howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

2009-01-14 Thread Yony Yossef
Hi, I would like to determine the unit number of my network cards, e.g. make the device on pci0:16 be assigned every time with unit number 0 and pci0:19 with unit number 1. Is it done by /boot/device.hints? if so, how? My cards are: mtn...@pci0:19:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x001715b3

rum0 performance 1Mbps; ath0 reboots system

2009-01-14 Thread Deceased
Hi, List, Recently I've set up my non-lcd-wokring HP NX9020 notebook as ADSL gateway and AP on 7.1-release Everything works well except wireless. I have LogiLink WL0025 (RT2573) which users rum(4) driver. I now it's not recomended to use rum cards as hostap, but my ath(4) card works even

FreeBSD 7, how to recieve internet mail

2009-01-14 Thread Pieter Donche
On FreeBSD 7, out of the box, one can send mail to internet destinations and can send mail locally from one user to another user on the same FreeeBSD machine But it can't receive mail from internet as it appears .. A sendmail is running freebsd7box# ps -jaxw | grep sendmail smmsp 26649 1

Re: Knowledge of MAC addresses a security issue?

2009-01-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 John Conover wrote: | Does knowledge of the internal MAC addresses on a network, (including | the routers,) present a security issue? In a word: yes. With caveats. An attacker with knowledge of the MAC addresses of your equipment *and* access

kernel errors: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA

2009-01-14 Thread Colin Brace
Hi all, I have an older P4 running FreeBSD 7.0 which I use as a web/file server, WAP, and ADSL gateway. The OS and /usr partition are on 30 GB Seagate Barracuda IDE drive, ad0. In addition, I have added two 500 GB IDE drives which I scavenged from a pair of La Cie external USB enclosures. The

Re: rum0 performance 1Mbps; ath0 reboots system

2009-01-14 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 1/14/09, Deceased decea...@webmail.vulcano.lt wrote: Hi, List, Recently I've set up my non-lcd-wokring HP NX9020 notebook as ADSL gateway and AP on 7.1-release Everything works well except wireless. I have LogiLink WL0025 (RT2573) which users rum(4) driver. I now it's not recomended to

Re: PHP setup question

2009-01-14 Thread stan
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 09:42:11AM -0500, Steve Bertrand wrote: stan wrote: If you want to see what I have, It's reachable at http://beachcave/net/ampache/ I can't reach it :) Reply with the proper URL and I'll have a look. Sorry, it's http://beachcave.net/ampache/ I just droped

Knowledge of MAC addresses a security issue?

2009-01-14 Thread John Conover
Does knowledge of the internal MAC addresses on a network, (including the routers,) present a security issue? Thanks, John -- John Conover, cono...@rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: freebsd-update doesn't seem to update to Latest

2009-01-14 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
-- From: Sebastian Setzer sebastianset...@alice-dsl.net Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 3:47 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: freebsd-update doesn't seem to update to Latest Hi, I did a freebsd-update to 7.1-RELEASE as described in

therek.com

2009-01-14 Thread Pat Kenedy
Pending sale notification: In a few days we plan to offer the domain name THEREK.COM for sale. Because you own the similar domain name THEREK.net, we thought you my be interested in acquiring the preferred DotCom version of this domain. We plan to offer this domain for sale in three

Re: Printing - standard? CUPS? ...??

2009-01-14 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:59:33 -0500, Jason Lenthe len...@comcast.net wrote: The problem [with CUPS] was that certain other software (gtk+ and gnome as I recall) expected /usr/bin/lpr to be the CUPS lpr (the CUPS port normally installs lpr to /usr/local/bin). It was also necessary for some

Re: updating to 7.1 with a small root slice

2009-01-14 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 08:13, Zbigniew Szalbot zszal...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I am looking for your advice. Due to a very stupid design decision my / slice is only 256 MB. It seems too little so whenever I compile a Actually it is 242MB new kernel, I need to move the kernel.old

therek.com

2009-01-14 Thread Pat Kenedy
Pending sale notification: In a few days we plan to offer the domain name THEREK.COM for sale. Because you own the similar domain name THEREK.net, we thought you my be interested in acquiring the preferred DotCom version of this domain. We plan to offer this domain for sale in three

Time skew

2009-01-14 Thread scuba
Hi All, I'm facing some strange behavior with an skew in the system clock. The hardware is a Dell PowerEdge 2950III, running two instances of FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p5 - amd64 over an ESXi hipervisor. To both were allocated 4 processors and 4 GB of RAM, and dmesg for both are identical.

