Re: Re-compiling PHP changes server responsiveness

2009-12-17 Thread Michael Powell
Matthew Seaman wrote: [snip] >> I get: "[warn] (2)No such file or directory: Failed to enable the >> 'httpready' Accept Filter, and no new errors in >> /var/log/httpd-error.log" four times >> >> Tried adding accf_http="YES" to /boot/loader.conf, and re-booting of >> course. > > This is just a w

Re: is this booting info correct?

2009-12-17 Thread Michael Powell
Fbsd1 wrote: [snip] > > The number of hard drive primary-partitions/slices is determined by the > motherboard BIOS (Basic input output system), not the operating system. > Standard motherboard BIOS limits hard-drives to 4 main divisions > [snip] Not quite true. The only thing contained within t

Re: black hole test

2009-12-17 Thread Michael Powell
Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Wednesday 16 December 2009 22:05:06 Peter Wemm wrote: >> Daignostic message to trace mailing list processing, please ignore. > > You have heard of freebsd-test@ , haven't you? Uhmm, he is the mail admin and this list was down; don't you think he should be able to te

Simple Monitoring Of TCP/IP Question

2009-12-16 Thread Michael Goodell
Hello . . . Looking for a *simple* protocol monitoring solution to test connectivity of various facets of a system, i.e. HTTP / HTTPS / POP3 / SMTP etc. I am not looking, and don't want to install a *heavy* application like Nagios etc, but rather something much more simple. I have seen check

Re: disk with high frequency noise only on FreeBSD

2009-12-12 Thread Michael Powell
James Phillips wrote: > >> Date: Fri, 11 Dec > 2009 23:52:50 +0200 > From: ly4uk Root >> Subject: disk with high frequency noise only on FreeBSD [snip] > > Now, this post is interesting. I'm sure many people with a software > background may be tempted to write this report off as completely > i

Re: lynx failure....

2009-12-12 Thread Michael Powell
Gary Kline wrote: > Guys, this is what I see both here on my desktop, and on a > remote server, magnesium.net. Using lynx: > > > Looking up www.thought.org > Unable to locate remote host www.thought.org. > Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host. > > lynx: Can't access startfile http://www.th

Re: use DD mode or not? and how to set up?

2009-12-11 Thread Michael Powell
Tom Worster wrote: > options for setting up gmirror include DD or standard mode. i don't know > about others. > > i'm about to install 8.0-RELEASE on a system with two 750g sata disks that > i want to run as a mirrored pair. > > what are the pros/cons of the different options? > > and what abou

Re: Root exploit for FreeBSD

2009-12-10 Thread Michael Butler
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: >>From my information security manager: > > FreeBSD isn't much used within the University (I understand) and has a > (comparatively) poor security record. Most recently, for example: > > > http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Root-exploit-for-Fre

Re: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s)

2009-12-09 Thread Michael Powell
J.D. Bronson wrote: > What if we tried a custom kernel and removed these lines: > > options GEOM_PART_GPT # GUID Partition Tables. > options GEOM_LABEL # Provides labelization > > I think that might remove these 'errors'. > My kernel already has these rem

Re: Xorg - no mouse and no keyboard

2009-12-05 Thread Michael L. Squires
I had similar problems with the mouse and keyboard when Xorg 7.4 first came out. I had upgraded to 7.X from 6.X by cvsup/compile/install process, and then did a portupgrade. After the portupgrade neither my Xinerama setup, the mouse, nor the keybord worked. There was an interim fix which inv

Re: WINE on 6.3

2009-12-05 Thread Michael Powell
RW wrote: > On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:47:00 +0100 > Andrea Venturoli wrote: > >> Hello. >> Is WINE usable on 6.3/i386? >> I cannot seem to start any win32 program and before I spend time into >> it, I thought I just ask. >> >> My interest is almost limited to running a simple console app that >> d

Re: malformed man pages

2009-12-04 Thread Michael Powell
Sagara Wijetunga wrote: [snip] > > We use /usr/bin/less from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/less, the > less-382.tar.gz, unpatched. Why? > Does the less need to be patched in FreeBSD? If so, is there such a > patch exist? > Uhmm, this may sound a little strange, but why not use the one included as p

