portsdb -Uu

2006-09-14 Thread ke han
I am using portsnap fetch portsnap update to sync my ports tree on FreeBSd 6.1...it seems it maintains an index when I run update. I am used to using: portsversion and portsupdate to upgrade ports...in this method I have also used portsdb -Uu to rebuild an index anytime prior to running th

Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer

2006-09-14 Thread ke han
I have had this problem for a month now...have tried several things and still no luck...I really need some advice please!!! Here is the situation: 1 - freebsd 6.1-RELEASE-p6 running sshd in standard config. my server is server1.domain.com. hosts.allow has not been touched nor has just abo

Re: Piping output from serial device to file does not want to work

2006-09-14 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Friday, September 15, 2006 a las 01:23:32PM +0800, David Schulz escribió: ... > > So using this command : egrep -v -e "\---|^$|Date" -D read /dev/ > cuad0 , works, and puts out the data to stdout for me to see, but > when i want to pipe it to a file, using egrep -v -e "\---|^$

Piping output from serial device to file does not want to work

2006-09-14 Thread David Schulz
Hello, Data coming from /dev/cuad0 looks like this when read using cat /dev/ cuad0 : ->Snippet start 09/15/06 11:17AM 8003 13 17909013923793510 00:10'58 Date TimeExt CODial NumberRing Duration Acc code CD --

Re: Network connectivity between FreeBSD and Linux

2006-09-14 Thread Arindam
>> >> > I have FreeBSD 6.1 installed on one machine and Fedora Core 2 on >> > another. I dual boot the FreeBSD 6.1 machine with a RedHat EL 4.3 >> > installation. I have assigned the same static IP address and >> hostname >> > to this machine for both the FreeBSD and RHEL installations. >> > >> >

Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-14 Thread Bill-Schoolcraft
At Thu, 14 Sep 2006 it looks like White Hat composed: > --- michael johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, assuming I remove Firefox and install > linux-firefox, which what version of flash in the > ports tree am I suppose to install to make it all > work? > Yes, I just went to test my ban

Re: X Window: Mouse Freeze

2006-09-14 Thread Arindam
Hello everyone. After a bit of a wrestle, I installed my first FreeBSD 6.1 server on a PIII 733MHz with 512 Megs of RAM on a 6.5 Gig slice (a:/, b:swap, d:/var, e:/tmp, f:/usr). I got X Windows working after a little bit more struggle - I now have Afterstep, WindowMaker and fvwm working for me. T

Re: unknown ethernet card

2006-09-14 Thread Perry Hutchison
> I'm beginning the install of 6.1 RELEASE on a Dell 1950. It uses > Dual Embedded Broadcom NetXtreme II 5708 Gigabit Ethernet NICs, > and they are not correctly recognized during the install. The > system identifies them as bce0 and bce1, but apparently the driver > isn't working right. > > Does

Re: unknown ethernet card

2006-09-14 Thread pauls
--On September 15, 2006 12:55:49 PM +0900 Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Those particular cards should use a generic driver (in this case bc). The fact that your interfaces are found though seems to point to the fact that things are not configured properly, network-wise. Are you sure

Re: unknown ethernet card

2006-09-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sep 15, 2006, at 12:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm beginning the install of 6.1 RELEASE on a Dell 1950. It uses Dual Embedded Broadcom NetXtreme II 5708 Gigabit Ethernet NICs, and they are not correctly recognized during the install. The system identifies them as bce0 and bce1, bu

unknown ethernet card

2006-09-14 Thread pauls
I'm beginning the install of 6.1 RELEASE on a Dell 1950. It uses Dual Embedded Broadcom NetXtreme II 5708 Gigabit Ethernet NICs, and they are not correctly recognized during the install. The system identifies them as bce0 and bce1, but apparently the driver isn't working right. Does anyone h

Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sep 15, 2006, at 7:54 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote: Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer. It is best *not* to show your friends that when you introduce them to FBSD. Why? Is there some reason that you or they want to watch ads? I can't think of a sin

