Re: grappling with users

2005-04-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-04-15 10:33, Timothy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: whats the correct method of creating a deamon user account, which you can use to start a deamon process but can't be logged into. so far i have not seen a single good explaination or example of this below is my svn user, who has

Solution for ATAPI_TIMEOUT on FreeBSD 5.3 on some SuperMicro motherboards

2005-04-15 Thread Benson Wong
Hi, I know a few people have had ATAPI_TIMEOUT errors when installing 5.3-RELEASE on SuperMicro motherboards. I got it successfully installed on a SuperMicro X6DHE-X8 which has dual Broadcom 5721 which are not supported in 5.3-RELEASE. I wrote up the solution here:

Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions

2005-04-15 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
On Apr 14, 2005, at 5:28 PM, Benson Wong wrote: So theoretically it should go over 1000TBI've conducted several bastardized installations due to sysinstall not being able to do anything over the 2TB limit by creating the partition ahead of timeI am going to be attacking this tonight and my

Re: the Gimp no longer opens jpeg files

2005-04-15 Thread dima
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 09:12:26PM +0200, FreeBsdBeni wrote: On Thursday 14 April 2005 09:59, dima wrote: Hi All, I've cvsuped from 5.3-p5 to 5.4-RC2, done portupgrade and now gimp-2.2.6,1 can't open jpeg files with the following message: /usr/X11R6/libexec/gimp/2.2/plug-ins/jpeg: fatal

Re: lightweight bittorrent client that does queueing

2005-04-15 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
* Brian John [2005-04-14 21:32 -0500] I am looking for a lightweight bittorrent client that does download queueing. I know this is somewhat of a difficult thing to ask for, but I think it is possible. I've tried ctorrent, bittorrent and azureus. Obviously ctorrent and bittorrrent didn't

/var/spool/clientmque 185meg

2005-04-15 Thread Warren
/var/spool/clientmqueue -- 185meg How do i get the messages from the above to the root mail folder of my machine ? im willing to provide any neccessary information to help. -- Yours Sincerely Shinjii http://www.shinji.nq.nu ___

Re: lightweight bittorrent client that does queueing

2005-04-15 Thread Warren
On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 7:47 pm, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: * Brian John [2005-04-14 21:32 -0500] I am looking for a lightweight bittorrent client that does download Azureus was great, except it slows down my entire computer. I had the exact same issue with Azureus. The problem is that

Re: samhain - starts on boot?

2005-04-15 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running 5.3. I decided to install samhain through ports... Afterwards I messed around with it running it -D mode for a bit, I killed the process... Never really bothered with it again but I have noticed that it will start on boot without any indication of it in

FastCGI on FreeBSD 5.3

2005-04-15 Thread Pat Maddox
I've read that FastCGI 0.8.5 has a memory leak, which is fixed in 0.8.6. However, 0.8.6 isn't in ports yet, so I can't just upgrade. Someone mentioned a way to patch it to fix the leak, but I haven't been able to find any patch info for FreeBSD. Anyone know how I can patch/upgrade on FreeBSD

Understanding differences between releases and ports

2005-04-15 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Hello list, I have problems understanding a base concept :-( Is that right, when I install 5.2.1-RELEASE and I install the ports-distribution with cvsup and keep them up to date, that the ports I build afterwards with make install are newer than the release-precompiled-packages distributed

Re: Understanding differences between releases and ports

2005-04-15 Thread Chris
Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello list, I have problems understanding a base concept :-( Is that right, when I install 5.2.1-RELEASE and I install the ports-distribution with cvsup and keep them up to date, that the ports I build afterwards with make install are newer than the

see processes owned by other users

2005-04-15 Thread Alexey Privalov
Hi all, I'm using 5.3-STABLE now (FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #5: Mon Dec 6 17:45:08 NOVT 2004). I've setted security.mac.seeotheruids.enabled to 0 in sysctl.conf, so I can see my own processes only... With one exception, if a process was started in jail with the same UID (but not me directly) then

Re: Understanding differences between releases and ports

2005-04-15 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Am Freitag, 15. April 2005 14:44 schrieb Chris: Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello list, I have problems understanding a base concept :-( Is that right, when I install 5.2.1-RELEASE and I install the ports-distribution with cvsup and keep them up to date, that the ports I build afterwards

Re: Default root password for FreeBSD 4.2-RC2

2005-04-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, May I know the default root password for FreeBSD 5.4-RC2? My system was previously running FreeBSD 5.3-SECURITY. Then I set the option in sysinstall to 5.4-RC2 and upgrade the base distribution. After that I accidentally rebooted the server. Now I could no longer access the server.

Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions

2005-04-15 Thread Nick Pavlica
I am going to be attacking this tonight and my efforts will be primarily focused on creating one large 5.8TB slice.wish me luck!! How did this go? Were you able to create the very large slice? --Nick -- *From:* Nick Pavlica [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:*

Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions

2005-04-15 Thread Nick Evans
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 17:13:48 -0500 Edgar Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Benson..GREAT RESPONSE!! I Don't think I could have done any better myself. Although I knew most of the information you provided, it was good to know that my knowledge was not very far off. It's also reassuring that I'm

make release

2005-04-15 Thread Kövesdán Gábor
Hello there, I'm about to build a whole FreeBSD system with optimized code for my own purposes. I've read this document: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/release-build.html According this I should make a CVS mirror and follow the steps that the documention mentions. It

BIND upgrade from ports....

2005-04-15 Thread Eric F Crist
Hello list, First off, please reply directly to me (with CC to list), as I'm no longer a member of the list. (Too much erroneous traffic.) FreeBSD 5.3 uses BIND 9.3.0 and I'm trying to upgrade to 9.3.1. I know with PERL, you can set an option to use-ports-dist or something like that so that

Re: BIND upgrade from ports....

2005-04-15 Thread Eric F Crist
On Apr 15, 2005, at 10:11 AM, Eric F Crist wrote: Hello list, First off, please reply directly to me (with CC to list), as I'm no longer a member of the list. (Too much erroneous traffic.) FreeBSD 5.3 uses BIND 9.3.0 and I'm trying to upgrade to 9.3.1. I know with PERL, you can set an option

RE: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions

2005-04-15 Thread Edgar Martinez
Yeah it was pretty much boo hoo hoo...it appears we have either backplane, MI cable issues, or controller problems...I was only getting 11 drives available with improper identification...so I am going thru the tedious task of ripping it all down, and testing backplanes, drives, and cables...one at

RE: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions

2005-04-15 Thread Edgar Martinez
Sorry for the delay in response.I had to go to the IRS today.OMFG.what a model of inefficiency. I am having some minor hardware issues with the build that we are going to be working on to get corrected first.but I will def keep everyone informed on what is going on.. _ From: Nick

RE: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions

2005-04-15 Thread Edgar Martinez
Interesting... gpt add [-b number] [-i index] [-s count] [-t type] device ... The add command allows the user to add a new partition to an existing table. By default, it will create a UFS partition covering the first available block of an unused disk space. The

Re: Understanding differences between releases and ports

2005-04-15 Thread Chris
Stevan Tiefert wrote: Am Freitag, 15. April 2005 14:44 schrieb Chris: Stevan Tiefert wrote: Hello list, I have problems understanding a base concept :-( Is that right, when I install 5.2.1-RELEASE and I install the ports-distribution with cvsup and keep them up to date, that the ports I

Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions

2005-04-15 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 15), Nick Evans said: You'll need to use GPT to make this work for anything over 2TB. Man gpt Or don't bother with a partition table at all, which makes growing the filesystem later on quite a bit easier. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with SoundBlaster Audigy on FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE

2005-04-15 Thread Alexander Chamandy
On 4/14/05, Alexander Chamandy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having problems after a recent upgrade to FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE. RC-1 seemed to work fine, but now my media files (audio and video alike) are not properly playing. And I get this error: pcm0:play:0: play interrupt timeout, channel

