Re: eclipse install

2009-08-06 Thread Roger Olofsson
Coert Waagmeester skrev: Hello all, What is the best way to install eclipse on FreeBSD 7.2? On Linux I installed java, and downloaded the newest eclipse. Regards, Coert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: ipnat port-range

2009-05-17 Thread Roger Olofsson
alexus skrev: 2009/5/16 Roger Olofsson 240olofs...@telia.com: Odhiambo ワシントン skrev: On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:09 PM, alexus ale...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:58 PM, alexus ale...@gmail.com wrote: i need to redirect bunch of ports, or port-range from outside to my jail

Re: ipnat port-range

2009-05-16 Thread Roger Olofsson
Odhiambo ワシントン skrev: On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 9:09 PM, alexus ale...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:58 PM, alexus ale...@gmail.com wrote: i need to redirect bunch of ports, or port-range from outside to my jail # /etc/rc.d/ipnat reload /etc/rc.d/ipnat: DEBUG: checkyesno:

Tips Trix: Eclipse on 7.1 STABLE and swt-gtk issue

2009-05-09 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear mailing list, I don't know if anyone has noticed or if it's my machine having stale ports but it seems that to make eclipse 3.4.1 working on FreeBSD 7.1 STABLE with diablo-jdk-1.6.0.07.02_4 you need to do the following: Do _not_ make clean until you have made: cp

Re: problem redirecting with ipnat

2009-04-02 Thread Roger Olofsson
David Banning skrev: I am attempting to route local and external traffic to a second machine on port 85 to apache. The redirection works for external traffic coming in but I cannot seem to redirect local traffic to the secondary machine. Here are my ipnat rules; rdr fxp0 0/0 port 85 -

Re: analyzing httpd-error.log

2009-03-31 Thread Roger Olofsson
Charles Howse skrev: On Mar 28, 2009, at 11:51 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote: 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

Re: Newsyslog mode on /var/log/security?

2009-03-30 Thread Roger Olofsson
Garance A Drosehn skrev: At 10:48 PM +0200 3/29/09, Roger Olofsson wrote: Dear mailing list, I seem to have forgotten something about /var/log/security and newsyslog.conf. I get wrong mode after the trim. Excerpt from /etc/newsyslog.conf: /var/log/security 644 7

Re: [OT] - Best Practices(TM) for Configuration File Changes

2009-03-29 Thread Roger Olofsson
Glen Barber skrev: Hello, list. Before I pose my question, I am not intending to start a flame-war of any sort -- I'm just searching for different ways of doing things. With so many different version control systems available (aside from the traditional keep current backups solution), I am

Newsyslog mode on /var/log/security?

2009-03-29 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear mailing list, I seem to have forgotten something about /var/log/security and newsyslog.conf. I get wrong mode after the trim. Excerpt from /etc/newsyslog.conf: /var/log/security 644 7 5000 * JC Output from newsyslog -vn: chmod 600 /var/log/security.0.bz2

Unlimited storage?

2009-03-14 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear Mailing List, What would this look like for FreeBSD? --- Many servers with local HDs One (1) storage for all servers using local HDs on all servers (RAID) File system that allows growth (also negative growth) --- What components and software would be required? /R

Re: freebsd 7.1 and high avalalibity

2009-02-12 Thread Roger Olofsson
gahn skrev: Hi all: What kind of options do I have for HA software in terms of Freebsd 7.1? I have two servers that need to work in symphony so that in case one down then we have another replica to work with. Thanks in advance ___

Re: having trouble with OpenOffice

2009-02-07 Thread Roger Olofsson
af300...@gmail.com skrev: Hi, Tonight I finally took the bull by the horns and got OpenOffice installed. However, I'm not having a problem that I haven't found an answer to yet but seems to be related to the X server (from searches on the net). So, I do this: [a...@sniper

Re: xdm doesn't run as daemon

2009-02-06 Thread Roger Olofsson
Anton Shterenlikht skrev: After upgrades of 23-24 Jan 2009 xdm is not working: # xdm # ps ax|grep xdm 75632 p1 S+ 0:00.01 grep xdm # cat /var/log/xdm.log # So no xdm daemon. My system: FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE alpha, xdm-1.1.8_1. Any ideas?

