Re: ipfw confusion

2013-08-20 Thread Dan Lists
You might turn on logging and post the logs of what is being blocked. Sometimes things are being blocked by rules you do not expect. On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Gary Aitken vagab...@blackfoot.net wrote: On 08/19/13 00:36, Jason Cox wrote: Are you sure that your DNS requests are over

Re: ipfw confusion

2013-08-19 Thread Dan Lists
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 1:06 AM, Gary Aitken vagab...@blackfoot.net wrote: ipfw list ... 21109 allow tcp from any to 12.32.44.142 dst-port 53 in via tun0 setup keep-state 21129 allow tcp from any to 12.32.36.65 dst-port 53 in via tun0 setup keep-state ... 65534 deny log logamount 5 ip

svnsync and local changes

2013-05-01 Thread Dan Lists
Back when cvsup was in use, I mirrored the ports with cvsup-mirror. Then I could add files and make changes. My servers used my repository so they always had my changes and I only had to do them once. I am trying to replicate the same setup now that subversion is used. I've set up svnsync, and

Re: getpwnam_r returns EINVAL on FreeBSD 8.3

2012-12-05 Thread Dan Lists
On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Dan Lists lists@gmail.com wrote: After upgrading a server from FreeBSD 7.3 to FreeBSD 8.3 I noticed this bug. Since upgrading, getpwnam_r is acting inconsistently. If I look up a user that does not exist and the name is 16 characters or less, getpwnam_r

getpwnam_r returns EINVAL on FreeBSD 8.3

2012-12-03 Thread Dan Lists
After upgrading a server from FreeBSD 7.3 to FreeBSD 8.3 I noticed this bug. Since upgrading, getpwnam_r is acting inconsistently. If I look up a user that does not exist and the name is 16 characters or less, getpwnam_r returns 0 and the result is NULL. If the name is more than 16 characters,

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-12 Thread Dan Lists
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:29:02 -0500, Mark Felder wrote: On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:06:21 -0500, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Comment: using a leading zero on the numeric fields is a BAD IDEA(tm) -- you are

ZFS mounting order

2012-05-20 Thread lists
Greetings! I have a FreeBSD 9 system with 3 different ZFS pools on it. I am booting from a ro CF Card w/o any major issues, the problem I am encountering is that zroot needs to be mounted at boot first, because it contains /usr, zhome and tank contain other various sub-partitions of /usr. Also,

Wierd install (kinda)

2012-05-12 Thread lists
This is a new way of setting up a machine for me, I have no more smaller spare hard-drives to setup as a system boot/root drive for my FreeBSD machine (they are all dead), but what I do have is a 2GB CF card, the rest of the system is being housed on a ZFS array. My goal is to boot the FreeBSD9

USA Anonymous CVS

2012-03-14 Thread Dan Lists
From http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/anoncvs.html USA: anon...@anoncvs1.freebsd.org:/home/ncvs (For ssh, use ssh version 2 and no password is required.) SSH2 HostKey: 2048 53:1f:15:a3:72:5c:43:f6:44:0e:6a:e9:bb:f8:01:62 /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key.pub Example A-2. Using

Re: Still having trouble with package upgrades

2012-03-07 Thread freebsd-lists-erik
On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 03:20:19PM -0500, David Jackson wrote: I think that your statement here is fundamentally flawed and wrong, because you have assumed that it is impossible for the OS to be able to be user friendly and geek friendly at the same time. This is wrong. In fact, I have

Re: make install fails for /usr/ports/security/sudo after downgrade from 9.0-R to 8-STABLE

2012-03-03 Thread FreeBSD Mailing Lists
On 03/03/12 12:31, ill...@gmail.com wrote: Stale header files in /usr/include maybe? Hi, Yes that's it. It seems utmp.h got changed to utmpx.h between 8.2 and 9.0. Fixed by csup of 9.0-R and doing the buildworld buildkernel etc. thanks, -- freebsd at growveg dot net

make install fails for /usr/ports/security/sudo after downgrade from 9.0-R to 8-STABLE

