Re: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

2007-08-23 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 12:19:52PM +0700, Truong Minh Hanh - FPT Software wrote: How can I upgrate source code to 7.0-CURRENT with cvsup? Currently I'm using 6.2p5. Are you sure that you want to use a possibly unstable version of FreeBSD? People who use -CURRENT are those who are willing to

Re: xdm fails! can't find pcidata

2007-08-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 12:16:10AM +0400, Boris Samorodov wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:11:47 -0700 Gary Kline wrote: I just rebooted my DNS server and now X fails. I'm pretty sure I did everything re the xorg instructions in UPDATING. The error message in

Re: ps2ascii. c.

2007-08-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 01:19:55PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 11:47:15AM +0400, Yuri Pankov wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:35:47AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, If this is a re-post, sorry. I thought I mailed this to -questions. Anyway, where

re(4) driver FreeBSD 6.2 problem

2007-08-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i have this on amd64 machine. after booting mbufs are about 500. after a day - 2. everything else works. is it OK? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-23 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
Ian Smith wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Chris wrote: If its bad to run fsck on a mounted read,write then why does background fsck do it? or you talking about foreground fsck only? Well I was referring to foreground fsck, and I still don't know why running it on a mounted fs is 'bad' when

Re: re(4) driver FreeBSD 6.2 problem

2007-08-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
other problems - under high traffic (many different connection, not one) there are problems. looks like random packet loss turning off txcsum, rxcsum fixes the problem. actually under anything, i googled a bit and found this card doesn't work well in other OS too re0: RealTek 8168B/8111B

Re: What is a sane setting for maxdsize when running amd64? it seems many normal suggestions do not apply.

2007-08-23 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Ganbold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We are using several squid machines (6 machines, each have all others as a siblings) for transparent caching/proxying using gre tunnel and wccp2 (with Cisco router). Can varnish work in such situation? Probably not; Varnish is a reverse proxy. DES --

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Chris wrote: If its bad to run fsck on a mounted read,write then why does background fsck do it? or you talking about foreground fsck only? Well I was referring to foreground fsck, and I still

Reproducible panic of 6.2 on double mount ntfs

2007-08-23 Thread Jan Henrik Sylvester
Hello! With '/dev/ad0s1 /mnt/ad0s1 ntfs ro,noauto 0 0' in fstab, if I issue 'mount /mnt/ad0s1' twice, I always get a panic with the message: panic: lockmgr: locking against myself If I issue 'mount_ntfs /dev/ad0s1 /mnt/ad0s1' twice, there is no panic. I only get 'mount_ntfs: /dev/ad0s1:

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-23 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
Ian Smith wrote: On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Chris wrote: If its bad to run fsck on a mounted read,write then why does background fsck do it? or you talking about foreground fsck only? Well I was referring to

webmin / failed to create new PTY

2007-08-23 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
hello, I realize it is not really FreeBSD related question, but I am trying to set up some backup jobs with webmin and each time I run it, I get Failed to create new PTY error message. Any suggestion what could be causing it? Webmin 1.360 on a 6.2-RELEASE-p6. Thank you! Zbigniew Szalbot

Re: FreeBSD MBRs

2007-08-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jerry McAllister wrote: You only need an MBR on disks that will be booted. I don't know as it will actually hurt anything to write an MBR on non-boot, data only disks, but it can garbage up you menu with non-functional choices. What you need is an MBR on every disk which is *passed through*

Re: webmin / failed to create new PTY

2007-08-23 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:39:56 +0200, Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, I realize it is not really FreeBSD related question, but I am trying to set up some backup jobs with webmin and each time I run it, I get Failed to create new PTY error message. Any

ip address location database

2007-08-23 Thread David Banning
I am looking towards setting up something which will let me know what part of the world a specific ip address is from. Anyone know an easy process for this? Even if the database or text file was available somewhere I could probably adapt a search script.

