Playing audio

2006-10-02 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I have an embeded system build on FreeBSD 4.11, I want to add sound facility, I have configured pcm and sbc and apparentlyit is working. In a C program, how can I play a sound file, what format should I use for that sound file? Best regards, Olivier

Re: how to block rj45 sockets.

2006-10-02 Thread Olivier Nicole
Do you recommend any good switch product and model number which has port enable.disable This is refeered to as manageable switch, or managed switch, or SNMP manageable. See with your prefered dealer according to your budget. Of course if the switches are in a closed rack, you can also simply

Re: When to use SUID Perl (5.8.x)?

2006-09-25 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Just wondering what do you need suid perl for? To run a Perl script that needs to get root privileges. it is a security risk having it? It is always a risk to have a powerfull tool installed when you don't need it. If a security bug is discovered in Perl, one could be able to become

FreeBSD sticker sheets

2006-09-19 Thread Nicole Nguyen
Hi there! My name is Nicole Nguyen and I'm the Membership Coordinator at EFF. We have been fans of your sticker sheet and are in the process of producing one of our own. I'd be happy to send some to your team once they're finished since you were our inspiration! I just wanted to check

Re: PART TIME JOB OFFER FOR YOU

2006-09-19 Thread Olivier Nicole
They send you a counterfeit money order/ cheque, you deposit it, your bank makes the funds available, you send the bad guy the the money, and If you are naive enough to send them money before you ever get it... Olivier ___

Re: mail to root

2006-09-19 Thread Olivier Nicole
running. I was informed that Postfix was not running. So the question, how does mail generated by the system get delivered to the root account? Local mail delivery can be specific: mail could be delivered even is no smtp server is running. This is highly dependant of your environment and of

Re: FreeBSD not popular in Asia?

2006-09-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
Check out http://www.bsdstats.org ... Republic of Korea is about to push the US out of first place, but there are *zero* FreeBSD boxes reporting from there ... DragonFly is first, then NetBSD and then OpenBSD ... 6 days later: Thailand jumped from 12 machines to 110... ahead of France and

Re: Slow install of Ruby 18 from ports

2006-09-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
Just out of curiosity I tried ruby port on two machines - fast one (1.6GHz Athlon with 1GB RAM) and small one (400MHz with 96MB RAM). Fast one has no problems with ruby, it builds and installs in few minutes. The slow one is another story, however. There is definitely something in teh

Re: Upgrading our mail server

2006-09-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
| Our mailhub is actually a HP DL360 with one processor (Xeon 2.8 ghz) | with 2 Gb RAM and 120 Gb disks, it is 3 years old. | It runs Postfix + imap + imaps + pop3 + pop3s + squirrelmail + vexira | antivirus + postgrey | and some small auxiliary services. Your server is good enough to

Poutupgrade unsafe

2006-09-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I know the mistake was on my side, I was not carefull enough when using portupgrade on a production machine but... Yesterday I froze our system for about one hour when I used portupgrade to upgrade Samba. It was a very minor upgrade (from 3.0.10 to 3.0.23c,1 I think), but it happens that in

Re: Slow install of Ruby 18 from ports

2006-09-13 Thread Olivier Nicole
Old FreeBSD on old hardware is a recipe for such problems. Hummm, I was looking at bsdstats... majority of registered hardware is pentium III. I like FreeBSD because of it's hability of running well on old hardware: why would I need a Xeon dual core to run a DNS server for 5 clients? Olivier

Re: Slow install of Ruby 18 from ports

2006-09-13 Thread Olivier Nicole
I don't know why. I'm running DNS server on old Celeron 400Mhz with 96MB RAM just fine. Why do you think you need Xeon dual core for that? Of course I don't, and won't. I was just replying to the guy that told me that I am using archaic hardware and that it makes building ruby slow. I do use

Slow install of Ruby 18 from ports

2006-09-12 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am upgrading a few servers. I have noticed that on pentium III, it takes a VERY long time to upgrade Ruby 1.8. It blocks at some stage saying: zlib.c: mcc...

