Re: Joy stick not being detected!

2008-08-26 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Christopher Joyner wrote: [adding -questions back into the cc list] > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:55:57 + Christopher Joyner wrote: > > > > > I have a Gravis GamePad

Re: Crontab and adjkerntz.

2008-08-26 Thread Ian Smith
run at boot[1] should adjust for a TZ update occuring overnight, assuming CMOS has local time (ie /etc/wall_cmos_clock exists) [1] actually run when going to multi-user, so with CMOS set to local time, you should remember to run 'adjkerntz -i' when working

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Ian Smith
you'll go 'hmmm ..' and if you look through the sources you'll see whole large slabs of code that are shared between those two implementations, by the same author. I've never tried writing to HPFS volumes, but I did recover many years of work and play from a number

Re: ThinkPad 3.0GHz: can anybody verify?

2008-09-04 Thread Ian Smith
; Well I certainly wouldn't buy a Thinkpad I didn't have the EXACT model number of, when that reveals the CPU type/speed, HD and RAM originally fitted, CD/CDRW/DVD[RW], screen size, video card, wireless etc options. Maybe you (Gary) could post an URL illustrating one of these machin

Re: ThinkPad 3.0GHz: can anybody verify?

2008-09-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 04:09:12PM +1000, Ian Smith wrote: > > > I had no trouble dropping a 120GB Fujitsu into my T23 recently (was > > 30GB), so I expect 160GB would be fine, especially in a much later > > model. And

Re: Apache 1.3 Problems

2008-09-16 Thread Ian Smith
d DNS look fine. I (also) can traceroute your box this far: 14 bbrb-isp.Stanford.EDU (171.64.1.155) 193.489 ms 193.562 ms 195.603 ms 15 * * * 16 * * * 17 * * * 18 * *^C I don't know whether you allow inbound traceroutes? but the question now is, how many routers between you and and bbrb-isp.Stanford.EDU ? Can you show us a 'traceroute bbrb-isp.Stanford.EDU' from your machine? > This might sound like an odd test, but try configuring it to sit on a port > other than 80 (8080, for example) and seeing if you get the same problem > there. > > Cheers, > Mark If you're thinking what I'm thinking, 8080's just as unlikely to work :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Apache 1.3 Problems

2008-09-16 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Annelise Anderson wrote: > On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Ian Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:48:48 +1000 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > From a digest post, trimming a bit .. Tr

Re: sound card and freebsd v7.0

2008-09-26 Thread Ian Smith
i find this a bit confusing/interesting, esp given that fresbie > v1.1 aslo sees this as a 120 gb drive ??? just interested in fiding > out what is going on and if this is a pointer to future hardware > mis-identification --- i understand the difference between "real" > gigabytes and "marketing department" gigabytes The fdisk and bsdlabel outputs will tell the true story. If, as you suggested earlier, you did enter a different geometry, you might have lost some real space, so also show us 'fdisk ad0 | grep cylinders' cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: newsyslog and apache

2008-10-03 Thread Ian Smith
chance I'll be on hand to start apache to minimize downtime. Theoretically if it survives an apachectl configtest, you should be good to go - and if it doesn't, neither method will restart apache. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Problems moving my jails (mv: Operation not permitted)

2008-10-05 Thread Ian Smith
off with a 'ls -lR /usr/jail > listfile' (if I hadn't made a backup tar) to at least have a full list of what was where, with what user/perms etc .. Also read cp(1) re -R flag carefully .. if there are any hard linked files, as there may well be, then using tar to move these wou

Re: man -t odd page size

2008-10-23 Thread Ian Smith
of the CCITT Blue Book for the best part of A$500, then convinced it was the way things would go. I was entirely wrong :) but I don't regret that study for ASN.1 alone. > Gretings from Argentina, where A4 is the standard from 1943. > > And yes .. so are the metric sys

Re: man -t odd page size

2008-10-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:37:56 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Polytropon: thanks for pdfman script - but does 'pdfman ipfw' work for > > you? Here the 'overprinting' is misaligned in

Re: man -t odd page size

2008-10-24 Thread Ian Smith
Gonzalo, please cc those to whom you are responding. I had to dig this out of the digest, which breaks the threading .. On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:35:36 -0200 Gonzalo Nemmi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: mpd - lcp protocol rejects

