sftp and escape characters

2005-10-20 Thread ross
Recently, I wanted to upload a file to my friend using sftp. The problem is that the file had a space in the file name and the standard escape character of \ didn't seem to work. Is there a way around this? Am I crazy and doing it wrong? for reference, the line I entered in the sftp prompt

Basic FreeBSD firewall and patching questions.

2005-10-20 Thread Daniel Pittman
G'day. I am quite new with supporting FreeBSD, although well experienced with Unix and Linux in general, so I hope these questions are not too silly. My first question is about firewalls: I have read the FreeBSD handbook and browsed the ports database, etc, to find out about firewalling. It

switching from layer 2 to layer 3 in C programming

2005-10-20 Thread Bsderss
Hi, I m in developing a network application (from layer 2 to 3). Can anyone tell me how to switch from layer 2 to layer 3 in C programming? Thanks Sam __ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

Re: sftp and escape characters

2005-10-20 Thread Daniel
On 10/20/05, ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently, I wanted to upload a file to my friend using sftp. The problem is that the file had a space in the file name and the standard escape character of \ didn't seem to work. Is there a way around this? Am I crazy and doing it wrong? for

Re: sftp and escape characters

2005-10-20 Thread ross
I tried that already and got the error Bad escaped character ' ' On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 00:21:39 -0700, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/20/05, ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently, I wanted to upload a file to my friend using sftp. The problem is that the file had a space in the file name

Printing quota ?

2005-10-20 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hello I'm searching for a free software that perform print accounting interface with CUPS welcome. Thank you Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

tun-1.1 missing file vnode_if.pl FreeBSD 5.4

2005-10-20 Thread Vincent Stipo
When I try to install tun-1.1 I get a perl error, I'm not sure what to do. Is there a package that includes vnode_if.pl? perl \@/kern/vnode_if.pl -h \@/kern/vnode_if.src Can't open perl script @/kern/vnode_if.pl: No such file or directory *** Error code 2 -- Vincent Stipo ___ [EMAIL

Re: Basic FreeBSD firewall and patching questions.

2005-10-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Daniel Pittman wrote: It looks to me like either ipf or ipfilter are equally good, and have about the same capabilities, as well as being provided as part of the base system. Is there any good, technical reason why I should prefer one to the other? ipfilter is simpler

FreeBSD 5.4 on a Sun Fire v40z

2005-10-20 Thread Matteo Quintiliani
Hi, yesterday I tried to install FreeBSD 5.4-amd64 on a Sun Fire v40z. Installation works fine, it finds any hardware and I'm able to configure any setting. The problem occurs when server is booting. I get a black screen and the server reboot automatically. Server has 4 processors AMD

Re: Printing quota ?

2005-10-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Frank Bonnet wrote: I'm searching for a free software that perform print accounting interface with CUPS welcome. You are entering into one of the most troublesome things in system administration. There are two problems: * Relyably determining who's printing * Relyably

Re: Printing quota ?

2005-10-20 Thread Olivier Nicole
LPRng calls the script with user information as command line options and the document on STDIN. The script determines the user from the command line option and counts pages in postscript documents by parsing STDIN. If the document doesn't look enough like postscript it is discarded.

Re: Printing quota ?

2005-10-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Olivier Nicole wrote: If the document doesn't look enough like postscript it is discarded. Windows users have a hard time getting it right. What I wrote will query the printer for page count before and afterthe job. We tried that also, however, then you have problems if

Re: Release 5.4 make buildworld results in segfault

2005-10-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 11:10:58PM -0400, Fred McCann wrote: What's strange about my issue is that buildworld always ends in an internal compiler error, but it's not always the same error. FAQ..your hardware is probably bad. Check RAM, CPU cooling, power supply, etc. Search the archives

Re: Basic FreeBSD firewall and patching questions.