Re: mount_ext2fs returning ENODEV on 6.1

2006-09-14 Thread Perry Hutchison
> >> > # ll /dev/ad0s7 > >> > crw-r- 1 root operator0, 93 Sep 4 02:30 /dev/ad0s7 > >> > # file -s /dev/ad0s7 > >> > /dev/ad0s7: Linux rev 1.0 ext2 filesystem data > >> > # grep -w ad0s7 /etc/fstab > >> > /dev/ad0s7 /linux ext2fs ro 0 0 > >> > # ll -d /l

Re: Poutupgrade unsafe

2006-09-14 Thread Pete Slagle
Olivier Nicole wrote: > I know the mistake was on my side, I was not carefull enough when > using portupgrade on a production machine but... > > Yesterday I froze our system for about one hour when I used > portupgrade to upgrade Samba. It was a very minor upgrade (from 3.0.10 > to 3.0.23c,1 I th

Poutupgrade unsafe

2006-09-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I know the mistake was on my side, I was not carefull enough when using portupgrade on a production machine but... Yesterday I froze our system for about one hour when I used portupgrade to upgrade Samba. It was a very minor upgrade (from 3.0.10 to 3.0.23c,1 I think), but it happens that in b

Re: Upgrading our mail server

2006-09-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
> | Our mailhub is actually a HP DL360 with one processor (Xeon 2.8 ghz) > | with 2 Gb RAM and 120 Gb disks, it is 3 years old. > | It runs Postfix + imap + imaps + pop3 + pop3s + squirrelmail + vexira > | antivirus + postgrey > | and some small auxiliary services. > Your server is good enough to

Re: Slow install of Ruby 18 from ports

2006-09-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
> Just out of curiosity I tried ruby port on two machines - fast one > (1.6GHz Athlon with 1GB RAM) and small one (400MHz with 96MB RAM). > Fast one has no problems with ruby, it builds and installs in few > minutes. The slow one is another story, however. There is definitely something in teh buil

Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-14 Thread ajm
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 06:56:30PM -0400, michael johnson wrote: > On 9/14/06, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >--- White Hat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> FreeBSD 6.1 > >> > >> I have been trying to get a few of my friends to try > >> FBSD on their PCs without much success. One of

Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-14 Thread Jona Joachim
Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote: >> Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer. It is best *not* to show your >> friends that when you introduce them to FBSD. > > Why? Is there some reason that you or they want to watch ads? > > I can't think of a single site that I us

Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-14 Thread michael johnson
On 9/14/06, White Hat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- michael johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK, assuming I remove Firefox and install linux-firefox, which what version of flash in the ports tree am I suppose to install to make it all work? Don't deinstall firefox. just install linux-fire

Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-14 Thread White Hat
--- michael johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK, assuming I remove Firefox and install linux-firefox, which what version of flash in the ports tree am I suppose to install to make it all work? -- White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!?

Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-14 Thread michael johnson
On 9/14/06, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- White Hat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FreeBSD 6.1 > > I have been trying to get a few of my friends to try > FBSD on their PCs without much success. One of the > major problems is the inability to get flash to work > properly to display videos

Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote: Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer. It is best *not* to show your friends that when you introduce them to FBSD. Why? Is there some reason that you or they want to watch ads? I can't think of a single site that I use that needs Flash; I don't ins

Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-14 Thread Peter
--- White Hat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FreeBSD 6.1 > > I have been trying to get a few of my friends to try > FBSD on their PCs without much success. One of the > major problems is the inability to get flash to work > properly to display videos available on Google. I know > that the linux-fl

Firefox+Flash

2006-09-14 Thread White Hat
FreeBSD 6.1 I have been trying to get a few of my friends to try FBSD on their PCs without much success. One of the major problems is the inability to get flash to work properly to display videos available on Google. I know that the linux-flash port is marked broken, so that it out. How else can I

Re: mount_ext2fs returning ENODEV on 6.1

2006-09-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 02:07:56PM -0700, Perry Hutchison wrote: > > > # ll /dev/ad0s7 > > > crw-r- 1 root operator0, 93 Sep 4 02:30 /dev/ad0s7 > > > # file -s /dev/ad0s7 > > > /dev/ad0s7: Linux rev 1.0 ext2 filesystem data > > > # grep -w ad0s7 /etc/fstab > > > /dev/ad0s7 /linux

