localization management tool which works in FreeBSD

2009-08-26 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, Is ther some localization management tool which runs in FreeBSD and supports - connectors to CVS or SVN (i.e. pulls/stores the source and translated files there) - extracts text pieces for translations from various file formats, like XML, HTML, PO, ASCII, ... presents these extracted

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-26 Thread Colin Brace
Steve Bertrand said the following on 08/26/2009 01:33 AM: In this case, OP, look for: - directories named as such: -- ... -- . .. -- . . -- etc, particularly under: -- /var/tmp -- /tmp -- or anywhere else the [gu]id of the webserver could possibly write to Thanks for the comments, Steve.

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-26 Thread Colin Brace
Colin Brace wrote: > > > CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: >> >> Are these files available in a tarball someplace public, for those of us >> who enjoy performing autopsies on virii? > > Sure thing: http://silenceisdefeat.com/~cbrace/www_badstuff.gz > > this tarball contains "tmpfile" which is the mi

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-26 Thread Colin Brace
Colin Brace wrote: > > > CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: >> >> Are these files available in a tarball someplace public, for those of us >> who enjoy performing autopsies on virii? > ah, another directory found in /tmp with files written by www called .bash/ Contents here: http://silenceisdefe

Removing firefox-2.0.0.20_9,1 from system

2009-08-26 Thread Jerry
I recently installed openoffice.org-3.1.0_2 on my system. For some reason it brought in firefox-2 also. I all ready had Firefox-3.5 installed. I do not want or need two different installations of Firefox on my system. Firefox-2 appears to be required by these programs. /var/db/pkg $ pkg_info -R f

Re: KDE3 --> KDE4

2009-08-26 Thread Michiel Overtoom
On Friday 07 August 2009 16:12:03 Andrew Gould wrote: > Is there an increase in usability/benefit to match the increase in > resource consumption? As I see it, KDE4 fell in the Vista trap. I tried KDE4 and was showered with eye candy effects, some of which couldn't even be disabled. Also, quit

Firefox 3.5...

2009-08-26 Thread Peter Harrison
I've Firefox 3.0.11,1 on my 7.2-release system at the moment. Anyone offer some advice on moving up to 3.5? Is it as simple as pkg_delete'ing 3.0 and then installing 3.5? Thanks for any thoughts. Peter Harrison. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-26 Thread Bill Moran
Adam Vande More wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Bill Moran wrote: > > > In response to Adam Vande More : > > > > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Bill Moran > >wrote: > > > > > > > In response to Adam Vande More : > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Bill Moran < >

Can partitions span more than one drive?

2009-08-26 Thread John Almberg
Now that I've got my rsnapshot backup server working beautifully, backing up several servers to a central backup server (I like this a lot), I have a problem... I built my backup server from a machine I had lying around. It has two 140G hard drives. I dedicated one drive to a /backup partit

Re: KDE3 --> KDE4

2009-08-26 Thread Mike Jeays
On August 26, 2009 06:50:00 am Michiel Overtoom wrote: > On Friday 07 August 2009 16:12:03 Andrew Gould wrote: > > Is there an increase in usability/benefit to match the increase in > > resource consumption? > > As I see it, KDE4 fell in the Vista trap. I tried KDE4 and was showered > with eye c

RSEC installation, anyone tried?

2009-08-26 Thread Jeronimo Calvo
Hi folks, did anyone tried to install rsec on freebsd 7.2? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Can partitions span more than one drive?

2009-08-26 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Almberg wrote: > Now that I've got my rsnapshot backup server working beautifully, > backing up several servers to a central backup server (I like this a > lot), I have a problem... > > I built my backup server from a machine I had lying around.

