Help about Tape Device

2003-01-28 Thread shen chao
Hi: Can someone tell me how to configure the Tape Device if it is not identified by the FreeBSD.Or I must add options to the kernel. Mine is dds-3 12/24G internal scsi Tape device. Shen Chao _ The new MSN 8: smart spam

Re: sandboxing named...

2003-01-28 Thread Ceri Davies
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:45:27AM -0500, Chuck Swiger wrote: I believe the normal way to chroot named in FreeBSD is something like: named_enable=YES named_flags=-u bind -g bind -t /etc/namedb -c named.conf ...in /etc/rc.conf. When doing so, the following seems to make life much better

Re: Spam filter combined with virus filter

2003-01-28 Thread Simon Dick
On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 04:23, Dragoncrest wrote: Looking for a good anti-virus to go with my spam filter. Currently using spam assassin with mixed results, but now I'm getting more and more of these stupid viruses coming into the mail server I'd rather deal without. Anybody got a

help needed!

2003-01-28 Thread
Hello, gentlemen! Our company has an email internet server working under FreeBSD. We use it for mail and as a internet gate, not for web-hosting. We have no specialists in UNIX systems, but we have a great need of measuring IP-traffic via the server. Can we use any standard commands for this

Re: Help about Tape Device

2003-01-28 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi! Can someone tell me how to configure the Tape Device if it is not identified by the FreeBSD.Or I must add options to the kernel. Mine is dds-3 12/24G internal scsi Tape device. In my experience SCSI tape drives require no special configuration of FreeBSD. You just need to make sure

Fixing degraded atacontrol based software RAID?

2003-01-28 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hello, I have a machine running atacontrol based software RAID in which one of the disks recently failed (Maxtor, not IBM for those who want to know). Now I'm wondering how I should go about fixing this. atacontrol seems to lack a command to fix broken software only arrays. I suppose I could use

Installing customized mod_php4 port

2003-01-28 Thread Andreas Pauley
Hi, I would like to know what the preferred way is for installing the mod_php4 port (4.2.3) with your own customized options enabled. This is on FreeBSD 4.7, in conjunction with apache+mod_ssl-1.3.27+2.8.12. I see the Makefile's CONFIGURE_ARGS specifically states --without-gd and

Re: Installing customized mod_php4 port

2003-01-28 Thread Adam Weinberger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just run 'make' from the mod_php4 directory. You set all those options interactively. # Adam (01.28.2003 @ 0253 PST): Andreas Pauley said, in 1.0K: Hi, I would like to know what the preferred way is for installing the mod_php4 port (4.2.3)

Re: Installing customized mod_php4 port

2003-01-28 Thread Stijn Hoop
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:00:41AM -0800, Adam Weinberger wrote: Just run 'make' from the mod_php4 directory. You set all those options interactively. Or for the noninteractive version: # make PHP4_OPTIONS='\option1\ \option2\ ...' BATCH=yes install The quotes backslashes are necessary

Re: IMAP2

2003-01-28 Thread Mykroft Holmes IV
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 06:48, Gannater János wrote: My problem is that, I installed the popper and the imap-uw programs. With make install from their directory in /usr/ports. My first problem is that I can't find the popper program... All the installations went fine! Athought the impad

Re: How to stop BIND from using high ports?

2003-01-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:29:28AM +0100, Mark wrote: I am having a bit of a problem. One might say, a serious problem. :( When other servers query my name servers, they send queries with a source port of 53; but apparently my BIND (8.3.4) is responding from a high port (seemingly random).

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2003-01-28 Thread heather
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Re: Anyone using popFile in FreeBSD?

2003-01-28 Thread Andrew Brampton
Yes, I'm currently using this on my FreeBSD box checking mail from a Windows Outlook Express machine, and all is working fine. Didn't take long to set up, and very quickly got accurate. I'm on many mailing lists, and receive far too many emails a day, a few 100 atleast. So far after using

Re: help needed!

2003-01-28 Thread Saint Aardvark the Carpeted
We have no specialists in UNIX systems, but we have a great need of measuring IP-traffic via the server. Can we use any standard commands for this purpose or do we need to get a special program for it? MRTG is probably what you're looking for: it produces graphs, updated every five minutes

Re: help needed!

