Re: Processors

I'm new with FreeBSD setup. Just want to as if Core 2 Duo processor compatible with FreeBSD. yes it is. Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Xdvi with amd64

HI Andrew, Exactly which fonts are you having trouble with? I can tell you whether I can reproduce the issue under 7.1. Nothing exotic at all: cmr10.300.pk The error message is: $ xdvi memo Note: overstrike characters may be incorrect. xdvi: Wrong number of bits stored: char. 68,

Re: Xdvi with amd64

Hi, Exactly which fonts are you having trouble with? I can tell you whether I can reproduce the issue under 7.1. Nothing exotic at all: cmr10.300.pk The error message is: $ xdvi memo Note: overstrike characters may be incorrect. xdvi: Wrong number of bits stored: char.

Xdvi with amd64

Hi, Is there known issue with the port of Xdvi (/usr/ports/print/xdvi) on 6.4 amd64? I suspect there is a problem with the size of the int/short/long as Xdvi detects wrong number of bits in some font files, while these same font files are used without problem by other ports and are identical to

Re: OT: Postfix rejects from Freebsd server

Apr 11 16:26:40 hostname (internal) postfix/smtp[1325]: 488851744F: to=freebsd-multimedia-requ...@freebsd.org, relay=mx1.freebsd.org[69.147.83.52]:25, delay=100211, delays=100114/49/48/0.35, dsn=4.7.1, status=deferred (host mx1.freebsd.org[69.147.83.52] said: 450 4.7.1 Client host rejected:

Re: How to create NTFS file system from FreeBSD?

Hi, The easiest way would be to format it inside a Windows PC that is NTFS capable. But I think your problem is that you don't have such a PC at hand... Maybe a (very overcomplicated) solution is to (install and then) run some kind of Windows in a VM and format the disk from there... I

Re: Dump/Restore

Please Help! After dump-restore /dev, /proc, /usr/compat/linux/proc - is empty, system fealure to boot. Please guide me, how to dump/restore devfs. I am not sure about /usr/compat/linux/proc but /dev and /proc are created on the fly by the system: Lines are added into /dev for each new device

Open Office

Hi, I just installed Open Office (openoffice.org-2.4.2_1) from the ports on a new 6.4 amd64 machine. It installed fine, but whenever I start it, it comes back asking me for the user set-up. (same thing with OpenOffice 3 from the ports). When I try to save a document it pops-up: General

Re: Open Office

Hi, Sorry I should have searched around before asking :( I just installed Open Office (openoffice.org-2.4.2_1) from the ports on a new 6.4 amd64 machine. It installed fine, but whenever I start it, it comes back asking me for the user set-up. (same thing with OpenOffice 3 from the ports).

TeX/LaTeX in FreeBSD

Hi, I build print/tex and print/latex from the ports, but I must be forgetting some configuration somewhere, because when trying to compose qa document LaTeX cannot find the various include files like article.cls That must be a very stupid mistake. Few years ago I did build TeX/laTeX from the

Re: Why USB enclosure with HD isn't a block device?

And got the message: /dev/da0 is not a block device. Refusing to make a filesystem here! Just a wild guess, but shouldn't you create slices first? Then create the filesystem on /dev/da0s1 Bests, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Copying files without scp

Hi, Can someone recommend a *known good* production quality copy mechanism that will act like scp, but without the overhead? rsh? nc? I sometime use tar+rsh. Tar because I want to be sure to preserve all ownership and modes of the files and directories. Bests, olivier

Re: Multiple instances of MySQL

Hi, Has anyone setup two instances of MySQL on the same server? One running just a client's DBs? Any advice would be helpful. That is not answering your question directly, but MySQL works finr over an SSH tunnel. You'd have your users connect/authenticate with SSH first to establish the

Re: Fetching directories inclusive subdirectories on HTTP server via fetch or othe FreeBSD-own tools?

I need to fetch a whole directory tree from a public remote site. The top level directory and its subdirectories are accessible via ftp:// and http:// so I tried fetch, but fetch does only retrieve data on file basis and does not copy a whole directory tree recursively. The remote site does

Acroread8 problem on 6.4?

