Port overrides for multiple installs.

2005-11-19 Thread Lewis Thompson
single installation, afaik. So my question is: how can I allow mailman to be installed n times without overwriting the database, files, etc.? Thanks very much, -Lewis Thompson. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jabber:[

Re: baffled by pam_ldap

2005-05-12 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 05:11:03PM -0500, Benjamin J Doherty wrote: > I've been struggling with pam_ldap for three days now and cannot see > what I am doing wrong. I'm trying to use OpenLDAP for > authentication, though I threw nss_ldap in for good measure. What's > so baffling to me is tha

Re: user owned groups

2005-05-11 Thread Lewis Thompson
to do something more complex, look to UFS2 and > POSIX ACL's. I might give this a go, actually, thanks :) -Lewis Thompson. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jabber:[EMA

Re: user owned groups

2005-05-11 Thread Lewis Thompson
't use ls to see it) so can access it. Sorry for all these questions ;) -Lewis Thompson. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:www.lewiz.org |- ___

Re: user owned groups

2005-05-11 Thread Lewis Thompson
very handy). Does that make sense? Is it possible? Thanks, -Lewis Thompson. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:www.lewiz.org |- ___ fr

Re: user owned groups

2005-05-11 Thread Lewis Thompson
r to but always seem to forget. Can /home be configured so all files are created with permissions of 0600 (or 0700 for directories)? I use a umask of 77 but that's annoying when playing with files in other locations. Sorry if this is obvious/stupid :) -Lewis Thompson. -- I was so much older

Re: Process tracking

2005-05-09 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 03:51:30PM +0200, John Oxley wrote: > Linux has a nifty utility called htop, but that is not in the FreeBSD > ports. Not sure about htop but pstree is in the ports and will show you things hierarchically, which should do the trick. Best wishes, -Lewis Thompson.

Re: Installing portupgrade without X.org

2005-04-09 Thread Lewis Thompson
th WITH_SUPHP=1 > Are there any instructions on pkgtools.conf file? They're mostly in the pkgtools.conf file itself. Hope that's some help, -Lewis Thompson. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Installing portupgrade without X.org

2005-04-09 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 01:37:22PM -0700, Sergei Gnezdov wrote: > I think it is > > WITHOUT_X11="YES" > > Does it make any difference? Not really. WITHOUT_X11=1 works perfectly for me. Just saves a little time typing it ;) -Lewis Thompson. -- I was so much older th

Re: Installing portupgrade without X.org

2005-04-09 Thread Lewis Thompson
more specifically through editing pkgtools.conf in /usr/local/etc. -Lewis Thompson. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | url:www.lewiz.org |- ___ freebsd

nss_ldap, pam_krb5 and passwd.

2005-02-17 Thread Lewis Thompson
s for user accounts stored in LDAP? Maybe this will require some hacking of passwd.c? Thanks very much, -Lewis Thompson. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | ur

Re: py-bittorrent

2005-01-25 Thread Lewis Thompson
want a btdownload... one. In future best to check the pkg-plist first and not to post to ports@, questions@ is the best place but only after you've done your research. -Lewis Thompson. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

passwd(1) fro KerberosV (Heimdal)

2005-01-10 Thread Lewis Thompson
, `passwd' can only change passwords for local or NIS users. /etc/nssswitch.conf has: group: ldap files passwd: files ldap which I suspect may be the problem (but I use LDAP for accounts). Is there any way to work around this so I can use passwd for changing KerberosV passwds? Thank you, -

Re: Good image editor

2005-01-08 Thread Lewis Thompson
or viewing. It has a configurable menu that allows you to open any image in a variety of editors. -Lewis Thompson. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. -| msn:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | jabber:[EMAIL PROTEC

Packet filtering with pf and gif tunnels.

2005-01-08 Thread Lewis Thompson
pass in on fxp0 proto tcp from any to fxp0 port 22 keep state The reason I ask this question is that for my tunnel endpoints to ping each other, a.a.a.a must be doing so (a.a.a.b has no firewall). Thank you, -Lewis Thompson. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bo

ath Super G.

2004-12-07 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I managed to find http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-February/035424.html but I couldn't find an answer to the qeustion about Super G support. Do you have any plans to introduce Super support? Thanks very much, -lewiz. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than

pf/altq prioritisation (for ssh).