RE: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions

2005-04-15 Thread Edgar Martinez
OK...so now we are going into some new territory...I am curious if you would care to elaborate a bit more...I am intrigued...if anyone wants me to do some experiments or test something, let me know...I for one welcome any attempts at pushing any limits or trying new things... -Original

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2005-04-15 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2004/09/19 02:40:48 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2005-04-15 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions

2005-04-15 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Apr 15), Edgar Martinez said: OK...so now we are going into some new territory...I am curious if you would care to elaborate a bit more...I am intrigued...if anyone wants me to do some experiments or test something, let me know...I for one welcome any attempts at pushing

Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions

2005-04-15 Thread Nick Pavlica
On 4/15/05, Edgar Martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK...so now we are going into some new territory...I am curious if you would care to elaborate a bit more...I am intrigued...if anyone wants me to do some experiments or test something, let me know...I for one welcome any attempts at

RE: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions

2005-04-15 Thread Edgar Martinez
I don't think I have ever done that...or even considered that was possible...The controller does support growing the array...Guess I'll give it a shot starting with 2TB and then grow it in increments to see how it behaves...any suggestions for newfs'in the device directly?? -Original

RE: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions

2005-04-15 Thread Edgar Martinez
I was hoping that 5.4 would be out by the time I started this project.I'll give it a shot to see how it behaves. _ From: Nick Pavlica [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 12:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Dan Nelson; Nick Evans; Benson Wong;

Re: samhain - starts on boot?

2005-04-15 Thread fadeaway
There is a script there but my understanding is that the scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d and /etc/rc.d don't automatically start without first being enabled through rc.conf rc.conf.local? Or did I misunderstand? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: UPDATING and security updates.

2005-04-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
jimmie james [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Curious why there's no mention of any security issues in /usr/src/UPDATING on 4.11-STABLE systems, but browsing the cvs-src, there's notes in RELENG_4_10, RELENG_4_11, Branch: RELENG_5_3? Wouldn't it make sense to note it in all affected releases? I

Re: samhain - starts on boot?

2005-04-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is a script there but my understanding is that the scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d and /etc/rc.d don't automatically start without first being enabled through rc.conf rc.conf.local? Or did I misunderstand? Some ports do that, but (from a quick look) I don't

Re: see processes owned by other users

2005-04-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Alexey Privalov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using 5.3-STABLE now (FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #5: Mon Dec 6 17:45:08 NOVT 2004). I've setted security.mac.seeotheruids.enabled to 0 in sysctl.conf, so I can see my own processes only... With one exception, if a process was started in jail with

src out of sync or buildworld broken?

2005-04-15 Thread Gary Lum
Afternoon everyone. I track RELENG_5 using cvsup that runs nightly. Today I've been trying to buildworld and keep running into problems with missing directories and files. First, build world was complaing that the /usr/src/sys/dev/ieee488 dir was missing. Couldn't find anything on google

Re: lightweight bittorrent client that does queueing

2005-04-15 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Fri 15 Apr 05 03:09, Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 7:47 pm, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: * Brian John [2005-04-14 21:32 -0500] I am looking for a lightweight bittorrent client that does download Azureus was great, except it slows down my entire computer.

Re: 5.8TB RAID5 SATA Array Questions

2005-04-15 Thread Benson Wong
If your array is just going to used for one large filesystem, you can skip any partitioning steps and newfs the base device directly. then if you decide to grow the array (and if your controller supports nondestructive resizing), you can use growfs to expand the filesystem without the

'make buildworld' from 4.9-STABLE - 4.11-STABLE failed.

2005-04-15 Thread Alex S. Moura
Hello, I'm getting this error in the make buildworld phase of the update: building profiled com_err library ranlib libcom_err_p.a cc -fpic -DPIC -O -pipe -march=pentiumpro -I/usr/src/lib/libcom_err/../../contrib/com_err -c /usr/src/lib/libcom_err/../../contrib/com_err/com_err.c -o com_err.So cc

Re: Snapshots in Freebsd 5.x

2005-04-15 Thread Alec Berryman
jlkjlk 64654654ut on 2005-04-14 16:07:18 -0700: I have been able to mount the snapshot and retrieve the data while the system is running as mentioned on the article but ultimately I would like to restore entire partitions (from a system crash, for example). Is it possible? How can it be

Re[2]: samhain - starts on boot?

