Re: some thoughts about gmirror

2007-04-07 Thread R. B. Riddick
--- Mike Wolman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It could also be used for asynchronous mirrors over slow links, if the log device was always written to first then the write latency for long distant links could be removed. Im not sure if it would be possible to achieve this using just a modified

Re: Problem with portupgrade

2007-04-07 Thread Andriy Babiy
On April 6, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: deimos# portupgrade -PR libmpeg2 [Updating the portsdb format:bdb_btree in /usr/ports ... - 16851 port entries found {lines cut} . done] [missing key: categories: Cannot read the portsdb! database file error {following some ruby errors

Re: lpd refuses to print from a machine with a DHCP assigned IP address...

2007-04-07 Thread Amarendra Godbole
On 4/6/07, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't say if your DHCP IP is a private LAN IP or a public IP. Oops...my mistake. It is a private LAN IP, and not a public IP. And since the box is a laptop, I cannot really have a static IP assigned to it (though I am allowed to), as I keep

Re: some thoughts about gmirror

2007-04-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
R. B. Riddick wrote: Sounds like rsync can already do that (I am not sure right now, if rsync can find updated areas within a large file, or if it just copies the while updated file even if it is a large one)... rsync will find an updated area within a big file. The algorithm is to divide

Re: some thoughts about gmirror

2007-04-07 Thread Mike Wolman
Rsync is a great tool however if you try to rsync a filesystem with hundreds of thousand files in it the file list can use quite a large amount of bandwidth even if only a single file has changed - if you were keeping track of the blocks which had changed then you do not need to generate this

hardware problems?..how to disable geom?

2007-04-07 Thread Dino Vliet
Hi folks, I have sinned:-( I have (for testing purposes) activated geom for mirroring on my freebsd 6.2 via c3 cpu system. However, I used two different brand IDE harddisks but identical in capacity. I have: ad0: 76319MB MAXTOR STM3802110A 3.AAK at ata0-master UDMA100 ad3: 76319MB Seagate

Re: some thoughts about gmirror

2007-04-07 Thread Jim Rees
Mike Wolman wrote: if you were keeping track of the blocks which had changed then you do not need to generate this list and simply send over the changed blocks. Unison keeps a list of files at each end and only exchanges block lists for files that have changed. I use it to sync 40GB (10K

RE: Receiver (To/CC envelope fields) addresses verification against LDAP/Active Directory in sendmail

2007-04-07 Thread Christopher Martin
-Original Message- From: Mikhail Goriachev [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 7 April 2007 3:23 PM You could use /usr/ports/mail/mimedefang (www.mimedefang.org) miltered into your sendmail. Sorta like py-milter but in perl. The simplest, quickest and dirtiest solution

RE: Receiver (To/CC envelope fields) addresses verification against LDAP/Active Directory in sendmail

2007-04-07 Thread Christopher Martin
-Original Message- From: Chuck Swiger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 7 April 2007 12:44 AM You don't seem to mention using greylisting-- that will return a 4xx temp failure for all initial connections (except from sites which have been whitelisted). Only if the sender

Re: Fontconfig question... .

2007-04-07 Thread B H
Gary Kline skrev: When I fire up mozilla, firefox, OO-2.1.0, and whatever else, I'll see this to stdout: pe 16:37 tao [5433] mozilla Fontconfig warning: no cachedir elements found. Check configuration. Fontconfig warning: adding

Re: Jail is pausing . . Ideas please. . ?

2007-04-07 Thread Bill Moran
Troy Kocher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Listers, Currently I am having some strange issues with regard to a jail pausing, hoping someone here might have some ideas. . Here is my Usenet post. . : I am running FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE (SMP), and the the system seems to be pausing. System

Re: regular portsdb maintanence

2007-04-07 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 28/03/07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I am not sure you would want to do that, as if it were to overlap with a normal portupgrade the results may be interesting. Yes, it's become plain to me that the pkgdb -L is working off of metadata that was updated with the last cvsup, and not the packages

Re: the art of pkgdb -F

2007-04-07 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 28/03/07 Robert Huff said: But I bet I'm not the only one who, once upon a time, happened to try portupgrade -arR or equivalent after forgetting to read UPDATING and ended up with more to do than I originally thought. Might as well paint PLEASE KICK ME! and an arrow pointing

Re: creating device node?

2007-04-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 01:15 PM 4/6/2007, Franz Wegwerf wrote: A program wants to have access to /dev/tap3 which doesn't exist on my machine. I'm a newbie to FreeBSD running FreeBSD 6 and trying wesside but got stuck with this error message: Can't open tap: ... Any help

Re: Buildworld error

2007-04-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm following the handbook to rebuild world. I updated via csup (Supfile: http://pastebin.ca/427631 ) right before I ran make buildworld. Now I'm getting this error: http://pastebin.ca/427605 I just installed the system before doing this, so the /usr/src dir

Re: Fetching sources from Windows?

