Re: sleepycat db VS MySQL or postgres

2013-07-01 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 1 July 2013 16:28, Jim Pazarena wrote: > I could move to db5 or db6 OR MySQL, or even postgres. > I have no experience with the c interface for postgres or mysql, but > also, do not know how much the c interface has changed for sleepycat > 5/6 compared to the c interface for db3, which I un

Re: freebsd-update problems

2013-02-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
cs ATM, but IIRC you need to run an install step now. Check the docs ... they should tell you. HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Process hangs on large pipe writes

2013-01-10 Thread Kevin Oberman
limit on writes to the pipe with no reads done. I have modified the script to write to files instead of a pipe and it is working again, but I would like to understand what broke my script. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___

Re: latest git ports upgrade

2012-11-30 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On Nov 29, 2012 2:27 PM, "Artifex Maximus" wrote: > BTW, why system does not know user git_daemon when git_daemon was in > passwd and master.passwd? I am using portmaster to upgrade my > installed ports. I have had this exact issue when installing postgresql via portmaster. When it fails (and it

Re: Re: PR 161548

2012-09-26 Thread Kevin Lo
On 2012/09/26 16:44, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 26/09/2012 07:27, Kevin Lo wrote: On 2012/09/25 14:03, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 24/09/2012 22:29, Jerry wrote: Is there any specific reason that this PR: 161548 is still marked as open? o 2011/10/13 bin/161548 [patch] getent(1) inconsistent

Re: Re: PR 161548

2012-09-25 Thread Kevin Lo
f (he != NULL) hostsprint(he); else { Cheers, Matthew Kevin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-

Re: Removing UFS label from root

2012-09-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 9 Sep 2012, Kevin Oberman wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Warren Block wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, 9 Sep 2012, Warren Block wrote: >>> >>>> On Sun, 9 Sep 2012, Kevin Oberman w

Re: Removing UFS label from root

2012-09-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 9 Sep 2012, Warren Block wrote: > >> On Sun, 9 Sep 2012, Kevin Oberman wrote: >> >>> I added a label to my root fs some time ago. I really prefer the gpt >>> label and I have added it, but I can&#x

Removing UFS label from root

2012-09-09 Thread Kevin Oberman
efore mounting the drive RW, but it is, of course, mounted RO. I tried setting the "allow foot-shooting" debug flag, but it did not help. Is my only hope to boot a live system? (I have no CD, so I guess I could try a a thumb drive.) -- R. Kevin Oberma

Re: how to speed up port make??

2012-07-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 08:11:50PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > >> is it possible to speed up port make ?? > >> i want to install openbox and xorg on a Pentium 4 and 2gb ram, > >> compiling xorg takes about 2 hours > > 2 hours only?? > > Try lang/gcc46 or 47 > or sci

Re: Apache vs. nginx

2012-07-18 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On Jul 18, 2012 5:19 AM, "Wojciech Puchar" wrote: >> >> I'm the admin for a small hobby website (Stovebolt.com - about 7 million hits/mo). We're fixin to buy a new server, and since I have to start from scratch (install FreeBSD and all the needed ports), I'm wondering if anyone on this list has s

Re: An idea I have!

2012-06-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
uot;Let it Be". "BSD, BSD, BSD, yeah, BSD ... there will be an answer..." I don't know if I could perform with such a group, but I'd be interested in helping produce the studio work. Unfortunately, my audio box runs Windows. Win98, AAMOF. My synth is on its last legs

pkg_rmleaves in FreeBSD 9

2012-02-07 Thread Kevin Zheng
anymore. Quite frankly, I like it when pkg_rmleaves takes up the entire window, so is there any nice way to get it (or dialog) to take the entire screen? Thanks, Kevin Zheng -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enig

Re: HowTo easy use IPFW

2012-02-04 Thread Kevin Oberman
ings like already compressed video formats. (Probably why it became popular for bittorrent.) R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: (no subject)

2012-01-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 04:43:03AM +0200, Rares Aioanei wrote: > On 01/11/2012 02:25 AM, Glen Davenport wrote: > >My name is Glen Davenport. I am trying to download freebsd but haven't a > >clue as to how the FTP function works.When I go to download I am given a > >directory listing. Needless to

Re: FreeBSD Kernel Internals Documentation

2012-01-03 Thread Kevin Zheng
is. If you don't like FreeBSD, you don't have to. If you want to improve it, please go ahead! Sincerely, Kevin Zheng ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

