Re: sata/ata device permission for user

2013-04-18 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 03:41:11AM -0700, Beeblebrox typed: But the group permissions are --- (none). D'oh! Well, that made a difference and I can query the cd0 device with cdda2wav as my user now. I still can't mount a data CD however. What's the output of: sysctl vfs.usermount ?? --

Re: gettext problem in FreeBSD 8.3 system hosed

2013-03-28 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 06:53:11AM -0500, Antonio Olivares typed: Dear Sir, As bapt@ hints: try rebuilding binutils without NLS. -- -- I have binutils installed without NLS. I ran make deinstall reinstall inside /usr/ports/devel/binutils/ and it deinstalls and it fails to

Re: w and who don't list users in FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1

2013-03-19 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 04:59:56PM +0100, Istvan Gabor typed: Hello: I have both FreeBSD 9.0 and 9.1 on two different computers. w and who commands do not list logged in users in any of them (either for root or a regular user). The output of w is: root@:/root # w 4:56PM up 10 mins,

Re: Can an ISO file be mounted from /etc/fstab at boot?

2013-03-18 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 04:04:23PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert typed: Oscar Hodgson oscar.hodg...@gmail.com writes: I'm pretty sure the answer is no, just write a local rc script to do that, but thought I'd check. Can't see any hint of that capability in the handbook or fstab(5). Really

Re: linux program with kernel module

2013-03-15 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:42:41PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf typed: On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 21:43 +0100, Istvan Gabor wrote: Can it run linux programs that have their own (linux) kernel module? If yes, how can I install such program, and how can I load the kernel module? (If I know correctly

no 9.1-release packages?

2013-03-07 Thread Ruben de Groot
Hi, I just rented a 9.1-release VPS and was trying to install some packages. This however does not work as there is no directory packages-9.1-release on the ftp server (ftp.freebsd.org). Why is this? ftp pwd Remote directory: /pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64 ftp ls 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode

Re: no 9.1-release packages?

2013-03-07 Thread Ruben de Groot
On 7 mrt 2013, at 16:58, Johan Hendriks wrote: Ruben de Groot schreef: Hi, I just rented a 9.1-release VPS and was trying to install some packages. This however does not work as there is no directory packages-9.1-release on the ftp server (ftp.freebsd.org). Why

resolvconf overwriting /etc/resolv.conf

2012-12-18 Thread Ruben de Groot
Hi, I run bind on a LAN, with some LAN-only (sub)domains. On the LAN is also a DSL modem/router that advertises ipv6 addresses. So far so good. However, since I upgraded the server from 8-STABLE to 9.1-PRERELEASE, the /etc/resolv.conf gets overwritten by the resolvconf script, with an ipv6

Re: regarding carp and nginx

2012-12-14 Thread Ruben de Groot
I suspect (but just guessing), that the ifconfig carp0 down sends out some CARP packet that notifies the passive node to take over. Rebooting or powering down the active node probably doesn't send this packet, so the passive node will wait until some timeout before taking over. Ruben On Thu,

Re: Binding IP adress to opensmtpd

2012-09-12 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 01:20:47PM +, C. L. Martinez typed: On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org wrote: On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 08:10:51PM +0200, carlopmart typed: Hi all, I have installed opensmtpd on my FreeBSD 8.3. All works ok, except I can't bind

Re: Binding IP adress to opensmtpd

2012-09-10 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sat, Sep 08, 2012 at 08:10:51PM +0200, carlopmart typed: Hi all, I have installed opensmtpd on my FreeBSD 8.3. All works ok, except I can't bind smtpd to specific IP address ... In this box, I am using 3 ip aliases, but smtpd sends all emails using the first IP. Is it possible to

Re: How to refresh network card buffer?

2012-08-10 Thread Ruben de Groot
Try arp -ad On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 03:38:54PM +0200, Cos typed: Hi all The background is I have around 100pcs router-like products. they all have a fixed IP address 192.168.1.100 and of course different MAC address. I need to connect them one by one to configure. The trouble is

Re: NFS within a Jail?!

