Re: freebsd 7.1, building kernel

2009-03-09 Thread Michael Powell
gahn wrote: > > Hi, all: > > I am trying to build customized kernel with "device carp" and followed > kernel building procedure of the handbook. unfortunately it is failed: > > lab1# make buildkernel KERNCONF=lab1 > ERROR: Missing kernel configuration file(s) (lab1). > *** Error code 1 > > Sto

Re: Help required for configuring FreeBSD with DHCP

2009-03-10 Thread Michael Powell
manish jain wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have a dual boot system (FreeBSD 7.1 + Windows 2000). > > I am trying out FreeBSD for the first time with an ISP who runs a DHCP > server. Until the times of static addresses, everything was so simple in > FreeBSD. Now I am forced to ask for help because the

Re: PAE kernel problem on Dell PowerEdge 2950

2009-03-11 Thread Michael Powell
Olivier Nicole wrote: [snip] > > And I stick to RELENG, not STABLE, because I want to patch security > bugs, but I most probably does not need all the new bells and whistles > of STABLE: this is a production server, I prefer to modify the machine > as least as possible, unless it is expressely ne

Re: PAE kernel problem on Dell PowerEdge 2950

2009-03-11 Thread Michael Powell
Olivier Nicole wrote: > Hi, > >> > > why not simply use /amd64? >> > You mean he changes the CPU? >> All CPUs generally shipped from Dell anymore are 64bit capable. Do you >> have the original specs (take the service tag, go to dell support -> >> warranty -> >> original system config) and paste

Re: acroread error with libgobject-2.0.so.0

2009-03-11 Thread Michael Powell
David Banning wrote: > I have installed acroread8 with no errors, however on > execution I get the following error; > > /usr/local/Adobe/Reader8/ENU/Adobe/Reader8/Reader/intellinux/bin/acroread: > error while loading shared libraries: libgobject-2.0.so.0: cannot open > shared object file: No such

Re: acroread error with libgobject-2.0.so.0

2009-03-11 Thread Michael Powell
David Banning wrote: [snip] >> >> Please forgive if I seem a trifle dense, but how did you go about >> installing? If done using the ports system, as part of the process >> linux_compat and various linux-* ports should have installed as >> dependencies. Perhaps the install succeeded but left o

Re: Perl5 with threads?

2009-03-13 Thread Michael Powell
s0rk wrote: > Hello FreeBSD-Team, > > i got a question about the Perl version in 7.1 release. I needed > Perl 5.8.10 but this wasn't available, okay i only need the perl > threds but this isn't on in default. I set it in my ports dir in my > MAKEFILE on, but wasn't accepted. > > How can i use Pe

Re: Bizarre behaviour of Linux binary under 7.1

2009-03-14 Thread Michael Powell
Christopher Key wrote: > Hello, > > I recently upgraded from 6.3 (i386) to 7.1p3 (amd64) with a view to > experimenting with zfs. Mostly, everything went smoothly, but I am getting > some very odd behaviour from a linux utility. > > The program is very simple, it has two executables, A and B. A

Re: What Is Needed For SimpleXML Support in PHP?

2009-03-15 Thread Michael Powell
Bill Moran wrote: > Drew Tomlinson wrote: >> >> I have php5-5.2.9 installed on my FBSD 6.3 system. I am attempting to >> use a php script that fails with: >> >> Call to undefined function simplexml_load_string() >> >> Googling suggests that this function is part of the PHP software and is >> i

Re: Q: FreeBSD 7.1 stable boot failure

2009-03-26 Thread Michael Powell
John H. Nyhuis wrote: > Greetings, > > I just re-installed an old file server from stable 6.1 to 7.1 stable, > and I'm having a problem with my 3ware 7000-2 card. > > After sysinstall completes, and I try to boot from the SCSI HDD (not > connected to the 3ware) for the first time, the system

Re: installing freebsd on windows

2009-03-28 Thread Michael Powell
Harold Hartley wrote: > I am wondering if the freebsd team has ever thought of making freebsd to > install on windows like ubuntu does. Sorry - I am not quite certain what you mean by this. FreeBSD is an "operating system", just as Windows, Linux, Solaris, etc are different operating systems.

