Recover Make ARG's from a ports Install

2007-03-12 Thread Alexander Schlichting
On a server I have a package installed using ports and now I have to install the package with exactly the same make arguments on another server. I just don't find a way to see what arguments where used to install it the first time. With Linux I would look into config.status is there something

Re: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive

2007-03-12 Thread Nejc Škoberne
Hi Paul, I am booting from a 512MB CF card, and run /var and /tmp from a RAM drive. Upon startup, the CF card /var and /tmp dir. are copied into the ram drives, the rest is Read Only. When it shuts down (not very often), the ram drive contents are copied back to the CF card. You could backup

Re: Vt102 at home

2007-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Like Mr Wojciech Puchar, I have a VT100 clone here at home... that I use for kernel debug on a 9600 com1 port... and it works soo good.. May be when you are 55 (or 64 as the beatles song)... you will use konsole and the boys will use some kind of brain cortex wired interface and some

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
default, window frames and titles removed, all screen available for ACTUAL USE. All easily attainable in E17. :) put a config for E17 for those interested. my .fvwm2rc, but it uses /etc/wm-menus/Fvwm-pl with program menu. you may write it yourself or use my menugen program. set with

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
of SPF (Sender Policy Framewokr) would immediately identify it as a spoof, and will be blocked. To learn more about this system, see http://www.openspf.org/ if the same machine is for sending and receiving mail simply putting IN TXT v=spf1 mx -all is OK and enough

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
web browser works best with your recommendation? evilwm on xorg with xfmail and opera and an .xinitrc of: evilwm exec xsetroot -cursor_name ul_angle exec xset m 19/5 12 b 90 880 12 exec swisswatch -geometry -0+0 the best watch using least space on screen is the one hanging on the wall :)

Box reboots when X.org goes fullscreen

2007-03-12 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I'm running FreeBSD 6.2/i386 with X.org 6.9.0 on a box with an MGA G450 card. As soon as I launch any app that tries to go fullscreen (e.g. dosbox), this box will reboot without displaying any message or leaving a crash dump. Any hint on how to start diagnosing this? bye Thanks

No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!

2007-03-12 Thread hxc
I am trying for several days now to get 3d acceleration working on FreebSD for my XFX 7800 GS. But nothing what I've tried worked :-( . Below is a collection of useful information I've gathered thus far. Who can help me? * # sysctl hw.nvidia.agp.status* hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled

Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!

2007-03-12 Thread Armin Pirkovitsch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying for several days now to get 3d acceleration working on FreebSD for my XFX 7800 GS. But nothing what I've tried worked :-( . Below is a collection of useful information I've gathered thus far. Who can help me? *# glxinfo | fgrep direct* Xlib: connection

Re: Box reboots when X.org goes fullscreen

2007-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
As soon as I launch any app that tries to go fullscreen (e.g. dosbox), this box will reboot without displaying any message or leaving a crash dump. Any hint on how to start diagnosing this? make debug kernel (makeoptions DEBUG=-g) and see in the crash

Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
reboots from kernel panics. Replacing the NIC solved it. It's possible, but I've tried 3 different 3c905C's between the two (top-most) slots I'm using for them, and they all have the same symptom, set up speed and half/full duplex manually and it should fix a problem. at least did for me

Re: Assemblers for FreBSD

2007-03-12 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Sunday 11 March 2007 18:52, Patrick Bowen wrote: If one wanted to learn Assembly Language Programming, would he be better served starting with as(1) or nasm(1)? as(1) is the assembler used in the building procedure, making it your logical choice for operating system programming. It uses the

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 12/03/07, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: web browser works best with your recommendation? evilwm on xorg with xfmail and opera and an .xinitrc of: evilwm exec xsetroot -cursor_name ul_angle exec xset m 19/5 12 b 90 880 12 exec swisswatch -geometry -0+0 the best watch

Problem with kdm

2007-03-12 Thread Leslie Jensen
Hi I have a little problem with kdm. When I try to sign on the screen reverts back to the login dialog after a few seconds. I can use xdm without any problems. The problem started when I switched my soundcard from an external soundblaster to the onboard Intel. I'm using the Intel HDA driver

Re: Howmany CPU Does FreeBSD Support ?

