Re: Restricting root access to ldap

2006-05-12 Thread futhwo
man slapd.access Hi Ivan On May 11, 2006, at 11:12 PM, Erik Nørgaard wrote: Hi: How do I restrict root/administrative access to my ldap (openldap 2.3) directory? I want to allow root connection only from localhost or a list of authorized hosts, while allowing other users to connect from

Issue setting SSID

2006-05-12 Thread Adrian Pavone
I'm not sure on the etiquette of reposting, however, this post is now 23 pages down my screen, so I doubt anyone would see the original. This possibly means no-one knows, but if that is the case, would anyone be able to point me in the right direction for people that possibly do?

Re: Issue setting SSID

2006-05-12 Thread Fabian Keil
Adrian Pavone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure on the etiquette of reposting, however, this post is now 23 pages down my screen, so I doubt anyone would see the original. This possibly means no-one knows, but if that is the case, would anyone be able to point me in the right direction

pcre and pcre-utf8 incompatibility

2006-05-12 Thread Peter
I am having trouble upgrading my ports because my 5.4 system wants to install both pcre and pcre-utf8 but the ports themselves complain when they see the other installed. I normally build the pcre port with UTF8 support (using pkgtools.conf) but for some reason my last upgrade is presenting me

Re: have devfs but no /dev/fd0

2006-05-12 Thread Björn König
Paul Berner schrieb: dmesg says: fdc0: floppy drive controller (FDE) port ...etc. so I guess the boot probe found by floppy hardware. Probably you didn't quote the relevant lines. Please show the complete /var/run/dmesg.boot. Björn ___

Re: 1 cpu + 2 monitors + 2 keybord/mouse is it possible

2006-05-12 Thread Jim Stapleton
I know someone did it in linux for a booth at the mall for his company within the last year and a half, but I don't know the info. He had something like 4 consoles per machine. I'll ask, you'll find a response on this link, if one comes:

Estimated EoL for 6.1-Release

2006-05-12 Thread Kenneth Bond
Hello, As per the security advisories page on the FreeBSD website, the 6.1 release is to be supported by the security officer for a period of 24 months, yet it is listed as a Normal release, indicating a 12 month security support period. Is this correct? Branch Release TypeRelease

Bittorrent link for 6.1 does not work

2006-05-12 Thread Siju George
Hi, I am not subscribed to the list. The Bittorrent Link on http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/announce.html doesnot seem to work :-( Bittorrent The FreeBSD project encourages the use of BitTorrent for distributing the release ISO images. A collection of torrent files to download the

Re: Estimated EoL for 6.1-Release

2006-05-12 Thread Colin Percival
Kenneth Bond wrote: As per the security advisories page on the FreeBSD website, the 6.1 release is to be supported by the security officer for a period of 24 months, yet it is listed as a Normal release Oops. indicating a 12 month security support period. Is this correct? Branch

Re: when 5.5

2006-05-12 Thread Chris
On 11/05/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:26:04PM +0100, Jeff Rollin wrote: Are maintenance releases of old branches always released in step with new ones, or is it just coincidence that it's happening this way this time? It was deliberate this time to

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-12 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:12:28AM +0100, Barnaby Scott wrote: Thanks for your reply. It didn't occur to me to look at the next line - I thought it must still be doing the Configuring syscons thing! Anyway, the next line is: Initial i386 initialization:. Armed with this knowledge, I

Re: 1 cpu + 2 monitors + 2 keybord/mouse is it possible

2006-05-12 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Andy Greenwood wrote: Seems like the easiest thing to do would be to either get some serial consoles (or serial console emulators) or provide ssh access to the box. I was actually thinking of using X.Org. You should be able to get a config files that drives more than one monitor (wether on a

Re: Advice on RAID?

