7-stable home media center (HDMI?)

2008-08-31 Thread Michael
Before I spend the time installing freebsd on a media center type machine, does 7 support hdmi and hdcp? I've already built and configured the storage array for the machine, running 7 stable. the actual machine i have built into a cabinet under my tv stand is just going to have a blu-ray drive,

How to control inetd binding to ip addresses?

2008-08-31 Thread Chris
I can't seem to find any documentation that tells me how to specify ip addresses per service that inetd should listen on. I've been searching for days now. Thank you in advance for any help with this issue. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: How to test the uptime of a webserver?

2008-08-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
Redd Vinylene wrote: Hello hello! I got this dedicated server which is exposed to DDoS attacks quite frequently. Say I need to host a website on it, is there any way of telling how often it is actually online (to the rest of the world)? Maybe make some sort of ping script from a remote server?

Re: jail stop extracting iso file

2008-08-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
In server jail and squid is running on it as lots of another packet. i want to extract iso image in this server. But i havent do it. #mdconfig -a -t vnode -f big_bcbcv.iso #mdconfig: open(/dev/mdctl): No such file or directory you can't jail doesn't allow it.

Conflicting packages installing to same dir

2008-08-31 Thread Warren Liddell
=== Installing for xf86-video-intel-2.4.0 === xf86-video-intel-2.4.0 conflicts with installed package(s): xf86-video-i810-1.7.4_1 They install files into the same place. Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1). How do i get these

USB modem: how to enable driver?

2008-08-31 Thread Artur :)
Hello! I am going to install FreeBSD on my desktop, currently running M$ Windows. I have ZTE wireless USB modem, and there is no specific driver provided for *NIX. But, this device can be used with generic USB serial port driver. In Linux, device is not recognized automatically, but can be

Re: Conflicting packages installing to same dir

2008-08-31 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Warren Liddell wrote: === Installing for xf86-video-intel-2.4.0 === xf86-video-intel-2.4.0 conflicts with installed package(s): xf86-video-i810-1.7.4_1 They install files into the same place. Please remove them first with pkg_delete(1).

Re: if_bridge problem

2008-08-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hi First of all sorry for my bad english =) better than mine. I am running 7.0 STABLE So...I've build a kernel with device if_bridge, and if_bridge and tap are kldload'ed, tap0 bridge0 are up'ed..but... sysctl net.link.ether.bridge_cfg=nfe0,tap0 I have error:sysctl: unknown oid

Re: PPTP (VPN) FREEBSD 7-p3

2008-08-31 Thread Vince Hoffman
d c wrote: I have used /usr/ports/net/pptpclient/ as long as I remember. I just setup a new 7.0 Desktop and installed the port. When I run pptp x.x.x.x I get: /bin/ip: not found /bin/ip: not found Loading /lib/libalias_cuseeme.so Loading /lib/libalias_ftp.so Loading /lib/libalias_irc.so

Re: How to control inetd binding to ip addresses?

2008-08-31 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:58:03 -0700, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't seem to find any documentation that tells me how to specify ip addresses per service that inetd should listen on. I've been searching for days now. I'm not sure if this is what you're searching for, but maybe

Re: Conflicting packages installing to same dir

2008-08-31 Thread Warren Liddell
Simple. Don't install both of them ;) Just install xf86-video-intel. Supports the current intel video chipsets there both needed as a dependency by X.Org so although your suggestionis good in theory, unf not going to work in prac, although i had tried it :)

Re: _secure_path: cannot stat /dev/null/.login_conf: Not a directory

2008-08-31 Thread VeeJay
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 7:26 PM, VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dan Thanks for your advice. Could you tell me where I should I start to look for to make these changes and correct this problem? Regards VJ On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 12:08 PM, VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dan

Dragon Player plays video but with no sound

2008-08-31 Thread Warren Liddell
Ever since i installed FreeBSD 7.0 and KDE4 dragon player will play the video files but with no sound, is there any switch or config that i may be missing as to why this is occuring? atm im having to use VLC to be abel to watch any moves in full screen with sound.

Complex text layout

2008-08-31 Thread faja606
I am trying to get my website to support multilanguage fonts, complex text layouts. An example of what I am trying is to have the fonts of other languages appear rather than boxes or question marks. In other words like Wikipedia.org which clearly shows the multilingual fonts on its front page.