2007-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
for machines doing mostly fileserving and routing even 2 CPUs may be not well utilized That is only true if the process is giant locked. When look at dmesg, look for things that say GIANT-LOCKED and those will be ones confined to one processor. There has been a massive push since 5 to get ride

Re: The FreeBSD's Implementation Language

2007-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Sort of. Great parts of FreeBSD, in fact the vast majority of the source code, is written in C. But it is not *completely* written in C. groff is in C++ AFAIK, lots of shell or perl code to support compiling, some assembly, adaptec microcode assembler etc.

Re: Kill a hanged disk i/o process...

2007-03-12 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Friday 09 March 2007 23:52, Modulok wrote: How do I work-around a situation where cp, hangs forever? You can try several things: 1) mount read-only and try to copy the data. dd(1) might be a better choice than cp(1), read more bellow. 2) unmount and dump(8) the filesystem. 3) use

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
They're minimalistic and slick to use. If you should need to connect with a windows box there's Xming. Look in the archives! what is Xming? with grep -i xming /usr/ports/INDEX nothing found ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have used XFCE 3.* on all my free BSD boxes for years. It is a Simple GUI which I use on any Desktops I build. The video is clear and is simple. ( XFCE4* I did not like the concept.) Emails etc all work and install easily from ports. one of the best choices for those who want desktop. but

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:10:11 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have used XFCE 3.* on all my free BSD boxes for years. It is a Simple GUI which I use on any Desktops I build. The video is clear and is simple. ( XFCE4* I did not like the concept.) Emails etc all work

RE: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD

2007-03-12 Thread Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD
-Original Message- From: Aniruddha [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 March 2007 22:36 To: Vince Cc: Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help needed syncing Palm Treo 650 with FreeBSD Vince wrote: Aniruddha wrote: Vince wrote: for

Re: Problem with kdm

2007-03-12 Thread Christian Walther
On 12/03/07, Leslie Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have a little problem with kdm. When I try to sign on the screen reverts back to the login dialog after a few seconds. I can use xdm without any problems. The problem started when I switched my soundcard from an external soundblaster to

Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!

2007-03-12 Thread hxc
Running glxinfo as user works: $ glxinfo | fgrep direct direct rendering: Yes 3d acceleration still isn't working though :-( : $ sysctl hw.nvidia.agp.status hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled hw.nvidia.agp.status.driver: n/a (unused) hw.nvidia.agp.status.rate: n/a (disabled)

Re: Recover Make ARG's from a ports Install

2007-03-12 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Alexander, There's /var/db/ports/name of port for the result of make configure, if that is what you mean? Otherwise most ports should have their .conf and other settings in /usr/local/etc. Good luck! Alexander Schlichting skrev: On a server I have a package installed using ports

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
It is for someone who wants to work in that environment. exactly, but it would be handy to define what desktop is. could someone provide me a definition? is X server alone a desktop? i think no. is KDE a desktop? i think yes from what i heard. is XFCE a desktop? i think too. so is my X

Post DST changes

2007-03-12 Thread Mike Tancsa
I am seeing some inconsistent and strange results after the DST change this weekend. On all the boxes, it seems setup OK # zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2007 /etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 06:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000 /etc/localtime Sun Mar 11 07:00:00

-stable kernel and release 6.2 base system. Do they need to be in sync?

2007-03-12 Thread Sunnz
Hi, Just updated /usr/src to -stable (-rRELENG_6), and are now compiling the -stable kernel. Just wondering if I will need to rebuild the base system (world?) as well so they are in sync? Thanks. -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Wojciech, ...If you should need to connect with a Windows box...(to a FreeBSD machine running X). A part of Xming is a remote desktop client for Windows. You will find more information at - http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming. Good luck! Wojciech Puchar skrev: They're

Re: -stable kernel and release 6.2 base system. Do they need to be in sync?