Re: mount_ext2fs returning ENODEV on 6.1

2006-09-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Perry Hutchison) writes: >> > # ll /dev/ad0s7 >> > crw-r- 1 root operator0, 93 Sep 4 02:30 /dev/ad0s7 >> > # file -s /dev/ad0s7 >> > /dev/ad0s7: Linux rev 1.0 ext2 filesystem data >> > # grep -w ad0s7 /etc/fstab >> > /dev/ad0s7 /linux ext2fs ro

Re: mount_ext2fs returning ENODEV on 6.1

2006-09-14 Thread Perry Hutchison
> > # ll /dev/ad0s7 > > crw-r- 1 root operator0, 93 Sep 4 02:30 /dev/ad0s7 > > # file -s /dev/ad0s7 > > /dev/ad0s7: Linux rev 1.0 ext2 filesystem data > > # grep -w ad0s7 /etc/fstab > > /dev/ad0s7 /linux ext2fs ro 0 0 > > # ll -d /linux > > drwxr-xr-x

Cannot route mail through an internal Exch5.5 SMTP server

2006-09-14 Thread Scott I. Remick
I am at my wits end with this... help please! FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE Sendmail 8.13.6 (base) I'm trying to accomplish what should be simple: 1) all outgoing From: email addresses should be stamped @ourdomain.com and not @server.corpdomain.com 2) All emails should be routed through the corp SMTP ser

Re: FreeBSD not popular in Asia?

2006-09-14 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg wrote: Olivier Nicole wrote: Check out http://www.bsdstats.org ... Republic of Korea is about to push the US out of first place, but there are *zero* FreeBSD boxes reporting from there ... DragonFly is first, then NetBSD and then OpenBSD ... 6 day

Re: Syslog: all except?

2006-09-14 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Is it possible to tell syslog to log everything *except* some facility? I have a very noisy service (openldap) that I don't want to log into my all.log; but I still want all.log to catch everything else. Something like this maybe? *.*,!local4.* all.log *.*,local4.none all.log __

Re: Under Attack: Bandwidth throttling on 5.2.1?

2006-09-14 Thread Chris
On Sep 14, 2006, at 12:53 PM, Panagiotis wrote: Chris wrote: ...system, we could come back up I think and try ride out the attack. I've never done this before but in an earlier thread I saw where you configure a pipe such as: ipfw pipe 1 config bw 256Kbit/s ipfw add pipe 1 tcp from 192.

Re: Under Attack: Bandwidth throttling on 5.2.1?

2006-09-14 Thread Panagiotis
Chris wrote: This is probably going to tax the memory. I'm sorry in advance. We observed 2 hangs and 3 crashes in the last 5 hours and finally after looking at the nature of the traffic, it appears to be little infested windows spybots from all over targeting our forums to attempt to repl

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 shutting down.

2006-09-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 07:29:13PM +, Marwan Sultan wrote: > hello Lowell, > > thank you for your reply, i wish you could find some solution for me > i tried to google the net, and found many results for atapci1: failed to > enable memory mapping! > but most with no solutions. I doubt

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 shutting down.

2006-09-14 Thread Marwan Sultan
hello Lowell, thank you for your reply, i wish you could find some solution for me i tried to google the net, and found many results for atapci1: failed to enable memory mapping! but most with no solutions. here is the dmesg, Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c

Re: BSDStats project, interesting returns from OpenBSD

2006-09-14 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Thursday 14 September 2006 13:29, Andy Greenwood wrote: > What about making it a sysinstall option? Not in the base install, but > the option is presented when setting up a new box. > > On 9/14/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 12:53:04PM -0400, Gerard Sei

Squid +pf +if_bridge

2006-09-14 Thread Jeff Palmer
Hello all, I'm using freebsd 6.1 as a bridge (if_bridge) The interfaces are vr0 (plugged into the DSL modem) and rl0 (plugged into the switch, to the rest of the network On the bridge, I'm attempting to use pf to "rdr" all http requests from my lan, to squid (actually dansguardian) I have squ

Re: SCSI vs. SATA (was Re: Upgrading our mail server)

2006-09-14 Thread Skylar Thompson
Bill Moran wrote: > > Has anyone every verified whether or not SATA has the problems that plagued > ATA? Such as crappy quality and lying caches? > > Personally, I still demand SCSI on production servers because it still > seems as if: > a) The performance is still better > b) The reliability is s

Re: Which process is hogging my drives?

