Re: differences in supported filesystems between FreeBSD versions

2005-08-11 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 10:44 PM 8/11/2005, Dmitry Mityugov wrote: Hello, I have a small FreeBSD machine at home used as a file server and a gateway to the Internet. Currently when a new version of FreeBSD is released (and I have enough time), I copy all the data to another machine, reinstall FreeBSD from scratch, a

differences in supported filesystems between FreeBSD versions

2005-08-11 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
Hello, I have a small FreeBSD machine at home used as a file server and a gateway to the Internet. Currently when a new version of FreeBSD is released (and I have enough time), I copy all the data to another machine, reinstall FreeBSD from scratch, and copy the data back. I just realized that I pr

Re: Problems with DNS

2005-08-11 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 10:07 PM 8/11/2005, perikillo wrote: HI all. I have one freebsd box running 5.3, i get my IP from one internal DHCP running NT 4.0, here we have one PDC on NT 4.0, to get to the outside we pass thru one http proxy and one firewall, i have my user and password for the proxy, i want to

attempting fastcgi with php

2005-08-11 Thread David Banning
I am interested in lowering my memory consumption while using php with apache. I am told by others and by the fastcgi website that fastcgi carries "a smaller memory footprint". I would like to use it to run my php scripts. I seem to have fastcgi installed and operational. At least I have run the

Re: 5.4 -- bridging, ipfw, dot1q

2005-08-11 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Glenn Dawson wrote: At 09:08 PM 8/11/2005, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Okay, here's the situation. PLEASE let me know if there's a better place to ask. (isp@, kernel@, something) I'm setting up a bridging firewall where the packets are passing through on dot1q tru

Problems with DNS

2005-08-11 Thread perikillo
HI all. I have one freebsd box running 5.3, i get my IP from one internal DHCP running NT 4.0, here we have one PDC on NT 4.0, to get to the outside we pass thru one http proxy and one firewall, i have my user and password for the proxy, i want to get outside, i install manually the cvsup

Re: 5.4 -- bridging, ipfw, dot1q

2005-08-11 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 09:08 PM 8/11/2005, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Okay, here's the situation. PLEASE let me know if there's a better place to ask. (isp@, kernel@, something) I'm setting up a bridging firewall where the packets are passing through on dot1q trunks. The bridge works. Packet counts wor

Re: How to use Webmin in FreeBSD?

2005-08-11 Thread Derrick MacPherson
Kenny wrote: I have installed Webmin successfully from ports. During the installation, there was no error occurred. After the installation, I tried to use Webmin. I typed the following address in the Opera navigation bar: http://localhost:1/ Then, I was told by my Opera that there was an e

RE: Any suggestions for a MTA for a new admin?

2005-08-11 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Sendmail, of course. Postfix and qmail and the others were written by people aiming to simplify the MTA because they either couldn't understand Sendmail or were too lazy to do so. Or they were catering to people like this. Sendmail was written by a huge crew of people along the way as they came

RE: Anyone successfully running FreeBSD on a HP Proliant DL385?

2005-08-11 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
>-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of lars >Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 8:39 AM >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: Anyone successfully running FreeBSD on a HP Proliant DL385? > >Ok, thanks for the info. >Do you happen to know w

5.4 -- bridging, ipfw, dot1q

2005-08-11 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Okay, here's the situation. PLEASE let me know if there's a better place to ask. (isp@, kernel@, something) I'm setting up a bridging firewall where the packets are passing through on dot1q trunks. The bridge works. Packet counts work (so I assume the bridge at least sees the packets).

How to use Webmin in FreeBSD?

2005-08-11 Thread Kenny
I have installed Webmin successfully from ports. During the installation, there was no error occurred. After the installation, I tried to use Webmin. I typed the following address in the Opera navigation bar: http://localhost:1/ Then, I was told by my Opera that there was an error while load

Re: Browser ?

