source to the nym.alias.net nymserver

2006-07-01 Thread nymserv source
Some extremely brief instructions on setting up a nym.alias.net style nym server. This assumes you already know about remailers and DNS, and sendmail, and have already setup the appropriate DNS records (either A or MX) to receive mail at a nym domain name on your machine. Make sure you have

Intel PRO/1000 PT

2006-07-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
What are the difference between the Intel PRO/1000 PT Server and Desktop Adapters? Intel PRO/1000 PT Server Adapter: $130 ~ 150 Intel PRO/1000 PT Desktop Adapter: $40 ~ 60 Both use the i82572EI chip and both appear to use the same PCB. Would I be correct in assuming it's a marketing scam to get

Re: Intel PRO/1000 PT

2006-07-01 Thread Randall Stewart
Nikolas Britton wrote: What are the difference between the Intel PRO/1000 PT Server and Desktop Adapters? Intel PRO/1000 PT Server Adapter: $130 ~ 150 Intel PRO/1000 PT Desktop Adapter: $40 ~ 60 Both use the i82572EI chip and both appear to use the same PCB. Would I be correct in assuming it's

Linux shared libs on FreeBSD

2006-07-01 Thread bill
Hello everyone, We have a third-party php extension that we need to use for a specific application here. The extension is compiled for Linux, but it appears that its possible to use them in FreeBSD under the Linux emulation. Its not working out so well for us, unfortunately. Here's what

questions

2006-07-01 Thread Wei Chong Yeo
1)May I know the threading model of FreeBSD 6? Is it user, kernel or hybrid? 2)Could you also tell me the difference between FreeBSD 5.0, 6.0 and the future version? also how is it different from Windows? Thanks. I'll be looking forward to hearing from you. yours faithfully

Atheros 5414 chipset

2006-07-01 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Hi: I posted this one week ago, but no reply, I found a similar post in the hardware list's archive from February, also no reply: Is the Atheros 5414 chipset supported by the ath driver? (FBSD 6.1) The ath/ath_hal man-pages only mentions 52XX chipsets, but maybe they have not been updated.

FreeBSD 6.1 amd64 (Intel EMT64) and Samba 3

2006-07-01 Thread DSA - JCR
Hi all again I am trying to install Samba in a computer with the above conf but I can´t. I have made also a portupgrade -a in order to upgrade all the ports of the system but I have always the same problem with samba I can get it to work When I use Swat i always get: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1:

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 amd64 (Intel EMT64) and Samba 3

2006-07-01 Thread albi
On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 12:05:06 - (GMT) DSA - JCR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have made also a portupgrade -a in order to upgrade all the ports of the system but I have always the same problem with samba I can get it to work When I use Swat i always get: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1:

Re: batching port builds

2006-07-01 Thread Javier Echaiz
You can put BATCH=yes in your /etc/make.conf The settings for each port (if it has something to config) are stored in /var/db/ports/{port dir name}/options (just in case you want to see what the port assumed). If you want to configure ports (with than ncurses blues screen) sometimes and assume

Siemens Santis WLAN PC Card

2006-07-01 Thread Csabi
Hello, A couple of days ago i`ve got this SIEMENS SANTIS 802.11b 11Mbps WLAN PCCard. Since then I`m searching for a way to use it but failed miserably... couldn`t find anything searching the net and archives and I couldn`t interpret the 'pccard dumpcis' either so i could use with 'pccard enabler'

user rights

2006-07-01 Thread eoghan
Hi I want to be able to edit stuff in my /public_html folder as a normal user. What permissions (group) do I need to add for this user. I have www already but the /home/user/public_html/ is still read only. Thanks Eoghan ___

Re: questions

2006-07-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Wei Chong Yeo wrote: 1)May I know the threading model of FreeBSD 6? Is it user, kernel or hybrid? FreeBSD 5 included the first work with Kernel Scheduled Entities, a kernel-supported threading system similar in design to Scheduler Activations. IANAE, but probably hybrid is the best answer.

Re: user rights

2006-07-01 Thread albi
On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 14:19:38 +0100 eoghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to be able to edit stuff in my /public_html folder as a normal user. What permissions (group) do I need to add for this user. I have www already but the /home/user/public_html/ is still read only. you need 755 (or 705)

Re: FBSD 4 series

2006-07-01 Thread Jacques S.
Anish Mistry wrote: On Thursday 29 June 2006 08:09, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Colin Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bill Moran wrote: Anish Mistry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://security.freebsd.org/ You should be transitioning to 6.x now/soon. ??? 4.11 will be supported for another

Re: Questions on EXT3 vs standard BSD partitions

2006-07-01 Thread RW
On Friday 30 June 2006 17:44, Jim Stapleton wrote: I have to move between BSD and Linux on one system quite a bit, and I was wondering if there were any reasons to avoid EXT3 on a filesystem (such as /dev/ad0s1), as opposed to using the more standard BSD setups (such as UFS on /dev/ad0s1a)?