2007-03-12 Thread Ivan Voras
Sunnz wrote: Hi, Just updated /usr/src to -stable (-rRELENG_6), and are now compiling the -stable kernel. Just wondering if I will need to rebuild the base system (world?) as well so they are in sync? Probably nothing bad will happen if you don't, but if you start getting weird errors

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:28:15 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is for someone who wants to work in that environment. exactly, but it would be handy to define what desktop is. could someone provide me a definition? is X server alone a desktop? i think no. is KDE

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread Eric Schuele
On 03/12/2007 03:01, Wojciech Puchar wrote: default, window frames and titles removed, all screen available for ACTUAL USE. All easily attainable in E17. :) put a config for E17 for those interested. Unfortunately the config files are now in a binary format. So to post them would be

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread Christian Walther
On 12/03/07, Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/12/2007 03:01, Wojciech Puchar wrote: default, window frames and titles removed, [...] However, it is certainly possible to have all windows borderless and full screen, each on their own desktop. You can navigate desktops with keybd

Re: -stable kernel and release 6.2 base system. Do they need to be in sync?

2007-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Just updated /usr/src to -stable (-rRELENG_6), and are now compiling the -stable kernel. Just wondering if I will need to rebuild the base system (world?) as well so they are in sync? tell me what base system do you have now. ___

Re: -stable kernel and release 6.2 base system. Do they need to be in sync?

2007-03-12 Thread Sunnz
6.2-Release. I only have updated the kernel so far. Probably will upgrade the base system soon, but at the same time I wanted to know if it should be something need to be done as quickly as possible. Thanks 2007/3/13, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just updated /usr/src to -stable

Re: -stable kernel and release 6.2 base system. Do they need to be in sync?

2007-03-12 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just updated /usr/src to -stable (-rRELENG_6), and are now compiling the -stable kernel. Just wondering if I will need to rebuild the base system (world?) as well so they are in sync? 99% of the time, the answer is yes. The real

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
the one i was looking for very long! as i don't have windoze anywhere close now could you tell me if: 1) this X server can use font server or Xorg format fontsets (.pcf.gz or .pcf) 2) does it work with xdm on server (just for sure, as naturally it should) 3) what keybinding will be blocked

Re: The Best OS

2007-03-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 10:03:38AM +0530, Susanth K wrote: Dear Friends, Am a beginner to *BSD OS. Am interested in setting up intel / AMD based Free and Open Source Server ( No GUI required ) Prime area is Webserver With PHP/MySQL Support and Ruby On Rails. + PostgreSQL Which os

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Check out this URL for starters: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html A desktop environment can mean anything ranging from a simple window manager to a complete suite of desktop applications, such as KDE or GNOME. can mean is very far from definition.

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
You should give it a try. Its very fast and very lightweight. faster than fvwm2. so i will :) my .fvwm2rc, but it uses /etc/wm-menus/Fvwm-pl with program menu. you may write it yourself or use my menugen program. set with assumption that it's 1024x768 screen WindowFont

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hm, sounds like installing ion3 would be an easier task. ion3 is the WM of my choice, and it does exactly (or nearly) what you describe, and some more. You can additionally set up different layouts i am always open for making my workplace more productive and easier to use. so i will have a try

Re: -stable kernel and release 6.2 base system. Do they need to be in sync?

2007-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
6.2-Release. I only have updated the kernel so far. my question was what version of base system you have in /bin, /sbin, /lib etc. now so i could answer if you HAVE to compile 6.2, should or don't need to, just put the kernel if your system binaries is 6.0 or later you don't need to

Fwd: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread Jeff Rollin
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 12-Mar-2007 12:56 Subject: Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots... To: Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 12/03/07, Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/12/2007 03:01, Wojciech Puchar wrote: default, window

Re: The FreeBSD7

2007-03-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 02:07:04PM +0530, Susanth K wrote: Wikipedia says, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebsd FreeBSD 7.0 is on Improved scheduler and locking scalability for 32+ CPU systems (prototyping) Does Any One know How Many CPU Does FreeBSD 6.2 Supports ? People on the

Old things do work.

2007-03-12 Thread Sergio Lenzi
As I said some emails ago I have a 200 machines all freebsd network that runs 24/7 with a mtbf of 15 years... how I got the numbers? well I have an issue every 3 or 4 weeks... (the machine hangs, stops, the power supply explodes) the machines are aways on... if you count 200

Re: -stable kernel and release 6.2 base system. Do they need to be in sync?

