X-Authentication-Warning (FreeBSD 8.1 STABLE)

2011-02-25 Thread Andy Wodfer
Hi, A client is sending out a newsletter and I'm trying to set the FreeBSD server user (www) to be trusted so that I don't get this warning in the message header: X-Authentication-Warning: host.domain.net: www set sender to post@domain.netusing -f I assume this is to be set in the sendmail.cf

How can I disable Internet access for programs running in Wine?

2011-02-25 Thread erikmccaskey64
I just can find any solution... Please help! thanks.. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

setting up svn server - Connection refused

2011-02-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I'm learning how to set up svn server. I've read through several sections of http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/ Here's what I do: ZEEV svnadmin create /home/mexas/zzz ZEEV svnlook info zzz 2011-02-25 09:15:28 + (Fri, 25 Feb 2011) 0 ZEEV svnserve -d ZEEV ps ax | grep svnserve 66952 ??

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-25 Thread perryh
Thorsten Glaser t...@mirbsd.org wrote: tcsh is not a shell ... http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ If you are _that_ strongly opposed to (t)csh, sir, I submit that you are wasting your time reading and posting to a FreeBSD mailing list.

Re: Strange behavior of MTU on loopback interfaces.

2011-02-25 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 2/25/2011 9:29 AM, c0re wrote: Hello all! I'm testing setting lower MTU on loopback interfaces to avoid some MTU problems with IPSEC in a path of traffic. ifconfig lo1 create ifconfig lo1 mtu 1300 ifconfig lo1 5.5.5.5/32 # ifconfig lo1 lo1: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST metric 0

Re: Strange behavior of MTU on loopback interfaces.

2011-02-25 Thread c0re
2011/2/25 Nikos Vassiliadis nv...@gmx.com: On 2/25/2011 9:29 AM, c0re wrote: Hello all! I'm testing setting lower MTU on loopback interfaces to avoid some MTU problems with IPSEC in a path of traffic. ifconfig lo1 create ifconfig lo1 mtu 1300 ifconfig lo1 5.5.5.5/32 # ifconfig lo1

GELI reliability

2011-02-25 Thread Terje Elde
Hi, I'm curious about GELIs theoretical behavior when faced with errors, and also any experience anyone might have. As an example, if I run ZFS with raidz over X drives, then the zpool should have no issue surviving the complete loss of a full disk. Also, the familiar FAILURE - READ_DMA or

Kernel compiling problems

2011-02-25 Thread Redd Vinylene
Heya! Anybody know what's wrong with this? ## make buildworld buildkernel KERNCONF=NINJA cc -c -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -std=c99 -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -Wundef -Wno-pointer-sign

Re: Tuning routing table size in FreeBSD 8.0 and 7.2

2011-02-25 Thread Valentin Bud
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:37 PM, nikitha sumi.tec...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you all, for your timely reply.. To answer Niko's question: Just i'm doing some performance/stress testing of a freebsd router.. :-) -Sumi On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Nikos Vassiliadis nv...@gmx.com wrote:

Re: HAL's demise

2011-02-25 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:20:13 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com articulated: On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Edwin L. Culp W. wrote: 2011/2/24 Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com: On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Jerry wrote: Is FreeBSD now HAL free or is it still a requirement? I still have it

Re: HAL's demise

2011-02-25 Thread Robert Huff
Jerry writes: GNOME switched over a year ago, KDE and XFCE finished the transition a couple of months back. Other distros are apparently not even distributing it. What is preventing FBSD from joining the party? Lack of someone willing, able, and available to do the work.