Re: ip address location database

2007-08-23 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Donnerstag 23 August 2007 11:42:00 schrieb David Banning: I am looking towards setting up something which will let me know what part of the world a specific ip address is from. Anyone know an easy process for this? Check out: http://www.maxmind.com/ Their free database is slightly less

Re: FreeBSD MBRs

2007-08-23 Thread Christopher Key
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: You only need an MBR on disks that will be booted. I don't know as it will actually hurt anything to write an MBR on non-boot, data only disks, but it can garbage up you menu with non-functional choices. What you need is an MBR on every disk

Re: FreeBSD MBRs

2007-08-23 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Christopher Key wrote: Sorry the original post wasn't clear, I'll have a go at rexpressing my original questions using the above for context. It was a complicated series of events, so it's easy to end up with a confusing description (and the fault might lie with us being too dumb to

Re: Reproducible panic of 6.2 on double mount ntfs

2007-08-23 Thread Jan Henrik Sylvester
Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: With '/dev/ad0s1 /mnt/ad0s1 ntfs ro,noauto 0 0' in fstab, if I issue 'mount /mnt/ad0s1' twice, I always get a panic with the message: panic: lockmgr: locking against myself I should have done some more intelligent research before... kern/89966 (6.0-STABLE) is

subversion: Can't Creat Directory error

2007-08-23 Thread David Southwell
Hi Using eclipse as an IDE with subclipse on a Ruby on Rails project I am getting the error svn: Can't Create Directory  /long path   :The filename or Extsnion is too long The svn server is on freebsd 6.1 with apache/webdav and the error is reported from a win XP x64 client on our local

Re: ip address location database

2007-08-23 Thread Robert Huff
Heiko Wundram (Beenic) writes: I am looking towards setting up something which will let me know what part of the world a specific ip address is from. Check out: http://www.maxmind.com/ Also net/GeoIP. Robert Huff

Re: system crash/reset

2007-08-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ghirai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm running 6.2-RELEASE, with xfce. Suddenly, everything froze. Couple seconds after that, the system resets. I ran fsck and everything seem to be ok. This is what /var/log/messages looks like right before reset: Aug 22 01:19:55 deimos kernel: umass0: BBB

spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread fbsd2
It only takes 2-3 weeks after changing my email address I use on the list before I start receiving spam on the new email address. Other non-fbsd lists I belong to remove the posters email address before the post gets sent to the list members. Why can't this list do the same thing so the posters

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:11:21AM -0400, fbsd2 wrote: It only takes 2-3 weeks after changing my email address I use on the list before I start receiving spam on the new email address. Other non-fbsd lists I belong to remove the posters email address before the post gets sent to the list

un-zipping pkzip files om fbsd

2007-08-23 Thread fbsd2
I receive a pkzip file created under ms/windows. What can I use under fbsd to un-zip this file? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SATA to PCI cards

2007-08-23 Thread Jack Stone
From: Bahman M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SATA to PCI cards Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:51:52 +0330 Yes, I've had good luck with the Promise brand PCI-SATA cards on 6.x. We are using this method to evolve older machines to SATA.

Re: un-zipping pkzip files om fbsd

2007-08-23 Thread Duane Hill
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 at 09:27 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: I receive a pkzip file created under ms/windows. What can I use under fbsd to un-zip this file? use: unzip --- _|_ (_| | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: un-zipping pkzip files om fbsd

2007-08-23 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 23, 2007, at 8:27 AMAug 23, 2007, fbsd2 wrote: I receive a pkzip file created under ms/windows. What can I use under fbsd to un-zip this file? Does unzip fail to un-zip the file? - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks ___

Re: un-zipping pkzip files om fbsd

2007-08-23 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:27:37AM -0400, fbsd2 wrote: I receive a pkzip file created under ms/windows. What can I use under fbsd to un-zip this file? archivers/unzip ? You can also try (bsd)tar in base (libarchive can handle zip files). Yuri ___

Re: FreeBSD MBRs

2007-08-23 Thread Ivan Voras
Christopher Key wrote: I've a machine with 3 SATA drives. The first (ad8) with a standard FreeBSD install in a single slice with /boot/boot0 MBR. The remaining two drives (ad10, ad12) are in a RAID1 mirror with 3 slices, and used for storing data. They have the /boot/mbr MBR. Ok. Let's