Hi, I just installed acroread8 on a new box, 6.4 amd64. When I try to launch acroread, I get: cannot set up thread-local storage: cannot set up LDT for thread-local storage What does that mean? How to make it work? Best regards, Olivier ___

Re: Crontab for different ime zones

Is there a way to start jobs with cron using different a time-zone different from local time zone? I am in a TZ that has no Daylight Savings Time, and would like to start a job (reccording of a web cast) in a TZ that has DST (so with a time difference that changes along the year).

Re: Stock OpenSSL is multithread or not?

Hi, I am trying to use Pound (/usr/ports/www/pound). From the documentation I read; Warning: as Pound is a multi-threaded program it requires a version of OpenSSL with thread support. This is normally the case on Linux and Solaris (for example) but not on *BSD. Is that still

Re: 6.x - 7.1

Hi, We have (finally) made the decision to move our server (10 -Dell) from Toronto to a newer data center closer to our office in London. I am not sure how the change in geographical location is related to the upgrade of FreeBSD. Will that be new machines? Or you are moving the existing

The easiest way to install Pound on FreeBSD

Hi, Here is the easiest way i found to install Pound on FreeBSD (6.4 amd64). - install OpenSSL from /usr/ports/security/openssl - in /usr/local/openssl add a link to /usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib - modify /usr/ports/www/pound/Makefile and add a line saying: CONFIGURE_ARGS+=

Varnish on FreeBSD

Hi, I have a small issue when runnig Varnish on FreeBSD 6.4 amd64 (64 bits extension). I use the command (which seems very straigh forward to me): $ /usr/local/sbin/varnishd -P /var/run/varnishd.pid -a localhost:6081 -f /usr/local/etc/varnish/default.vcl -T localhost:6082 -s malloc,5G -s

Crontab for different ime zones

Hi, Is there a way to start jobs with cron using different a time-zone different from local time zone? I am in a TZ that has no Daylight Savings Time, and would like to start a job (reccording of a web cast) in a TZ that has DST (so with a time difference that changes along the year). Is there

Re: The easiest way to install Pound on FreeBSD

Hi, Ideally, the MAINTAINER should be pinged and set WITH_OPENSSL_PORT=yes in the Makefile, if port is BROKEN with base ssl. I informed the maintenar too, I was just suggesting a workaround. Bests, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Can't upgrade to 7.1-RELEASE

Hi, .chflags: ///.profile: Operation not supported Could that be that you are running with some kernel security level? sysctl -a |grep kern.securelevel And that your file /.profile has some flag set on it? ls -lo ./profile Then you will need to reboot in a lower level so you can either

Stock OpenSSL is multithread or not?

Hi, I am trying to use Pound (/usr/ports/www/pound). From the documentation I read; Warning: as Pound is a multi-threaded program it requires a version of OpenSSL with thread support. This is normally the case on Linux and Solaris (for example) but not on *BSD. Is that still true on

Re: analyzing httpd-error.log

Hi, Webalizer is doing what it's supposed to with httpd-access.log, but when I give it the error log to process is coughs, spits and spills out errors with no data processed. My research hasn't turned up a good solution for webalizer and -error.log. The format of error log is pretty

Re: mount 2nd HD containing running Freebsd system

I have run out of space on my running 7.1 system. I have a 2nd HD containing 6.1 that I want to mount and use the 80gb /usr slice. What is the mount command to use? In order to give you the right answer, we would need to know how that disk was organised: - slice (of fdisk type); use the

How to list all the installed packages...