Re: Keeping FreeBSD updated (the binary way)

2009-01-23 Thread Roger Olofsson
Svein Halvor Halvorsen skrev: Hi, list! I have just acquired a new computer to replace an old server. This older server has been running FreeBSD 5.3 since 2004 and most of its packages are way out of date. I've been scared of changing something in fear of rendering the machine unbootable,

Re: looking for a fail over system

2009-01-22 Thread Roger Olofsson
Buck Jones skrev: MY web server just died and It's taking some time to get back up . I want to find a fail over device so when one computer dies another automatically takes over. of course letting me know this happened would be a good thing too.

Re: Memory Usage

2009-01-03 Thread Roger Olofsson
Grant Peel skrev: Hi all, Does anyone have scripts they may be willing to share the parses any FreeBSD utility (top, w, etc) suitable for using the output to use mrtg to show memory and disk usage? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Nice web interface or music?

2009-01-01 Thread Roger Olofsson
stan skrev: I's like to set up my MP3's so that I can access them from the web server on my Free-BSD 7.1 machine. Is there a port, that provides a nice interface to this? I'd like something better than just letting Apache display the directories. Sugestins?

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-27 Thread Roger Olofsson
Corey Chandler skrev: Roger Olofsson wrote: Corey Chandler skrev: Nerius Landys wrote: Thank you all for your suggestions. This will be a project for me over the holidays. I decided to go the standalone wireless router approach. Good man! I will need to figure out how to configure

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-23 Thread Roger Olofsson
Nerius Landys skrev: Thank you all for your suggestions. This will be a project for me over the holidays. I decided to go the standalone wireless router approach. I will need to figure out how to configure my standalone wireless router to pass everything through to the internal LAN that I

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-23 Thread Roger Olofsson
Corey Chandler skrev: Nerius Landys wrote: Thank you all for your suggestions. This will be a project for me over the holidays. I decided to go the standalone wireless router approach. Good man! I will need to figure out how to configure my standalone wireless router to pass everything

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-22 Thread Roger Olofsson
Nerius Landys skrev: I have a PC with FreeBSD set up as a router (NAT). The PC has several network cards and I'm grouping the internal-facing network cards as a bridge (promiscuous mode for the interfaces). Everything works well. Now I'd like to extend my wired network to include wireless.

Re: general question about setting up gateway

2008-12-20 Thread Roger Olofsson
Richard Yang skrev: hi, i am trying to use freebsd as my home network gateway to the internet. any good reference i should know besides what's in the handbook? thanks rich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-19 Thread Roger Olofsson
Gary Hartl skrev: Help, I'm in southern Ontario and I have 20cm of snow on my freebsd 7-release server. IT seems to be causeing some http outages. My FBSD 6-.0 doesn't seem to be affected thou. Any suggestions, Cheers, Gary ___

Re: Canonical way for DHCP-IP-/etc/hosts

2008-12-16 Thread Roger Olofsson
Greg Larkin skrev: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roger Olofsson wrote: Jeff Laine skrev: On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 02:00:12PM +0100, Roger Olofsson wrote: Dear mailing list, I am sorry if this question has been asked over and over again - however the htdig search interface

Re: Canonical way for DHCP-IP-/etc/hosts

2008-12-14 Thread Roger Olofsson
Roger Olofsson skrev: Dear mailing list, I am sorry if this question has been asked over and over again - however the htdig search interface for the lists is somewhat shaky and gives referrer errors for me. Pre-conditions. Dualhomed firewalled FreeBSD7.1. One nic is LAN and the other

Canonical way for DHCP-IP-/etc/hosts

2008-12-14 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear mailing list, I am sorry if this question has been asked over and over again - however the htdig search interface for the lists is somewhat shaky and gives referrer errors for me. Pre-conditions. Dualhomed firewalled FreeBSD7.1. One nic is LAN and the other dynamical IP from ISP.

