date:20060427

Re: pxeboot looping

2006-04-27 Thread John Pettitt

Erik Nørgaard wrote:
 John Pettitt wrote:
   
 Help!

 I'm trying to set up a machine to boot using pxe and have run into an
 odd problem.

 The box (a Soekris 4510) load pxeboot via TFTP prints a few lines of
 text then reboots - the last text I see is:

 
 Building the boot loader arguments
 Relocating the loader and the BTX
 Starting the BTX loader
   
 There is no further net traffic after the last tftp packet.

 I'm stumped - I thought it might be a cpu issue (the Soekris is a 486
 clone) so I rebuilt pxeboot with -march=i486 and it didn't make any
 difference.
 

 Do you see the pxeboot actually gets fetched? Check the logs on your
 server. My immediate idea is that it doesn't get as far as fetching the
 pxeboot loader.

 Erik
   
It's fetching it - I just grabbed pxeboot from an iso image ant that one
gets a lot further so I suspect something in my build environment is not
right for the soekris box.  I'm still investigating.

John
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Re: When 5.5-stable?

2006-04-27 Thread Frank Bonnet


Kris Kennaway wrote:


Could you tell us the reasons of the delay ?


Uh, please read my email above.

Kris


Mmh sorry for bad understanding I wanted to know
reasons of the 6.1 delay not 5.5 ...

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Re: Perl: sort string alphabetically, or remove dupe chars?

2006-04-27 Thread Andrew Reitz



On Apr 26, 2006, at 12:34 AM, Nikolas Britton wrote:


On 4/25/06, Parv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[snip]

Thanks parv... I meant the algorithm was clunky, not the code... I'm
so new at this that I can't read your code, and I have a hard enough
time reading mine own :-).

I've got another simple problem now. How do I get this code to stop
printing everything on a newline, I'm not using \n in my print
statement so why does it do that and how do I get it to stop?

@wordlist1 = `sed /^$sedstring1\\\$/\\!d  enable2k_wordlist`;
foreach (@wordlist1) {
  $string = $_;
  $string =~ s/[$solvedletters1]//g;
  my @chars = split(, $string);
  $string = ; @chars = sort (@chars);
foreach (@chars) {
  $string .= $_;
}
  $string =~ tr///cs;
  print $string;
}


Hi Nikolas,

Most likely, your input has '\n' characters at the end of every line,  
and you aren't doing anything in perl to strip those away. Try adding  
a 'chomp($string);' line before you print.


-Andy Reitz.

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Re: When 5.5-stable?

2006-04-27 Thread Kris Kennaway

On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:30:20AM +0200, Frank Bonnet wrote:
 Kris Kennaway wrote:
 
 Could you tell us the reasons of the delay ?
 
 Uh, please read my email above.
 
 Kris
 
 Mmh sorry for bad understanding I wanted to know
 reasons of the 6.1 delay not 5.5 ...

Some minor bugs are still being worked on.

Kris


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Re: Bind as a chaching nameserver

2006-04-27 Thread Richard Collyer


Denis R. wrote:

http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/guarantee.html

Richard, besides simple you want a _secure_ caching name server. Yes, you
can type named_enable in rc.conf and be done with it, just don't forget
to periodically check the security updates web page for BIND exploits.


Thanks for the advice guys.

I've got named up and running and so far I think its caching the DNS 
requests (well its serving them OK).


I'm not really going to see the benefits of this on SpamAassassin till 
its database is full of requests is their anywhere (i.e. 
root-servers.net) that I can get a bind file which reduced this time period?


Cheers
Richard

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Re: Flash 7 and Firefox 1.5.0.2

2006-04-27 Thread Adi Pircalabu

First of all, make sure you have www/linuxpluginwrapper installed and
properly configured. That being said:

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 22:09:04 -0500
Jeff Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I also commented out all of the Flash 6 info in libmap.conf and
 uncommented the Flash 7 lines.  However, when visiting a web site that
 is Flash enabled, the browser crashes with:
 
 LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library
 /usr/X11R6/lib/linux-mozilla/plugins/nphelix.so [Shared object
 libm.so.6 not found, required by nphelix.so]

Update your libmap.conf for this one.