2006-09-14 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 14 September 2006 12:01 pm, Dan Nelson wrote: > You can try top in I/O mode. Run top, hit "m", then enter "ototal". That was exactly it. Thanks! -- Kirk Strauser pgpv29LbwLcuV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: memory problem

2006-09-14 Thread Martin Cracauer
RJ45 wrote on Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 02:24:43AM -0600: > > > Hello, > I am running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p6 build with buildworld. > > THe system has exactly 4GB of memory but the memory is not complitely > seen by the system. > > At boot thime I Get this warning > > 524288Kb of memory above 4GB

Re: nocona CPU

2006-09-14 Thread Martin Cracauer
RJ45 wrote on Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 01:47:28AM -0600: > > > Hello I wanted to buildworld and kernel on FReeBSD 6.1 since I have Xeon > cpu, I Wanted to rebuild it with CPUTYPE=nocona > > when I put the oprion in /etc/make.conf upon compilation instead of > -march=nocona is used -march=prescott

Re: Problem with sqlite3 and python

2006-09-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 14, 2006, at 10:24 AM, Fred C! wrote: As I told you in my previews emails all the python tests went with no errors. Yes. This probably means the problem is not with the basic Python installation and may not be specific to FreeBSD. In other words, you might obtain better results as

Re: BSDStats project, interesting returns from OpenBSD

2006-09-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 01:29:38PM -0400, Andy Greenwood wrote: > What about making it a sysinstall option? Not in the base install, but > the option is presented when setting up a new box. That's not ruled out, if someone does the work. Kris pgpIrJBp4JQSq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Syslog: all except?

2006-09-14 Thread Atom Powers
Is it possible to tell syslog to log everything *except* some facility? I have a very noisy service (openldap) that I don't want to log into my all.log; but I still want all.log to catch everything else. Something like this maybe? *.*,!local4.* all.log -- -- Perfection is just a word I use

Re: Upgrading our mail server

2006-09-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 11:56:24AM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On Thursday, September 14, 2006 11:45:49 -0500 Greg Groth > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Are any of the major server brands more FreeBSD friendly than others? I'm > >looking to purchase a server for some web apps. Our current

Re: BSDStats project, interesting returns from OpenBSD

2006-09-14 Thread Andy Greenwood
What about making it a sysinstall option? Not in the base install, but the option is presented when setting up a new box. On 9/14/06, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 12:53:04PM -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote: > On Thursday 14 September 2006 12:09, Kris Kennaway wrot

Re: Problem with sqlite3 and python

2006-09-14 Thread Fred C!
On Sep 13, 2006, at 7:17 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 13, 2006, at 3:48 PM, Fred C! wrote: Hello I have a problem with Python + sqlite3. My main machine is a FreeBSD 6.1 I have also try on an old machine running FreeBSD 5.5 and it doesn't work either. I join to this email some information

Re: cvs question

2006-09-14 Thread Michael Grant
Yes, I'm su'ed on both machines: uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel), 5(operator) -Mike On 9/14/06, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In response to "Michael Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm being driven slowly mad by cvs... > > I have 3 boxes, one is acting as a cvs server. The "c

Re: BSDStats project, interesting returns from OpenBSD

2006-09-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 12:53:04PM -0400, Gerard Seibert wrote: > On Thursday 14 September 2006 12:09, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > One should not conclude anything until the numbers are much larger > > than they are now, because small fluctuations from e.g. regional > > promotion of bsdstats in one

Re: cvs question

2006-09-14 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Michael Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm being driven slowly mad by cvs... > > I have 3 boxes, one is acting as a cvs server. The "cvs clients" (for > lack of a better term) are running 6.1 and should be configured the > same. Yet, one machine lets me do a cvs login, the other

cvs question

2006-09-14 Thread Michael Grant
I'm being driven slowly mad by cvs... I have 3 boxes, one is acting as a cvs server. The "cvs clients" (for lack of a better term) are running 6.1 and should be configured the same. Yet, one machine lets me do a cvs login, the other requires I use cvs -d :psserver:.. with each cvs command. I d

Re: Which process is hogging my drives?

