? System takes 20% cpu and I don't see in

Whats eating my cpu ?

2007-06-07 Thread Ian Lord
Isnt top suppose to show all the process eating cpu ? System takes 20% cpu and I don't see in which process. any idea ? last pid: 1021; load averages: 0.20, 0.39, 0.34 up 0+00:22:56 04:08:51 52 processes: 1 running, 51 sleeping CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 1.7% system, 20.2% interr

Moving Freebsd to a new Server

2007-06-07 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, We were in a rush to install a freebsd server without proper hardware on hand, so we used Microsoft Virtual Server and install Freebsd on it. I would like to move the freebsd installation to a real server and was wondering how to do so. I searched around and the solution seems to be

Re: fbsd 6.2 pf starts -- but not on boot

2007-06-05 Thread Ian Smith
y thing is, I doubt I'd have noticed it without your blank line! > the "gotcha" here was that, according to my notes, i *HAD* > checked/ensure that my default routes were correctly initialized > (with "netstat -nr"), but, apparently, BEFORE i'd naively/mistak

Re: fbsd 6.2 pf starts -- but not on boot

2007-06-05 Thread Ian Smith
unsure whether it's related to your pf problem, rusted-on ipfw here, but my connections tend to work better with a default route .. 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: fbsd 6.2 pf starts -- but not on boot

2007-06-04 Thread Ian Smith
> ppp_nat="NO" > ppp_profile="ppp`" What rc would make of that backtick inside quotes, I know not .. 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: COM1 problems

2007-06-03 Thread Ian Smith
t;> Look at sio(8), under FILES; the callin ports at /dev/ttyd?. and maybe the para before FILES too. Don't worry about the locking stuff, though if curious, 'serial' has moved from /etc/ to /etc/rc.d/ but I've not played with that since FreeBSD 2.2.6 dialups years ago.

Su newbie question

2007-05-28 Thread Ian Lord
, so I wonder if everybody needs to know that password or if he could have his own password to su ? Thanks ~~ Ian Lord MSD Informatique 1711 Montée Major Terrebonne (Québec) J7M 1E6 Tél: (514) 776-MSDI -> (514) 776-6734 Sans Frais: 1(877) 776-M

Re: Restore UFS snapshot

2007-05-28 Thread Ian Smith
ossible at all, to first save all subsequent changes in its present state to another snapshot, or a snapshot-like thing, to allow 'rollforward' again, perhaps .. that would be cute. > The only real problem I see is about how "filesystem checks wh

gstat [was: raid or not raid]

2007-05-25 Thread Ian Smith
a UDMA33 5400rpm drive .. BTW, this is on 5.5-STABLE, seeing you weren't sure about it on 5.x > Your reasoning is excellent -- it's only your basic assumptions that > are wrong. Probably very apt :) Thanks again, Ian ___ freeb

Extended partition

2007-05-24 Thread Ian Smith
When i mount ext3 partitions, i receive "invalid argument" > mount_ext2fs -o ro /dev/ad0s6 /media/mymountpoint > I have checked ad0s6 exist. > Please help me. The first slice in your 'extended partition' should be ad0s5. On top of your text description, please prov

Re: Re[2]: notebook cpu throttling [solved]

2007-05-23 Thread Ian Smith
system it was 800MHz, > which is 400MHz/core. I don't understand figuring it as half frequency per core, but I've not run an SMP box myself. As long as it works fine for you, that's great. Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@fre

Re: notebook cpu throttling

2007-05-22 Thread Ian Smith
also benefit by decreasing the polling interval (how often powerd checks load average) from 500mS to perhaps half that? I'm kinda interested in these fujitsu-siemens laptops myself, so I'm still keen to see your 'sysctl dev.cpu.0.freq_levels' please? Cheers, Ian _