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-26 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Adam Vande More : > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Bill Moran wrote: > > > Adam Vande More wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Bill Moran > >wrote: > > > > > > > In response to Adam Vande More : > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Bill Moran < >

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-26 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Bill Moran wrote: > Adam Vande More wrote: > > > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Bill Moran >wrote: > > > > > In response to Adam Vande More : > > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Bill Moran < > wmo...@potentialtech.com > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > >

Firefox 3.5 on FBSD

2009-08-26 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, Well, I installed firefox 3.5 on my box at home but it wasn't working correctly. Every time I'd start it I'd get, "Bad system call (core dump)," or something similar. Does anyone here run firefox 3.5 on their box? If so, what is the trick? Andy -- A: Because it messes up the order in whi

Re: Serial console trouble: loader and login works, but no kernel messages

2009-08-26 Thread Thomas Backman
On Aug 23, 2009, at 14:18, Thomas Backman wrote: First off: Not subscribed to this list, please make sure to Cc me if you don't reply directly. :) Anyway, I finally got my null modem cable, and plugged in in between a machine running 8.0-BETA2 and one running WinXP using Hyperterminal. My

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-26 Thread Morgan Wesström
Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 15:44:41 Adam Vande More wrote: > > [450 lines including multiple signatures and twelve levels of quoting, all to > say:] > >> Specifically what am I confused on? Or are you just going to continue >> with the personal attacks? You've offere

Re: Can partitions span more than one drive?

2009-08-26 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
RW wrote: On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:45:47 -0400 John Almberg wrote: Question: is it possible to just expand my existing /backup partition to encompass both the current drive and the new drive? I'm guessing not, since Chapter 8 in "Absolute FreeBSD" says that a partition is part of a slice, Yo

Re: Firefox 3.5 on FBSD

2009-08-26 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 08:21:57AM -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote: > Hi, > > Well, I installed firefox 3.5 on my box at home but it wasn't working > correctly. Every time I'd start it I'd get, "Bad system call (core dump)," > or something similar. Does anyone here run firefox 3.5 on their box? If

Re: Removing firefox-2.0.0.20_9,1 from system

2009-08-26 Thread George Liaskos
Add WITH_GECKO=libxul to your /etc/make.conf and run portmaster -o to replace firefox with firefox35. http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq226.html#q1 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=portmaster&sektion=8&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.2-RELEASE+and+Ports On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Jer

Re: Firefox 3.5...

2009-08-26 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:32:09 +0100 Peter Harrison wrote: > I've Firefox 3.0.11,1 on my 7.2-release system at the moment. Anyone > offer some advice on moving up to 3.5? > > Is it as simple as pkg_delete'ing 3.0 and then installing 3.5? I used: pkg_delete -dfv Firefox 3.0.11,1 It worked fine. T

Re: Firefox 3.5...

2009-08-26 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 11:32 +0100, Peter Harrison wrote: > I've Firefox 3.0.11,1 on my 7.2-release system at the moment. Anyone > offer some advice on moving up to 3.5? > > Is it as simple as pkg_delete'ing 3.0 and then installing 3.5? > > Thanks for any thoughts. Should be, or if you use portup

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-26 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 8:30 AM, Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Adam Vande More : > > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Bill Moran >wrote: > > > > > Adam Vande More wrote: > > > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Bill Moran < > wmo...@potentialtech.com > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > >

Re: Can partitions span more than one drive?

2009-08-26 Thread RW
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:45:47 -0400 John Almberg wrote: > Question: is it possible to just expand my existing /backup > partition to encompass both the current drive and the new drive? I'm > guessing not, since Chapter 8 in "Absolute FreeBSD" says that a > partition is part of a slice, You can

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-26 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 15:44:41 Adam Vande More wrote: [450 lines including multiple signatures and twelve levels of quoting, all to say:] > Specifically what am I confused on?  Or are you just going to continue > with the personal attacks?  You've offered no technical rebuttal, simply > in

Re: Removing firefox-2.0.0.20_9,1 from system

2009-08-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jerry writes: > I recently installed openoffice.org-3.1.0_2 on my system. For some > reason it brought in firefox-2 also. I all ready had Firefox-3.5 > installed. I do not want or need two different installations of Firefox > on my system. > > Firefox-2 appears to be required by these programs. >

question about security updates

2009-08-26 Thread Jason
I was wondering in the case of openssl: http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:08.openssl.asc Corrected: 2009-04-22 14:07:14 UTC (RELENG_7, 7.2-PRERELEASE) 2009-04-22 14:07:14 UTC (RELENG_7_2, 7.2-RC2) 2009-04-22 14:07:14 UTC (RELENG_7_1, 7.1-RE

Re: hard disk failure - now what?

