Re: clicky driver

2009-12-26 Thread Ian Smith
/speaker are userland processes; I've no idea how much 'fun' it would be to invoke /dev/speaker ioctls from the kbd drivers. But if you're really keen: % find /sys/ -name speaker* -o -name spkr* cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: freebsd for children

2009-12-25 Thread Ian Smith
. KDE3 includes Kturtle, not 'pure' Logo at all but a reasonable interface and some decent starter examples to see if kids find it interesting, then maybe move onto ucblogo (which I haven't played with, but looks fully-featured and well-documented on a quick scan of the pkglist) cheers, Ian

Re: Re-compiling PHP changes server responsiveness

2009-12-17 Thread Ian Fitzgerald
Matthew Seaman wrote: Ian Fitzgerald wrote: Recently upgraded (fresh install) FBSD 8, including MySql, Apache22, phpMyAdmin, KDE4 Gnome2.26 from DVD iso. Running ok as test server, but unusual error from added, complex CMS prompted me to re-install PHP5 and PHP5-extensions as pkg_add -r

Re: is this getting out?

2009-12-17 Thread Ian Smith
on each of your externally accessible nameservers, and of course allows response traffic outbound. cheers, Ian PS because thought.org is SERVFAIL at the mo, you won't get this mail direct till the domain reappears here. It'll be queued for two days

Re-compiling PHP changes server responsiveness

2009-12-16 Thread Ian Fitzgerald
Recently upgraded (fresh install) FBSD 8, including MySql, Apache22, phpMyAdmin, KDE4 Gnome2.26 from DVD iso. Running ok as test server, but unusual error from added, complex CMS prompted me to re-install PHP5 and PHP5-extensions as pkg_add -r (using ports files from iso), then with no success,

Re: 8.0 installation doesn't contain X distributions

2009-12-10 Thread Ian Smith
at the already experienced user, and I feel that's regressive. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-12-10 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009, Randi Harper wrote: On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 286, Issue 12, Message 7 On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:51:50 -0800 Randi Harper ra...@freebsd.org wrote:   On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Derek

Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-12-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Derek (freebsd lists) wrote: Ian Smith wrote: Options / Rescan Devices fixed it for me. Maybe it will for Derek and/or maybe provide another clue? Indeed this works for me. I've added a follow-up to the PR. Thanks for the tip! Good to hear. Randi

Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-12-05 Thread Ian Smith
? cheers, Ian ___ 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

Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-12-05 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 5 Dec 2009, Ian Smith wrote: One more thing, while I remember .. seeing the USB stick is here ad0a, isn't that the old 'dangerously dedicated mode' now dropped from 8.0? That's da0a of course. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Poor throughput with natd

2009-11-23 Thread Ian Smith
requirements on outbound divert. You still need to check inbound packets for possible NAT'ing. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

login accounts with no sendmail access

2009-11-18 Thread Ian Smith
we can deny each would-be email address using both From: and To: entries in /etc/mail/access, but I'm wondering if there's an easier way that doesn't involve creating such entries for each new account? (Please don't even mention LDAP) cheers, Ian

Re: Bad Blocks... Should I RMA?

2009-11-17 Thread Ian Smith
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Re: Bad Blocks... Should I RMA?

2009-11-17 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Nov 17, 2009, at 7:51 AM, Ian Smith wrote: [ ... ] For instance, I've got two Fujitsu 5400rpm 2.5 drives in two laptops, one MHV2040AH with near 19,000 hours on it, and a much newer MHV2120AH, 40 and 120GB respectively. Nice quiet low-power

Re: Partition naming, fstab, and geli

2009-11-16 Thread Ian Smith
into action. Note the additions above were assigned starting at 'd' by sysinstall. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Does hybernate/wakeup work?

2009-11-03 Thread Ian Smith
of 'sysctl hw.acpi' ? cheers, Ian ___ 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

Re: Does hybernate/wakeup work?

