Re: Wine on FBSD-7.0 amd64. Does it run?

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:32 AM, kxorrao luizbcam...@gmail.com wrote: What port of wine should I download in order to play 32bit .exe files on FreeBSD-7.0 amd64? Linux wine or Wine? It's not a terribly big port. Compile it and check. Generally if there are problems with port on a specific

Install guide (Was: Re: Urgent help needed : portmaster dies on py-cairo)

On Wednesday 08 July 2009 19:45:05 Manish Jain wrote: == Part-1)Immediately after a fresh FreeBSD-7.2#RELEASE install : I assume you will at some stage or the other install a linux port, eg acroread8 or acroread9, linux-ymessenger, etc.

Re: FixIt CD Tool Availability

On Saturday 04 July 2009 11:06:52 Michel Talon wrote: Drew Tomlinson wrote: The command 'gmirror label root ad8a ad6a' does not return an error but no device is created in /dev/mirror The command 'zpool create data raid1z ad14d ad12d ad8d ad6d' gives me an error about the ZFS library

Re: portupgrade question

On Thursday 09 July 2009 01:44:14 Jonathan Chen wrote: On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 10:20:41PM +0100, RW wrote: On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 08:00:28 +1200 Jonathan Chen j...@chen.org.nz wrote: On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 02:50:17PM +0200, dan wrote: THat's the point ! isnt that -R implied by

Setup Spectra8 (btb878) capture card in FreeBSD

Hi, Anybody uses Spectra 8 (btb878) in FreeBSD? The card model is that: http://www.ituner.com/spectra.htm The manufacturer claims it works 100% under linux using BTTV 878. I wonder if I can make it work under FreeBSD 7.2 After loading the module i got: bktr0: BrookTree 878 mem

Secure apache with php

Hello. I want to secure my Apache/PHP environment without : - safe_mode - suphp / suexec So, I found this : http://mpm-itk.sesse.net/ In this page, we can see that a FreeBSD port exists, but I can't find it. What do you thinh about it? This tool seems to be good. Which Apache version do you

Re: Secure apache with php

Le Thu, 9 Jul 2009 13:18:39 +0300, Reko Turja reko.tu...@liukuma.net a écrit : I want to secure my Apache/PHP environment... Full suhosin, both patch and mod for the PHP. IIRC suhosin patch is optional in PHP port and the mod can be installed via ports.

Re: Secure apache with php

I want to secure my Apache/PHP environment... Full suhosin, both patch and mod for the PHP. IIRC suhosin patch is optional in PHP port and the mod can be installed via ports. (http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/index.html) Apache environment and binaries set up in a jail. Which Apache

Re: How can I use BD-RE with UFS on geli?

From: SAITOU Toshihide to...@ruby.ocn.ne.jp Subject: Re: How can I use BD-RE with UFS on geli? Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:45:48 +0900 (JST) In message: 20090412.134212.26081.to...@ruby.ocn.ne.jp SAITOU Toshihide to...@ruby.ocn.ne.jp writes: I tried BD-RE with UFS on geli but

Re: How to symlink devfs devices?

Paul B. Mahol writes: Is it possible to create a symlink to a device and use the symlink in place of the real device name in FreeBSD, especially in version 7.2? 1. A disk /dev/camera - /dev/da0s1 devfs.conf(5) 2. A network device re0 - lan0 same as above, but there is way to

Re: Secure apache with php

What I do is running PHP in FastCGI mode (with something like x-cache) with a dedicated user for each webapp for which I have a dedicated script, for example : = jci...@bccm-it ~ % ls -l /usr/local/www/apache22/cgi-bin (...) -rwxr-xr-x 1 www-scarwww-scar202 Oct 27 2008

devd configuration questions

Hi FreeBSD community I have few questions regarding devd configuration: 1. What is the difference between attach or notify and when to use them? 2. What are the possible values for class in attach and detach statements? 3. What are the possible values for subdevice in attach and detach

Re: devd configuration questions

Sagara Wijetunga wrote: Hi FreeBSD community I have few questions regarding devd configuration: 1. What is the difference between attach or notify and when to use them? 2. What are the possible values for class in attach and detach statements? 3. What are the possible values for subdevice in

