Re: File size discrepancies

2007-09-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Modulok wrote: > I have a file hierarchy of about 18GiB which was copied from a UFS 2 > file system one hard disk to a UFS 2 file system on a gmirror array. > The size of the two hierarchies differ by 12 bytes according to du(1). > No errors were rep

Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64)

2007-09-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Aryeh Friedman wrote: > Would the following procedure work to do an inplace upgrade: > > 1. Download the amd64 iso > 2. Install it on a spare disk/partition > 3. Do a cvsup on it's /usr/src > 4. Make buildworld/buildkernel 4.5 Install the updated k

Re: Sendmail IP interface assignment -- how to?

2007-10-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Rob wrote: > Hi All, > > Working on standard sendmail 8.13.8 on FreeBSD 6.2. Machine has a 2nd > NIC that I want to use for a jail environment, so I'm trying to get rid > of all the extraneous servers listening on it. > > Sendmail was of course li

Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64)

2007-10-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So, I did an SMP/i386 install. I cannot say I regret it since everything > runs absolutely smooth and fast here. > > On the tecnical side (not practical) was it correct to give up 64 bit > processing? This is a question

Re: genuine bulk email

2007-10-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Robin Becker wrote: > these all sound very reasonable. However, we use the same IP for several > virtual hosts ie we have more than one domain name so the reverse DNS is > not clear to me. Is the from address inspected for comparison with the > RDNS

Re: Want to upgrade sendmail in next OS release

2007-10-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > I don't want to build out of ports because it is set up not to > override the base install. Actually, I think your perception is incorrect here. If you want sendmail-8.14.1 on a FreeBSD 6.x system, then install

Re: Using OpenSSL from ports

2007-10-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 White Hat wrote: > Is there any real advantage to installing 'openssl' > from ports rather than using the version installed in > the base system? Other than the fact that the port > version is slightly newer, is there any other major > difference? F

Re: Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?

2007-10-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Jeff D wrote: > When I try to install the Apache port in /usr/ports/www/apache22, it errors > out with > > IGNORED > Unknown Berkeley DB version This is a known problem with the apache22 port. At the moment it only understands about Berkeley

Re: Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?

2007-10-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Jeff D wrote: > Matthew, > > On 10/30/07, Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This is a known problem with the apache22 port. At the moment it only >> understands about Berkeley DB versions up to 4.4.x -- t

Re: Newby Question: What to do when one port can't recognize another port?

2007-10-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Jeff D wrote: > I've swapped in an Ubuntu disk, and I can say that Apache 2.2.4 & BerkeleyDB > 4.6.19 install just fine on Ubuntu right out of the box. There are security advisories against Apache 2.2.4. You should be using 2.2.6 instead. See:

Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3

2007-11-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Roland Smith wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 02:48:47PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote: > >> Concerning this, I've "cvsuping" to 6-CURRENT on a dual-core desktop. The >> system is running well, but I'd really like to move up to 7. Can it be done >> thro

Re: freebsd using sendmail with tls

2007-11-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jonathan Horne wrote: > i know, slightly off topic, but is *on* a freebsd server... right? > > my smtp is the only remaining part of my email system, that has no encryption > options, and i think i would like to add tls (even tho i rarely send smtp

Re: apache13-modperl problem: mod_dir, mod_mime

2007-11-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 futuristick wrote: > I have installed apache13-modperl from ports because I want to run a > simple photoblog. However, there was no 'make config' option for > modules, and here is the output of httpd -l: > > Compiled-in modules: > http_core.c >

Re: make configure vs first make

2007-11-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Le Cocq Michel wrote: > Hello all, I know the question has been ask many times, but I don't > understand why some times if I build a port with make install and then > remove it with pkg_delete and make clean && make clean-depends I can't > obtain aga

Re: Quick question about PF and ALTQ

2007-11-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Peter Boosten wrote: > On Sun, November 11, 2007 15:43, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: >> On 14:03:29 Nov 11, Peter Boosten wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> >>> One quick question: is it possible to filter specific kinds of traffic >>> with altq, traffic t

Re: Sealed Server

2007-11-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 jekillen wrote: > Hello; > I am planning on setting up Cyrus on a machine > and the documentation says that it is intended' > for use on 'sealed' servers (servers for which there > are no accounts that can log into the system) This is really just tr

