Re: MS, Adobe competition heats up, Will Adobe wake and port Flash to BSD?

2007-04-24 Thread Marcus Barczak
On 24/04/2007, at 3:35 PM, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: If we don't, BSD is gradually going to be usable only by software developers. *cough* OSX *cough* :) Marcus ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: cannot compile thunderbird 2 and firefox 2 from ports

2007-04-24 Thread Frank Bonnet
Hi Frank. Just wanted to let you know the two ports, thunderbird-2.0.0.0 and firefox-2.0.0.3,1 are not broken because I've installed them myself. Yes it's surprising to me as I've installed them without noise on an AMD64 machine ... Thunderbird sure takes a long time to compile though. I

Re: NFS without rpcbind?

2007-04-24 Thread Erik Norgaard
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Dan Casey wrote: It was my understanding that NFS worked off of RPC. I accidently stumbled upon some redhat docs that said you use TCP based NFS which will not require rpc? I think this is an NFSv4 feature, but I'm not sure. I would like to achieve this using FreeBSD

Samba 3.0.23c

2007-04-24 Thread Igor V. Tolkunov
Hi, *Timothy*! I had the same trouble! Try the next things: In //usr/src/kerberos5/ # make make install And then rebuild samba! Do no forget run make clean before! In my case it was successful! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Which module for Garmin USB gps device?

2007-04-24 Thread knizek
Hello List! What is the appropriate module for accessing USB GPS devices like Garmin eTrex? When plugged in, dmesg shows ugen0 (which I guess is not a serial port emulation of usb). Manually loading kldload ucom does not create any new devices. Thanks, Milan -- JARNI HIT! Stihle nohy? Pekny

Re: Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers

2007-04-24 Thread Robert Huff
Olivier Nicole writes: USB is a nice and cheap solution, as long as you don't have too much data to back-up every time. If you have 40GB per day, that would take 10 hours... a bit too much :) My setup (dump - USB 2) processes 22.8 Gbytes in a hair over 5 hours. The

Re: NFS without rpcbind?

2007-04-24 Thread Dan Casey
That makes more sense. Actually I do not care if it is tcp or udp, so long as the ports are not dynamically assigned. I'll have to give what you said a try. Up until now I thought there was now way to do this without dynamic ports. Erik Norgaard wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Dan Casey

kernel trap 19/NMI messages

2007-04-24 Thread Jan L. Nauta
Hi, SMP FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE (i386), latest version via freebsd-update, on a PentiumD based server with two ide drives running under gmirror. Recently I've been getting the following messages in my daily security run output mails: SNIP +NMI INSAM I IS2A 8, EISA 20 +8, +22NMIN MISI AI

weird messages in daily security run output mails

2007-04-24 Thread Jan L. Nauta
Hi, SMP FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE (i386), latest version via freebsd-update, on a PentiumD based server with two ide drives running under gmirror. Recently I've been getting the following messages in my daily security run output mails: SNIP +NMI INSAM I IS2A 8, EISA 20 +8, +22NMIN MISI AI

weird messages in daily security run output mails

2007-04-24 Thread Jan L. Nauta
Hi, SMP FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE (i386), latest version via freebsd-update, on a PentiumD based server with two ide drives running under gmirror. Recently I've been getting the following messages in my daily security run output mails: SNIP +NMI INSAM I IS2A 8, EISA 20 +8, +22NMIN MISI AI

How to manually patch/configure/compile Apache 2.2.4's mod_autoindex module?

2007-04-24 Thread Olaf Greve
Hiya, I have run into a seemingly trivial, yet annoying issue. I used to use Apache 1.3.33 on my live server, and recently I upgraded to Apache 2.2.4, which apart from some hassles when upgrading the PHP4 extensions, went well. However, there is one small thingy that is different: there

FreeBSD Merch

2007-04-24 Thread Ansar Mohammed
So again i am posting this email out to this list.. Does anyone know where i can get freebsd branded merchandise with the new logo? BSDMall and freebsdmall all seem to have the older stuff. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers

2007-04-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 05:01:17PM -0700, L Goodwin wrote: I need to implement an automated backup facility on the FreeBSD file server I'm setting up for a client. It will have a software RAID 1 Mirror/Duplex that is made available to Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista Home Premium users as a

Re: Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers

2007-04-24 Thread Chris Kottaridis
It's true, but amanda allows for a holding disk that the backups get sent to, so the dumps themselves don't take so long. So, the other machines that are being backed up, and do the real work in house, don't take any longer then when I had a tape drive on the backup host. From the holding disk on

