Re: Printing to a Lanier LD160c does not work

2008-10-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 09:42:41PM -0700, Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez wrote: > El Jue 16 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick escribió: > > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 08:36:42PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I am trying to setup a Lanier LD160c (admincolor) that has a network &

Re: Upgrading 7.1-PRERELEASE

2008-10-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
table-supfile I > have "*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7". > > Can anyone tell me where I can make sure that my system upgrades to BETA-2? You are essentially running BETA2, with even newer fixes since the BETA2 release. You should stay with the RELENG_7 tag. -- | Jeremy Cha

Re: Boot device question

2008-10-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
at/target/unit are hint commands only available to da(4), at least that's what I see from the source code. I see no such support for ad(4), so I do not think this will work for him. Also, I'll remind people once more: stop modifying device.hints! The file can/will be overwritten in some

Re: Boot device question

2008-10-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ne. Our co-lo provider offers this for free, as long as the duration of the incident does not take more than 10-15 minutes; otherwise, it's expensive (hundreds of dollars). If you're with a co-lo provider who doesn't offer this capability, consider switching to one who does. There i

Re: Can't upgrade or deinstall phpMyAdmin

2008-10-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
h is causing you grief is the PDF feature, but it's up to you to decide what you need/do not need. As I said in my other mail, be aware that disabling some of the features will cause phpmyadmin to complain to the visitor that said feature is missing; mbstring is a good example. -- | J

Re: Can't upgrade or deinstall phpMyAdmin

2008-10-23 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
d features are enabled by default. I do not advocate downloading software and just "dumping it" into some directory on a machine; if you really want to go that route, then why use ports at all? Heck, why use FreeBSD, just use Slackware Linux. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: what else is needed to make ftp passive work

2008-10-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ipfw add 120 allow tcp from any to ftp.server.ip 21 in ipfw add 121 allow tcp from any to ftp.server.ip 49152-65536 in ipfw add 122 allow tcp from ftp.server.ip 20 to any out Finally, I recommend if this machine is RELENG_6 or later, that you look in to using pf(4) instead. You'll thank me

Re: Extract Songs from DVD

2008-10-22 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
depends on if the CD audio tracks are truly available on the DVD or not, and if the softwares can detect them. Both can do MP3, Ogg, or other conversions on-the-fly. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: UFS2 or ZFS for 3TB disk?

2008-10-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
FS2 entirely). That's really all I'm going to say on the matter. (Sorry if that sounds rude, I'm just incredibly scared that my above comments will induce some pedantic flame war or battle of sort, which is not my intention.) > [1] http://freebsd.org/projects/bigdisk > [2] htt

Re: mirror site

2008-10-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
cles/hubs/ should have all of the necessary details, including who you should contact (not -questions). :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Moun

Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
etc... from your config as well. You do not need to disable USB support in the BIOS; the kernel will simply state that it sees devices on the PCI bus but lacks a driver to attach to them. This will not harm anything. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Par

Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-21 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
need to take the "nodevice" lines from /sys/i386/conf/PAE and put them into your kernel config file. (There are alternative methods such as using "include" directives and so on, but I'm trying to keep this explanation simple.) Make sense now? :-) --

Re: mysql connection through ssl tunnel

2008-10-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
's going to great lengths to use SSH to accomplish something MySQL has support for natively. Please clue me in. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimatebounce messages

2008-10-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
They simply do not get the mail. They're left in the dark, wondering "Did send the mail? Are they lying to me? What's going on???". It's a very sensitive thing when you're a hosting provider. In the case of my users, they would much rather get the mail a

Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 12:07:17PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 13:16 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 03:50:01PM -0400, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > > > I took a working 5.4-i386 server and trying to convert its RAID 5 to >

Re: mounting an MP3 player?