2012-08-10 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 08:36:04AM -0400, Fbsd8 typed: Wojciech Puchar wrote: Many thanks in advance. Quick answer is No, NFS only runs on the host system. but user space nfsd works. in ports - unfsd Close but no cigar. In the ports system it's named unfs3 and described as

Re: NFS within a Jail?!

2012-08-10 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:42:45AM -0400, Fbsd8 typed: Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 08:36:04AM -0400, Fbsd8 typed: Wojciech Puchar wrote: Many thanks in advance. Quick answer is No, NFS only runs on the host system. but user space nfsd works. in ports - unfsd Close

Re: single user login

2011-08-17 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 05:09:07PM +0200, Bernt Hansson typed: 2011-08-16 03:21, Gerald Stoller skrev: I booted up my FreeBSD system and it never presented me with a Boot: prompt. Maybe that is because my system is old (remember I haven't used it for years), its version # is 4.3 or 4.7

Re: ISO images

2011-08-17 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:56:35AM +0100, Rui Silva typed: Hi, I want to install FreeBSD for the first time but I have some doubts regarding the ISO images. I have downloaded an ISO image (FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso) via torrent, but soon realised that the packages collection

Re: Group permissions are broken?

2011-08-16 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 05:39:31PM -0700, Yuri typed: On 08/15/2011 13:10, Dan Nelson wrote: As a sanity check, what is the output of the groups command? If you recently edited /etc/group, maybe you need to log out and back in to a credential with the new group list? Reboot cured the

Re: extracting text from docx files

2011-08-11 Thread Ruben de Groot
There are several docx converters online (google docx2pdf). Haven't tried them though. LibreOffice handles docx quite well. On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:22:22PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht typed: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:14:51PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 9 Aug 2011 21:16:11 +0200,

Re: mysql client(s)

2011-08-11 Thread Ruben de Groot
First hit on google: http://www.google.com/search?q=mysqlnd On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 01:31:11PM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk typed: PhpMyAdmin shows: Server: Localhost via UNIX socket Server version: 5.5.15 Protocol version: 10 User: root@localhost MySQL charset: UTF-8

Re: [freebsd-questions] FreeBSD supported versions (UNCLASSIFIED)

2011-08-11 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:45:23PM +0100, Howard Jones typed: On 11/08/2011 12:37, Daniel Staal wrote: (Well, ok, given the current release structure having an update today means you are in a supported branch, and that supported branch will continue to get updates for the foreseeable

Re: Modifying Sendmail's Configuration the Correct way.

2011-04-21 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 03:50:16PM -0400, Alejandro Imass typed: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Martin McCormick mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu wrote: ? ? ? ?The /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file very clearly tells one not to edit it directly so I edited the Hey Martin, this might not be the

Re: redirecting command output depending on exit status

2011-04-20 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 04:00:52PM +0200, Bastien Semene typed: Hi list, I have a cron task set up using lockf. I'd like to redirect one exit status to /dev/null : it (lockf command) returns one of the exit codes defined in sysexits(3), as follows: EX_TEMPFAIL The

Re: Unable to download FreeBSD

2011-04-20 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:09:57AM +0530, Balaje Suri typed: Hi FreeBSD Team, When I try to download the FreeBSD distribution (by clicking on the link that refers to location: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/8.2-RELEASE) , I get an error 425 Failed to establish connection.

Re: How to be an imap Client?

2011-04-20 Thread Ruben de Groot
There is the Mail::IMAPClient perl module (or Net::IMAP::Simple, perl's about choice ;-) ) Ruben On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:01:28AM -0500, Martin McCormick typed: This FreeBSD system uses sendmail in normal smtp configuration. I use procmail and nmh to manage incoming messages and it

Re: Question : Developing/Making FreeBSD derivative.