2003-01-28 Thread Bill Moran
ÈÂÖ wrote: Hello, gentlemen! Our company has an email internet server working under FreeBSD. We use it for mail and as a internet gate, not for web-hosting. We have no specialists in UNIX systems, but we have a great need of measuring IP-traffic via the server. Can we use any standard commands

emu10k1

2003-01-28 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi ! I know this question was asked a lot in the past, but I coudn't find any answer. Is there any way I could get bass/treble switches in the sound mixer ? I have a Creative SBLive. kldstat: snd_emu10k1.ko snd_pcm.ko I know some months ago someone was working on a patch to implement some of

Re: IMAP2

2003-01-28 Thread Jim Trigg
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 07:41:36AM -0500, Mykroft Holmes IV wrote: On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 06:48, Gannater J??nos wrote: My problem is that, I installed the popper and the imap-uw programs. With make install from their directory in /usr/ports. My first problem is that I can't find the

Re: Fixit instructions

2003-01-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-01-28 17:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There are also some writeups on the FreeBSD web site on troubleshooting. Don't doubt you, but that is the first place I looked on the Internet. That info is well hidden, I think. Not quite. I believe by

Re: IMAP2

2003-01-28 Thread Gannater Jnos
Your inetd daemon is running, right? If not, check the Handbook on how to enable it (IIRC it's an option you need to set in rc.conf, but should be enabled in /etc/defaults/rc.conf) Thanks a lot for all of you! I have found the problem! My inet dameon was desabled at the /etc/rc.conf

Re: Problems w NIC

2003-01-28 Thread Nikolaj Farrell
I guess this thread is dead by now. Just thought I should tell all of you who have tried to help me that I bought a new NIC yesterday with a different chipset. Everything works like a charm! I am not going to bother further testing with the Cnet-card- even though it was brand new. If anyone

Re: How to stop BIND from using high ports?

2003-01-28 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 1:52 PM Subject: Re: How to stop BIND from using high ports? On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:29:28AM +0100, Mark wrote: I am having a bit of a problem. One might say, a

Re: Anyone using popFile in FreeBSD?

2003-01-28 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Andrew Brampton wrote: Yes, I'm currently using this on my FreeBSD box checking mail from a Windows Outlook Express machine, and all is working fine. Didn't take long to set up, and very quickly got accurate. I'm on many mailing lists, and receive far too many emails a

Re: sandboxing named...

2003-01-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
Ceri Davies wrote: [ ... ] Please read the section on this in the handbook. This one: 17.9.8 Running named in a Sandbox Contributed by Ceri Davies. ...? :-) Thank you. -Chuck Hmm. Quick testing suggests that having a /usr/obj tree lying around does trigger the problem of staticly

Re: mozilla build port hangs at /usr/bin/sed

2003-01-28 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-27 13:12:39 +0100: Hi, i can't build mozilla from ports on FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE. It hangs at this point: /usr/bin/sed -e s|%%PREFIX%%|/usr/X11R6|g -e s|%%MOZILLA%%|mozilla|g /usr/ports/www/mozilla/files/mozilla.sh

Re: Caching nameserver question - I need a spot here . . .

2003-01-28 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-27 17:15:29 -0500: Hey all. I'm finally getting around to setting up a caching dns server. Pretty confusing from my angle. Here's what I have so far: named enaabled in /etc/rc.conf cd to /etc/namedb and run sh make-localhost and the following in

more named questions . . .

2003-01-28 Thread Louis LeBlanc
I've been working on setting up named in a sandbox. I got some helpful hints here where I couldn't quite understand the handbook (yes, I did read it, that doesn't necessarily mean I understood it :). Anyway, I followed the handbook steps for sandboxing named exactly - meaning I didn't even

desknote 928a sis 900 ethernet driver problems?

