Re: How to restore a lost root password...

2008-10-27 Thread Steven Susbauer
Mauricio López wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Daniel Bye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 09:18:25PM +0100, Rada alive wrote: I have seen a How to about this but I have a problem, i set the console to insecure, so when I try to do the step of the how to i get a

migrate server on freebsd amd64

2008-10-27 Thread Valentin Bud
Hello list, I want your opinion about migrating a freebsd server to amd64. I have the following configuration: Motherboard: Intel S5000VSA CPU: Intel Xeon E5335 @ 2Ghz RAM: 2 x 1Gb DDR2 FB-DIMM 667Mhz HDD: 2 x 320 Gb SATA II + 1 x 500 Gb SATA II This server runs as a web / mail server using:

Re: How to restore a lost root password...

2008-10-27 Thread Andrew D
G'Day, Steven Susbauer wrote: Mauricio López wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Daniel Bye --snip-- As far as I know, from my previous Linux experience, you just need a LiveCD in order to boot the PC, mount the / partition, edit /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow and change the hash for one

GPT Support on Freebsd

2008-10-27 Thread Franck Royer
Hi, That's my first real try of a bsd system. I installed pc bsd (the last version) on my macbook. I use refit to sync my dos and gui partition table. I already have many partitions : - fat32 (containing the firmware of the macbook) - hfsplus (mac os X + the files for efi) - ext2 ( /boot of

Re: WINE 21.1.5 QUESTION...

2008-10-27 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Sunday 26 October 2008 22:21:08 Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:50:13AM +0100, Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Saturday 25 October 2008 03:55:26 Gary Kline wrote: Maybe somebody here can clue me in on how to get a 1998, windose3.1/w95 French-learning game to work on my newly built

DHCP and MAC addresses

2008-10-27 Thread Odhiambo Washington
Hello List, Suppose I have 100 Desktops, and I want my DHCP server to _only_ assign IP addresses to these hosts, using MAC addresses, is there a way to tell the DHCP server to NOT assign any IP address to a machine whose MAC address it doesn't know? I don't want any computer being plugged onto my

Re: migrate server on freebsd amd64

2008-10-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
while it's strange you haven't installed amd64 at first place, why migrating WORKING thing? if it works fine - don't touch. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: migrate server on freebsd amd64

2008-10-27 Thread Valentin Bud
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: while it's strange you haven't installed amd64 at first place, why migrating WORKING thing? if it works fine - don't touch. I didn't install amd64 from the start because my knowledge at the time I installed the server

Re: DHCP and MAC addresses

2008-10-27 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Deian Popov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, try deny unknown-clients; and may be boot-unknown-clients false; in dhcpd.conf Hi Deian, You guys are great! Thank you very much. One response I got off list was that I could use deny unknown-clients; if I use

Re: DHCP and MAC addresses

2008-10-27 Thread Valentin Bud
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Odhiambo Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Deian Popov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, try deny unknown-clients; and may be boot-unknown-clients false; in dhcpd.conf Hi Deian, You guys are great! Thank you very much.

Re: DHCP and MAC addresses

2008-10-27 Thread Deian Popov
Hello, try deny unknown-clients; and may be boot-unknown-clients false; in dhcpd.conf Deian On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Odhiambo Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hello List, Suppose I have 100 Desktops, and I want my DHCP server to _only_ assign IP addresses to these hosts, using

SUN Fire V 250

2008-10-27 Thread Arek Czereszewski
Hi, On next week I will get SUN Fire v250 machine. I thinking about installation FreeBSD on this machine. Have someone experience with FreeBSD on this machine? Best Regards Arek -- Arek Czereszewski UNIX allows me to work smarter, not harder. ___

Re: DHCP and MAC addresses

2008-10-27 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Valentin Bud [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Odhiambo Washington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Deian Popov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, try deny unknown-clients; and may be boot-unknown-clients

