Re: default acl's permissions problem [continuation?]

2005-06-18 Thread Mark G.
Nathanael Jean-Francois wrote: Hi all, I've run into the little snag with default acl permissions, the issue was brought up in this thread http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=freebsd-questionsm=18504532207w=2 but there was no reply to it and my digging so far hasn't turned up anything

Doom Alien Doom

2005-06-18 Thread caleb
Hello, I am a doom addict and I just found out that doom is available from the ports tree :) I could install doom legacy but needed to download the doom.wad file and copy it to the doomlegacy directory. I could then run doom with no problems but because it is shareware I could not

Re: Random resets - N440BX

2005-06-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Fri, 2005-Jun-17 16:54:39 -0700, Larry Gadallah wrote: Now I'm experiencing random reboots, no core dumps or log messages and I'm trying to figure out what's gone wrong. I've dug up a few notes indicating that power supply or RAM are suspect. Does anyone know if going from P-IIs to P-IIIs would

Re: SMP and networking under FreeBSD 5.3

2005-06-18 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Joe wrote: Okay, back on topic. I've changed my rules in ipfw, and no longer get the hostname .. messages. Now natd does not start and it complains 'unable to bind divert socket, and then cant assign requested address'. I'm using: natd_enable=YES natd_interface=dc0 natd_flags=-dynamic -d

postfix or qmail?

2005-06-18 Thread Luciano Musacchio
hi, I've a simple question, postfix or qmail? :), I've a fair review for both from some linux admins, now, I want to know fbsd's community opinion :). The mail server (now running sendmail) serves ~300 accounts. Other thing (perhaps, the one that I interest more your opinion), do anyone know

RE: Booting with multiple RAID1 configs

2005-06-18 Thread Steve Bertrand
You might use loader(8) to set the root device (rootdev variable) explicitly to ar1s1a. Then you should also update fstab to reflect the numbering change. I don't know of any way to change the ata numbering scheme. Mainboard controllers always seem to be probed (and numbered) first. I

Re: Advice replacing Xorg with XFree86_4 - Nightmare on Elm Street Up_1

2005-06-18 Thread Everett Batey
Greg .. Right THEY (pkg_add, _delete, _info) are my friends.. Kent .. Could NOT find how to get XFree86-4.5.0,1 .. so Thought I was doing pretty good grepping out all the pkg_info refering xorg, 6.8.2 also, and pkg_delete -d-r each_found Then after editing the /etc/make.conf file to

RE: Booting with multiple RAID1 configs

2005-06-18 Thread Steve Bertrand
You might use loader(8) to set the root device (rootdev variable) explicitly to ar1s1a. Then you should also update fstab to reflect the numbering change. I don't know of any way to change the ata numbering scheme. Mainboard controllers always seem to be probed (and numbered) first. I

Re: Advice replacing Xorg with XFree86_4 - Nightmare on Elm Street Up_1

2005-06-18 Thread Mark Frank
* On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 07:52:31AM -0700 Everett Batey wrote: Then after editing the /etc/make.conf file to point back to the much more mature XFree86 .. What EVER POSSESSED us to make Xorg a default without warning, mentioning it DOES NOT understand some MODERN, POPULAR, DRIVERS, eg

Re: postfix or qmail?

2005-06-18 Thread Volker Kindermann
Hi Luciano, I've a simple question, postfix or qmail? the simple answer: both are good. If you're using sendmail right now, the change to postfix should be easier. I've heard that postfix is slightly faster when it comes to really massive number of emails (less disc-writing) but that

Re: postfix or qmail?

2005-06-18 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Luciano Musacchio wrote: hi, I've a simple question, postfix or qmail? :), I've a fair review for both from some linux admins, now, I want to know fbsd's community opinion :). The mail server (now running sendmail) serves ~300 accounts. From limited experience, Postfix is much better

Re: postfix or qmail?