2003-01-28 Thread Evren Yurtesen
I have desknote 928a and sis 900 ethernet says attach returned 6 although it finds the MAC. I tried with 4.6.2, 4.7, 5.0 release boot floppies! Same result! Did anybody have any luck with this? Evren To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body

5.0 buildworld dying on kerberos

2003-01-28 Thread David J. Haines
Hey all- I am trying to do a buildworld on 5.0-RELEASE, but it seems to die while making the kerberos5 system. And ideas? The error is as follows. === kerberos5/libexec === kerberos5/libexec/ipropd-master cc -O -pipe -march=pentium4

Re: Caching nameserver question - I need a spot here . . .

2003-01-28 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 01/28/03 03:39 PM, Roman Neuhauser sat at the `puter and typed: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-27 17:15:29 -0500: Hey all. I'm finally getting around to setting up a caching dns server. Pretty confusing from my angle. Here's what I have so far: named enaabled in /etc/rc.conf cd

Re: mozilla build port hangs at /usr/bin/sed

2003-01-28 Thread Pascal Giannakakis
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-27 13:12:39 +0100: Hi, i can't build mozilla from ports on FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE. It hangs at this point: /usr/bin/sed -e s|%%PREFIX%%|/usr/X11R6|g -e s|%%MOZILLA%%|mozilla|g /usr/ports/www/mozilla/files/mozilla.sh

Re: 5.0 buildworld dying on kerberos

2003-01-28 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003 07:52:30 -0800 David J. Haines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hey all- I am trying to do a buildworld on 5.0-RELEASE, but it seems to die while making the kerberos5 system. And ideas? The error is as follows. === kerberos5/libexec ===

Re: bsd

2003-01-28 Thread John Bleichert
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Justin Carrera wrote: Subject: bsd what is the difference between Freebsd and Openbsd? thank you This is kinda hard to answer in a mailing list. OpenBSD is primarily concerned with code review and producing an uber-secure operating system. A lot of this work

Re: Caching nameserver question - I need a spot here . . .

2003-01-28 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-28 10:52:10 -0500: I want just a caching nameserver. If I understand correctly, you are suggesting I remove the 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA zone. So I should only have the hint zone, right? exactly. -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most

Re: How to stop BIND from using high ports?

2003-01-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:11:51PM +0100, Mark wrote: - Original Message - From: Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 1:52 PM Subject: Re: How to stop BIND from using high ports? On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:29:28AM +0100, Mark

FreeBSD 5.0 on Dell Inspiron 2650

2003-01-28 Thread Mark Miller
Hello, I'm trying to put 5.0-RELEASE on my new laptop, and I found a good guide for doing so with 4.x-- basically, you have to escape the autoboot process, type boot -c, enter eisa 0 at the config prompt, and then quit to start the boot. But it seems like 5.0 does not support boot -c (just

IMAPd

2003-01-28 Thread Gannater Jnos
It seems like my IMAPd is loaded, but not correctly. How can I tell IMAPd to use my authentication information? And how should I configure IMAPd? My problem is that when I try to log in to my accounts from squirrelmail it says their are not availible. Althought I used the right password and

Re: more named questions . . .

2003-01-28 Thread Dan Pelleg
Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And, finally, once I got named started in this manner, I got the following message in the /var/log/messages: Jan 28 10:41:04 keyslapper named[42779]: check_hints: A records for J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET class 1 do not match hint records Doing a lookup,

FW: Running 4.7-REL need bind-9.1+

2003-01-28 Thread Everett Batey EL
Guess it was a big mistake to send a security issue question to security@freebsd, I apologize. My concerns are over my FreeBSD 4.7-REL bind-8. I am under a lot of pressure (to stay on the air) to upgrade just the bind 8.x to preferably 9.2.2. IS THERE ANY WAY to just get the

Re: FreeBSD-5.0 xl0 problem

2003-01-28 Thread Alex
Dear/Beste Roman, Monday, January 27, 2003, 9:21:45 AM, you wrote: I currently installed FreeBSD-5.0 and having problem configuring xl card. Dmesg shows that kernel picks it up: xl0: 3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL port 0xe400-0xe47f mem 0xe000-0xe07f irq 11 at device 9.0 on

Re: IMAPd

2003-01-28 Thread Michael K. Smith
On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 09:44 AM, Gannater János wrote: It seems like my IMAPd is loaded, but not correctly. How can I tell IMAPd to use my authentication information? And how should I configure IMAPd? My problem is that when I try to log in to my accounts from squirrelmail it says