Root crontab for backup

2006-07-01 Thread Kostas Blekos
Is it a bad idea to use root's crontab for backup scripts? Is it better to put those scripts in periodic/... ? -- Kostas Blekos http://a.physics.upatras.gr/~mplekos/ GPGKey = 1398 1AB3 483E B2DF 3A2D 95F4 7534 E392 012E 6167 ___

permissions in devfs.conf don't stick

2006-07-01 Thread Charles Howse
I've added the following to /etc/devfs.conf: own lpt0root:wheel permlpt00660 Save that, then, # chmod 0660 /dev/lpt0 When I reboot, the permissions revert to the default of 0600. Anyone know why that is? -- Bubba's Funny Stuff - http://bubbabbq.homeunix.net/humor.html

Re: one more question, related to java/CLASSPATH

2006-07-01 Thread Jim Stapleton
OK, sorry for being a continuous bother on this, but google is failling me, and I cannot find a reason for this issue. Java will not run an app, and everything I've read says that . should be in the classpath to make it work, so I'm thinking this is a BSD-Java implementation related issue. Any

Re: one more question, related to java/CLASSPATH

2006-07-01 Thread Micah
Jim Stapleton wrote: OK, sorry for being a continuous bother on this, but google is failling me, and I cannot find a reason for this issue. Java will not run an app, and everything I've read says that . should be in the classpath to make it work, so I'm thinking this is a BSD-Java implementation

Re: CUPS, USB printers Permission Denied

2006-07-01 Thread Jan-Espen Pettersen
Rainer Heesen --- wrote: I have a Minolta PagePro 1350 printer. When I use the workaround I get the error 'raw printers cannot use file: devices!' Is there another workaround? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~$ lpstat -d -p -t system default destination: Minolta printer Minolta disabled since Fri

Re: Raid card for FreeBSD

2006-07-01 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:27:48 +0900 Steve Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sam Wun wrote: Hi, I will host a mail server in FreeBSD 6.x. Since we are going to use Raid for mirroing, can anyone please recommend a RAID CARD that is fully compatible with FreeBSD? I found the

pf on freebsd 6.1 on DMZ in m0n0wall question

2006-07-01 Thread jan gestre
hi to all, i recently installed and configured (postfix+dovecot+amavisd-new+clamav+dspam+roundcubemail) in my freebsd 6.1box, i placed the box in my dmz protected by m0n0wall, however i have no firewall on the mentioned box and i'm relying on m0n0wall to protect it. is that ok? i'm new to

Re: Root crontab for backup

2006-07-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Kostas Blekos wrote: Is it a bad idea to use root's crontab for backup scripts? Is it better to put those scripts in periodic/... ? I can't think of any particular reason why it's bad; it's the way I've always done it. Mistakes I've made *might* have been mitigated somewhat by placing them

Re: CUPS, USB printers Permission Denied

2006-07-01 Thread Jan-Espen Pettersen
The problem is that read operations on usb printers might just block/hang with no data from the printer (?). ulpt doesn't have non-blocking I/O, so I've made a patch that simply times out read operations, and disables further reads if it detects a blocking/stall condition. It is possible

Re: pf on freebsd 6.1 on DMZ in m0n0wall question

2006-07-01 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 11:46:42PM +0800, jan gestre wrote: i recently installed and configured (postfix+dovecot+amavisd-new+clamav+dspam+roundcubemail) in my freebsd 6.1box, i placed the box in my dmz protected by m0n0wall, however i have no firewall on the mentioned box and i'm relying on

Re: permissions in devfs.conf don't stick

2006-07-01 Thread Anish Mistry
On Saturday 01 July 2006 11:54, Charles Howse wrote: I've added the following to /etc/devfs.conf: own lpt0root:wheel permlpt00660 Save that, then, # chmod 0660 /dev/lpt0 When I reboot, the permissions revert to the default of 0600. Anyone know why that is? man devfs.rules

permission denied on /dev/ttyd0

2006-07-01 Thread Yousef Raffah
Hello.. It's kinda strange though but I am getting a permission denied when I try to read from the /dev/ttyd0 device although I have: crw--- 1 root wheel0, 75 Jul 1 20:49 /dev/ttyd0 crw--- 1 root wheel0, 76 Jul 1 20:45 /dev/ttyd0.init crw--- 1 root wheel0, 77

Re: permissions in devfs.conf don't stick

2006-07-01 Thread Charles Howse
On Jul 1, 2006, at 12:16 PM, Anish Mistry wrote: On Saturday 01 July 2006 11:54, Charles Howse wrote: I've added the following to /etc/devfs.conf: own lpt0root:wheel permlpt00660 Save that, then, # chmod 0660 /dev/lpt0 When I reboot, the permissions revert to the default of

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4

2006-07-01 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: William [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 11:07 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 On

6-STABLE on 6 Gb RAM 2 x Xeon 3.0 HTT GDT RAID5 - how?