Re: Secure apache with php

Le Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:49:57 +0200, Julien Cigar jci...@ulb.ac.be a écrit : What I do is running PHP in FastCGI mode (with something like x-cache) with a dedicated user for each webapp for which I have a dedicated script, for example : = jci...@bccm-it ~ % ls -l

Re: Secure apache with php

On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 13:43 +0200, Nicolas Letellier wrote: Le Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:49:57 +0200, Julien Cigar jci...@ulb.ac.be a écrit : What I do is running PHP in FastCGI mode (with something like x-cache) with a dedicated user for each webapp for which I have a dedicated script, for

Re: Utah Open Source Conference

On Wednesday 08 July 2009 23:02:00 Adam Barrett wrote: Dear Sir: That's your first misconception (of at least two, I'm afraid). freebsd-questions is a mailing list intended for users of FreeBSD to ask questions which can then be answered by other members of the community. My name is Adam

Re: Secure apache with php

Le Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:36:11 +0200, Julien Cigar jci...@ulb.ac.be a écrit : When I tested php in cgi, performances were bad. That's why, php_mod is better (in my case != It's not CGI, it's FastCGI. There is no performance loss if you use an opcode cacher (like x-cache). And is

Re: Secure apache with php

Just build www/apache22 with WITH_MPM=itk and you'll have it. :) Then add something like this in each vhost: IfModule mpm_itk_module AssignUserId my_user my_group /IfModule Nicolas Letellier wrote: Le Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:36:11 +0200, Julien Cigar jci...@ulb.ac.be a écrit : When I

jail/system crash with mount_unionfs

OS: FreeBSD 7.2 release / Generic kernel I used CSUP to download the source tree, and the RELENG_7_2, no date specified. I didn't rebuild the base OS world/kernel. I have installed a lot of ports on the main system, most of what the jail would need is also already installed - so the distfiles and

FreeBSD for a high school class? (long)

Sorry for the OT-ness of this. I only work with FreeBSD for servers. Have used it as the sole systems for a business since the late 1900s. Twice I've put up X-Windows machines but we never bothered to use them for one reason or another. Now my son's school is short computers for a High School

Re: FreeBSD for a high school class? (long)

Hi, Chris On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Chriseaglet...@hughes.net wrote: Sorry for the OT-ness of this. I only work with FreeBSD for servers. Have used it as the sole systems for a business since the late 1900s. Twice I've put up X-Windows machines but we never bothered to use them for one

Re: FreeBSD for a high school class? (long)

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 07:58:21AM -0700, Chris wrote: - Sorry for the OT-ness of this. I only work with FreeBSD for servers. - Have used it as the sole systems for a business since the late 1900s. - Twice I've put up X-Windows machines but we never bothered to - use them for one reason or

Why this flash drive not detected in devd?

Hi FreeBSD community This is FreeBSD 7.2 on i386. sysctl -a | grep dev.umass dev.umass.1.%desc: Imation Flash Drive, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.03, addr 3 dev.umass.1.%driver: umass dev.umass.1.%location: port=6 interface=0 dev.umass.1.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x0718 product=0x0081 devclass=0x00

Re: Secure apache with php

Hi, I'm currently using mpm-itk (on debian, but should be replaced with freebsd soon ;-)). I'm quite happy with the solution as it's easy to setup many user accounts for web without ugly access right stuff and all that. apache never made a problem after setup :-) unfortunately I've never had

Re: FreeBSD for a high school class? (long)

On Jul 9, 2009, at 8:10 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 07:58:21AM -0700, Chris wrote: - - 2. Am I too lean on the specs for the free AMD/Intel boxes we - are requesting parents cough up? Well, I don't think that you need 256 GB of ram. Probably less than 1 GB, in fact

Re: FreeBSD for a high school class? (long)

Chris wrote: The course is HTML. Mouse button operations should be close, a window that gives a simple file directory and a text editor that doesn't require learning a character command set would be the target. Hi Chris, Maybe look at using Xfce, which is a lightweight window manager based

Port 6139 Wierdness

Hi all, Not sure where else I could post this On one server, I am seeing massive numbers of connections from many different addresses to 2 different ips on port 6139. Odd thing, the CPS and Size of the data is very very small. Did many googles, found nothing. Anyone seen this before?