2004-11-18 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I want to use pf/altq to give ssh a high priority so I don't get lagged down when something is downloading. I have: altq on ath0 priq queue { default, ssh } queue default priq(default) queue ssh priority 15 priq(red) I'm pretty sure this ``works'' but I was really hoping for more. Witho

Re: IPSEC (5.3-RC2) -- IKE traffic problem.

2004-11-03 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 07:33:47PM +, Lewis Thompson wrote: > I'm attempting to get an encrypted tunnel going between two machines. > Before I start pasting away my configs, tcpdump logs, racoon logs, etc. > I would like to ask the following question: > > I've read th

Setting KRB5_KEYTAB for slapd startup script.

2004-11-02 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I'd like to start slapd using the distributed slapd.sh script but I also want to also KRB5_KTNAME=/usr/local/etc/openldap/ldap.keytab. Can anybody suggest a sensible way of doing this? I'm looking ideally for something that will continue to work with upgrades of openldap (and the startup s

IPSEC (5.3-RC2) -- IKE traffic problem.

2004-11-02 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I'm attempting to get an encrypted tunnel going between two machines. Before I start pasting away my configs, tcpdump logs, racoon logs, etc. I would like to ask the following question: I've read that 5.2.1 had broken IPSEC, such that IKE traffic (port 500) was not bypassed (or something alon

Re: NFS4.

2004-11-01 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 03:14:16PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Nov 01), Lewis Thompson said: > > Does anybody here know anything about NFS4 server support in FreeBSD? > > Searching doesn't reveal much but I'm asking on the offchance > > someb

NFS4.

2004-11-01 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, Does anybody here know anything about NFS4 server support in FreeBSD? Searching doesn't reveal much but I'm asking on the offchance somebody has some inside information. Thanks, -lewiz. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. --

World sendmail and LDAP.

2004-10-17 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I'm just wondering if anybody can tell me how I can build sendmail from world with LDAP support. I currently have SASL support enabled in make.conf (copied examples from defaults/make.conf) and hoped it might be possible to do the same for LDAP. Can anybody tell me if this is the case? Than

Re: Question

2004-09-19 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 08:16:39PM -0400, Hotmail wrote: > I Bought from you FreeBSD 4.10 v, my main concern after I installed it > in my laptop I have trouble defining my network wireless card "Linksys > wireless -B" and the network, How can I do that?. Also Do I need the > device wi0?, and how ca

sysctl meanings.

2004-09-16 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I wonder if there is a comprehensive list of what many of the sysctl values are, both in terms of what the node (by this I mean, say, hw.acpi.verbose) means, and what the values would mean/do? If this doesn't exist would it be worth creating a website with a list of all these? I've got som

Re: VESA_800x600 (age old question)

2004-09-09 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 07:53:59AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lewis Thompson > > Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 2:13 PM > > To: FreeBSD-questions > >

Re: VESA_800x600 (age old question)

2004-09-08 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 04:59:23PM -0400, Parv wrote: > in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Lewis Thompson > thusly... > > vidcontrol: cannot set videomode: Operation not supported by device > > > > Can somebody please tell me what this means? > > All that me

VESA_800x600 (age old question)

2004-09-08 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, This question has been rehashed many times, so I apologise. I've got VESA and SC_PIXEL_MODE in my kernel and I want to be able to do: vidcontrol VESA_800x600. However, when I do this I receive the following message: vidcontrol: cannot set videomode: Operation not supported by device Th

Re: VPN via mpd

2004-09-08 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 06:29:20AM -0700, JG wrote: > I'm having some issues with mpd. I've configured it properly so all VPN > clients receive an internal private ip and are given the internal DNS > ip after connecting, this works perfect. The problem is I cannot access > any internal resource aft

Re: ftp-master.FreeBSD.org

2004-09-04 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 03:53:48AM +1000, Chris Ryan wrote: > How can I get access to ftp-master.FreeBSD.org to help > with testing? I think you might be getting confused. If you want to help with testing you want to be tracking -STABLE (or maybe even -HEAD). Reading the Handbook is a good idea

Re: Roaming tunnel (IPSEC or something).

2004-08-27 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 07:29:49PM +0100, Lewis Thompson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 01:08:04PM -0500, uidzero wrote: > > Sorry to bother you directly but, I too have been looking into doing > > this, Could you possibly send me any URLs you might have used or if you &g

Re: Roaming tunnel (IPSEC or something).

