Re: Using HDD's for ZFS: 'desktop' vs 'raid / enterprise' -edition drives?

2009-01-02 Thread dick hoogendijk
.. > > Is that comment FreeBSD specifc, or aimed at ZFS in general? Mind you, ZFS on FreeBSD is not the same as on OpenSolaris-2008.11, Nevada or even Solaris 10. On those platforms ZFS generally does what it is supposed to do, other than it's still a developing FS. On *BSD re

Re: Using HDD's for ZFS: 'desktop' vs 'raid / enterprise' -edition drives?

2009-01-02 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:40:38 +0100 Eric Masson wrote: > Wojciech Puchar writes: > > think twice before doing. > Could you elaborate please ? Not again this anti-zfs story please.. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS sxce snv104 ++ + All t

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-15 Thread dick hoogendijk
ing these self > > appointed "CENSORS" consider verboten. > > you are excellent at messing things up. Look who's talking.. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS sxce snv104 ++ + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others (

Re: wich are the difference among freebsd, NetBsd and HPUX?

2008-12-14 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:50:09 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > Hi everybody somebody cand explain me wich are the difference among > > freebsd, NetBsd and HPUX? > NTG. Found a new hobby? Cyber Police? -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | Su

Re: CMS suggestion on FreeBSD (except Mambo)

2008-12-14 Thread dick hoogendijk
about WordPress? Its code is very nice :) A simple but fast CMS is Textpattern. For heavy duty (and a somewhat steep learning curve) TYPO3 (4.2.3) is very good. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS sxce snv103 ++ + All that's really w

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-12 Thread dick hoogendijk
r drivers work very very well. At least they do on solaris (32/64bit). -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS sxce snv103 ++ + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others (Lewis Carrol) __

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread dick hoogendijk
It's a rock-solid UNIX but like sendmail and it's former bugs and security hazards, a bad name does not go away easy. People tend to repeat eachother for a very long time. "Slowaris" is one of those terms. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS sx

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread dick hoogendijk
removing. at least in unix... On a modern UNIX (like solaris nevada) I don't have to unmount those devices. I just can unplug it and nothing "bad" happens ;-) -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS sxce snv103 ++ + All th

Re: Disenchanted with ZFS; alternatives?

2008-12-01 Thread dick hoogendijk
with ZFS. (and NO, this is not all on Sun hardware). I for one will never go back to filesystems like UFS/UFS2. My data is quite safe on ZFS; my systems are fast; backups are a snap with snapshots; the list of PROs is long, very long (and all this for a still young filesystem...) -- Dick Hoogend

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-12-01 Thread dick hoogendijk
d their unix is damn slow compared to FreeBSD. These kinds of personal (subjective) remarks are FUD if you don't deliver the test results. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS sxce snv103 ++ + All that's really worth doing is

Re: Unix program that sends email directly using MX record

2008-11-29 Thread dick hoogendijk
nerability or a similar flaw > because it's designed with security in mind. Not only with security. Also with lack of possiblities. > Sendmail never was. But it is still the most used mta worldwide. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS sxce snv103 ++ +

Re: firewall rules for bitlord, yahoo, limewire

2008-11-26 Thread dick hoogendijk
by any limewire connections. But ymmv. > When people ask my advice about computers, I always include: "Never > use Limewire, or anything like it." You can also say: use them but don't connect them to the net. I know, I'm cynical here, but limewire is not all bad! -- Dick H

Re: restrict FreeBSD users to their home directory

2008-10-26 Thread dick hoogendijk
l access to the machine, these > security measures are _useless_. A hostile user could take out the > harddisk, put it in a machine where he has a root account and read all > the disk's contents (unless it's encrypted). You're right here but I get the feeling this is beside the po

Re: Sorry - plaintext this time - Disk geometry and two OSes.