Re: IPV6 NTP

2007-11-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am running FreeBSD 6.2 in a totally IPV6-only aware environment. I > want to set up an NTP server by pointing to an IPV6 stratum 1 > address. Can I just add an IPV6 address in the NTP.conf file just as > I would do fo

Re: building php5

2007-11-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was testing an application that suggesting my problem was the Suhosin > patch. I built php5 with it and got the application running. Now I want > to rebuild php5. How do I get it to reconfigure? > > I did a make: deinsta

Re: dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Bob Richards wrote: > I have a similar issue, only it is with a Dell server which has 6 SCSI > drives in a hardware raid array. The controller is a Dell PERC 2/Si. > > Is there an equivalent monitor utility for this as well? I am currently > runnin

Re: Personalised patches in ports

2007-11-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Roland Smith wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 11:52:31AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: >> Hi, >> How can I incorporate my patch into the portupgrade system, so that an upgrade of Xpdf will apply my patch? If I download the bzip file,

Re: PF - Carp and vhid limitations

2007-12-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: > I'm interested in using PF to front a web farm where there will be > lots of static IP addresses for SSL affinity. As such, I expect to > have many more than 255 CARP interfaces. But, as I understand it, > I'm li

Re: OpenOffice build

2003-11-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:39:39PM +0100, R.T.G. TAN wrote: > Got 0.86 as output from: > > % perl -MFile::Spec -e 'print $File::Spec::VERSION, "\n";' > > as well as did the: > >% use.perl port > > and cleaned out the openoffice port before portinstalling it > again, still failed

Re: Linux_Base 8

2003-11-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 12:42:59AM -0800, E. J. Cerejo wrote: > I'm running FBSD4.9 release and I'd like to use > linux_base 8 instead of 7 but when you install a port > that requires the linux emulator it automatically > installs linux_base 7 what do I need to do to change > this to linux_base 8?

Re: extending vnode disks

2003-11-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 09:39:09PM +, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > I'm just trying to work out if there is a better way of resizing vnode > disks. ATM I'm basically tar up the contents, rebuilding the vnode , > then restoring the tar. Is there anyway I can extend the file and the > filesystem

Re: suidperl in ports?

2003-11-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:11:18PM -0200, Alex Soares de Moura wrote: > Hello, > > I just did a perl portupgrade from perl-5.8.0 to perl-5.8.1_2 > and suidperl is apparently missing. Some apps the server runs > need suidperl. Do someone can help? > At the minimum we need to rollback to the perl-

Re: pkgdb -F and a few other questions

2003-11-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 05:33:35PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey All, > By now I have posted alot of questions and you are probably getting > tired of seeing my name in your inbox... But I have yet another for > you. I am currently running FreeBSD 5.1-Current, I have SquirrelMail > 1.

Re: Perl and OpenWebMail question...

2003-11-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Nov 07, 2003 at 04:03:12PM -0600, Peter Elsner wrote: > Hi list... > > I've been using OpenWebMail with Perl 5.8.0 for some time now. Recently > updated ports > using port upgrade, and now my Perl version is 5.8.1. > > chuck:root # perl -v > > This is perl, v5.8.1 built for i386-freebs

Re: unkown this port

2003-11-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 09:23:13PM -0500, Peter Kok wrote: > I got this port 1658 opening on the server > > > udp4 0 0 *.**.* > udp4 0 0 *.1658 *.* > udp4 0 0 *.**.* > > I checked this internet and this

Re: Instant-workstation is missing

2003-11-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 01:17:20AM +1030, Andrew wrote: > I have been trying to get FreeBSD 5.2 installed but i am unable to find > all the packages that are required on the official cd-rom set i brought. > i have tryed installing by FTP and i am still unable to find them > This gouies for instan

Re: Can't /.../rc.d/slapd.sh start

2003-11-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 07:15:09PM -0700, Aaron wrote: > Hmmm, I just noticed this in the debug output from slapd.sh > > + /usr/local/libexec/slapd -u ldap -g ldap > + _return=1 > + [ 1 -ne 0 ] > + [ -z ] > > I tried running slapd as above from the command line and failed. slapd should have log

Re: Installing Without Video Card

2003-11-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 04:55:52PM -0800, Rishi Chopra wrote: > Is there a way to install FreeBSD without a video card? Can I somehow > install the OS over ethernet without having a video card and monitor > hooked up? > > Please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you can think of a way... Depend

Re: Is there a J2SE implementation for NetBSD?

