Re: named and its hourly reports

2008-07-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:22:06 +1000 jonathan michaels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > named now reports hourly > > Jul 15 06:55:10 hid named[617]: could not listen on UDP socket: permission > denied > Jul 15 06:55:10 hid named[617]: creating IPv4 interface tun0 failed; > interface ignored >

Re: how to reject all mac addresses except some mac addresses using ipfw?

2008-06-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:23:48 -0700 Chris St Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yavuz Maslak wrote: > > I use ipfw on freebsd7. > > > > I have two questions > > > > 1- I want to fix an ip address for each mac address. But some pc > > and servers have more than an ip address. How can I map mul

Re: sendmail's outgoing IPs

2008-06-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > no i'm not a spammer, but my users often send mails like 20-40MB sized. [..] > something like "T1" here costs far too much to dedicate it just for mails. > > for the same price i can get four "4Mbit/s" ADSL's (which i have now),

Re: Static NAT and PAT on FreeBSD 6.2

2008-06-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:17:11 -0400 Matt Brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have continued to experiment and am still running into the same issues. > Anyone? > > -Matt > > On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Matt Brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I am running Fre

Re: Grep Guru

2008-06-11 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:44:36 +1000 (EST), Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:07:12 -0700 Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Mon, Jun 09, 2008, Raphael Becker wrote: &

Re: firewall high-load performance

2008-06-11 Thread Ian Smith
Woj, another of the few joys of -digests: two birds with one stone: > is there a way to check on running system how much CPU time is used to > perform firewalling/traffic manager - be it pf or ipfw? Sure, compare ping times / traffic throughput with firewall turned off and on? I recall that a

Re: Problems opening mail on this list

2008-06-10 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 219, Issue 7 At Message: 20 On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:23:32 -0400 Andrew Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > On 10-Jun-08, at 1:07 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: > > > Andrew, maybe you could send a signed message,

Re: Grep Guru

2008-06-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 16:07:12 -0700 Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2008, Raphael Becker wrote: > >On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:15:50PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> find . -type f -print0|xargs -0 grep > > > >There's no more need for find | xargs > > > >Try:

Re: change the file date and time

2008-06-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:25:41 +0300 Georgi Tyuliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. How to mount Sony Ericsson k750i mobile phone with FreeBSD 7.0 ? No idea. > 2. How to change automatically the file attributes (for example 'date') > of large number of files? For modification and/or access ti

Re: error mounting USB disk: Invalid argument

2008-05-31 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 31 May 2008 13:29:26 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Then: > >> > >> # mount /dev/da0s1c /media/disk6 > >> mount: /dev/da0s1c : Invalid argument > > mount_msdosfs ? Maybe. But then it'd likely be /dev/da0s1 .. Even if it's UFS, you wouldn't want to

Re: brindging ath0 with re0 working, kinda, almost

2008-04-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:05:47 +0100 (BST) Reinhold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > # block some known-bad ports without logging > # > block return-rst in quick on $ext_if1 proto tcp from any to any port { > 111, 445, 1080, 6000, 6667 } > block return-icmp in quick on $ext_if1 proto udp from any

Re: Limiting apache's upload speed?

2008-04-15 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 211, Issue 1 On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (quoting 2 separate messages, one of the occasional joys of digests :) > ADSL modems (at least this used by polish telecom) tend to choke when > upload bandwidth is near max. delays get

Re: Limiting apache's upload speed?

2008-04-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:41:02 +0100 Patsy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello list, > > I am running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (GENERIC), I am running Apache 2.2.6_2 > and hosting a small website with a few relatively small (500kB-900kB) > photographs. I am doing so from a home ADSL connection in t

Re: /var/named Changes Ownership to Root on Boot

2008-03-21 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 207, Issue 18, Message: 6 On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:54:36 -0500 Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think I fixed it but I am not sure I would have > figured it out quickly without the help from the list. > > It seems that FreeBSD default

Re: mpd pptp server?