2006-07-01 Thread ASTESIN
Dear FreeBSD gurus, can anyone point me at a good FM where process of _proper_ setting up FreeBSD 6-STABLE on 6 Gb RAM machine w/ 2 x Xeon CPU is described? It also has ICP (former GDT) RAID controller w/RAID-5 configuration (iir0 device). Purpose: just Apache + mod_perl + MySQL 5.x application

Re: make.conf and USA_RESIDENT

2006-07-01 Thread RW
On Friday 30 June 2006 21:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would be nice to have a definative answer on this because people still suggest it is put into make.conf... I had a quick look with grep and it couldn't USA_RESIDENT under /usr/src in 6.1 at all. It appears in three port Makefiles. In

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4

2006-07-01 Thread William
Bloody good point. On 01/07/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How will you cvsup without a network connection? Ted - Original Message - From: William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 12:51 AM

Re: permissions in devfs.conf don't stick

2006-07-01 Thread Micah
Charles Howse wrote: On Jul 1, 2006, at 12:16 PM, Anish Mistry wrote: On Saturday 01 July 2006 11:54, Charles Howse wrote: I've added the following to /etc/devfs.conf: own lpt0root:wheel permlpt00660 Save that, then, # chmod 0660 /dev/lpt0 When I reboot, the permissions

freeBSD binary

2006-07-01 Thread Dark Bishop
hai i know tat this is a silly question... but i just wondering can openBSD binary run in FreeBSD -- ___ Play 100s of games for FREE! http://games.mail.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Questions on EXT3 vs standard BSD partitions

2006-07-01 Thread Jim Stapleton
Well, I'm not so worried about crashes, the only crashes I've had with BSD are with power failures, and this is a notebook :-) I was planning on having three slices on the drive, the first I would blast from a linux or BSD image as needed, the second would be ext2 or ext3 (or other?) and have

Re: freeBSD binary

2006-07-01 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/1/06, Dark Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hai i know tat this is a silly question... but i just wondering can openBSD binary run in FreeBSD Well we have: options COMPAT_43 options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 options COMPAT_FREEBSD5 options COMPAT_LINUX options

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4

2006-07-01 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
How will you cvsup without a network connection? Ted - Original Message - From: William [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 12:51 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4 Will i get the updated

Re: batching port builds

2006-07-01 Thread backyard1454-bsd
--- Javier Echaiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can put BATCH=yes in your /etc/make.conf The settings for each port (if it has something to config) are stored in /var/db/ports/{port dir name}/options (just in case you want to see what the port assumed). If you want to configure ports

Using syslogd to log for BIND

2006-07-01 Thread Josh Paetzel
I have a nameserver running BIND 9.3.2 on a FreeBSD box running 6.1-RELEASE. BIND seems to log to /var/log/messages by default and I would like to change that behavior. Here's what I've done so far: syslog.conf local1.*/var/log/bind/bind.log

Fixed my server crashing in X with AGP video

2006-07-01 Thread Derek Ragona
I have a server that ran fine in FreeBSD 5.X but after updating to 6.0 started crashing and rebooting from X. I thought maybe it was some anomaly and hoped 6.1 would fix it. It was still crashing, so I dove in to find why . . . It seems with some RTFM on the nvidia driver notes, I found the

Re: one more question, related to java/CLASSPATH

2006-07-01 Thread Jim Stapleton
wow, I feel dumb now. It's been a few years since I've dealt with Java. Thank you, -Jim On 7/1/06, Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: OK, sorry for being a continuous bother on this, but google is failling me, and I cannot find a reason for this issue. Java will not run an

Re: Linux shared libs on FreeBSD

2006-07-01 Thread Christian Laursen
bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We have a third-party php extension that we need to use for a specific application here. The extension is compiled for Linux, but it appears that its possible to use them in FreeBSD under the Linux emulation. It is, but it's not pretty. Its not working out so