Re: 5.0 buildworld dying on kerberos

2003-01-28 Thread David J. Haines
Well, that didn't fix it. I set the CPUTYPE as instructed, but I got the following error: === kerberos5/lib/libkadm5clnt === kerberos5/lib/libkadm5srv === kerberos5/lib/libsl === kerberos5/lib/libgssapi === kerberos5/lib/libkafs5 === kerberos5/lib/libtelnet === kerberos5/libexec ===

Re: mozilla build port hangs at /usr/bin/sed

2003-01-28 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-28 16:54:20 +0100: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-27 13:12:39 +0100: Hi, i can't build mozilla from ports on FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE. It hangs at this point: /usr/bin/sed -e s|%%PREFIX%%|/usr/X11R6|g -e s|%%MOZILLA%%|mozilla|g

cvs

2003-01-28 Thread Brian Henning
I am setting up a cvs server on my bsd box. So far i have enabled pserver in my /etc/initd.conf file. I have added a user called 'cvsuser' i have created a repository in /home/cvsroot i have pointed my CVSROOT variable to that cvsroot directory. when i enter the command cvs -d

SOLVED! (was: Re: How to stop BIND from using high ports?)

2003-01-28 Thread Mark
- Original Message - From: Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 5:31 PM Subject: Re: How to stop BIND from using high ports? On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:11:51PM +0100, Mark wrote: --[ with src port = 53 ] 15:33:03.472128

Re: IMAPd

2003-01-28 Thread Gannater Jnos
My guess is either your inetd.conf file or your Squirrel Mail configuration are broken. Here are both for UW Imap. Server Settings 1. Domain : your domain 2. IMAP Server : localhost 3. IMAP Port: 143 4. Use Sendmail/SMTP: SMTP 6.SMTP

Re: Which files and directories to backup?

2003-01-28 Thread Francisco Reyes
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Brett Harris wrote: The best way that I've found to back my machine's configs up, is to create a directory such as /etc/config , *move* all my important configuration files to it (firewall, syslogd, rc.conf etc - basically anything i'd want to keep for a new machine), and

IP Change == Problems

2003-01-28 Thread Joseph Maxwell
Hello, I recently changed my ISP - DSL provider, a new static IP, and now having problems ssh'ing in, none before. My config == ISP[DSL] | Modem | Router/Gateway | == HubLAN machine(1) |LAN machine(2) | |LAN machine(n) The LAN

Managing /etc/hosts.lpd??

2003-01-28 Thread Mark
Hello, Is there a better way to manage lpd permissions than specifying individual hosts in /etc/hosts.lpd? I have a heterogeneous network here (there are a few Winder's machines in addition to a bunch of Unix machines) that has a bunch o' machines on it, all of which are listed in a

Re: Managing /etc/hosts.lpd??

2003-01-28 Thread Bill Moran
Mark wrote: Hello, Is there a better way to manage lpd permissions than specifying individual hosts in /etc/hosts.lpd? I have a heterogeneous network here (there are a few Winder's machines in addition to a bunch of Unix machines) that has a bunch o' machines on it, all of which are

Re: is our printf(1) behavior correct w.r.t \0 escapes?

2003-01-28 Thread Conrad Sabatier
On 28-Jan-2003 John Reynolds~ wrote: We need to echo a string *and* a NUL character (\0) into a stream so that a program that delimits its input by \0 characters will do the right thing. He had been doing this via printf(1) like so: % printf some string\0 | some_process however, it

Re: is our printf(1) behavior correct w.r.t \0 escapes?

2003-01-28 Thread John Reynolds~
[ On Tuesday, January 28, Conrad Sabatier wrote: ] Works fine under -current: $ printf foo\0bar\0 | od -c 000f o o \0 b a r \0 This also works under -current: $ printf foo\ | od -c 000f o o \0

Re: is our printf(1) behavior correct w.r.t \0 escapes?