RE: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread fbsd2
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:11:21AM -0400, fbsd2 wrote: It only takes 2-3 weeks after changing my email address I use on the list before I start receiving spam on the new email address. Other non-fbsd lists I belong to remove the posters email address before the post gets sent to the list

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread Joel Hatton
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:19:57 +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:11:21AM -0400, fbsd2 wrote: It only takes 2-3 weeks after changing my email address I use on the list before I start receiving spam on the new email address. Other non-fbsd lists I belong to remove the posters

Re: ls there any way to limit the server resource per user?

2007-08-23 Thread Ivan Voras
Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 12:34:22PM -0700, ann kok wrote: thank you Can I limit the bandwidth by user what they use any program to download and upload? The pf firewall can do this. Filter packets by user, then assign them to an appropriate queue. Read pf.conf(5). You'll

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:39:43AM -0400, fbsd2 wrote: On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:11:21AM -0400, fbsd2 wrote: It only takes 2-3 weeks after changing my email address I use on the list before I start receiving spam on the new email address. Other non-fbsd lists I belong to remove the posters

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread usleepless
It only takes 2-3 weeks after changing my email address I use on the list before I start receiving spam on the new email address. Other non-fbsd lists I belong to remove the posters email address before the post gets sent to the list members. Why can't this list do the same thing so the

Re: Configuring OpenLDAP on FreeBSD 6.2 Release, Problems.

2007-08-23 Thread David Robillard
Sorry, I am pretty new with LDAP too :) I have no documentation beside the one I found from Googling around. Hi Olivier, There are a few good books about LDAP out there, but most of them are quite old unfortunately. Anyhow, I found that reading LDAP System Administration by Gerald Carter from

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 23, 2007, at 8:11 AMAug 23, 2007, fbsd2 wrote: It only takes 2-3 weeks after changing my email address I use on the list before I start receiving spam on the new email address. Other non-fbsd lists I belong to remove the posters email address before the post gets sent to the list

Re: ls there any way to limit the server resource per user?

2007-08-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
available as a module. ipfw+dummynet can do that also, and they are available as modules (no need to rebuild the kernel). used for some times, no problems. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Minimal gateway hardware configuration

2007-08-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
(cheap) PC to act as the gateway. The hardware specification is CPU: Pentium II at 433MHz RAM: 128MB HDD: IDE 4GB LAN Card: D-Link 538FE Internet connection is a slow one below 512Kbps and there is only one other node than the gateway in the network. Is the configuration enough? for pure

Re: Minimal gateway hardware configuration

2007-08-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Then my configuration is not minimal I'd say :-) Thanks. so make use of it's huge power. first make gateway, then add squid at least. possibly mail etc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Minimal gateway hardware configuration

2007-08-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
One other question -a bit silly: If I use that configuration as the gateway, can it be left on and working 24x7? I mean, regarding the _hardware_, how often does it need to be powered off: once a day, once a week, ... to prevent hardware failures such as HDD crash? actually disks feel better

Re: Minimal gateway hardware configuration

2007-08-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
You will be pleasantly surprised to find out that with adequate cooling and a good quality power supply, most standard PCs can go on for ages without a single problem, no shutdowns, no reboots. A UPS is also such low end (by today standards) machine is actually better. it rarely overheats.

Re: syslog redundancy

2007-08-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Can syslogd provide failover redundancy to another box? yes. man syslogd man syslog.conf and i must say - it works. very well for a long time Should I configure my devices to send to two different syslogd servers? (if the devices allow more then one syslogd box to log to. If not I

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: Ian Smith wrote: On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Chris wrote: If its bad to run fsck on a mounted read,write then why does background fsck do it? or you talking about

Re[2]: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread Gerard
On August 23, 2007 at 10:31AM Jonathan Shoemaker wrote: fbsd2 Why should the subscribed members have to deal with spam fbsd2 just for the connivance of people who are too lazy to fbsd2 subscribe? fbsd2 This list admin needs to get their priorities straight. fbsd2

Re: Donation Manager Needed

2007-08-23 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
Hi, I know its REALLY bad form to feed the trolls, but I found this seriously funny... ESPECIALLY when you look up the WHOIS record for this and it mentions Lagos, Nigeria. Tuc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

RE: Configuring OpenLDAP on FreeBSD 6.2 Release, Problems.

