Re: Best way to cleanly uninstall packages?

2003-10-22 Thread Raphaël Marmier
first make sure the pkgdb is ok and in sync with the port tree with pkgdb -F. I use pkg_deinstall (comes with portupgrade) to do that kind of thing. Use option -R and -r to sweep up and down in the depency tree with the -c option that checks wether a package's files have been overwritten by ano

a problem of hard disks ordering...

2003-10-10 Thread Raphaël Marmier
I have recently installed FreeBSD 4.8 on a small Compaq Proliant server with a built-in Adaptec SCSI3 controller and a SmartArray 532 raid controller. The root device is on the volume provided by the raid controller, which is accessible under /dev/da#, like the built-in scsi. I like to add a sc

Re: Qmailadmin port

2003-09-30 Thread Raphaël Marmier
I might be wrong, but I think this happen when you use the vpopmail-stable port. Using the vpopmail port instead makes this problem go away. Raphaël Le Mardi, 30 sep 2003, à 10:24 Europe/Zurich, Ivailo Tanusheff a écrit : Hi, Is there any problem with the qmailadmin port? When I update it I g

Re: FW: Spam mail warning notification! (MS-Update)

2003-09-22 Thread Raphaël Marmier
Sorry, but I don't receive the hundreds of virus you pretend you receive from this list. I think 10 of them is an accurate estimaition of what I got so far, and most wheren't from the list. I would rather bet that some of your friends or relative have _both_ freebsd-questions and _your_ address

Re: Samba over SSH

2003-09-20 Thread Raphaël Marmier
Unless you _must_ use samba, try using nfs with tcp connection through your vpn. It is much faster and still reliable. mount -t nfs -o -T host:/the/path/ /mount/point will use tcp for transport, thus ensuring you don't suffer problems even in the case of a disconnection of the vpn. Of course,

Re: Mail server reboot while upgrading ports

2003-09-09 Thread Raphaël Marmier
heat? Both could be overheating the same way if it is the same hardware in the same room under identical conditions. Try to move one to the fridge and see if it stop freezing ;) Raphaël Le Mercredi, 10 sep 2003, à 14:38 Europe/Zurich, Dragoncrest a écrit : As in hardware fault? Hmm, I

Re: FreeBSD install corrupts neighboring partitions

2003-09-08 Thread Raphaël Marmier
Le Lundi, 8 sep 2003, à 22:01 Europe/Zurich, Jud a écrit : --snip-- Once you've installed FreeBSD, if you can't boot back into Windows, use the Windows tools to restore the familiar Win MBR: for 9x, boot from the emergency floppy and run fdisk /mbr; for more recent versions, boot from CD into con

Re: how to check which COM port modem is connected to?

2003-09-08 Thread Raphaël Marmier
Le Lundi, 8 sep 2003, à 14:04 Europe/Zurich, Ramanan Selvaratnam a écrit : --- Alex Zivenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You must know it. In windows name of port is comx in Unix - /dev/cuax-1 com1 - cua0, com2-cua1, com3 - cua2 Have you win on this PC? Then you can see there. What would be helpf

Re: FreeBSD install corrupts neighboring partitions

2003-09-08 Thread Raphaël Marmier
Happened to me as well in the past. With Linux as well. I think I solved it by installing BSD first and then windows, I'm not sure though. Raphael Le Lundi, 8 sep 2003, à 05:25 Europe/Zurich, Dan Harrison a écrit : I'm attempting to install FreeBSD 4.8 on a system which will boot it and also W

Re: kernel compile

2003-09-06 Thread Raphaël Marmier
Start over without removing unrelated stuff. Looks like you removed scsi without removing all devices depending on it. Raphaël Le Samedi, 6 sep 2003, à 15:51 Europe/Zurich, Timur a écrit : On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 10:51:40AM -0400, Monah Baki wrote: Have you tried recompiling the kernel with "de

Re: Newer names

2003-08-30 Thread Raphaël Marmier
Le Samedi, 30 aoû 2003, à 10:52 Europe/Zurich, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : It would be more fitting to address the storage units as media or storage media. Thus the title DAEMON could be reverted to SMAEMON or Storage Media And Executon MONitor. Why not SALMON? "Tant que vous y êtes?" More serio

Re: Is this disk toast ?