Re: FreeBSD for a high school class? (long)

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Brent Bloxam bre...@beanfield.com wrote: Chris wrote: The course is HTML. Mouse button operations should be close, a window that gives a simple file directory and a text editor that doesn't require learning a character command set would be the target.

Re: FreeBSD for a high school class? (long)

Brent Bloxam wrote: Chris wrote: The course is HTML. Mouse button operations should be close, a window that gives a simple file directory and a text editor that doesn't require learning a character command set would be the target. Hi Chris, Maybe look at using Xfce, which is a

Re: devd configuration questions

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 03:02:00AM -0500, Sagara Wijetunga wrote: Hi FreeBSD community I have few questions regarding devd configuration: 1. What is the difference between attach or notify and when to use them? 2. What are the possible values for class in attach and detach

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Re: Why this flash drive not detected in devd?

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 11:22:16PM +0800, Sagara Wijetunga wrote: Hi FreeBSD community This is FreeBSD 7.2 on i386. sysctl -a | grep dev.umass dev.umass.1.%desc: Imation Flash Drive, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.03, addr 3 dev.umass.1.%driver: umass dev.umass.1.%location: port=6 interface=0

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Re: Wine on FBSD-7.0 amd64. Does it run?

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 01:10:58AM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:32 AM, kxorrao luizbcam...@gmail.com wrote: What port of wine should I download in order to play 32bit .exe files on FreeBSD-7.0 amd64? Linux wine or Wine? It's not a terribly big port.

Re: Wine on FBSD-7.0 amd64. Does it run?

The wine port only works on i386: # grep ARCHS /usr/ports/emulators/wine/Makefile ONLY_FOR_ARCHS= i386 If I understood correctly, the problem is that wine is a 32-bit program. See http://wiki.winehq.org/WineOn64bit It would need 32-bit versions of all the libraries that it uses. The

Re: FreeBSD for a high school class? (long)

On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 07:58:21 -0700, Chris eaglet...@hughes.net wrote: 1. Taking the specs into account, what is the window manager that will provide the closest match to the Apple desktop for mouse ops, browsing files/directories, and editing text files. I suppose I should add running Firefox

Xorg - how can I configure this thing??

Hi Daemons, I am stuck with a fresh installation, FreeBSD 7.2 with the usual X Server environment.. Usually I invoke xorgconfig to set up the hardware I have, like mouse driver, monitor frequency, resolution and so on. The new X server 1.6.0 seems to have some sort of autoconfig. I compiled the

Re: Xorg - how can I configure this thing??

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:23 PM, herbsherbert.raim...@gmx.net wrote: Hi Daemons, I am stuck with a fresh installation, FreeBSD 7.2 with the usual X Server environment.. Usually I invoke xorgconfig to set up the hardware I have, like mouse driver, monitor frequency, resolution and so on.

Re: Xorg - how can I configure this thing??

See 5.4.2 Configuring X11 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Xorg - how can I configure this thing??

On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 3:23 PM, herbsherbert.raim...@gmx.net wrote: Hi Daemons, I am stuck with a fresh installation, FreeBSD 7.2 with the usual X Server environment.. Usually I invoke xorgconfig to set up the hardware I have, like mouse driver, monitor frequency, resolution and so on.

Re: FreeBSD for a high school class? (long)

I'm going to top post this because it's not replying to my post. Thanks for the numerous responses on-list and the many others that came off list. I'm going to synopsize what I've received. I'll respond to the questions asked too. I think I'm good to go though and wanted to summarize for the

Re: Xorg - how can I configure this thing??

On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Glen Barber wrote: Run 'X -configure' then add this to the end: Section ServerFlags option AutoAddDevices off option AllowEmptyInput off EndSection The first option is unnecessary in most cases. The second is only needed if you want to

Re: Xorg - how can I configure this thing??