Flash for FreeBSD - GNOME - Firefox

2009-01-14 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Is there a port that emulates Adobe Flash? i.e. Adobe's download site says 'Platform not supported' is there a port or package thats can be used to view Flash content in Firefox? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Time skew

2009-01-14 Thread Bill Moran
In response to sc...@centroin.com.br: I'm facing some strange behavior with an skew in the system clock. The hardware is a Dell PowerEdge 2950III, running two instances of FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p5 - amd64 over an ESXi hipervisor. To both were allocated 4 processors and 4 GB

RE: Time skew

2009-01-14 Thread Barry Byrne
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of sc...@centroin.com.br Hi All, I'm facing some strange behavior with an skew in the system clock. The hardware is a Dell PowerEdge 2950III,

Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-14 Thread tsai
Hi all, Is there a tutorial on how to install FreeBSD on a system which already has Windows XP on it? The goal is to have dual-boot with both. Thanks, tsai -- tsai ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Re: Odd behavior after upgrading to 7.0-p7

2009-01-14 Thread af300wsm
On Jan 13, 2009 4:18pm, Mel fbsd.questi...@rachie.is-a-geek.net wrote: On Saturday 10 January 2009 16:37:50 Andrew Falanga wrote: I installed 7.0 i386 and all was working great. I upgraded to p7 and now when I end my X session, I have kdm loading, it doesn't bring me to a login

Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-14 Thread Neal Hogan
I used gparted (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ ) to move the XP partition to make room for fBSD. You make a bootable CD and I found it to be quite simple. Make sure that your XP partition is defragmented before using gparted. Otherwise, gparted will not let you manipulate the partition. Once you

Re: Flash for FreeBSD - GNOME - Firefox

2009-01-14 Thread cwt
Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, Is there a port that emulates Adobe Flash? i.e. Adobe's download site says 'Platform not supported' is there a port or package thats can be used to view Flash content in Firefox? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: updating to 7.1 with a small root slice

2009-01-14 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:53:29 +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot zszal...@gmail.com wrote: When I make the GENERIC kernel, I again run out of space (I still have about 60MB free in /). So I guess the system is probably using the same makeoptionsDEBUG=-g settings for the generic kernel. So my question

Re: FreeBSD 7, how to recieve internet mail

2009-01-14 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:56:30 +0100 (CET) Pieter Donche pieter.don...@ua.ac.be wrote: On FreeBSD 7, out of the box, one can send mail to internet destinations and can send mail locally from one user to another user on the same FreeeBSD machine But it can't receive mail from internet as

Re: updating to 7.1 with a small root slice

2009-01-14 Thread Michael Powell
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 08:13, Zbigniew Szalbot zszal...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I am looking for your advice. Due to a very stupid design decision my / slice is only 256 MB. It seems too little so whenever I compile a Actually it is 242MB I have one

Re: Time skew

2009-01-14 Thread Mikel King
Marcelo, Try adding either, hint.apic.0.disabled=1 or kern.hz=100 to /boot/loader.conf Reboot the machine and check your time. The first line is the patch originally noted in the VMWare KB the latter is from the FreeBSD handbook on

Slow startup of Gnome - error from gnome-keyring-daemon

2009-01-14 Thread Ewald Jenisch
Hi, After installing a new system with 7.1 from scratch, upgrading kernel/system as well as ports to the current version I configured X-win (X -configure) and finally fired up gnome. First of all, Gnome takes a LOT of time to get up - it takes almost 5 minutes (!) till I get the icons for

Re: Printing - standard? CUPS? ...??

