Re: Configuring mailman with web server different from mail server

2007-08-21 Thread Martin Hepworth
Olivier sure I do this - configure sendmail on the mailman machine as per instuctions for the list and 'smartrelay' the mail via mailserver on the web machine. On the mailserver also make sure all the aliases for the list point at the webserver. -- Martin On 8/21/07, Olivier Nicole [EMAIL

portupgrade and make options

2007-08-21 Thread Michael S
Good day all, I was wondering how to pass options from portupgrade to make. Say I wanted use -j4 for max. number of jobs. Where should I specify that? When building world it's possible to be done from the command line: make -j4 buildworld. Also is athlon the correct CPUTYPE for AMD Sempron 3400?

Re: Trying to move /usr

2007-08-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Michael S wrote: Thanks for your help Ian, I got it fixed. Had to remove /home and recreate it once again. Good to hear, Michael! --- Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [blah] Cheers, Ian ___

Re: portupgrade and make options

2007-08-21 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 02:23:21AM -0400, Michael S wrote: Good day all, I was wondering how to pass options from portupgrade to make. Say I wanted use -j4 for max. number of jobs. Where should I specify that? When building world it's possible to be done from the command line: make -j4

Re: Hello!

2007-08-21 Thread perryh
From a pilot's point of view: FreeBSD is an F-4 Phantom. Mac is a P-38 Trainer. Windows is a DC-10. (with a hydraulic leak) Nah, a pig. See RFC 1925 and/or Oliver Fromme's .sig. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Gnome FreeBSD I forgot

2007-08-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 20/08/07, Predrag Punosevac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forgot to say in my last massage. The good compromise between Gnome (KDE) full blown desktop and ***Box X window managers is Xfce. Xfce is only about 15Mb vs Gnome(KDE)~200Mb. ~ ls -ls /usr/local/bin/evilwm 28 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root

Get effective group id

2007-08-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, From a Bourne shell script, how to get (and test) the group id of the user that is executing the script? Best regards, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Any PCI card based wls cards work under 6.2? like the linksys ones?

2007-08-21 Thread Jaye Mathisen
I have a need for a PCI-based wls card, under 6.2. Rather have 802.11g, and *not* one that's a pcmcia adapter-type card. Do any of th elinksys/belkin/dlink's work reliably under FreeBSD? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Hello!

2007-08-21 Thread Oliver Fromme
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From a pilot's point of view: FreeBSD is an F-4 Phantom. Mac is a P-38 Trainer. Windows is a DC-10. (with a hydraulic leak) Nah, a pig. See RFC 1925 and/or Oliver Fromme's .sig. Well, my .sig is chosen randomly from a large collection, but

NFS export subdirs on different file systems?

2007-08-21 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Hi, I have a directory /net/store. This directory is exported to all machines on my network. I have a sub-directory /net/store/photos. That too is exported to all machines on my network. What I want is that when I mount /net/store from another machine, the contents of /net/store/photos

Re: NFS export subdirs on different file systems?

2007-08-21 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
I have a directory /net/store. This directory is exported to all machines on my network. I have a sub-directory /net/store/photos. That too is exported to all machines on my network. What I want is that when I mount /net/store from another machine, the contents of /net/store/photos too be

Re: New Zealand DST updates

2007-08-21 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 04:55:50PM +1200, Brent Jones wrote: Good afternoon - New Zealand is changing when it goes on and off daylight savings time this year. I have diffs to /usr/src/share/zoneinfo/australasia for FreeBSD 6.2 which take this change into account. To whom should I send

6.2-RELEASE amd64 system rebooting under heavy load with Areca ARC-1231ML

2007-08-21 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
Hi I have a new system I am building. Tyan S5197 MB with Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4ghz, 4GB RAM Areca ARC-1231ML raid card. 5 320gb disks in a RAID6 with 1 320gb disk hot spare plus two 750gb in a raid1 mirror. Using the ARECA firmware, each raidset is subdivided into separate volumes that

Re: Get effective group id

2007-08-21 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, From a Bourne shell script, how to get (and test) the group id of the user that is executing the script? Best regards, Olivier id -g will get you the egid. if [ `id -g` -eq 1001 ]; then echo It's a hit! fi Hope this helps,

RE: Get effective group id

2007-08-21 Thread Barry Byrne
Hi, From a Bourne shell script, how to get (and test) the group id of the user that is executing the script? Best regards, Olivier: id -gn should give you the group name. Drop the -n if you want just the numberic id. - barry ___

Re: NFS export subdirs on different file systems?