2003-11-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:33:51PM -0600, Stephen Harper wrote: > I am looking for in omplmentation of J2SE for Net BSD. Does anyone know > if it exists? I believe NetBSD uses essentially the same Java ports as FreeBSD does, so your asking this question here is perhaps less futile than it first a

Re: CVSweb Problem with Netscape Server

2003-11-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 01:16:53PM -0600, Tucker, Laurie wrote: > OK -- > >I have installed CVSWeb on HPUX using a netscape server. After > removing the > -wt from cvsweb.cgi I am able to view the initial page. > > Now I am getting > > NOTE: There are 104 files, but none matches th

Re: Enemy Territory

2003-11-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 12:29:30PM -0700, Robin Schoonover wrote: > Or maybe it was only partially installed (and some of the opengl libs > weren't). That doesn't make sense... So I reinstalled the nvidia-driver > from ports, and tried running tuxracer again. Doh! Crashed X. Of course, > GLX i

Re: backups and devices

2003-11-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 11:41:26AM -, Alex Shaw wrote: > Im trying to decide on a sutable backup procedure for the systems we use. Id > like if possible to use a auto mount multiple tape device, that can > completly store and retrieve all nesecary data as quickly as possible. There > are two l

Re: Nroff error

2003-11-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 03:28:03PM -0500, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > Can someone explain what this error might be: > > nroff -man nasm.1 > nasm.man > troff: fatal error: can't find macro file tty-char > *** Error code 1 > > Long-standing issue on the system I'm using -- it affects usage of manpages

Re: OT - Perl Question

2003-11-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 02:57:04PM -0600, Darryl Hoar wrote: > I am trying to learn perl. I am going through a tutorial and have come > across a syntax error I can't figure out. > > Here's the code: > > print "Please tell me your name: "; > chop ($name=); > > print "Please tell me your national

Re: Newbie: The C / C++ Issue

2003-11-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:00:33PM -0500, Lucas Holt wrote: > I'm also starting to learn objective C (the > competitor to C++) so that I can utilize my Macintosh as a development > platform. The reason apple used objective C was because Mac OS X is > really Nextstep which

Re: md5/des ?

2003-11-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 01:23:35PM +0200, Oles Hnatkevych wrote: > /usr/bin/passwd does my passwords MD5 encrypted (accordingly to /etc/login.conf) > But /usr/sbin/adduser creates users with DES encrypted passwords. > How do I make it use MD5 instead of DES? Seems like it's perls crypt() > problem

Re: Programmatic control of screen-saver

2003-11-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:33:07PM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote: > I have a machine controlling a tester. Tester control and display is via a > virtual console terminal. (X is not installed on the machine) > > I need to blank the screen (screen saver style) when there is no terminal > activity for so

Re: backup drive scheme

2003-11-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:46:39AM -0800, Noah wrote: > > FreeBSD 4.8 -STABLE > > I currently have two 120GB SCSI drives in a machine. one drive is the main > disk and the other drive is a complete exact copy of the first drive. > > I am using rsync every 24 hours to backup drive 1 to drive 2.

Re: backup drive bootabel

2003-11-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:20:14AM -0800, Noah wrote: > I will consider it. in the mean time can somebody explain to me how to make > the 2nd drive bootable. I have seen many different ways to do this. can you > direct me to the most optimal. I want to place a boot section that has no > menu a

Re: statvfs.h

2003-11-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:32:11PM -0500, SWIT wrote: > spiderman# find / -name statvfs.h -print > > > spiderman# > > comes up empty. > now what ? statvfs.h is a new header in 5.x, as are the statvfs() and fstatvfs() functions prototyped in that header file. Basically there's no chance of your

Re: backup drive bootabel

2003-11-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:32:20PM -0800, Noah wrote: > > > i) Make the 2nd disk an identical copy to the 1st one. In this case > > should the 1st drive go AWOL, you would have to open the case and > > either remove the first drive or modify the jumpering on the disks to > > swap their order on t

Re: Dictionary in ports?