2005-10-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Foo Ji-Haw wrote: Thanks for the brief breakdown on ipf and ipfilter. But what about ipfw? I like the 'auto-swap ruleset' feature, as well as account. Does ipfw do them as well? Thanks. No idea, never used it and I don´t plan to. I'm using pf now, it does what I need

Helix plugin with Firefox

2005-10-20 Thread Beecher Rintoul
I would like to get realplayer working in firefox, but it keeps crashing firefox on load. Launching realplay from the command line works fine. I have the latest firefox and linuxpluginwrapper installed and about:plugins in firefox correctly lists the helix plugin. In addition, /etc/libmap.conf

Re: Printing quota ?

2005-10-20 Thread Olivier Nicole
What I wrote will query the printer for page count before and afterthe job. We tried that also, however, then you have problems if printerjobs are cancelled halfway. For us it is OK to forget to count a job from time to time, as the filter queries the printer before and after, the next

Re: MiniDV over firewire howto

2005-10-20 Thread Igor Robul
Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi, I have just discovered that Canon MiniDV series have different names in US which may explain why I haven't got much response on my previous posts on this. I want to buy a camcorder and like the specs of Canon MiniDV's, I failed when trying MVX200 which is

Weird SSH problem... Any ideas?!?

2005-10-20 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi, Yesterday it has been brought to my attention that SSH access is not working well on my new server. The background: I have set-up a new server (FreeBSD 5.4-Release AMD/64) and I migrated the user accounts from my old server (FreeBSD 5.2.1-Release i386). Now, I was under the assumption

Re: Nagios Client on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-10-20 Thread Mike Woods
Deepak Naidu wrote: Hi, I wanted to install nagios client on FreeBSD 5.4. I want to monitor my SMTP (25) and disk usage etc to be monitored from Nagios server installed on Linux box. How do I do... In linux there is Nagios-Client.rpm. What is the alternative on FreeBSD I dont want the

Re: Weird SSH problem... Any ideas?!?

2005-10-20 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Olaf Greve wrote: Hi, Yesterday it has been brought to my attention that SSH access is not working well on my new server. The background: I have set-up a new server (FreeBSD 5.4-Release AMD/64) and I migrated the user accounts from my old server (FreeBSD 5.2.1-Release i386). Now, I was

Re: Weird SSH problem... Any ideas?!?

2005-10-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Olaf Greve wrote: Oct 20 11:39:40 milx sshd[48147]: Accepted keyboard-interactive/pam for abcdef from 123.45.67.89 port 35335 ssh2 Oct 20 11:39:40 milx sshd[48150]: fatal: login_get_lastlog: Cannot find account for uid 1234 Some things to try, in sshd_config set:

Need your help: Bad file descriptor and too many files open

2005-10-20 Thread Axel . Gruner
Hi, I get the following messages sometimes if i try to restart sshd: #etc/rc.d/sshd restart eval: Pipe call failed: Bad file descriptor eval: Pipe call failed: Bad file descriptor [...] #/etc/rc.d/sshd restart /etc/rc.subr: Pipe call failed: Too many open files in system I am running

Re: Nagios Client on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-10-20 Thread Deepak Naidu
Right Mike, this is what exactly I want. More details are I have LVS server in Linux, installed with Nagios. I have 5 spam servers and 5 IMAP and POP servers, from which 2 spam servers are FreeBSD 5.4. I have been monitoring them through Linux nagios, and running nrpe on clients. But now

Re: Nagios Client on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-10-20 Thread Mike Woods
Deepak Naidu wrote: If I want to monitor load, disk space, http etc service I have install entire nagios package or nagios-statsd, or plugins ? SMTP, http imap etc can all be monitored over the internet by the nagios box since the check plugins for those are tcp/ip based, things like disk

Stopping the logging to console from pf ?