2008-03-19 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:43:58 +0100 Jon Theil Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have tried some different ways to make a working VPN server on FreeBSD 7.0. > The main goal is to make it possible for Windows clients to access their > Samba home shares. I'm not sure if mpd is the best solu

Re: ARP(4) spoofing?

2008-03-17 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 207, Issue 2 On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:29:04 -0600 Modulok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Would this be ARP(4) spoofing, or is it just me? How would I > > > confirm it? > > > > > > arp: 192.168.1.1 is on lo0 but got reply from xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx on em1 > > > This

Re: IPFW with user-ppp's NAT

2008-03-16 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:20:12 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> what's wrong in userland natd? > > > > Performance. With userland natd, every packet that passes through natd > > must pass from kernel to userland (causing one context switch) and back > > again (

Re: IPFW with user-ppp's NAT

2008-03-16 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:16:12 -0500 Dan Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the last episode (Mar 16), Razmig K said: > > With IPFW enabled in the kernel, I'd like to use the NAT functionality of > > user-ppp instead of natd. Do I need the IPDIVERT option in the kernel and > > the special a

Re: Adobe Flashplayer

2008-02-25 Thread Ian Smith
- Original Message From: herbert langhans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 6:48:08 AM Subject: Adobe Flashplayer Hi Daemons, anybody has some experience what flashplayer to use for Firefox 2.0 on BSD 7.0 RC2? I checked in the ports a

Re: Error in the Handbook

2008-02-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:58:33 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-02-11 21:01, Peter Rosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > there is an error in the handbook, section 28.6.5.7 An Example NAT and > > Stateful Ruleset. > > > > On the bottom are two examples,

Re: Unlock /dev/dsp?

2008-02-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 20:17:48 +0100 (CET) Andreas Davour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have begin to find it annoying that when I have a Firefox running with > a page with a youtube link it it, I can't at the same time play a mp3 > file with mplayer. When I try I get an error saying that /dev

Re: ipfw(8) doc bug?

2008-01-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:07:19 +0100 Daniel Gerzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Monday, January 21, 2008, 2:42:53 PM, you wrote: > > > I was just browsing various versions of ipfw(8) such as: > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-stable&form

Re: Throttle the CPU when the system is idle

2008-01-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:54:44 +0100 Tijl Coosemans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 21 January 2008 16:13:36 Andreas Davour wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > >> Throttling still made a huge difference on my systems. On my old two-speed Thinkpad, powerd nearly halves t

ipfw(8) doc bug?

2008-01-21 Thread Ian Smith
I was just browsing various versions of ipfw(8) such as: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ipfw&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-stable&format=html and noticed that (and 6.3-RELEASE) manuals sport 'FreeBSD 7.0' footers, however the proper FreeBSD 7 manual includes the new 'ipfw nat'

Re: ports download speed!

2008-01-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:26:45 + RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:59:04 + > Dead Line <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hello People.. > > > > I recently have noticed something! > > Im installing FreeBSD 6.2R fresh install, When im downloading > >

Re: mail from: field question

2008-01-10 Thread Ian Smith
for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:42:16 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by paqi.nimnet.asn.au (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id m0B2gFPr059564 for smithi; Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:42:15 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from smi

Re: [HOW-TO] cvsup for ports -- Re: compact portsnap db

2008-01-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > > > > If you don't have cvsup installed, run this command: # pkg_add -r > > > > cvsup-without-gui > > > > > > It is better to use all ports or all packages so either do: > > > > Why do you say that? Do you know of unresolved issues regardin

Re: [HOW-TO] cvsup for ports -- Re: compact portsnap db

2008-01-06 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 22:31:29 "Aryeh M. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rudy wrote: > > Michael Lednev wrote: > >> Hello. > >> > >> Is there any way to compact /var/db/portsnap other than deleting > >> it and doing postsnap fetch? Not really. /var/db/portsnap/files contains one file f

Re: how to suspend/wake-up a FreeBSD machine?