On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Andrew Gould wrote: 1. Get to a terminal (ctl-alt-F2 should get you there). 2. Log in as root. 3. Execute:'Xorg -config' This command should probe your hardware and create a sample xorg.conf file (xorg.conf.new, I think) in root's home directory. 4. Using your

Re: Xorg - how can I configure this thing??

Hi, Warren On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Warren Blockwbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Glen Barber wrote: Run 'X -configure' then add this to the end: Section ServerFlags        option  AutoAddDevices        off        option  AllowEmptyInput       off EndSection The first

Re: Xorg - how can I configure this thing??

Glen, Daniel, Andrew, Warren, thanks a ton - will try your tricks carefully and try not to wreck the installation. Is quite a science, the 'easy automatic configuration'. I let you know tomorrow how it worked out Cheers herb langhans -- *** Herbert Langhans, Warschau *** Sprachtraining

How to add a slice and partition to a mirror

I have a FreeBSD 7.2 system that had two 37GB mirrored SCSI drives. These contained a single slice filling the disk with separate partitions for swap, /, /var, /usr and /home. Yesterday one of the drives had a catastrophic failure - no problem, the system still worked on one drive as it is

Re: How to add a slice and partition to a mirror

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:12:56AM +1200, Tom Munro Glass wrote: I have a FreeBSD 7.2 system that had two 37GB mirrored SCSI drives. These contained a single slice filling the disk with separate partitions for swap, /, /var, /usr and /home. Yesterday one of the drives had a catastrophic

npviewer.bin

Hello, For a while I'm facing this Issue: Firefox seems to hang, and when I look with the command TOP is see npviewer.bin a few times. My processor makes a lot of noise, and after : pkill npviewer.bin, it stops for a while. Laterly I notice the return of npviewer.bin again, so the pkill is not

Re: npviewer.bin

Hi, Roy On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:07 AM, Roy Stuivenbergroys1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, For a while I'm facing this Issue: Firefox seems to hang, and when I look with the command TOP is see npviewer.bin a few times. Could be from multiple flash-based web pages. I don't use flash on

Additional sa devices?

Hi, I just plugged in an old SCSI tape changer, and got the following devices: lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel6 Jul 10 03:28 esa0 - esa0.0 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 96 May 14 05:43 esa0.0 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 102 May 14 05:43 esa0.1 crw-rw

Re: Additional sa devices?

Hi, My question is what the difference is between 'sa0.0' and 'sa0.[1-3]'. I can't seem to find it documented anywhere. From the top of my head, I think I remember devices sa0.[1-3] would represent different compression mode. Bests, Olivier ___

Re: Why this flash drive not detected in devd?

Roland Smith writes: On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 11:22:16PM +0800, Sagara Wijetunga wrote: Hi FreeBSD community This is FreeBSD 7.2 on i386. sysctl -a | grep dev.umass dev.umass.1.%desc: Imation Flash Drive, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.03, addr 3 dev.umass.1.%driver: umass dev.umass.1.%location:

Advise for buying a Refurbished machine

Fellow BSDians, I need an advice from FreeBSD users. I would like to buy a refurbished notebook from IBM. Model IBM T60I heard T60 series are excellent ? Please see this URL and apecifications of the notebook

Re: Advise for buying a Refurbished machine

On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:59:43 +, dhaneshk k dhanes...@hotmail.com wrote: Fellow BSDians, I need an advice from FreeBSD users. I would like to buy a refurbished notebook from IBM. Model IBM T60I heard T60 series are excellent ? I'm using FreeBSD/GNOME as my main environment on a

Re: Advise for buying a Refurbished machine

Hi, you must cosinder only one thing. I have seen some of them with horizontal lines in their LCD. I could not find out the real cause if it. Just check it before you get it. I think, you should get a good deal as those machines are robust. Erich On 10 July 2009 pm 12:59:43 dhaneshk k wrote:

Re: How to add a slice and partition to a mirror

On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:52:46 Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:12:56AM +1200, Tom Munro Glass wrote: I have a FreeBSD 7.2 system that had two 37GB mirrored SCSI drives. These contained a single slice filling the disk with separate partitions for swap, /, /var, /usr and