Re: Canonical way for DHCP-IP-/etc/hosts

2008-12-14 Thread Roger Olofsson
Jeff Laine skrev: On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 02:00:12PM +0100, Roger Olofsson wrote: Dear mailing list, I am sorry if this question has been asked over and over again - however the htdig search interface for the lists is somewhat shaky and gives referrer errors for me. Pre-conditions

Re: Quite Stumped here, need suggestions

2008-12-14 Thread Roger Olofsson
Robert Richards skrev: Hi All: I am running: FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p5 #3: Sun Oct 5 15:31:05 EDT 2008 On a Sager 8800 Laptop. I have had FreeBSD installed for about a year, and all is working perfectly. I can bring up KDE, run many apps, all without a problem, except for ONE recent

mount_nfs from fstab with -L option?

2008-12-03 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear mailing list, What would be the correct way to do the following: mount_nfs -L server:/path mnt when using the /etc/fstab file? Greetings from Sweden /Roger ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: mount_nfs from fstab with -L option?

2008-12-03 Thread Roger Olofsson
Steve Polyack skrev: Roger Olofsson wrote: Dear mailing list, What would be the correct way to do the following: mount_nfs -L server:/path mnt when using the /etc/fstab file? Greetings from Sweden /Roger Any options passed to mount(8)may be added (comma separated) to the Options

please confirm - possible bug in isc-dhcpd?

2008-12-01 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear mailing list, 7.1-PRERELEASE isc-dhcp30-server-3.0.7_3 When configuring failover and using FQDN instead of ip address, isc-dhcpd says failover peer can't find address. It does however start and will not, of course, work properly. The behaviour is that the very first client might get

Re: CUPS: cannot see printer from various program

2008-11-28 Thread Roger Olofsson
Laszlo Nagy skrev: The printer is Epson Stylus Photo R265. I'm using gutenprint 5 and CUPS. The test page prints well from CUPS. I can also print images and web pages from firefox, because the CUPS/R265 printer can be selected in the print dialog of firefox. However, when I open an image

Re: XMing and FreeBSD

2008-11-28 Thread Roger Olofsson
Pieter Donche skrev: I have - in the same subnet - a WinXP PC and a multi-boot PC with a) OpenSuse10.3, b) FreeBSD-7.0 (and c) WinXP) I installed the free X-Windows server Xming on the WinXP PC, and I can connect to the other PC when it is booted in OpenSUSE 10.3: Xming is configured for

Re: what is your programming language on freebsd?

2008-11-07 Thread Roger Olofsson
Wojciech Puchar skrev: may be asking in the wrong mailing list, but my impression is that mono on FreeBSD is generally not a popular idea. To pose my questions to the developers in the FreeBSD community: 1. What programming language(s) do you deploy on FreeBSD? whatever i need. i personally

Re: CUPS wont print inside GNOME

2008-10-31 Thread Roger Olofsson
Sean Cavanaugh skrev: I have the latest GNOME installed from ports and have the odd issue of CUPS not wanting to work with it right. If i access the CUPS web configuration page, i can print test pages just fine and not a single issue, but if i try and print a test page from inside GNOME,

Re: CUPS wont print inside GNOME

2008-10-31 Thread Roger Olofsson
Sean Cavanaugh skrev: Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:58:06 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CUPS wont print inside GNOME Sean Cavanaugh skrev: I have the latest GNOME installed from ports and have the odd issue of CUPS not

Re: gconcat question

2008-10-19 Thread Roger Olofsson
-Ursprungligt Meddelande- From: John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19/10/2008 3:39:00 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: gconcat question On Saturday 18 October 2008, Roger Olofsson wrote: What are the steps to bring back gconcatenated disks