2003-01-28 Thread Conrad Sabatier
On 28-Jan-2003 John Reynolds~ wrote: [ On Tuesday, January 28, Conrad Sabatier wrote: ] It may very well be that printf (or libc?) has a bug under -stable. Are you using any unusual optimization settings in /etc/make.conf, by the way? When did you last upgrade? nope, nothing unusual.

Re: is our printf(1) behavior correct w.r.t \0 escapes?

2003-01-28 Thread John Reynolds~
[ On Tuesday, January 28, Conrad Sabatier wrote: ] Unless it's already been done. :-) Can you check the RCS Id in /usr/src/usr.bin/printf/printf.c? Here's what I have: $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/printf/printf.c,v 1.26 2002/09/04 23:29:05 dwmalone Exp $ Now, if we have identical versions,

portupgrade of rsync-2.5.5_1 fails

2003-01-28 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello, After a fresh cvsup of ports tree, portupgrade -R rsync2.5.5_1 fails. Here is the uname info: $ uname -a FreeBSD snip 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #0: Fri Nov 15 23:37:50 GMT 2002 snip:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/snip i386 $ Here is a tail of the portupgrade output: rsync 2.5.6

can we use KDE 3.1 on FreeBSD 4.7?

2003-01-28 Thread BSD baby
Sorry for the newbie Q: I'd love to start using KDE 3.1 as soon as possible on my FreeBSD 4.7 box. How will I know when/if it's ready to install from ports? What's the recommended method? Just 'cvsup' and see if it's there? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

RE: can we use KDE 3.1 on FreeBSD 4.7?

2003-01-28 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the newbie Q: I'd love to start using KDE 3.1 as soon as possible on my FreeBSD 4.7 box. How will I know when/if it's ready to install from ports? What's the recommended method? Just 'cvsup' and see if it's there? You can also have a look at

RE: can we use KDE 3.1 on FreeBSD 4.7?

2003-01-28 Thread Scott A. Moberly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the newbie Q: I'd love to start using KDE 3.1 as soon as possible on my FreeBSD 4.7 box. How will I know when/if it's ready to install from ports? What's the recommended method? Just 'cvsup' and see if it's there? You can also have a look at

setuid sendmail

2003-01-28 Thread Michael Grant
It seems that sendmail is no longer setuid root. (I have 4.7 on one box where it's not setuid and 4.2 stable on another box where it is). When I run mailq from my 4.7 box, I get a permission denied error when run as a normal user. Is this now the expected behavior? Is there any relatively

Deleted files not releasing their space (was Re: syslog message wrtinodes)

2003-01-28 Thread Bill Moran
David Bear wrote: I'm getting messages like below that I'm out of inodes on /var. asu.edu kernel log messages: id 25 on /var: out of inodes syslogd: /var/log/auth.log: No such file or directory syslogd: /var/log/maillog: No such file or directory syslogd: /var/log/cron: No such file or

Fw: cvs

2003-01-28 Thread Brian Henning
John, the only step i am not clear on is step 4. Where can i find the passwd file that i should use? I assume that you are talking about the shadowed password file. Thanks for you input, Brian - Original Message - From: John Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brian Henning [EMAIL

Changing the Maximum Segment Size (MSS) of Kame MIP6 for Free BSD 4.4

2003-01-28 Thread Audsin
Respected Sir/ Madam I am Dev, doing my research in Centre for Telecommunications Research, King's college London. My research project involves evaluating the performance of MIP6 TCP in the presence of fragmentation and without fragmentation. I am using Kame MIP6 for Free BSD 4.4. I wish to

Re: 5.0 buildworld dying on kerberos

2003-01-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
Try compiling with the following in your make.conf file: NO_CPU_CFLAGS= true#Don't add -march=cpu to CFLAGS automatically NO_CPU_COPTFLAGS=true #Don't add -march=cpu to COPTFLAGS automatically On 2003-01-28 10:09, David J. Haines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, that didn't fix it.

Re: IMAPd

2003-01-28 Thread Aslak Evang
It seems like my IMAPd is loaded, but not correctly. How can I tell IMAPd to use my authentication information? And how should I configure IMAPd? My problem is that when I try to log in to my accounts from squirrelmail it says their are not availible. Althought I used the right password and

Re: Rsync port problem...

