Re: [OT] Does ~ always point to $HOME?

2007-01-26 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:21:14 +0100 Karol Kwiatkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While that's true for most shells, bash, csh, tcsh, etc., it doesn't work on true Bourne /bin/sh shells (e.g. SCO OpenServer 5.0.6a and earlier and probably others with Bell Labs ancestors). Not sure what I'm

Re: Questions re: disklabel for external USB drives

2006-12-11 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 14:17:29 -0500 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an easy way to force the device to work as something like: /dev/da1s1d on all of the servers, including ones that do not already have a SCSI disk subsystem and existing /dev/da0 devices? I

Re: Password Security

2006-11-23 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 17:47:26 -0500 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I am not an expert on FreeBSD. And thats why I don't know that how it works that If 4 Disks of same size for example 146GB each and they are configured with RAID 10, and Root, SWAP, /usr, /var File systems

Re: denying a user access from the internet

2006-11-07 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 15:54:00 -0500 Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've got a FreeBSD box that i have a user on who needs special console access. I've given him access to what is required, but i do not want him to be able to log in from the internet via ssh, telnet, or even a serial

Re: php5 issue

2006-11-06 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:59:21 -0700 cpghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael S wrote: Thanks Mathew, I realized that, after having posted the question. I find it kind of weird that the default was not to install the module. I find it kind of weird that people click right through `make

Re: compiling php5 with fastcgi

2006-11-04 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 23:34:48 -0500 David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see that php5 compiles with fastcgi as the default. I am attempting to run lighttpd which gives the error; (mod_fastcgi.c.1048) the fastcgi-backend /usr/local/bin/php failed to start: (mod_fastcgi.c.1052) child

Re: About how the GUI should look like after installation!

2006-11-01 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 17:18:05 -0800 (PST) Evans Durandisse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am brand new to unix. I m a beginner student in computer engineering. I wanted to install freeBSD since there's such a fuss about it. I got the iso images and mounted them on a CD with Alcohol 120. I installed

Re: About how the GUI should look like after installation!

2006-11-01 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 20:43:49 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/1/06, Joerg Pernfuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I logged in and typed 'startx' to start the gui (that's what I should do! right!). Consequently, it'd been loaded. I am just seeing four comand shells

Re: Why csh on Root?

2006-10-19 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 08:03:02 -0500 Martin McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any particular reason why FreeBSD has csh as the default root shell? Nothing really wrong with it except that I quit using csh about twelve years ago and so am a little rusty about the finer details

Re: How many Labels/partitions are permitted?

2006-10-19 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:29:07 -0300 Agus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all. I was reading the installation of freebsd and get that only partitions, sorry, labels a to h are allowed. is this so? So if i want to have the following scheme: / /home /usr /usr/local /tmp /var /var/log /homeb

Re: How many Labels/partitions are permitted?

2006-10-19 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:36:30 +0930 Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a-h are possible, yes, but b is usually used for swap and c is reserved for internal use. Specifically, it represents the entire partition. Yes, of course. But stay away from it, internal use only, creates bad

Re: libphp4.so not installed from /usr/ports/lang/php4 and mod_php4 is gone??!!

2006-10-16 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 18:42:24 -0500 Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But still I get nothing. Perhaps mod_php is no longer available for FreeBSD 5.4? Please post the output of: `pkg_info -L php4-4.4.4` `cat /var/db/ports/php4/options` Joerg -- | /\ ASCII ribbon |

Re: What's so compelling about FreeBSD?

2006-10-16 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 13:38:59 -0700 William Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the record, I really, really, like Debian (and now Ubuntu). I understand that there are packages that allow the Debian packaging system to run on top of the FreeBSD kernel, and I'll definitely have try that out

Re: PHP new vulnarabilities

2006-10-15 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 14:31:25 +0200 Khaled J. Hussein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all last time i found this when i run portaudit -Fda Affected package: php5-5.1.6 Type of problem: php -- _ecalloc Integer Overflow Vulnerability. Reference:

Re: PHP new vulnarabilities

2006-10-15 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Sun, 15 Oct 2006 13:07:15 -0500 Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On October 15, 2006 7:49:55 PM +0200 Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe the bug was not in your vuxml when you compiled php5-5.1.6_1. You can use: make -DDISABLE_VULNERABILITIES install clean It will

Re: geom - help ...

