Re: fsck on a read only partition?

2007-07-04 Thread Joe Holden
Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Hello, how do I fsck my disk if it's mounted? > > I have downgraded the mount to read-only, but still geom seems > to disallow fsck access to it. > > Is there a way to tell the system to allow fsck to open it > read/write? > > thanks, If you unmount it first, you shoul

Re: How do I get libphp5.so back

2007-06-23 Thread Joe Holden
Andrew Falanga wrote: > On 6/23/07, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Reinstall php and all modules -- that should fix the problem (based >> on past experience). >> -Garrett >> ___ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://

Re: freebsd on laptop

2007-06-20 Thread Joe Holden
Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: > no, i dont have floppy... > > TFC > > On 6/20/07, Eduardo Viruena Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: >> >> > hi folks, >> > I want to buy a laptop and install linux and freebsd, the problem is, >> > some 14' laptop doesnt come

Re: OK - I'm fairly clueless on this...

2007-06-15 Thread Joe Holden
T machine as > 192.168 suggest) is doing strange things... Do you have a bogus rdr/fwd in your config anywhere? -- Joe Holden T: (UK) 02071009593 (AU) 282442321 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: reinstalling a port with new compile option

2007-06-03 Thread Joe Holden
Juan Miscara wrote: I have net/samba3 installed on my FreeBSD 6.2 box. I now want to have ACL_SUPPORT compiled in. Without updating my sources, what is the safest way to achieve this? Thank you, Juan ___ cd /usr/ports/net/samba3 make deinstall cl

Re: network/IP notation question ##.##.##.##/??

2007-04-20 Thread Joe Holden
Jim Stapleton wrote: I am looking at something that has the following line as a demo: set iface route 192.168.0.0/24 what does the "/24" mean? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing HTH, J ___ freebsd-qu

Re: every two weeks

2007-04-18 Thread Joe Holden
John Haig wrote: Hi Every two weeks my Freebsd 5.3 box goes down. I'm running a webserver, databaase. No mail. Unfortunately it's 1100 miles from where I am and is quite the pain for my contact to go and start it up again. He says it's turned off and cold by the time he gets there.

Re: ezjail ip conflicts

2007-03-23 Thread Joe Holden
Robin Becker wrote: Joe Holden wrote: >> >> how do I fix this or perhaps I don't need to? > syslogd_flags="-ss" in rc.conf > sshd is configured in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. . I looked in vain in /etc/rc.d/syslogd for references to syslogd_ an

Re: ezjail ip conflicts

2007-03-23 Thread Joe Holden
Robin Becker wrote: I'm getting these ip conflicts whilst trying to create a jail ezjail-admin create xxx.xxx.xxx.27 Warning: IP xxx.xxx.xxx.27 not configured on a local interface. Warning: Some services already seem to be listening on all IP, (including xxx.xxx.xxx.27) This may cause s

Re: System freezes on install

2007-03-07 Thread Joe Holden
s.moyzis wrote: I have a copy of FreeBSD 4.4, when I try to install from the boot CD, or the 2 floppies, the keyboard/system freezes on Kernal Configuration Menu. I also have 2 HD's, an internal 80 Gb for Windows XP, and a 250 Gb external HD for C; backup and a partition for FreeBSD. It's a

Re: Linux Compat

2007-02-27 Thread Joe Holden
Jerry wrote: Hi, I just did a 6.2 scratch install and missed one thing. I am sure I remember from previous version installs that it asks if I want to install the Linux Compatibility stuff. But, this got all the way done without mentioning it at all. I normally check the All selection on these

Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

2007-02-27 Thread Joe Holden
Wojciech Puchar wrote: use dovecot with Maildir. IMHO it's the best for mail service now. at least for me Does dovecont support shared forders? what are "shared folders"? is it some standard or some M$-standard? As in shared namespaces? I'm sure thats an IMAP standard, rather than just an M

Re: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back?