Hi, Is there a way to show a list of all installed packages that are not required by any other package? Some thing like pkg_info -aR where the Required by: field is empty. Ultimately, that would give a list of software versus libraries. The question arise because, while installing a new

Re: how to configure xbiff

Hi, I used to have xbiff (displays a mailbox icon with flag) on Solaris, which notified me whenever a new mail arrived in my mailbox /var/mail/USERNAME, via a beep and the flag in the mailbox icon being raised. What precise command do I have to write in what startup file, so that this

Re: Installing 7.1 amd64 on Dell powerEdge 2950

Hi, As a follow-up... I spent a couple of days trying to install FreeBSD 7.1 amd64 on a Dell PowerEdge 2950. It won't finish booting properly from the installation CD: with default boot, single user and verbose it stops at: fdc0: ... device_attach: fdc0 attach returned 6 with ACPI

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

Hi, I have been tasked with getting a DSL connection across about 10km of no-man's-land to a rural location without internet access. Ideally, all traffic inbetween the two directional antennas would be encrypted. (Nice, but not entirely required.) 3Mb/s would be great! Something like:

Re: Adding new domain in mail server

Hi, we bought a new domain (e.g mydomain3.com) and Im planning to add the domain to our mail server so that I could create a new email ad with the new domain (e.g us...@mydomain3.com). how will I do that? I am afraid no one can answer right now, there are many different software used for mail

Re: make installworld fails on RELEASE6.4 amd64

I am facing a problem that I cannot solve when trying to reinstall wolrd on 6.4 amd 64. More about this issue. Regarding adjkerntz -i. Places that are ahead of UTC don't need to do the adjkerntz -i after rebooting in single user. Suppose you are in a time zone at UTC +7. Boot in

Re: Compiling everything myself?

Hi, What I want to know is the following: Do I get the option of fetching sources and running through a guided compilation; or do I get binaries (like Debian) only? I'd say that installing from the source is part of the phylosophy of FreeBSD. There are pre-compiled packages, but as I see

Re: Fujitsu Siemens Promergy RX100S4

I have two SATA disks configured for mirroring in the BIOS; I see the two disks separately as ad devices, but no RAID device: I'd expect an ar0 or something. I think that if it is hardware RAID, you should see only one disk. If it is not supported, you will not have access to the RAID error

Re: umass performance

I'm using dd to clone an 8GB USB memory into an identical one. # dd if=/dev/da2 of=/dev/da1 load: 0.01 cmd: dd 12026 [physwr] 0.00u 0.01s 0% 904k 396+0 records in 395+0 records out 202240 bytes transferred in 1.453741 secs (139117 bytes/sec) 15925248+0 records in 15925248+0 records

Re: System crashed.... any help?

Hi, Due to power faliure... my system was crashed... now I am unable to start it... getting this on consol...please see attached screen dump... I think you forgot to attach the screen dump :) Bests, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Installing 7.1 amd64 on Dell powerEdge 2950

Hi, I got 2 PE2950 running 7.0/amd64 bought last summer - all running without problems. Maybe CD/DVD drives are failing? Have you tried another media - DVD instead of CD for example? Hummm, I doubt that CD drives would fail on both machines, and I tried also an external USB attached CD drive

Advise on PCIX dual network card

Hi, I need to buy a PCI eXtended dual network card, any advise on what brand is supported and work reliabily? TIA, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Advise on PCIX dual network card

Hi, look at chips that are on that card. I need to buy a PCI eXtended dual network card, any advise on what brand is supported and work reliabily? I would need to have the card to lok at the chips, but I need to know what card is good before I order it and before I can look at the chips.

Re: Advise on PCIX dual network card

Hi, PRO/1000s generally were harder to find and (if I remember correctly) the two- and four-porters more expensive per port tham /N/ single-port cards. Thanks, but I have only one slot (1U rack) and I need 2 ports, so I have little choice :) Bests, Olivier

Re: Installing 7.1 amd64 on Dell powerEdge 2950

Hi, I've had(and have) several fairly new Dell PowerEdge2950 servers running FreeBSD 7.1/amd64 just fine. Is this a brand new 2950 (2950 III, or whatever), or an older one? Depends how new is new, we bought it at the end of last year. I'd make sure that the BIOS, BMC, and PERC (if