PPTP Freebsd REL 7

2008-08-31 Thread d c
I have used /usr/ports/net/pptpclient/ as long as I remember. I just setup a new 7.0 Desktop and installed the port. When I run pptp x.x.x.x I get: /bin/ip: not found /bin/ip: not found Loading /lib/libalias_cuseeme.so Loading /lib/libalias_ftp.so Loading /lib/libalias_irc.so Loading

Re: Conflicting packages installing to same dir

2008-08-31 Thread Josh Carroll
there both needed as a dependency by X.Org so although your suggestionis good in theory, unf not going to work in prac, although i had tried it :) They are both dependencies because you've told it so. cd /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xorg-drivers make config Deselect either the i810 or intel

Re: How to test the uptime of a webserver?

2008-08-31 Thread Redd Vinylene
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Moises Castellanos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello hello! I got this dedicated server which is exposed to DDoS attacks quite frequently. Say I need to host a website on it, is there any

Re: How to test the uptime of a webserver?

2008-08-31 Thread Andrew D
Redd Vinylene wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Moises Castellanos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello hello! I got this dedicated server which is exposed to DDoS attacks quite frequently. Say I need to host a website

Re: How to test the uptime of a webserver?

2008-08-31 Thread Andrew D
Redd Vinylene wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Moises Castellanos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello hello! I got this dedicated server which is exposed to DDoS attacks quite frequently. Say I need to host a website

Re: svpn

2008-08-31 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (Mobile)
connect and after several seconds shows me connection failed. But then in the top I see that process of svpn consumes almost 100% of processor. ktrace the process and find out what its doing. linux binary XPIs for firefox are hit-or-miss (Dell DRAC5) ~BAS Is it posible to run F5Networks

Re: How to test the uptime of a webserver?

2008-08-31 Thread Matthew Seaman
Redd Vinylene wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 2:22 AM, Moises Castellanos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got this dedicated server which is exposed to DDoS attacks quite frequently. Say I need to host a website on it, is

Re: How to control inetd binding to ip addresses?

2008-08-31 Thread Chuck Swiger
Chris wrote: I can't seem to find any documentation that tells me how to specify ip addresses per service that inetd should listen on. inetd doesn't have that capability; you might look into www.xinetd.org (security/xinetd port) instead. Regards, -- -Chuck

can't install extension for Openoffice

2008-08-31 Thread ronggui
I tried version 2.4 and dev-3.0, both give the same error: bad transfer url. Anyone knows what is the problem and how to solve it? Thanks. -- HUANG Ronggui, Wincent http://ronggui.huang.googlepages.com/ Ph.D. Candidate, CityU of HK Master of sociology, Fudan University, China Bachelor of

FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE getting terrible throughput using sk0 adapter

2008-08-31 Thread David Polak
I recently leased a godaddy.com dedicated server, and while they didn't offer freebsd as an option, I used the fine guide at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/ to get freebsd installed. I noticed that the installation was taking a long time with ftp as the source media, but I

FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE getting terrible throughput using sk0 adapter

2008-08-31 Thread David Polak
I recently leased a godaddy.com dedicated server, and while they didn't offer freebsd as an option, I used the fine guide at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/remote-install/ to get freebsd installed. I noticed that the installation was taking a long time with ftp as the source media, but I

adding new disk to the system

2008-08-31 Thread Sasa Stupar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I have a working FBSD 7.0 and two disks in RAID-1 (gmirror). Now I want to add another disk which will be used as file exchange disk so I don't need it in raid-1 (not sensitive data). Do I add new drive with standard procedure and just create a

Re: adding new disk to the system

2008-08-31 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:44:55 +0200, Sasa Stupar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do I add new drive with standard procedure and just create a new mount point e.g. /newdrive or do I need to do something else? Well, for your designated usage of the disk, take the easy way (assumed ad6 to be the new disk,

Re: adding new disk to the system

2008-08-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hi! I have a working FBSD 7.0 and two disks in RAID-1 (gmirror). Now I want to add another disk which will be used as file exchange disk so I don't need it in raid-1 (not sensitive data). Do I add new drive with standard procedure and just create a new mount point e.g. /newdrive or do I need to

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE getting terrible throughput using sk0 adapter