2011-04-12 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 09:44:22PM -0700, Stefan N typed: Hi All, My name is Stefan and I am newbie with FreeBSD but I'm interested to learn more about FreeBSD . I am keen to know and learn more on the process to make a new BSD's derivative/fork from FreeBSD ? There is a

Re: Status of 8-CURRENT

2011-04-12 Thread Ruben de Groot
Here's a nice oneliner ;) fetch -qo - 'http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh?rev=.;only_with_tag=RELENG_8;content-type=text%2Fplain' | awk '/^REVISION=/ || /^BRANCH=/' REVISION=8.2 BRANCH=STABLE Ruben On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 09:49:35AM -0300, Mario Lobo typed:

Re: Samba PDC roaming profiles problem

2010-08-03 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 12:22:33PM +0200, Alex de Kruijff typed: I've enabled debugging in Windows Domain using: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;221833 I find it strange that it first tries \\%L\profiles\testers. This is the log. USERENV(2ec.2f0) 12:08:35:468

Re: [solved] Re: Samba PDC roaming profiles problem

2010-08-03 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 02:43:24PM +0200, Alex de Kruijff typed: I solved it. Without LDAP one is able to use %L, %U and %a in the logon path, but if one uses LDAP then this path is no longer processed by Samba, but instead passed literally to Windows. So far my solution is to change all

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-23 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 09:52:53AM -0400, Jerry typed: On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:32:36 +0100 krad kra...@googlemail.com articulated: yep I know exim is sendmail cli compatible, but the output from sendmail is not the same on exim (interactive prompt). You can probably get similar output

Re: Re : can i just upgrade the 8.1 kernel ?

2010-07-23 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 07:37:59AM +, Alexandre L. typed: I think you have not understood the handbook. You MUST rebuild both base system and kernel to correctly upgrade your FreeBSD box to 8.1-RELEASE. If you let your system in 8.0-RELEASE and compile a kernel with 8.1 sources, you

Re: Help with setting up a mail server

2010-07-22 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 07:35:48PM +0100, krad typed: while we are on the topic of debugging I would recomend exim as an MTA. I manage a few large enterprise mail systems with 10M + active accounts. A lot of them are legacy systems that we gained through acquisitions. I generally have to

Re: Install Apache in qjail?

2010-07-22 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 04:58:39AM +0200, Peter Boosten typed: On 22-7-2010 2:10, Aiza wrote: If this apache jail is going to use the standard port 80 to listen on, then the host and any other jails can not use that port number. Nonsense! Indeed Since the IP address assigned to the

Re: Openldap clustering ?

2010-07-08 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 10:21:53AM +0200, Frank Bonnet typed: Hello Could anybody recommend a rock solid software to build an OpenLDAP cluster with FreeBSD 8.0 ? Master-master replication is well documented on the openldap website. For failover, you can use carp(4) or an external

Re: text editor

2010-06-02 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 01:20:07AM -0500, Adam Vande More typed: On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:10 AM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 09:10:22AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: I remember writing our own text editor, and it had to fit in 64K. I remember when . . .

Re: Very simple file sharing between FreeBSD server and windows client ?

2010-05-17 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 06:43:09AM -0500, Andrew Gould typed: Another item to consider in this discussion is sharity-light, an easy-to-use program that allows FreeBSD to mount Windows shares. Sharity-light is in the ports and Sharity is available as a commercial product: What's the

Re: Spamassasin, sendmail, Postfix

2010-03-22 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 04:44:20PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz typed: Postfix has a readable config file (with comments!) that doesn't require compiling into the proper syntax. Here follows a snippets from /etc/mail/freebsd.mc. It's readable and full of comments. A simple make will compile the

Re: ezjail

2010-03-22 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 05:47:09PM +0800, Aiza typed: Mark Shroyer wrote: On 3/21/2010 8:21 PM, Aiza wrote: Does the ip address notation for the jail include the port number? Like 10.0.20.2:80 Nat port forwarding is the long way around just to get the correct port number to the jail ip