2012-03-02 Thread FreeBSD Mailing Lists
Hello list, I had to downgrade from 9-R to 8-STABLE. To do this, I did the following: 1. rm -rf /usr/obj 2. pkg_delete -a 3. rm -rf /usr/ports 4. mkdir -p /usr/ports/distfiles 5. rm -rf /usr/src 6. rm -rf /usr/local/* 6. csup 8-STABLE sources 7. csup ports 8. cd /usr/src make cleandir make

User disappeared during update error

2012-02-28 Thread Ron (Lists)
I did a upgrade to FreeBSD 9 a few weeks ago and just started using it, and when I try and create a new user, I get the follow: pw: user 'todd' disappeared during update adduser: ERROR: There was an error adding user (todd). I first noticed this issue when trying to install postfix and got a

Re: odd SDcard behaviour in freebsd-9.0-R

2012-02-27 Thread FreeBSD Mailing Lists
On 27/02/2012 17:55, Michael Sierchio wrote: Forgive the naive question, but on one of my Nikons, it is possible to present the device itself, or the SD card as a USD drive. Which are you doing? No doubt there is no driver for the D50 in the kernel, but the generic umass driver should handle

Re: Unable to upgrade packages on FreeBSD

2012-01-30 Thread freebsd-lists-erik
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 03:28:28PM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: You talk a lot about how easy it is to maintain a binary package system. I would like you to convince me that it is easy, keeping in mind that it should remain compatible with the ports system. I am willing to be convinced. --

Odd error when doing pkg_version

2011-09-20 Thread Ron (Lists)
Starting a couple of days ago, when I run pkg_version I get the following error: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libgdbm.so.3 not found, required by httpd Everything seems to run OK except for this message appearing in the middle of the run. I've tried to narrow it down with no real

Re: Odd error when doing pkg_version

2011-09-20 Thread Ron (Lists)
Starting a couple of days ago, when I run pkg_version I get the following error: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libgdbm.so.3 not found, required by httpd Everything seems to run OK except for this message appearing in the middle of the run. I've tried to narrow it down with no real

Portmaster general questions and problems

2010-12-26 Thread Ron (Lists)
I had been using portupgrade for several years and never had any problems and upgrading ports was quick and simple process every week. But, due to portupgrade no longer being maintained and failing to work anymore, I have switched to using portmaster and am having nothing but problems, so

Portmaster recursion problem

2010-12-19 Thread Ron (Lists)
I recently switched from using portupgrade to portmaster and am having an odd problem upgrading. When I run 'portmaster apache' I get this recursion problem: === Port directory: /usr/ports/www/apache22 === Starting check for build dependencies === Gathering dependency list for www/apache22

portupgrade fails to run or do anything

2010-11-07 Thread Ron (Lists)
I'm trying to upgrade my ports and I can't get portupgrade to do anything. I type 'sudo portupgrade apache' (or any package) and all I get back is a command prompt. No error or any other message. portversion seems to work correctly, showing my out of date ports, etc. Running portupgrade

Re: portupgrade fails to run or do anything

2010-11-07 Thread Ron (Lists)
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 12:57:03 -0500, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Ron (Lists) wrote: I'm trying to upgrade my ports and I can't get portupgrade to do anything.  I type 'sudo portupgrade apache' (or any package) and all I get back is a command

Re: portupgrade fails to run or do anything

2010-11-07 Thread Ron (Lists)
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 19:08:23 +0100, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 07 Nov 2010 09:21:22 -0800, Ron (Lists) rg.li...@rzweb.com wrote: I'm trying to upgrade my ports and I can't get portupgrade to do anything. I type 'sudo portupgrade apache' (or any package) and all I get back

OK, now perl won't install...

2010-11-07 Thread Ron (Lists)
Based on advice to switch to portmaster from portupgrade, I am now having a problem with perl. When I went to upgrade a perl package, it re-installed perl, but fail (and removed perl). I am getting this message: === perl-5.8.9_3 : Your apache does not support DSO modules. I have tried to

/usr/local/sbin/apxs is missing.