RE: Xorg - no mouse and no keyboard

2009-12-04 Thread Michael L. Squires
I had to add the following when moving from Xorg 6 to 7 since moused no longer manages the mouse - hald and dbus do: In /etc/rc.conf # X11 7.4 #moused_enable="YES" moused_enable="NO" hald_enable="YES" dbus_enable="YES" which turns on hald and dbus. Mike Squires _

Re: "Last login" message

2009-12-04 Thread Michael Schaefer
uess the FQHN is just displayed if a reverse dns entry exists for the corresponding ip. regards - michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freeb

Re: 2 processes reproducible read same file with different speed

2009-11-27 Thread Michael Powell
cronfy wrote: > Hello. > > I've noticed a very weird behavior of 2 Apache processes that shold read > the same file to process a request (they configured to read it on every > request). One spends about 6ms to read the file, and second spends about > 114ms (I used ktrace to find this out). Every

Re: NO_PROFILE versus WITHOUT_PROFILING

2009-11-27 Thread Michael Powell
Pieter de Goeje wrote: > On Friday 27 November 2009 12:45:54 Frank Staals wrote: >> When I was setting up my system for a complete rebuild I came across >> something unclear to me; I always used NO_PROFILE in my make.conf, >> however from what I've read specific make options to build the >> kerne

Re: mysql60-server??

2009-11-25 Thread Michael Powell
Matthew Seaman wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: >> kwik one: >> >> in his build-server stuff [6.2], jon horne said to use >> mysql50-server. i see the latest is mysql60 >> >> should i go ahead and use the latest mysql database? or just do as the >> >> instruction say? [snip] > > Prior to that w

RE: pf nuttyness

2009-11-25 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
> -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Brian McCann > Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 3:03 PM > To: freebsd-questions > Subject: pf nuttyness > > I'm at the end of my rope here with PF. I have a rulese

Re: rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?

2009-11-24 Thread Michael Schaefer
Hi Michael, On 24.11.2009 00:41, Michael K. Smith wrote: > We had similar crashes with PF, although not related to rtorrent > specifically. However, we use the following sysctl values that have helped > stability and performance immensely. > > net.inet.carp.preempt=1 > net.in

Re: rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?

2009-11-23 Thread Michael K. Smith
On 11/23/09 2:28 PM, "Michael Schaefer" wrote: > On 22.11.2009 23:11, cpghost wrote: >>> Have you tried to run rtorrent and the router on two different >>> FreeBSD machines? Does it lock the router, or does it crash the >>> rtorrent box only, or both?

Re: rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?

2009-11-23 Thread Michael Schaefer
/ issue, which is not dedicated to routing or NAT in particular.. for me this now becomes kinda problematic, since i cannot even start the second rtorrent instance without crashing the machine immediately.. :( regards - michael ___ freebsd-quest

Re: rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?

2009-11-23 Thread Michael Schaefer
oks like a /networking/ issue, which is not dedicated to routing or NAT in particular.. for me this now becomes kinda problematic, since i cannot even start the second rtorrent instance without crashing the machine immediately.. :( regards - michael ___ free

Re: BTX Loader crashes -- Help wanted

2009-11-21 Thread Michael Powell
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: [snip] >>Try 8RC3 and see if any difference. I believe some work in this area may >>have occurred. > > I just tried it. Alas, same result. I follow the -CURRENT and -STABLE mail lists as well as this one. Though this particular problem does not pertain to me, I seem t

Re: rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?