2008-08-05 Thread dick hoogendijk
er you can always change to another one. Your diskdata will be safe. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxce snv94 ++ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que

Re: tex, teTex, LaTeX help

2008-07-30 Thread dick hoogendijk
SD support is included). -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxce snv94 ++ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Flashplugin

2008-06-16 Thread dick hoogendijk
e with you: Flash is not always shit or not needed. Quite a few times it gives somthing extra that makes the web more attractive. People stating it's advertizing 99% of the time are simply wrong. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++

RE: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-12 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 13:37 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > for example you can't select per file (or at least - per > pseudo-filesystem) if you want no protection, mirrored or raidz. Isn't it a pity that the fbsd implementation of ZFS lacks such a feature. Your anti stories of ZFS often show t

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-10 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
thing clearer? Do your own homework, please. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxde 01/08 ++ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscrib

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-09 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
CPU load. Because the ZFS checksumming makes the FS selfhealing. Chance for errors are almost nill. No fsck. Yes, it consumes memory, but memory is cheap, very cheap! CPU load is hardly noticable. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxde 01/08 ++ __

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-09 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
x27;t seem to be an upper limit for > ZFS, which I think is very bad. This limit can be tuned. At least on solaris. Also, ZFS definitely prefers a 64 bit kernel. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxde 01/08 ++ ___

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-08 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
emory and CPU eater. Your entitled to your opinion, but please try to base it on some facts. ZFS is herre to stay. You better get used to it. at least you could try to work with it before you make up an opinion. Have you -any- idea at all what this FS is capable off? -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/G

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-08 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
scheduling on Solaris. > maybe that's their 32-64 hardware threads capable chip is advertised > so much? :) Don't write about things you don't know. *Maybe's* don't help. You don't have to like solaris but don't troll about it, please. Both systems have their

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-08 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
on't execurate. For a webserver on zfs 4GB is more than enough. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxde 01/08 ++ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-08 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
h the ability to boot off ZFS root. Production servers need to be well (no thoroughly) tested ;-) The best stable (production) server with ZFS is solaris-10u5 If you want to boot off ZFS, S10u6 will support that. But these versions too need lots of ram. I think fbsd has a lighter footprint. -- Dick Hoo

Re: Flashplugin

2008-06-08 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 22:16:34 -0400 Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 12:03:50AM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > > > On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 15:33:26 -0500 > > "Sam Fourman Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >

Re: Flashplugin

2008-06-07 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
rted. That's a major problem in these modern times, although lots of fbsd people tend to say it is not. That's not everyday's live however. FreeBSD does not make the web. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxde 01/08 ++ _

Re: Back up files...

2008-04-09 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
> dump the root partition: > > dump -0 -a -C 8 -h 0 -L -u -f - / |gzip > >/where/to/put/root-0-20080409.gz OK. Right. And what is exactly the command for restore? Something like "gunzip dumpfile.gz | restore rf dumpfile" Or what. Compressing is nice but the use of gzip is

Re: state of flash on FreeBSD 7?

2008-03-16 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
i-spam system. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxde 01/08 ++ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: state of flash on FreeBSD 7?

2008-03-16 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
x27;s. Lots of us are 'good' people y'know. All mail coming from one of my servers is clean. Period. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxde 01/08 ++ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: state of flash on FreeBSD 7?

2008-03-16 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
to _not_ see all the annoying flash-based ads. And for me it's a handicap. It's like looking to the net through glasses that are to dark to see all. I think it's a pity fbsd people tend to ignore modern internet. Flash (or flash-like) webcontent will not go away. Not for quite a while

Re: Virtualized FreeBSD

2008-03-15 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
ou mean FreeBSD jails - yes it runs fine, i use them on 6.3p1 I think it's obvious he means running freebsd as a guest OS on some kind of VM (VMWare, VirtualBox) -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxde 01/08 ++ ___

Re: changing the postion of a partion in fdisk

2008-01-09 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
OS's like linux but also solaris "see" it and offer to change it back. I'm not sure about fbsd's fdisk. Too long ago. If not, try one of those knoppix live CD's -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ | Solaris 10 / XDE ++ __

Re: Buying new sound card

2007-10-23 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
s not too hard ;-) > Note that in my opinion the native FreeBSD drivers are a lot better. What drivers? The ones that don't exist for the card? In my opinion the SB Audigy is a very common card that should have been supported long ago. On the other hand, the OSS drivers are very good. --

Re: [Mimedefang] Compiling MD under Solaris 10

2007-08-14 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
ry well in the zone (also smarthost for all other machines in the house ;-) -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + Solaris 11 05/07 ++ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Re: Backspace