2008-10-25 Thread Ian Smith
rd protocol rejects to log file and > vpn connection stops working. > > mpd.conf: I can't answer your question, but I'm pretty sure that if you posted your nicely detailed message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] especially if cc'd to [EMAIL PROTECTED] yo

Re: odd problem, system clock stops while power-down

2008-10-28 Thread Ian Smith
aving all your log timestamps screwed after reboot until NTP does its thing. Richard: are you running UTC or local time in CMOS? If the latter, does the file /etc/wall_cmos_clock exist? cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: odd problem, system clock stops while power-down

2008-10-29 Thread Ian Smith
e initial > > corrections of several > > seconds usually .. still it's better than having all > > your log timestamps > > screwed after reboot until NTP does its thing. > > > > Richard: are you running UTC or local time in CMOS? If the > >

Apache environment variables - logical AND

2008-11-04 Thread Ian Smith
$" no_browser I want the equivalent for this (invalid and totally fanciful) match: SetEnvIf (no_browser AND no_referer) go_away Any clues? cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Re: Apache environment variables - logical AND

2008-11-05 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 05:33:45PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > > I know this isn't FreeBSD specific - but I am, so crave your indulgence. > > > > Running Apache 1.3.27, using a fairly extensive access.conf to beat off >

[SOLVED] Apache environment variables - logical AND

2008-11-08 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 08:24:16PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 05:33:45PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > > > > I know this isn't FreeBSD

Re: some ipfw filter does not function under Release 6.3

2008-11-16 Thread Ian Smith
199.36.12200 > 192.168.2.14.80: R > 200244635:200244635(0) win 0 > 05:28:18.099443 IP 221.192.199.36.3362 > 192.168.2.14.80: S > 2422872529:2422872529(0) win 65535 > 05:28:18.352083 IP 221.192.199.36.3362 > 192.168.2.14.80: . ack > 3968474717 win 65535 > 05:28

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-12 Thread Ian Smith
e best way to at least get a raw copy of the existing disk. After which perhaps the boot sector can be rewritten with the right values (if available?) so that such as fsck and dump can proceed. cheers, Ian ___ 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: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, PJ wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:52:29 +0200 Polytropon wrote: [..] > > > Let's assume ad0 is your source disk and ad1 the target disk. > > > > > > You can use the sysinstall tool to slice and partition

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-13 Thread Ian Smith
ks, including the one that maybe > is defective... I'll post results if possilbe. I wouldn't even try doing anything with disks until positively ruling out any hardware issues, given that at one stage you _apparently_ lost the boot sector, and it or another possibly intermittent issue prev

Re: please help to uninstall FreeBSD!!!

2009-08-19 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:23:29 -0700 Walt Pawley > At 4:44 PM +0200 8/17/09, Heiner Strauß wrote: [..] > >Putting the symbol names in one word helped the linker / loader a lot. > >Live was so easy. > > > >Heiner > > > >C(one word = 32 bit) .NOT. (some word processor software) > > As so

Re: Suspend/Resume on Thinkpad x40

2009-08-20 Thread Ian Smith
ot;fast" > keybell="off" > > > cat /etc/sysctl.conf > # $FreeBSD: src/etc/sysctl.conf,v 1.8.32.1 2009/04/15 03:14:26 kensmith Exp $ > # > # This file is read when going to multi-user and its contents piped thru > # ``sysctl'' to

Re: Suspend/Resume on Thinkpad x40

2009-08-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Joe Snikeris wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Ian Smith wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:03:29 -0500 Joe Snikeris wrote: > > > >  > First off, I apologize if this is not the right forum for this > >  > question.  I was torn bet

Re: Suspend/Resume on Thinkpad x40

2009-08-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Joe Snikeris wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Ian Smith wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Joe Snikeris wrote: > >  > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Ian Smith wrote: [..] > >  > At any rate, I gave up on ACPI.  I've got suspend-to

MySql54 Port With_CHARSET and WITH_XCHARSET

2009-08-28 Thread Ian Lord
ld be available would be utf8 but if I send a "show charset" query on the server, it lists them all... I am trying to compile while making sure there is only one charset on the server... did I missed something or is it a bug with the port or with mysql ? Thanks ~~~~

