RE: How can i monitor my server?

2005-08-13 Thread Chris St Denis
Monit is also a good choice. Much simplier than Nagios. Not as powerful, but sometimes simplicity is better. http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of martin hudec Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 4:15 AM To:

Re: Monitor Tuning

2005-08-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/12/05, Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My display is not very sharp and I was looking for a few tips that might help to cure things. I tweeked a few things and no luck. Still a soft dull image. Little annoying on the eyes. Is anyone running a NEC Multisync XV17+ with an Nvidia 6500 ultra

How to recover my boot/device.hints

2005-08-13 Thread Huajian Luo
Hi, there I've just screwed up my device.hints file when using echo blah /boot/devides.hints, and blasted away all the configure file and now when I boot the fbsd5.4 there is no dmesg scroll up the screen, and same to reboot, so can somebody tell me how to recover this file and let me see

need I install synaptics Touchpad driver for FreeBSD

2005-08-13 Thread Huajian Luo
Hi, I've just buildkernel and xorg and foud that my compaq ynaptics Touchpad driver can't work and I congfigure psm as the man page told me with no luck. and I hate to use mouse while put the laptop on lap. and I just install xorg from 5.4 stable tree and ion2 , so need I add sth in the

RE: threading - good, bad, ugly?

2005-08-13 Thread Chris St Denis
So, what is better in 5.x? LinuxThreads or native threads? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kris Kennaway Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 7:04 PM To: Aaron Peterson Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: threading - good, bad, ugly? On Wed,

Re: How to recover my boot/device.hints

2005-08-13 Thread Beecher Rintoul
On Friday 12 August 2005 11:43 pm, Huajian Luo wrote: Hi, there I've just screwed up my device.hints file when using echo blah /boot/devides.hints, and blasted away all the configure file and now when I boot the fbsd5.4 there is no dmesg scroll up the screen, and same to reboot, so can

Connect from distance!

2005-08-13 Thread Carstea Catalin
How can i share ( with chmod for example ) for only some users ( web programmers ) only one directory where they can put his web pages. Ex : share : /var/www/html/dir1 for user1,user2,user3 If user1 make ssh on my server he can view,read,modify,remove only files from /var/www/html/dir1

Re: Anyone successfully running FreeBSD on a HP Proliant DL385?

2005-08-13 Thread lars
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: No. I assume that the HP Linux driver has this sort of functionality in it - but maybe not. Not even the Windows driver for the RAID card can do this. Ok. HP has used an agent/manager model with these systems. The drivers for the hardware in the system all talk to a

Re: IPv6 site local EUI-64 adresses and jails

2005-08-13 Thread David Malone
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 08:53:20PM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: Now in the 24-16-24 scheme of th interface id part of the IPv6 address, the 16 bits were inserted with the value FFFE. And bit 57 was changed to one! Why What if it is alread one? Or isn't tehre any vendor who can have bit

Re: need I install synaptics Touchpad driver for FreeBSD

2005-08-13 Thread Fabian Keil
Huajian Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just buildkernel and xorg and foud that my compaq ynaptics Touchpad driver can't work and I congfigure psm as the man page told me with no luck. and I hate to use mouse while put the laptop on lap. and I just install xorg from 5.4 stable tree and

RE: swap file using gmirror?

2005-08-13 Thread Chris St Denis
As far as I understand, Swapoff=Yes doesn't disable the swapfile, it just purges it on shutdown or something. I'm not quite sure of the need of this with mirroring but I do see it in the gmirror doc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of bob

Re: IPv6 site local EUI-64 adresses and jails

2005-08-13 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Samstag, 13. August 2005 10:53 CEST schrieb David Malone: On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 08:53:20PM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: Now in the 24-16-24 scheme of th interface id part of the IPv6 address, the 16 bits were inserted with the value FFFE. And bit 57 was changed to one! Why What if

Re: enable WEP for the wlan card WG311T on freeBSD 5.4

2005-08-13 Thread PK
I use static IP's I've tried: # ifconfig ath0 inet 192.168.200.20 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid myessid wepkey 1:0xXX wepmode on but still doesn't work. without WEP works well, but I need WEP. --- On Fri 08/12, nawcom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: nawcom

Better performance in network!

2005-08-13 Thread Carstea Catalin
I know if i want some better performance with my server i must setup some parameters: Ex: sysctl kern.ipc.nmbcluster=3276 .. What others parameters do u recomand for squid server with 100 connections? TKS!

Re: Connect from distance!

2005-08-13 Thread Norberto Meijome
Carstea Catalin wrote: How can i share ( with chmod for example ) for only some users ( web programmers ) only one directory where they can put his web pages. Ex : share : /var/www/html/dir1 for user1,user2,user3 If user1 make ssh on my server he can view,read,modify,remove only files from

Re: Better performance in network!

2005-08-13 Thread Norberto Meijome
Carstea Catalin wrote: I know if i want some better performance with my server i must setup some parameters: man tuning man google ;) Ex: sysctl kern.ipc.nmbcluster=3276 not so sure this is to increase performance, but rather to make sure you don't run out of network buffers (I guess if

Re: Can I install FreeBSD 5.3 from a USB CD drive?