2010-11-07 Thread Ron (Lists)
Still trying to unscrew my perl installation. Perl and Apache both fail to install due to the missing /usr/local/sbin/apxs. I have no idea what failed package removed it, but now I can't install perl. Who installs this file? It appears to be an apache file, but I can't install apache

Freebsd, postfix and push email

2010-03-27 Thread Ron (Lists)
Is there a way to get my freebsd/postfix setup to send push notifications to an iPhone (I assume other smart phones work the same way). I've searched the web and I can't find any information about how to make this work. I know it can be done with Exchange and ActiveSync, but I don't want to

Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-12-07 Thread Derek (freebsd lists)
Ian Smith wrote: Very long story short: googled for ages and found a forum thread about this very problem, in which someone suggested Options / Rescan Devices then trying again. The OP there said it didn't work for him, but it sure did for me! snip Options / Rescan Devices fixed it for me.

Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-12-01 Thread Derek (freebsd lists)
For the archives, there's now a PR for this: bin/140972 - Derek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-11-27 Thread Derek (freebsd lists)
Hi, Just wondering if anyone else out there has successfully gotten the 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit prompt up. It boots fine, and sysinstall comes up, but I continually get No USB devices found! when I go to the fixit/USB option. When I switch to the debug tty, I see da0, and all my

Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2009-11-27 Thread Derek (freebsd lists)
Randi Harper wrote: On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Derek (freebsd lists) 48225...@razorfever.net wrote: It boots fine, and sysinstall comes up, but I continually get No USB devices found! when I go to the fixit/USB option. Anyways, has anyone successfully gotten the 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick

libspectre - libgs = 8.61 problem

2009-03-18 Thread FreeBSD Lists
Morning All: While installing the kde4 port, I got to libspectre. The libspectre port insists that I must have libgs to compile it. After a little research, I found that this is a ghostscript library. So I installed the ghostscript-8.63 port. noe, libspectre insists that I have to have libgs

Re: freebsd 7.0 and jail

2008-09-10 Thread Primeroz lists
Make sure your buildworld /usr/obj is updated. Good idea is to erase your /usr/obj and buildworld again before going on with the jails. fc On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 7:28 PM, gahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I am trying to build jails on 7.0 system and got errors:

Net/Force Install

2007-05-23 Thread lists
Hello, The co-host that i use to host my email, web and DNS doesn't offer the option of using FreeBSD. This isn't really a problem per-se, but i would *really* rather use FreeBSD as it is what i am accustomed to and most comfortable using. So, off to my question.

Linux equivalent to freebsd

2007-02-28 Thread mailing-lists
Hi, Sorry this question is a little off-topic... We've been using Freebsd for many years and all of our servers are running freebsd. The only thing that is a pain with freebsd, is poor commercial support :( We are running in a situation where a customer needs Zend platform 3

Re: ps oddity

2007-02-01 Thread Felipe Bergo (lists)
Now, here's the strange part. When running under my user id, even in daemon mode, ps -aux | grep user would show me the daemon process. However, now that it's running as root, it doesn't. Why is that? The only way I've been able to tell that it's running is by using sockstat. Are you

Portupgrade libusb/doctool problem.

2006-11-15 Thread lists
If this isn't an appropriate list for this sort of query, my apologies and could someone maybe give me a steer to somewhere better? I've got... 6.1 recently updated ports via portsnap When I go to do a portupgrade -arR, everything cruises along fine until I get to libusb. It configures

Re: advice on upgrading production FreeBSD 5.4

2006-02-27 Thread Lists
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I inherited a production FreeBSD 5.4 used as a web/mail server (Apache, PostgreSQL, php, qmail, vpopmail, Courier). Could anybody help me with information about a web resource on upgrading such system (all, OS only or component by component) with minimum downtime. I

Re: stale dependencies in pkgdb

2006-02-14 Thread Lists
Andrew wrote: On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 11:42 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Andrew writes: I've run pkgdb -F as portupgrade suggests, deleting stale dependencies, but they seem to keep reappearing. I'm not an expert on pkgdb, but I'm pretty sure that's the way it works. You need to

SOLVED: package contains missing libgmodule

2005-11-13 Thread My mailing Lists
Thanks for your reply, Michael. Of course, you are right. I should have been more specific. I had reinstalled glib version 2, but that did not solve my problem. Just to be double sure, after I read your email, I reinstalled glibc-2.8.3 AGAIN, but still got the error. Your email got me

Re: Jail cloning problem

2005-11-10 Thread Glenn's mailing lists
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, patrick wrote: I built a jail, and then I tar'd it up after some setup so that I could create new jails quickly. When I start up a cloned jail, everything works except SSH. If I try to ssh outside of the jail, I just get: Host key verification failed.. I know from past

Re: apache13+mod_ssl portupgrade problem..

