Re: How many IP address aliases can practically be used on one physical Ethernet interface?

2006-01-31 Thread Crispy Beef
Chuck Swiger wrote: Use BPF or libnet to generate test traffic using spoofed IPs, rather than actually configuring a machine with thousands of IPs. There are also companies which make hardware IP traffic generators, if you want to buy a solution rather than building one. Have done a quick

Re: I have been hacked (WAS: Have I been hacked or is nmap wrong?)

2006-01-18 Thread Crispy Beef
Also, I said smtp ports were open on the machines in question, I just verified that I can send emails via BOTH these systems even though no sendmail/exim/whatever was ever installed by me and sendmail_enable=None on both. For what it's worth, to disable senmail on 5.0 and later, you need:

Re: how to use ipod nano in freebsd 6.0

2006-01-17 Thread Crispy Beef
| hello all, i have ipod nano and im using freebsd 6.0. | DMESG command display (umass0: Apple iPod, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2) message.The iPod nano is detected when | plugged in, but a daX device is not created. please help me I get that too with the 30GB iPod I just bought. I think there's an

Re: Time Zone

2006-01-17 Thread Crispy Beef
Ian Lord wrote: What is the prefered time zone for a web server Is it better to keep it GMT or local timezone ? I am in eastern time zone so I need to deal with standard and daily saving time... We are UK based but our server (and most of our customers) are US based, so we keep the US time

Boot with ACPI

2006-01-17 Thread Crispy Beef
Hi, When I boot my laptop running 6.0-RELEASE I need to boot with ACPI as otherwise it crashes. Was wondering how to make booting with ACPI the default? To be honest I'm not bothered about the boot menu at all as I'm quite happy with the system booting without any interaction. Sometimes I

Re: Boot with ACPI

2006-01-17 Thread Crispy Beef
When I boot my laptop running 6.0-RELEASE I need to boot with ACPI as otherwise it crashes. Was wondering how to make booting with ACPI the default? To be honest I'm not bothered about the boot menu at all as I'm quite happy with the system booting without any interaction. Sometimes I need to

Re: how to use ipod nano in freebsd 6.0

2006-01-16 Thread Crispy Beef
david wrote: how can i compile freebsd GENERIC kernel with HFS+ support?sorry for stupid question.i am newbie in freebsd This site should help you install the utils and module that you need... http://people.freebsd.org/~yar/hfs/ ___

Re: how to use ipod nano in freebsd 6.0

2006-01-15 Thread Crispy Beef
david wrote: hello all, i have ipod nano and im using freebsd 6.0. DMESG command display (umass0: Apple iPod, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2) message.The iPod nano is detected when plugged in, but a daX device is not created. please help me A friend of mine was/is having a similar problem, depending

Re: php5 and apache2?

2006-01-13 Thread Crispy Beef
I had the same problem before. I suppose you used portupgrade to install binary packages, right? The php5 package depends on apache13, this is why portupgrade installed apache13. You should deinstall php5 and apache13. Then refresh your ports tree. Finally, reinstall php5 from the ports: cd

Re: 4.6-RELEASE to 6.0-RELEASE...

2006-01-12 Thread Crispy Beef
There have been major changes in processes such as threads. You also have to boot the 5.3 update in single user mode to have a kernel that accepts the new arrangement and then install the userland. Before 5.1 or 5.2 it didn't matter much but there was an fs change that you update in single

Re: 4.6-RELEASE to 6.0-RELEASE...

2006-01-12 Thread Crispy Beef
fbsd_user wrote: There is a new and faster file system which is introduced in release-5.4. I highly recommend that you install 6.0 from scratch and build your old server services anew to a development box you have personal access to. Then remove the hard drive and ship it to you remote site and

Re: apache22 port ?

2006-01-11 Thread Crispy Beef
Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello Trying to install it on a new machine I noticed this morning that the apache22 port is missing , any infos ? It should be there under '/usr/ports/www/apache22', I installed it a couple of days ago... Might be worth refreshing your ports with cvsup or something.

4.6-RELEASE to 6.0-RELEASE...

2006-01-11 Thread Crispy Beef
Hi, I have a production server running 4.6-RELEASE and I would like to bring it upto date and get 6.0-RELEASE on there. I have a rough idea of what needs to be done to accomplish this from reading various docs but it would be nice to see how smoothly it has gone for any others. From what I

Re: speccing an NFS server -- smp good or bad?