2004-08-27 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 03:40:08PM +0100, Lewis Thompson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 08:28:58AM -0600, Aaron Siegel wrote: > > Hello > > I am in the process of setup a similar configuration using poptop to create a > > pptp link between a static server and a roa

Re: Roaming tunnel (IPSEC or something).

2004-08-27 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 08:28:58AM -0600, Aaron Siegel wrote: > Hello > I am in the process of setup a similar configuration using poptop to create a > pptp link between a static server and a roaming computer with an anonymous. > There is also l2tpd from what I read it is more secure than pptp

Re: Change root user name? possible?

2004-08-25 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 07:03:10PM -0400, Ara Avvali wrote: > What I mean if someone wants to hack to machine or even get physical access > half of the job is done by knowing the root user name. But they could just look in the passwd file... -lewiz. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than

Re: Roaming tunnel (IPSEC or something).

2004-08-25 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 05:42:21PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: > On Aug 25, 2004, at 4:44 PM, Lewis Thompson wrote: > > >I'm wondering if it's possible to have a ``roaming tunnel'' so I have > >local-like access on my laptop wherever I am. > > Have not

Roaming tunnel (IPSEC or something).

2004-08-25 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I'm wondering if it's possible to have a ``roaming tunnel'' so I have local-like access on my laptop wherever I am. I currently have an encrypted IPSEC tunnel set up between my laptop and server (both with static IPs) as explained in the Handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/

Repeated polling of CD/DVD-ROM.

2004-06-21 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I have written some code that does some rather nasty stuff to determine whether or not there is media in the drive. It is basically this: open('/dev/dvd', 'rb') read(1) at which point if I get an exception (in Python) I know there is no media (or it is blank). If it throws no exception I

Re: Python application in rc.d.

2004-06-20 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 03:56:43PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Lewis Thompson wrote: > [ ... ] > >>Does the script set $PATH to include the location where python is? If > >>you don't list /usr/local/bin explicitly, this may be the problem... > > > >No

Re: Python application in rc.d.

2004-06-20 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 03:01:54PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Lewis Thompson wrote: > >I'm trying to create a port for a Python application that I want to > >start from local/etc/rc.d. The command is this: > > > >/usr/bin/su freevo -c "/usr/local/b

Python application in rc.d.

2004-06-20 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I'm trying to create a port for a Python application that I want to start from local/etc/rc.d. The command is this: /usr/bin/su freevo -c "/usr/local/bin/freevo -fs start" > /dev/null 2>&1 Unfortunately when I boot up I get a message about Python not being configured/available at this tim

Re: Firefox 0.9 Port

2004-06-17 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 12:36:09PM -0500, Jamie Novak wrote: > The install was successful, but as soon as I try to run the program, all > I get is the same message repeating over and over again in my xterm: > > *** loading the extensions datasource > > The browser never actually starts and

Re: 3ware Escalade 7506-4LP in PCI-X 66MHz slot?

2004-06-16 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 01:46:23PM +0200, freebsd_daemon wrote: > I am planing to build a small DB-server and want to use a hot-swap capable > Raid 5 array of IDE disks for the data. I am going to use FreeBSD 4.10R. > > I would like to use a 3ware Escalade 7506-4LP controller which is suppost to >

Re: Upgrading a port....

2004-04-25 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 01:03:52PM -0400, Ralph M. Los wrote: > I currently have Samba 2.2.8a running. I'd like to get up to > the 3.0.x.x version, as I've heard there are significant advances in > that version. Can someone tell me if I do a 'make install' from the > /usr/ports/net/samba-de

Re: firewall settings and dhcpd

2004-04-25 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 01:33:22PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > I'm getting this in my log/messages: > > Apr 25 13:25:42 mybox dhcpd: send_packet: Permission denied > > Could it be that a certain firewall setting or something missing > would be causing this? Possibly. It might be worth in

Re: Which version of freebsd..

2004-04-25 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 12:54:56AM +0200, lists wrote: > Currently were going to reinstall all servers we have from redhat 9 to > freebsd because redhat 9 is EOL... > > But after reading a few mails here that 4.9 is most likely not supported > for a long time.. what version should we take then? L

Re: 1024x768 Resolution in console?

