Re: Can i update ports tree using SVN

2008-12-18 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:31:47 +0800, "Shaowei Wang (wsw)" wrote: > Hi, Guys, > i've updated the FreeBSD sources from svn.freebsd.org/ and it's speed > is very good. i want to know can i update the ports tree through some > svn server ? Unfortunately, no. Only the src/ tree has been converted to

Can i update ports tree using SVN

2008-12-18 Thread Shaowei Wang (wsw)
Hi, Guys, i've updated the FreeBSD sources from svn.freebsd.org/ and it's speed is very good. i want to know can i update the ports tree through some svn server ? Best Regards. -wsw ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: Suitability question

2008-12-18 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 16:46 -0500, Glen Barber wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Patrick Baldwin > wrote: > > Usually I'm asking questions for work related things. This one is more > > personal. > > My father has this tendency to end up wrecking his computer if he uses the > > Internet >

Re: Secondary DNS or BSD Server space

2008-12-18 Thread Matt Emmerton
Everyone: We just got word that Neustar, which bought DNS service provider Nominum a few years ago, is shutting down Nominum's "secondary.com" service. The service used to provide secondary DNS for users' zones at no charge. I and the other secondary.com users I know think it's reasonable for t

Re: Simple swap question

2008-12-18 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:02:06PM -0500, FreeBSD wrote: > Daniel Bye a écrit : > >On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:28:18AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > >>On Thursday 18 December 2008 09:16:10 FreeBSD wrote: > >>>Hi everyone, > >>> > >>>I have a FreeBSD 7.0-Release server that started to swap after an

Re: Secondary DNS or BSD Server space

2008-12-18 Thread Outback Dingo
i have space on a freebsd system in the states, i could do secondary for anybody, and we could create a new service, with a web based management facility its plainly a dns backup for us and a backup secondary failover web site for extremely low traffic, if you guys want to picth in, we can bring so

Re: Unable to delete directory even after change of ownership.

2008-12-18 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, > the directory "." had owner and group as svn and repo_admin respectively > the directory ".." had owner and group as root and wheel respectively. Try to cut and paste example, it gives more detailed information when we read the exact output of the command. Olivier

Re: Unable to delete directory even after change of ownership.

2008-12-18 Thread BSD_Newbie
Glen, The directory was empty. only the usual directories "." and ".." were present when I try to delete the /home/my_repos directory. the directory "." had owner and group as svn and repo_admin respectively the directory ".." had owner and group as root and wheel respectively. These settings

Re: Unable to delete directory even after change of ownership.

2008-12-18 Thread Olivier Nicole
> > e) as root, executed the following command. > > chown svn:repo_admin /home/my_repos > > > > f) verified that the file permissions for /home/my_repos is correctly set > > after the change in ownership. > > > > > > Here is the problem I encountered > > When I log in as svn, I am placed in the fol

Re: Unable to delete directory even after change of ownership.

2008-12-18 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:27 PM, BSD_Newbie wrote: > > e) as root, executed the following command. > chown svn:repo_admin /home/my_repos > > f) verified that the file permissions for /home/my_repos is correctly set > after the change in ownership. > > > Here is the problem I encountered > When I

Unable to delete directory even after change of ownership.

2008-12-18 Thread BSD_Newbie
Hi. I have a quick question about chown and how it works. My setup: * Freebsd 7-RELEASE-p6 (on i386) * /home on separate slice. Here is what I am trying to do: In the folder called /home, I want to store my subversion repository. While working on this, I encountered a unique/inexplicable beh

Secondary DNS or BSD Server space

2008-12-18 Thread Brett Glass
Everyone: We just got word that Neustar, which bought DNS service provider Nominum a few years ago, is shutting down Nominum's "secondary.com" service. The service used to provide secondary DNS for users' zones at no charge. I and the other secondary.com users I know think it's reasonable

Re: bridge ipfw also protect set

2008-12-18 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, > I want to give internet connectivity to a pc behind my Freebsd, which is > connected to an aDSL. I know I can add another card to my set and use > bridge+IPFW so that the behind pc is firewalled. But will this setup > also ensure that my Freebsd set is firewalled? Could now figure it out >