2008-10-20 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
de) might be required to get this device to work. It's a common problem, and exists in many operating systems. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Adminis

Re: page fault while in kernel mode

2008-10-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
w available)? There have been fixes/improvements to BTX since 7.0-RELEASE which could fix your problem. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mo

Re: Bind BIND 9.3.5 configuration

2008-10-19 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
Please give me some > suggestions. Thanks! You should put "nameserver 127.0.0.1" in /etc/resolv.conf, that way your own local machine as a resolver (e.g. will rely on the BIND/named daemon). /etc/rc.conf is used to enable BIND/named on startup. You should place the following

Re: pfSense

2008-10-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
his, and for good reasons (you can read the docs if you want the answer). Instead, you should give your wire and daughter's machines IPs outside of the "dynamic pool" range, e.g. 10.47.0.121 and upwards. This will work fine. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc a

Re: Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL

2008-10-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ns.kbd_reboot' >> >> >> Peter >> > It seems you are right. Just checked on 6.3 and 7.0 and it does not > exist. It does exist in 6.2, however. Hmm... # sysctl hw.syscons.kbd_reboot=0 hw.syscons.kbd_reboot: 1 -> 0 # sysctl hw.syscons.kbd_reboot=1 hw.

Re: Problem with www/mod_cband

2008-10-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
rmitting XXX Kbyte/sec across *all visitors*. It's the only "safe" way to deal with 95th-percentile billing in co-locations. Also, don't forget that Apache only writes an entry to the log file *after* the transfer is finished, not when the request is submit. :-) -- | Jere

Re: Problem with www/mod_cband

2008-10-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 08:31:29PM +0200, Mel wrote: > On Friday 17 October 2008 19:53:59 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > Regarding alternatives: there aren't. Bandwidth limiting is a > > long-standing feature of Apache that's missing, which is a huge > > disappoin

Re: Problem with www/mod_cband

2008-10-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
s a huge disappointment. The best solution I've found on FreeBSD is to use pf(4) with ALTQ, and give each VirtualHost its own IP address, then rate-limit the IP address using pf(4). Yes, I realise this is impractical for sites which have many vhosts and use name-based virtualhosts. Welcom

Re: Installing Samba : FreeBSD Vs Linux ?

2008-10-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
The workaround is very, very painful when it comes to directories which have many files. That workaround is to disable the name cache entirely in Samba: directory name cache size = 0 -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: bsdlabel partiton c error message on new install

2008-10-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
am I in more trouble than that? I don't have an answer. Someone more familiar with the aspects of bsdlabel and labelling will have to answer your question. You should consider re-asking your original question on freebsd-fs. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius

Re: bsdlabel partiton c error message on new install

2008-10-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
to create a new > slice or however you call it in BSD... It sounds to me that someone "left some space" in the wrong part of the sysinstall process then -- they should have left some space for slices, when in fact it appears they left some space for actual partit

Re: bsdlabel partiton c error message on new install

2008-10-17 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
g that 285153687 (see "c" partition) does not equal 285155328 (see "sectors/unit" up top). > thanks for any advice, Im not really confident with the FreeBSD disk > management as I havent used it much, I'm left wondering why you're messing around wit

Re: IPFW UID match questions

2008-10-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
hat you're not allowing incoming connections to personal_ip on TCP port 113 (ident/auth). Add this rule: /sbin/ipfw -q add 18680 allow tcp from personal_ip 113 to any out You can also replace "113" with "auth" or "ident" if you want (see /etc/services). -

Re: FreeBSD and Nagios - permissions

2008-10-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ng how to use sudo. The -u flag tells sudo what UID to switch to. Meaning, your above command (sudo -u nagios /sbin/camcontrol...) tells the system "run /sbin/camcontrol as user nagios". This **does not** tell the system to run /sbin/camcontrol as user root. For example, let

Re: Printing to a Lanier LD160c does not work

2008-10-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ver done this, it's just something I remember from old days. :-) -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Ma

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
inistrator implemented SPF. For example, our mail servers *do not* do SPF lookups at the SMTP level (e.g. in postfix) because 1) the added complexity is not worth it, and 2) spammers are now hijacking DNS. Instead, our servers use SPF in SpamAssassin, subtracting fr

Re: open-vm-tools no more in ports

2008-10-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ess is described on the CVSup site, but applies to the csup tool as well. http://www.cvsup.org/faq.html#caniadopt Also note this applies to "src", if you installed that too. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: I've just found a new and interesting spam source - legitimate bounce messages

2008-10-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
a way to detect what Email addresses on your box legitimately accept mail, thus once they find one which never gets a bounceback, will start pounding that address to kingdom come. Let me know if you do find a reliable, decent solution that does not involve SPF or postfix header_checks or body_checks.

