Re: How to find HorizSync / VertRefresh rates?

2007-05-04 Thread Victor Engmark
On 5/4/07, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Victor Engmark It works in the sense that I get the correct dimensions, Then it is working. Your done, quit diddling with it. but I'm unsure as to whether I risk frying the card or screen You

Belkin N1 pccard driver/setup on 6.2.stable

2007-05-04 Thread WizLayer
Greets, I've recently installed 6.2 Stable on a Compaq Evo N610c, and am running into some brick walls. Was wondering if anyone is sucessfully using a Belkin N1 wireless card (native BSD driver or ndis, doesn't matter to me so long as it works). Here is the relevant dmesg as pertains to

missing /usr/local in startup.sh files

2007-05-04 Thread David Banning
All of a sudden I notice that whenever I install a package from the ports, the startup file in /usr/local/etc/rc.d requires that I put /usr/local in - for instance, the most recent install of clamav I had to change . /etc/rc.subr to . /usr/local/etc/rc.subr there must be a variable or

Re: missing /usr/local in startup.sh files

2007-05-04 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
David Banning wrote: All of a sudden I notice that whenever I install a package from the ports, the startup file in /usr/local/etc/rc.d requires that I put /usr/local in - for instance, the most recent install of clamav I had to change . /etc/rc.subr to . /usr/local/etc/rc.subr

Re: How to make Apache (2.2.4) less greedy, or Sendmail less polite?

2007-05-04 Thread Ivan Voras
Olaf Greve wrote: PID USERNAMEPRI NICE SIZERES STATETIME WCPUCPU COMMAND 91459 www 1240 141M 15136K RUN 0:02 5.52% 5.52% httpd 91352 www 1190 139M 12596K select 0:14 3.61% 3.61% httpd The size of apache processes is

RE: FreeBSD 6.2 And ASUS P5B Deluxe

2007-05-04 Thread ALEXANDRE David \(Ext\)
Hi, Thank for your help. It is possible to upgrade to version 7 without reinstalling? If yes, how can I do this? Best regards, -- David, -Message d'origine- De : Erik Trulsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : jeudi 3 mai 2007 15:09 À : ALEXANDRE David (Ext) Cc :

Re: How to make Apache (2.2.4) less greedy, or Sendmail less polite?

2007-05-04 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi Ivan and Dan (and the lists), The size of apache processes is telling me you're using PHP or some other heavy apache module. Indeed I am (I forgot to mention this). It is PHP 4.4.6, and it is set up as an Apache module. If so, you can switch to using PHP as FastCGI responder via

Re: How to make Apache (2.2.4) less greedy, or Sendmail less polite?

2007-05-04 Thread Ivan Voras
Olaf Greve wrote: Will that not have some other downsides? I remember that previously when running PHP on the CGI, that e.g. a lot of debugging power got lost, as each and every error would simply either return a blank page, or simply an internal servor error 500 or so Is that also the

Re: How to make Apache (2.2.4) less greedy, or Sendmail less polite?

2007-05-04 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi again, Hmmm, the load is very high right now, and again mail is not comming through. This time, it seems the queue runner is blocking matters. When checking /var/log/maillog, there are entries for the RX daemon having received messages, but also there is this entry: May 4 12:29:38

Re: How to make Apache (2.2.4) less greedy, or Sendmail less polite?

2007-05-04 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi again, This time a question from the Apache side of this issue: You'll have to correlate this with HTTP requests apache receives - maybe there's a PHP script that's unusually CPU intensive. Is there any (easy) way to do this in conjunction with specific PIDs of stressed httpd

Re: How to make Apache (2.2.4) less greedy, or Sendmail less polite?

2007-05-04 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Olaf Greve wrote: PS: This morning (and some of the other past few days as well) I took a closer look to the server loads, and it looks like during the better part of the morning the load is virtually 0%, and around midday (or slighlty before?), all of a sudden Apache starts going crazy and

Re: How to make Apache (2.2.4) less greedy, or Sendmail less polite?