SIS191 Ethernet Controller Support

2008-12-18 Thread Abd Hamid Shamsi
Hi Admin, I just want to know does FreeBSD support SIS191 Ethernet controller. Because recently i just install PCBSD in my laptop, and there is no connection for internet. and of course my network card seem doesn't appear in networking configuration. Do you have any suggestion to foresee this situa

Re: bridge ipfw also protect set

2008-12-18 Thread Jeff Laine
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:08:10AM +0800, KHOO Guan Chen wrote: > Hi > > I want to give internet connectivity to a pc behind my Freebsd, which is > connected to an aDSL. I know I can add another card to my set and use > bridge+IPFW so that the behind pc is firewalled. But will this setup > also

bridge ipfw also protect set

2008-12-18 Thread KHOO Guan Chen
Hi I want to give internet connectivity to a pc behind my Freebsd, which is connected to an aDSL. I know I can add another card to my set and use bridge+IPFW so that the behind pc is firewalled. But will this setup also ensure that my Freebsd set is firewalled? Could now figure it out reading th

Re: Firefox, or FreeBSD?

2008-12-18 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Greg Barniskis wrote: > Kurt Buff wrote: >> >> I'm visiting various web sites, and having a stupid little issue which >> is really annoying. >> >> FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #4: Sun Dec 14 22:08:22 >> PST 2008 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENER

Re: Suitability question

2008-12-18 Thread matt donovan
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Robert Huff wrote: > > Glen Barber writes: > > > >> Word processing won't be a problem, but internet 'toys' like Flash > > >> will be a problem, unless you use some wine+firefox workaround. > > > > > > What -- nspluginwrapper doesn't work any longer? > > > >

Backing Up ZFS

2008-12-18 Thread David N
Hi, As ZFS is becoming more stable and approaching production ready, how would one "Backup" ZFS? In terms of backing up to an external media or storage rather than doing snapshots. In case the the server spontaneously bursts into flames. Cost would be my main focus, so backing up to a HDD would b

Re: Firefox, or FreeBSD?

2008-12-18 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Greg Barniskis wrote: > Kurt Buff wrote: >> >> I'm visiting various web sites, and having a stupid little issue which >> is really annoying. >> >> FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #4: Sun Dec 14 22:08:22 >> PST 2008 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENER

Re: Suitability question

2008-12-18 Thread Robert Huff
Glen Barber writes: > >> Word processing won't be a problem, but internet 'toys' like Flash > >> will be a problem, unless you use some wine+firefox workaround. > > > > What -- nspluginwrapper doesn't work any longer? > > From personal experience, nspluginwrapper is a memory hog, and > on

Re: Suitability question

2008-12-18 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:46:24PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: >> >> Word processing won't be a problem, but internet 'toys' like Flash >> will be a problem, unless you use some wine+firefox workaround. > > What -- nspluginwrapper doesn't work an

Re: Suitability question

2008-12-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:46:24PM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: > > Word processing won't be a problem, but internet 'toys' like Flash > will be a problem, unless you use some wine+firefox workaround. What -- nspluginwrapper doesn't work any longer? -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL: http://ow

Re: Is FreeBSD subject to the EAR ?

2008-12-18 Thread kosuke . okisaka
Thanks for the reply. This issue is a potential problem for us to offer our medical imaging products made in Japan, which is commingled with the freeBSD, to the embargo countries like Iran, Syria, Sudan, etc. Do we need to get re-export license for our product from BIS or OFAC before shipment fr

Re: Firefox, or FreeBSD?

2008-12-18 Thread Greg Barniskis
Kurt Buff wrote: I'm visiting various web sites, and having a stupid little issue which is really annoying. FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #4: Sun Dec 14 22:08:22 PST 2008 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 FireFox 3.04. For instance, if I go to http://www.wsj.com, am

Re: Suitability question

2008-12-18 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Patrick Baldwin wrote: Usually I'm asking questions for work related things. This one is more personal. My father has this tendency to end up wrecking his computer if he uses the Internet much. Computers are basically magic boxes to him, so education is of limited useful

Re: Firefox, or FreeBSD?