2009-11-20 Thread Michael Schaefer
investigate the process of crashing itself.. at least for me. regards - michael On 20.11.2009 01:08, Peter Kieser wrote: > Hello, > > This problem has been going on for at least the past 2 years. I've had > the exact same issue with rtorrent locking up or restarting machines >

Re: diskless problem: Lookup of /dev for devfs, error: 13

2009-11-20 Thread Michael W. Lucas
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 02:20:54AM -0900, Mel Flynn wrote: > On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:18:29 -0500, "Michael W. Lucas" > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm attempting to run a diskless 8.0 i386 workstation on VMWare, using > > an OpenSolaris box as a file stor

Re: BTX Loader crashes -- Help wanted

2009-11-20 Thread Michael Powell
Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > > Who should I be talking to if the BTX loader is crashing on my > specific hardware configuration, and what specific info do I > need to be gathering for him/her in order to have hope of getting > the problem rectified? > > I'd pulled stuff out of the system in ques

diskless problem: Lookup of /dev for devfs, error: 13

2009-11-19 Thread Michael W. Lucas
find any other references to this. I know that other people have PXE-booted FreeBSD on VMWare, however. Anyone have any suggestions on what to check? Thanks, ==ml -- Michael W. Lucasmwlu...@blackhelicopters.org http://www.MichaelWLucas.com/ Latest book: Cisco Routers for the Despera

Re: rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?

2009-11-19 Thread Michael Schaefer
It's not a matter of hardware since I changed the board (which included CPU, RAM, NIC,...) and also the hard disc month ago. Also a heat problem can be excluded. Any clou about all that? btw: I don't use PF at all... regards - Michael On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, cpghost wrote: > >

Re: jail - beginner questions

2009-11-18 Thread Michael Svobodin
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 09:09:32AM +0100, Laszlo Nagy wrote: > Great. Here is what I did: > > sorb# mkdir -p /usr/jails/vm1 > sorb# cd /usr/src > sorb# setenv D /usr/jails/vm1 > sorb# make installworld DESTDIR=$D > sorb# make distribution DESTDIR=$D > sorb# cat >> /etc/rc.conf > > jail_enable="Y

Re: jail - beginner questions

2009-11-17 Thread Michael Svobodin
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:41:14PM +0430, Laszlo Nagy wrote: > My computer is a windows machine, with address 192.168.0.X > Then the FreeBSD host is actually a guest os running in wvmare. It has > address 192.168.37.133 > And finally, the vm1 jail should have 192.168.0.11 > > I don't know why 19

Re: bash prompt update lagging

2009-11-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
x_len) { path = sprintf(\"%s%s\", \"$trunc_symbol\", substr(path, path_len + sym_len - max_len + 1)) } print path }") OLDPWD=${PWD} fi } This is called via a build_prompt() function in my .bashrc. I guess I'll

Re: panic? i386 on dell duo

2009-11-17 Thread Michael Powell
Gary Kline wrote: [snip] > > my network bud down in dallas is helping me get the dell as my > new server. my old hp kayak is from 1998 and on its death-bed. > > okay: i have 7.2-R, i386. installs fine. jon horne changed the > IP that the op sys | DHCP suite chose from 10.47.0.112 to > 10.47.

bash prompt update lagging

2009-11-15 Thread Michael P. Soulier
ash bug on bsd, or if I'm doing something wrong. Has anyone seen this? Thanks, Mike -- Michael P. Soulier "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." --Albert Einstein pgpa

Re: how to do a custom install?

2009-11-15 Thread Michael Powell
Gary Kline wrote: > > due to strange disk problems i was down for around 30 hours. i am > currently wiping dos/win off in favor of 7.2-R and i have a question > about doing a "custom" install that would let me slice the drive into > more that four pieces. > > i am building, by default, > > /,

Re: networking won't come back up until reboot after ISP outage

2009-11-11 Thread Michael Powell
umage wrote: [snip] >> In my case the router does get the renewed ip, as I described earlier. >> However, even after waiting 8+ hours, the system will not recover from >> the outage properly (reason unknown). That's what this thread is all >> about. > When I started the system today, I found that

Re: networking won't come back up until reboot after ISP outage

2009-11-07 Thread Michael Powell
umage wrote: > On 7. 11. 2009 19:07, Jason wrote: >> Have you tried restarting routing? >> >> /etc/rc.d/routing restart >> >> I have found the same symptoms with other outages and not performing the >> above. >> >> I have done "/etc/rc.d/netif restart" and "/etc/rc.d/routing restart". >> [snip] >>

Re: Help understanding basic FreeBSD concepts (ports, updates, jails)

