Simple DNS Configuration

2006-07-24 Thread David Stanford
Hi all, I feel like I'm losing my mind here. It's been a while since I configured named and I can't quite figure out what I'm doing wrong here. Here is my understanding of what is needed to get (a very basic configuration of) named running with a few A records in place: # sh make-localhost

RE: Adaptec 2410SA Raid and Hot swapping

2006-07-24 Thread Tamouh H.
Hey, I have a couple Adaptec 2410SA Raid cards (aac driver) and I was wondering if anyone has had any luck with being able to hotswap drives in FreeBSD 6? If the Adaptec card is no good for hot swapping under FreeBSD, what's the recommended brand? Thanks Daniel I've 2230SLP which

Re: Adaptec 2410SA Raid and Hot swapping

2006-07-24 Thread Jahilliya
On 7/24/06, Tamouh H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I have a couple Adaptec 2410SA Raid cards (aac driver) and I was wondering if anyone has had any luck with being able to hotswap drives in FreeBSD 6? If the Adaptec card is no good for hot swapping under FreeBSD, what's the recommended

Re: problems connecting to cvsup servers

2006-07-24 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Dave wrote: Hello, Is there anything up with the freebsd cvsup servers? I've been trying to update my ports collection for the past two days always getting the same error message: access limit exceeded. I have tried various servers all with the same result. Thanks. Dave. Sounds

iwi cannot allocate firmware DMA memory

2006-07-24 Thread Yousef Raffah
Hi, I'm a happy FreeBSD user and I have it installed on my laptop (Toshiba Tecra A4). However, I noticed recently that my iwi driver goes up and down frequently then suddenly it stops working. When I check dmesg it says: iwi0: could not allocate firmware DMA memory Earlier on 6.1-RELEASE, I was

Re: Simple DNS Configuration

2006-07-24 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Hi, Try this and let us know how it goes. $ORIGIN example.org. $TTL 3600; 1 hour example.org. IN SOAns.example.org. admin.example.org. ( 2006072400 ; Serial 1d; Refresh

auto-guessing filesystems

2006-07-24 Thread Lennon Cook
I have been looking over the tutorial for automounting removable devices at http://www.caia.swin.edu.au/reports/041130A/ , and have come to one interesting point. It has the fstab line: /dev/da0/mnt/usbflash autonoauto 0 0 However, my system doesn't

Re: Simple DNS Configuration

2006-07-24 Thread David Stanford
On 7/24/06, Mikhail Goriachev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Try this and let us know how it goes. $ORIGIN example.org. $TTL 3600; 1 hour example.org. IN SOAns.example.org. admin.example.org. ( 2006072400 ; Serial

Re: DL360 G4 shared network iLo and FreeBSD

2006-07-24 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: Eric Lakin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 1:47 PM Subject: Re: DL360 G4 shared network iLo and FreeBSD On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 11:56:47PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 14:13:57 -0700

Re: auto-guessing filesystems

2006-07-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-07-24 17:56, Lennon Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been looking over the tutorial for automounting removable devices at http://www.caia.swin.edu.au/reports/041130A/ , and have come to one interesting point. It has the fstab line: /dev/da0 /mnt/usbflash auto noauto 0 0

Re: ICH8 chipset support?

2006-07-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Nick Sayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just upgraded my machine at home to a Conroy-ready motherboard - An Asus P5B. This particular motherboard has the smallest fraction of recognized devices I think I've ever come across. From what I can tell, the blame can be placed squarely on the Intel

scsi performance these days

2006-07-24 Thread Jim Pazarena
does FreeBSD (6.1) still operate better on a SCSI drive system compared to EIDE or SATA ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How do I use a second sound device?

2006-07-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
John L [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My laptop has a built-in sound card which works fine, but I would also like to be able to use a USB handset. I load the snd_uaudio driver and plug in the handset, the /dev/audio1.x and /dev/dsp1.x devices appear, but then what? What do I do to get sound

Re: Simple DNS Configuration

2006-07-24 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
David Stanford wrote: Thanks Mikhail, that was it: = @ IN NS ns.example.org. = No worries, glad to hear it's cranking. Now it appears to be working correctly and responding to queries, however I'm noticing I continue to get that same error when I add my

Re: applet viewer for FreeBSD

2006-07-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Only OpenSource [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there an appletviewer for FreeBSD which integrates with Firefox ? Java, I assume you mean. Sure; all the different JDK installations seem to include one. I have installed diablo-jdk-freebsd6.1-i386. Yes, that definitely includes one. pkg_info