2005-04-15 Thread Hexren
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is a script there but my understanding is that the scripts in /usr/local/etc/rc.d and /etc/rc.d don't automatically start without first being enabled through rc.conf rc.conf.local? Or did I misunderstand? - asfar

call_usermodehelper equivalent?

2005-04-15 Thread Andrew Tappert
This is a question about FreeBSD kernel (module) programming. Is there an equivalent in FreeBSD to the Linux function 'call_usermodehelper' which wraps execve to do as its name suggests, call a user mode helper program? If there is, what is it? If not, can some kind person please point me to

Re: Traffic Shapping (IPFW + DUMMYNET) Question

2005-04-15 Thread RW
On Thursday 14 April 2005 14:53, Timothy Radigan wrote: Hi all, I'm new to the entire idea of traffic shaping and I came up with some rules for my BSD firewall/router/VoIP gateway ... Does this seem like it will perform as I am thinking it will? I've not tried this kind of thing myself,

Scanning in FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE, niash, and a busy signal

2005-04-15 Thread Anthony M. Agelastos
Hello all, My HP ScanJet 3300C will not scan due to being busy. I followed the steps of the FreeBSD manual and will show its output below in the event that it may help. I should note that the configuration is as follows: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE // GENERIC KERNEL Pentium III, 450 MHz If I had to

Re: India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!?

2005-04-15 Thread RW
On Thursday 14 April 2005 14:35, Subhro wrote: Good idea Brian. But the saddest part is as I have indicated above, Linux rules :-( and FreeBSD is for the heavy duty software professionals. The astonishing fact is that, my ISP BSNL, which is supposed to be the biggest ISP in India does not know

Re: India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!?

2005-04-15 Thread Anthony Atkielski
RW writes: Most UK ISPs wont even touch Linux. If I'd tried to ask my ISP to setup FreeBSD, I'd have to go through an Indian call-centre where I'd get asked which versions of Windows and Internet Explorer I'm using. Why do you need an ISP's help to set up FreeBSD, anyway? -- Anthony

Re: India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!?

2005-04-15 Thread RW
On Saturday 16 April 2005 01:52, Anthony Atkielski wrote: RW writes: Most UK ISPs wont even touch Linux. If I'd tried to ask my ISP to setup FreeBSD, I'd have to go through an Indian call-centre where I'd get asked which versions of Windows and Internet Explorer I'm using. Why do you need

Re: Traffic Shapping (IPFW + DUMMYNET) Question

2005-04-15 Thread Chris Haulmark
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 09:53 -0400, Timothy Radigan wrote: Hi all, I'm new to the entire idea of traffic shaping and I came up with some rules for my BSD firewall/router/VoIP gateway and I just wanted to make sure that what I am trying to accomplish is actually going to happen with these

mount_smbfs issue

2005-04-15 Thread munn
I am getting an inconsistency when I try to use perl to access file in a smbfs mounted Win XP directory structure My kernel is at 4.11p3. Any help in resolving this problem would be much appreciated. # smbfs mount command which mounts a WinXP share ShareDir on my FreeBSD # box. The directory

Re: India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!?

2005-04-15 Thread Subhro
Anthony Atkielski wrote: RW writes: Most UK ISPs wont even touch Linux. If I'd tried to ask my ISP to setup FreeBSD, I'd have to go through an Indian call-centre where I'd get asked which versions of Windows and Internet Explorer I'm using. Why do you need an ISP's help to set up FreeBSD,

Re: India had no FreeBSD mirror sites ?!?

2005-04-15 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Subhro writes: You got it wrong. *I* being old hands at FreeBSD, don't require their help. But if I install FBSD on my little sisters PC, she would be requiring some help. If I am around, thats not a problem. But if I am not, the first place she would go to is the ISP, which i very much