DNS/BIND Question

2004-06-12 Thread Eric Crist
Hey all, I was wondering how to make one subdomain resolve to multiple IP addresses? I have www.mydomain.com which has only had 1 IP address for a long time. Now, I want to create a second server with a mirror of that web server. I'd like lookups of www.mydomain.com to resolve to two

Bridging with multiport ethernet cards

2004-06-12 Thread Odhiambo Washington
My box has 3 ethernet cards, fxp0, xl0 and another 4-port card. Is it possible to bridge all the interfaces like this: net.link.ether.bridge.enable=1 net.link.ether.bridge_cfg=xl0,fxp0 net.link.ether.bridge_cfg=vr0,fxp0 net.link.ether.bridge_cfg=vr1,fxp0 net.link.ether.bridge_cfg=vr2,fxp0

Re: DNS/BIND Question

2004-06-12 Thread Odhiambo Washington
* Eric Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20040612 10:07]: wrote: Hey all, I was wondering how to make one subdomain resolve to multiple IP addresses? I have www.mydomain.com which has only had 1 IP address for a long time. Now, I want to create a second server with a mirror of that web server

upgrading the perl installation problems.

2004-06-12 Thread Eric Crist
Hello list, I'm trying to install mimedefang from ports, but I get the error: === mimedefang-2.43_1 Port requires perl 5.6.1 or later. Install lang/perl5 or lang/perl5.8 then try again. I cd to the correct directory, type make install clean, get the 'all ok' from installation telling me it's

Re: Sony AIT SDX-420 ATAPI tape drive on FreeBSD 5.2.1

2004-06-12 Thread Odhiambo Washington
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20040612 06:58]: wrote: I have added a Sony SDX-420 ATAPI tape drive to a FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE system. The tape successfully does a dump and restore on this system but when the tape is taken to a Sony SDX-400 SCSI tape drive on a FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE

Re: upgrading the perl installation problems.

2004-06-12 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: Eric Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 2:13 AM Subject: upgrading the perl installation problems. Hello list, I'm trying to install mimedefang from ports, but I get the error: === mimedefang-2.43_1 Port requires

Re: upgrading the perl installation problems.

2004-06-12 Thread Eric Crist
On Saturday 12 June 2004 02:25, you wrote: You're missing one of the last warnings during the make of perl5.x from the ports tree.. use.perl. Usage: /usr/local/bin/use.perl port - /usr/bin/perl is the perl5 port /usr/local/bin/use.perl system - /usr/bin/perl is the system perl

Re: native xpdf vs static xpdf for linux (couldn't create a font for...)

2004-06-12 Thread Paulius Bulotas
Hello ;) On 04 06 12, Jonathan Chen wrote: You need to install ghostscript fonts for it to display properly. Easiest way to do this is to install print/ghostscript. I've asked the xpdf maintainer to put in a note about this, but it's been ignored... I forgot to mention, that I had ~/.xpdfrc

Re: native xpdf vs static xpdf for linux (couldn't create a font for...)

2004-06-12 Thread Paulius Bulotas
Hello, On 04 06 12, horio shoichi wrote: What is your /usr/X11R6/etc/xpdfrc like ? It seems a lot of lines necessary for font handling are commented out in default install. well, /usr/X11R6/etc/xpdfrc is almost commented out, I copied it to ~/.xpdfrc, but option 'displayFontX' is not

Re: Website Mirroring [was DNS/BIND Question]

2004-06-12 Thread David Fuchs
Eric Crist wrote: Also, what is your recommendation of how to maintain the correct mirror data? One server is the primary, which has ftp access for the web designers. I'm thinking of either, real-time, or once every 24 hours, updating that information so that both servers have all the correct

Re: Platforms, OSes,etc.

2004-06-12 Thread Cordula's Web
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there. I have a question or two if you folks don't mind. I would like to migrate to a better, more stable OS for surfing, making music and data cd's as well as dvd's, and importing images ( vhs and photo) to cd/dvd. As far as I'm concerned, the only thing that

want sudo but not sudo su - how

2004-06-12 Thread John
Greetings, freebsd-questions I want to put operators in sudo BUT I don't want them to sudo su - because after they do that, subsequent commands enacted as root don't appear in the logs. The desired behaviour would be sudo su command (any command) but not sudo su -, for these users. Is there a way

Re: Version query for a new machine

2004-06-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 08:39:58PM -0400, Louis LeBlanc wrote: Now to decide whether to change my IMAP server. Any recommendations? Try mail/dovecot -- works very nicely for me, and seems to be able to cope with the ideosyncracies of pretty much every commonoly used IMAP client out there.