Re: keep-state and divert

2009-04-02 Thread Michael Powell
Victor Sudakov wrote: > Colleagues, > > I have read some recommendations on combining a stateful firewall with > divert, e.g. > http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD-Security/2003-06/0078.html > and http://nuclight.livejournal.com/124348.html (the latter is in > Russian). > > Do I under

Re: keep-state and divert

2009-04-02 Thread Michael Powell
Victor Sudakov wrote: [snip] > > I have looked at your ruleset. First you have: > > [dd] >> $fwcmd add divert natd ip from any to me in via ppp0 >> $fwcmd add divert natd ip from 10.10.0.0/8 to any out via ppp0 >> $fwcmd add check-state >> > > [dd] > > and only later you have your keep-state

Re: how to recover after power outage

2009-04-05 Thread Michael Powell
John Almberg wrote: > > On Apr 5, 2009, at 4:41 AM, Glen Barber wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 2:59 AM, John Almberg >> wrote: >>> Blast... my beautiful FreeBSD servers were rudely switched off >>> when my data >>> had a power outage a couple hours ago. They restored power about >>> 30 minu

Re: how to recover after power outage

2009-04-05 Thread Michael Powell
John Almberg wrote: [snip] > > Okay, so the machine is back online and I can log in again. > > The hardware is only 18 months old or so... good quality stuff, so > hopefully nothing is physically damaged. We'll see... > > Unfortunately, mysql isn't working at the moment... will make a > backup

Re: low-level format before install?

2009-04-07 Thread Michael Powell
John Almberg wrote: > Thanks for all the tips. At least I have something to start with. > > The guys in the data center reinstalled FreeBSD (the filesystem was > totally corrupted again), and then ran what they called "SMART test", > which might be smartctl, and said the hard drives look good. >

Re: Xorg and nvidia-driver-173 ABI

2009-04-09 Thread Michael Powell
RW wrote: > I picked-up the most recent xorg update a couple of days ago, and > since then X has been failing to start with the binary nvidia driver, > and is leaving the following in Xorg.0.log: > > (EE) NVIDIA(0): This video driver ABI is not supported. > (EE) NVIDIA(0): Use the -ignoreABI

Re: make in the port tree: where can I find documentation?

2009-04-12 Thread Michael Powell
sebovick wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a long time user of BSDs, and I don't find man pages or > documentation on the way I can master the port collection (specialy the > fonction of make). > I found this, interesting: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/ports-using.html, but some > interoga

Re: questions about Fatal Trap 12

2009-04-14 Thread Michael Powell
Steve Bertrand wrote: > Glen Barber wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Ray wrote: >>> I Just had the power supply die on this machine. Could a failing power >>> supply cause this type of issues? >> >> Absolutely. > > Seconded. Power supply issues have caused me this kind of grief more

Re: PDF Authoring tool, suggestions?

2009-04-17 Thread Michael Powell
Ltcddata wrote: > On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:22:08 +0100 > Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 07:26:39AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: >> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:50:44PM -0600, Modulok wrote: >> > > I'm looking for recommendations for a BSD-friendly, PDF authoring >> > > tool (

Re: Struggling to remove package.

2009-04-17 Thread Michael Powell
Brent Clark wrote: > Hiya > > I seem to be struggling with removing a perl bsdpan package. > > I tried: > > # pkg_delete bsdpan-IO-stringy-2.110 > > But I get > > pkg_delete: package 'bsdpan-IO-stringy-2.110' doesn't have a prefix > > I even went to ~/.cpan/build/IO-stringy-2.110-SFns8F/ and

Re: Upgrading from 6.3 to 7.1 -- how dangerous?

2009-04-19 Thread Michael Powell
John Almberg wrote: > I need to upgrade a live, production server from 6.3 to 7.1. I can't > afford to have any troubles with this server. I have Absolute FreeBSD > and a few other BSD books, and the upgrade process looks fairly > straightforward. That's the theory... > > Real world question: how

Re: NSS library

2009-04-19 Thread Michael Powell
Christopher Chambers wrote: > Hi, > > I was attempting to configure some software. Configure told me that: > missing required NSS library 'nss3' > > A search of my hard drive and the net came up dry. Who writes the > library and were can I download it? > > - > Regards, > Chris Chambers Take a

Re: Dump | Restore

2009-04-20 Thread Michael Powell
Tim Judd wrote: [snip] > Long story short, BTX is what brings the PC BIOS/CMOS code execution from > 16-bit real mode, to 32-bit protected mode. > > I've had repeated problems with name-brand PCs that result in a BTX > halted. Whiteboxes/custom builds tend to work the best (and IMHO, last the >

Re: Sudden /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libintl.so.8" not found, required by errors

2009-04-21 Thread Michael Powell
Agus wrote: [snip] >> What is the output of "ldconfig -r" ? >> >> > > Sorry for the delay.. was too busyy... > > No output... just this > > ldconfig -r > /var/run/ld-elf.so.hints: > search directories: > Sounds like the hints file is missing or damaged. These live here: /var/run/ld.so.hints

Re: French-Canadian Keyboard & keyboard switching

2009-04-28 Thread Michael Powell
PJ wrote: > I am rather surprised and disappointed that no one has any ideas about > using and/or installing a French-Canadian keyboard on FreeBSD. That is a > terrible bug in FreeBSD and a worse slur on the Québecois (or > Quebeckers) or are we being neglected and still considered "The White > Ni

Re: FreeBSD 7.2 released?