2007-05-04 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi, It might as well be a search engine spider. Perhaps it is... By just tailing the httpd-access.log file a few times over the past 10 minutes or so, at least I already just came across: 74.6.70.45 - - [04/May/2007:13:12:34 +0200] GET /olympus/tope/ tope_show_entry.php?event=13pic=1

SCSI + camcontrol

2007-05-04 Thread Grant Peel
Hello all, A few weeks back, I turned on mod_gzip in apache and as a result, the /tmp directory filled up with .wrk files causing the root filesystem to fill to capacity. When we noticed what was happening, on May 1 we had no choice but to cold boot the machine as it was, for all purposes

Re: How to make Apache (2.2.4) less greedy, or Sendmail less polite?

2007-05-04 Thread Koos van den Hout
Quoting Olaf Greve who wrote on Fri 2007-05-04 at 00:15: 2-How can I inspect exactly what each httpd instance is doing (i.e. which request it is serving)? Enable mod_status or compile it in and enable server-status in the config (usually commented-out in the httpd.conf file) and view the

multiuser VPN

2007-05-04 Thread Georgi Tyuliev
Dear Sirs, I am using VPN to connect to the university network (another country) from Home (WindowsXP :( ) and to use their resources. How can I install this VPN on FreeBSD machine in my Office, and is it possible to configure it for multiple sessions. (another colleagues to be able to use it

Creating an rc.d script for Jboss Web

2007-05-04 Thread Charles Mason
I am trying to run Jboss Web on FreeBSD, which is basically a Tomcat derived web server which use APR to replace the Java based static file serving in Tomcat. This makes it much faster but requires the native modules to be complied for each platform. I have successfully managed to compile these

Can't fetch several ports (return error code 127) and seems nothing to do with these ports themselves

2007-05-04 Thread Jockey Kyd
Hi, all. I really stuck with this problem and absolutely have no idea what to do next. Before I present my problem, let me guarantee that I keeped the ports tree up-to-date, even tried deleting the /usr/ports directory and re-fetching it via csup. Still no love. :-( Say, the port

Ports wrangling

2007-05-04 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
Hi, I have a machine in the midst of taking a dirt nap. I bought a replacement and want to start loading all my ports on it. I have a few questions. Is there a way to get a report of what my first level ports are (Those that don't depend on anyone, and aren't depended by

Re: RSA SecurID Pam Module Support?

2007-05-04 Thread David Robillard
We have recently purchased an RSA SecurID Appliance and there are no native libraries for *BSD OS's. I have downloaded and installed the appropriate files within the Linux Compat environment, but I'm not having any success making it work. Specifically, the key file in question is

Re: How to make Apache (2.2.4) less greedy, or Sendmail less polite?

2007-05-04 Thread Gary Palmer
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 12:55:16PM +0200, Olaf Greve wrote: Hi again, This time a question from the Apache side of this issue: You'll have to correlate this with HTTP requests apache receives - maybe there's a PHP script that's unusually CPU intensive. Is there any (easy) way to do

Re: SCSI + camcontrol

2007-05-04 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 04), Grant Peel said: A few weeks back, I turned on mod_gzip in apache and as a result, the /tmp directory filled up with .wrk files causing the root filesystem to fill to capacity. When we noticed what was happening, on May 1 we had no choice but to cold boot the

Re: Can't fetch several ports (return error code 127) and seems nothing to do with these ports themselves

2007-05-04 Thread Ernest Sales
Maybe this is due to the xorg 7.2 upgrade. See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2007-May/040488.html and http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2007-May/040510.html --- plain text emails preferred, cf

Re: Can't fetch several ports (return error code 127) and seems nothing to do with these ports themselves

2007-05-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 05:22:24PM +0200, Ernest Sales wrote: Maybe this is due to the xorg 7.2 upgrade. See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2007-May/040488.html and http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2007-May/040510.html Nice try, but no :) Kris

Re: Can't fetch several ports (return error code 127) and seems nothing to do with these ports themselves

2007-05-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:02:36PM +0800, Jockey Kyd wrote: Hi, all. I really stuck with this problem and absolutely have no idea what to do next. Before I present my problem, let me guarantee that I keeped the ports tree up-to-date, even tried deleting the /usr/ports directory and

Re: Ports wrangling

2007-05-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:29:32AM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: Hi, I have a machine in the midst of taking a dirt nap. I bought a replacement and want to start loading all my ports on it. I have a few questions. Is there a way to get a report of what my first level ports

link exchange Request Unix-help.com

2007-05-04 Thread Jerome
hi, my website is http://www.unix-help.com ,link exchange Request cheers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ports wrangling

2007-05-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 05:38:49PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:29:32AM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: Hi, I have a machine in the midst of taking a dirt nap. I bought a replacement and want to start loading all my ports on it. I have a few questions.