2003-01-28 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hi Oliver, On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 20:34, Oliver Braun wrote: Hi, I have messed up the Makefile just before the commit :-( Thanks to you all for pointing this out. The fix (s/@{STRIP_CMD}/@${STRIP_CMD}/) has been committed a minute ago. Thanks for that., and for taking the time to

Re: ICMP/Connection Oddity (SOLVED)

2003-01-28 Thread Michael K. Smith
On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 01:18 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: Michael K. Smith wrote: [ ... ] So, here's the issue. When I ping any of the FreeBSD servers, every 200th packet is dropped, irrespective of frame size (anywhere from 100 to 1500 bytes). I see exactly the same behavior on

ccd problem

2003-01-28 Thread Damien Hull
I'm trying to setup raid 0 between two 80 gig drives using ccd but it's not working. Here is the setup. 1. two 80 gig drives 2. Both on a Promise ultra 66 card 3. System disk is separate According to the FreeBSD hand book you need to run disklabel to give the disk a lable and to change the

PPP with PPPoE stalls

2003-01-28 Thread Bartosz Fabianowski
Hi, I have a problem with userland PPP that has persisted ever since 4.5 (currently using 4.6 and the problem is still there). I am on DSL and therefore connecting through the tun0 device and PPPoE. My problem is, that after some (varying) time, the connection just stalls. According to PPP's

FreeBSD 5.0 woes

2003-01-28 Thread Juless Grosse
I installed FreeBSD 5.0 this weekend at home and removed it five hours laters. Two problems made this use of this OS prohibitive for me, although I was hoping to stop using Debian and start using FreeBSD. 1) Awful performance on the sound subsystem under heavy load. If I copy large files, or

Re: PPP with PPPoE stalls

2003-01-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: [ ... ] I have a problem with userland PPP that has persisted ever since 4.5 (currently using 4.6 and the problem is still there). I am on DSL and therefore connecting through the tun0 device and PPPoE. Have you tried adjusting the MTU? ISPs which use PPPoE need to

Re: FreeBSD 5.0 woes

2003-01-28 Thread Mike Meyer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Juless Grosse [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: Can anybody here confirm if these are common problems, and if there are any settings I might tune for their removal? I really wish I could change to FreeBSD. The performance issue is easy, and in the early adopter's guide, which

Re: FW: Running 4.7-REL need bind-9.1+

2003-01-28 Thread Marc Schneiders
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, at 09:49 [=GMT-0800], Everett Batey EL wrote: My concerns are over my FreeBSD 4.7-REL bind-8. I am under a lot of pressure (to stay on the air) to upgrade just the bind 8.x to preferably 9.2.2. IS THERE ANY WAY to just get the /usr/ports/.../bind-9.2.x FOR 4.7R ??? i

RE: kde 3.1 on freebsd

2003-01-28 Thread Joey Mingrone
oopss.. that should have been *freebsd.kde.org* Joey From kde.freebsd.org: Looks like KDE 3.1 has finally been released. See the announcement on the KDE web site. More on FreeBSD ports and packages as it becomes available. Joey

Re: FreeBSD 5.0 woes

2003-01-28 Thread Bill Moran
Juless Grosse wrote: I installed FreeBSD 5.0 this weekend at home and removed it five hours laters. Two problems made this use of this OS prohibitive for me, although I was hoping to stop using Debian and start using FreeBSD. 1) Awful performance on the sound subsystem under heavy load. If I

how to kill a while loop...

2003-01-28 Thread Josh Brooks
Hi, I ran a command like: while `some command` ; do something ; done and I missed the PID output when I backgrounded it. Now I want to kill this while process, but I cannot find it anymore. I tried to ps auxw | grep while, and grep do and so on, but I cannot find the process to kill it.

Re: is our printf(1) behavior correct w.r.t \0 escapes?

2003-01-28 Thread Conrad Sabatier
On 28-Jan-2003 John Reynolds~ wrote: [ On Tuesday, January 28, Conrad Sabatier wrote: ] Unless it's already been done. :-) Can you check the RCS Id in /usr/src/usr.bin/printf/printf.c? Here's what I have: $FreeBSD: src/usr.bin/printf/printf.c,v 1.26 2002/09/04 23:29:05 dwmalone Exp

Re: Managing /etc/hosts.lpd??