Re: MailScanner

2006-08-23 Thread Olivier Nicole
Edit the MailScanner.conf file and set at least high scoring SPAM to bounce. Please DONT BOUNCE. There is never any usefull return address in SPAM, so bouncing will not get back to any spammer, but it will rather annoy some innocent person. It is totally useless to bounce for virus or spam,

Re: Spoofers, Spammers Other Bad Guys

2006-08-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
This might be a useful tool for doing this without blocking some of the good guys in that part of the world, like Oz and NZ. And as most of the spam is for products originating from the USA, you can also kill USA from your mail... Olivier ___

Re: local user authentification with ldap

2006-08-10 Thread Olivier Nicole
Jean, In case you read French, there are some introductory documents on http://articles.mongeurs.net/magazines/linuxmag65.html and following. There is also a very complete document from INT Evry (int-evry.fr), but I got it as file, I don't have the URL. I am working on the same thing rightnow,

Re: Finding IP Addresses (OT)

2006-08-10 Thread Olivier Nicole
Beno, I'm configuring my IP filter and I need to figure out what IP addresses I use (via SSH2) to contact my server. I'd advise you not to filter SSH by IP, that would be the best way to lock you out of your server. Even if you find all the IP used by your ISP, you cannot predict when the

Re: Filtering mail based on header contents

2006-08-09 Thread Olivier Nicole
I have a mail system on which I have recently implemented spamassassin with Pyzor, DCC and Razor. I am really happy with the tagging accuracy and am ready to start filtering mail. I know spamassassin can be configured to drop all mail with a score over a certain amount, but I am concerned about

Re: Doing Routing On My Production Server

2006-08-09 Thread Olivier Nicole
I'm updating my firewall and I've found a nifty how-to that recommends using a BSD box in front of another box as your firewall, using the first as a router and passing one NIC to the other box. Can't all that be done from the same box? I am not sure I know what you are doing. What do you

Re: Thin terminals for FreeBSD

2006-08-07 Thread Olivier Nicole
- Is there a more cost-effective solution? (Something that I did not think of) We used to build (well my colleague did that) X terminals based on a thin configuration of freeBSD (must have been version 2 at that time) that we ran on diskless computers booting from floppy. At that time we ran

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-03 Thread Olivier Nicole
pciconf -lv needs to be parsed, this being the hard step, into a string that can be sent via HTTP ... this is the hard part because it has to be done as/in a shell script ... anyone out there *really* good at shell programming? Why not doing the parsing on the server? Is there a limit on

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-02 Thread Olivier Nicole
You still can't avoid fakeries. Except that the fake will not bother coming back 3 times at one week interval, just to plant his faked data. Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: spamfilter

2006-08-01 Thread Olivier Nicole
1) spamd (part of SpamAssassin) is written in perl. This is fine for a workstation, not so much for a high-volume mail server. SpamAssassin itself is written in Perl... But it can be run on a remote server, it does not have to be on the machine running sendmail. 2) installing

Re: spamfilter

2006-08-01 Thread Olivier Nicole
I `ve got a spam problem and want to run a spamfilter. There is only a problem i don`t no witch spamfilter to choose. Can anyone give me a tip of a good and simple to run spamfilter??? I have been using spamassassin and am quite pleased with it. I think it's in the ports. Olivier

What process is using what UDP port

2006-08-01 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I have a FreeBSD machine sending UDP packets to one of my other machine. There is no apparent reason why it is sending those UDP packets. How can I trace the process doing so? TIA Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-01 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Just my 2 satangs. It's nice to try to get a overall figure, but something that could be easier to indentify and would have some importance too, is the VIP users. If we can say that Google is using FreeBSD for their search engine farm, even if there are only 2000 machines, it may have more

Creating vinum RAID 1 on place

2006-07-06 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Is there a trick on the way to build a vinum RAID 1 without backup-in the data first? I have the two disk that will get mirrored. One of the disk if formated as UFS 4.2 and already holds all the data. The second disk is blank. NormallyI should start with 2 blank disks, label them as vinum,

Re: DNS beginner question

2006-07-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
Michael, I am trying to set up a DNS service. I have 2 FreeBSD machines, one's web and DNS (that I am setting up) and the other FTP. Both machines are behind a router and get local addresses (i.e. 192.168). If DNS, FTP and web ports in the router are open, will I be able to set up the