Re: make installworld fails on RELEASE6.4 amd64

Hi, I am facing a problem that I cannot solve when trying to reinstall wolrd on 6.4 amd 64. More about this issue. RELEASE_6.4 i386 is imune of this problem. I did a make -d A installworld and it seems that it is all about /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot2/machine. It's a link to

Re: make installworld fails on RELEASE6.4 amd64

Hi, What I did is: during the installation of the distrubition I set back the CMOS clock to UTC time, and when FreeBSD was done installing from the CD, I reset the CMOS clock to the wall clock. It worked, but it's not very nice. What you did is not necessary if you adjkerntz -i when you

Installing 7.1 amd64 on Dell powerEdge 2950

Hi, I spent a couple of days trying to install FreeBSD 7.1 amd64 on a Dell PowerEdge 2950. It won't finish booting properly from the installation CD: with default boot, single user and verbose it stops at: fdc0: ... device_attach: fdc0 attach returned 6 with ACPI disabled and Safe mode it

make buildworld in parallel

Hi, Is it valid to use the option -j in the make of buildworld? Like: make -j 8 buildworld TIA Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

make installworld fails on RELEASE6.4 amd64

Hi, I am facing a problem that I cannot solve when trying to reinstall wolrd on 6.4 amd 64. On a brand new machine (Dell powerEdge 2950) I install RELEASE 6.4 amd64: FreeBSD ufo2.cs.ait.ac.th 6.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE #0: Wed Nov 26 08:37:42 UTC 2008

Re: boot loader I/O through ethernet

Hi, More and more systems are made without serial ports these days. This means I can't access the loader prompt on FreeBSD without a monitor and keyboard, which is an annoyance. So my question is, is there a way to channel input and output of the loader through LAN / Ethernet by software

Re: / partition full

396M/boot I'd say this /boot is pretty big, you may have several versions of older kernel that you can remove. Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Keyboard adaptor PS/2 - USB to use with FreeBSD

Hi, I'm aware of the fact that there are adaptors (adapters?) do plug a standard PS/2 keyboard (and mouse) into an USB port. Do I have to pay attention to get a specific device or are they that simple (wired) that any will do? I don't know about the others, but the adapter delivered by Dell

Re: Release-7.0 named and dhcpd

No, this is my first attempt with named and dhcpd. Each one seems to be fine separately but getting them to talk has been a stumbling block. Then you'll have to share pieces of your configuration, so we can see what is going on there. Maybe also share the information that you used to set it

Re: PAE kernel problem on Dell PowerEdge 2950

Hi, However, I am going to use 7.1-STABLE on them. I see no reason why you should run 6.4 at all though. What's your motivation towards thaat angle? I suggest you install the 7.1 and update it to -STABLE then see if anything changes as regards the CPU (est message), while we wait for

Re: torrent client traffic shaping question

Hi, K you know how with traffic shapping you can control only the traffic leaving you, how it is that torrent clients say they can control the download as well as the upload. I would think the client can only control the upload. Maybe torrent protocol includes something where by the client

Re: PAE kernel problem on Dell PowerEdge 2950

Hi, why not simply use /amd64? You mean he changes the CPU? All CPUs generally shipped from Dell anymore are 64bit capable. Do you have the original specs (take the service tag, go to dell support - warranty - original system config) and paste that. It gives chip IDs that we can use

Re: p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 installation is corrupt!

I am trying to remove p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 installation. How do I do it? # portmanager -u -y rCreateInstalledDbVerifyContentsFile 0.4.1_9 error: @comment ORIGIN: not found in /var/db/pkg/p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01/+CONTENTS p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 installation is corrupt!