2009-08-26 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 02:51:41PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: > >> Buy spinrite, no matter what. > > It's OS/FS independent. it works on the bits stored on the magnetic > platters, NOT on a filesystem. TiVo, Linux, BSD and Mac OSX drives > are treated the same. Bits on a magnetic platter. It's rec

Re: Serial console trouble: loader and login works, but no kernel messages

2009-08-26 Thread Thomas Backman
On Aug 26, 2009, at 18:04, Danny Braniss wrote: you need to set hint.uart.0.flags="0x10" danny I already tried that (in /boot/loader.conf); it shows up in dmesg (and didn't before), but still no luck. Regards/thanks, Thomas ___ freebsd-que

Re: Firefox 3.5...

2009-08-26 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/8/26 Wayne Sierke : > On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 11:32 +0100, Peter Harrison wrote: >> I've Firefox 3.0.11,1 on my 7.2-release system at the moment. Anyone >> offer some advice on moving up to 3.5? >> >> Is it as simple as pkg_delete'ing 3.0 and then installing 3.5? >> >> Thanks for any thoughts. >

Re: Firefox 3.5...

2009-08-26 Thread David Southwell
> 2009/8/26 Wayne Sierke : > > On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 11:32 +0100, Peter Harrison wrote: > >> I've Firefox 3.0.11,1 on my 7.2-release system at the moment. Anyone > >> offer some advice on moving up to 3.5? > >> > >> Is it as simple as pkg_delete'ing 3.0 and then installing 3.5? > >> > >> Thanks for

Re: Serial console trouble: loader and login works, but no kernel messages

2009-08-26 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:10 PM 8/26/2009, Thomas Backman wrote: danny I already tried that (in /boot/loader.conf); it shows up in dmesg (and didn't before), but still no luck. Try adding it to /boot/device.hints eg hint.uart.0.at="isa" hint.uart.0.port="0x3F8" hint.uart.0.flags="0x10" hint.uart.0.irq="4" hin

Re: hard disk failure - now what?

2009-08-26 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:10:38 +0200 cpghost wrote: > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 02:51:41PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: > > >> Buy spinrite, no matter what. > > > > It's OS/FS independent. it works on the bits stored on the magnetic > > platters, NOT on a filesystem. TiVo, Linux, BSD and Mac OSX drives

Re: Serial console trouble: loader and login works, but no kernel messages

2009-08-26 Thread Thomas Backman
On Aug 26, 2009, at 18:16, Mike Tancsa wrote: Or, if you want to use loader.conf, try hw.uart.console="io:0x3f8" ---Mike That solved it! Thanks a lot!! :) Regards, Thomas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: question about security updates

2009-08-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 09:08:17AM -0700, Jason wrote: > I was wondering in the case of openssl: > > http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:08.openssl.asc > > Corrected: 2009-04-22 14:07:14 UTC (RELENG_7, 7.2-PRERELEASE) > 2009-04-22 14:07:14 UTC (RELENG_7_2, 7

Re: hard disk failure - now what?

2009-08-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:46:50PM -0600, Kelly Martin wrote: > plugging the drive in and accessing it, I heard those tell-tale signs > of hard drive failure: clicks and pops and other unusual noises, so I > know that it has some damage. I hate those sounds, having heard them > on failing drives to

Problem syncing Palm TX with jpilot on FreeBSD 8.0-BETA3

2009-08-26 Thread Tony McC
Hello, I am running FreeBSD 8.0-BETA3 amd64 and am having trouble syncing my Palm TX with jpilot. This used to work with 7.2-STABLE amd64 and I suspect I'm just not using the usb: connection correctly but have not been able to find a solution by searching the archives. I am running a custom ke

Re: Can partitions span more than one drive?