Re: IBM x440

2006-07-24 Thread Peter Czanik
Hello, SUSE seemed to find all of them, and mptable lists them as well. I looked at lot's of different man pages, but I could not find any related boot parameter I could experiment with... Bye, CzP On Sunday 23 July 2006 09:56, Peter Czanik wrote: / Hello, // // I'm trying to install

Re: multiple hardware problems on Sony VAIO

2006-07-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Erik Nørgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to get things up working (FBSD 6.1-STABLE) on a VAIO FJ3S notebook, but have trouble with some devices: cardbus, wireless network and sound. And I haven't even tried looking at the built in camera, memory card reader or firewire ... It may

fbsd 6.1 and starting services problem

2006-07-24 Thread zz_11
Hi,    It is my first fbsd 6.1.    I migrate a system from fbsd 6.0 to 6.1.    I have a script postgresql.sh in /usr/local/etc/rc.d.  It is executible.  Also it is working on 6.0 at startup.    But it do not runs in fbsd 6.1.    If I try /usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql.sh start all is fine.    I

freebsd livecd and pentium 1

2006-07-24 Thread jesus martinez
hello. my name is jesus and am writing to you from argentina. i am looking for a freebsd livecd. i have just downloaded fresbie, but i am not sure if is a freebsd.org or an third-party's implementation. does freebsd have a live-cd ? is so, where can i download it ? i want to change my

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-24 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greg Barniskis [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Nick Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 11:10 AM Subject: Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail

Re: Searching a drive and copying files

2006-07-24 Thread Joshua Lewis
Many of the images will have the same name. I somehow managed to copy the same files several times when trying to do backup and restores. At this point in time they are going from my Apple laptop to my FreeBSD server. I am going to start looking for a inexpensive Tape drive to back up my

gmirror: Hardcode providers' names in metadata.

2006-07-24 Thread Daniel BRISTOT de Oliveira
Hi List I'm reading the man page about the gmirror(8) and see the option: -h Hardcode providers' names in metadata. What is this? What it's make? Thaks for all help -- Daniel Bristot de Oliveira http://dbristot.info R João Paez 409 Ap 202 Sta Augusta - Criciúma - SC CEP 88805440 Brazil

internet users based on time+ath

2006-07-24 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hello everyone, We want to bill whoever sharing our internet connection on a monthly bases so basically, I want to release internet access based on time+auth. my FreeBSD is up and running 6.1R what should i do next? I have been told Squid from ports will do the job, but when i took

Postfix

2006-07-24 Thread Grant
Hi, I'm trying to do this. i want postfix to accept ANY mail sent to example1.com like a catch all then any mail that it gets i want it to just bounce it on to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is hosted on another server. So far i can only get postfix to accept from localhost, and when i set the

Re: Enabling sound?

2006-07-24 Thread Greg Groth
I got a SoundBlaster Live! because it was listed as a known working piece of hardware. Apparently this is a newer version of the board that isn't supported yet. Getting it to work is becoming a PITA beyond what I have the time and willpower to put in right now. Is there a piece of sound

Re: problems connecting to cvsup servers

2006-07-24 Thread Dave
Hello, Thanks for your suggestion. I've tried cvsup1 through cvsup9 and let it try to connect upwards of nearly half an hour, i think this issue has something to do with my boxes, but i don't know what. They can contact the various cvsup servers, but everytime they always get the access

Re: freebsd livecd and pentium 1

2006-07-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, hello. my name is jesus and am writing to you from argentina. i am looking for a freebsd livecd. i have just downloaded fresbie, but i am not sure if is a freebsd.org or an third-party's implementation. From where did you download the CD? Was is from a freebsd.org location? For

max number of groups a user can be member of

2006-07-24 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Hi everybody. Could anybody tell me the reason why by default FreeBSD limits the number of groups a user can be member of to 16? Not all servers have 5000k users and today memory is not an issue. Indeed, some servers used just for services have no users apart a few staff users and users to run

Re: scsi performance these days

2006-07-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jim Pazarena [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: does FreeBSD (6.1) still operate better on a SCSI drive system compared to EIDE or SATA ? For some values of better, yes. Especially if the drive supports tagged queueing and your environment has a number of different workloads competing with each other.