2005-06-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Saturday 18 June 2005 06:24 am, Luciano Musacchio wrote: I've a simple question, postfix or qmail? :) My choice is Postfix. It's still under active development and isn't hampered by bizarre licensing and enormous egos. Furthermore, Qmail seems to have earned its reputation for security

Re: Booting with multiple RAID1 configs

2005-06-18 Thread Christian Hiris
On Saturday 18 June 2005 16:51:16, Steve Bertrand wrote: Hence, the aftermath on a properly booted system: pearl# atacontrol status 1 ar1: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad4 ad6 status: READY pearl# atacontrol status 0 ar0: ATA RAID1 subdisks: ad2 ad0 status: READY pearl# df -h FilesystemSize

Re: postfix or qmail?

2005-06-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Saturday 18 June 2005 10:21 am, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: It has some interesting tricks (an email address like user can automatically have aliases like user-*) In Postfix's main.cf: recipient_delimiter (default: empty) The separator between user names and address extensions

Re: postfix or qmail?

2005-06-18 Thread Robert Slade
On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 15:21, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Luciano Musacchio wrote: qmail documentation is, as far as I can tell, just Life with Qmail (google should do it). It has some interesting tricks (an email address like user can automatically have aliases like user-*) that I haven't really

hardware crypto questions

2005-06-18 Thread D. Goss
I have an option to get a PCI crypto card based on the Broadcom BCM5820 chipset. I see the card is still listed as current at Broadcom's site and that it is supported via the ubsec(4) driver in FreeBSD. Does anyone know a few of the various common and current crypto cards? I am having

Re: Kernel Core Dumping

2005-06-18 Thread J T
Just an update on this, everything has been fine since I deleted the file. No more crashes. Strange. -JT On 6/14/05, J T [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, For some reason my machine keeps crashing almost every night at around 3:00am with the following test in the messages log file: Jun 14

Re: Kernel Core Dumping

2005-06-18 Thread Subhro
On 6/18/2005 23:40, J T wrote: Just an update on this, everything has been fine since I deleted the file. No more crashes. Strange. -JT On 6/14/05, J T [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, For some reason my machine keeps crashing almost every night at around 3:00am with the following test in

Re: Advice replacing Xorg with XFree86_4

2005-06-18 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/17/05, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday, 17 June 2005 at 19:53:50 -0700, Everett Batey wrote: [snipped] That runs fine with my KM3M-V on board video .. Interesting. In general Xorg seems to work better. The problem he is having is that the via xorg driver

Re: postfix or qmail?

2005-06-18 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Kirk Strauser wrote: My choice is Postfix. It's still under active development and isn't hampered by bizarre licensing and enormous egos. Active development has to be the killer argument. Who wants to rely on software that no-one cares enough about to develop properly? Furthermore,

Re: Making a custom FreeBSD iso

2005-06-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Im ripping the iso image from the cd with dd dd if=/dev/acd0 of=file.iso bs=2048 Then, Im mounting the iso image mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /usr/iso-orig/file.iso -u 0 mount -t cd9660 /dev/md0 /iso ..and copying its contents to disk with cp -R tar cf - .|(cd /newdir;tar xpf -) would be

Re: Advice replacing Xorg with XFree86_4 - Nightmare on Elm Street Up_1

2005-06-18 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/18/05, Mark Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 07:52:31AM -0700 Everett Batey wrote: Then after editing the /etc/make.conf file to point back to the much more mature XFree86 .. What EVER POSSESSED us to make Xorg a default without warning, mentioning it DOES

Re: Advice replacing Xorg with XFree86_4

2005-06-18 Thread Everett Batey
Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. ALSO replied .. I should forget XFree86 and move smartly over to X.org .. YES .. Only If I DO NOT WANT to use any X-windows on either of the last two MoBos I have fooled with this month. Nikolas , I have no idea of where I would find an X.org based Linux

Re: Making a custom FreeBSD iso

2005-06-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-06-18 21:12, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im ripping the iso image from the cd with dd dd if=/dev/acd0 of=file.iso bs=2048 Then, Im mounting the iso image mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /usr/iso-orig/file.iso -u 0 mount -t cd9660 /dev/md0 /iso ..and copying its contents to