2009-01-14 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 07:59:33PM -0500, Jason Lenthe wrote: By all means, give CUPS a try though. Thanks to you all for your hints/suggestions - I'll try to get up CUPS with a possible fallback to print/apsfilter. -ewald ___

kernel configuration

2009-01-14 Thread icemaca
hello, i am going through the kernel configuration file to build a custom kernel and am not quite sure i understand this part correctly. my cpu is an athlon 64 x2 but i am running i386, so i am assuming that in the config file i state that my cpu is i386, not athlon 64. i ran frebsd

Should swap space be mirrored via geom?

2009-01-14 Thread Peter Steele
We have systems setup using geom based mirroring where the drives are partitioned into three slices, one for the OS, one for the swap partition, and one for our application data. We have four hot-swappable SATA drives per system. At present we only have the OS slice mirrored with geom, and our own

Blocking very many (tens of thousands) ip addresses in ipfw

2009-01-14 Thread Artem Kuchin
I need to block around 15 ip addreses from acccess the server at all at any port. The addesses are random, they are not nets. These are the spammer i want to block for 24 hours. The list is dynamically generated and regenerated every hour or so. What is the most efficient way to do it? At

Re: Blocking very many (tens of thousands) ip addresses in ipfw

2009-01-14 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 14), Artem Kuchin said: I need to block around 15 ip addreses from acccess the server at all at any port. The addesses are random, they are not nets. These are the spammer i want to block for 24 hours. The list is dynamically generated and regenerated every hour

Re: Blocking very many (tens of thousands) ip addresses in ipfw

2009-01-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Artem Kuchin wrote: I need to block around 15 ip addreses from acccess the server at all at any port. The addesses are random, they are not nets. These are the spammer i want to block for 24 hours. The list is dynamically generated and regenerated every hour or so. What is the most

Re: Blocking very many (tens of thousands) ip addresses in ipfw

2009-01-14 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Wednesday 14 January 2009 17:23:25 Artem Kuchin wrote: I need to block around 15 ip addreses from acccess the server at all at any port. The addesses are random, they are not nets. These are the spammer i want to block for 24 hours. The list is dynamically generated and regenerated

sysctl machdep.independent_wallclock

2009-01-14 Thread Mister Olli
hi... what is the exact function of this sysctl setting? I couldn't find any documentation on it. greetz olli ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Blocking very many (tens of thousands) ip addresses in ipfw

2009-01-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Wednesday 14 January 2009 17:23:25 Artem Kuchin wrote: I need to block around 15 ip addreses from acccess the server at all at any port. The addesses are random, they are not nets. These are the spammer i want to block for 24 hours. The list is dynamically

Re: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

2009-01-14 Thread H.fazaeli
you may not change unit numbers as they are strictly controlled by kernel. However, on freebsd 5.3+, you may use 'ifconfig name your-name-here' to achieve the same affect Yony Yossef wrote: Hi, I would like to determine the unit number of my network cards, e.g. make the device on pci0:16 be

freebsd encrypted hard disk?

2009-01-14 Thread Johann Hasselbach
I read the encrypting disk partitions section of the Handbook. What is the preferred method nowdays, geli or gbde? Is there another method that would be better? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: updating to 7.1 with a small root slice

2009-01-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 08:13:32AM +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Dear all, I am looking for your advice. Due to a very stupid design decision my / slice is only 256 MB. It seems too little so whenever I compile a new kernel, I need to move the kernel.old to a different slice to install

Re: updating to 7.1 with a small root slice

2009-01-14 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, Is it in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC ? Yes, it is, and is has the setting makeoptions DEBUG=-g included. You could # this setting and build a GENERIC kernel without the debug informations as described in the handbook about how to compile a custom kernel (it doesn't matter if

Re: updating to 7.1 with a small root slice

2009-01-14 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello Jerry, Anyway, 256 MB should be plenty of space for / slash unless you are putting everything in it. My main mistake was that I had makeoptionsDEBUG=-g in the kernel config file. That made for a ~130MB kernel so when I compiled and tried to install a new one, it ran out of space (it

Re: freebsd encrypted hard disk?

2009-01-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Johann Hasselbach wrote: I read the encrypting disk partitions section of the Handbook. What is the preferred method nowdays, geli or gbde? Is there another method that would be better? I don't know what is best, but for quite some time I've used GELI to encrypt my entire hard disk,

Re: Printing - standard? CUPS? ...??