2009-11-03 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Yuri wrote: Ian Smith wrote: As Paul said, hibernation only works if the machine's BIOS supports it (hw.acpi.s4bios = 1) AND you've already prepared a suitable disk area, usually a separate slice (DOS partition) or as a file in a 'doze slice. To make even

Re: dhcpd related issue - not giving up

2009-11-02 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 283, Issue 2, Message: 4 On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 02:04:31 -0800 (PST) Dánielisz László laszlo_daniel...@yahoo.com wrote: Sorry, I misspell it, (192.168.1.1) at 00:13:8f:86:2f:64 on rl1 permanent [ethernet] - actually this is my rl1 interface on BSD Ok. Chomping

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-30 Thread Ian Smith
an old folk song you may have come across that pretty well covers the best approach to fixing any such perceived brokenness: http://www.songsforteaching.com/folk/theresaholeinthebucket.htm cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-18 Thread Ian Smith
to the extraordinary patience of some folks here. Ian ___ 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

Re: Question about FreeBSD installation procedure

2009-09-30 Thread Ian Smith
files between different OS, especially if you enclose them in a tar(1) or zip(1) file if you need to maintain file ownerships and permissions. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Error building net-snmp port

2009-09-09 Thread Ian
, did a make deinstall but it still stopped at the same point. It was installed as a dependency of nut. Any idea how to fix this? Cheers, Ian -- gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: How to correct *Failed sysctlbyname(net.inet.ip.fw.tables_max)*

2009-09-06 Thread Ian Smith
hunted through CVS, but located a message in ipfw@ from Ganbold with a patch proposing to add that very sysctl to ip_fw2.c dated 1st September 2008 .. was that before or after 7.1-RELEASE? Happy hunting, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

MySql54 Port With_CHARSET and WITH_XCHARSET

2009-08-28 Thread Ian Lord
be available would be utf8 but if I send a show charset query on the server, it lists them all... I am trying to compile while making sure there is only one charset on the server... did I missed something or is it a bug with the port or with mysql ? Thanks ~~ Ian

Re: Suspend/Resume on Thinkpad x40

2009-08-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Joe Snikeris wrote: On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Ian Smithsmi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Joe Snikeris wrote:   On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Ian Smithsmi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: [..]   At any rate, I gave up on ACPI.  I've got suspend

Re: Suspend/Resume on Thinkpad x40

2009-08-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Joe Snikeris wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Ian Smithsmi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:03:29 -0500 Joe Snikeris j...@snikeris.com wrote:   First off, I apologize if this is not the right forum for this   question.  I was torn between

Re: Suspend/Resume on Thinkpad x40

2009-08-20 Thread Ian Smith
If hw.syscons.sc_no_suspend_vtswitch=1 is no help, I'd try -mobile .. cheers, Ian ___ 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

Re: please help to uninstall FreeBSD!!!

2009-08-19 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:23:29 -0700 Walt Pawley w...@wump.org At 4:44 PM +0200 8/17/09, Heiner Strauß wrote: [..] Putting the symbol names in one word helped the linker / loader a lot. Live was so easy. Heiner C(one word = 32 bit) .NOT. (some word processor software) As

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-14 Thread Ian Smith
that .. HTH, Ian ___ 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

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-12 Thread Ian Smith
(if available?) so that such as fsck and dump can proceed. cheers, Ian ___ 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

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, PJ wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:52:29 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: [..] Let's assume ad0 is your source disk and ad1 the target disk. You can use the sysinstall tool to slice and partition the target disk. You can create

Re: named startup problems upgrading from 7.1p4 to 7.1p5 or 7.1p6

2009-07-13 Thread Ian
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:54:26 Ian wrote: Hi, I've been meaning to sort this out since the release of 7.1p5, but only just got around to it - I have an installation of 7.1 that runs bind and has been working fine up until I tried to update the system to 7.1p5 (using freebsd-update). As soon as I

named startup problems upgrading from 7.1p4 to 7.1p5 or 7.1p6

2009-06-28 Thread Ian
-update rollback restores normal operation and given that bind actually loads 7 seems to work apart fromthe hanging script, I suspect there's nothing wrong with my bind configuration. Any suggestions? Cheers, -- Ian gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc signature.asc

Re: named startup problems upgrading from 7.1p4 to 7.1p5 or 7.1p6

2009-06-28 Thread Ian
On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:43:49 Matthew Seaman wrote: Ian wrote: Hi, I've been meaning to sort this out since the release of 7.1p5, but only just got around to it - I have an installation of 7.1 that runs bind and has been working fine up until I tried to update the system to 7.1p5 (using

Re: phidgets for FreeBSD?