Re: notebook cpu throttling

2007-05-22 Thread Ian Smith
ally showed 5% cpu will now show as using 20% (of available cpu cycles at that speed) You can tune your powerd idle levels more towards performance, and/or you can set a higher minimum cpu freq with sysctl debug.cpufreq.lowest from among your available levels. powerd's default shiftpoi

Re: Remote login via modem [coda]

2007-05-20 Thread Ian Smith
rk-wide opt-out > 554 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Service unavailable I've not seen a 'Confirmed network-wide opt-out' SMTP response before. Any idea what it indicates, apart from the obvious rejection of mail? Ian ___ freebsd-quest

Re: Remote login via modem

2007-05-19 Thread Ian Smith
eny deflate # set ifaddr x.y.z.145 x.y.z.161 255.255.255.255 delete ALL # 1may99 keepalive filters set afilter 0 deny icmp set afilter 1 deny tcp dst eq 110 set afilter 2 deny tcp src eq 110 # [.. various others ..] set afilter 15 deny u

Re: Auto shutdown/restart software for FreeBSD?

2007-05-17 Thread Ian Smith
of free/cheap serial or parallel programmers out there. Others will advocate PICs, and others. It's really a personal preference; I enjoy the relatively orthogonal AVR instruction set - despite being little-endian - and its memory and I/O layout, pin functionality and such.

RE: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs...

2007-05-16 Thread Ian Lord
Thanks a lot, it works perfectly. I'm starting to think it was not that much of a newbie question since you are the first one to give a working answer :) Thanks again -Original Message- From: Giorgos Keramidas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 mai 2007 12:22 To: Ian Lord Cc: &#

RE: SMP issues with i386/6.2 RELEASE and Compaq DL360 g1

2007-05-16 Thread Ian Lord
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Price Sent: 16 mai 2007 02:51 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: SMP issues with i386/6.2 RELEASE and Compaq DL360 g1 Has anyone else seen issues while trying to boot an SMP kernel on a Compa

RE: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs...

2007-05-16 Thread Ian Lord
-Original Message- From: Oliver Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 mai 2007 03:18 To: Jerry McAllister Cc: Oliver Peter; Ian Lord; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs... On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:38:15PM -0400, Jerry McAllister

Newbie Question: Mail from from cron jobs...

2007-05-15 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, Everyday, cron is sending me status reports of jobs it ran. In my /etc/mail/aliases I configured root: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and it works fine. The problem, is that the mail is coming from [EMAIL PROTECTED] We have a spamfirewall and it rejects the mail saying localhost.mydomain

Re: what's the easiest way to de-html-ize files?

2007-05-14 Thread Ian Smith
refox) the 'Save Page As' dialog offers a picklist for 'Files of Type' that includes 'Text Files'. This does a pretty decent job of producing text from HTML files, and is quicker than firing up lynx (or links) if you're already viewing a page. 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: mounting an external Hard Drive

2007-05-07 Thread Ian Smith
DOS 'drive E:' would be accessed as ad0s6 and so on; this way you can mount multiple MSDOSFS, NTFS and HPFS 'partitions'. So the 'Extended Partition' da0s2 is not mountable per se; try 'mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s5' and likewise 'fsck_msdosfs /dev/da0s

Re: disaster recovery - did I do the right thing?

2007-05-07 Thread Ian Smith
emove directories (unless you also use -r). I can't say what was in _your_ /usr/local, but I've just checked on 4.8, 4.10, 5.5-STABLE and 6.1-RELEASE systems, and none of them install plain files in /usr/local at all, just directories. So you may be lucky .. Cheers, Ian

(no subject)

2007-05-01 Thread Ian Smith
rchives of either list for T23 should provide some clues. My T23's BIOS and EC aren't up to date, I get a subset of your list of ACPI messages (apparently harmlessly) but nothing like as many as you. Adding acpi_ibm_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf is a good start. Cheers, Ian ___