2007-08-21 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: I have a directory /net/store. This directory is exported to all machines on my network. I have a sub-directory /net/store/photos. That too is exported to all machines on my network. What I want is that when I mount /net/store from

Minimal gateway hardware configuration

2007-08-21 Thread Bahman M.
Hi all, I'd like to setup a small home network therefore I plan to buy an old (cheap) PC to act as the gateway. The hardware specification is CPU: Pentium II at 433MHz RAM: 128MB HDD: IDE 4GB LAN Card: D-Link 538FE Internet connection is a slow one below 512Kbps and there is only one other node

SATA to PCI cards

2007-08-21 Thread Bahman M.
Hi all, I'm running FreeBSD 6.2. $ uname -a FreeBSD attila 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 10:40:27 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 My motherboard which is an ASUS A7V8X-X doesn't support SATA. I searched the internet and found out that there are

Re: Minimal gateway hardware configuration

2007-08-21 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 01:32:28PM +0330, Bahman M. wrote: Hi all, I'd like to setup a small home network therefore I plan to buy an old (cheap) PC to act as the gateway. The hardware specification is CPU: Pentium II at 433MHz RAM: 128MB HDD: IDE 4GB LAN Card: D-Link 538FE Note: You need

Re: SAS (serial attached SCSI)

2007-08-21 Thread Albert Shih
Le 20/08/2007 à 16:04:15-0500, Jonathan Horne a écrit anyone running any SAS with FreeBSD? i have a client who is needing a new server, and everything in their pricerange is comming with SAS now, instead of standard SCSI. the company president is an old timer, and only knows the word

Re: Minimal gateway hardware configuration

2007-08-21 Thread Bahman M.
Note: You need two LAN cards: One for the outside connection and one to your internal network. (You probably already know that, but since you referred to 'LAN Card' in the singular I thought I should mention it anyway.) Yes, the machine has 2 D-Link cards. More than enough. I use a

Re: NFS export subdirs on different file systems?

2007-08-21 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: I have a directory /net/store. This directory is exported to all machines on my network. I have a sub-directory /net/store/photos. That too is exported to all machines on my network. What I want is that when I mount

READ_DMA Error

2007-08-21 Thread Bahman M.
Hi all, During FreeBSD 6.2 installation, the process failed because of errors like the one below: READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error LBA=37505132 I managed to install by setting hw.ata.ata_dma=0 at boot time but the same errors occur after installation and at boot time so I had to put

RE: Configuring OpenLDAP on FreeBSD 6.2 Release, Problems.

2007-08-21 Thread Lisandro Grullon
I think it may be a problem there, do you have any how to for that configuration, in case I can double check. Off course besides the info provide at openldap.org. Thanks in advance. Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 08:38:55 +0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC:

Re: SAS (serial attached SCSI)

2007-08-21 Thread Grant Peel
Hi Jon, I have been using two Dell SAS (Seial Attached SCSI) for about a year now, and have no issues thus far. They both use the 'da' driver and from my standpoint, there seems to be no difference between then (Standard SCSI and SAS). I am running FreeBSD 6.1 and 6.2 -Grant - Original

RE: READ_DMA Error

2007-08-21 Thread Tamouh H.
Hi all, During FreeBSD 6.2 installation, the process failed because of errors like the one below: READ_DMA UDMA ICRC error LBA=37505132 I managed to install by setting hw.ata.ata_dma=0 at boot time but the same errors occur after installation and at boot time so I had to put

Re: GEOM, Vinum difference

2007-08-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rakhesh Sasidharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see that if I want to do disk striping/ concating/ mirroring, FreeBSD offers the GEOM utilities and the Vinum LVM (which fits into the GEOM architecture). Why do we have two different ways of doing the same tasks -- any advantages/ disadvantages

