Re: Process substitution in bash - doesn't work

2003-11-21 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 21), Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto said: Hello all, Whenever I try something like vi (diff file1 file2) in bash I get an empty file on /dev/fd/63.. is there a way to make it work? Or does FreeBSD not support this? Do you have fdescfs mounted on /dev/fd

Re: FreeBSD Motherboard survey...

2003-11-21 Thread paul beard
On Nov 21, 2003, at 9:53 AM, Philip Hallstrom wrote: Hi all - I'm wanting to build my own computer to run FreeBSD, but don't have the slightest idea (well, maybe the slightest :) what motherboard to buy. I'd like one that has built-in lan/audio that works in FreeBSD, but in my searching

Slow creating lots of files...

2003-11-21 Thread Marco Greene (Home)
Doing some further research into my NetBackup slow restore performance...I have noticed that if I create a lot of small filesit can take about 10 times as long as creating one big file of the same size. With a sample set of 500MB... Creating 500MB with of text files (about 30,000 of them)

Re: Slow creating lots of files...

2003-11-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 02:57:41PM -0500, Marco Greene (Home) wrote: Doing some further research into my NetBackup slow restore performance...I have noticed that if I create a lot of small filesit can take about 10 times as long as creating one big file of the same size. Well, that doesn't

Re: 200gb hard drive?

2003-11-21 Thread Robert Huff
Sergey 'DoubleF' Zaharchenko writes: A better question for the list: did something change in df sometime in 5.x? Because the numbers in the three columns used to match (modulo rounding error); if you dipped into the reserve pool No, it didn't. 4.8-RELEASE: Now that's

Re: FreeBSD, FHS, and /mnt/cdrom

2003-11-21 Thread Tillman Hodgson
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 03:41:16PM +0100, Frank Murphy wrote: The folks at the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) are discussing (again) where directories for recurring temporary mount points should go. Recurring temporary mount points are for things like cdroms, floppies, and digital cameras

MailScanner and sendmail

2003-11-21 Thread Micheal Patterson
Has anyone successfully gotten MailScanner working with a version of sendmail from version 8.12.9 onward? I tried to add this last night and ran into an evil circle of permissions issues. Set normally, mail would go into the clientqueue after scanned, but owned by root with 600 permissions and

Re: DVD-RAM on FreeBSD 5.1R (LG 4040)?

2003-11-21 Thread Stefan A. Deutscher
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 04:13:25PM -0600, Marc Wiz wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:17:37PM +, Stefan A. Deutscher wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 12:26:11AM +, Stefan A. Deutscher wrote: Hi all, just got an ATAPI LG 4040 multiwriter (CD-R/RW, DVD+/-R,+/-RW, and DVD-RAM)

Re: compiling ext2fs into a kernel

2003-11-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
DG [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My first question is: what documentation is there on the available kernel options? [I don't run 5.x, but...] I thought that was supposed to be a NOTES file in the conf directory. Looks like it doesn't include EXT2FS; that might be worth a bug report. My second

SMC Networks Router with HP Printer?

2003-11-21 Thread Dr Lyman Hazelton
I have an SMC Networks model SMC7004ABR router which forms the hub of my network. It has a parallel printer port and a queueing system with a fair amount of RAM, so it acts somewhat like an LPR printer queue, though it does not have any smarts for doing filtering. I would like to (1) assign

Re: FreeBSD, FHS, and /mnt/cdrom

2003-11-21 Thread Dan Strick
The folks at the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) are discussing (again) where directories for recurring temporary mount points should go. Recurring temporary mount points are for things like cdroms, floppies, and digital cameras as well as HD partitions from other OSes (like MS Windows).

Re: Process substitution in bash - doesn't work

2003-11-21 Thread Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto
Dan Nelson wrote: Do you have fdescfs mounted on /dev/fd ? No I didn't, that solved it. Thank you. -- Herculano de Lima Einloft Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: hostnames and interfaces

2003-11-21 Thread Michael K. Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 20, 2003, at 5:42 PM, Marty Landman wrote: At 08:17 PM 11/20/2003, paul van den bergen wrote: to expand on this, there is a potential many to many relationship here between host names and IP addresses (strickly speaking that is what dns

[doc pointer] Re: HD error: BAD SUPER BLOCK

2003-11-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Robert Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: this is the problem: I had a machine running FreeBSD 4.7-Stable. There I added a 80GB harddisk. This harddrive I wanted to install on my other machine running FreeBSD 4.9-Release. This disk is ad6 so I added /dev/ad6/storageufs

RE: Slow creating lots of files...

2003-11-21 Thread Derrick Ryalls
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 02:57:41PM -0500, Marco Greene (Home) wrote: Doing some further research into my NetBackup slow restore performance...I have noticed that if I create a lot of small filesit can take about 10 times as long as creating one big file of the same size. Ever

Re: FreeBSD Motherboard survey...