2007-03-12 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
Wojciech Puchar wrote: 6.2-Release. I only have updated the kernel so far. my question was what version of base system you have in /bin, /sbin, /lib etc. Check the Subject line :) Cheers, Karol -- Karol Kwiatkowski karol.kwiat at gmail dot com OpenPGP 0x06E09309 signature.asc

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:17:38 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check out this URL for starters: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html A desktop environment can mean anything ranging from a simple window manager to a complete suite of

Old things do work.

2007-03-12 Thread Sergio Lenzi
As I said some emails ago I have a 200 machines all freebsd network that runs 24/7 with a mtbf of 15 years... how I got the numbers? well I have an issue every 3 or 4 weeks... (the machine hangs, stops, the power supply explodes) the machines are aways on... if you count 200

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Wojciech, May I suggest that you redirect these questions to the Xming forum? The link to the forum is at - http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming. Wojciech Puchar skrev: the one i was looking for very long! as i don't have windoze anywhere close now could you tell me if: 1) this X

Re: Post DST changes

2007-03-12 Thread V.I.Victor
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Mike Tancsa wrote: I am seeing some inconsistent and strange results after the DST change this weekend. On all the boxes, it seems setup OK ... yet different behaviour. Any idea whats up ? This is the same thing I asked about yesterday (Daylight Savings Time --

Re: Manual updates

2007-03-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 08:12:54PM -, Andy Kendall wrote: As a newb to FreeBSD I find that the manual/handbook is not great in detail, (understatement), and I seem to be relying on this questions list for a lot of help. In my opinion it relies on far too high a plateau of knowledge by

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread Christian Walther
On 12/03/07, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm, sounds like installing ion3 would be an easier task. ion3 is the WM of my choice, and it does exactly (or nearly) what you describe, and some more. You can additionally set up different layouts i am always open for making my workplace

Your message to LogAnalysis awaits moderator approval

2007-03-12 Thread loganalysis-bounces
Your mail to 'LogAnalysis' with the subject Fwd: image.jpg Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. The reason it is being held: Post by non-member to a members-only list Either the message will get posted to the list, or you will receive notification of the

Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!

2007-03-12 Thread Martin Tournoij
hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled means that the nvidia AGP driver isn't working, not that 3d acceleration isn't working. If you want to use the nvidia agp driver, then you should compile a kernel without device agp. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html

nss_ldap and openldap on the same server.

2007-03-12 Thread Gerhard Schmidt
Hi, I have a small problem. On my central server we run an openldap server that contains the userdata for some systems. An the server uses this ldap server for authentication and nss. The problem is that when the server is booting slapd takes a very long time to start up. I think it's trying

Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!

2007-03-12 Thread hxc
Martin Tournoij wrote: hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled means that the nvidia AGP driver isn't working, not that 3d acceleration isn't working. If you want to use the nvidia agp driver, then you should compile a kernel without device agp.

rebuilding world

2007-03-12 Thread Michael P. Soulier
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html This document says that after the make installkernel, you reboot in single user mode, and then run mergemaster -p. This gives me errors about a read-only filesystem. Can't create /var/tmp/temproot. Do the instructions

Re: Your document

2007-03-12 Thread solanki
I would be out of the country on a business trip till March 23rd with a very limited access to my voice messages and emails. If you need any immediate attention, please feel free to call my colleague KP @ 609 799 3762 x27. Alternatively, you may also contact me through [EMAIL PROTECTED]. I

Re: -stable kernel and release 6.2 base system. Do they need to be in sync?

2007-03-12 Thread Sunnz
Lol. Yes, all I have done is installing FBSD6.2-Release from a CD, then rebuilt the kernel using 6-stable sources. 2007/3/13, Karol Kwiatkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Wojciech Puchar wrote: 6.2-Release. I only have updated the kernel so far. my question was what version of base system you have

diskonkey

2007-03-12 Thread Dima Sorkin
Hi. By what device name should I mount the flash memory disk (disk-on-key). On linux it was /dev/sdb0, what is it's name on FreeBSD ? Thanks, Dima. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
sorry for accidentally posting this publicly not just privately and polluting list Hello Wojciech, May I suggest that you redirect these questions to the Xming forum? The link to the forum is at - http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming. . . .