2005-08-11 Thread Vulpes Velox
Choosing something that uses MH or Maildir is nice as well. On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:52:25 -0400 nawcom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > theres lots of solutions. i personally would just use plain ol mail > with sendmail and fetchmail to manage the sending and retrieval. > > > Björn König wrote: > >

RE: Help on bash script?

2005-08-11 Thread Xu Qiang
dpk wrote: > It will work with either 'let' or within an 'arithmetic expansion': > > $[++var] > let ++var > > By the way, there is another syntax, from the man page, that seems to > operate identically: > > $((++var)) and $((var+1)) With "let ++var", the result is still 0, it isn't incremented.

Re: Newbie needs help setting up rackmount server

2005-08-11 Thread Maude User
It never even occurred to me that you could try using a USB flash drive to install from -- that would be a very interesting approach. Not sure how much a USB flash drive would cost, but I got a Panasonic USB2.0/Firewire CD-RW/DVD+/-RW (DVRS706) for $99 at jandr.com, so that should be good to b

RE: Help on bash script?

2005-08-11 Thread dpk
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Xu Qiang wrote: > This is my test script: > > - > #!/bin/bash > > var=0 > var=$[3] > > vari=0 > ++vari > > echo $var > echo $vari > - > > The result is: > ./test.sh: ++vari: command not found > 3 > 0 > > So the manual of bash is incorrec

RE: Help on bash script?

2005-08-11 Thread Xu Qiang
This is my test script: - #!/bin/bash var=0 var=$[3] vari=0 ++vari echo $var echo $vari - The result is: ./test.sh: ++vari: command not found 3 0 So the manual of bash is incorrect? Regards, Xu Qiang ___

RE: Help on bash script?

2005-08-11 Thread Xu Qiang
dpk wrote: > On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Xu Qiang wrote: >> 1. The way of incrementing the variable NCOREFILES. Why does it use >> the formula of "NCOREFILES=$[ $NCOREFILES + 1 ]", and not the direct >> way of "NCOREFILES=$NCOREFILES+1"? > > If that was done, NCOREFILES would end up looking like: > > +1

Re: [nycbug-talk] Can I install FreeBSD 5.3 from a USB CD drive?

2005-08-11 Thread Maude User
Thanks for this info. The handbook chapter on BIOS (see below) doesn't mention "USB" but it says the machine can boot from "Removable Devices" so it sounds like your first suggestion about booting from removable drives would work. It also says something about PXE so it looks like your sec

Re: cpan/bsdpan/ports need help - Checked by AntiVir -

2005-08-11 Thread Denny White
Denny White wrote: I had read where it was better to use ports than cpan modules. I had originally used cpan because of updating the virus data files for f-prot, before I knew I could do it with portupgrade. I got tired of seeing ports held by user & had trouble trying to force some of them

RE: Help on bash script?

2005-08-11 Thread Xu Qiang
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2005-08-12 10:16, Xu Qiang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Btw, can we "export" a value in the sub-shell back to the parent? > > Only through `backquote subtitution', as the child process cannot > affect the environment of the parent process. > > value=`shell com

Re: Newbie needs help setting up rackmount server

2005-08-11 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/11/05, Maude User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I didn't realize it would be slow using a null-cable modem - thanks for that > info. > > I guess I should borrow a monitor and keyboard to do the install faster. > > I'm personally liking the usb flash drive thingy idea I mentioned earlier if

Problems with p5-IO-Socket && system perl on 4.x

2005-08-11 Thread Bill Moran
Can anyone confirm or deny? It looks like portupgrading p5-IO-Socket on FreeBSD 4.x breaks things unless the user manually replaces perl 5.005 with a more recent version of perl. I have a client who tripped across this while portupgrading MRTG. Anyone who can confirm or deny this? I haven't ha

Re: Help on bash script?