RE: DHCP and MAC addresses

2008-10-27 Thread Bob McConnell
On Behalf Of Odhiambo Washington One response I got off list was that I could use deny unknown-clients; if I use isc-dhcpd-server, which got me thinking ... is there another dhcp server for FreeBSD in the ports tree, or outside it? I have used dnsmasq on Slackware Linux. It is a combined

Re: DHCP and MAC addresses

2008-10-27 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 09:58:36AM -0400, Bob McConnell wrote: On Behalf Of Odhiambo Washington One response I got off list was that I could use deny unknown-clients; if I use isc-dhcpd-server, which got me thinking ... is there another dhcp server for FreeBSD in the ports tree, or

Re: Why does adding /usr/lib32 to LD_LIBRARY_PATH break 64-bit ?binaries?

2008-10-27 Thread Oliver Fromme
Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Friday 24 October 2008 23:20:59 Peter Jeremy wrote: this will make system trying to bind 32-bit libs to 64-bit program. it can't work rtld shouldn't attempt to bind 32-bit libs to 64-bit programs. The same problem happens with the Linux run time

Re: Low bandwidth suggestions

2008-10-27 Thread RW
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 23:56:09 -0500 Mauricio L__pez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My question is: what would you recommend to someone who wants to have the software available offline and perhaps update it monthly? Can I download and burn in DVDs the entire ports and package collection? I think

Re: DHCP and MAC addresses

2008-10-27 Thread en0f
Bob McConnell wrote: On Behalf Of Odhiambo Washington One response I got off list was that I could use deny unknown-clients; if I use isc-dhcpd-server, which got me thinking ... is there another dhcp server for FreeBSD in the ports tree, or outside it? I have used dnsmasq on Slackware

Re: DHCP and MAC addresses

2008-10-27 Thread Duane Hill
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, en0f wrote: Bob McConnell wrote: On Behalf Of Odhiambo Washington One response I got off list was that I could use deny unknown-clients; if I use isc-dhcpd-server, which got me thinking ... is there another dhcp server for FreeBSD in the ports tree, or outside it? I

Re: How to restore a lost root password...

2008-10-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 02:12:19AM -0600, Steven Susbauer wrote: Mauricio L?pez wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Daniel Bye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 09:18:25PM +0100, Rada alive wrote: I have seen a How to about this but I have a problem, i set the console

Re: DHCP and MAC addresses

2008-10-27 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 5:07 PM, en0f [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob McConnell wrote: On Behalf Of Odhiambo Washington One response I got off list was that I could use deny unknown-clients; if I use isc-dhcpd-server, which got me thinking ... is there another dhcp server for FreeBSD in the

Re: Why does adding /usr/lib32 to LD_LIBRARY_PATH break 64-bit ?binaries?

2008-10-27 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Daniel O'Connor wrote: : On Friday 24 October 2008 23:20:59 Peter Jeremy wrote: : this will make system trying to bind 32-bit libs to 64-bit program. it : can't work : :rtld shouldn't attempt to

Re: DHCP and MAC addresses

2008-10-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 06:54:30PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: I wonder what makes people live in both worlds - *BSD Linux - is it for similar reasons? Living in both worlds is a good thing: keeping an open mind about operating systems and software is one of the best choices one can

Dell PE1900 DAT72 drive failing FreeBSD 7

2008-10-27 Thread Steve Scally
All, I have a Dell PE1900 with an internal DAT72 drive. The drive appears to fail midway through a dump after detecting the end of tape and prompting for a new one. There is no specific sequence in which it fails. Sometimes it could be after the first tape or after the second tape.