Postfix+Cyrus IMAP+Cyrus SASL+Mysql+pam_mysql --- Configuration problems

2004-06-12 Thread Subramanian Kumaran
Hi, I am trying to install Postfix+Cyrus-IMAP+Cyrus-SASL-authd+MySQL+pam_mysql on FreeBSD system. I've installed all these s/w ... but I face some problems 1) #saslpasswd2 username #setpass succeeded for cyrus #saslpasswd2 : Couldn't update db (== ) but I can create a new user

RE: Routing question

2004-06-12 Thread Leon Botes
Well the reason is that our dsl connections are limited to a max speed of 512K in this country. So I thought of splitting the load between two dsl lines. If the box is able to do that dynamically then great. My question is how? -Original Message- From: Ben Timby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Routing question

2004-06-12 Thread Leon Botes
Greed the static route for E is best. But how do you add a route that applies only to connections coming into C or D Route add (if source from net C then use interface A) ?? Adding failover would be an even bigger bonus. -Original Message- From: Thompson, Jimi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

chroot versus jail for the name daemon

2004-06-12 Thread Robert Downes
Newbie Fodder (skip down the page if old and wise): The FreeBSD Handbook describes running BIND (named) in a sandbox, i.e. using chroot to force the named to think that its place in the filesystem is actually the filesystem root when it's not, so it sees /somewhere/deep/inthe/file/jungle as /.

Re: want sudo but not sudo su - how

2004-06-12 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 11:14:02AM +0100, John wrote: Greetings, freebsd-questions I want to put operators in sudo BUT I don't want them to sudo su - because after they do that, subsequent commands enacted as root don't appear in the logs. The desired behaviour would be sudo su command (any

httpd processes caught in loop

2004-06-12 Thread stefan
Hey My httpd processes are caught in sbwait and eating my ram on a webserver. Does anyone know what i could do or what i should look for here because it's bringing down the server and i can't think of anything else to try. I've been checking processes, socket usage and so on but can't find

finding ram eating process

2004-06-12 Thread stefan
Hey I have a process thats eating up all my ram, in my case it's actually child processes of apache who are doing it and i tried joining the apache mailing list but got no reply from the list. The server in question has about a gig of ram and after less then work day of running it has 150MB

Re: XFree86 Config (continued)

2004-06-12 Thread Glenn Sieb
Daniela said the following on 6/11/2004 6:39 PM: On Friday 11 June 2004 20:36, LW Ellis wrote: OK thanx to all the help, I think I'm getting close. I have a config file that works fineonly as long as I am signed in as root. KDE-Lite loads and works fine... However If I sign in as a user, I

What's the big difference between Linux and Unix??

2004-06-12 Thread Grauwmans Steven
Linux is UNIX, but why is Fedora Core a Linux and FreeBSD a UNIX? I searched on the internet for an answer, but after visiting 10 sites I gave up. If U could please help me, I'm getting confused. Greetings, Grauwmans Steven ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's the big difference between Linux and Unix??

2004-06-12 Thread Patrick Useldinger
Grauwmans Steven wrote: Linux is UNIX, but why is Fedora Core a Linux and FreeBSD a UNIX? I searched on the internet for an answer, but after visiting 10 sites I gave up. If U could please help me, I'm getting confused. Linux is a kernel. Fedora uses this kernel, and therefore is a Linux

Re: chroot versus jail for the name daemon

2004-06-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 12:53:41PM +0100, Robert Downes wrote: Questions (for the old and wise): So, are there any FreeBSD-internals masters who can answer the following: 1) What happens if named is broken with neither chroot nor jail, assuming named is running as user and group bind

Re: What's the big difference between Linux and Unix??