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-25 Thread Chris Rees
On 25 February 2011 02:55, Andres Perera andre...@zoho.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: I apologize for the grammaticall brokenness of that sentence. maybe you should spam the hundreds of subscribers of this mailing list with this line:

Re: setting up svn server - Connection refused

2011-02-25 Thread David Kelly
On Feb 25, 2011, at 3:23 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: When I try to connect to the svn server, I get this: ZEEV svn co svn://localhost/home/mexas/zzz . svn: Can't connect to host 'localhost': Network is unreachable ZEEV svn co svn://10.10.10.14/home/mexas/zzz . svn: Can't connect to host

Re: Kernel compiling problems

2011-02-25 Thread Chris Rees
On 25 February 2011 11:21, Redd Vinylene reddvinyl...@gmail.com wrote: Heya! Anybody know what's wrong with this? ## make buildworld buildkernel KERNCONF=NINJA Have you successfully used NINJA to build a kernel before? Chris ___

Re: Kernel compiling problems

2011-02-25 Thread Damien Fleuriot
Do not use a custom kern for your upgrade, build generic with pf and altq. I'm not sure your CPU type is correct ? I could be wrong, haven't used 32bits for a while. Make clean, then build the world, then your kern. Once you have generic working, make your custom kern --- Fleuriot Damien On 25

Re: setting up svn server - Connection refused

2011-02-25 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/25/11 4:23 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm learning how to set up svn server. I've read through several sections of http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/ Here's what I do: ZEEV svnadmin create /home/mexas/zzz ZEEV svnlook info zzz

Re: setting up svn server - Connection refused

2011-02-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 09:15:30AM -0500, Greg Larkin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/25/11 4:23 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm learning how to set up svn server. I've read through several sections of http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/ Here's what

Re: setting up svn server - Connection refused

2011-02-25 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 09:23:03AM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm learning how to set up svn server. I've read through several sections of http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/ Here's what I do: ZEEV svnadmin create /home/mexas/zzz ZEEV svnlook info zzz 2011-02-25 09:15:28

Re: setting up svn server - Connection refused

2011-02-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 07:09:04AM -0600, David Kelly wrote: On Feb 25, 2011, at 3:23 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: When I try to connect to the svn server, I get this: ZEEV svn co svn://localhost/home/mexas/zzz . svn: Can't connect to host 'localhost': Network is unreachable ZEEV

Re: setting up svn server - Connection refused

2011-02-25 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/25/11 9:32 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: [...] Many thanks for your help, Greg. However, following David Kelly's advice, I switched to svn+ssh, and that seems to work fine. Nevertheless, I'm curious to find out why svnserve is not

Re: HAL's demise

2011-02-25 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011, Jerry wrote: GNOME switched over a year ago, KDE and XFCE finished the transition a couple of months back. Other distros are apparently not even distributing it. What is preventing FBSD from joining the party? Lack of a udev specification, for a start:

Re: setting up svn server - Connection refused

2011-02-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 09:59:54AM -0500, Greg Larkin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/25/11 9:32 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: [...] Many thanks for your help, Greg. However, following David Kelly's advice, I switched to svn+ssh, and that seems to

Re: Why FreeBSD fetch does not download a file via a proxy for HTTPS URLS (the same works fine for HTTP urls)

2011-02-25 Thread chandra reddy
Hi RW, Thanks alot for your reply. Do you mean to say curl also not using a CONNECT to tunnel through to the actual server? How can I achieve downloading files HTTPS over a proxy? Thanks %20http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hackers/42588 -Chandra Hi All, I am working on a

freebsd-update housekeeping?

2011-02-25 Thread Neil Long
Hi Just noticed how large /var/db/freebsd-update has grown on a box I just upgraded from 7.3 to 7.4 (but I can't recall when I started using it). Is there a recommended approach or just rm the directory if I have no need to roll it back? Thanks Neil

Re: setting up svn server - Connection refused

2011-02-25 Thread Rob Farmer
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:23 AM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I'm learning how to set up svn server. I've read through several sections of http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/ Here's what I do: ZEEV svnadmin create /home/mexas/zzz ZEEV svnlook info zzz 2011-02-25

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-25 Thread Andres Perera
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 February 2011 02:55, Andres Perera andre...@zoho.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: I apologize for the grammaticall brokenness of that sentence. maybe you should spam

Help: Looking to contact someone running FreeBSD on ESX

2011-02-25 Thread Mark Felder
Hi all, We have quite a few BSD VMs on our infrastructure and are having some issues with our main webservers. They die randomly -- ESX shows high/100% CPU the exact moment it dies (very, very low up until that point), the console takes keyboard input but doesn't really do anything or