Re: How to correct *Failed sysctlbyname("net.inet.ip.fw.tables_max")*

2009-09-06 Thread Ian Smith
7.0. > Sources are RELENG_7_1 Kes, perhaps your kernel and userland sources may be out of synch? I haven't hunted through CVS, but located a message in ipfw@ from Ganbold with a patch proposing to add that very sysctl to ip_fw2.c dated 1st September 2008 .. was that before or after

Re: Question about FreeBSD installation procedure

2009-09-29 Thread Ian Smith
in the tree. You'll find that FreeBSD knows the (covering) extended partition as /dev/ad0s5 and the logical partitions within as /dev/ad0s6, s7 etc. FAT32 is reliable read-write, and most useful for shipping files between different OS, especially if you enclose them in a ta

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-18 Thread Ian Smith
S: bound to be some" without knowing the wisdom therein? > In the end, it's up to the author to clarify... I don't understand what > he's trying to do as on my stem his instructions/example just do not > work anyway. :-( You really cannot go on blaming others for your

ipfw(8) doc bug?

2008-01-21 Thread Ian Smith
includes the new 'ipfw nat' section, so is different in at least that respect. Worthy of a docs? or www? PR, or maybe just a transient release glitch? cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/m

Re: Throttle the CPU when the system is idle

2008-01-21 Thread Ian Smith
# Offline CPU idle state Andreas: Tijl's value of -p 200 (ie poll online status and idle percentage every 200ms instead of default 500ms) should help with concerns about how fast powerd ramps up frequency when load occurs. Copying Wojciech as well, as he seemed to be possibly? unaware of

Re: ipfw(8) doc bug?

2008-01-23 Thread Ian Smith
t explains it, thanks Daniel. Strangely perhaps, the 4.10 online manual did say 4.10, but various others - before and since - say 7.0 .. they all seem to have the original dates in the footers. Saves a PR :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Unlock /dev/dsp?

2008-02-09 Thread Ian Smith
3 Feb 10 15:06 /dev/dsp0.0 If you use the KDE sound setup, you could specify say /dev/dsp0.2 for KDE noises. Other programs (mplayer, xmms ..) will use a free channel, and you can run as many others as you like (if you like cacophony :) You can run 'cat /dev/sndstat'

Re: Error in the Handbook

2008-02-12 Thread Ian Smith
ng the text, and most of all for taking the > time to report this. [1] Not at all wishing to discourage anyone from reviewing and patching docs, but it's best to prove the theory before firing up send-pr .. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Adobe Flashplayer

2008-02-25 Thread Ian Smith
k and haven't had any problems. It doesn't support every flash function but it's still pretty good - youtube seems to work well. Ian. Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find

Re: IPFW with user-ppp's NAT

2008-03-16 Thread Ian Smith
mation and some straight up errors, both of principle and usage. Using rc.firewall as a base example (modulo needing to permit appropriate icmp traffic) and a fair study of ipfw(8) should yield a better firewall, with or without NAT - certainly a more comprehensible and flexible one - than the examp

Re: IPFW with user-ppp's NAT

2008-03-16 Thread Ian Smith
mance boxes but as Erik points out, it may be significant. Just to make it clear, my point was that one reason for deprecating ipfw is out the door, and that its development is ongoing. I see rc.firewall has had a recent facelift too, including a stateful 'workstation' type.

Re: ARP(4) spoofing?

2008-03-17 Thread Ian Smith
that might be it. I haven't looked into whether > or not these are replies triggered by requests from the local host (If > only I knew a way to do such a thing.) Logic initially rejects the Again, tcpdump, running in as many terms as needed (here, two) > notion. As why would this box be sending out a gratuitous ARP request > every 10 minutes through the wrong interface for the given address? Smells more like incoming so far, on em1 .. did I mention tcpdump? :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: mpd pptp server?

2008-03-19 Thread Ian Smith
re any > obvious errors in the above configuration? Can't help with pptp, I only use pppoe, but have posted this to bring it to Alexander's attention. He'll most likely want to see some logging .. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: /var/named Changes Ownership to Root on Boot

2008-03-21 Thread Ian Smith
s named by default wants to create the named.run file in the default directory (/etc/namedb -> /var/named/etc/namedb) which is of course owned by root, but I'm sure I just need to spend a bit more time with the reference manual: http://127.0.0.1/bind9ref/Bv9ARM.html (where /usr/local

gethostbyaddr failure

2008-04-08 Thread Ian Campbell
Hi all, I'm having a problem with reverse DNS on FreeBSD 7.0 (AMD64). Postfix was having problems doing DNS lookups, and I eventually narrowed it down to a failure with gethostbyaddr using the name-addr-test files in the Postfix tarball. You can find the test my machine failed here: http:

Re: Limiting apache's upload speed?