2008-12-18 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Kurt Buff wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:29:37AM -0800, Kurt Buff wrote: I'm visiting various web sites, and having a stupid little issue which is really annoying. FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #4: Sun Dec 14 22:08:22 PST

Re: Suitability question

2008-12-18 Thread John Almberg
On Dec 18, 2008, at 4:25 PM, Patrick Baldwin wrote: Usually I'm asking questions for work related things. This one is more personal. My father has this tendency to end up wrecking his computer if he uses the Internet much. Computers are basically magic boxes to him, so education is of li

Re: Suitability question

2008-12-18 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:25:51PM -0500, Patrick Baldwin wrote: > Usually I'm asking questions for work related things. This one is more > personal. > My father has this tendency to end up wrecking his computer if he uses > the Internet > much. Computers are basically magic boxes to him, so ed

Re: Suitability question

2008-12-18 Thread Dimitri Yioulos
On Thursday 18 December 2008 4:25 pm, Patrick Baldwin wrote: > Usually I'm asking questions for work related things. This one is more > personal. > My father has this tendency to end up wrecking his computer if he uses > the Internet > much. Computers are basically magic boxes to him, so educatio

Re: Simple swap question

2008-12-18 Thread RW
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:13:12 -0500 FreeBSD wrote: > I can't see any process within parentheses in top... I also looked at > the -f option of ps but the process that caused the swapping are not > listed. > FreeBSD only swaps in extreme cases - most of the time it's paging instead. If it really

Re: 7.1 RC1 - problems with Intel Pro/1000 NIC (em0)?

2008-12-18 Thread Mark Moellering
Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, After installing FreeBSD 7.1 RC1 from the DVD-image I found that the PC in question has no LAN connectivity upon reboot. The PC has an Intel GE builtin NIC showing up as "Intel PRO/1000 Network Connection 6.9.6" in dmesg. For the problem: Though IP-Adress, default-GW e

Re: Firefox, or FreeBSD?

2008-12-18 Thread Randy Pratt
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:28:04 -0800 "Kurt Buff" wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Roland Smith wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:29:37AM -0800, Kurt Buff wrote: > >> I'm visiting various web sites, and having a stupid little issue which > >> is really annoying. > >> > >> FreeBSD 7.1-P

ports and disaster recovery

2008-12-18 Thread Tom Worster
i'm thinking about how to prepare for disaster recovery, e.g. a disk fails and is replaced, on a server in a group of remote servers. assume that policy and procedures are in place to keep freebsd up to date and portmaster is used to keep ports up to date. my idea is to use portmaster -gt at init

Re: Suitability question

2008-12-18 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:25:51 -0500, Patrick Baldwin wrote: > I'm thinking I might be best of trying to built him a really > locked-down, high security > box, almost an Internet appliance. All he really does is use the Web, > and a little > light word processing. > > What do people think of Fr

Re: Suitability question

2008-12-18 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Patrick Baldwin wrote: > Usually I'm asking questions for work related things. This one is more > personal. > My father has this tendency to end up wrecking his computer if he uses the > Internet > much. Computers are basically magic boxes to him, so education is

Suitability question

2008-12-18 Thread Patrick Baldwin
Usually I'm asking questions for work related things. This one is more personal. My father has this tendency to end up wrecking his computer if he uses the Internet much. Computers are basically magic boxes to him, so education is of limited usefulness here. I'm thinking I might be best of t

Re: Firefox, or FreeBSD?

2008-12-18 Thread Kurt Buff
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Roland Smith wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:29:37AM -0800, Kurt Buff wrote: >> I'm visiting various web sites, and having a stupid little issue which >> is really annoying. >> >> FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #4: Sun Dec 14 22:08:22 >> PST 2008

Re: Firefox, or FreeBSD?

2008-12-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:29:37AM -0800, Kurt Buff wrote: > I'm visiting various web sites, and having a stupid little issue which > is really annoying. > > FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #4: Sun Dec 14 22:08:22 > PST 2008 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 Same here.