2004-04-24 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 07:46:05PM -0500, Eric Crist wrote: > This is for a Compaq Presario 2100 (laptop). My beef is that my console only > takes up a small section of the screen (although X is full screen). I know > some laptops have a 'stretch' capability, but, alas, I was a cheap bastard,

Re: Missing Port

2004-04-22 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 03:24:03PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am tring to install mrtg on my test FreeBSD 5.1 box. I change into my > /usr/ports/net/mrtg directory and find that there is only a README.html > How can I get this port back? I tried to cvsup it with ports-all but the > file

Sil0680 causes panic on 5.2.1-p5.

2004-04-22 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I've just bought a Silicon Image Sil 0680 RAID controller. I will only be using it as an IDE controller (i.e. without any RAID functionality). This causes a panic on 5.2.1-p5 (GENERIC): atapci1: port 0xcc00-0xcc0f,0xd000-0xd003,0xd400-0xd407, 0xd800-0xd803, 0xdc00-0xdc07 mem 0xcfffbf00-0

Re: very long boot sshd

2004-04-08 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 09:17:14AM +0200, RazorOnFreeBSD wrote: > Do you think I need to change my hardrive already ? It is just one year > . :( Good news is that it's probably still under warranty :) -lewiz. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. --

[OT] Porting help / cdio.h.

2004-04-08 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I'm attempting to port some software (MythTV) to FreeBSD. My knowledge of this is fairly limited and I'm wondering how to convert from linux/cdrom.h to sys/cdio.h. I see I can determine the capabilities of the drive quite easily. However, what I want is to (for example) lock/unlock the tra

Re: console screensaver in X

2004-04-06 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 07:27:09AM +1000, sAndri Kok wrote: > I'm interested in using FreeBSD's daemon logo screensaver in X. Is that > possible? If it is, how do I do it? any man that I can read? Thx heaps =) That's the one where the Beastie bounces about the screen, right? Best bet is probab

Re: A night with threads and gdb

2004-04-01 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 05:42:41PM +0100, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > To make it clear: with nss_ldap enabled, everything that accessed the > user database would crash: so "ls -l", > "id" and so on (but not, e.g., "ls" without "-l"). I spoke to nectar@ about this. CVSup to that latest OpenLDAP21 an

Re: troubles with jdk-1.4.2p6_4

2004-03-30 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 09:35:58AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > "Nikita S. Sychevsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I can't build jdk-1.4.2p6_4 from the ports collection on jdk-1.4.2p6_4 > > system. Can anybody help please? > > Looks like a known problem; it's failing on the test cluster as

Ordering of dummynet and natd.

2004-03-30 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, Can anybody help me out with ipfw rules to do dummynet shaping before packets hit natd for translation. 192.168.0.4 should be able to upload at just 100KB/s. The default gateway and natd is done on 192.168.0.1 where I have the following rules: pipe 1 ip from 192.168.0.4 to any via xl1 div

Re: Anti-virus

2004-03-30 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 08:52:23PM -0600, Earl Larsen wrote: > I was wondering what is a good, free ;) anti virus program for FreeBSD. Depending what you mean by free... maybe try security/f-prot. It's free for non-commercial use. -lewiz. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

Re: hard disk recover

2004-03-28 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 04:25:56PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > # dd if=/dev/ad1s1a bs=64k > dd: /dev/ad1s1a: Input/output error Try: dd if=/dev/ad1s1a of=? conv=noerror,sync bs=64k I recently ``recovered'' a disk from this error. The sync is critical, trust me ;) (check the man page fo

Re: Sample server for Cyrus SASL

2004-03-26 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 07:38:42AM -0500, WebTent Support wrote: > I have Cyrus SASL 2.1.18 installed from ports on 5.2.1. Does it place > the source somewhere? How can I test with the sample-server and > sample-client? I don't think it gets installed. Look in the work directory. server and clie

natd + DUMMYNET ordering.

2004-03-24 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I'm trying to set up some traffic shaping using IPFW2 and DUMMYNET. I also use natd and I'm a little stumped as to where to put my pipes so that they will work as I expect. ipfw add pipe 1 all from 192.168.0.4 to any via xl1 ipfw add divert natd all from any to any via xl1 ipfw add pipe 1 al

natd + DUMMYNET ordering.