FreeBSD/Xen

2005-06-18 Thread Kimi Ostro
Hello I noticed Kip Macy has recently annouced a new commiter to src, is this any indication that FreeBSD/Xen is closer to reality? will it be available around 6.0-RELEASE? -- Kimi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Can't mount partitions with soft-updates enabled with async option

2005-06-18 Thread Lefteris Tsintjelis
I am not sure if I do something wrong here or it is suppose to work that way but the async option doesn't seem to work for partitions that have soft-updates turned on. Can someone please clarify the difference and if the speed difference (if any) is significant when using the async option instead

Re: Can't mount partitions with soft-updates enabled with async option

2005-06-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-06-18 23:19, Lefteris Tsintjelis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure if I do something wrong here or it is suppose to work that way but the async option doesn't seem to work for partitions that have soft-updates turned on. Why would you want to do that? Soft-updates already

FreeBSD as VMware Guest, need some assist on networking to Host

2005-06-18 Thread harold jones
I have read and re-read all the VMware docs about setting up BSD as host, but to no avail, simply can not get networking operational. Using, VMware 5.00.build 13124 FreeBSD 5.3.RELEASE #0 (as Guest) Win XP Pro 5.1.2600 SP2 (as Host) On, Intel Pent II, 264 MHz with 192Mb Symptom,

Re: gnome_upgrade.sh Firefox

2005-06-18 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello everyone, When modifying my make.conf file did not help me fix the problems outlined below in the root of this Thread, I decided to re-CVSup the tree and reinstall (since many items had not been re-built yet) the items from scratch. The first on the list was Firefox... the one that

Re: Can't mount partitions with soft-updates enabled with async option

2005-06-18 Thread Matthias Buelow
Lefteris Tsintjelis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am not sure if I do something wrong here or it is suppose to work that way but the async option doesn't seem to work for partitions that have soft-updates turned on. Can someone please clarify the difference and if the speed difference (if any) is

[SOLVED] Re: Accent keys in X11

2005-06-18 Thread Alejandro Pulver
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:04:19 -0300 Alejandro Pulver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, How can I use accent keys in X11? Thanks and Best Regards, Ale Sorry for replying to my own post but I found the solution (for English keyboards): = Using

VIA/S3G UniChrome IGP .. Xorg drivers .. not via .. FreeBSD

2005-06-18 Thread Everett Batey
According to http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=5ArticleID=68P=6 the Via User website, on running wins3id.exe .. my MSI KM3M-V Mobo like scanpci -v says .. Has Builton VIA/S3G UniChrome IGP Chip ID 7205 / SSven 1462 / SSdev 7061 which =s scanpci Output .. It is in hardware

RE: Can't mount partitions with soft-updates enabled with asyncoption

2005-06-18 Thread Darren Pilgrim
From: Matthias Buelow Lefteris Tsintjelis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am not sure if I do something wrong here or it is suppose to work that way but the async option doesn't seem to work for partitions that have soft-updates turned on. Can someone please clarify the difference and if the

keeping ports up to date on two personal machines

2005-06-18 Thread Anthony Philipp
Hello guys, I just have a quick question. I have two FreeBSD-5.4-p2 machines, and instead of using cvsup on both machines to keep my ports up to date could I just rsync /usr/ports/ from the faster machine to the other one without any issues? I understand I could run a private cvsup server, but

Re: keeping ports up to date on two personal machines

2005-06-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-06-18 18:07, Anthony Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello guys, I just have a quick question. I have two FreeBSD-5.4-p2 machines, and instead of using cvsup on both machines to keep my ports up to date could I just rsync /usr/ports/ from the faster machine to the other one without

Re: Can't mount partitions with soft-updates enabled with asyncoption

2005-06-18 Thread Matthias Buelow
Darren Pilgrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No. With softupdates, file writes are asynchronous, but writes to filesystem structures (metadata) are synchronous to prevent filesystem corruption if the machine crashes. The async mount option writes both That's wrong. mkb.