2009-05-03 Thread Michael Powell
Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: > Christer Solskogen wrote: >> How come http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080/ have the isos for 7.2-RELEASE >> while the announce have not? >> > > typicaly the images are uploaded first before the announcements are made. > > Then they give a day or two for all the mirror

Re: Changing NIC

2009-05-08 Thread Michael Powell
Jos Chrispijn wrote: > - FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE > > I am about the change the (working) nic of my FreeBSD server with a > gigabit one. > Logically I think it would be good to add the new nic first and test it > and if it is working, just remove the old one (or leave it without cable). > Is that the c

Re: Help creating bpf0 device (bpf won't do it for me)

2009-05-09 Thread Michael Powell
D C wrote: > Hello, > > I'm in the final stages of setting up a new wireless connection but have > been having problems getting bpf running. For some reason, even though > bpf has been compiled into a new kernel, the system won't automatically > create a > bpf0 device. On boot, the system compl

Re: Can I rebuild amd without rebuilding world?

2009-05-09 Thread Michael Powell
Paul Schmehl wrote: > I have a problem with amd. It's not working right, and I don't think I > can fix it without rebuilding it. [snip] > > I'd like to rebuild amd without having to rebuild world as well, although > I'll do that if I have to. > [...] I think you can just cd to /usr/src/sys/mod

Re: Can I rebuild amd without rebuilding world?

2009-05-09 Thread Michael Powell
Michael Powell wrote: > Paul Schmehl wrote: > >> I have a problem with amd. It's not working right, and I don't think I >> can fix it without rebuilding it. > [snip] >> >> I'd like to rebuild amd without having to rebuild worl

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Michael Powell
Saifi Khan wrote: > On Mon, 11 May 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > >> > >> > Putting out a monthly snapshot is nice and if the people are >> > going to not find info about 'Fixit#' and commands in the >> > legendary handbook, that is not very helpful. >> >> FreeBSD doesn't work this way, you are

Re: How to move vi to /bin

2009-05-13 Thread Michael Powell
Chris Rees wrote: >> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:51:46PM +0530, manish jain wrote: >>> I want to move vi to /bin so that I have an editor available in >>> single-user mode. This sounds simple (and should be if all you have is >>> a single partition), but there are problems. For starters, terminfo >

Re: How to move vi to /bin

2009-05-15 Thread Michael Powell
Manish Jain wrote: > Mel Flynn wrote: >> On Wednesday 13 May 2009 09:21:46 manish jain wrote: >> >>> I want to move vi to /bin so that I have an editor available in >>> single-user mode. [snip] > > From all the discussion I have walked through on the issue of where to > place vi, it does appear

Re: root user, graphical programs

2009-05-15 Thread Michael Powell
Pieter Donche wrote: > FreeBSD 7, KDE 3.5 > To install Matlab (in linux compat mode), one must execute the > matlab install program as root. The installer is graphical. > When from a KDE terminal window, I switch to root (# su -) > and try a graphical program, e.g. # xpdf, I get Can't open displa

Re: 7.2-PRERELEASE using RELENG_7?

2009-05-16 Thread Michael Powell
Gabe wrote: > > > I'm a bit confused as to why I have 7.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-PRERELEASE > #0: Fri Mar 20 02:16:04 PDT 2009 but yet my cvsup config was asking for > RELENG_7. Isn't the PRERELEASE tag supposed to be RELENG_7_2? > Now that 7.2 has actually been released the RELENG_7_2 tag wil

RE: php5 pcre

2009-05-16 Thread Michael Powell
Mark wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Mel Flynn [mailto:mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net] > Sent: zaterdag 16 mei 2009 11:59 > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Cc: Mark > Subject: Re: php5 pcre > > >> I thought I was the only one this had happened to. :) In my case I >

Re: 7.2-PRERELEASE using RELENG_7?