2004-06-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 10:06:49AM +0200, Grauwmans Steven wrote: Linux is UNIX, but why is Fedora Core a Linux and FreeBSD a UNIX? I searched on the internet for an answer, but after visiting 10 sites I gave up. If U could please help me, I'm getting confused. Because FreeBSD code is derived

swap size and zombie

2004-06-12 Thread Chris
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Looking at a web/email server with the following from top ... last pid: 29494; load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 up 85+12:33:05 23:07:44 39 processes: 1 running, 37 sleeping, 1 zombie CPU states: 0.0% user,

Re: two tar issues: man page and --totals behaviour

2004-06-12 Thread Stefan A. Deutscher
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 08:50:17AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Stefan A. Deutscher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi folks, just noticed two issues with tar on FreeBSD 5.1 (actually, it is GNU tar 1.13.25): It's a heavily modified version of Gnu tar, actually. (1) The man page is

Re: finding ram eating process

2004-06-12 Thread Bill Moran
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey I have a process thats eating up all my ram, in my case it's actually child processes of apache who are doing it and i tried joining the apache mailing list but got no reply from the list. The server in question has about a gig of ram and after less then work

Re: Hardware compatability list query (of d00m)

2004-06-12 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 06:53:17PM +0100, Mike Woods wrote: Anyway, to the point, is there a big hardware compatability list anyway, i dont mean like the one on freebsd.org rather a site stating actual tried and tested cards and the like as opposed to chipsets and controllers ? for laptops

Re: want sudo but not sudo su - how

2004-06-12 Thread John
On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 11:59:59AM +, Andy Smith wrote: It might be best to just say I don't want you doing this and then punish people who do, since you do have logs. yeah, thought this might be the case :| thanks for confirming it. If you're trying to restrict what people can do with

Re: 64 bits PCI gigabit Network card

2004-06-12 Thread Toni Schmidbauer
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 12:54:56PM -0400, Peter Kok wrote: Does freebsd support 64 bits PCI gigabit Network card? how about D Link DGE-550SX http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2.1R/hardware.html or http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.10R/hardware.html hth, toni -- Wer es einmal so weit

RE: What's the big difference between Linux and Unix??

2004-06-12 Thread Lucas Holt
This is a hard one to answer. Most people disagree slightly on this question. It all depends on your perspective. If you go by companies that are allowed to use the UNIX copyright, then only IBM AIX and Sun Solaris are UNIX. If you go by the posix specification, then most operating systems can

known error building expat2

2004-06-12 Thread Joe
Could someone take pity on me - I am not a C programmer. The following error appears in building expat2, it has been reported as a bug in the port and it doesn't look like it will get attention soon. Unfortunately I need to get through this port. I've done some investigation. Short of a crash

mod_frontpage

2004-06-12 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, the continuing saga of my new server setup uing ONLY things from ports finds that mod_php and mod_ssl are installed and working, However, when I try to do the mod_frontpage I get an error telling me that the I need to install the extensions, when I try to install, I get this nasty error

Re: want sudo but not sudo su - how

2004-06-12 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-06-12T10:14:02Z, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there a way of enforcing this? No. For example, if you let them run vim as root, then they can open a shell from there and run commands in it. Either configure a list of commands that they can use safely, or set down a clear policy

NAT vs Public IP Range info needed, please

2004-06-12 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello, I am looking to replace a proprietary DSL router/modem with the Sangoma S518 ADSL PCI Controller, thereby placing a FreeBSD (4.10-Stable) server running ipfw to handle access, firewall and nat duties. The ISP's DSL package includes 8 static ip addresses: - 1 - network addr 1 -

Resource temporarily unavailable crash in vi

2004-06-12 Thread Benjamin Lutz
Hello, I'm lately experiencing the Resource temporarily unavailable crash in vi a lot. I've had the same thing happen in other programs (eg, cvs, while it was waiting for input), so it's not something that's specific to vi. Someone even had it happen with cat:

RE: NAT vs Public IP Range info needed, please

2004-06-12 Thread Eric Crist
-Original Message- Hello, I am looking to replace a proprietary DSL router/modem with the Sangoma S518 ADSL PCI Controller, thereby placing a FreeBSD (4.10-Stable) server running ipfw to handle access, firewall and nat duties. The ISP's DSL package includes 8 static ip