.rar files on K3b

2007-08-21 Thread luizbcampos
Dear Sirs I've downloaded a .rar audio file other day but I don't get to fix it on K3b. My machine is amd64 and runs FreeBSD-6.1-Release amd64 Regards ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

connection with pptp

2007-08-21 Thread RJ45
Hello, I ma trying to configure FreeBSD 5.4 to connect to relakks vpn I installed pptp here is the ppp.conf relakks: set timeout 0 set log phase chat connect lcp ipcp command set authname *** set authkey * set dial set login add

Re: Trying to move /usr

2007-08-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:50:09PM -0400, Vinny wrote: Michael S wrote: I reverted to the old /usr. What I had done: Initially I set up the newly installed drive (da2) to have only one partition (da2s1d) which I chose to be /user (note the e). I tarred /usr to a file in /user tar -cf

Re: Trying to move /usr

2007-08-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 08:23:04PM -0400, Michael S wrote: Jerry, I am sure, because I did it multiple times. As soon as I mount the old /usr (the one on the smaller drive) I log on into my home directory no problem. What does /etc/passwd have for the id michael 's home directory? I am

Re: Trying to move /usr

2007-08-21 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:17 PM 8/20/2007, Michael S wrote: I tried changing the /home entry in the fstab to /usr/home, but the result is the same. And when I go to /home or /usr/home, issuing ls, simply gives me the prompt. Does the mount succeed? On the new /usr does home actually mount? -Derek

RE: Trying to move /usr

2007-08-21 Thread Lisandro Grullon
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:20:54 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trying to move /usr On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 08:23:04PM -0400, Michael S wrote: Jerry,I am sure, because I did it multiple times.

Re: Trying to move /usr SOLVED

2007-08-21 Thread Michael S
As I posted previously, removing /home (which defaults as a link to /usr/home) and putting it back, this time as a directory did the trick. I read it in Greg Lehey's book. Thanks for your help Derek --- Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 07:17 PM 8/20/2007, Michael S wrote: I tried

Re: .rar files on K3b

2007-08-21 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 21, 2007, at 9:23 AMAug 21, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sirs I've downloaded a .rar audio file other day but I don't get to fix it on K3b. My machine is amd64 and runs FreeBSD-6.1-Release amd64 RAR is a method of compression, not an audio format.

Re: isc-dhcp3-server issues with windows 2000 client

2007-08-21 Thread Joe
ok, to answer your questions: I built it by doing: cd /usr/ports/net/isc-dhcp3-server make install the version = isc-dhcp3-server-3.0.5_2 for both, could their be code changes if the _2 did not change? it is started via supplied shell script isc-dhcp3, I just renamed to isc-dhcp3.sh I

Re: Configuring mailman with web server different from mail server

2007-08-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 20, 2007, at 9:51 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote: I am trying to install mailman from the ports. I have different machine for the mail server and the web server and I am trying to figure if this configuration is workable. The MTA is sendmail, where could I find configure example? You can

Building UNSTRIPPED binaries in ports?

2007-08-21 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hello, I am encountering a bug with named-9.4.1-P1 that I am attempting to work with ISC on, that I have built from ports (dns/bind94). However, I need a non-stripped version of the binary to get a backtrace. I can't roll my own binary because it may be related to some way that the port is

NFS /etc/exports question..

2007-08-21 Thread Glenn Sieb
I've recently reclaimed a Gentoo server and turned it into a FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE system (::sounds of cheering::). This is our file server, using NFS, and I had a question about /etc/exports: We have two subnets we export to--let's call them 127.0.1.0/255 and 10.0.5.0/255: # /etc/exports: NFS

Re: Configuring mailman with web server different from mail server

2007-08-21 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 21, 2007, at 11:45 AMAug 21, 2007, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Aug 20, 2007, at 9:51 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote: I am trying to install mailman from the ports. I have different machine for the mail server and the web server and I am trying to figure if this configuration is workable. The MTA

Re: NFS /etc/exports question..