2009-05-16 Thread Michael Powell
Gabe wrote: > >> From: Michael Powell >> Subject: Re: 7.2-PRERELEASE using RELENG_7? >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Date: Saturday, May 16, 2009, 4:27 AM >> Gabe wrote: >> >> > >> > >> > I'm a bit confused as to

Re: P2B-D and ACPI or SMB anyone?

2009-05-21 Thread Michael Powell
Andre Albsmeier wrote: > Hi, > > found this old P2B-D board with two 1GHz CPUs and don't want > to throw it away ;-) > > Has anyone got it running with ACPI and without the interrupt > storm on irq20? Judging from old mailing list messages it was > blacklisted in 5.3 so ACPI got disabled but sin

Re: silly Q: any script running before make install /w ports ?

2009-05-24 Thread Michael Powell
Robert Joosten wrote: > Hi, > > I have a standard umask of 0077 on a box. > > I grabbed irssi from ports, but he doesn't connect to any irc server... > running it as root will. Now I suspect that umask setting of mine. Why not leave it at 022? > That leaves me with a silly question: is there

Re: why integer size says 4 bytes on 64 bit processor

2009-05-25 Thread Michael Powell
Shakil Khan wrote: > Hi All, > > Pardon me if I am writing this mail to the wrong group as I am too new to > BSD and programming stuff. You can redirect me to right group without > howling. By seeing some recent conversations(About the top status ;)) in > this group it made me nervous to ask for

Re: 7.2 Release kills my XP Dual Boot

2009-05-29 Thread Michael Powell
Kent Hauser wrote: > Sorry I was less than clear. > > I've been running XP + FreeBSD dual boot forever. After installing 7.2 > (rebuilding from source), the XP partition wouldn't boot. When I selected > "F1" at the boot menu, the system just hung. > > I booted from an old 6.2 install disk I had

Re: pfsync in GENERIC?

2009-05-29 Thread Michael Powell
Steven Schlansker wrote: [snip] > > Hm. I was actually under the impression that you wouldn't gain much > by compiling your own kernel (except for maybe some disk space). Is > that not the case? Is there a strong reason to compile your own > kernel for "production" machines? The discussion on

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p12 bind9 log files not found

2009-05-30 Thread Michael Powell
Prokofyev Vladislav wrote: > Hello, > > I have setup FreeBSD recently, can somebody help me with one interesting > thing - Bind9 slave DNS server, everything is works great, but I got a > problem with extended logging of xfer, etc. > Bind9 started in chroot: > > root 7880.0 0.1 3156

Re: k3b not detecting my burner

2008-06-25 Thread Michael Powell
Warren Liddell wrote: >> Also, see if you can see it from k3b running as root or not. If you can >> as root but not on a normal user, you'll have to give your normal user >> permission to access the burner's device. >> >> Dave // bridd > > k3b wont run as root > > > # k3b As a user a GUI app

Re: to scsi or not to scsi

2008-06-27 Thread Michael Powell
Jos Chrispijn wrote: >> prad wrote: >> i've heard scsi hard drives are really good. >> i've also seen at least one site which claims that ide easily >> outperform scsi. >> [snip] > Prad, > > Have a look at this URL: http://www.pugetsystems.com/articles.php?id=19 > While I found this interest

Re: to scsi or not to scsi

2008-06-27 Thread Michael Powell
Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> The concept that SATA subsystems will tend to consume more CPU cycles >> because SCSI controllers > > untrue. SATA disk consumes really small amount of CPU under FreeBSD. even > if it's less than on SCSI controller it is still very little. > Uh, maybe read the _ent

Re: Postfix logging some OTP related permission denied messages

2008-06-29 Thread Michael Powell
आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running 7.0-RELEASE-p2 (amd64). I'm running Postfix 2.5.1_2,1 mail > server instead of the default Sendmail which ships with base distribution. > > My mail server is working fine with no issues except that I noticed that > some messages in /var/log/m

Re: Too Much Context Switching? - FIXED

2008-07-01 Thread Michael Powell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > > I'll probably be upgrading to 7.0 in the next month or so, given that > this is obviously a thread issue and that that release has much > improved thread code. However, for the time being, the pressing issue > is fixed, and for anyone in my position stuck on 6.

Re: Why would it make such a difference to move mysqld to another machine?