RE: DNS

2012-01-01 Thread Kevin Zheng
hosting, you can consider hooking BIND up to MySQL or a similar database. I haven't personally tried it, so I cannot vouch for it to work. It may be what you're looking for, though. You can have a look at this link: http://mysql-bind.sourceforge.net/. Hopefully,

Re: mutual forwarders in ISC BIND

2011-12-28 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On Dec 28, 2011 9:26 PM, "Victor Sudakov" wrote: > And the reason for the whole thread. One of the customers told me that > 8.8.8.8 is faster than our own DNS servers which are located on the > same 100 MBit/s LAN with them. I was shocked but it seems true, at > least for the answers which are no

Clearing Login Screen on Console

2011-12-25 Thread Kevin Zheng
7;d like to see that on FreeBSD 9 as well. Is there something I can do with /etc/gettytab to get this behavior working again? Thanks in advance, Kevin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: difference between cvsup and csup?

2011-12-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
m not sure about that off the top of my head). Hope this helps. Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: OpenBGPd stability issue on FreebBSD 9-PRERELEASE

2011-11-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
ffic with tcpdump and analyze with wireshark. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: kob6...@gmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any m

PF and dup-to?

2011-09-16 Thread Kevin Wilcox
Hi folks, I have the following pf.conf on FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE *and* 8.2-RELEASE === set block-policy return set skip on lo int_if=bge1 ext_if=bge0 dup_if=dc0 # NAT rule nat on $ext_if from $int_if:network to any -> ($ext_if) sticky-address # # Windows RDP redirectio

Re: shopping for a new server

2011-08-25 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:45, Tim Kellers wrote: > Dell 2500 from 10 years back is soon to be very dead in the machine room at > work.  I'm thinking about replacing it with a Rack mount Dell R610  has > anyone used that and has compatibility issues or successes?  I'll be using a > RAID 5 setup a

booteasy and GPT

2011-07-30 Thread Kevin Oberman
with 9-current) and Windows 7. Is it possible to build a "custom" booteasy boot system with boot0cfg or some other tool so I can select the "other disk", which is sliced in the traditional fashion? Thanks! -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engi

Can gpart create ntfs and FAT-32 partitions?

2011-07-27 Thread Kevin Oberman
, recovery partition (which I may not use), and Lenovo's odd "SYSTEM_DRV" that is required for booting. gpart has no indications of how to create an NTFS or FAT partition. Any way to so this? Or, should I use W7 to do that and leave the space for the FreeBSD ones? -- R. Kevin O

Re: Skype with sound and video support :)

2011-05-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
your sound /video setup outside skype before blaming skype / > mailing me. Many thanks for all of the work that went into getting a modern version of Skype working! Please put the information in this message (or at least most of it) into ports/UPDATING so a few less people running old kern

Re: OpenVPN Setup

2011-05-11 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 09:11, Bill Tillman wrote: > 2. I have my OpenVPN process running on my FreeBSD server and wish to test it > with the OpenVPN client for Windows on my laptop from an outside location. But > the only outside locations I have access to right now are the local McDonalds > and

Re: OpenVPN Setup

2011-05-10 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 20:50, Frank Griffith wrote: > Anyway, I tried to start the OpenVPN server on the FreeBSD server and it > will not start. I got this message: > > # openvpn /usr/local/etc/openvpn/server.conf > Tue May 10 20:35:11 2011 OpenVPN 2.2.0 amd64-portbld-freebsd8.2 [SSL] [LZO2] > [

Re: Fw: OpenVPN Setup

2011-05-10 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 20:09, Kevin Wilcox wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 19:59, Bill Tillman wrote: >>    client1.crt >>    client1.csr >>    client1.key > You only need to copy the .crt and .key files, those are your key and > certificate for the client named

Re: Fw: OpenVPN Setup

2011-05-10 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 19:59, Bill Tillman wrote: > This is a very frustrating process but I think I'm getting there. The files > I created on the FreeBSD server which I copied over are: > >    client1.crt >    client1.csr >    client1.key > > But the windows setup appears that it wants one of t

Re: Fw: OpenVPN Setup

2011-05-10 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 19:19, Bill Tillman wrote: > OK I know I saw this somewhere but it eludes me now. I have generated the keys > and certificates for the server and client on my FreeBSD server. I then copied > them over to my Windows laptop but apparently cannot find where I'm supposed > to

Re: Can I bridge the same subnet across a VPN?