2003-01-28 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:19 PM -0500 1/28/03, Bill Moran wrote: Mark wrote: Is there a better way to manage lpd permissions than specifying individual hosts in /etc/hosts.lpd? I have a heterogeneous network here (there are a few Winder's machines in addition to a bunch of Unix machines) that has a bunch of

FREE, NEW BOOKLET reveals the hidden secrets of bulk e-mail!

2003-01-28 Thread cashmaker
Hello. If Mastercard, Polaroid, Century21, and AOL use it safely and effectively, why can't you? Well you can...if you know the secrets! Legal, ethical, and responsible Bulk E-mail can make you rich! It will flood your bank account with money! But you have to know how, or it can lead you

Re: is our printf(1) behavior correct w.r.t \0 escapes?

2003-01-28 Thread John Reynolds~
[ On Tuesday, January 28, Conrad Sabatier wrote: ] Ah, OK. So there *is* a difference. I can't imagine there being anything unsafe about using the 5.0 version under -stable. But it would be best to confirm this. Perhaps you should file a PR? I will pull the -current sources tonight,

Re: sendmail - different smtp server

2003-01-28 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-01-27 23:07:11 +0800: Due to my ISP's smtp server not having a valid external hostname, I can only send emails to FreeBSD mailing list via yahoo's smtp server (which requires authentification). LART them, and if it doesn't help, LART them again. If that doesn't

dhclient scwewiness

2003-01-28 Thread Juhani Reissell
Ok, got a new cable modem. Pretty good so far. Now, I just need to get the DHCP client working. Haven't gotten too lucky with that so far. First, I just put the line ifconfig_xl0=DHCP in rc.conf. That did something. Resolv.conf looked good and the leases file in /var/db looked tremendous. But

Re: Deleted files not releasing their space (was Re: syslog messagewrt inodes)

2003-01-28 Thread Philip Hallstrom
(skip down) On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Bill Moran wrote: David Bear wrote: I'm getting messages like below that I'm out of inodes on /var. asu.edu kernel log messages: id 25 on /var: out of inodes syslogd: /var/log/auth.log: No such file or directory syslogd: /var/log/maillog: No such

can I upgrade 4.4 to 4.7 via cvsup

2003-01-28 Thread Hal Lynch
Is it possible/advisable to upgrade my 4.4 system to 4.7 either stepwise or in one jump. If so is there a blurb somewhere giving details?. hal To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

Re: can I upgrade 4.4 to 4.7 via cvsup

2003-01-28 Thread Sergey V. Golitzyn
yes, its possible, but after make world/ make kernel you will need to update some file in /etc directory, examples you can found in /usr/src/etc/ Sergey V. Golitzyn (Russia) On Wednesday 29 January 2003 02:32, Hal Lynch wrote: Is it possible/advisable to upgrade my 4.4 system to 4.7 either

Re: PPP with PPPoE stalls

2003-01-28 Thread Bartosz Fabianowski
Have you tried adjusting the MTU? ISPs which use PPPoE need to use a slightly smaller MTU than the default; for instance, Verizon.net wants 1492. Thanks for the tip, I had actually forgotten to set the MTU. However, it did not help :(. PPP still stalls... Bartosz To Unsubscribe: send mail

Your online-business depends ENTIRELY on THIS single TOOL!

2003-01-28 Thread removehot
Hello Frustrated? Angry for wasting your time AND money on stupid promotional tools that DON'T work? Let me guess; you've tried just about EVERYTHING that the Webmasters and Internet gurus suggested : Search Engines, E-Zines, FFAs, Opt-In lists, URL rotators, Banners, Banner Exchange, Pop-ups,

du of a union'd fs ...

2003-01-28 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Just a quick question, but is there a way of doing a du on a union'd fs, without unmounting the union? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message

rc.setiathome.conf proxy how?