2003-08-23 Thread Raphaël Marmier
Bad partition table? Run fdisk to check it. Raphael Le Samedi, 23 aoû 2003, à 17:37 Europe/Zurich, Luke Kearney a écrit : Hello, I have been having an extraordinary run of bad luck recently and I am wondering if anyone could tell me if this disk is trash or what ? Google did not give me anythin

Re: 5.1 & Compaq Smart Array

2003-08-14 Thread Raphaël Marmier
RAIDFrame is software raid so it doesn't matter here. You should check wether your Smart Array is properly supported, first, a good place to start: http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/RAID/. Then maybe try to disable APIC at boot (??), as this is known to cause problems. But first, go to the B

Re: 5.1 & Compaq Smart Array

2003-08-14 Thread Raphaël Marmier
they're running 4.7 -STABLE, not 5.1 I need to run this in a production environment so 5.1 may not be a good choice. It's too bad because I'd like more time to tinker with this to see if I could get 5.1 loaded and running but I'm running out of time. Thanks Joe -Ori

Re: 5.1 & Compaq Smart Array

2003-08-14 Thread Raphaël Marmier
installs of 5.1 the menu option said "Boot FreeBSD with ACPI disabled" but when I boot the server it says "Boot FreeBSD with ACPI enabled" -Original Message- From: Raphaël Marmier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 5:26 PM To: Warner Joseph Cc: '

Re: 5.1 & Compaq Smart Array

2003-08-10 Thread Raphaël Marmier
I'll give a try on a Smart Array 532 with FBSD 5.1 as soon as I can (days or weeks). It is working fine with 4.8 now. Raphael Le Jeudi, 7 aoû 2003, à 23:44 Europe/Zurich, Warner Joseph a écrit : -Original Message- From: Raphaël Marmier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, A

Re: Question re. hard read errors

2003-08-08 Thread Raphaël Marmier
Try using dd to grab all possible bits of that file: /bin/sh dd if=/path/tothe/file of=/path/to/newfile conv=sync,noerror >ddlog.txt 2>&1 you get the log of all errors and faulty blocks in ddlog.txt This will make a copy of the file with unreadable blocks converted to blank. Then you should fix

Re: FreeBSD and OSX applications

2003-07-30 Thread Raphaël Marmier
While I'm at it, It has to be pointed out that native MacOSX apps don't necessary make calls to Quartz directly. (Only graphically intensive apps should make such call for specific reasons) Most standard GUI applications can be built using only the Cocoa Frameworks. Beside, on the compatibility

Re: FreeBSD and OSX applications

2003-07-30 Thread Raphaël Marmier
MacOSX applications need both specific libraries (based on the Openstep/Cocoa API) and a specific runtime system that runs objective-C based apps. While the API is open, the libraries (called frameworks) and the runtime are proprietaty. Furthermore, these binaries are compiled for the PowerPC a

Re: I want using FreeBSD, but...

2003-07-25 Thread Raphaël Marmier
Le Vendredi, 25 juil 2003, à 17:18 Europe/Zurich, Bob Collins a écrit : At 11:05 AM 7/25/2003, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > At 2003-07-25T14:33:09Z, Charlie Schluting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I guess "...i'm a christian" speaks for itself. > > On the behalf of Christian FreeBSD users ev

Re: maildir with softupdates

2003-07-23 Thread Raphaël Marmier
Basically, if you want to ensure that email wont get lost, put the maildirs and mail queue on separate partitions and mount them sync. This is what I do. If you have to speed things, try first a battery backed raid controler and enable the write cache on it. Of course, you should always use an

pptp connection unreliable with MacOSX client, help!

2003-07-09 Thread Raphaël Marmier
I've setup a vpn server with poptop 1.1.3 from the ports (FreeBSD 4.8 release). It work fine, with mppe 128 enabled, from Windows 2000 and MacOSX 10.2 (using the built-in vpn client). I use it to mount a volume through nfs and samba, so I can use cvs in local mode (needed). However, on MacOSX,

Re: PPPoE load balancing

2003-06-03 Thread Raphaël Marmier
This is quite recent, but get a look at OpenBSD 3.3 (www.openbsd.org) and its packet filter, pf (ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/doc/pf-faq.pdf). It does support bundling unreleated and uncooperative links together. With some scripting, you should even be able to track when a link goes down a

Re: What caused my box to die?

2003-05-30 Thread Raphaël Marmier
You might want to take a look at http://www.memtest86.com/ for a tool to test RAM. Raphael Le Jeudi, 29 mai 2003, à 21:49 Europe/Zurich, Adam a écrit : Well, I'm just about done rebuilding my box after a major crash and burn. Now that things are slowing down, I'd like to get some input on what