2011-05-03 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 15:19, Geoff Roberts wrote: > Is it possible to join two sites with the same subnet across a VPN? Yes. > I have two sites that have the same subnet/mask. > > I need these two separated networks to behave as one across a VPN. That's understandable. You may want to conside

Re: For My Edification

2011-05-02 Thread Kevin Kinsey
it, and now scores of people in my area think I'm the guru to match all 'Nix gurus. Of course, they're all Windows users ;-) The people on this list know that I'm just a newb with 10 years of FreeBSD under my belt ;-) We look forward to assisting with your further edification :-) Kevin D. Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Thunderbird segfaults if UID > 0

2011-04-06 Thread Kevin Kinsey
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 06:09:21PM +0200, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > > Create a new user account, log in to it, run tbird ? Would that be any different then moving ~/.mozilla and trying to run it? Because that was a total failure ;-) KDK P.S. I'm thinking the answer is NO. I can give it a try

Re: dhcpd in vmware

2011-04-06 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 04:12, wrote: > Kevin Wilcox wrote: > >> If you're just using the 192.168.4.129 - 254 addresses >> I would change it to >> >> subnet 192.168.4.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > Shouldn't that be netmask 255.255.255.128? That'

Thunderbird segfaults if UID > 0

2011-04-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
CALL getpgrp 54137 sh RET getpgrp 54137/0xd379 54137 sh CALL wait4(0x,0xbfbfe778,WUNTRACED,0) 54137 sh RET wait4 54141/0xd37d 54137 sh CALL exit(0x8b) Anyone got a clue what I've done? Thanks, Kevin Kinsey

Re: dhcpd in vmware

2011-04-05 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 08:29, xinyou yan wrote: > the dhcpd can't start in vmware : > > Here is my /usr/local/etc/hpcdd.conf Is the file named hpcdd.conf or is that a typo? > subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { > range 192.168.4.129 192.168.4.254; > option routers 192.168.4.1; >

Re: Installing squid, where should the directories be?

2011-03-09 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 10:27, Leslie Jensen wrote: > I'm installing squid on a new 8.2-RELEASE machine. Me too. > I have /usr/local/squid as default directory and has made a separate mount > point. Same here. As a general rule I like to give squid its own hard drive, or its own RAID. Giving it

Re: Help: Looking to contact someone running FreeBSD on ESX

2011-02-25 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:52, Mark Felder wrote: > The ones that crash are usually our main webservers (Apache, PHP, no MySQL > locally though). We have LOTS of IPs on them and they do a ton of network > traffic, but usually don't have a super high load average (maybe .75 - 1.0 > on a normal day

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-01 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 09:32, Alessandro Baggi wrote: > Hi list. Who is better, qmail or postfix? > > thanks in advance That's a loaded question. Both have advocates, just like "vi or emacs", "Linux or Nothing", "FreeBSD or OpenBSD", "OS X or Windows" and "X Window System or CLI". That said, if

Re: PF firewall rules and documentation

2011-01-31 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 05:58, Da Rock wrote: > Yes. Me unfortunately, but I did manage to pick it up quite quickly though. > I had a little thief attack one of my ports and attempt login on the > firewall. I had to change it to 'block in $log on $ext_if all > block out $log on $ext_if all' to ac

Re: Managing ESXi from FreeBSD...

2011-01-24 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 24 January 2011 13:42, Outback Dingo wrote: > loose ESucksXi and install XCP 1.0 and for management xencenter / >  openxencenter will run on FreeBSD, I wish I could recommend XCP and/or Xen to the average user but trying to install FreeBSD 8.1-amd64 in Xen, even running in HVM, doesn't come c

Re: The book of pf...

2011-01-19 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 19 January 2011 02:28, Christer Solskogen wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Kevin Wilcox wrote: >> 1) Definitely get the first version > Oh, why? Because Peter made mention on misc@ that the second edition was geared towards OpenBSD 4.8 and the version of pf that

Re: The book of pf...