2008-01-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday 04 January 2008 03:13:20 am Ian Smith wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Norberto Meijome wrote: > > > On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:51:41 +0100 > > > Henrik Brix Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > &

Re: how to suspend/wake-up a FreeBSD machine?

2008-01-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jan 2008 19:13:20 +1100 (EST) > Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] > > On my T23 I have suspend/wake on lid switch off (in BIOS), preferring to > > have to use the Fn key to wake. No other keys do that on

Re: how to suspend/wake-up a FreeBSD machine?

2008-01-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 4 Jan 2008, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:51:41 +0100 > Henrik Brix Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That depends largely on the hardware - on e.g. ThinkPads you need to > > press the 'Fn' button to wake up the laptop after sleep. > > hmm i think it's no

Re: IPFW: Blocking me out. How to debug?

2007-12-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, W. D. wrote: > At 08:49 12/22/2007, Ian Smith wrote: > >Warning: overlong message. > > > > > >W. D. wrote: [.. slashing mercilessly ..] > >Ok, so your nameserver will be making upstream requests too, and you'll > >need to do T

Re: removing ipfw rules

2007-12-28 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:21:54 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-12-27 15:47, Noah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have two ipfw rules that I want to remove. They are viewable with the > > "ipfw show" command > > > > > > --- snip --- > > > > 06600

Re: Problem setting up DNS

2007-12-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 03:39:31 -0300 Sd?vtaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, im using FBSD 6.2 > > I got 2 domains registered in the local nic and I could get one working > but the second one doesnt :-/ > This is my first attemp to set up a real DNS, so im pretty sure i did > something

Re: IPFW: Blocking me out. How to debug?

2007-12-22 Thread Ian Smith
ec 2007 01:30:11 -0600 > From: "W. D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Never been to Uzbekistan and don't know this bloke :) > At 05:45 12/20/2007, Ian Smith, wrote: > > Thanks for your reply

Re: (no subject)

2007-12-19 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:30:32 +0200 Baxton Mabhande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1)What are the three basic types of handheld devices? I give up, what? :) > 2)Which device is used in an environment that needs extended coverage > but backbone access is not practical or is unavailable? Depend

Re: cron pile up! Lot's of "cron: running job (cron)"

2007-12-15 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:18:31 -0600 Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rudy wrote: > >> The thing is, sometimes it runs fine, other times it backlogs (It may > >> complete at a latter date... the PID 82253 is still waiting ... Gonna > >> see it it completes instead of killing all the st

Re: Connecting networks

2007-12-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto wrote: > 2007/12/12, Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Should be 'defaultrouter', but then it's a route to an apparent local > > router, whereas your em0 appears to be your public internet connection? >

Re: Connecting networks

2007-12-11 Thread Ian Smith
Re-copying the various contributors .. On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:00:56 -0200 "Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/12/11, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > out of curiosity, are you pinging from the 4-interfaced-connected BSD > > box, or some other workstati

Re: copying DVD material :: somewhat OT.

2007-12-08 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 14:18:25 -0700 Predrag Punosevac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > >Folks, > > > >IFF k3b works, and I think it might, I'll put up a howto > >on my bsd virtual site. Make this domain more useful. > >The help from this group has been outst

Re: [OT] who wrote this

2007-11-26 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:03:30 -0600 "eBoundHost: Artur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Lets also remember that history is written by the victors, > >which means they LIE! > >neal. > > > Wow neal, that's very nice of you. are you saying that hitler didn't > do any of these things? I'm no

Re: routing problem

2007-11-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto wrote: > 2007/11/24, Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > No I didn't mean that; use your own favourite packet filter, any of them > > can handle what you've described. Bill suggested pf - lots of peop

Re: routing problem

2007-11-24 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto wrote: > 2007/11/24, Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > ipfw works fine too for these sorts of network policy separation :) > > > So ipfilter is not recommended by you guyz? No I didn't mean that; u