2007-08-12 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
bash for their user logins. I change that into ksh or zsh myself ;-) -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + Solaris 11 05/07 ++ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-quest

Re: amd

2007-07-15 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
to think I don't know the answer. I just wanted to point out there is a learning curve, that's all. But you're miles may vary. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ http://nagual.nl/ + Solaris 11 05/07 ++ ___

Re: amd

2007-07-15 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
"Michael B Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm a C developer. I normally use Linux but I'm trying FreeBSD with > limited success. FreeBSD is quite different from linux. There is a learning curve. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ http

Re: flash

2007-07-03 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
l prove that point out. It just > shouldn't have to be that complicated. It can ruin the experience. You're right about hat. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ http://nagual.nl/ + Solaris 11 05/07 ++ ___ freebsd-questions@freeb

Re: Gradual move to own mail server - strategy for noob

2007-06-27 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
s you're a hacker. But _IF_ you are, hacking is easy too. >> I've heard it said that it's easier and less painfull to amputate > your own leg with a pocket knife then to hack sendmail.cf. :) Depends on your hacking skills.. Writing / adjusting a mc file is easie

Re: rerecording a cdrw?

2007-06-27 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
lanking first. You're right though for CD-RW disks. Burncd is OK, but if you want 'more', then cdrecord is unbeatable, I guess. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ http://nagual.nl/ + Solaris 11 05/07 ++ ___ freebsd-

Re: Verifying PHP support

2007-06-26 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
"Darryl Hoar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How should I add php support so that I can install Gallery2 ? Portupgrade -rR Gallery2 ? Installs all dependencies. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ http://nagual.nl/

Re: UFS(2, 3 ?) vs ZFS.

2007-06-15 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I know it is a sun site. Don't intend to attack fbsd. But the topic is ZFS and that will become available in many systems, I'm sure! -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ http://nagual.nl/ + Solaris 11 05/07 ++ ___ freebsd-quest

Re: UFS(2, 3 ?) vs ZFS.

2007-06-15 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
l really be so nice i will be making small (50MB) > partition for /boot files, ZFS on rest. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/ zfs _is_ nice but bear in mind it is still in development. There are issues. But overall it might become a very important FS. Even booting off zfs became ava

Re: mail reader/agent for xfce4

2007-06-15 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Just for the record: FreeBSD i386 STABLE. Thunderbird Mail and News Claws-Mail (mail / news) KMail (kde mailreader) Pan (newsreader) -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ http://nagual.nl/ + Solaris 11 05/07 ++ ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: nvidia driver on amd64

2007-06-14 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
r, I _was_ willing to to the research when I had the time (it's almost weekend). So you're right. It's not nVidia, but a FreeBSD kernel problem. > Read the archives in ports@, hackers@, and current@ over the past > couple months to discover more details. Will do. -- Dick Hoog

Re: nvidia driver on amd64

2007-06-14 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dick Hoogendijk wrote: >> I have used FreeBSD for years and still hate to see this lack of >> support by others :-( > Again, read my response and do some research before you blame > nVidia. Blame nVidia.. Can you tell me w

Re: nvidia driver on amd64

2007-06-13 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
pported by nVidia, like f.i. solaris is. I don't want to write in favor of solaris, mind you, but it _is_ very nice to have Xorg-7.2 installed (both 32 and 64 bits) and a working 32 _and_ 64 bits native nVidia driver with it. I have used FreeBSD for years and still hate to see this lack of su

Re: mounting Solaris 10 NFS share

2007-06-03 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
t access as root you can add 'root' to the group that has access. But a "su user" is better and safer. > Changinf the dir's permissions to 0777 on Solaris does "fix" the > problem but . . . it's not a solution. It's not done. So don't ;-) Y

Re: Newbie to ssh questions

2007-05-21 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 21 May DSA - JCR wrote: > 1.- Where can I found info about SSH configuration and connections? Read the handbook. > 2.- Is it possible to ssh connect to FBSD from a MS Windows system? > How? is any free programs outthere? puTTY -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289C