2005-10-20 Thread kilim
Hello, I'd like to stop pf logging to the console. So I've read syslog.conf(5) syslogd(8) and then I tried my best with /etc/syslog.conf. By deleting one service after another: *.err;kern.warning;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console where I've just completely commented out any

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 on a Sun Fire v40z

2005-10-20 Thread Deepak Naidu
I have a running FreeBSD 5.4 installation on SunFire amd 64 v20 dual cpu I know its not same, but the scsi disk detected and is performing fine. Regarding the partition, I have noticed that if you partition /boot on seperate partition then the boot fails(this is comman for any intel or

Re: Stopping the logging to console from pf ?

2005-10-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, kilim wrote: Hello, I'd like to stop pf logging to the console. So I've read syslog.conf(5) syslogd(8) and then I tried my best with /etc/syslog.conf. By deleting one service after another: *.err;kern.warning;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console where I've

Re: Nagios Client on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-10-20 Thread Deepak Naidu
Thanx again Mike for detail explanation. Cheers, Deepak Naidu. Mike Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deepak Naidu wrote: If I want to monitor load, disk space, http etc service I have install entire nagios package or nagios-statsd, or plugins ? SMTP, http imap etc can all be monitored over

Multiple CPUs without SMP

2005-10-20 Thread Andrew P.
I'm kinda confused. Can I use both processors with a non-SMP kernel? I don't need SMP, I would settle on manually assigning CPU affinity to each processor, but I gather FreeBSD can only handle 2+ CPUs with SMP enabled. On a 5.4 box without SMP mptables show both CPUs though: ... MP Config Base

Re: Stopping the logging to console from pf ?

2005-10-20 Thread kilim
Hello Erik, and thanks for the fast reply ! On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:53:53PM +0200, Erik Norgaard wrote: On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, kilim wrote: I'd like to stop pf logging to the console. sniped have you tried to set this in rc.conf? pflog_enable=YES I've set this in /etc/rc.conf at

Re: Stopping the logging to console from pf ?

2005-10-20 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/20/05, kilim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Erik, and thanks for the fast reply ! On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:53:53PM +0200, Erik Norgaard wrote: On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, kilim wrote: I'd like to stop pf logging to the console. sniped have you tried to set this in rc.conf?

Re: Stopping the logging to console from pf ?

2005-10-20 Thread Glenn Dawson
At 04:18 AM 10/20/2005, kilim wrote: Hello Erik, and thanks for the fast reply ! On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:53:53PM +0200, Erik Norgaard wrote: On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, kilim wrote: I'd like to stop pf logging to the console. sniped have you tried to set this in rc.conf? pflog_enable=YES

Re: Printing quota ?

2005-10-20 Thread Lee Capps
At 09:46 Thu 20 Oct 2005, Frank Bonnet wrote: Hello I'm searching for a free software that perform print accounting interface with CUPS welcome. PyKota: http://www.librelogiciel.com/software/PyKota/action_Presentation -- Lee Capps Technology Specialist CTE Resource Center

Re: Basic FreeBSD firewall and patching questions.

2005-10-20 Thread Francisco Reyes
Daniel Pittman wrote: It looks to me like either ipf or ipfilter are equally good, and have about the same capabilities, While you are getting started and to test rules you could use /etc/hosts.allow also. You may already be familiar with it from other OSs.. We use to keep a list of what

Re: sftp and escape characters

2005-10-20 Thread Daniel
On 10/20/05, ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried that already and got the error Bad escaped character ' ' Can you past everything you entered, exactly as it appears? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Weird SSH problem... Any ideas?!?

2005-10-20 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi, Some things to try, in sshd_config set: PrintLastLog=no LogLevel=DEBUG Tnx a lot, this did the trick!!! I first tried it without the PrintLastLog no command, and with a proper AllowUsers line and that still didn't allow the login over SSH. Then, adding that PrintLastLog no line (and

Re: possible breakin attempt?

2005-10-20 Thread Francisco Reyes
dawnshade wrote: On Tuesday 18 October 2005 21:19, Anthony Philipp wrote: see man ssd_config for directive UseDNS or just block tcp/22 from not trusted hosts. Another helpfull thing to do is to limit what users can connect through SSH using the AllowUsers directive. In your

Re: Stopping the logging to console from pf ?