Re: How to make Apache (2.2.4) less greedy, or Sendmail less polite?

2007-05-04 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi, Investigate the Apache server-status handler (assuming its still there in 2.2). If you also enable the ExtendedStatus output from server- status, I just enabled it like that, as well as the server-info handler. This is indeed what I was looking for, and it directly identified the

Re: missing /usr/local in startup.sh files

2007-05-04 Thread David Banning
. /usr/local/etc/rc.subr there must be a variable or setting for this that went missing for me. Could someone be kind enough to direct me here? There shouldn't be a file /usr/local/etc/rc.subr. Did you by any chance move /etc/rc.subr to /usr/local/etc/? Maybe we are on different

Re: Time Synchronizing Between Two Servers

2007-05-04 Thread RW
On Thu, 03 May 2007 11:07:34 -0400 Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sun SPARC machines have good HW clocks, and also some of the newer Macs also seem to have consistently low values in ntp.drift and handle timekeeping well. Does that matter? The RTC time is almost immediately

Re: missing /usr/local in startup.sh files

2007-05-04 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
David Banning wrote: . /usr/local/etc/rc.subr there must be a variable or setting for this that went missing for me. Could someone be kind enough to direct me here? There shouldn't be a file /usr/local/etc/rc.subr. Did you by any chance move /etc/rc.subr to /usr/local/etc/? Maybe we are

Re: can't zip large files 2gb

2007-05-04 Thread David Banning
What version of gzip are you using? From www.gzip.org: gzip 1.2.4 may crash when an input file name is too long (over 1020 characters). not in my case. The buffer overflow may be exploited if gzip is run by a server such as an ftp server. Some ftp servers allow compression and

Re: Greylisting -- Was: Anti Spam

2007-05-04 Thread Christopher Hilton
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Bart Silverstrim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] Like I said...if it taxes their resources even one tenth of one percent, I'm for it. It's not their resources, it's the resources they have stolen from other people by breaking

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2007-05-04 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

2007-05-04 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: can't zip large files 2gb

2007-05-04 Thread dex
Check for root kits? Try the same operation on a known working system, take that output file and do a diff with that and the corrupt one after a 'strings', so 'strings new.gz new-text', 'strings corrupt.gz corrupt-text', 'diff new-text corrupt-text'. I'm just interested in how it's being

Routing between subnets

2007-05-04 Thread Neo [GC]
Hi, i try to use a FreeBSD 6-STABLE machine as VPN-gateway for my home network. For VPN I use OpenVPN, wich connects to an outside OpenVPN-server. The connection itself works, but i need to get routing working for my LAN. I have searched in Google and group archives, but i can't find an easy

Re: can't zip large files 2gb

2007-05-04 Thread David Banning
Try the same operation on a known working system, take that output file and do a diff with that and the corrupt one after a 'strings', so 'strings new.gz new-text', 'strings corrupt.gz corrupt-text', 'diff new-text corrupt-text'. I'm just interested in how it's being corrupted and maybe

Re: can't zip large files 2gb

2007-05-04 Thread David Banning
available. At least some of your utilities in /usr/bin are statically linked. In 5.5 the statically linked utilities are in /stand, while dynamically linked versions of the same are in their normal places. OK. -r-xr-xr-x 30 root wheel 2046148 Nov 4 2004 /stand/gzip I would expect

Re: can't zip large files 2gb

2007-05-04 Thread David Kelly
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 01:42:59PM -0400, David Banning wrote: What seems strange is that the failure is not a massive failure the gzipped and then gunzipped file is only 2 bites difference on a 3G file. I am wondering now if something could be amiss in my BIOS - any thoughts here? FreeBSD