2003-11-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 11:06:42PM -0600, Bryan Cassidy wrote: > Is there a stand-alone dictionary port? I would like to have one on the > pc cause im gettin tired of goin online. thanks Well, there's a built-in dictionary that comes with the system. I say 'dictionary', but it's really just a lis

Re: beeping on console...NOT X

2003-11-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:20:43AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all, > > I've seen several posts about how to turn off beeping in X, > but I've not been able to locate a response on how to turn > off console based beeping. I'm using csh, but could use > bash...does someone happent to k

Re: About Kernel Compile

2003-11-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 06:16:47PM +0200, Vahric MUHTARYAN wrote: > I'm Linux Admin , now I start to use and find out FreeBSD ?! I > have a question about kernel. With linux we always get kernel from > www.kernel.org . Now I want to know How can I find out new FreeBSD > kernel ?!!! and How c

Re: PHP.ini

2003-11-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 07:08:40PM +0200, Ian Barnes wrote: > I am having problems parsing php variables. > > say now i goto http://www.testdomain.com/index.php?news=TODAY its not > carrying the news=TODAY variable to the next page. > > I have gone through my php.ini file and i cant find any pro

Re: Fastest way to change IP addresses

2003-11-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 01:35:52PM -0600, Jamie wrote: > > > > > >I want to change the IP address from 200.80.11.7 to 200.80.11.8 > on a FreeBSD machine as quickly as possible. Despite my efforts, I can > only get the change to work by editing rc.conf and rebooting the machine. > Isn't the

Re: bsd-jdk14-patches-4.tar.gz

2003-11-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 04:30:21PM -0600, Charles Howse wrote: > When I go to get the patch at the referenced site, I get a 'malformed url' > error, and can't download it. Try this one: http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/JDK14SCSLConfirm.html Cheers, Matthew -- Dr

Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2003-11-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 10:40:25AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I has a G3 iMac that has broken CD-Rom drive, can it be reformated comppletely from > the web? Not using FreeBSD it can't. FreeBSD on PPC processors is under development, but by no means ready for anyone to actually use yet. Y

Re: BSDPAN

2003-11-17 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 03:33:03PM +, Ceri Davies wrote: > > How do I use BSDPAN? > > I'm assuming that it's reasonably automagic, but have no idea where to > start - I don't seem to have it installed, for one. > > I'm running -STABLE with the base perl. As far as I can tell, there isn't a

Re: Call me stupid...

2003-11-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:31:33PM -0800, Gary Lum wrote: > If I'm reading this correctly, Current is > developmental and should probably not be a production > machine? IS there a way to backout of this? I haven't > done anything to the system after stopping CVSUP. What > if I wiped the directories

Re: Installation problems-Fatal trap 12 error

2003-11-18 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 07:16:29AM -0800, Craig Caughlin wrote: > I'm brand new to FreeBSD (but I've worked with Unix and Linux a little). I'm > trying to install FreeBSD, but I constantly get this Fatal Trap 12: page > fault while in kernel mode error. I don't know where to begin to try and > sol

Re: Can I bakup like this...?? <--user mode Reuben?

2003-11-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 01:28:35PM +1100, Keith Spencer wrote: > Hi all, thanks to all replying. > I just spent many hours finding out my bakup strategy > was useless (didn't know what I was doing I guess) > Now I need to do it properly. > Ruben (and others) > Can I do the tarring of filesystems in

Re: hostnames and interfaces

2003-11-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:17:30PM +1100, paul van den bergen wrote: > I first encountered networking in CISCO land... where IP addresses and host > names seem to be associated... > > what is the freeBSD way? AFAICS, a machine has a defined name regardless of > howmany interfaces it has. if o

Re: Can I install packages only for my release?

2003-11-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:53:49AM -0800, Rahul Fernandez wrote: > Hi, I shall certainly try installing a port instead. I am rather new > to FreeBSD and am unclear as to how I can obtain new packages. When I > run sysinstall, it does not offer new packages. Does that mean that > the new packages ar

Re: Downgrading from current to release or stable?

2003-11-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 04:50:09AM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote: > Is it possible or advisable to downgrade to stable or release from > current? I'm running 5.1-current now, but I'm think I should > probably switch to stable if possible. Down... -- er -- regrading to STABLE is certainly possible,

Re: Staying current with 4.9 - which supfile?