2008-04-13 Thread Ian Smith
h pipe/queue management, like Jeff's pf+altq, or ipfw+dummynet, can provide more fine-grained control. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: some ipfw filter does not function under Release 6.3

2008-11-16 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008, Jin Guojun[VFF] wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > > On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Jin Guojun[VFF] wrote: > > > > >I think this is a bug in ipfw because after change the rule order, the > > >problem persists: > > >005662

FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel?

2008-11-21 Thread Ian Jefferson
Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel? I've looked around for a definitive discussion on the topic but couldn't find anything on this list or Google at least. I'd like to replace a couple of relatively high power-consuming servers with a couple of Mac Mini Intel's. For my purposes

Re: Problem about ppp -nat

2008-11-23 Thread Ian Smith
(8)) > kernel options > options IPFIREWALL > options IPFIREWALL_FORWARD > options IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT > options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE > options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE_LIMIT=120 > options IPDIVERT > > /etc/ipfw.rules > add divert natd ip from any to any via tun0

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel?

2008-11-24 Thread Ian Jefferson
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Andrew Gould wrote: > On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 9:08 AM, John Almberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Nov 21, 2008, at 11:42 PM, Ian Jefferson wrote: > > > > Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel? > >> > >> &g

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel?

2008-11-26 Thread Ian Jefferson
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Tom Marchand wrote: > >>> Ian, > >>> > >>> You could always test it using VMWare Fusionand then let > >>> us know > >> > >> Er, Gee thanks. I'll just have a word with the VMware guys abo

Re: Problem about ppp -nat

2008-11-29 Thread Ian Smith
want both those add statements. Try taking out the first one, and replacing the last one with the add! default HISADDR. Unsure if you need an 'enable pap' as well, maybe default. Can't hurt. Anyway, some extra logging should show you when and how it fails, if it still does .. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Problem about ppp -nat

2008-11-29 Thread Ian Smith
a clue > please point me to the right direction. I would probably go back to > external router gateway ``out of the box''. For now I give up and > need to rest. Well you can solve your loading-order problem with ppp -auto and a dial filter as above. Then you're

Re: Is there anything weird I should know about using ipfw on alias addresses?

2008-12-01 Thread Ian Smith
' on here Willis? Difficult to tell without seeing a) ifconfig b) netstat -rn c) at least the relevant firewall rule/s and d) log entries that illustrate your problem. Obscure sensitive information by all means, but otherwise pretend we haven't the slight

Re: Problem about ppp -nat

2008-12-01 Thread Ian Smith
ove. Then you're free to choose between natd and ipfw nat, > > or even ppp -nat if you want. Personally I quit using ppp in favour of > > mpd4, and that works well for me (yes with natd, though on a 5.5 system) > Well I loaded modules (ipfw and ipdivert) at boot time in /

Re: Is there anything weird I should know about using ipfw on alias addresses?

2008-12-03 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Brett Davidson wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:52:12 +1300 Brett Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > ifconfig shows the alias addresses correctly bound. > > > Creating an ipfw ru

Re: Is there anything weird I should know about using ipfw on alias addresses?

2008-12-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Brett Davidson wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Brett Davidson wrote: > > > Ian Smith wrote: > > > > On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:52:12 +1300 Brett Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > &g

Re: ipfw and bridged interface

2008-12-06 Thread Ian Smith
on the IP layer where > other rules would apply. Is it still the case? Where can I find th > description? Hi Olivier, See the ipfw(8) section PACKET FLOW .. it's all there, with examples of how to separate layer2 from layer3 traffic, inbound

Re: Intel Pentium Dual Core E5200 and Enhanced Speedstep

2008-12-08 Thread Ian Smith
at 50% I don't know, unless something thinks there is a temperature problem? Anyway, you need powerd, and you likely need to check the acpi@ list about getting your EST working .. you may even need a BIOS upgrade or hacking on your ACPI ASL, but hopefully not .. And post them more details; at l

Re: Intel Pentium Dual Core E5200 and Enhanced Speedstep

2008-12-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Gabriel Lavoie wrote: > 2008/12/9 Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 13:37:09 -0500 Gabriel Lavoie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: [ skipping lots until you've seen how powerd goes on it .. and please drop gmail'

Re: bridge ipfw also protect set

2008-12-19 Thread Ian Smith
e of rules allowing some ICMP traffic, remove rules for inbound DNS and web if you're not running those servers, etc. Read ipfw(8) about 10 times, largely ignore the current ipfw section in the handbook, and prosper .. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questio

Re: [6.3] Assigning "shutdown" to eg. Syst?