Re: NAT vs Public IP Range info needed, please

2004-06-12 Thread Vince Hoffman
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Stacey Roberts wrote: Hello, I am looking to replace a proprietary DSL router/modem with the Sangoma S518 ADSL PCI Controller, thereby placing a FreeBSD (4.10-Stable) server running ipfw to handle access, firewall and nat duties. The ISP's DSL package includes

aix

2004-06-12 Thread arden
hi all my company is sending me on an aix/rs6000 course next month Ive been using Linux as my main OS for 2 years (thats when M$ went for good from my home :) )and been playing with BSD for about 6 months are there any fundamental differences i should be aware of before admitting any

XFree86 5.2.1 question

2004-06-12 Thread doug
The question is really where to ask about a suspected issue between the two. I have a very old Dell Inspiron 7500 and a Dell PE300 that work with 4.x. With 5.2.1 XFree85 freezes the system making power-down being the only way out. Where (or should) I post this? _ Douglas Denault

Re: Problems to install FreeBSD 5.0 with USB keyboard

2004-06-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rafael Oliveira Ribeiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to install FreeBSD 5 using a bootable CD-ROM, but I can get my USB keyboard working. Is there any way to solve this problem? Start by trying 5.2.1... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

TransGaming WineX 3.3.2

2004-06-12 Thread uwi mAn
Anybody of you have successfully run WineX under FreeBSD env? Share the experience! Thank you. _ Check out the coupons and bargains on MSN Offers! http://youroffers.msn.com ___ [EMAIL

emu10k1 gamepad support

2004-06-12 Thread Bill Sawyer
I'm currently running 4.10-STABLE, and I have a SB Live 5.1 card in my box. I've been dying to get my Microsoft Sidewinder gamepad working through the gamepad/MIDI port. However, I couldn't figure out how to get the joy device working properly. The original code appeared to support an ISA

Re: NAT vs Public IP Range info needed, please

2004-06-12 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Jun 12, 2004, at 09:46, Stacey Roberts wrote: The ISP's DSL package includes 8 static ip addresses: - 1 - network addr 1 - broadcast addr 1 router address 5 usable ip addresses The -redirect_address syntax is as follows: -redirect_address localIP publicIP localIP The internal IP

Re: NAT vs Public IP Range info needed, please

2004-06-12 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Jun 12, 2004, at 12:11, Kevin Stevens wrote: As you see, the g'way's public ip is not being used for NAT'ing internal hosts' outgoing traffic, but another ip from within the assignied public ip address range. My reading of the NAT chapter does not suggest that there is a way to define the

Re: NAT vs Public IP Range info needed, please

2004-06-12 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello Eric, - Original Message - From: Eric Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: To 'Stacey Roberts' Date: Sat, 12 Jun, 2004 18:23 BST Subject: RE: NAT vs Public IP Range info needed, please -Original Message- Hello, I am looking to replace a proprietary DSL router/modem with

Re: NAT vs Public IP Range info needed, please

2004-06-12 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hello Vince, Thanks for the reply. - Original Message - From: Vince Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: To Stacey Roberts Date: Sat, 12 Jun, 2004 18:36 BST Subject: Re: NAT vs Public IP Range info needed, please On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Stacey Roberts wrote: Hello, I am

Re: NAT vs Public IP Range info needed, please

2004-06-12 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hi Kevin, Thanks for replying. - Original Message - From: Kevin Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: To Stacey Roberts Date: Sat, 12 Jun, 2004 20:11 BST Subject: Re: NAT vs Public IP Range info needed, please On Jun 12, 2004, at 09:46, Stacey Roberts wrote: The ISP's DSL package

Netscape not working

2004-06-12 Thread Bruce Hunter
Hello everyone, When I try and install any of the netscape ports I get an error. [EMAIL PROTECTED] cd /usr/ports/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] portupgrade -N www/netscape7 * Your choices are saved. You must run the make command again to * complete the build. Ignore the Error code 1 below. *** Error code 1

Problems installing ffmpeg port in 5.1: can't find a register in class `GENERAL_REGS' while reloading `asm'

2004-06-12 Thread Joachim Dagerot
Something is broken in my system, that's for sure - but how can I solve it. I can't [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ports/multimedia/ffmpeg/ make install clean because (sorry if I copied too much, I'm not sure where the problems starts): i386/dsputil_mmx_rnd.h:362: warning: `avg_no_rnd_pixels8_l2_mmx'