2005-09-26 Thread Lists
Steve Monkhouse wrote: Hi guys.. Ive been pulling my hair out for the last couple of hours over this to no avail... FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p8 P4 2.8 512mb RAM I 'had' a working apache13+modssl installation along with mod_perl. Everything was working perfectly until I decided yesterday to

hard drive not properly dismounted

2005-08-02 Thread dwinner-lists
Hello, I have a second hard drive in my docking station that gets mounted at each boot as /hd2. For the past few weeks, everytime I boot, I get the message /hd2 not properly dismounted I have a script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d that automatically mounts and unmounts /hd2 at boot and shutdown.

Multiple aliased IP address when using VLAN's on 5.4

2005-06-23 Thread Lists
Greetings, I have a situation where I am using multiple VLAN's on one network card. Until recently, each of those VLAN's was on a different subnet, and I had no issues. However, now I need to add several different IP's on the same subnet to one of the VLAN's, but I have been

SSH, SSL and DNS headaches

2005-06-06 Thread dwinner-lists
Can anybody provide me with some insight into this before I rip all of my hair out: Starting 3 days ago, suddenly it seemed to take a very, very, verly long time for ssh and ssl communications to negotiate between nodes on my network. I have 3 subnets: a LAN (10.10.0.0/16) a DMZ

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 - Write failure on transfer

2005-03-19 Thread lists
with the HP 1si NetRaid card. Any suggestions or advice? Lino Webzone lists wrote: Further to this problem, I have tried installing FreeBSD5.3 on a second hp netserver and I continue to get the same problem during the install process. Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes) After

External modem issues with 5.3 - serial interface there, butaccessing it locks tip/cu up.

2005-03-02 Thread Lists
Hi all, I'm trying to get an external modem working under 5.3, without success. FBSD is detecting the serial port, and the device is in /dev (as cuaa0). When I try to access the modem using cu or tip, as per the Handbook, both lock up. I have not made any changes to /etc/ttys because I do not

make buildworld broke

2005-02-08 Thread lists
I had a box crash and I got it up again. I lost some information in / and /etc. After some reconstructing, it seems to be running fine and all the services are working. I wanted to do a buildworld just to update anything I might have missed. When I try, I always get a stop error. How can I get my

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 - Write failure on transfer

2005-01-13 Thread lists
a hp netserver LC2000r or similar box and been able to get 5.3 installed? Lino lists wrote: It looks like it is having a problem relating to the mounting the drives. When I rerun the FreeBSD5.3 install a second time - it lists the drives from the first install but they are missing the mount

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 - Write failure on transfer

2005-01-03 Thread lists
It looks like it is having a problem relating to the mounting the drives. When I rerun the FreeBSD5.3 install a second time - it lists the drives from the first install but they are missing the mount locations. Any suggestions on a work around? Lino lists wrote: Loren M. Lang wrote: On Sun, Jan

Re: FreeBSD 5.3 - Write failure on transfer

2005-01-01 Thread lists
Loren M. Lang wrote: On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 03:53:33PM +1030, Lino Fusco wrote: Hi, I am a newbie to this list and I hope I am posting to the correct list - apologies if I am off target. I am installing FreeBSD 5.3 on a hp netserver LC2000r. The box is a dual processor P3 with three scsi2

Re: buildworld via ssh

2004-12-23 Thread lists
] To: lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 7:56 PM Subject: Re: buildworld via ssh On 2004-12-22 19:47, lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am doing a buildworld(Rel5.2) via ssh to a remote location. I detached the process from my session

Re: eject DAT tape via command?

2004-11-26 Thread lists
Try: mt -f /dev/tape rewoffl Regards, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: Hi all, is it possible to eject a DAT tape via a command from CLI? eject does not seem to work :( Greets and TIA, Matthias ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: Sed Help.....