Re: routing problem

2007-11-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:33:26 -0200 "Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/11/23, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > "Alaor Barroso de Carvalho Neto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] > > > > > em0 external world XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX > > > > > rl0 adm 192.168.1.80

Re: is this IT or not/

2007-11-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 01:22:37AM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:25:35 -0800 Gary Kline wrote: [..] > > Which brings me to your earlier (unresolved?) question about missing > > sound on playing audio CDs .. f

Re: is this IT or not/

2007-11-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:25:35 -0800 Gary Kline wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 06:23:29PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:12:50AM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > > guys, one last thing before i call it a days; i just tried > > > kmidi and tried to configure the

One (FreeBSD?) Laptop Per Child

2007-11-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:15:42 -0500 Bart Silverstrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] > Have you read the articles on OLPC? > > They're made to run on very low power. They have batteries that can be > crank-charged quickly, or run off small solar panels. Somehow I don't > think they're sho

Re: OT: Looking for some inpiration with UPS setup

2007-11-10 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:33:34 + Christopher Key <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've a FreeBSD fileserver, a solid state router (Linksys box running > OpenWRT) and a couple of gigabit switches that I'd like to move onto a > UPS (I'm primarily looking at the APC Smart-UPS line). > > The req

Re: IPFW show format question...

2007-11-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 Eric F Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, everything I've read says that ipfw show displays rule number, > packets caught, bytes matched, and rule. The problem I'm having is > that it seems that the bytes, at least on some rules, is way out of > whack. I'm capturi

Re: ipfw rule question ... all possible interfaces ?

2007-11-05 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 00:22:00 + RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 16:10:12 -0800 (PST) > Juri Mianovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Is there a way to tell ipfw: > > > > "all interfaces currently configured on this system" ? > > > >... > > > > So if I have

Re: 7.0 and 6.3

2007-10-24 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:17:12 +0200 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > David J Brooks wrote: > > Bill Moran wrote: > >> Note also that a ports freeze is starting soon for 7.0 and 6.3 release. > > > > What are the differences between 6.3 and 7.0? Which should be considered > > the > > stan

Re: USB->Serial adapter, how to make /dev/cuad* appear?

2007-10-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:06:08 +0200 Benjamin Lutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've bought an USB->Serial adapter in order to use an old serial 33.6k > modem. I've loaded the uplcom and ucom modules, but am unsure how to > proceed from here. > > The system runs FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p8. When

Re: Odd PF Denied Message

2007-10-19 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > On Friday 19 October 2007 07:06:35 Ian Smith wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:36:27 +0300 Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: .. > > > I think log_in_vain can be used when configuring a firewall. > > > Just to see quickl

Re: Odd PF Denied Message

2007-10-18 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:36:27 +0300 Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > On Thursday 18 October 2007 18:39:56 Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: > > Thank you for the clue! We are using log in vain as part of our > > security logging for this particular box, but this is the only message > > I've ever seen

Re: FreeBsd e-mail question

2007-10-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 04:56:35PM +1000, Ian Smith wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:30:54 -0400 Lisa Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The problem comes in when a customer cancels his account. We remove

Re: FreeBsd e-mail question

2007-10-03 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:30:54 -0400 Lisa Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem comes in when a customer cancels his account. We remove users by > rmuser username. That command removes the user from the password file, > removes his home directory and removes the mailspool. What it doesn

Re: determining the space used in / partition

2007-10-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 08:03:00 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007/10/2, Duane Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 at 07:36 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: [..] > > > For the record. During the backup, the file system is dumped to a dir > > > on a USB driv

Re: php failing to produce phpinfo()

2007-09-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:52:58 -0600 bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My business has been using PHP for years. Mysql outputs to my browser, > where I can print invoices, bills and any business statitic. > > Suddenly, my browser started acting funny. I don't know how to use the > repair dis

Re: Security report question

2007-09-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 09:41:00 -0700 Kurt Buff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/30/07, Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kurt Buff wrote: > > [ ... ] > > > +Limiting closed port RST response from 283 to 200 packets/sec > > > > > > I don't know what this means, though I suspect it cou

Re: Dumb IPFW Question

2007-09-26 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:46:29 +0100 Chris Yocum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just to explain a bit, I have installed a FreeBSD 6.2 system on a > machine to act as a natd router. I turned on the firewall and set the > firewall rule script to the one from the handbook > (http://www.freebsd.