RE: Adaptec 2410SA Raid and Hot swapping

2006-07-24 Thread Tamouh H.
Hey, I have a couple Adaptec 2410SA Raid cards (aac driver) and I was wondering if anyone has had any luck with being able to hotswap drives in FreeBSD 6? If the Adaptec card is no good for hot swapping under FreeBSD, what's the recommended brand? Thanks Daniel

Re: Adaptec 2410SA Raid and Hot swapping

2006-07-24 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jul 24, 2006, at 8:30 AM, Tamouh H. wrote: Hey, I have a couple Adaptec 2410SA Raid cards (aac driver) and I was wondering if anyone has had any luck with being able to hotswap drives in FreeBSD 6? If the Adaptec card is no good for hot swapping under FreeBSD, what's the recommended brand?

Re: problems connecting to cvsup servers

2006-07-24 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Dave wrote: Hello, Thanks for your suggestion. I've tried cvsup1 through cvsup9 and let it try to connect upwards of nearly half an hour, i think this issue has something to do with my boxes, but i don't know what. They can contact the various cvsup servers, but everytime they always

Re: problems connecting to cvsup servers

2006-07-24 Thread Alexey Karguine
You can use sysutils/fastest_cvsup. Run it like that: fastest_cvsup -c all and get the list of fastest cvsup servers for your computer location. 2006/7/24, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, Thanks for your suggestion. I've tried cvsup1 through cvsup9 and let it try to connect upwards of

Re: freebsd livecd and pentium 1

2006-07-24 Thread Jim Stapleton
That is pretty small. At the bare minimum level, you might be able to get it up and running, but not be able to do much of any real work on it without more memory. You didn't mention the amount of disk on the machine, but if you want to run X (needed for a Gui) then it will take more that a

Re: Postfix

2006-07-24 Thread jan gestre
On 7/24/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to do this. i want postfix to accept ANY mail sent to example1.com like a catch all then any mail that it gets i want it to just bounce it on to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is hosted on another server. So far i can only get postfix to

Re: max number of groups a user can be member of

2006-07-24 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 24), Roberto Nunnari said: Hi everybody. Could anybody tell me the reason why by default FreeBSD limits the number of groups a user can be member of to 16? Compatibility with the NFS protocol. A google search on nfs 16 groups returned a lot of hits.

Re: Postfix

2006-07-24 Thread Grant
On 24 Jul 2006, at 15:55, jan gestre wrote: On 7/24/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm trying to do this. i want postfix to accept ANY mail sent to example1.com like a catch all then any mail that it gets i want it to just bounce it on to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is hosted on

Re: Postfix

2006-07-24 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jul 24, 2006, at 9:16 AM, Grant wrote: i want postfix to accept ANY mail sent to example1.com like a catch all then any mail that it gets i want it to just bounce it on to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is hosted on another server. If you want to act as an MX secondary, see this section of

Re: max number of groups a user can be member of

2006-07-24 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Thank you Dan. I'll set up a test machine and try a kernel with the limit set to 256. Do you know if that change requires a build world or a buildkernel is enough? Best regards. Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 24), Roberto Nunnari said: Hi everybody. Could anybody tell me the

Subversion web development question.

2006-07-24 Thread Greg Groth
Forgive me if this question is stupid or has been answered before, more than likely this info exists, but I'm not looking in the right place. I work in a small corporation that is heavily dependent on web apps in which I am the sole developer. Currently we're using ASP on Win2K with SQL

Re: multiple hardware problems on Sony VAIO

2006-07-24 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Erik Nørgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to get things up working (FBSD 6.1-STABLE) on a VAIO FJ3S notebook, but have trouble with some devices: cardbus, wireless network and sound. And I haven't even tried looking at the built in camera, memory card reader

RE: Temperature Monitor

2006-07-24 Thread Tamouh H.
On Sunday 23 July 2006 18:10, Tamouh H. wrote: Beautiful! That did the trick. adding to the kernel: device          ichsmb device          smb device          smbus device          intpm and then installing mbmon from source fixed it! out of curiosity and for the sake of

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-24 Thread Freminlins
Ted, On 24/07/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All you have to do to see this is try booting FBSD 6 on a 80386 and compare it's performance to FBSD 3.X on a 386. How are you going to do that, Ted? From the 6.0R release notes: Support for 80386 processors (the I386_CPU kernel

Re: multiple hardware problems on Sony VAIO

2006-07-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Erik Nørgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Erik Nørgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to get things up working (FBSD 6.1-STABLE) on a VAIO FJ3S notebook, but have trouble with some devices: cardbus, wireless network and sound. And I haven't even tried looking at

Re: Mail system Suggestions

2006-07-24 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Bill Moran wrote: I don't know enought about Dovecot in particular to say whether or not the speed is _purely_ the result of caching (and being written in C). But I can state a couple of reasons why the server-side cache helps. Keep in mind that IMAP is specifically designed as a

Re: Subversion web development question.