2007-08-23 Thread Lisandro Grullon
The concept of openLDAP and its integration with FreeBSD seems pretty broad and somewhat overwelm, I found a hint link, yet I am looking for a more specific article that would elaborate in depth the aspects of openLDAP and FreeBSD at a corporate level.

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
fbsd2 wrote: It only takes 2-3 weeks after changing my email address I use on the list before I start receiving spam on the new email address. Other non-fbsd lists I belong to remove the posters email address before the post gets sent to the list members. Why can't this list do the same thing

Re: Configuring OpenLDAP on FreeBSD 6.2 Release, Problems.

2007-08-23 Thread Ivan \Rambius\ Ivanov
Hello, On 8/23/07, David Robillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I am pretty new with LDAP too :) I have no documentation beside the one I found from Googling around. Hi Olivier, There are a few good books about LDAP out there, but most of them are quite old unfortunately. Anyhow, I

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-23 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
Ian Smith wrote: My knowledge of this is thin, despite reading McKusick's paper through several times, but we're told that background fsck runs on a snapshot of the fs concerned. How any bg fsck corrections are woven back into the live fs later is still a mystery to me, but that's because I

FreeBSD USB disks - booting and backups

2007-08-23 Thread Patrick Baldwin
I'm thinking of backing up my FreeBSD 6.2 webmail server by installing FreeBSD onto the USB, and then dumping the whole filesystem onto the USB. That way, in the event of a drive failure, I can boot off the USB drive, and then just restore everything onto the webmail server. Has anyone else

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
fbsd2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It only takes 2-3 weeks after changing my email address I use on the list before I start receiving spam on the new email address. Spammers have their robots harvest addresses from a number of sources, including but not limited to web pages of all kinds and any

Re: fsck strangeness

2007-08-23 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: Ian Smith wrote: My knowledge of this is thin, despite reading McKusick's paper through several times, but we're told that background fsck runs on a snapshot of the fs concerned. How any bg fsck corrections are woven back into the live fs

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread Tore Lund
Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: Seriously, I can see some logic in removing or obfuscating email addresses in web accessible list archives, but making it hard to impossible for other list subscribers to followup to poster would make the freebsd mailing lists a lot less useful. Maybe so. But we

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread Reid Linnemann
Written by Gerard on 08/23/07 10:10 On August 23, 2007 at 10:31AM Jonathan Shoemaker wrote: fbsd2 Why should the subscribed members have to deal with spam fbsd2 just for the connivance of people who are too lazy to fbsd2 subscribe? fbsd2 This list admin needs to get their

load script at bootup

2007-08-23 Thread Narek Gharibyan
#!/bin/sh Ping -Dc 3600 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx | tail -4 /root/stat date /root/stat echo === /root/stat I wrote this script for collecting ping statistic (after I email to a group the stat file). 1. how can I run this at startup 2. how can I restart this script after

Re: FreeBSD USB disks - booting and backups

2007-08-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm thinking of backing up my FreeBSD 6.2 webmail server by installing FreeBSD onto the USB, and then dumping the whole filesystem onto the USB. That way, in the event of a drive failure, I can boot off the USB drive, and then just restore everything onto the webmail server. good idea. man

Re: load script at bootup

2007-08-23 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 23, 2007, at 1:48 PMAug 23, 2007, Narek Gharibyan wrote: #!/bin/sh Ping -Dc 3600 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx | tail -4 /root/stat date / root/stat echo === /root/stat I wrote this script for collecting ping statistic (after I email to a group the stat file). 1.