2005-08-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-08-12 10:16, Xu Qiang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Btw, can we "export" a value in the sub-shell back to the parent? Only through `backquote subtitution', as the child process cannot affect the environment of the parent process. value=`shell command` value=$(shell command)

Re: wizard mode docs

2005-08-11 Thread Chris Hill
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-08-11 16:09, Randy Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey all, Is there any documentation on wizard mode? I'm just wondering what the scan function does. What is "wizard mode" supposed to be? He's probably talking about sysinstall. --

RE: Help on bash script?

2005-08-11 Thread Xu Qiang
dpk wrote: > On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Xu Qiang wrote: > As soon as you used the pipe, to the while, you entered a sub-shell. > There's no way (that I'm aware of anyways) to get the sub-shell's > variables sent back up to the parent. Thanks for your detailed analysis and a solution. Yes, I didn't notic

Re: Help on bash script?

2005-08-11 Thread dpk
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Xu Qiang wrote: > Hi, all: > > I don't know if this is the right list to ask this question. But since I > didn't find a bash script mail list and you guys are always so helpful, > then... > > Here are an excerpt of a bash script: > > ---

Re: wizard mode docs

2005-08-11 Thread dpk
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Randy Schultz wrote: > Hey all, > > Is there any documentation on wizard mode? I'm just wondering what the > scan function does. Looking at the source, I would guess that it counts how many 512 byte blocks there are on a device. It prints B: at the beginning and G: at the en

Re: Problem with Seagate hdd

2005-08-11 Thread Jim Campbell
Efren Bravo wrote: When the installer start it raise this error: ata0-master: Failure - ATA-IDENTIFY timed out thanks... I have experienced the same error message for every release I have tried since FreeBSD 4.11. I have concluded that my particular VIA controller on the system board isn't

Help on bash script?

2005-08-11 Thread Xu Qiang
Hi, all: I don't know if this is the right list to ask this question. But since I didn't find a bash script mail list and you guys are always so helpful, then... Here are an excerpt of a bash script: --- #!/bin/bash # saveLogs.sh - Bourne A

Re: wizard mode docs

2005-08-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
Randy Schultz wrote: Hey all, Is there any documentation on wizard mode? I'm just wondering what the scan function does. #scan You look around the Mazes of Menace, hoping to gain some clue about the mysterious wizard mode. #engrave Elbereth You feel safe! -- -Chuck _

tunneling / IPSec

2005-08-11 Thread Aaron Peterson
I've recently been through the relatively simple process of setting up IPSec IP in IP tunnels between two FreeBSD boxes using gif interfaces for the tunneling portion, native IPSec and the racoon port. Best I can tell, this only works between two devices whose IP addresses are directly accessable

Re: [nycbug-talk] Can I install FreeBSD 5.3 from a USB CD drive?

2005-08-11 Thread Jim Brown
* Maude User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-11 20:15]: > Hello - > > I want to install FreeBSD 5.3 onto a rackmount server that came with two SATA > hard drives > (it came with no CD or floppy). I will borrow a keyboard and monitor because > I was informed > today on this list that a "headless i

CD Burning Error

2005-08-11 Thread Josh Paetzel
I have recently aquired a DVD+-RW drive. I am running into some problems when trying to burn CD-Rs (I haven't tried a DVD yet) *I've tried -s 24 as well* gimpy# burncd -f /dev/acd0 -s 48 data 6.0-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso fixate next writeable LBA 0 writing f

Re: Newbie needs help setting up rackmount server

2005-08-11 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
On 12/08/2005, at 6:23 AM, Maude User wrote: Hello -- I recently installed FreeBSD 5.3 on my laptop and now I want to install it onto a rackmount server (hardware specs below). I hate to ask a silly question but here goes: Do I need to get a USB CD-ROM drive (and keyboard and monitor) f

Re: Can I install FreeBSD 5.3 from a USB CD drive?

2005-08-11 Thread nawcom
does the server have usb bios support? Im guessing no but hell i might be wrong. you can always install bsd on the hard drive a via a different computer. -Ben Maude User wrote: Hello - I want to install FreeBSD 5.3 onto a rackmount server that came with two SATA hard drives (it came with no

Can I install FreeBSD 5.3 from a USB CD drive?