2011-01-18 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 17 January 2011 23:37, Modulok wrote: > Or perhaps someone could suggest something else? I read the examples > and basic handbook for pf, but wanted a bit more. I'm going to be > tacking a firewall project coming up and need to be well prepared. > Suggested readings appreciated. 1) Definitely

Re: FreeBSD Decision

2011-01-14 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 14 January 2011 14:19, Tim Daneliuk wrote: > On 1/14/2011 12:46 PM, Alessandro Baggi wrote: >> Hi list, I don't want make a flame post but I would ask an objective >> opinion, then not a camp opinion, about using FreeBSD or Debian Linux in a >> production environment < snip > > IOW, your

Re: Simple command to reset / clear all logs?

2011-01-12 Thread Kevin Kobb
newsyslog -F ? On 1/12/2011 11:04 AM, Redd Vinylene wrote: Hi, Is there a simple command to reset / clear everything in my /var/log? I've done a lot of testing, configuring, trial and error and most of my logs are just full of bullshit and I'd like a fresh start :-) Thanks! ___

Re: Bot?

2011-01-05 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 5 January 2011 13:25, David Brodbeck wrote: > On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Kevin Wilcox wrote: >> To really see what your machine is doing, consider taking a look at >> the network flows. pfflowd, netflowd, ipaudit and a host of others can >> get you flow dat

Re: Bot?

2011-01-05 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 5 January 2011 10:47, Jerry Bell wrote: > There could be reasons you > aren't seeing a spike, such as you're only looking at traffic processed by > the MTA, or it simply doesn't show as a material increase on a graph of > traffic on the network interface if the server is busy. Those are good

Re: FreeBSD IPSec stack contains backdoors?

2010-12-17 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 17 December 2010 10:36, Mike L wrote: > Reads like an unacceptable response to an issue that seems quite critical. Here, let me re-iterate for those that may not have a copy of what you're saying is unacceptable in front of them: o we're aware there's talk about some projects possibly having

Can't Build Port - pecl-intl

2010-12-16 Thread Kevin McQuiggin
is indeed installed correctly. Note that the preamble indicates "autoconf-2.68 - found" yet the later step says it cannot be found. Any help would be appreciated. My ports are current, via "portsnap fetch update" done daily. I am running FreeBSD 6.3. Thanks, Kevin ___

Issues when running Heartbeat on FreeBSD 8.1 RELEASE

2010-12-10 Thread Kevin Mai
b_rw_syncronous srwxrwxrwx 1 hacluster haclient 0B Dec 10 15:13 cib_rw srwxrwxrwx 1 hacluster haclient 0B Dec 10 15:13 cib_ro_syncronous srwxrwxrwx 1 hacluster haclient 0B Dec 10 15:13 cib_ro srwxrwxrwx 1 hacluster haclient 0B Dec 10 15:13 cib_callback drwxr-x--- 2 hacluster haclient 512B Dec

Re: Shopping cart other than OSCommerce?

2010-12-08 Thread Kevin Kinsey
uot; background instead of a programming one. A man who has no inkling of the existence of carnivorous animals will not build his house in a tree. My $.02, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: About FreeBSD command question

2010-12-03 Thread Kevin Kinsey
kan wrote: > Hi Support, > > I have a FreeBSD server for mailing, > I must make backup and check the which > bit (32bit/64bit) is now use in FreeBSD, > so can you provide the command for me? > > Regards, > Kan What output does: $ uname

Re: freebsd PHP extensions: missing option ?

2010-11-24 Thread Kevin Kinsey
d question: How to solve this? See above for starters. You might also be able to hack the Makefile, but that's just what it is ... a hack ;-) Good luck! Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: new user questions. (Before I back myself into a corner!)

2010-11-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
another PC of similar spec, to mess with, witn some sort of impunity. Well, as I mention, often you can enable and start these additional services from the base system with little or no interruption to extant services at all (which, IMHO, is exactly as a Real Server should work, take that, M$).

Re: Thanks.

2010-11-20 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Ryan Coleman wrote: On Nov 18, 2010, at 9:14 AM, Alejandro Imass wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Chris Brennan wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:25:31 +0330, Mohsen Mostafa Jokar < mohsenjo...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello. Didn't Mohsen Mostafar Jokar post this same question last week? Ye

Re: Netbooks & BSD

2010-10-20 Thread Kevin Oberman
ch a thing as a USB "extender" cable, say, a meter or two long? Sure. My SmartCard token is plugged into one on my desk. Not knowing where you are I an only suggest Radio Shack or, if there is one near you, Frys. You can easily order one on-line for a LARGE number of vendors. Just rememb

Re: need help with php.

