The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-04-09 - 2006-04-29

2006-04-30 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Re: Intel Macs and FreeBSD?

2006-04-30 Thread Mark Edwards
On Apr 27, 2006, at 1:52 PM, Bill Moran wrote: On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:47:37 -0500 James Riendeau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why? Mac OS X has a complete unix freebsd-like core called darwin ( http://www.darwin.org ). There's no reason to install freebsd on it. Just install Mac Developer

libexpat.so.5 not found

2006-04-30 Thread dharam paul
I am getting folloing error while I try to start apache : /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libexpat.so.5 not found, required by http d /usr/local/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started usage: /usr/local/sbin/apachectl

Re: libexpat.so.5 not found

2006-04-30 Thread Lars Eighner
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, dharam paul wrote: I am getting folloing error while I try to start apache : /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libexpat.so.5 not found, required by http d /usr/local/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started usage: /usr/local/sbin/apachectl

Re: permissions dilemma

2006-04-30 Thread Gerard Seibert
jekillen wrote: On Apr 29, 2006, at 2:07 PM, Gerard Seibert wrote: jekillen wrote: On Apr 29, 2006, at 4:21 AM, Gerard Seibert wrote: jekillen wrote: On Apr 28, 2006, at 5:38 PM, Gerard Seibert wrote: jekillen wrote: Hello: I have had a problem with installing

Re: libexpat.so.5 not found

2006-04-30 Thread Jonathan Horne
something probably upgraded libexpat.so to .6. my .6 is located at /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so.6. what i do when i get into situations where one app demands an old version, is just symlink the old version to the new. ln -s /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so.6 /usr/local/lib/libexpat.so.5 this will

Re: Intel Macs and FreeBSD?

2006-04-30 Thread Uwe Laverenz
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 02:03:20AM -0700, Mark Edwards wrote: So, how about it? Is the concept of running this off of Ubuntu being easier than FreeBSD just a pipe-dream? I have messed with Debian and Ubuntu, but never tried to run a server off of either. I would love to hear from

playing a dvd

2006-04-30 Thread eoghan
Hi Im trying to open a dvd and play it. I am trying a number of programs but I cannot seem to get it to open my dvd. I have tried totem, kmplayer and finally mplayer from terminal. $mplayer dvd://1 gives me: libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss. libdvdread: Can't open /dev/acd0 for

Re: Intel Macs and FreeBSD?

2006-04-30 Thread John Cruz
Mark Edwards wrote: At the risk of digressing on this topic, I want to add that I am actually at this point deciding between FreeBSD for the migration (i.e. 4.x on an old Gateway to 6.x on a Intel Mac Mini) and Ubuntu. The idea of moving to Ubuntu is that it might be simpler and less

device ath compile in kernel

2006-04-30 Thread dick hoogendijk
I wanted to compile my wifi ath based card in the new kernel, but got some errors that I can't solve myself. After adding device ath I got compilation errors (ath_hal errors), so I put in device ath_hal (although there is no mention of it in the dox). The hal errors dissappeared, but now I got

Re: playing a dvd

2006-04-30 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:09:48 +0100 eoghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Im trying to open a dvd and play it. I am trying a number of programs but I cannot seem to get it to open my dvd. For playing DVD's try ogle. It's very fast, no stuttering audio, etc. OGLE is just fot DVD playing though.

Re: device ath compile in kernel

2006-04-30 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 04:16:22PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote: I wanted to compile my wifi ath based card in the new kernel, but got some errors that I can't solve myself. After adding device ath I got compilation errors (ath_hal errors), so I put in device ath_hal (although there is no

Re: playing a dvd

2006-04-30 Thread eoghan
dick hoogendijk wrote: On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:09:48 +0100 eoghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Im trying to open a dvd and play it. I am trying a number of programs but I cannot seem to get it to open my dvd. For playing DVD's try ogle. It's very fast, no stuttering audio, etc. OGLE is just

Re: device ath compile in kernel

2006-04-30 Thread Eric Schuele
dick hoogendijk wrote: I wanted to compile my wifi ath based card in the new kernel, but got some errors that I can't solve myself. After adding device ath I got compilation errors (ath_hal errors), so I put in device ath_hal (although there is no mention of it in the dox). The hal errors