2009-11-07 Thread Michael Powell
Roger wrote: > Hello all, > > I have another concept that I'm confused about, the source distribution. > Some ports, like "lsof" require the existence of /usr/src. > What I don't understand is which version to use to keep synchronized > with the production release. > When the installed was perfor

Re: /etc/fstab + embedded spaces

2009-11-03 Thread Michael Powell
carmel_ny wrote: > I was attempting to create this entry in the /etc/fstab file. It is to > a WinXP machine. > > //u...@bios/My Documents /laptop smbfs rw,noauto 0 0 > > It fails because 'fstab' does not allow embedded spaces in device > names, not does it allow enclosing the name in quotes. >

Re: Why after packages update my 'startx' gives me a message: Protocol not supported by server.

2009-11-01 Thread Michael Powell
Yuri wrote: > It keeps repeating this line in original terminal, putting line ".." in > between. So it looks like this: > Protocol not supported by server. > .. > Protocol not supported by server. > .. > Protocol not supported by server. > .. > > > Now I have to start just 'Xorg', it starts bare

Re: dhcpd related issue - not giving up

2009-11-01 Thread Michael Powell
Dánielisz László wrote: > I don't give it up, doing some tcpdump on my BSD I can see the dhcp > request reaches the machine, the dhcpd is running, but why doesn't gives > any IP? > > # tcpdump -i rl1 -n port 67 or port 68 > tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decod

Re: Bad sectors: how bad can it be

2009-10-28 Thread Michael Powell
Michaël Grünewald wrote: [snip] > > I have backups of the data contained in the broken, so the data on this > disc are not a concern. I have however a question: How do I verify that > a hard-drive is accurately working if its firmware will hide the bad > sectors as long as possible? > [snip] As

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

2009-10-28 Thread Michael Powell
Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 05:03:12PM -0200, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: > >> On Tuesday 27 October 2009 4:32:45 pm Erik Norgaard wrote: >> > Jonathan McKeown wrote: >> > > Just as a matter of interest, if you want to rip sendmail out of >> > > the base system, which MTA would you

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-27 Thread Michael Powell
Scott Bennett wrote: >>> Alexander Best wrote: > Hi, >> i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: >> permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 >> so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that >> address. [snip]

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Michael Powell
Steve Bertrand wrote: > Alexander Best wrote: >> Olivier Nicole schrieb am 2009-10-27: >>> Hi, >> i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: >> permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 >> so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that

Re: incorrect info in mysql docs

2009-10-25 Thread Michael Powell
Chris Whitehouse wrote: > hi, > > I just noticed this at > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/automatic-start.html > > On FreeBSD, startup scripts generally should go in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/. > The rc(8) manual page states that scripts in this directory are executed > only if their basename

Re: glabel clarification

2009-10-20 Thread michael
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:57:53 -0400, PJ wrote: Exactly what is happening on my system. That's basically what has been troubling me. I cloned ad12 to ad6 and then wanted to boot from ad6... well, everytime I boot from ad6 the boot is from ad12 because both have identical labe

Re: PHP5 + fastcgi + apache2.2 ... how to for FreeBSD?

2009-10-20 Thread Michael Powell
Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Is there one somewhere? I'm finding *alot* of Debian ones dealing with > their whole apget stuff, but would like to find something that "speaks > normally" :) > [snip] Install your choice of flavor of Apache. Me, I'm using the event-mpm for testing to verify the wa

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-17 Thread michael
RW wrote: On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:49:52 -0400 Bob Hall wrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 02:34:40AM +, Mark wrote: Actually, this has got very little to do with being a native English speaker or not. It's ere a matter of intonation (which, in writing, can only be conveyed to a certain

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-17 Thread Michael Powell
PJ wrote: [snip] >> >> > I think you're trying to take the meaning of "should" a little too > far... to keep it simple, and without trying to intellectualize it, it > simply means (and this can change within certain contexts) "normally, it > should work" (in our context, here) but there is no im

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-17 Thread michael
PJ wrote: michael wrote: PJ wrote: Why is it that the manual pages, as thorough as they may be, are very, very confusing. Perhaps I am being too wary, but I find that too many instructions/examples are stumbling blocks to appreciation of the whole system: for instance, let's lo