Re: Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers

2007-04-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 05:01:17PM -0700, L Goodwin wrote: I need to implement an automated backup facility on the FreeBSD file server I'm setting up for a client. It will have a software RAID 1 Mirror/Duplex that is made available to Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista Home Premium users as

Re: Invalid Global DNS name and sendmail

2007-04-24 Thread Andrew Fremantle
Thanks to everyone who replied, the solution is detailed below Copy /usr/share/sendmail/cf/domain/generic.m4 - /etc/mail/custom-domain.m4 softlink /etc/mail/custom-domain.m4 - /usr/share/sendmail/cf/domain/custom-domain.m4 Edit /etc/mail/custom-domain.m4 and remove the EXPOSED_USERS('root')

Fwd: Thunderbird 2.0

2007-04-24 Thread FreeBSD WickerBill
from April 20 I portupgraded thunderbird today (6.1 p11, KDE 3.5.6_2) and while it's semi-functional, it does seg fault as it checks the pop server. Also has 3 lines/rows of Tag icons making the Toolbar height quite large. Each row grows progressively fainter (I'm pretty sure it's a group of

Re: kernel trap 19/NMI messages

2007-04-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 01:23:00PM +0200, Jan L. Nauta wrote: Hi, SMP FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE (i386), latest version via freebsd-update, on a PentiumD based server with two ide drives running under gmirror. Recently I've been getting the following messages in my daily security run

Re: Mount an iso image?

2007-04-24 Thread sac
Don't forget to unmount and detach the memory disk: umount /somewhere mdconfig -ud 0 a slight modification mdconfig -du 0 0 should be replaced with the appropiate device number -- Martin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Does FreeBSD support the 3600 MCP Chipset?

2007-04-24 Thread Sean Murphy
Does FreeBSD support the 3600 MCP Chipset? I was thinking about purchasing a Sun server that used the AMD CPU and the NVIDIA nForce Professional 3600 MCP. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Don O'Neil
I just built a new server with an Athlon 64 x2, 4GB Ram and a Gigabyte/Nvidia motherboard. When I boot the system up it says on the console that 532888K will be ignored. Of course it isn't put in any of the log files. Dmesg shows this: real memory = 3724476416 (3551 MB) avail memory =

Port marked as broken

2007-04-24 Thread Ian Lord
Hi, I just did a cvsup and a pkg_version -v to see that one of my port is outdated. pecl-memcache-2.1.0needs updating (port has 2.1.2) When I tried to portupgrade -a I got a message saying pecl-memcache-2.1.2 is marked as broken: Configure fails. I though

RE: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Ian Lord
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Don O'Neil Sent: 24 avril 2007 13:56 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Memory 3.5GB not used? I just built a new server with an Athlon 64 x2, 4GB Ram and a Gigabyte/Nvidia motherboard. When I boot

Re: Port marked as broken

2007-04-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 01:55:48PM -0400, Ian Lord wrote: Hi, I just did a cvsup and a pkg_version -v to see that one of my port is outdated. pecl-memcache-2.1.0needs updating (port has 2.1.2) When I tried to portupgrade -a I got a message saying

Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just built a new server with an Athlon 64 x2, 4GB Ram and a Gigabyte/Nvidia motherboard. When I boot the system up it says on the console that 532888K will be ignored. Of course it isn't put in any of the log files. Dmesg shows this: real

Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Jonathan Horne
In response to Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just built a new server with an Athlon 64 x2, 4GB Ram and a Gigabyte/Nvidia motherboard. When I boot the system up it says on the console that 532888K will be ignored. Of course it isn't put in any of the log files. Dmesg shows this: real

Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In response to Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just built a new server with an Athlon 64 x2, 4GB Ram and a Gigabyte/Nvidia motherboard. When I boot the system up it says on the console that 532888K will be ignored. Of course it

Re: Port marked as broken

2007-04-24 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 01:55:48PM -0400, Ian Lord wrote: Hi, I just did a cvsup and a pkg_version -v to see that one of my port is outdated. pecl-memcache-2.1.0needs updating (port has 2.1.2) When I tried to portupgrade -a I got a message saying

Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Don O'Neil wrote: Any reason the extra 1/2 GB isn't showing up or usable? Is there something I need to specify in the kernel to get to the other 1/2 GB? What if I want to install more than 4GB? This mobo supports up to 16 GB... Do I need to go to the AMD64 platform to get 4GB? You need a PAE

RE: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Don O'Neil
Thanks for all who pointed out the obvious PAE option... When I went to rebuild the kernel I got this message: +++ cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Werror -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE -nostdinc -I- -DHAVE_KERNEL_OPTION_HEADERS -include

Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Andy Greenwood
On 4/24/07, Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all who pointed out the obvious PAE option... When I went to rebuild the kernel I got this message: +++ cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Werror -D_KERNEL -DKLD_MODULE -nostdinc -I-

RE: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Don O'Neil
I never had this problem before when I built the kernel the first time. Could my module source be corrupt? If so, how do I re-install just the kernel sources for 6.1? -Original Message- From: Andy Greenwood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 11:44 AM To: Don O'Neil

Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:47:22AM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote: I never had this problem before when I built the kernel the first time. Could my module source be corrupt? If so, how do I re-install just the kernel sources for 6.1? When you built the kernel the first time you did not have PAE

Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I never had this problem before when I built the kernel the first time. Could my module source be corrupt? If so, how do I re-install just the kernel sources for 6.1? Not all modules work with PAE. Read the example PAE kernel file for information.

RE: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Don O'Neil
If it's a hack maybe I should just not worry about the extra .5GB then... I don't really need it, it was just a bit of an annoyance to see the message. When I need more RAM I'll just update to AMD64. -Original Message- From: Bill Moran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 24,

Re: Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers

2007-04-24 Thread L Goodwin
Thanks, Olivier. The lack of a Recycle Bin for Samba shares had not occured to me. I guess I should have each Windows client backup of all files modified that day to a space on the local drive... Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to implement an automated backup facility on the

Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Jonathan Horne wrote: i have a system with 4GB memory, doing the same similar behavior. but, on top of not using the last few hundred megs of ram, even the POST shows like 3.6 or 3.7GB of ram. is PAE still a solution for my case? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ dmesg | grep memory real memory =

Re: Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers

2007-04-24 Thread L Goodwin
Forgot to mention that off site storage is a priority. The USB drive option is interesting. I know thumb drives are not considered a good long-term storage solution, but for daily backups, I could rotate a couple of 2GB+ USB drives (until data grows too large). Thanks to all for your

Re: Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers

2007-04-24 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 01:03:34PM -0700, L Goodwin wrote: Forgot to mention that off site storage is a priority. Please don't top-post. The USB drive option is interesting. I know thumb drives are not considered a good long-term storage solution, but for daily backups, I could rotate a

raid controller intel 82801GR/GH

2007-04-24 Thread J.C. França
greetings, does anyone know about freebsd 6.2 compatibility with intel controller 82801GR/GH, running RAID 10? cheers, joe karma ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Samba connection fails

2007-04-24 Thread L Goodwin
I installed the samba-3.0.23c_2,1 package on a server destined for a small office network running Windows clients. Have not yet configured the network settings. Am trying to test the Samba configuration offline before connecting it to the network (router connected to cable modem, clients

Re: Samba connection fails

2007-04-24 Thread L Goodwin
It looks like a network configuration issue (haven't done any net config on a UNIX box in 10-15 years). When I run smbclient -L localhost, I get: - Password: (pressed ENTER) Anonymous login successful Anonymous login

Re: Linksys wireless pcmcia card / FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE

2007-04-24 Thread Apatewna
O/H Spiros Papadopoulos έγραψε: Hi, I am running FreeBSD 6.2 RELEASE and I have the above card in my DELL's latitude c810 cardbus. If the card is not directly supported you can always try ndisgen

Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Ivan Voras
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I never had this problem before when I built the kernel the first time. Could my module source be corrupt? If so, how do I re-install just the kernel sources for 6.1? Not all modules work with PAE. Read the example PAE kernel

Re: Samba connection fails

2007-04-24 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:38 PM 4/24/2007, L Goodwin wrote: I installed the samba-3.0.23c_2,1 package on a server destined for a small office network running Windows clients. Have not yet configured the network settings. Am trying to test the Samba configuration offline before connecting it to the network (router

Re: raid controller intel 82801GR/GH

2007-04-24 Thread Derek Ragona
At 03:23 PM 4/24/2007, J.C. França wrote: greetings, does anyone know about freebsd 6.2 compatibility with intel controller 82801GR/GH, running RAID 10? Have you tried creating your RAID 10 array first and installing FreeBSD? -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and

Re: Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers

2007-04-24 Thread Robert Huff
L Goodwin writes: The USB drive option is interesting. I know thumb drives are not considered a good long-term storage solution, but for daily backups, I could rotate a couple of 2GB+ USB drives (until data grows too large). And if you've been retiring undersize IDE drives to a

Re: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bill Moran wrote: In response to Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I never had this problem before when I built the kernel the first time. Could my module source be corrupt? If so, how do I re-install just the kernel sources for 6.1? Not