Re: How to get my Dad's Win2k system to access internet through my FreeBSD 6.2 system

2008-10-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ts between layer 2 and layer 3. Does this make more sense? The reason this feature is HIGHLY desired is because not all PPPoE implementations are compatible with an ISPs implementation. It is *always* best to use whatever equipment they give you or guarantee works wit

Re: Breach of Contract Reported for FREEBSD.ORG

2008-10-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
nt deal with this? http://blog.forret.com/2004/12/domain-registry-of-america-scam/ -- This organisation is now known as "Domain Renewal Group", by the way. I'm quite interested in knowing; it might be tolerable if you've only one domain, but if you're a hosting provider a

Re: FreeBSD and Nagios - permissions

2008-10-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
happens when someone finds a security hole in Nagios, allowing them to modify files or run checks with arguments of their choice? For a good time: check_ciss.sh camcontrol format da0 -y Yeah, uh, that script should be nuked. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.co

Re: Auto Backup Data and Delete for Account Expired

2008-10-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
sent this mail to the list yesterday. We saw it. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for

Re: FreeBSD and Nagios - permissions

2008-10-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ry, very simple. 2) Use "sudo" and set up a ***VERY*** restrictive command list for user "nagios", meaning, only allowed to run /sbin/camcontrol. I DO NOT recommend this method, as it's possible for someone to use nagios to run something like "camcontrol reset

Re: Interrupt storm detected on "irq10:"; throttling interrupt source

2008-10-16 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 03:23:33PM +0800, nazir wrote: > On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 06:17:56PM -0700, mdh wrote: > >> --- On Wed, 10/15/08, nazir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > &

Re: Interrupt storm detected on "irq10:"; throttling interrupt source

2008-10-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
determine this via the command: > `dmesg |grep irq` then look for the line for IRQ 10 which specifies what > device is there. It could be a driver problem, or it could be that the > hardware there is bunk. > - mdh vmstat -i output would also come in handy here. -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: How to get my Dad's Win2k system to access internet through my FreeBSD 6.2 system

2008-10-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:15:49AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 04:10 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 08:40:48PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 06:46 -0400, Michael Powell wrote:

Re: RAID 5 - serious problem

2008-10-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
g on a drive that has NCQ. Since FreeBSD lacks NCQ right now, we could test this on Linux to see what the I/O difference is (I'm talking purely from a dd or bonnie++ perspective). I can do said testing if need be (on Linux, with disks that do NCQ). > > I believe Andrey Elsukov is working on

Re: [Fwd: Suhosin Segmentation Fault]

2008-10-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:01:13PM +0200, Alain Wolf wrote: > On 15.10.2008 20:55, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:25:08PM +0200, Alain Wolf wrote: > >> Not much return on freebsd-isp. > >> I try again here on freebsd-questions. > >&

Re: Under heavy load internet gets killed, only a reboot can bring it back up

2008-10-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:02:46PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 11:49 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > How exactly did you download the URLs I gave you? > > > > Can you show me what's on line 241 of if_msk.c? > > > > A 'grep ^#includ

Re: [Fwd: Suhosin Segmentation Fault]

2008-10-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 02:47:00PM -0500, Matt wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 2:35 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 08:26:09PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> > >>> Suhosin i

Re: [Fwd: Suhosin Segmentation Fault]

2008-10-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 08:26:09PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> Suhosin is not an extension you load in extensions.ini; it's a patch >> applied to the core of PHP. > > % grep suhosin /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini > extension=s

Re: [Fwd: Suhosin Segmentation Fault]

2008-10-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
> PHP (cli) seems to run fine at all times when called from the command-line. Now that's very interesting, given as the CLI version also loads all the extensions listed in extensions.ini. Can you post your /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini? You didn't list off what extension

Re: Under heavy load internet gets killed, only a reboot can bring it back up

2008-10-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 07:26:36PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 07:43 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > Now you need to rebuild the kernel and install the kernel. In this > > scenario, when building the kernel DO NOT use any "-j" flags, as if the

Re: RAID 5 - serious problem

2008-10-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ite performance. There have been numerous studies done proving this fact, and I can point you to those as well. TCQ, on the other hand, does offer performance benefits when there are a large number of simultaneous transactions occurring (think: it's more like SCSI's command queu