2007-04-07 Thread Joe Kraft
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:45:55PM -0500, frzburn wrote: Hi! I have a slow Internet connection at home, and I would like to know if it is possible to fetch the STABLE sources from somewhere else (ex.: at work). What I want is to get the latest sources, like described in

script perl with sed command

2007-04-07 Thread Olivier Regnier
Hello, I have a problem with my perl script with the command sed. Here is a example of my code: # Selecting the fast server print Using the server called $server; system(`/usr/bin/sed 's|\*default host=\(.*\)|\*default host=${server}|' $standard_supfile $standard_supfile.copy`);

plzz help me

2007-04-07 Thread google msn
i have 180 pc`s working under serverwindows 2000 and i installed MS Proxy server and all pc`s have configuration to workinig in the internet from [1]\\server pot 80 i asking i need to installing free bsd in my server how can i do the same configuratin and how can i let the

Re: some thoughts about gmirror

2007-04-07 Thread Mike Wolman
if you were keeping track of the blocks which had changed then you do not need to generate this list and simply send over the changed blocks. Unison keeps a list of files at each end and only exchanges block lists for files that have changed. I use it to sync 40GB (10K files) over a 1Mbps

Re: lpd refuses to print from a machine with a DHCP assigned IP address...

2007-04-07 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Amarendra Godbole wrote: My FreeBSD box picks up its IP through DHCP. Now I configured a printer on this machine, using apsfilter. So far so good. Now when I try to print anything, I see the following error in the lpd-errs file: Apr 6 11:00:03 zimbu lpd[1501]:

Re: Fetching sources from Windows?

2007-04-07 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 31/03/2007, at 12:57 AM, Joe Kraft wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:45:55PM -0500, frzburn wrote: Hi! I have a slow Internet connection at home, and I would like to know if it is possible to fetch the STABLE sources from somewhere else (ex.: at work). What I

FreeMat 3.0 doesn't call functions and help

2007-04-07 Thread Vittorio De Martino
I've just installed FreeMat 3.0 from the ports in my i386 6.2 box but, while it is able to accomplish simple calculations it is not able to use the functions e.g to invert a matrix a=[1,2;-4,3] inv(a) instead of inverting the matrix hangs endlessly. Besides if I ask for the help on line (OR

RE: Receiver (To/CC envelope fields) addresses verification against LDAP/Active Directory in sendmail

2007-04-07 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Christopher Martin wrote: I guess I could white-list out all of sales' and senior management's addresses. The scenario where sales and senior management get all their spam with no delay and everyone else gets the benefit of greylisting sounds pretty much ideal.

Re: Fontconfig question... .

2007-04-07 Thread Christian Walther
On 06/04/07, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I fire up mozilla, firefox, OO-2.1.0, and whatever else, I'll see this to stdout: pe 16:37 tao [5433] mozilla Fontconfig warning: no cachedir elements found. Check configuration. Fontconfig

Re: script perl with sed command

2007-04-07 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Olivier Regnier wrote: I have a problem with my perl script with the command sed. Here is a example of my code: # Selecting the fast server print Using the server called $server; system(`/usr/bin/sed 's|\*default host=\(.*\)|\*default host=${server}|' $standard_supfile

Re: mail server blues

2007-04-07 Thread Eric
Jay Gordon wrote: go with qmail... it rocks http://www.qmailrocks.org/ it's a damn good mta. qmail is horrible and outdated. heres a ton of reasons not to use it: http://www-dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/qmail-bugs.html Sure qmail is nice if you want 3000 bounce messages because qmail

Re: No buffer space available

2007-04-07 Thread Chris
On 06/04/07, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Friday, April 06, 2007 06:17:04 +0100 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am seeing the no buffer space error on a machine running 6.2 STABLE feb 24 code, the machine isn't using

Re: No buffer space available

2007-04-07 Thread Chris
On 06/04/07, Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Friday, April 06, 2007 06:17:04 +0100 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am seeing the no buffer space error on a machine running 6.2 STABLE feb 24 code, the machine isn't using

Re: Buildworld error

2007-04-07 Thread Schiz0
On 4/7/07, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm following the handbook to rebuild world. I updated via csup (Supfile: http://pastebin.ca/427631 ) right before I ran make buildworld. Now I'm getting this error: http://pastebin.ca/427605 I just

Re: FreeMat 3.0 doesn't call functions and help

2007-04-07 Thread Thierry Thomas
Le Sam 7 avr 07 à 21:24:05 +0200, Vittorio De Martino [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait : I've just installed FreeMat 3.0 from the ports in my i386 6.2 box but, while it is able to accomplish simple calculations it is not able to use the functions e.g to invert a matrix a=[1,2;-4,3] inv(a)