Re: dvd+rw on freebsd 4.10

2005-06-18 Thread atk2
Thank you for the comments. I am now attempting to burn my first dvd and I keep getting this error: bash-2.05b# growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd1a -R /a /b :-( unable to cam_open_pass(/dev/pass4,O_RDWR): No such file or directory -- I am unsure what causes this to happen. There is no /dev/pass4

Re: dvd+rw on freebsd 4.10

2005-06-18 Thread atk2
bleh. I solved it by making hte device with mknod. Sorry for the spam. Alan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: make x LC_ALL=C: command not found.

2005-06-18 Thread perikillo
On 4/26/05, Aaron Sloan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, step 1. I cvsup, rebuilt and installed world and generic kernel. Mergemastered just like I always do. I followed the handbook to the letter and this certainly isn't my first time. 5.4 stable. I customized my kernel and went to

Re: pf block question

2005-06-18 Thread Matt Rechkemmer
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 09:33:50PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Existing icmp states? Did you reload the rules with: /etc/rc.d/pf reload or by directly running pfctl? I tried flushing everything with pfctl -Fa, and then loading the rules with pfctl -f /etc/pf.conf. The

3G file burns to -514M file on DVD-R

2005-06-18 Thread Andrew L. Gould
I have a gzip'd database backup file that's 3GB in size. I used mkisofs to create an iso image for burning to a DVD-R. Both the mkisofs and growisofs process appeared to finish successfully; but 'ls -alh' shows the resulting file to be -514M in size when the DVD-R is mounted in FreeBSD 4.10.

Re: Can't mount partitions with soft-updates enabled with async option

2005-06-18 Thread Lefteris Tsintjelis
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Why would you want to do that? Soft-updates already provides most of the benefits of an async mount plus some extra goodies, like never leaving the filesystem in an inconsistent state. Kalimera Giorgo, For boosting io speed to the max it can get. The system is

Re: postfix or qmail?

2005-06-18 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 07:58:56PM +0100, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Furthermore, Qmail seems to have earned its reputation for security the standard DJB way: by implementing only the easy parts of the standard and complaining loudly about the hard parts (those are insecure!) until everyone quits

Netscape? Where is it?

2005-06-18 Thread E. J. Cerejo
I just updated the ports tree and now there is no netscape 7 any more! Why was it taken out of the ports tree? EJC www.only7bucks.com ___ Yahoo! Acesso Grtis - Internet rpida e grtis. Instale o discador

Re: keeping ports up to date on two personal machines

2005-06-18 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sat, Jun 18, 2005 at 06:07:08PM -0500, Anthony Philipp wrote: Hello guys, I just have a quick question. I have two FreeBSD-5.4-p2 machines, and instead of using cvsup on both machines to keep my ports up to date could I just rsync /usr/ports/ from the faster machine to the other one

Re: Netscape? Where is it?

2005-06-18 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 02:29:46AM -0300, E. J. Cerejo wrote: I just updated the ports tree and now there is no netscape 7 any more! Why was it taken out of the ports tree? Unmaintained. Multiple security vulnerablities. -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Netscape? Where is it?

2005-06-18 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
ports are removed when their maintainers lose interest, and they no longer build. Ted -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of E. J. Cerejo Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 10:30 PM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Netscape? Where is it? I just updated

Re: Advice replacing Xorg with XFree86_4 - Nightmare on Elm Street Up_1

2005-06-18 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 6/18/05, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The only one I can think of right now that uses XFree86 is debian, knoppix is based on debian. Why on earth does debian 3.1 still use the 2.4 kernel? ... I know this is not a Debian-support forum, but you can select 2.6 kernel in Debian

Yet another RAID Question (YARQ)

2005-06-18 Thread P.U.Kruppa
Hi everbody, our school has just received a new HP ProLiant and I set up FreeBSD 5.4 -RELEASE with a RAID 1 system on it (using ciss driver). Is there any software tool which can show me the state of the two SCSI discs (if one is failing or if they are mirrored sorrectly) or is it sufficient