Re: can't zip large files 2gb

2007-05-04 Thread David Kelly
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 01:33:09PM -0400, David Banning wrote: first time I have tried files of this size - but I get the same problem no matter what compression utility I use; tried gzip, bzip2, rzip and compress. Which is why I suspected a corrupted library and asked that ldd(1) be run on

port updates

2007-05-04 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi everyone, If this question is not for this list , I'm apologizing in advance I just ran cvsup because I wanted to install the latest version of SpamAssassin- 3.2 After doing portupgrade I see that its still at 3.1.8 When do the ports get updated- ? Jean-Paul Natola Network

Anyone dual booted freebsd/vista yet?

2007-05-04 Thread Jonathan Horne
Well, I setup my laptop to dual boot freebsd 6.2-p4 and vista. It was actually an XP/freebsd at first (installed XP, then installed freebsd). The normal boot loader worked exactly as expected. So, upgraded the XP to vista, which seemed to go perfectly normal. Got everything the way I wanted

Radeon 3D acceleration support

2007-05-04 Thread Chad Perrin
There seems to be a lot of conflicting information on the Web about 3D acceleration support for Radeon graphics adapters. What I've determined with certainty so far is that I need to use the r300 driver with Mesa. Precious little else is without contradiction between sources. Two approaches in

Re: Anyone dual booted freebsd/vista yet?

2007-05-04 Thread Kevin Downey
On 5/4/07, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I setup my laptop to dual boot freebsd 6.2-p4 and vista. It was actually an XP/freebsd at first (installed XP, then installed freebsd). The normal boot loader worked exactly as expected. So, upgraded the XP to vista, which seemed to go

Re: port updates

2007-05-04 Thread Duane Hill
On Fri, 4 May 2007, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi everyone, If this question is not for this list , I'm apologizing in advance I just ran cvsup because I wanted to install the latest version of SpamAssassin- 3.2 After doing portupgrade I see that its still at 3.1.8 When do the ports get

Re: port updates

2007-05-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 03:25:58PM -0400, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi everyone, If this question is not for this list , I'm apologizing in advance I just ran cvsup because I wanted to install the latest version of SpamAssassin- 3.2 After doing portupgrade I see that its still at 3.1.8

Re: port updates

2007-05-04 Thread Frank Wissmann
Did you clean your /usr/ports-directory before and did you then make a cvs co ports? Or how did you do it? Regards Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Update Your Account

2007-05-04 Thread AOL
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Re: can't zip large files 2gb

2007-05-04 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
David Banning wrote: I am attempting to zip large files that are 2GB - 3GB. If you wish to exclude the disks completely, you can try generating a large file on a known-good host and running md5 on it, then reading it via NFS on the suspect machine, piping through gzip and gunzip, and right into

Re: Anyone dual booted freebsd/vista yet?

2007-05-04 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Jonathan Horne wrote: Well, I setup my laptop to dual boot freebsd 6.2-p4 and vista. It was actually an XP/freebsd at first (installed XP, then installed freebsd). The normal boot loader worked exactly as expected. So, upgraded the XP to vista, which seemed to go perfectly normal. Got

Re: Anyone dual booted freebsd/vista yet?

2007-05-04 Thread Jason P. Thomas
Jonathan Horne wrote: Well, I setup my laptop to dual boot freebsd 6.2-p4 and vista. It was actually an XP/freebsd at first (installed XP, then installed freebsd). The normal boot loader worked exactly as expected. So, upgraded the XP to vista, which seemed to go perfectly normal. Got

Re: Anyone dual booted freebsd/vista yet?

2007-05-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 02:26:58PM -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: Well, I setup my laptop to dual boot freebsd 6.2-p4 and vista. It was actually an XP/freebsd at first (installed XP, then installed freebsd). The normal boot loader worked exactly as expected. So, upgraded the XP to vista,

mountroot

2007-05-04 Thread Franco Vitali
I'm using some old Pentium PCs, to install and test FreeBSD 6.2 Te problem I have is when I move the HD containing the OS to another machine, I'm prompted to specify the root partition. I've checked the /etc/fstab file and everything is ok. I modified /boot/loader.conf with:

Re: Easiest method to install a DVD writer

2007-05-04 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 09:40 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a desktop Compaq computer running the latest stable version of FreeBSD. I want to install a DVD writer to use for backups (either internal or USB). Can someone recommend the easiest method to do this by? Is there a

Re: Anyone dual booted freebsd/vista yet?

