Re: FreeBSD 7, DragonFly's status

2008-02-27 Thread Adrian Michael Nida
Quoting Dmitri Nikulin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi everyone, I've been busy so I haven't said anything here in a long time, but reading about FreeBSD 7 has raised some thoughts. Same here. From one old busy quiet guy to another, welcome back. I look forward to being told I'm completely wrong

RE: Disklabel Question

2007-08-16 Thread Adrian Michael Nida
Nida : Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 19:54 : To: users@crater.dragonflybsd.org : Subject: Re: Disklabel Question : : Quoting Simon 'corecode' Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: : : > disklabel -w ad4s0 auto # to initialize : > disklabel -e ad4s0 # to setup : :

Re: Disklabel Question

2007-08-14 Thread Adrian Michael Nida
Quoting Simon 'corecode' Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: disklabel -w ad4s0 auto # to initialize disklabel -e ad4s0 # to setup We're getting closer! leviathan# disklabel -w ad4s0 auto cylinders/unit 0 leviathan# disklabel -e ad4s0 disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO32: label magic number

Disklabel Question

2007-08-13 Thread Adrian Michael Nida
Hey, I'm trying to configure vinum to create a RAID 5 array out of the 5x500GB drives that I have. In order to do this, I have to use disklabel to mark each drive with a "vinum" file system. These are new drives and each has been `fdisk -I`ed. They show up as ad4, ad6, ad8, ad10, and ad12 on my

RE: Troubles with mysql-server installation

2007-08-10 Thread Adrian Michael Nida
Sdav, This is just a thought. I noticed that /usr/pkg/libexec/mysqld is looking for ./mysql/host.frm. However, it's located in /var/mysql/host.frm. I'm wondering if you were to move that file (or link it) to /usr/pkg/libexec/mysqld/mysql/host.frm would it work better. Good luck, Adrian : ---

Job Opening

2007-07-26 Thread Adrian Michael Nida
All, The department that I work for within MUSC is looking for another IT person. While it is not DragonFly specific (MUSC has a fascination with red hats), I know there is a lot of talent on this list that could complement the work I do greatly. If you, or someone you know, would be interested i

RE: wiki log of #dragonfly irc channel

2007-03-05 Thread Adrian Michael Nida
Wow, this is getting wild o_O. I never thought a simple bot would cause such chatter. I created this bot the way it is (recording everything for historical purposes) because: 1) I thought that historical archives were what people wanted. 2) It was the easiest way I knew how to accomplish assum

RE: wiki log of #dragonfly irc channel

2007-03-05 Thread Adrian Michael Nida
: I recommend using Twisted Python as a framework, which gives you an : IRC protocol client out of the box, good efficiency, and very neat : daemon behavior (using twistd, for instance). I will take your suggestion about Twisted and look into a rewrite. Thanks for pointing it out. : It's not b

RE: wiki log of #dragonfly irc channel

2007-03-05 Thread Adrian Michael Nida
: I'm guessing you're serious, so I'll mention why this is a risky idea. : IRC has chewing-gum authentication and it's almost trivial for a : malicious bot to fool a server into ignoring people by pretending to : be them, and this can be done in many points*. Basically, the entire : utility of the

RE: wiki log of #dragonfly irc channel

2007-03-02 Thread Adrian Michael Nida
: On Sun, February 25, 2007 8:28 am, Ja'far Railton wrote: : > Hi : > : > I was very interested in the above but it seems to have been : > withdrawn from service. Is this a temporary disruption : > or not? Being on dialup it is not feasible for me to lurk : > live. : : It was coming from Andre

Re: Digg This (was Re: DRAGONFLY-1.8.0 RELEASED!)

2007-01-30 Thread nida
Quoting Trevor Kendall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: And also kill Matt's connection. It's no longer called the Slashdot effect, it is now the Digg effect. Come on now, it would be an excellent test of how DragonFly handles it :-) Adrian

Digg This (was Re: DRAGONFLY-1.8.0 RELEASED!)

2007-01-30 Thread nida
Somebody else beat me to the post, but if we could digg this up to the front page, it would go a long way to get more exposure. http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/DragonFly_BSD_1_8_0_Released Adrian

Re: bsdstats.org

2006-09-11 Thread Adrian Michael Nida
On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 14:31 -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > The idea is to track how many machines are actively running *BSD. > If all we know is that you installed *BSD last month, then we have > no idea if you're still running it this month. Ahhh. I knew I was missing something. Thanks, A

Re: bsdstats.org

2006-09-11 Thread Adrian Michael Nida
> FreeBSD once had an "installation counter" many years ago > (it's long dead and gone), which worked exactly like that, > i.e. after finishing the actual installation, sysinstall > asked whether it should be reported. If you said "yes", an > e-mail was sent to some pseudo account. > This is the

Re: Postgresql HOWTO?

2006-09-08 Thread nida
issions, learn how to set permissions in pgsql. After you create the super user you can add any other accounts with the createuser command with your regular root account and you DONT need to su - pgsql anymore. Petr Adrian M. Nida wrote: All, Today I got some time to actually work on some DF rela

Postgresql HOWTO?

2006-09-08 Thread Adrian M. Nida
All, Today I got some time to actually work on some DF related things at home. I wanted to install Gallery [0] so I could share some pics to family members (the other reason was that my DF box ran Gallery back in the pre-1.2 days). Happily, I found Gallery isn't in pkgsrc. The source install

Re: pkg_add -r ? pkgsrc ? Howto install packages ??