2009-01-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 02:44:10PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:59:33 -0500, Jason Lenthe len...@comcast.net wrote: The problem [with CUPS] was that certain other software (gtk+ and gnome as I recall) expected /usr/bin/lpr to be the CUPS lpr (the CUPS port normally

Re: Flash for FreeBSD - GNOME - Firefox

2009-01-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 09:25:10AM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, Is there a port that emulates Adobe Flash? i.e. Adobe's download site says 'Platform not supported' is there a port or package thats can be used to view Flash content in Firefox? You could try graphics/gnash Roland --

Re: Slow startup of Gnome - error from gnome-keyring-daemon

2009-01-14 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 04:48:59PM +0100, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, After installing a new system with 7.1 from scratch, upgrading kernel/system as well as ports to the current version I configured X-win (X -configure) and finally fired up gnome. First of all, Gnome takes a LOT of time to

Re: freebsd encrypted hard disk?

2009-01-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:23:09PM -0500, Johann Hasselbach wrote: I read the encrypting disk partitions section of the Handbook. What is the preferred method nowdays, geli or gbde? Geli seems to be the preferred method these days. It is also what I use to encrypt my /home. It works without

Performing installed ports upgrade / leaving some software intact

2009-01-14 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Dear all, I am now full into planning the 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RELEASE upgrade. I know that at the end of the day it will also mean upgrading all ports (portupgrade -af). I have one port - mailman - which I have customized a lot and do not really want to upgrade it as it will most likely mean I

Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 06:13:45AM -0800, tsai wrote: Hi all, Is there a tutorial on how to install FreeBSD on a system which already has Windows XP on it? The goal is to have dual-boot with both. The FreeBSD Handbook - free online at the FreeBSD web site - has a whole section on that.

Re: Slow startup of Gnome - error from gnome-keyring-daemon

2009-01-14 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 06:56:13AM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: The obvious question is: Have you got hald running? Make sure your /etc/rc.conf has: gnome_enable=YES Hi, Didn't know that I need 'gnome_enable=YES' in my /etc/rc.conf. At least the handbook doesn't mention it, so

Re: kernel configuration

2009-01-14 Thread Ewald Jenisch
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 04:37:53PM +0100, icemaca wrote: this i386 version has cpu I486_CPU cpu I586_CPU cpu I686_CPU Basically you can comment all but I686_CPU since the others are for earlier x86 architectures. -ewald

Re: Performing installed ports upgrade / leaving some software intact

2009-01-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Dear all, I am now full into planning the 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RELEASE upgrade. I know that at the end of the day it will also mean upgrading all ports (portupgrade -af). I have one port - mailman - which I have customized a lot and do not really want to upgrade it as

Help! locate.code /tmp: filesystem full

2009-01-14 Thread Andy Wodfer
Hi, I'm getting an error message every week and I can't seem to understand why nor manage to fix it. Here it is: #dmesg [snip] pid 54753 (locate.code), uid 65534 inumber 23557 on /tmp: filesystem full # df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ar0s1a989M 53M

Re: FreeBSD USB Install

2009-01-14 Thread Brian McCann
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Brian McCann bjmcc...@gmail.com wrote: Well this just got a LOT more frustrating and interesting. I made a stick following those directions using a new stick...worked fine, booted off of it...did some work on it...somehow the filesystem got very corrupted in

Re: receiving mail

2009-01-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 13, 2009, at 11:51 PM, Pieter Donche wrote: on host1: $ host -t MX macos.cmi.ua.ac.be returns no answer It is recommended to configure MX records for the domains in DNS, but mail will fall back to using A records if no MX records exist. But, when I try from host1 $ telnet

Re: Performing installed ports upgrade / leaving some software intact

2009-01-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 07:03:02PM +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Dear all, I am now full into planning the 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RELEASE upgrade. I know that at the end of the day it will also mean upgrading all ports (portupgrade -af). Not necessarily. Upgrading all ports is only mandatory

Re: Help! locate.code /tmp: filesystem full

2009-01-14 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Andy Wodfer wod...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm getting an error message every week and I can't seem to understand why nor manage to fix it. Here it is: [snip] # df -h Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ar0s1a989M 53M