2007-08-21 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Tuesday 21 August 2007 13:16:54 Glenn Sieb wrote: /u2 -alldirs... first up, that line negates the need for: /u2/opt/portage -alldirs alldirs, is all dirs! anything underneath is then redundant. /u2 -alldirs -maproot=root important1.domain.com important2.domain.com probably requires

if_bridge and VMware....

2007-08-21 Thread Brian J. McGovern
I'm in the process of doing something that is possibly a bit out of the ordinary with VMware. I have two stand alone PCs connected to a catalyst 2900 doing 802.1q trunking. I can configure the VLAN interfaces on the stand alone PCs, assign IP addresses, and communicate happily. I then add a PC

Re: NFS /etc/exports question..

2007-08-21 Thread Glenn Sieb
Hi Jonathan! Jonathan Horne wrote: On Tuesday 21 August 2007 13:16:54 Glenn Sieb wrote: /u2 -alldirs... first up, that line negates the need for: /u2/opt/portage -alldirs alldirs, is all dirs! anything underneath is then redundant. Understood. Fixed that. /u2 -alldirs

Re: Building UNSTRIPPED binaries in ports?

2007-08-21 Thread Vince Hoffman-Kazlauskas
Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hello, I am encountering a bug with named-9.4.1-P1 that I am attempting to work with ISC on, that I have built from ports (dns/bind94). However, I need a non-stripped version of the binary to get a backtrace. I can't roll my own binary because it may be

Re: NFS /etc/exports question..

2007-08-21 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Tuesday 21 August 2007 14:44:29 Glenn Sieb wrote: Hi Jonathan! Jonathan Horne wrote: On Tuesday 21 August 2007 13:16:54 Glenn Sieb wrote: /u2 -alldirs... first up, that line negates the need for: /u2/opt/portage -alldirs alldirs, is all dirs! anything underneath is then

Re: Building UNSTRIPPED binaries in ports?

2007-08-21 Thread Josh Carroll
Is there some make.conf or compile time flag that I can set that would prevent the stripping from happening? Or would I just have to manually edit the makefile someplace -- and if so, can anyone give a pointer as to where? Setting the strip command to /bin/true or something, perhaps -- but

Re: Building UNSTRIPPED binaries in ports?

2007-08-21 Thread Herbert J. Skuhra
Dan Mahoney skrev: Hello, I am encountering a bug with named-9.4.1-P1 that I am attempting to work with ISC on, that I have built from ports (dns/bind94). However, I need a non-stripped version of the binary to get a backtrace. I can't roll my own binary because it may be related to

where oh where has my converter stuff gone?

2007-08-21 Thread Gary Kline
Guys, Where does the ps2ascii and related converter files live in ports? I thought they were part of the distribution, but nope. pdftopdf was one. thanks for any clues! gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public

Re: where oh where has my converter stuff gone?

2007-08-21 Thread dgmm
On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, Where does the ps2ascii and related converter files live in ports? I thought they were part of the distribution, but nope. pdftopdf was one. thanks for any clues! gary Starting with: cd /usr/ports

wildcard usage in fetch

2007-08-21 Thread fbsd2
fetch -avrpAFU ftp://loginid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/IDX/ActivePhotos/*/*.* The /*/ directory is 2 positions in size and contains 00 through 99 as directory names. The *.* means all files in this directory. When I execute this I get logged in but get file not found or not available error message.

Re: NFS /etc/exports question..

2007-08-21 Thread Adam J Richardson
Glenn Sieb wrote: I've recently reclaimed a Gentoo server and turned it into a FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE system (::sounds of cheering::). This is our file server, using NFS, and I had a question about /etc/exports: snip Granted, this wasn't an issue in Linux--I used to have machines listed by

system crash/reset

2007-08-21 Thread Ghirai
Hello list, I'm running 6.2-RELEASE, with xfce. Suddenly, everything froze. Couple seconds after that, the system resets. I ran fsck and everything seem to be ok. This is what /var/log/messages looks like right before reset: Aug 22 01:19:55 deimos kernel: umass0: BBB reset failed, IOERROR Aug

Re: wildcard usage in fetch

2007-08-21 Thread Philip Hallstrom
fetch -avrpAFU ftp://loginid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/IDX/ActivePhotos/*/*.* The /*/ directory is 2 positions in size and contains 00 through 99 as directory names. The *.* means all files in this directory. When I execute this I get logged in but get file not found or not available error message. Is

Problem with cardbus cards being recognized in my laptop

2007-08-21 Thread heatonjmark
Hi, folks, I was wondering if I could get some advice on a problem I'm having getting cardbus cards recognized by my laptop (HP zv6000) running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE 0. If I insert a card into the cardbus slot it the insertion is not recognized by the system. There is no trace that anything even

What is a sane setting for maxdsize when running amd64? it seems many normal suggestions do not apply.