2009-06-08 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Brooks Davis wrote: On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:25:09AM +1000, Ian Smith wrote: On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 15:07:53 +0300 Ghirai ghi...@ghirai.com wrote: Is there any (native) FreeBSD supoprt for Phidgets (http://www.phidgets.com? Someone seems to have

Re: phidgets for FreeBSD?

2009-06-05 Thread Ian Smith
://www.totalphase.com/products/aardvark_i2cspi/ linux software might be expected to work 'well enough' on FreeBSD 7? Thanks. -- Ghirai. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

What's wrong with this picture?

2009-05-31 Thread Ian Smith
for specific expression in files (Valentin Bud) 4. Re: MIME attachments in mbox files (Ian Smith) 5. Re: Canon printer and TurboPrint (Jerry) 6. FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p12 bind9 log files not found (Prokofyev Vladislav) 7. GSM to Serial Converter (Exemys) 8. Re

Re: MIME attachments in mbox files

2009-05-30 Thread Ian Smith
. You can most likely rely on the return code from 'unzip -t $file' to check any files are valid zipfiles, if munpack can't recover the original filename from the MIME headers. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Failure to get past a PCI bridge

2009-05-30 Thread Ian Smith
archives at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-acpi/ cheers, Ian ___ 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

/etc/ttys

2009-05-07 Thread Ian Fitzgerald
Dumb question because of dumb action: can anyone point me to a place where I can find a copy of /etc/ttys? - suitable for FreeBSD v7.2 Thanks ianf ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: mod_php5 and apache22

2009-03-31 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Mel Flynn wrote: On Wednesday 25 March 2009 05:36:26 Ian Smith wrote: On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:46:16 +0100 Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org wrote: On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 03:20:26PM +0100, Mel Flynn typed: On Tuesday 24 March 2009 15:13:33 Christoph Kukulies wrote

most signals not being delivered to processes

2009-03-26 Thread Ian Rose
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Re: most signals not being delivered to processes

2009-03-26 Thread Ian Rose
holding on to some old bad controlling terminal even though they daemonize themselves. I have to admit I don't completely understand it all (in part because anything involving 'controlling terminals' is usually a bit mystifying for me), but hopefully he's right... cheers, Ian Chuck Swiger

Re: mod_php5 and apache22

2009-03-24 Thread Ian Smith
packages, right from the dist CDs/DVD if desired. Ah, for the good old days when it wasn't assumed that everyone had both fast boxes and fast net connections :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?

2009-03-22 Thread Ian Smith
a crash course in iptables re both firewall and shaping. cheers, Ian ___ 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

Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?

2009-03-21 Thread Ian Smith
the wireless card or bridge and the longer fat leads. cheers, Ian ___ 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

Re: make installworld fails on RELEASE6.4 amd64

2009-03-17 Thread Ian Smith
exactly why you DO need to run that when (ever) working single user, if you want file/log datestamps consistent. I can't comment on i386/amd64 differences, but it's necessary on i386. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Speeding up exit(2)?

2009-03-15 Thread Ian Smith
it finally quits! (extreme example, but a true story from a wild ebay session yesterday :) not exit(2) itself Well that just starts that big VM ball rolling, so to speak .. so it's a tad more complex than a program that fills memory (+ swap) then exits. cheers, Ian

Re: / partition full

2009-03-13 Thread Ian Smith
if you like extra typing, or are using linux :) cheers, Ian ___ 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

Re: torrent client traffic shaping question

2009-03-11 Thread Ian Smith
-world UDP transfers (eg realaudio) will back off from sending more in the absense of some sort of specific or periodic acknowledgements. I'm not sure what happens with multicast traffic. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: ipfw: Can't see other flows in pipe

2009-03-06 Thread Ian Smith
of the first packet using that bucket, not the most recent. You may also find http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet/ helpful. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

How do I determine the FreeBSD world revision/version?

2009-03-06 Thread Ian Bonnycastle
as been left at 7.1-RELEASE. Now, it could have been 7.0-RELEASE or 7.x-RELEASE and after upgrading the kernel, is this informaiton stored anywhere? Also, if this *is* explained somewhere, and I've missed, I honestly apologize in advance. Thanks, Ian -- So drop on the deck and flop like a fish

Re: Apache 1.3.41

2009-03-06 Thread Ian Smith
application/x-httpd-php .php AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps /IfModule Looks right here. NameVirtualHost * include /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.sites Presumably unchanged/ok? cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Free Pascal

2009-03-05 Thread Ian Fitzgerald
Can anyone point me to a method of installing Free Pascal Compiler? I am running FBSD 7.1, with KDE4. The last attempt deleted a file used by X-windows (and perhaps others), but I had no specific instructions as a guide. ___

Re: portmanager/portmaster like application for packages?