2006-07-24 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Forgive me if this question is stupid or has been answered before, more than likely this info exists, but I'm not looking in the right place. I work in a I'd recommend searching the subversion mailing lists as well. It's been covered, but it's not stupid :) small corporation that is

Re: Subversion web development question.

2006-07-24 Thread Greg Groth
On 7/24/2006 12:16 PM, Philip Hallstrom wrote: Forgive me if this question is stupid or has been answered before, more than likely this info exists, but I'm not looking in the right place. I work in a I'd recommend searching the subversion mailing lists as well. It's been covered, but it's

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-24 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/24/06, Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ted, On 24/07/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All you have to do to see this is try booting FBSD 6 on a 80386 and compare it's performance to FBSD 3.X on a 386. How are you going to do that, Ted? From the 6.0R release notes:

Re: fbsd 6.1 and starting services problem

2006-07-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi,    It is my first fbsd 6.1.    I migrate a system from fbsd 6.0 to 6.1.    I have a script postgresql.sh in /usr/local/etc/rc.d.  It is executible.  Also it is working on 6.0 at startup.    But it do not runs in fbsd 6.1.    If I try

Re: Simple DNS Configuration

2006-07-24 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi David, David Stanford wrote: Now it appears to be working correctly and responding to queries, however I'm noticing I continue to get that same error when I add my CNAME entry: = @ IN CNAMEwww.example.org. = write: www IN CNAME example.org.

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-24 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/24/06, Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas, On 24/07/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This would be like running Windows 3.1 on a brand new Xeon 5100 dual-core CPU... sure it will run fast* but what the hell are you going to do with it? Play solitaire? You have

Re: max number of groups a user can be member of

2006-07-24 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 24), Roberto Nunnari said: Thank you Dan. I'll set up a test machine and try a kernel with the limit set to 256. Do you know if that change requires a build world or a buildkernel is enough? libc uses NGROUPS_MAX and NGROUPS, so a buildworld is recommended. --

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-24 Thread Greg Barniskis
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From: Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greg Barniskis [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Nick Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 11:10 AM Subject: Re: Are hardware

Re: Subversion web development question.

2006-07-24 Thread Philip Hallstrom
At this point you can manage your files on your workstation and immediately check your results. Then when happy, you can commit your changes with SVN and they get committed to the repository. You don't need subversion to move files into your web tree. That's not what it does. Fair

Re: Mail system Suggestions

2006-07-24 Thread Martin Hepworth
On a side note, I found Outlook 2003 really shoddy/poor at working with IMAP based systems, esp when you have lots of rules to run and lots of emails to download first thing in the morning. eg would easily 10 minutes to synchonise, whereas thunderbird takes about 10 seconds! So from now I say

Re: a good www/picture management port?

2006-07-24 Thread Derrick Ryalls
On 7/22/06, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: anyone know of good picture management application that can be found within ports, to manage and organize pics that i upload? right now, my management system is to: 1) open my folder on my local KDE workstation. create image gallery using the

Re: Subversion web development question.

2006-07-24 Thread Greg Groth
Why would you need to be root? Here's what we do at work: Because /usr/local/www/apache22/data is owned by root. I guess I mistakenly figured that this is where the files should go. I know that you can configure Apache to point to any directory, but was unsure of the consequences of

Re: Subversion web development question.

2006-07-24 Thread Philip Hallstrom
Why would you need to be root? Here's what we do at work: Because /usr/local/www/apache22/data is owned by root. I guess I mistakenly figured that this is where the files should go. I know that you can configure Apache to point to any directory, but was unsure of the consequences of

Re: problem to establish SSH connection from inside jail to the outside world

2006-07-24 Thread S. Wagler
Hi, I've just wanted to tell you, that I've solved the problem by not letting the script run under control of the daemon tools but via a self written perl script. Now, the problem not being able to access TTY no longer exists. Bye, S.Wagler S. Wagler wrote: Hi, I'm currently using