2007-02-25 Thread Joe Holden
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From: "Chris Slothouber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 10:02 PM Subject: Re: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back? Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From: "Andrew Lentvorski" <[EMAIL

Re: CVSup question

2007-02-21 Thread Joe Holden
Simon Gao wrote: What if I just want to update ports for 5 stable tree? If using HEAD, then may some ports being updated be current but not stable? Or there is no such things as stable or current ports? Simon Joe Holden wrote: Simon Gao wrote: Hi, I have some machines running FreeBSD

Re: CVSup question

2007-02-21 Thread Joe Holden
Simon Gao wrote: Hi, I have some machines running FreeBSD 5.2.1. Is it safe to update ports to 5.4_stable via CVSup? Or should I use 5_stable? Ports are independant of base branch, ports should generally be HEAD (tag=.). HTH, Joe ___ freebsd-q

Re: help needed setting up NATIVE ipv6 connection

2007-02-20 Thread Joe Holden
Arone Silimantia wrote: Hello, I am in a datacenter that provides native (not tunneled) ipv6 connectivity. Unfortunately, all of the howtos for FreeBSD are focused on tunneling ipv6 and using gif0, etc. This does not apply to me because I have a real ipv6 connection. Right now things are si

Re: Invisible process killing the CPU

2007-02-16 Thread Joe Holden
Nagy László Zsolt wrote: Laszlo Nagy wrote: 75% user, 24.2% system, 0.0% idle. Despite those stats, I do not see what is eating up 100% cpu time. I already restarted the computer but it is the same. This problem started some hours ago. The CPU is hot, I can feel it on the air stream pouring ou

Re: Invisible process killing the CPU

2007-02-16 Thread Joe Holden
Laszlo Nagy wrote: 75% user, 24.2% system, 0.0% idle. Despite those stats, I do not see what is eating up 100% cpu time. I already restarted the computer but it is the same. This problem started some hours ago. The CPU is hot, I can feel it on the air stream pouring out the computer case. There

Re: Building Home Server

2007-02-16 Thread Joe Holden
Drew Jenkins wrote: 20Hi; I'm building a server at home to mimic my live server. The instructions require that I gather the following information: * IP address * IP address of default gateway * Hostname * DNS server IP address * Subnet Mask Now, I think I can use 192.168.0.1 as my IP address, s

Re: Backup using dump and restore from dvd - restore cd loaded to ram drive?

2007-02-12 Thread Joe Holden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list! I plan to use a full backup of my working desktop FreeBSD 6.2 STABLE with: dump -0LuB 10 -f backup.0,backup.1,backup.2 / It would be possible to use some linux distro, but support for UFS2 is required (I recall that MoviX has worked like this - but its

Re: Mail server recomendations

2007-02-09 Thread Joe Holden
Joe Holden wrote: Post for for smtp. Postfix even. -- Joe Holden Telephone: +44 (0) 207 100 9593 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Mail server recomendations

2007-02-09 Thread Joe Holden
__ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Thanks, -- Joe Holden Telephone: +44 (0) 207 100 9593 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ f

Re: firefox, mozilla won't display PHP (Was: Re: firefox, extensions, and *.php pages)

2007-02-02 Thread Joe Holden
t myself in the foot? thanks for any insights; a couple of these addon are useful... gary You've added AddType lines to config, but the module is missing, or isn't being loaded presumably. -- Joe Holden Telephone: +44 (0) 207 100 9593 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://w

Re: Easy USB-drive automounter and "filemanager" for nontechies?

2007-02-01 Thread Joe Holden
know what's out there, being a command line dinosuar myself. Any recommendations? Thanks. ___ IIRC, you can have usbd execute $stuff, i'm not sure to the extent of how useful it is however. Sorry i'm not much help Thanks, -- J

Re: Best Blog Ap in the Ports?

2007-01-27 Thread Joe Holden
6 Jan 2007, at 17:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the best blog ap in the ports tree? I was thinking of starting a blog on my server for my Chemistry Students. Another vote for wordpress here, as can be seen on my website, fairly lightweight and can do almost anything you need with the

Re: any good articles on freebsd jails?

2007-01-27 Thread Joe Holden
system. thanks, jonathan ___ Jails have alot of restrictions compared to full VM's, however as a start, i'd suggest reading man jail(if you haven't already) -- Joe Holden Telephone: +44 (0) 207 100 9593 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: What is my TFTP Server Soing

2007-01-27 Thread Joe Holden
Joshua Lewis wrote: Hello list, I am trying to figure out what my device is doing when connecting to my TFTP server. Is there a way to watch on my server what the TFTP server is doing? Sincerely, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-ques