2008-07-07 Thread Michael Powell
John Almberg wrote: > I asked a question the other day about using top on a multi-processor > machine. As a side note, I asked how mysqld could be consuming more > than 100% of CPU power... [snip] > Well, that mysqld reading should have been a warning to me. This > weekend, my webserver with abou

Re: Problem in checking machine architecture

2008-07-16 Thread Michael Powell
Eitan Shefi wrote: > I have a host with FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (64 bit) installed. > How do I check the host's architecture ? > > When I run: "uname -m" > the output is: "amd64" > > When I run: "sysctl -a | less" > and search for: "CPU" > I see that: > "hw.model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU5

Re: calcru went backwards on 7 stable

2008-07-24 Thread Michael Powell
Dimitar Vasilev wrote: > Hi, > I'm having calcru went backwards issues on a machine with the following > config: > > MB: MSI K8D Master-F > 2xOpteron 242 2.2Ghz > BIOS - от 2005-та > 7-stable > areca 1120 > 8 disks > HDD temperature 28-29 for 1st five, 38-39 for the last 3. > > bios is as of 20

Re: FreeBSD and ECC memory?

2008-07-25 Thread Michael Powell
Nejc Škoberne wrote: > Hello, > > I am buying hardware for a FreeBSD server and me and my friend argue about > whether or not to by ECC RAM for the server. It is a HP ProLiant ML110 G4 > machine and currently it has 2 x 512 HP DDR2 ECC memory. > > My friend says buying ECC memory is not wise, be

Re: FreeBSD and ECC memory?

2008-07-25 Thread Michael Powell
Michael Powell wrote: [snip] >> >> 1. So, what would you base your decision on? Is getting ECC worth losing >> 1GB of non-ECC memory? Oh - and the other criterion I forgot to mention. If the box in question is only being used by 1 or 2 people and can have downtime to fix de

Re: FreeBSD and ECC memory?

2008-07-25 Thread Michael Powell
Erik Trulsson wrote: [snip] > > No, non-ECC RAM cannot detect or correct any errors at all. (Old > parity-RAM could detect, but not correct, single-bit errors.) Actually quite true. The old parity bit functionality that was removed from RAM and then called "non-ECC" actually migrated to the memor

Re: New harddisk: "CANNOT READ BLK" Cause?

2008-07-30 Thread Michael Powell
Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: > I got a new harddisk for my laptop, attached it via firewire, used "dump > 0aLf - / | restore xf -" (from the FAQ), and swapped it with my internal > one. During that, I also migrated /var and /usr to separate bsdlabels. > > On reboot during fsck (ad0s1f), I got: >

Re: SCSI RAID on FreeBSD 7.0, where is the array?

2008-07-30 Thread Michael Powell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > > I am fighting the following hardware: > > MB: ASUS p5b-plus (NON vista edition) > Cpu: Core 2 duo 4600 > SCSI Card: Adaptec 39320 (Unused Dell OEM bought from ebay) > HDDs: 2xSeagate Cheetah 73.4 GB Ultra320 SCSI (posibly Dell OEM) > > Nb. The MB does n

Re: gemeral questions (noobish)

2008-08-02 Thread Michael Powell
mcassar wrote: [snip] > > I only tried csup on ports once and wasn't too sure i should since the > handbook or somewhere mentioned the ports tree should be empty the first > time you run it; and got the impression you should only use either or > (csup vs portsnap). I can only speak to cvsup or cs

Re: Remote host replies to SYN+FIN

2008-08-07 Thread Michael Powell
kalin m wrote: > > does anybody have any idea how to resolve this? > [snip] Not without a lot more information. But I may be able to fathom some wild guess, generically speaking. Only allow connections to set up like this: pass out quick on $ExtIF inet proto tcp all flags S/SA keep state pa

Re: Kernel compile R7.0 i386 GENERIC, fails

2008-08-11 Thread Michael Powell
Peter B wrote: [snip] > > In previous releases. It was possible to make at leas the generic kernel > compile out of the box. > As it still is. I just did a make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC on a 7-Release box and it built with no difficulty. -Mike

Re: RES: RES: Very Slow Samba

2008-08-15 Thread Michael Powell
Mauro Ribeiro - Class Consultoria e Assessoria wrote: > Hi Derek, > > I didn't have any Intel boards here for spare, but i Found a HP > PCI-Express 1x Giga Ethernet here. > > It's a broadcom chipset, I did replace the card but still with the same > problem. I also did a very deep research in goo

Re: Up_down~up

2008-08-15 Thread Michael Powell
Jos Chrispijn wrote: > Just saw this in my security log: > > +++ /tmp/security.CVzQ19kE2008-08-15 00:04:29.0 +0200 > +fxp0: link state changed to DOWN > +fxp0: link state changed to UP > +fxp0: link state changed to DOWN > +fxp0: link state changed to UP > +fxp0: link state changed to

Re: kde troubles....