Re: Sysinstall Drive Geometry

2007-05-08 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I have seen this question SO many times.. It's all in the archives. Simple remark: don't worry about it. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ http://nagual.nl/ | Solaris 10 11/06 ++ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:

Re: after deleting maillog, sendmail won't log

2007-05-05 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
null > logfile" The latter works OK; the first would require a syslogd restart. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ http://nagual.nl/ + Solaris 10 11/06 ++ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: mounting a solaris HD

2007-04-09 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
/mnt > > and got the answer: > > mount_ext2fs: /dev/ad1: Invalid argument > > Doesn't solaris use UFS filesystems? I think plain old mount shoud do > the trick. It does, tweaked by sun. It's not the same UFS FreeBSD used to have. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/G

Re: DNS configuration

2007-03-15 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:16:46 -1200 "neo neo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but i don't know how to configure DNS . plz .. ? Read the same handbook as adviced earlier. And for DNS the O'Reilly book is great. DNS is no toy. It should be handled with great care. The inte

Re: CD Drive "locked" during install, can't commit

2007-01-04 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 04 Jan Richard Lynch wrote: > At this point, however, Disk#2 was in the drive, not disk #1. > Alas, it kept trying to find base, man, dict, ports on /dev/acd0. > It wasn't there, because those are on Disk#1, not #2. > My laptop eject button would NOT work. > The installer wasn't letting me swap

Re: Massive upgrade after updating gnutls-1.4.5 port

2007-01-04 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 03 Jan José G. Juanino wrote: > I read in the UPDATING file: > > ### > gnutls has been updated to 1.6.1 and all shared libraries' versions have > been bumped. So you need to rebuild all applications that depend on > gnutls. Do something like: > > portupgrade -rf gnutls > ### > > I run pkg_glo

Re: starting KDE after install .. -not-

2007-01-03 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 03 Jan Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On Wednesday, January 03, 2007 17:17:17 +0100 dick hoogendijk > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >According to the kdm manual you should *not* use the "-nodaemon" > > Where does it say that? According to the online docs > 

Re: starting KDE after install .. -not-

2007-01-03 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 03 Jan Paul Schmehl wrote: > Try this. Edit /etc/ttys thus: > ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure According to the kdm manual you should *not* use the "-nodaemon" Why do you? -- http://nagual.nl/ --- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.1 ++ Solaris 10 11/06 ++

Re: named not starting on boot

2007-01-02 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 02 Jan Paul Schmehl wrote: > Try adding this to /etc/rc.conf: > named_symlink_enable="YES" Never heard of this option. Never used it too. And named runs on my FreeBSD-6.1 server like it should. for quite some time now ;-) I guess the answer is in the logfile. Maybe an error of some sort in the

Re: portupgrade - skipping -held by user- meaning?

2007-01-02 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 02 Jan Vizion wrote: > > > >>Vizion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >It wont change by itself. > > Sure -- but it must have been changed automatically on my system during > a package installation process- I certainly made no manual or other > entries in it and noone else has root access. I know

Re: Possibility for FreeBSD 4.11 Extended Support

2006-12-24 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 07:45, Robert Watson wrote: > It's interesting that so far I've actually not yet seen even one person > e-mail > security-team since the EoL announcement to say, > >"If I volunteer my time or pay for your time to support 4.11 for security > patches, can we extend t

remote graphical login to a fbsd server

2006-12-23 Thread dick hoogendijk
[From the handbook] In order for other clients to connect to the display server, edit the access control rules, and enable the connection listener. By default these are set to conservative values. To make XDM listen for connections, first comment out a line in the xdm-config file: ! SECURITY: do n

Re: [kde-freebsd] gamin/fam issues with KDE

2006-12-15 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 14 Dec Bastiaan Welmers wrote: > One nasty thing is that when afterwards installing a package requiring > gamin, it will fail with errors. To prevent this you could just "fake" > the pkg db that gamin is installed however actually fam libraries are > installed. And how exactly is this "faking"

Re: X server remote login

2006-12-13 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 11 Dec Steve Franks wrote: > 2) edit the .Xaccess file in the location specified for xdm in the > handbook, add a "LISTEN *" line. I'll have to look it up in the handbook yet. I hope I will find in there how to prevent xdm from listening to the outside world. I only want to allow my local netw