Re: Simple swap question

2008-12-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 18 December 2008 14:13:12 FreeBSD wrote: > I can't see any process within parentheses in top... I also looked at > the -f option of ps but the process that caused the swapping are not > listed. Dude. For real. Quit sweating it. Let the system do what it needs to do; chances are it

Re: Simple swap question

2008-12-18 Thread FreeBSD
Daniel Bye a écrit : On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:02:06PM -0500, FreeBSD wrote: Daniel Bye a ?crit : On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:28:18AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Thursday 18 December 2008 09:16:10 FreeBSD wrote: Hi everyone, I have a FreeBSD 7.0-Release server that started to swap after a

Re: Centralized DB of "system" users

2008-12-18 Thread Peter Boosten
Peter Boosten wrote: Dan wrote: I can't disagree more. LDAP is way simpler than any SQL database, even SQLite. That said because people are not familiar/don't grock the simplicity of LDAP, they decide to use SQL databases (partly because everyone else does). For the persistent ones: you can

Re: Centralized DB of "system" users

2008-12-18 Thread Peter Boosten
Dan wrote: Matthew Seaman(m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk)@2008.12.13 22:30:43 +: Sure LDAP is complicated, but it's of the same order of complexity as a RDBMS system like MySQL. And like MySQL, there are right times, places and ways to use it, and wrong ones too. Yes, there is a lot of c

Re: Centralized DB of "system" users

2008-12-18 Thread Dan
Matthew Seaman(m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk)@2008.12.13 22:30:43 +: > Sure LDAP is complicated, but it's of the same order of complexity as a > RDBMS system like MySQL. And like MySQL, there are right times, places > and ways to use it, and wrong ones too. Yes, there is a lot of complexit

Firefox, or FreeBSD?

2008-12-18 Thread Kurt Buff
I'm visiting various web sites, and having a stupid little issue which is really annoying. FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #4: Sun Dec 14 22:08:22 PST 2008 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 FireFox 3.04. For instance, if I go to http://www.wsj.com, among others, it's co

Re: can not start SVNserve

2008-12-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
KES writes: > Why maintainer of rc.subr use 'su' instead of 'sudo'? Maybe su has > some benefit I do not know. If I edit standart rc.subr to use sudo > instead of 'su' there maybe other sripts will not sturtup. su is in the base system, and sudo is not. Therefore sudo won't be used in scripts t

Re: Video driver

2008-12-18 Thread Nikola Lečić
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:39:17 +0100 "Alain BATARD" wrote: > I am M. Alain BATARD and i work in a formation center. > For my Unix course i use Freebsd (V 7), we recently change our > computers for laptops (Compaq 6820s) these computers are equipp

Re: Video driver

2008-12-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 09:39:17AM +0100, Alain BATARD wrote: > I am M. Alain BATARD and i work in a formation center. > For my Unix course i use Freebsd (V 7), we recently change our computers for > laptops (Compaq 6820s) these computers are equipped with integrated video : > ATI Mobility Radeon X

Re[4]: can not start SVNserve

2008-12-18 Thread KES
Здравствуйте, David. DW> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 3:03 AM, KES wrote: >> Здравствуйте, Mel. >> >> Вы писали 18 декабря 2008 г., 9:05:35: >> >> M> On Wednesday 17 December 2008 21:02:07 KES wrote: Здравствуйте, Mel. Вы писали 17 декабря 2008 г., 9:11:19: M> On Sunday 14 De

Re: /tmp running out of inodes

2008-12-18 Thread Tankko
> As Kirk has already said, you need to figure why this is happening in > the first place, but there is a periodic job which can help keep /tmp > tidy for you. It is in /etc/periodic/daily/110.clean-tmps and can be > enabled with this in /etc/periodic.conf: > > daily_clean_tmps_enable="YES" > > You

Re: /tmp running out of inodes

2008-12-18 Thread Daniel Bye
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 08:54:33AM -0800, Tankko wrote: > On a side question...what the the best policy for deleting files from > /tmp? Seems like a lot of apps are happy to leave files in /tmp. Is > clean up commonly done as a cron job? What about files like > mysql.sock= which are important.

Re: portsnap and portupgrade

2008-12-18 Thread Valentin Bud
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Tom Worster wrote: > On 12/18/08 12:12 PM, "Daniel Bye" wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:41:22PM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: > >> > >> So since it's faster and doesn't delete user generated files, > >> upgrade is always to be preferred over extract, right?