Re: ezjail

2010-03-22 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 11:23:54AM +0100, Dh?nin Jean-Jacques typed: on the lan gives me no sockets mesg. And ftp from 10.0.10.6 to 10.0.20.30 the ftp jail gives me no connection error. add sysctl security.jail.allow_raw_sockets=1 or in /etc/sysctl.conf on the host (not in in the

Re: ezjail

2010-03-22 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 08:40:58PM +0800, Aiza typed: This will enable him to ping another host from within the jail. I won't do anything for ftp. OP: what exact error do you get? And does ftp work *within* the jail (ftp localhost)? with sysctl security.jail.allow_raw_sockets=1 done

Re: Spamassasin, sendmail, Postfix

2010-03-22 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 06:30:21AM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz typed: Ruben == Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org writes: Ruben And sendmail does not? You obviously are biased. I had at least a decade of experience with sendmail before discovering postfix. And now I use postfix, and you can't

Re: Which version of FreeBSD is it?

2010-03-18 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 04:56:20PM +0300, ?? ?? typed: I have the server that's running FreeBSD for the last few years, but I saw it only year ago and know nothing about when and how was installed FreeBSD on it. # uname -a FreeBSD myhost.net 6.2-RC1 FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 #4: Fri

Re: FreeBSD Version recommend for OLD machine

2010-03-17 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 03:25:56PM -0400, alexus typed: On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:21 PM, andrew clarke m...@ozzmosis.com wrote: On Fri 2010-03-12 00:16:35 UTC-0500, Steve Bertrand (st...@ibctech.ca) wrote: The machine has a Motherboard that supports 2 double pentium III processors

Re: can't ping localhost

2010-03-11 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 02:47:35AM +, Anton Shterenlikht typed: I believe -current has a issue where you can not ping localhost atm all my machines are current, but some are more current than others.. Why exactly are you running -current? People that do are supposed to do some

Re: how to disable loadable kernel moduels?

2010-02-25 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 08:49:29PM -0600, Robert Bonomi typed: I'm building custom kernels for use in 'hostile' environments -- where I need to enforce restricted capabilities, even in the event of malicious 'root' access. (if the bad guy has *physical* access to the machine, I know

Re: FTP troubles with Roundcube vacation plugin

2010-02-17 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 02:44:27PM +0100, Frank Bonnet typed: Hello I'm in trouble with vacation plugin which perform an FTP session at localhost , for an obscure PAM/FreeBSD reason the FTP session is not always working ... I don't see why a vacation plugin for RoundCube (I've used

Re: PASSWORD LOST!!

2010-02-13 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 08:05:24AM -0600, John typed: If this is a dedicated server (or a VPS, or RPS, or any type of server hosted by a server provider), you may have a rescue system, so you can boot it and chroot yourself to access the system. Or, in some cases, you can have a

Re: mysql silently failing to start - suggestions? (FIXED!)

2010-02-04 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 09:13:40PM -0600, John typed: Good job, Mike! You nailed it, though what some of the other helpful folks wrote had me on the right path, too. For some reason, the binary-configure after the pkg_add left everything owned by root:wheel. cd /mysql ; chown -R

Re: Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x

2010-02-01 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 09:33:51AM +0100, Roland Smith typed: On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:08:05PM -0500, Jeff Mitchell wrote: o Some of the executables on this box are without source but I still need them to run; short of moving them to a VM and doing some voodoo, what are the

Re: High availability SQL server setup

2010-01-20 Thread Ruben de Groot
Here's an article about multi-master replication on MySQL: http://onlamp.com/onlamp/2006/04/20/advanced-mysql-replication.html It's not rocket science ;) Ruben On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 08:06:15PM -0500, Steve Bertrand typed: Hi all, For some time, I've been considering consolidating

Re: ssh to root

2010-01-20 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:09:14PM -0500, Steve Bertrand typed: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I need to set up a machine so that I can type ssh [host] as root from some other host and I get a prompt with super user privs... I already have set this up for u...@host for root and ssh host for

Re: changing place of .core files

2010-01-17 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 11:23:52PM +0100, Marco Beishuizen typed: Normally when a program crashes, it places a .core file in the homefilesystem. Is there a way of changing the filesystem where FreeBSD places it's core dumps? man core Ruben ___

Re: To jail, or not to jail?