Re: Best procedure for full backup of live system

2009-10-17 Thread Michael David Crawford
FreeBSD box handy right now so I can't just look. ... and as has been pointed out, you'll also want your BSD disklabel which is a whole different beast. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Power

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-16 Thread michael
PJ wrote: Why is it that the manual pages, as thorough as they may be, are very, very confusing. Perhaps I am being too wary, but I find that too many instructions/examples are stumbling blocks to appreciation of the whole system: for instance, let's look at the instructions for changing disk l

Re: phpMyAdmin install stopped in dependency 'libXau-1.0.4'

2009-10-15 Thread Michael Powell
Kikachi Kozumi wrote: > Hi, > > I tried installing phpMyAdmin in an ezjail created jail already > installed with apache22, mysql and php5 running FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE > i386 with no X11 (headless). > The port install failed when dependency 'libXau-1.0.4' configure > couldn't find gnome-config: >

Re: How can I get >100 connections in FIN_WAIT_2 state from the same IP?

2009-10-13 Thread Michael Powell
Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Oct 13, 2009, at 10:33 AM, Martin Turgeon wrote: >> I would like to know if anyone knows the reason why I get a lot of >> connections (more than 100) from the same IP in FIN_WAIT_2 state. > > That IP is probably running a web proxy or possibly some kind of > spider. It c

Re: Apache server imap.so ssl_once_only_init error

2009-10-07 Thread Michael Powell
Michael Powell wrote: > David Southwell wrote: > >>> Robert Huff wrote: >>> > David Southwell writes: >>> >> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/php/20060613/imap.so: >>> >> Undefined symbol "ssl_onceonlyinit" Oh - forgot -

Re: Apache server imap.so ssl_once_only_init error

2009-10-07 Thread Michael Powell
David Southwell wrote: >> Robert Huff wrote: >> > David Southwell writes: >> >> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/php/20060613/imap.so: >> >> Undefined symbol "ssl_onceonlyinit" >> > >> > I look at this and ask (knowing very little about either) "is >> > this a problem with Apache, or a probl

Re: Apache server imap.so ssl_once_only_init error

2009-10-07 Thread Michael Powell
Robert Huff wrote: > > David Southwell writes: > >> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/php/20060613/imap.so: >> Undefined symbol "ssl_onceonlyinit" > > I look at this and ask (knowing very little about either) "is > this a problem with Apache, or a problem with PHP?". > > Easy enough to

Re: FreeBSD "Projects"

2009-10-06 Thread Michael Powell
Chris Stankevitz wrote: > > Hello, > > I recently stumbled across "The FreeBSD GNOME Project" webpage which is > filled with detail and great instructions. It is located at > http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/index.html > > Q1: Where can I find the FreeBSD page that links to "The FreeBSD GNOME > pr

Re: ports have made me lazy

2009-10-03 Thread Michael Powell
Vince Sabio wrote: > I need to install zlib (not zlibc), and AFACT it is not included in > ports. When I look at the zlib web site, I see that there are several > (not a lot, but several) dependencies for the installation -- and I > think, "OH NO, NOT DEPENDENCIES!" Or something like that. > > I

Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?

2009-09-27 Thread Michael Vince
On 25/09/2009 10:28 PM, Saifi Khan wrote: On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Julian H. Stacey wrote: i noticed that there is no Oracle available for FreeBSD http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/index.html What could be the reason for that ? Best ask direct of commerci

Re: Warning: PHP Update from 5.2.10 to 5.2.11 and FastCGI

2009-09-27 Thread Michael Powell
Jerry wrote: > On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:03:37 -0400 > Michael Powell wrote: > >> Found the problem. The mailheader patch for 5.2.10 clashes with the >> Suhosin patch for 5.2.11. I rebuilt PHP with Suhosin and without >> mailheader patch and now it's all happy ag

Re: Warning: PHP Update from 5.2.10 to 5.2.11 and FastCGI

2009-09-27 Thread Michael Powell
Jerry wrote: > On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:03:37 -0400 > Michael Powell wrote: > >> Found the problem. The mailheader patch for 5.2.10 clashes with the >> Suhosin patch for 5.2.11. I rebuilt PHP with Suhosin and without >> mailheader patch and now it's all happy ag

Re: Whic mail server?