2005-08-11 Thread Maude User
Hello - I want to install FreeBSD 5.3 onto a rackmount server that came with two SATA hard drives (it came with no CD or floppy). I will borrow a keyboard and monitor because I was informed today on this list that a "headless install" from my laptop over a null-modem cable would slow. I was

Re: Newbie needs help setting up rackmount server

2005-08-11 Thread Maude User
I didn't realize it would be slow using a null-cable modem - thanks for that info. I guess I should borrow a monitor and keyboard to do the install faster. Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 8/11/05, Maude User wrote: > Thank you for your quick answer! In the link you sent, there is

Re: Newbie needs help setting up rackmount server

2005-08-11 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/11/05, Maude User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for your quick answer! In the link you sent, there is a chapter > about doing a "headless install" -- and my rackmount server is certainly > "headless". > > My laptop is so new it doesn't appear to have a serial port, but I think I >

Re: Any suggestions for a MTA for a new admin?

2005-08-11 Thread Derrick MacPherson
On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 17:40 -0400, Tom Norris wrote: > I have finally made the jump from paying people to host my websites to > doing it myself (setting up apache, perl, php, postgresql, and all that > fun stuff.) Now I want to migrate my e-mail addresses over to a FreeBSD > 4.11 machine that l

Re: fsck says "UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY"

2005-08-11 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 03:49 PM 8/11/2005, Jerahmy Pocott wrote: THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 66322510, Sounds like a HW issue to me. Anyway to confirm this? It is not a very old drive and the filesystem is still readable, I suppose it could have developed some bad sectors.. If you have an

Re[2]: Newbie Q: No login prompt on startup

2005-08-11 Thread dpk
On Fri, 12 Aug 2005, Hexren wrote: > The next time that happens try ^C. > If the startup process hangs in bringing up a daemon you cann kill > that like any other foreground running process. Maybe that was what > hit you at least it sound a lot like that to me. > > Hexren Also, try ^T. ^T should

Re[2]: Newbie Q: No login prompt on startup

2005-08-11 Thread Hexren
> >>Hello all, > >> > >>I just finished installing FreeBSD 5.4 on my PC. When i boot it > >>normally all of the startup scripts finish, no errors are displayed but > >>afterwards a login prompt fails to appear. If i boot in single user mode > >>I get my '#' prompt right off the bat and can e

Re: Newbie Q: No login prompt on startup

2005-08-11 Thread Garrett Cooper
Eric Lance wrote: >>Hello all, >> >>I just finished installing FreeBSD 5.4 on my PC. When i boot it >>normally all of the startup scripts finish, no errors are displayed but >>afterwards a login prompt fails to appear. If i boot in single user mode >>I get my '#' prompt right off the bat and

Re: Newbie Q: No login prompt on startup

2005-08-11 Thread Eric Lance
>>Hello all, >> >>I just finished installing FreeBSD 5.4 on my PC. When i boot it >>normally all of the startup scripts finish, no errors are displayed but >>afterwards a login prompt fails to appear. If i boot in single user mode >>I get my '#' prompt right off the bat and can edit files. What i

Re: wizard mode docs

2005-08-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-08-11 23:42, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >On 2005-08-11 16:09, Randy Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Hey all, > >>Is there any documentation on wizard mode? I'm just wondering what > >>the scan function does. > > > >What is "wizard mode" supp

Re: Any suggestions for a MTA for a new admin?

2005-08-11 Thread Bob Johnson
On 8/11/05, Tom Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have finally made the jump from paying people to host my websites to > doing it myself (setting up apache, perl, php, postgresql, and all that > fun stuff.) Now I want to migrate my e-mail addresses over to a FreeBSD > 4.11 machine that live

Re: Any suggestions for a MTA for a new admin?