Re: gconcat question SOLVED

2008-10-19 Thread Roger Olofsson
-Ursprungligt Meddelande- From: John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19/10/2008 5:52:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gconcat question On Sunday 19 October 2008, Roger Olofsson wrote: -Ursprungligt Meddelande- From: John Nielsen

gconcat question

2008-10-18 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear mailing list, What are the steps to bring back gconcatenated disks if doing an upgrade from FreeBSD6 to FreeBSD7 like this? As-is situation: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE ad0 has FreeBSD ad1, ad2 and ad3 are gconcatenated using 'gconcat label -v data /dev/ad1 /dev/ad2 /dev/ad3'. Planned upgrade:

Re: Video streaming with freeBSD

2008-08-11 Thread Roger Olofsson
Sam Fourman Jr. skrev: If the main purpose of your box is to be a PVR, I suggest going with a Linux distribution and using MythTV (http://www.mythtv.org). While I am a fan of FreeBSD as a web/mail/etc. server, it did not meet my needs when attempting to build a PVR. I found the Gentoo Linux

Re: High Availability FreeBSD www cluster

2008-08-06 Thread Roger Olofsson
Michael Christie skrev: Hi all , I want to cluster some freeBSD servers, The purpose of this is to learn. I would like to run some basic services like www and mail on a test network. I would like to set up the servers so if one server falls over the other will take over the services

Re: freebsd and fluxbox locales

2008-07-31 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Kenneth, I think you need to run xorgconfig and set the appropriate keyboard when creating xorg.conf. For fluxbox there is however a file called keys in the .fluxbox directory if there is any special character you would want mapped (For FreeBSD you set it with sysinstall but that is

Re: Locate command

2008-07-10 Thread Roger Olofsson
Rem P Roberti skrev: Whenever I do a locate command on a new installation I get this message: locate: database too small: /var/db/locate.database Can someone give me a heads up on how to fix this? Thanks, Rem ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Load balance for POP3

2008-06-27 Thread Roger Olofsson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Hi All, I need to switch the users connections between two POP3 servers based on login information. Since the login is part of the pop3 handshake, I'm stuck on how to transfer the connection and pass the info already sent. I'm trying to script something

Off topic: Online article DIY - kernel module

2008-06-19 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear newsgroup, I accidentally stumbled over an article that allegedly describes how to make your own kernel module for FreeBSD7 and felt an urge to share this. The article can be found and downloaded at www.freesoftwaremagazine.com. /Roger ___

Re: Off topic: Online article DIY - kernel module

2008-06-19 Thread Roger Olofsson
Zbigniew Szalbot skrev: Hi there, Roger Olofsson: Dear newsgroup, I accidentally stumbled over an article that allegedly describes how to make your own kernel module for FreeBSD7 and felt an urge to share this. The article talks about ULE scheduler. Would you recommend using

Re: How to fix this error?

2008-05-24 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Moshiur, 1. Fetch the file php-5.2.6.tar.bz2 from (for instance) http://karakurty.odessa.ua/ftp/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/ 2. Put the file in /usr/ports/distfiles 3. Run the portmanager command again. Good luck! /Roger Moshiur Rahman Khan skrev: Dear all, I need to update some

Re: simple network traffic query tool

2008-04-25 Thread Roger Olofsson
Tobias Kirschstein skrev: hi, i'm looking for a small tool to query the current network traffic (kb IN and OUT) per interface. is there any sysctl or tool which gives me a similar output to systat -ifstat: /0 /1 /2 /3 /4 /5 /6 /7 /8 /9 /10 Load

Re: Quick+easy port redirect

2008-03-29 Thread Roger Olofsson
Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET skrev: Hi, Is there a quick/easy (cookbook?) way to do port redirects. Basically I want that anything that leaves a specific interface to any ip on port 80 go to 192.168.0.1 port 87. I'm using ipfw for some other things so it has to work and play well

Re: my brother is making me learn FreeBSD...