2003-11-21 Thread Philip Hallstrom
On Nov 21, 2003, at 9:53 AM, Philip Hallstrom wrote: Hi all - So... I wrote a survey app that I'm hoping lots of you will fill out. It let's you pick the brand/model of motherboard, then indicate what onboard features work (lan, audio, video, usb, firewire, ide, sata, scsi, raid,

Re: MailScanner and sendmail

2003-11-21 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: Micheal Patterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 2:25 PM Subject: MailScanner and sendmail Has anyone successfully gotten MailScanner working with a version of sendmail from version 8.12.9 onward? I tried to add

Re: firewall rules do not get read

2003-11-21 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: Alex de Kruijff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chip [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FreeBSD Questions List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 1:24 PM Subject: Re: firewall rules do not get read On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 04:19:09PM -0800, Chip wrote: Alex de

Unable to share 100MB Zip medium between ATAPI-FD and USB ZIP

2003-11-21 Thread Lars Köller
Dear experts, I'm using FreeBSD-4.9 RELEASE on two different machines. One with an NEC 100MB ATAPI Zip drive and another with an 250MB USB Zip drive. The 100MB medium can't be exchanged between the two drives when it is labled and ufs formatted. The partition and label in the 250 MB

Re: Disklabel problem IBM SCSI3 disks, vinum too

2003-11-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
[Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Quotation broken. On Friday, 21 November 2003 at 9:25:58 -0500, Bob Collins wrote: At 08:41 PM 11/19/2003, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Quotation broken.

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2003-11-21 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2003/03/09 22:09:31 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2003-11-21 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

Re: tcp wrappers getaddrinfo

2003-11-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Antoine Jacoutot [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I get a lot of those warning messages in my logs. Is there any way I could tell inetd / tcp wrappers to turn those off ? inetd[93598]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 23: can't verify hostname: getaddrinfo(.imaginet.fr, AF_INET) failed

Re: Automatically encrypting data files in a partition.

2003-11-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Paul Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need a way to store different directory trees and files with different encryption keys, i.e.. /data/mars /data/mars/one /data/mars/two etc all are encrypted with one key and /data/venus /data/venus/one /data/venus/two etc, would have a

Re: Arplookup error.

2003-11-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Sorin Chiorean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed a new FreeBSD 4.9 box and is running as a Firewall/NAT device for a small network. I am getting this error twice per day : /kernel: arplookup 100.93.140.1 failed: host is not on local network Everything works ok without any problems for

Re: dos2unixtime(): month value out of range

2003-11-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ion-Mihai Tetcu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I get a lot of entries like those below on a 5.1R-p10 machine with a fat32 mounted. I rember seeing something like this a log time ago 2.something but I haven't seen them since. Any hints ? Nov 20 19:06:59 it kernel: deget(): . entry at clust

Re: a good way to save a keystroke?

2003-11-21 Thread Scott W
Marty Landman wrote: I wanted to look at a file and figured why not pipe the output of which to more, which of course didn't work so I figured if I backticked the which output with more in front that would work, and apparently it does (though I'm not sure that the cmd itself wasn't

Re: customized /usr/share/skel

2003-11-21 Thread Scott W
Dru wrote: I'd like to customize /usr/share/skel. It's an easy matter to edit /usr/src/share/skel/Makefile and to make my own dot files. However, will my customizations get overwritten when I make my next world? If so, what's the best way to go about preventing my files from being overwritten?

Re: Static IP and fully qualified domain names

2003-11-21 Thread Scott W
Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: Hi! This question is inspired by a recent mail on this list. My ISP was so nice to give me a domain name (pukruppa.net) and assign it statically to an IP (213.146.114.24). [So now everybody in the world can telnet pukruppa.net and crack my private machine :-) ] From

Re: dmesg.today-dmesg.yesterday

2003-11-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How does dmesg.today get rotated to dmesg.yesterday? I suspect my dmesg.today of being corrupted by old info. I have gotten the following message in my security output for the last four days: pid 4062 (clamd), uid 3848: exited on signal 11 It

Re: a good way to save a keystroke?

2003-11-21 Thread Marty Landman
At 08:40 PM 11/21/2003, Scott W wrote: So yep, it's doing what you want, the way you wanted to...use something similar fairly often myself, although note that the 'current' standard for executing commands is now $(cmd), eg more $(which apachectl) I get FreeB more $(which apachectl) Illegal

Re: a good way to save a keystroke?

2003-11-21 Thread Scott W
Marty Landman wrote: At 08:40 PM 11/21/2003, Scott W wrote: So yep, it's doing what you want, the way you wanted to...use something similar fairly often myself, although note that the 'current' standard for executing commands is now $(cmd), eg more $(which apachectl) I get FreeB more

Re: FreeBSD, FHS, and /mnt/cdrom

2003-11-21 Thread Scott W
Frank Murphy wrote: The folks at the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) are discussing (again) where directories for recurring temporary mount points should go. Recurring temporary mount points are for things like cdroms, floppies, and digital cameras as well as HD partitions from other OSes

Re: a good way to save a keystroke?