2008-08-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
still seeing really slow download speeds. I then decided to see if something was wrong with the system by downloading the same image from the same source that I downloaded on linux in order to bootstrap freebsd and the speed difference was appaling. It had downloaded at 10.29 MB/s. Once freebsd

SAN, distributed filesystem

2008-08-31 Thread Zinevich Denis
Hi all. Environment: SAN attached via fiber to 4 servers with freebsd 6.3 The question is: What filesystem i should use to have rw access to SAN from any of 4 servers ? --- WBR Link ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

RE: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE getting terrible throughput using sk0 adapter

2008-08-31 Thread David Polak
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wojciech Puchar Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 11:21 AM To: David Polak Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE getting terrible throughput using sk0 adapter

Re: jail stop extracting iso file

2008-08-31 Thread tethys ocean
İ see, i should extract this iso image (not using tar) may i close this jail? and can i restart correctly? i am hesitate since squid in running on jail? process is like [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc]# ps ax -o pid,jid,args PIDJID COMMAND 8415 0 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -k start 10414 0

Re: Complex text layout

2008-08-31 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Aug 30, 2008, at 4:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to get my website to support multilanguage fonts, complex text layouts. An example of what I am trying is to have the fonts of other languages appear rather than boxes or question marks. This is purely an HTML/web-design

Re: jail stop extracting iso file

2008-08-31 Thread Olli Hauer
In server jail and squid is running on it as lots of another packet. i want to extract iso image in this server. But i havent do it. #mdconfig -a -t vnode -f big_bcbcv.iso #mdconfig: open(/dev/mdctl): No such file or directory you can't jail doesn't allow it. Yes, but why don't

Re: Dragon Player plays video but with no sound

2008-08-31 Thread Warren Liddell
kldload snd_driver or snd_driver_load in /boot/loader.conf All ready have the sound driver loaded. kmplayer VLC player will do picture and sound. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: USB modem: how to enable driver?

2008-08-31 Thread Patrick Lamaizière
Le Sun, 31 Aug 2008 12:20:19 +0300, Artur :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hello! I am going to install FreeBSD on my desktop, currently running M$ Windows. I have ZTE wireless USB modem, and there is no specific driver provided for *NIX. But, this device can be used with generic USB serial

Re: BIND DNS Patching on 6.1, 6.2

2008-08-31 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Thanks to Lars I have come up with the following (to upgrade BIND for the DNS caching issue)...(short of updateing all source). Download the latest port BIND95.9.5.x (p2 I think), Extract it to the ports directory, make -DWITH_REPLACE_BASE make install make clean Is the above

bluefish question

2008-08-31 Thread Gary Kline
People, This ought to be On Topic ... for a change. Re the use of bluefish --and yes, I've finally gone soft to try to edit a large HTML/PHP file-- when I swipe an area of text and stuff to be centered, and click on the center icon, bluefish prints: div align=center blah foo bar /div but I

dump/restore don't work, handbook lies

2008-08-31 Thread Lloyd M Caldwell
Hello, this all on a 7.0 freebsd system. Dump/Restore do NOT work as indicated in the handbook (or man pages). It would be better to remove information from the handbook rather then have information that doesn't work. I needed to increase the size of my freebsd root (/). I booted, single

Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies

2008-08-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:03:53 -0600, Lloyd M Caldwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, this all on a 7.0 freebsd system. Dump/Restore do NOT work as indicated in the handbook (or man pages). It would be better to remove information from the handbook rather then have information that doesn't

Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies

2008-08-31 Thread J.D. Bronson
At 05:03 PM 8/31/2008 -0600, Lloyd M Caldwell wrote: Hello, this all on a 7.0 freebsd system. Dump/Restore do NOT work as indicated in the handbook (or man pages). It would be better to remove information from the handbook rather then have information that doesn't work. Are you trying to

Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies

2008-08-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
man pages and have no clue how to rectify this. after re-reading the handbook on backup basics, I'm sure that anyone using them will loose everything. They are simply useless. take them offline. i use restore regularly and it works. anyway - i do test my backups at least full backups. but

Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies

2008-08-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Did you really run dump on a 'live' filesystem? The filesystem may be changing under the feet of dump, while it copies data. That is bound to cause trouble later on. but shouldn't make NO files restored, maybe few files that was changed while backing up.