2009-03-03 Thread Ian Smith
the default options and thus the built package - weirdly, in my view - doesn't include mod_php, though I bet most PHP users wanted it for that. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Odd DNS requests

2009-02-28 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 28 Feb 2009, George Davidovich wrote: On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 04:32:47PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: Recently we've had a Mac notebook of some sort on our LAN, that likes to make these DNS queries from time to time, to no avail, as noticed on a filtering bridge between the LAN

Odd DNS requests

2009-02-27 Thread Ian Smith
:05.249252 192.168.0.1.53 192.168.0.59.60806: 10032 NXDomain* 0/1/0 (129) (DF) What exactly are these hoping to discover, and what needs turning off in the Mac's setup (OSX, most likely a recent version) to quell them? cheers, Ian (please cc me, I'm subscribed to the -digest

Re: Problem with speedtouch 330

2009-02-25 Thread Ian Smith
. cheers, Ian ___ 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

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 248, Issue 23

2009-02-25 Thread Ian Smith
. Please don't ever again top-post a meaningless comment followed by a tail-quoted dump of the previous 80 kilobyte digest into the next one. Ian (on behalf of other questions-digest subscribers) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: w(5) shows non-existent or lost process?

2009-02-18 Thread Ian Smith
? Failing that, you can boot single user, mount /var, rm /var/run/utmp, hit ^D (or reboot) .. IIRC I had to do that once; not sure what happens if you rm /var/run/utmp while running multi-user! :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Top Posting Mania [was Re: FreeBSD 7.O compiled code is very slow]

2009-02-18 Thread Ian Smith
sorts irrelevant and repeated trailers etc, after years of your (almost too- :) concise postings. This list is getting very hard to follow as a digest anymore, when half of it or more is re-re-repeated overtailquoting of irrelevant trivia. Please come back from the dark side .. Cheers anyway, Ian

Re: Top Posting Mania [was Re: FreeBSD 7.O compiled code is very slow]

2009-02-18 Thread Ian Smith
and repeated trailers etc, after years of your (almost too- :) concise postings. well, sorry, but i don't use M$ Outlock That's more like it! :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Help with high LA

2009-02-13 Thread Ian Smith
:20 host1 inetd[1248]: accept (for pop3): Software caused connection abort I need some clues to undestand what is happening. Thank you, - Marcelo Yes, 'Too many dynamic rules'; further connections will surely fail. cheers, Ian

sh parameter substitution problem

2009-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
:%[#]*} ip=${addr:%%[#]*} but all of these report './testbit: 7: Syntax error: Bad substitution' How can I split these strings to exclude the '#' and all beyond, preferably using sh syntax, at least without resorting to perl? Please cc me as I'm only subscribed to the digest. TIA, Ian

Re: sh parameter substitution problem

2009-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:47:17 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: I'm getting nowhere trying to parse out IP addresses from strings of this form in /bin/sh, which have been awk'd out of 'tail named.run': addr

Re: sh parameter substitution problem

2009-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
Thanks Ed - good old sed - and Jonathan too, now the digest's here. 195.68.176.4 Lest anyone get the wrong idea: that's a victim, perpetrator unknown. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: #2 DNS Auto in KPPP in FreeBSD 7.1

2009-02-07 Thread Ian Smith
either ppp(8) - which is extensively supported by the FreeBSD Handbook and in the mailing lists - or the net/mpd5 port, which uses in-kernel netgraph modules. Both support fetching upstream DNS addresses. I happily used ppp(8) for 10 years, but now prefer mpd. cheers, Ian

Re[2]: IPFW DUMMYNET: Several pipes after each other

2009-01-28 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, KES wrote: , Ian. May be this will be usefull for you Yes, but I need to read it more times :) Nicely answers the question about stats per flow/queue anyway, not too hard to parse for logging. #1. ping -D -S 10.10.16.16 -s 1472 -i 0.01 10.0.16.1 #2

Re: IPFW DUMMYNET: Several pipes after each other

2009-01-27 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Sebastian Mellmann wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:10:09 +0100 (CET) So far I've got those rules: in_if=em0 out_if=em1 management_if=em2 in_ip=100.100.100.1 out_ip=200.200.200.1 management_ip=172.16.0.201