 /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/pluginwrapper/flash7.so:
 Undefined symbol _dlsym

Did you read the post-install message of www/linuxpluginwrapper? If
not, you must check /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper/pkg-message

 Any ideas?  I am afraid there is something else I am supposed to do.

The above would suffice at this time.
Please note that this was discussed many (I mean MANY) times, you can
search the archives

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GENERIC kernel for 6.0

2006-04-27 Thread Pirat SRIYOTHA


hi sirs,

i have just found that GENERIC kernel for 6.0 does not have isa and 
npx.  that resulted in ps/2 mouse can not be enable.


the machine is del inspiron-1100 and when using it's system software to 
test for ps/2 mouse, it is working properly.


would you please give me some hints on this problem ?

thanks in advance for your times.

with best regards,
psr

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Re: scripting languages...

2006-04-27 Thread Alex Zbyslaw


Gary Kline wrote:

	I am NOT trying to start any kind of flame debate, but would 
	like to know what real advantage perl has over the newer

so-called all-in-one language, ch.   (Other than the obvious
fact that there are literally billions of lines of perl existant.)
 

I don't  know ch from Adam so can't comment on that but really, the 
questions what are you trying to do?  Is this for a pet programming 
project?  For work?  Maintained just by you?  By others?  What's your 
programming experience?


Perl has the advantage that it is ubiquitous and has loads of library 
modules at CPAN.  There are reasonable(*) books about it and you should 
never be short of someone who can read perl if your software needs 
maintaining.  Perl has the disadvantage that it's a cobbled together, 
vile little language that teaches bad programming habits(**) and has the 
worst thread support ever.  I could go on with it's flaws, but as 
someone who has to program in it daily, suffice to say that I loathe 
it.  Perl is the new Basic.


There are plenty of more modern interpreted languages which have much 
better design (they *have* a design which is one up from Perl).  With 
the availability of rpms, ports, package systems, and downloadable 
binaries for Windows,  installing most of them should be easy-peasy.  
They'll encourage you to write better programs; most have a growing 
collection of library software and may even have decent documentation.  
My own fave would be python (www.python.org) and I suspect ruby of being 
worth a look but just never had the time.


Just my $2.00 (hey, it's a good opinion :-))

--Alex

(*) The so-called Camel book (Programming Perl from O'Reilly), at 
least in the edition I have, is the second worst programming book I have 
ever read.  Poorly organised, poorly indexed, missing details and full 
of poor examples.  Advanced Perl Programming, also O'Reilly, is much 
better but does assume you know the basics and isn't really a reference 
book.


(**) If you do start learning Perl, the this is my one piece of advice.  
Start every script and module with use strict.  It catches the worst 
mistakes that you might make and at least forces a small amount of 
decent programming on you.


(**) If you do start programming in Perl, then this is my other one 
piece of advice.  Start your scripts with /usr/bin/env perl -w which 
catches some of the other worst mistakes, but also whinges on about 
things that aren't actually a problem.  (OK, that has windows 
portability problems; tough; install Cygwin :-)).



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xhost does not work as expected

2006-04-27 Thread Frank Bonnet


Hello

I am at 6.0 with xorg and I cannot remotely use a GUI backup software ( 
netvault)
because I am not able to use properly the xhost command.

On the server I set ( csh ):

setenv DISPLAY hostname:0.0

On the client I set

xhost + hostname

but I am not authorized to use the client display from the server
is there some special X11R6 configuration to use this feature ?

thank you
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Re: postfix with OpenLDAP 2.3

2006-04-27 Thread Pierre-Francois LAURAND


Per olof Ljungmark wrote:


Hi,

When I try to install postfix from ports (postfix or postfix-current) 
with LDAP lookups I get:


[tw] /usr/ports/mail/postfix-current# make WITH_OPENLDAP_VER=2.3.21
===  postfix-2.3.20060418,2 is marked as broken: unknown OpenLDAP 
version: 2.3.21.

*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/mail/postfix-current.

I've got:
openldap-sasl-client-2.3.21
openldap-server-2.3.21

How can I make postfix build with this version of OpenLDAP? It wants 2.2...