Re: known error building expat2

2004-06-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could someone take pity on me - I am not a C programmer. The following error appears in building expat2, it has been reported as a bug in the port and it doesn't look like it will get attention soon. Unfortunately I need to get through this port. I've done

dynamic DNS issues - invalid TSIG key

2004-06-12 Thread Noah
FreeBSD-4.9-STABLE bind-9.2.3 okay I am trying to set up dynamic DNS to bind on a FreeBSD box. I have admin on both client and server side. the client is a redhat-8.0 machine with ISC DHCP installed. right now the client side is complaining of an invalid TSIG key. The keys are cut and Pasted

Passing pwd_mkdb args to pw command

2004-06-12 Thread Sven Willenberger
Is there any way to pass an argument to the pw command that could be passed to it when it invokes pwd_mkdb to rebuild the password database. On a system with about 25k users, it takes an inordinate amount of time to rebuild the database using the pw command. Invoking the pwd_mkdb on the

40GB harddisk on Creative Soundblaster AWE32 / wavetable/midi support for AWE32?

2004-06-12 Thread UBM
Hiho! :-) Yesterday I installed an old Creative Soundblaster AWE32 ISA in my computer. During boot I noticed that the ata(4) driver attached to the onboard (cdrom) ide-controller. So I got curious and hooked up my new dvd-drive (Toshiba M1712) . Worked like a charm (PIO4 only, of course :-)).

Re: aix

2004-06-12 Thread Bill Moran
arden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all my company is sending me on an aix/rs6000 course next month Ive been using Linux as my main OS for 2 years (thats when M$ went for good from my home :) )and been playing with BSD for about 6 months are there any fundamental differences i should be

ipfilter allowing samba

2004-06-12 Thread dave
Hi, Need to know how to enable ipfilter to allow samba in. I've got a box that has two interfaces on it. I need to have ipfilter allow samba in on ed0, am not sure how to do this without dropping the firewall, which is not an option. Any help appreciated. This is only from the local network,

Re: ipfilter allowing samba

2004-06-12 Thread Bill Sawyer
Hey Dave, You need to allow exceptions in ipfilter for ports 137 to 139. The following rules should work: pass in quick on ed0 proto tcp from 192.168.0.0/16 to 192.168.0.1/32 port = 137 keep state pass in quick on ed0 proto tcp from 192.168.0.0/16 to 192.168.0.1/32 port = 138 keep state

apache2 port

2004-06-12 Thread dave
Hello, I've got a 5.2.1 machine that has the latest apache on it via ports. Instead of translating my index.html file i am getting a directory listing vs. the page. Like instead of seeing the html home, favorites, and so forth on this page, i'm basically given a directory listing. Any ideas?

Re: swap size and zombie

2004-06-12 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 12), Chris said: Looking at a web/email server with the following from top ... last pid: 29494; load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 up 85+12:33:05 23:07:44 39 processes: 1 running, 37 sleeping, 1 zombie CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0%

problem building /usr//ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig

2004-06-12 Thread atk2
Bleh - i tried upgrading from freebsd 4.5 to 4.10 and now I'm having this problem: cfreetype.lo fcfreetype.c: In function `FcFreeTypeQuery': fcfreetype.c:280: syntax error before `psfontinfo' fcfreetype.c:739: `psfontinfo' undeclared (first use in this function) fcfreetype.c:739: (Each

Re: aix

2004-06-12 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 12), arden said: my company is sending me on an aix/rs6000 course next month Ive been using Linux as my main OS for 2 years (thats when M$ went for good from my home :) )and been playing with BSD for about 6 months are there any fundamental differences i should be

Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD

2004-06-12 Thread Beecher Rintoul
Ran across this on Netcraft: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/06/07/nearly_25_million_active_sites_running_freebsd.html Good job people! Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - System Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\ ASCII

Nearly 2.5 Million Active Sites running FreeBSD

2004-06-12 Thread Beecher Rintoul
Ran across this on Netcraft: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/06/07/nearly_25_million_active_sites_running_freebsd.html Good job people! Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - System Administrator - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\ ASCII