Re: cvsup file info needed please advise

2007-01-26 Thread Joe Holden
uffix *.default compress src-all " I wanted to go from 6.1 to 6,2 latest and greatest . What is the correct tag name I should use RELENG_6_2 -- Joe Holden Telephone: +44 (0) 207 100 9593 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.joeholden.co.uk IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: apache exiting on signal 6

2007-01-20 Thread Joe Holden
Joe Auty wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just FYI, disabling eAccelerator hasn't rid me of this problem. I am using PHP as an Apache module. I might look at using Fast CGI, or else simply ignore this problem. Is there a list somewhere of PHP apps that don't work with Fas

Re: Mail etiquette (was: What is this mean by this term)

2007-01-19 Thread Joe Holden
Gerard Seibert wrote: On Friday January 19, 2007 at 10:21:24 (AM) Ceri Davies wrote: On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:42:54AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I think the biggest problem with Microsoft MUAs is not where they position the cursor, but the difficulty they cause in editing the text.

Re: Mobile IPv6

2007-01-18 Thread Joe Holden
john kandirakis wrote: I would like to ask you a few questions. I am trying to implement an IPv6 testbed as a part of my thesis. Following the instructions for the 4.9 release and using 6.2 I tried to recompile the Kernel but there are not options for IPv6.Does mobile IPv6 supported by the curren

Re: What is this mean by this term

2007-01-18 Thread Joe Holden
Bill Moran wrote: In response to "jdow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: From: "Bill Moran" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Dak Ghatikachalam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am confused 2 posters have told me that I am top posting , What do we mean by "top-posting" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_posting And tho

Re: Antivirus.

2007-01-15 Thread Joe Holden
Luis Croker wrote: Hi all... I have a mail server running FreeBSD+sendmail, I would like to install an antivirus for the mail traffic. Any suggestions about an antivirus non-commercial to install ? ClamAV, works nicely and frequently updated. Ta, Joe ___

Re: Problem Installing Postfix in 6.1

2007-01-14 Thread Joe Holden
Alex Alborzfard wrote: I'm having trouble installing Postfix. After selecting the options (TSL, Mysql), after displaying output that it can't fetch postfix-2.2.9-tar.gzfrom various sites, it displays this message: "Couldn't fetch it - please try retrieving this port manually into /usr/ports/distf

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Release

2007-01-09 Thread Joe Holden
Ivan Voras wrote: Note that things are different when upgrading from one major version to another (e.g. 6.x to 7.x), though I even managed to update 5.x to 6.x while the machine was "live" the whole time with only minor glitches, solved by recompiling ports. I doubt this would work with 6.x->7.x

Re: gmake upgrade

2006-12-09 Thread Joe Holden
Grzegorz Danecki wrote: > Hello list! > > it may be a stupid question, but i'm a little bit scared before gmake > upgrade. I'm not using portupgrade, everything is build from the ports > tree, > so, when some package is old, and there is newer version in ports, then > make > all && make deinstall

Re: jail & 127.0.0.x howto

2006-12-05 Thread Joe Holden
vittorio wrote: > Under freebsd 6.1 I set up an apache 2.0 server in a jail working on fxp0 > 10.155.1.10 and aliased as 10.155.1.11. It works like a charme. > > Now while IP 10.155.1.10 is a fixed IP address I've been assigned by my > office > network administrator (it is also in the office DN

Re: VoIP behind NAT and FreeBSD

2006-12-02 Thread Joe Holden
Kurt Dethier wrote: > Marwan Sultan wrote: >> Hello All, >> >> Well, maybe the subject says all, >> Im running 6.1R acting as NAT, gateway ofcourse, hotspot. >> I have many clients trying to use Vonage, motorola, VoIP devices and >> and few more products. >> >> The problem is as its described

Re: system mail

2006-12-02 Thread Joe Holden
Jeff wrote: > I run postfix on 6.x with local delivery disabled. I'd like to send the > system messages to an outside address, eg [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead > of [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Is this possible? Aliases will take care of that, /etc/aliases iirc. Ta, Joe _

Re: VoIP behind NAT and FreeBSD

2006-12-02 Thread Joe Holden
Marwan Sultan wrote: > Hello All, > > Well, maybe the subject says all, > Im running 6.1R acting as NAT, gateway ofcourse, hotspot. > I have many clients trying to use Vonage, motorola, VoIP devices and > and few more products. > > The problem is as its described in some websites.. > They c