2008-08-17 Thread Michael Powell
Gary Kline wrote: > AFter a power glitch last night I was able to relogin as room, but > # kdm > > fails with the error: "can't create /var/run/kdm.pid. Try deleting that file and reboot if you are starting kdm in ttys. If that by itself doesn't work there are a number of other files to clean

Re: kde troubles....

2008-08-17 Thread Michael Powell
Gary Kline wrote: [snip] > > the err message is gone, but KDE creates an /rmpty kdm.pid and > does nothing. This is not good. The file should contain a number. [snip] It would also be helpful to know how you are trying to run KDE. There are two ways, the first being to have a line like: tty

Re: Loss of Internet Contivity

2008-08-20 Thread Michael Powell
Warren Liddell wrote: > >>The attachment shows that DNS is unable to find the IP address. This >>appears to be a DNS resolver issue, not a network issue. Check >>/etc/ resolv.conf and make sure its correct. Then check the indicated DNS >>servers using dig. > > such a simple thing i didnit eve

Re: How to set TCP parameter?

2008-08-20 Thread Michael Powell
Patrick Mahan wrote: [snip] > > There is no TCP variable in the FreeBSD implementation to change this > (that I know of). There is this: net.inet.tcp.finwait2_timeout: 6 > I have seen this happen at times when there is a buggy NAT firewall > between you and the > server that causes the FIN

Re: PAE or 64bit?

2008-08-20 Thread Michael Powell
B. Cook wrote: > hey all, > > Looking for opinions.. > > We are going to be getting a server for drupal, running lighttpd and > php, as well as exim and SA with clamav, courier or dovecot, mysql > 51.. etc. > > Right now this setup does about 200G per month (we have two boxes) and > were lookin

Re: turn on beastie beside the 'Welcome to FreeBSD' boot options menu

2008-08-22 Thread Michael Powell
enom-FBSD1 wrote: > Is there a way to reactivate the black and white beastie which used to > display to the right of the 'Welcome to FreeBSD' boot options menu? > Look at /boot/defaults/loader.conf for the following: #beastie_disable="NO" # Turn the beastie boot menu on and off #loa

Re: turn on beastie beside the 'Welcome to FreeBSD' boot optionsmenu

2008-08-22 Thread Michael Powell
Oliver Fromme wrote: [snip] > > Its good to see my old friend back where he belongs > > How would you like this one? > > http://www.secnetix.de/olli/FreeBSD/vloader/screenshot5.png > > (It's work in progress. See the latest FreeBSD Quarterly > Status Report.) > > Best regards >Ol

Re: defrag

2008-08-27 Thread Michael Powell
prad wrote: > something that has puzzled me for years (but i've never got around to > asking) is how does *nix get away without regular defrag as with > windoze. > > fsck is equivalent to scandisk, right? > > so when you delete files and start getting 'holes', how does *nix deal > with it? > T

Re: IPFW: Is keep/check-state inherent?

2008-08-30 Thread Michael Powell
Steve Bertrand wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I can't recall for certain, but not so long ago, I either read or heard > about IPFW having implicit keep-state and check-state. > > Is it true that I can now omit these keywords in my rulesets? > Haven't used IPFW in years so I do not know about IPFW.

RE: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE getting terrible throughput using sk0 adapter

2008-08-31 Thread Michael Powell
David Polak wrote: [snip] >> >> try setting up speed and duplex options manually > > I have set the duplex to full-duplex and it has increased the speed to > about 200kb/s on the same file. > > As far as phy support, I guess I really don't know, but the drivers for > the chipset have been aroun

Re: Question on bind page

2008-09-02 Thread Michael Powell
Richard Yang wrote: > Dear support, > > I am trying to follow through > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/network-dns.html as to setup > a dns server > When I try > /etc/rc.d/named forcestart > it always said > Starting named > > When I use ps to check whether it actually started, I c

Re: [6.3/Apache22] Right way to compile worker MPM?

2008-09-03 Thread Michael Powell
Gilles wrote: > Hello > > I'm trying to compile the latest ports of Apache22 with support for > the worker MPM so that each child process spawns thread. I'd like to > see if performance improves compared to the prefork model. > > Although I checked the "THREADS/Enable threads support in APR" ite

Re: Segmentation fault & Apache-2.2.9

2008-09-03 Thread Michael Powell
Gerard wrote: > I continue to see varying amounts of chatter in the 'httpd-error.log' > file. This is a snipped of what is being written to the file. > > > ** > > [Wed Sep 03 06:59:31 2008] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest > [authenti

Re: [6.3] Upgrading PHP5?