Re: IPFW DUMMYNET: Several pipes after each other

2009-01-27 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 27 Jan 2009, Sebastian Mellmann wrote: Ian Smith wrote: [..] 00060: 192.000 Kbit/s0 ms 30 KB 1 queues (1 buckets) droptail 0 tcp 192.168.0.64/1032207.46.106.36/1863 1847947 563209421 0 0 141 00070: 3.072 Mbit/s0 ms 40 KB 1 queues (1 buckets) droptail

Re: IPFW DUMMYNET: Several pipes after each other

2009-01-24 Thread Ian Smith
larger queue for this pipe, at 100Mbit/s. cheers, Ian ___ 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

Re: How to re-start freebsd-update?

2009-01-23 Thread Ian
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:32:39 Ian wrote: Hi, I've started upgrading a machine from 7.0 to 7.1 using freebsd-update. It's the first time I've upgraded to a new os version with it (always used cvsup/ make world mergemaster before). All was going well until it came to merging the new old conf

How to re-start freebsd-update?

2009-01-22 Thread Ian
again, but it said no updates are available to install, run freebsd-update fetch first. Is there some way I can resume the upgrade process? Or do I need to do a rollback and then fetch update again? Cheers, -- Ian gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc signature.asc

Re: FreeBSD 7, how to recieve internet mail

2009-01-14 Thread Ian Smith
on an external interface address to receive mail from outside this box .. How do I make the FreeBSD7 box accept connections to port 25 from all of the internet ?? % grep sendmail /etc/rc.conf sendmail_enable=YES cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Urgent help needed please: Gvinum problem

2009-01-02 Thread Ian Lord
a backup on the disk) Thanks ~~ Ian Lord MSD Informatique 1711 Montée Major Terrebonne (Québec) J7M 1E6 Tél: (514) 776-MSDI - (514) 776-6734 Sans Frais: 1(877) 776-MSDI - 1(877) 776-6734 http://www.msdi.ca

Urgent help needed please: Gvinum problem

2009-01-02 Thread Ian Lord
) Thanks p.s. Please reply to me also as I am a digest member thanks ~~ Ian Lord MSD Informatique 1711 Montée Major Terrebonne (Québec) J7M 1E6 Tél: (514) 776-MSDI  - (514) 776-6734 Sans Frais: 1(877) 776-MSDI  - 1(877) 776-6734 http://www.msdi.ca

RE: Urgent help needed please: Gvinum problem

2009-01-02 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, We had a power lost even though we have ups and generators (still investigating it) and when the machine rebooted one of the disk seems to be failed : The system complains about fsck repaired failed and that I must run it manually. It then boots in single user mode. I entered

Re: named won't bind to external interface and ignores other options.

2008-12-31 Thread Ian Smith
', what shows up in /var/log/messages ? What's in /etc/rc.conf concerning named ? Any clues from 'rndc status'? cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Unable to modify sysid with Fdisk

2008-12-30 Thread Ian Smith
wrapper in sysinstall to slice usb stick disks, sometimes with both msdos and ufs slices, just because I prefer that interface rather than maybe miscalculating an offset or size .. ymmv. And from the darkside, FDISK x: /MBR probably still works :) HTH, Ian

OT [was: Out of Office AutoReply: Greater tool ..]

2008-12-25 Thread Ian Smith
run off his feet right now. cheers, Ian ___ 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

Re: [6.3] Assigning shutdown to eg. Syst?

2008-12-23 Thread Ian Smith
destination. Doesn't sound too risky if Gilles trusts him enough to run shutdown :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: [6.3] Assigning shutdown to eg. Syst?

2008-12-22 Thread Ian Smith
script that does 'shutdown -p now [comment ..]' Shutdown is cleaner than reboot, runs 'stop' rc.d scripts for all active daemons, and leaves a nice log entry in messages, including any comment. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: [6.3] Assigning shutdown to eg. Syst?