2006-05-12 Thread Martin Hepworth
Depends on how write heavy the filesystem will be, if it's write heavy then you may find a RAID 5 with 3 disks sucks (esp for a database). On 5/11/06, Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have looked into and tried FreeBSD 6.0 Vinum and GEOM RAID in our PIII SCSI 80-pin server with

Re: Bittorrent link for 6.1 does not work

2006-05-12 Thread Siju George
On 5/12/06, Scott Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 05:48:30PM +0530, Siju George wrote: Hi, I am not subscribed to the list. The Bittorrent Link on http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/announce.html doesnot seem to work :-( Working fine here (I've downloaded

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Barnaby Scott wrote: Parv wrote: ... and then stops! I have timed it - it stops for between 4 and 5 minutes every time. Does your screen goes blank just after the above message? If so, press [Enter] key, you should see the boot being continued, and login: waiting for input at the end. No

Re: when 5.5

2006-05-12 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:56:43PM +0100, Chris wrote: On 11/05/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:26:04PM +0100, Jeff Rollin wrote: Are maintenance releases of old branches always released in step with new ones, or is it just coincidence that it's

Re: dueling ports: pcre and pcre-utf8

2006-05-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am having trouble upgrading my ports because my 5.4 system wants to install both pcre and pcre-utf8 but the ports themselves complain when they see the other installed. How do I get around this dilemma? Convince the ports to use the same one.

Re: Fatal Trap 10: trace trap while in vm86 mode, trying to boot install CD after menu

2006-05-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Peter G [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: trying to install 6.1 on a bunch of blade servers, P4 3.06Ghz w/ 2GB RAM SEARCHED THRU ALL THE ARCHIVES AND MAIL LISTS for ANY similar happenings and there are NO valuable clues.. Tried installing Fbsd 6.1, 6.0 and even a hard drive that had 5.4

6.1-STABLE : make installworld fails

2006-05-12 Thread Axel Burwitz
Hi, well, need some help... I have just upgraded my system from 6.1-PRERELEASE to 6.1-STABLE, with cvsup, make buildworld, make buildkernel, make installkernel. The upgrade for the basic system went through, it shows 6.1-STABLE version, and the fresh kernel version works, but: when I (in

Re: New folder permissions

2006-05-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Derrick Ryalls [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am having issues getting correct permissions set for files in a common area on a web/file server. I have webroot shared out via samba and under there I have an auto-thumbnail generation script that creates thumbnails in somefolder/.cache where

Re: Bittorrent link for 6.1 does not work

2006-05-12 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 05:48:30PM +0530, Siju George wrote: Hi, I am not subscribed to the list. The Bittorrent Link on http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/announce.html doesnot seem to work :-( Working fine here (I've downloaded 6.1 over BT twice now). How is it not working for

Changing from 6.0 to 6.1 -'.' to end pause mode

2006-05-12 Thread Howard Jones
I've been experimenting with PXE-driven installations in preparation for the arrival of a pile of new servers, and I had a mostly-working setup for FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE when 6.1 was announced this week. I've upgraded to 6.1 on my build system, and have it serving install data and an mfsroot

Upgrading

2006-05-12 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I have had complete success with upgrading 6.0 to 6.1rc1 and finally, 6.1 RELEASE. Sorry about asking a question that I am sure has been asked once befor Can I upgrade a 4.4, 4.7, 4.10, 5.2.1 boxes the same way using CVSup i.e directly from one of those to 6.1R? TIA, -Grant

gmirror and partitioning

2006-05-12 Thread User Gandalf
Hello! I would like to install a new FreeBSD 6.1 system on a computer that has two SATA drives. They are the same type. I would like to use gmirror. I read the handbook here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/geom-mirror.html But there is something I do not

RE: Upgrading

2006-05-12 Thread Zimmerman, Eric
Can I upgrade a 4.4, 4.7, 4.10, 5.2.1 boxes the same way using CVSup i.e directly from one of those to 6.1R? TIA, -Grant P.S. I keep complete backups ... Pretty sure you need to get to at least 5.3 before jumping to 6.x ___

Re: 1 cpu + 2 monitors + 2 keybord/mouse is it possible

2006-05-12 Thread Bakki Kudva
How about using x-terminals on a network? I remember seeing them in the surplus market for $15 recently. After all X is designed to be a network gui. -bakki On 5/12/06, Andrea Venturoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy Greenwood wrote: Seems like the easiest thing to do would be to either get

Re: 1 cpu + 2 monitors + 2 keybord/mouse is it possible

2006-05-12 Thread Igor Robul
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:35:43AM -0400, Bakki Kudva wrote: How about using x-terminals on a network? I remember seeing them in the surplus market for $15 recently. After all X is designed to be a network gui. X-Terminals may 1) Not work good with non-English languages 2) Have bad (80 Hz)

fsck way too slow

2006-05-12 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I've got a i386/6.1 box with only one big root partition. The problem is that, whenever the machine is not properly shutdown, fsck on boot takes eons. First of all: I believe that fsck should run in background, but it doesn't. How can I tell why? Then, back to the heart of the