2004-11-10 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
Rod, Take a look at what the shell replacement is actually doing. If you were to write the line manually it would look like this: sed -e 's/\/usr\X11R6\/bin\/xdm/\/usr\/local\/bin\/kdm/g' ... Right? But the shell doesn't escape the path separators (slashes). You need to escape them yourself in

Re: 5.3-release-i386-disc2.iso will not burn

2004-11-09 Thread bsd-lists
Quoting jkcooke [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have downloaded both of the 5.3 i386 isos and the miniinstall iso, disc1 and the miniinstall burn an image, disc 2 does not. I downloaded disc2 from two additional ftp sites with the same result. Is there a problem with disc2 ?. Jim at [EMAIL

Emergency, cannot boot 4.10

2004-10-06 Thread Lists
Greetings, My 4.10 server is halting during the boot process because the kern.maxfiles entry in /etc/sysctl.conf is corrupted or wrong (though I have not changed it in some time). What I want to do is simply remove that entry from the sysctl.conf file, but I cannot even get into the system. I

dns-more than I ever wanted to know...

2004-09-24 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
I've come across a ton of DNS tutorials on the web. Everything I've found so far is very lengthy. I need to setup a simple small office/home office network with DNS so that it resolves my inside network among the machines and hides it from the greater internet. I'm open to suggestions of a

Re: dns-more than I ever wanted to know...

2004-09-24 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
Steve, Thanks a bunch! This is a great help. I'm not clear on the use of allow-transfer. Reading the manpage for named.conf(5), I'm tempted to leave it out. But, I'm not fully understanding the use of it. The manpage says, allow-transfer Specifies which hosts are allowed to receive zone

Re: dns-more than I ever wanted to know...

2004-09-24 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
Thanks to everyone who responded to this. I'm working on synthesizing everything. I'm one step closer now. Alex On Sep 24, 2004, at 9:14 AM, mailing lists at MacTutor wrote: I've come across a ton of DNS tutorials on the web. Everything I've found so far is very lengthy. I need to setup

Re: Ssh connection

2004-09-19 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
Are you running a firewall? On Sep 19, 2004, at 8:28 AM, Pota Kalima wrote: I am having trouble connecting TO my base machine which runs release 5.2.1 from 2 other machines (Mac OS X, and Windoz). I can connect to the OS X machine FROM this base machine as well as from the windoz machine. When

Re: how to make an executable run as another user

2004-09-17 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
Rich, Someone else had responded to your post explaining that setuid does not work with shell scripts. Nor does it work with any interpreted input. The following article might help explain this (and others): http://www.evolt.org/article/UNIX_File_Permissions_and_Setuid_Part_2/ 18/263/

Re: Apache Installation

2004-09-17 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
This is valid advice. However, since you say your are new to FreeBSD (and, perhaps, *nix?), I would break the process down like this. Use a terminal (xterm) to do run these commands. Otherwise, excuse the simplicity. I'll assume you're using sudo for root privilege. 1. It's easiest to use the

Re: what are the pros and cons of running in single user?

2004-09-16 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
, hopefully, look up. thanks, alex On Sep 16, 2004, at 9:56 AM, Jan Grant wrote: On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Ed Budd wrote: mailing lists at MacTutor wrote: I have a machine running 4.10-STABLE that will be a dedicated gateway with a router/firewall combo and web server plus mysql server (maybe). What would

Re: what are the pros and cons of running in single user?

2004-09-16 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
Now might be a good time for me to point out that I'm learning some subtle and useful things about system startup that is helping me think about how I might customize system start up if I go that route. Thanks to everyone who's responding. alex On Sep 16, 2004, at 1:31 PM, Sergey Zaharchenko

Re: AudioCD not playing

2004-09-15 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
Q: Are you compiling for the correct processor in your kernel configuration? For example, if you have a i586 you don't want to compile for an i686. abs On Sep 15, 2004, at 7:14 AM, Konstantin wrote: Hello! When I try to play AudioCD with cdplay 0.92 I receive the following message: #cdplay -d

what are the pros and cons of running in single user?