Re: Release-7.0 named and dhcpd

Hi Greg, The desktops that grab an address from the DHCP pool are not getting added in for named resolution. I am apparently missing something with the communication between named and dhcpd. Any help would be appreciated. There are many reasons why the dhcpd cannot communicate with named,

PAE kernel problem on Dell PowerEdge 2950

Hi, I have a couple of new Dell PowerEdge 2950 with 16GB RAM and I found the following issue when trying to install FreeBSD. FreeBSD i386 6.4_RELENG === 8 GB RAM: OK except acpi_alloc_makeop_handler: can't alloc wake memory corrected with PR 120515 16GB RAM:

Re: I cannot login coz bash is deinstalled

Hi, How can I change my shell to sh without logining? You cannot! But what you can: - boot in singkle user mode - mount all your s=disks: mount -a - edit /etc/passwd with your favourite editor Bests, olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Bridging-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled)

Hi, I connected two linux PCs with these two interfaces (sk0 and sk1) and tried to ping between them but didnt get any success.configuration seems to be ok, but still no traffice is being passed. Can any one give any sugestion ? Stupid question, but if you connect the 2 Linux boxes directly

Re: Bridging-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled)

Hi, Are you using properly crossed cables? Isnt it enough check for the that two linux can ping each other.. Yes and no. You must used crossed Ethernet cable between your FreeBSD bridge and each of your Linux boxes. As someone suggested, what is ifconfig saying on the FreeBSD box? You

Re: rc.conf and starting scripts

Hi, The default location for rc.conf is /etc/rc.d only and the knob local_startup=/usr/local/etc/rc.d doesn't seem to be working for me for some reasons Syntax? on my machines it's: local_startup=/usr/local/etc/rc.d with quotes around the path, not around the full line. Olivier

Re: LDAP pam

Hi, Could someone confirm my understanding: 1) things like getent(1), getpwnam(3) use: /etc/nsswitch /usr/local/etc/nss_ldap.conf 2) things like sshd, with pam_ldap use: /usr/local/etc/ldap.conf So if I have different filter in /usr/local/etc/nss_ldap.conf and /usr/local/etc/ldap.conf

ssh + xterm

Hi, I want to use ssh to connect to a remote machine, launch an xterm with the IP address of my X server display and exit ssh (there is no need to have ssh idled once xterm has started). I beleive that can be done in a single command, but I am clueless about the syntax. I am pretty much aware

LDAP pam

Hi, I have a LDAP server, a file server running NFS server and a web server running NFS client. I want the web server to be able to know the users' account stored on LDAP, but not provide authentication; so I can have URL's of the form http://my.web/~john/index.html for the user john, where

Re: kvm switch

Hi, Do you have a kvm switch that does mouse and keyboard emulation and know that it works with freebsd? I have been using Aten KVM switches for years and been very happy with them. On FreeBSD, the machine is only in console mode, pure TTY. But there are a couple of Linux boxes connected to

Re: ldapsearch question

Hi, I think my search is incorrect, and I am searching for the mail attribute being null. That's right, (!(mail=*)) means everything where mail is null. You would like to search for mail=*, meaning everything where mail is not null. Bests, Olivier

Re: ldapsearch question

I receive the same results using mail=*. Following is the latest ldapsearch command. ldapsearch -D cn=admin_user,cn=users,dc=xx,dc=com -x -w password - h 10.129.10.42 -p 3268 -b 'dc=abc,dc=com' -s sub '(! (objectclass=computer))' '(mail=*)' dn mail Is it possible to search on the

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

Hi, Sorry to jump in but... Problem is, this unit number is not constant and changing arbitrarily every time I reload the driver (card A unit number=0 card B un=1 or the other way around). Since I have been using FreeBSD, the NIC had always been given the same unit number (that is, unless I

Re: Cannot send to mailing lists - client host rejected: cannot find your hostname

I'm having a minor problem with posting to the list. I have my own mail server using postfix, fetchmail, and courier. I have several domain names, and I'm using one for my mail server. In my logs I'm seeing 450 errors for freebsd-questions since around the end of last year, but I did

Re: 2 networkcards in 1 system

Hi, and selected em1 and gave it its IP parameters (I used the same hostname macos.cmi.ua.ac.be, in the DNS servers here macos.cmi.ua.ac.be is assigned to two IP addresses) First I doubt that this will work. You can assign several names to a single IP address in DNS, but you