2006-09-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 14), Kirk Strauser said: > Some process on my system is really slamming my gstripe volume (so says > systat -iostat and gstat). Is there a relatively easy way to see which > processes are responsible? You can try top in I/O mode. Run top, hit "m", then enter "ototal".

Re: Upgrading our mail server

2006-09-14 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, September 14, 2006 11:45:49 -0500 Greg Groth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are any of the major server brands more FreeBSD friendly than others? I'm looking to purchase a server for some web apps. Our current config is running on a 6 year old Dell PowerEdge machine with SCSI RAID 5,

Re: BSDStats project, interesting returns from OpenBSD

2006-09-14 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Thursday 14 September 2006 12:09, Kris Kennaway wrote: > One should not conclude anything until the numbers are much larger > than they are now, because small fluctuations from e.g. regional > promotion of bsdstats in one country but not another, or one large > company deploying it on all machi

Re: Upgrading our mail server

2006-09-14 Thread Greg Groth
On 9/14/2006 10:32 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: * On 14/09/06 16:51 +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote: | Hello | | Our mailhub is actually a HP DL360 with one processor (Xeon 2.8 ghz) | with 2 Gb RAM and 120 Gb disks, it is 3 years old. | | It runs Postfix + imap + imaps + pop3 + pop3s + squirrelmai

Re: SCSI vs. SATA (was Re: Upgrading our mail server)

2006-09-14 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Sep 14, 2006, at 10:28 AM, Derek Ragona wrote: SATA is still quite limited. To go beyond those limits use SAS, but SAS costs even more than SCSI and is brand new technology. Get a 12 or 16 or 24 port Areca card and have a few hot spares and you will see SATA fly for less money than SC

Re: SCSI vs. SATA (was Re: Upgrading our mail server)

2006-09-14 Thread Derek Ragona
SATA is still quite limited. To go beyond those limits use SAS, but SAS costs even more than SCSI and is brand new technology. -Derek At 10:46 AM 9/14/2006, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Frank Bonnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Gerard Seibert wrote: > > Frank Bonnet wrote: > > > > [..

Re: Upgrading our mail server

2006-09-14 Thread DAve
Frank Bonnet wrote: Gerard Seibert wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: [...] I need SCSI Disks of course , budget is around 10K$ Why the insistence on SCSI? Is there any reason that SATA or RAID with SATA is not acceptable? Just curious. Because I want it I have yet to have a SATA drive last

Re: SCSI vs. SATA (was Re: Upgrading our mail server)

2006-09-14 Thread White Hat
--- Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In response to Frank Bonnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Gerard Seibert wrote: > > > Frank Bonnet wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > >> I need SCSI Disks of course , budget is around > 10K$ > > > > > > Why the insistence on SCSI? Is there any reason > that SA

Which process is hogging my drives?

2006-09-14 Thread Kirk Strauser
Some process on my system is really slamming my gstripe volume (so says systat -iostat and gstat). Is there a relatively easy way to see which processes are responsible? -- Kirk Strauser pgpJ2aFH5pyri.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: BSDStats project, interesting returns from OpenBSD

2006-09-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 08:40:21AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: > I just glanced at the latest statistics on www.bsdstats.org. In the > last week or so OpenBSD has "overtaken" FreeBSD in the USA. > > Should one conclude that OpenBSD admins have enthusiastically embraced > this project and FreeBSD a

Re: mount_ext2fs returning ENODEV on 6.1

2006-09-14 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 12:27:11AM -0700, Perry Hutchison wrote: > What am I doing wrong? > > # ll /dev/ad0s7 > crw-r- 1 root operator0, 93 Sep 4 02:30 /dev/ad0s7 > # file -s /dev/ad0s7 > /dev/ad0s7: Linux rev 1.0 ext2 filesystem data > # grep -w ad0s7 /etc/fstab > /dev/ad0s7 /lin

Re: BSDStats project, interesting returns from OpenBSD

2006-09-14 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, September 14, 2006 08:40:21 -0500 Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just glanced at the latest statistics on www.bsdstats.org. In the last week or so OpenBSD has "overtaken" FreeBSD in the USA. Should one conclude that OpenBSD admins have enthusiastically embraced this