2005-10-20 Thread kilim
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 03:57:14PM +0400, Andrew P. wrote: Could you try stopping syslogd for a while - just to see if the messages are coming through it. /etc/rc.d/syslogd stop Thank you very much Andrew P. ! Once I stopped it, the messages kept on pouring to the console. So I had a look in

Re: Multiple CPUs without SMP

2005-10-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 20 October 2005 at 15:15:39 +0400, Andrew P. wrote: I'm kinda confused. Yes, that's possible. Can I use both processors with a non-SMP kernel? No. I don't need SMP, I would settle on manually assigning CPU affinity to each processor, but I gather FreeBSD can only handle 2+

Re: Weird SSH problem... Any ideas?!?

2005-10-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Olaf Greve wrote: I do notice something weird though, which I also noticed from a warning Amavisd-new has given me: for some reason unpriviliged users do not seem to see their login name, but rather only their UID, when performing a whoami call?!? Seems to be related

Re: Stopping the logging to console from pf ?

2005-10-20 Thread kilim
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 05:08:22AM -0700, Glenn Dawson wrote: snip You could set kern.consmute=1 using sysctl and see if that does the trick. Keep in mind that will also silence quite a few other things. Although my original problem was solved (see my reply to Andrew P. in the thread),

(bourne)shell variable names containing a variable?

2005-10-20 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Hello, I try to assign a value to a variable, but the variable should consist of another variable. Is this possible (in bourne shell)? Example: #!/bin/sh list=one two three four for item in $list; do ${item}_present=yes done This doesn't work since the shell tries to execute

Re: Weird SSH problem... Any ideas?!?

2005-10-20 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi, Well, it all seems to be a question of granting users access to the right file. Have you checked permissions on /etc/passwd and /etc/pwd.db ? These are both 644, owned by root:wheel. These should be world readable while /etc/master.passwd and /etc/spwd.db should not. These are both

Re: Helix plugin with Firefox

2005-10-20 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 06:43 pm, Beecher Rintoul wrote: I would like to get realplayer working in firefox, but it keeps crashing firefox on load. Launching realplay from the command line works fine. I have the latest firefox and linuxpluginwrapper installed and about:plugins in firefox correctly

Re: Weird SSH problem... Any ideas?!?

2005-10-20 Thread Erik Norgaard
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Olaf Greve wrote: Well, it all seems to be a question of granting users access to the right file. Have you checked permissions on /etc/passwd and /etc/pwd.db ? These are both 644, owned by root:wheel. These should be world readable while /etc/master.passwd and

Re: switching from layer 2 to layer 3 in C programming

2005-10-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
Bsderss wrote: I m in developing a network application (from layer 2 to 3). Can anyone tell me how to switch from layer 2 to layer 3 in C programming? I'm not sure what you mean by this, but a literal answer can be found in: /usr/include/net/if_arp.h ...and man 4 arp. -- -Chuck

Re: PPP setup through OS X

2005-10-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Live-Wire [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm going to be connecting my 5.4 box w/ no monitor to my network, but before I move it to the router area I want to make sure I'll be able to change the network configuration without lugging the box back to where I can plug it into a monitor. Is there a

Re: libdl.so.2 not found for java plugin

2005-10-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
N Deepak [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I am trying to get Java plug-in for Mozilla working. I have read the handbook and compiled/installed ports/java/linux-sun-jdk14/ I can execute /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2/bin/java. When I symlink libjavaplugin_oji.so from

Re: dovecot can not find mailbox

2005-10-20 Thread Peter A. Giessel
As Greg Lehey always writes: [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Also, please CC the list, I'm not an expert by any means, so others may be able to help when I can't and others may benefit from the discussion. Dave wrote: - Original Message - From: Peter

Re: Portupgrade problem

2005-10-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Craig Deal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lowell Gilbert How did you install ruby? That's the program (as opposed to portupgrade) that's trying to link to the wrong library, and the version

Re: (bourne)shell variable names containing a variable?