Re: Upgrading

2006-05-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I have had complete success with upgrading 6.0 to 6.1rc1 and finally, 6.1 RELEASE. Sorry about asking a question that I am sure has been asked once befor Can I upgrade a 4.4, 4.7, 4.10, 5.2.1 boxes the same way using CVSup i.e directly from one of those to

Trimming Whitespace From Beginning and end of Text Lines

2006-05-12 Thread Martin McCormick
This looks like something sed should be able to do, but I haven't had any luck at all. I wanted to remove any whitespace that has accidentally gotten added to the beginning or end of some lines of text. I made a test file that looks like: left justified.

Jed Tab Problems

2006-05-12 Thread Tom Grove
I updated my system to 6.1 and portupgraded all of my packages. Most things went well but now when I open old files with Jed my tabs are displayed as ^I. Does anyone know how to fix this? -Tom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: fsck way too slow

2006-05-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello. I've got a i386/6.1 box with only one big root partition. The problem is that, whenever the machine is not properly shutdown, fsck on boot takes eons. That is one of the reasons for not making the whole system one big root partition. It will not finish booting until root is

Re: fsck way too slow

2006-05-12 Thread Bill Moran
Andrea Venturoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I've got a i386/6.1 box with only one big root partition. The problem is that, whenever the machine is not properly shutdown, fsck on boot takes eons. First of all: I believe that fsck should run in background, but it doesn't. How can I

Re: Trimming Whitespace From Beginning and end of Text Lines

2006-05-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-05-12 09:50, Martin McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks like something sed should be able to do, but I haven't had any luck at all. I wanted to remove any whitespace that has accidentally gotten added to the beginning or end of some lines of text. I made a test file

Re: 1 cpu + 2 monitors + 2 keybord/mouse is it possible

2006-05-12 Thread jad
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/05/2006 11:23:53: Hi, Is it possible to attach two monitors, 2keybord and 2 mouse to one PC, by just buying some card that will connect with a PC. I just want to know if it is possible for me to just buy 1 more monitor, a mouse and a keyboard so that two

Re: fsck way too slow

2006-05-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
Andrea Venturoli wrote: Then, back to the heart of the problem, why does it take so long? It's a 9GB SCSI disk and it should be quite fast, although a bit old; it's speed is for sure enough for day to day work. Back in the 5.x times fsck used to last definitely less than 5 minutes. After I

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-12 Thread Barnaby Scott
Daniel Bye wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:12:28AM +0100, Barnaby Scott wrote: Thanks for your reply. It didn't occur to me to look at the next line - I thought it must still be doing the Configuring syscons thing! Anyway, the next line is: Initial i386 initialization:. Armed with this

Re: fsck way too slow

2006-05-12 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:58:23AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: Andrea Venturoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. I've got a i386/6.1 box with only one big root partition. The problem is that, whenever the machine is not properly shutdown, fsck on boot takes eons. First of all: I

RE: gmirror and partitioning

2006-05-12 Thread Gayn Winters
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of User Gandalf Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 7:26 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: gmirror and partitioning Hello! I would like to install a new FreeBSD 6.1 system on a computer that has two SATA drives.

Re: Trimming Whitespace From Beginning and end of Text Lines

2006-05-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: This fails to remove multiple occurences of the [[:space:]] class. There are at least the following ways: sed -i -e 's/^[[:space:]]*' -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//' file ... perl -pi -e 's/^\s*(\S.*\S)[ \t]*$/$1/' file ... The first one seems more

Re: Trimming Whitespace From Beginning and end of Text Lines

2006-05-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-05-12 11:27, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: This fails to remove multiple occurences of the [[:space:]] class. There are at least the following ways: sed -i -e 's/^[[:space:]]*' -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//' file ... perl -pi -e 's/^\s*(\S.*\S)[

Re: Fatal Trap 10: trace trap while in vm86 mode, trying to boot install CD after menu

2006-05-12 Thread Peter G
Thanx for your prompt reply When i try safe mode or any mode... The same effect in ANY mode. i am about to try setting the following at the loader prompt from the boot menu set hw.ata.ata_dma=0 and seeing if thsi helps I do know also taht these blades have a Serverworks chipset and i looked at