2008-03-20 Thread Roger Olofsson
Donald Laniohan skrev: My task is to build a BSD server and do something with it. That is all the information he gave me, that, and any questions I have to make Google my best friend, which I have. i remember building my first whitebox, it was a 386 with windows 3.1. I remember when I built my

Re: faster booting

2008-03-05 Thread Roger Olofsson
Martin McCormick skrev: I second the statement about BIOS checks taking a long time. After working with many FreeBSD boxes, mostly Dells and a few IBM servers, they can take forever (2 to 3 minutes) which seems like forever when one is trying to get back on line quickly. If one

Re: rsync

2008-03-01 Thread Roger Olofsson
Gary Kline skrev: On Friday 29 February 2008 19:25:50 Girish Venkatachalam wrote: On 18:18:06 Feb 29, Gary Kline wrote: Is there a flag I can set to use with rsync to backup every file of /usr/home/* [here on my FBSD desktop] to my Ubuntu desktop that has only /home/*?? Of course, I could

Re: Mirroring / Cloning FreeBSD System

2008-02-28 Thread Roger Olofsson
FreeBSD-Utah skrev: I have a question on how to mirror a FreeBSD installation / system. This environment will have two identical / separate systems referred to as “System A” and “System B” - I want to install FreeBSD on to “System A” - Once that installation is complete with

Re: Setting Variables in expect Scripts From Shell Output

2008-02-25 Thread Roger Olofsson
Martin McCormick skrev: While running an expect script, is it possible to set an expect script variable to the string kept in a shell variable? I can generate the shell variable just fine but when I try to export it to the expect script for later use with something like: set

Re: remote x session

2007-12-26 Thread Roger Olofsson
Jonathan Horne skrev: i have been wanting to set up the ability to open an entirely new x session to another box, in a window of my currently running session. xnest is one way of doing this, but i was wondering if there are any others (perhaps, a little easier to configure and get going) ?

Re: Difficulties establishing VPN tunnel with IPNAT

2007-11-25 Thread Roger Olofsson
, at 9:09 AM, Roger Olofsson wrote: Hello again Jerahmy, I would suggest that you verify what port(s) and protocol(s) 'Sonic Wall Global VPN Client' needs to work. I would also suggest that you look in the logfile from ipf to see what it's blocking and when. My guess is that the VPN client

Re: Difficulties establishing VPN tunnel with IPNAT

2007-11-25 Thread Roger Olofsson
Jerahmy Pocott skrev: On 26/11/2007, at 1:00 AM, Roger Olofsson wrote: Hello Jerahmy, (sorry for top-posting, btw). Gre is protocol 47. In your firewall rules you only allow/block protocols tcp/udp/icmp. If you want to use PPTP you will need to allow both the port and the protocol

Re: Difficulties establishing VPN tunnel with IPNAT

2007-11-25 Thread Roger Olofsson
Jerahmy Pocott skrev: On 26/11/2007, at 4:47 AM, Roger Olofsson wrote: Hello Jerahmy, Some progress it seems? Why not set it to allow gre from VPN server only? Ie pass in quick on fxp1 proto gre from vpn server ip to any? The way you ask your question, 'make it work without static ip

Re: Difficulties establishing VPN tunnel with IPNAT

2007-11-24 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Jerahmy, Assuming you want to connect from the outside to your VPN. Have you made sure that port 2401 is open for inbound traffic in your ipf.rules? You might also want to do 'ipnat -C -f path to ipnat.rules'. Man ipnat ;^) Greeting from Sweden /Roger Jerahmy Pocott skrev: Hello,

Re: Difficulties establishing VPN tunnel with IPNAT

2007-11-24 Thread Roger Olofsson
port = 2401 # Logged Blocking Rules # # Block nmap OS fingerprint attempts block in log first quick on fxp1 proto tcp from any to any flags FUP # Block all other in coming traffic block in log first quick on fxp1 all Thanks for the help! J. On 25/11/2007, at 12:50 AM, Roger Olofsson wrote

Re: system admin question...

2007-10-12 Thread Roger Olofsson
Gary Kline skrev: This is for the system admins out there; I brought up this question last weekend, (re xsysstats, an *old* app), but got no answers, so again: What are the best tools, graphical or otherwise, that I can use on a dedicated Gnome [or CWTM, KDE, Whatever]

FreeBSD and ImageMagick crashes OS?