Re: permissions in devfs.conf don't stick

2006-07-01 Thread Charles Howse
On Jul 1, 2006, at 2:44 PM, Anish Mistry wrote: On Saturday 01 July 2006 14:34, Charles Howse wrote: On Jul 1, 2006, at 12:16 PM, Anish Mistry wrote: On Saturday 01 July 2006 11:54, Charles Howse wrote: I've added the following to /etc/devfs.conf: own lpt0root:wheel permlpt0

Re: permissions in devfs.conf don't stick

2006-07-01 Thread Anish Mistry
On Saturday 01 July 2006 14:34, Charles Howse wrote: On Jul 1, 2006, at 12:16 PM, Anish Mistry wrote: On Saturday 01 July 2006 11:54, Charles Howse wrote: I've added the following to /etc/devfs.conf: own lpt0root:wheel permlpt00660 Save that, then, # chmod 0660

Urgent: Downgrading from 6.X to 5.X?

2006-07-01 Thread Francisco Reyes
How can I downgrade from 6.1 Stable to 5.5 Stable? Having all type of problems with NFS. Both with the server and the client. From what I read on the stable list others are having simmilar problems, but don't see any mention of fixes. I need to downgrade a number of machines from 6.1 Stable to

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 compat with DL320 G4

2006-07-01 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
What I had to do is mount a floppy in a second machine, copy the broadcom driver patch over to the floppy, then mount the floppy in the DL320 and copy the driver to the system, recompile the kernel with the patched driver. Once the initial patch for the Broadcom chip is made, it will give you a

Re: Urgent: Downgrading from 6.X to 5.X?

2006-07-01 Thread RW
On Sunday 02 July 2006 02:34, Francisco Reyes wrote: How can I downgrade from 6.1 Stable to 5.5 Stable? Having all type of problems with NFS. Both with the server and the client. From what I read on the stable list others are having simmilar problems, but don't see any mention of fixes. I

Re: Raid card for FreeBSD

2006-07-01 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:51:00 +1000, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: Hi, I will host a mail server in FreeBSD 6.x. Since we are going to use Raid for mirroing, can anyone please recommend a RAID CARD that is fully compatible with FreeBSD? I found the following RAIDCARD sounds good,

Re: CUPS, USB printers Permission Denied

2006-07-01 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 01 July 2006 12:40, Jan-Espen Pettersen wrote: The problem is that read operations on usb printers might just block/hang with no data from the printer (?). ulpt doesn't have non-blocking I/O, so I've made a patch that simply times out read operations, and disables further reads

6.1-RELEASE Loader broken

2006-07-01 Thread Micah
Hey all, I just upgraded via source from FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE to FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p2 on my Compaq Presario M2000 laptop. I followed the procedures as outlined in the handbook basically: mergemaster -p make buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel reboot to single user mergemaster -p

Re: 6.1-RELEASE Loader broken (work around)

2006-07-01 Thread Micah
Micah wrote: Hey all, I just upgraded via source from FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE to FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p2 on my Compaq Presario M2000 laptop. I followed the procedures as outlined in the handbook basically: mergemaster -p make buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel reboot to single user

Re: Urgent: Downgrading from 6.X to 5.X?

2006-07-01 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jul 1, 2006, at 7:34 PM, Francisco Reyes wrote: How can I downgrade from 6.1 Stable to 5.5 Stable? Having all type of problems with NFS. Both with the server and the client. You might have more luck with 6.1-RELEASE Chad Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting

Re: Urgent: Downgrading from 6.X to 5.X?

2006-07-01 Thread Francisco Reyes
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: How can I downgrade from 6.1 Stable to 5.5 Stable? Having all type of problems with NFS. Both with the server and the client. You might have more luck with 6.1-RELEASE Really? Were changes introduced to 6.1 Stable that made NFS less stable than 6.1

Re: Urgent: Downgrading from 6.X to 5.X?

2006-07-01 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jul 1, 2006, at 11:01 PM, Francisco Reyes wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: How can I downgrade from 6.1 Stable to 5.5 Stable? Having all type of problems with NFS. Both with the server and the client. You might have more luck with 6.1-RELEASE Really? Were changes

Re: Urgent: Downgrading from 6.X to 5.X?

2006-07-01 Thread Francisco Reyes
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: I don't remember general complaints about nfs in the 6.x series here in the list. Checkt he stable list. :-) Locking issues on server during heavy load. Background fsck + NFSD locking issues Clients freeze if server goes away.. soft mount option doesn

Re: Urgent: Downgrading from 6.X to 5.X?

2006-07-01 Thread Paul Chvostek
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 01:10:29AM -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC writes: I don't remember general complaints about nfs in the 6.x series here in the list. Checkt he stable list. :-) Locking issues on server during heavy load. Background fsck + NFSD locking