Re: HAL's demise

2011-02-25 Thread Robert Bonomi
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 07:38:14 -0500 From: Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Subject: Re: HAL's demise GNOME switched over a year ago, KDE and XFCE finished the transition a couple of months back. Other distros are apparently not even distributing it. What is preventing FBSD from joining

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-25 Thread Chris Rees
On 25 February 2011 18:02, Andres Perera andre...@zoho.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: On 25 February 2011 02:55, Andres Perera andre...@zoho.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: I apologize for the

Re: Help: Looking to contact someone running FreeBSD on ESX

2011-02-25 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/25/11 12:52 PM, Mark Felder wrote: Hi all, We have quite a few BSD VMs on our infrastructure and are having some issues with our main webservers. They die randomly -- ESX shows high/100% CPU the exact moment it dies (very, very low up until

Re: Help: Looking to contact someone running FreeBSD on ESX

2011-02-25 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:15:29 -0600, Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org wrote: I haven't used watchdogd(8) (http://bit.ly/eKHUEN) before, but I wonder if it would help you by firing some data logging command (-e option) so you have some information to go on. That actually looks like a great

Re: HAL's demise

2011-02-25 Thread Edwin L. Culp W.
2011/2/25 Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com: Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 07:38:14 -0500 From: Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Subject: Re: HAL's demise GNOME switched over a year ago, KDE and XFCE finished the transition a couple of months back. Other distros are apparently not even

Re: Help: Looking to contact someone running FreeBSD on ESX

2011-02-25 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:52, Mark Felder f...@feld.me wrote: The ones that crash are usually our main webservers (Apache, PHP, no MySQL locally though). We have LOTS of IPs on them and they do a ton of network traffic, but usually don't have a super high load average (maybe .75 - 1.0 on a

freebsd 8.2

2011-02-25 Thread Paul Macdonald
Just a quick applaud for both the people behind 7.4/8.2 and those behind freebsd-update which led to a seamless and quick upgrade on many of many boxes earlier. thanks to everyone involved, good job! Paul. -- - Paul Macdonald IFDNRG Ltd Web and video hosting

Re: Help: Looking to contact someone running FreeBSD on ESX

2011-02-25 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/25/11 3:00 PM, Mark Felder wrote: On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:15:29 -0600, Greg Larkin glar...@freebsd.org wrote: I haven't used watchdogd(8) (http://bit.ly/eKHUEN) before, but I wonder if it would help you by firing some data logging command

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-25 Thread Andres Perera
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Jarrod Slick jar...@e-sensibility.com wrote: Dear Sir/Madam, Your email was unable reach the intended person that you were sending it to. For more information on our business please click on the following link: Click here for our website We look forward to

Re: setting up svn server - Connection refused

2011-02-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 09:56:29AM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote: What could be the problems? From the rc script (which would probably be better than starting it manually): # Note: # svnserve bind per default at the ipv6 address! # If you want svnserve binding at ipv4 address, you have #

Upgrading 7.1 to 7.3, use 7.2 as a safe step?

2011-02-25 Thread Nerius Landys
For me, time can be spared, but errors should be avoided at all costs. I have upgraded FreeBSD before, for example 7.0 - 7.1. I use the buildworld/buildkernel procedure. I now have a 7.1 system. Should I upgrade to 7.2 and then to 7.3, or is it safe to go directly from 7.1 to 7.3? - Nerius

Re: Upgrading 7.1 to 7.3, use 7.2 as a safe step?

2011-02-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 25, 2011, at 1:39 PM, Nerius Landys wrote: For me, time can be spared, but errors should be avoided at all costs. I have upgraded FreeBSD before, for example 7.0 - 7.1. I use the buildworld/buildkernel procedure. I now have a 7.1 system. Should I upgrade to 7.2 and then to 7.3, or is

display resolution on my thinkpad t61

2011-02-25 Thread Alokat
Hi, I'm trying to modify my screen resolutions (use an external and the internal monitor). xrandr -q says: Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1440 x 960, maximum 2720 x 1024 VGA connected 1440x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 408mm x 255mm 1440x900 59.9*+

Re: Upgrading 7.1 to 7.3, use 7.2 as a safe step?