Re: script perl with sed command

2007-04-07 Thread Olivier Regnier
Warren Block a écrit : On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Olivier Regnier wrote: I have a problem with my perl script with the command sed. Here is a example of my code: # Selecting the fast server print Using the server called $server; system(`/usr/bin/sed 's|\*default host=\(.*\)|\*default

Re: Buildworld error

2007-04-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 07/04/07, Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/7/07, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm following the handbook to rebuild world. I updated via csup (Supfile: http://pastebin.ca/427631 ) right before I ran make buildworld. Now I'm getting

Re: script perl with sed command

2007-04-07 Thread Garrett Cooper
Olivier Regnier wrote: Hello, I have a problem with my perl script with the command sed. Here is a example of my code: # Selecting the fast server print Using the server called $server; system(`/usr/bin/sed 's|\*default host=\(.*\)|\*default host=${server}|' $standard_supfile

Re: Buildworld error

2007-04-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 4/7/07, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm following the handbook to rebuild world. I updated via csup (Supfile: http://pastebin.ca/427631 ) right before I ran make buildworld. Now I'm getting this error:

Re: Buildworld error

2007-04-07 Thread Schiz0
On 4/7/07, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 4/7/07, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Schiz0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm following the handbook to rebuild world. I updated via csup (Supfile: http://pastebin.ca/427631 ) right before I

Re: Linux emluation of Skype not complete.

2007-04-07 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 14:19:34 -0700 (PDT) Paris Jones wrote: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paris Jones wrote: */Garrett Cooper /* wrote: Paris Jones wrote: I am using FreeBSD 6.0 Stable. My friend told me about Skype and was very egar to try it, to my

Re: Linux emluation of Skype not complete.

2007-04-07 Thread Garrett Cooper
Boris Samorodov wrote: On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 14:19:34 -0700 (PDT) Paris Jones wrote: Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paris Jones wrote: */Garrett Cooper /* wrote: Paris Jones wrote: I am using FreeBSD 6.0 Stable. My friend told me about Skype and was very egar

Re: locking down scsi device id's in 6.2

2007-04-07 Thread Robert Marella
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 19:15:27 -0400 Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've got a situation where three devices, one a scsi tape drive and the other two ide burners under scsi emulation with atapicam are fighting for scsi id's and i'd like to lock them down to specific id's. When the tape

Re: No buffer space available

2007-04-07 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Saturday, April 07, 2007 20:12:00 +0100 Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also to add I now have a 2nd box using 6.2 STABLE few days old code, had to use it because of broadcom 5755 nic card, I plan to use large tcp window sizes so will be

Re: Fontconfig question... .

2007-04-07 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 05:48:48PM +, Christian Walther wrote: On 06/04/07, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I fire up mozilla, firefox, OO-2.1.0, and whatever else, I'll see this to stdout: pe 16:37 tao [5433] mozilla Fontconfig warning: no

RE: net-snmp: portupgrade or clean instalation from ports throughNFS failed again and again

2007-04-07 Thread Daniel Dvořák
Yes, you were right! It was enough to rename .PL to .pl with Makefile. So I guess the net-snmp port is broken, isn´t it ? Dan -Original Message- From: Garrett Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 1, 2007 03:41 AM To: Daniel Dvořák Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org;

Re: net-snmp: portupgrade or clean instalation from ports throughNFS failed again and again

2007-04-07 Thread Garrett Cooper
Daniel Dvořák wrote: Yes, you were right! It was enough to rename .PL to .pl with Makefile. So I guess the net-snmp port is broken, isn´t it ? Dan -Original Message- From: Garrett Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 1, 2007 03:41 AM To: Daniel Dvořák Cc:

Skype can't connect.

2007-04-07 Thread Paris Jones
// Weirdness, why did all the messages disappear? I would first like to say sorry Garret, my previous questions were not in good detail. FREEBSD 6.0 STABLE Using the linux_base-8 port. --I am using a USB headset, but have also tried one that plugs directly into my microphone and speaker

Re: Skype can't connect.

2007-04-07 Thread Doug Lee
On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 06:55:58PM -0700, Paris Jones wrote: // Weirdness, why did all the messages disappear? I would first like to say sorry Garret, my previous questions were not in good detail. [recap of a problem often requoted recently on list] I happen to be blind and so can't

The FreeBSD Diary: 2007-03-18 - 2007-04-07

2007-04-07 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Package management question

2007-04-07 Thread Chris Kottaridis
I need a little advise on FreeBSD package management, I am kind of new to the FreeBSD package management thing and so I am sure this is a very basic question. I just installed 6.2 and apparently it installed the mysql-client 5.0 package. I want to get mysql up to 5.1 from the /usr/ports