2010-10-20 Thread Kevin Kinsey
n't do anything. I built the test.php with and zip. Scrreen is blank. Let me try konqueror; maybe I don't have something turned on it firfox3. gary Short Tags are (wisely ) deprecated now. should Just Work(tm). If not, post back ;-) HTH, Kevin

Re: Greybeards (Re: Netbooks & BSD)

2010-10-20 Thread Kevin Oberman
on a PDP-11/40, 2xRK05 disk, 1975, but it was before the 11/34 came out, so I think I have you beat by a few weeks, at least. That said, my project moved away from Unix to DEC's RSX11-D and later IAS, so I had little contact with Unix until about 1980 on a VAX11/750 at the UC-Davis Dept. of

pf + NAT + log

2010-10-18 Thread Kevin Wilcox
Hi everyone. This is probably better suited for freebsd-pf@ but I'll give it a go before spamming YAML. I'm testing NAT on FreeBSD 8.1. My setup is very simple: My workstation -> { internal network switch } -> FreeBSD 8.1routing firewall with squid 3 -> { switch going to Internet } My pf configu

Re: LDAP Authentication from console

2010-10-07 Thread Kevin Mai
Didn't receive all the emails, thank god this maillist is indexed! ;) login file: http://pastebin.ca/1956943 sshd file: http://pastebin.ca/1956946 system file: http://pastebin.ca/1956948 - Mensaje original - De: "Jason" Para: "Dan Nelson" CC: "K

Re: LDAP Authentication from console

2010-10-06 Thread Kevin Mai
at is the specific file in pam.d/ that is used when authenticating through a ttyv? - Mensaje original - De: "Jason" Para: "Dan Nelson" CC: "Kevin Mai" , "freebsd-questions" Enviados: Miércoles, 6 de Octubre 2010 14:00:08 Asunto: Re: LDAP Authent

LDAP Authentication from console

2010-10-06 Thread Kevin Mai
ssing? It's the same setup other FreeBSD servers are using! I'd really appreciate your help :) Kind regards, Kevin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, s

Re: router / firewall with PF and carp.

2010-10-01 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 1 October 2010 10:16, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Fri, Oct 01, 2010 at 09:40:56AM -0400, Kevin Wilcox wrote: >> Krad, I was under the impression that 'audit' from TrustedBSD is built >> into FreeBSD. Is there a facility in OpenBSD that is "better" or is &g

Re: router / firewall with PF and carp.

2010-10-01 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 1 October 2010 05:29, krad wrote: > In my experiance freebsd should work fine. However I would say openbsd is > probably better suited to your needs, due to its tighter security model > (auditing) Krad, I was under the impression that 'audit' from TrustedBSD is built into FreeBSD. Is there a

Re: router / firewall with PF and carp.

2010-10-01 Thread Kevin Kobb
Both would probably be fine. However, I would recommend taking a look at pfsense if I were you. It is made to do what you want without as much of the overhead as a full blown *BSD install. It is easier to configure, update, the documentation is good, and you can get top notch paid support from

Re: Intel video Driver

2010-09-22 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 22 September 2010 13:16, jorge espada wrote: > I need my laptop to work..so I removed freebsd 8.1 and installed gentoo so I > can't post the output of pciconf -lv, but I want freebsd...so if anyone > knows how to sort this problem please share... To resolve a combination dual-head, Nvidia, Vi

Re: CARP and freebsd

2010-09-03 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 3 September 2010 10:37, gahn wrote: > Is carp a part of freebsd 8.1? or I have to download from somewhere and > install it? Everything you could want to know about CARP and FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/carp.html On my 8.1 box - fbsdsroute0# sysctl net.inet.carp.allow sysct

Re: How to confirm/deny ntp is working?