2004-09-15 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
I have a machine running 4.10-STABLE that will be a dedicated gateway with a router/firewall combo and web server plus mysql server (maybe). What would be the pros and cons of running this system single user? Processes that run under their own uid, would they be able to run? Just curious. Any

Burning OS X .dmg disk images...

2004-09-12 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
Does anyone know of how to burn Mac OS X .dmg images under FBSD? I have .dmg files from an OSX system (10.3.x) that I want to convert to ISO images (if necessary) for burning to cd/dvd. I can't find anything in the list archives about this. Thanks, Alex - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: Update Databases from Webserver

2004-09-07 Thread FreeBSD Mail Lists
far any input helps. -Troy -Original message- From: Peter Risdon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 07:18:22 -0600 To: FreeBSD Mail Lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Update Databases from Webserver I'm afraid the awful truth is that if you need to ask this question here

Update Databases from Webserver

2004-09-06 Thread FreeBSD Mail Lists
Hello, I would like to see how other people are updating backend databases (postgresql on FreeBSD, internal network) from a webserver (apache,php on FreeBSD, dmz network) through a firewall. Pretty much what I am trying to learn is how to take private information (credit card numbers, etc.)

Re: Update Databases from Webserver

2004-09-06 Thread FreeBSD Mail Lists
Richard, Thanks for your reply. I thought there was something terribly wrong with that logic. So I thought I would ask in this mail list since people have been great here in the past about everything else I wanted to know. Are there any security lists in relation to ecommerce that you would

Re: Enabling Serial Console

2004-09-03 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
Marc, Try putting either '-h' or '-D' in /boot.config. I found '-D' worked for me. Personally, I'm wondering if I can put together a serial multiplexer to USB device and write a C or Perl script that will tee the output to respective files that I can 'tail -f' on. For a more thorough treatment

Re: parts of ports

2004-09-01 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
Checkout /usr/ports/misc/porteasy It might be just what you're looking for. Alex On Sep 1, 2004, at 9:32 AM, messmate wrote: Hi, is there a way to install only parts of the ports tree to set them up ? The ports tree takes 237M up :( Have only 600M hd space available included swap. The purpose is

Re: Hardware Recommendations (UK)

2004-09-01 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
I recently built a system using a VIA EPIA PD1 motherboard with a VIA C3 (1GHz) processor on it. I've successfully compiled the entire system (buildworld and buildkernel) for 4.10-STABLE and a number of ports. Everything appears to work fine. If you want to build your own kernel, be aware

netstat -m 'cannot allocate memory'

2004-07-29 Thread lists
Hello, On 2 of my systems I get the following error while doing netstat -m: $ netstat -m netstat: sysctl: retrieving mbstat: Cannot allocate memory This is a PIV 2ghz, with 1,5 GB of memory I couldn't find anything about this on the internet.. anyone that has any idea whats wrong here ? Thanks

Re: netstat -m 'cannot allocate memory'

2004-07-29 Thread lists
/messages, vmstat, and top tell you -- Steve Rieger ICQ # 5956607 yahoo IM riegersteve - Original Message - From: lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 1:08 AM Subject: netstat -m 'cannot allocate memory' Hello, On 2 of my systems I get the following error

Re: netstat -m 'cannot allocate memory'

2004-07-29 Thread lists
Is it possible to rebuild these without doing a complete make world and if so without rebooting ? Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 29), lists said: Hello, On 2 of my systems I get the following error while doing netstat -m: $ netstat -m netstat: sysctl: retrieving mbstat: Cannot

Re: ipfw count rules to count traffic to virtual ip's

2004-07-06 Thread lists
Anyone ? Hello, I'm trying to setup ipfw to count traffic to each ip on the server (one interface with multiple aliased ip's) now it seems that the count rules are about the same for each ip while this isn't the truth.. 7 7715117 6712750640 count ip from any to any via fxp0 8 2953770

Re: ipfw count rules to count traffic to virtual ip's

2004-07-06 Thread lists
Well : This won't work: ipfw add 00010 count tcp from any to any via 1.1.1.1 ipfw add 00011 count tcp from any to any in recv 1.1.1.1 ipfw add 00012 count tcp from any to any out xmit 1.1.1.1 ipfw add 00016 count tcp from any to any via 2.2.2.2 ipfw add 00017 count tcp from any to any in recv