2004-03-24 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I'm trying to set up some traffic shaping using IPFW2 and DUMMYNET. I also use natd and I'm a little stumped as to where to put my pipes so that they will work as I expect. ipfw add pipe 1 all from 192.168.0.4 to any via xl1 ipfw add divert natd all from any to any via xl1 ipfw add pipe 1 al

Re: Vinum, replaced disk -- fsck error.

2004-03-23 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 12:23:11AM +, Lewis Thompson wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 08:57:38AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > On Friday, 19 March 2004 at 3:03:34 +0000, Lewis Thompson wrote: > > > In a reply to my original question you stated that ``dd

Re: making the partition larger

2004-03-21 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 12:52:47PM +0300, CBuH. wrote: > I have it of size X. And have 4 partitions marked, plus free unmarked > 10Gb on that /dev/ad0. Want to make FreeBSD's partition bigger on > those 10Gbs. It depends on where the free space is. If you mean growing the FreeBSD slice (which is

Re: Vinum

2004-03-20 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I might be lying to you with my answers. I'm hoping Greg Lehey or some other Vinum hacker will point anything I get wrong out though :) On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 01:23:53PM -0800, Evan Sayer wrote: > I have a question about how vinum effects access to file systems. When > i have a vinum volu

Re: I messed up my system, please help. library missing

2004-03-20 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 01:46:14PM -0500, Shaun T. Erickson wrote: > How do I get the old version reinstalled, and have the new version as > well, for things that need it? Take a look at portupgrade. You can find it in sysutils/portupgrade. Once it's installed portupgrade expat should do the job

Re: problem with su

2004-03-20 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 07:41:53PM +0200, Eric Yellin wrote: > When I "su -m" and login as root, all I get in the prompt is a % sign. My > normal user shell is tcsh and the prompt looks like this: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/home/eric(29): but this is not kept when I su -m. > How can I change this? Look i

Re: Vinum, replaced disk -- fsck error.

2004-03-20 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 11:14:23AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I still don't understand why you're using dd. To create as near-perfect copy of the disk as possible? I want to work on the failing disk as little as possible in case I cause further damage. Since the RAID0 volume is around

Re: Top posting

2004-03-19 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:24:59PM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:35:06PM -0500, Al Johnson wrote: > My standard response to top-posting: > > A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > Q: Why is putting a reply at the top of the message frowned upon? >

Re: Vinum, replaced disk -- fsck error.

2004-03-19 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sat, Mar 20, 2004 at 08:57:38AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 19 March 2004 at 3:03:34 +, Lewis Thompson wrote: > > In a reply to my original question you stated that ``dd if=ad3 of=ad1 > > bs=8192 conv=noerror'' ``may or may not work, d

Re: Vinum, replaced disk -- fsck error.

2004-03-18 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 01:26:02PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 16 March 2004 at 17:25:26 +, Lewis Thompson wrote: > > I can't think of anything else. Originally I ran dd without the > > conv=noerror and it stopped at around 25GB (the disk is

gif tunnel problem.

2004-03-17 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, This is the first time I've looked at gif tunnels and I'm only trying to do something simple (by that I mean no IPsec, etc.) Diagrams are always useful for this, so here goes: (int) (ext) (ext) (int) xl0 192.168.0.1 xl1 a.b.c.d -> 'net -> s

gif tunnel problem.

2004-03-17 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, This is the first time I've looked at gif tunnels and I'm only trying to do something simple (by that I mean no IPsec, etc.) Diagrams are always useful for this, so here goes: (int) (ext) (ext) (int) xl0 192.168.0.1 xl1 a.b.c.d -> 'net -> s

Re: Vinum, replaced disk -- fsck error.

2004-03-16 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 07:13:25PM +0800, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 16 March 2004 at 2:00:00 +0000, Lewis Thompson wrote: > > I had a failed disk in my RAID-0 Vinum array. This was a physical disk > > problem and in an attempt to recover as much data as possible I dd'

Re: Vinum, replaced disk -- fsck error.

2004-03-15 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 02:00:00AM +, Lewis Thompson wrote: > This has mostly gone fine (bar the I/O errors that were to be > expected) and I can actually start vinum and mount the RAID-0 array with > no trouble (Vinum reports no errors I can see). I don't really know how &g

Vinum, replaced disk -- fsck error.