Re: fsck way too slow

2006-05-12 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Bill Moran wrote: First of all: I believe that fsck should run in background, but it doesn't. How can I tell why? From my desktop: mount /dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local) devfs on /dev (devfs, local) Note that / does not have soft-updates, which I believe is the default. AFAIR, fsck can not do

Re: fsck way too slow

2006-05-12 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Daniel Bye wrote: So, as jerry said, it's a Bad Idea to have just one partition, for many reasons, this being among them. Ok, I know that. Still this wasn't the point of my request. I've been answered the first questions, but I'm still wondering on the second one... bye Thanks

FreeBSD HA

2006-05-12 Thread Vampire D
I am looking for a solution like linux DRBD for mySQL fail over. It seems most of the solutions for FreeBSD are weak or extremely experimental. Are there any solutions such as DRBD for FreeBSD that can offer more functionality than mySQL replication does? -- Do the actors on Unsolved Mysteries

RE: Trimming Whitespace From Beginning and end of Text Lines

2006-05-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net
sed -i -e 's/^[[:space:]]*' -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//' file ... why not use just (you can change the - separator to / as above): sed -e 's-^ *--g' -e 's- *$--g' usage examples: - cat file| sed ... file1 - echo $variable| sed ... |grep xy - if [ `echo $xy|sed ...` = blabla bla ]; then ...

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Barnaby Scott wrote: The fact that the operating system knows what the machine is called, does not necessarily mean that the name is in the DNS. You can put an entry in your /etc/hosts file (take a look at the file for the format), which will allow sendmail and other daemons to start. OK, I

Re: gmirror and partitioning

2006-05-12 Thread Nagy László Zsolt
Laszlo, You're making gmirror way too difficult. In short, install FreeBSD with however many partitions you want, then install gmirror and replicate your disk to the second disk. The standard howto documents are: http://dannyman.toldme.com/2005/01/24/freebsd-howto-gmirror-system/

Re: Trimming Whitespace From Beginning and end of Text Lines

2006-05-12 Thread Martin McCormick
Chuck Swiger quotes and writes: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: This fails to remove multiple occurences of the [[:space:]] class. There are at least the following ways: sed -i -e 's/^[[:space:]]*' -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//' file ... That did it! As soon as I saw the *, I knew what I was

Re: ftp install / base not found

2006-05-12 Thread Mike Hunter
On May 11 at 17:06, Andy Reitz wrote: On Thu, 11 May 2006, Johan Nilsson wrote: But can you do a ftp-install from an archived version? If, how? Johan, While I have never tried this, sysinstall appears to support entering non-standard FTP URLs. After you choose the FTP

Re: Trimming Whitespace From Beginning and end of Text Lines

2006-05-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-05-12 11:27, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is, and I wish to acknowledge the above are entirely valid solutions to the problem, but... python -c 'import sys; print sys.stdin.read().strip()' file... ...has the advantage of being human readable.

Reducing the size of /

2006-05-12 Thread bsd
Hello, I have three partitions on my server and would like to reduce the size of / because I am getting quite full ! Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ar0s1a3.8G2.8G668M81%/ devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/dev /dev/ar0s1d 60G

Re: 1 cpu + 2 monitors + 2 keybord/mouse is it possible

2006-05-12 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Friday, 12 May 2006 at 18:44:01 +0400, Igor Robul wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:35:43AM -0400, Bakki Kudva wrote: How about using x-terminals on a network? I remember seeing them in the surplus market for $15 recently. After all X is designed to be a network gui. X-Terminals may 1)

Re: fsck way too slow

2006-05-12 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 05:46:57PM +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Daniel Bye wrote: So, as jerry said, it's a Bad Idea to have just one partition, for many reasons, this being among them. Ok, I know that. Still this wasn't the point of my request. I've been answered the first

Re: Reducing the size of /

2006-05-12 Thread Bill Moran
bsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have three partitions on my server and would like to reduce the size of / because I am getting quite full ! Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ar0s1a3.8G2.8G668M81%/ devfs 1.0K1.0K

Re: fsck way too slow

2006-05-12 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Chuck Swiger wrote: OK, I agree that this doesn't sound like a hardware problem with the drive now that you've tested it, but it was at least worth looking at. Ok, thanks for pointing it out, anyway :) Just to clarify: running fsck / (read-only) in multiuser mode takes less than a minute.