Re: Mpd (3.x) & mpd4 config and differeces in reconnect/dial behaviour ?

2007-09-24 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:25:32 +0300 Alan Tamm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since upgrade from 3.x to 4.x I have to manually (re) open the bundle PPPoE > but I can't afford this system to be offline/needing manual intervention > from now on. When the connection times out mpd4 just won't reconnect

how to use iic(4)

2007-09-14 Thread Ian Smith
I don't know where else to post this, so I'm hoping someone here can spare me a clue. We're building a small board with two AVR Tiny MCUs chatting to each other over an opto-isolated I2C-compatible bus, hopefully at 400kHz. I hope to use the iicbb(4) on lpbb(4) parallel port interface to talk wi

Re: php5-5.2.3_1 / website behaves as if not enabled in httpd.conf [SOLVED]

2007-09-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:45:29 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > > > > Actually, maybe my description should be corrected - that is when I > > > > want to access a directory where index.php resides, apache will just > > > > display this directory content. But when I click (not reload) the php > >

Re: php5-5.2.3_1 / website behaves as if not enabled in httpd.conf

2007-09-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:23:19 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > 2007/9/12, Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:19:32 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: [..] > No, it wasn't in there but I moved it to this section. There is no > difference. I cannot st

php5-5.2.3_1 / website behaves as if not enabled in httpd.conf

2007-09-11 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:19:32 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > I decided to upgrade my home machine to php5.2.3 from 4.4.7. All went > fine. I had one error about hash extension already loaded which I > solved by deleting a duplicated entry from extensions.ini. The curious > thing is that once a

Re: loopback won't enable automatically

2007-09-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 5 Sep 2007 01:47:47 + Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have to manually set the loopback interface after each reboot on one > machine > (it is a laptop): > > ifconfig lo0 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 > > Then everything is fine. > > I added ifconfig_lo0="127.0.0.1 n

Re: g_vfs write error = 28, bad memory?

2007-09-03 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: [..] > > But is running out of memory with swap-backed md (with no swap) likely > > to be any prettier than the panics from (unreserved) malloc backing? > Probably not. No worse though. Couldn't be :) >

Re: g_vfs write error = 28, bad memory?

2007-09-03 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:34:41 +0200 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Per olof Ljungmark wrote: [..] > > > > amavisd_enable="YES" > > > > amavisd_ra

Re: g_vfs write error = 28, bad memory?

2007-09-01 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:34:41 +0200 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > > Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > >>> Kris Kennaway wrote: > Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > > I use a memory file system for some tmp files and last night I sa

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 192, Issue 16

2007-08-31 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:55:49 -0500 Reid Linnemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Written by Nélio Mesquita on 08/31/07 06:44>> > > On 8/30/07, Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> "Nélio Mesquita" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Hello to all! > >>> Just for curiosity, why the FreeBSD logo

Re: Configuring FreeBSD 6.2 to use sendmail for sending only

2007-08-31 Thread Ian Smith
]; then echo "can't find ${maildir}/${mailrun} .. zipfile not unpacked?" elif [ -f ./mailout.done ]; then echo "'rm ${maildir}/mailout.done' if you wanna repeat mailout?" else umask 27 echo &

Re: lpt attachment problem

2007-08-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > Only that it works fine on my T23 .. > > > > ppc0: port 0x378-0x37f,0x778-0x77f irq 7 drq 0 > > on acpi0 > > ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode > > ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold > > ppbus0: on ppc0 > >