2009-09-27 Thread Michael Powell
Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote: > Hi, > I am running a server that is acting as the mail server for only internal > users (about 50 users). Currently we are running Sendmail, but reading on > other discussions I noticed that qmail and other programs are suggested. I > am wondering if qmail is thought to

Re: Warning: PHP Update from 5.2.10 to 5.2.11 and FastCGI

2009-09-27 Thread Michael Powell
Michael Powell wrote: > Jerry wrote: [snip] >> >> No problems on my machines. >> >> PHP 5.2.11 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.7 (cli) (built: Sep 24 2009 19:08:59) >> Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group >> Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technol

Re: Warning: PHP Update from 5.2.10 to 5.2.11 and FastCGI

2009-09-27 Thread Michael Powell
Matthias Fechner wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Michael Powell schrieb: >> patch I got. I use cvsup11 because it closest to me (in the Verizon >> datacenter in Ashland, Va.) but I have had that server go stale before. >> Might try csupping ports again from somethin

Re: Warning: PHP Update from 5.2.10 to 5.2.11 and FastCGI

2009-09-26 Thread Michael Powell
Jerry wrote: > On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:34:25 -0400 > Michael Powell wrote: > [snip] >> If you are using FastCGI the workaround is to do make config in >> lang/php5 and deselect the Suhosin option. There is something very >> broken in the Suhosin patch as far as C

Warning: PHP Update from 5.2.10 to 5.2.11 and FastCGI

2009-09-26 Thread Michael Powell
Today I did a portupgrade of PHP from 5.2.10 to 5.2.11. This broke both lighttpd and Apache web servers, on which I run PHP as FastCGI. I do not know if this affects those who use mod_php as I do not use it. I use mod_fcgid instead. Execute php -v at a prompt and it will spew the following and

Re: net.inet.ip.random_id possible ASA problems?

2009-09-24 Thread Michael Powell
Steve Bertrand wrote: > B. Cook wrote: > > [ big snip ] > >> So after 6 hours of cisco techs.. all they could come up with is a "... >> possible duplex mis-match.. " >> >> *sigh* >> >> So dropping my pf rules (which contain scrub settings) made no >> difference, I found the above URL which see

Re: DHCP client questions

2009-09-20 Thread Michael Powell
Mel Flynn wrote: > On Sunday 20 September 2009 21:19:28 stan wrote: > >> I have several machines (such as a mailserver) which _MUST_ have fixed >> names. I have played around with /etc/dhcllient.conf, but not managed to >> get this working. I can get IP addresses, and various things such as >> de

Re: Microsoft "Dynamic DNS"

2009-09-19 Thread Michael Powell
stan wrote: > I have a situation at work, where I need a FreeBSD machine to be in the > corporate DNS. We have been bought out, and the new owner says "no static > DNS entries". They use some Microsoft technogly where the client machiens > register thier names with the corprate DNS. In a correct

Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD

2009-09-18 Thread Michael Powell
lish anything more than video, before official security > advisory. The exploit is private to me and it won't be given to the > "community". > > Michael Powell wrote: >> Quoted from ~freebsd.security.general: >> "The bug was fixed in 6.1-STABLE, just be

RE: New mail server setup

2009-09-17 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
Hello Steve: I'll try to answer your questions in line. > > > Another approach would be a cluster of Postfix servers and Dovecot > > servers behind PF load balancers. We have 3 "POP" servers > (IMAP/POP), 9 > > Mail Servers, 2 Defer servers and 5 Filter servers that process over > 20 > > mil

Re: Change one file in an ISO image

2009-09-16 Thread Michael David Crawford
the right filesystem type, but "man mount" will tell you.) Once mounted that way you can use it like any other filesystem. I actually did this once, but it was years ago. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Pow