Re: load script at bootup

2007-08-23 Thread Chris Morris
Take a look at SmokePing. We use it here to keep track of a mediocre internet connection. It graphs over time what your ping and latency was for any given target. http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/ I'll let others address the starting at boot time, as I won't be able to describe it good.

Re: load script at bootup

2007-08-23 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:48 PM 8/23/2007, Narek Gharibyan wrote: #!/bin/sh Ping -Dc 3600 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx | tail -4 /root/stat date /root/stat echo === /root/stat I wrote this script for collecting ping statistic (after I email to a group the stat file). 1. how can I run this at

PCIe gigabit network card

2007-08-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i have to buy one, but i don't want to buy crappy/unsuported one. what chipset/manufacturer i should look at. they are for 20-40$ here, may brands many chips. please help. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: load script at bootup

2007-08-23 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
On 24-Aug-07, at 12:18 AM, Narek Gharibyan wrote: #!/bin/sh Ping -Dc 3600 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx | tail -4 /root/stat date / root/stat echo === /root/stat I wrote this script for collecting ping statistic (after I email to a group the stat file). 1. how can I run

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread dgmm
On Thursday 23 August 2007, Erik Trulsson wrote: For this list (freebsd-questions@) in particular it is intentionally and explicitly the case that one does not need to be subscribed to post here. This is because it is the main support forum for FreeBSD, and much documentation exists directing

Re: PCIe gigabit network card

2007-08-23 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 09:01:51PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: i have to buy one, but i don't want to buy crappy/unsuported one. what chipset/manufacturer i should look at. they are for 20-40$ here, may brands many chips. please help. My suggestion would be to take a look at the 'Intel

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, August 23, 2007 20:06:47 +0100 dgmm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 23 August 2007, Erik Trulsson wrote: For this list (freebsd-questions@) in particular it is intentionally and explicitly the case that one does not need to be subscribed to post here. This is because it is

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 06:57:02PM +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: fbsd2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It only takes 2-3 weeks after changing my email address I use on the list before I start receiving spam on the new email address. Spammers have their robots harvest addresses from a

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 23/08/07, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Thursday, August 23, 2007 20:06:47 +0100 dgmm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 23 August 2007, Erik Trulsson wrote: For this list (freebsd-questions@) in particular it is intentionally and explicitly the case that one does not

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread Rob
Paul Schmehl wrote: This is the internet. Spam is endemic. Short of encasing your computer in concrete, there's no way to avoid getting spam **even if you never post to a mailing list**. Either learn to deal with it or stop Bullshit. I've kept addresses spam-free for years. I usually

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 23, 2007, at 3:20 PMAug 23, 2007, Rob wrote: Paul Schmehl wrote: This is the internet. Spam is endemic. Short of encasing your computer in concrete, there's no way to avoid getting spam **even if you never post to a mailing list**. Either learn to deal with it or stop

Re: Donation Manager Needed

2007-08-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 23/08/07, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I know its REALLY bad form to feed the trolls, but I found this seriously funny... ESPECIALLY when you look up the WHOIS record for this and it mentions Lagos, Nigeria. He forgets to mention good quality, watertight boxes.

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread Peter N. M. Hansteen
Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If your user login is smith, you could have all mailing list mail sent to smitty and keep an open mutt or other reader a click away. Spam could be easily flagged ... . Yes, there are several things you could filter on. However the

Re: It's top shows wrong load percent?

