Re: fsck on a read only partition?

2007-07-04 Thread Joe Holden
Alfred Perlstein wrote: Hello, how do I fsck my disk if it's mounted? I have downgraded the mount to read-only, but still geom seems to disallow fsck access to it. Is there a way to tell the system to allow fsck to open it read/write? thanks, If you unmount it first, you should be

Re: How do I get libphp5.so back

2007-06-23 Thread Joe Holden
Andrew Falanga wrote: On 6/23/07, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reinstall php and all modules -- that should fix the problem (based on past experience). -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: freebsd on laptop

2007-06-20 Thread Joe Holden
Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: no, i dont have floppy... TFC On 6/20/07, Eduardo Viruena Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi folks, I want to buy a laptop and install linux and freebsd, the problem is, some 14' laptop doesnt come with cdrom and

Re: OK - I'm fairly clueless on this...

2007-06-15 Thread Joe Holden
strange things... Do you have a bogus rdr/fwd in your config anywhere? -- Joe Holden T: (UK) 02071009593 (AU) 282442321 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: reinstalling a port with new compile option

2007-06-03 Thread Joe Holden
Juan Miscara wrote: I have net/samba3 installed on my FreeBSD 6.2 box. I now want to have ACL_SUPPORT compiled in. Without updating my sources, what is the safest way to achieve this? Thank you, Juan ___ cd /usr/ports/net/samba3 make deinstall

Re: network/IP notation question ##.##.##.##/??

2007-04-20 Thread Joe Holden
Jim Stapleton wrote: I am looking at something that has the following line as a demo: set iface route 192.168.0.0/24 what does the /24 mean? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classless_Inter-Domain_Routing HTH, J ___

Re: every two weeks

2007-04-18 Thread Joe Holden
John Haig wrote: Hi Every two weeks my Freebsd 5.3 box goes down. I'm running a webserver, databaase. No mail. Unfortunately it's 1100 miles from where I am and is quite the pain for my contact to go and start it up again. He says it's turned off and cold by the time he gets there.

Re: ezjail ip conflicts

2007-03-23 Thread Joe Holden
Robin Becker wrote: I'm getting these ip conflicts whilst trying to create a jail ezjail-admin create xxx.xxx.xxx.27 Warning: IP xxx.xxx.xxx.27 not configured on a local interface. Warning: Some services already seem to be listening on all IP, (including xxx.xxx.xxx.27) This may cause

Re: ezjail ip conflicts

2007-03-23 Thread Joe Holden
Robin Becker wrote: Joe Holden wrote: how do I fix this or perhaps I don't need to? syslogd_flags=-ss in rc.conf sshd is configured in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. . I looked in vain in /etc/rc.d/syslogd for references to syslogd_ and didn't find any, but now I see \$rc_flags

Re: System freezes on install

2007-03-07 Thread Joe Holden
s.moyzis wrote: I have a copy of FreeBSD 4.4, when I try to install from the boot CD, or the 2 floppies, the keyboard/system freezes on Kernal Configuration Menu. I also have 2 HD's, an internal 80 Gb for Windows XP, and a 250 Gb external HD for C; backup and a partition for FreeBSD. It's a

Re: Outlook With FreeBSD IMAP

2007-02-27 Thread Joe Holden
Wojciech Puchar wrote: use dovecot with Maildir. IMHO it's the best for mail service now. at least for me Does dovecont support shared forders? what are shared folders? is it some standard or some M$-standard? As in shared namespaces? I'm sure thats an IMAP standard, rather than just an MS

Re: Linux Compat

2007-02-27 Thread Joe Holden
Jerry wrote: Hi, I just did a 6.2 scratch install and missed one thing. I am sure I remember from previous version installs that it asks if I want to install the Linux Compatibility stuff. But, this got all the way done without mentioning it at all. I normally check the All selection on

Re: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back?