Re: Under heavy load internet gets killed, only a reboot can bring it back up

2008-10-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
uild the kernel and install the kernel. In this scenario, when building the kernel DO NOT use any "-j" flags, as if the driver doesn't build, you'll be scrolling back through pages of data to try and find out why. If the build doesn't occur successfully, paste the errors

Re: RAID 5 - serious problem

2008-10-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 03:51:19PM +0200, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: > 2008/10/15 Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 02:32:25PM +0200, Jon Theil Nielsen wrote: > > > Dear list, > > > > > > Something happened that I

Re: RAID 5 - serious problem

2008-10-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
have backups of most user data, but not of the system configuration (and > maybe even not the databases). This is of course pretty stupid. In the > future, I will not rely on RAID 5 as a foolproof solution? RAID 5 is a fine solution, but you have learned a very valuable lesson, on

Re: Under heavy load internet gets killed, only a reboot can bring it back up

2008-10-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 09:09:11PM +0900, PYUN Yong-Hyeon wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 04:31:01AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 01:17:58PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > > > On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 00:26 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > &

Re: Under heavy load internet gets killed, only a reboot can bring it back up

2008-10-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
dmesg don't look good; could be the sign >> of a NIC or motherboard that's going bad, or possibly a very strange >> driver problem. > > or just connectors should be cleaner or card isn't fitted well - contact > problems. I'm under the imp

Re: Under heavy load internet gets killed, only a reboot can bring it back up

2008-10-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 01:17:58PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 00:26 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 09:13:00AM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > > > Each time my internet connection is under heavy lead it gets killed > > > after

Re: Compiling curl 7.19

2008-10-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:39:25PM +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:02:44AM +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > >> I would like to upgrade my curl to the latest 7.19.0 ve

Re: Testing - my emails don't seem to be getting through

2008-10-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
icly-resolvable hostname. There are ways in sendmail and postfix to solve this problem. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View,

Re: How to get my Dad's Win2k system to access internet through my FreeBSD 6.2 system

2008-10-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 08:40:48PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 06:46 -0400, Michael Powell wrote: > > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:55:11AM -0400, Michael Powell wrote: > > [snip] > > >> Next, you wil

Re: Compiling curl 7.19

2008-10-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
tried > to "adjust" 7.18.0 ftp/curl patches but I got errors. Although Curl > 7.19.0 is successfully compiled without patches, I am not sure that > version is fully working because some patches change system function > calls. I'll see about getting this port updat

Re: Under heavy load internet gets killed, only a reboot can bring it back up

2008-10-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
net connection from getting killed? How do I get it back > up after it has been killed? Thanks in advance! What network card are you using? Can you provide output from the following commands? dmesg vmstat -i netstat -in -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.

Re: FreeBSD do dbus & hal work?

2008-10-15 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 09:03:00AM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 23:43 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > Thanks, I followed the faq to the letter and it show a dialog when I > > > insert a USB stick. Unfortunately when I insert an sdcard still

Re: FreeBSD do dbus & hal work?

2008-10-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
l be found, then a daX device should be created (which is what you use to access the disk; USB storage devices appear as SCSI disks). But in the case of a USB device that's already attached to the bus, e.g. one of those 7-in-1 card readers, I cannot see how adding a SD/MMC card would cause the

Re: Can't login as root after changing the shell to bash

2008-10-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
; Then edit /etc/passwd using the vipw(8) utility - just type: > vipw Note that he'll need to mount /var and /tmp for vi to work. Has to do with use of temporary files being placed in /tmp, and recovery files using /var/tmp/vi.recover. It's usually best to just do: # mount -a #

Re: Can't login as root after changing the shell to bash

2008-10-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 09:17:38PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 11:37 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 08:28:13PM +0200, Aniruddha wrote: > > > I tried to change the root's shell to bash. I used this command: 'chsh > > &

Re: Can't login as root after changing the shell to bash

2008-10-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
to edit all of the fields in /etc/master.passwd -- specifically, change root's shell back to /bin/csh. Write the file, exit vipw, and reboot the system. You should be up and working after that. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: mktime() output not the same as the date utility