2003-11-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:27:58PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In order to keep a 4.9 system current - do I need to use the > "standard-supfile" or "stable-supfile" with cvsup? That depends on whether you want 4.9-STABLE (stable-supfile), which is the latest incarnation of the 4-STABLE bran

Re: Staying current with 4.9 - which supfile?

2003-11-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 04:29:48PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks much for the hints. After going through the explanations of the > FreeBSD handbook ("difference between STABLE and CURRENT") one more > time, re-reading your email there are some questions remaining - maybe > you could com

Re: Static IP and fully qualified domain names

2003-11-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 10:54:21AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > At 10:42 AM 11/21/2003, Cordula's Web wrote: > >> > >> From reading manuals one should think, that now I could give my > >> machines names like one.pukruppa.net, two.pukruppa.net, etc... > >> and all these would be reachable via inter

Re: Perl configuration

2003-11-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 12:46:26PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Where is the file to modify so that I can point to 5.8.2 and not 5.8.1 ? That would be /etc/make.conf -- the PERL_VER and PERL_VERSION variables ultimately control this behaviour. Set these correctly in /etc/make.conf by re-ru

Re: name server on alternate port

2003-11-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 01:55:01PM +, Mark wrote: > If I want to install a second name server, on a different listening port, > how can I get the resolver libraries to consult the other port too? I want > to add rbldsnd, next to bind, for a large zone. I don't think that's really going to wor

Re: Can I install packages only for my release?

2003-11-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 12:03:35AM -0800, Rahul Fernandez wrote: > > > > > The secret is that once you've installed the system, put away > > sysinstall(1). Learn how to use the system level commands for > > installing packages -- particularly pkg_add(1). Even better, use the > > ports tree. Th

Re: pidentd troubles

2003-11-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 03:28:09PM -0500, Ben Dover wrote: > I was running pidentd server in fbsd 5.1 and ran into a problem. On reboot > thousands of identd processes would be created. This caused an enormous > problem as you can imagine. I ended up doing a pkg_delete of pidentd. Has > anyo

Re: Monitoring a file?

2003-11-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 11:17:57AM +0100, Cordula's Web wrote: > > > A file, let's say, /path/to/a/file, is being modified by > > > an unknown process P(u) at random times. Unfortunately, > > > the name of the program ran by P(u) is unknown. > > > > Have you tried moving the file elsewhere

Re: advice needed on creating hmtl docs?

2003-11-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 12:22:34PM -0500, fbsd_user wrote: > I would really like to use the ms/word docs as source input to some > FBSD hmtl generator to build original hmtl source that apache can > serve up natively. Can any body suggest how to do this? http://wvware.sourceforge.net in ports as

Re: daemon monitoring

2003-11-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 01:19:21AM +, Jez Hancock wrote: > - for each pid, send a CHLD signal to the pid Careful -- not all processes will be set up to deal with SIGCHLD, and some of them will be set up to deal with it in ways that don't meet your expectations. You can use signal '0' to test

Re: Quick Mailing List Solution

2003-11-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 05:52:21PM +1000, Anthony Carmody wrote: > I just got handed a job to do that involves me mailing 6000 people. I > was wondering if there was a way i could use my FreeBSD server to do > this that wont upset my ISP.. You would be well advised to discuss what you're going to

Re: i have linux mandrake

2003-11-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 07:32:53PM -0300, james wrote: > I am trying to migrate to free bsd is there a way for me to put freebsd > on with it woth out loosing mandrake or the files in it ? If you just want to try FreeBSD without installing on your HD yet: http://www.freesbie.org/ It's kind of l

Re: Resizing disk labels

2003-11-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 02:16:52PM +0200, Roland Giesler wrote: > I have installed FreeBSD in a server with the default setting in the label > editor. I hope my terminology is correct, since I'm refering to /etc /usr > etc. Now I've installed a squid, KDE, DHCP, Java (not complete yet!), > Apache

Re: Questions on Setting up new Freebsd 4.9 NAT Firewall

2003-11-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 11:24:39AM -0800, Real Cucumber wrote: > Does anyone know if FreeBSD 4.9 can withstand various attacks such as DoS straight > out of the box, or does it require any 3rd party stateful packet firewalls etc.. to > be installed? Both of the built-in firewall packet filters

Re: backup drive bootabel

2003-11-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 06:39:42AM -0800, Noah wrote: > I am using FreeBSD 4.8 Stable > > # boot0cfg -B -b /boot/mbr -s 1 da1 > boot0cfg: /boot/mbr: unknown or incompatible boot code > # ls -l /boot/mbr > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 512 Aug 24 14:26 /boot/mbr > > > so I am not clear what the iss

Re: Managing passwd files outside /etc

2003-11-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 03:11:05PM +, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > I'm trying to setup a virtual hosting mail environment. I want to > maintain passwd files for users in my virtual tree. Is it possible to do > this with the passwd utility ? For example, I want to manage > /etc/virtual/penguinpowered.