2007-08-24 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear mailing list, The other day I encountered a strange phenomena. Having run FreeBSD since 3.x I have never had a server crash on me until now. I completely blame the FreeBSD developers for spoiling me like that. Now, when I get spoiled, it's hard to go back so when my webserver tried to

Re: Gnome FreeBSD

2007-08-22 Thread Roger Olofsson
Michael S skrev: Good day all, I decided to add GUI to my GUI-less FreeBSD machine. I am considering installing Gnome, which I haven't used for long while and the last time was on Linux anyway. The reason is that most of my favorite applications use gtk libraries, like Firefox, GAIM (can't get

Re: LAN failover redundandcy?

2007-08-03 Thread Roger Olofsson
Ewald Jenisch skrev: Hi, I'm looking for a way to configure failover redundancy for one of my servers. To be specific: The server in question has one IP-address but two LAN interfaces each of them connecting to a different switch. Traffic normally runs only through one of the two

Cleartype-similar?

2007-08-01 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear Mailing List, Is there something similar to cleartype for FreeBSD? Grateful for any replies! Greetings /Roger ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Drive concatenation...Which tool to use?

2007-07-26 Thread Roger Olofsson
John Nielsen skrev: On Wednesday 25 July 2007, Josh Tolbert wrote: I've got a friend that wants to use a FreeBSD box for a file server. He has a huge pile of drives of different sizes, but he wants them all as one big file system. What's the appropriate tool for this? gstripe doesn't seem

Re: Remote Desktop tool for FreeBSD

2007-07-19 Thread Roger Olofsson
Roger Olofsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Steve Franks skrev: I just had this problem this week - drives are fine until you access one and then disappears. Checked my bios monitor page and 12V was only 11.8V. Changing from a 300W to a 500W power supply magically fixed the problem... I don't

Re: IBM HDs vanish on warm-boot?

2007-07-17 Thread Roger Olofsson
Norberto Meijome skrev: On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:54:19 +0200 Roger Olofsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The first thought that came to mind was that one of the IBMs are going bad, but, I find it very unlikely that both HDs are doing it. One is a 120 and one is an 80gigger but both 'vanish

Re: IBM HDs vanish on warm-boot?

2007-07-17 Thread Roger Olofsson
problem, but it caught me off-guard and it's worth looking at. Steve On 7/16/07, Roger Olofsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear mailing list, I have 2 IBM HDs and one WD HD (ata) in an old pc and for some reason FBSD 6.2 can't find the IBMs on a warm-boot. Cold-boot is fine and, the WD is fine

IBM HDs vanish on warm-boot?

2007-07-16 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear mailing list, I have 2 IBM HDs and one WD HD (ata) in an old pc and for some reason FBSD 6.2 can't find the IBMs on a warm-boot. Cold-boot is fine and, the WD is fine. The motherboard is an old Aopen AX34 and all settings are default except for ACPI that's off. The first thought that

What's the #-number from uname -a?

2007-04-15 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear Mailing List, Yesterday I csup:ed 2 machines to latest using same cvsup-server for both. After the standard procedure of doing: make buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel reboot make installworld ..on both machines, one says 'FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #2' and the other says 'FreeBSD

Re: Copy/move files between Windows and FreeBSD

2007-03-26 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Laszlo, Going off on a tangent here, may I suggest that you try rsync (FreeBSD) with cwRsync (Windows) for this? It can use ssh and be fully automated. You will need rsync as client on both machines and to create the appropriate keys on respective machines. Rsync is in ports and

Re: log rotation recommendations

2007-03-24 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Jeffrey, I am not familiar with logrotate but my newsyslog.conf rotates whatever I want just fine. As an example I have this for a small almost unused apache: /var/log/httpd-access.log 644 7 1000 24B /var/run/httpd.pid 30 /var/log/httpd-error.log

Re: Tracking down memory leaks

2007-03-21 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Don, I got the following tips when I asked the same question a while back: Consider something like the valgrind port or dlmalloc. ---Chuck I ran them and gdb and I'm still hunting that memory leak. In my case I first suspected threads (software) to be the cause however as the chase