Re: bluefish question

2008-08-31 Thread Tim Kellers
I used bluefish a few years ago, then went to quanta and finally settled on (/usr/ports/www/kompozer) Kompozer. Kompozer is an udate to nvu (which was the composer module in Mozilla) as a standalone application. It still produces source code with some Netscapeisms, but it isn't anything that

Re: bluefish question

2008-08-31 Thread prad
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:47:14 -0700 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and/or is there an easier markup editor in ports? hi gary! i tried bluefish, but didn't like it personally. kde's quanta is excellent and has lots of convenient features and uses the very advanced kate as a basis - you

Forwarding all mail to a local user

2008-08-31 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello list, I have the following questions. How can I forward all mail sent to anyone@localhost to a [EMAIL PROTECTED], where rambius is my own user account in my FreeBSD system and anyone can be anything including a user name that does not exist on the local machine? The reason I want this is

Re: Forwarding all mail to a local user

2008-08-31 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
[mailed and posted] On Aug 31, 2008, at 8:00 PM, Ivan Rambius Ivanov wrote: I have the following questions. How can I forward all mail sent to anyone@localhost to a [EMAIL PROTECTED], where rambius is my own user account in my FreeBSD system and anyone can be anything including a user name

Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies

2008-08-31 Thread RW
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:53:36 -0500 J.D. Bronson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dump -C 32 -0Lf - / | ( cd /mnta ; restore xf - ) One minor caveat: dumping a live filesystem require dump to take a snapshot, which in turn require soft-updates to be turned-on. The default in sysinstall is to enable it

Re: dump/restore don't work, handbook lies

2008-08-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
dump -C 32 -0Lf - / | ( cd /mnta ; restore xf - ) One minor caveat: dumping a live filesystem require dump to take a snapshot, which in turn require soft-updates to be turned-on. The default in sysinstall is to enable it for everything but the root again - it will still dump file, maybe

RE: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE getting terrible throughput using sk0 adapter

2008-08-31 Thread Michael Powell
David Polak wrote: [snip] try setting up speed and duplex options manually I have set the duplex to full-duplex and it has increased the speed to about 200kb/s on the same file. As far as phy support, I guess I really don't know, but the drivers for the chipset have been around for a

Re: bluefish question

2008-08-31 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 05:58:40PM -0700, prad wrote: On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:47:14 -0700 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and/or is there an easier markup editor in ports? hi gary! i tried bluefish, but didn't like it personally. kde's quanta is excellent and has lots of

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE getting terrible throughput using sk0 adapter

2008-08-31 Thread perryh
Try disabling usb and firewire in BIOS. You may need to have a tech there do it for you. Your box has the sk NIC and usb sharing an irq. The NIC driver is MPSAFE but the usb stack is still under the GIANT lock. Disable usb and the NIC driver should perform better. Alternatively, to avoid

Re: bluefish question

2008-08-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:47:14 -0700 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PS: Whatever happened to the good old days when Mozilla had an editor-mode builtin? Hey Gary, it's now called nvu, though it's been stuck in 1.0 land for as long as I remember. $ pkg_info -o linux-nvu* Information for

Re: PPTP (VPN) FREEBSD 7-p3

2008-08-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:55:09 -0700 (PDT) d c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone ran across this? Is there an alternate instead of ip? Perhaps I can hack it into the source. yup, i found it too when I recently reinstalled it to get back onto a PPTP vpn. FWIW, it works just fine regardless

RE: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE getting terrible throughput using sk0 adapter

2008-08-31 Thread David Polak
Try disabling usb and firewire in BIOS. You may need to have a tech there do it for you. Your box has the sk NIC and usb sharing an irq. The NIC driver is MPSAFE but the usb stack is still under the GIANT lock. Disable usb and the NIC driver should perform better. Alternatively, to

Kde4 packages

2008-08-31 Thread Eduardo Cerejo
Building kde4 from ports will take forever on my computer, does anyone where I can get these packages? -- E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Kde4 packages

2008-08-31 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Eduardo Cerejo wrote: Building kde4 from ports will take forever on my computer, does anyone where I can get these packages? I have uploaded a torrent with kde4.1 packages (including xorg, bash, samba and others). Get it here:

Re: Forwarding all mail to a local user

2008-08-31 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello Jeffrey, On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 4:24 AM, Jeffrey Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should edit /etc/mail/virtusertable to include a line like @localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is a sample virtusertable you can look at. After you have edited the virtusertable file, you