2004-03-15 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I had a failed disk in my RAID-0 Vinum array. This was a physical disk problem and in an attempt to recover as much data as possible I dd'ed it to another disk (dd if=ad3 of=ad1 bs=8192 conv=noerror). This has mostly gone fine (bar the I/O errors that were to be expected) and I can actuall

Data recovery.

2004-03-14 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I've just had a disk (pretty much) fail on me. I'd been suspect of it for some time now, but finally confirmed it with a reinstall to 5.2.1 when GEOM started removing it for me ;) Some more tests with smartmontools (http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/) indicate read failures at the same

Re: Installation - More user friendly

2004-03-08 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 09:53:15AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 11:28:03PM -0500, JJB wrote: > > > Right at the beginning of sysinstall should be warning about what > > > to set PC bios options to, like plugNplay off, power management > > > off, boot time virus c

Re: Installation - More user friendly

2004-03-08 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 11:28:03PM -0500, JJB wrote: > Right at the beginning of sysinstall should be warning about what > to set PC bios options to, like plugNplay off, power management off, > boot time virus check disabled, PCI irq assignments set to auto, OS > type set to non-windows, ect. Give

Re: mounting

2004-03-08 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 03:11:14AM -0700, RYAN vAN GINNEKEN wrote: [snip] > Also i have the same problems with my nfs mounts if a machine goes > down somewhere now of my other machines will reboot. Have you tried mounting with the -s option? Check the man page for soft. -lewiz. -- I was so muc

Re: cdroast

2004-03-07 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 08:09:47PM -0800, Brian Henning wrote: > how can i make it so cd roast burns files with plus > signs in it. for example > /usr/ports/distfiles/gtk+-1.2.10.tar.gz This should probably be aimed at the xcdroast people since it seems very specific. I'm not really sure but is

Re: Growing RAID5 (using RAID0).

2004-03-05 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 11:28:17PM +1100, Tony Frank wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 02:15:14PM +0000, Lewis Thompson wrote: > > i.e. can I create a RAID0 volume from two RAID5 volumes? > > I understand this might sound a little odd but if it works it would be > > the idea

vmware3 -CURRENT.

2004-03-05 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I've just CVSupped to -CURRENT in an attempt to learn more about FreeBSD development in general. However, vmware3 no longer works. I get errors about vmnet1 not existing, yet I have the appropriate entries in /compat/linux/dev. However, I /do/ have a vmnet4097 when I run ifconfig. I not

Network File System (Coda, AFS) question.

2004-03-01 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I'm interested in setting up a distributed file system across two 5.2.1 machines. I wanted this to work such that the two machines had /different/ data but through the use of some software they can be ``mounted'' to provide a single large volume (almost the same way that the RAID0 works).

Growing RAID5 (using RAID0).

2004-02-26 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I've been thinking about this and I'm wondering if it is possible to do something like the following: I have an existing RAID5 volume, comprised of just 3 120GB disks. However, I've just bought three more 250GB disks that I also want to RAID5. I would still like a single volume, comprisi

Re: framebuffer fro freebsd

2004-02-22 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 06:01:44PM +, Rahul Sawarkar wrote: > Maybe you are using the wrong fonts.Did you try both the 8x8 and 16x16 > fonts? Yes. It's nowhere near as ``pretty'' as doing the same under Linux. It's almost as though the Linux framebuffer does some anti-aliasing to make it

Re: framebuffer fro freebsd

2004-02-22 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 04:58:53PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Rahul Sawarkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > is there a framebuffer port for freebsd? > > i want to run my console in 1024x768. > > Why would you want a framebuffer for that? > Do you have frame grabber hardware or something? >

Re: Shell script containing passwords.

2004-02-10 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 09:41:22AM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote: > Check the syntax for the .htaccess files in the httpd.conf file. This > is a file that must be non-readable by regular users via php, but > apache has a filter written within the httpd.conf file to disallow > access. I know it's abou

Re: Shell script containing passwords.

2004-02-10 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 05:52:17PM +0100, Robert Barten wrote: > No need for safe_mode, set > php_admin_value open_basedir "/www/dir/to/user/" > in your vhost config, add if desired /tmp/phpupload/:/tmp/phpsession/ Yes, I've looked at this. However, I want to use userdir=public_html for serving P

Re: Shell script containing passwords.