2005-08-11 Thread Laurence Sanford
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Tom Norris wrote: Something else just occured to me. Am I going to need a separate pop3 daemon, or does postfix do that too? I've always used qpopper, but that's just me. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: fsck says "UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY"

2005-08-11 Thread Jerahmy Pocott
THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 66322510, Sounds like a HW issue to me. Anyway to confirm this? It is not a very old drive and the filesystem is still readable, I suppose it could have developed some bad sectors.. Is there a way to flag them as bad without formating the

Re: Any suggestions for a MTA for a new admin?

2005-08-11 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Tom Norris wrote: Something else just occured to me. Am I going to need a separate pop3 daemon, or does postfix do that too? No, it doesn't (and shouldn't). popa3d, qpopper. Or maybe you need imap :-) --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org ma

Re: Any suggestions for a MTA for a new admin?

2005-08-11 Thread Mike Hernandez
On 8/11/05, Tom Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Something else just occured to me. Am I going to need a separate pop3 > daemon, or does postfix do that too? > > > Thanks again, > Tom Norris You'll need something else for pop/imap.. you might try courier or dovecot... Mike

Re: Any suggestions for a MTA for a new admin?

2005-08-11 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-08-11 18:00, Tom Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hexren wrote: I'll say exim *let the holly wars start* So, should I use vi, emacs, or pico to edit the config files ;) You missed nano, joe, jed and /usr/bin/ee. Not to mention vim :P

Re: wizard mode docs

2005-08-11 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2005-08-11 16:09, Randy Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey all, Is there any documentation on wizard mode? I'm just wondering what the scan function does. What is "wizard mode" supposed to be? A way to hack very old sendmail's. But probably not in

Re: Any suggestions for a MTA for a new admin?

2005-08-11 Thread Tom Norris
Something else just occured to me. Am I going to need a separate pop3 daemon, or does postfix do that too? Thanks again, Tom Norris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscr

Re: Any suggestions for a MTA for a new admin?

2005-08-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-08-11 18:00, Tom Norris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hexren wrote: > >I'll say exim *let the holly wars start* > > So, should I use vi, emacs, or pico to edit the config files ;) You missed nano, joe, jed and /usr/bin/ee. Not to mention vim :P

Re: wizard mode docs

2005-08-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-08-11 16:09, Randy Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all, > Is there any documentation on wizard mode? I'm just wondering what > the scan function does. What is "wizard mode" supposed to be? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Long Uptime

2005-08-11 Thread lars
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Missing patches?, Most people I know can apply patches with out rebooting > a FreeBSD. > FreeBSD-SA-05:19.ipsec FreeBSD-SA-05:17.devfs FreeBSD-SA-05:15.tcp FreeBSD-SA-05:13.ipfw FreeBSD-SA-05:09.htt [REVISED] FreeBSD-SA-05:08.kmem [REVISED] FreeBSD-SA-05:07.ldt FreeBSD-S

Re: Any suggestions for a MTA for a new admin?

2005-08-11 Thread Josh Hansen
Tom Norris wrote: > Hexren wrote: > > >>I'll say exim *let the holly wars start* > > > > So, should I use vi, emacs, or pico to edit the config files ;) > None, you should use Vim. :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: Any suggestions for a MTA for a new admin?

2005-08-11 Thread Tom Norris
Hexren wrote: I'll say exim *let the holly wars start* So, should I use vi, emacs, or pico to edit the config files ;) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send an

Re[2]: Any suggestions for a MTA for a new admin?

2005-08-11 Thread Hexren
> On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Tom Norris wrote: >> I have finally made the jump from paying people to host my websites to doing >> it myself (setting up apache, perl, php, postgresql, and all that fun >> stuff.) >> Now I want to migrate my e-mail addresses over to a FreeBSD 4.11 machine >> that >>

Re: Any suggestions for a MTA for a new admin?