Re: device ath compile in kernel

2006-04-30 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:42:05 -0500 Eric Schuele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dick hoogendijk wrote: How do I add my ath card ? Loading it from /boot/loader.conf goes well, but I want it in the kernel. I've got the following: # wLAN stuff device wlan_wep device wlan_ccmp device

Re: playing a dvd

2006-04-30 Thread Fabian Keil
eoghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im trying to open a dvd and play it. I am trying a number of programs but I cannot seem to get it to open my dvd. I have tried totem, kmplayer and finally mplayer from terminal. $mplayer dvd://1 gives me: libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss.

RE: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4

2006-04-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net
just for info: our dl320 g4 also has bge interfaces, and they work very well under 6.1-RC1 (even BETA4 was ok). but our server has been bought 2 months ago, maybe there's a newer/different chipset in it. we also have a dl320 g2 being heavily used as lan switches monitor, this server also has bge

apache not starting: FreeBSd 5.4

2006-04-30 Thread dharam paul
This is a n00b here, #apachectl configtest Syntax ok httpd-error.log reports: Mon May 1 00:48:28 2006] [alert] mod_unique_id: unable to gethostbyname([EMAIL PROTECTED]) I am not able to understand what the problem is ServerName 127.0.0.1 (this line is uncommented) Listen 192.168.1.14:80 (This

Re: libexpat.so.5 not found

2006-04-30 Thread dharam paul
Sir, libexpat.so.5 problem is solved by deinstalling and reinstalling apache. But now I am not able to start apache: This is a n00b here, #apachectl configtest Syntax ok httpd-error.log reports: Mon May 1 00:48:28 2006] [alert] mod_unique_id: unable to gethostbyname([EMAIL PROTECTED]) A part

RE: apache not starting: FreeBSd 5.4

2006-04-30 Thread fbsd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is a email address not a web server name. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of dharam paul Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2006 11:50 AM To: freebsd Subject: apache not starting: FreeBSd 5.4 This is a n00b here, #apachectl configtest

gigabit ethernet pci

2006-04-30 Thread dick hoogendijk
The IntelPRO/1000 is a very good gigabit ethernet card, am I correct? I read that it gives lots of diffs and most cards are not that good. I'm looking for a card that is good, supports jumbo frames and is not /that/ expensive ;-) -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++

dirty reboots on FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE

2006-04-30 Thread Mathias Menzel-Nielsen
Hi I just moved to FreeBSD amd64 for my desktop after i have run the i386 port successfully for many years. Most things are fine as usual, but i have some problems with the linux compatibility abi: I installed linux-firefox on a rh-9 base and it works fine but if i access websites with

Re: libexpat.so.5 not found

2006-04-30 Thread Mike Bristow
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 04:57:09PM +0100, dharam paul wrote: #apachectl configtest Syntax ok httpd-error.log reports: Mon May 1 00:48:28 2006] [alert] mod_unique_id: unable to gethostbyname([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Something in the apache config says [EMAIL PROTECTED] (which looks like an email

Re: cyrus-imapd 2.2.13 port failing to build

2006-04-30 Thread Martin Schweizer
Am Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 07:06:08PM +0200 Martin Schweizer schrieb: Hello Mark I had a similar problem and changed to 2.3.3 without large problem (make install, make deinstall and make reinstall). All configs where unchanged. Am Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 02:53:21AM -0700 Mark Edwards schrieb:

Re: playing a dvd

2006-04-30 Thread eoghan
Fabian Keil wrote: eoghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im trying to open a dvd and play it. I am trying a number of programs but I cannot seem to get it to open my dvd. I have tried totem, kmplayer and finally mplayer from terminal. $mplayer dvd://1 gives me: libdvdread: Could not open device

How to remove this (maybe tinydns?)...