2010-01-17 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 06:21:59PM -0600, Kirk Strauser typed: I've been having fun playing with jails on my home server. There's one for databases, one for a webserver, another for using as a play shell server, etc. We use jails heavily at work for encapsulating services, and I can make a

Re: Dislike the way port conflicts are handled now

2010-01-16 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:57:35PM -0500, Greg Larkin typed: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Craig Whipp wrote: On Jan 15, 2010, at 9:44 AM, Kirk Strauser wrote: Until recently, it seems like port dependencies were handled at installation time. Lately, they're

Re: does toor have passwd or not? According to logins -p: yes

2009-12-30 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 12:33:41PM +, Anton Shterenlikht typed: I was checking for passwordless accounts with 'logins -p'. None was found. However, I understand toor doesn't have passwd by default, and I never touched it, so I expected logins -p to show toor, but it didn't. Just to

Re: Blacklisting a SourceForge mirror from ports?

2009-12-23 Thread Ruben de Groot
Would route add heanet.dl.sourceforge.net 127.0.0.1 help? On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:38:01AM -0600, Kirk Strauser typed: in ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk, the list of SourceForge mirrors is defined by: .for mirror in heanet sunet iweb switch surfnet kent freefr \ voxel jaist osdn

Re: FreeBSD boot invalid partition

2009-12-23 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 09:51:39PM +0100, Michel Le Cocq typed: I just dump a real host and try to restore it on a virtual host under kvm. When booting under KVM i see this : Booting From hard Disk... Invalid partition Invalid partition No /boot/loader

Re: (no subject)

2009-12-23 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:05:40PM -0700, Modulok typed: List, Is there a software method (not a microwave oven) to destroy a CD-R? There's allways a software method ;) http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20080220 Ruben ___

Re: ld-elf related problems

2009-12-21 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:18:11PM +1100, alex typed: b. f. wrote: Our base system compiler suite is stuck at a patched version of gcc 4.2 because of licensing issues Thats absolutely *ridiculous* that we have to use stone age development tools because of stupid and trivial license politics.

Re: is this getting out?

2009-12-17 Thread Ruben de Groot
DNS config is flaud: # host thought.org thought.org mail is handled by 10 aristotle.thought.org. # host aristotle.thought.org Host aristotle.thought.org not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) Ruben On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 02:58:43PM +, Bruce Cran typed: On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:52:20 +0100 Polytropon

Re: Have not received emails for a few days now....

2009-12-17 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 10:10:33AM -0500, jw011235 typed: I think it was a gmail issue. None of my mailing lists through gmail worked the last couple of days. Think again. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: incremental FTP backup program

2009-12-17 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 05:29:54PM +0100, bsd typed: Hello, I have been provided with a 1To backup space by my hosting company? unfortunately It is only accessible by FTP which does not allow me to do the regular backup / restore I use to do using RSYNC. What are the options I have

Re: won't boot after 8.0-RELEASE upgrade

2009-12-08 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 08:40:52AM -0800, Ivo Karabojkov typed: I'm sharing this experience to bring your attention to major advice in the update procedure - to take full backup. While not very new, that's allways good advice ;) My question is: how can I guess the result - Glory or Sorrow

Re: Why do I need a bunch of mappings for ld-elf.so in FreeBSD 8?