2005-10-20 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:47 pm, Emanuel Strobl wrote: #!/bin/sh list=one two three four for item in $list; do   ${item}_present=yes eval ${item}_present=yes done echo $one_present echo $two_present echo $three_present echo $four_present == yes yes yes yes Malcolm Kay

Re: Multiple CPUs without SMP

2005-10-20 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/20/05, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, 20 October 2005 at 15:15:39 +0400, Andrew P. wrote: I'm kinda confused. Yes, that's possible. Can I use both processors with a non-SMP kernel? No. I don't need SMP, I would settle on manually assigning CPU affinity

Re: FreeBSD 5.4 on a Sun Fire v40z

2005-10-20 Thread Matteo Quintiliani
On 20 Oct 2005, at 10:30, Matteo Quintiliani wrote: Hi, yesterday I tried to install FreeBSD 5.4-amd64 on a Sun Fire v40z. Installation works fine, it finds any hardware and I'm able to configure any setting. The problem occurs when server is booting. I get a black screen and the server

A simple ports question...

2005-10-20 Thread makisupa
How would you install a port that had dependencies that were older than identical items on your system? For example, you install portx that requires depend1.1 -- you have depend1.2 on your system. Running 'make install clean' will generate an error code stating that you have an OLDER version

Re: Weird SSH problem... Any ideas?!?

2005-10-20 Thread David Kirchner
On 10/20/05, Olaf Greve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Well, it all seems to be a question of granting users access to the right file. Have you checked permissions on /etc/passwd and /etc/pwd.db ? These are both 644, owned by root:wheel. These should be world readable while

RE: Portupgrade problem

2005-10-20 Thread Craig Deal
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lowell Gilbert Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 9:02 AM To: Craig Deal Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portupgrade problem Craig Deal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -Original

Re: [Fwd: Re: port config questions]

2005-10-20 Thread RW
On Thursday 20 October 2005 03:52, Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote RW thusly... The blue menu screens are a useful way of spotting new port options, and you lose that if you set BATCH. OPTIONS are right there in the Makefile. I have 470 ports installed, that's a lot of

FreeBSD UFS2 snapshots, and math ...

2005-10-20 Thread user
I am trying to budget some disk space for filesystems with snapshots enabled on them. The following is simplified - I am just trying to get my concepts in order: Let's say I have a filesystem, and on that filesystem I create a snapshot every single night, and every night I delete the snapshot

Re: Multiple CPUs without SMP

2005-10-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Thursday, 20 October 2005 at 18:06:29 +0400, Andrew P. wrote: On 10/20/05, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday, 20 October 2005 at 15:15:39 +0400, Andrew P. wrote: I don't need SMP, I would settle on manually assigning CPU affinity to each processor, but I gather

Re: A simple ports question...

2005-10-20 Thread RW
On Thursday 20 October 2005 15:25, makisupa wrote: How would you install a port that had dependencies that were older than identical items on your system? For example, you install portx that requires depend1.1 -- you have depend1.2 on your system. This will happen if you have an

Pam auth

2005-10-20 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hello all, My brother-in-law runs his own business, and his IT guy has recently left, leaving no passwords or anything. The entire network is a complete mickey mouse setup which I'm revamping properly for him. There is a single FBSD 5.2.1 box that I have been working on and the problem is this:

Re: Changing the region code of DVD-Drive

2005-10-20 Thread Thomas Linton
I could not compile regionset out of the box. I had to change line 37 in dvd_udf.c to FreeBSD instead of OpenBSD. zap... #if defined(__FreeBSD__) zap... The bad thing: regionset is not working; I get following output: kingkong# ./regionset ERROR: Could not open disc (null)! Please place

Re: Printing quota ?