SCSI vs. SATA (was Re: Upgrading our mail server)

2006-09-14 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Frank Bonnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Gerard Seibert wrote: > > Frank Bonnet wrote: > > > > [...] > >> I need SCSI Disks of course , budget is around 10K$ > > > > Why the insistence on SCSI? Is there any reason that SATA or RAID with > > SATA is not acceptable? Just curious. > >

Re: FTP server behind router/gateway

2006-09-14 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:40:18 +0200, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a FreeBSD 6.1 box running behind a router/gateway. When it tries to go into passive mode, it returns it's internal 192.168. ip address to the client which the client stupidly uses to try to connect to. I've confirmed this by

Re: Upgrading our mail server

2006-09-14 Thread Frank Bonnet
Gerard Seibert wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: [...] I need SCSI Disks of course , budget is around 10K$ Why the insistence on SCSI? Is there any reason that SATA or RAID with SATA is not acceptable? Just curious. Because I want it -- Cordialement Frank Bonnet ___

Re: Newbie Question - what does the "...-p6" mean?

2006-09-14 Thread Bill Moran
In response to ograbme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello All. > > Thursday, September 14, 2006, 4:24:43 AM, RJ45 wrote in regards to his > message titled "Memory problem": > > > > R> I am running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p6 build with buildworld. > > > > What does the "-p6" nomenclature represent

Re: Upgrading our mail server

2006-09-14 Thread Odhiambo Washington
* On 14/09/06 16:51 +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote: | Hello | | Our mailhub is actually a HP DL360 with one processor (Xeon 2.8 ghz) | with 2 Gb RAM and 120 Gb disks, it is 3 years old. | | It runs Postfix + imap + imaps + pop3 + pop3s + squirrelmail + vexira | antivirus + postgrey | and some small a

Newbie Question - what does the "...-p6" mean?

2006-09-14 Thread ograbme
Hello All. Thursday, September 14, 2006, 4:24:43 AM, RJ45 wrote in regards to his message titled "Memory problem": R> I am running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p6 build with buildworld. What does the "-p6" nomenclature represent in the above statement? I've noticed some messages have contained vario

Re: Upgrading our mail server

2006-09-14 Thread Gerard Seibert
Frank Bonnet wrote: [...] > > I need SCSI Disks of course , budget is around 10K$ Why the insistence on SCSI? Is there any reason that SATA or RAID with SATA is not acceptable? Just curious. -- Gerard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: memory problem

2006-09-14 Thread Derek Ragona
Since the BIOS reports the memory as ignored, I'd say it is your motherboard causing the issue. You should check the manufacturer's specs on the board and see if this is a limit to the board for the memory you are using. Many system boards have different memory limits based on the actual memo

Re: FTP server behind router/gateway

2006-09-14 Thread Derek Ragona
That is more a matter for your router. Your router should be wrapping the internal address with a public one. Be sure you are forwarding all the ports needed for ftp. -Derek At 09:40 AM 9/14/2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a FreeBSD 6.1 box running behind a router/gateway. W

Upgrading our mail server

2006-09-14 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello Our mailhub is actually a HP DL360 with one processor (Xeon 2.8 ghz) with 2 Gb RAM and 120 Gb disks, it is 3 years old. It runs Postfix + imap + imaps + pop3 + pop3s + squirrelmail + vexira antivirus + postgrey and some small auxiliary services. We have approx 2500 users / mailboxes and

FTP server behind router/gateway

2006-09-14 Thread billgg
I have a FreeBSD 6.1 box running behind a router/gateway. When it tries to go into passive mode, it returns it's internal 192.168. ip address to the client which the client stupidly uses to try to connect to. I've confirmed this by tyring to FTP from several external systems (windows & linux). I

Re: Top not showing cpu usage even remotely accurately

2006-09-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 14), Ian Smith said: > I still can't fathom what top tells me on a UP 5.5-STABLE system (300MHz > Celeron if speed's relevant). I initiated this thread (weeks ago :) re > seeing 0.0% idle (as expected) during buildworld but not seeing anything > add up to anything like 100