Re: find syntax

2006-07-04 Thread Olivier Nicole
#find /dir/to/htmlfile -name *.html -exec perl -p -i -e s/nagual.st/nagual.nl/g; {} \; You should escape the * that you pass to find: -name \*.html Most probably. olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Slow server

2006-07-03 Thread Olivier Nicole
2) as there are many connections comming from search engines siders (90% of all the established connections), I'd like to limit the ressources that spiders are using. One way would be through IPFW, but are there better ways? Is there a way to limit/prioritize in Apache (not

Re: DNS discovery / FreeBSD Firewall

2006-07-02 Thread Olivier Nicole
The questions is; How do I have the internal network machines get the DNS server settings from the Firewall? The two scenarios I can think of are: that the Firewall also acts as a DHCP server and somehow set the DNS of the internal net machines to the Firewalls resolv.conf entries; or

Slow server

2006-06-30 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am trying to deal with a server that is getting slower and slower. Machine is based on a AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 244 with 4GB memory. It is running MySQL, and Apache 13 and serving about 400 web sites written in PHP. OK the design of PHP is certainly not the most efficient, but

Slow server

2006-06-30 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am trying to deal with a server that is getting slower and slower. Machine is based on a AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 244 with 4GB memory. It is running MySQL, and Apache 13 and serving about 400 web sites written in PHP. OK the design of PHP is certainly not the most efficient, but

Re: named: invalid rndc key

2006-06-27 Thread Olivier Nicole
$ rndc reload rndc: connection to remote host closed This may indicate that the remote server is using an older version of the command protocol, this host is not authorized to connect, or the key is invalid. Did you check that named was still listeing on port tcp 953? What does netstat

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2006-06-25 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hello, Any experience about running 2x CPU AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Windsor 5000+ with FreeBSD 6.1? I have to make decision on a new web/php/mysql server and any help will be appreciated. Best regards, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Backup sollutions

2006-06-23 Thread Olivier Nicole
I'm looking for a free (ports?) backup sollutions for FreeBSD servers. I would like to have something similare to IBM's Tivoli where you install a client on each server and administer the backup from another server with a web gui. I don't know about the GUI, but I have been using Amanda

Re: NFS Server and MS Windows

2006-06-20 Thread Olivier Nicole
Can I have the two? NFS and Samba? There is no reason you can't. I run NFS between Unix machines and Samba with MS world. But there could be strange results if on Xp machines connects to the same file using both NFS and Samba at same time. Olivier

Re: FreeBSD users of Thailand

2006-06-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
Khun Prasert, Good initiative, very good idea. Well I have more interest in the server use of FreeBSD and obviously I cannot read Thai, but if I can help... Best regards, Olivier Pathumthani ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD users of Thailand

2006-06-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
Khun Prasert, Good initiative, very good idea. Well I have more interest in the server use of FreeBSD and obviously I cannot read Thai, but if I can help... Bestoo regards, Olivier Pathumthani ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Breakin attempt in the log

2006-06-13 Thread Olivier Nicole
Jun 9 06:34:12 designaproduct sshd[58759]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for ev1s-67-15-10-78.ev1servers.net failed - POSSIBLE BREAKIN ATTEMPT! Is this something I need to fear of? The short reply: No, but that something that the ISP ev1servers.net should clear of if they don't want

Re: how does cron exec jobs?

2006-06-08 Thread Olivier Nicole
How can I simulate a cron job from the shell? There must be something different about the way cron is executing this command... Counld be different environment variables set, different working directory... Any diagnostic when it hangs? Olivier ___

Re: how does cron exec jobs?

2006-06-08 Thread Olivier Nicole
Counld be different environment variables set, different working directory... That's what I'm trying to find out. The cron man pages are ... empty on the subject. Remove every and any environment variable and try to run from / or from /root or from /tmp OK that's trial and error

Openoffice complete failure?