Re: portsnap and portupgrade

2008-12-18 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/18/08 12:12 PM, "Daniel Bye" wrote: > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:41:22PM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: >> >> So since it's faster and doesn't delete user generated files, >> upgrade is always to be preferred over extract, right? > > Yes. As RW has already noted, extract will replace the ent

Re: /tmp running out of inodes

2008-12-18 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 18), Tankko said: > For the second time in 2 weeks my server has gone down due to running > out of inodes in /tmp. The first time it did this /tmp was filled > with files, so that made sense. I delete all the files from /tmp and > all was well for a few weeks. Just this

Re: /tmp running out of inodes

2008-12-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 18 December 2008 10:54:33 Tankko wrote: > On a side question...what the the best policy for deleting files from > /tmp? Seems like a lot of apps are happy to leave files in /tmp. What kind of files are you seeing in /tmp? I have files in mine from July, but only about 7,000 files t

Re: Vetting motherboard Gigabyte GA-MA78G-DS3H for FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE

2008-12-18 Thread ThinkDifferently
ThinkDifferently wrote: > > I'm currently looking for an ATX motherboard... > Sorry, I forgot to mention that I do not need HTPC quality video and sound from this thing. I know the mobo I mentioned has HTPC written all over it, but it's the base qualities (processor, chipset, SATA, etc.) that

/tmp running out of inodes

2008-12-18 Thread Tankko
For the second time in 2 weeks my server has gone down due to running out of inodes in /tmp. The first time it did this /tmp was filled with files, so that made sense. I delete all the files from /tmp and all was well for a few weeks. Just this morning it did it again (keep in mind that this sev

Re: Nagios & Jail

2008-12-18 Thread Kurt Jaeger
Hi! > I've a problem with check_ping. > > [r...@]# /usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_ping -H some_host -w 3000.0,80% -c > 5000.0,100% -p 5 > CRITICAL - You need more args!!! > Could not open pipe: > Anyone have succefully install a nagios server in a jail ? Yes, and I think it's not a problem

Vetting motherboard Gigabyte GA-MA78G-DS3H for FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE

2008-12-18 Thread ThinkDifferently
I'm currently looking for an ATX motherboard that supports the AM2+ socket, Phenom Quad-Core processor, 4 DDR2 RAM slots (800 MHz is fine), 6 SATA ports with RAID, and Gigabit LAN. Onboard VGA would be nice. It needs to work well with FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE, using a 2-disk SATA RAID1. I'm currentl

Re: Simple swap question

2008-12-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 18 December 2008 11:02:06 FreeBSD wrote: > Thanks for your answer. I'm asking here because it's been several days > and there is still used swap for data that should never be used anymore. > If the kernel wants to keep it, why not move it to RAM now that there is > some free? Do you *

Re: portsnap and portupgrade

2008-12-18 Thread Daniel Bye
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:41:22PM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote: > >Portsnap doesn't know about anything in the ports tree that it didn't > >put there itself. For that reason it needs to bring the tree to an > >initial known-state by replacing all port directories and other > >files. For the same rea

Re: Simple swap question

2008-12-18 Thread Daniel Bye
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 12:02:06PM -0500, FreeBSD wrote: > Daniel Bye a ?crit : > >On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:28:18AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > >>On Thursday 18 December 2008 09:16:10 FreeBSD wrote: > >>>Hi everyone, > >>> > >>>I have a FreeBSD 7.0-Release server that started to swap after an e

Re: Simple swap question

2008-12-18 Thread FreeBSD
Daniel Bye a écrit : On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:28:18AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Thursday 18 December 2008 09:16:10 FreeBSD wrote: Hi everyone, I have a FreeBSD 7.0-Release server that started to swap after an error in a shell script (process spawning competition ;-) ). I killed the shel

Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot

2008-12-18 Thread ThinkDifferently
Steve Randall-2 wrote: > > > ThinkDifferently wrote: >> >> Also, I've been able to determine that I don't have a RocketRAID device. >> That's a separate RAID card, and I simply don't have one. What I have is >> an >> onboard NVIDIA NForce Storage Controller. I'm befuddled as to why >> FreeB