Re: Removing "modules" from the Userland

2006-11-29 Thread Joe Holden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 11/29/06, Nadow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi! I installed the 6.2-RC1 version but now I have decided to remove >> the profiled libraries and I know that for that purpose I have to add >> the line "NO_PROFILE=" to the make.conf before the "make world" >> action. >>

Re: Fwd: Problem with first run of 6.1

2006-11-28 Thread Joe Holden
Fernando Capeletto wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Fernando Capeletto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 26/11/2006 17:39 > Subject: Problem with first run of 6.1 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I installed 6.1 with success using 2 hds. > hd1 (3G) > / (1536M) > swap (777M) > /tmp (78

Re: ssh over http

2006-11-28 Thread Joe Holden
Atom Powers wrote: > On 11/27/06, Ansar Mohammed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello All, >> Is there any ssh over http implementation available for freebsd? > > That doesn't even make sense. SSH is a transport layer protocol, HTTP > is an application layer protocol. > If you mean by a HTTP prox

Re: freebsd desktop

2006-11-26 Thread Joe Holden
probsd org wrote: > Regarding my earlier email "Do not install FreeBSD as a desktop" > > I don't care how long I have been using FreeBSD, or yadda yadda or yadda > > when I cvsup ports, update the databse, and install www/firefox and go to a > website I expect firefox's javascript or w

Re: Mounting Freebsd partition on Linux

2006-11-26 Thread Joe Holden
Amit Joshi wrote: > I am trying to mount the FreeBSD Partition on my Debian Testing system with > the 2.6.17-2 kernel. > I tried searching the config file and did not find any reference to UFS or > U2FS in that file. So maybe it is not supported by my kernel? > "UFS" is support, unlikely its in t

Re: Install problems

2006-11-26 Thread Joe Holden
Amit Joshi wrote: On Sunday 26 November 2006 05:34, Jose wrote: Hi, Let me start by saying I am new to FreeBSD. I downloaded the iso, burned it to disk and installed the software. However when I restart the pc after the install I get an error message that it cannot find the kernel. I have gon

Re: 4.x binaries on 6.1

2006-11-24 Thread Joe Holden
Odhiambo Washington wrote: How do I run binaries compiled in FreeBSD 4.11 on a box running 6.2-PRE? Make sure the compat for FreeBSD 4.x is in your kernel (present in GENERIC), and also install the port misc/compat4x, that should do it. Thanks, J _

Intel LGA775/Core 2 Duo compatible motherboard with serial redirection

2006-11-17 Thread Joe Holden
Hi, i'm looking for low profile boards, no audio, fancy vga etc, just serial console redirection capable Anyone have any recommendations? The Intel desktop boards are exactly what i'm after (Low profile, fxp/em onboard, although have audio which can be disabled I guess), however they don't app

Re: Shutting down as user

2006-11-13 Thread Joe Holden
Rem P Roberti wrote: That is very true, and I understand why this is by design, but in this case the ONLY user of the machine is me. It really is no big deal, but I am trying to understand just what is going on here. As I said, on my desktop I am able to shut down as user, and can't remember

Re: Shutting down as user

2006-11-13 Thread Joe Holden
Rem P Roberti wrote: I'm using the KDE window manager, but don't see how this would effect anything, as I am not able to shut down as user from the console. This is the intended behaviour, you wouldn't want just anyone to shutdown your machines would you? ;) _

Dedicated server provider in .be

2006-10-30 Thread Joe Holden
All, Apologies if this is the wrong list/completely off topic - was hoping to reach a wider audience, as my Google fu is obviously not strong! I'm looking for a fairly reasonable provider in Belgium, for an offsite monitoring/secondary mx/ns, not sure on spec, nothing fancy, FreeBSD (obviously).

Dedicated Server providers in .be

2006-10-30 Thread Joe Holden
All, Apologies if this is the wrong list/completely off topic - was hoping to reach a wider audience, as my Google fu is obviously not strong! I'm looking for a fairly reasonable provider in Belgium, for an offsite monitoring/secondary mx/ns, not sure on spec, nothing fancy, FreeBSD (obviously).

Re: Fwd: Serious breach of copyright -- First post

2006-06-18 Thread Joe Holden
David Hoffman wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > From: David Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Jun 18, 2006 8:38 PM > Subject: Re: Serious breach of copyright -- First post > To: Brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I think a formal apology should be issued by the infringers. > > Hasn't