2005-10-20 Thread Frank Bonnet
Erik Norgaard wrote: LPRng calls the script with user information as command line options and the document on STDIN. The script determines the user from the command line option and counts pages in postscript documents by parsing STDIN. If the document doesn't look enough like postscript it

How to remove a Hotplug Laptop CD/DVD Drive

2005-10-20 Thread Thomas Linton
What is the correct and safe way to remove a Hotplug CD/DVD Drive from a Laptop? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Nagios Client on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-10-20 Thread pete wright
On 10/20/05, Mike Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Deepak Naidu wrote: If I want to monitor load, disk space, http etc service I have install entire nagios package or nagios-statsd, or plugins ? SMTP, http imap etc can all be monitored over the internet by the nagios box since the check

Re: Portupgrade problem

2005-10-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Craig Deal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the best way to keep the system up-to-date if you use packages? The manual is fairly clear if you use ports, but things get kinda vague (for me anyway) when it comes to packages. I have successfully installed (from packages) a working system with

lnc0: Start of packet found before end of previous in transmit ring -- Resetting

2005-10-20 Thread Can Berk Guder
Hi everyone, I have an IBM PC Server 325 running FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE. I set this system up last year, and since the kernel didn't support the Ethernet card, I had to rebuild the kernel and include the lnc driver. Since then, everything seemed to be fine. Anyway, a few weeks ago I had to

Re: A simple ports question...

2005-10-20 Thread makisupa
Thanks for the reply... My ports tree is up to date -- i believe the problem (if you want to call it that) is that I installed gnome 2.12 from package at marcuscom (on a 6.0 RC1 system -- i needed 6.0 for some HW issues). I therefore have newer versions of certain files than many of the ports in

Re: FreeBSD UFS2 snapshots, and math ...

2005-10-20 Thread Doug Poland
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 11:01:42AM -0400, user wrote: Finally, are there any snapshot diag tools at all ? Like, something that reports snapshot sizes, percent of disk used for snapshots, and maybe even a way for me to actually calculate what the percent change for time period X is for a

Re: MiniDV over firewire howto

2005-10-20 Thread Mark Kane
Igor Robul wrote: Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi, I have just discovered that Canon MiniDV series have different names in US which may explain why I haven't got much response on my previous posts on this. I want to buy a camcorder and like the specs of Canon MiniDV's, I failed when trying

Re: Imap-uw and openssl certificate

2005-10-20 Thread Sean Murphy
Dick Hoogendijk wrote: On 19 Oct Frank Staals wrote: Don't be so certain about that. fstaals.net *is* a valid hostname, and its IP-address can easily be found via DNS, and it can be connected to. The MX-configuration of my domain is pointing to fstaals.net , to add an subdomain for my

Portversion question

2005-10-20 Thread Rem P Roberti
This continues to vex me. Portversion is indicating as out of date that which is apparently not out of date. For example, my current tree (done this morning) indicates that apsfilter 7.2.6 should be current. Pkg_info indicates that version as installed. Portversion indicates out of date.

Re: Portversion question

2005-10-20 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/20/05, Rem P Roberti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This continues to vex me. Portversion is indicating as out of date that which is apparently not out of date. For example, my current tree (done this morning) indicates that apsfilter 7.2.6 should be current. Pkg_info indicates that version

RE: Portversion question

2005-10-20 Thread Brian E. Conklin
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rem P Roberti Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 9:12 AM To: FreeBSD Subject: Portversion question This continues to vex me. Portversion is indicating as out of date that which is apparently

creating snapshot capable ufs2 filesystems _after the fact_

2005-10-20 Thread user
I was just looking at the man page for newfs, and the new -n option ... basically if you newfs with -n, a .snap directory is not created in the new filesystem, and thus that new filesystem will not support snapshots. Does this mean that if I simply `mkdir .snap` in the root of a filesystem that

Re: A simple ports question...