2008-09-04 Thread Michael Powell
Gilles wrote: > Hello > > I successfully upgraded the Ports collection with csup and then > compiled Apache2, but I don't know what to do about PHP5, as it has > several Ports available: > > php5-5.2.6 < needs updating (port has > 5.2.6_1) This is the main PHP section.

RE: Can't start MySQL 5.0.67

2008-09-08 Thread Michael Powell
Joe Tseng wrote: > Yeah that was it... The chown -R mysql:mysql /var/db/mysql was what did > it... Thx to all for the help. > > - Joe > [snip] Look in /usr/local/share/mysql for my.cnf examples you can use for tuning your install. One thing that bit me once was the location of the my.cnf cha

Re: Problems with portsdb -Uu on FreeBSD 6.3

2008-09-08 Thread Michael Powell
perikillo wrote: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/portsnap.html > > I supposes that "portsnap extract" have to run just once, latter u have > to > just run portsnap fetch && portsnap update? > > Sean, u say that I better mix cvsup + portsnap? > > This is normal? This woul

Re: Apache web server being attacked

2010-05-18 Thread Michael Powell
Aiza wrote: > I put apache13 in a jail and left inbound port 80 open in my firewall. > There is no domain name pointing to my web server. The content there is > a small apache web application that fools web > email address harvest programs into harvesting bogus email address from > web page. http

re: building apr1 fails

2010-05-18 Thread Michael Powell
DA Forsyth wrote: [snip] >> I just updated Apache to 2.2.15_5 yesterday and it builds fine when >> the above mentioned option is turned off. It was actually the day before yesterday, when it was still 2.2.15_5. > Yes indeed, I upgraded the main server yesterday and it built fine > except for h

Re: Interpretting 3Ware error messages

2010-05-18 Thread Michael Powell
Matthew Seaman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 18/05/2010 15:43:25, Doug Poland wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have a 7.2-R i386 system running a 3ware 9500S-4LP SATA 150 >> controller with 4 SATA drives. I recently starting seeing the >> following in my logs >> >

Re: [#24506597] apache 2.2.15_7 upgrade fails

2010-05-19 Thread Michael Powell
dedica...@midphase.com wrote: > > Hi, > > Let us know the server IP in question, along with the root login details > so we could check further. And, of course, since this content is currently being mirrored on the public mailing list freebsd-questions it will be publicly available. While most

Re: Is the freeBSD mailing list using an automated ticket system?

2010-05-20 Thread Michael Powell
James Phillips wrote: > Sorry about the blank post (hit enter by mistake): I feel I may have > received a phishing e-mail. This may explain why somebody pasted their > root password on the mailing list over the last few days: > [snip] The answer is no. Some script kiddie thought it might be fun

Re: Upgrading default Apache1.3 to Apache22 port??

2010-05-29 Thread Michael Powell
Kaya Saman wrote: [snip] > > It seems to have worked I just go into the config and check it; only > that part seems missing?? Maybe it's in a different place then /etc in > FreeBSD and I haven't worked it out yet. Even apache22 daemon is not in > /etc/rc.d. > > Oh well am sure will all be fi

Re: I can't install php5-mhash from ports

2010-05-30 Thread Michael Powell
Yavuz Maşlak wrote: > I use freebsd7.3 . I ran portsnap update . > > I can't install php5-mhash from ports > cd /usr/ports/security/php5-mhash > # make > ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found > ===> License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE > ===> Extracting for php5

Re: what would take to allow binary upgrade to amd64?

2010-05-30 Thread Michael Powell
Rob Farmer wrote: > On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Eitan Adler > wrote: >> I know that attempting to change from i386 to amd64 is is not possible > > The proper procedure for such an upgrade is as follows: > > 1) download and burn the relevant amd64 iso > 2) update your backups > 3) reformat

Re: Network sort of stops working with the em (intel) driver under load.