Re: lpt attachment problem

2007-08-30 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:07:54 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > when i set in BIOS my parallel port (it's IBM thinkpad T23 if it matters) > to standard paraller port it is detected fine > > ppc0: port 0x3bc-0x3be irq 7 on acpi0 > ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) i

Re: Installation Disc Won't Boot

2007-08-24 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:49:30 + <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I am unable to boot from 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso. I have >downloaded it and burned it three times without success. See (4) >I am currently running Win98SE and FreeBSD 5.4 on a dual boot. I had >decided to ref

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > My knowledge of this is thin, despite reading McKusick's paper through > > several times, but we're told that background fsck runs on a snapshot of > > the fs concerned. How any bg fsck corr

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: > > > Ian Smith wrote: > > > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Chris wrote: > > > > > If its bad to run fsck on a mounted read,write then wh

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Chris wrote: > > > If its bad to run fsck on a mounted read,write then why does > > > background fsck do it? or you talking about foreground fsck only? > > > >

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-22 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Chris wrote: > On 20/08/07, Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry for the repeat post folks, but I goofed last time, leaving out the > > subject line while replying to the digest. Still curious .. Ian > > === > > > >

Re: Trying to move /usr

2007-08-20 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Michael S wrote: > Thanks for your help Ian, > I got it fixed. Had to remove /home and recreate it > once again. Good to hear, Michael! > --- Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [blah] Cheers, Ian ___

Re: Trying to move /usr

2007-08-20 Thread Ian Smith
Michael, firstly let me quote the head of your original message, just so I/we don't get too confused, especially by all the gratuitous re-quoting of subsequent 'relative irrelevancies' like your dmesg .. >I am trying to migrate my /usr to a newly installed >SCSI drive. Up until yesterday I had /,

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-19 Thread Ian Smith
Sorry for the repeat post folks, but I goofed last time, leaving out the subject line while replying to the digest. Still curious .. Ian === On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:32:28 +0200 Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 08:21:42PM +0100, Christopher Key wrote: > > Hel

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2007-08-18 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:32:28 +0200 Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 08:21:42PM +0100, Christopher Key wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm having some rather strange behaviour with fsck. > > > > When I boot the system, it asserts that all the file systems are clea

Re: what to do with this..?

2007-08-08 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 07:35:42 -0400 Tsu-Fan Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i have a serial files named as 1.zip, 2.z01, 3.z02, etc. what to do with > this? I tried unzip but have trouble, thansk!! assuming that you have installed port or package archivers/unzip .. You can 'unzip 1' for 1.

Re: Bizzare routing table entry.

2007-08-08 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 15:37:50 -0700 Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 7, 2007, at 3:13 PM, Adam J Richardson wrote: > > Modulok wrote: > >> 0&0xc0a80132 link#1 UCS 00 bge0 > > > >> 1. The first entry, it's not IPv4, IPv6 or a MAC address that

Re: logging system load

2007-08-02 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 12:52:20 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 13:44:33 +0300, Nikos Vassiliadis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Wednesday 25 July 2007 20:50, Momchil Ivanov wrote: > >> На Wednesday 25 July 2007 19:38:41 Zbigniew Szalbot написа:

Re: USB Mouse not Working

2007-07-29 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:58:39 +0100 Adam J Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I beleive in the past I have checked with > >>> #cat /dev/ums0 > >>> and if things are working corectly, cat display binary garbage on the > screen when you wiggle the mouse. Try this after killing moused (

fsck to fix HD problem

2007-07-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:27:27 +0200 Zbigniew Szalbot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got a Charlie report: > +WARNING: / was not properly dismounted > +WARNING: /var was not properly dismounted > +/var: mount pending error: blocks 8200 files 43 > +/usr: mount pending error: blocks 4552 file