Re: diskonkey

2007-03-12 Thread Jeremy Gransden
On 3/12/07, Dima Sorkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. By what device name should I mount the flash memory disk (disk-on-key). On linux it was /dev/sdb0, what is it's name on FreeBSD ? Thanks, Dima. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: rebuilding world

2007-03-12 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html This document says that after the make installkernel, you reboot in single user mode, and then run mergemaster -p. This gives me errors about a read-only

Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!

2007-03-12 Thread Tore Lund
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Tournoij wrote: hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled means that the nvidia AGP driver isn't working, not that 3d acceleration isn't working. If you want to use the nvidia agp driver, then you should compile a kernel without device agp.

Re: Post DST changes

2007-03-12 Thread Chris Slothouber
Hi Mike, It appears that certain daemons don't read tzdata except at startup. I'm not using bind or sendmail in production but I did notice this on a few development servers... Probably related to the way time zone info is read by libc. Because really, how often does it change? :) - Chris

Re: diskonkey

2007-03-12 Thread Dima Sorkin
Hi. I see there ... umass0: SanDisk Corporation Cruzer Mini, rev 2.00/1.25, addr 3 ... which means that I should mount -o rw -t vfat /dev/umass0 MNT_POINT as root ? Thanks and regards, Dima. On 3/12/07, Jeremy Gransden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/12/07, Dima Sorkin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: diskonkey

2007-03-12 Thread Yuri Grebenkin
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:58:22 +0200 Dima Sorkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. By what device name should I mount the flash memory disk (disk-on-key). On linux it was /dev/sdb0, what is it's name on FreeBSD ? Thanks, Dima. Try this (just a hint): % mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /path/where

Re: diskonkey

2007-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
... umass0: SanDisk Corporation Cruzer Mini, rev 2.00/1.25, addr 3 ... which means that I should mount -o rw -t vfat /dev/umass0 MNT_POINT as root ? see farther so da0 (or 1,2,3) will show in logs if it doesn't you may have not compiled da and scbus then /dev/da0 will be the device and

Re: Manual updates

2007-03-12 Thread Paulette McGee
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/03/07, Paulette McGee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a newb to FreeBSD I find that the manual/handbook is not great in detail, (understatement), and I seem to be relying on this

Re: diskonkey

2007-03-12 Thread Dima Sorkin
Hi. Yes ! I see da0. Thanks for everybody meanwhile. (I should relogin as root, put myself in 'wheel' group, then I will check whether it works) Dima. On 3/12/07, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... umass0: SanDisk Corporation Cruzer Mini, rev 2.00/1.25, addr 3 ... which means

Anyone use KSH?

2007-03-12 Thread Sunnz
Just installed Release 6.2 on my workstation, and the first thing I did was installing (pd)ksh since I have been using it before... I found that a few things doesn't work, tab-completion, up/down arrow keys, ctrl-A ctrl-E to go to the beginning/end of a line. Does anyone uses ksh here who knows

Re: Tool for validating sender address as spam-fighting technique?

2007-03-12 Thread Marcelo Maraboli
John L wrote: I phrased it wrong. You are not responsible for the content, but you are responsible for the mail domain and that includes verifying that mail is validly from your domain you are responsible for. Oh, OK. So if someone sends pump and dump with a [EMAIL PROTECTED] return

Re: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive

2007-03-12 Thread Steve Franks
I noticed a project called NanoBSD in the freebsd handbook that is intended for exactly this purpose. I compiled installed it just fine on 6.1 release, but my hardware wouldn't boot a CF card, so I was unable to verify that it worked. Sounds like NanoBSD is to FreeBSD what m0n0wall is to

Re: FreeBSD on IDE Flash disk drive

2007-03-12 Thread Steve Franks
My bad. Says right on the m0n0wall homepage that it is based on FreeBSD, not Linuxyea for us! Steve On 3/9/07, Nejc Škoberne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I plan to install a FreeBSD 6.2 router/gateway/DHCP server on a EPIA box with 1GB Transcend IDE Flash drive. Since Transcend says

Re: Anyone use KSH?