Re: sSMTP, this mailing list, and helo errors

2009-09-16 Thread Michael Powell
Chad Perrin wrote: > I moved email from a FreeBSD 6.2 machine to a FreeBSD 7.2 machine. > > On both machines, I'm using sSMTP[1] to send email to a mailserver > managed by a shared hosting server, with SSL/TLS authentication. > Everything works, except for one "small" problem -- sending email to

RE: New mail server setup

2009-09-16 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
> Steve Hello Steve: Another approach would be a cluster of Postfix servers and Dovecot servers behind PF load balancers. We have 3 "POP" servers (IMAP/POP), 9 Mail Servers, 2 Defer servers and 5 Filter servers that process over 20 million messages a day without a blip. We can take i

Re: ftpd virtual www hosts

2009-09-14 Thread Michael Powell
Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:10:35 -0400, Peasoup wrote: >> Next I go to vipw to change the user's home dir to something in the >> www area, which is owned by www:www. This is where my problems start >> with being denied. I am assuming that uploading to the unprivileged >> user www

Re: reporter on deadline seeks comment about reported security bug in FreeBSD

2009-09-14 Thread Michael Powell
Matthew Seaman wrote: > Mikel King wrote: > >> Hasn't 6.x been End Of Lifed? I mean considering that 8.0 is expected to >> be released either later this month or early next, and 6.x will be >> officially retired at that time, is it possible that this was >> overlooked? Personally I don't think it

Re: [OFF?] Mac OX Driver

2009-09-13 Thread Michael David Crawford
me insight as to how to port them in reverse. One doesn't generally port device drivers between such different systems; it's more like doing a complete rewrite. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virt

Re: reducing size of apache instances

2009-09-11 Thread Michael Powell
Ivan Voras wrote: > John Almberg wrote: > >> I am using PHP, in fact. I've listed all the loaded modules below, and >> marked the ones I added with an '*'. I need the proxy modules because I >> use Apache as a front end for Mongrel. > >> This WITH_MPM=worker sounds interesting. I'll have to read

What I'd Like To See In A Netbook

2009-09-10 Thread Michael David Crawford
someone were to actually produce such a "big netbook", there would be lots more potential customers than just myself. I have actually considered purchasing one of the netbooks of today, but after looking them over, I have to say that their tiny screens would be very disruptive to my

Re: Is there such thing as a 'soft checksum' tool?

2009-09-06 Thread Michael David Crawford
e the blurred images. Small differences in individual pixels would be blurred away. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http://prgmr.com/xen ___

Re: cc -march questions

2009-09-04 Thread Michael Powell
Scott Bennett wrote: > On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 10:28:09 -0400 Daniel Molina Wegener > > wrote: >>2009/9/3 Scott Bennett >> >>> What exactly does "cc -march=prescott" enable cc to do? Does it >>> include >>> instruction scheduling for the pipeline structure of the Prescott CPUs? >>> Do

Re: memory usage displsy

2009-09-01 Thread Michael David Crawford
charged against any process. For example, to map some virtual memory requires memory to store the mappings in. Open files have kernel structures, as do filesystems. If top or ps were only to show userspace memory allocations, then you're right, a lot of memory would be unaccounted for. M

Re: itunes on FreeBSD

2009-09-01 Thread Michael David Crawford
, to eventually become a media framework for ZooLib, which previously hasn't had any media support. Video will come eventually, but not for quite a while. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virtual Privat

Re: SUID permission on Bash script

2009-08-29 Thread Michael David Crawford
will someday. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http://prgmr.com/xen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: SUID permission on Bash script

2009-08-29 Thread Michael David Crawford
ne would have to be a rocket scientist to avoid all the potential pitfalls. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Powered Virtual Private Servers: http://prgmr.com/xen ___ freebsd-questi

Re: SUID permission on Bash script

2009-08-28 Thread Michael David Crawford
run as root. If a program is going to be setuid at all, you really have to know what you're doing when you write it or else you'll find yourself opening a can of worms. Mike -- Michael David Crawford m...@prgmr.com prgmr.com - We Don't Assume You Are Stupid. Xen-Po

Re: [Fwd: about vbox and freebsd]

2009-08-22 Thread Michael Powell
John Francis Lee wrote: > I got an answer to my question, posted here, from ... but I've been > instructed not to post to individuals but to the list so I copy the > Mak's response here : > > > Your CPU is 64-bit from what I can see. From a bit of Googling, others > have encountered this problem