2006-06-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I just finished installing OpenOffice 2.0.3rc3 from the ports. 1) at starts it complains that: I18N: Operating system doesn't support locale en_US 2) it keeps on starting on the welcome window, with acceptation of the licence and so on. 3) When I try to create and save a simple

Re: Cannot delete stubborn files - New Hint

2006-06-04 Thread Olivier Nicole
I cannot get it to reveal the crosslink that is preventing the removal. I beleive you tried find -inum. Do you have any lost+found directory at the root top level of the filesystem? I haven't seen any mention of the version of the FreeBSD you are running, nor the type of file system you are

Re: newsyslog.conf wrong count of archive logs

2006-06-01 Thread Olivier Nicole
count Specify the maximum number of archive files which may exist. This does not consider the current log file. From what i see on a running system, count is the maximum number of the archive log: a count of 2 makes archives .0, .1 and .2 Olivier

Re: Odd sendmail behavior change

2006-06-01 Thread Olivier Nicole
Now all system mail seems to want to be forwarded thru some relay a t hus.parkingspa.com. I have no clue where this came from nor Try dig kt.weeble.com it is just an alias name for hus.parkingspa.com olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: system recovery

2006-05-31 Thread Olivier Nicole
or, can someone recommend how i might use that tarball of my entire system to quickly get a new system up and running (all this with the assumtion that i have not changed any hardware configurations). if someone has time to answer quickly, i would sure appreciate it. I think that the

Re: Biometric Fingertip Scan

2006-05-26 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi Carlos, Actually, can we use biometric fingertip scans on our systems to allow a root logon? I'm interested in that technology ;) If you know a fingerprint scanner that work with FreeBSD and if you add that to the system, why not :) But I don't have the equipment to try and play with

Re: Implementing IMAP advice for first timer

2006-05-23 Thread Olivier Nicole
Well I want to get IMAP running on my FreeBSD box and would like to have a safe, non service-interrupting strategy to implementing it. What do you mean non service-interrupting strategy? If you have already POP3 installed and running, there is good chance that installing IMAP will install

Re: Implementing IMAP advice for first timer

2006-05-23 Thread Olivier Nicole
Installing it from ports (/usr/ports/mail/courier-imap) is pretty straightforward, and most settings can be left at the default, at least True, except... Courrier-imap is using maildir mailboxes, so unless the existing system already uses maildir, there will be some disturbance at the

Re: MESS

2006-05-22 Thread Olivier Nicole
if i enter single user mode it dasen't seem to recognize many commands: starrtx, ee, pico, emacs etc so i cannot change my /etc/fstab in case this is the problem. At that stage, you should still be able to mount /usr (provided that you did notmove /usron your windows disk...) So mount

Re: email with a database

2006-05-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
is there an email solution that employs some kind of database that stores mail for long term? id rather not turn on leave a copy on the server as this has shown to give poorer and poorer performance over time for me. People normally take backups of their machines in order to protect

Building horde from ports

2006-05-17 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am trying to build horde (horde-3.1.1_1) from the ports. While I coul dbuild it without any problem in the past, now I get: This port requires the Apache Module or the CGI version of PHP, but you have already installed a PHP port without them. *** Error code 1 At the very begining of

Re: Linux distro with ports/package type system?

2006-05-15 Thread Olivier Nicole
Linux distro that has a ports like system. I heard that gentoo has a port like system. Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: Is it recommended to allow all outgoing connections from your firewall??

2006-05-10 Thread Olivier Nicole
I've seen most people allow all outgoing traffic originating from the firewall itself... Is this really recommended?? What if the machine have been A server being a server (and a firewall is nothing but a specific server) there is no reason one would run a client application from that machine.

Re: Copying a file system w/ tar - symbolic links not copied right.

2006-05-10 Thread Olivier Nicole
I'm trying to move a file system from one disk to another, and when I do this: I think that the way to go is: tar cf - /source/* | ( cd /destination tar xfvBp - ) Note the Bp at the end of the extract tar. olivier ___

Zope 2.8.6 does not work any more

2006-05-03 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I just upgraded from zope port 2.8.4 to 2.8.6. Since then I cannot access my zope sites anymore. After few seconds Zope28 will die and I get the error messages: [Wed May 3 13:21:27 2006] [error] [client 192.41.170.57] (61)Connection refused: FastCGI: failed to connect to server

Re: generating a FeeBSD system

2006-04-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
to download and where and how I can start a system generation WITHOUT a CD, just being under Window and having a free partition on my Hard disk. Hummm, unless you are using a virtual machine in Windows (like vmware) you will need to boot your machine in FreeBSD, not in Windows. So you will