RE: freebsd-update doesn't seem to update to Latest

2009-01-14 Thread Sebastian Setzer
Reading the handbook and several pages on the web, i got the impression that ports are always compiled from source. I should have read the handbook more thorougly, sorry. It mentions portupgrade -P. -Original Message- From: Erik Osterholm [mailto:freebsd-lists-e...@erikosterholm.org]

Re: Slow startup of Gnome - error from gnome-keyring-daemon

2009-01-14 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 07:13:36PM +0100, Ewald Jenisch wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 06:56:13AM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: The obvious question is: Have you got hald running? Make sure your /etc/rc.conf has: gnome_enable=YES Hi, Didn't know that I need

Re: kernel configuration

2009-01-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 14, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Ewald Jenisch wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 04:37:53PM +0100, icemaca wrote: this i386 version has cpu I486_CPU cpu I586_CPU cpu I686_CPU Basically you can comment all but I686_CPU since the others are for earlier x86

Re: Should swap space be mirrored via geom?

2009-01-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 14, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Peter Steele wrote: We have been debating whether or we should mirror the swap partitions as well. I set it up not mirrored based on some articles I read on the net, but we're concerned what might happen to a system if a drive died at a time when the its swap

Re: sysctl machdep.independent_wallclock

2009-01-14 Thread Freminlins
2009/1/14 Mister Olli mister.o...@googlemail.com hi... what is the exact function of this sysctl setting? I'm guessing it's something to do with Xen, having seen a few references in Linux for xen.machdep.independent_wallclock. Have a look here:

Re: kernel configuration

2009-01-14 Thread t-u-t
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:18 PM, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: On Jan 14, 2009, at 10:15 AM, Ewald Jenisch wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 04:37:53PM +0100, icemaca wrote: this i386 version has cpu I486_CPU cpu I586_CPU cpu I686_CPU Basically

Re: Slow startup of Gnome - error from gnome-keyring-daemon

2009-01-14 Thread t-u-t
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Ewald Jenisch a...@jenisch.at wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 06:56:13AM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: The obvious question is: Have you got hald running? Make sure your /etc/rc.conf has: gnome_enable=YES Hi, Didn't know that I need

gvinum gjournal

2009-01-14 Thread Brian McCann
Hi all. I'm cross-posting this since I figure I'll have better luck finding someone who's done this before... I'm building a system that has 4 1.5TB Seagate SATA drives in it. I've setup gvinum and made mirrors for my OS partitions, and a raid5 plex for a big data partition. I'm trying to get

Re: kernel configuration

2009-01-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 14, 2009, at 12:44 PM, t-u-t wrote: While it is true that you can comment out all but i686 and get a working kernel, you will experience reduced performance. There are a number of low-level assembly routines (cf sys/i386/i386/support.s such as i586_bcopy) that are conditionalized

RE: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

2009-01-14 Thread Yony Yossef
-Original Message- From: H.fazaeli [mailto:faza...@sepehrs.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 6:24 PM To: Yony Yossef Cc: freebsd-...@freebsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Eitan Shefi; Oleg Kats; Liran Liss Subject: Re: howto determine network device unit number?

Can't ignore anything with logcheck

2009-01-14 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! For many years I've been using the security/logcheck port for monitoring my system logs. Majority of this time it's been logcheck 1.1.1, but now I installed a new server and with it came my first experience with logcheck 1.2.54 which now seems to be maintained by Debian. The

Re: gvinum gjournal

2009-01-14 Thread Brian McCann
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Brian McCann bjmcc...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have any ideas here? I assumed gjournal would play nice with any file system. But clearly not. After I clear the journal off of /dev/gvinum/array1, I can do a newfs on it (/dev/gvinum/array1) without the

Re: freebsd encrypted hard disk?