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-21 Thread Michael Powell
PJ wrote: [snip] > > Ok, I normally do something like that... problem here was that I made > the mistake of thinking that an interesting little script I found was > good for updating... but, I was sadly mistaken. The error was due to a > badly downloaded ports tree. That fixed, all works fine. >

Re: about vbox and freebsd

2009-08-21 Thread Michael Powell
Mak Kolybabi wrote: > On 2009-08-21 06:12, John Francis Lee wrote: >> My problem is that I'm told right at the onset of the install that >> >> CPU doesn't support long mode > > Your CPU is 64-bit from what I can see. From a bit of Googling, others > have encountered this problem, and it seems t

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-21 Thread Michael Powell
PJ wrote: > Does anybody have an idea of what the oder of files and dependencies is > to install programs without all sorts of nonsensical errors? > I usually have no problem installing FreeBsd whatever with apache22, > cups, samba, php, mysql xorg etc. etc. I say usually because from time > to ti

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-14 Thread Michael Powell
Ian Smith wrote: [snip] > > Smells like flakey hardware .. intermittent, inexplicable glitches. It > might survive hours on one workload, minutes on another, no sense to it? > > > All that I am seeing is that there is either a problem with the bios > > (which I even reinstalled and that change

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-13 Thread Michael Powell
Roland Smith wrote: [sni[p] > - Powersupply: check the voltages (preferably under load) with a > monitoring app like mbmon. If that's not possible, check in the BIOS. A > failing powersupply can give weird unreproducable errors. If you have > ever heard a popping noise from the machine it

Re: Gmirror

2009-08-09 Thread Michael Christie
Yes you are right , I would like to clean off the drives, defalt and clean, then reformat. and reinstall, i did see a post some where on how to do it with the fixit cd, but can not find it now. any idears ? Thanks Mick On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 5:07 AM, Tim Judd wrote: > On 8/9/09, Mich

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2009-08-09 Thread Michael Christie
Hi there all, I need your help. I have a supermicro server which was running Freebsd 7.1 with 2 SATA drives. I have had G mirror running on the server. I needed to do a full reinstall of freebsd but was unable to disengage the mirror at the time. When installing Freebsd, on to the drives i see i h

Re: Gmirror

2009-08-09 Thread Michael Christie
Hi there all, I need your help. I have a supermicro server which was running Freebsd 7.1 with 2 SATA drives. I have had G mirror running on the server. I needed to do a full reinstall of freebsd but was unable to disengage the mirror at the time. When installing Freebsd, on to the drives i see i h

Re: Freebsd-update question

2009-08-08 Thread Michael Powell
Richard Mahlerwein wrote: [snip] > > I currently have my little westell DSL router set to be my DNS for all my > boxes behind it. While a neat little box, it has its issues from time to > time. Should I at least point my DNS to the DNS it uses to save an extra > relay? Depends. I don't know if

Re: Fwd: Boot failure

2009-08-07 Thread Michael Powell
Tim Judd wrote: > On 8/7/09, Roland Smith wrote: > >> Looks like your hardware is dying/dead. > > > > Sadly, I agree. > > > Reset BIOS CMOS data (hardware jumper on motherboard) > Enter RAID controller BIOS, (re)set your "boot drive" > > But it looks like a fundamental BIOS control issue i

Re: Boot failure

2009-08-06 Thread Michael Powell
Identry wrote: >> Try downloading and booting the livefs environment (I think you need cd1 >> and the livefs cd or just the DVD) and see if you can mount it from >> that, if not it could be a controller issue. If you can then its >> probably your OS/kernel but at least you now have access to your

Re: upgrade 7.2 overwrites partitions

2009-08-05 Thread Michael Powell
Polytropon wrote: [snip] > >> Personally, I do think it's a pity, because FreeBSD (in my experience, >> since FreeBSD 4.5) is stable, easy to use (once you have the basic Unix >> concepts on board), and astonishingly well-documented. It's also >> supported by one of the friendliest and most knowl

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