2007-05-04 Thread Jeff Palmer
At 03:26 PM 5/4/2007, Jonathan Horne wrote: Has anyone successful configured a freebsd/vista dual boot, and if so, how did you get around this issue? Thanks, -- Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org Jonathan, you may want to search the archives. I posed this same

RE: Problems compiling new kernel

2007-05-04 Thread Mark Stout
If I don't need the options ext2fs I'll take it out. I upgraded using sysinstall over FTP. What does ls -l /usr/bin/make show you? Okay I am not able to get make to work at all. Here's what I did. makybe someone can identify what I did wrong. I FTP'd from FreeBSD's ftp site to

Re: Anyone dual booted freebsd/vista yet?

2007-05-04 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Friday 04 May 2007 16:01:38 Jeff Palmer wrote: At 03:26 PM 5/4/2007, Jonathan Horne wrote: Has anyone successful configured a freebsd/vista dual boot, and if so, how did you get around this issue? Thanks, -- Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org Jonathan, you

Re: Creating an rc.d script for Jboss Web

2007-05-04 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 4 May 2007, Charles Mason wrote: I am trying to run Jboss Web on FreeBSD, which is basically a Tomcat derived web server which use APR to replace the Java based static file serving in Tomcat. This makes it much faster but requires the native modules to be complied for each platform. I

Xorg Modular

2007-05-04 Thread Jason Hills
Is there any prevision when will it be on ports? Will beryl, aiglx and stuff come along? -- Jazzie Hills ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Can't fetch several ports (return error code 127) and seems nothing to do with these ports themselves

2007-05-04 Thread Jockey Kyd
Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That indicates something is very wrong on your system :) Look for configuration variables you may have changed, e.g. in /etc/make.conf. Kris Yes, you're right! :-D Because I set MASTER_SITE_OVERRIDE in my /etc/make.conf in order to choose faster

Re: Can't fetch several ports (return error code 127) and seems nothing to do with these ports themselves

2007-05-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 10:07:16AM +0800, Jockey Kyd wrote: Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That indicates something is very wrong on your system :) Look for configuration variables you may have changed, e.g. in /etc/make.conf. Kris Yes, you're right! :-D Because I

Re: Can't fetch several ports (return error code 127) and seems nothing to do with these ports themselves

2007-05-04 Thread Jockey Kyd
Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 10:07:16AM +0800, Jockey Kyd wrote: Quoting Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That indicates something is very wrong on your system :) Look for configuration variables you may have changed, e.g. in /etc/make.conf.

Re: port updates

2007-05-04 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Fri, 4 May 2007 15:25:58 -0400 Jean-Paul Natola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, If this question is not for this list , I'm apologizing in advance I just ran cvsup because I wanted to install the latest version of SpamAssassin- 3.2 After doing portupgrade I see that its still

Re: Xorg Modular

2007-05-04 Thread Jason Hills
On 5/5/07, Philipp Ost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jason Hills wrote: Is there any prevision when will it be on ports? Will beryl, aiglx and stuff come along? Kris did announce it some days ago. You'll want to check the archives of ports@ ;) Philipp Yeah, Kris mentioned something like that

Re: Xorg Modular

2007-05-04 Thread Philipp Ost
Jason Hills wrote: Is there any prevision when will it be on ports? Will beryl, aiglx and stuff come along? Kris did announce it some days ago. You'll want to check the archives of ports@ ;) Philipp -- www.familie-ost.info/~pj ___

Re: Xorg Modular

2007-05-04 Thread Mark Linimon
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 02:26:20AM -0300, Jason Hills wrote: Yeah, Kris mentioned something like that in a private mail, but google didnt help me, nor http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/ :( http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?461FE03C.8000406