2010-05-31 Thread Michael Powell
mark rowlands wrote: > Newly built and cvsupped system,with GENERIC kernel, when copying > large amounts of data over a gigabit link via scp the network will > hang after a couple of gig. I can then no longer login via ssh. If I > leave it be, after about 12-24 hours I can then login again. (A

Re: bash instead of csh (completely)

2010-06-04 Thread Michael Powell
Stefan Miklosovic wrote: > Hi list, > > title says it, i would like completely remove csh and install bash > instead. As far I know, csh is build in system, could I remove it > manually and install bash (of course, in reverse order :D) > > Are there such dependencies on csh? I know that real sys

Re: SATA time outs

2010-06-15 Thread Michael Powell
Casey Scott wrote: > Since upgrading to 8.0 RELEASE, I continually get these errors: > > ... > Jun 11 15:24:08 kernel: ad6: 953869MB at > ata3-master SATA150 Jun 11 15:24:08 kernel: (probe6:ahc0:0:6:0): TEST > UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0 Jun 11 15:24:08 kernel: > (probe6:ahc0:0:6

Re: SATA time outs

2010-06-15 Thread Michael Powell
Michael Powell wrote: [snip] > > As far as the ATA driver code, if you have recently changed from 7.x to > 8.x that might be worth considering. If there has been a regression I'm > sure a PR would be in order. Just a few random thoughts off the top of my > head. But me, the f

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-06-17 Thread Michael Powell
RW wrote: [snip] > > As I understand it, originally Ogg Theora was going to be the standard, > but it's now been left open instead due to uncertainty about Theora > infringing patents. Some sites are using Theora, but most seem to be > going with h.264. I presume that this is due to IE support for

Re: Page fault in swapper on boot

2010-06-28 Thread Michael Powell
Richard Kolkovich wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 02:16:42PM -0500, Richard Kolkovich wrote: >> I rebooted today to recover a couple devices which were in use by zombie >> processes. Now, I'm met with the same page fault documented in this >> previous message: >> >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pip

Re: 8.1-RELEASE ia64

2010-07-26 Thread Michael Powell
Samuel Martín Moro wrote: > Hi > > I would like to install FreeBSD-8.1 ia64, so I downloaded > FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-ia64-disc1.iso. > > When I boot from a burnt CD, the screen keeps black, with the > blinkingunderscore, > nothing else happend. > When I make an USB bootable stick, I've got a messa

Re: 1 file system, 2 drives?

2010-07-27 Thread Michael Powell
krad wrote: [snip] >> >> If you have hardware controller with RAID capabilities, using native RAID >> is better, otherwise look towards gvinum or maybe ccd; see also: >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/raid.html >> [snip] > > I dont agree that hardware raid is necessarily better.

Re: Samba PDC roaming profiles problem

2010-08-02 Thread Michael Powell
Alex de Kruijff wrote: > Hi, > > I've setup a LDAP backend Samba PDC. I can gain access to shares and > > login with a user that is in LDAP, but have a prblem setting up the > roaming profile stuff. I've been trying to solve this problem for some > time now, and have tried everything I could thi

Re: mounting UFS CD-ROMs

2010-08-03 Thread Michael Powell
Noah Pratt wrote: > Hi, > > I have a whole bunch of UFS CD-ROMs, but I'm unable to mount them on > my FreeBSD 8 system. > I thought it would be possible. From the FAQ: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/disks.html > > UFS CD-ROMs can be mounted directly on FreeBSD. Mounting disk > par

Re: looking for a buildable version of OpenOffice.org

2010-08-04 Thread Michael Powell
Scott Bennett wrote: > I have tried all of the versions of OpenOffice.org that are currently > in the ports tree on a 7.3-STABLE system, and all of them fail to build to > completion. Is there somewhere that I can find one that actually works? > Or at least some alternative package that will

Re: helping

2010-08-08 Thread Michael Powell
Kamil Nowacki wrote: > installed FreeBSD on VirtualPC but I have a problem with configuring > Internet dhpc normally gets the ip address and the address of the router > but when I introduce portsnap fetch HQ to download files I do not want to > download by failed and when I go back to the configur

Re: firefox install problem

2010-08-10 Thread Michael Powell
Fred Boatwright wrote: > Hello Steve, > > I have not had any luck installing the package manually. The file is a > tar.gz which pkg_add apparently can't handle. I did download > firefox.tar.gz and unpacked it. Pkg_info says it is corrupt. Changes > were apparently made to this package about t

RE: ZFS woes

2010-08-10 Thread Michael Powell
Graeme Dargie wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Dick Hoogendijk [mailto:d...@nagual.nl] > Sent: 10 August 2010 21:10 > To: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: ZFS woes > > FreeBSD-8.1/amd64 -> I spend all evening trying to create a ZFS mirror > > on my two 1Tb sata2 drives formerly used und

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