Re: Installing in a logical partition

2007-07-14 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:44:57 +0200 h p <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I try to install FreBSD 6.2 as third OS on my laptop (after Windows XP > and Gentoo Linux). > > I only have a logical partition left for it. sysinstall only shows > four slices on my hard drive, ad4s1 - ad4s4. ad4s4 is corre

Re: Adding a new command

2007-07-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 16:20:53 -0500 Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > On Jul 7, 2007, at 11:42 AM, Peter Boosten wrote: > > > It's more obvious to put local scripts in /usr/local/bin, IMHO. > > Let me add to this (as someone who recently moved from linux to > FreeBSD). Unlike Linux, FreeBSD isn't

Re: kern.hz="100" stops high-pitched whine

2007-07-01 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:12:28 +0200 cpghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using fan-less Soekris (266 MHz) and EPIA (500 MHz) > boards with -STABLE. Those boards have been emitting a > very high pitched annoying whine, similar to a dog > whistle. Not everyone I asked could hear it, but I was

Re: Verifying PHP support

2007-06-27 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:49:51 -0400 (CLT) "Daniel Molina Wegener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > El Mar, 26 de Junio de 2007, 10:38, Darryl Hoar escribió: > > Greetings, > > I have a machine with 6.2 release installed on it. > > I have apache 1.3.37 installed and am using it > > for my personal

Re: Apache access log shows these attack requests

2007-06-14 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:50:20 -0400 > "Bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Bob, please learn how to quote in a reply to a message - it's pretty hard > to > figure out who's written what otherwise. So much so, it's easier to respond to Bob v

Re: Fresh install won't compile requirement libraries for cvsup

2007-06-14 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Andrew Falanga wrote: > On 6/13/07, Ian Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:02:38 -0600 Andrew Falanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > a hard hang. Nothing worked. I could not even Alt+ to

Re: Fresh install won't compile requirement libraries for cvsup

2007-06-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:02:38 -0600 Andrew Falanga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a hard hang. Nothing worked. I could not even Alt+ to a > different pseudo terminal. The system just hard hanged. I rebooted > and tried the install again with the same result. At the same place? If so, I'd ten

Re: Apache access log shows these attack requests

2007-06-12 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 16:54:47 -0400 "Bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Running FBSD 6.2 + apache 13. In the apache access log I see these log > records. > To me it looks like my apache server is servicing connect requests and get > requests to other URL's. > Is there some configuration option

Re: Php5 port and Apache Module

2007-06-10 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > > Anyway, water under the bridge; phpMyAdmin 2.9.1 works fine, and I soon > > have another big upgrade to do (patiently awaiting xorg 7 packages :) > > I take it you are aware of: > > http:

Re: Php5 port and Apache Module

2007-06-10 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Ian Smith wrote: > > > Around 6.0 may have been the timeline for this change, but it affected > > users of 5.4 and 5.5 too; one 5.5-STABLE here. I ran into this updating > > phpMyAdmin last year, which also enforced upg

Re: Php5 port and Apache Module

2007-06-10 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 09 Jun 2007 21:45:03 -0400 Christopher Hilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jonathan Horne wrote: > >> Bob wrote: > >>> The php4 & php5 port apache module used to be default before FBSD 6.0. Around 6.0 may have been the timeline for this change, but it affected users of 5.4 and 5.5 too;

Re: fbsd 6.2 pf starts -- but not on boot

2007-06-05 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, snowcrash+freebsd wrote: > well, per Ian's catch/suggestion, removing the 'blank line' from my > "ppp.conf", and moving, > >add default HISADDR > > to the "ppp1:" connection stanza seems to have done the trick! pf > loads properly on reboot. > > swithc it back,

Re: fbsd 6.2 pf starts -- but not on boot

2007-06-05 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 15:37:25 -0700 snowcrash+freebsd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > cat /etc/ppp/ppp.conf > > default: > set device PPPoE:sis1: > set speed sync > set ctsrts off > set dial >

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