Re: Looking for the right FreeBSD.iso

2008-10-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:34:42AM +0100, LennyCZ wrote: Hello! I would like to try FreeBSD on my machine, but I did not find any information regarding the ISO files on FreeBSD FTP sites. For example, in ISO directory for 7.0 release, I found these files:

Re: DHCP and MAC addresses

2008-10-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hello List, Suppose I have 100 Desktops, and I want my DHCP server to _only_ assign IP addresses to these hosts, using MAC addresses, is there a way to tell the DHCP server to NOT assign any IP address to a machine whose MAC address it doesn't know? of course. and you can assign IP to each

Re: DHCP and MAC addresses

2008-10-27 Thread Valentin Bud
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello List, Suppose I have 100 Desktops, and I want my DHCP server to _only_ assign IP addresses to these hosts, using MAC addresses, is there a way to tell the DHCP server to NOT assign any IP address to a machine

make installworld error from 4.11-STABLE to 5.4-RELEASE

2008-10-27 Thread Chicago Animation, Inc.
Hey nick, This is Tom Truong. Aka Good Timez How are you? Call me 832-685-4705 to chat. I thought I saw you at the gas station on butterfield and route 60 but wasn't sure. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

SSH Port forwarding when PermitRootLogin==no ?

2008-10-27 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Hello, I'm (still) trying to work around a limitation I've encountered with a new service provider (cf. MTA on non-standard port). As root: # ssh -L 24:server:52525 server fails because root logins aren't permitted in /etc/sshd_config on the server. Also as root: # ssh -L 24:server:52525

wall write talk Over subnet

2008-10-27 Thread Charles Darwin
Is it possible? If not, then what are the subnet counterparts of `wall' `write' and `talk'? Thanks, Charles ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: SSH Port forwarding when PermitRootLogin==no ?

2008-10-27 Thread Pollywog
On Monday 27 October 2008 17:04:46 Kevin Kinsey wrote: Hello, I'm (still) trying to work around a limitation I've encountered with a new service provider (cf. MTA on non-standard port). As root: # ssh -L 24:server:52525 server fails because root logins aren't permitted in

Re: SSH Port forwarding when PermitRootLogin==no ?

2008-10-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:04:46PM -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Hello, I'm (still) trying to work around a limitation I've encountered with a new service provider (cf. MTA on non-standard port). As root: # ssh -L 24:server:52525 server fails because root logins aren't permitted in

Re: wall write talk Over subnet

2008-10-27 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:20:34 -0400, Charles Darwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible? If not, then what are the subnet counterparts of `wall' `write' and `talk'? I'm not sure I understood your question correctly, but maybe at least in regards of talk there's the ntalk utility. It

keeping states with ipf

2008-10-27 Thread rvenne
Hi list I've 2 ipf fw on freebsd 7.0. CARP works fine. But pfsync doesn't work with ipf, ( it's written for pf, right?) so, is there any similar tool for keep synchronized both firewall's states? regards -- Richard VENNE IT Administrator Administrateur réseaux système sécurité Afin de

Re: Looking for the right FreeBSD.iso

2008-10-27 Thread Brian Whalen
Jerry McAllister wrote: Basically, you are wrong, because you haven't looked far enough in to things to know that FreeBSD has done it that way from the beginning (or almost that far back).I have never done a complete install from a CD or DVD, but just acquired the first disk, booted the

Re: SUN Fire V 250

2008-10-27 Thread mdh
--- On Mon, 10/27/08, Arek Czereszewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Arek Czereszewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: SUN Fire V 250 To: Liste FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Monday, October 27, 2008, 9:21 AM Hi, On next week I will get SUN Fire v250 machine. I thinking about

Re: migrate server on freebsd amd64

2008-10-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:10:19AM +0100, Valentin Bud wrote: Hello list, I want your opinion about migrating a freebsd server to amd64. I have the following configuration: Motherboard: Intel S5000VSA CPU: Intel Xeon E5335 @ 2Ghz RAM: 2 x 1Gb DDR2 FB-DIMM 667Mhz HDD: 2 x 320 Gb SATA II +

collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-27 Thread Francis Dubé
Hi everyone, I'm running a a webserver on FreeBSD (6.2-RELEASE-p6) and I have this error in my logs : collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC I've read that this is mainly caused by Apache spawning too many processes. Everyone seems to suggest to decrease the MaxClients

Re: MTA on non-standard port

2008-10-27 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:23:59 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 06:55:53PM -0500, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Hello, Quick thanks to Andrew Clark, Jeremy Chadwick, Tim Kellers, Jeff Goldberg, and anyone whose reply I've not seen re: this issue. Isn't hard, as

Re: WINE 21.1.5 QUESTION...