2006-01-09 Thread Crispy Beef
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: For a FBSD (or Solaris 10) based server that is only acting as an NFS server and nothing else, is there any advantage to using an SMP machine? Any disadvantage? Does CPU speed play any great factor (ie, use a 1.8ghz opteron instead of a 2.2ghz opteron

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and Shuttle AMD64

2006-01-06 Thread Crispy Beef
Jean-Baptiste Potonnier wrote: Ok, I think so, but it seems I can't load anything! Try typing 'autoload' and then hitting return to see what that does, it should start to load a kernel. Tried this yesterday an get a message such cannot find kernel Get the meny by typing beastie-start=

DBus, Hald and Gnome Volume Manager

2006-01-06 Thread Crispy Beef
Hi, Have recently set-up hald, dbus and gnome-volume-manager on my Linux box so that devices are automounted in fstab etc. Works great! Have had a look to see if I can have this running with Gnome on my 6.0-RELEASE laptop, found dbus in ports, but hald and gnome-volume-manager are nowhere

Re: Kernel Compilation...

2006-01-05 Thread Crispy Beef
Still sounds like a hardware problem. Maybe the laptop is overheating, compiling software is always hard on a system. Also I don't think Memtest86 will show you anything even if your ram is bad. The best way to find out is to just change it out if you have extra somewhere or remove part of it

Re: Kernel Compilation...

2006-01-05 Thread Crispy Beef
Robert Huff wrote: Nikolas Britton writes: Still sounds like a hardware problem. Maybe not. A couple of years back - in the early days of 4.x - I had a problem which I /think/ manifested in the manner originally described. It turned out to be the script I'd set up

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and Shuttle AMD64

2006-01-05 Thread Crispy Beef
Jean-Baptiste Potonnier wrote: I'm a new FreeBSD user, just tested it on an old i386, and want to switch from Slackware linux to FreeBSD or NetBSD. I wanted to install FreeBSD on my new Shuttle SN95G5: the AMD64 cdrom # 1 boots, but a message tells me that no kernel can be loaded. I get a

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and Shuttle AMD64

2006-01-05 Thread Crispy Beef
Jean-Baptiste Potonnier wrote: Jean-Baptiste Potonnier wrote: / I'm a new FreeBSD user, just tested it on an old i386, and want to // switch from Slackware linux to FreeBSD or NetBSD. // I wanted to install FreeBSD on my new Shuttle SN95G5: the AMD64 cdrom # // 1 boots, but a message

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and Shuttle AMD64

2006-01-05 Thread Crispy Beef
Jean-Baptiste Potonnier wrote: Jean-Baptiste Potonnier wrote: / I'm a new FreeBSD user, just tested it on an old i386, and want to // switch from Slackware linux to FreeBSD or NetBSD. // I wanted to install FreeBSD on my new Shuttle SN95G5: the AMD64 cdrom # // 1 boots, but a message

[Fwd: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and Shuttle AMD64]

2006-01-05 Thread Crispy Beef
Just booted my AMD64 system with the install CD from the link above and got into sysinstall no problem, booted the kernel (with ACPI) and could see all hardware being detected nicely. I remember when I first had the system that I had to flash the BIOS as the USB 2.0 stuff was causing issues

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and Shuttle AMD64

2006-01-05 Thread Crispy Beef
Just booted my AMD64 system with the install CD from the link above and got into sysinstall no problem, booted the kernel (with ACPI) and could see all hardware being detected nicely. I remember when I first had the system that I had to flash the BIOS as the USB 2.0 stuff was causing issues

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and Shuttle AMD64

2006-01-05 Thread Crispy Beef
Jean-Baptiste Potonnier wrote: Crispy Beef wrote: Just booted my AMD64 system with the install CD from the link above and got into sysinstall no problem, booted the kernel (with ACPI) and could see all hardware being detected nicely. I remember when I first had the system that I had

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 and Shuttle AMD64

2006-01-05 Thread Crispy Beef
When the install CD boots, you normally get presented with a menu (same on an installed FreeBSD system) which allows you to choose to boot the system with; 1) ACPI Disabled 2) ACPI Enabled...a safe mode etc. etc. If you are not getting to that then it sound like you might be at the loader

Compiling Ports...