2007-08-21 Thread N. Harrington
Hello I feel stupid, but I am confused about kern.maxdsiz (or datasize via limits command) on FreeBSD amd64. I have seen many posts and suggestions to raise it to 1G. However it seems this only applies to i386. By default, on servers I have with 4G of physical memory, and 2X that of swap, I

Re: What is a sane setting for maxdsize when running amd64? it seems many normal suggestions do not apply.

2007-08-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 21, 2007, at 4:54 PM, N. Harrington wrote: I have seen many posts and suggestions to raise it to 1G. However it seems this only applies to i386. By default, on servers I have with 4G of physical memory, and 2X that of swap, I am showing a reported datasize limit of 33554432KB. far in

DJBDNS IPv6

2007-08-21 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi all, I am doing some serious testing with IPv6, however I can not get the name resolution side of things on my DJBDNS DNS servers to work as expected. On my legacy 4.10 box running BIND, I can resolve v6 addresses inherently even without v6 enabled in the kernel, but on my pre-production

Re: DJBDNS IPv6

2007-08-21 Thread Steve Bertrand
- is there a special way that I need to use tinydns-conf to create a new 'server' - what should a proper v6 entry look like in the data file My research has told me that I should have new 'v6' type binaries in the ./bin directory, but I do not see those. To answer my own question, and to

ldconfig problem after upgrade 4.11 to 5.5

2007-08-21 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello After I updated my 4.11 to an 5.5 system (following /usr/src/UPDATING), I get around 63 error messages while the system boot up: ldconfig: /var/run/ld.so.hints: No such file or directory search: trailing characters ignored No such file or directory 0: -

Re: ldconfig problem after upgrade 4.11 to 5.5

2007-08-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 06:22:46AM +0200, Martin Schweizer wrote: Hello After I updated my 4.11 to an 5.5 system (following /usr/src/UPDATING), I get around 63 error messages while the system boot up: ldconfig: /var/run/ld.so.hints: No such file or directory search: trailing

Re: wildcard usage in fetch

2007-08-21 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
fetch -avrpAFU ftp://loginid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/IDX/ActivePhotos/*/*.* The /*/ directory is 2 positions in size and contains 00 through 99 as directory names. The *.* means all files in this directory. When I execute this I get logged in but get file not found or not available error message.

Re: ldconfig problem after upgrade 4.11 to 5.5

2007-08-21 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello Kris Am Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:37:25AM -0400 Kris Kennaway schrieb: On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 06:22:46AM +0200, Martin Schweizer wrote: After I updated my 4.11 to an 5.5 system (following /usr/src/UPDATING), I get around 63 error messages while the system boot up: ldconfig:

Re: GEOM, Vinum difference

2007-08-21 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Rakhesh Sasidharan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I see that if I want to do disk striping/ concating/ mirroring, FreeBSD offers the GEOM utilities and the Vinum LVM (which fits into the GEOM architecture). Why do we have two different ways of doing the same tasks -- any

Re: ldconfig problem after upgrade 4.11 to 5.5

2007-08-21 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello Kris Am Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 06:51:18AM +0200 Martin Schweizer schrieb: Am Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:37:25AM -0400 Kris Kennaway schrieb: On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 06:22:46AM +0200, Martin Schweizer wrote: After I updated my 4.11 to an 5.5 system (following /usr/src/UPDATING), I get

Re: DJBDNS IPv6

2007-08-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Steve Bertrand wrote: - is there a special way that I need to use tinydns-conf to create a new 'server' - what should a proper v6 entry look like in the data file My research has told me that I should have new 'v6' type binaries in the ./bin