2005-10-20 Thread RW
On Thursday 20 October 2005 16:35, makisupa wrote: Thanks for the reply... My ports tree is up to date -- i believe the problem (if you want to call it that) is that I installed gnome 2.12 from package at marcuscom (on a 6.0 RC1 system -- i needed 6.0 for some HW issues). I therefore have

Re: creating snapshot capable ufs2 filesystems _after the fact_

2005-10-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 20), user said: I was just looking at the man page for newfs, and the new -n option ... basically if you newfs with -n, a .snap directory is not created in the new filesystem, and thus that new filesystem will not support snapshots. Does this mean that if I simply

Installing PHP5 in parallel with PHP4

2005-10-20 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! We have a webserver where www/php4-cgi port is currently installed. Now we want to add PHP5, but we have some web applications which are not compatible with PHP5, so initially we want to have a server with both PHP4 and PHP5 installed. So far I did the following: mkdir

Re: sftp and escape characters

2005-10-20 Thread ross
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 05:22:14 -0700, Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/20/05, ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried that already and got the error Bad escaped character ' ' Can you past everything you entered, exactly as it appears? my prompt copy and pasted. sftp put

Re: sftp and escape characters

2005-10-20 Thread Will Maier
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 10:01:45AM -0700, ross wrote: my prompt copy and pasted. sftp put /mnt/pammy/music/Nadasurf-\ Popular.mp3 /files/upload Bad escaped character ' ' sftp put '/mnt/pammy/music/Nadasurf-\ Popular.mp3' /files/upload Bad escaped character ' ' If you're putting the filename

freeBSD 6 server motherboard recommendation ??

2005-10-20 Thread ke.han
Dear List, Yes I know this is an often asked question and there is lots of info on the web. But I have been reading for 6 hours and my head is swimming and I'm still am not closer to an answer. I need to get a freeBSD 6 server in production in less than a week and don't have the skills to

Re: Nagios Client on FreeBSD 5.4

2005-10-20 Thread Mike Woods
pete wright wrote: You can also monitor disk load and activity via net-snmp. I use net-snmp to monitor large networks of heterogenous hardware and OS's (*BSD/Linux/IRIX/Solaris/etc..) along side nagios. Granted SNMP may not be a viable protocol to use on the public internet... Indeed,

Re: freeBSD 6 server motherboard recommendation ??

2005-10-20 Thread Peter A. Giessel
On 10/20/2005 09:29, ke.han seems to have typed: 1 - 2 x CPU (Pentium or Opteron is ok with me) If you are going to use AMD64, try here: http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html otherwise try here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-i386.html

natd redirect help

2005-10-20 Thread Efren Bravo
Hi, I've a freebsd5.4 with ipfw and natd. I need that external users can enter to my internal network services (http, ftp, etc). freebsd box: out interface: 200.x.x.x in interface: 10.x.x.x /etc/rc.conf file: -- gateway_enable=YES firewall_enable=YES

Re: FreeBSD UFS2 snapshots, and math ...

2005-10-20 Thread user
Doug, On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Doug Poland wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 11:01:42AM -0400, user wrote: Finally, are there any snapshot diag tools at all ? Like, something that reports snapshot sizes, percent of disk used for snapshots, and maybe even a way for me to actually calculate

Re: freeBSD 6 server motherboard recommendation ??

2005-10-20 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/20/05, ke.han [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear List, Yes I know this is an often asked question and there is lots of info on the web. But I have been reading for 6 hours and my head is swimming and I'm still am not closer to an answer. I need to get a freeBSD 6 server in production in

Re: FreeBSD UFS2 snapshots, and math ...

2005-10-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
user [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am trying to budget some disk space for filesystems with snapshots enabled on them. The following is simplified - I am just trying to get my concepts in order: Let's say I have a filesystem, and on that filesystem I create a snapshot every single night,

Re: FreeBSD UFS2 snapshots, and math ...