2003-11-21 Thread Robin Schoonover
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 21:04:43 -0500, Scott W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marty Landman wrote: At 08:40 PM 11/21/2003, Scott W wrote: So yep, it's doing what you want, the way you wanted to...use something similar fairly often myself, although note that the 'current' standard for

Re: a good way to save a keystroke?

2003-11-21 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
Marty Landman wrote: At 08:40 PM 11/21/2003, Scott W wrote: So yep, it's doing what you want, the way you wanted to...use something similar fairly often myself, although note that the 'current' standard for executing commands is now $(cmd), eg more $(which apachectl) I get FreeB more

Re: Sendmail/'host name lookup failure'

2003-11-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jeff Gentry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The other day I rebooted my FreeBSD machine. Ever since then, messages to hotmail.com and yahoogroups.com are not going through - the mail logs report that there is a 'host name lookup failure' to the specific MX hosts (eg 'mx1.hotmail.com'). The thing

Re: Total newbie: What's after installation?

2003-11-21 Thread Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.
[cross-posted in attempt to change forums] Mazen S. Alzogbi wrote: Hi, It's my first time using FreeBSD so wish me luck! :) I installed the OS, logged on as root and I have now the prompt in front of me, now what? I installed Gnome but the system didn't reboot using the Gnome interface.

Re: Restricting SSH access to only a users home directory.....

2003-11-21 Thread Jerry M. Howell II
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:59:00AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there , Can any body tell me how i can restrict an user SSH to his own home directory . I am using FreeBSD OpenSSH_2.9 FreeBSD SSH protocols 1.5/2.0 . Any links or help will be appriciated Shrikant What

login question

2003-11-21 Thread Vulpes Velox
Here is what I want to do... 1: Set up a server for storing users/groups/permissions/passwords. 2: Export it to other machines, with out exporting the file to all machines. 3: Set up other machines to check that when some on tries to login. How would I go about setting this up? I looked at

Bit Torrent

2003-11-21 Thread Ralph
Hi All, Was wondering if anyone out there knows of a bittorrent port for freebsd? I am running a tracker now in windows and would love to do it in Freebsd. Thank you, Ralph ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Bit Torrent

2003-11-21 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 21), Ralph said: Was wondering if anyone out there knows of a bittorrent port for freebsd? I am running a tracker now in windows and would love to do it in Freebsd. ports/net/py-bittorrent -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[port pointer] Re: Bit Torrent

2003-11-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ralph [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Was wondering if anyone out there knows of a bittorrent port for freebsd? I am running a tracker now in windows and would love to do it in Freebsd. How about /usr/ports/net/py-bittorrent? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: login question

2003-11-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Vulpes Velox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here is what I want to do... 1: Set up a server for storing users/groups/permissions/passwords. 2: Export it to other machines, with out exporting the file to all machines. 3: Set up other machines to check that when some on tries to login. How

Re: Bit Torrent

2003-11-21 Thread Ralph
Thank you! - Original Message - From: Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ralph [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 10:17 PM Subject: Re: Bit Torrent In the last episode (Nov 21), Ralph said: Was wondering if anyone out there knows of a bittorrent

linux-mozilla-devel-1.6a

2003-11-21 Thread Gary Kline
Well, live 'n' learn. Thiks will be the last time I install an alpha port! Anybody know if the missing shared libraries are available?? tia, people, gary pg 19:35 tao [2436] nsNativeComponentLoader: GetFactory(libqfaservices.so) Load FAILED with

dual-boot winxp freebsd 5.1

2003-11-21 Thread Robertsen A. Riehle
I am trying to dual-boot winxp and freebsd 5.1-stable. I installed the went through the prescribed routine. 1. Installing windows first. 2. Installing freebsd next. 2. Copy /boot/boot1 to c:\bootsect.bsd 3. add the line C:\bootsect.bsd=FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE to c:\boot.ini At this

Re: login question

2003-11-21 Thread Vulpes Velox
On 21 Nov 2003 22:22:38 -0500 Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vulpes Velox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here is what I want to do... 1: Set up a server for storing users/groups/permissions/passwords. 2: Export it to other machines, with out exporting the file to all machines.

Sendmail Problem Stable 4.0

2003-11-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear All I have a FreeBSD 4.0 stable box with Sendmail, ipfilter and apache working on it. I am changing my setup here to use the box principally as a firewall and pass or relay mail through it to an SMTP server behind the firewall. The SMTP mails are rejected. The SMTP gets thru when the

Re: loader(8) question

2003-11-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[Note: redirected to freebsd-stable] Oliver Neubauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I just recently upgraded from 4.3 to 4.9 RELEASE by doing a clean install. While I am able to boot the system fully, I have noticed the error message no /boot/loader upon inital boot, with: loader(8)

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