2004-02-10 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 03:56:08PM +, Peter Risdon wrote: > Lewis Thompson wrote: > > I am worried that because the script must be read/writeable by the > >Apache user (www) that anybody that can write a PHP script on my machine > >can read the auth script and read the pa

Re: Shell script containing passwords.

2004-02-10 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 10:12:09AM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Lewis Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am worried that because the script must be read/writeable by the > > Apache user (www) that anybody that can write a PHP script on my machine > >

Shell script containing passwords.

2004-02-09 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I'm trying to write a script to use with the Apache auth plugin mod_auth_any. I have the whole setup working, bar the script that does the authentication. I am worried that because the script must be read/writeable by the Apache user (www) that anybody that can write a PHP script on my mac

xmove over SSH.

2004-02-08 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, At Kris Kennaway's suggestion I have been trying out xmove, which allows me to suspend an X app, move it between X displays, etc. I've got this working great on one machine (actually a jail), where my sshd_config has: X11Forwarding yes X11DisplayOffset 10 X11UseLocalhost no I start xmov

Re: X11 forwarding (with ``screen'' option)?

2004-02-08 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 02:43:05PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 12:16:00PM +0000, Lewis Thompson wrote: > > Is there any such thing as screen for X applications? > There's xmove, but it's a bit buggy. It's a great idea though, I wish > som

X11 forwarding (with ``screen'' option)?

2004-02-07 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I'm experimenting with X11 forwarding and I have it working so I can ssh to my server and fire up an application just great. This is forwarded to my laptop and works fine. However, I want to run something that is mostly going on in the background (non-interactive) but my Internet link is n

Apache2 mod_auth_ldap (FreeBSD-specific problem?)

2004-02-06 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I've got a working Apache2 server that I've just recompiled to support mod_auth_ldap. The ldap stuff all works great (I'm using it via Samba). However, when I set up LDAP for authentication in my .htaccess file: AuthLDAPURL ldap://yellow.lewiz.org/ou=People,dc=lewiz,dc=org?uid require use

Wrong pixmaps directory (port problem).

2004-01-20 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I'm trying to create a port and everything is working fine, except that the pixmaps get installed in /usr/X11R6/share/pixmaps/app instead of /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/pixmaps/app. Apart from these pixmaps there is just the application binary itself. Can anybody suggest how I can get it to i

Re: Big troubles running FreeBSD on a Shuttle nForce2

2004-01-20 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:08:53PM +, anubis wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 02:26 am, Raphael Dinge wrote: > > I've installed a long ago FreeBSD 5.1 on my mother's computer which > > is a shuttle with nvidia nforce2 motherboard. The computer crashes > > for reasons I can't explain. Since 5.2 wa

Network timeout.

2004-01-14 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I'm having problems with my network connection timing out during large transfers. It's connected to a 10Mbit hub so it's not topping out at the card's maximum throughput. Originally I had a Realtek 8139 card but yesterday I dumped that in favour of a Netgear FA311 (sis chipset) and this

XF86Keys.

2003-12-30 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I have a funky keyboard with lots of buttons along the top (like Back, Forward, Stop, Refresh, etc.). I use a number of these in fluxbox by defining them in my keys file. However -- can anybody suggest a way I can make the XF86Back key work in firebird? Previously I have hacked the keyboa

Lots of disks.

2003-12-09 Thread Lewis Thompson
Hi, I'm currently using vinum to concatenate two large (120GB) disks, providing a single large(r) valume (240GB in theory ;). At the moment the volume is about 90% full and I'm looking to add three more 120GB disks and set up RAID5. This is somewhat offtopic (not entirely sure if it is FreeBSD

Re: natd & ipfw

2003-12-07 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 01:11:40PM +0300, Lev Klimin wrote: > then natd don't change source address, and ping don't work. I thinked > that natd must do NAT whenever and wherever it work. May I be > mistaken? You may be. I had a problem a few months ago that seemed very similar. In the end I gave

Re: Samba frontend.

2003-12-01 Thread Lewis Thompson
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 03:47:00PM -0800, Kevin Stevens wrote: > On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Lewis Thompson wrote: > > I'm looking for a usable frontend to Samba, allowing me to see people > > accessing shares, details of files that are open, etc. I don't really > > Can y

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