2006-07-04 Thread Adrian Michael Nida
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 14:33 +0200, Heinrich Rebehn wrote: > http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~justin/handbook/packages-using.html > > suggests using pkg_add -r. Heinrich, I apologize for your confusion. That version of the handbook reflects antiquated versions of our application framework. I hav

Re: Replacing Sendmail with Postfix in the base system

2006-06-14 Thread Adrian Michael Nida
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 16:06 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Seeing that sendmail is old,archaic, not-as-secure and difficult we should > start moving to a better alternative such as Postfix. If anyone has > something against it, raise your hands. Otherwise I'll start trying to do > it. > > Petr

Re: pkgsrc bind9 still trying to run base bind

2006-04-24 Thread Adrian Michael Nida
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 18:45 +0100, Mark Cullen wrote: > I'm probably missing something really obvious here but I can't figure it > out. > > I installed bind9 from pkgsrc, copied the rc script to /usr/pkg/etc/rc.d > and added: > > named="NO" > named9="YES" > > to /etc/rc.conf. However, when I r

Re: DragonFly MBR

2006-03-09 Thread Adrian Michael Nida
> At the moment it just shows fat/ntfs as being "Windows" - since > there's likely very few people booting DOS on Fat in comparison. > But I guess we'd need a vote on what file systems should say what :) I would suggest that FAT come out saying "DOS/Win9x" and NTFS say "WinNT +". My reason for

Re: New [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

2006-02-24 Thread Adrian Michael Nida
> 1. If it is a build problem, take a look at the results from the last > bulk build. Uhow? Is there a URL somewhere? A mailing list? I want specifics :-) Thanks, Adrian

New Atheros Patch

2006-02-20 Thread nida
With Cross-post apologigies... Based on feedback from others, I have iterated another Atheros patch. This one includes all the files that need to be added to the source tree to make this work :-O (including all the rates), and corrects a small typo in one of the Makefiles. You can obtain the lat

Re: "UNIX" (was: (u)ral driver)

2006-02-16 Thread Adrian Michael Nida
> > It is spelled "UNIX", with all uppercase letters, and it is > not possible to form a plural like "UNIX's". Very small grammar nit to pick. You can't form plurals by adding 's (unless it's a number, symbol, etc.). The apostrophe is used to denote possession not plurality. I'll spare the r

Re: Wireless network cards

2006-02-03 Thread Adrian Michael Nida
On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 10:45 -0500, Adrian Michael Nida wrote: > > > The best supported wireless chip today is atheros. To be hones I am not > > sure how well it works on dragonflybsd but on the other hand I cannot > > recall any problem reports on the list. > > >

Re: Wireless network cards

2006-02-01 Thread Adrian Michael Nida
> The best supported wireless chip today is atheros. To be hones I am not > sure how well it works on dragonflybsd but on the other hand I cannot > recall any problem reports on the list. Andrew Artens posted a patch that got Atheros + WEP working on a 1.2 release several months ago. I was conv

Re: 1.4.0 release binaries available

2006-01-23 Thread Adrian Michael Nida
Whooo-Hooo!!! Thanks man, really. Adrian On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 14:17 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > the bulk builds for 1.4 took a while longer, mostly because some pieces > of the infrastructure and some important packages kept changing. > The warning about OS version mismatch is s

Re: where is my randomness?

2006-01-22 Thread nida
and why is openssl happy with this in the first place? openssh/openssl shouldn't even get to produce a private/public key pair without randomness? Does this mean all DragonFly hosts have the same private/public key? Adrian

Re: apache2/mod_php combination in pkgsrc

2006-01-18 Thread Adrian Michael Nida
On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 14:31 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Damn ... trying to keep my usenet identities seperated ... Heh, no worries. > The netbsd pkgsrc repository > (ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/) > defines ap-php as an apache 1.3 package thusly - "ap-php-4.4.1nb3: Apac

Re: apache2/mod_php combination in pkgsrc

2006-01-18 Thread Adrian Michael Nida
Joe, Look for /usr/pkgsrc/www/ap-php. That's the pkgsrc equivalent of mod_php. Also your desired version of apache is located at /usr/pkgsrc/www/apache2. Good luck, Adrian On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 13:23 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Morning, > > > I can't seem to find a pkgsrc combination

Re: Mail Woes

2006-01-16 Thread nida
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2) Postfix, TLS, SASL, and saslauthd. I'm not sure who's to blame for this, so I'll line them all up. When trying to send mail, I get the following logged to /var/log/messages: postfix/smtpd[PID]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms With the help of build

Mail Woes

2006-01-16 Thread nida
Hey all, This weekend, I tried to recreate the following HOWTO to reflect the new release and its pkgsrc infrastructure. http://wiki.dragonflybsd.org/index.php/Set_up_an_email_server However, I'm running into issues that neither I nor Google can resolve. I am hoping others on this list can help

Re: DragonFly 1.4 released!

2006-01-09 Thread Adrian Michael Nida
On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 11:09 -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > 1.4 has been released! Check out our main site, the information is > all there now: > > http://www.dragonflybsd.org/ > http://www.dragonflybsd.org/main/release1_4.cgi > > -Matt >

Re: Opera 8.02 build 1272 works

2005-08-05 Thread Adrian Nida
Bob Bagwill wrote: FYI, I downloaded the FreeBSD version of Opera from Opera, replaced all occurrences of OpenBSD with DragonFly in install.sh, ran it, and it works. There was one complaint about plugins. Cool! The complaint you get about the plugins is due to the fact the Opera FreeBSD build