Thanks


Have a try with WANT_OPENLDAP_VER=23 instead of WITH_OPENLDAP_VER=2.3.21


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Re: Updated 6.1 schedule?

2006-04-27 Thread usleepless

 
  However, the dates on the schedule page seem to be a little off
  now.   I was wondering if anyone had some idea of what the new
  dates might be... if there's no idea; then I will patiently wait.

 You guess is as good as mine. It could take a couple of months.

  I've got a few 4.10 machines that could do with an upgrade,
  and I don't think moving to 5.4 is the way to go...  So,
  I'm pending waiting on 6.1.

 There's no need to wait with that. I run 6.0 and 6.1 since BETA4 and I
 have not seen any problems. You can use CVS to updated your sources and
 compile your own version. See the manual on how to do this.

in my understanding upgrading from 4.x to 6.x needs to go through 5.x.
check the archives/website for it ( i did a clean install to upgrade
from 4.x to 6.x ).

maybe someone else can comment on it.

regards,

usleep

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Re: xhost does not work as expected

2006-04-27 Thread Olivier Nicole

Franck,

 I am at 6.0 with xorg and I cannot remotely use a GUI backup
 software ( netvault) because I am not able to use properly the xhost
 command.

It is not clear what you can client and what you call server, are you
talking about your backup software: the server is the machine with the
tape drive and the clientis the machine where you sit and look at your
GUI; or about X: the server is the machine where you sit and look at
your GUI and the client is the machine running netvault and having the
tape drive.

That said:

- can you run xterm on the netvault machine (m1) and display the window on
the machine with 6.0 xorg (m2)?

You need:

- on netvault machine (m1) to setenv DISPLAY m2:0.0

- on 6.0 xorg machine (m2) xhost + m1

- are you sure that no firewall are blocking X connection between the 2
  machines?

Bests,

Olivier

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Re: Dell vs. Silicon Mechanics vs. FreeBSD Systems

2006-04-27 Thread Scott Mitchell

On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 03:09:10PM -0500, Greg Barniskis wrote:
Questions wrote:
Anyone have any opinions about the quality and/or value of these
respective vendors?
[snip]

How does Dell fit into all of this? I haven't dealt with Dell in
years but when I have in the past, there didn't seem to be any major
issues. I'm looking at a Power Edge 1850 with the Embedded RAID
(ROMB) - PERC4e/Si Controller.

Folks' mileage with Dell really seems to vary, so I'd guess you're
going to get a broad range of responses on that question.

Our experience here is pretty consistent, over a long period of
time: Dell's low end consumer systems (e.g. Dimension models) tend
to be flaky, to the point where we simply won't buy them anymore,
while their high end business systems (e.g. Optiplex, PowerEdge)
tend to be pretty reliable, to the point where we'd need a pretty
compelling reason to change vendors.

I'll second this - the current lineup of PowerEdge servers seems to be
pretty solid, and Dell's business support (in the UK at least) is better
than most of the other vendors we deal with.

The only Dell kit I have FreeBSD on right now is a PE 1850, but that works
well, including the PERC4 RAID and DRAC4 remote management card. I believe
the serial redirection just works, although we're not using it. Haven't
really looked into the IPMI stuff yet - the DRAC sends emails when things
need attention, and that has been good enough so far. Pretty sure the serial
redirection is a BIOS thing, so you wouldn't need the DRAC for that.

Might be worth browsing through these threads:
http://groups.google.com/group/lucky.freebsd.stable/browse_thread/thread/92587efda750d805/edf2b1f207759ecc
http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.stable/browse_thread/thread/12c6b661644047e/622ef848879a940a

Someone else to consider if you're keen on Opterons is Sun - we have a
couple of quad-CPU v20z boxes running Linux, they're very nice machines.
The serial console redirection seems to stop working once the OS has booted,
but I believe you can work around this. I've not tried FreeBSD on these,
so you'd want to ask around and make sure everything works. I did read that
the onboard RAID controller is a bit useless (we're only using it to protect
against drive failures, rebuilds take _ages_ but performance seems OK
otherwise), but there's an add-in RAID card available if you need it.

Cheers,

Scott

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