2009-12-08 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 05:35:47PM -0800, Paul Hoffman typed: Greetings. I upgraded a 7.2 system to 8.0 using 'freebsd-update install'. At some time during the process, I could no longer log in remotely because bash could not start due to /libexec/ld-elf.so not finding the right libraries. I

Re: Why do I need a bunch of mappings for ld-elf.so in FreeBSD 8?

2009-12-08 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 01:45:59PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington typed: There is always this instruction that you need to recompile all installed ports, which I think you did not do. That instruction makes me sick, given the time it would take on a critical server. That's why you don't do this

Re: nfsd can't listen on udp

2009-12-03 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 10:38:31PM +0100, Ksh J. Fry typed: Hi, I'm running nfsd on FreeBSD (7.2 and 8.0) but it seem don't listen on udp. From the listen(2) manpage: The listen() system call applies only to sock- ets of type SOCK_STREAM or SOCK_SEQPACKET Ruben $ tail /etc/rc.conf

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-12-01 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:34:06PM -0800, James Phillips typed: --- On Mon, 11/30/09, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: This is actually the way UFS/FFS works too: when my system was crashing fairly regularly I was a bit surprised to find empty files after editing them.

Re: Prompt containing SSH login information

2009-11-24 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 05:10:38AM +0100, Polytropon typed: Hi, again, a strange question: I'd like to know if there is a builtin means to let the csh's (or bash's) prompt show an information if the current dialog session has been opened via SSH from another system. The obvious is:

Re: spamassassin question

2009-11-23 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 06:40:37AM +, Marwan Sultan typed: lastly, what format is used in the whitelist? is it similar to what i have in /etc/mail/access? Well, I never change the whitelist, my openwebmail generates the data Automaticaly. You will not need to touch the file, as

Re: How can I rescue my passwd file after corrupting it (and why does it still work) ?

2009-11-22 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 08:14:00AM +, Matthew Seaman typed: % pw user show -n matthew matthew:*:1001:1001::0:0:Matthew Seaman:/home/matthew:/bin/tcsh prints out the master.passwd entry for the user account but *without* the password crypt-text. You can use: % pw user show -a

Re: php4-gd

2009-11-21 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 11:39:34PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser typed: more like: you should have upgraded to PHP5 two years ago. PHP4 is dead, baby. it's dead... Like COBOL and FORTRAN are dead? ;) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: adding USB hard-disk

2009-11-19 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 04:16:32PM +0100, n dhert typed: # mount /dev/da0s1 /mnt takes a while (drive spins), then mount: /dev/da0s1 : Invalid argument same result for all slices Why is this and how to remedy? try fsck /dev/da0 to see what kind of filesystem's on it (probably ext2/3 since

Re: Migrating from Linux (keeping partitions at install time)

2009-11-08 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 10:18:21PM -0800, Carl Johnson typed: Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk writes: On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 05:35:58PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: [snip] Not so sure I did anything for your most important question - if ext2 s ext3 is a problem, but I hope the

Re: Eclipse Java 1.5

2009-11-02 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 10:03:30AM -0600, Adam Vande More typed: On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 9:37 AM, Alex Huth a.h...@tmr.net wrote: Hi! I want to change my laptop system from Debian to FreeBSD. After installing 8.0 RC2 in a virtual machine i have tried to install eclipse and changed the

Re: Sendmail SMTP server outgoing email rate

2009-10-30 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 09:50:06PM -0700, Aflatoon Aflatooni typed: Hi, Is there a way that I could configure sendmail so that I could control the rate of outgoing emails? For example if there are 2 outbound emails destined for Yahoo.com server then they would be sent one connection at a

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

2009-10-29 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 06:55:20PM +0100, Erik Norgaard typed: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I don't argue for a replacement but for the elimination. Install a port if you need an MTA, you're happy with that way for so many other standard services. Isn't this going a little too far? What other

Re: buildkernel error with device snd_hda

2009-09-23 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 01:56:57PM +0200, Roy Stuivenberg typed: Hello, I get this error when I try to make buildkernel, with device snd_hda for my sound. When I load it as module in rc.conf it works fine, but I'd rather compile it in the kernel. [FreeBSD-7.2-stable] This is my error :