2008-12-22 Thread Ian Smith
rite him a little script that does 'shutdown -p now [comment ..]' Shutdown is cleaner than reboot, runs 'stop' rc.d scripts for all active daemons, and leaves a nice log entry in messages, including any comment. cheers, Ian ___

Re: [6.3] Assigning "shutdown" to eg. Syst?

2008-12-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, Robert Huff wrote: > Ian Smith writes: > > > Or let your dad login with his own account and password. Just > > add him to the operator group so that he can run /sbin/shutdown. > > If that's the only priveledged command he needs .

Re: [6.3] Assigning "shutdown" to eg. Syst?

2008-12-23 Thread Ian Smith
;d need mount and write permissions on the dump destination. Doesn't sound too risky if Gilles trusts him enough to run shutdown :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

OT [was: Out of Office AutoReply: Greater tool ..]

2008-12-25 Thread Ian Smith
s list and others with mail forged to be from questi...@freebsd.org; they don't call it the silly season for nothing .. If you have any helpful suggestions about dealing with spam or anything to do with the lists, please send mail to postmas...@freebsd.org offlist .. bearing in mind that

Re: Unable to modify sysid with Fdisk

2008-12-30 Thread Ian Smith
GB raw da0 disk to backup just in case ..) I've used the fdisk wrapper in sysinstall to slice usb stick disks, sometimes with both msdos and ufs slices, just because I prefer that interface rather than maybe miscalculating an offset or size

Re: named won't bind to external interface and ignores other options.

2008-12-31 Thread Ian Smith
you run '/etc/rc.d/named stop' and then '/etc/rc.d/named start', what shows up in /var/log/messages ? What's in /etc/rc.conf concerning named ? Any clues from 'rndc status'? cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@fr

Urgent help needed please: Gvinum problem

2009-01-02 Thread Ian Lord
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Urgent help needed please: Gvinum problem

2009-01-02 Thread Ian Lord
) Thanks p.s. Please reply to me also as I am a digest member thanks ~~ Ian Lord MSD Informatique 1711 Montée Major Terrebonne (Québec) J7M 1E6 Tél: (514) 776-MSDI  -> (514) 776-6734 Sans Frais: 1(877) 776-MSDI  -> 1(877) 776-6734 http://www.m

RE: Urgent help needed please: Gvinum problem

2009-01-02 Thread Ian Lord
> Hi, > > We had a power lost even though we have ups and generators (still > investigating it) and when the machine rebooted one of the disk seems to be > failed : > > The system complains about fsck repaired failed and that I must run it > manually. It then boots in single user mode. > > I ent

Re: FreeBSD 7, how to recieve internet mail

2009-01-14 Thread Ian Smith
calhost. > Escape character is '^]'. > ... That'd be right; it needs to be also listening on an external interface address to receive mail from outside this box .. > How do I make the FreeBSD7 box accept connections to port 25 from all of the > internet ??

Re: IPFW DUMMYNET: Several pipes after each other

2009-01-24 Thread Ian Smith
50 and nothing goes through the other pipes > (which makes sense actually since IPFW work that way?). IPFW works that way if you (likely) have net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass=1 .. so that packets exiting from pipes aren't seen by the firewall again. If you set one_pass=0, packets are rein

Re: IPFW DUMMYNET: Several pipes after each other

2009-01-27 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Sebastian Mellmann wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:10:09 +0100 (CET) > > > > > > So far I've got those rules: > > > > > > in_if="em0" > > > out_if="em1" > >

Re: IPFW DUMMYNET: Several pipes after each other

2009-01-27 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Sebastian Mellmann wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: [..] > > 00060: 192.000 Kbit/s0 ms 30 KB 1 queues (1 buckets) droptail > > 0 tcp 192.168.0.64/1032207.46.106.36/1863 1847947 563209421 0 > > 0 141 > > 00070: 3.072 Mbit/s0 ms

Re[2]: IPFW DUMMYNET: Several pipes after each other

2009-01-28 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, KES wrote: > ????, Ian. > > May be this will be usefull for you Yes, but I need to read it more times :) Nicely answers the question about stats per flow/queue anyway, not too hard to parse for logging. > #1. ping -D -S 10.10.16.16 -s 1472 -i 0.