2008-10-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:34:52AM +0100, Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Sunday 26 October 2008 22:21:08 Gary Kline wrote: On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:50:13AM +0100, Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Saturday 25 October 2008 03:55:26 Gary Kline wrote: Maybe somebody here can clue me in on how to get a

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 27, 2008, at 11:39 AM, Francis Dubé wrote: I've read that this is mainly caused by Apache spawning too many processes. Everyone seems to suggest to decrease the MaxClients directive in Apache(set to 450 at the moment), but here's the problem...i need to increase it ! During peaks all

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-27 Thread Simon Chang
collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC I've read that this is mainly caused by Apache spawning too many processes. Everyone seems to suggest to decrease the MaxClients directive in Apache(set to 450 at the moment), but here's the problem...i need to increase it ! During

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-27 Thread FreeBSD
Chuck Swiger a écrit : On Oct 27, 2008, at 11:39 AM, Francis Dubé wrote: I've read that this is mainly caused by Apache spawning too many processes. Everyone seems to suggest to decrease the MaxClients directive in Apache(set to 450 at the moment), but here's the problem...i need to increase

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-27 Thread FreeBSD
Simon Chang a écrit : collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC I've read that this is mainly caused by Apache spawning too many processes. Everyone seems to suggest to decrease the MaxClients directive in Apache(set to 450 at the moment), but here's the problem...i need to

reviving games/freebsd-games

2008-10-27 Thread clemens fischer
Some of the programs in games/freebsd-games, notably hack and larn, have the following problem: Given the declarations: char *scrollname[] = { char *potionname[] = { \0enchant armor, \0sleep, \0enchant weapon,\0healing, ...... \0

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 27, 2008, at 12:38 PM, FreeBSD wrote: You need to keep your MaxClients setting limited to what your system can run under high load; generally the amount of system memory is the governing factor. [1] If you set your MaxClients higher than that, your system will start swapping under

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:56:30PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 27, 2008, at 12:38 PM, FreeBSD wrote: You need to keep your MaxClients setting limited to what your system can run under high load; generally the amount of system memory is the governing factor. [1] If you set your

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-27 Thread Bill Moran
In response to FreeBSD [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Simon Chang a écrit : collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC I've read that this is mainly caused by Apache spawning too many processes. Everyone seems to suggest to decrease the MaxClients directive in Apache(set to

Re: reviving games/freebsd-games

2008-10-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 08:53:46PM +0100, clemens fischer wrote: Some of the programs in games/freebsd-games, notably hack and larn, have the following problem: Given the declarations: char *scrollname[] = { char *potionname[] = { \0enchant armor, \0sleep, \0enchant

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-27 Thread Simon Chang
Raising PMAP_SHPGPERPROC works most of the time. You can also re-tune your Apache setting to keep processes from constantly spawning and dying. For example, set the max spare and min spare servers settings higher, so Apache keeps more spare servers around instead of spawning them on demand

Re: Low bandwidth suggestions

2008-10-27 Thread Roey D
2008/10/27 Mauricio López [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm starting my first steps in FreeBSD, with some experience in Debian GNU/Linux. I also live in Cuba, a third world country with very low bandwidth and I'm very interested in having access to the ported software available for FreeBSD. For now I

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-27 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Simon Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED]: By the way, does anyone know whether there is any way to tune PMAP_SHPGPERPROC using sysctl, or does such button/knob not exist? No. I've had this discussion with the developer who originally wrote that code. The table size is too deep inside

Re: reviving games/freebsd-games

2008-10-27 Thread clemens fischer
Jeremy Chadwick: I think the bottom line here is that until someone steps up and actually volunteers to fix the code, it will remain broken. (I don't normally tote this attitude, but in this case it's applicable: this is a volunteer project! :-) ) That's why I want to try my skills on it.