Re: Reducing the size of /

2006-05-12 Thread bsd
Hi again, Most of the files that are large seems to be located in /usr/ports/ distfiles/ What will be the effect of deleting some of these files ? root:abcdef 18:14 ~ # find -x / -size +1 -print /boot/kernel/kernel /boot/kernel.old/kernel /root/tmp/dcc.tgz

Re: fsck way too slow

2006-05-12 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Daniel Bye wrote: Yeah, I realise that. I'm afraid I don't know why fsck should take so long on your disk. Chuck suggested some things you might try, though. Yeah, sorry, my fault. I intended to answer on the ml, but instead I mailed him privately. It sounds to me like it might be

Pros and Cons of running under inetd....

2006-05-12 Thread Eric Schuele
Hello, I run sshd and ftpd on my laptop. I generally start them via: sshd_enable=YES ftpd_enable=YES in my rc.conf. What are the pros/cons of running them via inetd? This is in no way a high load or production machine. Just my laptop that I need access to from time to time. The one pro

Re: fsck way too slow

2006-05-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
Andrea Venturoli wrote: Just to clarify: running fsck / (read-only) in multiuser mode takes less than a minute. fsck at boot takes approx. 50 times that long! ...and yes, that difference is not reasonable. Are you using bgfsck or not...? Hm, what do you mean? I'd gladly let my system fsck

Re: Reducing the size of /

2006-05-12 Thread John Nielsen
On Friday 12 May 2006 12:28, bsd wrote: Hi again, Most of the files that are large seems to be located in /usr/ports/ distfiles/ What will be the effect of deleting some of these files ? You will have to download them again if you rebuild / reinstall the packages that use them. Of course,

Upgrading 6.0 to 6.1 with etcmerge

2006-05-12 Thread Ashley Moran
I've got a few 6.0-RELEASE machines I want to bring up to date. I want to use etcmerge because mergemaster scares the bejesus out of me. I can create a copy of the standard 6.0-REL /etc using mergemaster, and copying /var/tmp/temproot/src to /var/db/src, that's no problem But I notice

Re: Trimming Whitespace From Beginning and end of Text Lines

2006-05-12 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: There are at least the following ways: sed -i -e 's/^[[:space:]]*' -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//' file ... perl -pi -e 's/^\s*(\S.*\S)[ \t]*$/$1/' file ... The first one seems more straightforward to me most of the time, but there are

makeworld FAILURE on 5.4-STABLE

2006-05-12 Thread Kyrre Nygard
Hello ... When doing makeworld, and this is my exact procedure: cvsup -g -L 2 /etc/cvsupfile cd /usr/obj chflags -R noschg rm -rf * cd /usr/src make clean make buildworld (this is where it fails) make buildkernel KERNCONF=NINJA make installkernel KERNCONF=NINJA make installworld mergemaster

Re: Reducing the size of /

2006-05-12 Thread Bill Moran
bsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi again, Most of the files that are large seems to be located in /usr/ports/ distfiles/ What will be the effect of deleting some of these files ? If you reinstall those ports, you'll have to download the files again. Unless you have very limited Internet

Re: Reducing the size of /

2006-05-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
bsd wrote: Hi again, Most of the files that are large seems to be located in /usr/ports/distfiles/ What will be the effect of deleting some of these files ? If you need/want to rebuild the ports for the distfiles, they will have to be downloaded again. Many of them may be for outdated

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-12 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Barnaby Scott wrote: Parv wrote: ... and then stops! I have timed it - it stops for between 4 and 5 minutes every time. Does your screen goes blank just after the above message? If so, press [Enter] key, you should see the boot being continued, and login: waiting for

Re: ftp install / base not found

2006-05-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Mike Hunter wrote: I was able to install 5.3-RELEASE using this as the specified URL: ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/5.3-RELEASE Good to know that! This one goes in the save folder! What bothers me is this verbiage from sysinstall: Only the Primary

Re: pam_userdb.so: Where is it?