2008-10-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ct; mktime() is an hour later. > > What am I missing here? I'm betting it's due to DST I believe you have to do the math yourself if tm_isdst is non-zero. Otherwise, consider using functions like ctime() and others (which are also POSIX compliant). -- | Jeremy Chadwick

Re: Problems with portupgrade or db

2008-10-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
nce that things are indeed working (on my systems) how you'd expect -- everything matches up perfectly: $ wget -q http://download-east.oracle.com/berkeley-db/db-4.2.52.tar.gz $ md5 db-4.2.52.tar.gz MD5 (db-4.2.52.tar.gz) = 8b5cff6eb83972afdd8e0b821703c33c $ grep db-4.2.52.tar.gz /usr/port

Re: An endian error

2008-10-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
l being built with the new gcc you've been messing around with in other threads? I have to ask that question, for obvious reasons. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.

Re: How to get my Dad's Win2k system to access internet through my FreeBSD 6.2 system

2008-10-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 06:46:10AM -0400, Michael Powell wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 04:55:11AM -0400, Michael Powell wrote: > [snip] > >> Next, you will want to configure your FreeBSD machine as a NAT gateway. > >> In your /et

Re: How to get my Dad's Win2k system to access internet through my FreeBSD 6.2 system

2008-10-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
" > pf_rules="/etc/pf.conf" > pf_flags="-e" > pflog_enable="YES" > pflog_logfile="/var/log/pflog" > pflog_flags="" > > and the NAT line from my /etc/pf.conf: > > nat on $ExtIF inet from $INTERNAL to any -> ($ExtIF)

Re: FreeBSD 7 and ESXi

2008-10-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:44:13AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > |On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:04:07AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > |> Jeremy, > |> > |> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > |> &g

Re: FreeBSD 7 and ESXi

2008-10-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:04:07AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jeremy, > > On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > |On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:54:26AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > |>I'm facing some problems trying to install a FreeBSD > |>

Re: FreeBSD 7 and ESXi

2008-10-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
building a custom kernel with PAE support (and there are known compatibility problems between PAE and certain kernel drivers). It's strongly recommended you stick with amd64 if at all possible. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodiu

Re: FreeBSD 7 and ESXi

2008-10-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
f using i386 PAE to address more memory while in x86 mode, but ideally he should be running amd64. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator

Re: Sysinstall colors

2008-10-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
how to adjust the RGB values for grey and other colours". Ideally, we should see about getting rid of the whole grey background thing -- otherwise, stick with using black text with bright red letters for the quick-jump menu keys. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at pa

Re: portupgrade failure

2008-10-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 02:08:54PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So don't use it? :-) There are alternatives like portmaster. > > I suppose I prefer a single, reliable, sup

Re: portupgrade failure

2008-10-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
> May be you have to delete /usr/ports/INDEX-6.db too. > > Hmm. This does not inspire confidence in the tool. So don't use it? :-) There are alternatives like portmaster. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: new hdd numeration after mainboard change

2008-10-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ing the AHCI mode. It works quite well with FreeBSD under Intel controllers. Turn AHCI on (if it's not already), and do not mess with it. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX S

Re: Installation Hangs

2008-10-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:19:40AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:57:22AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: >>> On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: >>> >>>> I am trying to install FreeBSD. &

Re: Installation Hangs

2008-10-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 08:35:37PM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:57:22AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > >> On Sun, 12 Oct 2008, ton80 wrote: > >> > >>> I am trying to install F

Re: Installation Hangs

2008-10-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
2 keyboards/mice within MS-DOS and so on. I believe the way it works is that the BIOS acts as a software translation layer between the USB device and PS/2 interaction. This translation is lost the instant interrupts are re-mapped or the southbridge/USB controller is initialised. The OP is making it pa

Re: rsync or even scp questions....