Re: xhost does not work as expected

2006-04-27 Thread Olivier Nicole
Franck, I am at 6.0 with xorg and I cannot remotely use a GUI backup software ( netvault) because I am not able to use properly the xhost command. It is not clear what you can client and what you call server, are you talking about your backup software: the server is the machine with the tape

Re: xhost does not work as expected

2006-04-27 Thread Olivier Nicole
- can you run xterm on the netvault machine (m1) and display the window on the machine with 6.0 xorg (m2)? no I cannot What is the error message? Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: xhost does not work as expected

2006-04-27 Thread Olivier Nicole
xterm Xt error: Can't open display: lisa:0.0 - what does ping lisa says? - do you have any kind of firewall running on lisa? - Do you have X server running on lisa? - try setenv DISPLAY IPadress_of_lisa:0.0 Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBsd

2006-04-25 Thread Olivier Nicole
Try http://www.de.freebsd.org/de/mailinglists.html for FreeBSD German http://liste.gufi.org/ for FreeBSD Italian I see no mailing list in Romanian Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Simluating a satellite connection using dummynet?

2006-04-24 Thread Olivier Nicole
I've been reading up on it and best I can tell I'm looking at 1000ms round trips... at *best*. Most of what I do I can do on servers at home, but there will be the occasional ssh, etc. Supposedly, the round trip should be only 500 ms: the time for the signal to go from earth to the

How to read a damaged tape

2006-04-06 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I have a SLR 100 tape drive (SCSI interface) and a tape cartridge with 4 files. The first file is damaged so I cannot mt fsf over that file to read the others. Is there a secret way to to advance the tape by a certain number of meters, or by a certain number of seconds or something. I know

Re: How to recover /usr and /home directory

2006-04-02 Thread Olivier Nicole
I have a previous 40GB HDD which crashed during power outage and now no longer repairable. Before I installed a new HDD, I can still see the contents of that defective hard disk when booting from a single user mode. Now, I set it up as slave and installed a new FreeBSD on the new master HDD.

Re: ipfw secure setup for ssh bruteforcers

2006-03-30 Thread Olivier Nicole
admin said that doing this can be bad, especially when the kiddy is connected to a large network like a company or university; I may block other people who aren't guilty of the act. (which makes sense) I know I have no problem with blocking one IP from a larger network, nor even blocking the

Re: freebsd log files

2006-03-30 Thread Olivier Nicole
What log file stors things like system shutdown notices and that, I want to It may depend on your setting, in my /var/log/messages I see things like: Mar 23 11:07:00 machine reboot: rebooted by root Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: getop.h conflict when building audio/akode

2006-03-30 Thread Olivier Nicole
Deinstall the libgnugetopt port - it's only needed on FreeBSD releases earl= ier=20 than 5.x and causes buildtime errors on later versions (as you found out). Thanks. After I managed to rebuild audio/akode, it seems that it was not depending on libgnugetopt anymore. I cannot get rid of

getop.h conflict when building audio/akode

2006-03-29 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I try to portinstall audio/akode (needed by kde) and I get the following error: labtoproot52: /usr/local/sbin/portinstall audio/akode [...] then mv -f .deps/akodeplay.Tpo .deps/akodeplay.Po; else rm -f .deps/akodeplay.Tpo; exit 1; fi In file included from akodeplay.cpp:29:

Re: Oops: Deleted /var/named

2006-03-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
devfs rule: ioctl DEVFSIO_RAPPLY: Inappropriate ioctl for device devfs rule: ioctl DEVFSIO_RAPPLY: Inappropriate ioctl for device devfs rule: ioctl DEVFSIO_RAPPLY: Inappropriate ioctl for device I can only assume that it has something to do with the files in /var/named/dev/ that I

Re: Need some tips in reorganizing our LAN.

2006-03-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
Jay, If you have any Network Transition plan that you may want to share to me, please do so. Even if we don't have that much similarities in our network setup, at least the non technical part like planning etc... It really depends of the goals you want to reach, the services you plan to

Re: How do you keep users from stealing other user's ip??

2006-03-24 Thread Olivier Nicole
1. Users when they want to plug a machine to the network... let's 1. say their own testbeds, they will choose whatever ip they want 1. possibly stealing used ip's. Use DHCP, then users do not have to choose an IP, it is given to them. Plus it gives them all parameterstheyneed to configure

Re: hosts.allow ?