2003-01-28 Thread jle
HELP! The documentation is pretty poor here. How do I add proxy support to the rc.setiathome.conf file? I've tried: seti_proxy_args=-proxy xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:port seti_proxy_args=http_proxy xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:port HTTTP_PROXY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:port and a bunch of other variations but I always get errors

Re: How to set-up two 'defaultrouter' IPs?

2003-01-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Phillip Smith (mailing list) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To create a somewhat redundant network connection, my friend has connected to business level ADSL connections at his home (32 IPs each). So, he has two routers, on two different networks (ATT/UUNET) and what he's doing is multi-homing his

Re: Fixit instructions

2003-01-28 Thread bastill
Quoting Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 2003-01-28 17:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There are also some writeups on the FreeBSD web site on troubleshooting. Don't doubt you, but that is the first place I looked on the Internet. That

Re: Checking Vulnerabilities

2003-01-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Jack L. Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 05:56 PM 1.27.2003 -0500, Mario Antonio wrote: Dear List, How Can I verify that my system has some of the discovered vulnerabilities? Is there any tool that I can use to help me out? Regards Mario The tool I use is regular cvsup for

Re: FreeBSD 5.0 woes

2003-01-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 04:38:10PM -0500, Juless Grosse wrote: I installed FreeBSD 5.0 this weekend at home and removed it five hours laters. Two problems made this use of this OS prohibitive for me, although I was hoping to stop using Debian and start using FreeBSD. Stick to the 4.x

Re: Deleted files not releasing their space (was Re: syslog message wrt inodes)

2003-01-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Let's see if I remember the details on this. I believe this happens when a file is deleted, but another program still holds a filehandle? to it. Thus, if you delete Apache's log file (for example) but don't restart Apache, the space the logfile is using

Brothers keeper

2003-01-28 Thread faah142
Dear Friend. As you read this, I don’t want you to feel sorry for me, because, I believe everyone will die someday. My name is Faisal Ahmed, a merchant in Dubai, in the U.A.E.I have been diagnosed with Esophageal cancer which was discovered very late, due to my laxity in carrying for my

Portupgrade and skipping ports?

2003-01-28 Thread Mike Dean
I would like to know if there is a way to have portupgrade update all ports, except a select few that I want to remain frozen (OpenOffice.org, simply because I no longer have the free space to rebuild it). It looks like I may be able to do something with the -B switch, but the documentation seems

Re: Portupgrade and skipping ports?

2003-01-28 Thread Kent Stewart
On Tuesday 28 January 2003 07:06 pm, Mike Dean wrote: I would like to know if there is a way to have portupgrade update all ports, except a select few that I want to remain frozen (OpenOffice.org, simply because I no longer have the free space to rebuild it). It looks like I may be able to do

Re: setuid sendmail

2003-01-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-01-28 20:50, Michael Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that sendmail is no longer setuid root. (I have 4.7 on one box where it's not setuid and 4.2 stable on another box where it is). You should really read the instructions in /usr/src/UPDATING at the 4.7 installation.

Re: Deleted files not releasing their space (was Re: syslog message wrt inodes)

2003-01-28 Thread David Bear
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 08:27:12PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Let's see if I remember the details on this. I believe this happens when a file is deleted, but another program still holds a filehandle? to it. Thus, if you delete Apache's log file (for

Re: Fw: cvs

2003-01-28 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2003-01-28 14:17, Brian Henning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Brian Henning wrote: I am setting up a cvs server on my bsd box. So far i have enabled pserver in my /etc/initd.conf file. I have added a user called 'cvsuser' i have created a repository in /home/cvsroot i have

php 4.3.0 in ports?

2003-01-28 Thread Ryan C. Creasey
Can we expect to find php 4.3.0 in ports anytime in the near future? Last I heard, they were waiting for the code freeze release to pass, but now that's done... when can we expect an updated php port? -- Ryan C. Creasey Network Engineer p11creative, p11.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

postfix on fbsd 5

2003-01-28 Thread Dave
Hello, Is anyone running postfix on fbsd5? I just installed it as per a howto and i am getting errors from sendmail about invalid flags even though sendmail is disabled. Postfix is also periodically complaining about not being able to access /etc/mail/aliases.db. If anyone is running this can

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