Re: portsnap and portupgrade

2008-12-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
README.html). So since it's faster and doesn't delete user generated files, upgrade is always to be preferred over extract, right? unless you made BIG mess in /usr/ports - yes ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: Simple swap question

2008-12-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have a FreeBSD 7.0-Release server that started to swap after an error in a shell script (process spawning competition ;-) ). I killed the shell and the RAM is now OK. The problem is that the swap is still used. How can I "reset" the swap? you don't need. something got swapped out, and will b

Re: Simple swap question

2008-12-18 Thread Daniel Bye
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:28:18AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Thursday 18 December 2008 09:16:10 FreeBSD wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I have a FreeBSD 7.0-Release server that started to swap after an error > > in a shell script (process spawning competition ;-) ). I killed the > > shell an

Re: Simple swap question

2008-12-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 18 December 2008 09:16:10 FreeBSD wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have a FreeBSD 7.0-Release server that started to swap after an error > in a shell script (process spawning competition ;-) ). I killed the > shell and the RAM is now OK. The problem is that the swap is still used. > How can

Re: open-vm-tools

2008-12-18 Thread Steve Polyack
B. Cook wrote: I have a freebsd 7.0 client running in an vmware cluster. Is there something that I am missing, or that something I can do to make this go away? The owner of the cluster is telling me he keeps getting this in the logs: -Unfortunately I'm still seeing these in the VMWare log e

Simple swap question

2008-12-18 Thread FreeBSD
Hi everyone, I have a FreeBSD 7.0-Release server that started to swap after an error in a shell script (process spawning competition ;-) ). I killed the shell and the RAM is now OK. The problem is that the swap is still used. How can I "reset" the swap? Thanks for sharing your knowledge, Ma

Re: Video driver

2008-12-18 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 12/18/08, Alain BATARD wrote: > I am M. Alain BATARD and i work in a formation center. > For my Unix course i use Freebsd (V 7), we recently change our computers for > laptops (Compaq 6820s) these computers are equipped with integrated video : > ATI Mobility Radeon X1350, after looking for driv

Re: portsnap and portupgrade

2008-12-18 Thread Pieter Donche
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, RW wrote: [ Since this is on-topic, I'm taking it back on-list. ] On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:11:26 +0100 (CET) Pieter Donche wrote: 'Installing the tree from disk' do you mean with that: the install during sysinstall of /usr/ports from what is on the FREEBDSD-7.0-RELEASE

Video driver

2008-12-18 Thread Alain BATARD
I am M. Alain BATARD and i work in a formation center. For my Unix course i use Freebsd (V 7), we recently change our computers for laptops (Compaq 6820s) these computers are equipped with integrated video : ATI Mobility Radeon X1350, after looking for drivers to launch Xorg, i can only use the ver

Re[4]: can not start SVNserve

2008-12-18 Thread KES
Здравствуйте, David. DW> Is user "svn" a member of the group "wheel"? See DW> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-November/063649.html It is not required to be member of group wheel to low process rights from root. wheel group is requierd only if I want to rise my rights t

Re: portsnap and portupgrade

2008-12-18 Thread RW
[ Since this is on-topic, I'm taking it back on-list. ] On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:11:26 +0100 (CET) Pieter Donche wrote: > > 'Installing the tree from disk' do you mean with that: the install > during sysinstall of /usr/ports from what is on the > FREEBDSD-7.0-RELEASE CD's ? Yes > If so, if you

Re: linux_base question

2008-12-18 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 09:07 +0100, Mel wrote: > On Thursday 18 December 2008 04:03:45 Chris wrote: > > I'm trying to keep all FreeBSD servers in my net as I have since the > > late 90s. I have a requirement to get a quickbooks enterprise server > > running so I was going to attempt to use compat_li