Re: fortune in English or Spanish

2006-09-14 Thread Gerard Seibert
Reko Turja wrote: > From: "Matthias Apitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "[LoN]Kamikaze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > > >> > I'm missing somehow the classic 'fortune' command and files in > >> > the > > >> Fortune is part of the base system. > > > > Maybe I'm stupid, but I don't see it: > > > man

Re: fortune in English or Spanish

2006-09-14 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, September 14, 2006 a las 03:06:48PM +0100, Alex Zbyslaw escribió: > Matthias Apitz wrote: > > >El día Thursday, September 14, 2006 a las 02:50:56PM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze > >escribió: > > > > > > > >>Matthias Apitz wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>I'm missing somehow the

Re: fortune in English or Spanish

2006-09-14 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Thursday, September 14, 2006 a las 02:50:56PM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze escribió: Matthias Apitz wrote: Hi, I'm missing somehow the classic 'fortune' command and files in the ports, the are Italian and Russian ones, but don't see the fortune itself. If there

Re: fortune in English or Spanish

2006-09-14 Thread Gerard Seibert
Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Thursday, September 14, 2006 a las 02:50:56PM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze > escribió: > > > Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm missing somehow the classic 'fortune' command and files in the > > > ports, the are Italian and Russian ones, but don't see the for

Re: fortune in English or Spanish

2006-09-14 Thread Reko Turja
From: "Matthias Apitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "[LoN]Kamikaze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: > I'm missing somehow the classic 'fortune' command and files in > the Fortune is part of the base system. Maybe I'm stupid, but I don't see it: man fortune FILES /usr/games/fortune /usr/sh

BSDStats project, interesting returns from OpenBSD

2006-09-14 Thread Doug Poland
I just glanced at the latest statistics on www.bsdstats.org. In the last week or so OpenBSD has "overtaken" FreeBSD in the USA. Should one conclude that OpenBSD admins have enthusiastically embraced this project and FreeBSD admins have not; or, is OpenBSD really more widely deployed than FreeBSD

Re: fortune in English or Spanish

2006-09-14 Thread Bob M.
On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 15:21 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Thursday, September 14, 2006 a las 02:50:56PM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze > escribió: > > > Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm missing somehow the classic 'fortune' command and files in the > > > ports, the are Italian and R

Re: fortune in English or Spanish

2006-09-14 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, September 14, 2006 a las 02:50:56PM +0200, [LoN]Kamikaze escribió: > Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm missing somehow the classic 'fortune' command and files in the > > ports, the are Italian and Russian ones, but don't see the fortune > > itself. If there is a Spanish

Re: fortune in English or Spanish

2006-09-14 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Matthias Apitz wrote: > Hi, > > I'm missing somehow the classic 'fortune' command and files in the > ports, the are Italian and Russian ones, but don't see the fortune > itself. If there is a Spanish one a pointer would be nice too. Thx Fortune is part of the base system.

Re: Using PC as serial terminal on running system

2006-09-14 Thread Watanabe Kazuhiro
Hi, At Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:40:13 +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Wednesday 13 September 2006 14:59, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > > I'm using my laptop and tip(1) as a serial terminal. This is working well > > when a machine is booted with the laptop connected to its serial port. > > However, I ne

fortune in English or Spanish

2006-09-14 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hi, I'm missing somehow the classic 'fortune' command and files in the ports, the are Italian and Russian ones, but don't see the fortune itself. If there is a Spanish one a pointer would be nice too. Thx matthias Linux es para gente que odia Micro$soft, FreeBSD es para los amantes de U

OT: awk/sed: how to use a variable in an address range?