Re: X server remote login

2006-12-09 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 21:54, Derek Ragona wrote: > By default in FreeBSD X doesn't listen for TCP requests. To change this do: > startx -listen_tcp Thank you. But can this be made "permanent" somewhere? I guess the tcp port (6000?) should be made inaccessible to the outside world. -- http://nag

X server remote login

2006-12-09 Thread dick hoogendijk
I run solaris and FreeBSD. In solaris I can login on a remote machine with an X session. I can't see my freebsd machine though. I have no idea where the config to make this possible resides on FreeBSD. I guess X runs without broadcasting itself on fbsd. How can I change this? -- http://nagual.nl/

strange locale issue

2006-12-09 Thread dick hoogendijk
# login.conf # me:\ :charset=iso-8859-1:\ :lang=en_US.ISO8859-1: # :lang=nl_NL.ISO8859-1: I've a strange issue. My wife runs with lang=nl_NL.ISO8859-1 and she experiences weird dropouts when she types text into Abiword. I upgraded to the latest ports but the issue was still there. Then I thought:

streaming content on fbsd

2006-11-12 Thread dick hoogendijk
I have the latest ports. I run freebsd-6.1 I compiled almost every option / dataformat into mplayer. Still no streaming media. Although about:plugin states the format is supported (and mplayer is compiled to support the format too). No support for i,e.: http://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/tv/var

Re: Nvidia has drivers for FreeBSD (but my xorg is already working)

2006-11-10 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 10 Nov Damian Wiest wrote: > On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 12:56:39PM +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: > > On 11/8/06, Mark Jayson Alvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Hi, > > > > > >I have a Palit GeForce 6500 PCI-E 256Mb/64bit and I'm running x > > >windows. What do I need that NVidia FreeBSD dri

pcre vs pcre-utf8

2006-11-05 Thread dick hoogendijk
kde3 packages have a "lib depends => pcre" and bluefish has a "lib depends => pcre-utf8" These two pcre packages mutually exclude each other. How can I install both kde3 and bluefish? -- http://nagual.nl/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.1 ++ Solaris 10 6/06 ++ ___

Re: firefox crash

2006-10-30 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 30 Oct patrick wrote: > Hi list > > I had firefox-1.5.0.4 running on my workstation at home and at work. Two > weeks ago firefox crashed the first time. On both (work and home). After > many crashes i installed firefox-devel (firefox - 2.0). But now it is > the same. It just crashes without any

Re: sendmail + spamassassin

2006-10-09 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 08 Oct jdow wrote: > From: "dick hoogendijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >What is the best way to integrate spamassasin with sendmail? > >MIMEDefang? > > Best is horridly subjective. I use procmail here with considerable > success. However, what wo

sendmail + spamassassin

2006-10-08 Thread dick hoogendijk
What is the best way to integrate spamassasin with sendmail? MIMEDefang? -- dick -- http://nagual.nl/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.1 +++ Solaris 10 6/06 ++ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: Restricting access to home directory

2006-09-25 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 25 Sep Matt Juszczak wrote: > If there was an easy way to restrict users to their home directories > using SCP or SCPONLY, I would love that instead. > Is there anyway? Short answer: NO and that's OK for a protocol based on ssh. Your users can pass the bounderies of their homedirectories if the

Re: Firefox+Flash+Qemu

2006-09-18 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 18 Sep Jerry McAllister wrote: > Do you run Qemu on FreeBSD? It says only 'LINUX host only' for "User > Mode Emulation". So, does that mean I can emulate a full system if I > am hosting it under FreeBSD? > > This is the first time I have run in to Qemu and it looks interesting. Qemu is gre

Re: Freebsd, Suse Linux dual booting

2006-09-18 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 17 Sep Ahmad Arafat Abdullah wrote: > For me, > booting BSDa and other OS is easier with grub: > mine: > > FreeBSD 6.1 >rootnoverify (hd0,0) >chainloader +1 Is this chainloader thing still valid? To my knowledge grub knows about ufs2 nowadays. -- dick -- http://nagual.nl/ -- PGP/GnuP