2008-12-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, Robert Huff wrote: Ian Smith writes: Or let your dad login with his own account and password. Just add him to the operator group so that he can run /sbin/shutdown. If that's the only priveledged command he needs ... is there a reason sudo isn't

Re: bridge ipfw also protect set

2008-12-19 Thread Ian Smith
. Read ipfw(8) about 10 times, largely ignore the current ipfw section in the handbook, and prosper .. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Intel Pentium Dual Core E5200 and Enhanced Speedstep

2008-12-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Gabriel Lavoie wrote: 2008/12/9 Ian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 8 Dec 2008 13:37:09 -0500 Gabriel Lavoie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ skipping lots until you've seen how powerd goes on it .. and please drop gmail's HTML attachments on messages to the FreeBSD lists

Re: ipfw and bridged interface

2008-12-06 Thread Ian Smith
other rules would apply. Is it still the case? Where can I find th description? Hi Olivier, See the ipfw(8) section PACKET FLOW .. it's all there, with examples of how to separate layer2 from layer3 traffic, inbound and outbound. cheers, Ian

Re: Is there anything weird I should know about using ipfw on alias addresses?

2008-12-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Brett Davidson wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Brett Davidson wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:52:12 +1300 Brett Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ifconfig shows the alias addresses correctly bound. Creating

Re: Is there anything weird I should know about using ipfw on alias addresses?

2008-12-03 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Brett Davidson wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:52:12 +1300 Brett Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ifconfig shows the alias addresses correctly bound. Creating an ipfw rule and testing it from the command line works (connects out from

Re: Is there anything weird I should know about using ipfw on alias addresses?

2008-12-01 Thread Ian Smith
a) ifconfig b) netstat -rn c) at least the relevant firewall rule/s and d) log entries that illustrate your problem. Obscure sensitive information by all means, but otherwise pretend we haven't the slightest clue how your system is configured :) cheers, Ian

Re: Problem about ppp -nat

2008-12-01 Thread Ian Smith
syntax in /etc/ipfw.rules. Well I'm pretty sure you shouldn't load ipdivert as well as using ipfw nat, but I've been almost 100% wrong so far so perhaps best ignore me :) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Problem about ppp -nat

2008-11-29 Thread Ian Smith
it fails, if it still does .. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem about ppp -nat

2008-11-29 Thread Ian Smith
in favour of mpd4, and that works well for me (yes with natd, though on a 5.5 system) cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel?

2008-11-26 Thread Ian Jefferson
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Tom Marchand wrote: snip Ian, You could always test it using VMWare Fusionand then let us know Er, Gee thanks. I'll just have a word with the VMware guys about fully abastracting the mini in software... back in a jiffy ;-) Actually VMWare

Re: FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel?

2008-11-24 Thread Ian Jefferson
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Andrew Gould wrote: On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 9:08 AM, John Almberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 21, 2008, at 11:42 PM, Ian Jefferson wrote: Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel? Ian, You could always test it using VMWare Fusion

Re: Problem about ppp -nat

2008-11-23 Thread Ian Smith
will confirm internal flows, or show blockages. At this time I must go back to the original setting in order to dial ISP. And lastly I'm sorry for long questions. A pleasure when we can take sensible questions, nicely presented :) cheers, Ian

FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel?

2008-11-21 Thread Ian Jefferson
Is anyone running FreeBSD on a Mac Mini Intel? I've looked around for a definitive discussion on the topic but couldn't find anything on this list or Google at least. I'd like to replace a couple of relatively high power-consuming servers with a couple of Mac Mini Intel's. For my purposes

Re: some ipfw filter does not function under Release 6.3

2008-11-16 Thread Ian Smith
In this (earlier) case, 192.168.2.14 was receiving but apparently not responding to those packets .. whereas above (later) it was responding? More details of your setup might help to dispel these mysteries. cheers, Ian PS removing ipfw@ from ccs .. that's more about ipfw development

Re: some ipfw filter does not function under Release 6.3

2008-11-16 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008, Jin Guojun[VFF] wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Jin Guojun[VFF] wrote: I think this is a bug in ipfw because after change the rule order, the problem persists: 0056626 3090 deny ip from 221.192.199.36 to any 65330

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Ian
sub-directory :-/ Oh, and yes, that email address does work - I use it for mailing lists and other stuff where I'm likely to get spammed - it's ironic really :-) Cheers, -- Ian gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: UFS2 limits

2008-11-09 Thread Ian
). 10,000 files or sub-directories, whist not a particularly elegant setup, is actually not unworkable nowadays. Well that's certainly been my experience so far. Still, I now know we will run into problems when we hit the 32,768 limit, so I'll start designing something better. Cheers, -- Ian

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