2007-08-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 22/08/07, Nguyen Tam Chinh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . vmstat -i shows that some kind of irq0: clk has a maximum value of 1000. Does this matter? . . . I can't really help with your other problems, but: no, on a 2GHz machine 1000 is a fine value for that. In case you were curious, it can

Re: wildcard usage in fetch

2007-08-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 21/08/07, fbsd2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fetch -avrpAFU ftp://loginid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/IDX/ActivePhotos/*/*.* The /*/ directory is 2 positions in size and contains 00 through 99 as directory names. The *.* means all files in this directory. When I execute this I get logged in but get

Re: FreeBSD USB disks - booting and backups

2007-08-23 Thread Patrick Baldwin
Wojciech Puchar wrote: I'm thinking of backing up my FreeBSD 6.2 webmail server by installing FreeBSD onto the USB, and then dumping the whole filesystem onto the USB. That way, in the event of a drive failure, I can boot off the USB drive, and then just restore everything onto the webmail

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread dgmm
On Thursday 23 August 2007, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Thursday, August 23, 2007 20:06:47 +0100 dgmm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 23 August 2007, Erik Trulsson wrote: For this list (freebsd-questions@) in particular it is intentionally and explicitly the case that one does not need

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread Erik Norgaard
fbsd2 wrote: It only takes 2-3 weeks after changing my email address I use on the list before I start receiving spam on the new email address. I have been on this list for years, I have my mail address published on my web site and many other places. I hardly get any spam at all, I don't use

VMware Player 2 Linux on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-08-23 Thread Adam J Richardson
Hi all. Has anyone tried running VMware Player 2 for Linux under the FreeBSD Linux ABI? I'll give it a go myself, of course, but I'm interested in others' experiences. My RELENG_6_2 kernel/world build server works perfectly under the WinXP version of Player 2. I'm doing this because it'd be

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday 23 August 2007 21:37:53 dgmm wrote: So rather than look for multiple methods to reduce the amount of incoming to *my* address I should just accept it all and filter it locally? That seems rather irresponsible to me, ANy method which can help stop it source appeaers on the face

Re: FreeBSD USB disks - booting and backups

2007-08-23 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Thursday 23 August 2007 18:31:05 Patrick Baldwin wrote: I'm thinking of backing up my FreeBSD 6.2 webmail server by installing FreeBSD onto the USB, and then dumping the whole filesystem onto the USB. That way, in the event of a drive failure, I can boot off the USB drive, and then just

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, August 23, 2007 22:37:53 +0100 dgmm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically, what you (and others as well) are suggesting is that the list maintainers do double the work so that you don't have to bother with spam filtering. How does this equate to double the work for the list

Re: What is a sane setting for maxdsize when running amd64? it seems many normal suggestions do not apply.

2007-08-23 Thread N. Harrington
--- JoaoBR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 21 August 2007 20:54:36 N. Harrington wrote: Hello I feel stupid, but I am confused about kern.maxdsiz (or datasize via limits command) on FreeBSD amd64. I have seen many posts and suggestions to raise it to 1G. However it seems this

Re: SATA to PCI cards

2007-08-23 Thread Steve Franks
I've had a huge sata issue with my promise card since I added two need sata3.0 disks to my two old sata1.5 disks. Turning off smartd seemed to make it go away, however. Never had issues with a promise board before. In the interim I bought a HiPoint, which appears to be the cadillac of sub-$300

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 11:10:38PM +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If your user login is smith, you could have all mailing list mail sent to smitty and keep an open mutt or other reader a click away. Spam could be easily flagged ... .

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread Danny Pansters
I don't want to hijack this, erm, thread, but I get loads of spam (my mail goes through a hosting provider, I (post-)filter locally) and a significant part of it is loaded with technical terms, even FreeBSD specific. I suppose it's meant to confuse filters. Do other folks get this too? Dan On

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 04:19:06PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 11:10:38PM +0200, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: However the traplist activities are really about identifying spam sending hosts. If a machine we have not exchanged mail with in recent times tries to

Re: Servers Crash every few days

2007-08-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:33:50PM +0300, Ovi wrote: Consult the developers handbook for tips on how to obtain sufficient debugging information to identify and debug a panic or hang. Kris I had the same issue, kernel panic and server reboot after tuning to high sysctl variable (like

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread Pollywog
On Friday 24 August 2007 00:22:12 Danny Pansters wrote: I don't want to hijack this, erm, thread, but I get loads of spam (my mail goes through a hosting provider, I (post-)filter locally) and a significant part of it is loaded with technical terms, even FreeBSD specific. I suppose it's meant