Re: solaris

2006-09-06 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 06 Sep P.U.Kruppa wrote: > On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, dick hoogendijk wrote: > >I want to replace the third partition with solaris 10, mainly for > >studying this OS. > >Hope to get some advice and reading points. I have years of experience > >with linux and FreeBSD

Re: solaris

2006-09-04 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 03 Sep Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > I am not sure about installing Solaris into an existing partition. I remember one of the FBSD's (a RC, but still) destroying my partition table. That's the reason I ask. I know that I don't have to use the main option (that's for the whole disk). But

solaris

2006-09-03 Thread dick hoogendijk
I have a 3-part disk: (a) XP for games (b) FreeBSD-6.1 (my main OS) (c) FreeBSD-6.1 (a backup) I want to replace the third partition with solaris 10, mainly for studying this OS. I burned the DVD. Will it install solaris on this third partition without trouble? Will I be able to continue to use th

Re: Fw: lothlorien.nagual.nl security run output

2006-08-30 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 30 Aug nicky wrote: > In your message you state, "Begin forwarded message [some Xorg update > warnings deleted]:" > > Isn't it so that in your message, lines 3 to 12 are just port related > binaries? (i assume xorg related). Meaning that ping/ping6, etc aren't > updated at all. At least i don

Re: Fw: lothlorien.nagual.nl security run output

2006-08-29 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 28 Aug David Robillard wrote: > Did you reinstall the entire OS _before_ you installed Osiris? Did you > find out why your SUID files had changed in the first place? No. I did a "diff" with the same files on other freebsd-6.1 machines which I'm absolutely certain are not compromised. The file

strange files

2006-08-28 Thread dick hoogendijk
Recently I see a lot of these file in thje root directory. Probably by a newer version of FAM Is there an option to get tem be put elsewhere. fam.conf and man fam learn me nothing ;-) the listing === drwxr-xr-x 22 root wheel -1024 Aug 28 10:23 ./ drwxr-xr-x 22 root wheel -

Fw: lothlorien.nagual.nl security run output

2006-08-27 Thread dick hoogendijk
I'm a little worried after reading the security output this morning. It seems some files [ping, ping6, shutdown, at, atq and atrm] have setuid diffs. I really don't know why this could have happened. I updated some ports yesterday, but I don't think any port writes in /sbin (?) Could someboddy advi

pear does not compile

2006-08-25 Thread dick hoogendijk
Does anyboy also has issues with the latest PEAR-1.4.11 ? [errors]= ===> Installing for pear-1.4.11 ===> pear-1.4.11 depends on file: /usr/local/include/php/main/php.h - found ===> pear-1.4.11 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/php/20020429/pcre.so - found ===> pear-1.4.11 depends on

/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libcvsservice.so.0" not found, required by "quanta"

2006-08-19 Thread dick hoogendijk
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libcvsservice.so.0" not found, required by "quanta" This file is missing and I would like to know from which package this file comes. I'm sure there is some kind of command prompt which I regrettely don't know ;-( Anyone? -- dick -- http://nagual.nl/ -- PGP/

cdrecord

2006-08-17 Thread dick hoogendijk
Installed cdrecord from ports. This version does not include DVD-R/DVD-RW support code. Cdrecord-porDVD is needed. I want to burn DVD-R's. Can this be done with FreeBSD? Do I need cdrecord-devel for this? -- dick -- http://nagual.nl/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.1 ++ The Power

Re: quick way fall back to the original kernel

2006-08-14 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 13 Aug Atom Powers wrote: > And, although I've never tried it, you sholud be able to `cp > /boot/kernel.old /boot/kernel` to restore the previous kernel.> I did. A few times. I just renamed the directories to "kernel" and "whatevername" ;-) Works like a charm.. -- dick -- http://nagual.nl/ --

Re: ext usb2 drive and fbsd6

2006-08-10 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:20:08 -0700 Micah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dick hoogendijk wrote: > > Maybe I should not ask this here but I take my chances. I love fbsd > > but it /is/ pickier on some hardware than windows and I don't want > > to use that softwar