2010-08-02 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ently; mergemaster gave me a new ntp.conf and this is the exact stuff in there ;-) Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-29 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Antonio Olivares wrote: But yes we are in difficult times and then the 2012 saga, will the world end? I have it on good AUTHORITY: $dig @daleco.biz daleco.biz | grep AUTHORITY: ;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1 That we're perfectly OK:

Re: apache22 build problem: cgi disabled

2010-07-28 Thread Kevin Kinsey
cgi: enabled (shared) proxy_scgi: disabled cgid: disabled If "make show-modules" says "enabled" and the port still configures with "--disable-cgi", I'd definitely contact the maintainer and see what's up. My $.02, Kevin Kinsey __

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-28 Thread Kevin Kinsey
. Of course not. Even Jesus knows RedHat sucks. Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: vmware and freebsd 8

2010-07-28 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 28 July 2010 09:12, Steve Polyack wrote: > We've always used the open-vm-tools port > (/usr/ports/emulators/open-vm-tools-nox11).  There is both an x11 and > "nox11" version, both of which work very well.  It also includes a handful > of other drivers and modules, including the memory balloon

Re: vmware and freebsd 8

2010-07-28 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 28 July 2010 00:47, kalin m wrote: > messing around with vmware and fbsd 8... > > has anybody used vmware esxi 4 to put a bunch of fbsd machines on it? > i also installed the vmsphere client (they call it) which is pretty nice > interface to interact with the virtual machines but apparently do

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-25 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 11:29:37AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 08:47:30AM -0500, Kevin Monceaux wrote: > > > > I guess that depends on which period of Latin one studies. From Latin > > Pronunciation Demystified: > > > > http

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-25 Thread Kevin Monceaux
.pdf ae like English ai in aisle Which is how I pronounce ae in Latin. On the other hand, I've always pronounced daemon like day-mohn, probably from hearing Jon Pertwee pronounce it that way in the Doctor Who episode The Dæmons. -- Kevin http://www.RawFedDogs.net http://www.WacoAgil

Re: Virtualbox Networking Issues

2010-07-15 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 15 July 2010 17:35, Chris Maness wrote: > I am not able to ping anything.  I cannot ping the gateway or the > host.  I tried bridge, NAT, and host only. Can you provide the output of ifconfig and the contents of rc.conf from the virtual machine? (Purpose - to see if the interface exists, wha

Re: Convert all packages to ports

2010-07-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
since the packages take time to build and push out to the FTP servers. You end up with some problems because the system expects version $n.123 of "somepackage" but the installed "somepackage" is $n.121, and vice-versa problems can happen as well. They are fairly minor to

Re: pkg_add fails due to 'broken pipe'. Is my system in a consistent state?

2010-06-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chris Stankevitz wrote: pkg_add -r gnome2 This command fails repeatedly with "broken pipe" because the FTP > connection breaks. When it dies, I just re-run the command. I'm now on the fifth attempt. The gnome2 package is a "meta" package that installs many other packages. Q1: Is it bad f

Re: rc.conf: gnome_enable="YES" - which instructions executed?

2010-06-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
icated is going > on. So my question is -- how is this working? Thank you, Err, Magic? More seriously, `man rc` and several hours of cross-references (rc.subr., rc.conf., rc.local, etc. etc.) might be enlightening. HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-q

Re: FreeBSD router - large scale

2010-06-23 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 27 May 2010 12:12, Matthew Seaman wrote: > The hardest job I've had an OpenBSD firewall do is actually as a > mid-level firewall between a DMZ full of web servers and a back-end > database layer.  The thing to watch out for is running out of states in > PF.  It's trivial to change that in the

Re: FreeBSD router - large scale

2010-06-23 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 28 May 2010 07:38, Bruce Cran wrote: > This is possibly the wrong place to be saying this, but isn't OpenBSD > usually recommended for > routers? I believe the version of pf, for example, is normally kept more > up-to-date than than > in FreeBSD.  The major downside I know of is that it's not

Re: Copy a FreeBSD 8* install to larger HD

2010-06-22 Thread Kevin Kinsey
y) do I use? dd or cp or some other to copy the files. I'd recommend dump and restore ... possibly piping dump *to* restore, something like: dump -0 -a -L -u -f - /usr | ( cd /newusr ; restore -ruf - ) HTH. Thanks You're welcome :-) Kevin Kinsey __

Re: Add watermark to PDF

2010-06-01 Thread Kevin Wilcox
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1 June 2010 10:15, John Almberg wrote: > I would like to add a customized footer (a stamp or watermark) to an > existing PDF, like the guys at Pragmatic Programmers do with their PDFs. I used to do something similar using the fpdf/pdftk toolkits.