2005-08-11 Thread Elliot Finley
Or Exim. I've heard good things about Postfix, but I don't think it has anything over Exim. - Original Message - From: "Laurence Sanford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tom Norris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 3:26 PM Subject: Re: Any suggestions for a MTA for a new

Re: Any suggestions for a MTA for a new admin?

2005-08-11 Thread Laurence Sanford
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Tom Norris wrote: I have finally made the jump from paying people to host my websites to doing it myself (setting up apache, perl, php, postgresql, and all that fun stuff.) Now I want to migrate my e-mail addresses over to a FreeBSD 4.11 machine that lives in a data cent

Any suggestions for a MTA for a new admin?

2005-08-11 Thread Tom Norris
I have finally made the jump from paying people to host my websites to doing it myself (setting up apache, perl, php, postgresql, and all that fun stuff.) Now I want to migrate my e-mail addresses over to a FreeBSD 4.11 machine that lives in a data center. Can any of you recommend a good MTA

Re: Problem with Seagate hdd

2005-08-11 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 01:14 PM 8/11/2005, Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, >>The problem is most likely the hard drive controller on your motherboard. I don't think so, 'cause I've installed winXP on it. My hdd has two partitions, one of them is WinXP. >>What motherboard do you have? http://www.biostar.com.tw/products/main

wizard mode docs

2005-08-11 Thread Randy Schultz
Hey all, Is there any documentation on wizard mode? I'm just wondering what the scan function does. -- Randy([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 715-726-2832 email bodhisattva <*> "There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent lik

Vs: Re: sorry for the idiot question, bu

2005-08-11 Thread juha . vaskisuo
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Re: Long Uptime

2005-08-11 Thread estover
> Dmitry Mityugov wrote: Apart from that, I must agree with Dave Horsfall - please provide an IP. >>> >>>Is there a critical patch that you believe those machines would need? >>>Anything more serious than a potential denial of service attack? > Yes, I recommend all patches. > DOS is enough

Re: Problem with Seagate hdd

2005-08-11 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Aug 11, 2005, at 2:14 PM, Efren Bravo wrote: >>What version of FreeBSD are you trying to install? 5.4-RC4-i386 get a more up to date version like 5.4 release Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider [EMAIL PROTECTED] _

Re: Long Uptime

2005-08-11 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 11 August 2005 12:09 pm, Matt Kosht wrote: > >On 8/11/05, Peter Giessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There are uptimes greater than 4 years listed here: > > http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html > > A Windows 2000 server with over 1000 days of uptime. Whoever hacked > it mu

Re: Newbie needs help setting up rackmount server

2005-08-11 Thread Maude User
Thank you for your quick answer! In the link you sent, there is a chapter about doing a "headless install" -- and my rackmount server is certainly "headless". My laptop is so new it doesn't appear to have a serial port, but I think I can get a USB-to-serial adapter for connecting the null modem

Re: freebsd utilization bandwidth statistics

2005-08-11 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 01:04 PM 8/11/2005, Noah wrote: Hi ther,e is there a Program out there that can be used to graphically show how much bandwidth is being used for specific applications or ports? ntop can do that, it's in ports. -Glenn thanks in advance, Noah __

Problem with Seagate hdd

2005-08-11 Thread Efren Bravo
When the installer start it raise this error: ata0-master: Failure - ATA-IDENTIFY timed out thanks... Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, >>The problem is most likely the hard drive controller on your motherboard. I don't think so, 'cause I've installed winXP on it. My hdd has two partitions, one of t

what is wrong for my ipfw? and how intruder can do it?