Re: ipfw count rules to count traffic to virtual ip's

2004-07-06 Thread lists
Ok then I get it.. I thought ipfw was also able to have a ip address there instead of only a interface. Thanks Steve Bertrand wrote: Well : This won't work: ipfw add 00010 count tcp from any to any via 1.1.1.1 ipfw add 00011 count tcp from any to any in recv 1.1.1.1 ipfw add 00012 count tcp

Re: ipfw count rules to count traffic to virtual ip's

2004-07-06 Thread lists
Yea thats the part I read from the manual and tried but got these out put from.. with the rule count tcp from 1.1.1.1 to any it also works so no big deal there I was just wondering if i did something wrong or not.. If anyone has got a answer please let us know. Thanks. Steve Bertrand wrote: Ok

ipfw count rules to count traffic to virtual ip's

2004-07-05 Thread lists
Hello, I'm trying to setup ipfw to count traffic to each ip on the server (one interface with multiple aliased ip's) now it seems that the count rules are about the same for each ip while this isn't the truth.. 7 7715117 6712750640 count ip from any to any via fxp0 8 2953770 167284959

Swap size

2004-07-04 Thread Lists
Hello all, What swap size should i use having 768 Mb of memory? I've heard something about preformance degradation if swap size is bellow 2x of ram... Thanks, Alexander. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Which version of freebsd..

2004-04-25 Thread lists
Currently were going to reinstall all servers we have from redhat 9 to freebsd because redhat 9 is EOL... But after reading a few mails here that 4.9 is most likely not supported for a long time.. what version should we take then? We will be using it for multiple servers (mail, database, app,

Re: FTP Program

2004-04-25 Thread lists
Gerard Seibert wrote: I am currently using WS_FTP Pro version 8.03 on my WinXP Pro machine. I was wondering if anyone could recommend a similar type FTP program for FreeBSD. I really like the ease of use, scheduling capabilities, etc. of WS_FTP and would therefore like to find a similar product

Re: anyone using vmware to run freebsd

2004-04-21 Thread lists
David Bear wrote: i did a quick search of the web site and there was mention of using vmware to launch other os's from bsd, but is anyone using some other os to host vmware and then launch freebsd? separate question.. didn't know how to phrase search for this. ARe there any self contained freebsd

Re: anyone using vmware to run freebsd

2004-04-21 Thread lists
lists wrote: David Bear wrote: i did a quick search of the web site and there was mention of using vmware to launch other os's from bsd, but is anyone using some other os to host vmware and then launch freebsd? separate question.. didn't know how to phrase search for this. ARe there any self

Re: Enabling USB ports for printing...

2004-03-24 Thread lists
Well, on the good side, Warren, my firewall is now working. Even if defined open. A step at a time, right? I checked rc.conf and usb is already enabled. I thought I might have forgotten that. Checked the bios and usb is supported and engaged. Dmesg does not say anything about specified ports

Re: traffic speed stats are not right

2004-03-23 Thread lists
anyone ? On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 13:00, lists wrote: Hello, The traffic stats on my freebsd stable box are way to low. When I copy over files from one server to another then it goes with about 6 meg/sec the box where i copy from is an linux machine and this one says the speed is indeed

Enabling USB ports for printing...

2004-03-23 Thread lists
I'm running 4.9-STABLE, CUPS 1.1.19 and I'm trying to get an Epson Photo Stylus 1270 (usb) working with the system and CUPS. So far, no luck. I've walked through the setup for CUPS via http://127.0.0.1:631/ in order to add the usb printer. I'm at a loss to figure this out. What am I missing?

Enabling USB ports for...stuff/printing...