Re: winxp hidden BSD license

2003-11-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:40:49PM +0200, Alin-Adrian Anton wrote: >I remember there was a hidden readme.htm file somewhere inside > windows xp, containing BSD license. > >Can anyone help me find the path/name of it? I don't remember it. > >And where cand I find more info about it?

Re: crontab

2003-11-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:55:54AM -0600, Chris wrote: [ Redirecting output of cron jobs ] > Very cool! Now, what if you do the same, but instead of the normal > crons, can something like this be done with the /etc/periodic/daily, > weekly, and monthly routines? If you don't have one already, c

Re: Arplookup error.

2003-11-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 12:55:19AM -0500, Dragoncrest wrote: [Warnings about ethernet addresses] > >I'd like to know this too. I have a FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE box that exhibits > >the > >same symptoms. The addresses it complains about belong to a colo box on our > >network and a cisco router. > >

Re: Starting new entries in /etc/rc.conf

2003-11-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:00:27PM -0800, Kevin Stevens wrote: > If you're running the U10 headless, dropping DTR on the connection > will, by default, drop the U10 into OpenBoot, stopping execution of the > OS (this is true on most if all Sun boxes, not just the U10). There's > a simple setti

Re: netra t1

2003-11-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 04:36:23PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Guilherme Starvaggi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I would like to know if the computer - NETRA T1 150 from SUN - > > support the FREEBSD system? I am thinking in buy this computer, but I > > have no experience with servers like

Re: results of compiling with -lmysqlclient

2003-11-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 03:39:05AM -0800, Lee Mx wrote: > I just realized that when I compile with -lmysqlclient I am adding the > current version to my program or in my specific case libmysqlclient.so.10. > When I upgrade, as I just did, to libmysqlclient.so.12, I have to > recompile. Is there

Re: results of compiling with -lmysqlclient

2003-11-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 09:39:28AM -0800, Lee Mx wrote: > THanks a lot, Matthew. I assumed as much. I think I am going to start > backing up some of my more frequent libs > to a compat directory. That seems to be the least bad solution. Note that portupgrade(1) and pkg_deinstall(1) do this au

Re: Adding users...

2003-11-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 08:31:27PM +0100, Jean-Baptiste Quenot wrote: > 3) If you want to have your user directories outside of the document > root, you will have to setup an Alias for each user, or to define > another virtual host. But that becomes close to solution 1 in that > c

Re: Cannot perform make install

2003-11-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 01:29:17AM +0200, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: > I think that if you do : > cd / && find /usr/ports/ -type f -name 'readme.html' -exec rm {} \; > and cvsup again you'll get rid of the old directories. Careful... Make that find command: # find /usr/ports -type f -name README

Re: not found...

2003-11-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 05:25:27PM -0600, Ví­ctor Gutiérrez Cruz wrote: > > I am, not found > > PDFlib-Lite-5.0.0-Unix-src.tar.gz You need to cvsup your ports tree: PDFlib-Lite is now at version 5.0.2 -- as is the print/pdflib port. See: http://www.pdflib.com/products/pdflib/download-sour

Re: Problem Booting (Bad Super Block)

2003-11-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 12:56:02AM -0800, Rishi Chopra wrote: > I've started having problems on my FreeBSD box; I've installed FreeBSD > on this system at least 5 times before without any problems. > > This time, the installation took many attempts, and the following error > message occurs when

Re: freebsd 4.8-STABLE hangs on boot with no error message

2003-11-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 09:28:23AM +, Neil Brown wrote: > I'm running freebsd 4.8-STABLE, I installed it a > little while ago and it has been running fine as my > broadband router for a few weeks now, no problems. > > This morning there was a powercut, and when I came to > the machine and att