Unable to access Postfixadmin

2006-07-24 Thread Gerard Seibert
Regarding: postfixadmin I cannot seem to get the program to start using the default installation. What I mean is, I inserted this into the httpd.conf file as directed by the installation script: Directory /usr/local/www/postfixadmin Options Indexes AllowOverride AuthConfig /Directory

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-24 Thread Andrew Robinson
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From: Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greg Barniskis [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Nick Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Simple DNS Configuration

2006-07-24 Thread David Stanford
On 7/24/06, Matthias Fechner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi David, David Stanford wrote: Now it appears to be working correctly and responding to queries, however I'm noticing I continue to get that same error when I add my CNAME entry: = @ IN CNAMEwww.example.org.

tar dies on making tape backup

2006-07-24 Thread Jaime
I'm attempting to use tar to feed my filesystem(s) to a DLT tape drive. I've done this with FreeBSD 3 through 5 and DAT (DDS-3 and DDS-4) tapes for years. The command now appears to work for a while and then dies with this message about 2.5 hours into the process:

Re: Simple DNS Configuration

2006-07-24 Thread Derek Ragona
Check your /etc/nsswitch.conf file. You want the line for hosts to be: dns files Also be sure named is running. While it says it is starting do a: ps -ax|grep name -Derek At 04:53 PM 7/24/2006, David Stanford wrote: On 7/24/06, Matthias Fechner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi David,

Re: Simple DNS Configuration

2006-07-24 Thread David Stanford
On 7/24/06, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check your /etc/nsswitch.conf file. You want the line for hosts to be: dns files Also be sure named is running. While it says it is starting do a: ps -ax|grep name -Derek Derek, nsswitch.conf hasn't been modified from the

Re: tar dies on making tape backup

2006-07-24 Thread Micah
Jaime wrote: I'm attempting to use tar to feed my filesystem(s) to a DLT tape drive. I've done this with FreeBSD 3 through 5 and DAT (DDS-3 and DDS-4) tapes for years. The command now appears to work for a while and then dies with this message about 2.5 hours into the process:

users based on time+ath (Please)

2006-07-24 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hello gurus, Please, Please! if someone can help me, how to setup any an accounts system based on time and auth I'm On FreeBSD 6.1R its acting as a internet gateway for a comlex of 30 appartments. the internet to this box is connected thro a dsl and its up/running, Well, We want to

Re: Simple DNS Configuration

2006-07-24 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Monday 24 July 2006 15:10, David Stanford wrote: On 7/24/06, Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Check your /etc/nsswitch.conf file. You want the line for hosts to be: dns files Also be sure named is running. While it says it is starting do a: ps -ax|grep name -Derek

Re: a good www/picture management port?

2006-07-24 Thread Mike Hunter
I haven't tried gallery on FreeBSD, but I highly recommend it based on my experience with it on Linux. Mike On Jul 22 at 18:07, Jeff Palmer wrote: www/gallery http://www.gallery.org - Original Message - From: Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Error compiling GNAT

2006-07-24 Thread Rico Secada
Hi During installation of GNAT from ports I get the following error: gmake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/lang/gnat/work/gcc-34/gcc/fixinc' /bin/csh ./genfixes machname.h SHELL=/bin/sh: Command not found. export: Command not found. if: Expression Syntax. gmake[2]: *** [machname.h] Error 1

Re: im about to sit down an read the entire postfix manuals...

2006-07-24 Thread James Long
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:20:59 -0500 From: Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: im about to sit down an read the entire postfix manuals... To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org becuase i want to know if it supports a specific feature or not. so before i do and spend all that time, i

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-24 Thread Freminlins
Nikolas, On 24/07/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This would be like running Windows 3.1 on a brand new Xeon 5100 dual-core CPU... sure it will run fast* but what the hell are you going to do with it? Play solitaire? You have this the wrong way round. The correct allusion

dumping net traffic to log file

2006-07-24 Thread Steel City Phantom
i am troubleshooting an application and am having a hell of a time with it. with bsd 6.1 is there a way where i can dump all traffic coming over the nic to a log file so i can see exactly what is coming in? thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Are hardware vendors starting to bail on FreeBSD ... ?