Re: normal mount points

2007-04-29 Thread Ian Smith
ation would be very helpful, such as the contents of /net and > /host, the output of `mount` and the contents of /etc/fstab. > > Hopefully then we can help further. Thanks! > > - -- > Chris Slothouber ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -=- Mercenary Sysadmin Cheers, Ian ___

RE: Memory >3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Ian Lord
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Don O'Neil Sent: 24 avril 2007 13:56 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Memory >3.5GB not used? I just built a new server with an Athlon 64 x2, 4GB Ram and a Gigabyte/Nvidia motherboard. When I boot

Port marked as broken

2007-04-24 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, I just did a "cvsup" and a "pkg_version -v" to see that one of my port is outdated. pecl-memcache-2.1.0 < needs updating (port has 2.1.2) When I tried to "portupgrade -a" I got a message saying "pecl-memcache-2.1.2 is marked as broken: Configure fails." I thoug

Re: Apache and PHP Packages

2007-04-23 Thread Ian Smith
t/before running make config), you now HAVE to use the port for PHP5, selecting the module in config. I don't know why this became the default, assuming the majority of php users are installing it for the apache module, but there it is. Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

lost password caused by drunk admin

2007-04-17 Thread Ian Lord
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ghirai Sent: 17 avril 2007 02:58 To: Lewis Joshua; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lost password caused by drunk admin Hello Lewis, Tuesday, April 17, 2007, 4:59:40 AM, you wrote: > Hello FreeBS

Request and Ideas: Vim filetype plugins for FreeBSD

2007-04-09 Thread Ian A. Tegebo
done similar things. Has anyone done any work along these lines? -- Ian Tegebo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

RE: Multiple routes to same destination?

2007-04-04 Thread Ian Lord
don't know why freebsd still doesn’t support that Linux and even windows supports that :) ~~~~~~ Ian Lord MSD Informatique 1711 Montée Major Terrebonne (Québec) J7M 1E6 Tél: (514) 776-MSDI -> (514) 776-6734 Sans Frais: 1(877) 776-MSDI -> 1(87

External touchpad for a laptop?

2007-04-01 Thread Ian Smith
Can anybody spare me a clue? -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:58:32 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: External touchpad? Hi, running a Thinkpad T23 on 6.1-RELEASE. Happy but for the 'stickmouse', find

Re: Mounting NTFS drive/partition

2007-03-31 Thread Ian Smith
, but shows only one partition, ad1s1 wich is NTFS, but on > > that disk there are 3 ntfs partitions and the system doesn't see them. On > > windows they work fine. Try mount_ntfs using ad1s5, ad1s6 and ad1s7 then, read-only for safety. >From a 2004 fstab on one 4.10 system: /de

Re: Moving paritions around

2007-03-30 Thread Ian Smith
to setup the fdisk/newfs/labeling of a new slice that's _before_ your boot slice, be sure to write your changes and bail out of sysinstall before it thinks you want to install there :) Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing l

Adding paths to @INC in perl

2007-03-26 Thread Ian A. Tegebo
uot; @${ECHO} " ENABLE_SUIDPERL=yes Also build set-user-id suidperl binary." @${ECHO} "" == Is there a better way to do this? If not, should I submit this patch to the port maintainer

[OT] Re: TCP conection problems IBM VM -> FreeBSD

2007-03-25 Thread Ian Smith
stly, I wonder why you'd expect IBM to run 'some crazy' stack? > this now opens a whole new box of worms?!?!? Hopefully not .. 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: 'nodump' on directories: new contents still dumped

2007-03-19 Thread Ian Smith
> Glad you got the problem worked around; when I finally get around to > 6.2 I will be curious to see if I can replicate the problem. Or perhaps it only requires clarification / better phrasing in the man? 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: Corrupted OS