2005-08-13 Thread Norberto Meijome
Maude User wrote: Can I install FreeBSD 5.3 from this USB CD drive? Haven't tried 5.3, but 6.0 beta2 works fine as long as your mobo supports booting from usbcd - the tyan should do it. in my case 4.9 + 5.4 find the USB drive, but they panic on boot - but it doesnt relate to the usb cd,

Re: Connect from distance!

2005-08-13 Thread Andrew L. Gould
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 01:33:47 -0700 Carstea Catalin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can i share ( with chmod for example ) for only some users ( web programmers ) only one directory where they can put his web pages. Ex : share : /var/www/html/dir1 for user1,user2,user3 If user1 make ssh on my

Re: Connect from distance!

2005-08-13 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 8/13/05, Carstea Catalin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can i share ( with chmod for example ) for only some users ( web programmers ) only one directory where they can put his web pages. Ex : share : /var/www/html/dir1 for user1,user2,user3 If user1 make ssh on my server he can

Re: [nycbug-talk] Can I install FreeBSD 5.3 from a USB CD drive?

2005-08-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/12/05, Kliment Andreev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maude User wrote: Thanks for this info. The handbook chapter on BIOS (see below) doesn't mention USB but it says the machine can boot from Removable Devices so it sounds like your first suggestion about booting from removable

Re: differences in supported filesystems between FreeBSD versions

2005-08-13 Thread RW
On Friday 12 August 2005 18:30, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: Dmitry Mityugov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am not sure how safe it is. Is it safe to use a HDD partitioned and formatted by one version of FreeBSD with a newer version? I know there I recently ran into the problem of not being able

Help Needed on cpan-perl-portupgrade

2005-08-13 Thread Denny White
Message originally cpan/bsdpan/ports need help. Really need help here. I really botched up perl cpan can no longer do some portugrading, either, that I need. Pasting the original message with threads in below here. Hate to reinstall system, since all other is working okay. Original thread

Re: Help on bash script?

2005-08-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-08-12 13:38, Benson Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I prefer: for COREFILE in `find / -type f -name core -print` do ... done Wouldn't that accomplish the same thing? More or less. Less, when the filenames are

Xorg fatal server error

2005-08-13 Thread dave pinto
I installed and when I run Xorg -configure or even try to use a known working xorg.conf I am getting a fatal server error. my hardware is Asus a7m266-d 2x mp 1800s 1gb ram cheap nvidia geforce card __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has

Re: swap file using gmirror?

2005-08-13 Thread bob self
Andrea Venturoli wrote: bob self wrote: I'm running 5.4 RELEASE. I have two identical hard drives. I installed FreeBSD on the first drive and then turned on gmirror. The 2nd drive sync'd in about 3 hours. I did create a swap partition, but part of the procedure that I found to start gmirror

scanner for fbsd $50-$200

2005-08-13 Thread dick hoogendijk
I looked in the hypertext man pages, but the supported scanners (uscanner driver) all seem a bit old. Than I looked at SANE-cvs (the latest). There also most modern cheap scanners you see in store today don't seem to be supported. EpsonPerfection 2480/2580/3170 or CanoScan4200F or the cheaper

Asking the experts. . .

2005-08-13 Thread Bryan Maynard
I'm setting up a web/mail/source coude server for my open source project and am using FreeBSD. My first concern is security. I read through the appropriate area of the Handbook and really enjoyed it. However, I do not know what suid, guid, and the like are. I've look up the man pages, but am

Re: Asking the experts. . .

2005-08-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
Bryan Maynard wrote: I'm setting up a web/mail/source coude server for my open source project and am using FreeBSD. My first concern is security. I read through the appropriate area of the Handbook and really enjoyed it. However, I do not know what suid, guid, and the like are. I've look up

how can i setup RAID?

2005-08-13 Thread Carstea Catalin
I want a fresh instalation on my server and i want to setup RAID. Can u help me? Tk. very much! Carstea Catalin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

initial i386 initialization ibcs2module_register_init: error -45

2005-08-13 Thread Mario Jose Canto Barea
initial i386 initialization ibcs2module_register_init: error -45 i have installed FreeBSD 5.4 on the boot i view this message initial i386 initialization ibcs2module_register_init: error -45 after boot KDE Environment KDE 3.4 is good what it is the problem ? thanks for your help

can not mount the media cd-r and cd-rw on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-08-13 Thread Mario Jose Canto Barea
i can not mount the media cd-r and cd-rw on FreeBSD 5.4 i have FreeBSD 5.4 with KDE 3.4 when i try acces the data on cd that i burn with Nero 6 (on Windows) i not can saw the files ( with Konqueror ) when i try mout the cd-rom or cd-rw on the System , Administrator , Storage-Media i see this

the Installation package Apache Web Server Failure

2005-08-13 Thread Mario Jose Canto Barea
i had installed FreeBSD 5.4 from CD's ( ISO i get with ftp from freebsd.org and burned with nero 6 on windows) but the Installation package Apache Web Server Failure But the FreeBSD it is running thanks for your help

Re: Asking the experts. . .