Re: ipfw + NAT doesn't work

2009-09-18 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 02:53:12PM -0400, Robert Huff typed: Ruben de Groot writes: However: using these I still can't get through Through to what? You seem to be able to connect on a local subnet, but not to the internet through NAT, which you say is ok, because you

Re: ipfw + NAT doesn't work

2009-09-17 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:14:15AM -0400, Robert Huff typed: I have a machine running FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #3: Tue Sep 15 18:49:58 EDT 2009 amd64 It has this in the config file for the running kernel: options IPFIREWALL #firewall options IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE

Re: ZFS on small systems

2009-09-17 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 04:35:37PM +0200, Anselm Strauss typed: Thanks for your advice, Steve. I looked a bit at the source code and in /usr/src/sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs/arc.c and I found this: /* set min cache to 1/32 of all memory, or 16MB, whichever is more */

Re: IPF, NAT or NIC

2009-09-17 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 08:27:45AM -0700, Freeco typed: I'm new in BSD, I installed FreeBSD 7.2 and want to use as gateway with IPF and NAT. I have 2 NIC's fxp0 and rl0. When i booted up my pc i got a message gateway kernel: arp xxx.xxx.88.17 is on fxp0 but got reply from rl0. My

Re: passing options thru '/etc/rc.d/foo start'

2009-09-17 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 07:14:29PM +0200, Mel Flynn typed: On Wednesday 16 September 2009 21:18:03 Tom Worster wrote: On 9/16/09 2:37 PM, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Wednesday 16 September 2009 20:21:40 Chris Cowart wrote: Tom Worster wrote:

Re: Non-root user and accept() or listen()

2009-09-15 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:39:05AM +0100, Freminlins typed: 2009/9/14 Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com Isn't this a bit drastic? Listening sockets are opened by very many types of processes, as well as remembering that sendmail, BIND, and others don't actually run as root... I suppose

Re: linux-pango won't install

2009-09-13 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 02:19:22PM +0400, Boris Samorodov typed: On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:01:23 -0600 Chad Perrin wrote: If you still want to install the port, you could just add this to the /etc/make.conf file: # Pango .if $(.CURDIR:M*/x11-toolkits/linux-pango)

Re: How to setup mDNSResponder on FreeBSD?

2009-09-13 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 11:14:33PM +0800, Sagara Wijetunga typed: Hi all I have installed the net/mDNSResponder port on a FreeBSD 7.2 i386 computer. Set to launch the mdnsd on start up (in /etc/rc.conf). Changed hosts line in /etc/nsswitch.conf to hosts: files mdns dns. Rebooted.

Re: Upgrading 6.0 to 6.x... without /var

2009-09-11 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 02:14:55PM -0700, jaymax typed: I have a 6.0 installation without a /var slice. Instead I have a soft link of /usr/var to a /var@ file. Now I am attempting an upgrade to 6.4 and getting an error condition. I am using Disk 1 of the 6.4 distro Upgrade [Upgrade an

Re: Sites using FreeBSD

2009-09-11 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 04:56:34PM +0200, Arvin Zuberbuehler typed: Hi there, Is there a chance to get listed under Sites using FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/nutshell.html#INTRODUCTION-NUTSHELL-USERS? Or are there any possibilities for advertisements on

Re: Samba PDC with LDAP backend

2009-09-07 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 02:43:00PM +0700, Olivier Nicole typed: Hi Ruel, But, I have one question left.. How do you join the Windows xp client on the domain? Is there another tweak must be done? The same way a PC would join any samba domain. The PC joining Samba does not know that

Re: Why /bin/sh doesn't like the line: if test x$my_var == xyes; then

2009-09-03 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 06:59:38AM +0200, Polytropon typed: What is the version of /bin/sh currently used in 7.2? Where is it taken from? --version, -v, -version don't ever print version I guess due to FreeBSD policy of not versioning individual utilities. FreeBSD's Bourne shell does

Re: Can partitions span more than one drive?