2007-03-12 Thread Bill Campbell
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007, Sunnz wrote: Just installed Release 6.2 on my workstation, and the first thing I did was installing (pd)ksh since I have been using it before... I found that a few things doesn't work, tab-completion, up/down arrow keys, ctrl-A ctrl-E to go to the beginning/end of a line.

problem building php5-pcre

2007-03-12 Thread Christopher M. Hobbs
Anyone else have this particular error? I can't seem to get php5-pcre to build. /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/php_pcre.o /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c:102: warning: parameter has incomplete type

problem building php5-pcre

2007-03-12 Thread Christopher Hobbs
Anyone else have this particular error? I can't seem to get php5-pcre to build. /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/php_pcre.o /usr/ports/devel/php5-pcre/work/php-5.2.1/ext/pcre/php_pcre.c:102: warning: parameter has incomplete type

How to reinstall gcc

2007-03-12 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
I seem to have broken gcc on my 6.2-RELEASE p2 system. I apparently did this by adding CPUTYPE?=c3 to /etc/make.conf and then a make buildworld and make install world. Everything seems to be working fine (though I haven't tested throughly), but now gcc is definitely broken. Most compile

Re: getting mail to work

2007-03-12 Thread RW
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 17:27:52 -0800 jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you will allow me to break in on this exchange; Does this advise apply if you have static ip service The important thing is really your reverse DNS, if you have control of it and looks like a real server name, e.g.

Re: root login with telnetd

2007-03-12 Thread Chris Kottaridis
On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 22:52 +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: can it be set to make possible to login root to machine through telnet and without telneting to some user and then su - ? with sshd and rshd it can be set, with telnetd - no success. My reasons for this being a bad idea isn't so

Re: Stopping named: rndc failed, trying killall: .

2007-03-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 8, 2007, at 2:03 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: [ ... ] It would be nifty to make ndc/rndc smart enough to understand how to find the pidfile under the chroot location. rndc doesn't need to know where the pid is; it connects directly to named over the control port (953) to do its magic. Try

problem building php5-pcre

2007-03-12 Thread Robert Huff
Christopher Hobbs writes: Anyone else have this particular error? I can't seem to get php5-pcre to build. Built and installed just fine for me five minutes ago on FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Mon Jan 22 16:56:10 EST 2007 i386 Robert Huff

How Do I Find Find?

2007-03-12 Thread Drew Jenkins
I built a home server to prepare to build a new production server. Well, the latter is built out, but when I went back to the former, it said there was a problem with my last shutdown (which I don't remember) and went into single user mode. I went to run a find and it complained it couldn't

Re: problem building php5-pcre

2007-03-12 Thread Eric
Robert Huff wrote: Christopher Hobbs writes: Anyone else have this particular error? I can't seem to get php5-pcre to build. Built and installed just fine for me five minutes ago on FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Mon Jan 22 16:56:10 EST 2007 i386

firewall/proxy question

2007-03-12 Thread Bart Silverstrim
I am trying to find a way to stop some people on our network from accessing certain websites. We have been using Squid with SquidGuard on an older FreeBSD system. The Squid that was installed from ports doesn't seem to see https: connections. From what I can find, this appears to be

Re: Post DST changes

2007-03-12 Thread Bob Johnson
On 3/12/07, Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am seeing some inconsistent and strange results after the DST change this weekend. On all the boxes, it seems setup OK [...] yet mixed in notice the /kernel entry... Its an hour off !? if I restart syslogd, it corrects it for the kernel

Re: PHP 5.2.1 and the hard time with vbulletin 3.6.4 (solved)

2007-03-12 Thread Justin Meyer
Hi Abdullah! On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: On 2/27/07, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/26/07, Joe Auty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Have you recompiled all PHP extensions too? I believe

Re: diskonkey

2007-03-12 Thread Dima Sorkin
Hi. Thanks for resolving the case. diskonkey works fine. Dima. On 3/12/07, Wojciech Pucha wrote: ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Recover Make ARG's from a ports Install