2005-08-11 Thread ann kok
Hi all I am using freebsd 4.11 as router and run ipfw I has ipfw rules to restrict ssh access from all interfaces eg: ipfw add 22 deny log tcp from any to x.x.x.x/32 22 The firewall rule is fine when testing from outside and can get info from /var/log/security Deny TCP x.x.x.x:20411 x.x.x.x:22

Re: Newbie needs help setting up rackmount server

2005-08-11 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Maude User wrote: Hello -- I recently installed FreeBSD 5.3 on my laptop and now I want to install it onto a rackmount server (hardware specs below). I hate to ask a silly question but here goes: Do I need to get a USB CD-ROM drive (and keyboard and monitor) for the server in order to install F

Newbie needs help setting up rackmount server

2005-08-11 Thread Maude User
Hello -- I recently installed FreeBSD 5.3 on my laptop and now I want to install it onto a rackmount server (hardware specs below). I hate to ask a silly question but here goes: Do I need to get a USB CD-ROM drive (and keyboard and monitor) for the server in order to install FreeBSD... or is the

Process debugging

2005-08-11 Thread Vinicius Pavanelli Vianna
Hi folks :) I have studying the accounting system on FreeBSD but have one question, is there a way to do active accounting on a process basis? like collecting live information about threads, memory, cpu usage, syscalls and other stuff to something like a rrd database so i can check what happened w

Problem with Seagate hdd

2005-08-11 Thread Efren Bravo
Hi, >>The problem is most likely the hard drive controller on your motherboard. I don't think so, 'cause I've installed winXP on it. My hdd has two partitions, one of them is WinXP. >>What motherboard do you have? http://www.biostar.com.tw/products/mainboard/board.php?name=U8668-D%20v7.x >>Ar

Re: How to use Bochs?

2005-08-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 12:43:16PM -0700, Glenn Dawson wrote: > At 07:53 AM 8/11/2005, Kenny wrote: > >I have installed Bochs successfully from ports. > >At first, I planned to install Windows in Bochs, but soon I found that > >Bochs needed to be configured before functioning properly. You should

freebsd utilization bandwidth statistics

2005-08-11 Thread Noah
Hi ther,e is there a Program out there that can be used to graphically show how much bandwidth is being used for specific applications or ports? thanks in advance, Noah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/

Re: Problem with Seagate hdd

2005-08-11 Thread lars
Efren Bravo wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to install freebsd in a pc with a seagate ST340014A (40Gb > Barracuda7200.7) hdd but the installer doesn't find the drivers. Yes, most HDDs don't need special drivers. FreeBSD can communicate with ATA drives with the standard kernel. > I've > checked http://ww

Re: Problem with Seagate hdd

2005-08-11 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 12:36 PM 8/11/2005, Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, I tried to install freebsd in a pc with a seagate ST340014A (40Gb Barracuda7200.7) hdd but the installer doesn't find the drivers. I've checked http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-i386.html#DISK but it doesn't have any seagate hdd refere

Re: Browser ?

2005-08-11 Thread nawcom
theres lots of solutions. i personally would just use plain ol mail with sendmail and fetchmail to manage the sending and retrieval. Björn König wrote: Carstea Catalin wrote: I don't want x server and kde but i want a good browser to downlod my email from mail box (gmail). Can u help me how

Re: How to use Bochs?

2005-08-11 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 07:53 AM 8/11/2005, Kenny wrote: I have installed Bochs successfully from ports. At first, I planned to install Windows in Bochs, but soon I found that Bochs needed to be configured before functioning properly. How to configure? I have no idea. I visited the homepage of Bochs just now, but wi

Problem with Seagate hdd

2005-08-11 Thread Efren Bravo
Hi, I tried to install freebsd in a pc with a seagate ST340014A (40Gb Barracuda7200.7) hdd but the installer doesn't find the drivers. I've checked http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-i386.html#DISK but it doesn't have any seagate hdd reference. Is it possible to install freebsd in

Re: Browser ?