2009-08-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 08:45:47AM -0400, John Almberg wrote: > Question: is it possible to just expand my existing /backup partition > to encompass both the current drive and the new drive? I'm guessing > not, since Chapter 8 in "Absolute FreeBSD" says that a partition is > part of a slice,

Re: Problem syncing Palm TX with jpilot on FreeBSD 8.0-BETA3

2009-08-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 06:54:25PM +0100, Tony McC wrote: > Hello, > > I am running FreeBSD 8.0-BETA3 amd64 and am having trouble syncing my > Palm TX with jpilot. This used to work with 7.2-STABLE amd64 and I > suspect I'm just not using the usb: connection correctly but have not > been able to

Re: Firefox 3.5...

2009-08-26 Thread Peter Harrison
Wednesday, 26 August 2009 at 23:54:12 +0930, Wayne Sierke said: > On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 11:32 +0100, Peter Harrison wrote: > > I've Firefox 3.0.11,1 on my 7.2-release system at the moment. Anyone > > offer some advice on moving up to 3.5? > > > > Is it as simple as pkg_delete'ing 3.0 and then inst

Re: Firefox 3.5...

2009-08-26 Thread Peter Harrison
Wednesday, 26 August 2009 at 11:55:38 -0400, ill...@gmail.com said: > 2009/8/26 Wayne Sierke : > > On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 11:32 +0100, Peter Harrison wrote: > >> I've Firefox 3.0.11,1 on my 7.2-release system at the moment. Anyone > >> offer some advice on moving up to 3.5? > >> > >> Is it as simple

Re: Firefox 3.5...

2009-08-26 Thread Peter Harrison
Wednesday, 26 August 2009 at 10:37:48 -0400, Jerry said: > On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:32:09 +0100 > Peter Harrison wrote: > > > I've Firefox 3.0.11,1 on my 7.2-release system at the moment. Anyone > > offer some advice on moving up to 3.5? > > > > Is it as simple as pkg_delete'ing 3.0 and then insta

Re: hard disk failure - now what?

2009-08-26 Thread George Davidovich
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 08:07:41PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:46:50PM -0600, Kelly Martin wrote: > > plugging the drive in and accessing it, I heard those tell-tale > > signs of hard drive failure: clicks and pops and other unusual > > noises, so I know that it has some

Re: hard disk failure - now what?

2009-08-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:13:48PM -0700, George Davidovich wrote: > > If the drive is that bad, it is doubtfull if dd or ddrescue will be > > able to get a good copy. > > Probably true. I hesitate to suggest this, but sticking the drive in a > freezer (preferrably in a ziplock bag) for a few ho

Re: hard disk failure - now what?

2009-08-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:23:47PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:13:48PM -0700, George Davidovich wrote: > > > > If the drive is that bad, it is doubtfull if dd or ddrescue will be > > > able to get a good copy. > > > > Probably true. I hesitate to suggest this, but st

Re: hard disk failure - now what?

2009-08-26 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:13:48 -0700, George Davidovich wrote: > Probably true. I hesitate to suggest this, but sticking the drive in a > freezer (preferrably in a ziplock bag) for a few hours or overnight > might help. Stories from people claiming "I swear it works!" go back > years. I heared

Re: hard disk failure - now what?

2009-08-26 Thread George Davidovich
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 04:45:40PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:23:47PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:13:48PM -0700, George Davidovich wrote: I > > remember this special non-condictive 3M fluid that can be used to > > cool electronics. A

Re: hard disk failure - now what?

2009-08-26 Thread Scott Schappell
On Aug 26, 2009, at 14:14:51, George Davidovich wrote: I believe you. I saw a similar scene in a movie, so I already knew it had to be true. Bonus points for anyone that can add to this thread's collection of off-topic but semi-interesting trivia and name the movie. What is "The Abyss" for

RE: hard disk failure - now what?

2009-08-26 Thread Gary Gatten
I had a laptop years ago that started to die, but seemed to work OK when first removed from a cold car. After an hour or so it would die. I eventually put it in the freezer long enough to get what I needed off the drive, so in some cases I would agree that cold is good! -Original Message

Re: hard disk failure - now what?