Re: named (bind) in jail does not start

2003-11-29 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 03:23:48PM +0100, Axel S. Gruner wrote: > > Hi. > > I have configured named in jail (FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p10). > If i want to start named in the jail > > /usr/sbin/named > > i get this error message: > > opensocket_f: bind([0.0.0.0].53): Address already in use > > Ok

Re: sendmail newbie question

2003-11-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 08:36:57PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: [Problems sending mail...] > In a moment. First I'll say what I do know: > > - there is a /var/mail/Marty, empty > - emails to Marty go to root's mailbox with the message "user unknown" > > I don't know much. :) > > I did sendmails

Re: php4...

2003-11-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 09:01:22PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > Looks like I'm missing /usr/local/bin/php, and lang/php4 > is broken. I already have the mod_php4 port installed-- > and working. FUDforums2 is looking for the php bnary, > if I'm interpreting the installation

Re: Continued 4.9-5.x upgrade problems.

2003-11-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 09:45:56PM -0800, Minnesota Slinky wrote: > Also, does anyone know why my emails continue to be > rejected from my laptop with the following error: > > Hi. This is the qmail-send program at radicalv.com. > I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to > the following

Re: How to determine which distribution sets were installed

2003-11-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 10:24:48AM +0100, Paul van Berlo wrote: > is there an easy way to determine which distribution sets were installed > during the FreeBSD installation and after that? I inherited a server and > want to make sure what is and is not installed. Of course I can do all of > this m

Re: No reference to files ???

2003-11-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 09:20:17PM -0500, Xpression wrote: > Hi all, I'm wondering if there is a way to show man > pages and access files like if they were on $PATH, I mean > when I compile a package and install it, there are no > reference to man pages and the "executable" like when I > in

Re: sendmail newbie question

2003-11-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 11:48:18AM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > >However on unix systems, user 'Marty' is not > >automatically the same as user 'marty' or as user 'MARTY'. > If I understand correctly you're saying that by and large, modern Unix > systems are case sensitive but since email is n

Re: php4...

2003-11-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 12:39:07PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: >The fudforum2/install.php script displays:: > > >FUDforum can utilize either MySQL or PosgreSQL database to store it's >data, unfortunately, your PHP does not have support for either one. >Please install or load the

Re: Order of Creation of Partions

2003-11-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 03:02:10PM -0500, Barry Skidmore wrote: > I am preparing to do a fresh install of 4.9-RELEASE, and read in the > Handbook the following recommended partitions, and the order in which > they should be created: > > / > swap > /var > /tmp > /usr > > I would like to have two a

Re: FAQ

2003-12-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003 at 11:17:07AM -0800, Dimitar Rusev wrote: > Hello there! i am trying to install FreeBSD, but as i tried to create the boot > floppy using the fdimage command i got the message that the file is to big. and the > boot.flp is actually 2.88MB! What should I do? Thank you for your

Re: Compiling the kernel

2003-12-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 09:34:43AM -0600, Kenzo wrote: > What happened to > make buildkernel KERNCONF=KERNEL > make installkernel KERNCONF=KERNEL > > did this change in newer version or something? > I thought the above was the new way of rebuilding a kernel. Am I not up to > date? No, what you d

Re: Can't mount UFS in KNOPPIX

2003-12-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 11:16:36PM +0200, Gareth Bailey wrote: > Is it possible to mount freebsd native partitions in > Knoppix? How can this be done? - i have tried 'mount -t > ufs' and 'mount -t ufs -o ufstype=44bsd' BUT Knoppix > doesn't want to know about it. Apparently not -- but you sohlud t

Re: Can't mount UFS in KNOPPIX

2003-12-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
[ Mounting FreeBSD UFS partitions under KNOPPIX ] On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:37:29AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > heh i have done this easy, you need to setup the nfs permissions first > > mount 192.168.0.1:/home/user /mnt/home > > that worked for me no need for -t Yes, that's all very wel

Re: Why no FreeBSD ftp site in India?

2003-12-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 03:40:09PM +0900, Rob wrote: > No one interested there to set up an ftp.in.FreeBSD.org server? > Or is the FreeBSD community in India simply too tiny? Setting up a FreeBSD mirror in India would be welcome, but it does require someone to donate the necessary hardware and ba

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