2007-02-25 Thread Joe Holden
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From: Chris Slothouber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 10:02 PM Subject: Re: Could we get the FreeBSD torrent servers back? Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From:

Re: CVSup question

2007-02-21 Thread Joe Holden
Simon Gao wrote: Hi, I have some machines running FreeBSD 5.2.1. Is it safe to update ports to 5.4_stable via CVSup? Or should I use 5_stable? Ports are independant of base branch, ports should generally be HEAD (tag=.). HTH, Joe ___

Re: CVSup question

2007-02-21 Thread Joe Holden
Simon Gao wrote: What if I just want to update ports for 5 stable tree? If using HEAD, then may some ports being updated be current but not stable? Or there is no such things as stable or current ports? Simon Joe Holden wrote: Simon Gao wrote: Hi, I have some machines running FreeBSD

Re: help needed setting up NATIVE ipv6 connection

2007-02-20 Thread Joe Holden
Arone Silimantia wrote: Hello, I am in a datacenter that provides native (not tunneled) ipv6 connectivity. Unfortunately, all of the howtos for FreeBSD are focused on tunneling ipv6 and using gif0, etc. This does not apply to me because I have a real ipv6 connection. Right now things are

Re: Building Home Server

2007-02-16 Thread Joe Holden
Drew Jenkins wrote: 20Hi; I'm building a server at home to mimic my live server. The instructions require that I gather the following information: * IP address * IP address of default gateway * Hostname * DNS server IP address * Subnet Mask Now, I think I can use 192.168.0.1 as my IP address,

Re: Invisible process killing the CPU

2007-02-16 Thread Joe Holden
Laszlo Nagy wrote: 75% user, 24.2% system, 0.0% idle. Despite those stats, I do not see what is eating up 100% cpu time. I already restarted the computer but it is the same. This problem started some hours ago. The CPU is hot, I can feel it on the air stream pouring out the computer case.

Re: Invisible process killing the CPU

2007-02-16 Thread Joe Holden
Nagy László Zsolt wrote: Laszlo Nagy wrote: 75% user, 24.2% system, 0.0% idle. Despite those stats, I do not see what is eating up 100% cpu time. I already restarted the computer but it is the same. This problem started some hours ago. The CPU is hot, I can feel it on the air stream pouring

Re: Backup using dump and restore from dvd - restore cd loaded to ram drive?

2007-02-12 Thread Joe Holden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list! I plan to use a full backup of my working desktop FreeBSD 6.2 STABLE with: dump -0LuB 10 -f backup.0,backup.1,backup.2 / snip It would be possible to use some linux distro, but support for UFS2 is required (I recall that MoviX has worked like this -

Re: Mail server recomendations

2007-02-09 Thread Joe Holden
list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, -- Joe Holden Telephone: +44 (0) 207 100 9593 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Mail server recomendations

2007-02-09 Thread Joe Holden
Joe Holden wrote: Post for for smtp. Postfix even. -- Joe Holden Telephone: +44 (0) 207 100 9593 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: firefox, mozilla won't display PHP (Was: Re: firefox, extensions, and *.php pages)

2007-02-02 Thread Joe Holden
? thanks for any insights; a couple of these addon are useful... gary You've added AddType lines to config, but the module is missing, or isn't being loaded presumably. -- Joe Holden Telephone: +44 (0) 207 100 9593 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.joeholden.co.uk IRC: [EMAIL

Re: Easy USB-drive automounter and filemanager for nontechies?

2007-02-01 Thread Joe Holden
recommendations? Thanks. ___ IIRC, you can have usbd execute $stuff, i'm not sure to the extent of how useful it is however. Sorry i'm not much help Thanks, -- Joe Holden Telephone: +44 (0) 207 100 9593 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http

Re: What is my TFTP Server Soing

2007-01-27 Thread Joe Holden
Joshua Lewis wrote: Hello list, I am trying to figure out what my device is doing when connecting to my TFTP server. Is there a way to watch on my server what the TFTP server is doing? Sincerely, Joshua Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: any good articles on freebsd jails?

2007-01-27 Thread Joe Holden
system. thanks, jonathan ___ Jails have alot of restrictions compared to full VM's, however as a start, i'd suggest reading man jail(if you haven't already) -- Joe Holden Telephone: +44 (0) 207 100 9593 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http

Re: Best Blog Ap in the Ports?