2009-01-14 Thread RW
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:23:09 -0500 Johann Hasselbach jhas...@gmail.com wrote: I read the encrypting disk partitions section of the Handbook. What is the preferred method nowdays, geli or gbde? Geli. Geli is more secure when used with real-world passphrases, supports hardware acceleration,

Re: Flash for FreeBSD - GNOME - Firefox

2009-01-14 Thread herbert langhans
Hi Grant, here is a full description how to do that: http://freebsd.langhans.com.pl Cheers herbs On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:25:10 -0500 Grant Peel gp...@thenetnow.com wrote: Hi all, Is there a port that emulates Adobe Flash? i.e. Adobe's download site says 'Platform not supported' is there a

Re: Installing FreeBSD with Windows XP

2009-01-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:05:42PM -0800, tsai wrote: Jerry, You read my mind. That was going to be my next question; how to get around the proprietary recovery section HP installed from the start. You hit the nail on the head! I will try this soon. Yup. Basically, you just ignore it,

Re: freebsd encrypted hard disk?

2009-01-14 Thread RW
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:59:54 +0100 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: Geli is convenient and seems to work well. On modern machines the performance penalty is slight. It supports well-regarded encryption algorithms like AES and Blowfish. It depends on what you mean by modern, and slight,

RE: Should swap space be mirrored via geom?

2009-01-14 Thread Peter Steele
If you don't mirror swap space, and a drive goes out, you're almost certain to experience a kernel panic and not just application failures in userland. Unless you have an urgent need for lots of swap space available, it's much better from the standpoint of system reliability to mirror

Re: freebsd encrypted hard disk?

2009-01-14 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:55:38PM +, RW wrote: On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 18:59:54 +0100 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: Geli is convenient and seems to work well. On modern machines the performance penalty is slight. It supports well-regarded encryption algorithms like AES and

RE: howto determine network device unit number? device.hints?

2009-01-14 Thread Yony Yossef
you may not change unit numbers as they are strictly controlled by kernel. However, on freebsd 5.3+, you may use 'ifconfig name your-name-here' to achieve the same affect Sorry, I don't understand the usage of ifconfig you suggested and the effect it will cause. Can you please explain

Re: updating to 7.1 with a small root slice

2009-01-14 Thread Herbert J. Skuhra
Zbigniew Szalbot zszal...@gmail.com writes: My main mistake was that I had makeoptionsDEBUG=-g in the kernel config file. That made for a ~130MB kernel so when I compiled and tried to install a new one, it ran out of space (it would be about 260 MB but I only had 242 MB). Many thanks

Re: freebsd encrypted hard disk?

2009-01-14 Thread RW
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:20:54 +0100 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:55:38PM +, RW wrote: Not just in reduced transfer rates, but also in terms of CPU cycles used - a sustained geli to geli file copy makes things really slow for me. That's probably

Very slow boot process (from installation disk), followed by kernel panic

2009-01-14 Thread Zach Samuels
Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD on my HP Pavilion (AMD Phenom 8650 Triple Core 2.3 GHz, Hitachi SCSI disk drive, booting from ATAPI DVD ROM). I am booting with verbose logging turned on. When the boot process reaches the line Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0c a series of messages saying t_delta

Re: receiving mail

2009-01-14 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jan 14, 2009, at 1:02 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 13, 2009, at 11:51 PM, Pieter Donche wrote: What's wrong? Why does this not work out of the box ?? Given the security history of sendmail, it's not prudent to enable sendmail by default. It's not just that, but people who don't

Re: Performing installed ports upgrade / leaving some software intact

2009-01-14 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jan 14, 2009, at 12:03 PM, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: 1/ backing up the hacked [mailman] files and restoring them later (but I will overwrite the newer files with older ones perhaps breaking something). 2/ making them read only (but the end result will be the same and upgrading as root I will

Re: FreeBSD 7, how to recieve internet mail

2009-01-14 Thread Fbsd1
Pieter Donche wrote: On FreeBSD 7, out of the box, one can send mail to internet destinations and can send mail locally from one user to another user on the same FreeeBSD machine But it can't receive mail from internet as it appears .. A sendmail is running freebsd7box# ps -jaxw | grep

Re: FreeBSD USB Install

2009-01-14 Thread Fbsd1
Brian McCann wrote: On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Brian McCann bjmcc...@gmail.com wrote: Well this just got a LOT more frustrating and interesting. I made a stick following those directions using a new stick...worked fine, booted off of it...did some work on it...somehow the filesystem got