Re: lang/php5 installed "Apache 2.0 Handler" for apache22

2008-12-18 Thread Tom Worster
On 12/18/08 9:17 AM, "Ott Köstner" wrote: > On Thursday 18 December 2008 3:57:26 pm Tom Worster wrote: >> i've read that php has an Apache 2.2 Handler since 5.2. i installed the >> www/apache22 port and lang/php5. things seem to work but phpinfo() reports: >> Server API = Apache 2.0 Handler. is t

open-vm-tools

2008-12-18 Thread B. Cook
I have a freebsd 7.0 client running in an vmware cluster. Is there something that I am missing, or that something I can do to make this go away? The owner of the cluster is telling me he keeps getting this in the logs: -Unfortunately I'm still seeing these in the VMWare log every minute

7.1 RC1 - problems with Intel Pro/1000 NIC (em0)?

2008-12-18 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, After installing FreeBSD 7.1 RC1 from the DVD-image I found that the PC in question has no LAN connectivity upon reboot. The PC has an Intel GE builtin NIC showing up as "Intel PRO/1000 Network Connection 6.9.6" in dmesg. For the problem: Though IP-Adress, default-GW etc. are correctly set t

Re: Nagios & Jail

2008-12-18 Thread Michael Scheidell
Andy Greenwood wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Albert Shih wrote: Hi all. I'm trying to install a nagios server in a jail. I've a problem with check_ping. only thing I see on mine is I have ipv6 disabled: (also, with_fping, with_netsnmp, with_mysql) all o

Re: listserver problems?

2008-12-18 Thread Michael Scheidell
Nikola Lečić wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Three objections to your DKIM signature: Thanks! the value of the great freebsd community! Been doing this since '83, and you will never find a more informed, more willing to help group out there anywhere. Than

Re: FreeBSD 7 load hangs on boot

2008-12-18 Thread Steve Randall
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:54:45 -0800 (PST) ThinkDifferently wrote: > > > Polytropon wrote: > > > > > > ThinkDifferently wrote: > >> hptrr: no controller detected. > > > > It looks like there's a proble with the hptrr driver? Have you > > tried loading the "HighPoint RocketRAID device drive" by

Re: Nagios & Jail

2008-12-18 Thread Andy Greenwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Albert Shih wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm trying to install a nagios server in a jail. > > I've a problem with check_ping. > > [r...@]# /usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_ping -H some_host -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 5 > CRITICAL - You need more args!!! >

Re: lang/php5 installed "Apache 2.0 Handler" for apache22

2008-12-18 Thread Ott Köstner
On Thursday 18 December 2008 3:57:26 pm Tom Worster wrote: > i've read that php has an Apache 2.2 Handler since 5.2. i installed the > www/apache22 port and lang/php5. things seem to work but phpinfo() reports: > Server API = Apache 2.0 Handler. is that as it should be? If You look further, There

Re: listserver problems?

2008-12-18 Thread Nikola Lečić
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:47:01 -0500 Michael Scheidell wrote: > might be generic listserver issues, but I noticed that at least on > freebsd-jail list, it does NOT strip out dkim/domainkeys signatures. > > that might not be to bad, but it does

lang/php5 installed "Apache 2.0 Handler" for apache22

2008-12-18 Thread Tom Worster
i've read that php has an Apache 2.2 Handler since 5.2. i installed the www/apache22 port and lang/php5. things seem to work but phpinfo() reports: Server API = Apache 2.0 Handler. is that as it should be? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: portsnap and portupgrade

2008-12-18 Thread Ricardo Jesus
RW wrote: On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:08:44 +0100 (CET) Pieter Donche wrote: ( decompress to /usr/ports ) # portsnap extract ( it is not clear to me if this is correct if one already has a /usr/ports created during sysinstall .. ) You need the extract so that the tree is exactly matched to the

OT: Re: listserver problems?

2008-12-18 Thread Bjoern A. Zeeb
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Michael Scheidell wrote: Hi, might be generic listserver issues, but I noticed that at least on freebsd-jail list, it does NOT strip out dkim/domainkeys signatures. that might not be to bad, but it does 'mung' the headers, so dkim signed email passed through freebsd mail

Re: PHP5 as apache module using packages

2008-12-18 Thread Ott Köstner
Mel wrote: On Wednesday 17 December 2008 16:08:43 Ott Köstner wrote: Nothing special needed. Just a regular Apache, MySQL, and PHP. 5...10 minute install from FreBSD ports. [...snip...] And thus, can run as php-cgi. There are performance and configuration management reasons to use the

Re: Hi

2008-12-18 Thread pugal pugal
Hi all While using ipfilter i got an issue i have done is ioctl the result is sucess In that i wrote a rule to deny connection from x.x.x.x ioctl(fd, SIOCADDFR, struct frentry **) I gone to route prompt and saw the statistics ipfstat -i i correctly shows my rule. But he is not executing it.