Re: VMware Player 2 Linux on 6.2-RELEASE

2007-08-23 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
Adam J Richardson wrote: I'm doing this because it'd be nice if I could suspend the VM, copy it to USB stick, transfer it to BSD and start it again, so I could use the Windows box for playing a game or watching a movie while the make runs. Unless the two machines have identical CPUs with

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread Eric Crist
On Aug 23, 2007, at 7:45 PMAug 23, 2007, Pollywog wrote: On Friday 24 August 2007 00:22:12 Danny Pansters wrote: I don't want to hijack this, erm, thread, but I get loads of spam (my mail goes through a hosting provider, I (post-)filter locally) and a significant part of it is loaded with

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread Nikola Lecic
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:00:20 -0500 Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course it does, because it requires no work on your part. It's always better if you can get someone else to expend energy on your behalf while you sit back and reap the benefits. That's why unthinking people love

RE: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread fbsd2
I get more PDF files lately and a T-O-N of the ASCII blue- pill ads... - Eric F Crist Secure Computing Networks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eric Crist Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 9:19 PM To: Pollywog Cc:

Re: PCIe gigabit network card

2007-08-23 Thread Modulok
On 8/23/07, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have to buy one, but i don't want to buy crappy/unsuported one. what chipset/manufacturer i should look at. they are for 20-40$ here, may brands many chips. please help. I second the previous suggestion. I just deployed a machine to act

Re: FreeBSD MBRs

2007-08-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Aug 23, 2007 at 11:33:02AM +0100, Christopher Key wrote: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: You only need an MBR on disks that will be booted. I don't know as it will actually hurt anything to write an MBR on non-boot, data only disks, but it can garbage up you menu with

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread Duane Hill
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 at 02:22 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: I don't want to hijack this, erm, thread, but I get loads of spam (my mail goes through a hosting provider, I (post-)filter locally) and a significant part of it is loaded with technical terms, even FreeBSD specific. I suppose

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread Duane Hill
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 at 20:19 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: On Aug 23, 2007, at 7:45 PMAug 23, 2007, Pollywog wrote: On Friday 24 August 2007 00:22:12 Danny Pansters wrote: I don't want to hijack this, erm, thread, but I get loads of spam (my mail goes through a hosting provider, I

Re: /var or /usr for data?

2007-08-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:51:35PM -0500, Andrew Gould wrote: On 8/22/07, Brad Waite [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would appear that the proper allocation of filesystems on FreeBSD is to put all data in /usr. I'm used to this and have been doing it for years. However, there's a few

Re: /var or /usr for data?

2007-08-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 22/08/07, Andrew Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/22/07, Brad Waite [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It would appear that the proper allocation of filesystems on FreeBSD is to put all data in /usr. I'm used to this and have been doing it for years. However, there's a few issues that

Test on FreeBSD site

2007-08-23 Thread NetOpsCenter
Aloha, How long does it take for a test to be accepted or rejected on the FreeBSD test mail box? Is three minutes normal for a test to pop up? I had some FreeBSD 7 config issues and this nearly caused me to think I hadn't cleared the problem because it took quite a while to pop up. Mahalo

perl configuration question

2007-08-23 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I'm trying to install WebGUI on a FreeBSD system for my church. WebGUI uses PERL for its operation. The program has a test environment perl script that it tries to run to make sure the environment can run WebGUI. On a couple of the perl modules it tries to install, it bails saying that make

Re: spammers harvesting emaill address from this list

2007-08-23 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:19:06 -0700 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it be possible to filter on both the ^Subject: A friend has sent you a Greeting card! as well as the body? HTML or plaintext? As soon as I see one (usually different) spam I know there well be

Re: Gnome FreeBSD

2007-08-23 Thread NetOpsCenter
Michael S wrote: Good day all, I decided to add GUI to my GUI-less FreeBSD machine. I am considering installing Gnome, which I haven't used for long while and the last time was on Linux anyway. The reason is that most of my favorite applications use gtk libraries, like Firefox, GAIM (can't

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