2009-08-28 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 04:56:03PM +0300, Nikos Vassiliadis typed: RW wrote: On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:45:47 -0400 John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com wrote: Question: is it possible to just expand my existing /backup partition to encompass both the current drive and the new drive? I'm

Re: Information on Setting up a Jailed Webserver

2009-08-28 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:28:26PM -0400, APseudoUtopia typed: Two more questions then I should be ready to go with my jail(s). In order to minimize the HDD space of the jail, can I add things in my src.conf such as WITHOUT_BOOT, WITHOUT_ACPI, WITHOUT_PF? Yes you can. Another option is to

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-25 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:19:37AM +0100, Mike Bristow typed: On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 01:00:53AM -0700, Colin Brace wrote: Ok, here is what lsof tells me: $ sudo lsof | grep perl perl5.8.9 4272 www3uIPv4 0xc33cf0000t0 TCP gw:51295-94.102.51.57:afs3-fileserver

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-25 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 06:16:49AM -0700, Colin Brace typed: Bill Moran wrote: You can add an ipfw rule to prevent the script from calling home, which will effectively render it neutered until you can track down and actually _fix_ the problem. In reality, good security practice

Re: what www perl script is running?

2009-08-25 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 06:30:17AM -0700, Colin Brace typed: Bill, one more thing: Bill Moran wrote: You can add an ipfw rule to prevent the script from calling home, which will effectively render it neutered until you can track down and actually _fix_ the problem. Mike Bristow

Re: installation sequence

2009-08-21 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 01:29:26AM +, b. f. typed: Lane Holcombe wrote: Here's what you do: Setup for yourself a local cvs repository like so: portinstall -Pp net/cvsup-mirror You have to make decisions about what to mirror, but in the end you will have a semi-authoritative mirror

Re: Recovering files after a crash

2009-08-20 Thread Ruben de Groot
Erik Norgaard wrote: Ok, maybe I didn't make myself clear: I wish to protect my filesystem against corruption in case of a crash such that it will boot. - How can I configure my system to reduce the probability that a crash will cause file system inconsistencies that require single user

Re: Recovering files after a crash

2009-08-18 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 09:30:15AM +0200, Erik Norgaard typed: Hi: I woke op to a crash this morning after a powerfailure, and now dmesg shows this: WARNING: / was not properly dismounted GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/442f8ac1c0db9af2 removed. GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider ad6s1a is

Re: 7.2 burncd and cdrecord problem

2009-08-15 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 08:23:49PM +0200, Fernando Apestegu?a typed: Hi all, I'm trying to get my CD drive to work without so much success. Reading is fine, but when I try to burn a CD I get errors in dmesg. Using cdrecord -blank=fast dev=3,0,0 I get: [...] Using generic SCSI-3/mmc

Re: Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)

2009-08-14 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 06:20:00PM +1000, Alex R typed: Hi Guys, I ran into the same problem as this person did (see the link below): http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-...@freebsd.org/msg24337.html ppp starts fine if invoked from shell prompt, however the problem above occurs for me

Re: Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)

2009-08-14 Thread Ruben de Groot
= /lib/libc.so.7 (0x800962000) That's normal. Shall I take a guess? You changed root's shell to bash! bash uses libintl, and will be invoked by the su -m $ppp_user in /etc/rc.d/ppp Yet another good reason not to change root's default shell :D cheers, Ruben Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Aug 14

Re: Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)

2009-08-14 Thread Ruben de Groot
, will result in the error message you got, as bash wants to load libintl.so.8, which lives in /usr/local/lib. Ruben Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 09:49:48PM +1000, Alex R typed: Hi Ruben, Output is as follows: /usr/bin/su: libutil.so.7 = /lib/libutil.so.7 (0x800635000

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