Re: listserver problems?

2008-12-18 Thread Ott Köstner
On Thursday 18 December 2008 1:47:01 pm Michael Scheidell wrote: > might be generic listserver issues, but I noticed that at least on > freebsd-jail list, it does NOT strip out dkim/domainkeys signatures. > > that might not be to bad, but it does 'mung' the headers, so dkim signed > email passed

Re: portsnap and portupgrade

2008-12-18 Thread RW
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:08:44 +0100 (CET) Pieter Donche wrote: > ( decompress to /usr/ports ) > # portsnap extract > > ( it is not clear to me if this is correct if one already has > a /usr/ports created during sysinstall .. ) You need the extract so that the tree is exactly matched to the snap

Re: Is FreeBSD subject to the EAR ?

2008-12-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
If the FreeBSD 6.3-release includes encryption software, it may be subject to the EAR. Following is extract part of the EAR. Part 734.3 : Items subject to the EAR (b) The following items are not subject to the EAR: ・ ・ (3) Publicly available technology and software, except software contr

Re: Nagios & Jail

2008-12-18 Thread Michael Scheidell
What plugin versions are you running? Im running latest also. pkg_info | grep nagios Albert Shih wrote: Le 18/12/2008 à 05:46:18-0500, Michael Scheidell a écrit Try nagios 3.03. I think they will do the trick. I'm using nagios 3.06 ... and it's not working. -- Michael Scheid

listserver problems?

2008-12-18 Thread Michael Scheidell
might be generic listserver issues, but I noticed that at least on freebsd-jail list, it does NOT strip out dkim/domainkeys signatures. that might not be to bad, but it does 'mung' the headers, so dkim signed email passed through freebsd mailing list server comes back as a forged signature.

Re: Nagios & Jail

2008-12-18 Thread Michael Scheidell
Works here (tm). doublecheck these sysctl's: security.jail.socket_unixiproute_only: 1 security.jail.enforce_statfs: 2 security.jail.allow_raw_sockets: 1 Albert Shih wrote: Le 18/12/2008 à 05:46:18-0500, Michael Scheidell a écrit Try nagios 3.03. I think they will do the trick. I'

Re: linux_base question

2008-12-18 Thread Chris
On Dec 18, 2008, at 12:07 AM, Mel wrote: On Thursday 18 December 2008 04:03:45 Chris wrote: I'm trying to keep all FreeBSD servers in my net as I have since the late 90s. I have a requirement to get a quickbooks enterprise server running so I was going to attempt to use compat_linux. It struc

Re: Nagios & Jail

2008-12-18 Thread Albert Shih
Le 17/12/2008 à 21:28:12+, Bjoern A. Zeeb a écrit > On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Albert Shih wrote: > > Hi, > > > I'm trying to install a nagios server in a jail. > > > > I've a problem with check_ping. > > > > [r...@]# /usr/local/libexec/nagios/check_ping -H some_host -w 3000.0,80% -c > > 5000.0,1

Re: Nagios & Jail

2008-12-18 Thread Albert Shih
Le 18/12/2008 à 05:46:18-0500, Michael Scheidell a écrit > Try nagios 3.03. > > I think they will do the trick. I'm using nagios 3.06 ... and it's not working. Thanks for your answer. Regards. JAS -- Albert SHIH SIO batiment 15 Observatoire de Paris Meudon 5 Place Jules Janssen 92195 Meudon

Re: Nagios & Jail

2008-12-18 Thread Michael Scheidell
Try nagios 3.03. I think they will do the trick. Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Albert Shih wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install a nagios server in a jail. -- Michael Scheidell, CTO Phone: 561-999-5000, x 1259 > *| *SECNAP Network Security Corporation * Certified SNORT Integr

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