Launching Vim

2009-01-14 Thread Rem P Roberti
Can someone give me a heads up on this. I just installed vim, but when I try to launch the program I get this error message: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libperl.so not found, required by vim Is this a path problem? The actual file libperl.so recides in

mythtv port

2009-01-14 Thread David Karapetyan
Has the mythtv port been fixed yet? Any timetable for a new release? The current port makefile indicates that it is broken. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Help! locate.code /tmp: filesystem full

2009-01-14 Thread Benjamin Lee
On 01/14/2009 10:34 AM, Andy Wodfer wrote: Hi, I'm getting an error message every week and I can't seem to understand why nor manage to fix it. Here it is: #dmesg [snip] pid 54753 (locate.code), uid 65534 inumber 23557 on /tmp: filesystem full # df -h Filesystem SizeUsed

Re: Mounting a partition from freebsd 6.2?

2009-01-14 Thread mojo fms
It was /dev/ad2s1. I was able to do a force mount of the partition though and started recovering the information I was looking for. I am not sure why it is not allowing it in general but I have access to most of the files right now which is good. Has anybody had any problems with 6.2 formatted

Re: Blocking very many (tens of thousands) ip addresses in ipfw

2009-01-14 Thread mojo fms
Is this kind of thing doable with PF or really a ipfw thing more? On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Wednesday 14 January 2009 17:23:25 Artem Kuchin wrote: I need to block around 15 ip addreses from acccess the server at all

Can't install from ports

2009-01-14 Thread Rem P Roberti
Boy, this hasn't been a good night. I am unable to install from ports. When I attempt to do a compile I get this error message: 1 open conditional: at line 131 (evaluated to true) make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue This is a first for me. Rem

Re: Launching Vim

2009-01-14 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jan 14, 2009, at 9:39 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: Can someone give me a heads up on this. I just installed vim, but when I try to launch the program I get this error message: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libperl.so not found, required by vim Is this a path problem? The actual

Re: Launching Vim

2009-01-14 Thread Rem P Roberti
On Jan 14, 2009, at 9:39 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: Can someone give me a heads up on this. I just installed vim, but when I try to launch the program I get this error message: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libperl.so not found, required by vim Is this a path problem? The actual

Re: Launching Vim

2009-01-14 Thread Rem P Roberti
On Jan 14, 2009, at 9:39 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: Can someone give me a heads up on this. I just installed vim, but when I try to launch the program I get this error message: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libperl.so not found, required by vim Is this a path problem? The actual

Re: /usr/ports/databases/dbf segmentation fault

2009-01-14 Thread Tom Mende
Hi; Problem solved - the source dbf file is somehow corrupted when downloaded from an NT server to a PPC G4 Mac over a Microsoft RDC client connection. This is a repeatable result. Used rdesktop to download the files directly onto the trusty FreeBSD machine and it works fine that way.

Re: Launching Vim

2009-01-14 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: On Jan 14, 2009, at 9:39 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: Can someone give me a heads up on this. I just installed vim, but when I try to launch the program I get this error message: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object

Re: Launching Vim

2009-01-14 Thread Rem P Roberti
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:02 PM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: On Jan 14, 2009, at 9:39 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: Can someone give me a heads up on this. I just installed vim, but when I try to launch the program I get this error message:

Re: Performing installed ports upgrade / leaving some software intact

2009-01-14 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, 1/ backing up the hacked [mailman] files and restoring them later (but I will overwrite the newer files with older ones perhaps breaking something). 2/ making them read only (but the end result will be the same and upgrading as root I will overwrite them anyway). Keep in mind

Re: Blocking very many (tens of thousands) ip addresses in ipfw

2009-01-14 Thread George Davidovich
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 08:30:53PM -0800, mojo fms wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Wednesday 14 January 2009 17:23:25 Artem Kuchin wrote: I need to block around 15 ip addreses from acccess the server at all

doubts regarding System Initialization working (SYSINIT)

2009-01-14 Thread Mehul Chadha
Hello all, I have been browsing through the FreeBSD kernel's source code trying to understand its working . In the mi_startup() in /sys/kern/init_main.c all the SYSINIT objects are sorted using bubble sort and then they are executed in order. My doubt is that we have declared the