2006-04-30 Thread Mare Negrocan
I runned my box freebsd 4.10 and noticed in ps aux this lines: root 212 0.0 0.4 868 104 con- I 8:30PM 0:00.02 readproctitle service errors: .. root 211 0.0 1.1 920 284 con- S 8:30PM 0:00.62 svscan /service root 206

Re: playing a dvd

2006-04-30 Thread Fabian Keil
eoghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fabian Keil wrote: eoghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im trying to open a dvd and play it. I am trying a number of programs but I cannot seem to get it to open my dvd. I have tried totem, kmplayer and finally mplayer from terminal. $mplayer dvd://1

Re: F.B.I. are stealing from suspects

2006-04-30 Thread Kyrre Nygard
Hahaha damn, that was hillarious :P At 05:56 29.04.2006, james dandey wrote: In the San Francisco/Bay area where the cost of living is high. Some FBI are propping up thier lifestyles by stealing from suspects. - Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls

Re: F.B.I. are stealing from suspects

2006-04-30 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006, Kyrre Nygard wrote: Hahaha damn, that was hillarious :P The difference between the IRS and a mugger is that the mugger doesn't make you fill out forms and usually doesn't come back continuously for more plunder. At 05:56 29.04.2006, james dandey wrote: In the San

Hacked? How can I tell what process is sending packets from a particular port (udp/55613)?

2006-04-30 Thread boink
Dear FreeBSD, I see outbound packets from udp/55613, one every 5 seconds, to a single non-routable (10) IP, with destination port increasing by 1 with each packet, with expected ICMP Destination net unreachables from an upstream router. AFAIK, there's no reason for this and I don't like it

Re: Hacked? How can I tell what process is sending packets from a particular port (udp/55613)?

2006-04-30 Thread Frank Steinborn
boink wrote: Dear FreeBSD, I see outbound packets from udp/55613, one every 5 seconds, to a single non-routable (10) IP, with destination port increasing by 1 with each packet, with expected ICMP Destination net unreachables from an upstream router. AFAIK, there's no reason for this

Re: Hacked? How can I tell what process is sending packets from a particular port (udp/55613)?

2006-04-30 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 01:52 PM 4/30/2006, boink wrote: Dear FreeBSD, I see outbound packets from udp/55613, one every 5 seconds, to a single non-routable (10) IP, with destination port increasing by 1 with each packet, with expected ICMP Destination net unreachables from an upstream router. AFAIK, there's no

Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion

2006-04-30 Thread Iantcho Vassilev
Hello guys, in bsdnews.com i found this link http://kerneltrap.org/node/6506 and particulary this: I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots. Playing games with VM is bad. memory copies are _also_ bad, but quite frankly, memory copies often have _less_ downside

Re: Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion

2006-04-30 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 12:09:29AM +0300, Iantcho Vassilev wrote.. Hello guys, in bsdnews.com i found this link http://kerneltrap.org/node/6506 and particulary this: I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots. Playing games with VM is bad. memory copies are

Re: Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion

2006-04-30 Thread Kip Macy
The implementation is 7 years old, not used by default, and was intended for a specific application. There really isn't much to say. -Kip On 4/30/06, Iantcho Vassilev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello guys, in bsdnews.com i found this link http://kerneltrap.org/node/6506 and particulary

Re: cyrus-imapd 2.2.13 port failing to build

2006-04-30 Thread Martin Schweizer
Did you change the settings in Makefile also? Do you use krb5 for authentication? Am Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 02:53:21AM -0700 Mark Edwards schrieb: I am trying to upgrade to the cyrus-imapd 2.2.13 port. I have been running 2.2.12 successfully for many months. This is on FreeBSD 4.11p16.

Solved: How can I tell what process is sending packets from a particular port (udp/55613)?

2006-04-30 Thread boink
Frank, Glenn, Thank you for the *very* quick responses (to try sockstat -46p 55613). Actually, I had misread the source address (red face) - it's from someone else's machine with a similar IP I didn't recognise (second DSL was added earlier this week and a small co-hosting centre is now routed

Re: Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion

2006-04-30 Thread Iantcho Vassilev
My first impression was as of Kip... But i think Linus attitude isn`t very perfect The big guy is showing muscles... On 5/1/06, Kip Macy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The implementation is 7 years old, not used by default, and was intended for a specific application. There really isn't

Re: Sendmail Compile-Time Configuration - Success

2006-04-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-04-30 02:55, Duane Whitty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: No, you probably want something similar to the way SASL2 support is compiled into the base-system version of Sendmail. In my `make.conf' I have the following: SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include

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Re: Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion

2006-04-30 Thread Scott Long
Iantcho Vassilev wrote: Hello guys, in bsdnews.com i found this link http://kerneltrap.org/node/6506 and particulary this: I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots. Playing games with VM is bad. memory copies are _also_ bad, but quite frankly, memory copies

Re: apache not starting: FreeBSd 5.4

2006-04-30 Thread Chad Brown
Mon May 1 00:48:28 2006] [alert] mod_unique_id: unable to gethostbyname([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is your hostname really [EMAIL PROTECTED]? type hostname in a shell. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

RE: Getting DHCP to use resolv.conf? AN ANSWER

2006-04-30 Thread Murray Taylor
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lowell Gilbert Sent: Friday, 28 April 2006 11:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting DHCP to use resolv.conf? fbsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does

Re: How to remove this (maybe tinydns?)...

2006-04-30 Thread J65nko
On 4/30/06, Mare Negrocan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I runned my box freebsd 4.10 and noticed in ps aux this lines: root 212 0.0 0.4 868 104 con- I 8:30PM 0:00.02 readproctitle service errors: .. root 211 0.0 1.1 920 284 con- S

Re: Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion

2006-04-30 Thread jdow
From: Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] Iantcho Vassilev wrote: Hello guys, in bsdnews.com i found this link http://kerneltrap.org/node/6506 and particulary this: I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots. Playing games with VM is bad. memory copies are _also_ bad,

Re: how to sync palm under FreeBSD?

2006-04-30 Thread snnn
David Banning wrote: On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 11:53:30AM +0800, snnn wrote: my OS version is FreeBSD6.0 p7 my palm is m125 I've installed jpilot,coldsync... from ports. However,jpilot said cannot find the device /dev/pilot I have not compiled the kernel with ucom and uvisor. So I loaded

where is libkse?

2006-04-30 Thread snnn
: undefined reference to `kse_create(kse_mailbox*, int)' I cannot find libkse under freebsd6.0. which library should I linked for sys/kse.h ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Problem with possible hdd crash

2006-04-30 Thread Harman
I installed Fbsd 6.0 a few days ago. I had X running one day and I come back to it and move my mouse a bit and my comp freezes up and the screen has some fragmentation lines on it. I do a hard reboot and I find that the image is very distorted, including the manufacturer before the bootloader.

RE: Getting DHCP to use resolv.conf?

2006-04-30 Thread fbsd
I got this from the ISC-dhcp questions list. Note: This might not work, Not tested, No guarantees. Use this as starter code and after testing post what you get working for the list archives. In dhcpd.conf comment out the line option domain-name-servers and add following line include

Re: pkg_add -r openoffice Error: FTP Unable to get ftp:

2006-04-30 Thread doug
Installing the openoffice port is truly an odyssey and one I did not successfully complete. Following the advise earlier in this thread, I abandoned that effort and installed the package. The names for pkg_add are a mystery to me as well. In an effort to get the correct name I walked the trees on

Re: Boot manager beep (revisited)

2006-04-30 Thread Garrett Cooper
Eric Anderson wrote: This thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-December/020572.html mentions a patch to disable the boot manager beep, and also discusses having it optional. I don't have enough asm-fu to make that option happen, but I can tell you, that on

Re: Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion

2006-04-30 Thread Frank Mayhar
On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 00:09 +0300, Iantcho Vassilev wrote: incompetent idiots. quote What do you think about it? It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak, and remove all doubt. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting

Re: Flash 7 and Firefox 1.5.0.2

2006-04-30 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:13:24 +0300 Adi Pircalabu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all, make sure you have www/linuxpluginwrapper installed and properly configured. That being said: On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 22:09:04 -0500 Jeff Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also commented out all of the

Re: pkg_add -r openoffice Error: FTP Unable to get ftp:

2006-04-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 11:04:32PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pkg_add -r openoffice.org-2.0.2.tbz You don't use the full versioned package name, you use the name in the Latest/ directory, which is probably something like openoffice.org. Error: FTP Unable to get

Re: Boot manager beep (revisited)

2006-04-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-04-30 21:36, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Anderson wrote: This thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-December/020572.html mentions a patch to disable the boot manager beep, and also discusses having it optional. I don't have enough asm-fu to