Re: vmware library problem

2006-08-10 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 07:59:53 + Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I fixed this by adding LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib to the > environment, but since I actually have a choice of > > /usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib > /usr/X11R6/lib > > which should I actually use? For some reason ev

ext usb2 drive and fbsd6

2006-08-08 Thread dick hoogendijk
Maybe I should not ask this here but I take my chances. I love fbsd but it /is/ pickier on some hardware than windows and I don't want to use that software, so.. I'm planning an external hardrive. NAS (network attached storage) drive are very expensive. So I will buy an usb2 drive, I think. As al

/tmp permissions

2006-08-07 Thread dick hoogendijk
Today I read that /tmp always is "noexec". That should probably be on linux, because on my fbsd-6.1 box it's "rw" and that's it. Question: should I change /tmp to "rw,noexec" to be safer? -- dick -- http://nagual.nl/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.1 +++ The Power to Serve __

Re: eaccelerator hit: log msgs

2006-08-07 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 15:30:30 +0200 Daniel Gerzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > put this into php.ini: > eaccelerator.debug = 0 > next time please read eaccelerator's documentation :-) I did. I also read the eaccelerator.ini.example file but did not know (or guess) that these options could go into php

eaccelerator hit: log msgs

2006-08-07 Thread dick hoogendijk
Installing eAccelerator with apache2.2.3/php4 was easy enough. It is indeed a lot faster, BUT, However, my httpd-error.log very fast with lots and lots of rules like: EACCELERATOR hit:"/usr/local/www/horde/imp/config/servers.php" etc, etc.. I don't want these lines to appear. How and where can

Re: Portupgrade disable certain builds ...

2006-08-05 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 05 Aug Kiffin Gish wrote: > I would like to disable building certain builds when running a > portupgrade -arR. > > For example, if gnome2 is tagged for a rebuild, Galeon is not built > (because I don't use it and have deleted the package). As I wrote earlier, see pkgtools.conf => HOLDPKG optio

17" or 19"

2006-08-02 Thread dick hoogendijk
Two LCD screens. Both have the same resolution (1280x1024) The 19" is $100 more expensive as the 17" What would to your opinions be the right thing to do. Go for the 17" or the larger (but probably a little less crystal sharp) 19" one. I'm not that rich. Probably my doubts are rooted in this;-) Tha

options VESA SC_PIXEL_MODE

2006-08-02 Thread dick hoogendijk
I followed some advice on how to get higher resolutions on the console for my 1280x1024 LCD monitor. I recompiled the kernel with options VESA options SC_PIXEL_MODE After a vidcontrol MODE_282 I get a 1280x1024 console. Nice, but the characters are just "fat" compared to the chars I get in Xorg r

Re: Skip/ignore certain makes using portupgrade ...

2006-08-01 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 01 Aug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What's the best way to ignore certain dependancies within makefiles > while running a portupgrade? > > For example, I don't want to build the Galeon webbrowser everytime, but > it is present in the Gnome2 makefile. See the HOLDPKG statement in /usr/local/etc/p

Re: update info on ports

2006-07-30 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 30 Jul Mikhail Goriachev wrote: > dick hoogendijk wrote: > > So now I wonder, what is the difference of port apache-2.2.2 and the > > latest one "apache-2.2.2_1" > > Others already mentioned you about the vulnerability found in v2.2.2. > As an addition, you

update info on ports

2006-07-30 Thread dick hoogendijk
Normally I upgrade my ports if I see new versions. But now I have a question: I saw a new apache22 version (apache-2.2.2_1) but on the apache site I could not find anything related to security bugs or whatever. I *did* find a version 2.2.3 though (not yet in ports!) So now I wonder, what is the di

Re: mail rejected

2006-07-27 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 26 Jul Richard Collyer wrote: > > On Wed, July 26, 2006 8:37 am, dick hoogendijk wrote: > > All of a sudden mail to this list is rejected. My IP can't be found. > > It always was, so this is weird. I checked with a "dig > > @large.world.ns" and a few ot

mail rejected

2006-07-26 Thread dick hoogendijk
All of a sudden mail to this list is rejected. My IP can't be found. It always was, so this is weird. I checked with a "dig @large.world.ns" and a few others and they all resolved my name / IP OK. I send this mail through my provider (which works). Anybody else experiencing this change in behaviour

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