2006-09-14 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello. This might be OT in FreeBSD list, but hopefully some of yours is involved in sophisticated AWK programming. To keep a small shell script portable I use awk for separating an ASCII file from a home brewn scientific model software. The datasets of the output is enclosed by /begin_data_

boot without loader(8) -> BTX halted

2006-09-14 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I can boot fine with loader(8). However if I try to load kernel directly from boot(8) I always get "BTX halted" no matter which kernel and options I choose. The only command that works is the loader itself, /boot/loader. Why? man 8 loader says that BTX client is the name of the loader on i386. S

Re: Network connectivity between FreeBSD and Linux

2006-09-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sep 14, 2006, at 8:15 PM, Arindam wrote: > I have FreeBSD 6.1 installed on one machine and Fedora Core 2 on > another. I dual boot the FreeBSD 6.1 machine with a RedHat EL 4.3 > installation. I have assigned the same static IP address and hostname > to this machine for both the FreeBSD an

Re: Network connectivity between FreeBSD and Linux

2006-09-14 Thread Arindam
> I have FreeBSD 6.1 installed on one machine and Fedora Core 2 on > another. I dual boot the FreeBSD 6.1 machine with a RedHat EL 4.3 > installation. I have assigned the same static IP address and hostname > to this machine for both the FreeBSD and RHEL installations. > > While my RHEL installat

Re: Thinkpad

2006-09-14 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
At Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:24:32 +0400, gb wrote: > Got hold of an old IBM X21 Thinkpad. Anyone out there have any > recommendations for a good kernel config or whatever to squeeze the > most of this little fellow? a good starting point: http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/index.pl?action=s

Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror?

2006-09-14 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
At Fri, 1 Sep 2006 09:54:02 -0400, David Robillard wrote: > Sounds like a good idea indeed. I've always followed Ralf S. > Engelschall's instructions at http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ > which involves using dump(8) to transfer the data onto the second disk > once it's setup as a gmirror pro

Re: pci modem question

2006-09-14 Thread Watanabe Kazuhiro
Hi. At Wed, 13 Sep 2006 10:05:07 +0800, musashi miyamoto wrote: > FreeBSD mori.ranmaru 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Tue Sep 5 02:09:57 > PHT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/SHOGUN i386 > > > is there a dialup pci modem that is compatible with FreeBSD? Lucent(Agere) M

Re: Network connectivity between FreeBSD and Linux

2006-09-14 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sep 14, 2006, at 7:49 PM, Arindam wrote: I have FreeBSD 6.1 installed on one machine and Fedora Core 2 on another. I dual boot the FreeBSD 6.1 machine with a RedHat EL 4.3 installation. I have assigned the same static IP address and hostname to this machine for both the FreeBSD and RHEL insta

Re: Slow install of Ruby 18 from ports

2006-09-14 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
On 14/09/2006 04:05, Olivier Nicole wrote: >> I don't know why. I'm running DNS server on old Celeron 400Mhz with >> 96MB RAM just fine. Why do you think you need Xeon dual core for that? > > Of course I don't, and won't. > > I was just replying to the guy that told me that I am using archaic > h

Network connectivity between FreeBSD and Linux

2006-09-14 Thread Arindam
I have FreeBSD 6.1 installed on one machine and Fedora Core 2 on another. I dual boot the FreeBSD 6.1 machine with a RedHat EL 4.3 installation. I have assigned the same static IP address and hostname to this machine for both the FreeBSD and RHEL installations. While my RHEL installation is runni

Re: Using PC as serial terminal on running system

2006-09-14 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 13 September 2006 14:59, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > I'm using my laptop and tip(1) as a serial terminal. This is working well > when a machine is booted with the laptop connected to its serial port. > However, I need to be able to connect the laptop to a machine which was > booted witho

Re: memory problem

2006-09-14 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 09:55:09AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > RJ45 wrote: > > > THe system has exactly 4GB of memory but the memory is not complitely > > seen by the system. > > > > At boot thime I Get this warning > > > > 524288Kb of memory above 4GB ignored > > A normal 32bit OS can only

Re: memory problem

2006-09-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
RJ45 wrote: > THe system has exactly 4GB of memory but the memory is not complitely > seen by the system. > > At boot thime I Get this warning > > 524288Kb of memory above 4GB ignored A normal 32bit OS can only address 4GB RAM -- but your system has various L2 and other caches built into the CP

Re: FreeBSD not popular in Asia?

2006-09-14 Thread Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg
Olivier Nicole wrote: >> Check out http://www.bsdstats.org ... Republic of Korea is about to push >> the US out of first place, but there are *zero* FreeBSD boxes reporting >> from there ... DragonFly is first, then NetBSD and then OpenBSD ... > > 6 days later: Thailand jumped from 12 machines t

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