2007-01-27 Thread Joe Holden
: What is the best blog ap in the ports tree? I was thinking of starting a blog on my server for my Chemistry Students. Another vote for wordpress here, as can be seen on my website, fairly lightweight and can do almost anything you need with the wealth of plugins etc. -- Joe Holden Telephone

Re: cvsup file info needed please advise

2007-01-26 Thread Joe Holden
*.default compress src-all I wanted to go from 6.1 to 6,2 latest and greatest . What is the correct tag name I should use RELENG_6_2 -- Joe Holden Telephone: +44 (0) 207 100 9593 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.joeholden.co.uk IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/#FreeBSD

Re: apache exiting on signal 6

2007-01-20 Thread Joe Holden
Joe Auty wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just FYI, disabling eAccelerator hasn't rid me of this problem. I am using PHP as an Apache module. I might look at using Fast CGI, or else simply ignore this problem. Is there a list somewhere of PHP apps that don't work with

Re: Mail etiquette (was: What is this mean by this term)

2007-01-19 Thread Joe Holden
Gerard Seibert wrote: On Friday January 19, 2007 at 10:21:24 (AM) Ceri Davies wrote: On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:42:54AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I think the biggest problem with Microsoft MUAs is not where they position the cursor, but the difficulty they cause in editing the text.

Re: What is this mean by this term

2007-01-18 Thread Joe Holden
Bill Moran wrote: In response to jdow [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dak Ghatikachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am confused 2 posters have told me that I am top posting , What do we mean by top-posting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_posting And those who are

Re: Mobile IPv6

2007-01-18 Thread Joe Holden
john kandirakis wrote: I would like to ask you a few questions. I am trying to implement an IPv6 testbed as a part of my thesis. Following the instructions for the 4.9 release and using 6.2 I tried to recompile the Kernel but there are not options for IPv6.Does mobile IPv6 supported by the

Re: Antivirus.

2007-01-15 Thread Joe Holden
Luis Croker wrote: Hi all... I have a mail server running FreeBSD+sendmail, I would like to install an antivirus for the mail traffic. Any suggestions about an antivirus non-commercial to install ? ClamAV, works nicely and frequently updated. Ta, Joe

Re: Problem Installing Postfix in 6.1

2007-01-14 Thread Joe Holden
Alex Alborzfard wrote: I'm having trouble installing Postfix. After selecting the options (TSL, Mysql), after displaying output that it can't fetch postfix-2.2.9-tar.gzfrom various sites, it displays this message: Couldn't fetch it - please try retrieving this port manually into

Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Release

2007-01-09 Thread Joe Holden
Ivan Voras wrote: Note that things are different when upgrading from one major version to another (e.g. 6.x to 7.x), though I even managed to update 5.x to 6.x while the machine was live the whole time with only minor glitches, solved by recompiling ports. I doubt this would work with 6.x-7.x

Re: gmake upgrade

2006-12-09 Thread Joe Holden
Grzegorz Danecki wrote: Hello list! it may be a stupid question, but i'm a little bit scared before gmake upgrade. I'm not using portupgrade, everything is build from the ports tree, so, when some package is old, and there is newer version in ports, then make all make deinstall make

Re: jail 127.0.0.x howto

2006-12-05 Thread Joe Holden
vittorio wrote: Under freebsd 6.1 I set up an apache 2.0 server in a jail working on fxp0 10.155.1.10 and aliased as 10.155.1.11. It works like a charme. Now while IP 10.155.1.10 is a fixed IP address I've been assigned by my office network administrator (it is also in the office DNS)

Re: VoIP behind NAT and FreeBSD

2006-12-02 Thread Joe Holden
Marwan Sultan wrote: Hello All, Well, maybe the subject says all, Im running 6.1R acting as NAT, gateway ofcourse, hotspot. I have many clients trying to use Vonage, motorola, VoIP devices and and few more products. The problem is as its described in some websites.. They can call,

Re: system mail

2006-12-02 Thread Joe Holden
Jeff wrote: I run postfix on 6.x with local delivery disabled. I'd like to send the system messages to an outside address, eg [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Is this possible? Aliases will take care of that, /etc/aliases iirc. Ta, Joe