Re: DHCP and Bridge mode

Hi, I am trying to get two machines on the LAN share the same IP address assigned by DHCP server by using the bridge interface in rc.conf. But I have encountered two problems here. I am not sure I understand what you are trying to do, but in general: you cannot have two machine us ethe

Re: Foiling MITM attacks on source and ports trees

Hi, It shouldn't be so hard to give every citizen the option to get an online certificate corresponding with their passport and similarly for Chambers of Commerce to provide certificates for businesses. Only that would mean that 200 countries become Certificate Authorities and tens of

Re: bridge ipfw also protect set

Hi, I want to give internet connectivity to a pc behind my Freebsd, which is connected to an aDSL. I know I can add another card to my set and use bridge+IPFW so that the behind pc is firewalled. But will this setup also ensure that my Freebsd set is firewalled? Could now figure it out

Re: Unable to delete directory even after change of ownership.

e) as root, executed the following command. chown svn:repo_admin /home/my_repos f) verified that the file permissions for /home/my_repos is correctly set after the change in ownership. Here is the problem I encountered When I log in as svn, I am placed in the folder /home/svn.

Re: Unable to delete directory even after change of ownership.

Hi, the directory . had owner and group as svn and repo_admin respectively the directory .. had owner and group as root and wheel respectively. Try to cut and paste example, it gives more detailed information when we read the exact output of the command. Olivier

ipfw and bridged interface

Hi, I remember that I read, many years ago, something about the way ipfw interacts with the IP stack. AFAIR, ipfw would be called on layer 2, where only certain rules would be applied, then on the IP layer where other rules would apply. Is it still the case? Where can I find th description? Best

Re: Firewall with bridged interfaces and captive portal

Hi Chris, I need to implement a firewall with bridged interfaces that offers captive portal (authentication before opening the traffic). We are using a combination of squid+ipfw. Although we are NATing the users, that really just introduces needless complexity that could be avoided with

Re: mx1.freebsd.org

Hi, My postfix mail servers shows to messages in the queue saying (host mx1.FreeBSD.org[69.147.83.52] said: 450 4.7.1 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [86.58.167.132] (in reply to RCPT TO command)) But when i do a lookup or a reverse lookup, i find my hostname, also from

Firewall with bridged interfaces and captive portal

Hi, I need to implement a firewall with bridged interfaces that offers captive portal (authentication before opening the traffic). I need bridged intefaces because we are a Computer Science department and we sometime have traffic other than plain IP, need multicast, IPv6, etc, so bridged

Re: any way to turn a pdf file into something OCR-able?

1) Some PDFs are just wrappers around JPEG images. In this case there is no text for pdftotext to convert = epic fail. In this case convert from the ImageMagick port will get you a series of .jpg/.gif/.whatever. Read the manual carefully before attempting; also note this can be a

Re: Regular Expression Help

Hi, I still don't really understand *why* the above works but I'm trying to pick it apart now. Whenever I have a doubt about regular expression, I use the regexp coach. It works on Windows, but I find it a very intelligent and usefull tool. http://weitz.de/regex-coach/ Best regards, Olivier

Re: Running X without a videocard

I am running FBSD-stable 6.0 on some Sun Netra X1's so it is sparc64. There is no video card on these puppies. But I seem to recall that we ran solaris X using WinAXE or VNC or something like that X windows has client/server built into the protocol: you can run an X application on a machine

PEA kernel in FreeBSD 7.0

Hi, I am about to install few brand new servers, each with 8GB RAM. If I choose to use 7.0, will I have to use PEA kernel to be able to access the total memory? Best regards. Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Running X without a videocard

This complexity of DISPLAY ans xhost is why I find it far easier to use ssh to make connections where I want to run X-clients. There is this command that I tend to like, to be run in a trusted environment only (but using DISPLAY and xhost means that your network is already trusted): xrsh. It

Re: Running X without a videocard

DISPLAY variable must point to display like IP-number:0 (or non-zero if you have more than 1 display :) Shouldn't that be IP-number:0.0 ? Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: upgrading 5.4 - 7.0