Re: Corrupted OS

2007-03-16 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Drew, The procedure is described in the handbook chapter 21. May I suggest that you look at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html In your case, if you don't want to upgrade your source code, you could probably skip to chapter 21.4 and also skip

Re: DNS configuration at FreeBSD

2007-03-16 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello there hiding behind an anonymous email account whoever you are, Not knowing what you really ask for, since you don't provide much information I assume that you want to setup a small dns for LAN with forwarding to your ISP? If this is correct may I suggest that you have look at djbdns

Re: Rsync w/ Windows

2007-03-16 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Chris, May I suggest that you take a peek at http://www.itefix.no/phpws/index.php?module=pagemasterPAGE_user_op=view_pagePAGE_id=6MMN_position=23:23 As example I have the following syntax in my cwrsync.cmd (In this example I backup documents and settings from pc to FreeBSD by using

Re: Need a good Unix script that..

2007-03-14 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Bruce, Without knowing more, may I suggest that you take a look at awk for doing this? You can combine awk and sed if you like. There's a good starting point at http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/September1999/article103.html Good luck! [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: Hello, I'm trying

Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!

2007-03-13 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Pieter, I hope this might be helpful for you. It's a forum for FreeBSD using nvidia. You can also find it from www.nvidia.com. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=47 I found alot of helpful information there when setting up my OpenGL programming environment. Good

Re: Recover Make ARG's from a ports Install

2007-03-12 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Alexander, There's /var/db/ports/name of port for the result of make configure, if that is what you mean? Otherwise most ports should have their .conf and other settings in /usr/local/etc. Good luck! Alexander Schlichting skrev: On a server I have a package installed using ports

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Wojciech, ...If you should need to connect with a Windows box...(to a FreeBSD machine running X). A part of Xming is a remote desktop client for Windows. You will find more information at - http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming. Good luck! Wojciech Puchar skrev: They're

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-12 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Wojciech, May I suggest that you redirect these questions to the Xming forum? The link to the forum is at - http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming. Wojciech Puchar skrev: the one i was looking for very long! as i don't have windoze anywhere close now could you tell me if: 1) this X

Re: How Do I Find Find?

2007-03-12 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Drew, As an alternative may I suggest using locate? You update the database by issuing /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb from shell. Then just locate what you want. Good luck! Drew Jenkins skrev: I built a home server to prepare to build a new production server. Well, the latter is

Re: polling my FreeBSD compariots...

2007-03-11 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Jonathan, I had great help from this mailing list setting up wdm+fluxbox recently. They're minimalistic and slick to use. If you should need to connect with a windows box there's Xming. Look in the archives! Good luck! Jonathan Horne skrev: ive been a KDE user for as long as i can

Re: Advice on IDS co.

2007-03-10 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello David, I've been using chkrootkit and it's fairly simple. Aide is a more free version of Tripwire and you might want to look at Snort. Both are in the ports tree. I suppose you have a firewall like IPFilter or PF already? I've been keeping an eye out for a really slick syslogfile

Re: Starting MySQL with different database directory

2007-03-05 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Dr. Nussbaum, I do this quite alot but I prefer to do it like this: 1. stop mysqld. 2. copy the /var/db/mysql to where I want it to be 3. rename /var/db/mysql to keep the original (just in case) 4. create a symlink in /var/db that points to where I want it to be You create a symlink by

Re: Starting MySQL with different database directory

2007-03-05 Thread Roger Olofsson
look at what i wrote above. But when i do that i cant start the server. (And as i said i also would like to have this in my MySQL configuration file, not in a FreeBSD configuration file.) Also, replying to a separate email from Roger Olofsson about just symlinking /var/db/mysql to somewhere else

Re: Backup procedure question / theory

2007-03-01 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Dave, May I suggest that you try rsync for this? For windows cwrsync works fine as client for Windows XP. It's rather easy to setup and can be triggered by the windows machine since it runs as a .bat or .cmd. For FreeBSD rsync is in ports. With some nifty scripting you can setup the

Re: sshd attempting to start twice?