2006-05-12 Thread Kyrre Nygard
At 18:36 10.05.2006, N.J. Thomas wrote: * Kyrre Nygard [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-05-10 18:18:23 +0200]: Does anybody know where pam_userdb.so has gone? FreeBSD doesn't appear to have ever had it, so it hasn't gone anywhere. The thread you linked to below suggests exactly that. You

Re: Reducing the size of /

2006-05-12 Thread Martin Tournoy
the /usr/ports/distfiles dir are the source files you downloaded while installing ports. You can safly empty the whole directory You can delete /boot/kernel.old if the new kernel is working /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/src-all/checkouts.cvs can be safly deleted /usr/ports/INDEX-5 can be deleted,

Re: Trimming Whitespace From Beginning and end of Text Lines

2006-05-12 Thread Kyrre Nygard
At 16:50 12.05.2006, Martin McCormick wrote: This looks like something sed should be able to do, but I haven't had any luck at all. I wanted to remove any whitespace that has accidentally gotten added to the beginning or end of some lines of text. I made a test file that looks like:

Reducing the size of /

2006-05-12 Thread Robert Huff
bsd writes: I have three partitions on my server and would like to reduce the size of / because I am getting quite full ! Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ar0s1a3.8G2.8G668M81%/ devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/dev

Re: Trimming Whitespace From Beginning and end of Text Lines

2006-05-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-05-12 17:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED]@mgEDV.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sed -i -e 's/^[[:space:]]*' -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//' file ... why not use just (you can change the - separator to / as above): sed -e 's-^ *--g' -e 's- *$--g' Because this provides no additional help with the problem

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2006-05-12 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ 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

2006-05-12 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: Trimming Whitespace From Beginning and end of Text Lines

2006-05-12 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-05-12 10:41, Warren Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 12 May 2006, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: There are at least the following ways: sed -i -e 's/^[[:space:]]*' -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//' file ... perl -pi -e 's/^\s*(\S.*\S)[ \t]*$/$1/' file ... The first one seems more

Re: Promise SATA controller / Maxtor drive problems

2006-05-12 Thread DAve
Øyvind Skaar wrote: The drive in question is a Maxtor 6B200M0. These were Maxtor 6Y080M0 and 6Y160MO drives. Running under onboard SATA or Highpoint Rocket Raid cards snip The Maxtor drives were problematic for us from the start, and not even heavy enough to make good door stops. So your

hello

2006-05-12 Thread justin
I `ve got a question about installing the php5 module. I`m installing it from the /usr/ports/www/php5-session port. Everything runs ok and it seems like the module is installed. There is only one problem, in the httpd.conf there is a LoadModule php5_module refering to

Upgrading from 6.0 to 6.1

2006-05-12 Thread jeff . cross
This has possibly been discussed a number of times, and if it has, I apologize. Here is my situation: I would like to upgrade my existing 6.0-SECURITY system to 6.1-RELEASE and continue using freebsd-update to keep my system on the up and up. I read through the upgrade instructions on

Re: Pros and Cons of running under inetd....

2006-05-12 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:35:41AM -0500, Eric Schuele wrote: Hello, I run sshd and ftpd on my laptop. I generally start them via: sshd_enable=YES ftpd_enable=YES in my rc.conf. What are the pros/cons of running them via inetd? This is in no way a high load or production machine.

using rc scripts

2006-05-12 Thread Atom Powers
I wrote an rc script for cfengine, but it's not recording the pid. Am I doing something obviously wrong, or does rc rely on the app to provide the pid? -- #!/bin/sh # # PROVIDE: cfexecd # REQUIRE: LOGIN # BEFORE: securelevel # KEYWORD: FreeBSD shutdown . /etc/rc.subr name=cfexecd

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-12 Thread Daniel Bye
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 04:21:09PM +0100, Barnaby Scott wrote: The fact that the operating system knows what the machine is called, does not necessarily mean that the name is in the DNS. You can put an entry in your /etc/hosts file (take a look at the file for the format), which will allow

Re: Pros and Cons of running under inetd....

2006-05-12 Thread Eric Schuele
Daniel Bye wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:35:41AM -0500, Eric Schuele wrote: Hello, I run sshd and ftpd on my laptop. I generally start them via: sshd_enable=YES ftpd_enable=YES in my rc.conf. What are the pros/cons of running them via inetd? This is in no way a high load or

Re: 6.1-STABLE : make installworld fails

2006-05-12 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 12 May 2006 06:59, Axel Burwitz wrote: Hi, well, need some help... I have just upgraded my system from 6.1-PRERELEASE to 6.1-STABLE, with cvsup, make buildworld, make buildkernel, make installkernel. The upgrade for the basic system went through, it shows 6.1-STABLE version,

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-12 Thread Bill Moran
Daniel Bye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 04:21:09PM +0100, Barnaby Scott wrote: The fact that the operating system knows what the machine is called, does not necessarily mean that the name is in the DNS. You can put an entry in your /etc/hosts file (take a look at the