Re: #2 DNS Auto in KPPP in FreeBSD 7.1

2009-02-07 Thread Ian Smith
I suggest instead using either ppp(8) - which is extensively supported by the FreeBSD Handbook and in the mailing lists - or the net/mpd5 port, which uses in-kernel netgraph modules. Both support fetching upstream DNS addresses. I happily used ppp(8) for 10 years, b

sh parameter substitution problem

2009-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
;ve tried: ip=${addr:%#*} ip=${addr:%%#*} ip=${addr:%[#]*} ip=${addr:%%[#]*} but all of these report './testbit: 7: Syntax error: Bad substitution' How can I split these strings to exclude the '#' and all beyond, preferably using sh syntax, at least without resor

Re: sh parameter substitution problem

2009-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:47:17 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith > wrote: > > I'm getting nowhere trying to parse out IP addresses from strings of > > this form in /bin/sh, which have been awk'd out of 'tail named.run

Re: sh parameter substitution problem

2009-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
Thanks Ed - good old sed - and Jonathan too, now the digest's here. > 195.68.176.4 Lest anyone get the wrong idea: that's a victim, perpetrator unknown. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: Help with high LA

2009-02-13 Thread Ian Smith
tware caused > connection abort > > I need some clues to undestand what is happening. > > Thank you, > > - Marcelo Yes, 'Too many dynamic rules'; further connections will surely fail. cheers, Ian ___ 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: w(5) shows non-existent or lost process?

2009-02-18 Thread Ian Smith
/dev/ttyp4 you could try opening enough xterms (ono) so your ttyp5 is used, then exit them cleanly? Failing that, you can boot single user, mount /var, rm /var/run/utmp, hit ^D (or reboot) .. IIRC I had to do that once; not sure what happens if you rm /var/run/utmp while running multi-user!

Top Posting Mania [was Re: FreeBSD 7.O compiled code is very slow]

2009-02-18 Thread Ian Smith
of it or more is re-re-repeated overtailquoting of irrelevant trivia. Please come back from the dark side .. Cheers anyway, Ian ___ 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: Top Posting Mania [was Re: FreeBSD 7.O compiled code is very slow]

2009-02-18 Thread Ian Smith
gt; > including tail-quoting all sorts irrelevant and repeated trailers etc, > > after years of your (almost too- :) concise postings. > > well, sorry, but i don't use M$ Outlock That's more like it! :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-ques

Re: Problem with speedtouch 330

2009-02-25 Thread Ian Smith
mmand: adsl: set radial 15 > 1000 > Feb 23 20:54:48 HOSTNAME ppp[961]: tun0: Warning: set radial: Invalid > command > Feb 23 20:54:48 HOSTNAME ppp[961]: tun0: Warning: set radial: Failed 1 Try 'redial'. This log also doesn't match the config shown above. cheers, Ian ___ 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: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 248, Issue 23

2009-02-25 Thread Ian Smith
> wrote: We do mind. Please don't ever again top-post a meaningless comment followed by a tail-quoted dump of the previous 80 kilobyte digest into the next one. Ian (on behalf of other questions-digest subscribers) ___ freebsd-questions@fr

Odd DNS requests

2009-02-27 Thread Ian Smith
addr.arpa. (58) [tos 0x18] 16:13:05.249252 192.168.0.1.53 > 192.168.0.59.60806: 10032 NXDomain* 0/1/0 (129) (DF) What exactly are these hoping to discover, and what needs turning off in the Mac's setup (OSX, most likely a recent version) to quell them? cheers, Ian (ple

Re: Odd DNS requests

2009-02-28 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 28 Feb 2009, George Davidovich wrote: > On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 04:32:47PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > > Recently we've had a Mac notebook of some sort on our LAN, that likes > > to make these DNS queries from time to time, to no avail, as noticed > > on a fi

Re: portmanager/portmaster like application for packages?