2007-03-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 08:18:25AM +0100, Alexander Schlichting wrote: On a server I have a package installed using ports and now I have to install the package with exactly the same make arguments on another server. I just don't find a way to see what arguments where used to install it the

Re: Post DST changes

2007-03-12 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 02:00 PM 3/12/2007, Bob Johnson wrote: On 3/12/07, Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am seeing some inconsistent and strange results after the DST change this weekend. On all the boxes, it seems setup OK [...] yet mixed in notice the /kernel entry... Its an hour off !? if I restart

Re: limitiation on memory allocation

2007-03-12 Thread Dima Sorkin
Hi. I experimented with the values: 1) On my machine 'maxusers' doesn't influence the maximum memory allowable for allocation for single process. 2) 'maxdsiz' - Yes, as long as I keep 'maxdsiz + maxssiz' below physical memory size - everything is fine. Single process allocates

natd and jails for multipel IP addresses

2007-03-12 Thread Michael R. Wayne
I'm trying to add a second IP address to an existing jail using natd and I must be missing something. Setup: HOST_IP The host, attached to fxp0 JAIL_IP The existing, working jail 2ND_IP The IP address I'm trying to natd to the jail I've got ipfw rules to catch traffic

choosing window manager

2007-03-12 Thread Dima Sorkin
Hi. 1) How do I start KDE / FVWM2/ GNOME / TWM / Windowmaker ? ( I've choosed them during installation ) 2) Is there some nice welcome program, that allows to choose a session kind ? Dima. On FreeBSD 6.2 i386, startx-- starts TWM root gdm -- starts gnome desktop manager,

Re: limitiation on memory allocation

2007-03-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 12, 2007, at 11:20 AM, Dima Sorkin wrote: 2) 'maxdsiz' - Yes, as long as I keep 'maxdsiz + maxssiz' below physical memory size - everything is fine. Single process allocates successfully up to 'maxdsiz'. When tried to put 'maxdsiz' phys mem size, indeed

Re: How Do I Find Find?

2007-03-12 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Drew Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I built a home server to prepare to build a new production server. Well, the latter is built out, but when I went back to the former, it said there was a problem with my last shutdown (which I don't remember) and went into single user mode. I

Re: limitiation on memory allocation

2007-03-12 Thread Dima Sorkin
Hi. Something is probably wrong. kern.dfldsiz on my machine does not influence. I.e. after booting I run $ limits and it shows me the old 500M. Now, a point about 'maxdsiz'= 3.0-3.5G instead of 4G - this one I must check. I tried 3.9G :) Thanks, Dima. On 3/12/07, Chuck Swiger wrote: It is

Re: choosing window manager

2007-03-12 Thread Carsten Fuchs
1) How do I start KDE / FVWM2/ GNOME / TWM / Windowmaker ? ( I've choosed them during installation ) $ startkde or put something like this in your ~/.xinitrc: exec gnome-session or exec wmaker etc. and start x $ startx 2) Is there some nice welcome

Re: choosing window manager

2007-03-12 Thread Carsten Fuchs
I didn't read to the end... root gdm -- starts gnome desktop manager, which allows to start only GNOME (I was used that it allows to launch any WM, but in this case - only GNOME). How do I add new GDM sessions? http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q16 HTH, bye.

Re: limitiation on memory allocation

2007-03-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 12, 2007, at 12:02 PM, Dima Sorkin wrote: Something is probably wrong. kern.dfldsiz on my machine does not influence. I don't believe you can change that value after the system has booted-- you have to set it either in the kernel's config file, or in /boot/loader.conf, for this to

Re: How Do I Find Find?

2007-03-12 Thread Drew Jenkins
Yes, /usr is mounted. When I say rebuild, I mean I stuck the FBSD 6.2 CD erased the old installation and reinstalled. Drew3 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to Drew Jenkins : I built a home server to prepare to build a new production server. Well, the latter is built out, but

Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!

2007-03-12 Thread hxc
Tore Lund wrote: I believe it's enough to put this line into /boot/device.hints: hint.agp.0.disabled=1 Is this really true? Who can confirm this? I also wonder why glxgears in FreeBSD gives me 5000 fps, while in Linux gives me 13000. To get 5000 fps in Linux I need to disable 3d

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