Serial based install

2006-05-12 Thread Tom Moore
Hi guys. How do I force the FreeBSD to do a serial port based install? I'm installing on to a laptop, but want to control the install from a serial port on another machine because I can not see the screen on the laptop. I tried modifying the boot.flp image and putting a file called boot.conf with

Fwd: hello

2006-05-12 Thread Jeff Rollin
-- Forwarded message -- From: Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 12-May-2006 18:43 Subject: Re: hello To: justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Justin Everything runs ok and it seems like the module is installed. There is only one problem, in the httpd.conf there is a LoadModule

Re: libphp5.so not compiling for apache (was hello)

2006-05-12 Thread Jonathan Horne
I `ve got a question about installing the php5 module. I`m installing it from the /usr/ports/www/php5-session port. Everything runs ok and it seems like the module is installed. There is only one problem, in the httpd.conf there is a LoadModule php5_module refering to

Re: Trimming Whitespace From Beginning and end of Text Lines

2006-05-12 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 12 May 2006, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: The first sed expression is missing //. Correcting that: sed -i -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//' -e 's/[[:space:]]*$//' test.txt sed: lstat: No such file or directory Yeah, I noticed the missing // in the first regexp, but only after I had posted the

Re: very slow boot (newbie)

2006-05-12 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Barnaby Scott thusly... Parv wrote: ... and then stops! I have timed it - it stops for between 4 and 5 minutes every time. Does your screen goes blank just after the above message? If so, press [Enter] key, you should see the boot being continued, and

Re: New folder permissions

2006-05-12 Thread Derrick Ryalls
On 5/12/06, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Derrick Ryalls [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am having issues getting correct permissions set for files in a common area on a web/file server. I have webroot shared out via samba and under there I have an auto-thumbnail generation script

Re: New folder permissions

2006-05-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Derrick Ryalls [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 5/12/06, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are a lot of ways to do this, but the one I would recommend is to change the main folder to be owned by a group that you, your wife, and the uid running the thumbnail script all are members of

Re: Upgrading from 6.0 to 6.1

2006-05-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has possibly been discussed a number of times, and if it has, I apologize. Here is my situation: Apology accepted ;-) :-D I would like to upgrade my existing 6.0-SECURITY system to 6.1-RELEASE and continue using freebsd-update to keep my system on the up

Re: Reducing the size of /

2006-05-12 Thread Eric F Crist
On May 12, 2006, at 11:11 AM, bsd wrote: Hello, I have three partitions on my server and would like to reduce the size of / because I am getting quite full ! Filesystem SizeUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ar0s1a3.8G2.8G668M81%/ devfs 1.0K1.0K

Re: New folder permissions

2006-05-12 Thread Derrick Ryalls
On 5/12/06, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Derrick Ryalls [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 5/12/06, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are a lot of ways to do this, but the one I would recommend is to change the main folder to be owned by a group that you, your wife, and

Re: hello (DSL -- should be: installing PHP5)

2006-05-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
justin wrote: I `ve got a question about installing the php5 module. I`m installing it from the /usr/ports/www/php5-session port. Interesting; that's not the usual place. Everything runs ok and it seems like the module is installed. There is only one problem, in the httpd.conf there is a

Re: libphp5.so not compiling for apache (was hello)

2006-05-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
Jonathan Horne wrote: I `ve got a question about installing the php5 module. I`m installing it from the /usr/ports/www/php5-session port. Everything runs ok and it seems like the module is installed. There is only one problem, in the httpd.conf there is a LoadModule php5_module refering to

Re: 1 cpu + 2 monitors + 2 keybord/mouse is it possible

2006-05-12 Thread Aren Olvalde Tyr
Reading the man page for kbdmux it isn't clear to me if the keyboards will work independently in X but it might be worth a try. Theoretically it shouldn't be a problem using separate keyboards/mice under [separate] X [sessions]; simply use a separate xorg.conf configuration files per display,

Access from the internet

2006-05-12 Thread Terry Stoner
Hi my name is Terry Stoner. I just set up a new Firewall, FreeBSD 6.0, and am having trouble connecting from the internet. Basically I want to ssh from work. I set sshd_config to listen on all interfaces and on port 21, this port is not blocked outbound from work. I have ipfilter rules

Re: fsck way too slow

2006-05-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 5/12/06, Andrea Venturoli [EMAIL PROTECTED] cwaeth: one big root partition. Don't do this. -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

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