2006-07-24 Thread jan gestre
On 7/25/06, Greg Barniskis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From: Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Greg Barniskis [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Nick Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent:

Re: dumping net traffic to log file

2006-07-24 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 03:20:32PM -0400, Steel City Phantom wrote: i am troubleshooting an application and am having a hell of a time with it. with bsd 6.1 is there a way where i can dump all traffic coming over the nic to a log file so i can see exactly what is coming in? tcpdump works

Mount an unknown drive

2006-07-24 Thread Joshua Lewis
I have a server that has been inoperative for the last few months (FreeBSD 6.0). I decided to turn on the system and it goes right to a boot prompt. So I downloaded FreeSBIE and am trying to mount the old drive to see if there is any data on the drive worth saving. When I try to

Re: tar dies on making tape backup

2006-07-24 Thread Jaime
On Jul 24, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Micah wrote: I had the same problem recently and Google told me to look for files with malformed dates. I used find to search for files dated before Jan 1, 1970, and found one dated 1901. As soon as I touched the problematic file, tar worked. Many thanks.

Re: tar dies on making tape backup

2006-07-24 Thread Micah
Jaime wrote: On Jul 24, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Micah wrote: I had the same problem recently and Google told me to look for files with malformed dates. I used find to search for files dated before Jan 1, 1970, and found one dated 1901. As soon as I touched the problematic file, tar worked.

Re: im about to sit down an read the entire postfix manuals...

2006-07-24 Thread BSDServer Redes e Servidores
I manage an Internet Provider with decentralized pop3/imap servers, that receive all incoming mail in one server and redistributes using virtusertable. We manage 4000 emails accounts. Easy to configure and test. Works great for us. []´s! -- Rafael Mentz Aquino BSDServer Ltda. 51 - 9847 8825

Re: users based on time+ath (Please)

2006-07-24 Thread Rafael Aquino
One way to do that is to redirect the client/connection to a webpage that asks for a user and password, which when validated inserts the client IP address / mac address as a dynamic rule in the firewall and some parallel control using crontab (or custom way) to delete the rule after an amount

Re: Mail system Suggestions

2006-07-24 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Martin Hudec wrote: You can give dovecot a try now :), I use it on all mailservers in production environments. It handles my ~54k mails in my mail account pretty well (only slowdown is detected if I use gprs connection ~56kbits). One good thing that counts in for dovecot is that postfix in

Re: Mail system Suggestions

2006-07-24 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Martin Hepworth wrote: On a side note, I found Outlook 2003 really shoddy/poor at working with IMAP based systems, esp when you have lots of rules to run and lots of emails to download first thing in the morning. eg would easily 10 minutes to synchonise, whereas thunderbird takes about 10

Ask: How to setup PPP modem on Nokia 3105 with CA-42 cable

2006-07-24 Thread Novareza Klifartha
Hello...i'm a newbie here. I want to use my Nokia 3105 as a modem to create PPP connection to my ISP. Please anyone who knows how to setup that device tell me... thx before On Linux usually we link the device to something like /dev/modem. I didn't know anything how to do that on FreeBSD. I'm

Re: Simple DNS Configuration

2006-07-24 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Matthias Fechner wrote: Hi David, David Stanford wrote: Now it appears to be working correctly and responding to queries, however I'm noticing I continue to get that same error when I add my CNAME entry: = @ IN CNAMEwww.example.org. = write: www IN

error when upgrading 6.0-stable to 6.1-RELEASE

2006-07-24 Thread Dave
Hello, I'm trying to update a box from 6.0-p6 or 7 can't remember for sure which to 6.1-RELEASE. I've downloaded the source, done make buildworld, make buildkernel with a generic kernel, make installkernel, rebooted, done mergemaster -p then gone cd /usr/src and done make installworld, all

Re: Simple DNS Configuration

2006-07-24 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
David Stanford wrote: I've tried everyone's suggestions to no avail. Here's my actual configuration: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# /etc/rc.d/named stop Stopping named. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# tail -12 /etc/namedb/named.conf I can't stop mine and then start it again (running in chrooted mode). I do:

Re: Simple DNS Configuration

2006-07-24 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Mikhail Goriachev wrote: David Stanford wrote: I've tried everyone's suggestions to no avail. Here's my actual configuration: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# /etc/rc.d/named stop Stopping named. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# tail -12 /etc/namedb/named.conf I can't stop mine and then start it again

Re: fbsd 6.1 and starting services problem

2006-07-24 Thread zz_11
Thanks for the answer. I think I do not need to use mergemaster. It is a brand new install of FreeBSD 6.1. I only copy all my scripts from /usr/local/etc/rc.d/. For example the postgresql install is NOT from ports. I instaaled it from source ( I did it many times on 5.1, 5.4 and 6.0 ). I expect