2004-03-23 Thread lists
Running 4.9-STABLE, CUPS 1.1.19 and I'm trying to get an Epson Photo Stylus 1270 (usb) working with the system and CUPS. So far, no luck. I've walked through the setup for CUPS via http://127.0.0.1:631/. I'm at a loss to figure this out. What am I missing? Here's what I have. % ls /dev/ulpt*

traffic speed stats are not right

2004-03-22 Thread lists
Hello, The traffic stats on my freebsd stable box are way to low. When I copy over files from one server to another then it goes with about 6 meg/sec the box where i copy from is an linux machine and this one says the speed is indeed around the 6 meg/sec measured with iptraf and mrtg. but when

Re: MAKEDEV - where is it?

2004-03-22 Thread lists
Hey, you know, I was JUST reading this once again: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.html#WHERE- IS-MAKEDEV On Mar 22, 2004, at 3:46 PM, GP wrote: Hi, would anyone know where the MAKEDEV file in FreeBSD version 5.1 resides if it does? I cannot find the file anywhere!

Re: KDE 3.2.1

2004-03-20 Thread Rob (Mailing Lists)
On Saturday 20 March 2004 01:55, Chris wrote: Is it me? Or does KDE 3.2.1 seem to run much faster then 3.2.0? I've noticed this ass well, and even more so since qt33 has been put into ports. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Printing from Mac OS X to CUPS on FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE...

2004-03-15 Thread lists
Okay. I've looked hi and lo for an answer to this and I'm not coming up with anything useful. I have two machines on the same network (192.168.0.x). One is an x86 running 4.9-STABLE and CUPS 1.1.19. The other is a PowerBook G4 running Mac OS X 10.3.2 (Panther). The x86 machine has an HP laser

mrtg graphics ar way to low..

2004-03-11 Thread lists
hi, Currently i'm installing mrtg and net-snmp on all my servers, All the linux servers just work like they should but the mrtg stats for the freebsd 4.9 (stable) server are way to low.. When I copied over a few gig of data from a linux server to the freebsd server.. The linux stats in mrtg

NFS not responding.

2004-03-03 Thread Lists
Hi all, I'm experiencing problems with a 4.9 server attached to a NetApp. Some background. There are several Solaris 8 machines connected to it, and (2) FreeBSD 4.9 machines. The Solaris servers and one FreeBSD machine have no issues connecting to the NetApp. However, the 4.9 server in

Mailman web interface not changing settings

2004-02-05 Thread lists
Dear list, I hope this is a valid question on this list, if not please ignore me and I'll go bother the mailman people. I have just installed Mailman 2.1.4 on a 4.9-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD system, using portupgrade(upgrading from v2.1.1 - v2.1.4). It runs fine from the command line but I can not use

Re: Hardware requirements for firewall

2004-01-08 Thread lists
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Wayne Pascoe wrote: Why not just try it? Because it's a commercial hosting operation pushing up to 20Mb/s with SLA's to our clients. My biggest fear is not that this won't work, but that it will work but with intermittant bugs. Introducing a new machine has a certain

Re: archiving and restoring disk images...

2003-12-09 Thread lists
Thanks, Dan. I'm thinking this whole process over based on what you've said. I've never tried storing a disk as an archive, so I thought I'd try it on for size. Thanks for your point of view. Very helpful. Alex On Tuesday, December 9, 2003, at 05:26 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode

Re: Mini atx for firewall

2003-11-20 Thread lists
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, J. Seth Henry wrote: Guys, Case Outlet*, and perhaps others by now, have the Travla Flex ATX / mini ITX case that will accomodate two PCI cards. I have an 933MHz EPIA board with two 3c905TX-C NICs, and have seen a substantial improvement in performance over my old

Unable

2003-11-14 Thread FreeBSD lists
Hi , I m trying to install FreeBSD 4.9 on a Compaq Deskpro EP series PIII600 with 256Mb RAM 12Gb HDD . This is the message that I got : Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/ad0s1a! Command returned status 36. I tried to change in BIOS from UDMA to PIO-0 PIO-4 EDMA but without luck.

Unable to make new root filesystem

2003-11-14 Thread FreeBSD lists
Hi , I m trying to install FreeBSD 4.9 on a Compaq Deskpro EP series PIII600 with 256Mb RAM 12Gb HDD . This is the message that I got : Unable to make new root filesystem on /dev/ad0s1a! Command returned status 36. I tried to change in BIOS from UDMA to PIO-0 PIO-4 EDMA but without luck.

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