2005-08-11 Thread Björn König
Carstea Catalin wrote: I don't want x server and kde but i want a good browser to downlod my email from mail box (gmail). Can u help me how ( ori what browser to use)? If you're looking for a text mode browser then try 'w3m' and 'links', but I would use an email program like 'mutt' for readin

Re: Need help with Pancho

2005-08-11 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 05:46 AM 8/11/2005, Phusion wrote: I've got some questions about pancho (tftp server). When I install it from the ports, how can I make it automatically start on boot? Normally with ports it puts a shell script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/. I tried to start it by doing the following with no success

Re: about VPN solution

2005-08-11 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 04:15 AM 8/11/2005, vladone wrote: IPSEC not work on Win98 systems, and is not a very apreciated solution! You can use mpd which is in ports (/usr/ports/net/mpd) to set up a PPTP server that will work with the windows VPN client. -Glenn ___ f

Re: Group size

2005-08-11 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 11), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > | > | I'm in troble here. Is there any limit to the size o each group > | in /etc/groups. I'm moving from a BSDI machine where I used to > | authenticate some services based on groups,

Re: Long Uptime

2005-08-11 Thread lars
Dmitry Mityugov wrote: >>>Apart from that, I must agree with Dave Horsfall - please provide an IP. >> >>Is there a critical patch that you believe those machines would need? >>Anything more serious than a potential denial of service attack? Yes, I recommend all patches. DOS is enough for me. > Ind

Re: Browser ?

2005-08-11 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-08-11 12:14, Carstea Catalin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't want x server and kde but i want a good browser to downlod my email > from mail box (gmail). Can u help me how ( ori what browser to use)? Gmail supports POP3 access, so you don't really need a browser to read and/or post em

Re: Realtek RTL8169 on FreeBSD 5.4: no carrier.

2005-08-11 Thread Julien Gabel
>>>I recently installed FreeBSD 5.4 on an ABIT AA-8 DuraMax and all went >>>well. All hardware detected properly and everything was running great, >>>until I got to configuring my network. ifconfig shows my onboard >>>gigabit LAN as "status: no carrier" >>> >>>I can successfully ping localhost an

Browser ?

2005-08-11 Thread Carstea Catalin
I don't want x server and kde but i want a good browser to downlod my email from mail box (gmail). Can u help me how ( ori what browser to use)? tks -- Carstea Catalin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

Re: Long Uptime

2005-08-11 Thread Matt Kosht
>On 8/11/05, Peter Giessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are uptimes greater than 4 years listed here: > http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html A Windows 2000 server with over 1000 days of uptime. Whoever hacked it must be doing a good job as sysadmin ;) ___

Re: two dc cards on 5.4

2005-08-11 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 11:07:45PM +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 07:47 pm, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 05:33:30PM -0700, Sean Murphy wrote: > > > Sean Murphy wrote: > > > >dave wrote: > > > >>Hi, > > > >>Thanks for your reply. I'll give that a shot. My

Re: Group size

2005-08-11 Thread scuba
Replying to myself as a followup, It seem that this thread is talking about the same problem, but there were no reply. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2003-May/000889.html - Marcelo Souza On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |Hi all, | | I'm in troble her

Re: Long Uptime

2005-08-11 Thread Peter Giessel
There are uptimes greater than 4 years listed here: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Long Uptime

2005-08-11 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 8/11/05, Bob Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/11/05, lars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Nice, I to have a machine that is not to far behind you, its been up for 1 > > year > > > and 4 months. > > > > > > I use it to show potential customers the power and

Re: Group size

2005-08-11 Thread Marcelo Souza
Hi, On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, nawcom wrote: |i know that all the system limits are defined in sys/syslimits.h. by |default, the max number of groups is 16(NGROUPS_MAX) , but i dont see |any variable declaring the max amount of users in a group. | |are you using some script to mass group users or somet

Re: Group size

2005-08-11 Thread scuba
Hi, It´s not the problem. I have two large groups, one of them have more then 500 users in it. It´s is used by a legacy radius software to authenticate the users. The poblem is that beyond some position in the group list the system doesn´t show the user in that group. i.e:

Re: Long Uptime

2005-08-11 Thread nawcom
hehe don't try and show off your uptime, im sure there are some people around here who will make it their lifetime goal to halt your server! :-P (that doesnt include me, im a nice guy) -Ben Bob Johnson wrote: On 8/11/05, lars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nic

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