Re: Defending against SSH attacks with pf

2007-04-24 Thread Christopher Hilton
Erik Osterholm wrote: On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 08:02:55PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: There was some discussion on this list not too long ago, and someone asked if I was willing to make my pf config and the associated scripts I wrote for it public. I would have posted on the original thread, but I

Re: Samba connection fails

2007-04-24 Thread L Goodwin
Gee, it works a lot better once I add server name to /etc/hosts! 8-D Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:38 PM 4/24/2007, L Goodwin wrote: I installed the samba-3.0.23c_2,1 package on a server destined for a small office network running Windows clients. Have not yet configured the

Re: PCIe NIC for FreeBSD 5.5

2007-04-24 Thread Mike Jakubik
Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I have been askedto install FreeBSD on a server, but I had no saying on the procurement of the server. It ends up to be an HP 380G5, with onboard Broadcom based NIC that is not supported and only PCIe extension slots. I am wondering what NIC I could buy that would be

Error from mount_smbfs

2007-04-24 Thread Scott D Friedemann
FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p3 #0 I have run mount_smbfs for the last couple years without incident. Now I find the command no longer works, but gives this error. mount_smbfs -I 192.168.1.100 //drogo/c /mnt/bsdstuff Password: mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: syserr =

Sendmail Config Issues

2007-04-24 Thread Schiz0
Hey, I'm running 6.2-RELEASE-p3. I'm having some issues configuring sendmail. I'm new to sendmail, so please bear with me. I've read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html along with some docs on sendmail.org. I'm guessing I'm overlooking something, or missing

Re[2]: Memory 3.5GB not used?

2007-04-24 Thread Solon Luigi Lutz
Hello Bill, Wednesday, April 25, 2007, 12:20:27 AM, you wrote: Not all modules work with PAE. Read the example PAE kernel file for information. PAE is an awful hack, BTW. I've heard a number of people complain that performance sucks under PAE. BM Does this test demonstrate usage

Re: about FreeBSD debugging

2007-04-24 Thread Simon Chang
I installed the FreeBSD but some of its packages are not working. For that we have to check debugging option.Please can u tell me how to debug. I dont know any thing about debugging Which package(s) are you referring to? There are thousands of packages available to FreeBSD. You have to be

Re: Yet another crash - help with interpreting dump

2007-04-24 Thread Simon Chang
Hello, Regarding your crash dump, has anyone responded to you yet? You might want to try and post this in the developer's mailing list. FreeBSD-questions has many non-developers who may not know how to help with your situation. Good luck, SC ___

Using LD_PRELOAD to make date return a specific date

2007-04-24 Thread Kelly Jones
I recently discovered LD_PRELOAD, a cool environment variable that lets a library intercept system calls. For example, setting LD_PRELOAD to /usr/lib/libtsocks.so lets tsocks intercept socket connections and redirect them to a SOCKS proxy. My question: how can I write a library that intercepts

Re: How to manually patch/configure/compile Apache 2.2.4's mod_autoindex module?

2007-04-24 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 04:03:33PM +0200, Olaf Greve wrote: Hiya, Hi Olaf, I have run into a seemingly trivial, yet annoying issue. I used to use Apache 1.3.33 on my live server, and recently I upgraded to Apache 2.2.4, which apart from some hassles when upgrading the PHP4

Re: Sendmail Config Issues

2007-04-24 Thread Dan Busarow
On Apr 24, 2007, at 6:09 PM, Schiz0 wrote: Hey, I'm running 6.2-RELEASE-p3. I'm having some issues configuring sendmail. I'm new to sendmail, so please bear with me. I've read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html along with some docs on sendmail.org. I'm

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2007-04-24 Thread Jeff Alvar
hello, I am a new to freebsd i encouterd same error below recovering vi editor session and the system halted. Is there a way to boot it again so ican remove the /var/tmp/ vi.recover I need to clean it so it wont hang again.. While booting I get the message recovering vi editor

Single Instance Service

2007-04-24 Thread GARRISON, TRAVIS J.
I am looking for software that will run on FreeBSD that is similar to Microsoft Single Instance Service. The Single Instance Storage Filter is a file system filter that manages the duplicate copies of files on hard-disk volumes. This filter copies one instance of the duplicate file into a

Re: Backup media choices for FreeBSD servers

2007-04-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 23/04/07, Wood, Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Marsh Sent: Tuesday, 24 April 2007 8:21 AM To: L Goodwin Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup media choices

GELI recovery

2007-04-24 Thread Rat Paranoid
Dear All, I badly need your help! I've used GELI encrypted partition on my notebook for 5 month but now I can't mount it on startup... it seems that I forgot the password (but how is it possible if I enter it each time I switch my notebook?!) or something is wrong with GELI anyway when I