2005-08-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/13/05, Bryan Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm setting up a web/mail/source coude server for my open source project and am using FreeBSD. My first concern is security. I read through the appropriate area of the Handbook and really enjoyed it. However, I do not know what suid, guid,

Re: Asking the experts. . .

2005-08-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 12:35:48PM +, Bryan Maynard wrote: It seems like the suid bit means that only the file owner can execute the file. Is this true? No. It means that if this program is run (by any user) it will have their user id (uid) set to the owner of the programs binary, which is

Re: no permission for root???

2005-08-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
joda pain wrote: I am so new(3-4 days solid) at this OS. I have tried to find good help to no pervail. You are the first person to answer a question direct and not send me to man pages or the handbook? I truly am a lost soul with this but I refuse to return to Win or Mac OS. If there is

Re: dual apple displays

2005-08-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have 2 apple 20 displays and was cannot find info on what vidcard I should get that is best supported by FreeBSD 5.4 and X. If dual DVI support is not an option for freebsd ( which I hope the hell it is) what would a good vidcard be with single DVI

STB2 capture card; sound works in btwincap and bttv, but not in bktr

2005-08-13 Thread tweek
I have a STB capture card, distributed in an OEM package by Gateway. (I purchased it through eBay for $12.) It has a bt878 chip, and I have it hooked to an SB Live! card with a four-pin audio cable, internally. The card has both RCA and S-Video video inputs, a 'headphone'-style jack for audio

IPFW help

2005-08-13 Thread Himal Mandalia
I've been trying to set up IPFW to do port forwarding so I can use a machine on a private network as a web server. I'm using NAT, which works fine, but can't seem to get port forwarding working unless I remove the deny ip from any to any in my firewall script. natd.conf: interface en0

XTerm fvwm2 Xorg

2005-08-13 Thread Charles Smyth
Hi, I’m trying out fvwm2 on a FreeBSD 5.4 box with Xorg The XTerm uses a small font as default. How can the font be made larger, and how can the XTerm window be made larger by default. Thanks Charles Smyth ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: XTerm fvwm2 Xorg

2005-08-13 Thread Chris Hill
On Sun, 14 Aug 2005, Charles Smyth wrote: I~Rm trying out fvwm2 on a FreeBSD 5.4 box with Xorg The XTerm uses a small font as default. How can the font be made larger, and how can the XTerm window be made larger by default. Look in the file /usr/X11R6/etc/system.fvwm2rc. Assuming you're

Re: how can i setup RAID?

2005-08-13 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Carstea Catalin wrote: I want a fresh instalation on my server and i want to setup RAID. Can u help me? Before someone can help you, you should decide 1) which RAID level you want to use, 2) if you want a software or a hardware RAID, 3) which version of FreeBSD you are

Alcatel Speedtouch PC ADSL Modem

2005-08-13 Thread Bsderss
Hi, I want to purchase a USB Alcatel Speedtouch PC ADSL Modem and connection freebsd to it. There is a pkg in the Ports /usr/ports/net/pppoa written for the Alcatel Speedtouch. I wonder how to use this pkg with the Alcatel Speedtouch PC ADSL Modem. Correct me if I m wrong, this modem does not

Alcatel Speedtouch PC ADSL Modem

2005-08-13 Thread Bsderss
Hi, I want to purchase a USB Alcatel Speedtouch PC ADSL Modem and connection freebsd to it. There is a pkg in the Ports /usr/ports/net/pppoa written for the Alcatel Speedtouch. I wonder how to use this pkg with the Alcatel Speedtouch PC ADSL Modem. Correct me if I m wrong, this modem does not

Alcatel Speedtouch PC ADSL Modem

2005-08-13 Thread Bsderss
Hi, I want to purchase a USB Alcatel Speedtouch PC ADSL Modem and connection freebsd to it. There is a pkg in the Ports /usr/ports/net/pppoa written for the Alcatel Speedtouch. I wonder how to use this pkg with the Alcatel Speedtouch PC ADSL Modem. Correct me if I m wrong, this modem does not

Re: Alcatel Speedtouch PC ADSL Modem

2005-08-13 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 13 August 2005 at 20:07:00 -0700, Bsderss wrote: On Saturday, 13 August 2005 at 20:07:23 -0700, Bsderss wrote: On Saturday, 13 August 2005 at 20:07:32 -0700, Bsderss wrote: I want to purchase a USB Alcatel Speedtouch PC ADSL Modem and connection freebsd to it. Good idea! I trust

Re: remote syslogging

2005-08-13 Thread Steve D.
Try: +chsfirewall1 local6.notice /var/log/firewall/chsfirewall1.log +* +chsfirewall2 local6.notice /var/log/firewall/chsfirewall2.log +* If that doesn't work try running syslog in debug: kill -9 `cat /var/run/syslog.pid` syslogd -d -v -a

Re: Alcatel Speedtouch PC ADSL Modem

2005-08-13 Thread Vladimir Botka
Hi, I am running Speedtouch 510i, which is defacto router with some small unix system inside. You can login with telnet and configure it from command line or use the web interface or load the configuration from file. I dont think that USB and pppoa is here the best choice. You just connect the