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
Francis Dubé wrote: Hi everyone, I'm running a a webserver on FreeBSD (6.2-RELEASE-p6) and I have this error in my logs : collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC I've read that this is mainly caused by Apache spawning too many processes. Everyone seems to suggest to

Re: collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC

2008-10-27 Thread Bob Johnson
On 10/27/08, Simon Chang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raising PMAP_SHPGPERPROC works most of the time. You can also re-tune [...] By the way, does anyone know whether there is any way to tune PMAP_SHPGPERPROC using sysctl, or does such button/knob not exist? It is tunable with a sysctl in AMD64

Re: reviving games/freebsd-games

2008-10-27 Thread Martin Tournoij
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 08:53:46PM +0100, clemens fischer wrote: Some of the programs in games/freebsd-games, notably hack and larn, have the following problem: Given the declarations: char *scrollname[] = { char *potionname[] = { \0enchant armor, \0sleep, \0enchant

Re: Why does adding /usr/lib32 to LD_LIBRARY_PATH break 64-bit ?binaries?

2008-10-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 28 October 2008 01:31:16 M. Warner Losh wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Daniel O'Connor wrote: : On Friday 24 October 2008 23:20:59 Peter Jeremy wrote: : this will make system trying to bind 32-bit libs to 64-bit :

gmirror slice insertion, FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY, DSC, ERROR

2008-10-27 Thread Carl Voth
I'm setting up a dual-disk server and am trying to bring it up with gmirror and gjournal. One slice per disk, the goal being to create a single mirror from said slices with some of the partitions journaled. Installed FreeBSD-7.0RELEASE to ad4, then used technique from here to create

almost OT os x

2008-10-27 Thread kalin m
hi all... this is a bit OT but since bsd and os x have enough in common in the core some people here might have dealt with an os x server before.. ok. here is the problem. i have this os x server put on my lap to administer and there are some really weired things happening. the machine

Re: gmirror slice insertion, FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY, DSC, ERROR

2008-10-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 06:56:24PM -0700, Carl Voth wrote: I'm setting up a dual-disk server and am trying to bring it up with gmirror and gjournal. One slice per disk, the goal being to create a single mirror from said slices with some of the partitions journaled. Installed

Re: almost OT os x

2008-10-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:19:56PM -0400, kalin m wrote: this is a bit OT but since bsd and os x have enough in common in the core some people here might have dealt with an os x server before.. ok. here is the problem. i have this os x server put on my lap to administer and there are some

Re: almost OT os x

2008-10-27 Thread kalin m
Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:19:56PM -0400, kalin m wrote: this is a bit OT but since bsd and os x have enough in common in the core some people here might have dealt with an os x server before.. ok. here is the problem. i have this os x server put on my lap to

Re: Looking for the right FreeBSD.iso

2008-10-27 Thread Steven Susbauer
Jerry McAllister wrote: Maybe I am wrong, but I feel it shouldn't be necessary to waste 3 CDs from installation if I have a high-speed permanent Internet connection. So wouldn't just 1 DVD-RW do? Basically, you are wrong, because you haven't looked far enough in to things to know

Re: Looking for the right FreeBSD.iso

2008-10-27 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 09:56:56PM -0600, Steven Susbauer wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: Maybe I am wrong, but I feel it shouldn't be necessary to waste 3 CDs from installation if I have a high-speed permanent Internet connection. So wouldn't just 1 DVD-RW do? Basically, you