2007-03-17 Thread Ian Smith
119 (UFS2) timeSun Mar 18 15:48:35 2007 Also, 'dumpfs | head -20' provides far more than anyone wants to know but including maxfilesize, flags (eg none or soft-updates) and fsmnt (last mounted on). Works on unmounted or mounted drives. 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: FreeBSD 2.2.9 / Installation problem

2007-03-16 Thread Ian Lord
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nino Ivanov Sent: 16 mars 2007 07:07 To: 'Josh Paetzel'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: 'Kris Kennaway' Subject: AW: FreeBSD 2.2.9 / Installation problem I tried to send to freebsd-questions the following

Re: Effectively detaching 'less' from a pipe

2007-02-27 Thread Ian Smith
mpt offered, type 'cat - >somepath/filename' to capture the file, or snippet. If you use >> instead of > you can cat interesting sections of your output to a file; using up/down arrow at '!' you can recall commands used, for each mark/move/pipe/cat sequence. 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: input/output error on hd

2007-02-25 Thread Ian Smith
thout the -m switch, feed the output to a file, or less, as it's very voluminous. For a 240GB drive, it'll likely be huge. However the data at the head is probably what's needed, though I can't make much of it. This post by Ian Dowse explains how to compute where the superblo

Re: input/output error on hd

2007-02-23 Thread Ian Smith
before. That is going to take some > study but it might work. Yep, it depends on how precious this data is, but no learning is wasted. 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: input/output error on hd

2007-02-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 23 Feb 2007, Marty Landman wrote: > On 2/23/07, Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So just show 'fdisk ad1' to see the disk's partition (slice) table (which > > may be damaged, but it's the only one you're interested in). > &g

RE: Problem with gnome_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf

2007-02-23 Thread Hilt, Ian
> -Original Message- > From: Norberto Meijome [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 9:59 AM > To: Hilt, Ian > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Problem with gnome_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf > > On Thu, 22 Fe

Re: input/output error on hd

2007-02-22 Thread Ian Smith
do NOT do a newfs. You can easily try it in sysinstall. > > > > -Derek Yes, if you know precisely how the disk was partitioned before, which is perhaps dubious in this case .. hopefully Marty saved a copy of the boot sector for each disk earlier with boot0cfg -f ? Marty, if you don't mind reposting what I suppose you did earlier, show us these (all non-destructive): # fdisk ad1 # bsdlabel ad1s1(or whatever slice 1-4 it may be, or try them all) # boot0cfg -v ad1 Cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Problem with gnome_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf

2007-02-22 Thread Hilt, Ian
dbus_bus_get: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.FileNotFound: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/dbus.pipe: No such file or directory Any help would be greatly appreciated. Ian Hilt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: ipfw limit src-addr woes

2007-02-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Julian Elischer wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > admin wrote: > > > > > > > Wrong: the implied "check-state" done by the "limit" lets the > > connectio

Re: ipfw limit src-addr woes

2007-02-20 Thread Ian Smith
ppening. admin above asserts that my assumption was wrong, and that in a match beyond the limit number of connections for that src/dest address, the setup packet is 'implicitly dropped and the search terminates', and while I can't find that stated as such in ipfw(8), he ma

Re: ipfw limit src-addr woes

2007-02-19 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, admin wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, admin wrote: > > > Andre Santos wrote: > > > > On 2/18/07, admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >> Hi, I'm trying to use ipfw'

Re: ipfw limit src-addr woes

2007-02-19 Thread Ian Smith
how" to see what connections are matching > > your dynamic rules. > > > > # ipfw -d show | fgrep x.x.x.x | wc -l > 20 > $ netstat -na|fgrep x.x.x.x|fgrep ESTABLISHED|wc -l > 113 > > Why is it that only 20

Re: named already running?

2007-02-16 Thread Ian Smith
argued that a nameserver should never be suspended :) (As an aside, rndc stats and rndc dumpdb work here, but I can't get rndc querylog to do anything at all, a write permission error. I've tried all manner of things including creating a zero length named.run in various places under the chroo

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