2005-10-20 Thread user
Hello, On 20 Oct 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote: user [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Let's say I have a filesystem, and on that filesystem I create a snapshot every single night, and every night I delete the snapshot from 5 nights ago. This means that at all times, I have four snapshots

panicking newbie with dj-plans

2005-10-20 Thread Linnea Forslund
Hello boys and girls! I was introduced to freeBSD some time ago by a friend who then became less of a friend since an argument we had shortly after he installed the os on my computer and got me started with it. Since then I've only used the computer for basic things like downloading music,

Re: panicking newbie with dj-plans

2005-10-20 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Thursday 20 October 2005 12:00, Linnea Forslund wrote: Hello boys and girls! I was introduced to freeBSD some time ago by a friend who then became less of a friend since an argument we had shortly after he installed the os on my computer and got me started with it. Since then I've only

Re: panicking newbie with dj-plans

2005-10-20 Thread albi
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:00:21 +0200 Linnea Forslund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And now I need to use it for amateur dj-ing on thursday. Panic! I dont even know how to move files really and wouldn't know how to work with an external harddrive with other people's music files on. And most

Re: FreeBSD UFS2 snapshots, and math ...

2005-10-20 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/20/05, user [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, On 20 Oct 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote: user [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Let's say I have a filesystem, and on that filesystem I create a snapshot every single night, and every night I delete the snapshot from 5 nights ago. This

Re: panicking newbie with dj-plans

2005-10-20 Thread albi
albi wrote: http://www.freshports.org/audio/mixxx/ says that the port for mixxx is temp. not usable ouch, excuse my ignorance.. the freshports.org info is perhaps outdated ? /usr/ports/audio/mixxx ] # make install = mixxx-1.4.2.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. =

removable usb media don't present devices to mount

2005-10-20 Thread Ryan Zeigler
I'm using FreeBSD 6.0-rc1, and I'm having trouble with removable usb memory drives. I plug the device in, and get this from dmesg: umass0: LEXAR MEDIA JUMPDRIVE2, rev 2.00/1.25, addr 2 There is no mention at all of /dev/da0, which is, as I understand it, the device that is traditionally

Having Some Trouble with Java on FreeBSD

2005-10-20 Thread Franklin E. Powers, Jr.
I've been having a small amount of trouble with running Java on FreeBSD (version 5.4 for amd64) and I was hoping that someone would be kind enough to help me out. I manually installed the linux version of Java. Which seemed to work alright and then I was trying to build the native version

RE: FreeBSD UFS2 snapshots, and math ...

2005-10-20 Thread Gayn Winters
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew P. Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 12:35 PM To: user Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD UFS2 snapshots, and math ... Imagine that each data block is marked with labels

Re: removable usb media don't present devices to mount

2005-10-20 Thread Rem P Roberti
Ryan Zeigler wrote: I'm using FreeBSD 6.0-rc1, and I'm having trouble with removable usb memory drives. I plug the device in, and get this from dmesg: umass0: LEXAR MEDIA JUMPDRIVE2, rev 2.00/1.25, addr 2 There is no mention at all of /dev/da0, which is, as I understand it, the device that

RE: FreeBSD UFS2 snapshots, and math ... - resolved, but two more Qs

2005-10-20 Thread user
Folks, On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Gayn Winters wrote: Imagine that each data block is marked with labels on change. It doesn't matter how many labels there are, there will be only one data block saved. In trying to follow this thread, I started looking around for a precise definition of

Re: bzegrep behaviour not consistent with egrep?

2005-10-20 Thread Jung-uk Kim
On Thursday 20 October 2005 04:57 pm, Parv wrote: in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote James Long thusly... Should these two commands produce identical output? $ bzegrep 38436|41640 /var/log/maillog.0.bz2 | wc -l 0 $ bzcat /var/log/maillog.0.bz2 | egrep 38436|41640 | wc -l

RE: FreeBSD UFS2 snapshots, and math ... - resolved, but two more Qs

2005-10-20 Thread Gayn Winters
-Original Message- From: user [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 1:51 PM To: Gayn Winters Cc: 'Andrew P.'; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD UFS2 snapshots, and math ... - resolved, but two more Qs Folks, On Thu, 20 Oct 2005,

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