2011-02-25 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On February 25, 2011 1:39:47 PM -0800 Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com wrote: For me, time can be spared, but errors should be avoided at all costs. I have upgraded FreeBSD before, for example 7.0 - 7.1. I use the buildworld/buildkernel procedure. I now have a 7.1 system. Should I upgrade

Is CTM still being offered for updating FreeBSD?

2011-02-25 Thread Eitan Adler
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/ctm-src-8/ appears to be empty and http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/ctm-users/2009-December/000226.html seems to be the last mention of CTM on any of the related mailing lists (other than a few people asking if it was down). So I have a few questions: 1) Is

Re: display resolution on my thinkpad t61

2011-02-25 Thread Alokat
On 02/25/11 22:45, Alokat wrote: Hi, I'm trying to modify my screen resolutions (use an external and the internal monitor). xrandr -q says: Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1440 x 960, maximum 2720 x 1024 VGA connected 1440x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 408mm x

Re: GELI reliability

2011-02-25 Thread Modulok
I've used ZFS over GELI in the past, but never had any hardware issues to see how it plays out. I have no idea on that kind of a setup. If I were you I'd make a test system, start an scp command to copy some file from another machine, then start unplugging hard drives. When done, run a diff on

Kernel swap zone exhausted, what is the max allowed? FBSD 7.2

2011-02-25 Thread Mark Terribile
Hi, I was recently forced to reboot a 7.2 machine after it had run for several months. (Upgrade is not a possibility right now.) The (apparently) relevant part of /var/log/messages reads -- Feb 23 13:10:58 gold kernel: pid 9864 (to), uid 1001: exited on signal 6 (core

Re: Is CTM still being offered for updating FreeBSD?

2011-02-25 Thread b. f.
So I have a few questions: 1) Is it still being offered and supported as a method of updating FreeBSD systems? As of today, yes -- I have recent deltas in my mailbox. But you could easily check by subscribing, and looking at: http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CTM where the deltas are still

Re: Is CTM still being offered for updating FreeBSD?

2011-02-25 Thread Eitan Adler
 Why is this question even arising? Surely there are other problems that need to be addressed much more than the ending of a useful, uncontroversial service by someone who is not familiar with it? I am familiar with it. I just happened to notice that the mailing lists were empty and therefore

Re: Help: Looking to contact someone running FreeBSD on ESX

2011-02-25 Thread Dean E. Weimer
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:09:31 -0500, Greg Larkin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/25/11 3:00 PM, Mark Felder wrote: On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:15:29 -0600, Greg Larkin wrote: I haven't used watchdogd(8) (http://bit.ly/eKHUEN [1]) before, but I wonder if it would help

Re: How can I disable Internet access for programs running in Wine?

2011-02-25 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Nothing to do oh, freebsd-questions stay in bat! 2011/02/25 01:07:58 -0800 erikmccaskey64 erikmccaske...@zoho.com = To freebsd : e I just can find any solution... I was sure that ipfw can select packets by process name? at least there are pf and ipf options out there... You can always use

Re: Kernel swap zone exhausted, what is the max allowed? FBSD 7.2

2011-02-25 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Mark Terribile materrib...@yahoo.comwrote: I don't explicitly set kern.maxswzone anywhere and it is at its apparent maximum and default of 32M (33554432). Does anyone know if the maximum can be increased? (What actually is it used for?) I do use lots of

Re: HAL's demise

2011-02-25 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:32:48 -0600 (CST), Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 07:38:14 -0500 From: Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net Subject: Re: HAL's demise GNOME switched over a year ago, KDE and XFCE finished the transition a couple of months

Re: HAL's demise

2011-02-25 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:10:33 -0600, Edwin L. Culp W. edwinlc...@gmail.com wrote: So it appears that there isn't a major window manager that doesn't require hal, one way or the other. To be precise: There isn't a major DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT (as there are just the big three KDE, Gnome, Xfce -

Re: display resolution on my thinkpad t61

2011-02-25 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 23:41:05 +0100, Alokat mail...@alokat.org wrote: On 02/25/11 22:45, Alokat wrote: 1440x900 is enough for the external but the internal can / should use 1680x1050. How can I add this to xrandr? I got it ... Just started without the external monitor and after that use