We are running 5.4 on www/ircshell server now and we need to upgrade it. Is it ok (or is it possible) to upgrade straight to 7.0 or are there some known problems in this upgrade? Would it be better to do 5.4 - 6 - 7 instead? Like every upgrade, it will certainly work better if you go through

Re: no reverse dns

Hi, Oct 29 17:14:39 int kernel: arplookup ww.xx.yy.zz failed: host is not on local network We have an external router connected as a dhcp server at 192.168.0.2 which apparently has external address ww.xx.yy.zz. I am using a fixed ip address ie 192.168.0.6 I have this in my rc.conf

Disable CTRL-ALT-DEL

Hi, On FreeBSD 6.3 how to disable the CTRL-ALT-DEL from halting/rebooting the system? Best regards, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Converting RSA to PKSC#15

Hi, I would like to install my own certificates for several APC UPS. I already generated the key file and the csr, got the csr signed and get a crt. But APC wants a file in format PKSC#15 that is bundled containing the key and the crt (and the ca ?). Anyway, they (APC) provide the tool to

Re: Multiple NICs routing question

I've a server box with four NICs addressing different subnets: NIC1: one class c subnet of same class b network NIC2: another class c subnet of same class b network NIC3: local unrouted network NIC4: local unrouted network In the current configuration I use a default gateway (and no

Re: Script works fine from CLI, but not when Cron'd

I've got a script to backup my MySQL databases, which works absolutely fine from the command line, but when I add it in to root's cronjobs it always fails with mysqldump: not found - what am I doing wrong? Things started from cron inherit a different PATH. Either add the appropriate

Re: VNC server embedded into Xorg server

Hi, Sorry for jumping in the middle of the thread. There was a port called net/vnc that contained a vnc.so file. That file could be loaded into the Xorg server and then I was able to monitor the X desktop with VNC. Now I'm using gnome, and gnome2-fifth-toe installs tightvnc. It conflicts

Re: Securing system with kern.securelevel

Hi, Which would be the correct secure level ? 1, 2, or 3? Not sure, I usually use level 1 across the servers. Also, where i must put the kern.securelevel? $ grep secure /etc/rc.conf kern_securelevel=1 kern_securelevel_enable=YES Best regards, Olivier

Re: My unqualified host name

why not just diagnose and fix the root problem? because I have no clue how to do it, without adopting settings that I don't want! Google is your friend my friend (please allow me to call you my friend). If you look for My unqualified host name unknown; sleeping for retry you will get a lot

Re: NATD Reverse Proxy

I'm trying to build a server that will act as a gateway between my wireless network and the rest of the world. Here's an overview of the current setup: 1. FreeBSD 7.1 2. isc-dhcp3-server-3.0.5_2 3. natd configured to connect fxp0 (public network, dynamic IP) to fxp1 (private network,

Re: Moving to freebsd firewall for a small DataCenter network

I was wondering if there is a good if possible integrated firewall device running on FreeBSD. I think monowall is what you are looking for. Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Shared /usr in jails

Aesthetics and philosophy aside, are there any real security holes in just using the systems /usr everywhere if it is mounted read only in the jails? THis seems to be the approach used by solaris zones. Usually a jail /usr is almost empty. You would prefer to have the very strict minimum of

Re: Postfix, maildir's, and writing filters

Hi, 2. how does one copy email from one folder to another in maildirs? Is it possible? This is as simple as copying the file, that's the great beauty of maildir. Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: getting off mailing list

HP! under my mailing address [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am on a mailing list. HOW DO I GET OFF IT Read the bottom of the email, it says: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: 2 logical interfaces in same subnet, problems...

Dear Andy, it didnt specify if there could be more than one alias per interface I have a machine with over 300 IP on a single interface :) Bests, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: /etc/hosts not working

`ping google.com' actually pings 127.0.0.1 but `host google' returns the actual IP addresses for google. ping will resolve the name using the mecanism defined in /etc/nsswitch.conf, usually: hosts: files dns nis try first /etc/hosts, then DNS, then NIS But host(1) command is designed

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