2009-03-03 Thread Ian Smith
7;t need to spend days compiling Xorg, KDE, openoffice if you use it, and a bunch of other big ports; it only takes quite a few hours :) and a little extra bandwidth saving days of building is fine by me .. The only largish port that always needs (re)building here is PHP, where the default optio

Free Pascal

2009-03-05 Thread Ian Fitzgerald
Can anyone point me to a method of installing Free Pascal Compiler? I am running FBSD 7.1, with KDE4. The last attempt deleted a file used by X-windows (and perhaps others), but I had no specific instructions as a guide. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd

Re: ipfw: Can't see other flows in pipe

2009-03-06 Thread Ian Smith
so totals shown are of all packets through that pipe. src/dest addr/ports shown are those of the first packet using that bucket, not the most recent. You may also find http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet/ helpful. cheers, Ian ___ freebs

How do I determine the FreeBSD "world" revision/version?

2009-03-06 Thread Ian Bonnycastle
ated the kernel on a 7.1-RELEASE to 7-STABLE to get more recent updates to the kernel, but the base as been left at 7.1-RELEASE. Now, it could have been 7.0-RELEASE or 7.x-RELEASE and after upgrading the kernel, is this informaiton stored anywhere? Also, if this *is* explained somewhere, and I&#

Re: Apache 1.3.41

2009-03-06 Thread Ian Smith
pd-php .php > AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps > > > AddType application/x-httpd-php .php > AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps > Looks right here. > NameVirtualHost * > > include /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.sites Presuma

Re: torrent client traffic shaping question

2009-03-11 Thread Ian Smith
r packets once the inbound pipe's queue is full involves packet loss, many real-world UDP transfers (eg realaudio) will back off from sending more in the absense of some sort of specific or periodic acknowledgements. I'm not sure what happens with multicast traffic. cheers, Ian _

Re: / partition full

2009-03-13 Thread Ian Smith
-depth=1 if you like extra typing, or are using linux :) cheers, Ian ___ 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: Speeding up exit(2)?

2009-03-15 Thread Ian Smith
need to be paged in to do various things, which may need to page out some more. What's amazing is that it can do that for several minutes, coming out unscathed when it finally quits! (extreme example, but a true story from a wild ebay session yesterday :) > > not exit(2) itsel

Re: make installworld fails on RELEASE6.4 amd64

2009-03-17 Thread Ian Smith
there's that 7 hour wait until those files become dated in the past, and so can be 'updated'. > Hence country ahead of UTC don't need adjkerntz -i Sorry, but this demonstrates exactly why you DO need to run that when (ever) working single user, if you want file/log datest

Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?

2009-03-21 Thread Ian Smith
plifiers, spend most on good antennae and cables, as short and fat as is practicable. You'll likely want short pigtails between the wireless card or bridge and the longer fat leads. cheers, Ian ___ 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: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?

2009-03-22 Thread Ian Smith
e Traffic Shaping section. http://bwmo.net/ Very timely for me anyway; I have to tackle some Debian boxes in coming weeks, doing a crash course in iptables re both firewall and shaping. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: mod_php5 and apache22

2009-03-24 Thread Ian Smith
APACHE_MODULE option on, as Mel points out. I wish someone who knows about ports building would just do that. Then you could again install apache+mod_php from packages, right from the dist CDs/DVD if desired. Ah, for the good old days when it wasn't assumed that everyone had both fa

most signals not being delivered to processes

2009-03-26 Thread Ian Rose
other important details: 1) The problem is not user-specific (other people are seeing the same thing) 2) The problem first appeared Friday (Mar 20) afternoon but it went away after another user re-installed the kernel. But now it returned today. 3) I checked stty -a and my key mapping

Re: most signals not being delivered to processes

2009-03-26 Thread Ian Rose
lding on to some old bad controlling terminal even though they daemonize themselves". I have to admit I don't completely understand it all (in part because anything involving 'controlling terminals' is usually a bit mystifying for me), but hopefully he's right... ch

Re: mod_php5 and apache22

2009-03-31 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Mel Flynn wrote: > On Wednesday 25 March 2009 05:36:26 Ian Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:46:16 +0100 Ruben de Groot wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 03:20:26PM +0100, Mel Flynn typed: > > > > On Tuesday 24 March 2009 15:

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