2006-03-19 Thread Olivier Nicole
I'm not sure this is correct. If you read sshd(8), you'll see in the FILES section that sshd will read /etc/hosts.allow and /etc/hosts.deny on its own (i.e. it's compiled/linked with libwrap). Looking at /usr/src/crypto/openssh/Makefile.in for the sshd target verifies this. That and sshd

Re: Open Source and 3rd world countries

2006-03-09 Thread Olivier Nicole
I'm writing this thesis on the benefits of integrating open source software into third world countries to boost their economies and the knowledge of their people. Certainly not the answer you are expecting, but I am afraid it is the reality, developping countries do not really care about open

Re: Open Source and 3rd world countries

2006-03-09 Thread Olivier Nicole
Sorry Nicole, but here in Brazil our government does not use pirated software, and yes, they're changing to Open Source. That only means Brazil is not much a 3rd world country anymore... guess this may be coming to an end, or not expanding, since the new cheap computer for the poor people

What process is LOISTENingon a given port

2006-03-08 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, In 5.4, who to know what process is LISTENing on a given TCP or UDP port? Bestregards, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

How to keep the options with potupgrade

2006-03-08 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I usually build my Apache server with the option WITH_APACHE_SUEXEC=yes defined. How/where/what to configure to make sure that a portupgrade -R apache13-modssl will use the same option when rebuilding? Best regards, Olivier ___

Authentication with auto replication

2006-03-07 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I have a system that needs user authentication. Right now I am using NIS to share the users password between all the machines that need it: one machine is the primary server, others clients are also running a secondary server: so would a machine get isolated, it could still do authentication

Kernel dump then what

2006-03-06 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Now I managed to get a kernel dump. I even got two of them, with different panic, both page fault, one on read, one on write. The machine had been runing fine for a year when it started to panic on heavly load. I updated the kernel but not to avail. I tried all the hardware monitoring in

How to know that make buildworld finished

2006-03-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, For testing purposes, I am trying to build a quite old (read slow) machine. It happens that every time I start a buildworld, I will have to leave before the end. And next morning the shell I was using to run the buildworld will have terminated for some reason. So I cannot see if the make did

Re: How to know that make buildworld finished

2006-03-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
Is there a way to check that make buildworld did finished successfully? Use a Short-Circuit List Operator: '' make buildworld mail -s Buildworld successful! [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Thanks, I should have thought about that myself :(( Olivier

Re: How to do a kernel dump?

2006-03-02 Thread Olivier Nicole
This isn't guaranteed 100% correct, but at least if it's not, maybe it'll get someone else involved. Below my dumpdev in rc.conf I have savecore_flags=-z to compress the core dump kernel with gzip. Also, read man savecore again, esp the part about minfree in /var/crash free kilobytes for

How to do a kernel dump?

2006-03-01 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I'd like to get a kernel dump when the machine panics. I set-up dumpdev=/dev/rda0s1b in /etc/rc.conf. My swap is: amandaon41: swapinfo Device 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Type /dev/rda0s1b 10484480 1048448 0%Interleaved My memory is only 256 MB, so

Re: Choosing cpu type when building kernel (stupid one i know)

2006-02-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
the rest is what i don't understand. 486 isn't mentioned in the NOTES file, 586 is just pentium, and 686 is pentium pro. I have a P4 1.4 gig intel chip in my system, what should these settings be? if i remove 486 You could use only 686. GENERIC kernel is generic, it is meant to support

Mysterious reboot, suspecting hardware issue

2006-02-27 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Running an Amanda server on a dual P III, with 256 MB ram and dual Symbios SCSI adapter. Part of the hard disk are mounted in RAID with vinum on the first SCSI adapter. The Tandberg tape drive is on the second SCSI adapter. FreeBSD is: FreeBSD amanda.cs.ait.ac.th 4.11-RELEASE-p14 FreeBSD

Re: French accents test

2006-02-26 Thread Olivier Nicole
This is a test to see: áéíóú. Vu d'ici ca marche. Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: proxy

2006-02-23 Thread Olivier Nicole
I need to monitor traffic from my network to the internet, I then need to charge each user (preferably username and password authentication) for the amount of data used. I think monowall can do that, it is build on freebsd. Olivier ___