2008-10-13 Thread Jeremy Hooks
> How, may I ask, does this work? If you search the bash man file you can find this and lots of other useful constructs, search for 'Parameter Expansion' - I'm not sure how much of this relates to other Bourne Shell derivatives, but I don't imagine it would be difficult to test it out. ___

Re: RAID migration

2008-10-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 10:27:47PM -0600, Anthony Chavez wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 07:10:31PM -0600, Anthony Chavez wrote: > >> Dear freebsd-questions, > >> > >> I have a HighPoint 1820 RAID controller that is using 1 channel

Re: RAID migration

2008-10-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
AID controller, format them (in whatever fashion you want), and then restore the backup. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View

Re: The disc in your drive looks more like an Audio CD than a FreeBSDrelease

2008-10-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
blem goes all the way back to FreeBSD 2.2.6 or earlier. It's not a new problem, but it's very rare. Because of this fact, I strongly doubt the problem is with FreeBSD, and rather with buggy firmwares in CD drives. > On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 10:58 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >

Re: Installation Hangs

2008-10-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:08:50AM -0700, ton80 wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick-3 wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 10:54:26AM -0700, ton80 wrote: > >> Hello, > >> I am trying to install FreeBSD. > >> During the install (actually at the beginning of the process

Re: Installation Hangs

2008-10-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
mber that on many systems you should reboot the system after plugging in or removing a PS/2 keyboard; hot-swapping only works on some motherboards. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Sy

Re: The disc in your drive looks more like an Audio CD than a FreeBSDrelease

2008-10-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
d-help-31/freebsd-installation-fails-when-looking-for-media-45366.html > On Sun, 2008-10-12 at 08:01 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 04:51:54PM +0200, Kiffin wrote: > > > I checked it and everything looks just fine, e.g. just Freebsd install > > &g

Re: The disc in your drive looks more like an Audio CD than a FreeBSDrelease

2008-10-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
___ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > -- > Kiffin <[EMAIL PRO

Re: rsync or even scp questions....

2008-10-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
gt; varWithoutUsr=${varWithUsr#/usr} And I'll take a moment to recommend Matthew's method, since it does not involve fork()ing an additional process. When writing shell scripts in general, it's best if you can avoid spawning external processes for things which can be done ea

Re: cvsup 7.0 STABLE checkout failure

2008-10-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2008-Oct-11 08:24:51 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >csup and cvsup function the same, and they both rely on the same source >versioning system. Note that csup only supports a subset of cvsup functionality. The most obvious missing feature is CVS mode. >If

Re: Worth persuing a KDB: stack backtrace: ?

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
Well, that was 1/2 of the reason why I asked if it was even > worth it to trace it out. 1/2 was the fact its 5.5, the other 1/2 was > that I've already been told to replace the motherboard. :) > > I tried going to 6.X on this machine for a few weeks once before, > c

Re: newsyslog naming scheme could be improved?

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
tem load, etc...), since you'd have inconsistencies in the filenames, e.g.: messages.20081005T.gz messages.20081006T0001.gz messages.20081007T0001.gz messages.20081008T.gz messages.20081009T0002.gz And so on. Food for thought. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at par

Re: cvsup 7.0 STABLE checkout failure

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
it is. You'll need to become familiar with bsdlabel(8) and fdisk(8) before you can use that. -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mount

Re: Worth persuing a KDB: stack backtrace: ?

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
the FreeBSD developers asking for support on 5.5. The RELENG_6 series is on its way out as well, so you should consider installing RELENG_7 (specifically 7.1-BETA at this point). -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking

Re: cvsup 7.0 STABLE checkout failure

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 02:20:52AM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 07:47:11AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > Are you sure? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/cvsup.html -- > > see > > the first "Note:" paragraph. > > A

Re: cvsup 7.0 STABLE checkout failure

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
ything. In fact, I'm fairly certain it doesn't. The error you are receiving from cvsup is telling you "I tried to rename a file, but couldn't". This often implies a permissions or ownership thing. Since the directory you're storing stuff in is on an SMB/CIFS share,

Re: proflibs

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
stays within a specific function), and use of profiled libraries has to be explicitly requested (using gcc -p). -- | Jeremy Chadwickjdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems

Re: cvsup 7.0 STABLE checkout failure

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
of item #2. 4) I'm not sure why you're using cvsup on a 7.x box when csup comes with the base system. I would also try doing this as a last resort: rm -fr /usr/home/moin/smbmount/code/SUPDB/sup/src-all rm -fr /usr/src/* csup -h -L 2 /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile However, wi

Re: Need help installing on SATA

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
r blogging "FreeBSD rocks!" will change it. In my opinion, it's better to embrace the above facts (because nothing is perfect, Linux included!), and try to improve on them. People will use whatever gets the job done for them. If it doesn't, users *will* switch to another opera

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