2009-08-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 02:14:51PM -0700, George Davidovich wrote: > > > > A number of supercomputers from Cray and Control Data and maybe some > > other places used this sort of thing on some experimental systems. I > > don't know if any ever were put in to commercial production. They > > subm

Re: hard disk failure - now what?

2009-08-26 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:30:59 -0500, "Gary Gatten" wrote: > I had a laptop years ago that started to die, but seemed to work OK when > first removed from a cold car. After an hour or so it would die. I > eventually put it in the freezer long enough to get what I needed off > the drive, so in some

RE: hard disk failure - now what?

2009-08-26 Thread Gary Gatten
Naw, I don't recall the POST error exactly, but from what I remember it couldn't find a boot device. Could've been the controller, but from what I recall I swapped the drive (later) and all was good. I really don't recall though - I could've put the "bad" drive in a good laptop and fixed it that

Re: hard disk failure - now what?

2009-08-26 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:07:41 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > If the drive is that bad, it is doubtfull if dd or ddrescue will be able to > get a good copy. There's an additional problem: Let's assume dd creates an 1:1 copy of the file system in its actual state - nobody guarantees that this file sys

Re: hard disk failure - now what?

2009-08-26 Thread Al Plant
Gary Gatten wrote: I had a laptop years ago that started to die, but seemed to work OK when first removed from a cold car. After an hour or so it would die. I eventually put it in the freezer long enough to get what I needed off the drive, so in some cases I would agree that cold is good!

Information on Setting up a Jailed Webserver

2009-08-26 Thread APseudoUtopia
Hello, I have a small site which runs PostgreSQL, Nginx, and PHP. I'm looking into running nginx inside a jailed host on my server for security reasons (eg, if there is a hole in a php script). The website root is actually a working copy of my subversion repository. I have svnserve running throug

Re: Information on Setting up a Jailed Webserver

2009-08-26 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:59 PM, APseudoUtopia wrote: > Hello, > > I have a small site which runs PostgreSQL, Nginx, and PHP. I'm looking > into running nginx inside a jailed host on my server for security > reasons (eg, if there is a hole in a php script). > > The website root is actually a worki

Re: Information on Setting up a Jailed Webserver

2009-08-26 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 27 August 2009 am 11:10:37 Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:59 PM, APseudoUtopia wrote: > > > > Also, how memory-intensive is a jail? > > Very light when compared to other virtualization methods. jails share the kernel but not the world. So, there will be only one kern

Re: Information on Setting up a Jailed Webserver

2009-08-26 Thread Thomas Wahyudi
may be it will better to imagine that jail is a different computer, so if your jail need connection to main host it will connect like other computer that not running in jail. you can do file:// from main host to jail but not from jail to main host. As far I know jail is a method so memory intens

Re: hard disk failure - now what?

2009-08-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:03:58AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:07:41 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > > If the drive is that bad, it is doubtfull if dd or ddrescue will be able to > > get a good copy. > > There's an additional problem: Let's assume dd creates an 1:1 copy > of th

Can anyone reproduce this Samba problem?

2009-08-26 Thread John W
I have been trying to set up a 'dropbox' Samba share on FreeBSD, but am not having luck. I went back and forth on the Samba ML for a bit, and now I'm trying to determine if I am seeing FreeBSD-specific bad behavior. Could anyone out there see if they can reproduce my issue on FreeBSD? I have a si

Re: hard disk failure - now what?

2009-08-26 Thread Sebastian Seidl
George Davidovich wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 04:45:40PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:23:47PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:13:48PM -0700, George Davidovich wrote: I remember this special non-condictive 3M fluid that can be used t

Re: hard disk failure - now what?

2009-08-26 Thread Mark Stapper
Gary Gatten wrote: > Naw, I don't recall the POST error exactly, but from what I remember it > couldn't find a boot device. Could've been the controller, but from > what I recall I swapped the drive (later) and all was good. I really > don't recall though - I could've put the "bad" drive in a goo