Re: Trouble with apache ports (finding it hard to enable particular modules)

2006-02-23 Thread Olivier Nicole
php4-extension-enabled php php-enabled apache ssl-enabled apache If I am not wrong, install apache13-modssl php4 php4-extension And that does the trick. Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Problem building perl-5.8.8

2006-02-22 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I updated the ports, now it is perl 5.8.8 and still the same `sh cflags optimize='-O -pipe' toke.o` -fpic toke.c CCCMD = gcc -DPERL_CORE -c -DAPPLLIB_EXP=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/BSDPAN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include -O -pipe

Re: Problem building perl-5.8.8

2006-02-22 Thread Olivier Nicole
I updated the ports, now it is perl 5.8.8 and still the same `sh cflags optimize='-O -pipe' toke.o` -fpic toke.c CCCMD = gcc -DPERL_CORE -c -DAPPLLIB_EXP=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/BSDPAN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include -O

Re: Problem building perl-5.8.8

2006-02-22 Thread Olivier Nicole
`sh cflags optimize='-O -pipe' toke.o` -fpic toke.c CCCMD = gcc -DPERL_CORE -c -DAPPLLIB_EXP=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/BSDPAN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include -O -pipe -Wall toke.c: In function `S_scan_formline': toke.c:10596:

Problem building perl-5.8.7_2

2006-02-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, When I tryto build perl-5.8.7_2 I got: `sh cflags optimize='-O -pipe' toke.o` -fpic toke.c CCCMD = gcc -DPERL_CORE -c -DAPPLLIB_EXP=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/BSDPAN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -O -pipe -Wall toke.c: In function `S_scan_formline':

Re: Problem building perl-5.8.7_2

2006-02-21 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, When I tryto build perl-5.8.7_2 I got: `sh cflags optimize='-O -pipe' toke.o` -fpic toke.c CCCMD = gcc -DPERL_CORE -c -DAPPLLIB_EXP=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/BSDPAN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -O -pipe -Wall toke.c: In function `S_scan_formline':

Re: Anyone interpret this ?

2006-02-17 Thread Olivier Nicole
+Limiting closed port RST response from 216 to 200 packets/sec By analogy with the rate limiting on icmp echo (ping) I'd say that someone try to access to a closed service 216 times per second and that the reset (RST) response is limited to 200. Olivier

Re: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-16 Thread Olivier Nicole
I've also been observing my system...even when mail load from these mini-attacks is heaviest, maybe 800 messages a second, the system load barly goes over idle. There appeas to have been two such attacks. It's a 2.8 ghz machine with 3 gigs of RAM, it should be well able to handle that load

Re: Log analysis server suggestions?

2006-02-16 Thread Olivier Nicole
As for searching / analysis, I've seen php-syslog-ng ( http://www.vermeer.org/projects/php-syslog-ng ), which looks very basic, and phpLogCon ( http://www.phplogcon.com/ ), which does not support PG anyway. Is there anything better GUI-wise? As for the log analysis, I remember attending a

Re: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-15 Thread Olivier Nicole
/var/log/messages just shows a user connectig via pop, and then the next line is the machine booting. Does the reboot correspond to the rainstorm? Do you have UPS? If time matches and no UPS I'd highly suspect a micro power faillure, that other machines could over go, but that this specific

Re: Mail back-up system

2006-02-09 Thread Olivier Nicole
I read the article and the idea is good. But i would like to know what MTA are you using..In the paper you said that at first the email is strored in Mailbox format. Isn`t that a bottleneck. WHat are the loads of the machines= Considering we have only 200 users and 3000 messages per day,

Re: Mail back-up system

2006-02-09 Thread Olivier Nicole
Mailbox format might not be a bottleneck in this application. It's fairly efficient at appending new messages, and that is the only common operation being performed on these backup mail spools. The application is using maildir (that's the normal email server that is using mailbox). Maildir

Re: Mail back-up system

2006-02-09 Thread Olivier Nicole
I just have a second disk on the server that I rsync everything to on an hourly basis. That would not solve the oops I deleted that VERY IMPORTANT email, where I can get it back? question. My goal is not high availability, but offering the user a way to undelete emails. I use Matt Simerson's

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