Re: VoIP behind NAT and FreeBSD

2006-12-02 Thread Joe Holden
Kurt Dethier wrote: Marwan Sultan wrote: Hello All, Well, maybe the subject says all, Im running 6.1R acting as NAT, gateway ofcourse, hotspot. I have many clients trying to use Vonage, motorola, VoIP devices and and few more products. The problem is as its described in some

Re: Removing modules from the Userland

2006-11-29 Thread Joe Holden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/29/06, Nadow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I installed the 6.2-RC1 version but now I have decided to remove the profiled libraries and I know that for that purpose I have to add the line NO_PROFILE= to the make.conf before the make world action. My doubt is if

Re: ssh over http

2006-11-28 Thread Joe Holden
Atom Powers wrote: On 11/27/06, Ansar Mohammed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, Is there any ssh over http implementation available for freebsd? That doesn't even make sense. SSH is a transport layer protocol, HTTP is an application layer protocol. If you mean by a HTTP proxy, then

Re: Fwd: Problem with first run of 6.1

2006-11-28 Thread Joe Holden
Fernando Capeletto wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Fernando Capeletto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 26/11/2006 17:39 Subject: Problem with first run of 6.1 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I installed 6.1 with success using 2 hds. hd1 (3G) / (1536M) swap (777M) /tmp (780M) hd2

Re: Install problems

2006-11-26 Thread Joe Holden
Amit Joshi wrote: On Sunday 26 November 2006 05:34, Jose wrote: Hi, Let me start by saying I am new to FreeBSD. I downloaded the iso, burned it to disk and installed the software. However when I restart the pc after the install I get an error message that it cannot find the kernel. I have

Re: Mounting Freebsd partition on Linux

2006-11-26 Thread Joe Holden
Amit Joshi wrote: I am trying to mount the FreeBSD Partition on my Debian Testing system with the 2.6.17-2 kernel. I tried searching the config file and did not find any reference to UFS or U2FS in that file. So maybe it is not supported by my kernel? UFS is support, unlikely its in the

Re: freebsd desktop

2006-11-26 Thread Joe Holden
probsd org wrote: Regarding my earlier email Do not install FreeBSD as a desktop I don't care how long I have been using FreeBSD, or yadda yadda or yadda when I cvsup ports, update the databse, and install www/firefox and go to a website I expect firefox's javascript or whatever

Re: 4.x binaries on 6.1

2006-11-24 Thread Joe Holden
Odhiambo Washington wrote: How do I run binaries compiled in FreeBSD 4.11 on a box running 6.2-PRE? Make sure the compat for FreeBSD 4.x is in your kernel (present in GENERIC), and also install the port misc/compat4x, that should do it. Thanks, J

Intel LGA775/Core 2 Duo compatible motherboard with serial redirection

2006-11-17 Thread Joe Holden
Hi, i'm looking for low profile boards, no audio, fancy vga etc, just serial console redirection capable Anyone have any recommendations? The Intel desktop boards are exactly what i'm after (Low profile, fxp/em onboard, although have audio which can be disabled I guess), however they don't

Re: Shutting down as user

2006-11-13 Thread Joe Holden
Rem P Roberti wrote: I'm using the KDE window manager, but don't see how this would effect anything, as I am not able to shut down as user from the console. This is the intended behaviour, you wouldn't want just anyone to shutdown your machines would you? ;)

Re: Shutting down as user

2006-11-13 Thread Joe Holden
Rem P Roberti wrote: That is very true, and I understand why this is by design, but in this case the ONLY user of the machine is me. It really is no big deal, but I am trying to understand just what is going on here. As I said, on my desktop I am able to shut down as user, and can't

Dedicated Server providers in .be

2006-10-30 Thread Joe Holden
All, Apologies if this is the wrong list/completely off topic - was hoping to reach a wider audience, as my Google fu is obviously not strong! I'm looking for a fairly reasonable provider in Belgium, for an offsite monitoring/secondary mx/ns, not sure on spec, nothing fancy, FreeBSD (obviously).

Re: Fwd: Serious breach of copyright -- First post

2006-06-18 Thread Joe Holden
David Hoffman wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: David Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jun 18, 2006 8:38 PM Subject: Re: Serious breach of copyright -- First post To: Brett [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think a formal apology should be issued by the infringers. Hasn't this gone on