2006-01-05 Thread Crispy Beef
Am trying to get my head around the ports system, specifically custom options when compiling. For example I would like to install apache 2.2 under it's own dir in /usr/local, say /usr/local/apache22. If I was rolling my own version using the configure script I would do: ./configure

Re: Compiling Ports...

2006-01-05 Thread Crispy Beef
Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 1/5/06, Crispy Beef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am trying to get my head around the ports system, specifically custom options when compiling. For example I would like to install apache 2.2 under it's own dir in /usr/local, say /usr/local/apache22. If I was rolling

Re: Kernel Compilation...

2006-01-04 Thread Crispy Beef
Nikolas Britton wrote: On 1/3/06, Crispy Beef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan Chen wrote: On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 04:15:48PM +, Crispy Beef wrote: Hi All, Just joined this list. The last time I used FreeBSD was with 4.6-RELEASE, so a while ago now. I have just installed 6.0

Re: How long to compile...

2006-01-04 Thread Crispy Beef
I guess the 4.5 kernel was a lot less complex as that compiles quite quickly on my old P120 firewall box. Cheers for the info. Paul Rowdy wrote: Crispy Beef wrote: Hi, This is kind of related to my other post (Kernel Compilation), but thought I'd post it seperately as it would

Re: Kernel Compilation...

2006-01-04 Thread Crispy Beef
Nikolas Britton wrote: To rule out hardware problems rebuild the generic kernel using the virgin GENERIC kernel config file: 0. If you've messed with /etc/make.conf change it back to the defaults! 1. su 2. cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf 3. rm -r ../compile/GENERIC 4. config GENERIC 5. cd

Re: Kernel Compilation...

2006-01-03 Thread Crispy Beef
Robert Huff wrote: Crispy Beef writes: I wasn't aware that I needed to do a buildworld too, am limited on the amount of disk space I have, the whole disk is 6Gb with a 1Gb /home and over 3Gb /usr. Is that going to be enough? 1) It is _very_ important to keep the kernel

Re: Kernel Compilation...

2006-01-03 Thread Crispy Beef
Jonathan Chen wrote: On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 04:15:48PM +, Crispy Beef wrote: Hi All, Just joined this list. The last time I used FreeBSD was with 4.6-RELEASE, so a while ago now. I have just installed 6.0-RELEASE on my old laptop and have been configuring the system, am onto

How long to compile...

2006-01-03 Thread Crispy Beef
Hi, This is kind of related to my other post (Kernel Compilation), but thought I'd post it seperately as it would be interesting to know... Was wondering on average how long building userland and the kernel for 6.0-RELEASE should take on a 466MHz Celeron machine with 128Mb RAM? The only

Re: How long to compile...

2006-01-03 Thread Crispy Beef
Was wondering on average how long building userland and the kernel for 6.0-RELEASE should take on a 466MHz Celeron machine with 128Mb RAM? Many hours. :-( For comparison: it takes ~1h45 on a P4/2.25ghz with 512mb. I seem to remember the 500mhz Celeron being an overnight or

Kernel Compilation...

2006-01-02 Thread Crispy Beef
Hi All, Just joined this list. The last time I used FreeBSD was with 4.6-RELEASE, so a while ago now. I have just installed 6.0-RELEASE on my old laptop and have been configuring the system, am onto the kernel at the moment, have followed the traditional method in the FreeBSD handbook. All

Re: Kernel Compilation...

2006-01-02 Thread Crispy Beef
Robert Slade wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 16:15, Crispy Beef wrote: Hi All, Just joined this list. The last time I used FreeBSD was with 4.6-RELEASE, so a while ago now. I have just installed 6.0-RELEASE on my old laptop and have been configuring the system, am onto the kernel

Re: Kernel Compilation...

2006-01-02 Thread Crispy Beef
Adam Nealis wrote: --- Crispy Beef [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Just joined this list. The last time I used FreeBSD was with 4.6-RELEASE, so a while ago now. I have just installed 6.0-RELEASE on my old laptop and have been configuring the system, am onto the kernel at the moment

Re: Kernel Compilation...

2006-01-02 Thread Crispy Beef
Adam Nealis wrote: *snip* Here's what I did: 1.Install from CD (6.0-RELEASE) 2.Got latest kernel src with sysinstall Hmm. cvsup might be better. Having said that, when I cvsup'd 6.0-RELEASE after installing from CD, there were only one or two files updated. But my version went