2006-09-21 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 06:37:53 +0100 Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: So, again, if I'm reading through things correctly, I'll have to do something like: gstripe st1 da1 da2 gstripe st2 da3 da4 gmirror drive st1 st2 newfs drive That's the wrong way

Re: FreeBSD smp

2006-06-22 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 22:51:46 -0500 (CDT) Denny White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, might be off base here, so someone correct me if I'm wrong. Don't you also have to remove the following #ifdef SMP #ifndef COMPILING_LINT #error DEVICE_POLLING is not compatible with SMP #endif #endif

Re: Auto mount/unmount USB hard drive

2006-05-09 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Tue, 09 May 2006 09:12:12 -0400 Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 02:00 +0200, Joerg Pernfuss wrote: If the msdosfs has a label, you could load geom_label.ko and use sth like /dev/msdosfs/usbdisk/mnt/usbmsdos rw,noauto 0 0

Re: Auto mount/unmount USB hard drive

2006-05-08 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Mon, 08 May 2006 19:40:44 -0400 Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a USB hard drive mounting and working fine. I have the following entry in /etc/fstab that allows it to work on boot. The device loads as /dev/da4. But if I disconnect without unmounting the device, it

Re: setting up pppoe

2006-05-08 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Mon, 8 May 2006 21:05:02 -0400 Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People, I found this section in the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/pppoe.html and it mentions a ppp.conf file like so default: set log Phase tun command # you can add

Re: IPC Queues

2006-02-20 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 03:12:39 -0600 Jason Resch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, My company is implementing an application which we plan will use shared memory and IPC mechanisms to coordinate work. We would prefer to use POSIX message queues due to their better support for

Re: How often portupgrades?

2005-12-03 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 20:29:41 +0100 Kiffin Gish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just wondering what a good rule of thumb is in how often to run portupgrades. I figure that once a week should be sufficient, however each time it runs it can take up to a few hours to complete which seems like an

Re: where is the kernel config menu?

2005-12-02 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 05:05:41 -0500 John Cox Christine Armond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to Install 6.0 following the procedure in the handbook. It says the kernel config menu should appear immediately after booting. I don't see that. For me it goes directly to sysinstall. How do

Re: Processor problem

2005-11-28 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 01:43:52 -0800 Remington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 21:35 -0800, drew hill wrote: When the machine boots the BIOS sees two processors running at 1.0GHz and 1G of ram. When I start freeBSD and run KDE through the root acct and go to view the

Re: GIANT lock in 5.4

2005-10-17 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:11:07 +0300 Toomas Aas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: grep -i giant /var/run/dmesg.boot comes up blank on all my FreeBSD 5.4 machines: the two RELENG_5_4 servers I've just upgraded and my home RELENG_5 box. Choose the Boot with verbose dmesg option to get the [MP-SAFE] or

Re: [OT] X+mga frustration

2005-10-16 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:39:03 +0200 Per olof Ljungmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there is anyone out there who successfully configured this card to use DVI only output under X please, please, how did you do it? Port: mga_hal-4.1 Path: /usr/ports/x11-servers/mga_hal Info: Module for

Re: Using FreeBSD to burn in computers

2004-01-21 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On 21 Jan 2004 09:20:20 -0500 Dan Pelleg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] b)make world; make world; make world; make world; make world (my idea here is to run make world and make on XFree86 concurrently, thus stressing the system further - I'm not sure if this is a good idea or not, but

Re: GDBE and USB-sticks? [was: GBDE and file-backed filesystems?]

2004-01-20 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:59:07 -0500 Michael W. Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the readers has replied privately, telling me there's a patch for FBSD 5.x, mdcrypt, he also supplied me with a URL for downloading(thank you very much!). GDBE, he told me, would most probably not work on

Re: Proper way to upgrade OpenSSH on FreeBSD 4.9

2004-01-20 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:50:06 -0800 Jason Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question is, what is the proper method in doing so? I see that, currently in the ports tree, openssh 3.7.1p2 is available for install. There is also the possibility of installing from source. I would think that

[5.2-RC SMP] panic: pmap_invalidate_page/range // no trace yet

2004-01-04 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
Hi guys, let's start from the beginning. I did a minimal install from the 5.1 Release cds, added ports and sources. Cvsup'ed that to RELENG_5_2. After that the box [dual ppro] paniced/rebooted often, but after a while I could get the panic messages. All were of the type: panic: free:

Re: Mount /cdrom as non-root user - does this actually work for anyone?

2004-01-03 Thread Joerg Pernfuss
Hi On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 01:13:13 + Stacey Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Thanks for the reply.., [] chmod +s /sbin/umount /sbin/mount works fine for me (without any other changes necessary). Don't know if it's the recommended procedure though. Nor I,