2007-02-26 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello, Without knowing more, could sshd be listening to more than one interface in your machine? If so, try setting 'ListenAddress your.ip.adress.here' in /etc/ssh/sshd_config. Greetings /Roger Noah skrev: Hi there, any clues why sshd is attempting to start twice? sshd[836]: error:

Re: Best partitioning scheme for my HDD? Please advise.

2007-02-20 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Joe, May I suggest a small trick that really makes your life alot easier. Go with the default values when you install the FreeBSD, ie accept the sysinstall generated autos. (Make sure to make / and swap the first partitions though). Now, whenever a partition gets filled up, just do a

Re: Best partitioning scheme for my HDD? Please advise.

2007-02-20 Thread Roger Olofsson
takes care of that. Joe Vender skrev: On Tuesday 20 February 2007 13:50, Roger Olofsson wrote: Hello Joe, May I suggest a small trick that really makes your life alot easier. Go with the default values when you install the FreeBSD, ie accept the sysinstall generated autos. (Make sure

How to display .png?

2007-02-16 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear Mailing List, As usual, thanks alot for all answers to my previous questions! I will try and step up and answer the ones I can. I'm still fiddling around with a machine that's upgraded to 6.2 and have encountered a small thing. Apache refuses to display .png pictures. This is probably

Re: How to display .png?

2007-02-16 Thread Roger Olofsson
Roger Olofsson skrev: Christian Walther skrev: On 16/02/07, Roger Olofsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Mailing List, As usual, thanks alot for all answers to my previous questions! I will try and step up and answer the ones I can. I'm still fiddling around with a machine that's upgraded

Re: [SOLVED] php5-mysql? (with added bonus for snort)

2007-02-14 Thread Roger Olofsson
Roger Olofsson skrev: Dear Mailing List, As usual I would like to thank the replies I go to my earlier questions and I will try and step up and answer the ones I can. Now for my question, After a recent buildworld/portupgrade everything seems to be up to date except a few and among those

Re: DJBDNS missing from ports?

2007-02-13 Thread Roger Olofsson
RW skrev: On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:43:43 +0100 Roger Olofsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Mailing List, After a recent buildworld (6.2-STABLE FreeBSD) and portsnap fetch portversion reported djbdns as being in need of an upgrade, however portupgrade just exits like so: # portupgrade -Rr

php5-mysql?

2007-02-12 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear Mailing List, As usual I would like to thank the replies I go to my earlier questions and I will try and step up and answer the ones I can. Now for my question, After a recent buildworld/portupgrade everything seems to be up to date except a few and among those are php5-extensions and

Re: php5-mysql?

2007-02-12 Thread Roger Olofsson
Alain Wolf skrev: On 12.02.2007 11:52, * Roger Olofsson wrote: Dear Mailing List, As usual I would like to thank the replies I go to my earlier questions and I will try and step up and answer the ones I can. Now for my question, After a recent buildworld/portupgrade everything seems

Re: php5-mysql?

2007-02-12 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello, Config.log was attached to the originating mail and that mail was cc:ed to the maintaner. /Roger Greg 'groggy' Lehey skrev: On Monday, 12 February 2007 at 20:45:16 +0100, Roger Olofsson wrote: Alain Wolf skrev: On 12.02.2007 11:52, * Roger Olofsson wrote: After a recent buildworld

DJBDNS missing from ports?

2007-02-11 Thread Roger Olofsson
Dear Mailing List, After a recent buildworld (6.2-STABLE FreeBSD) and portsnap fetch portversion reported djbdns as being in need of an upgrade, however portupgrade just exits like so: # portupgrade -Rr djbdns-ipv6 # ie, nothing happens. A quick locate djbdns | grep ports gave the results

Re: DJBDNS missing from ports?

2007-02-11 Thread Roger Olofsson
Sorry, it's found in the search at freebsd.org, don't know why it show up at first. However, portupgrade is treating it as if it's not there. I'll try another portsnap fetch. Roger Olofsson skrev: Dear Mailing List, After a recent buildworld (6.2-STABLE FreeBSD) and portsnap fetch

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