Re: debian compatibility

2010-05-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Jim Pazarena wrote: can I please be directed to any on-line reference as the procedures involved in executing a Debian binary on FreeBSD 8? Thanks! http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/linuxemu.html HTH, KDK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

FreeBSD router - large scale

2010-05-27 Thread Kevin Wilcox
Hello everyone. We're in the very early stages of considering [Free|Open]BSD on commodity hardware to handle NAT *and* firewall duties for (what I consider to be) a sizable deployment. Overall bandwidth is low, only a gigabit connection, but we handle approximately fifteen thousand devices. DHCP a

Re: user friendliest gui

2010-05-13 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Ok so I have my new box setup and I have installed Clamav-devel Tcl86 Dialog First question is , I have only ever used clamav-clamd in the past > which I start with /usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamav-clamd start to run it, how do I run devel? Second question is , where to o

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
an I have to help out with that (or tell you if it's even possible). This is open-source stuff; you might even get sam@ 's attention and get help from the writer himself if you're wearing your lucky sneakers. Kevin Kinsey ___ fr

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-25 Thread Kevin Kinsey
/ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/Packages-8-stable/devel/libpciaccess-0.10.6_1.tbz Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "f

Re: dhcpd doesn't sent route information

2010-04-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Onur Aslan wrote: $ cat /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf option domain-name-servers 8.8.8.8, 8.8.8.4; option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0; default-lease-time 3600; max-lease-time 86400; ddns-update-style none; option routers 192.168.1.1; subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { range 192.168.1.4 1

Re: bsdstats & country

2010-04-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Aiza wrote: How does bsdstats know what country the PC posting its info is from? Probably via a lookup in the regional registry; see RFC 2050. Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

[Fwd: Re: dhcpd doesn't sent route information]

2010-04-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Onur Aslan wrote: I tried, but It doesn't helped. >Please show us the revised dhcpd.conf. Also, did you -HUP >your named? Sorry! That should be "dhcpd". $kill -HUP `pgrep dhcpd` should do the trick. KDK ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: dhcpd doesn't sent route information

2010-04-23 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Onur Aslan wrote: I tried, but It doesn't helped. Please show us the revised dhcpd.conf. Also, did you -HUP your named? Kevin Kinsey A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most ann

Re: dansguardian + squid running on local machine

2010-04-15 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ring out ipfw's syntax. HTH, Kevin Kinsey P.S. You'll get some recommendations for other firewalls, too. Use which ever one makes sense to you :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

Re: "internet connection tester script"

2010-03-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
'm not sure why this script is needed. In ~/.cshrc: alias upping -t3 yahoo.com ... or something (your .bashrc equivalent, or .shrc, etc.) should do the trick, with much less effort on all fronts. HTH, Kevin Kinsey ___ freebsd-questions

Re: FreeBSD Version recommend for OLD machine

2010-03-16 Thread Kevin Kinsey
alexus wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:21 PM, andrew clarke wrote: On Fri 2010-03-12 00:16:35 UTC-0500, Steve Bertrand (st...@ibctech.ca) wrote: The machine has a Motherboard that supports 2 double pentium III processors with 1GB of ram and a hard disk with 40GB. I run FreeBSD 7.2 on a head

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/03/2010 16:12:11, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "Matthew" == Matthew Seaman writes: Matthew> On 05/03/2010 15:51:52, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: The spamtrap is a shiny object for spam, and anything that goes there gets bloc

Re: Thousands of ssh probes

2010-03-05 Thread Kevin Kinsey
mikel king wrote: Way back about 10 years ago, I was playing around with IPFW a lot. I wrote a script to update IPFW from changes made to a MySql db. It was a just for fun project, that turned out to be rather useful I have some developers that I managed who like you were road warriors. They

Re: Virtualbox on Freebsd

2010-03-04 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On 4 March 2010 14:15, Paul Schmehl wrote: > I'm trying to build it from ports right now and running into all sorts of > issues with qt4 stuff. This doesn't exactly inspire confidence when it comes time for me to do my next round of updates. I remember running into an issue with qt when buildin

Re: How to check a ext3 partition ?

2010-02-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
zaxis wrote: There is a ext3 partition used to share data between linux and freebsd. Sometimes freebsd cannot mount this partition as abnormal poweroff. I have to enter linux to do `fsck.ext3` . Can freebsd fsck ext3 partition ? Not natively, AFAIK. Check out /usr/ports/sysutils/e2fsprogs;

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